…is a hazy day from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on a net zero airline in disarray.
It’s sundress week.
I’m hoping things are running slightly better. Still getting inundated with bots, but, able to implement a few blocks on them.
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Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the smell of grilling out (barbecue is a noun in the South) is in the air. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help (I don’t think I’ve used this one before, but, I have well over a 1000 in the hopper).
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
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, so, most are hosted internally). 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
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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Why? Because Trump is doing this. Seriously, these wackos just reach for reasons to block Trump’s agenda, forgetting that they will be reversed on appeal in most cases
Judge blocks Trump’s broad expansion of expedited removal of migrants
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.
In a 48-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb of D.C. wrote that the administration’s new policy in January to broadly expand a process known as “expedited removal” — which had previously been used to deport migrants detained at or near the U.S.-Mexico border — doesn’t provide adequate due process rights to those detained inside the country.
Cobb, in her ruling in a case brought by civil rights groups, wrote that “in defending this skimpy process, the Government makes a truly startling argument: that those who entered the country illegally are entitled to no process under the Fifth Amendment, but instead must accept whatever grace Congress affords them. Were that right, not only noncitizens, but everyone would be at risk.”
Cobb, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, said she was not questioning the constitutionality of the expedited removal statute and its “long-standing application” in border control. But she said that “in applying the statute to a huge group of people living in the interior of the country who have not previously been subject to expedited removal, the Government must afford them due process.”
Good grief. Are they here illegally? Yes? Do liberals say the first offense is a civil offense? Yes? Does the law state that it is a civil offense for which the penalty is a small fine, possibly a short stay in jail, and deportation? Yes. Just because they aren’t near the border doesn’t make them any less of law breakers. Crazy judges.
Previously, expedited removal had only been used for migrants who were stopped within 100 miles of the border and who had been in the country for less than 14 days. Cobb said Friday that the Trump administration can continue to use the policy in those situations.
Here’s the thing: the Supreme Court has already ruled quite specifically that her ruling can only apply to her little fiefdom in D.C. Beyond that, the Trump admin can simply ignore her order, so, if they want to expeditiously remove illegals from Ohio, they can.
Meanwhile
HUD launches crackdown on illegal immigration in public housing: ‘Riding the coattails’
The Trump administration has ordered a nationwide review of public housing in an effort to root out residents who are in the country illegally, according to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner announced Friday.
Turner wrote that each Public Housing Authority has 30 days to conduct an audit to ensure that the existing orders are enforced. The department is asking for information about the public housing units, as well as verifiable citizenship or “eligible immigration status.”
“No longer will illegal aliens be able to leave citizenship boxes blank or take advantage of HUD-funded housing, riding the coattails of hardworking American citizens,” Turner wrote.
The U.S. should not be giving them free housing. Really, though, so many of these policies are also designed to deter illegals from coming to the U.S. And, it’s been working.
Read: Wacko Judge Says Expedited Removal Is Legal Except For Away From The Border »
Nothing like building in areas that are prone to tropical systems, winds that exceed wind turbine thresholds, and noreaster’s, eh?
Trump admin cancels $679M for offshore wind projects, including 2 in Hampton Roads
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.
Funding for projects in 11 states was rescinded, including $435 million for a floating wind farm in Northern California and $47 million to boost an offshore wind project in Maryland that the Interior Department has pledged to cancel.
“Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “Thanks to President Trump, we are prioritizing real infrastructure improvements over fantasy wind projects that cost much and offer little.” (snip)
Separately, Trump’s Energy Department said Friday it is withdrawing a $716 million loan guarantee approved by the Biden administration to upgrade and expand transmission infrastructure to accommodate a now-threatened offshore wind project in New Jersey. (snip)
The cut includes $39.3 million for the Fairwinds Landing offshore wind and maritime logistics hub at the former Lambert’s Point Docks in Norfolk and another $20 million for improvements at Portsmouth Marine Terminal, which is a staging area for Dominion Energy’s under-construction wind farm off the shore of Virginia Beach.
A million here, a million there, pretty soon you have some real money!
I wonder how much they were going to make off of this? If they want it they can raise the $39.3 million, right? Of course, they and the Biden admin completely and utter blew off the local residents who were dead set against this project, as well as shortcutting environmental impact statements, especially as they apply to whales. Ed Markey is also whining. How much did he stand to make off these projects?
“It’s an attack on our jobs,” Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee said of the move to stop construction of Revolution Wind. “It’s an attack on our energy. It’s an attack on our families and their ability to pay the bills.”
Patrick Crowley, president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, said his union is “going to fight (Trump) every step of the way, no matter how long it takes.”
So, why doesn’t Rhode Island pay for it? How about the RI AFL-CIO raise the money?
