Who’s Up For The Snowflake Olympics?

By William Teach June 19, 2017 – 4:35 pm

The ideas these people come up, as the UK Guardian lets Devarshi Lodhia run rampant with snowflake droppings

Forget dancing horses, surfing and BMX – the Olympic Games need eSports

And the subhead is just as fun

eSports can be the spark for the International Olympic Committee to update the Olympic Games and reach a larger, more diverse audience

Away we go

If we have learned anything from the previous few Olympics, it is that the Games are going through an identity crisis. Rocked by a doping scandal and with an older audience than ever, the International Olympic Committee is attempting to rehabilitate its image by appealing to a disinterested youth.

Here’s an idea for appealing to all those tuning out: show the blackenty blank sports live. Minimize all the human interest and drama segments, let the sports be the drama. I pretty sure I’ve gone apoplectic on this subject in the archives. You flip from channel to channel to channel, and instead of watching someone, say, ski down a mountain live, you see a segment on them when they were 10 years old and …. don’t get me going.

With sports such as BMX freestyle and baseball taking their place alongside archaic remnants from the age of imperialism, like modern pentathlon and dressage, it is difficult to know what or who the Olympics represent anymore. If the IOC is serious about joining the brave new world that seems to have passed it by and more importantly if it wants to keep its sponsors happy, it needs to make serious changes – starting with introducing eSports.

If you’re thinking, that sounds like people playing sporting games via video games, you’d be utterly correct. Seriously, how exciting can it be to watch someone sitting in a comfy chair beat on a game pad? Well, maybe watching fat jiggle can be hypnotizing, but, this is one of those uber-snowflake ideas taken to the heights of snowflake.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 19, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is world drying out so much from carbon pollution that it becomes rock, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Poland staying defiant when it comes to accepting “refugees.”

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Everyone Can Fight ‘Climate Change’ After Paris Exit Or Something

By William Teach June 19, 2017 – 10:41 am

What Donna Vickroy is missing in her Chicago Tribune “news” story….yes, this opinion piece is in the news section… is that most Warmists do not want to fight ‘climate change’, then want the government to force Other People to fight it

Everyone can fight climate change after Paris exit, save money in process, experts say

Want to help save the world and a few bucks in the process?

Despite President Donald Trump’s recent decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, across the nation, several state and local officials are carrying on with the terms of the pact. On June 1, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the Windy City would continue to pursue its plan to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Even without a national agenda to reduce carbon emissions, local nature defenders say there is plenty that average folks right here in the Southland can do to take better care of the planet and enrich their own lives.

Gareth Blakesley is operations manager at Lake Katherine Nature Center and Botanic Gardens in Palos Heights, and Lambrini Lukidis is spokesperson for Cook County Forest Preserves.

“Ninety-nine percent of scientists in the world believe that climate change is caused by human endeavor,” Blakesley said. But there are ways humans can counter the damage.

Now we’re apparently up to 99%. If Ms. Vickroy was actually practicing Journalism, she’d challenge Blackesley to prove it.

Anyhow, what can you do?

While everyone should be familiar with the importance of recycling, he said, “People don’t always think about reducing their impact at the beginning, when purchasing. Any time you buy plastic, even if it’s recyclable, there’s an energy cost. So at the grocery store, look for things that aren’t plastic-wrapped or shop in places that don’t have as much plastic wrap.”

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the Cult of Climastrology co-opting real environmental initiatives like recycling. In fact, the majority of the missive is about co-opting environmental initiatives.

Other ways to go easier on the environment, he said: share a ride, take public transportation, make sure home windows and doors are insulated, don’t set your thermostat above 68 in winter or below 72 in summer, and think long-term usage when shopping.

Normal things that do not really require sacrifice. By this measure, I’m pretty compliant. I keep it at 68 in the winter and 72 in the warm months.

Another way people can be environmentally savvy particularly during vacation season, he said, is to mitigate the environmental cost of long-distance travel.

“My wife and I just recently went to Alaska, which is a 6-hour flight from here,” he said.

So, instead of saying “we’re killing the earth with our fossil fueled travel, we should forgo this trip”, they simply paid for carbon offsets, which is like paying the speeding ticket because you don’t want to stop speeding. Spend a couple bucks to Feel Good while making no sacrifice.

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DOJ Initiating Fast Track Deportation Orders For Criminal Illegals

By William Teach June 19, 2017 – 7:49 am

Certainly, supporters of illegal aliens, who constantly tell us they aren’t supporting the bad ones, won’t have a problem with this program, right?

