Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 11, 2026 – 9:13 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America. Some helpful rain, the Devils and Pirate won Saturday, and apparently there’s a highway running under my deck for opossum, squirrels, and feral cats. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Legal Insurrection: Mamdani Demands Immediate Release of Criminal Illegal Alien Gang Member Shot by ICE
  2. Moonbattery: Back in Jail After Release Without Bail for Leaving a Victim’s Intestines Hanging Out
  3. neo-neocon: The 6-year-old psychopath
  4. Pacific Pundit: And now there is sexually transmitted diarrhea
  5. The First Street Journal: This is what happens when you treat criminals leniently.
  6. The Hayride: Authorities Dismantle Louisiana Medicaid Fraud Web of Islamic Terror Financiers
  7. The Last Refuge: Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Delivers Speech Warning About the Modern Surveillance State and the Threat of Islamic Extremism
  8. The Red Squirrel Report: SHOCK POLL: 4 IN 10 YOUNG AMERICANS ARE RETARDED ASSHOLES
  9. The Right Scoop: EVIL VIDEO – Muslim Senate candidate El-Sayed makes his hatred for Israel CLEAR in stunning debate response
  10. The View From Lady Lake: Tell me I’m reading this correctly. The City by the bay admitting it fucked up?
  11. Wake Up America: 10/9a – ‘You All Want A Piece Of Me?’: Bodycam Captures 6-Year-Old’s Chilling Admission After Shooting Teacher
  12. Jo Nova: Western civilization is worth defending
  13. Not A Lot Of People Know That: Britain risks running out of gas this winter
  14. Watts Up With That?: Climate Fact-Check September 2026
  15. And last, but, not least, Blazing Cat Fur has “How Islamo-leftism came to Berlin”

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?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Bummer: Medicaid Cuts Strip Foreigners Of Health Coverage

By William Teach October 11, 2026 – 7:00 am

Funny how we hear that people just want to come to the US for a better life and make money, yet, they all seem to be on government programs

Trump’s Medicaid cuts strip refugees and other legal immigrants of their health coverage

New restrictions have stripped Medicaid coverage from certain legal immigrants, including refugees and victims of human trafficking, as part of broader federal changes to the health insurance program that are expected to force millions off their coverage.

Sniffle

The change effective Oct. 1 cut from Medicaid what is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of people who legally immigrated to the United States, many of whom work and pay taxes, in the latest Trump administration policy to target foreigners. (snip)

Advocates say that without Medicaid, people will not be able to afford private insurance and will either delay care or end up in emergency rooms, adding pressure to a strained health system. For immigrants, the cuts could be felt more acutely, compounding the effects of other administration efforts to restrict their access to public assistance as part of a broader immigration crackdown.

Well, hey, they could go back to their own home countries.

“This is about telling every immigrant in the United States that they are not welcome here and that they should leave,” said Ben D’Avanzo, a senior strategist at the National Immigration Law Center, which has pursued litigation against the Republican administration over its immigration agenda.

Refugees, asylum seekers, victims of human trafficking and domestic violence are among those who have lost coverage. Green-card holders were not impacted.

Those “asylum seekers” are mostly illegal aliens who won’t end up qualifying for asylum. And the rest simply make claims to try and stay. And green card holders should really have to pay for themselves. Dumb enough we have “permanent residents”, but, they shouldn’t receive government benefits like this.

Lauren Bis, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement that “immigrants must be able to support themselves without taking from overburdened benefits programs paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.”

Anyone on a visa or applying for citizenship are required to be able to pay for themselves, so, why not all the rest? Better yet, go elsewhere. The rest of the article is just a sniffles article.

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Totally Scientific Study Names Scariest Movies

By William Teach October 10, 2026 – 3:00 pm

I love horror movies. Always have. I remember watching horror/monster movies Saturday afternoons out of the NYC channels, always had great ones. And at night they’d run them. I still love them, though, not much scares me anymore. Anyhow, who’s up for the Yute list?

Scientific study reveals scariest horror movie – with one 2026 title breaking heart rate record

The ranking was determined by a study monitoring audience’s heart rates and BPM increases while watching horror films.

Halloween is creeping up and many of you will be wondering: “What should I be watching to get in the mood for the big night?”

Well, if you’re sticking to rigorous scientific research, we can reveal what the scariest films are – with no accounting for taste or your tolerance for jump scares.

The Science of Scare Project, now in its seventh year, tracks the pulses of hundreds of volunteers, who watch hours of English-language horror movies whilst fitted with heart rate monitors.

Their scientific study establishes a Scare Score system, which combines both heart rate (measured in beats per minute – BPM) and heart rate variability (HRV – measured in milliseconds), which measures the time in between each beat of your heart. Peak heart rate is also taken into consideration, with the highest point proving to be a valuable indicator and leading to an overall ranking of the scariest horror movies.

