If All You See…

By William Teach April 28, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will soon rise up and swamp the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post on drone jammers at the Pope’s funeral.

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NY Times Has Dumbest Headline/Subhead On Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame Inductions

By William Teach April 28, 2025 – 10:30 am

Every year, about this time, I rage like a moonbat about the insanity of the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame inductions. I’ve already run across dozens of pieces on the ‘net and Twitter. Then, while searching for a news story to post, there’s this

Chubby Checker, Outkast and the White Stripes Will Join the Rock Hall
Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Bad Company and Soundgarden — but not Oasis or Phish — are also part of the 40th anniversary class.

Also? Also for Joe Cocker and Bad Company? Chubby Checker definitely deserves to be there, but, to call Cocker and Bad Company are “also”? Bad Company should be the headline for the Rock N Roll HOF. And should have been in 20 years ago. Outkast has no business being in, just like so many non-Rock artists. It’s not that their not good (though, not my type of music), it’s that they are not rock.

Chubby Checker is finally joining the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, 65 years after “The Twist” became a No. 1 hit and an international dance craze.

Checker, 83, who has campaigned for decades to be admitted to the pantheon — at one point taking out a full-page ad in Billboard magazine that said “I want my flowers while I’m alive” — is part of the 40th annual crop of performer inductees. He is joined by Joe Cocker, the White Stripes, Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, Bad Company and Soundgarden, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced on Sunday evening, after a Rock Hall-themed segment on ABC’s “American Idol.”

Checker, Cocker, Outkast and Bad Company were all accepted on their first nomination.

That Checker, Cocker, and Bad Company were never nominated is a travesty. Kool and the Gang? Mary J Blige? Missy Elliot? Dolly Parton? Eminem? Jay Z? And so many more? Not rock. Country. Hip Hop. Rap. Not rock. Heck, there are plenty of rock acts that really should not be in there. Ones who are good, but, not HOF worthy.

Heck, the Times doesn’t even really talk about the inductees except Checker. Sorry, but, Bad Company is the biggest name this year

Other nominees who didn’t make the cut include Mariah Carey, the Black Crowes, Billy Idol, the Mexican rock band Maná and the linked British groups Joy Division and New Order.

Mariah doesn’t belong in it. Billy does. Black Crowes? Meh. But, without Iron Maiden, the whole thing is a joke. Without Motorhead (not my favorite, but, no one can overstate their influence), Thin Lizzy, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Motley Crue, Boston, Blue Oyster Cult, and so many others, the HOF is a joke. Judas Priest is in their as a performing artist, but, not as an artist, the main category. That’s absurd.

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Hawaii Legislature Tells Insurers To Sue Big Oil

By William Teach April 28, 2025 – 7:00 am

The island of Hawaii would be basically 3rd world without fossil fuels. How would anyone get there without fossil fueled flights? No one is going to take a 2,000+ mile trip on a sailboat to go somewhere with no energy, no modern buildings, no transportation. And where does most of the food come from? Products and goods? Fossil fueled ships and planes. Are they willing to give that all up?

Hawai?i lawmakers call for Big Oil to pay for rising insurance costs

The catastrophic Maui wildfires of 2023 made it clear: Hawai?i is on the front lines of the climate crisis. Now its residents are feeling some of the economic consequences, including massive spikes in the price of home and property insurance — with peoples’ bills going up by as much as 1,000%.

Why should Hawai?i residents be forced to shoulder these costs alone? Big Oil knew decades ago its products would worsen these kinds of extreme weather disasters, but lied to the public.

Yeah, a 300 page report about the fire stated

The fire was initially blamed on the combination of high winds and dry weather. However, the investigation found that the widespread destruction was caused by a single fire that started by the “undetected re-energization of broken utility lines, which caused sparks that ignited unmaintained vegetation,” Maui Fire Chief Bradford Ventura said during a press conference Wednesday.

So, not ‘climate change’

Last week Hawai?i took an important step toward climate accountability, becoming the first state in the nation to endorse the idea that the fossil fuel industry bears financial responsibility for the rising cost of home insurance in the state. A joint resolution passed by the state House and Senate calls on the state’s insurance providers to limit rate increases on Hawai?i families by taking the fossil fuel industry to court for damages from climate disasters.

But, weirdly, the resolution doesn’t recommend that the state stops using fossil fuels. That they demolish the airports. No planes or helicopters. No fossil fuels for all those boats. Or the vehicles taking tourists around. Nor did the elected lawmakers pledge to end their own use of fossil fuels. Of course, they couldn’t bring in EVs, because that would require fossil fueled transport ships.

With constituents struggling under relentlessly rising housing costs, state lawmakers are starting to respond. Hawai?i’s resolution comes after a similar bill requiring insurers to seek damages from the fossil fuel industry passed the state Senate. California legislators are also considering legislation that would allow insurers and climate disaster victims to recover their losses during climate disasters from fossil fuel companies.

