Bummer: Aviation Ditching Climate (scam) Targets

By William Teach June 2, 2025 – 7:00 am

It was never gonna fly, if you’ll excuse the pun. The only way would have been to either stop fossil fueled flights altogether or make a breakthrough in aviation fuel. Considering they haven’t come up with one for cars, it’s a long shot

Key climate target of airline decarbonisation ‘in peril’: IATA

The airline industry’s flagship goal of decarbonising by 2050 is now “in peril” due to climate-sceptic policies, including those of US President Donald Trump, the leading airline association IATA warned on Sunday.

The emergence of leaders favouring fossil fuels and recent regulatory rollbacks are “obviously a setback… it does imperil success on the 2050 horizon”, Marie Owens Thomsen, the International Air Transport Association’s senior vice president for sustainability, told reporters.

“But I don’t think it’s going to halt or reverse progress. I think it will just slow progress,” she said at the IATA annual industry conference in India.

Sounds like a position that offers nothing but nagging, but, I bet it pays a lot.

The air transportation industry has faced growing pressure to deal with its contribution to the climate crisis.

Currently responsible for 2.5 percent to three percent of global CO2 emissions, the sector’s switch to renewable fuels is proving difficult, even if the aeronautics industry and energy companies have been seeking progress.

To achieve net-zero emissions, airlines rely on non-fossil sources known as Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

However, SAF biofuels are still three to four times more expensive than petroleum-based jet fuel.

Guess who pays for these fuels that are about as worthwhile as ethanol.

Owens Thomsen estimated on Sunday that $4.7 trillion in investment is needed to establish SAF sectors capable of meeting the needs of air transport by 2050.

“It is entirely achievable,” she said, adding that the raw materials and technology already exist and simply need to be developed.

And they can get that money from ending fossil fuels “subsidies”, which are really just tax breaks. Which would mean the cost of living would go up. Not that the Elites care. But, come on, most of the airlines are just greenwashing to placate the climate nuts.

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MSNBC Says Dems Should Win Back Young Men By Going To The Gym

By William Teach June 2, 2025 – 6:45 am

This is from the same people who made being obese normal and telling men to be beta

Opinion | How Democrats can make “Speaking with American Men” a success

After losing big with men under 30 in the 2024 election, Democrats have spent $20 million on a program called “Speaking with American Men” (SAM) to help figure out which “spaces” they need to show up in to fare better with this demographic. A smart place to start would be the gym; the booming men’s fitness market is expected to more than double by 2029, growth driven by men under 25, who are joining gyms almost twice as fast as women. And as SAM co-director Ilyse Hogue and I wrote here last year, the right has done an excellent job parlaying young men’s healthy interest in exercise into an embrace of reactionary politics.

The right has done an excellent job parlaying young men’s healthy interest in exercise into an embrace of reactionary politics.

We have? That’s a new one. I wasn’t aware of that. I do not go to the gym because I’m a conservative, like I don’t play guitar because I’m a conservative.

But it doesn’t need to be that way. Across the political spectrum, craving the surefire sense of accomplishment the gym provides is an age-old response to an unstable political and economic environment. And historically, championing physical fitness with appeals to American manliness has not been a partisan issue. If the SAM initiative is going to net the Democrats more than online snark, its leaders should appreciate that this history suggests the party’s path forward might just begin at the gym.

They want to turn exercise political.

In the vast digital universe targeting young men, the idea that exercise is imperative to self-actualization is inescapable. It’s most obvious in fitness-focused influencers like Ashton Hall, whose six-hour “morning routine” recently racked up nearly a billion views on X. But plenty of public figures with grander concerns insist exercise is integral to achievement. Take Andrew Tate’s obsession with “plummeting masculinity” or Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s quest to make America healthy again.

Have no idea who Hall is, Tate is a horrible human being, and, really, being healthy is a bad thing? Oh, right, Democrats came up with “fatphobic.”

