Your Fault: Japanese McDonald’s Reducing Portion Size Due To HotColdWetDry

By William Teach December 27, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Coming soon to a McDonald’s and other fast food places in the U.S. and rest of the world soon? (via Watts Up With That?)

Mustard, fries in short supply due to Canada’s climate change woes

A mix of drought in Canada’s prairies and flooding on its Pacific coast have brought about crop production and shipping woes now leading to international shortages of fries and mustard.

In Japan, for example, McDonald’s has been forced to ration fries as the British Columbia floods squeezed potato imports, while mustard producers in France are forecasting steep price increases because the drought in another part of Canada – the world’s biggest producer of mustard grains – cut supplies.

“When we look back at the state of the agriculture sector in 2021, we can say this year has been marked by extreme climate change weather events,” Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said in a recent speech.

“That includes the worst drought in 60 years in Western Canada and the devastating atmospheric rivers in British Columbia,” she told livestock farmers and ranchers who’ve struggled to secure enough hay to feed their animals as pastures dried up.

It’s always something with this cult. Because you drove to McDonald’s to get some fries and a burger in a fossil fueled vehicle there is now flooding and drought in Canada. It can’t just be due to nature, which caused this stuff previously, oh, no, it’s carbon pollution. We even get the buzz phrase of “atmospheric rivers.” As the Watts Up With That? piece points out, potato crops were actually pretty darned good in 2021. And links to another piece which shows

Japan is experiencing a McDonald’s fry shortage, and there’s a Canadian connection to this problem.

Due to supply chain issues and BC flood damage, many potato shipments have not been able to get out of the port of Vancouver and have been significantly delayed.

So, it’s pretty much supply chain issues from the Chinese coronavirus, with a tiny bit of bad weather involved. But, cultists have to be cultists

Constant litany of Doom, and that’s what you get on the top page for Google News for “climate change.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 27, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution infused beer causing things to drought, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on Twitter being served with a censorship lawsuit.

Since I was traveling yesterday and never got around to posting one, double shot below the fold. So check out Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on the annual Festivus Report.

It’s also cleaning out the folder of photos week

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Science: New York’s Essential Workers Need Only Quarantine For Half The Normal Time

By William Teach December 27, 2021 – 10:30 am

We all know that the Chinese coronavirus doesn’t attack people who are eating with masks off, right? Who knew that essential workers only have Bat Soup Virus for half the time as non-essential works? Why don’t we just declare all workers essential? That would fix this, right?

New York cuts essential worker quarantine times in half

New York’s essential workers now can return to work just five days after receiving a positive COVID-19 test, so long as they’re vaccinated and asymptomatic.

Why it matters: The revised rules cuts quarantine time in half from 10 days and come as New York has struggled to maintain staffing levels within a variety of industries, including health care, food services, and transportation.

Between the lines: Governor Kathy Hochul said in a Friday briefing that the move was based on early indications that infections from Omicron are less severe than from the original COVID-19 strain or the Delta variant.

So, if you’re a health care worker, work at the airport, grocery store, or a bar, or pick up the garbage (among all the stuff in the “revised rules”), you only need to quarantine 5 days, not 10. But, if, say, you are a doorman or sell guitars, 10 days. But, it’s hard to know, because the list is so darned expansive

State officials said that the new rules came after the CDC released new guidance reducing the quarantine time for health care workers from 10 to seven days.

See? Even the CDC thinks COVID only effects some people differently than others. We can all declare ourselves healthcare workers! Science!

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Nepal’s Maoist Center Totally Enthused To Do Something About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach December 27, 2021 – 7:00 am

Climate cultists are in some really good company. Osama Bin Laden has yammered about Doing Something about ‘climate change’, China’s leaders have yammered about Doing Something, Kim Jon-un wants to Do Something, and plenty of other crazies. Now

Maoist Centre to prioritize climate change in its general convention

There are rare incidents that the political parties in Nepal discuss the agendas and programmes on impacts of climate change on human lives- one of the most pressing global issues.

Instead, what the politicians often serve are the public are panegyric sloganeering, tirade of criticism, and haughty promises.

Despite the leaders’ claim for country’s development and prosperity for long, the country’s status is more or less the same as was in the past.

Impacts of climate change caused due to global warming – unseasonal rain, changes in snowline and impacts on the lives of people in the lower coastal are therefore rare discourse among political leadership.

However, the CPN (Maoist Centre) is raising this issue for the first time among Nepal’s political parties from its General Convention.

Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ said that his party had kept the environmental issues on top priority like other political agendas, adding that human life was in peril due to climate change impact.

Can you guess what the CPN stands for? If you guessed old school communism, you’d be correct. Communist Party Of Nepal. That’s the Maoist Center. And they are definitely living the old beliefs of Mao Zedong, such as “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Also, “Maoists also draw inspiration from the ‘Revolutionary Internationalist Movement’, Peru’s left wing guerrilla movement—the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), and from radical communist parties in different parts of the world.”

