Bummer: Green Military Equipment In Ukraine Is Getting Eaten By Rodents

By William Teach February 26, 2024 – 7:00 am

Ukraine is having lots of issues. They’ve apparently lost 31,000 military members since the invasion over two years ago. Their manpower is down 25%, and they’re thinking of having more forcible drafts, as men look to escape the country. They aren’t having much success with all the equipment given to them by NATO nations. And, speaking of that equipment

Rodents incapacitate millions in eco-friendly military equipment in Ukraine: the unforeseen problem

Mice and rats have become a bane on the frontline for both Ukrainian and Russian forces, with these rodents capable of nesting almost anywhere, even in the exhaust systems of armored vehicles.

Advanced mid-range anti-aircraft systems such as the SAMP/T battery or short-range variants like the IRIS-T in SLM and SLS versions have also found their way to Ukraine. The former are designed to combat high-altitude aircrafts at around 74.5 miles or ballistic missiles at a 18.6-mile distance. Meanwhile, the IRIS-T SLM systems are intended to tackle aircrafts or drones and manoeuvering missiles within a range of up to 24.8 miles (SLM) or roughly 6.2 miles (SLS).

Several European countries have supplied a wide range of weapon systems. However, the dilemma of ensuring electrical insulation durability has become a sticking point for newer equipment. This issue affects a multitude of nations where ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) guidelines are making their way into the arms industry.

The problem here is that they use corn fiber over synthetic material for the wire insulation, and the rodents are loving it, making the arms all sorts of useless. Perhaps we shouldn’t be focusing on silly ESG when developing weapons to defend the nation, eh?

Oh, and you can bet that Russia is watching this, and wondering what would happen to the European arms if they had to fight. I doubt Russia has any intentions of invading a NATO member. They have their hands full with Ukraine.

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Retailers Test Out New Way Of Reducing Crime In San Francisco

By William Teach February 26, 2024 – 6:45 am

In Baltimore they rolled out having everything behind locked plexiglass, including the money takers. They got bullet proof plexiglass. Of course, that’s mostly at small stores. It’s tougher doing this at bigger stores, even the size of a typical drugstore. Though, they do try. Many of the products typically stolen are locked up. Heck, many stores use chains and padlocks on the frozen goods. There’s a new experiment in SF

San Francisco store tests new shopping method to deter ‘rampant shoplifting’

A longtime San Francisco business is trying something new to curb what it says has been “rampant shoplifting.”

Fredericksen’s Hardware and Paint in Cow Hollow is now offering a one-on-one shopping experience. The idea is to separate actual customers from those looking to steal from the store.

During certain hours, Fredericksen’s blocks off part of the store’s entrance and has people wait for an employee to help them instead of allowing people to just roam the store. The store’s longtime manager says it’s a move that was worth trying for the sake of the business, their employees, and their customers.

“It’s pretty bad,” manager Sam Black told Nexstar’s KRON. “I mean, the dollar amounts are pretty significant, and with the tools, and now we’re getting snatch-and-grabs when they take whole displays, so it’s getting kind of dangerous for the employees and the customers.”

Got that? It’s a hardware store. And customers have to wait for help like this is a high end jewelry or suit store, getting waited on. But, they also cannot come in to the store. They’re literally blocking customers from coming in to get what they want. Would you wait? Or, would it be worthwhile to take a trip out to Home Depot or Lowe’s? Of course, being SF, there’s no knowing how long those will last.

Black said over his 24 years of working at Fredericksen’s, the theft is the worst it has ever been. The staff has had to drill down pots and pans to keep shoplifters from swiping them.

They’ve also had to put in locking systems to keep people from pocketing tools and other household hardware. One customer told KRON off-camera that the situation is “just sad.”

Might be time to move. The business isn’t quite in the section of SF that has seen massive closures, but, it’s not that far away.

