Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 21, 2020 – 9:12 am

Happy Sunday! A great deal in the awesome nation of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, summer is almost here. This pinup is by Bill Layne, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Weasel Zippers covers the history illiterate tearing down statues
  2. Virtual Mirage discusses champagne Bolsheviks
  3. This ain’t Hell… notes the objectives of the Seattle IdiotZone
  4. The Right Scoop notes the NYPD discussing striking on July 4th
  5. The People’s Cube covers Meghan Markle and her destiny to fight systemic racism
  6. The Other McCain tried to warn us about statues
  7. The Lid notes how many Atlanta cops have resigned since Rolfe’s charges
  8. The Last Tradition covers New York becoming Chicago
  9. The Last Refuge notes people concerned about Handsy Joe’s dementia
  10. A very rare linkage of The Gateway Pundit, with a post on lots and lots of violence in Minneapolis
  11. The First Street Journal highlights media bias, with the news forgetting a very important point
  12. The Feral Irishman discusses Juneteenth and why we’re hearing about it all of a sudden
  13. White House Dossier notes the slavery links to those Kente cloths the Dems wore while kneeling
  14. Shot In The Dark discusses cultural appropriation
  15. And last, but not least, Raised On Hoecakes notes how “the “request” became a “demand” and then a “threat.”

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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Mob Rule: Police Told To Stand Down As “Protesters” Tore Down Statues

By William Teach June 21, 2020 – 8:02 am

I wonder if the Capital Police would be so easy going if the mob was going after the Governor’s Mansion, State House, or something else owned by the citizens of the State of North Carolina

Police told to stand down before protesters toppled monuments, officials explain why

One of the main questions about Friday’s protest in downtown Raleigh — where two Confederate statues were torn down by protesters — was the lack of police presence at the height of it all.

A spokeswoman for the State Capitol police said the decision was made to tell officers to stand down not long before protesters eventually toppled the monuments. She said officers were present but the chief of State Capitol police made the call to make sure no officers got hurt.

Protestors took matters into their own hands Friday night after the officers left, using straps to pull two statues down at the State Capitol in Raleigh.

The spokeswoman with State Capitol police told WRAL officers remained on the grounds as they prevented protestors from trying to pull down the same statues earlier Friday to maintain public safety. She said crowds grew and the situation escalated after dark as protestors tried removing the statues a second time.

Audio obtained by WRAL reveals the incident commander calling for assistance but telling officers to back off for their safety.

Interestingly, WRAL doesn’t seem to be asking the question “who, exactly, gave the order for the police to not do their job in stopping a mob from destroying public property?” It shouldn’t matter what the statues are, they are still public property and a mob should not be allowed to destroy them. We have a civilized process in place.

Officials also said there were injuries to officers earlier Friday, which also led to the decision to pull back and away from the protesters. One officer had a fractured wrist, another had lacerations to the hand and another had to have their eyes flushed due to an unknown liquid being thrown in their face. Numerous officers also had paint and what is believed to be urine thrown on them, as well as getting pelted with rocks and frozen water bottles.

That says they aren’t protesters, they are a mob. Neither the 1st Amendment nor the NC Constitution allow violent protest, just peaceable ones. These people are breaking they law. They assaulted official Law Enforcement Officers. While one mob member was arrested, all involved should have been hauled away. Really, they never should have been allowed to destroy property.

Would WRAL or NC Governor Rory Cooper be so glib about this if they were going after the WRAL’s building or the gates of the Governor’s Mansion? The bricks were made with prisoner labor, as prisoners were used for construction. Marble for steps were stolen from the Native Americans in Cherokee County. Of any number of racist Democratic Party NC governor’s, let’s consider Charles Brantley Aycock, who even spoke of the “Negro problem”: he lived in the mansion, so, tear it down! That’s how this works, you know.