Well, I guess they’re perfect, with their authoritarian/dictatorship beliefs to be part of the climate cult!

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Kamala: Our Democracy Is Doomed Without Federal Takeover Over Voting System

By William Teach December 27, 2021 – 6:45 am

It’s not a day without a Y if some Democratic Party elite isn’t fearmongering about Democracy In Peril, eh?

Harris: US won’t be ‘role model’ of democracy if voting rights legislation isn’t passed

spite houseVice President Kamala Harris said the United States may lose its standing as a role model for the world – and democracy itself would be put at risk – if voting rights legislation is not passed.

Harris, who has taken the lead on voting rights, said during a wide-ranging interview broadcast Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that people around the world are watching the United States “because we have held ourselves out to be a model of … the ability of a democracy to coexist with an economic strength and power.”

But Harris warned that if lawmakers don’t pass legislation to preserve voting rights, the United States’ standing could be in jeopardy.

“We have been a role model saying, ‘You can see this and aspire to this and reject autocracies and autocratic leadership,’” Harris said. “Right now, we’re about to take ourselves off the map as a role model if we let people destroy one of the most important pillars of a democracy, which is free and fair elections.”

These are the same people who are 100% against voter ID and any measures to restrict voting to one person one vote. These are the same people who want to allow non-citizens, including illegal aliens, to vote. The Freedom To Vote act is essentially a federal takeover of all voting, and would certainly be challenged at the Supreme Court as an overreach of Legislative authority and the Constitution. It would register all felons to vote immediately. It would federalize all elections, it would limit free speech and association, and weaken protections.

But, if Kamala is so worried about Democracy (which we do not have, of course, but, a federal republic), what her hyper-leftist folks?

U.S. Rep Jayapal asks Biden to continue focus on ‘Build Back Better’, urges executive action

U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, a leading liberal House Democrat, has asked President Joe Biden to continue focusing on his social spending legislation and urged him to use executive action despite Senator Joe Manchin’s public rejection of the plan.

In an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Sunday, Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), wrote that the CPC will soon release a plan for some actions like lowering costs, protecting the health of families, and tackling climate action.

“The Progressive Caucus will continue to work toward legislation for Build Back Better, focused on keeping it as close to the agreed-upon framework as possible”, she wrote in the newspaper https://wapo.st/32jgLRb. (lots of whining about Joe Manchin, who’s putting his constituents and what they want over Party)

“Taking executive action will also make clear to those who hinder Build Back Better that the White House and Democrats will deliver for Americans”, Jayapal wrote.

Wouldn’t the Executive Office doing things not authorized by Congressional legislation, except by finding tiny little phrases, be Bad For Democracy? That’s why we have a separation of powers.

Here’s an idea: break up the Build Back Better (yeah, right) bill up into all the different sections and have votes on each one. Let’s see where that goes.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup – Christmas Edition

By William Teach December 26, 2021 – 9:30 am

Patriotic Pinup Russ Williams

Happy Sunday, and a Happy Pinup Christmas! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I sincerely hope that all had a wonderful Christmas. This pinup is by Russ Williams, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Not A Lot Of People Know That highlights how many Brits refuse to pay higher taxes for ‘climate change’
  2. Real Clear Climate features a global cooling Christmas
  3. Ace Of Spades HQ has the Christmas edition pet thread
  4. American Greatness wonders why the SJWs haven’t come after A Christmas Story
  5. Blazing Cat Fur wonders where all those rapid COVID tests are in Canada
  6. GeeeZ has the true story of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
  7. Geller Report features yet another faked hate hoax
  8. Gen Z Conservative notes Senator Sinema stopping Dems attempt to federalize elections
  9. LMAO has some Christmas cartoons and memes
  10. Jihad Watch features the Bishop of Canterbury doing some Jew hating
  11. Legal Insurrection highlights a USA swimming official quitting over transgender swimmer
  12. Maggie’s Farm covers the definition of “the common good”
  13. Moonbattery shows the liberal creed in 37 seconds
  14. Pacific Pundit has Alec Baldwin doing some Mask Cult on Santa
  15. And last, but not least, Powerline covers Trump defending vaccines

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

If there is an (*) it wasn’t up at time of writing, which is Saturday night. Have an early flight Sunday

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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China And Russia Playing Nice Is A Challenge For Biden Or Something

By William Teach December 26, 2021 – 7:00 am

Now, just image the type of headline this would have if Trump was derelict in his duties in regards to China and Russia, blowing off the danger, creating situations which they would take advantage of. How it would be doom, and that Congress should investigate

Warming relations between Russia and China pose challenge for Biden

Joe Biden Ice Cream AfghanistanLast week Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly demanded that the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bar Ukraine from its military alliance, move troops, weapons and installations from its eastern flank and issue “security guarantees” about the future of the region.

“The ball is in their court,” Putin said at a news conference last week. “They need to respond to us with something.”

While Western officials responded with indignation, saying Putin would not tell NATO what to do, Chinese President Xi Jinping applauded Putin’s brinkmanship. At a summit last week with Putin, Xi denounced the U.S. and NATO for “interfering in the internal affairs of China and Russia,” according to China’s state-run news agency Xinhua.