San Francisco supervisor Catherine Stefani issued the following statement about the situation:

“This situation is tragic and embarrassing for our city, and it’s all the more reason to get serious about solving our police staffing crisis. We need more police on our streets, and we need them now. That’s why I’ll hold a series of hearings in March to push our city agencies to fill the hundreds of vacancies at the Police Department as soon as possible––to stop the bleeding, reverse the damage, and finally protect our residents and small businesses.”

Who wants to join the force when they are demonized by the politicians, who listen to the pro-crime folks? Who wants to work as a cop when they are restricted from doing their job? When the perps are being let go, either with no charges or no bail? And those who do get prosecuted are often given a slap on the wrist? The bleeding and damage was caused by the city leaders.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 25, 2024 – 1:09 pm

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

The blog of the day is Flag And Cross, with a post on Laken Riley’s killer being caught and let go in NYC.

It’s shorts week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 25, 2024 – 8:52 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the squirrels are romping, and the Dodgers are looking good in training. This pinup is by Howard Connolly, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. LMAO features the latest Biden pronouncement
  2. Legal Insurrection covers Haley losing SC badly
  3. Moonbattery notes vegan leather not being sufficiently Woke
  4. Noisy Room has the latest US gun owner statistics
  5. Powerline features the price of illegal immigration
  6. The First Street Journal has your latest WWIII watch
  7. The Gateway Pundit discusses John Stewart’s failure
  8. The Lid notes that Seattle is teaching that proper grammar and English are raaaaacist
  9. The Right Scoop covers Libs Of TikTok schooling Taylor Lorenz on gender confusion
  10. This ain’t Hell... highlights the Navy’s new robotics warfare specialist job
  11. Victory Girls Blog wonders if NYC is finally wising up to AOC
  12. 357 Magnum is unimpressed with bringing a hammer to a gunfight
  13. American Greatness discusses Biden’s dog attacking people
  14. Watts Up With That? notes scientists duped on coral
  15. And last, but, not least, No Tricks Zone highlights the green movement failing

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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SCNY Mayor Says City Is Safest Big City In U.S.

By William Teach February 25, 2024 – 7:00 am

Also Sanctuary City New York

Nothing to see

Mayor Eric Adams once again insists NYC is ‘safest big city in America’ despite surge of migrant melees

Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday insisted the “the Crossroads of the World” is still safe despite the migrant crisis fueling a flurry of recent crimes there, including a recent stabbing of a 17-year-old.

“We had 62 million tourists last year; we will continue to surge this year; NYPD is ever present,” boasted Adams when asked about the Times Square crime wave during an unrelated event in Lower Manhattan.

“I was walking up there [in Times Square] the other day. You see the presence that’s there. It is safe.”

Adams is surrounded by his own personal armed security while he and other Democrats look to keep the law abiding citizens disarmed. Oh, you may be able to have it at home, but, carrying it anywhere? Good luck

“We’re going to continue to be the safest big city in America, and we’re going to set the right tone,” he added. “And those who are violent, who have no place in the city, doesn’t matter if they’re long-standing New Yorkers, or they’re new arrivals. Violence is not accepted in the city.”

Adams’ remarks came two days after a 17-year-old migrant was stabbed in a wild brawl on West 42nd Street near Seventh Avenue in Times Square Thursday night.

The question here is, how safe is SCNY? The data at Neighborhood Scout is a little dated, because SCNY is not reporting, like many big, Democrat run cities. Previous metrics deemed it a 6, meaning it is safer than 6% of US neighborhoods. A 100 is the best. Violent crime was double the New York rate, and you have a 1 in 33 chance of being a victim of a property crime. There are many big cities, all run by Democrats, which are worse. Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Baltimore (which has gone from a 1 to a 3), Detroit (which is backsliding, unfortunately), and Minneapolis, to name a few.