Look, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m not a fan of the Confederate statues, excepting the more general ones which are odes to all those who died in the Civil War. The common person sent to fight. But, Confederate big wigs? They lost! They defended the Confederacy. Even Robert E Lee, who was no friend of slavery, shouldn’t have one. He lost. He was part of rebellion against the U.S., and was defending slavery. I’ve been in NC since 1985, full time since 1991, and, while I rarely ever saw one, I never cared for them. We shouldn’t have monuments and such as odes to people who lost.

That said, there are processes for this. Civilized ones. Mob violence should not be tolerated. What if it was a Conservative group tearing something down, would that have been allowed? Would the news media be so accommodating?

Problem number two is the old saying “give an inch, they take a mile.” That’s what’s happening, just like we saw last time. They say they just want to get rid of the Confederate/slavery stuff, and then they come after Jefferson, Washington, heck, even ones like Junipero Serro and

Grant was given slaves by the family he married into, and freed them. There’s always something more they want, the goal posts always move. Hence the reason Conservatives haven’t been willing to comply. I suspect most are not fans of Confederate monuments and such, but, we don’t give in to mob rule. Say, when does the mob go after things like Yale University and Columbia University? Both have big links to slavery. How about Hollywood, which has produced racist movies and TV shows, and had ones with people in blackface?

We can be civilized or a mob.

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Swedish Mayor Calls To Replace Charles XII Statue With One Of St. Greta

By William Teach June 20, 2020 – 4:26 pm

Definitely not a cult, right?

The king is dead! Long live… Greta? Swedish former mayor calls for replacement of Charles XII statue with one of Thunberg

An ex-mayor of a Swedish municipality took some heat online for suggesting that a statue of King Charles XII be pulled down, and a sculpture of Greta Thunberg or the late UN head, Dag Hammarskjold, be installed instead.

Jan Björinge, the former mayor of the Umea municipality, couldn’t resist jumping in as the Black Lives Matter-inspired trend of toppling statues gained traction across the world. Joining the debate in an opinion piece for the Aftonbladet newspaper, he wondered if it was “right to allow public places to disseminate anti-democratic values” on Swedish soil.

He recalled that a number of statues of “oppressors” had been pulled down over the years, and made particular mention of Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, and Saddam Hussein – quite a mixed bag, in anyone’s view. And Sweden, he said, had its own bronze candidate for removal, who also went by the name Karl.

For Björinge, King Karl XII (otherwise known as Charles XII), who occupied the Swedish throne between 1697 and 1718, was undemocratic enough to warrant being removed from his pedestal. Pushing ahead with his argument, he went a lot further than others who advocate the tearing down of controversial statues.

Hammarskjöld, a renowned Swedish diplomat who led the United Nations in the 1950s, and Thunberg, a long-time mainstream-media darling, especially since her incendiary UN speech in 2019, “contributed to a more humane and more sustainable world,” the retired politician insisted.

This actually didn’t go over to well online with fellow Swedes, but, personally, I think this is great. Let’s replace the king’s statue with that of a girl who stopped going to school, has no high school diploma, and is the face of a movement that’s supposed to be about science, yet, all she does is scold.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 20, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an area made hazy from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Elephants, with a post on jumping on the bandwagon of cheap virtue.

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AOC Uses Juneteenth To Call For Reparations

By William Teach June 20, 2020 – 10:30 am

Democrats using Juneteenth to virtue signal is really not a good idea, because it shows that it was Republicans who freed the slaves. The Democratic party, not just in the South but in the North, was against ending slavery. We should make Juneteenth an official holiday so this can be celebrated every year

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Celebrate Juneteenth by Enacting Commission to Study Reparations

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Friday the United States should celebrate Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., by enacting Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) legislation forming a commission to study proposals for issuing reparations.

“Happy #Juneteenth!” the New York lawmaker said on social media. “To celebrate, let’s pass legislation that makes Juneteenth a national holiday and enact H.R. 40, Rep @JacksonLeeTX18’s Commission on Reparations”:

Jackson Lee introduced H.R.40, formally titled the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act,” in January 2019. The legislation establishes a commission to explore the possibilities of compensating descendants of slaves in the U.S., spanning from 1619 to the present day and “recommend appropriate remedies.”