Read: Bummer: Trump Admin Cancels A Bunch Of Offshore Wind Projects »
…is a wonderful low carbon bike, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Campus Reform, with a post on health insurance requirements at Washington colleges causing students to owe thousands.
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Well, yeah, why would we allow terrorists into the U.S.? The Biden admin is no longer in charge
US revokes visas of Palestinian president and other officials ahead of UN General Assembly
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step the Palestinian Authority decried as against international law.
A State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss visa issues that are normally confidential, disclosed Friday that Abbas and other officials from the Palestinian Authority were among those affected by new visa restrictions. Palestinian representatives assigned to the U.N. mission, however, were granted exceptions.
The move is the latest in a series of steps the Trump administration has taken to target Palestinians with visa restrictions and comes as the Israeli military declared Gaza’s largest city a combat zone. The State Department also suspended a program that had allowed injured Palestinian children from Gaza to come to the U.S. for medical treatment after a social media outcry by some conservatives.
The State Department said in a statement that Rubio also ordered some new visa applications from Palestinian officials, including those tied to the Palestine Liberation Organization, be denied.
“It is in our national security interests to hold the PLO and PA accountable for not complying with their commitments, and for undermining the prospects for peace,” the statement said.
It said that to be considered partners for peace, the groups “must consistently repudiate terrorism, and end incitement to terrorism in education, as required by U.S. law and as promised by the PLO.”
The PLO was designated a terrorist organization by Congress back in 1987, though there have been presidential waivers since 1988 after they recognized Israel. But, still, a terrorist organization. And they’ve sure been Israel and Jew haters as of late, so, yeah, we do not need them here. And how many in the delegation might be members of the Hamas, a State Dept designated terrorist organization? The Trump admin is not playing with these people, and won’t let them in so they can rail against the U.S. and Israel on US soil.
Pro-Palestinian conference panelist calls US ‘evil,’ urges ‘destroying the idea of America’
A panelist speaking at the “People’s Conference for Palestine” in Detroit on Friday called the United States “an evil country” and expressed a need to “destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads.”
Speaking on a panel titled “No Weapons for Genocide: The People Demand an Arms Embargo,” Sachin Peddada, a Ph.D. student in economics and research coordinator at Progressive International, repeatedly ripped on the United States as an “empire” motivated by greed.
In response to a question about how Americans can get more involved, Peddada paraphrased a quote by deceased Palestinian author Bassel al-Araj, saying, “The average American will never understand the plight of the Palestinian person because the state of Israel is a carbon copy of the United States.
“And, therefore, the thing to do is to destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads so that they can see the humanity of everybody outside the warping of American exceptionalism and imperialism and all these evil things.”
There were lots of US and Jew haters at the conference, which goes on through the weekend. I hope Marco Rubio is paying attention, and cancelling the visas of those on one. Too bad he can’t boot out Rashida Tlaib, who was a sponsor of the event.
Read: Bummer: Trump Admin Revokes Palestinian Visas Ahead Of (worthless) UN Meeting »
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Be funny as hell if the cruise ships said “nah, bru, we’re going to change our routes and not bring all those paying customers”
Cruise industry sues to challenge Hawaii’s tourism tax designed to deal with climate change issues
A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Hawaii imposing a tourist tax to deal with consequences of climate change seeks to stop officials from enforcing the new law on cruise ship passengers.
In the nation’s first such levy to help cope with a warming planet, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green signed legislation in May that raises tax revenue to deal with eroding shorelines, wildfires and other climate problems. Officials estimate the tax will generate nearly $100 million annually.
The levy increases rates on hotel room and vacation rental stays but also imposes a new 11% tax on the gross fares paid by a cruise ship’s passengers, starting next year, prorated for the number of days the vessels are in Hawaii ports. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. court in Honolulu this week, notes the law authorizes counties to collect an additional 3% surcharge, bringing the total to 14% of prorated fares.
“No other State imposes comparable fees — and for good reason: It has been a fundamental principle since the Founding that the navigable waters of the United States are a common resource, not one to be commandeered by individual States for their own parochial revenue-raising interests,” attorneys representing the Cruise Lines International Association wrote in a motion asking a judge to prevent the state and counties from collecting the tax on cruise ships while the lawsuit is pending.
A Honolulu company that provides supplies and provisions to cruise ships, and tour businesses out of Kauai and the Big Island that rely on cruise ship passengers joined the cruise ship association in the lawsuit.
If those ships do not come to Hawaii, that’s a lot of lost revenue to hotels, vehicle rentals, all sorts of tourist spots, those who do the supplies and provisions, and more.
According to the lawsuit, the cruise ship industry draws nearly 300,000 annual visitors to Hawaii, supporting thousands of jobs throughout the state and contributing more than $600 million a year to the economy.
The tax would make Hawaii cruises too expensive, and potential visitors will choose to vacation elsewhere, the lawsuit said.
