If All You See…

By William Teach August 4, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is grass dying from too much carbon pollution caused heat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Democrats fleeing Texas to avoid redistricting.

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Moonbats Go Nuts Over Trump Reinstating The Presidential Fitness Test

By William Teach August 4, 2025 – 10:30 am

There are many things that The Donald does and says just to tweak Democrats, send them into apoplexy. On this, he was probably surprised that there is such a freakout

Opinion | Why Trump’s revival of this outdated fitness program is likely to do more harm than good

Everyone knows that American kids — and adults — need more exercise. If President Donald Trump’s recent decision to reinvigorate the federal Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test helps get more kids moving, as he promises, it would be a welcome step in the right direction. But what we know so far about this reboot — and Trump’s record on fitness — should make us wary of its ability to actually combat the epidemic of sedentariness that contributes to all kinds of health conditions, from obesity to mental illness.

The executive order re-establishes the council, which Trump had renamed during his first term to place “sports” before “fitness,” a subtle choice that apparently prioritizes competitive athletics over recreational exercise. Much of the language of the new order echoes the initiatives of earlier administrations, highlighting issues of obesity and insufficient military preparedness. Most notably, though, the order hits a competitive note, aiming to “reward excellence in physical education” and to develop criteria for a Presidential Fitness Award, an initiative in keeping with maintaining “America’s global dominance in sports.”

MSNBC’s Natalia Mehlman Petrzela has no idea how this is all going to shake down, what the test will look like, what the plans are for fitness, she (and so many more Liberals) just knows she’s against it. Natalia then offers up 5 paragraphs of whining about Trump and Robert Kennedy, who was probably behind this. Like him or not, he’s in pretty good shape.

Upon this week’s announcement, many took to social media to express how traumatizing they found the Presidential Fitness Test. That is, how the test Trump is resurrecting undermined the council’s goals, in that it celebrated the best athletes and alienated others, turning off many from a future of movement. For this reason, the Obamas retired the Presidential Fitness Test in favor of the Fitnessgram, which was less hierarchical and more focused on holistic lifestyle. And Trump apparently didn’t learn from one of JFK’s key mistakes: While the PCF’s campaigns encouraged citizens to lobby their local communities to spend on these programs, they were not funded with significant federal appropriations, meaning they were never more than an advisory and marketing campaign, albeit a very effective one at shifting Americans’ association with regular exercise in a positive direction.

Oh, good grief. Traumatizing? I would hope no one in Gen X is saying that. Gotta be a liberal Millennial and Gen Z thing. As far as what Obama instituted, did it make any difference? Holistic? Anyhow, Natalia rages for 3 more paragraphs till the end

I too am deeply concerned about the lack of exercise among American children and adults, and am thrilled this is an administration priority. Yet I worry that Trump is bringing back the narrowest version of JFK’s vision, having learned little from fitness culture since, making it unlikely that this endeavor will improve the fitness and overall health of everyday Americans.

“I too am deeply concerned, but, Orange Man Bad, so, I’m against it.” Seriously, as one comment says “Back in the early 70s we all did it , its not a pass or fail it’s to get people to be aware of the benefits of physical Fitness and the health that you get that comes with daily excersize.” Same in the 80s. Gym was for exercise. It’ll be OK, Democrats.

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Fire Ants In Florida Made Worse By ‘Climate Change’ And Urban Sprawl

By William Teach August 4, 2025 – 7:00 am

But, mostly urban sprawl

Fire ants inflame more Floridians, sparked by global warming and urban sprawl

This kind of bites: Climate change is making fire ants an increasingly hot topic in Florida these days. But our efforts to tame them may only be scratching the surface.

Red imported fire ants rank among the world’s most invasive and destructive species. In America, they cause $8.75 billion in yearly economic damages, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They chew on fruits, roots and stems, damaging crops. They swarm, harm and even kill newborn calves and stunt grazing. Their mounds damage mowers, balers, combines and other farm equipment, resulting in costly repairs and downtime.

