At Least 22 Dead In Manchester Terrorist Bombing

By William Teach May 23, 2017 – 7:08 am

Unsurprisingly, as I keep flipping back and forth, neither MSNBC nor CNN are covering this. It’s Russia Russia Russia

(NY Times) An explosion that appeared to be a suicide bombing killed at least 22 people on Monday night and wounded 59 others at an Ariana Grande concert filled with adoring adolescent fans, in what the police were treating as a terrorist attack.

Panic and mayhem seized the crowd at the Manchester Arena as the blast reverberated through the building, just as the show was ending and pink balloons were dropping from the rafters in a signature flourish by Ms. Grande, a 23-year-old American pop star on an international tour.

Traumatized concertgoers, including children separated from parents, screamed and fled what appeared to be the deadliest episode of terrorism in Britain since the 2005 London transit bombings.

Speaking to reporters early Tuesday, Manchester’s chief constable, Ian Hopkins, said the police learned of the explosion around 10:33 p.m. Children were among those killed, he added, and the wounded were taken to eight hospitals.

Chief Constable Hopkins said that a man had detonated “an improvised explosive device” and had been killed in the blast. He said the police believed that the man had acted alone, but that they were trying to determine whether he had been part of a wider network. Other officials said the police were investigating reports that the device had used nuts and bolts as shrapnel.

Someone captured the moment of the attack in the venue

and outside

https://twitter.com/JoeAaronGregory/status/866784565821677569

The jihadi (we all know which religion this guy is going to end up a part of, right?) was apparently known to police, and may have reconnoitered the center prior. A big question now is whether he was a true lone wolf (as much as a person who makes up the 1%, which equates to 16 million or more Islamists, can be a lone wolf with so many peers) or part of something wider.

Nope, still nothing on Morning Joe, and Headline News is also yapping about Michael Flynn.

(UK Daily Mail) President Donald Trump began his remarks Tuesday in the historic West Bank town of Bethlehem by calling the suicide bomber who killed 22 people in the British city of Manchester hours earlier a ‘loser’ – and said that will be his preferred term from now on for terrorist killers.

‘We stand in absolute solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom,’ the president said, standing alongside Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas.

‘So many young, beautiful, innocent people living and enjoying their lives, murdered by evil losers in life.’

‘I won’t call them monsters because,’ he said. “They would like that term. They would think that’s a great name. I will call them from now on ‘losers’ because that’s what they are. And we’ll have more of them. But they’re losers, just remember that.’

World leaders have offered condolences from around the world. Meanwhile, breaking news is that a man has been arrested

(UK Mirror) Police have arrested a 23-year-old man over the Manchester Arena terror attack that killed 22 and injured 59.

It is understood the arrest was made in the south of the city this morning.

The arrest was made in connection with the bombing at last night’s Ariana Grande concert, the Manchester Evening News reported.

It was a horrific act, certainly perpetrated by despicable people who have perverted their religion to push their repressive ideology. Something we see time and time again.

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Michael “Robust Debate” Mann: Predictions Can Never Be Falseifiable

By William Teach May 22, 2017 – 4:00 pm

Why? Because this is what passes for science these days, at least when it comes to the Warmist version of climatology. Which might be why we get something like this

Climate change predictions can be scary for kids. What can you say?

Predictions for a planet affected by climate change can sound like they’re ripped from a doomsday novel: stronger hurricanes, intense heat waves, rising sea levels and the disappearance of ice in the Arctic.

And scientists have seen some of those changes already taking place, according to NASA.

Climate change — as well as other environmental issues like deforestation and wildlife extinction — have the potential to be scary for children. The implications of climate change can contribute to stress, depression and anxiety for everyone, but especially for kids, according to a study released this year by the American Psychological Association, Climate for Health and EcoAmerica.

Which leads to what they think parents, and especially teachers, who have long hours 5 days a week to indoctrinate should say. So, let’s move on to Mr Hockey Schtick himself as he writes at Foreign Affairs (behind the paywall) (via Climate Depot)

Oren Cass argues that the worrying predictions of mainstream climate science are overblown (“The Problem With Climate Catastrophizing,” March 21). But rather than assessing the legitimate range of views regarding climate change, Cass marshals a series of fallacies in an apparent effort to justify a fossil fuel-friendly agenda of inaction.

