If All You See…

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a hazy day due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Biden’s EPA doling out billions to friends .

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Dems Find Their TDS Mojo On Epstein Or Something

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 10:30 am

Aren’t these the same people that resisted releasing anything on Epstein during the Biden years, who could have released it all while they had control of the White House and Congress?

House Dems Find Their Mojo With the Epstein Saga

When it comes to fighting President Donald Trump, Democrats across the nation have complained for months about the sluggish reflexes of party leaders in Washington.

Who would have guessed that a MAGA-fueled conspiracy theory would change all that?

Congressional Democrats appear to have finally found their mojo in sticking it to the White House by seizing on the Jeffrey Epstein saga to humiliate the president and split the GOP. Unlike in the past, senior Democrats have shown a surprisingly nimble ability in recent days to pivot to the GOP’s vulnerability du jour, threatening to force votes exposing a divided Republican Party.

The strategy has effectively hijacked the House, derailed Hill Republicans’ agenda and forced Speaker Mike Johnson to send lawmakers packing for an early August recess. That’s not to mention embarrassing Trump in the process and exposing the surprising limits of his sway on a party he’s held in his clutches for the better part of a decade.

“We’ve been trying to say Trump is full of shit for years and it hasn’t really stuck, right? But something about this topic is making a healthy portion of MAGA world — particularly folks who are not ideologically aligned with Trump but kind of flirted with him last year when they pulled the lever for him — be like, ‘Yea, he’s definitely full of shit,’” a senior Democratic campaign aide boasted to me. (This aide and others in the story were granted anonymity to speak candidly about dynamics on the Hill.)

Democrats will say they couldn’t release the docs till after Ghislain Maxwell’s trial, but, come on, they’ve never had a problem leaking stuff before. But, did Democrats ever consider that Trump and Republicans are playing them in an attempt to get all the docs released? That they do not include anything that will harm Trump? That Trump and the GOP did this to get Democrats to back releasing them?

Did they ever consider that Trump cannot serve more than one term, that they might be going a bit too moonbat?

Behind the scenes, there’s a question even among senior Democrats about whether this issue will impact the midterms. Americans, after all, are more likely to be motivated by their own pocketbooks rather than online obsessions and scandal. And Trump is doing his damndest to argue that this is exactly that: a very-online, inside-the-beltway obsession that nobody actually cares about.

Really, do most Americans care? Do they even know what this is about? I couldn’t care less. I know many MAGAs care, but, most don’t. How about releasing all the info on the Trump attempted assassinations? All the docs on Russia Russia Russia. Show how much money went to waste and fraud for agencies like USAID, and how the taxpayer money was fed into Democrat re-election coffers instead of helping the poor like it was supposed to. Those are things that matter.

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Vanuatu To Get Its Day In International Court Over Climate (scam)

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 7:00 am

They been pushing this for at least 15 years, and keep pushing it. I wonder how much money it has cost that could have been put into protecting the nation. It’s not like they live on a coral atoll/volcanic islands (it’s in the Ring Of Fire) and are polluting their water supply

The tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu turns to the world court as climate disasters mount

When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns branched into yellow antlers, plate corals layered like canopies, and clouds of darting fish wove through the labyrinth.

“We used to know every inch of that reef,” he said. “It was like a friend.”

Now, it’s unrecognizable. After Cyclone Pam battered the reef in 2015, sediment from inland rivers smothered the coral beds. Crown-of-thorns starfish swept in and devoured the recovering polyps. Back-to-back cyclones in 2023 crushed what was left. Then, in December 2024, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook the seabed.

That heartbreak is becoming more common across this Pacific island nation, where intensifying cyclones, rising seas and saltwater intrusion are reshaping coastlines and threatening daily life. Since 1993, sea levels around Vanuatu’s shores have risen by about 6 millimeters (.24 inches) per year — significantly faster than the global average — and in some areas, tectonic activity has doubled that rate.