On the home front, they nest in our air conditioners, sprinkler controls, utility boxes and traffic signals. They gnaw on all kinds of insulation that triggers short circuits, power outages and expensive repairs.

But mostly we know them for their brutal bites that bring pustules of intense itching that sometimes inflict infections, allergic reactions and in extremely rare cases, even death.

The two different types of fire ants were imported to Alabama in the early 1900s. Since then, since there are no natural predators, they’ve spread across the US South from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But, see, now

Mounting scientific evidence suggests problems with imported fire ants are getting worse.

Biologists warn that factors that have long made the Sunshine State a welcoming home to the invaders are accelerating.

Climate change is bringing warmer, wetter weather that favors fire ants. Florida’s urban sprawl also means more disturbed landscapes fire ants seek, with fewer natural predators, and more ants hitching rides in potted plants to new landscapes. Meanwhile, global-warming-fed floods float colonies of clung-together fire ants to new heights

How did they spread back when CO2 was below the safe level of 350ppm? Let’s be honest, this is more cult fearmongering, when the reality is that nothing stops the ants, Florida has been warm and wet with flooding and wetlands for a very, very long time, and all the construction and sprawl roots them up and moves them around.

Like many invasive species, fire ants arrived as stowaways. There are two imported species of fire ants, both introduced into the United States from South America at the port of Mobile, Alabama. The black imported fire ant arrived around 1918. The much more aggressive red fire ant showed up in the late 1930’s. Both ants likely came to the port in soil used as ballast in cargo ships.

Fire ants are easily transported in soil and nursery stock. That’s why all the fresh landscaping in new residential developments helps ants spread.

These Warmists are just so tedious.

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The Fish Wrap Is Very Concerned Over All The Illegal Alien Chinese In The U.S.

By William Teach August 4, 2025 – 6:45 am

Obviously, the NY Times is going to come to the wrong conclusion, just give a sob story

Some Chinese Weigh Painful Question: Stay or Flee Under Trump?

Ever since immigration raids swept Los Angeles in June, Han Lihua, 46, has spent much of his time hiding in his apartment, skipping his Amazon delivery shifts and scrolling on social media to look for nearby sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

In 2022, he fled China, where he ran an independent student newspaper and taught high school literature. He crossed the treacherous Darién Gap on the border of Colombia and Panama before crossing the southern border of the United States illegally in early 2023.

Now, with the Trump administration carrying out a sweeping immigration crackdown, he is among the Chinese immigrants who say fear has eclipsed their fragile new lives, forcing difficult questions about whether the United States can offer them a better situation after they fled an authoritarian government.

“Everyone is so afraid,” Mr. Han said. “I didn’t expect this would happen in the United States.”

Boo hoo. You’re here in contradiction of federal law. If you’re so scared and hiding how’d the NY Times get your story?

Since China reopened its borders in January 2023 after Covid lockdowns, more than 63,000 Chinese citizens like Mr. Han have fled and crossed the U.S. southern border without authorization, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, making them the fourth-largest group by nationality after migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, and Ecuador. Under President Trump’s policies, however, illegal crossings along the southern border have dropped dramatically, reaching 6,000 arrests in June, a low not seen in decades.

Does anyone else find it concerning that Chinese nationals are spending oodles of money to come into the U.S. illegally? Perhaps creating some anchor babies so China can have more of its citizens in the US, perhaps using them as spies or worse? Has it occurred to the Fish Wrap that China is planting their citizens in the U.S.?

Most Chinese immigrants fled strict censorship, growing political repression or Beijing’s zero-Covid policies, which often shut down entire cities for weeks, if not months, trapping people in their homes with little access to food, medical care or work. Those who spoke out against the policies could face harassment or detention. But with the Trump administration’s escalating immigration enforcement, many Chinese immigrants like Mr. Han now confront a question they never imagined they would face: Should they stay or leave?