Funny how it’s California and Hawaii with rising rebuilding costs, but, not having that trouble in Western NC. It’s almost like hardcore Leftists enact policies that are bad for building homes. You know how many have been rebuilt in Maui?

A year and a half since fires devastated the historic town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, Hawaii, only six houses have been rebuilt—six out of more than 2,000.

Why is the recovery effort taking so long? Initially, the biggest hurdles were the pace of debris removal and damage litigation. Both were overcome only last month. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cleared the final lots on February 19, while the Hawaiian Supreme Court ruled that a $4 billion settlement for victims can begin to move forward.

Think on that. Certainly, easier to do in Western NC than Maui, but, 6.

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Huh: Gavin Newsom To Give Murderous Illegal Alien Up To ICE

By William Teach April 28, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m guessing that Gavin doesn’t want to be the governor who let this illegal free when he runs for president

Newsom agrees to help feds after outrage exploded over his own prison system releasing killer illegal immigrant after only 3 years

California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has agreed to help the Trump administration pursue federal charges against an illegal immigrant being freed early after killing a young couple in a horrific drunk driving crash.

Newsom’s office promised the state would comply with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)  detainer to ensure the killer, Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, does not end up back on US streets after his controversial early release.

“After being deported in 2013, this individual unlawfully re-entered the US & committed heinous crimes,” the governor’s office said in an X post.

“[California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] will again coordinate with ICE — as they have w/ 10,000+ inmates — to transfer him before release.”

Ortega-Anguiano, 43, was convicted of vehicular manslaughter over the fiery 2021 wreck that left 19-year-old Anya Varfolomeev and her boyfriend, Nicholay Osokin, dead.

The victims’ families were alerted over the weekend that he would be eligible for release come July after serving just 3.5 years of his decade-long sentence.

Though, it is wild how many Democrat voters are livid at Gavin for giving a convicted killer up to ICE. What makes them want to support this guy? It can’t just be Trump Derangement Syndrome, can it?

Unfortunately, the feds are considering sticking Ortega-Anguiano in federal jail for coming back after deportation. I’d rather we just fly him to the tip of South America and drop him off.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 27, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is climate induced wildfire smoke making sunset look hazy, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on Iran’s most important port going boom.

It’s sundress week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 27, 2025 – 9:12 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the Devils have made it 2-1 in the Playoffs, and a squirrel keeps doing parkour off my glass door to jump up to the top of the deck fence. Not sure why, when squirrels can climb wood. Playing? Done it 5 times since I got up at 7am. This pinup is by Vaughan Bass, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Climate Cultists Use AI To Suppress Dissent On Climate Change
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That: Hydrogen Buses Off Road Because There Is No Hydrogen
  3. Real Climate Science: Hiding The Decline
  4. Independent Sentinel: BBC Contributor Calls for Burning Jews “Like Hitler Did”
  5. Vlad Tepes: Experts: a tool of Communist narrative enforcement
  6. Victory Girls Blog: AOC: Hypocrisy, Oligarchy, And Presidential Aspirations
  7. The Right Scoop: BREAKING VIDEO – Florida Good Samaritans help stop kidnapping of two children in DMV parking lot
  8. The Lid: Trump’s Immigration Raids Sees 655% Jump in Arrests of Terrorists
  9. The Last Refuge: Good Stuff – British Officials Worry President Trump Tariffs are Being Leveraged to Support Free Speech
  10. The Gateway Pundit: Another Milwaukee County Judge Joins Rebellion, Floats “New Courthouse Policies” in Response to Radical Judge Vowing to Shield Illegals from ICE Agents
  11. The First Street Journal: Once again, Hahvahd is producing The Best and The Brightest!
  12. The American Conservative: When Garden Centers Ruled the Earth
  13. Sultan Knish: Islamic Terrorism is Genocide
  14. Powerline: It’s process, all the way down
  15. And last, but, not least, Pacific Pundit has Susan Rice finally fired from DOD advisory committee

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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Wacko Democrat Judge Threatens To Shut Down Her Court Over Illegal Alien Supporting Judge’s Arrest

By William Teach April 27, 2025 – 7:00 am

Um, she wants to giving criminals trials, trials where the victims usually get justice?

Lefty judge threatens to close court, start raising bail money for defendants after feds arrested Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly helping illegal migrant avoid ICE

A lefty Wisconsin jurist is threatening not to hold court following Friday’s arrest of Milwaukee judge for allegedly helping a Mexican illegal migrant evade federal immigration officers.

Monica Isham, a circuit judge Sawyer County, defended Judge Hannah Dugan Saturday, claiming in an email to other state judges that she “has no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by [Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents] and sent to a concentration camp,” Wisconsin Right Now first reported.

Isham, who in 2023 became the first Native American elected to the county’s circuit court, also threatened to “start raising bail money” for defendants.

“Yesterday, Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee County stood on her Oath in the very building she swore to uphold it and she was arrested and charged with felonies for it,” Isham wrote.