What are they? (below the fold for brevity)

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 10, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a day turning sunny after a carbon pollution driven hurricane, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post “Australia: Accused Islamic State jihadi freed on bail due to his age and his wife’s dependence upon him”

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Use Of AI Can Reduce Film Budgets By Up To 40%

By William Teach October 10, 2026 – 10:30 am

Can AI also make better scripts and come up with new ideas?

AI Can Cut Film Budgets by Up to 40%, Says ‘The Outlaws’ Director Kang Yoon-sung, as Netflix Reveals Use on 300 Titles: ‘A Human Touch Is Absolutely Essential’

Netflix has used AI in one form or another on some 300 of its titles, Lee Sung-gyun, the streamer’s senior director of APAC production, told an audience at the Busan International Film Festival.

On the same panel, “The Outlaws” director Kang Yoon-sung said AI workflows could take 30% to 40% off a feature film’s production budget.

Lee shared the stage with Kang and Kimball Thurston, chief technology officer at W?t? FX, for “Film Production and AI: New Tools, New Possibilities.” Netflix and the MPA co-hosted the session. It was part of Creative Asia, the Netflix and BIFF program for emerging Asian talent. Film critic Yun Sung-eun moderated.

“Across around 300 Netflix titles, AI has actually been put to use in various ways,” Lee said. “It’s being used in previs, in production design, in working out set-dressing concepts ahead of time, in editorial, and of course in VFX.”

Lee said new technology has always startled people when it arrives. “All these technological changes and new tools have helped a great deal with the ‘how,’ how we make what we make better, but they never decided the ‘why,’ why we have to tell this story,” he said. “AI is the same.”

He gets it: AI is a tool. A powerful tool. But, that is it. It is not sentient. It’s still programming. Powerful programming that can assist and decrease costs while providing a heck of a lot of help.

Lee said he related strongly to Kang’s point. Some things now come out with a single click, he said, “but when it comes to conveying emotion, ultimately a human has to touch it once more. I strongly agree that a human touch is absolutely essential.”

Humans are still necessary to actually act. Everyone needs to calm down about AI doom. But, perhaps they could let AI pick out good books to convert into movies and write scripts, things we haven’t seen before.

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Cult: Only Half Of US Kids Can Identify The Cult Reason For A Slight Increase In Global Temperatures

By William Teach October 10, 2026 – 7:15 am

This is one of the most culty things I’ve read in a while, which is disturbing since it comes from what is supposed to be one of the best institutes of learning in the nation, Yale

Only about half of U.S. teens can correctly identify the causes of climate change

More than 80% of young people in the U.S. say they are worried about climate change.

Schifter: “Whether it’s going outside to play in extreme heat, or if it’s about the jobs that they’re going to be able to access in the future, the world that they are living in is being shaped by our changing climate.”

But Laura Schifter of the Aspen Institute says a recent survey that her group commissioned reveals that many teens do not fully understand the issue.

Only about half of the teens surveyed know that climate change is mostly caused by carbon pollution from human activities like burning fossil fuels.

And even fewer know that nearly all climate scientists have concluded that human activity is causing climate change.

100 % cult, 0% science.

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Senate Democrats Upset Over Cost To House Illegals At Gitmo

By William Teach October 10, 2026 – 7:00 am

You know what would be a lot less expensive? If Democrats would simply allow DHS to deport illegals back to their own countries without all the caterwauling

Senate Fact Finders Decry Costs of Migrant Detention at Guantánamo

In August, a team of Senate staff members inspected the Trump administration’s migrant detention operations at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. They found 445 government employees assigned to the site, mostly U.S. military members on temporary deployment, and zero migrants.

The findings were released Friday, in the latest report to criticize the cost of the operation. Early in his second administration, President Trump ordered the Homeland Security and Defense Departments to get ready to hold tens of thousands of migrants designated for deportation at Guantánamo. About 850 migrants have been held there since February 2025.

So, wait, were there illegals there or not? Also, there are going to be military members at Gitmo regardless

“This comes at a significant cost to taxpayers and undermines military readiness,” according to the report, released by Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.

How so? Military members are going to be at Gitmo regardless. And not every member is a frontline fighter

The study also found the Guantánamo operation has cost more than $100 million, which means the government has spent $118,000 to house each detainee there.

How much is the US government, the state governments, and local governments spending on housing illegals, feeding them, clothing them, etc, money which could be used for Americans?

Government officials described the Guantánamo operation as a way station for detainees being deported. The report said the average length of stay for the 850 men was 20 to 30 days. Some were held for months.