The increasingly warm relations between China and Russia are raising eyebrows, as well as the potential stakes, across the Western world, but the tensions with Washington have been building for months.

When the U.S. became the first nation earlier this month to announce that its government officials would boycott February’s Olympic Games in Beijing in response to China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims and its steamrolling of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, Putin rose to Xi’s defense, calling the diplomatic protest “pointless” and saying he planned to attend.

In October, in between Chinese sorties in violation of Taiwan’s airspace, China played war games in the waters off the contested island and was joined in its impressive naval and aeronautical display of force by the Russian military.

Both have watched Biden’s weakness. They watched the fiasco of Afghanistan. The wishy washy words on Ukraine and Taiwan. Playing nice with Iran and blowing off Israel. He’s worse than Jimmy Carter weak.

“A two-front war would, in principle, be gravely challenging,” Nigel Gould-Davies, senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, told Yahoo News, adding that such an outcome is currently unlikely. “However, [China and Russia] each watch the West’s responses to the other. So if the West is seen to lack resolve against one adversary, the other may be emboldened to act.”

This stuff doesn’t happen in a vacuum. They see weakness. And they test Biden because they do see weakness. So, what now? Biden can barely make it through a press conference, he almost never takes questions, and those few he does take he doesn’t really answer. There’s no strength at all

Trudeau says western countries need to stand together against China

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau implored the West to stand together against China, arguing that country’s communist leadership has often been “playing” Western countries against each other.

“We need to do a better job of working together and standing strong so China can’t play the angles and divide us one against the other,” Trudeau said in an interview with Global television.

I guess he’s aiming for the spot of most powerful man in the world, and it’s strange to see the Canadian PM as the voice of reason, with all due respect to our neighbors to the north. Will any Western nations listen? You know Joe’s out to lunch.

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Your Fault: Britain May Never Experience A Dickensian White Christmas Again

By William Teach December 25, 2021 – 3:49 pm

All because you engaged in capitalism and bought Christmas gifts, had them shipped from Big Companies, took a long fossil fueled trip, and ate meat

‘Dickensian’ White Christmas may never be seen in Britain again due to climate change

Bing Crosby famously dreamt of a White Christmas, but Britain may never see a proper snowy scene on December 25 again, according to experts.

A ‘Dickensian’ scene of widespread snow on the ground on Christmas Day could be consigned to British history due to climate change, the Met Office says.

It’s not impossible that generous blankets of snow will cover British ground at Christmas again some point in the future, it told MailOnline.

But the effects of climate change mean the required conditions for snow in the UK will occur less frequently, and chances could keep getting smaller as this century progresses.

In other words, when it happens they will either say this is the exception or it’s actually caused by ‘climate change’.

The Met Office’s official definition of a White Christmas is just one snowflake to be observed falling in the 24 hours of December 25 somewhere in the UK.

Under this definition, 2020 was technically the last White Christmas in the UK, with six per cent of weather stations recording snow falling.

But the more generous Dickensian scene worthy of ‘A Christmas Carol’ – consisting of thick blankets of snow covering the ground up and down the country – has proved to be somewhat more elusive.

The story, which is actually entitled “A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, was published in 1843, as the Little Ice Age was coming to an end. Dickens would have seen many a white Christmas during his years, but, he would have been only 2 when the River Thames really, truly froze over and they held an Ice Fair. But, see, the climate flips, going between warm and cool periods. Even during the cool and warm periods you can get the other, such as the period around 1945-1978, where the global temperatures were dipping. You even had a good freeze of the Thames in 1962-1963. Not like during the Little Ice Age, but, it was there.

This is a doomsday cult, though, so, they have to see witchcraft, er, carbon pollution, in everything, hence, because of things Other People do (not themselves, of course. They’re exempt because they Believe), things are Horrible and Doomy and we should all pay Penance.

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Christmas Patriotic Pinup

By William Teach December 25, 2021 – 10:00 am

This doesn’t count towards the normal Patriot Pinup, but, since Christmas is on a Saturday, must have

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Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Clause

By William Teach December 25, 2021 – 8:43 am

Every Christmas, once everyone is up, Christmas greetings were made, hugs were exchanged, the presents were opened, and breakfast was being made, I would read this first in the paper (ye olde parental units get an actual paper, and they live in NJ). It is a Christmas classic that has always touched my soul. While some people outside of the Tri-State area have heard of it, rarely do papers outside of the NY-NJ-Conn area see it in print, and I always direct them to read it online. Especially since we keep getting news pieces as to whether or not we should be telling kids the truth about Santa (we shouldn’t. Let them be kids). I humbly bring it to you, and hope it touches you as much as it touches me:

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, If you see it in The Sun, it’s so. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

And a Merry Christmas from deep down in my heart to all my friends and visitors out there.

If you would like to know the background on the letter, you can go to the 2004 posting of this.

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

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