And they were just able to, you know, leave Communist China easy peasy? Also, there’s zero introspection on COVID lockdowns which were pretty much a Democrat thing and supported by the NY Times.

Recently, discussions on Chinese social media have centered around questions including “Should I go back?” or “Who has been back?” Users who have left the country often debate the pros and cons of their decisions. They once discussed “runology” — figuring out how to leave China during the lockdowns. Now, they discuss “reverse runology,” or mapping a way back to China.

If they are so concerned they could head to other countries, right?

Meanwhile

ICE recruits former federal workers to join its ranks amid hiring spree

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is recruiting retired federal workers to join its enforcement, legal and investigative units as a part of a broader campaign to beef up hiring.

The requests came in an email, which was shared with NPR and posted on LinkedIn and elsewhere online, and asked them to “serve once more.”

“This is a pivotal moment in our country’s history, and your experience and expertise are vitally needed,” the email states, which includes a message on a new webpage.

I guess they don’t have to learn to code or go work on a farm.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 3, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying out from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on the DOJ investigating voter rolls for non-citizens.

It’s ladies with guns week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 3, 2025 – 9:07 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and we’re halfway through the year. This pinup is by Jay Scott Pike with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Hedge Funds Lose Bid To Dismiss Texas Climate Conspiracy Lawsuit
  2. Real Climate Science: “records going back to 1961”
  3. Watts Up With That?: When the Wind Stops Blowing: Trump Administration Restores Sanity to Offshore Energy Policy
  4. Ace Of Spades: The Week In Woke
  5. American Greatness: The Hidden Winners of War: Who Profits from the Russia–Ukraine Conflict?
  6. Bearing Arms: Why ‘You Don’t Need That for Hunting’ Should Never Fly
  7. Blogs For Victory: Finding the Real Enemy
  8. Climate Depot: ‘The climate lobby is losing control’: ‘The public is turning against the consequences of a reckless green agenda’
  9. Cold Fury: Do Tell
  10. Common Cents Blog: GRAPHIC! Hamas has released footage of Israeli hostage Evyatar David being forced to dig his own grave – Video
  11. Gates Of Vienna: Let’s Hire Some Hookers For Allah!
  12. GeeeZ…: CPB: “Closed for Poor Broadcasting”? HA!
  13. IOTW Report: DAVIS: Confirmation of Emil Bove a triumph of new over old
  14. Jihad Watch: UK: English Channel crossings so far in 2025 pass 25,000 – faster than any year ever
  15. And last, but, not least, Knuckledraggin My Life Away has “And you wonder why it was the most popular pizza joint in town”

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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Trump’s Special Envoy Has Plan To Get All Hostages Released And End The War

By William Teach August 3, 2025 – 7:00 am

Too bad it doesn’t involve send in hundreds of drones to wipe Hamas from the face of the Earth. Because Hamas and the Islamists will never give up. They even say so

U.S. envoy tells Israeli families of plan to bring all the hostages home

Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, told Israeli hostage families on Saturday that the United States has a plan to bring home all the remaining captives held by Hamas in a sweeping deal and that an end to the war was near, according to a recording of the meeting published by Israeli Channel 12 television.

Witkoff met the families in Tel Aviv after attending an impromptu protest that was held in the city after Hamas released a video, late Friday, of a gaunt 24-year-old hostage, Evyatar David, describing a lack of food while in captivity in Gaza and urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war.

Hamas and its militant affiliates have often released similar videos during critical junctures in negotiations with Israel to stir public sentiment and apply pressure on the government.

Trump “now believes that everybody should come home at once, no piecemeal deals. That doesn’t work and we’ve tried everything,” Witkoff said, according to the recording of the meeting.

I wonder if this involves backdoor threats from the Trump admin

Witkoff also told the families that Hamas was ready to commit to laying down its arms, Israeli media reported, citing families who had met with Witkoff.

Hamas immediately denied on Saturday that it was ready to disarm. “Resistance and its weapons are a national and legal right as long as the occupation persists,” it said in a statement. “We will never relinquish this right until all our national rights are restored, foremost among them the establishment of an independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.”

