If All You See…

…is a horrible climate killing refrigerator, you may just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post wondering if anti-vaxxer RFK, Jr. should go to jail.

It’s major appliances week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! A great day in America. The sun is shining, geese are making a gawdawful racket, but, at least they’re not pooping in my yard. No idea who did this pinup, which has a wee addition by me.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Right Scoop notes that Katie Couric isn’t even waiting till Brian Williams is gone
  2. This ain’t Hell… has your Sunday feel good story
  3. The Other McCain discusses facts as the new hate
  4. The Lonely Conservative notes what Obama wants to do to Roth IRAs
  5. The Jawa Report makes an important point about not all Muslims are extremists
  6. The Daley Gator notes what happens when a guy with a toy gun attacks a guy with a real gun
  7. The Camp Of The Saints discusses the nature of ideology
  8. The Astute Bloggers notes the terrible deeds Democrats have done in the name of racism
  9. Small Dead Animals isn’t impressed with public transportation
  10. Raised On Hoecakes notes Big Government intrusion into the Little Free Library
  11. Pamela Geller notes fun happenings at a Canadian college during “Islamic Awareness Week”
  12. Moonbattery discusses a different type of “stolen valor”
  13. Legal Insurrection has a specific example of minimum wage raise fallout
  14. Jihad Watch notes Pakistanis support the killing of a blasphemy law foe
  15. And last, but not least, Fire Andrea Mitchell notes the reality of the new allegations against Chris Christie

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. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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Prince Charles: U.K. Muslims In U.K. Should Live By U.K. Values

Yes, yes, when it comes to “climate change”, Prince Charles is a complete boob, and a major hypocrite. That in no way means that he isn’t correct on other subjects. He’s a big supporter of the U.K. military, and apparently not a big fan of Muslims being radicalized. Of course, his words are considered “controversial” in the modern P.C., multiculturalist, “tolerant”, diversity world

(UK Daily Mail) Prince Charles risked provoking a new political and religious storm yesterday when he said Muslims living in the UK should follow British values.

In a staunch defence of Britain’s ‘Christian standpoint,’ he denounced the radicalisation of young Britons by Islamic fanatics and said they should show more respect to ‘the values we hold dear’.

People who had ‘come here, were born here or go to school here’ should ‘abide by our values,’ he said. His comments were made as he started a six-day tour of the Middle East, seen as another stage in assuming more of the Queen’s international duties.

The Prince’s intervention comes hard on the heels of a new book which claims the Queen is worried that her heir plans to be an ‘activist king’. The Prince’s comments on Islam and Christianity are broadcast in an interview with BBC Radio 2’s The Sunday Hour this morning, suggesting he plans to be very active.

‘The radicalisation of people in Britain is a great worry, and the extent to which this is happening is alarming, particularly in a country like ours where we hold values dear,’ he says. ‘You would think the people who have come here, or are born here, and go to school here, would abide by those values and outlooks.’

It was ‘frightening’ that young British Muslims were radicalised by ‘crazy stuff on the internet’.

Charles will reinforce his tough stance on Islamic extremism by telling the new Saudi king to show clemency to Saudi blogger Badawi (who was sentenced to receive 1000 lashes, and has already received quite a few).

Britain is perhaps the worst European country for Islamic radicalism, having been tolerant for decades. This goes directly to the Progressive worldview about tolerance, diversity, and multiculturalism, along with a notion that no society is better than any other. There’s also a notion that criticizing radical Islam could set oneself up for a violent attack, possibly leading to death. The Religion Of Peace is very unhappy when anyone dares criticize it, and may make threats, and follow through with them. The other half of the time the RoP will engage in a campaign to negatively brand an opponent as an “Islamophobe”, and Progressive wankers will happily fall in line and do the same, rather than addressing the danger within their midst.

It’s one thing to bring in compatible values and integrate them. Here in the United States, can you imagine the nation without Italians and the Irish, coming in large waves post Revolution? The Brits and Scots were already the primary residents. Other big influxes have provided heavily and positively to the nation. Many Chinese who came over in the late 1800’s. So many of the southern Asians, such as the Vietnamese, have integrated well. Even those who were provided amnesty in the 1980’s provided value, because they wanted to be part of the Great Melting Pot, rather attempting to force the U.S. to adapt to them, like today’s illegals.