The clearest signs of trouble in Cass’ essay are rhetorical. By referring to mainstream climate scientists as “catastrophists,” Cass suggests that he is more interested in scoring political points than in engaging with the science surrounding climate change. It is true that the projected effects of unmitigated warming might objectively be characterized as catastrophic. If anything, however, scientists have been overly conservative in their assessments, tending to understate the actual threat posed by climate change—the very opposite of catastrophism. What’s more, the label creates a straw man: in Cass’ argument, “the catastrophist” is an amalgamation of perspectives set up for the purpose of being knocked down.

So, the more doomsaying the better, which moves to

“Predictions can never be ‘falsifiable’ in the present: we must ultimately wait to see whether they come true.”

So, if my computer models (me doodling in Microsoft Paint) show that the Earth is going to enter a new Little Ice Age in 2050 so there’s no need to spend trillions of Other People’s money, well, then, we just have to wait, right? Right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 22, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea rising up to meet the inner parts of nations, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Knuckledraggin My Life Away, with a post on karmic retribution.

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‘Climate Change’ To Get Yet Another Image Makeover

By William Teach May 22, 2017 – 10:59 am

If you do a ‘net search, you’ll find millions and millions of hits regarding ‘climate change’ getting an image makeover or something similar. Why? Because, after all these years of spreading awareness, the Cult is dying off, rather than growing. The have to keep pushing ever-more scary prognostications of doom while attempting to indoctrinate kids, using the power of the state. They cannot produce actual proof, so, hey, makeover time!

Climate change to get an image revamp

What does climate change look like?

For many people, the first – or perhaps only – image that comes to mind is of smokestacks, or polar bears perched on ice floes.

“If you go to Google and click on climate change images, you have to go a long way before you hit many images of people,” Adam Corner, research director at Climate Outreach, an Oxford-based think-tank that aims to boost public engagement on climate change, says.

But climate change already is affecting billions of people around the world, from farmers in Zimbabwe experimenting with new crops to battle drought to grandmothers in India who earn cash selling solar home lighting systems, or children coping with a longer allergy season.

Getting more of those people-focused images into the media, into NGO campaigns and into other public communications could help more people identify with the problem, see the opportunities and understand the need for action, Corner said.

So, what to do?

In an effort to widen that narrow view, Corner’s organisation has launched a new portal for climate change images.

Inspired by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In effort – which has worked to make sure online searches for images of women offer up more than just lingerie models – the Climate Visuals portal showcases a diverse range of climate change photographs drawn from stock photo agencies.

Huh. So, nothing about getting those who believe that the current warm period is mostly/solely caused by mankind to give up their own use of fossil fuels, make their lives carbon neutral, live in itty bitty homes (nothing against them, I love those tiny house shows, especially the one on FYI), do without AC, and so forth? It’s almost like this is a scam, like you see with Scientology.

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Australia Puts Illegal Aliens On Notice: Prove You’re A Legitimate Refugee

By William Teach May 22, 2017 – 7:58 am

Reading the news, one would think that the only nation in the world with a problem with illegal aliens is America. In fact, many other nations, mostly 1st World ones, have issues, and most have more serious laws and enforcement than America. Try and stay illegally in Mexico? You’re in for a rough ride. If you’re lucky, they’ll just deport you. If not, you could end up in one of their horrendous jails.

Australia has long been restrictive on who is allowed to come to their nation, and have had a short fuse for those who unlawfully present. Now

(Daily Caller) Australia has given illegal immigrants until Oct. 1 to prove they are legitimate refugees or face deportation from the country.

Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton announced a crackdown Sunday on “fake refugees” who arrived illegally by boat. Dutton said 7,500 out of the 50,000 people who have arrived by boat in recent years refused to provide any documents of their identity.

“Those people who are fake refugees – people who are refusing to provide detail about their claim of protection … we are going to set a deadline for those people, and we have set that deadline for the end of this year in October,” Dutton said, according to 9 News.

Dutton said “fake refugees” cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year — money he would rather spend elsewhere.

“This is a very serious situation that’s costing Australian taxpayers hundreds of millions dollars a year — money that could be spent on education, on health, on police, on other services in the community,” he said. “If people think they can rip the Australian taxpayer off, if people think that they can con the Australian taxpayer, then I’m sorry, the game’s up.”

