Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 9, 2017 – 9:02 am

Happy Sunday! A gorgeous summer day here in America. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the hummingbirds really love my blue and red Giants hat, kept buzzing me. Not quite sure who did this pinup, signature is unreadable, searches didn’t find an answer, but, hey, it now has some patriotic fervor.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The fine 15

  1. The American Conservative explains why people hate the Washington Post
  2. Legal Insurrection discusses Macron standing next to Trump
  3. Jo Nova features the latest freakout over ‘climate change’ shrinking your fish and chips
  4. Watts Up With That? notes France banning all petrol vehicles
  5. A View From The Beach notes some states playing hide the pickle with voter data
  6. America’s Watchtower notes that the word “symphonies” is now raaaaacist
  7. Blazing Cat Fur notes the victims of Sweden’s Islamic rape epidemic
  8. Bunkerville notes who’s at fault for Trump not having a hotel room at the G20
  9. Chicks On the Right covers George Clooney moving his family back to the U.S. for safety
  10. Creeping Sharia covers more female genital mutilation, now in Maine
  11. Flopping Aces has this week in radical leftism (if this theme continues I’ll move it to the lower section as a weekly thing)
  12. Gay Patriot covers selfies at the anti-capitalism bonfires
  13. Jihad Watch notes that Linda Sarsour’s call for jihad is a call for violence
  14. Michelle Malkin (Doug Powers) discusses what they’ve done with Hillary’s unused victory confetti
  15. And last, but not least, The Daley Gator notes a judge scrapping an anti-self defense law

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list.

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Ivanka Trump Briefly Subs For POTUS At G20, Media Handles This As Calmly As You’d Expect

By William Teach July 9, 2017 – 7:19 am

So, this happened

As you can guess, American Leftists went ballistic, as you can see at Twitchy. And a different Washington Post screed by Kristine Phillips

But, that was not enough for the Washington Post, because Democracy Dies In Darkness or something (there’s an add embedded in the story about subscribing because “the story must be told”), and they’re more interested in smearing rather than actual reporting and facts, as Abby Phillips gives Apoplexy a whirl

Ivanka Trump takes father’s seat at G-20 leaders’ table in break from diplomatic protocol

Ivanka Trump was deputized to fill in for her father at a table of world leaders at the Group of 20 summit on Saturday, reigniting questions about the un­or­tho­dox mixing of family and government in President Trump’s White House.

The moment, captured in a pixelated photo by a member of Russia’s delegation, seemed to perfectly capture the scope of the first daughter’s expansive influence in Trump’s administration. But it drew sharp criticism by some who say that the move demonstrates Trump’s flouting of democratic norms against such familial arrangements as well-established diplomatic protocols.

Former NATO ambassador Nicholas Burns, who served as a diplomat under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, said the incident was a breach of protocols for such summits. Those traditions are intended to send a clear message to world leaders about who has power in the government.

Burns said in his experience at summits, the secretary of state would take the president’s place at the table.

“This is a group of the 20 most powerful leaders in the world in the 20 most powerful countries in the world,” Burns said. “It conveys that impression and we are a democracy and that’s also important here.”

“Authority is not conferred upon family members because of the president’s position,” he added.

OMG no!!!!!! How horrible!

“Yes, it stuck out,” said a senior European official who took part in the G-20 talks and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly. “The very fact that his daughter is senior adviser smacks of the kind of nepotism not seen since John F. Kennedy named Robert F. Kennedy as attorney general.”

See? This unnamed source says this is exactly like if he named her attorney general!!!!!

Some critics online compared Ivanka Trump’s presence at the table to a “banana republic” and argued that she is both “unelected” and “unqualified” to step into a role usually filled by officials with policy expertise.

A banana republic!!!!! America is doomed!!!!! Oh, wait

(Bloomberg) A spokesman for Ivanka Trump said she had been sitting in the back of the room and then briefly joined the main table when the president stepped out. The president of the World Bank addressed the meeting, which was about African migration and health — areas that would benefit from a facility that Ivanka Trump and the World Bank had announced shortly before the meeting, the spokesman said.