And where is that data coming from? I cannot find it anywhere. Regardless, sea rise happens. If they’re so worried then why do they have 30 airports (most are unpaved)?

On Wednesday, Vanuatu will get its day in the world’s highest court. The International Court of Justice will issue an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change and what consequences they may face if they don’t. The case, led by Vanuatu and backed by more than 130 countries, is seen as a potential turning point in international climate law.

“Seeing large, polluting countries just continue business as usual and not take the climate crisis seriously can get really sad and disappointing,” said 16-year-old climate activist Vepaiamele Trief. “If they rule in our favor, that could change everything.”

30 airports. Anyhow, good luck. You live in an area that has always been prone to tropical storms.

Vanuatu has already sought opinions from other international courts and is pushing for the recognition of ecocide — the destruction of the environment — as a crime under the International Criminal Court. “We have to keep fighting till the last bit,” Regenvanu said.

But, what they really want is string free climate cash. Lots of it.

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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down NJ Law Banning Immigration Detention Contracts

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 6:45 am

I mean, it was a nice try by the Sanctuary State Of New Jersey

NJ law banning immigration detention contracts overturned by US appeals court

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday struck down a New Jersey law that bans operators from contracting with the federal government to run immigration detention centers in the state.

The 2-1 ruling means the private prison firm CoreCivic Corp. can continue to operate the Elizabeth Detention Center. The ruling marked a victory for President Donald Trump’s administration as it continues a crackdown on immigration around the country that has included efforts to expand a network of detention centers in a bid to ramp up deporations of certain immigrants.

“Just as states cannot regulate the federal government itself, they cannot regulate private parties in a way that severely undercuts a federal function,” U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, an appointee of President Trump, wrote .

The law, he said, “interferes with the federal government’s core power to enforce immigration laws.”

And banning this would interfere with a company engaging in lawful federal commerce.

The 2021 law signed by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy barred CoreCivic from renewing its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The company sued, and a district judge sided with the firm before the state appealed the ruling to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court.

Attorney General Matthew Platkin, in a social media post, called Tuesday’s ruling disappointing and said states have the right to protect people within their borders. He said the office is considering its next steps.

The law made it against the law for “a private detention facility operating in this State shall not enter into, renew, or extend any immigration detention agreement as defined in subsection a. of this section.” That’s rather against federal law. As the court ruled.

Meanwhile

Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US

The federal government has awarded a contract to build and operate a sprawling tent camp at Fort Bliss, an Army base in Texas, to serve as an immigrant detention center.

In the Trump administration’s latest move to vastly expand space for such detention, the work would turn the base in El Paso, with more than 1 million acres and an airport, into a deportation hub with 5,000 beds, according to a US Department of Defense contract notice. That would make it the largest immigration detention facility in the country.

Hey, maybe they could put a big detention center at McGuire Air Force Base in NJ. Federal property. Or the Picatinny Arsenal.

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RIP Ozzy Osbourne

By William Teach July 22, 2025 – 6:40 pm

This is one that gets me right in the feels

(Pitchfork) Ozzy Osbourne has died. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” the Osbourne family shared in a statement. “He was with his family and surrounded by love.” The heavy metal icon and founding member of Black Sabbath was 76 years old.

While a formal cause of death has not been announced, Osbourne dealt with numerous health issues in the final years of his life. The musician played his final concert earlier this month, a star-studded event in Birmingham, England, that featured the original Black Sabbath lineup, Metallica, Slayer, and others. The concert will be adapted into a film called Back to the Beginning: Ozzy’s Final Bow. It is due out next year.

While I had listened to some hard rock, like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and AC/DC, buying Black Sabbath’s 1st album in 1979 was eye opening, and started my utter love of all things metal. Then Ozzy solo, with the incomparable Randy Rhoades. The Iron Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest, and so on and so forth. This is what began it all for me

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Climate (cult) Scientists Blame Flooding On You, Say We’re In This War Together

By William Teach July 22, 2025 – 5:08 pm

I’ve mostly ignored all the Blame Mankind and their use of fossil fuels and living a modern lifestyle for all the flooding caterwauling, but, this one is a doozy

(WRAL) The National Weather Service has issued more flood warnings in 2025 than any other year on record, dating back to 1986.

