Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 7, 2021 – 9:45 am

Patriotic Pinup Gil Elvgren

Happy Sunday! Another great day in the Once and Future Nation of America. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the stitches come out of my face on Tuesday from the skin cancer. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. neo-neocon wonders if Republicans are once again snatching defeat from the hands of victory
  2. Pacific Pundit points out that the faux-infrastructure bill requires breathalyzers in all new cars
  3. Raised On Hoecakes features unseen footage from protesters storming federal buildings
  4. The American Conservative discusses the last mayor of Boston
  5. White House Dossier notes that the vaccine mandate could decimate the trucking industry
  6. The Gateway Pundit discusses the record trade deficit
  7. The Last Refuge covers the FBI raiding the homes of Project Veritas journalists
  8. No Tricks Zone notes how far the EU Commission President flew in a private jet
  9. Greenie Watch says that traffic jams with EVs are deadly
  10. The Lid features documents that prove that Fauci lied
  11. The Other McCain has an aspiring rapper update
  12. The Right Scoop covers Disney axing Emilio Estevez from the Might Ducks for vaccine refusal
  13. This ain’t Hell… features stupid people of the week
  14. Weasel Zippers notes that waves of Democrats may retire ahead of the 2022 mid-terms
  15. And last, but not least, Flag And Cross covers China building hundreds of nukes while Joe fiddles

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.

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?

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Federal Court Temporarily Halts Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

By William Teach November 7, 2021 – 8:31 am

How quick will this make it to the Supreme Court? Or will it wind its way through federal court prior?

Appeals court stays vaccine mandate on larger businesses

A federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay of the requirement by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration that those workers be vaccinated by Jan. 4 or face mask requirements and weekly tests.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said the action stops President Joe Biden “from moving forward with his unlawful overreach.”

“The president will not impose medical procedures on the American people without the checks and balances afforded by the constitution,” said a statement from Landry, a Republican.

The U.S. Labor Department’s top legal adviser, Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda, said the department is “confident in its legal authority to issue the emergency temporary standard on vaccination and testing.”

OSHA has the authority “to act quickly in an emergency where the agency finds that workers are subjected to a grave danger and a new standard is necessary to protect them,” she said.

Perhaps Nanda could explain to the courts, and to the American people, why, almost two years after COVID started, this is now a grave danger, especially when the COVID vaccines do not stop people from getting or giving COVID, unlike vaccines for measles, polio, and smallpox? Why they decided that January 4th was the implementation day, when Joe announced this in September? And that the rule is pretty much open ended, with no end date? Seriously, if this is an emergency order, why is there no end date? The rule itself provides no end date for when companies have to stop requiring employees to be vaccinated or wearing masks/get weekly tests if not vaccinated.

And that is a problem. What if another bad variant, such as Delta, pops up two years from now: might they add to the rule, requiring boosters? Heck, even without, might they require a booster 6 months after people are fully vaccinated? An emergency order should have an end date.

Such circuit decisions normally apply to states within a district — Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, in this case — but Landry said the language employed by the judges gave the decision a national scope.

“This is a great victory for the American people out there. Never before has the federal government tried in a such a forceful way to get between the choices of an American citizen and their doctor. To me that’s the heart of the entire issue,” he said.

At least 27 states filed lawsuits challenging the rule in several circuits, some of which were made more conservative by the judicial appointments of President Donald Trump.

I’ll say again, if the vaccines were like the ones we are required to take to go to school, to travel overseas, ones like polio, smallpox, measles, mumps, tetanus, etc, and were like 98-100% good in stopping people from getting COVID and from transmitting, then a mandate might make sense. I’d be fine with it. Otherwise, I’m still pro-vax-anti-mandate.

(Breitbart) The ruling from a three-judge panel on Saturday resulted from a stay sought by the states of Texas, Utah, Mississippi and South Carolina, as well as several businesses that opposed the Biden plan. The states and businesses filed a petition of review of the agency action, which goes directly to a federal appeals court instead of a one-judge federal district trial court.

“Because the petitions give cause to believe there are grave statutory and constitutional issues with the Mandate, the Mandate is hereby stayed pending further action by this court,” the judges wrote.

The initial lawsuit alleged that President Biden did not have the authority to issue such a sweeping public health mandate, arguing that it would cause severe economic fallout, according to The Hill.

“Its unlawful mandate will cause injuries and hardship to working families, inflict economic disruption and staffing shortages on the States and private employers, and impose even greater strains on struggling labor markets and supply chains,” a filing from a coalition of attorneys general led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt alleged.

