If All You See…

By William Teach June 22, 2025 – 2:02 pm

…is a world killing plastic bottle of water, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on Pelosi drunk blogging again in the wake of Iran bombing.

It’s brown haired ladies week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 22, 2025 – 9:14 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and there was lots of happy whistling over Iran last night. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt (who I didn’t know had passed on last year. He always did great drawings), with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Trump White House Assures East Palestine They Are Not Forgotten
  2. Jo Nova: Liars and wordsmiths don’t demolish and rebuild wind farms they “repower” them
  3. Watts Up With That?: Natural Gas Projects Reboot After Officials Wake Up to Stark Realities
  4. Bearing Arms: Walz Wants to Make Minnesota Capitol ‘Gun-Free Zone’
  5. Climate Depot: UN official calls for ‘climate misinformation’ to be ‘criminalized’ – ‘Criminalize media & advertising firms for amplifying disinformation & misinformation’
  6. Culturicidal: Why You Should Judge People as Individuals, Not Races
  7. Gates Of Vienna: The Islamic Colonization of Italy
  8. GeeeZ….: Hating Trump more than Loving America?
  9. IOTW Report: Dr. Demento Retires
  10. Jihad Watch: Leftist politicians denounce Trump for strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, call for impeachment
  11. Knuckledraggin My Life Away: One of ‘those neighbors’
  12. Legal Insurrection: Former Democratic Adviser Says Party Has No Agenda Beyond Hating Trump
  13. Moonbattery: Cartoonishly Heavy-Handed Democrat Ad
  14. The First Street Journal: President Trump is winning on immigration: a large number of illegals have apparently self-deported
  15. And last, but, not least, The Right Scoop has WATCH: Fox News Pentagon reporter praises Trump admin for NO LEAKS on bombing

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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US Strike Iran’s Nuclear Sites

By William Teach June 22, 2025 – 7:00 am

Whelp, so much for two weeks

One thing about Trump, he is not predictable, which is a good thing since the enemies of the US can’t play us

Trump: U.S. Completed ‘Successful Attack’ on Iranian Nuclear Sites

President Donald Trump revealed that the United States had just completed a “very successful attack on” three nuclear sites in Iran, such as Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!”

Obviously, this is making the Democrats and TDS infused Republicans upset

(CNN) GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky took to X to say, “This is not Constitutional.”

Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs of California had a similar sentiment, saying on X, “Trump’s strikes against Iran are not only unconstitutional, but an escalation that risks bringing the U.S. into another endless and deadly war.”

Massie is such a disappointment. But, how is it un-Constitutional? They do not say. Did they say the same when Biden and Obama were bombing targets? Did Trump break them so bad that they want to protect Iran?

(NY Times) Some members of Congress criticized the Trump administration for not seeking congressional approval before U.S. troops engaged in attacks against Iran. “This is not Constitutional,” said Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, who was a co-sponsor of a resolution trying to block any military action in Iran without Congress authorizing it.

Writing directly in response to Trump’s statement, Representative Jim Himes, a Democrat from Connecticut on the Intelligence Committee, said, “According to the Constitution we are both sworn to defend, my attention to this matter comes BEFORE bombs fall. Full stop.”

Did Massie do this for when Biden was attacking the Houthis? By the Constitution and law the president can engage in limited attacks and then inform Congress. They cannot start a full war. For one thing, you have the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Massie seems to be the only Republican in Congress whining, but, there are many pundits on Twitter having a hissy fit. I like this reply to Massie’s tweet (which also got retweeted by Rashida Tlaib)

Nothing about the autopen’s four years was constitutional. You stayed quiet.

Nothing about USAID fraud back to Congress was constitutional. You stayed quiet.

Nothing about Biden’s open border was constitutional. you stayed quiet.

Nothing about taxpayer money being laundered through NGO’s back to the spouses of Congressmen was constitutional. You stayed quiet.

