If All You See…

By William Teach August 10, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a tree dead from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Independent Sentinel, with a post on disgusting “butter”.

It’s good jeans week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 10, 2025 – 9:28 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and football is (sorta) starting. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Bill Nye: Vote Republicans Out To Fight Climate Change
  2. Jo Nova: Great Barrier Reef in great health, but climate change is killing science institutions
  3. American Greatness: Thanks, Obama
  4. Bearing Arms: Trump Issues Executive Order to Halt Discrimination in Banking
  5. bluebird of bitterness: Happy National Book Lovers Day
  6. Chicks On The Right: Move Aside Sydney Sweeney—Mike Rowe Has Great Jeans, Too
  7. Common Cents Blog: SCARY!! Smartphones are transforming our lives in a Bad/Horrible way!!! And what to do about it . . . .
  8. Culturcidal: No, Young Americans Aren’t Facing Some Kind of Uniquely Difficult Situation. Not Even Close.
  9. Gates Of Vienna: All Choked Up
  10. Geller Report: Zohran Mamdani SAYS He’s Not Antisemitic, But…
  11. IOTW Report: Spanish Town Bans Muslim Festivals In Public Spaces As Anti-Islamification Movement Gains Momentum
  12. Jihad Watch: ISIS: Christians in Africa must pay the jizya, Muslims should attack Christians in Europe
  13. Legal Insurrection: Illinois Lt. Governor Tweets That Michael Brown Was “Murdered”
  14. Campus Reform: 77% of Gen Z job seekers have brought a parent to an interview, survey finds
  15. And last, but, not least, Moonbattery has Sanity Cuts No ICE With Shrill Moonbat on CNN

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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Kenyan Illegal Says He’s Now Safe After Self-Deporting

By William Teach August 10, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s no wonder NPR has lost their taxpayer funding, since they are pimping a sob story over illegal aliens

‘At least I’m safe’: A Kenyan immigrant opts to leave the U.S. on his own terms

On a recent Thursday afternoon, Samuel Kangethe pushes his 5-year-old daughter on the swings at a leafy park near his home. While she swings, the little girl eyes the nearby playground on top of a small hill.

Nearby, Kangethe’s 13-year-old son is showing his dad a few things about fishing on the Grand River. His 11-year-old daughter plays with her phone, and helps her sister navigate the playground.

“This is how we spend our days,” Kangethe says.

Kangethe is from Kenya, and has been living in Michigan for more than 16 years. He first came here as a student visa-holder. He now has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Northwood University and a master’s degree in finance from Central Michigan University.

Waaaaa! You overstayed your visa

His immigration case involves a prior marriage that gave him conditional residency. But in 2014, immigration officials deemed that marriage fraudulent. A judge has yet to rule in that case, but since then, Kangethe’s gotten divorced and he remarried in 2018. But today in the eyes of the immigration system, he is deportable.

He has not committed any crimes, but he has also not been able to adjust his legal status.

“I have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of — I don’t want that case,” Kangethe says. “I’m not going to let it put me in shackles for the rest of my life. … I’m not a criminal.”

So he has made a decision.

“I need to take the option of self-deporting myself,” he says.

But, will he? He feels that he’s not safe. Safe like Laken Riley? Like the mom and 11 year old killed in DUI in NJ, despite the illegal having multiple DUIs and a domestic violence arrest?

Latvia is now worried when or if the family will ever get back together. The kids are losing their dad. She’s losing her husband.

“It’s scary. Essentially I’ll be a single mom,” she says. “And to go from a two-person income in the home where we’re able to piggy-back and do the things together like we’ve always done — It’s going to impact the entire family.”

She and the family can go with. And, if he self-deports, he can always re-apply for entry. Seriously, these people put themselves in this position. Also, didn’t the media tell us that no one is exempt from the law?

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Bummer: Tenacious Swiss Finance Minister Tried To Stand Up To Trump

By William Teach August 9, 2025 – 4:12 pm

See, here’s the problem

And

Tenacious Swiss Leader Stood Up to Trump — It Backfired on Her

Karin Keller-Sutter admires the grit of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and as Swiss president is known as technocratic and tenacious. Those traits look to have backfired when she faced off with Donald Trump and led her country into crisis.

KKS — as she is known in Swiss politics — has had the worst week of her more than three-decade career. It’s even worse than in 2023, when over a frantic weekend she pushed through Credit Suisse’s forced marriage to UBS Group AG to limit the fallout on the country’s prized banking sector.

With Trump levying the highest tariffs in the developed world on Switzerland at 39% — more than double the European Union’s rate — there’s little relief in sight.

