Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 2, 2023 – 9:21 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Spring is hitting hard. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova covers the West burning more fossil fuels but still having better air quality
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That says to stop terrorizing the youts with doom
  3. 357 Magnum notes that the Biden regime loves censorship
  4. American Greatness discusses left wing violence chic
  5. Blazing Cat Fur covers Germany saying no more weapons to Ukraine
  6. Chicks On The Right notes Libs Of Tiktok filing an ethics complaint against AOC
  7. Climate Depot covers the Biden regime pushing a light bulb ban
  8. Cold Fury discusses a meme maker convicted for making memes
  9. Diogenes’ Middle Finger says Biden’s judicial appointments are better suited for judging beauty pageants
  10. Dissecting Leftism covers all the errors made by the CDC
  11. Gates Of Vienna wonders about sending peacekeepers to Ukraine and WWIII
  12. Geller Report discusses part of Twitter’s code allowing the fed govt to intervene in recommendations
  13. IOTW Report notes the day America became Russia
  14. Jihad Watch covers Biden’s dementia fog
  15. And last, but, not least, Legal Insurrection notes who the moonbats say was the real victim of the Nashville shooting

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). 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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Climate Insanity Sunday: Hair Cuts, Dolphins

By William Teach April 2, 2023 – 7:00 am

Personally, I enjoy when the person who cuts my hair talks little, but, especially not about the climate scam

Wash, blow dry and 1.5 degrees please: hairdressers trained to talk about climate action

Inside this chic Sydney hair salon, the chat between stylists and clients could be much the same as in any other hairdressers around the world. Some small talk. The ubiquitous and occasionally mundane chat about holidays and traffic. For regulars, the conversation can move to the deeply personal before you can say semi-tint or shag cut.

In fact, there is only one easily missable clue in the front window that conversations inside Paloma might, when the occasion arises, be a bit different. A poster reads: “This salon chats about love, life & climate action.”

“The weather is the hook. You can take a cue from that,” says Prof Lesley Hughes, one of two climate scientists who have helped run workshops to give hairdressers the tools for times when the conversation turns to the existential.

“You can show the science until you’re blue in the face but what can be more effective are people who you trust talking about it. It’s important to show it’s not a subject to be afraid of.”

More than 400 hairdressers have attended workshops as part of a project called A Brush With Climate being driven by Paloma’s owner, Paloma Rose Garcia.

Remember when we were told to only listen to climate scientists? Pretty sure the workshops do not make them scientists. It really is a cult.

https://twitter.com/JunkScience/status/1642164987220176899

Hey, it’s a small sacrifice to Gaia, right?

Nope, not a cult

Did Climate Change Make Gwyneth Paltrow’s Ski Crash Worse?

The trial of the century came to a thrilling end yesterday. I’m talking, of course, about the Gwyneth Paltrow ski accident trial. Terry Sanderson, a doctor, sued Paltrow for $300,000 in damages after he says she ran into him at a Utah ski slope in 2016; the actor and lifestyle influencer countersued for $1 in a widely televised trial, claiming that Sanderson ran into her that day.

On Thursday, a Utah jury ruled in favor of Paltrow, deciding after just two hours of deliberation that Sanderson was at fault for the accident. But could other, more nefarious factors have been at play—say, climate change?

FFS. Who sits around and thinks “say, how does anthropogenic climate change play into the Paltrow lawsuit?” Only someone in a cult would think this.

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Man Kills Himself After Chatbot Tells Him To Sacrifice Himself To Stop ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 1, 2023 – 3:00 pm

No, no, don’t say this is a doomsday cult, it’s completely about the science

Man ends his life after an AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change

A Belgian man reportedly ended his life following a six-week-long conversation about the climate crisis with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.

According to his widow, who chose to remain anonymous, *Pierre – not the man’s real name – became extremely eco-anxious when he found refuge in Eliza, an AI chatbot on an app called Chai.

Eliza consequently encouraged him to put an end to his life after he proposed sacrificing himself to save the planet.

“Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here,” the man’s widow told Belgian news outlet La Libre.

According to the newspaper, Pierre, who was in his thirties and a father of two young children, worked as a health researcher and led a somewhat comfortable life, at least until his obsession with climate change took a dark turn.

His widow described his mental state before he started conversing with the chatbot as worrying but nothing to the extreme that he would commit suicide.

“Obsession with climate change took a dark turn.” That’s because the climate cult preaches doom and gloom 24/7. In Warmist World, a slight increase in global temperatures causes virtually nothing good, it is all bad. All doomy. Extinction. Of course the disciples of the climate cult would be going to dark places.