The ships won’t pay it, they’ll charge more. And cruise ships do bring a small amount of goods to ports. I wonder if the lawyers will note that Hawaii has a large number of airports for airplanes and helicopters? That they have a large number of fossil fueled boats, buses, and motor vehicles? They should offer photos of the governor and members of their general assembly taking fossil fueled vehicles and flights.
This will surely give Boston (unhinged) Mayor Michelle Wu a big case of the apoplexies
Trump admin plans immigration enforcement surge in Boston
The Trump administration is preparing an immigration enforcement blitz in Boston in the coming weeks, according to a current administration official and a former administration official.
The latest plans, which could still change, would involve a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and represent the latest Democratic-run city to be targeted by President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration has frequently clashed with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and criticized the city’s so-called sanctuary policy — which limits local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal agents looking to arrest and remove undocumented immigrants.
The clampdown could come soon after a similar surge in Chicago in September, the former official and current official said. But the operations could also happen concurrently, the administration official said.
“The highest degree of national security and public safety concerns are in sanctuary cities,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters on Friday. “So without getting into specifics, and revealing any operational details, the president has been clear repeatedly that we’re going to be prioritizing enforcement in these sanctuary jurisdictions as a matter of public safety and national security.”
Again, I still wish that immigration enforcement would surge into GOP towns, get the illegals out first. Let the sanctuary cities deal with the crime, costs, and 3rd world mentalities on their own for awhile.
Flooding Boston with immigration enforcement officials would represent the latest escalation in the administration’s campaign against Democrat-led cities, and, following action in Los Angeles and Washington, would continue to blur the lines between the military, policing and immigration enforcement across the country.
Um, Politico: there are laws against people being in the U.S. illegally. Trump is actually enforcing laws passed by duly elected Congresses.
Democratic Gov. Maura Healey’s office declined to comment, and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Oh, I’m sure they will soon start getting all big and bad about this, telling Trump he’s not wanted and ow they support illegal alien (murderers, rapists, and child abusers).
Read: Boston Will Soon See An Immigration Enforcement Surge »
But, remember, this is All About Science”
California Climate Change Board Obsessed With ‘Racial Equity’
California spends billions annually on a fool’s errand: trying to unilaterally change the Earth’s temperature. “Global warming”—now called “climate change” to explain both heat waves and cold snaps—has been used by the Left for decades now to implement its radical agenda, primarily the redistribution of wealth.
It should come as no surprise, therefore, that California’s climate change fighting agency, the California Air Resources Board, has managed to include another top leftist priority into its agenda: ”racial equity.”
The program is so conspicuous that it has caught the attention of the Civil Rights Division of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon this week informed California’s Environmental Protection Agency that it is commencing an investigation into its and CARB’s discriminatory hiring practices, which emphasize “equity,” aka affirmative action.
Funny how these uber-white Democrats always think that “minorities” cannot survive without the helping hand of Government. That they are incapable of living otherwise. That every minor Bad Thing is a monstrosity for “BIPOC’s”. Seems, I don’t know, rather racist.
CARB was created by Gov. Ronald Reagan in the 1960s. It was implemented to fight the severe smog experienced in large California cities, primarily Los Angeles. It sought to control the emissions causing the smog, primarily coming from cars.
And it worked well. Then the climate cult took it over and implemented their hardcore Modern Socialist agenda.
The Left then hijacked CARB and turned it into one no longer focused on clean air, but “developing programs and actions to fight climate change.” Its website boasts that by “adopting innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California has pioneered a range of effective approaches that have set the standard for effective air and climate programs for the nation, and the world.”
These are the same folks who are forcing Californian’s into EVs. People who were never elected. And do not seem to drive EVs themselves.
CARB’s secondary mission, according to its website, is to create “racial equity” and “social change.” It has developed what it calls its “Racial Equity Lens,” which is “rooted in the philosophy of cultural humility, a process of self-reflection and discovery to understand oneself and then others in order to build honest and trustworthy relationships.” It was implemented in order to comply with Newsom’s executive order on racial equity in government.
It is quite ironic that the board that has driven up electricity prices to the highest in the continental U.S., which has a disproportionate impact on minority groups that can least afford it, claims to be concerned about racial equity. I doubt this is the CARB Reagan envisioned when he first sought to curb smog.
What does reducing air pollution have to do with racial equity and social change? In other words, this whole thing is not about science.
The DOJ is now accusing the board of utilizing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (“DEI” aka affirmative action) in its hiring practices. In Dhillon’s notice of investigation, she cites the board’s “Racial Equity Framework” designed to “shift the culture at CARB from one of white privilege to an actively anti-racist and more inclusive culture that values and affirms Black lives.”
Read the whole thing.
….is horrible summer heatsnow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on a campus lockdown over a black umbrella.
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