BTW, all you Biden voters, just remember he stated, numerous times, that he would not impose a vaccine mandate, and that Democrats, including Kamala and Brandon, said they would not take “Trump’s vaccine” and trashed the vaccines.

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Santa Monica Institutes Mask Snitching

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 5:05 pm

This should start proliferating across liberal cities

Meanwhile

New Vaccine Science Shows Mandates Are Unwise

New scientific findings in the prestigious Lancet Infectious Diseases journal blow a hole in the argument that workers need to get vaccinated to protect those around them. The findings prove the foolishness of forcing police and other public employees to get jabbed or lose their pay. And President Joe Biden should retract his order to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to compel large employers to mandate vaccines.

The journal reported Thursday that COVID-19 vaccines have “minimal” impact on preventing transmission of the delta strain. Delta is the COVID strain currently causing over 99% of U.S. cases.

Vaccines protect the people getting the shots from serious illness, but they don’t stop the delta variant from spreading to others.

Don’t get me wrong. Americans should choose to get vaccinated. The key word is “choose.” Though shots are no guarantee against getting infected and spreading it to others, they provide significant protection (90% or more) against hospitalization and death. I’m triple jabbed.

Me too.

Most vaccines — against polio, smallpox, measles and other diseases — prevent infection and spread. But not COVID-19 vaccines. Now that the battle is against the delta variant, they’ve become disease-tamers rather than infection preventers.

I’m good with protecting myself, hopefully, from getting very sick. If other people do not want to, That’s Not My Problem.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills says, “just as vaccination defeated smallpox and vaccination defeated polio, vaccination is the way to defeat COVID-19.” Sorry, Governor, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Just as politicians don’t read the bills before voting on them, they don’t keep up with science but still want to tell the rest of us what to do.

The groundbreaking findings in Lancet show that fully vaccinated people who came down with COVID infected others in their household at the same rate (about 25%) as unvaccinated people did (about 23%). The vaccinated had just as much viral load in their upper respiratory tract, making them just as contagious. “Our findings show that vaccination alone is not enough to prevent people from being infected with the delta variant and spreading it,” study co-author Ajit Lalvani said.

Don’t want the vaccine, want to take the chance? That’s your decision. I think it’s a bad decision, but, I’m not here to run your life, just mine.

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HotCold Take: Volcanoes Are Irrelevant To Today’s Climate Change

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Don’t question them, they are Scientists! Just comply, Comrade

Volcanoes have little to no effect on the current climate change, scientists say

Scientists say volcanoes impact global warming on a non-human scale — meaning the change is too slow to observe in one’s lifetime.

Billions of years ago when earth was a boiling cauldron of volcanoes and exploding gases, huge amounts of carbon dioxide were released, trapping heat as land masses formed.

However, today the effect of volcanic emissions on the environment pales in comparison to that of human activity. In fact, recent large volcanic eruptions have been shown to have a significant cooling effect, at least temporarily, on the atmosphere.

“In 1991 Mount Pinatubo caused about a 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit cooling. Also, an eruption in the 1700s in Iceland released a significant amount of sulfur dioxide and caused global cooling,” said Caroline Tisdale, a volcano researcher at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa.

But, see, now, despite volcanoes does things like warming up the Atlantic Ocean via the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, this is All Your Fault. And, it gets better

While volcanoes have little to no long-term effects on today’s climate change, human-emitted carbon dioxide can impact volcanoes.

Kenneth Rubin, a professor of volcanology and geochemistry at UH M?noa, says climate change can have an effect on the amount of gas volcanoes emit.

“Every year, even when they’re not erupting, volcanoes emit a lot of gases into the atmosphere. And those gases come from two sources. One of them is deep in the Earth, and the other one is primarily from water,” he said.

“Climate change has already induced changes in groundwater around the globe. That ultimately affects the amount of gases emitted by volcanoes when they’re not erupting. When they’re erupting, the gas that comes out is primarily this deeper gas that is probably not affected by climate,” Rubin said.

Elsewhere in the climate cult

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a cloudless sky from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on protesters defying COVID mandates in NYC.

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America Has Too Much Milk Or Something

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 10:30 am

You ever read something on the Internet and just go “oh, f**k off”? This is one of those, from the fevered moonbat mind of Meredith Lee at Politico

Got milk? Yes, actually, U.S. has too much.

Yes, food prices are up. But no, average U.S. milk prices aren’t skyrocketing — they’ve basically stayed the same since January.

It’s at a 3 year high, rising 26%. I notice it, because I buy regular milk and chocolate milk at the grocery store a lot.

That’s because the U.S. overall has an oversupply of milk, and it’s gotten worse over the past few decades as smaller farms have shuttered and larger farms have bought up their livestock and increasingly dominated the industry.

