Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 3, 2013 – 9:47 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day to be an American….you know, I can’t do that anymore. This country is lost. So, from now on, the Patriotic Pinups will celebrate the remembrance of what America used to be, instead of being Greece. This pinup is by I’m not sure, can’t read the name, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. American Power discusses CPAC turning away Pam Geller
  2. Weasel Zippers has the latest on the Religion of Peace in Pakistan
  3. The Lonely Conservative is shocked that Obama lied again
  4. Ace discusses posting vaginas online for “female empowerment”
  5. This ain’t Hell… wonders about fixing the economy
  6. LoopyLoo (Zilla) wonders if we’re on a path to revolution
  7. NoFrakkingConsencus has more from the Drama Queen Files
  8. Doug Ross has an Obamacare cheat sheet to discover coverage
  9. Fire Andrea Mitchell covers a brave citizen being suspended
  10. Gateway Pundit points out that more Americans can no longer afford new cars
  11. Gay Patriot discusses psychology, politics, and disgust
  12. House of Eratosthenes has a, uh, a bone to, uh, pick with, uh, Obama
  13. Jammie Wearing Fools highlights that NY state will have to defend their new gun laws in court
  14. Legal Insurrection says today’s press is worse than 2008
  15. And last, but not least, Scared Monkeys features another Obama highlight

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.

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Paper Which Just Laid Off A Bunch Of Employees Hysterical Over “Austerity”

By William Teach March 3, 2013 – 8:27 am

It’s nice to wake up on a Sunday morning and give a hearty chuckle followed by a good facepalm. The NY Times’ Jackie Calmes needs KCCO

The latest budget impasse ushered in a new round of austerity on Saturday, with the nation facing reduced federal services, canceled contracts, job furloughs and layoffs.

For those who live in Liberal World, let’s provide an explanation as to the Sequester: it reduces the rate of federal spending growth by a tiny percent. If a federal agency is currently budgeted for 1 billion this year, they aren’t going to get 998 million next fiscal year. They will receive slightly less than the budget increase, so, instead of 1.1 billion, they’ll get 1.0998 billion.

The progress on deficit reduction over the past two years will also probably hamper job creation and the economic recovery. Private and government forecasters project that sequestration alone will cost about 700,000 jobs this year and will shave at least a half percentage point from economic growth. The Congressional Budget Office now forecasts a falling deficit but stubbornly high unemployment in coming years.

First of all, if the people who run the federal agencies cannot deal with tiny reductions in future increases of budget allocation and maximize the money they have, perhaps they should be replaced with people who understand How To Make A Budget. Start with refusing to pay for cost overruns (this could save hundreds of billions each year).  Stop funding masters degrees for people in Indonesia (16-20 million). $500 million on a study to get 5 year olds to sit still (Gorilla glue is much cheaper). Reduce overlapping programs. Oh, and here’s $25 billion a year to maintain unused federal buildings.

Second of all, unemployment has been high throughout Obama’s terms, thanks to horrible Democrat policies which have turned a recession into a stagnation. Expect, though, Obama and the MSM to blame every job loss on Republicans not caving to Obama’s incessant demands for more taxes so he has more to spend (anyone who thinks extra tax revenue, including from the increase on those making $400K or more, will be used for debt/deficit reduction is a fool.)

Third, the NY Times has been practicing actual austerity as of late

(Reuters) On the cost-cutting side, the Times, which has repeatedly waved wads of buyout cash at its staff to reduce headcount, most recently persuading an additional 30 of its 1,100-plus journalists to leave the building permanently.

The Fish Wrap has been on a job cutting bender for years, with the latest coming at the beginning of 2013. They’ve been divesting themselves of assets (such as the Boston Globe) in order to streamline their operations. There was concern they would default on their debt, which included the silly stock buyback and building a new home office. They’ve dumped several departments, such as shutting down the Green Blog. They’re doing all they can to avoid insolvency. But, they still have a hissy fit when the federal government has a potential for layoffs.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Climate Astrology: Piranha In South Carolina

By William Teach March 2, 2013 – 4:45 pm

No, no, no alarmism here

(Esquire) South Carolina has a seacoast, which apparently has eluded the notice of Governor Nikki (Kelly Ayotte Stole My Place In Line!) Haley, because her administration evidently has decided that the state is uniquely immune to the Great Climate Change Hoax, which greedy scientists insist will make the oceans bigger if we don’t watch out. So, when her state’s wildlife department compiled a report on the effect that the GCCH could have on South Carolina, Haley and her minions responded to it in the time-honored free-market way. They buried the report. It did, alas, leak, and now the former chief of the state’s wildlife department is making noise about it.