It’s not just radical Islam of which Britain has been tolerant

Only one in 10 pupils at east London primary speaks English as first language – down from nine out of 10 in 1999… and now they speak SIXTY different languages

  • More than 60 languages are spoken at Britain’s biggest primary school
  • Only 10 per cent of pupils have English as their first language
  • More than a third of new arrivals at Gascoigne Primary speak no English
  • One 10-year-old from Bulgaria could not say how old he is, show revealed

How does a society, a nation, operate and survive in these conditions? Of course, you get these types of twits

Some parents speak warmly of the school and maintain the language barriers present no problems for their children’s education.

Sarah Mallia, who is British-born but married to an Albanian, says her daughter Melissa, five, speaks English and Albanian.

‘When they have had children arriving who don’t speak any English, I know Melissa has taken them under her wing and helped them settle in,’ she says.

These same types of people declare that it is raaaaacist (bigoted, mean, etc) to force these kids (and adults) to learn to speak English. They should learn the language prior to being placed in class, which would remove the disruptions and slow to low learning that occurs because of the language barriers.

The radical Islamists bring their culture, their values, and their social mores, which are incompatible with Western society, and expect the Brits (and Americans, Canadians, French, Spanish, Swedes, etc) to provide accommodation. And, somehow, we tolerate it. Things like stoning adulterers, hanging gays, honor killings, women forced to wear full body covers, women forced to submit to men, and all the other things that radical Islam stands for. Including the violence.

Anyhow, kudos to Prince Charles for taking a stand.

Let the Liberal strawmen, equivocations, and deflections begin.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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ISIS Proclaims US Hostage Killed In Jordan Air Strikes

The obvious narrative from ISIS is that Jordan is to blame

(NY Times)  She had always been the unidentified, lone female American hostage of the Islamic State. For nearly 17 months, while her fellow American captives were beheaded one after another in serial executions posted on YouTube, Kayla Mueller’s name remained a closely guarded secret, whispered among reporters, government officials and hostage negotiators — all fearing that any public mention might imperil her life.

On Friday, the Islamic State confirmed her identity, announcing that Ms. Mueller, a 26-year-old aid worker from Prescott, Ariz., had been killed in the falling rubble of a building in northern Syria that it said had been struck by bombs from a Jordanian warplane. Both the Jordanian and American governments said there was no proof, even as they rushed to deplore her possible death. Top Jordanian officials said the announcement was cynical propaganda.

Ms. Mueller was abducted while on the road from Syria back to Turkey (might not have been a wise idea to be in Syria in the first place). If she was killed in a Jordanian airstrike, the blame goes strictly to ISIS, which was holding her captive.

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If All You See…

…is a wonderful, natural field that would be perfect for a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on where the job growth has gone.

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Climate Change Is Totally Like 4 Guys Sitting At A Lunch Counter In Greensboro Or Something

No, really! (video at the link)

Climate Change Is Young People’s ‘Lunch Counter Moment’

Fifty-five years ago Jibreel Khazan of the Greensboro Four sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth store on Feb. 1, 1960 with three other classmates from North Carolina A&T University to highlight racial injustices in America.

At that time, Jibreel and his classmates were fighting for equality, and the goal to desegregate the lunch counter across America became central in that fight.

Today, while the fight for equality continues, because of climate change it is no longer just about equality, but also existence.

Jibreel Khazan has stated that “climate change is young people’s ‘lunch counter moment’ for the 21st century.”

All young people should listen, and give up all their modern conveniences, like their tablets, smartphones, computers, TVs, ice makers, and so on.

