If All You See…

By William Teach July 19, 2025 – 1:23 pm

…are horrible Bad Weather clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post digging into Ukrainians thinking their leaders are extending the war to enrich themselves.

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Liberals Who Mostly Didn’t Watch Colbert’s Late Show Freaking Over It Being Cancelled

By William Teach July 19, 2025 – 10:30 am

It really is insane

The end of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show is a concerning nail in the coffin for comedy

The idea that the political career of Donald Trump would be a goldmine for comedy died a long time ago, with the coffin accepting stray nails for the past five years. The latest and possibly last such nail is the cancellation of The Late Show, the CBS late-night talkshow hosted by Stephen Colbert since the fall of 2015, and originated by David Letterman when the network poached him from NBC in 1993. At this point, Trump hasn’t just made topical late-night comedy look outdated, hackneyed and an insufficient response to his reign of terror; he’s also made a chunk of it flat-out go away.

There will be time to eulogize Colbert’s particular talkshow style later; the Late Show isn’t leaving the air for another 10 months, when his contract is up. Surely that leaves plenty more time to savage the president – and Colbert has been in this slot since right around the time Trump became a real contender in the presidential race, so why has this only now come to a head? Seemingly because the axing of the Late Show franchise follows the $16m settlement of a frivolous Trump lawsuit against CBS and their newsmagazine show 60 Minutes over the show’s editing of a 2024 interview with presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Colbert made great fun of his bosses’ payout as a cowardly “bribe” designed to appease the Trump administration, who are in the position to approve or deny the sale of Paramount, the corporate owners of CBS, to the company Skydance. In other words, the pre-merger nixing a comedian who regularly goofs on Trump on network TV seems like a convenient bit of timing – maybe even an unspoken bonus to go along with those millions of dollars.

Shouldn’t late night comedians be, you know, funny? The whole idea was to have light-hearted fluff full of celebs, musicians, comedians, people with animals, etc, where Americans could chill right before bed. Even Al Gore being on with Letterman way back was more funny than political. Johnny Carson intentionally stayed away from politics. Colbert basically made the Late Show a later version of The Daily Show, all hardcore leftist politics. This created a limited audience which would never grow. Which made advertising rates low. They’re advertising to the same people.

And there are all sorts of articles and tweets about it being Trump’s Fault. The Atlantic even tries

Is Colbert’s Ouster Really Just a ‘Financial Decision’?

Yes, yes it was

CBS canned ‘The Late Show’ over tens of millions in financial losses annually — not Stephen Colbert’s politics: sources

CBS brass say they pulled the plug on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” because of its punishing losses — pegged between $40 million and $50?million a year — and claim politics had nothing to do with it, The Post has learned.

The 61-year-old host got canned just days after he took a dig at the Tiffany Network over its $16 million settlement with Donald Trump over a controversial “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris as the network’s parent Paramount negotiates with the Trump administration regulatory approval for its $8?billion sale to independent studio Skydance.

“I am offended, and I don’t know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company,” Colbert said of the truce in his Monday night monologue.

But scathing jokes at the expense of CBS brass wasn’t the problem, according to insiders.

And right there’s a problem: scathing jokes, instead of light-hearted jokes. Colbert was getting paid around $20 million a year for a limited audience, and his show cost way, way too much to produce, with way too many people working on it (I’ve heard about 200 employees)

Instead, the network’s bosses could no longer stomach the fact that Colbert has been plagued with an increasingly dire shortage of advertisers.

That’s despite Colbert’s No, 1 ratings in his time slot and his status as a key face for the Tiffany Network.

Have you ever watched a show and you see the same limited advertisers? That’s the Late Show. With low monetary rates for ads.

Lying liar who tells lies. Maybe she should be more concerned with the lawlessness in Boston from all the illegals. Colbert was preaching to his high end liberal pals, was not funny, not interesting. He didn’t have random people turning in.