What does the report say?

“From a wildlife and natural resources standpoint, climate change is definitely going to have an impact,” said Frampton, who wrote a two-page foreword to the climate report. The climate report lists potentially substantial threats to South Carolina – ranging from the invasion of exotic eels and piranha to flooding of seaside homes and destruction of ecologically valuable marshes if temperatures continue to rise.

Sadly, climate astrologers really believe this. Alas, they don’t believe in adjusting their own lives to match their rhetoric.

The DNR’s draft study says that, with temperatures in the South projected to rise up to 9 degrees over the next 70 years, the Palmetto State should prepare for increases in wildlife disease, loss of prime duck hunting habitat and the potential invasion of non-native species such as piranha and Asian swamp eels. Many such exotic species have taken hold in Florida, but as temperatures rise, could move into South Carolina, the report said.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 2, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil ocean that will rise up and cause islands to tip over, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on Obama’s golf weekend and furloughs.

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The Real Hockey Stick Is Found

By William Teach March 2, 2013 – 11:23 am

Yeah, that is the real data for the global temperature since 1980. That big spike in 1998? El Nino. (via Real Science from WoodForTrees). Meanwhile, CFACT has a billboard campaign going that shows no change in the global temperature since 1997, using HADCrut4 data.

Oh, and just to head the Warmists off at the pass, yes, the global temp is still higher than it was in 1980. That’s what happens during warm periods in the Holocene. It was still warmer in the 1930’s, and really, we’re talking about an increase of .4 Celsius, not exactly planet boiling, eh?

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Oops: PINO Obama States Sequestration Is Not The Apocalypse

By William Teach March 2, 2013 – 9:29 am

Yeah, remember the doom and gloom from (NMP) Obama? From his silly press conference yesterday

(NBC News) “This is not going to be an apocalypse, I think as some people have said. It’s just dumb. And it’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt individual people, and it’s going to hurt the economy overall,” he concluded.

This was during his jedi mindmeld and “I’m not a crook, er, dictator” PC, which everyone focused on. Of course, he’s turned right around and said we’re doooooooooomed during his weekly address and did his typical blamestorming as leader of the Democrat party and PINO (POTUS In Name Only)

(The Hill) In his weekly address on Saturday, Obama said the $85 billion sequester went into effect late Friday because congressional Republicans refused to compromise.

It’s rather hard to compromise when your opponent is constantly demonizing and insulting you. It’s even harder to compromise when Obama can’t be bothered to actually have discussions with Republicans. Heck, he barely discussed it with Democrat Congressional leaders.

Obama called the spending cuts unnecessary, adding that they are only happening because “Republicans in Congress chose this outcome over closing a single wasteful tax loophole that helps reduce the deficit.”

Still, he argued, there is a “caucus of common sense.”

“And I’m going to keep reaching out to them to fix this for good.”

Meaning he’s going to continue his Blamestorming leg of his Neverending Campaign.

The rest of the weekly address is just what you’d expect: blame, castigation, “fairness”, “excess spending in our tax code”, but never mentions actually reducing the amount Los Federales spend (I was unable to use the official White House transcript, as the page comes up with 404 not found error, much like Obama’s leadership and actual plan)

(WPTV) We all agree that it’s critical to cut unnecessary spending. But we can’t just cut our way to prosperity. It hasn’t worked in the past, and it won’t work today. It could slow down our recovery. It could weaken our economy. And it could cost us jobs – now, and in the future.

We sure haven’t been able to spend our way to prosperity. And cutting and balancing sure worked during the 1990’s. Perhaps he could mention what is “unnecessary”? We should start with everything that is considered “non-essential” during a government shutdown. How about ditching the $325,000 robotic squirrel and and $445,000 for a climate change musical that was considered (shocker) boring?