When the world feels confusing or out of control, make a man of yourself, beginning with your body is an especially enticing proposition. If, despite one’s best efforts, landing a rewarding career or a loving mate proves elusive, then why not capture a sense of self-efficacy at the squat rack? Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg’s billions may be out of reach, but attaining their newly sculpted bodies only takes some discipline and protein shakes.

What they do not get is that being a man starts with a mental belief, not being in shape. And, yeah, it never used to be a political thing, but, we have seen how the Democrats have hated on men doing manly things over the past couple decades. Then we get some blah blah, ending with

Yet destabilizing moments like the one we are now living through reveal an enduring dynamic: Men are encouraged with particular urgency to get moving when their social status feels in flux. Generation after generation, boosters sell men the irresistible idea that at the gym, if nowhere else, the sweat of your brow is all that stands between you and success. It’s an understandable, even healthy impulse, and Democrats would do well to start rebuilding their political muscle quite literally, by seeking to identify with the guy at the gym.

Most go to the gym because it makes them feel good and helps get them in shape. Democrats want to make it political. This will not go well. These are most of the young Dem males

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 1, 2025 – 2:07 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike staving off catastrophic global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sultan Knish, with a post on America not needing international students.

It’s bike week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 1, 2025 – 9:10 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dodgers waxed the Yankees. This pinup is by David Uhl, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: UPenn Climate Professor Michael Mann Issues Death Threat Against Trump
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That: Electric cars halve in value after just two years
  3. No Trick Zone: The German “Record Heat Summer” Weather Clowns Already Out In Full Force
  4. Watts Up With That?: Basic Physics All at Sea in Sky News Climate Scare Nonsense Story
  5. Ace Of Spades HQ: Daily Tech News 1 June 2025
  6. Bearing Arms: Washington Sheriff Says He Won’t Enforce State’s Gun Licensing Law
  7. Climate Depot: What The Media Won’t Tell You About Trump’s Cuts to the Energy Star Program
  8. Cold Fury: Inflation Drops to 2.1%, Personal Income Tripled Expectations, U.S. Trade Deficit Drops by 46 Percent
  9. Culturcidal: Tearing Down a Rigged System: It’s So Good to See the Liberal Version of “Normal” Starting to Die
  10. Gates Of Vienna: Islam: Enmity and Hatred Forever
  11. Geller Report: Iran Has Enriched Uranium for 10 Nuclear Bombs, Continues Production
  12. House Of Eratosthenes: LGBTQWERTYUIOP+ Friendly
  13. IOTW Report: Dems Talk of a “Blue MAGA” and Ro Khana as Their Prophet
  14. Jihad Watch: Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology declares ban on child marriage un-Islamic
  15. And last, but, not least, Legal Insurrection: Far-Left Protesters Block ICE Arrests in Boston – Even Of Accused Child Rapist
  16. And one to grow on, Moonbattery has Moonbats LGBTify Shakespeare

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). 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. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

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. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Oh Noes: Trump Deporting All Those Biden Imports Imperils The Health Sector

By William Teach June 1, 2025 – 7:00 am

This is what an activist media looks like

‘They’re the backbone’: Trump’s targeting of legal immigrants threatens health sector

The Trump administration’s efforts to strip protections from more than half a million legal immigrants could devastate the health sector, endangering care for the elderly and worsening rates of both chronic and infectious diseases.

Hundreds of thousands of health care workers, including an estimated 30,000 legal immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, are at risk of being deported — worrying providers and patients who rely on them for everything from nursing and physical therapy to maintenance, janitorial, foodservice and housekeeping work.

Goodwin Living, a faith-based, not-for-profit elder care complex just across the Potomac River from D.C., is poised to lose 65 staff members following Supreme Court rulings on Friday and earlier in May that gave the Trump administration permission to terminate humanitarian parole and temporary protected status issued by prior presidents to migrants from several countries plagued by poverty and violence.

“I just can’t even imagine the impact it would have on those of us that are cared for on a daily basis if we were to suddenly lose them,” said Jill Miller, who has resided at Goodwin Living for eight years with her husband Carl. “They’re the backbone.”