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Oh Noes: Budget Cuts End Road Raising Project In Florida Keys

By William Teach July 19, 2025 – 7:00 am

There would be no need for raising the roads, or even roads, if you would just stop driving a fossil fueled vehicle

Florida Keys guts road-raising projects, slashes jobs. Budget cuts derail climate plans

Facing federal uncertainty about hurricane relief funds and budget holes, the Florida Keys went on a slashing spree: gutting funding for its landmark road-raising program, exiting a decade-old regional climate change compact and cutting emergency staff roles designed to help prepare for storms.

President Donald Trump’s administration has vowed to gut and remake the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including lowering how much cash the federal agency gives states to rebuild after a disaster.

Specifically, a leaked memo from FEMA suggests the agency is considering dramatically raising the threshold for what qualifies as a disaster, which would lock local governments out from any federal cash if a disaster were small enough, like a hurricane that only brushes Key West but not the rest of the Keys. That could put Monroe on the hook for up to $174 million for a single hurricane.

“We would have zero reimbursement. That could be devastating for the Keys,” said Christine Hurley, Monroe County’s administrator.

I remember in my lifetime when states where not so reliant on the federal government during emergencies, either for aid, rebuilding, or money. When states didn’t immediately demand tons of help. And we shouldn’t be so darned reliant on Los Federales

To make that happen, the Keys cut 40 staff roles, including a floodplain mitigation manager, one employee in the resilience department and cut and consolidated several emergency management roles, just ahead of the peak of hurricane season.

Sounds mostly like scam jobs.

But perhaps the biggest hit of Monroe’s tightening of its purse strings is to its nationally leading program to raise roads ahead of sea level rise, which is already swamping a handful of Keys neighborhoods and expected to inundate up to 90 of them in the next few decades alone.

Key West shows a steady 2.64mm a year in sea rise, equivalent to .87 feet per hundred years, which is slightly above average during the Holocene and below expected during a Holocene warm period. It’s a very good station going back to 1913. Do they need to eventually raise roads? Sure. Because you also have erosion, and the Keys are primarily coral based islands created when the seas were much higher, and you cannot expect stability out in the ocean like that. Plus, land subsistence.

So far, Monroe has spent nearly $300 million to raise roads in just seven communities. The total project list compiled by the county would cost an estimated $4.7 billion — a staggering price for a county of around 80,000 people with an annual budget of about $680 million.

Sounds like they were overspending. I wonder who was get fat at the government trough.

When do they get rid of the airports, cruise ship ports, fossil fueled boats, and so forth?

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Trump Admin Trades 250 Venezuelans In El Salvador Prison For 10 Americans

By William Teach July 19, 2025 – 6:45 am

Well, hey, looks like those illegals sent to El Salvador had some value after all, and get to be repatriated

El Salvador releases hundreds of US deportees from notorious prison in US-Venezuela swap

The Trump administration completed a large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela on Friday, sending about 250 Venezuelans who had been deported and imprisoned in El Salvador back to their home country in exchange for 10 US nationals, officials said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on social media the Americans, the last known to be detained in Venezuela, were now “on their way to freedom.”

“Until today, more Americans were wrongfully held in Venezuela than any other country in the world,” Rubio said in a statement. “Every wrongfully detained American in Venezuela is now free and back in our homeland.”

Among the Americans released were Jorge Marcelo Vargas, Lucas Hunter and Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, a US official confirmed.

The sister of Hunter, 37, previously told CNN he had vacationed in the region in late 2024 to kite surf. The nonprofit Global Reach said he was “kidnapped by Venezuelan border guards” from inside Colombia in January.

The planes with the Venezuelans, reportedly TDA gang members, were landing Friday night.

Venezuelan officials on Friday afternoon announced the arrival of a separate flight from Texas delivering its citizens, including several children who had been separated from their families and kept in US care. “On this flight, there can be good news for Venezuelans,” interior minister Diosdado Cabello said, adding, “more movement” and additional arrivals are expected today.

Time for them to all go home. If any want to become Americans they can do it through the normal naturalization process.

The families of Americans wrongfully detained in Venezuela met virtually with senior national security official Seb Gorka earlier this year, participants and a White House official told CNN.

Following that meeting, an American Air Force veteran was released from imprisonment in Venezuela in May, CNN reported. Joseph St. Clair was released to US special envoy Richard Grenell, the family statement said. St. Clair had been detained since November and was one of nine Americans declared wrongfully detained in Venezuela.