After the 61-year-old came home empty-handed from a last-ditch trip to Washington, the Swiss government had few answers after an emergency meeting of the seven-member federal council on Thursday, saying it would continue to seek to secure concessions.

She can admire Thatcher all she wants: she has to be able to back it up.

Similar determination led her to stand up to Trump. It looked like it might pan out, with Swiss negotiators thinking they had a deal in sight, but then came a bumpy call last week.

In what was described as a lecturing tone, she dismissed the notion that Switzerland was stealing from the US and insisted on including services in the discussions. That ran afoul of Trump’s focus on the US deficit in goods from exports such as luxury watches, gold and pharmaceuticals.

Her position was that Switzerland stands by its word and it was better to have no deal than a bad deal. But that didn’t go down well with the White House, and Switzerland didn’t have the leverage of bigger trading partners and put little on the table.

See, she’s never truly worked in the private sector, except briefly as a translator. Say what you want about Trump, he spent most of his life in business, with successes and failures. He knows how to negotiate. He knows when he has the advantage. What do the Swiss have? KKS probably thought she could badger and bully and get all big and mighty, and that utterly backfired. Did she think a lecturing tone would work? Should have taken the deal. But, she tried to think like a politician, not a business person. She’s not the only one abroad, and at home, who’ve made this mistake.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 9, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled boat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog o the day is Cold Fury, with a post on a crooked cop brought down hard.

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Obamacare Rates To Skyrocket In North Carolina

By William Teach August 9, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s actually so bad that leftist WRAL can barely find it in themselves to Blame Republicans

Affordable Care Act rates set to skyrocket in NC

About a million North Carolinians who rely on the federal Affordable Care Act are in for a double-whammy on health care costs next year.

Insurers who offer ACA plans are asking for steep increases for 2026. And those rate increases will come on top of the end of federal subsidies that have made ACA plans more affordable for many. Those subsidies will expire in December after Congress declined to extend them.

The insurers say rising healthcare costs and federal changes enacted over the past few months are driving the increase.

Different insurers that provide ACA plans in North Carolina are requesting different rate increases. Amerihealth Caritas is the highest at 36% next year. UnitedHealthcare of NC is seeking 32%. Blue Cross is seeking a 29% increase, and Cigna is asking for 27%.

The rate change requests are under review by the Insurance Commissioner, so, we’ll see what happens.

Rates for ACA plans vary widely according to age, location, benefits and other factors, but Tyson says the average monthly premium for a healthy 21-year-old is $486. For an older adult, it’s $800 to $1200 a month. The average ACA enrollee is saving $705 a year through the subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year.

That means the average enrollee will see their monthly cost rise about $58 per month when the subsidies expire. And the new rate increase will be added on top of that.

For an average older adult paying $1000 a month for ACA coverage, their monthly bill after the rates rise and the subsidies expire could be closer to $1400. For a healthy 21-year-old, it could go from under $500 a month to about $710.

Um, I thought Obamacare was supposed to be affordable? Isn’t that the name of the bill, the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act? Wasn’t it meant to bend the curve down for premiums, deductibles, and care?

Instead of helping, it seems that Obamacare made healthcare more expensive.

Loans subsidize ObamaCare

Recent speeches by Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander highlight a connection that has yet to be reported in the media and is yet to be understood by the young people struggling with high interest rates in the hopes of financing their college education.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, $8.7 billion of the money collected in student loan interest payments actually goes to pay for ObamaCare. The CBO estimates that the interest rate on these loans could be reduced from 6.8 percent to only 5.3 percent were the funds not used to subsidize the healthcare reform law and other federal programs.

So, Biden (illegally) eliminating all that student loan debt did not help.

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Trump Admin Kills Giant Wind Farm Slated For Lava Ridge

By William Teach August 9, 2025 – 7:15 am

Most in Idaho approve of this

EXCLUSIVE: Trump admin nixes giant wind farm approved ‘last-minute’ by Biden team

President Donald Trump’s Interior Department is canceling what would have been one of the largest land-based wind farms in the United States after former President Joe Biden’s “last-minute” push to approve the project during his final weeks in office.

The Lava Ridge Wind Project, approved in December 2024 by the Biden administration’s Bureau of Land Management, was expected to be a 1,000-megawatt wind farm with up to 231 wind turbines across nearly 57,447 acres in southern Idaho.

Following a review of the project by the Trump administration, officials at the Interior Department claimed to find “crucial legal deficiencies” with Biden’s approval of the project, including certain statutorily binding criteria that were ignored, according to a press release announcing the decision to terminate the wind farm project.

