If All You See…

By William Teach August 25, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil book made from murdered trees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The New Nostradamus Of The North, with a post on the sad truth about wind energy.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 25, 2013 – 9:29 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once And Future Nation of America. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Scared Monkeys notices that the NSA spied on love interests
  2. Sunshine Hours notes the biggest Arctic gain in 140 days
  3. Anthony Watts reports on the lexicon shift amongst Warmists
  4. Raised On Hoecakes discusses when rights clash
  5. The Lonely Conservative has more on Common Core
  6. This ain’t Hell… reports that Texas will treat Ft. Hood shooting victims as combat veterans
  7. Wizbang has the Obameconomy by the numbers
  8. Yid With Lid isn’t impressed by Al Sharpton’s March On Washington speech
  9. Maggie’s Notebook features the Obama Flag at the March on Washington
  10. Jihad Watch discusses “Islamaphobia”
  11. Atlas Shrugs highlights a man arrested for attempting to sell uranium to ship to Iran (strange how this is not a national story)
  12. Bookworm Room discusses gender fantasies in Obama’s America
  13. DaTechGuy discusses the dishonorable, dimwitted left
  14. Fire Andrea Mitchell notes that the IRS is now targeting the American Legion
  15. And last, but not least, House Of Eratosthenes says to enjoy the culture of poverty

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 outwhat I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts

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.

The posts do take a long time, so, if you want to send me your links for Rule 5 babeage or links, use ye olde email in the header bar (remove the NOSPAM part). Preferably, create the html link so I can copy and paste how you want it to read.

PS: Someone sent me a link last week, but I ended up deleting it by accident on my Droid. My apologies. Please send again, promise I will add today.

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DA Says Race Not A Factor In Murder Of Australian Baseball Player

By William Teach August 25, 2013 – 8:00 am

Except for the pesky fact that the killers were 3 Black youths, and the killed was white

(Fox News) An Australian baseball player who was allegedly shot and killed at random while he was jogging wasn’t targeted because of his race or nationality, the prosecutor in charge of the case said Friday.

Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old student at East Central University, was shot in the back and killed last week while jogging in Duncan, a southern Oklahoma community where the three teenagers accused in his killing live.

“At this point, the evidence does not support the theory that Christopher Lane was targeted based upon his race or nationality,” District Attorney Jason Hicks said in a statement.

The police chief maintains that this was simply a random killing by a bunch of bored kids who whacked Lane “for the fun of it”.

Hicks acknowledged that social media posts allegedly made by some of the defendants are racial in nature, but he said “the evidence is insufficient to establish that race was the primary motive” in Lane’s slaying.

The Daily Caller reported that racist tweets were posted on an account belonging to Edwards. One tweet from the account reads, “90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.” Another post read, “Ayeee I knocced out 5 woods since Zimmerman court!:)” (that’s by, Luna, who means he knocked out 5 white people. Maybe they wouldn’t be bored if they spent more time learning grammar and language)

This may or may not be a racially motivated killing, but that misses the point, chiefly that it was 3 Black kids killing a white man, and the media, Democrats, the Usual Race Hustlers, Mr. Obama, are mostly ignoring the killing, unlike with the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman affair, which was immediately elevated from a “local story” to a national conversation on race, despite it not being racial. Here’s Greg Gutfield

“If you aren’t familiar with this knocking out trend, it is where a gang cold-cocks strangers, sometimes killing them,” he said. “The media is staying away from this even though it’s a hate crime. It’s not their kind of hate crime. Given the tweets and this gang stuff, will the Justice Department see this as a hate crime? I don’t think so. It fits no storyline on HBO’s ‘Newsroom’ or ‘Law & Order’ — yeah, ‘Law & Order,’ the favorite show among shut-ins and their double-stuffed Oreos. They’re planning a Trayvon Martin episode, calling it an American tragedy.”