Federal prosecutors inaugurate ‘express’ deportations

Until recently, foreign nationals convicted of a crime in federal court were told that immigration authorities would put them in deportation proceedings upon completion of their prison terms.

Not anymore.

Under orders from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a champion of hard-line immigration enforcement, federal prosecutors are asking district judges to issue what are known as “judicial orders of removal,” which ensure that a convicted foreign national will be deported on completion of the sentence instead of being sent to an immigrant detention center to await proceedings in immigration court and then a deportation order from an immigration judge.

The new legal tactic shortens the wait time for deportation, bypasses backlogs in immigration court, saves the federal government money in housing and food in immigrant detention centers, frees up space in those centers for other detained foreign nationals and sends a message to immigrant communities that under President Donald Trump immigration enforcement is real.

Obviously, this doesn’t just affect illegal aliens who’ve been sent to jail for crimes, but those few who were lawfully present and committed crimes, as well. But, it is mostly illegal aliens, and this way, they won’t languish in detention facilities while awaiting a judge to sign the deportation order, which gives all the illegal alien supporting groups, who, again, say they don’t support the criminal ones, time to find a friendly judge to get the illegal alien criminal out of jail and released into the nation to disappear.

Overall, this will allow the U.S. to deport illegal aliens much faster, and avoid the backlog of cases that has been growing in federal immigration courts.

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Excitable Adam Schiff (D-Ca) Admits There’s No Proof Of Collusion

By William Teach June 19, 2017 – 7:33 am

Another day, another Democrat admitting that they’ve spent over a year making complaints about collusion between Trump and Russia and have absolutely nothing to show for it

(Daily Caller) The 11-month-old investigation into whether President Trump or members of his campaign colluded with Russians has still not turned up any evidence that’s strong enough to put before a jury.

That’s according to California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, which is overseeing one of the parallel investigations into whether members of the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin to influence the outcome of the election.

“I’m not prepared to say that there’s proof you could take to a jury,” Schiff told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz on Sunday when asked if he’s seen proof of collusion.

In other words, Democrats have nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Schiff is one one of the main whiners in the Dem party about collusion, and has access to all the classified information surrounding this partisan, manufactured talking point. He goes on to whine

“I can say that there’s enough that we ought to be investigation,” Schiff said Sunday.

“Indeed, it would be negligent for us not to investigate. If a foreign government…has something that they can hang over the head of our president or our administration that can influence U.S. policy, it is very much in our national security interest to know it.”

Yet, after all this time, they’ve found nothing, and sure haven’t told the American Public anything that would show that this partisan hackery investigation is warranted. At this point, it is almost fully a witch hunt and fishing expedition, one which would be shut down if it was against any private citizen. You can bet a group such as the ACLU would be filing lawsuits.

If Democrats have evidence, show it. Otherwise, move on. If Congressional Republicans had an cajones, they’d shut this down. You can bet everything on the fact that if the situation was reversed, Democrats would shut things down against a Democratic president. This is nothing more than a shiny object for the leftist media to drum up scandal and whip up the Democrat base into foaming mouth breathers.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 18, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise up and swamp all the seaside businesses, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on a U.N. report which blames Israel for Palestinian men beating their wives.

It’s redheads week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 18, 2017 – 9:02 am

Happy Sunday! A gorgeous day in America, and one which you should call you father and wish him a Happy Father’s Day, if possible. This pinup is by Earl Moran, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Not quite a blog, but, National Review’s David French opines on the miscarriage of justice in Philando Castile verdict
  2. NoTricksZone covers scientists not known the real temperature of the planet
  3. Chicks On the Right explains Trump’s Cuba policy changes
  4. Creeping Sharia notes the Texas gov signing a bill banning Sharia law
  5. Flopping Aces has this week in radical leftism
  6. Free North Carolina explains who gets to foot the bill for a solar company defaulting
  7. Gay Patriot wonders how many New Yorkers salivate for Trump’s assassination
  8. Geller Report notes irony between rock throwing Muslims and the Canadians who welcomed them
  9. Heat Street notes those peaceful Antifa folks at Evergreen College
  10. House Of Eratosthenes discusses liberals and their ideas
  11. Jihad Watch explains why one Muslim couple left the religion
  12. Legal Insurrection covers the fallout from Seattle’s gun tax
  13. Michelle Malkin (Doug Powers) notes all those Planned Parenthood donations to the Dem Party
  14. Moonbattery highlights another gun lesson from a moonbat
  15. And last, but not least, MOTUS A.D. covers Father’s Day

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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Acting ICE Chief: Zero Regrets Over Saying Illegal Aliens “Should Be Concerned”

By William Teach June 18, 2017 – 7:47 am

Apparently, Acting ICE chief Thomas Homan did not get the memo that he’s supposed to pander to people who are unlawfully present in the United States over lawful immigrants, naturalized citizens, and natural born citizens. Otherwise, the media gets the vapors, especially when the original comment was that was that illegals “should be afraid”

(The Hill) Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan doubled down on his controversial testimony before Congress earlier this week that all undocumented immigration “should be concerned” about being deported.