Let us skip the detention methods and just boot the illegals out. If they do not want to go to their home nation let them pick a country and put them on a plane and sayonora.

Only Democratic staff members took part in compiling the report. It follows a critical study by the Government Accountability Office of wasteful overall spending practices by the Trump administration’s detention and deportation operations. It included the $2.85 million it spent on tent housing for 5,000 detainees that was dismantled and never occupied. The tents, it turned out, did not meet federal detention standards.

Surprise! Democrat hit piece fed to the NY Times.

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Your Fault: Hurricane Isaias Supercharged Because Your Drove A Fossil Fueled Vehicle

By William Teach October 9, 2026 – 4:14 pm

Strange, because there were no other hurricanes in the Gulf, nor the Atlantic all September. If the water was so warm why were there none? Oh, right, right, sorry, we aren’t supposed to ask questions, just blindly Obey the whims of the cult

Climate change supercharged the warm Gulf waters fueling Hurricane Isaias

Isaias underwent rapid intensification in the western Gulf of Mexico between October 7 and 8, strengthening from a tropical storm to a hurricane. By Friday, October 9, the storm rapidly intensified again, strengthening to a Category 3 hurricane. Isaias is moving over exceptionally warm Gulf of Mexico waters and is forecast to make landfall on the Gulf Coast between Alabama and Florida late Friday, October 9.

The exceptionally warm, record sea surface temperatures fueling this storm across the western and central Gulf of Mexico are up to 600 times more likely due to human-caused climate change. The waters over which Isaias formed before becoming a named storm were up to 800 times more likely. These warm waters significantly enhance the storm’s potential strength.

And, yet, if this is the case, then where were all the other hurricanes?

Isaias could bring a substantial storm surge to the Gulf Coast. Human-caused climate change has raised sea levels in this region by about 6.5 inches since 1900, allowing storm surges to reach higher levels and increase their potential for destruction.

Horseshit. Average sea rise per century is 6-8 inches, meaning a warm period should be much higher to offset low to negative sea rise during a Holocene cool period. Yet, just 6 inches during the 20th Century.

Climate change is forecast to add 7 mph to Isaias’s maximum sustained wind speeds.

They’re just pulling numbers out of their asses. And still do not mention the dearth of Atlantic hurricanes (which includes the Gulf of America) through September.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 9, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are islands living in the sun because carbon pollution drove away the hurricanes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on “Europe Chose National Suicide—America’s Midterms Will Decide Whether We Follow”

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EU Parliament Backs Adding Muslim Brotherhood To Terror List

By William Teach October 9, 2026 – 10:30 am

But, will this go through in full with all the Elites in EU nations, who seem to like letting in Islamists? How about all the Islamists who are already in positions of governmental power?

European Parliament Backs Adding Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Groups to EU Terror List

The European Parliament voted Thursday to support adding Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations and individuals to the European Union’s terrorist list, approving a sweeping resolution aimed at combating Islamist influence across Europe and preventing EU taxpayer funds from reaching extremist networks.

The resolution passed by a vote of 381-167, with 15 abstentions, calling on EU member states to develop a coordinated strategy to counter what lawmakers described as “Islamist entryism” and the influence of Muslim Brotherhood networks within European institutions and civil society.

The measure urges member states to provide information allowing the Council of the European Union to assess whether Brotherhood-linked individuals and organizations meet the criteria for terrorist designation. It also calls for scrutiny of alleged front organizations, financial networks, youth groups, and other entities associated with the movement.

Although the vote does not itself designate any organization as a terrorist group, it places political pressure on EU institutions and national governments to consider such action.

The resolution also calls on the European Commission to investigate whether EU funding has reached Brotherhood-associated organizations and to strengthen safeguards against public money being directed toward Islamist networks.

They’re on the right track, but, it is interesting that the EU gov’t seems happy to slap on rules and restrictions for the peasants for so many other things, but, not this. But, it’s a good start that they are recognizing the danger of the Muslim Brotherhood and all the groups and individuals they back. But, is it too damned late to do something about it to save Europe?

Ahead of Thursday’s vote, French EPP lawmaker Céline Imart, who led the group’s efforts, called for a crackdown on Islamist influence while emphasizing the distinction between religious freedom and political extremism.

“We need to make sure Europe doesn’t fund Islamists. Islam as a faith and political Islam as an ideology must not be conflated. We must protect both democracy and religious freedom,” Imart said.

“Where rules allow, the Council should list individuals and organisations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist entities. European money must not fund groups that threaten our rights and freedoms,” she added.

And that “religious freedom” is where the Muslim Brotherhood takes advantage of the EU, using the rules, laws, and founding charters against the nations and the people. The MB specifically calls to do that. We’ll see where this goes.

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