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Bobby Jindal Provides Perfect Response To Obama’s Silly Christian Blaming

I’ve said many, many times over the years, and, in particular, over the past few days, that Liberals like to use language designed specifically to deflect from the given subject. They create strawmen, they throw out words and phrases such as “racist!”, “bigot!”, “settled science”, and “Islamophobia”, they attempt to put people on the defense, all which changes the tone of the debate. This is exactly what Obama did with his petty speech at the National Prayer Breakfast regarding past negative actions of Christians. I’ve listened a bit to Beck, Hannity, and Rush fall into this trap. Jonah Goldberg did. Many on Fox News and in the Conservative Blogosphere fell into this same trap. So did many Republican politicians. They started going down all the roads of “wait a minute, this happened hundreds of years to a millennium ago.” Not Bobby Jindal, though

(National Review)  Bobby Jindal on Friday released a statement responding to the president’s remarks on Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in which he cautioned Americans from getting on a “high horse” when taking a stance against radical Islam because people have committed “terrible deeds” in the name of Christianity, too.

“It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the Prayer breakfast,” Jindal said. “Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.”

That is an utterly perfect response. In sales, we deal with something similar all the time. Customers try and take off the beaten path, and our job is to get them back to the correct trail, which leads to a sale (or at least to not waste more time than necessary). What Jindal did is much like the basic form of overcoming objections (amazingly, many try to over-complicate this with 5 to 7 steps). Acknowledge the objection. Reiterate the objection. Then provide a solution. This is also sometimes called ARC (Acknowledge the concern, Respond to the concern, Close that part of the conversation, with C being the hard part. Different situations have different closes). If this isn’t done correctly, you get stuck in the quicksand.

Jindal acknowledged the concern, responded to the concern, then closed it and moved on without get stuck in the quicksand of Obama’s intended conversation deflection, and put it back on Obama.

OK, cue up the Islamist supporting deflections and strawmen from Lefties.

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Great Googly Moogly: Obama’s New Foreign Policy Doctrine Is “Strategic Patience”

This is apparently a real thing (via Twitchy)

(Foreign Policy)  Critics of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy have for years assailed his administration for responding too slowly to crises ranging from Syria to Russia. In a far-reaching blueprint released Friday that outlines the administration’s worldview, the White House insisted the United States is leading the global effort to confront challenges in a deliberate manner described as “strategic patience.”

The National Security Strategy, required by U.S. law, is intended to set the direction for the administration and communicate American intent to lawmakers, the public, and the world. It is Obama’s second such strategy, and likely last, before he leaves office in early 2017.

It aims to rebut criticism that he has consistently waited too long to respond to challenges like the rise of the Islamic State and Moscow’s military aggression in Ukraine, allowing the problems to worsen while his administration debated ways to act. And it represents a defiant defense of Obama’s leadership.

I really had thought we’d hit rock bottom with the Obama foreign policy makeup, kinda like a band that used to play in sold out stadiums reduced to playing seedy dive bars. Apparently, the band has now been reduced to playing midnight fraternity parties.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Researchers Claim Underwater Volcanoes Have Affect On Climate Change

Here’s one of those causes brought on by nature that have an effect on the climate

(UK Daily Mail) Volcanoes lurking hidden under the world’s oceans may play a far greater role in climate change than previously thought, according to a new study.

Scientists have found that underwater volcanoes, which were long assumed to ooze lava at relatively steady rates, in fact erupt in pulses.

A new study has shown that these submarine eruptions follow regular cycles that can range from just a couple of weeks to 100,000 years.

The researchers claim these eruptions appear to be linked to changes in the Earth’s orbit that occur over time.

Surprisingly the researchers also found that these eruptions also appear to be clustered during the first six months of each year.

The findings may now mean that models predicting how human activity will change the climate will need to be adjusted.

Wait, the models may be wrong? The hell you say!

This is certainly not the first bit of research regarding undersea volcanoes, and it won’t be the last. The reality of climate change is that most is caused by nature, just like has always occurred.

Underwater volcanoes are known to be widespread on the floor of the world’s oceans at joins in the tectonic plates.
Most are located in the deep ocean, where their activity can be difficult to measure, although some in shallow water can erupt with enough lava to create new islands. Others erupt with explosive results.

Make sure to read the article, too much info to excerpt. And, now, cue the true denialists, who’ll yammer on about Mankind and CO2 while, at the same time, refusing to give up their own big carbon footprints.

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If All You See…

…are horrible plastic bottles causing heat induced snow from climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sister Toldjah, with the headline of the day.

BTW, please recycle those bottles. “Climate change” may be a load of mule fritters, but pollution is real.

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