If All You See…

By William Teach July 20, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrid acid ocean because some people refuse to spread awareness, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on what happened at an ANSWER protest.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 20, 2014 – 10:15 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. This pinup is by Fiona Stephenson, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Other McCain isn’t impressed with the Daily Kos comparing Arizona to apartheid South Africa
  2. Independent Sentinel notes progressive mayors discussing gun rationing
  3. House Of Eratosthenes covers a Democrat candidate getting nasty towards Kendell Jones
  4. Victory Girls Blog discusses our unelected food czar
  5. This ain’t Hell… has your Sunday feel good story
  6. The Lonely Conservative links socialism with cheating
  7. The Jawa Report notes Hamas’ talking points for liberals, er, social media activists
  8. The Hayride notes that a supposed Obamacare lie is now a reality in Louisiana
  9. Gateway Pundit notes that Elizabeth Warren’s progressive list is eerily similar to Hitler’s list.
  10. The Daley Gator reveals that Time magazine is racist for noting Obama is a coward
  11. The Camp Of The Saints wonders why no one dares call it treason
  12. Sister Toldjah wonders if the individual mandate will be delayed yet again
  13. Rhymes With Right notes those wacky peace loving Muslims
  14. Raised On Hoecakes covers a typical Progressive damned if you do damned if you don’t situation
  15. And last, but not least, Public Secrets has six astounding examples of liberal hypocrisy

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

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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Pro-Terrorist Palestinian Supporters Protest Against Israel

By William Teach July 20, 2014 – 8:51 am

It never fails. Palestinian terrorists fire rockets into Israel (or some other action) without regard to the fact that they are targeting civilians, Israel responds with targeted force against the rocket emplacements, Palestinians ramp up their attacks, and Israel is forced to respond with heavy force. At that point, the Typical Palestinian Supporting Idiots take to the streets in protest. Here’s how it looked in Raleigh

(WRAL) Hundred of people rallied at the state Capitol grounds in Raleigh Saturday afternoon to protest the continuing violence in Gaza.

A statement from rally organizers says there is an emerging call for an end to the violence and for human rights and justice that will lead to safety and security for all Palestinians and Israelis.

(Please see article for photo. WRAL asked nicely to remove. It was posted under Fair Use law, but they were nice, didn’t threaten, and I like WRAL. Plus, I managed to drop the link.)

Apparently, WRAL wasn’t interested in showing more pictures of the terrorist supporters. One also has to click the picture to see the full size, which shows Typical Terrorist Supporters wearing Intifada keffiyas. Occupation? What occupation? Israel pretty much gave Gaza to the Palestinians, which, instead of fixing roads, building hospitals, creating jobs, feeding the people, spent all their money on weapons of war. As Charles Krauthammer noted a few days ago

And how did the Gaza Palestinians react to being granted by the Israelis what no previous ruler, neither Egyptian, nor British, nor Turkish, had ever given them — an independent territory? First, they demolished the greenhouses. Then they elected Hamas. Then, instead of building a state with its attendant political and economic institutions, they spent the better part of a decade turning Gaza into a massive military base, brimming with terror weapons, to make ceaseless war on Israel.

Where are the roads and rail, the industry and infrastructure of the new Palestinian state? Nowhere. Instead, they built mile upon mile of underground tunnels to hide their weapons and, when the going gets tough, their military commanders. They spent millions importing and producing rockets, launchers, mortars, small arms, even drones. They deliberately placed them in schools, hospitals, mosques and private homes to better expose their own civilians. (Just Thursday, the U.N. announced that it found 20 rockets in a Gaza school.) And from which they fire rockets at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

That’s what these Useful Idiots are supporting. You can see a few more photos at true communist website Fuck Year Marxism-Leninism.

Of course, as one would expect, there were plenty of Palestinian terrorist supporting rallies around the world, calling for peace and stuff, which obviously turned violent. They set Paris on fire. Cause peace.

There were also plenty of protests in Canada. Strange how none of them call for the Gaza government to build roads and food production facilities, along with removal of rockets and other weapons from citizens homes

Terrorist supporting protests in England. Al Jazeera has plenty of photos from terrorist supporting protests around the world. Funny how none of them are telling the Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, Hamas, specifically, to stop targeting civilians with their weapons of war and spend the money on turning Gaza into something other than a terrorist camp.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Hotcoldwetdry Is Bad For Chicago Tourism

By William Teach July 19, 2014 – 1:51 pm

Is this a cult?