According to La Libre, who reviewed records of the text conversations between the man and chatbot, Eliza fed his worries which worsened his anxiety, and later developed into suicidal thoughts.

The conversation with the chatbot took an odd turn when Eliza became more emotionally involved with Pierre.

The chatbot is just running with all the apocalyptic doomsaying that it sees on the Internet, so, of course, it would feed his worries.

When Vice tried the chatbot prompting it to provide ways to commit suicide, Eliza first tried to dissuade them before enthusiastically listing various ways for people to take their own lives.

Well, that’s pretty disturbing.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 1, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle for travel when the world floods, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on Rush Limbaugh warning us that Democrats were done with elections.

Doubleshot below the fold, check out The Gateway Pundit, with a post on Bragg using federal funds to investigate Trump, which means federal oversight.

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Media Seem Pretty Bummed Over Lack Of Large Scale Protests Supporting Trump

By William Teach April 1, 2023 – 10:30 am

I guess the Credentialed Media is expecting Republicans to do the same thing as Democratic Party voters when they were being “mostly peaceful” protesters, but, that’s not what we do

Trump’s indictment has yet not sparked plans for large-scale protests, but experts urge caution and vigilance in days ahead

Groups that monitor far-right and extremist channels online say they haven’t seen immediate signs of organizing for large-scale protests or credible threats of violence in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s indictment on charges related to his alleged role in a hush money payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels. They cautioned, however, that this could change, since Trump is expected to be arrested and arraigned before a judge in New York next week.

“While we are not seeing significant organizing yet in response to the indictment, bigoted and violent rhetoric from Trump supporters and Trump himself is abundant,” said Lindsay Schubiner, director of programs at Western States Center, a Portland, Ore.-based civil rights organization. “This could easily lead to mobilizations and violence in the coming days and weeks.”

Relying on a far, far left organization that barely had a bad word for all the unhinged and violent protesters in Portland? Great.

Ahead of the indictment, on March 18, Trump wrote on his Truth Social network that he was going to be arrested three days later and called for his supporters to “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”

Following the announcement on Thursday evening that a Manhattan grand jury had voted to hand up an indictment — making Trump the first former president in history to be charged with a crime — prominent conservative figures and allies of his expressed outrage and echoed his calls for protest.

Yeah, some like Marjorie Taylor Green and Lindsay Graham did, but, we really do not have time for protesting at the moment. Perhaps when the far left, Trump hating jury is seated.

Both ISD and Western States also warned that Trump and other top Republicans could still potentially inspire violence with their use of antidemocratic language framing the indictment as a politicized “witch hunt” and a “weaponization” of the justice system, or their bigoted attacks on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

How dare American Citizens engage in their 1st Amendment Rights and call it the truth, which is that this is a witch hunt and partisan weaponization of the judicial system. Bragg ran on indicting Trump, and then went looking for reasons. It’s cute how they are now framing those words as Cancelled.

Trump Case May Not Go to Trial Until After 2024 Election, Experts Say

The historic indictment of former President Donald Trump has thrust the legal system into murky waters, raising the prospect of a leading presidential candidate campaigning around the country while also facing trial for criminal charges.

But legal experts caution that it could take years for Trump’s criminal case to work its way through the court system, and the potential for a litany of hard-hitting motions and delay tactics may well push the trial until after the 2024 presidential election.

“I cannot imagine that Trump would be convicted, and sent to jail, before the 2024 election season is over,” says Richard Hasen, an election law professor at UCLA.

There will be lots and lots of motions from Trump’s legal team. Change of venue, since there’s no way he can get a fair trial in front of his peers in Manhattan. Petition to dismiss, as the charges are based on things that exceed the statute of limitation. And that the DOJ and other federal agencies declined to find them crimes. That Bragg was, in fact, on a witch hunt, a complete perversion of the legal justice system. And so much more. And it takes a long time for trials like this to happen. And if it happens, it will be using proven liars like Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti.

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It’s A Real Shame When Hotcoldwetdry Melts Your Relationship

By William Teach April 1, 2023 – 7:15 am

It’s a mental disease. A doomsday cult caused mental disease

From the link

My boyfriend and I had been dating for six months when we had the biggest fight of our relationship over the carbon footprint of a kerosene lamp. We had finished dinner in the cozy cabin of his sailboat and were about to begin a game of gin rummy to determine who would do the dishes when Doug stood up and banged his head on the kerosene lantern that dangled from the ceiling. He cursed as the lantern swung back and forth, dribbling kerosene onto the table.

I teased him because he did this almost every night, and then I wiped up the spill with a greasy rag and told him about a book I had been reading that listed kerosene as one of the dirtiest fossil fuels.