“Under President Donald Trump’s bold leadership, the Department is putting the brakes on deficient, unreliable energy and putting the American people first,” said Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum. “By reversing the Biden administration’s thoughtless approval of the Lava Ridge Wind Project, we are protecting tens of thousands of acres from harmful wind policy while shielding the interests of rural Idaho communities. This decisive action defends the American taxpayer, safeguards our land, and averts what would have been one of the largest, most irresponsible wind projects in the nation.”

There are lots of issues with Lava Ridge, like that the Biden administration did not adequately engage with stakeholders, including local residents, farmers, ranchers, and tribal nations, in the approval process and legal deficiencies in the Biden administration’s approval process. Oh, and

Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador previously accused the Biden administration of not adequately reviewing the wind farm’s potential risk to low-flying aircraft. According to Labrador, Federal Aviation Administration rules dictate that any structure over 200-feet tall must be evaluated for low-level flight hazards.

Labrador has also asserted that the Lava Ridge project would have mainly shipped generated power to California, as opposed to Idaho.

These wind turbines stand about 660 feet, and are in view of Minidoka National Historic Site, a site of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, which has upset many people. Now it can go away.

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ICE Investigating Delaware Companies For Employing Illegals

By William Teach August 9, 2025 – 7:00 am

Obviously, this is making Democrats upset

ICE investigating 15 Delaware businesses suspected of employing undocumented immigrants

Federal authorities in Delaware and Gov. Matt Meyer’s administration have locked horns over a four-month-old subpoena from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for payroll records of 15 businesses suspected of illegally “employing undocumented aliens,’’ U.S. District Court records show.

Most records in the case filed last week in Wilmington are under seal, including the April subpoena and an affidavit by federal Homeland Security Investigations special agent Kimberly Caraway. Records that have been made public in the court file provide the general contours of the battle but not the names of the companies being targeted by ICE.

ICE has been “investigating reports that various businesses” have been breaking immigration hiring laws since February, according to a motion filed last week by Julianne Murray, the interim U.S. Attorney for Delaware, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Claudia Pare. (big snip)

U.S. District Court Judge Colm Connolly consented to Murray and Pare’s motion to keep the subpoena and Caraway’s affidavit under seal.

The prosecutors want Connolly to enforce the subpoena for the businesses’ records, but an attorney for the Department of Labor told him in court this week that the state will be contesting it.

This is a federal subpoena for work records to enforce federal law. What’s the problem? Why’s this taking so long?

“Since taking office in January, our administration has consistently prioritized protecting Delawareans from federal overreach that undermines our core values of fairness, dignity, and community trust,’’ Meyer said. “The recent federal subpoena directed at the Department of Labor is precisely the kind of government intrusion that we have fought against. Hard-working Delawareans deserve to have their rights and privacy protected. Delaware will continue to uphold the law, protect individual rights, and promote a compassionate and inclusive state for every resident.”

“The recent federal subpoena directed at the Department of Labor is precisely the kind of government intrusion that we have fought against. Hard-working Delawareans deserve to have their rights and privacy protected. Delaware will continue to uphold the law, protect individual rights, and promote a compassionate and inclusive state for every resident.”

Except, they are not Americans. They are illegally present. Why is that so hard to understand. The law states they should not be here.

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LA Times: Arson Season Coming Two Months Early Due To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach August 8, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Obviously, the LA Times has never considered that most of the wildfires are occurring due to arson and negligence, not a small increase in global temperatures over 175 years

The start of California’s fire season has moved up 6 weeks since 1990 thanks to climate change

You are not imagining it. Fire season in California is indeed starting earlier and lasting longer in virtually every region of California than it did two decades ago, researchers have found, thanks largely to human-caused climate change.

In the Sierra Nevada, fire season starts about 24 days earlier than it did in the early 1990s. In the Northern Basin and Range region, which runs along the northernmost border with Nevada, it’s 31 days earlier.

And in the Cascade Range, which runs into Oregon, fire season now begins 46 days earlier than it once did, according to a study published this week in the journal Science Advances.

“Anecdotally, those of us living here have this sense that it’s been happening sooner,” said Amanda Fencl, a Berkeley-based water specialist who directs climate science for the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and was not directly involved with the research. “This is really an important study to quantify just how soon and where it is shifting, and to what extent.”

Once you start saying “anecdotally” you’ve left science.

Over and over again.

 

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 8, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a mountain missing it’s icecap due to global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on when Minnesota was a normal place.

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