Here’s Cathy McMorris Rodgers with the GOP response

(CNN) Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington state, countered, “This week, the president traveled 180 miles to Newport News, Virginia, instead of traveling one and a half miles to Senator Harry Reid’s office on Capitol Hill to negotiate a replacement of smarter spending cuts.” (snip)

“We can’t let Washington continue spending money it doesn’t have, especially when it’s taking that money straight from your wallets,” McMorris Rodgers said. “The problem here isn’t a lack of taxes. … Spending is the problem, which means cutting spending is the solution. It’s that simple.”

But, that’s what the Blamestormer-in-chief wants, unlimited spending power to remake America, and damned the future generations.

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Good News! POTUS Who Wants Massive Gun Control Pardons Gun Offender

By William Teach March 2, 2013 – 9:00 am

Yeah, remember this?

(Washington Examiner) “If you want to buy a gun — whether it’s from a licensed dealer or a private seller — you should at least have to show you are not a felon or somebody legally prohibited from buying one,” Obama said in January, adding that “We should get tougher on people who buy guns with the express purpose of turning around and selling them to criminals.  And we should severely punish anybody who helps them do this.”

Well, this is the guy Obama pardoned

Larry Wayne Thornton — Forsyth, Georgia.
Offense: Possession of an unregistered firearm; possession of a firearm without a serial number.
Sentence: Four years probation.

Also pardoned are people who committed wire fraud, theft, trafficking counterfeit goods, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and embezzlement. I wonder if he’ll pardon you when you’re guns are made illegal?

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Obama During PC: I’m Not A Dictator

By William Teach March 1, 2013 – 3:22 pm

This comes after a whopping hour long meeting with the congressional leaders

(Fox) In response to reporter Jessica Yellin of CNN who jokingly asked why President Obama didn’t prevent lawmakers from “leaving the room” until a budget deal was reached instead of implementing sequestration cuts, the commander in chief responded by saying, “I am not a dictator; I’m the president.”

No, he’s a whiny ass wanna be dictator, a narcissist, and a jerk who blames everyone else. Sadly, over 50% of the voting public where duped by Obama.

PS: I forgot to mention petulant, nasty, vindictive, and mixes metaphors without his woobie, er, teleprompter handy.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 1, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is snow that is created because greenhouse gases from Man make it hot, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sister Toldjah, with a long post on the Bob Woodward affair.

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Joe Romm Compares Cancer To Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach March 1, 2013 – 11:10 am

In Warmist world, everything is linked in one way or another to “climate change”. If it isn’t, they’ll create a link

The First Rule: Eat When You Can, Sleep When You Can, And Don’t Screw With The Climate!

My prognosis is very likely to be very good, despite the ominous sounding diagnosis — a small well-defined pancreatic neuro-endocrine tumor (PNET). Today, Thursday, I had surgery at Johns Hopkins to remove it. It wasn’t causing symptoms (that I’m aware of).

Well, I’m glad to hear that Joe got it taken care of. I hope you have a long life, Joe, keeping me and other climate realists amused with your brand of climahypocrisy and doom-saying.

There are many analogies between dealing with early stage climate change and dealing with early stage diseases, analogies I’ve often made myself. As you can imagine, I’ve thought of a few more in the last several weeks.

So one big difference between this PNET and global warming is that global warming is highly likely to be fatal to a livable climate and modern civilization if left untreated. Still, I think it safe to say  that most people would take it out, but then most people act considerably more risk averse toward worst-case scenarios in their own life than society is acting towards the business-as-usual scenario of  unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gas.

If only there was something Warmists could do, like making their own lives “carbon neutral”…..say, I wonder how big the carbon footprint is for that hospital and for the surgery?

Indeed, if you use Google you can find the unofficial first rule for surgeons is, “Eat when you can, sleep when you can, and don’t f@ck with the pancreas!”

And, with a one-word change, that will eventually be the rule for humanity. The sooner, the better.

Hmm, if that’s the case, then Warmists should stop making recommendations to enact policies that will change the climate.

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