LOL. 1986.

The last two weeks have seen intense flooding across the country, including the flood in Kerr County, Texas, that killed more than 120 people, including 27 children attending summer camp. North Carolina, New Mexico, New York and New Jersey have also been impacted over this short span of time.

Chantal, which hit North Carolina as a tropical depression on July 6 and 7, dumped nine to 12 inches of rain and prompted flooding in low-lying areas near rivers and creeks. Six people in central North Carolina died because of these floods. Gov. Josh Stein declared a State of Emergency for 13 counties grappling with the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal.

Flooding happens. Always has. It’s certainly made worse by concrete, asphalt, urban jungles, construction, poor drainage. Oh, and building in floodplains. That camp in Texas was in an old riverbed.

Climate attribution scientists from research organizations ClimaMeter and Climate Central held a press briefing Tuesday to highlight and explain how climate change contributed to making these events more intense.

The short answer: Warmer oceans and a warmer atmosphere hold and release more rain.

And? Warm periods happen. UHI are big contributors to this. That flood in NJ? A goodly chunk of the affected area was a known floodplain, which had tons of roads and such with nowhere for the water to drain.

Both Ginesta and Faranda link the burning of fossil fuels to global warming, connecting recent storms to human-caused climate change. They said 70% of global warming comes from carbon dioxide, which is released from burning fossil fuels.

And, yet, Warmists do not give up their own use. Weird, eh?

“Stop playing politics with lives. Provide funding and the right people in the right places to come up with a plan,” Bates said. “We are vulnerable at this point to these disasters and we don’t know when these disasters will come to one of our doors.”

Only Warmists are allowed to play politics, you know. And they want your money. Not their own money. Your money.

“Addressing climate change is a matter of safety, health, and now economic and financial opportunities and we need to learn how to stay safe all together without political boundaries, and boundaries between countries,” Faranda remarked. “We are all in this war together.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 22, 2025 – 1:35 pm

…is an Evil old fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on pro-Hamas Dems vandalizing AOC’s Bronx HQ (of course, since AOC is rarely there she probably hasn’t noticed)

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Moonbat Judge Triples Down On Saving Planned Parenthood’s Taxpayer Funding

By William Teach July 22, 2025 – 10:30 am

The barking moonbat, federal judge Indira Talwani, already put a 14 day temporary order in a week ago, then doubled down thinking it was all about the 1st and 5th Amendments. And thinking the SCOTUS ruling about district judge orders not applying nationwide didn’t apply to her order. And she really thinks she is in charge of the federal power of the purse

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from defunding some Planned Parenthood facilities

A judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stripping some Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood after Congress and President Donald Trump agreed to partially defund the nonprofit through passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said in her order partially granting a preliminary injunction that the bill unconstitutionally punishes Planned Parenthood member organizations that do not provide abortions.

The injunction will risk “at most minimal harm—financial or otherwise” to the Trump administration while the lawsuit proceeds, Talwani, an Obama appointee, wrote.

The judge’s order appears to apply to some but not all Planned Parenthood facilities. The nonprofit said in a statement that it viewed Talwani’s order as a partial win and remained “hopeful” that the judge would take further judicial action down the line.

“This isn’t over,” the organization said. “While we’re grateful that the court recognized the harm caused by this law, we’re disappointed that not all members were granted the necessary relief today.”

Talwani does realize that this is not the Trump administration doing this, but, the duly elected Legislative Branch which passed a law that no longer allows public funds to be used for abortion providers, right? Or, is she that Trump deranged? Eh, why am I asking, of course she’s that Trump deranged.

Talwani’s order arose from a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a massive budget bill that passed Congress this month with no Democrat support. Trump signed the bill into law on July 4.