(Chicago Sun Times) Chicagoans love to be outside. Millions of tourists and residents enjoy the wide variety of activities that Chicago offers — our museums, music, sports, food and, of course, our waterways. These industries are of great importance to the economy.

As president of a tour boat company that offers Chicago Architecture Foundation tours and events on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, recent experience has me concerned that a fluctuating economy is not the only danger to my business. Climate change has brought Chicago unpredictable and increasingly extreme weather. The erratic behavior of Mother Nature has literally caused boatloads of people to miss out on celebrating a memorable occasion with family and friends on Chicago’s waterways. Extreme rain produced the wettest June in 86 years and was followed by a wet, cool July. Extreme hot temperatures put our guests and employees at risk for heat exhaustion. Unexpectedly cold temperatures, like snow in April and 60 degrees in July, leave out of town guests unprepared to spend much time outdoors exploring Chicago.

Moreover, an unusually long winter like the one endured in 2014 showed that more severe storms and weather in the winter also hurt business bottom lines. The long, extreme cold further into the spring causes a drop in sales for group tour business and private events in the early part of the season as people are not yet ready to commit to outdoors activities. A colder Lake Michigan has resulted in fog blocking visibility for sightseeing.

It’s a cult

Our elected officials recognize that climate change is not just a prediction that our grandchildren will have to figure out. It is happening now and affecting us today.

So, cold weather is caused by use of fossil fuels? Perhaps Ms. Holly Agra, “president of Chicago’s First Lady Cruises and a member of the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, which advises the U.S. Commerce Secretary on matters related to the travel and tourism industry”, can tell us how she is getting all the boats to switch to fuels other than fossil, and, really, isn’t tourism Bad for “climate change”? People take fossil fueled flights and automotive trips to get to Chicago, and use lots of electricity.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 19, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible wind that has gotten much worse, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Director Blue, with 4 simple steps to stop illegal immigration.

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Has Obama Checked Out?

By William Teach July 19, 2014 – 9:04 am

One of the notions people have been discussing about Mr. Obama is whether or not he has checked out. Allahpundit calls him the semi-retired president. He’s been called the bystander president. Many have noted his lame duck status. Really, though, has he ever checked in as President? Here’s Jennifer Rubin

Obama plays hooky during a perilous time

Even President Obama’s supporters must acknowledge that at times he behaves bizarrely. During the attack on Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya, he barked out a few vague orders and then retreated to his residence, although his spinners insist that he was “briefed.” (How about leading?) The next day, he went to a fundraiser in Las Vegas.

He won’t go to the border to view the humanitarian disaster involving tens of thousands of children. Yesterday, with the downing of a passenger jet, allegedly by Russian weapons, and then the onset of a ground war in Gaza, President Obama was off — to two New York fundraisers.

That’s the best place to find him. He has done almost 400 fundraisers in six years and played 176 rounds of golf. No one thinks presidents should be barred from fundraising or playing golf, but Obama’s excessive, some would say obsessive, attention to activities unrelated to governing is disturbing, all the more so since he seems so disengaged and unpresidential when he does nominally show up for work. He has no discernible Iraq policy, he’s given up on entitlement reform, he won’t make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline. His favorite activity (other than golf, fundraising and holding forth at dinners with pop stars and other famous people) is holding campaign-style events at which he rips opponents in nasty and unpresidential tones. He constantly learns about scandals in the press, and then hides from the media until the pressure builds to say something.

There are many high level issues going on in the country and the world right now, and what is Obama’s Weekly Address on? Equipping workers with skills needed for now and in the future. He’s pushed this on and off again many, many times. Yet, all the government programs he’s pushed through his 5+ years have failed

This week, Vice President Biden will release a report he’s been working on to reform our job training system into a job-driven training system. And I’ll visit a community college in L.A. that’s retraining workers for careers in the fast-growing health care sector. Because every worker deserves to know that if you lose your job, your country will help you train for an even better one.

In other words, creating the report was too much work for Obama. Who wants to bet that Obama has several fundraisers on tap during that L.A. trip? This is his pattern: schedule a short official event somewhere near his big money donors, that way he isn’t charged for use of Air Force 1.

At the end of the day, Obama never really checked in. Jennifer Rubin referred to him as “the guy in the office who is never in, seems to take a lot of afternoons off and is expert at avoiding work.” Someone at Ace Of Spades once wrote “Obama likes to BE president. He doesn’t like to DO president”. One of his first official acts was to sign a document to close Guantanamo Bay jihadi detention center. But, he didn’t follow that up with the hard work required to actually get it closed. He does the minimum work necessary, mostly using talking points and hyper-partisan speeches. Remember his sticky note economic plan? Four bulletin points on a sticky note, essentially telling Other People to get ‘er done. There was no follow up, not detailed plan released, no calls to Congress, not even to Democrats.

He seemed bored giving a speech yesterday, for which he was almost half an hour late, on the shooting down of a commercial airliner in the Ukraine. Perhaps he was pining to get on the road to Camp David for a well deserved weekend of continuing to avoid work.

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Hyper-Progressive Elizabeth Warren Releases Her 11 Commandments Of Nice Fascism

By William Teach July 19, 2014 – 8:38 am

Progressives, who Jonah Goldberg referred to as “nice fascists” in his book Liberal Fascism, have been gaga for Elizabeth Warren from the first. They willing ignored her blatant lies about being a Native American, because of racial politics. They excuse her fundraising from big wig 1%ers. She pushes a progressive populism, while being one of the very rich who work the system she pro-ports to despise (remember that at the end). Search “hypocrite” and you’ll find more than enough to take on her 11 Commandments. But, there is no doubt that the Nutroots, the hardcore Progressive activists, want her to run for President in 2016. Hence, here we go, per National Journal

  • “We believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement, and we’re willing to fight for it.” (Warren raises lots and lots of money from Wall Street)
  • “We believe in science, and that means that we have a responsibility to protect this Earth.” (yet, she and all these little progressives took fossil fueled travel to get to the conference)
  • “We believe that the Internet shouldn’t be rigged to benefit big corporations, and that means real net neutrality (in other words, Government should fully control it)
  • “We believe that no one should work full-time and still live in poverty, and that means raising the minimum wage.” (and putting the low wage workers on the unemployment line. Oh, say, has Liz started paying her interns yet?)
  • “We believe that fast-food workers deserve a livable wage, and that means that when they take to the picket line, we are proud to fight alongside them.” (good news: they’ll be replaced with machines, so they can work on their standing in lines skills)
  • “We believe that students are entitled to get an education without being crushed by debt.” (says the woman who charged $350,000 to teach one class)
  • “We believe that after a lifetime of work, people are entitled to retire with dignity, and that means protecting Social Security, Medicare, and pensions.” (that’s a worthy goal. It might help if she believed in freeing the marketplace so people could earn money to retire)
  • “We believe—I can’t believe I have to say this in 2014—we believe in equal pay for equal work.” (she should tell this to Obama, who pays women less than men)
  • “We believe that equal means equal, and that’s true in marriage, it’s true in the workplace, it’s true in all of America.” (equal means equal, unless you are a group that Progressives do not like, then they will work to limit your equality)
  • “We believe that immigration has made this country strong and vibrant, and that means reform.” (in other words, open borders and amnesty)
  • “And we believe that corporations are not people, that women have a right to their bodies. We will overturn Hobby Lobby and we will fight for it. We will fight for it!” (hooray, no one has to pay $9 a month for birth control pills! Screw your religious freedom)

Jim Hoft notes that this “proves once again that she knows nothing about capitalism and economics. And, her supporters are too stupid to know it.” Knowing or not knowing is never the point with the hard left: it’s all about Progressive populism designed to whip up the masses. We saw something similar in Germany in the 1930’s.

And the main tenet of conservatives’ philosophy, according to Warren? “I got mine. The rest of you are on your own.”

Says the woman who is one of those fat cats, charges $350k to teach one class, flipping homes (which was decried by Progressives), and fought against compensation for coal and asbestos workers. She supports the Ex-Im Bank. She’s made quite a bit of money working Wall Street, and, as mentioned, receives quite a bit of campaign money from Wall Street. Like any good Progressives, she’s willing to bully other people, because equality or something. She takes every tax deduction she can, but, then, she avoided another Progressive mantra about the rich paying their fair share. I wonder why? Altogeher, she is a typical Democrat hypocrite, pushing one thing while doing another. She got hers, and greedily sticks her hand out for more more more.

Red State’s Dan McLaughlin compares Warren and Ted Cruz for 2016. Now that would be a fun election cycle!

At the end of the day, Progressives will say anything, whip up a bunch of populism, regardless of the damage it does to the country, regardless of the division it creates in the country, all for more power, and to move the nation towards “nice fascism”.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Say, Is Global Warming Causing Jet Stream Related Cooling?