Nothing about Ukraine funding laundered back to members of Congress bothered you either.

Nothing about J6 seemed to bother you.

Nothing about the weaponization of government against conservatives bothered you.

But Trump… every move is called out by you. I do not remember you being this active vocally calling out Biden at all. That was the most unconstitutional 4 years we have ever experienced in this nation’s history. And yet, you stayed silent with small push back on minor budgetary issues.

As far as more Democrats, other than Fetterman, they’ll all be whining. Trump is supposed to speak at 10pm Saturday night, so, I’m sure I’ll update this post in the am.

Oh, and I really intended to ignore the Dem responses, because they are what you expect. Except, I ran across this

She literally calls it illegal without congressional authorization, then cites the actual Congressionally passed resolution that makes it legal. Fucktard.

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Surprise: EV Owners Switching To Hybrids

By William Teach June 21, 2025 – 3:13 pm

This has shocked the NY Times

Hybrid Cars, Once Derided and Dismissed, Have Become Popular

Electric vehicleThere are a lot of things Sarah Martens likes about the 2025 Toyota Highlander hybrid she bought a few months ago. Its pearlescent white paint shimmers in the sunlight. It has lots of safety features. And for a large sport utility vehicle, it sips gasoline, getting nearly 30 miles per gallon at times.

But the thing she likes most: It doesn’t feel like a hybrid.

“It’s so smooth,” said Ms. Martens, a Pilates instructor in Ann Arbor, Mich. “When it starts off from a stoplight or switches from electric to gas, I can’t tell I’m driving a hybrid. It just seems like I’m driving a normal car.”

Not so long ago, it seemed that the heyday of hybrids had come and gone. As Tesla and the potential of electric vehicles grabbed the imaginations of drivers and automakers, hybrids appeared destined to be remembered as an interim step on the way toward a fully electric, emissions-free future.

Look, there are a bunch of reasons hybrids are doing well: one is that so much of fleets, especially Toyota and Honda, are hybrid. And they are not that much more expensive than a straight gas car. And, as mentioned above, you can’t really tell the difference. I drove an Accord then a Civic, both had 1.5 turbocharged engines. I do not miss them with my hybrid Accord. I have just as much get up and go, and, it is mostly quieter. I really wouldn’t want to switch back. I love seeing 43.6 MPG. They are good these days. Manufacturers could make them get better eMPG, but, they would lose get up and go, and no one wants that.

Just four years ago, for example, General Motors set a goal of ending production of all internal combustion models by 2035, and all but eliminated hybrids from its future product plans. Other manufacturers also bet heavily on electric vehicles and scaled their hybrid plans.

But then a funny thing happened. Car shoppers balked at the high prices of fully electric models and the challenges of charging them. In the last few years, sales of electric vehicles have grown at a much slower rate than automakers once expected. And hybrids have stepped in to fill the gap, accounting for a large and growing share of new car sales.

“People like the attributes that hybrids bring to the table,” said Jessica Caldwell, executive director of insights at Edmunds, a market researcher. “They offer better mileage than pure gasoline models, and the prices are pretty close to pure gas vehicles, so they’re much more affordable than E.V.s.”

In other words, their sales lines are driven by what customers want, not what the climate cultists in government want.

Republican legislation working its way through Congress could further lift sales of hybrids. In May, the House passed a policy bill backed by President Trump that would eliminate a $7,500 tax credit available to people who bought or leased electric vehicles. That legislation would also impose an annual tax of $250 on electric cars and $100 on hybrids to finance road projects. The Senate version of the bill introduced this week would do away with the tax credit, too, but does not include the annual tax.

I don’t agree with that. If you want an EV, get one. Entice people to do so. Nothing wrong with keeping the credits. You can also give credits for hybrids, as well. I like EVs. But, like I’ve said, 90% of they time they work for me: it’s the other 10% that is a problem.