Have they considered hiring Americans? Instead of people who have only been in the U.S. for a few years, and probably barely speak the language at all? Hey, maybe lots of people on welfare can be employed doing this stuff. Seriously, how did so many of these Biden imports, who would always be under threat to be repatriated, since TPS only lasts 18 months at a time, become so embedded within the health system? How did they all get legal status so quick and jobs?

These vulnerabilities underscore the precarity of the nation’s patchwork immigration system. Immigrants — both documented and undocumented — make up a disproportionate share of the health care workforce, particularly in areas like long-term care for the elderly and people with disabilities, and their expulsion would make existing shortages much worse.

Illegals shouldn’t have jobs. Period. Those on TPS or (fake) asylum seekers should understand that their time is limited.

“There are valid concerns, absolutely,” said Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “But the solution we need is for Congress to determine what level of immigration we need, what skill level we need, what the conditions are, and then to pass laws. You can’t just completely bypass Congress with executive action on immigration and expect this fragile edifice that we set up to survive.”

What Democrats want is more voters, because they embed them in jobs, keep giving them TPS, give them asylum they do not deserve, then amnesty.

“The assertion that the only way we can take care of our seniors is by allowing unvetted illegal aliens and foreigners with criminal records to remain in the country is grossly false and lazy,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to POLITICO. “If people want to come to our country to be caregivers for our seniors, they need to do that by coming here the legal way.”

But, that wouldn’t create millions of new Democrat voters.

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Hawaii Enacts Their Climate (scam) Tax For Tourists

By William Teach May 31, 2025 – 3:00 pm

So, what happens when there are few visitors and/or visitors spend less while there, including on tips, because of the extra taxes?

Hawaii Imposes the Nation’s First Climate Change Tax for Tourists — And It’s Expected to Generate $100 Million Annually

Legislators in Hawaii are implementing a hefty tax on tourism that they believe will help the state government take action against climate change.

According to the Associated Press and USA Today, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green signed a bill on Tuesday, May 27, that increased a tax on hotel room, vacation rentals and cruise ships to raise money to be used for issues such as eroding shorelines, wildfires and more.

Known as the first ever “Green Fee” in the country, Hawaii’s Act 96 will raise the state’s current transient accommodations tax (TAT) by 0.75%, making the taxes on nightly lodging rates 11%. The tax will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2026, according to a press release from Green’s office.

According to USA Today, travelers will have to pay a fee based on the nightly rate of their travel accommodations. For example, travelers staying in a hotel room that costs $300 per night will have to pay a $2.25 fee.

It’s not much, but, people do not like paying extra fees for bullshit.

“I mahalo the tourism industry for stepping up and collaborating on this initiative, which will preserve Hawai?i for kama??ina and visitors alike,” Governor Green explained. “The fee will restore and remediate our beaches and shorelines and harden infrastructure critical to the health and safety of all who call Hawai?i home, whether for a few days or a lifetime.”

So, if it is so important, than why not ban the use of fossil fuels? All those airports, heliports, boats, and vehicles? Why do the residents not pay? Why hit up the lifeblood of their economy?

Elsewhere, no matter what happens, it’s ‘climate change’

Floods kill at least 111 as northern Nigeria battles climate change, dry spells and heavy rainfall

Torrents of predawn rain unleashed flooding that killed at least 111 people in a market town where northern Nigerian farmers sell their wares to traders from the south, officials said Friday, predicting the death toll would grow.

The Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency did not immediately say how much rain fell after midnight Thursday in the town of Mokwa in the state of Niger more than 180 miles west of Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous nation.

Communities in northern Nigeria have been experiencing prolonged dry spells worsened by climate change and excessive rainfall that leads to severe flooding during the brief wet season.

In videos and photos on social media, floodwaters covered neighborhoods and homes were submerged, with their roofs barely visible above the brown colored waters. Waist-deep in water, residents tried to salvage what they could, or rescue others.