G-20 leaders are allowed to bring staff into the room for some of the meetings, and when other leaders stepped out during today’s session, their seats were briefly filled by others. Ivanka Trump serves as an unpaid adviser to her father, as an assistant to the president.

So, this was nothing unusual, especially as she wasn’t there long. As Jazz Shaw notes

Ivanka Trump is a presidential adviser and travels on many of these trips as part of the staff. Donald Trump was not the speaker nor did he have any “official duties” at that point beyond listening to the presentation. If you don’t think his daughter is capable of doing that much and summarizing it for him later then you apparently have a problem with women.

We also learn that Donald stepped away to, get this, have one-on-one meetings with other world leaders.

I’d ask liberals to just do some calming exercises, relax, but, we all know that won’t happen.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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All Hail The Wonders Of Single Payer Medicine

By William Teach July 8, 2017 – 3:17 pm

This is what Progressives want, though, as they learned in California, there’s no way to actually pay for it. Not without drastic restrictions in service (via Twitchy)

Let’s take a brief look at the article, shall we?

One million patients a week cannot get appointments with GPs, amid the longest waiting times on record, new figures show.

Doctors said they were working “flat out” but under “unsustainable” pressure, leaving “worrying” numbers of patients without any help.

The NHS figures show the number waiting at least a week to see their GP has risen by 56 per cent in five years, with one in five now waiting this long.

The pressures left 11.3 per cent of patients unable to get an appointment at all – a 27 per cent rise since 2012. This amounts to around 47 million occasions on which patients attempted but failed to secure help from their GP, forcing them to give up, try again later or turn to Accident & Emergency departments.

The article doesn’t get any better from there. No silver linings. Just a rise in people who are unable to even get through on the phone, and many just giving up despite deteriorating health conditions. Yet, liberals keep telling us how great these systems are. Right up to the point where they are the ones having issues.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 8, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Political Clown Parade, with a post on the most busted name in news.

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Good News: California Gov. Jerry Brown Wants People To Fly In For A ‘Climate Change’ Summit

By William Teach July 8, 2017 – 11:52 am

Nothing says “fossil fuels are killing the climate!!!!!!” like inviting Warmists to fly in from all over the world. This was first reported by the LA Times a few days ago, and now it has come to fruition

(Mashable) California Governor Jerry Brown is not about to take a back seat to President Donald Trump when it comes to summit meetings, or for that matter, anything else. (I doubt Trump cares, but, hey, carry on with your TDS)

On Thursday, as world leaders gathered in Germany for a high-stakes G-20 Summit meeting, during which climate change policies will be a major source of tension, Brown announced he will be holding a Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in 2018.

Since President Trump declared that the U.S. intends to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, Brown has been using his status as the governor of the most populous state — and world’s sixth-largest economy — to negotiate directly with foreign governments, including China and Canada, on climate policies.

That’s super! Suddenly, Leftists are really, really interested in this whole federalism thing. I wonder what the carbon footprint is for having people fly in from all over the world?

“President Trump is trying to get out of the Paris Agreement, but he doesn’t speak for the rest of America. We in California and in states all across America believe it’s time to act, it’s time to join together and that’s why at this Climate Action Summit we’re going to get it done,” Brown said.

No, he just speaks for most of America.

Since Trump’s Paris Agreement announcement on June 1, dozens of mayors and 13 governors have bucked the White House and said they intend to meet the agreement’s goals anyway.

Again, it’s doubtful Trump cares. He in no way has attempted to stop states and municipalities from implementing their own silly climate change rules. He’s made zero statements on wanting to stop them. He. Doesn’t. Care. There is no bucking. Just TDS. And a rediscovery of federalism.