Every nation has the right to enact immigration policies that make the country better and to safeguard its citizens. In fact, governments have a duty to do so. Being compassionate should start with the legal citizens of a nation first. What we’ve seen all too often over the past decade(s) is people coming to nations, both legally and illegally, who want nothing to do with assimilating into those countries, while demanding that the nations change for them. Demands that the government give them food, money, healthcare, shelter, education, and so much more. There doesn’t seem to be much of a “thank you.”

Australia is also changing their legal work visas to put Australian workers first.

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The Nation Thinks They Find The Way To Impeach Trump, And It Has Nothing To Do With Russia

By William Teach May 22, 2017 – 7:32 am

It’s an interesting debate, one which The Nation writer John Nichols, nor any other TN writer forgot to make about Obama

Donald Trump Committed Another Impeachable Offense This Week

President Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense this week, but you likely haven’t heard about it on cable news.

It did not involve firing the director of the FBI, nor conspiring with the attorney general to facilitate the firing that even some Republicans recognized as a potential obstruction of justice, nor bragging to the Russians about how “pressure” was “taken off” by that firing, nor any of the other acts of presidential maladministration that scream out for an accountability moment.

Those developments may have gotten the impeachment clock ticking faster, as Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan suggested. But there was another event—nothing to do with Russia—that should have set off the alarm: Donald Trump’s refusal to respect the requirements that the US Constitution places on presidents when it comes to matters of war and peace.

On Wednesday, US forces carried out more unauthorized air strikes on pro-government forces in Syria. Though the Constitution explicitly states that the legislative branch, not the executive, has the power to initiate new military actions, Trump has steered the United States deeper into the Syrian conflict.

Got that? Trump was doing the same thing as Obama, albeit with more force, yet, now this means impeachment.

Where was he when Obama was launching air strikes? Not just in Syria, but all over the Middle East and Northern Africa? Even if we discount that Trump has the ability to do this under the post 9/11 authorization, which some would say does apply because Syria is listed as a state sponsor of terrorism, there is still the War Powers Act in play.

Lieu is not alone in expressing concern about this undeclared war making. After Trump ordered military strikes on Syria in April, Congressional Progressive Caucus leaders Raúl Grijalva, Keith Ellison, and Mark Pocan released this statement:

Nothing in the statement, which you can read at The Nation, mentions impeachment, just some whining by Democrats. But, one has to wonder where all these folks were when Obama unilaterally launched an air war against Libya, which has turned the rogue nation from a retired terrorism player to a hotbed of ISIS and Islamic radicalism. Obama wasn’t even in the U.S when he started the actions. And, even some Leftists stated that this was illegal, yet, no one at The Nation or in Progressive World was calling for impeachment.

The commentariat can and will debate when a president’s refusal to seek congressional authorization for military action becomes impeachable. (There will even be attempts by the apologists for presidential overreach to make convoluted claims about how past authorizations of the use of military force somehow apply to every new conflict.) But, in Trump’s case, there is no evidence to suggest that he will respect the requirements of the Constitution. As such, an article of impeachment is justified.

Of course, impeachment is a political process rather than a legal one….

Boom, stop right there. This is all about politics, about Democrats being utterly unhinged by Trump winning the election per the Constitutional requirements (funny how they don’t like that part of the Constitution) and just can’t move on. Rather than putting forth policies which excite the voting public, asking for votes, working to regain the population segments they lost, they’d rather devolve into insanity.

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There Are Two Words That Can Solve Hotcoldwetdry Or Something

By William Teach May 21, 2017 – 5:26 pm

Can you guess what they are? It should be easy, as it’s a main thing the Cult of Climastrology pushes

These Two Words Can Solve the Climate Crisis

If you want to see a solution to the climate crisis in your lifetime, they might be the two most important words you hear this year: carbon pricing.

Sure, the crisis is a complex challenge with no one solution. But while carbon pricing may not be a silver bullet, it’s one we’re going to need in the chamber—and critically, support is growing all along the political spectrum right when we need it.

Funny how one of their main solutions always boils down to “take money from citizens and private entities and put it in the hands of government, because government is oh so trustable, eh?” And they want carbon taxes, emissions trading schemes, fuel taxes, and so forth.

I have a few words for them. Practice what you preach. Walk the talk. Stop using fossil fuels. Don’t have kids. Attend a cult exit counseling. And two words, get deprogrammed.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 21, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle needed due to all the carbon pollution casualties, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on the unreality based community.