What did Biden do to get our citizens back? Hate Trump if you want, he puts Americans first.

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Good Grief, The Climate Cult Discovers Contrails (again)

By William Teach July 18, 2025 – 3:00 pm

This is not exactly a new thing from the Cult of Climastrology, but, I’ve only seen it once.

Contrails are aviation’s most ignored problem. Could new routes help?

Passenger aircraft contribute significantly to global warming, primarily due to the large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted during flights – one of the main greenhouse gases driving climate change.

But flight traffic is also responsible for other climate-damaging emissions including aerosols, nitrogen oxides and, to a very large extent, contrails.

Combined, these so-called non-CO2 emissions account for more than 60% of the climate damage caused by aircraft, according to researchers.

Last year they said it was just over a third from contrails.

Contrails — the white line-shaped clouds left behind by planes — pose a particular problem as they are able to trap heat, contributing to warming.

Research has been under way for years whether air masses in which particularly long-lived contrails form can be circumvented.

But, what if we do not see contrails from planes? Does that mean it’s not happening?

What are contrails?

First: No, they do not consist of chemicals nefariously left behind in the sky (remember the chemtrail conspiracists?).

Sure sounds like the cult is claiming they are chemicals nefariously left behind in the sky. Because, really, contrails are primarily water vapor. Except in Cult Land.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 18, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on climate cultist hijacking a plane.

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$9 Billion Rescission Bill Heads To Trump’s Desk

By William Teach July 18, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s amazing how much caterwauling this minor cut, at least in terms of the federal budget, is causing among Democrats and a few squishy Republicans

Congress sends bill clawing back $9B in foreign aid, public media funds to Trump’s desk

House Republicans late Thursday night approved the first batch of cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), sending the $9 billion package to President Trump’s desk in a big victory for the GOP.

The legislation — which claws back already-approved federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting — cleared the chamber in a mostly party-line 216-213 vote less than one day after the Senate passed the measure.

Two Republicans, Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) and Mike Turner (Ohio), voted with every Democrat against the measure.

Trump is expected to sign the bill soon, as Republicans face a Friday deadline to enact the cuts or release the funds to the organizations they were appropriated for.

Would it be too much to ask for Republicans to go through the federal budget with the legendary fine toothed comb and eliminate everything that is unnecessary, that is not part of what Congress is supposed to do per the Constitution? To audit every agency and cut the fraud, waste, and abuse? That would be some real cuts.

“We’re gonna downsize the scope of government,” Mike Johnson said. “Government is too large, it does too many things and it does almost nothing well. We believe in a limited government that’s accountable and efficient and effective for the people and we’re gonna continue to demonstrate that through our actions here on the floor.”

$9 billion isn’t much, but, hopefully a start. We’ll see.

Some Republicans have also warned the president’s use of the rare tool to secure cuts to funding previously approved by Congress risks further eroding trust between both parties as lawmakers ramp up their annual funding work.

“Some”. Why do we care? Democrats do not care about bipartisanship. We all remember Obamacare, right?

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) earlier this month said passage of the rescissions package “would be an affront to the bipartisan appropriations process.”

“That’s why a number of Senate Republicans know it is absurd for them to expect Democrats to act as business as usual and engage in a bipartisan appropriations process to fund the government, while they concurrently plot to pass a purely partisan rescissions bill to defund those same programs negotiated on a bipartisan basis behind the scenes,” he continued, later adding: “This is beyond a bait and switch – it is a bait and poison-to-kill.”

Cry me a river. These little things are never negotiated, they’re just included and no one thinks about them. No one has been making a stunk in arguing over the small stuff. Suck it up, Dems.

Certainly NPR can make up that 1% of budget that the rescission package eliminates so they can yammer about liberal stuff, right?

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Bummer: Trump Sign Order Waiving Biden EPA Regs For 2 Years

By William Teach July 18, 2025 – 7:00 am

Can’t wait for yet another whiny lawsuit within a few days

Trump signs proclamations granting two-year relief from Biden-era EPA regulations

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed four proclamations granting two years of regulatory relief from Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency regulations, the White House said.