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Despite Jump In Border Crossings, Numbers Are Well Below 2016

By William Teach July 8, 2017 – 7:36 am

If you want to deter crime, is it best to make lots and lots of arrests after the crimes have occurred, or find a way to deter people from committing the crimes in the first place? That’s correct, you attempt to dissuade people from doing it first. Hence, a huge part of the plan Trump and his team have initiated is to cause the fear that has dramatically reduced the flow of illegals entering this country. Going after all illegals, not just the serious criminals. Detaining them almost anywhere. Making few exceptions. Going after the sanctuary jurisdictions that shelter illegals. How’s this all working out?

(Daily Caller) Arrests of illegal aliens along the U.S.-Mexico border ticked up in June but remained well below the number recorded in the same month last year, according to government figures released Friday.

Data from Customs and Border Protection shows that 21,659 people were arrested trying to illegally cross the Southwest border last month, a 9 percent jump from May, when the total was 19,962.

Even with the rise, June arrests were down 53 percent year-over-year. CBP also reported that year-to-date arrests at the border are 19 percent lower in FY2017 than the same period in FY2016. The figures include both apprehensions by Border Patrol agents and individuals deemed inadmissible at points of entry.

In fact, every month Trump has been in office has been much lower than every year since 2012 (from the link in the excerpt)

Overall, border crossings are on track to be 21% less than 2016.

The month-to-month uptick for June, the second straight month that arrests have risen, bucks a six-year trend in which immigration arrests have declined from May to June. While it is too early to tell if the recent increase marks the beginning of a bigger surge, the rising arrest figures could give the Trump administration fresh ammunition to argue for its border security agenda, especially the president’s call to build a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border

On the other hand, the border wall could become a victim of Trump’s initial success in reducing the flow of illegal immigration across the Southwest border. The total number of apprehensions at the border and ports of entry has fallen to a six-year low in each of the five full months since Trump took office, causing some lawmakers to question whether an uninterrupted, border-spanning barrier is necessary.

That’s what I’ve been saying for a long time. Heck, Ann Coulter used to say this, prior to her falling in love with Trump for him saying he would build a beautiful wall. If Team Trump would next go after private entities for sheltering illegals (they don’t have to even prosecute, just threaten prosecution, perhaps with a few examples of prosecution of 8 US Code 1324), go hard after companies that hire illegals, go hard after those who overstayed their visas, and continue the tough talk on illegals, plus other tough measures, it would not only continue the serious drop in the flow of illegals, but get many to self deport. It would reduce the number who attempt to come and be let in. A wall would only be needed in a few areas, relying more on manpower.

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TDS: Washington Post Settles Question As To Whether Trump Can Pardon Himself

By William Teach July 8, 2017 – 7:14 am

It’s a given in anti-Trump World that he 100% colluded with Russia and Putin to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. There’s no doubt in their minds that he was involved, despite absolutely no evidence having materialized in an investigation that has gone on for over a year at this point. The media has not found anything. The government has so far found nothing. All sorts of Democrats, including some of the loudest TDS sufferers, have noted that there is no evidence. Nothing will stop those suffering from TDS, including the Washington Post’s Elizabeth Holtzman

So, could Trump pardon himself?

Can President Trump pardon himself? Can he pardon his close associates and family members?

These questions have begun to simmer as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III ramps up his investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in its interference with the 2016 presidential election. Mueller is also, undoubtedly, looking into whether the president obstructed justice by firing FBI Director James B. Comey. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, is reportedly under investigation as well.

The only place they’re simmering are in the fever swamps of Liberal World, where the nutjobs are obsessed with this, rather than truly considering why it is they lost well over a 1,000 federal and state seats during Obama’s presidency, ending with the loss of the White House.

So it’s a live question: Infuriated by these investigations, will the president try to short-circuit them by pardoning himself and others caught up in the Mueller investigations? And, if he did, would those pardons be valid?

The Constitution’s pardon provision gives the president the power “to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.” Some argue that because the language is broad and there is no explicit prohibition, presidents may pardon themselves.

But this is simplistic and specious. Presidential self-pardoning would violate the basic structure of our Constitution, and the whole history of the pardon power strongly weighs against the concept.