What happens, though, when the violent crime is updated? Because it has been getting bad, and not just from illegal aliens. Cops are leaving, either moving elsewhere or retiring, in droves, and not being replaced as needed. The ones on the job aren’t being proactive. Why bother, when they’ll just be called racists and Fascists and demonized by the government. Things won’t get better, especially not with a prosecutor who’s happy to let criminals go.

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Your Fault: Japanese Cherry Trees To Have Earliest Bloom Since 812AD

By William Teach February 24, 2024 – 3:00 pm

If only you Japanese folks hadn’t been driving fossil fueled vehicles back during Dark Ages they wouldn’t have seen the trees bloom so early

How climate change is thwarting travellers’ cherry blossom plans

In Japan, the rare and beautiful 10-day cherry blossom “front” is set to start 10 days earlier this year due to global warming. Here’s what travellers need to know.

Travellers who arrived in Tokyo in April 2023 to experience the city’s famous cherry tree petals were faced with quite a surprise: instead of blooming as forecast in late March, the pink sakura appeared 10 days earlier than predicted.

This was no freak occurrence: 2023 tied with 2020 and 2021 for a record-early bloom – the definitive earliest since scientific records began in 1953[1] , and earliest since 812, according to historical documents from Kyoto. According to experts, this trend points to a troublesome fact: we are overheating our planet at a frightening pace, and the early sakura are harbingers of more change to come.

Japan’s beloved four seasons are under threat altogether, says Yoshihiro Tachibana, professor of Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics from Japan’s Mie University. “If greenhouse gas reductions cannot be achieved, there is the possibility of cherry blossoms in February. All four seasons are warming. But spring warming is seeing the biggest rise, so the cherry blossom season tends to come earlier and earlier.”

This year, some forecast a start to the sakura season on par with the earliest recorded blooms, around 25 March. But when, exactly, the sacred blooms might appear is really anyone’s guess.

There’s some wiggle room in to when the Medieval Warm period started, but, 812 AD was still squarely in Dark Ages. Yet, they had massive early blooms? From what? What caused it? There were no fossil fueled vehicles. They weren’t burning tons of coal. No one was using electricity. They were not shipping goods on fossil fueled ships. Things change, except in Cult World. Having trees bloom earlier during a low level Holocene warm period is not a harbinger of Doom. Everything will be fine. We are not overheating our planet. Damned doomsday cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 24, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an ice age caused by carbon pollution shutting down the Atlantic currents, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Trump vowing to get Hamas sympathizers of the of the U.S.

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It Starts: The Atlantic Suggests Not Certifying Results If Trump Wins

By William Teach February 24, 2024 – 10:30 am

Remember how Democrats freaked about the whole not certifying an election thing? That people should go to jail over it? That’s so 2021

BAD LOSERS
Election deniers are a threat to democracy. The midterms could be the last chance to stop them.

And now

How Democrats Could Disqualify Trump If the Supreme Court Doesn’t

Near the end of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments about whether Colorado could exclude former President Donald Trump from its ballot as an insurrectionist, the attorney representing voters from the state offered a warning to the justices—one evoking the January 6 riot that had set the case in motion.

By this point in the hearing, the justices had made clear that they didn’t like the idea of allowing a single state to kick Trump out of the presidential race, and they didn’t appear comfortable with the Court doing so either. Sensing that Trump would likely stay on the ballot, the attorney, Jason Murray, said that if the Supreme Court didn’t resolve the question of Trump’s eligibility, “it could come back with a vengeance”—after the election, when Congress meets once again to count and certify the votes of the Electoral College.

Murray and other legal scholars say that, absent clear guidance from the Supreme Court, a Trump win could lead to a constitutional crisis in Congress. Democrats would have to choose between confirming a winner many of them believe is ineligible and defying the will of voters who elected him. Their choice could be decisive: As their victory in a House special election in New York last week demonstrated, Democrats have a serious chance of winning a majority in Congress in November, even if Trump recaptures the presidency on the same day. If that happens, they could have the votes to prevent him from taking office.