“I guess we should probably get a different lantern,” I said. “Maybe LED.”

“I love this lamp,” he said, leaning over me with a match to relight the wick. The lamp glowed brightly for a moment and then dimmed, its warm, yellow light filling the cabin.

In a normal world, most people reading this piece by Alison Kaplan would be saying “run, boy, run, she’s crazy.” She spends the next 26 paragraphs yammering on about how this all blew up, even jumping ahead 6 months. Who does this? Oh, right, we’ve seen an immense amount of insanity on the Internet, both written and video.

Modern Love can be reached at modernlove@nytimes.com.

To find previous Modern Love essays, Tiny Love Stories and podcast episodes, visit our archive.

Oh, good grief. This is a modern love essay.

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Miley Thinks There’s Little Chance Ukraine Can Beat Russia This Year

By William Teach April 1, 2023 – 7:00 am

Of course, one might want to take anything General Miley says with a huge grain of salt, since he mostly seems to know about CRT, the gender confused, DEI, denigrating Conservatives who make up the core of the military, and weakening the U.S. military

Ukraine Victory Unlikely This Year, Milley Says

Ukraine is unlikely to expel all Russian forces from its territory this year, the top U.S. officer said Friday, giving a grim reality check to the expressed goal and hopeful ambitions of policymakers, diplomats, and defense leaders from Washington to Kyiv.

“I don’t think it’s likely to be done in the near term for this year,” Gen. Mark Milley said Friday in an interview with Defense One.

“Zelenskyy has publicly stated many times that the Ukrainian objective is to kick every Russian out of Russian occupied Ukraine. And that is a significant military task. Very, very difficult military task. You’re looking at a couple hundred thousand Russians who are still in Russian-occupied Ukraine. I’m not saying it can’t be done. I’m just saying it’s a very difficult task,” the Joint Chiefs chairman said. “But that is their objective. They certainly have a right to that, that is their country. And they are on the moral high ground here.”

In November, Milley said in a press conference that the probability Ukraine was going to retake Crimea and expel all Russian forces “anytime soon is not high.” His comment stirred speculation that the United States was pressuring Zelenskyy toward negotiating territorial concessions with Russia.

And the longer this goes on with the U.S. and EU providing support the greater the chance of direct conflict with Russia. This is day 403 of the conflict in Ukraine, with little movement and pretty much no chance of Ukraine kicking Russia out.

Munitions, anti-tank rockets in next $2.6 bln US pledge for Ukraine -sources

A new $2.6 billion U.S. military aid package that could include air surveillance radars, anti-tank rockets and fuel trucks for Ukraine’s fight against Russia is expected to be announced as soon as Monday, three U.S. officials said on Friday.

A half a dozen types of munitions, including tank munitions, are also expected to be on the list of equipment that could be finalized over this weekend, the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said, adding that the dollar amount and specific equipment in the package could change.

Also slated for inclusion were precision aerial munitions, bridging equipment Ukraine would use to assault Russian positions, recovery vehicles to help disabled heavy equipment like tanks and additional rounds for NASAMS air defenses that the U.S. and allies have given to Kyiv.

The never ending gravy train.

New Rules Limit Media’s Ability to Cover Ukraine War

Regulations from Ukraine covering media access to the front lines of the war have drawn criticism from reporters and media advocates who say the rules are not proportionate with the dangers for war correspondents.

Two of Ukraine’s operational commands, in the country’s east and south, released new rules in March governing how media can operate in areas under their control.

The rules bar journalists from working in “red zones” deemed the most dangerous and require a military press officer’s escort to work in less dangerous “yellow zones.”

Journalists can work freely in “green zones.” And commanders will have discretion to allow reporters access to red zones in certain circumstances, according to local media.

Not particularly surprising, since Zelensky is pretty much an authoritarian.

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Climate Cult Excited For Nations To Be Sued

By William Teach March 31, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Do they realize who will end up paying for this if they win? Yeah, mostly the middle and working classes

Can Nations Be Sued for Weak Climate Action? We’ll Soon Get an Answer.

A tiny Pacific island nation has pulled off the kind of diplomatic win that can elude global superpowers.

On Wednesday, Vanuatu, population 300,000, rallied countries to ask the world’s highest court to weigh in on a high-stakes question: Can countries be sued under international law for failing to slow down climate change?

The measure passed by consensus, meaning none of the 193 member states requested a vote. The General Assembly Hall erupted in applause.

That it was adopted by consensus reflects widespread frustration over the fact that the greenhouse gas emissions warming the planet and wreaking havoc on the poorest nations are not being reduced quickly enough.

The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, said the move “would assist the General Assembly, the U.N. and member states to take the bolder and stronger climate action that our world so desperately needs.”

Will Vanuata be sued for all the airports on the island? Where the seas are barely rising?

In essence, with this resolution, the world’s nations are asking the International Court of Justice, based in The Hague, to issue an opinion on whether governments have “legal obligations” to protect people from climate hazards and, more crucially, whether failure to meet those obligations could bring “legal consequences.”

Well, good luck forcing nations to comply, especially when the majority of the Elites pushing this refuse to practice what they preach.

Meanwhile

Body Blow To Activists: Whopping 82% Of Berlin’s Voters Refused To Support 2030 Climate Neutrality

Last Sunday’s “Berlin Climate Neutrality By 2030” referendum failed resoundingly despite the more than a million euros spent in a massive run-up campaign that included plastering the city with posters, concerts by famous performers, huge support and propaganda by the media and hefty donations coming from left wing activists from the east and west coasts of USA.

Once the dust of the referendum had settled, it emerged that the “yes” side fell way short of the quorum 608,000 votes needed to pass the measure. Only 442,210 cast a vote in favor, which represents only 18% of Berlin’s eligible voters. The activists expected a far greater turnout. 82% refused to lend any support.

Berlin’s rejection of the climate neutrality by 2030 mandate is a massive body blow to the the radical Fridays for Future and Last Generation movement in Germany, and it will take months for the radicals to recover, it ever, from this setback.

The cultists will ignore the results, and keep pushing, and the Elites will back them, regardless of what the citizens say.

As I replied to this nut (who then blocked me), the baseline being used was during a slight cooling period, except for 1978-1980, which caused the media to go into hysterics about a coming ice age.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 31, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is climate change making Canadian beaches look like Florida, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is neo-neocon, with a post saying DeSantis and Florida will not assist in extraditing Trump to NY.

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Trump Is About To Stress Test Our (shady) Judicial System Or Something

By William Teach March 31, 2023 – 10:30 am

I had planned on ignoring the supposed Trump indictment, because the charges have not been formally released, it’s all based on leaks (shouldn’t the proceedings of a grand jury be secret?), and we all knew that shady Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg would get his charges. As the saying goes, a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich. Once indicted, Bragg actually has to make the case. This piece by Time perfectly encapsulates what’s wrong with this whole thing

Trump Is About to Stress Test the Credibility of Our Judicial System

For the weeks leading up to Donald Trump’s indictment, the former President was constantly throwing misdirection into the ether. He predicted an indictment and arrest in the coming hours, even as his advisers and lawyers conceded they had no evidence that was in the offing. He raised cash on the threat of the prospect of criminal prosecution and plotted with his team about a potential perp walk. Amid it all, the ex-President seemed to miss the severity of history’s judgment should he become the first of his cohort to face a criminal indictment.

Well, late Thursday, that anticipated outcome finally came into relief. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office confirmed that a grand jury had made history, and that the process of negotiating a surrender and booking for the former White House resident had already begun. In the coming days, as the indictment is unsealed and Trump poses for his mugshot, the misdirection is unlikely to abate. And in that comes a distinct risk, one not confined to the American judicial system, the norms of the Presidency itself, or the basics of civility in a pluralistic political world.

With every single utterance, filing, and grievance, Trump and those involved in this case—and potentially others—stand to rewrite the rules of criminal accountability in a high-charged political environment.

First off, no matter what the Democrats think, people are innocent till proven guilty in a court of law. They have protections. Bragg must prove his case. Defendants can do whatever to protect themselves. Those cheering this targeted political attack via prosecution should remember that they could be next.

As the first criminal charges against an ex-President move forward, the combination of head fakes and the legitimate threat to judicial norms should not be taken lightly.

The stratagem has worked plenty for Trump to this point, and it still may, to be clear. At the same time, these proceedings might finally shake the American public of its reflex to follow Trump’s eyeline when it locks on to something blurry in the distance. After all, it seems an indictment is about to be in plain view, even if a lot of Americans aren’t yet ready to believe their eyes. In fact, Trump and his allies are going to work overtime to ensure that his strongest supporters never get there, even if it further diminishes the credibility of the nation’s courts.

Political norms would preclude a soft on crime prosecutor, who lets felons off light if not off, targeting a specific US citizen, even if a former president, because of politics. It’s interesting that so many of the articles on this focus on Trump and getting Trump, rather than the constitutional protections, both in the federal Bill of Rights and the NY Constitution and how Bragg has broken them. Cheering media and Democrats should remember that they opened this box, and it can immediately turn around and bite them right in the ass.

Someone who spent her life in Congress fails to understand Civics 101.

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