It’s been a problem that policymakers have been struggling to confront for years. And it’s not clear that Washington, D.C., will address this issue because other food prices have been rising much more as a result of the pandemic-induced supply chain breakdowns. The Biden administration has pledged to address antitrust issues in industries ranging from technology to meatpacking. But so far, the dairy sector hasn’t been the focus yet in part because consumers aren’t seeing significantly higher prices as a result of consolidation.

Why would lawmakers address it? What business is it of government, particularly the federal government?

A CNN report this week triggered a brief social media spectacle after it featured a family saying retail milk prices skyrocketed (up 79 cents a gallon over just a few weeks for that couple in the Dallas area who were interviewed and said their family consumes 12 gallons a week). In fact, the average price of milk nationally has largely stayed steady throughout the year, according to the Agriculture Department.

This is all because liberals when pure Barking Moonbat on that family. And rising consumer pricing is easy to illustrate with food products like milk, which most are familiar with. Especially parents.

Overall, the U.S. has been making more milk than it can use. “The availability and supply of milk is not a concern, it’s a concern about moving that milk to where it’s needed,” said Matt Herrick of the International Dairy Foods Association, one of the largest dairy lobby groups in the U.S.

In other words, the broken supply chain under Let’s Go Brandon. And speaking of supply chains

So, a complete backfire. Anyhow, is it any wonder that the Liberal Elites deride the concerns of average Americans? Here’s one more

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When It Comes To Doing Something About ‘Climate Change’, NIMBY Joins In

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 7:28 am

This is the current Axios headline

The obstacles to building our way out of climate change

If you check the URL, it mentions NIMBY (not in my backyard), and hover the tab and you’ll see Resistance to development might be the biggest block to climate action. People do not want this stuff in their backyard, and they do not want the negative effects in their lives

Averting catastrophic climate change — while ensuring economic growth for the world — will require renewable energy and carbon removal projects on a massive scale.

https://twitter.com/mrj880/status/1456712692408983555

That’s sarcasm, and probably a bit too much for 2021. Give it about 5 years, and it’ll be an easy spoof with the doomsday cult of climastrology.

Driving the news: On Friday at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it will launch a major research effort to bring the cost of carbon removal below $100 a ton by 2030.

  • That’s good news for the climate, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has calculated the world may ultimately need to remove 100 billion to 1 trillion tons of CO2 by the end of the century to keep temperature rise below 1.5°C.
  • But beyond the scientific challenge of vastly reducing the cost of effective carbon removal — which is currently as much as $2,000 per ton — achieving it on a massive scale would require building out an entirely new kind of energy infrastructure.

So, the DOE wants to cut that cost by 50% by 2030? How? And how much will this cost U.S. taxpayers? And, why are they using the unscientific word “carbon”?

13% of the world — almost 1 billion people — still lacks any real, reliable access to electricity. The average person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo uses just over 100 kWh, more than 100 times less than the average American or Canadian.

Sure seems like California is dealing with unreliable energy, to the point they are trying to use more natural gas for a cold winter. Anyhow, these 1st world cultists would like to deny the same energy use to those icky black and brown people.

The catch: The development required for net-zero carbon is increasingly meeting local resistance on the ground, including from people who identify as environmentalists.

  • On Tuesday, people in Maine voted against a $1 billion, 145-mile energy transmission project that would bring clean Canadian hydropower to New England, on the grounds it would disrupt the state’s woodlands.
  • That vote came a few months after plans for what would have been the U.S.’s largest solar plant — providing enough daytime electricity to power 500,000 homes — were scrapped because of complaints the 14-square-mile project would damage the Nevada desert.
  • Expanding offshore wind development is a key part of the White House’s climate plans, but actually building it has repeatedly run into local resistance.
  • Making it easier and cheaper to live in dense urban areas is an immediate way to shrink carbon footprints, but NIMBY movements (“Not In My Backyard”) and regulations have helped keep the most productive U.S. cities from sufficiently expanding housing supply.

People do not want this stuff around them, and the extreme enviros, and regular people, will block it

“You’re creating whole new supply chains that don’t exist, and you’re trying to do it in a very fast time,” says Daniel Yergin, author of “The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations. “That means transitioning from Big Oil to Big Shovel.”

And who runs that new supply chain? The government, right? And we all know what a wiz bang job they do. And then they have control over, at a minimum, everything regarding your energy use.

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House Passes Non-Infrastructure Infrastructure Bill, $1.75 Reconciliation Passes Rule

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 7:07 am

The infrastructure bill, which is only around 10% infrastructure, passed because of squishy Republicans

House passes bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill after progressives drop opposition

House lawmakers passed President Biden’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill late Friday night, securing a key victory for his administration and breaking a weeks-long deadlock between moderates and progressives that threatened to derail the legislation. The vote was 228-206, with 13 GOP lawmakers crossing party lines to join Democrats in voting in favor of the legislation.

The bill, which provides funding for physical infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges, water pipes and broadband internet, will now advance to President Biden’s desk for final approval. Senators already voted 69-30 to approve the legislation in August.

“The Squad,” a group of high-profile progressive lawmakers, were the only six Democrats to vote against the bill. The group includes Reps. Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley.

Without those 13, it doesn’t pass, and many Republicans promised payback, mostly in the form of primarying these people. And, because it has already passed the Senate, it now goes to Dementia Joe’s desk for signature.

House Advances $1.75 Trillion Build Back Better Act

The House passed the rule providing for the consideration of the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, President Joe Biden’s signature legislation, late Friday night.

The House passed H. Res. 774, the resolution that provides the rule for the consideration of the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act.

The resolution passed 221-213, featuring all Democrats in favor of the bill and Republicans unanimously against the resolution. (snip)

Leftists and moderates struck an accord late Friday night.

Moderates pledged to vote to pass the Build Back Better Act after they see a Congressional Budget (CBO) score the week of November 15. Subsequently, progressives voted to pass the bipartisan bill Friday night.

And what happens when the CBO score comes back and is awful? Do the moderates continue their support of it? What if the House Parliamentarian rules against it? We know most Democrats will ignore public sentiment and polling, but, what of the moderates in the House who are in close call districts? What of moderate Dems in the Senate up for re-election in 2022? Since it will be several weeks, Republicans can pound it, describing all the taxes it will cost the middle and lower classes, all the rising costs of living. And all the amnesty. And, as Steve Scalise said

“Then you go down the line. There’s more, unfortunately. Let’s look at, we’ll comb through, IRS agents! How many of us have our phones ringing off the hooks with people calling, saying, ‘Please add 87,000 more IRS agents to the rolls’? Not one of us has probably gotten that call. Yet, they put it in the bill. They call this ‘infrastructure.’ They call this ‘equity.’ Whatever they want to call it, it’s an army of IRS agents that are going to come for your bank account.

Anyone calling their Representatives and Senators for this? Scalise ripped through the reconciliation bill, worth a read.

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HotCold Take: COP26 Mess Up Shines Light On Impact Of Climate Change On Disabled

By William Teach November 5, 2021 – 3:00 pm

This is a serious HotCold Take: linking a serious blunder into something about the whole

COP26 incident shines light on impact of climate change on disabled

An Israeli cabinet minister’s inability to access the COP26 climate summit in her wheelchair has fueled criticism that the conference is part of the problem on many of the inequalities it was meant to address.

Karine Elharrar, Israel’s Energy Minister, uses a wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy and was unable to access an entrance at the summit Monday.

“It’s sad that the United Nations, which promotes accessibility for people with disabilities, in 2021 doesn’t worry about accessibility at its own events,” Elharrar tweeted.

Now, I saw this the other day, and the first thing that came to my mind was “aren’t there laws in the UK that require handicap access?”, because there are a lot of nations which do not have the disability laws that the U.S. does. And, yes, in fact, they do. So, why weren’t they in place for COP26?

But, see, this is a doomsday cult with Climarettes (they have to involve climate doom in everything), so,

While Elharrar was able to attend the conference on Tuesday, and has accepted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s apology, the incident illustrated a recurring concern at the summit: that even as the conference seeks to address the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities, it risks boxing out those very people.

Lisa Dale, a faculty affiliate with Columbia University’s Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes, said the episode “eerily mimics” the implication of climate disasters for disabled people.

In those cases, she told The Hill, “wealthier able-bodied households are more likely to evacuate, find safety, and bounce back afterward. Poorer or disabled individuals will be hit much harder by the same weather event.”

“This is the very definition of vulnerability, a key component of how we understand risk,” she added.

Got that? They truly messed up at COP26, violated UK law, in fact, so, the Warmists will make this about everything climate cult

“It’s of course unfortunate that [Elharrar] was left out… and it’s right that attention’s being paid to it, but what’s really more of an issue is the way people with disabilities have been left out of the climate change agenda and dialogue,” said Michael Stein, executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability.

So, wait, the Elites have blown off the disabled? Huh.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 5, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is the flag of a Bad carbon polluting nation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on Progressives raging at white women over the Virginia loss.

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