Got that? It’s your fault Someone Else’s Fault that carbon pollution is causing flooding and drought in a place that has historically had floods and droughts. Even desertification. Because of where Nigeria is located. There are other factors, such as deforestation, over-cultivation, over-grazing, cultivating marginal land, urbanization, and poor water management. Those are human caused, we do not need the boogeyman of “carbon pollution”. But, the cult will still do it. Floods and droughts go way back in their history throughout the Holocene.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 31, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a hazy day from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on the declassification of FBI files on Nellie Ohr.

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Bummer: Feds Looking At Social Media Accounts Of Visa Holders For Harvard

By William Teach May 31, 2025 – 10:30 am

Realistically, they should be doing this for anyone coming on a visa, especially from certain countries, looking for support of Islamic extremism, America hatred, and Jew hatred

Federal officials to vet social media accounts of visa applicants heading to Harvard

The media never asks what they mean

Federal officials are set to start reviewing the social media accounts of visa applicants who plan to attend, work at or visit Harvard University for any signs of antisemitism, marking the latest development in a clash between the Trump administration and the Ivy League school.

A cable sent Friday signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and obtained by The Associated Press accused the university of failing to keep violence and antisemitism off campus. It said the vetting measure will help consular officers identify applicants with a history of those offenses “and to duly consider their visa eligibility under U.S. immigration law.”

The measure was sent to all U.S. embassies and consulates, and it takes effect immediately. It will serve as a pilot program that could be expanded more broadly, according to the cable. (snip)

More than a quarter of Harvard’s student body at its Cambridge campus are foreign students. Most are graduate students, coming from more than 100 countries.

Earlier this week, the State Department paused the scheduling of new visa interviews for foreign students looking to study in the U.S., saying it was preparing to expand the screening of their activity on social media. It’s unclear whether that pause has been lifted.

This is a long standing problem, letting in foreign students who support Islamic extremism, hate the U.S (and the Western world), and Jews. Who want to see Israel destroyed. One would have thought the feds would have been more careful, restrictive, and discerning in a post-9/11 world. I’d like to blame Obama and his people, but, this was happening under Clinton, and Bush43 didn’t seem to crack down.

Opinion – Pipeline of hate: From campus rhetoric to capital murder

Hatred doesn’t erupt — it festers, it seeps quietly into our culture through rhetoric, ideology and the institutions we trust to educate our young. Then, one day, it explodes.

Last week, that hatred turned lethal in the heart of our nation’s capital. Two young Israeli diplomatic staffers were killed — victims not of a random act of violence, but of a deep-seated ideology that has been allowed to metastasize from college campuses to city streets.

This tragedy did not begin with a gunman. It began with a lecture, a slogan, a chant shouted in the quad, a speech at commencement, or a tenured professor’s tweet. It began the moment elite institutions chose to confuse academic freedom with moral ambiguity or abdication, and to shelter calls for violence under the banner of “resistance.”

The alleged shooter was none other than a radicalized Elias Rodriguez, who had absorbed such teachings and joined the movements supporting them.

This is a long piece by Sabrina Soffer, which I’m surprised The Hill allowed to be published, which describes the long standing anti-Israel and anti-Jew sentiment on campus, particularly as it emanates from teachers. It’s well worth the read, but, it does miss one thing: how it starts with the Islamic extremists on campus, which is intentional, as they use the Muslim Brotherhood playbook. The Muslim Student Association exists to spread Islamism, hatred of the West, and Jew hatred. It’s an attempt to make Western governments and idiot leftists supporters, as well as get them to not interfere. Just allow it to happen. Remember the Pulse nightclub shooting? How many in the media and government looked at it as being a jihadi attack? Not many, right?

And notice that the murder of the two Israelis has mostly disappeared from the news. If it was an Israeli who murdered two Palestinians would we still be getting news?

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Youts Sue Trump Over Climate (scam) Executive Orders

By William Teach May 31, 2025 – 7:00 am

And, by youts, we all know this means many big monied climate cult groups astroturfing this

Young people sue Donald Trump over climate change

A group of young people — as young as 7 and as old as 25 — are suing the Trump administration to stop its assault on renewable energy and climate action.