And there it is: what we’ve said all along. Hamas and the Palestinians want Israel wiped out, the Jews killed, and the area turned into a hardcore Islamic caliphate. Obviously, the Washington Post has nothing to say on the matter, they just gloss over it. But, they are happy to run with the “Gazans are starving narrative afterwards.” All they have to do is release the hostages and lay down their arms.

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LOL: CNN Says US Govt Has Declared War On Idea Of Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach August 2, 2025 – 3:59 pm

Excitable Zachary B. Wolf is incensed. I wonder if has given up his own use of fossil fuels

The US government has declared war on the very idea of climate change

Americans are used to whiplash in their climate policy. The US has been in and out and in and out again of the key Paris climate agreement over the past four presidencies.

But in his second administration, President Donald Trump is not just approaching climate science with skepticism. Instead, his administration is moving to destroy the methods by which his or any future administration can respond to climate change.

These moves, which are sure to be challenged in court, extend far beyond Trump’s well-documented antipathy toward solar and wind energy and his pledges to drill ever more oil even though the US is already the world’s largest oil producer.

His Environmental Protection Agency announced plans this week to declare that greenhouse gas emissions do not endanger humans, a move meant to pull the rug out from under nearly all environmental regulation related to the climate.

Have Warmists ever considered that they can stop jamming this through government and the courts and just practice what they preach? I know it gets tedious writing that, I’m sure it is tedious to read it. But, it is as true as ever. I don’t expect everyone to love heavy metal, and, that’s OK (well, not really, everyone should love metal). I’m not going to use the power of government to force everyone to listen to it. I despise people listening to their vids and music on the speakers of their phones. But, I wouldn’t demand government stop it, no matter how much I hate it.

There is nothing in the Constitution which requires Congress to do anything about the climate scam. Even if AGW was real, it’s still not in the federal government’s power per Article 1 sections 8-10. If states want to do something, have at it. If you want Los Federales to do something, try and pass a constitutional amendment. Even laws mostly do not require we do something, and any law or regulations passed can be changed.

So, suck it up, Warmists, leave the rest of us alone, make your own lives carbon neutral.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 2, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible summer heatsnow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Trump putting sanctions on the Palestinian Authority.

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22 Dem Led States Sue Over Defunding Planned Parenthood

By William Teach August 2, 2025 – 10:30 am

They do realize that it is lawful for the duly elected Congress to decide what they will and won’t fund, right? And that those Democrat states can provide funding out of their own budget, right?

Democrat-Led States Sue Trump Admin Over Efforts to Defund Planned Parenthood

A coalition of Democrat-led states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration this week over the “Big, Beautiful Bill’s” provision defunding abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

The lawsuit was brought by 22 attorneys general and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), whose state has a Republican attorney general. California Attorney General Rob Bonta claimed in a press conference on Tuesday that the provision is “punishment for Planned Parenthood’s constitutionally protected advocacy for abortion.”

“The hypocrisy is really hard to ignore: a party that claims to be defenders of free speech only seem to care about it when it aligns with their own agenda,” he said.

Democrats filed their lawsuit in the same Massachusetts district court that Planned Parenthood filed a separate lawsuit in. An Obama-appointed judge in that lawsuit issued a preliminary injunction last week against the provision, effectively mandating Medicaid funding for the organization’s affiliates as litigation continues.

They’re going to lose. Nowhere in the Constitution nor in federal law does it say that funding any private organization is required. There is a law called the Hyde Amendment, which bars the federal government from funding abortion.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) previously argued in its opposition to Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit that the abortion organization “has no right to taxpayer money” and the “court should not invent such a right.”

“The Court should uphold Congress’s lawful exercise of its authority to decide to whom it will entrust taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars,” the filing reads.

Do the states of Ca, NY, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Mass, Michigan, Minnesota, NJ, Nevada, NM, NC, Oregon, