Abortion Supporters Are Supposedly Moving To Blue States

By William Teach July 19, 2022 – 6:45 am

It’s great if true. Don’t let the screen door hit you, on your way out (song at the end, love it, listen at 1:41)

Since Roe was overturned, more Americans are moving to states that better match their political and social beliefs

Although 29-year-old Jessica Hoxworth has spent her entire life in the Lone Star State, she is ready to leave it all behind.

Come February, she and her husband will say goodbye to their friends and family and trade in their condo in downtown Dallas, Texas, for an apartment in Seattle, Washington.

As legislators move to enforce stricter abortion laws across multiple states following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, she’s one of many Americans letting politics guide their homebuying and renting decisions.

“It’s a grim time for progressivists and liberal-leaning people,” Hoxworth told Insider. “The most recent Roe v. Wade decision has further reinforced our need to get out of Texas in order to maintain bodily autonomy and safety.” (snip)

“I’m encouraging my friends to get out of Texas if they can,” Hoxworth said. “Once the SCOTUS ruling happened, a couple we are friends with started looking at the Seattle area too.”

Yeah, yeah, I’m leary that they and so many are actually going to abandon the Red states, especially if they had previously moved from a Blue state to escape the Blue state policies and taxation they voted for and were unhappy when they realized the policies were going to bone them in their own lives. And then advocated for the same moonbat garbage they escaped from.

Hoxworth’s decision to move to Seattle didn’t solely rest on her reproductive rights. It also hinged on the state’s management of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

You mean like all the burning of buildings, violence, looting? Locking people down, shutting their businesses down?

“The response in Texas to some monumental moments, including COVID and police brutality, made my husband and I want to distance ourselves from what we feel is a ‘hub’ of ignorance and hostility to truth,” Hoxworth said.

OK, go. Bye now. But, will they do it? Will others? Or, are they yapping, enjoying the lower taxes and safer communities in Red states, making the noises like when they said they’d leave the U.S. if Trump won in 2016? Bush in 2000 and 2004? But, almost none left.

But not everyone can afford a cross-country move — regardless of where they stand politically. Home and rental prices still remain at historic highs and the nation’s hot job market is competitive. Hoxworth says that without remote work, she would not be able to relocate.

So, move to a Blue area which voted in a guy who helped bring about those high prices.

“Seattle is a blue state, it’s close to Canada and it’s really beautiful,” she said. “We love nature and it has so much to offer that we believe will be very fulfilling for the both of us.”

According to Neighborhood Scout, Seattle is a 2 (100 is safest), and is “safer than 2% of U.S. Cities.” Just a few years ago it was around a 24-30, which is good for a city that size.

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EV Makers Starting To Notice The Use Of “Forced Labor”

By William Teach July 18, 2022 – 3:00 pm

It’s a very sanitary way of say “indentured servitude” and “slavery”, eh?

Chinese Lithium Giant Pulls EVs Deeper Into Forced Labor Glare

A lithium producer for carmakers including BMW AG and Tesla Inc. is beginning work to assess battery metals projects in Xinjiang, deepening links between electric vehicle supply chains and a region at the heart of human-rights allegations against China.

Ganfeng Lithium Co., China’s top producer of the material, is partnering through a subsidiary with a state-backed entity to accelerate exploration for and potentially develop lithium, nickel and other critical metal assets in the region. Ganfeng’s Chairman Li Liangbin earlier this year visited Xinjiang — where activists and Western governments say Uyghurs and other Muslim citizens have been subjected to forced labor — to discuss cooperating with the local government on the plans.

Electric vehicle makers already face criticism over labor concerns and environmental damage tied to the extraction of metals used in their products. The deepening connection between Ganfeng and Xinjiang is set to draw more scrutiny from investors and consumers. Ganfeng said in November it had won a new three-year deal to provide battery-grade lithium hydroxide products to Tesla, and has previously disclosed other contracts with companies including BMW.

It’s a long, long piece, but, come on, we all know China is using what’s essentially slave labor, and, at the end of the day, the climate cult will not care beyond making a few speeches, because Saving The Earth From Burning Up is more important to them than actual human rights, since, really, the climate cult shares the same Authoritarian beliefs as China. It goes well with the child labor in African nations so the climate elites can drive EVs.

Let’s look at that Washington Examiner piece

Extreme environmentalism is an ideology that cares little for human life, even regards it as a blight on the Earth that should be reduced. Its instinctive sympathies are against our species. It wants less economic growth, less entrepreneurial spirit, less development, less energy, less safety, less food, less comfort.

Who suffers? Those in poor nations, of course, and we in the rich nations that impose our obsessions on ourselves and on others wherever we can.

And the Elites who push this won’t suffer. But, the lower and middle classes in rich nations will suffer.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 18, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded by Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on “global heat waves.”

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Supreme Court 2nd Amendment Case Causing A War On California Gun Laws Or Something

By William Teach July 18, 2022 – 10:30 am

The LA Times seems pretty upset that law abiding citizens would get their Constitutional rights back, and starts out with a story that shows the exact problem with red flag and overly-permissive gun seizure laws (Yahoo News version here)

War on California gun laws revs up after Supreme Court’s ‘right to carry’ decision

For years, the relationship between Miranda and Richard Wallingford and their Huntington Beach neighbor Jessica Nguyen has been unhappy — if not outright hostile.

According to federal court records, Nguyen didn’t like the decades-old melaleuca tree in the Wallingfords’ yard. The couple refused to take it down. The tiff between neighbors spiraled into dueling harassment allegations in an Orange County court. In 2019, restraining orders were issued to both parties requiring them to stay away from each other and, under California law, to surrender any firearms they owned.

On Friday, attorneys for the Wallingfords and the state of California dialed into a virtual hearing of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Each side presented oral arguments about whether the state’s restraining order statute violated the couple’s 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.

Apparently, that’s all it takes for the Government to take away a law abiding citizen’s 2nd Amendment Right. There is no mention of violence, no fights, no physical threats, not in any article I can find on this. Meanwhile, the same government is against things like stop and frisk, gang units, and other measures going after criminals.

Anyhow, their lawyer is appealing and amending that appeal using the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. vs. Bruen ruling to bolster the case

In less than a month, the Bruen decision has reinvigorated an already robust legal war on California’s gun laws and forced lower courts to begin reconsidering a whole host of legal challenges — with potentially massive stakes in a country devastated by gun violence on a daily basis.

The vast majority of “gun violence” comes from those who do not legally possess a firearm, and others who really shouldn’t have been given a permit to start with, but, so often, the relevant information about the person doesn’t make it into the background check system.

The cases under new scrutiny deal with some of the most consequential restrictions on firearms in the nation, including the state’s bans on military-style weapons, large-capacity magazines and adults under the age of 21 owning semiautomatic rifles. Local closures of gun stores and ranges during COVID-19 lockdowns are also facing fresh scrutiny.

As well they should.

Eugene Volokh, also a UCLA professor who studies the 2nd Amendment, said the Bruen decision was most impactful in that it removed a long-standing “balancing test” that courts have used to assess gun laws for years: whether a law’s burden on law-abiding gun owners is outweighed by the public interest.

“That test is no longer part of the argument,” Volokh said.

Winkler said Bruen precludes such analysis in favor of a “history and tradition test” that considers restrictive gun laws legitimate only if they have historical roots or are analogous to some historical gun restriction — such as on guns being carried by convicted felons or into specific, “sensitive” areas like courthouses.

As well it should, especially since it is rarely law abiding citizens who are the problem. If they were, you’d hear about it, but, the vast majority of those who own a scary looking “assault rifle” never ever use it to commit a criminal act. And, heck, if they wanted to, they could simply purchase a non-scary looking one that fires at the same rate (one round per trigger pull) and the same rounds.

The decision was in many ways a shot across the bow for California officials and residents who have long prided themselves for being a liberal bastion somehow shielded from the edicts of the conservative high court.

State officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, have said they are actively working to understand Bruen’s potential implications in California — and to minimize them. State legislators have already passed new laws that they say do not run afoul of the Bruen decision but bolster gun restrictions in the state.

How about going after criminals instead of restricting the rights of law abiding citizens? And, if liberals do not like guns, well, don’t buy one. Easy, right? Anyhow, it’s a long, long piece, worth the read.

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Climate Cult Is Coming After The National Weather Service

By William Teach July 18, 2022 – 7:15 am

Apparently, the NWS is paying enough lip service to the doctrine of the climate as they put out (checks notes) short term weather forcasts

The National Weather Service Is Unwittingly Obscuring Reality of Global Warming

(lots of typical doomsaying on warming which is short on proof of anthropogenic causation)

For example, in Austin, Texas, where I live, the average high temperatures in September from 2017 to 2020 were 5.3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than between 1966 and 1969. In other words, the normal high in early September, that was 93 degrees Fahrenheit in our “previous climate” (circa 1900), is 98 degrees Fahrenheit today. One would think this kind of warming would have made the headlines in recent years, but this is not the case, and there is a good reason. The National Weather Service (NWS) has a long-standing and little-known statistical weather data procedure that inadvertently helps promote the denial of global climate disruption.

The “normal” temperatures the NWS reports are averages of the last 30 years. This is the data broadcast on the weather report on the news every night. These so-called normal temperatures are not at all the temperatures from our previous climate. They are not from a time before our climate began to unnaturally warm. What we hear as “normal” from our faithful weather professionals is actually significantly warmer for most of us, has nothing to do with what most of us think of as “normal” and has nothing to do with our previous climate where our advanced civilization evolved.

I thought weather wasn’t climate? No? Oh, right, it’s only climate when it helps the climate cult. Interesting, the climate cult also uses the last 30 years to prove their point about doom.

The idea here was to supply agricultural and industrial communities with the latest and most accurate weather data related to temperatures, heat waves, first and last freezes, hours below freezing, peak temperature per day/week/month/year, all sorts of precipitation records, etc. The justification of the NWS for this deliberate manipulation of weather data is, “a better understanding of what is happening today. Rather than assess long-term climate trends, Normals (sic) reflect the impacts of the changing climate on our day-to-day weather experience.”

Deliberate! Or, just broadcasting the weather so people know what the temps are supposed to be, whether it might rain, be windy, etc.

Our historical normal temperatures (not the NWS “normals”) are from the time when our advanced civilization evolved; they come from the climate that created humankind as we know it. This climate definitively does not include the temperature “normals” of the last 30 years presented by the NWS to broadcast to the entire United States population. Our true normal temperatures are what the temperatures were back in the late-19th century before our greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and land use changes began to substantially warm Earth.

Tell you what: let’s consider what the temperatures were during the previous Holocene warm periods, which were just as warm, if not warmer, without all the fossil fueled vehicles and such.

It is now profoundly important this policy of changing the “normals” be eliminated. The NWS is purposefully warming the normal temperature statistics as our climate warms. They are doing this because it is a habit from the past; a habit whose time must come to end.

In other words, the Cult of Climastrology is coming after the NWS, and going to make it difficult for people to understand the weather.

 

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Surprise: RiseUp Abortion Group Seems To Be Front For Radical Communist Group

By William Teach July 18, 2022 – 7:00 am

The hell you say!

Prominent Pro-Abortion Group Appears To Be Front For Radical Revolutionary Communists

A prominent pro-abortion activist group downplaying its association with the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) shares significant infrastructure and leadership with the radical outfit’s other offshoot groups, a Daily Caller analysis has found.

Although RiseUp4AbortionRights seems like most other pro-abortion groups at first glance, other pro-abortion activists released a statement in late June asserting that RiseUp is a front for a “pyramid scheme” and cult of personality. The Daily Caller’s examination of the organization’s leaders, online presence, and fundraising platforms lend credence to the claim that RiseUp is an offshoot front group for the RCP.

“Support for communism in the U.S. is incredibly low, so one way for these individuals to jump-start is to ride the coattails of something that has much more acceptability” in mainstream discussion of current political events, Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, told the Daily Caller.

Yes, they do, much like they glommed on to the environmental and climate doom agenda, transforming them to extreme radicals

RiseUp shares leadership with the RCP and several of its related organizations. Sunsara Taylor is a prominent RCP spokeswoman and a co-founder of RiseUp. Taylor founded RiseUp in January 2022 to protest for “abortion on demand and without apology.” An earlier pro-abortion group Taylor founded, Stop Patriarchy, used the same slogan and also attracted scrutiny from other pro-abortion activist organizations, the Austin Chronicle reported in 2014. Stop Patriarchy has not posted any new tweets to its Twitter feed since 2020, but the organization’s website features more recent footage of an interview in which Taylor discusses the consequences of the Dobbs decision.

Taylor also founded The World Can’t Wait, Inc., (TWCW) alongside another RCP devotee in 2006 to oppose the Bush administration, particularly its policies in the Middle East.

TWCW was a super extreme group of unhinged radicals. I remember her attempting to debate with Bill O’Reilly, who took it easy, rare for Bill. Laura Ingraham did not. She made no attempt to coddle the petulant child.

Another leading RiseUp activist, Sam Goldman, is a prominent spokeswoman for Refuse Fascism. In a Jan. 2022 episode of the Refuse Fascism podcast featured on the organization’s website, Goldman stated that she has “been busy helping launch RiseUp4AbortionRights.”

There are lots and lots of links.

The RCP centers on Avakian’s revolutionary ideology, which RCP materials refer to as “new communism.” Critics, including those who signed the June statement against RiseUp, have claimed that the RCP is a Maoist group that elevates Avakian and his teachings as messianic. The late June statement from pro-abortion groups opposed to RiseUp asserted that the RCP established RiseUp as a front to divert funds and people towards the growth of its ideology rather than earnestly supporting the pro-abortion cause.

The group is one of the most visible, with lunatics like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hillary Clinton, Mark Ruffalo, and others backing them. This who the Democrats are backing, radical communists.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 17, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a mountainous area that would be perfect for a wind farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on transgender rights vs common sense.

It’s wet ladies week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 17, 2022 – 9:22 am

Patriotic Pinup Gildenrandt

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and NJ Devils made some great moves, which hopefully turn into some playoffs. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Chicks On The Right covers a TikTok lunatic wanting to get sterilized
  2. DC Clothesline discusses post-COVID Spike Protein Syndrome
  3. Diogenes’ Middle Finger notes that some dog names are raaaaacist
  4. Geller Report covers vaccines causing a rise in vaccination in Sweden
  5. Gen Z Conservative notes what happens when thugs try and rob an armed homeowner in Florida
  6. IOTW Report highlights the reality of sticking gender confused men in women’s prison
  7. Jihad Watch says how many attacks on pro-life groups since May
  8. Legal Insurrection covers the climate lunatics gluing themselves to German roads
  9. Moonbattery discusses Pelosi profiting from chip shortage legislation
  10. Pacific Pundit covers Lebron James whining again, this time at the Celtics fans
  11. Powerline discusses more evidence that Democrats hate America
  12. The First Street Journal has an economics lesson in the Philly Enquirer
  13. The Gateway Pundit covers the Navy looking to develop fake meat for their sailors
  14. The Lid discusses a Democratic tax gimmick that could wipe out the middle class
  15. And last, but, not least, The O.K. Corral has a great feel good story

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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Biden Official Super Happy Gas Prices Down Below $4 At 10K Stations

By William Teach July 17, 2022 – 8:10 am

The Biden administration has done almost nothing to bring prices down, it’s simply market corrections and the much lower use of gasoline. They’ll still take credit while doing some gaslighting

Gas prices: ‘Prices are coming down,’ says Biden official

Despite the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rate surging 9.1% in June, White House officials expect sticker prices, including gas prices, to decline as the administration tries to combat inflation.

Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, told Yahoo Finance that the recent CPI report indicating an energy price hike of 41% did not reflect July’s easing prices. “The numbers that came out [Wednesday, July 13], are outdated in the sense that they don’t reflect the significant decline in oil prices and gas prices that we’ve seen.”

Gas prices continued to dip this week as the nation’s average dropped $0.38s to $4.63 per gallon on Thursday compared to a month ago. Deese said the fall reflects a steady downward trend in energy costs since early July. “Prices are coming down. They [gas costs] are down 40 cents nationwide. There are about 10,000 gas stations around the country where gas is now under $4 a gallon.”

And there around 135,000 stations in the U.S. where it is not below $4 a gallon. Unsurprisingly, where it is below it’s all in deep Republican areas

However, Deese emphasized that prices are still too high across the board and recognized that “we [Biden administration] need to keep acting urgently to bring prices down.”

And do what, Blamestorm Putin? Ask other countries to provide unrefined oil rather than producing on American soil? There’s still the problem with refining capacity.

Deese said the Biden administration is prioritizing efforts to decompress crude prices by working to stabilize a supply chain that was disrupted by the Russian oil ban.

“From our perspective, we’re focused on doing what we can to keep that dynamic going. That’s about increasing global supply. That’s what the president was focused on with the G7 in trying to work toward what we refer to as a price cap on Russian oil. That would maintain stability in the global supply of oil while really focusing the economic pain on Vladimir Putin,” he said.

See? What, exactly, would that do? It’s just political babble with no real world consequences.

Deese also touted the administration’s release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and its call on Congress to to pass a gas-tax holiday. Some critics, however, say the release of 1 million barrels per day is a drop in the bucket and gas-tax relief is unlikely to pass.

Gimmicks.

(Beaumont Enterprise) There are a few reasons why gas prices may be coming down, according to different experts. An increase in production and a decrease in the price of crude oil, the fear of economic slowdown as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates and a dip in demand for gasoline have all contributed to the recent decline.

So, nothing that the Biden admin has done. And, the Biden admin essentially ignored the issue when it started to appear. And, many expect the prices to jump back up in October, with the Washington Post concerned that it could hurt Democrats for the mid-terms.

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Brandon Says He Will Act On Climate Crisis (scam) After Manchin Sinks Bill

By William Teach July 16, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Will he start by limiting his own use of fossil fuels? How about the same for all his appointees? No? Just you? Huh

Biden says he will act on climate change after Manchin opposes legislation

climate cowPresident Joe Biden on Friday said he will move forward with his own efforts to combat climate change and curb greenhouse gas emissions, a day after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told Democratic leadership that he won’t support the climate provisions in the reconciliation bill.

The comments by Manchin, a key centrist who holds the swing vote in the 50-50 Senate, could potentially sink months of negotiations in Washington over the sweeping policy package and end hopes of Congress passing any major climate change legislation this summer.

“If the Senate will not move to tackle the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry, I will take strong executive action to meet this moment,” Biden said in a statement.

The president did not mention specific climate and clean energy policies but said his actions will create jobs, improve energy security, bolster domestic manufacturing and supply chains and protect the economy from future oil and gas price hikes.

“I will not back down: The opportunity to create jobs and build a clean energy future is too important to relent,” the president said. Biden also urged lawmakers to act quickly to pass other portions of the package that the senator does support.

Yeah, it was a press statement, not Joe actually speaking, because, that doesn’t ever seem to go well in his feeble mind. And, he has no idea what to do, and the minute he does it the lawsuits will fly. He has little authority to do the big things he wants to do, especially in light of the recent SCOTUS decisions.

Biden must now depend on imposing executive actions to address climate change, which can be overturned by future administrations. Potential executive actions include curbing oil and gas drilling on federal lands and imposing new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on power plant emissions.

Lawsuit time! But, while they pend the courts, gas prices will skyrocket, causing food to skyrocket. Happy days!

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., argued that the administration could impose a carbon border tariff on imports from countries with relatively worse greenhouse emissions, as well as require carbon capture from all major emitters and create stronger emissions controls on cars, lightweight trucks and heavy-duty vehicles.

This is the job of the Legislative Branch, and, if they cannot put together a piece of legislation that can pass, well, they it shouldn’t be implemented. Really, though, Congress-critters do not want to do their job. Nor do they want to practice what they espouse.

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