Executive orders President Donald Trump signed to promote fossil fuels amount to an “unconstitutional” overreach of power, they allege in a complaint filed Thursday at a US District Court in Montana. The 22 plaintiffs also claim that by increasing pollution and denying climate science, the president’s actions violate their Fifth Amendment rights to life and liberty.

It’s the latest high-profile case brought against governments by youth concerned about how fossil fuel pollution and climate change poses risks to their health and ability to thrive as they grow up.

Two brothers, aged 11 and 7 and named “J.K.” and “N.K.” in the suit, “were born into climate change-induced smoke seasons that did not exist for older generations and which compromise their health,” the complaint says. (big snip)

The plaintiffs are seeking injunctive relief to block implementation of those executive orders and to declare them unconstitutional. They also claim that Trump lacks the authority to erode environmental protections passed by Congress under the Clean Air Act. The administration’s efforts to impede scientific research and remove climate information from federal websites amounts to “censorship” and denies plaintiffs access to resources they might otherwise be able to use to minimize risks they face from climate change, the suit alleges.

Will the defense lawyers or any involved judges ask if the kiddies have forgone the use of fossil fuels in their own lives? Also, have the lawyers who put this together actually read the 5th, and know what it means?

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Yeah, that’s all about criminal prosecutions, not a bunch of cultists trying to say a tiny increase in the Earth’s temperature over 175 years from the same fossil fuels the youts won’t stop using themselves violates their 5th amendment rights. It’s all very silly.

It’s also very silly, because these same youts are happy to take Other People’s property, liberty, and I bet are supporters of abortion.

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CNN Says “Investigators” Claim Migrant Who Threatened To Kill Trump Was Set Up

By William Teach May 31, 2025 – 6:45 am

See if you see what I see. Or, better, what I’m not seeing

Exclusive: Kristi Noem said a migrant threatened to kill Trump. Investigators think he was set up

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted a stunning allegation on Wednesday: A undocumented migrant sent a letter threatening to kill President Donald Trump, promising to “self deport” after the assassination.

“Thanks to our ICE officers, this illegal alien who threatened to assassinate President Trump is behind bars,” Noem wrote in a social media post that included the letter and a picture of the man arrested. DHS also sent out a press release.

The story was picked up by multiple news outlets. The president’s allies used it to highlight what they see as the dangers of undocumented migrants and the work of the administration to boot them out of the country.

The problem: Investigators believe the migrant was a victim of a setup.

Law enforcement believes the man, Ramon Morales Reyes, 54, never wrote the letter, which was sent to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office and other law enforcement agencies, several sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Instead, investigators suspect the letter was intended to benefit a separate individual who is currently awaiting trial in a robbery and assault case in which Reyes is a victim. They do not consider the threat to be credible.

Who are these investigators? Which law enforcement?

A high-level law enforcement official who was briefed on the case told CNN that law enforcement determined Reyes did not write the letter when they interviewed him regarding the threat. Federal officials asked for a handwriting sample from Reyes and determined his handwriting and the threatening letter didn’t match.

Further, a source told CNN law enforcement reviewed jail calls made by a person they believe played a role in penning the letters. The source said the person asked about specific addresses, one of which received the letter.

Is there one source that is named? They do not even name the agencies. That’s not to say that the illegal wasn’t set up. Hey, I think it could be true. But, this is the problem with the Credentialed Media: anonymous sources out the wazoo in order to Get Trump.

A spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin told CNN they have “no charged matter involving this individual,” and declined to comment further.

“Morales entered the U.S. illegally at least nine times between 1998-2005,” DHS said in its original press release on Reyes’ arrest. “His criminal record includes arrests for felony hit and run, criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct with a domestic abuse modifier.”

So, in order to Get Trump, CNN is trying to prop up this scumbag? Really? And, what if it is a different illegal? Is CNN OK with that?

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