“I have zero regrets. It needed to be said,” Homan told ABC News. “If you choose to enter this country illegally, which is a crime, you should be concerned. You violated a law in this country, and I’ll tell you, you can’t have it both ways,”

“You can’t be part of this country and not respect its laws.”

It’s a pretty self explanatory idea. It’s in the description: illegal immigration.

Homan said he was surprised by people’s reaction to his comments, and that those shocked by his testimony “obviously” hadn’t read President Trump’s executive order ending the Obama-era policy of “catch-and-release.”

“The executive orders could have been written in one sentence. ‘We will now enforce the laws on the books,'” he explained.

He shouldn’t have been surprised, because most of the Democratic Party and a small number of Republicans take the side of illegals. Why? Those supporters will trot out all sorts of touchy feely reasons, but, at the end, it’s about attempting to create new voters.

He also said the same thing to CNN

President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcer doubled down Friday on recent comments that undocumented immigrants “should be afraid” under the Trump administration.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan said in an interview that he has “zero regrets” about his remarks before Congress this week, expanding on them.

“It needed to be said,” Homan told CNN on the sidelines of a Central American prosperity and security conference.

“And by me saying you should be worried, you should be afraid — if you lie on your taxes, you’ve got to be worried, ‘Is the IRS going to audit me?’ … When you speed down the highway, you’ve got to worry, ‘Am I going to get a speeding ticket?’ You worry. It’s natural human behavior.”

It’s nice to have an official in office that takes the law seriously. Humorously, he manages to blame sanctuary cities for arrests in the streets

He brought up detainers — requests by ICE to local law enforcement agencies to hold a person for up to 48 hours beyond when they would otherwise be released so that ICE can pick them up from the jail. Many jurisdictions do not honor those requests, some to maintain trust with local communities and some because courts have found doing so to be unconstitutional.

Homan said the release of those individuals amounts to “forcing our hands” — meaning his agents must make those arrests at homes, public areas or courthouses. That could mean that other undocumented immigrants around that person could be caught up as well.

He went on to state that if he had cooperate, most of the arrests could be made at jails. And

“The constant story about us separating families … when someone enters this country illegally, or someone overstays their visa, they know they’re in this country illegally,” Homan said. “If they take it upon themselves to have a child in this country and becomes a US citizen by birth, he put his family in that position, not ICE, not Border Patrol. And to vilify the men and women of ICE as separating families is unfair.”

It’s called personal responsibility. We have laws. If supporters of illegal immigration do not like them, then they should try and change them, rather than abdicating legal responsibility to enforce them.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 17, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is sea that has risen so much that you cannot even see land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is NoTricksZone, with a post on almost 300 graphs undermining claims of unprecedented, global scale modern warmth.

Ideas for the next IAYS theme starting tomorrow?

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Science: Teacher Burns Skeptical Climate Change Book

By William Teach June 17, 2017 – 12:00 pm

This is what Progressive “science” looks like: an inability to look at the material and make an informed decision regarding things that challenge one’s beliefs. Instead, free thought is not allowed

(Missourian) Columbia Public Schools science teachers are among hundreds of thousands across the country who have received a book from the Heartland Institute that denies that Earth is warming and that human activity is causing it.

No, it doesn’t. It says that warming has occurred and that it is mostly/solely caused by natural variation.

Although 97 percent of scientists agree that global warming is caused largely by human activities, The Heartland Institute and its publications argue differently. Those arguments are central to the book the organization sent out starting last spring.

If you’re trotting out the 97% meme, then you’re a partisan activist, not a reporter.

Mike Szydlowski, science coordinator for the Columbia Public Schools district said he received the book from The Heartland Institute in mid-May and promptly recycled it.

“I immediately took a photo of the book and sent it to the rest of the department telling them to also recycle it,” he said.

Apparently, free thought is verboten.

Beth Newton, a science teacher at Oakland Middle School, said she and her colleagues received copies of the book in April.

“I burned the ones that came to Oakland in my fire pit at home,” Newton said.

‘Cause science!

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