“Among other requirements, the commission shall identify (1) the role of federal and state governments in supporting the institution of slavery, (2) forms of discrimination in the public and private sectors against freed slaves and their descendants, and (3) lingering negative effects of slavery on living African-Americans and society,” per the measure

The House held a hearing on slavery reparations last year — a proposal that remained widely unpopular among the American electorate. The logistics of such a massive proposal also remain up in the air, from cost to the basic process of determining who would qualify for compensation.

So, AOC is good with paying reparations herself, right? It matters not that her mother was born in Puerto Rico, or that her family on her father’s side came to the U.S. long, long after the Civil War and had nothing to do with holding and supporting slavery: she’s here, she should pay, right? Is there any reporter which will ask her?

I’m all for reparations: we should pay them to any person who was personally a slave here in the United States. And make Juneteenth an official holiday, celebrating a day which saw the Republican party freeing the slaves.

BTW

https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1274102898314616837

I’ve read like ten articles on this, and not one features a Native American complaining about the use of the word chief (which was also used with European groups such as the Vikings and Celts), just a bunch of lily white stick up their bums Democrat virtue signalers who think they Know What’s Best for groups like Native Americans. Rather racist, eh? But, no real calls for reparations for Native Americans.

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Climate Crisis Might Maybe Cause Pregnancy Risks, Especially For Black Mothers Or Something

By William Teach June 20, 2020 – 7:31 am

Here’s today’s scary prognostication from the Cult of Climastrology, which you can find all over the news. It’s also meant to hijack the current strife with black people

Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers Most

Pregnant women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have children who are premature, underweight or stillborn, and African-American mothers and babies are harmed at a much higher rate than the population at large, according to sweeping new research examining more than 32 million births in the United States.

The research adds to a growing body of evidence that minorities bear a disproportionate share of the danger from pollution and global warming. Not only are minority communities in the United States far more likely to be hotter than the surrounding areas, a phenomenon known as the “heat island” effect, but they are also more likely to be located near polluting industries.

“We already know that these pregnancy outcomes are worse for black women,” said Rupa Basu, one of the paper’s authors and the chief of the air and climate epidemiological section for the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in California. “It’s even more exacerbated by these exposures.”

The research, published Thursday in JAMA Network Open, part of the Journal of the American Medical Association, presents some of the most sweeping evidence so far linking aspects of climate change with harm to newborn children. The project looked at 57 studies published since 2007 that found a relationship between heat or air pollution and birth outcomes in the United States.

First, air pollution is not the same as man-caused climate change. Second, the study doesn’t say what temperature range is optimal. Third, what about cold temperatures? Fourth, the cities with the worst air pollution are run by Democrats, who make up the bulk of the ‘climate change’ believers in the U.S. Fifth, there are lots and lots and lots of humans living in very warm areas around the world who get pregnant and have babies just fine. Sixth, most of the problems seem to revolve around air pollution, not warmth.

Seventh, it is interesting that this mentions the urban heat island effect. It’s surprising that the NY Times would even allow that to be mentioned, though they do leave out the word “urban”, because UHI shows that a goodly chunk of warming is localized, not global, as the climate cultists try to tell us. Yes, UHI is the fault of mankind, but it has less to do with global greenhouse gases and more towards buildings, roads, and other things that trap and hold heat and change wind flow, along with air pollutants that trap heat. If you take cities out of world wide temperature readings, you’ll surely find that the actual worldwide temperature increase since 1850 is not all that much.

Also interesting is the concern for black babies, since the #1 tenant in the Democratic party is abortion, and the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a virulent racist who wanted to eliminate as many black babies as possible, and no group has abortions by percentage than black women. And since most of the worst air pollution is in Democratic Party run cities, well, #CancelTheDemocrats.

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Say, Should We Be Talking About Canceling The Democratic Party?

By William Teach June 20, 2020 – 7:14 am

See, here’s the way Cancel Culture works: it doesn’t matter how far in the past it happened, if it is racism, sexist, mean, whatever, it should get cancelled. Apologies and doing good work doesn’t matter. Heck, an apology is more of a reason to cancel something

Kevin McCarthy: Should Nancy Pelosi ‘Start Talking About Changing the Name of Her Party’?

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wondered this week if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should consider changing the name of the Democrat Party given her newfound commitment to purging the U.S. Capitol of all things reminiscent of the Confederacy.

“The speaker has the power to do that,” McCarthy said in response to Pelosi moving to remove portraits of four speakers — all Democrats — who served in the Confederacy.

“If the speaker is concerned about that, should she also start talking about changing the name of her party and actually changing the nominee?” McCarthy asked in a reference to Joe Biden (D), who referred to late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), a former KKK member, as a mentor and “dear friend.”

Pelosi made the formal plea for the removal of the portraits in a letter to House Clerk Cheryl Johnson, requesting the “immediate removal of the portraits in the U.S. Capitol of four previous Speakers who served in the Confederacy: Robert Hunter of Virginia (1839-1841), Howell Cobb of Georgia (1849-1851), James Orr of South Carolina (1857-1859), and Charles Crisp of Georgia (1891-1895).”

All of those men were also once members of her Democrat Party– the party that has a long, tumultuous history of defending the institution of slavery and fighting to keep it.

Pelosi is calling for the removal of all Confederate statues, and, look, I agree with her, except for the ones that aren’t about individual people, those ones that recognize all those who died. But, I’ve thought going back to when I first came to North Carolina that it is weird to have statues and things named after Confederate big wigs because, well, they lost. And they were the ones defending against stopping slavery. Even ones like Robert E Lee, who was against slavery. He lost. He defended the Confederacy. There may have been more to the war than just slavery, but, that was the major point.

But, Pelosi’s party is the party of the Confederacy, Jim Crow, segregation, the KKK, and now attempting to keep Blacks down on the urban plantation, living in squalid conditions with crime and poor education. Their mid to early 20th Century platforms refers to blacks as Negros, a verboten word these days. Their 1868 platform is not happy about the Republicans allowing “Negro supremacy.” Their 1856 platform fully embraced slavery. Their 1920 platform was very anti-Asian. Robert Byrd, a “former” member of the KKK, who’s said some pretty bad things about Blacks, was a member of the US Senate as a Democrat till he died in 2010. It doesn’t matter than he apologized: cancel culture doesn’t accept apologies. All things Byrd should be torn down/have their names changed.

Cancel the Democrats.

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Hotcoldwetdry Is Racial Injustice Or Something

By William Teach June 19, 2020 – 3:11 pm

The hijacking of current affairs continues. Not that it wasn’t going on before: Warmists have been attempting to make fixing ‘climate change’ about racial injustice, that it affects women and people of color more, dragging the gender confused in. It’s just at a Category 5 right now, rather than the normal 3

‘Climate Change Is Racial Injustice’: Students Speak Their Truth In Winning Podcast

I like how they say it’s “their truth.” Nothing cultish about that

The club was supposed to meet once a week. But for many of the members of Men in Color, Wednesday afternoons turned into Monday afternoons and Thursdays too.

Imagine a group called “Men in Caucasian.” Would that be OK?

“After school, we were always in Mr. C’s room,” says Jaheim Birch-Gentles, a recent graduate of the High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. He’s referring to one of the club’s advisors, Mischaël Cetoute. The club served as a safe space for students to talk through issues and ideas.

If you need a safe space, then you are really a child mentally, because you are unable to consider alternative views.

Those afternoon meetings gave rise to the Flossy Podcast, where the students tackle big social issues mixed in with their lived experiences.

Their episode about climate change and environmental racism is one of this year’s grand-prize winners in the NPR Student Podcast Challenge. It was created by Jaheim and fellow club members Joshua Bovell, Brianna Johnson, Jamar Thompson, Kamari Murdock, Isaiah Dupuy, with theme music produced by club member Ieszan McKinney.