Nearly half the cars and trucks that Toyota and its luxury brand, Lexus, sold in the first five months of the year were hybrids — and sales of those vehicles were up about 40 percent from a year earlier. Ford Motor’s hybrid sales rose 31 percent in the same period. Honda is on track this year for its highest hybrid sales ever, and the hybrid versions of its Accord sedan and CR-V sport utility vehicle now outsell the gasoline-only models.

Not necessarily fair on Accords, since all but the 2 lowest trims are hybrid, but, yeah, sell, more hybrid CRVs than gas. At the end of the day, it is about giving the consumer what they want, not what moonbats in government want. Especially since the people forcing this on Americans rarely drive EVs themselves.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 21, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are hills that would be perfect for solar panels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Ilhan Omar hating America but still staying.

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Washington Post Super Excited Over Spain Taking In Tons Of Migrants

By William Teach June 21, 2025 – 10:30 am

Of course, it’s all about Orange Man Bad

As Trump shuts out migrants, Spain opens its doors and fuels economic growth

When night falls on the other side of the Atlantic, her 32-year-old cousin, a house cleaner in New York, huddles inside a dim basement apartment, terrified of ICE raids. But in a burgeoning quarter of the Spanish capital, where immigrant-staffed restaurants tempt newcomers with Dominican chicharrones and Venezuelan empanadas, Edith Chimbo sat in the sunlight, musing about the Spanish Dream.

“My cousin told me, ‘Go to Spain,’” said Chimbo, 22, who landed in Madrid earlier this year from the Ecuadorian highlands. Armed with a college degree but no work permit, she’s cleaning houses under the table, just like her cousin in the United States. Yet she is counting on something in the weeks ahead that her kin almost certainly cannot: legalization.

Got that? The WP is excited that migrants are being brought to Spain to clean houses, and will soon be legalized!

As the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants and asylum seekers brings tear gas, protests and raids to the streets of the United States, Spain is positioning itself as a counterpoint: a new land of opportunity.

In this nation of 48 million with long colonial links to the New World, an influx of predominantly Latin American immigrants is helping fuel one of the fastest-growing economies in Europe. The Spanish economic transformation is unfolding as the center-left government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has streamlined immigration rules while offering legal status to roughly 700,000 irregular migrants since 2021.

700K? That’s cute.

A landmark bill now being negotiated in the Congress of Deputies could grant legal amnesty to hundreds of thousands more — most of them Spanish-speakers from predominantly Catholic countries in Latin America. Those newcomers often enjoy visa-free travel to Spain, even as Madrid controversially works with Morocco, Mauritania and other countries to block irregular arrivals from the African coast, though Sánchez has also called for tolerance toward migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Africa.

So, they’re bringing in folks who can speak the language, and have at least some commonality with the citizens of Spain for assimilation, while blocking those who do not? Huh.

Spain’s approach is attracting at least some migrants rejected or barred from the United States, including Venezuelans who are now subject to President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

Great. Go there. Biden took in enough, to add on to all those who came in over the past 30 years.

The number of Venezuelans applying for humanitarian protection in Spain surged to 36,923 between January and May, a 36.4 percent spike from the same period last year. With no visa requirements, all Venezuelans need is a valid passport and a plane ticket. In May, the most recent period available, applicants enjoyed a 98.6 percent acceptance rate.

“My hopes and plans for the United States ended overnight,” said Alexander Salazar, 34, a Venezuelan living in Peru who found out in February that his U.S. visa, on humanitarian grounds as an LGBTQ+ migrant, had been suspended. His plan now is to join other family and friends who have already left for Spain.

Yes, smaller nation, but, the US took in vastly more Venezuelans, and checked almost none of them. I’m betting Spain is checking to make sure they are not gang bangers and criminals. Anyhow, bleeding hearts, Orange Man Bad, and

Migrant influx pushing Mass. shelter costs past $1B in FY25: report

Massachusetts taxpayers are on course to spend $1 billion on the state’s emergency shelter program for FY25 with migrant families making up a significant share of those receiving assistance, according to a new report.