“But the other American tragedy are those producers and networks and hacks who accept violence through unconscious bigotry,” Gutfeld said. “They just don’t think it is fair to demand a community what it demands from their own. Even if the crime isn’t about race, and maybe it isn’t, it is an evil act rooted in destructive lifestyles and broken communities. In the media’s eyes, a black teen is invisible until he’s a body. And a dead Australian is just the price you pay to be politically correct.”

Obama immediately took the side of Trayvon Martin multiple times, saying he could look like his son, and could have been him 35 years ago. Obama’s silence on Christopher Lane speaks volumes. Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Jr., where are they? Why no #JusticeForChris? If the situation was reversed, these same people would be deeming this a hate crime.

More: Nice Deb points out that racism is alive and well, just not the way Leftists think.

Conservatives, eager to have that “national conversation about race” the president urged us to have,   have been needling race hustlers like Jesse Jackson on Twitter and elsewhere about the recent gang-related slaying of the Aussie jogger in Oklahoma City   Duncan, OK.  On Wednesday, Jackson tweeted that the alleged thrill killing of Australian student Christopher Lane by three “bored” teens was “frowned upon,” evoking a stunned reaction from conservatives. He doubled down the next day with a tweet that didn’t even get the the victim’s name right:

She plans on keeping track of the Black on White violence.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Bummer: Hotcoldwetdry Making You Itch

By William Teach August 24, 2013 – 3:42 pm

Let’s first take a moment to briefly describe what Warmists mean by “climate change”: their view is that Mankind is mostly/solely responsible for the warming that occurred since (insert date here based on whatever point they’re trying to make), and it is mostly fossil fuels that cause it, along with too many humans. Said warming not only causes warming, but cold, snow, drought, flood, earthquakes, volcanoes, you name it, it’s cause by “climate change” or linked to “climate change”

Why Climate Change Is Making You Itch

The unusually cold, wet spring that stretched well into June for many on the East Coast this year seemed punishment enough in itself. But now it appears that while summer seemed like it would never come, the most dreaded part of the sunny season, mosquitoes, are here with vengeance.

The East Coast isn’t alone in it’s itchy misery either. While mosquitoes traps in Connecticut are brimming with twice the usual buggy bounty, Minnesota is buzzing with three times as many mosquitoes, and central California has the dubious distinction of having five times as many of one key mosquito species than has been seen in years.

Why the BBQ-busting onslaught? Jonathan Day, an insect researcher at the University of Florida, told the AP that in the Southeast this year’s spring deluge, which followed two years of drought, caused mosquito eggs long dormant during the dry years to hatch alongside the 2013 mosquitoes.

Got that? You drove a fossil fueled vehicle to the airport to take a fossil fueled flight for your family vacation to get away from the cool temperatures, hence, climate change, which causes more mosquitoes. Which never ever appeared before 1980 or so.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 24, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…are evil bottles of CO2 infused beer, causing it to get so hot that temps go down, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Public Secrets, with a post on Nidal Hassan, and a recommendation.

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Ezra Klein Takes One For Team Climahysteria, Walks Back Gore Hurricane Comment

By William Teach August 24, 2013 – 11:30 am

Lots of people, from pundits to scientists, have hit Gore for his comment about “category 6 hurricanes”. Like a good little disciple, Ezra Klein takes one for the team (via Junk Science)

(Washington Post) On Wednesday, I published an interview with Al Gore in which he mentioned that the scientific community was beginning to consider Category 6 hurricanes. The line has attracted some criticism because there are no official plans to add a sixth category to the 1-5 scale. Here’s what I had Gore saying:

If you look at superstorm Sandy on October 29th, the ocean water east of New Jersey was nine degrees fahrenheit above average. That’s what put so much more energy into that storm. That’s what put so much more water vapor into that storm. Would there be a storm anyway? Maybe so. Would there be hurricanes and floods and droughts without man-made global warming? Of course. But they’re stronger now. The extreme events are more extreme. The hurricane scale used to be 1-5 and now they’re adding a 6. The fingerprint of man-made global warming is all over these storms and extreme weather events.