By William Teach July 18, 2014 – 1:15 pm

In Warmist World, of course it is. And by “warming”, they mean “man caused”

Is global warming causing extreme weather via jet stream waves?

A new study investigates how changes to atmospheric winds are making weather more extreme

Extreme compared to…..? Oh, right, computer models. Here’s where it gets fun

As I sit here in a northern part of the United States (Minnesota), a rare summer arctic blast barrels down from Canada on what otherwise is one of the warmest days of the year. Global warming? I could use some global warming today, people are saying.

Not only is this a teachable moment, but it coincides with a major new study on climate connections. First, let’s see the current jet stream. It is wildly undulating, first swinging up into northern Canada before curving back and plunging into the central United States.

A teachable moment?

The latest study is related to this topic but still unique. The authors don’t ask the question “are humans changing the jet stream patterns?”. Instead, they ask, “how do undulations in the jet stream affect weather?”. To be fully accurate, the study isn’t just about jet streams, it really deals with mid-latitude planetary waves but for this article, I will use the term “jet stream” as a surrogate for simplicity.

The lesson Warmist John Abraham and Dana Nuccitelli are pushing is that it is mostly/solely Mankind’s fault that the jet stream undulates, because that has never happened before, bringing cold air in summer. Might this actually be a sign of cooling? Oh, right, if that happens, Warmists will blame Mankind.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 18, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is extreme weather wind caused by evil use of washing machines by Other People, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bookworm Room, which wonders about Obama’s constant, inappropriate laughter.

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Quick Review: Acer Iconia 7 B1-730

By William Teach July 18, 2014 – 11:40 am

I didn’t really need a new tablet, but I did want one. My Elocity tablet is almost 4 years old, and cannot be updated since it is rooted. Gives me little troubles like freezing. Can’t use the new Play Store. No accelerometer. Others. I decided to take some of that sweet sweet birthday cash and get a new tablet.

I also di not want to spend more than $200, not for the amount of time I really use it. I considered the Nexus tablet, but it has no memory card slot, and that’s a 100% requirement. Had to have GPS and accelerometer. I ran across the Acer on Best Buy’s website, and looked interesting.

Many of the external reviews are so so, but, really, in context of the $129 price tag, it has worked well.

Many of the complaints are about a dull screen and being slow. I’m really not seeing that. Decent processor (1.6mhz) and the screen looks great at 1280×800 (720p). Unfortunately, like so many tablets and laptops, the screen is barely viewable outside. The light sensor is so so, and I had to add an app to control it. Still, $129.

The battery is somewhat so so. It takes awhile to charge, and can only get about 6 -7, much less than my Elocity, but, then, it is doing more, and I’ll just throw it on charge. Did I mention it was $129? Have to be careful about it running stuff in the background, battery went dead overnight.

That said, I am impressed with the overall conditions and capabilities with the Acer. I was disappointed that the first one had to be exchanged immediately due to a dead spot in the screen that stretched all the way across. The replacement had to be replaced due to a noisy back. I considered replacing it a 3rd time with a different model for battery life, but unless I was willing to give up certain things and pay $50+ more, wouldn’t make a difference.

It has 1gb of ram. There’s a Dell tablet with 2gb, but a slower processor. Acer has 16gb of internal memory, but does not let me store apps to memory card (that I’ve figured out yet), but I back up every couple of months to MMC, so it is easy to reinstall. I like keeping all my music, movies, and other stuff on the MC, rather than the device. One interesting thing is that it won’t play some WMA songs, but will play others. Songs that were burned from CD in exactly the same way. Could be a difference in the Windows Media Player version I used to burn? It’s a device issue, not app player issue.

I’ve compared the speed it loads apps with that on my HTC One S, and it is quicker. Game play is excellent, sound is great, was able to link up DLNA with TV and laptop easily.

The front camera is supposedly 5mp, though I’ve seen some reviews say 3, and the persine facing camera is VGA or 2mp, depending on the review. Regardless, matters little to me, since I won’t use a tablet for photos. I have my phone, a nice Elf digital, and two nice non-digitals.

Sadly, it is running 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, no updates to Kit Kat yet. Interestingly, some have complained about it being so stock, with mostly expected apps included. Fine with me, one of the things I love with Droid is customization.

Personally, I like the charging port on top, a complaint of many reviewers. As long as not on bottom, I’m fine.

The GPS and eccelerometer have worked quite well. I actually downloaded a stand alone navigation program, and tried it on a little trip.

Altogether, I think I got more than my monies worth.

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