The episode begins with the idea that, “climate change Is racial injustice,” and focuses on the idea that pollution and the environment impact communities differently — even within Brooklyn.

Wait, which political party runs Brooklyn?

“For people growing up in Canarsie, we don’t really realize we’re living in these areas,” says Joshua Bovell in the podcast. “But then you go somewhere else, like Mill Basin, and you’re like, ‘Why is this so different than where I live?’ “

Welcome to the party, pal! Life isn’t the same everywhere. BTW, Canarsie is one of the nicest, least dangerous areas in Brooklyn. So these kids have Privilege.

They visited a Climate Change March in Manhattan, where they saw mostly white people demonstrating. And in their podcast they wonder, aloud, Why?

Because, generally, mostly middle class to upper class whites pretend to care because they have no real problems in their lives, so, because this is a Victimhood society, they have to invent problems. Much like this entitled, privileged black kids in Canarsie

The students cited in their reporting research that shows climate change, including rising temperatures in cities and poor air quality, disproportionately affects non-white neighborhoods. Black communities face dangerously high levels of pollution and are more likely to live near landfills and industrial plants that pollute water and air and erode quality of life, according to a 2018 report from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Which Party runs these schools and areas?

For co-host Jamar Thompson, the topic is not only urgent and relevant, it’s also related to what’s happening now with protests and Black Lives Matter. “Racism is like a tree,” he says, “and police brutality and environmental racism are just a couple of branches off that giant tree.”

This isn’t really about climate, eh? Also, I would do a graphic like the top one with black kids, but, can’t find a photo with lots of black people marching at climate hysteric stuff.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 19, 2020 – 1:00 pm

..is an overly bright day from carbon pollution from fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Greenie Watch, with a post on failing liberal cities using climate lawsuits as fiscal escape hatches.

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Horror: Designated Hitter May Be Coming To The National League

By William Teach June 19, 2020 – 10:30 am

If you are a National League fan, like me (I’ve rooted for the Dodgers since my t-ball days), you will either love or loathe this

(Dodgers Nation) Baseball purists, you’re going to want to look away. Fans of keeping the designated hitter out of the National League are going to be very disappointed in the MLB. (snip)

Reports then surfaced that MLB and the player’s union were closing in on a deal to get things moving, which was later refuted. The league has sent over a proposal to the union, but that has yet to officially be agreed on or denied at this point. In that agreement though, there was one interesting change to play.

The designated hitter has long been held strictly to the American League and AL home games. That might be changing, as the new agreement would make the DH universal for 2020 and 2021. If that’s the case, it’s likely that the DH will be universal in the next collective bargaining agreement as well.

Not good

Will a pitcher ever hit for himself again in Major League Baseball?

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The shortened 2020 MLB season is paving the way for the universal designated hitter, equalizing the American and National Leagues for the first time since 1973.

According to the proposed agreement for this year and next, the universal DH will be instituted beginning this season. The deal also calls for the DH next year.

Couple that with the belief the DH was going to become universal in the next collective bargaining agreement (2021), and could it mean we’ve seen a pitcher bat for himself for the final time in Major League Baseball history?

That’s not to say a pitcher will never bat again. Some may be utilized as a pinch-hitter. But a NL manager will never be forced to write in his starting pitcher’s name into the lineup card. Relievers no longer carry the burden (as long as they face three batters!) of leaving the game when their spot in the order is due up.

While seeing a big slugger, usually someone who has been kicked out of playing a position as they get older, maybe the knees are not so good anymore, come up and destroy a ball is exciting. But, having pitchers bat and then getting all sorts of substitutes later in the game makes it a chess match in the NL. Do you keep the pitcher in and let them bat, or have a substitute hitter, meaning you need a new pitcher and you’re down 1 on the bench? What happens if the game goes extra innings? Do you have enough pitchers? Will they run out of gas? I’m not a big fan of the DH. We’ll see if the Player’s Association accepts this proposal.

What do you think?

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