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration has already spent $830 million so far in FY25 – which started on July 1 – accommodating more than 4,000 families who have been receiving taxpayer-funded shelter, food, education, legal aid and case management.

The costs work out at about $3,496 per week per family, or around $1,000 per person per week for the program, known as the Emergency Assistance (EA) system.

Biden was taking in people who cannot support themselves, and, really, expect the US government to do so. If the US can mostly shut down the illegal immigration, stop taking in sad sacks from around the world, and boot out the bad people, we could provide temporary work visas to many who want to work, will work for a time, and then leave for a time before returning.

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Climate Cult Is Hating On AI

By William Teach June 21, 2025 – 7:00 am

You know, the energy requirements of artificial intelligence wouldn’t be a problem if the crazies would have let nations build reliable, dependable, affordable energy sources that provided abundant energy

Can You Choose an A.I. Model That Harms the Planet Less?

From uninvited results at the top of your search engine queries to offering to write your emails and helping students do homework, generative A.I. is quickly becoming part of daily life as tech giants race to develop the most advanced models and attract users.

All those prompts come with an environmental cost: A report last year from the Energy Department found A.I. could help increase the portion of the nation’s electricity supply consumed by data centers from 4.4 percent to 12 percent by 2028. To meet this demand, some power plants are expected to burn more coal and natural gas.

And some chatbots are linked to more greenhouse gas emissions than others. A study published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Communication analyzed different generative A.I. chatbots’ capabilities and the planet-warming emissions generated from running them. Researchers found that chatbots with bigger “brains” used exponentially more energy and also answered questions more accurately — up until a point.

“We don’t always need the biggest, most heavily trained model, to answer simple questions. Smaller models are also capable of doing specific things well,” said Maximilian Dauner, a Ph.D. student at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and lead author of the paper. “The goal should be to pick the right model for the right task.”

Why are they always so naggy? Why do they always need to involve themselves in everything? Just leave people alone

The study evaluated 14 large language models, a common form of generative A.I. often referred to by the acronym LLMs, by asking each a set of 500 multiple choice and 500 free response questions across five different subjects. Mr. Dauner then measured the energy used to run each model and converted the results into carbon dioxide equivalents based on global averages.In most of the models tested, questions in logic-based subjects, like abstract algebra, produced the longest answers — which likely means they used more energy to generate compared with fact-based subjects, like history, Mr. Dauner said.

A.I. chatbots that show their step-by-step reasoning while responding tend to use far more energy per question than chatbots that don’t. The five reasoning models tested in the study did not answer questions much more accurately than the nine other studied models. The model that emitted the most, DeepSeek-R1, offered answers of comparable accuracy to those that generated a fourth of the amount of emissions.

They always want to limit what you can do. Just leave us alone.

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So, What Happens To Iran’s Nuclear Material If There Is A Deal?

By William Teach June 21, 2025 – 6:45 am

Good question

As Iran talks get underway, expert raises alarm over lack of plan to secure nuclear material

European and Iranian negotiators ended their talks in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday without a clear breakthrough, but diplomats told The Associated Press they were hopeful of more discussions with the Iranians.

The talks with Iran come a day after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered a message from President Trump, stating, “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.”

One former Pentagon official says there is an important issue that is not being discussed.

“If Iran gives up its nuclear program as Trump has demanded, there’s another problem we’re not talking about, which is how do we get all the nuclear material outside of Iran,” Michael Rubin, an American Enterprise Institute senior fellow, told Fox News Digital.

The US doesn’t want boots on the ground in Iran. Who trusts the UN and International Atomic Energy Agency?

Rubin said he would nominate India to seize the nuclear material.