But this was also a segment of the interview in which I remembered struggling to keep up with Gore, and when that happens, some nuance can get lost. (A note on methods: In most cases, including this one, I transcribe these interviews in real time, with a tape recorder as back-up. I also, as is always mentioned in the introduction to the interviews, lightly edit for length, clarity, and redundancy).

He’s out of town and doesn’t have his tape recorder with him, but, hey, he’s perfectly willing to allow Team Gore to helpfully change the quote and publish the article without bothering to check the tape

“The scientists are now adding category six to the hurricane…some are proposing we add category 6 to the hurricane scale that used to be 1-5. “

I’m not sure how that is much better. He’s still claiming that scientists are adding a category 6, which they aren’t. But I guess we’re supposed to think that some are thinking about doing this, according to some un-named people. Gore’s folks go on to further “clarify”

Former VP Gore discussed the destructiveness of climate change–fueled extreme weather as being categorically above and beyond the scale we currently use. To clarify, his original comments regarding hurricane measurements were intended to convey this ongoing consideration by the scientific community.

Except, there has been no increase in “extreme weather”. Certainly not hurricanes nor tornadoes, nor drought or flood. Though I supposed there has been more extreme cold weather events, which are, of course, blamed by Warmists on Mankind’s output of greenhouse gases.

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While Syria Burns, Samantha Power Was On Holiday In Ireland

By William Teach August 24, 2013 – 8:19 am

Hey, doesn’t everyone take a vacation 19 days after they get a new job while Bad Things are happening?

(Fox News) Mystery solved. America’s ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power was in Ireland on a personal trip when she missed an emergency meeting on the alleged chemical gas attack in Syria, U.N. sources tell Fox News.

A day earlier, State Department officials were mum when asked for information on Power’s whereabouts. She had come under fire for missing Wednesday’s urgent U.N. Security Council meeting, where delegations weighed how to respond to charges that the Assad regime had just committed the deadliest chemical weapons attack in the country’s two-year civil war.

The meeting, and her absence, came just 19 days after Power assumed the U.N. leadership post.

Power also did not attend a meeting Friday afternoon on Sudan — another trouble spot that Power has focused on in the past — though it is likely that such a meeting would have been attended by a deputy anyway.

I suppose this is more of Obama’s “smart power”.

But U.S. officials are defending Power, saying she was on a preplanned trip and could not have made it back in time. Power was born in Ireland, and her family is from there. The nature of the visit to her home country is not clear; officials say that since the trip was personal, they were safe-guarding her privacy.

Why would anyone take a vacation so soon after getting a new job? It might be one thing if there was nothing of importance going on in the world, but you have Syria and Egypt. Oh, my bad, I forgot that Obama is constantly disappearing either on vacation, the golf course, or out of Washington to give a campaign style speech, often coupled with a fundraising appearance. Remember how he took off for a campaign appearances the day after Benghazi?

One U.S. Mission official told Fox News that Power was the one pushing for immediate consultations by the Security Council after reports surfaced of the attack Wednesday morning.

Granted, a few other members of the Security Council were not present, but if she was the one pushing for the meeting, the least she could have done was be there. It’s not like she was dependent on travel by sailing ship to go from Ireland to NYC.

Next time you get a new job ask your boss if you can take an almost immediate vacation. See how that goes.

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DOD Deems People Who Talk About Individual Freedom, Making World Better Place As “Extremists”

By William Teach August 24, 2013 – 8:01 am

Have you ever dressed as a Founding Father? Well, you’re an extremist, as are the Founding Fathers, per Department of Defense training material

(The Blaze) U.S. Department of Defense education materials obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, warn of “extremists” that will “talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.” Judicial Watch and other conservative media outlets claim the disclosure indicates the department is teaching that conservative views are “extremist” in nature.

The guide is reportedly authored by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, a Defense Department-funded diversity training center. Further, the documents cite the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) when identifying “hate groups.”

