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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Philly Democrats Super Upset Over SEPTA Losing Federal Funding

By William Teach July 21, 2025 – 8:01 pm

Man, it’d be a real shame if the snowflake students and others had to walk or bike or something

What is SEPTA?

SEPTA, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, is a regional public transportation authority that operates bus, rapid transit, commuter rail, light rail, and electric trolleybus services for nearly four million people throughout five counties in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It also manages projects that maintain, replace, and expand its infrastructure, facilities, and vehicles.

How much does it cost?

The $1.69 billion FY 2024 Operating Budget uses SEPTA’s final installment of federal COVID relief funding that has helped to avoid service cuts and fare increases associated with pandemic-induced revenue losses.

Why were they using COVID funds for this? Sounds like an abuse?

(SpotlightPA) Gov. Josh Shapiro will route $153 million in federal highway funding to SEPTA to help the struggling transit agency avoid — at least temporarily — deep service cuts and hefty fare hikes.

That was November 2024. Instead of using the highway funding correctly he pissed it away on SEPTA. And, really, it makes no money, even while charging users more and more. There’s a plan to cut service by 45% and increase fares by 20%, all because the feds have cut money. I mean, maybe there’s a reason states and cities shouldn’t rely on federal funding for everything? That the fed govt should focus on core mission and leave everything else to the states? That the citizens of other states shouldn’t see their tax money go to things like this? That citizens should see their federal taxes go way down, used only to fund those core duties, while more should go directly to the states for state things?

If Pennsylvania wants to do all this and hook up people in a small region, raise the state taxes. And maybe audit how the money is spent.

Too bad Democrats just never learn that we are a federal republic, and most things should be done by, and funded by, the states.

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Climate (scam) Scientists Say Trump Cuts Are A Disaster For Them

By William Teach July 21, 2025 – 3:51 pm

Well, yeah, because now they are either going to have to do the job as directed by their superiors, if they stay on the job, or, find a private sector job that allows them to do all their cult stuff with little to no supervision for lots of money

‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts

“Our ability to respond to climate change, the biggest existential threat facing humanity, is totally adrift,” said Sally Johnson, an Earth scientist who has spent the past two decades helping collect, store and distribute data at Nasa (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and Noaa (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).

Donald Trump’s assault on science – but particularly climate science – has led to unprecedented funding cuts and staff layoffs across federally funded agencies and programs, threatening to derail research tackling the most pressing issues facing Americans and humanity more broadly. A generation of scientific talent is also on the brink of being lost, with unprecedented political interference at what were previously evidence-driven agencies jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth.

Johnson was among scores of scientists conducting vital research across a range of fields from infectious diseases, robotics, education, computer science and the climate crisis, who responded to a Guardian online callout to share their experiences about the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to science funding.

They say it’s vital, but, really, what have they provided that can’t be done better in the private sector? And what’s this “our ability to respond”? None of them practice what they preach. All their policies revolve around government forcing citizens to do things they may not want to do, taking their money, and taking their life choices away.

Many said they had already had funding slashed or programs terminated, while others fear that cuts are inevitable and are beginning to search for alternative work – either overseas or outside science. So far, the cuts have led to a 60% reduction in Johnson’s team, and fear is mounting over the future of 30 years of climate data and expertise as communities across the country are battered by increasingly destructive extreme weather events.

If what they’re doing is so gosh-darned important you’d think private sector companies and organizations would be snapping them up, right? They wouldn’t have to give up “science”, right?

“We won’t be able to afford to continue providing the free and quality tools and services to make our data stores searchable, viewable, usable, and accessible. We might not even be able to afford to keep all the data … this will mean worse forecasts and less effective search and rescue responses leading to unnecessary and avoidable loss of life,” said Johnson (not her real name).

It’s not free: the government takes taxpayer money to do this, whether they like it or not.

“This is a disaster for all of us. We’re all depressed and living on a knife-edge, because we know we could lose the rest of our grants any day. These people really hate us yet all we’ve done is work hard to make people’s health better. A flu pandemic is coming for us, what’s happening in cattle is truly scary and all we have is oxygen and hope for people,” said the Ohio scientist.

Anyhow, there are lots more fun stories of doom and gloom and “why-me’s!” at the article.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 21, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turned to desert from global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Feral Irishman, with a post on fun times awaiting.

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New York Democrats Wonder What To Do About Socialist/Islamist Mamdani

By William Teach July 21, 2025 – 10:30 am

There are apparently not enough moderate Democrats to go around

New York establishment Democrats mull over Mamdani charm offensive

Marxism and SocialismNew York Democrats cool to their party’s Big Apple mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani are weighing their options as the 33-year-old progressive makes his own pitch to centrists that they should back him.

The Democratic establishment has been looking for alternatives, but none really satisfy.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week announced an independent run after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani, but a number of Democrats who spoke to The Hill have doubts he can win. Some also haven’t forgotten past Cuomo controversies.

Incumbent Eric Adams is also running as an independent, but he has had a scandal-tarred career and his tilting toward MAGA and Trump World hasn’t won him too many friends in the Democratic establishment.

Obviously, Cuomo is a terrible person. Democrats caused Adams to move a bit toward Trump World after Democrats went after Adams with their lawfare. Don’t forget, Mamdani won that ranked-choice closed primary with pretty low turnout.

Political observers say there aren’t enough moderates to go around for one — let alone two candidates — and if the establishment wants to prevail, either Adams or Cuomo should exit the race.

“You can’t have multiple alternatives,” said Grant Reeher, the director of Syracuse University’s Campbell Public Affairs Institute. “I just don’t see any way that Mamdani doesn’t win unless one of these folks drops out.”

“If I was a Democratic strategist for the whole party in New York City, and I commanded authority, I would put Adams and Cuomo in a room, and I would say, ‘You guys are going to flip a coin,’” he added.

Even if there were moderates in the Democrat party, it’s rather too late. Interestingly, with Adams out Cuomo leads the race over Mamdani and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani will be even more of a nightmare than wackadoodle Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He may claim he’s a socialist like her and her DSA friends, but, he’s really a stealth Islamist, who hates Israel, hates Jews, and hates America. He supports Islamic extremism. If he wins the Jews will leave NYC along with all the rich folks who create businesses and jobs. Who donate to all sorts of charities in NYC.

There is, of course, always the city council who can put the kibosh on Mamdani and his extremist agenda. Will they? Or will they turn NYC into Islamist London?

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