A provision in the bill stripped Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, which the nonprofit said could force it to close about 200 of its 600 facilities and deprive about half of its customers, more than one million people, of services that do not include abortion.

PP makes about $1.5 billion a year, gross. They’ll be just fine losing the half billion they get yearly. Certainly liberal supporters can pony up the money, right?

The judge noted that her injunction applied to Planned Parenthood entities that do not provide abortion services or receive less than $800,000 in annual Medicaid reimbursements.

She thinks she can create a nationwide injunction. And is in charge of Congressional appropriations. Crazy people.

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Sad Trombones: Trump Messing With The Cult’s Climate (scam) Progress

By William Teach July 22, 2025 – 7:15 am

There’s a solution for this: every Believer should give up their own use of fossil fuels, start eating bugs, move into tiny homes, and stop using AC. To start

Trump bill takes a ‘big, beautiful’ bite out of US climate progress

The megabill President Trump signed into law this month is expected to make a major dent in the U.S.’s climate progress, adding significantly more planet-warming emissions to the atmosphere.

Models of the legislation that have emerged since its passage earlier this month show U.S. emissions will rise as a result of its implementation.

One from climate think tank C2ES found U.S. emissions will be 8 percent more than they would have been otherwise as a result of the package.

“An 8% increase in our emissions is … still a massive amount of emissions,” said Brad Townsend, the group’s vice president for policy and outreach.

Taking into account all of the efforts to reduce U.S. emissions over the last 20 years, Townsend said, the bill represents “rolling back a third of that progress with a stroke of a pen.”

Why is it necessary for Government to mandate everything? Why can’t private citizens and companies who Believe do their part? It’s unnecessary for government to force citizens to comply, especially when the people passing the laws and making the regulations do not do what they tell everyone else to do.

Its most significant provisions repeal tax credits for climate-friendly energy technologies including wind and solar energy, as well as electric vehicles.

I’ll be honest, I see no problem with keeping the tax credits. It’s not hurting anyone, and, lets citizens keep more of their hard earned money. Heck, have more credits for individuals and small businesses who install solar panels, rather than big companies.

It also repeals programs that would have paid for low-carbon and anti-pollution projects, including in underserved neighborhoods.

I do have a problem with these programs, because they’re basically a way to hook up friendly NGOs and companies with government cash to do very little work. These scams need to die a painful death.

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Bummer: Los Federales To Crack Down On Companies That Hire Illegals

By William Teach July 22, 2025 – 7:00 am

This is what is supposed to happen. This is what the law says is required to happen. The business owners had a cushy four years under Biden, but, things might be about to get rough. Three weeks ago the Washington Post noted that employers are mostly avoiding charges. Well, now

ICE head says agency to crack down on American companies hiring unauthorized workers

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director Todd Lyons said in an interview Sunday that his agency will crack down on American companies hiring unauthorized workers.

“Not only are we focused on those individuals that are, you know, working here illegally, we’re focused on these American companies that are actually exploiting these laborers,” Lyons said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”

“These people that came here for a better life. You know, either, you know, forced labor, child trafficking, you know, a lot of these work site cases — just isn’t a victimless crime of someone here working illegally,” he added. “And that’s why we’re going there with these criminal warrants to focus on these American businesses that are trying to make an extra dollar on the backs of these people that came here for a better life.”

In the first few months of his second term, President Trump and his administration have heavily cracked down on immigration, drawing criticism from Democrats and advocates.

Yeah, well, they’re going to be complaining more when the federal government arrests them for knowingly employing illegal aliens. But, there have been many examples of employers getting hit, like here, here, here, and here. There could be a whole lot more coming.

I still maintain that we need to go back to a system where people are allowed to come to the US for a period, work in the fields and building homes and stuff, and then go home in under a year. Then they can come back the next season. If they fail to leave they are deported and banned from coming to the US for 5 years. This used to work well. Companies should be responsible for making sure they have healthcare and that they know when they have to leave.

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