If the SPLC is involved, you know that all right leaning people are considered haters. Muslim extremists? Never. Some highlights from Judicial Watch

  • The document defines extremists as “a person who advocates the use of force or violence; advocates supremacist causes based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or national origin; or otherwise engages to illegally deprive individuals or groups of their civil rights.” (so, any State in the South that passes voter ID laws is now extremist, and if you’re against illegal immigrants? Extremist)
  • A statement that “Nowadays, instead of dressing in sheets or publicly espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.”
  • “[W]hile not all extremist groups are hate groups, all hate groups are extremist groups.”
  • Under a section labeled “Extremist Ideologies” the document states, “In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.” (Founding Fathers considered extremists)
  • In this same section, the document lists the 9/11 attack under a category of “Historical events.”
  • Other than a mention of 9/11 and the Sudan, there is no discussion of Islamic extremism. (who’s surprised?)

While the document could certainly extrapolate certain Muslim and left leaning groups as “extremists”, the object, and focus, was to brand virtually all people on the right as extremists. The better to build a case for federal spying on the groups and individuals, and perhaps banning them.

The documents is supposedly only supposed to be used for “training purposes” but no one is supposed to use the material “on the job”. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton had this to say

“The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.”

“And now, in a document full of claptrap, its Defense Department suggests that the Founding Fathers, and many conservative Americans, would not be welcome in today’s military,” he added. “And it is striking that some the language in this new document echoes the IRS targeting language of conservative and Tea Party investigations. After reviewing this document, one can’t help but worry for the future and morale of our nation’s armed forces.”

What you have is yet another attempt to turn a government institution into one that follows far left doctrine. At one point the Left was trying to destroy the US military, particularly through denigrating it and defunding it. Now they are attempting to infiltrate it. They already have a good chunk of the federal (and state) bureaucracy. They control the public sector unions. They also control the media and teacher’s unions. What if the military is turned into just another branch of the Democrat Party?

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Surprise! Obama Plan Won’t Help College Costs

By William Teach August 23, 2013 – 2:19 pm

President Pivot has hit the road to push some sort of making college affordable plan, which, let’s face it, isn’t about making college more affordable, it’s about Obama’s flagging approval numbers and Obama doing what Obama does best: giving speeches and Blaming Others, creating strawmen, and ginning up conflict

(Bloomberg) Colleges’ exploitation of young Americans through rapidly rising and increasingly exorbitant fees is a national scandal that can no longer be ignored. In his college tour this week, President Barack Obama is speaking at length about what he intends to do about it, after promising “tough love” on higher education for the last two years.

Some of what he proposes is good in principle; some is very bad. (snip)

The president’s proposal has one very bad idea: a forgiveness boon for those paying off loans right now. The proposal, limiting loan payments to 10 percent of income, potentially relieves millions of students from repaying part of their obligation. So why not major in fields the economy values least — anthropology or drama instead of engineering or math — if you don’t have to worry about earning enough to pay off your student loans over a certain period? (snip)

Obama proposes to ignore or worsen the root cause of much of the explosion in student costs: the federal financial assistance programs that encourage schools to raise costs and that haven’t achieved their goals of providing college access to low-income Americans.

Two recent studies highlight the problem. First, the National Center for Education Statistics released data suggesting that federal college financing is growing rapidly. Now 84 percent of full-time undergraduate students get some aid. Average grant assistance for dependent full-time undergraduate students (unmarried, younger than 24) was $10,600 in 2011-12, up 34 percent in just four years — four times the inflation rate.

Let us not forget that Obamacare included what is essentially a federal takeover of all student loans, so much of the problem Obama is complaining about is due to….Obama and his signature legislation.

I do have to wonder, Team Obama says this is a good deal for the middle class. Apparently he doesn’t care about poor people wanting to go to college. Of course, there are issues with the rising cost of college which need to be addressed. Of course, what’s the point of a college education if there are no decent jobs out there?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 23, 2013 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with the Daily Scoreboard.

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