The proclamations cover coal plants, taconite iron ore processing facilities and certain chemical manufacturers that produce chemicals related to semiconductors, medical device sterilization, advanced manufacturing, and national defense systems, according to the White House.

Let’s look at the order

The exemptions ensure that these facilities within these critical industries can continue to operate uninterrupted to support national security without incurring substantial costs to comply with, in some cases, unattainable compliance requirements.

Biden-era emissions standards impose costly and, in some cases, unattainable compliance requirements on these industries essential to national interests.

The technologies necessary to comply with these Biden-era standards are further not commercially viable in many instances.

Many of Biden’s, well, his advisor’s, orders were impossible to comply with, and were simply meant to shut companies down.

Here’s the thing: Executive Orders under one president can be cancelled out by another president’s EOs. Rules can be temporarily waived. And then rules can be cancelled. Most of what Biden was doing was all for ‘climate change’, and really made no difference except killing companies.

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ICE Given Access To Medicaid Records To Track Down Illegals

By William Teach July 18, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m not sure why Democrats are so incensed by this, because they keep saying

So, then why the caterwauling over ICE getting access?

ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees’ personal information

The Trump administration will start sharing the personal information of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, with federal immigration authorities as the president seeks to ramp up deportations.

In a statement to NBC News on Thursday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin described the latest data-sharing agreement between her agency and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as “an initiative” to ensure undocumented immigrants don’t access Medicaid benefits.

The Associated Press first reported the new agreement, which hasn’t been made public yet.

Immigrants who lack legal status and some lawfully present immigrants are already barred from enrolling in Medicaid, a federal health services program that provides nearly free coverage to beneficiaries. Yet federal law requires all states to offer emergency Medicaid, temporary coverage that pays only for lifesaving services in emergency rooms to anyone regardless of immigration status.

Medicaid is a jointly funded program between states and the federal government.

Does anyone really think they aren’t getting Medicaid in deep Democrat states? Because if they weren’t Democrats wouldn’t care.

Under the agreement, officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement will use Medicaid data to get identity and location information of people ICE believes are in the country unlawfully, the AP reported.

ICE will have access to a database that includes the names, addresses, birth dates, ethnic and racial information, as well as Social Security numbers for all people enrolled in Medicaid, the AP reported. The agreement allows ICE to review the database only from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday until Sept. 9. It isn’t allowed to download the data.

Obviously, ICE knows something. They aren’t just on a fishing expedition, which would be a big waste of manpower. They know what they’re looking for.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the state is moving quickly to obtain a court order to block the sharing of data for immigration enforcement.

If there is nothing there why bother?

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Climate “Scientists” Super Concerned About Coming Winter Weather From Too Much Heat

By William Teach July 17, 2025 – 3:40 pm

I mean, how many times have we seen this? It’s like a cult leader who gives the same sermon every couple of weeks. Usually, though, we get his in late Fall or in the middle of serious winter weather

Scientist issue warning about concerning phenomenon ahead of upcoming winter season: ‘Keeps the surface cooler’

Experts have projected record low levels of Arctic sea ice for the coming winter, which counterintuitively could mean frigid conditions for the United States, Canada, and Europe, Severe Weather Europe reported. (big snip through cult blah)

Less Arctic sea ice during the winter months also means higher temperatures in the atmosphere, which can weaken or even collapse the polar vortex, according to Severe Weather Europe.

The condition of the polar vortex influences everyday weather around the globe.

“A strong/stable polar vortex usually means strong polar circulation and jet stream,” Severe Weather Europe explained. “This locks the colder air into the Arctic Circle, creating milder conditions for most of the United States and warmer-than-normal conditions over southern Canada.”

A weaker and more unstable polar vortex, on the other hand, weakens the jet stream, which allows cold air to escape from the Arctic region and descend upon the U.S. and Canada.

In other words, winter is going to be colder and snowier and stuff because you drive a planet boiling fossil fueled vehicle.

Meanwhile, one of my favorite rocker went cult (couldn’t be due to low ticket sales, right? Especially with no new albums since 2011, and your last big album was 1982? With six not so good since Abracadabra?)

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