The Atlantic is writing this as a “what if this and what if that” article, but, the idea here really is that Democrats should vote to not certify Trump’s win. This idea will soon catch fire amongst the moonbats.

Of course, we can also look forward to the Russia Russia Russia stuff. These are back to back links at Real Clear Politics for Friday morning

A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Putin—and a World in Danger

The ‘Russia Collusion’ Reboot Is Going To Be Terrible

Good grief. And from Time Magazine

How Putin Co-Opted the Republican Party

These people.

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Youts Want A Green New Deal For Their Schools

By William Teach February 24, 2024 – 7:00 am

Heck, I say we give it too them, starting with ending the use of fossil fueled buses immediately. And no fossil fueled vehicles may drop them off. Let them walk or bike. Turn the heat down to 62 and the AC up to 78. Let them deal with it. Turn the WiFi off at school because it uses lots of electricity. No meat served at lunch. For a start

Young people push for a Green New Deal for schools across the U.S.

Many young people want their schools to help prepare them to face the climate crisis.

So students in the Sunrise Movement have been lobbying their local school boards across the country to pass a Green New Deal for Schools. In the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado, they recently celebrated a win.

Student activist Tilly Testa says the new resolution requires the district to implement clean energy initiatives, include climate change in the curriculum, and create disaster plans.

Testa: “We want students to have climate disaster plans, so when a climate disaster strikes, like the Marshall or NCAR fire that recently evacuated our community, students feel prepared and safe and know what to do.”

Huh? This is cult talk. Schools should have disaster plans. Most do, based on the potential dangers. Of course, how do they plan for idiots who intentionally/unintentionally start fires? It’s interesting what the youts are demanding, per they GND link

  • SAFE AND CLEAN BUILDINGS
  • FREE & HEALTHY LUNCH
  • PATHWAYS TO GREEN JOBS
  • CLIMATE DISASTER PLANS
  • CLIMATE CURRICULUM

And demanding to be included in making the plans, because high school and elementary school children have vast knowledge of how things work, right? Did you notice what’s missing? The notion that the kids would make any changes in their own lives. They’re all for demanding they be given things, but, what are they offering? You rarely run across any of these Sunrise Movement kids discussing the changes they made in their own lives. Weird, eh?

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Gallup Poll Shows Biden’s “My Economy Is Great” Talking Points Failing

By William Teach February 24, 2024 – 6:45 am

The other day Quinnipiac had Biden at 42% approve 55% disapprove on the economy. Those were nice numbers

Who are the 38% who approve of him overall, and 36% who approve on the economy? Must be those who are profiting off of other people’s misery. From the link

Americans’ approval of President Joe Biden’s job performance has edged down three percentage points to 38%, just one point shy of his all-time low and well below the 50% threshold that has typically led to reelection for incumbents.

In addition, Biden registers subpar approval ratings for his handling of five key issues facing the U.S., including a new low of 28% for immigration and readings ranging from 30% to 40% for the situation in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas, foreign affairs, the economy and the situation in Ukraine.

Obviously, Democrats are going to give Brandon high marks and Republicans are going to trash him. What about Independents

Meanwhile, Biden has gained some ground among independents on the economy (+6 points to 30%). Still, their ratings on this and other issues are weak — ranging from 23% for the Middle East situation to 34% for the Ukraine situation.

They also have Brandon at 32% for overall approval. The question here is, can Trump avoid snatching defeat from victory? He has an obvious chance to hammer Brandon on the economy, immigration, foreign affairs, and the Middle East. Can he do it properly, without going Category 5 Trump? Can he do it in a way that brings Independents over? Even some squishy Dems? Where he can entice those with Trump Derangement Syndrome to hold their noses and vote for him? He could go out and say “look, you don’t like me personally, but, policy wise, we agree. You don’t have to like me, you just have to give the chance to do the things in government you want me to do.”

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