So, you can stop hyperventilating now, Leftartds. Rest easy. Trump can’t pardon himself. You can continue with your impeachment fantasies without worrying that he could be convicted of…..what? Even if he did collude, there is no law broken. There is no law against this. But, hey, that doesn’t matter in Nutter World, because of derangement.

It bears repeating that Putin interfering was more about hurting Hillary than helping Trump. No matter who the GOP candidate was, Putin was going to hurt Hillary. Even James Comey noted this. We know that Putin had a grudge against Hillary. Heck, he hated her. Obama didn’t really do anything to stop the interference. Heck, what if Obama didn’t want Hillary to win? She sure didn’t seem to want to win, what with blowing off a few states, fainting on 9/11, denigrating a large section of the American people, and so forth. Regardless, the Democrats have fallen into the trap laid by Putin by allowing themselves to become unhinged nutjobs, diving the country even more.

Nothing, though, will dissuade Leftist from their obsession with Russia.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Bummer: ICE Told To Take Action Against All Unlawfully Present Immigrants

By William Teach July 7, 2017 – 4:41 pm

Somehow, this old directive has resurfaced and gotten the knickers of leftists in a twist

ICE Officers Told to Take Action Against All Undocumented Immigrants Encountered While on Duty

The head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit in charge of deportations has directed his officers to take action against all undocumented immigrants they may cross paths with, regardless of criminal histories. The guidance appears to go beyond the Trump administration’s publicly stated aims, and some advocates say may explain a marked increase in immigration arrests.

In a February memo, Matthew Albence, a career official who heads the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of ICE, informed his 5,700 deportation officers that, “effective immediately, ERO officers will take enforcement action against all removable aliens encountered in the course of their duties.”

I suppose these documents are just showing up or something, but, what’s the problem? These people are unlawfully present in the United States, hence, shouldn’t be here and are targets to be deported.

In recent months, the number of undocumented immigrants arrested who are considered to be non-criminals has risen. (Under the law, merely being here illegally is not a crime. Rather, it’s a civil violation.) Between February and May, the Trump administration arrested, on average, 108 undocumented immigrants a day with no criminal record, an uptick of some 150 percent from the same time period a year ago.

The civil penalty is deportation. Surprise!

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 7, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a board needed to get around when the seas flood our cities, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on solar possibly being more harmful to the environment than nuclear.

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Say, Can the Caribbean Survive ‘Climate Change’?

By William Teach July 7, 2017 – 10:30 am

More fear-mongering

Well, I guess all those Caribbean countries/properties should stop allowing fossil fueled flights to their nations for tourism. And fossil fueled boats for tourism and fishing expeditions. And fossil fueled vehicles to move tourists around. And fossil fueled deliveries from outside their countries for food, clothing, goods, etc.

Philipsburg, Sint Maarten—Franklin, middle-aged inhabitant of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, cocked his head when I asked him about climate change. “There is already a lot of flooding because of storm surges in hurricane season,” he said, his ebony brow creased. “If the sea level rises four feet, then Philipsburg is gone.” Philipsburg is the capital of the Dutch side of the island, Sint Maarten, a major receiver of cruise ships, with its Front Street a collage of high-end shopping and outlets for island specialties like guavaberry liqueur. The UN estimates that the oceans will rise at least four feet in the next eight decades.

There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of measurements for Sint Maarten (that is the proper spelling), a property of the Netherlands to the east of the Virgin Islands, but, let’s look nearby.

  • San Juan, Puerto Rico shows a 2.08mm per year rise, equivalent to .68 feet over 100 years
  • The short data for Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands, is 2.07mm, so, same as San Juan
  • Magueyes Island, Puerto Rico, is 1.75mm, so .57 feet over 100 years

So, not “at least four feet.” Not even close.

Flooding from storm surge during hurricane season? How is that in any way unusual? Especially since it is on the northeastern edge of the Caribbean?

The rest is the typical apocalyptic apoplectic scare mongering based on junk science. Should we be using those quotes like the media likes to use, “science”?

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