Whelp, that’s a lie. Because she’s being charged with, at a minimum, obstruction of justice, as she stood in the way of federal law enforcement agents engaged in a lawful detention of an illegal alien who had beaten a man and a women

“Enough is enough. I no longer feel protected or respected as a Judge in this administration. If there is no guidance for us and no support for us, I will refuse to hold court in Branch 2 in Sawyer County. I will not put myself or my staff who may feel compelled to help me or my community in [harm’s] way.”

Harm? Are any of them illegals? Otherwise, the only one being harmed are the victims of crimes.

It could well end up that Dugan is charged with more federal statutes, and the FBI may well come for the court employees who assisted her in allowing a charged criminal, and an illegal alien who had already been deported once. And here’s Isham saying she won’t do her job, all to protect illegal aliens? Really? Is this really what you want to do, Democrats?

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Bummer: Climate Crisis (scam) Disappears From Canadian Campaigning

By William Teach April 26, 2025 – 4:05 pm

I wonder why?

Climate Change, Once a Big Issue, Fades From Canada’s Election

The melting Arctic icecap. Record-smashing wildfires across several provinces. A country that, on average, is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world.

No matter where it is, it is melting twice the rate of the rest of the world. Because this is a cult

And yet, as Canadians go to the polls Monday, climate change isn’t even among the top 10 issues for voters, according to recent polling.

“That’s just not what this election is about,” said Jessica Green, a political scientist at the University of Toronto who focuses on climate issues.
What the election is about, nearly everyone agrees, is choosing a leader who can stand up to Donald J. Trump. The American president has been threatening Canada with a trade war, if not total annexation as the “51st state.”

Leading in the polls is the Liberals’ Mark Carney, who has a decades-long pedigree in climate policy. For five years, he was United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, and he spearheaded a coalition of banks that promised to stop adding carbon dioxide to the environment through their lending and investments by 2050.

Despite that résumé, Mr. Carney has not made climate central to his campaign. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down, one of Mr. Carney’s first moves was to scrap one of his predecessor’s least popular policies, a tax on fuel that included gasoline at the pump and was based on emissions intensity.

They can talk about it as much as they want, it doesn’t make a difference: most people do not care all the much in reality. In theory, maybe, but, not in the Real World. It’s never a real world top 10, unless there are only 10 issues in the poll.

Canada is one of the world’s highest emitters of greenhouse gases per capita and is off-track to meet its pledges to reduce its emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. It has targeted cuts of at least 40 to 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, but the latest national emissions inventory report shows a drop of just 8.5 percent through 2023.

Yeah, so, despite all the climavirtue signalling from the Canadian elites, politicians, and citizens, no one is really doing their cult part to make their own carbon footprints zero.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 26, 2025 – 1:55 pm

…is an area turning to desert from Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on a power grab by the Washington state judiciary.

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Saturday Humor: Elise Slotkin Says Dems Need To Stop Being Weak And Woke

By William Teach April 26, 2025 – 10:30 am

Is she being serious? Has she met Democrats?

Senate Democrat: Party needs to lose ‘weak and woke’ reputation

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) wants Democrats across the country to focus on ways to “retake the flag” from President Trump and Republican majorities in the House and Senate and told one media outlet she thinks they should start by shedding public perception of the party as “weak and woke.”

“I don’t understand how to rally us into a coherent approach if we aren’t on the same page on where we’re going,” she told Politico this week before delivering a “war plan” speech to a gathering of Democratic volunteers in her home state on Thursday.

Slotkin, whose campaign team didn’t immediately respond to The Hill’s requests for comment, posted photos on the social platform X after her event at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum in Lansing, Mich., and wrote that she wanted to use the speech “to lay out my strategy for how Democrats should be meeting this moment in our country’s history.”

“After this 100 days of the Trump Administration, we owe the nation a plan: reclaiming our patriotism, a real economic plan for the Middle Class, and a fight for our democracy that recognizes the stakes,” she wrote.

Seriously, her whole schtick is still based on Orange Man Bad, on Trump Derangement Syndrome, just like the rest of the Democrats. How do you reclaim patriotism when the majority of your voters hate America? When your economics are based on the government running everything and you patronize the rich, the super poor, and illegal aliens? That their version of Democracy is more akin to Mussolini and Saddam Hussein than what is written in the US Constitution?

Democrats mounted a party-wide effort to curb Trump’s influence after he won the 2016 election, but the party hasn’t come together similarly this time and has struggled to rein in mounting tension between more traditional Democrats and a growing progressive upsurge.

Yeah, well, they’re hardcore on the side protecting illegal alien gang members to the point that abortion is barely mentioned by Democrats. They’re still hardcore on protecting the gender confused over actual women. They don’t talk about it much, but, their other policies of being weak on crime and controlling citizens via the climate scam play heavy. There is no way Democrats give up weak and woke. They may hide it a bit, but, you can see it everywhere. We’ve watched the moonbattery since Bush43 took office. It won’t stop. There are no JFK type Democrats left. There are not even any Bill Clinton type Democrats left. Now you have Alexandria O’Casio Cortez being pushed as their frontrunner for the 2028 presidential race.

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