“They are trusted by the Americans, they’re trusted by the Israelis and they’re trusted by the Iranians. But we need to start not only being reactive, but also proactive,” said Rubin

Obama’s Iran deal supposedly saw Iran give up 25,000 pounds of enriched uranium, and a promise they wouldn’t make more. Which, of course, they immediately started making more. And, while Trump pulled out of the deal, because it was terrible, the other members didn’t. Well, except for Iran, which never had any intention of following. Biden put the US back in, and still Iran broke the pact.

Meanwhile

White House monitoring possible Iranian ‘sleeper cells’ in US: Source

As the Iranian supreme leader threatens “irreparable harm” if the United States joins Israel’s fight, the White House is warning of so-called Iranian “sleeper cells.” The Trump and Biden administrations have long been concerned about Iran’s ability to direct or inspire attacks within the U.S.

Sleeper cells are spies or terrorists who operate in the U.S. and Western countries and remain inactive until they are essentially ordered to act. Experts who have spoken with NewsNation said should the U.S. join Israel’s strikes against Iran, they may try to activate these cells.

A recent U.S. Department of Homeland Security threat assessment concurs, saying that the intelligence community expects Iran to remain the primary sponsor of terrorism and continue its efforts to advance plots against individuals, including current and former U.S. officials. That assessment echoed similar guidance from Biden’s Department of Homeland Security in 2024. Experts say given the recent escalation between Israel and Iran, the possibility is very real.

I wonder how many were brought in by the Biden admin and/or let in after they were caught illegally crossing the border?

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Your Fault: Calories From Foods To SOON! Plummet From Atmospheric Cancer

By William Teach June 20, 2025 – 2:58 pm

I’m pretty sure I have seen this one before, but, not sure. Regardless, it’s another in a long line of “Doom is coming SOON!”

‘Like everyone on the planet giving up breakfast’: Calories from food production set to plummet as the world heats up

climate doom yearly

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

Rising global temperatures are set to devastate food crops across the world, with particularly alarming impacts projected for the United States, where production of key crops could plummet 50% by the end of the century, according to a sweeping new analysis.

Of the many impacts of the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis, damage to the global food system is one of the most terrifying. But the overall impact of climate change on crops — and how much it can be offset by farmers’ adaptations — has been hard to establish and hotly debated.

The new analysis, eight years in the making, is “the first attempt to really tackle both of those problems,” said Solomon Hsiang, a study author and professor of global environmental policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

The scientists analyzed six crops — maize, soybeans, rice, wheat, cassava and sorghum — in more than 12,000 regions across 54 countries. Together, these crops provide more than two thirds of humanity’s calories.

Climatic weather has always been a challenge, both positive and negative. Things do not stay the same. A big part of the French Revolution during the Little Ice Age was the inability to grow staple foods, especially wheat, causing discord amongst the peasants. Warm and cool periods have brought their own challenges. When you plant for a certain range of temperatures, water supply, etc, and things happen outside that, well, problems. Like, say, during the Dust Bowl period in the Midwest. Technology and practices get better. But, these cultists always proclaim doom from CO2

Their findings are stark. Every 1 degree Celsius the world warms above pre-industrial levels will drag down global food production by an average of 120 calories per person per day, according to the study, published Wednesday in Nature.

“If the climate warms by 3 degrees, that’s basically like everyone on the planet giving up breakfast,” he said. The world is currently on track for around 3 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the century.

It’s a measly 1.5C since 1850. People mostly seem to be doing OK.

If humans keep burning large amounts of fossil fuels, maize production could fall by 40% in the grain belt of the US, eastern China, central Asia, southern Africa and the Middle East; wheat production could fall by 40% in the US, China, Russia and Canada; and soybean yields could fall 50% in the US.

And, yet, most Warmists, from CNN who wrote the article to the people involved with the “study” to the base Warmists have most not given up their own use of fossil fuels. Go figure.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 20, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that is going to rise dozens of feet Soon!, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on Trump’s careful, America first approach to Iran.

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