It’s Supergirl Melissa Benoist week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 21, 2017 – 9:17 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The birds are singing, the squirrels are squirreling, and Moonbats are moonbatting. This pinup appears to be by Gil Elvgren, as far as I can determine, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. American Power notes Crazy Louise Mensch claiming Trump is about to be impeached
  2. Michelle Malkin (Doug Powers) covers Twitter’s CEO being stupid over the election
  3. American Lens has the latest thing driving SJWs moonbat: wood paneling
  4. Bizzy Blog notes Time badly botching their Trump hitjob cover
  5. Chicks On The Right covers the liberal call for squirt gun control
  6. The Daley Gator wonders just how bad California’s new gun control is
  7. Not A Lot Of People Know That explains why solar is so cheap
  8. Diogenes’ Middle Finger has the new ANTIFA flag
  9. Fire Andrea Mitchell covers more TDS at Teen Vogue
  10. Free North Carolina covers what Kim Dotcom is saying about Seth Rich
  11. Gay Patriot notes SJWs claiming math is a racist tool of white suppression
  12. The Geller Report covers a lawyers claim regarding Trump’s travel ban and honor killings
  13. Jihad Watch discusses being smeared by the NY Times
  14. Legal Insurrection wonders about border states and sanctuary cities picking up the tab for the wall
  15. And last, but not least, Moonbattery notes how things are going at the U of Missouri after caving to Black Lives Matter

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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Trump Attempts To Galvanize Muslims To Fight Extremists Islam

By William Teach May 21, 2017 – 8:06 am

While Mr. Obama used his first speech in the Middle East to essentially apologize for America and 1st World nations and avoid mentioning the extremism that was and still is growing within Islam, to blast Israel and coddle Palestinians, all the things that make Leftist knees go weak (it wasn’t all bad, he did yammer about women’s rights, something sorely lacking in the Islamic world. Of course, he then scolded people for complaining about the repressive dictates of the Islamic dress code for women), Trump is going to reportedly use his speech to call for something different

Trump aims to unite against terrorism in speech before Muslim leaders

President Donald Trump, in a high-profile speech Sunday, will look to set the US and himself on new footing with the 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide who have heard much of the President’s Islamophobic comments on the campaign trail and little in the way of outreach.

But the main objective of Trump’s address will be to galvanize the Muslim world into confronting the radical Islamist ideology that birthed terrorist groups like ISIS, which Trump has vowed to destroy.

“Our goal is a coalition of nations who share the aim of stamping out extremism and providing our children a hopeful future that does honor to God … Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person, and falsely invokes the name of God, it should be an insult to every person of faith,” Trump will say, according to excerpts of his speech.

“This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations. This is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life, and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it. This is a battle between good and evil,” Trump will say. “That means honestly confronting the crisis of Islamist extremism and the Islamist terror groups it inspires.”

We can certainly expect that there will be some softening, such as we see in the “falsely invokes the name of God” bit (which probably will end up being Allah in the speech, but, hey, we know CNN and other Leftist outlets love replace one word with the other). The problem here is that Mr. Trump is directly butting heads with what has been growing for decades, the notion of hardcore, repressive, medieval Islam. He’s going against what is being taught in Islamic schools and in mosques. Fathers teaching sons and daughters Islamism. Mothers obeying. And it starts with little things, which seem perfectly OK to so many Muslims. And it has spread throughout the Islamic world.

But, this seems to be aimed more at getting the Middle East nations to Do Something about rising Islamism and terrorism. Will it work? Well, Trump’s off to a good start

(Washington Post) President Trump and the leaders of six Persian Gulf states joined forces here Sunday to counter global terrorism, reaching an agreement to crack down on terror financing, including the prosecution of individuals who continue sending money to militants.

The accord came during a series of meetings Trump held with several of his Middle Eastern counterparts on the second day of his first foreign trip, as he sought to strengthen U.S. alliances in the region and isolate the Islamic State and other extremist forces.

A centerpiece of Trump’s morning talks in Riyadh was a memorandum of understanding between the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council, which includes Saudi Arabia as well as Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The agreement includes the creation of a center in Riyadh to fight extremism.

Instead of going on an Apology Tour like Obama, Trump’s looking to actually work towards something. How much will this help? There’s the question that will be answered over time.

*Image from Washington Examiner, where Trump and Rex Tillerson participated in a traditional sword dance.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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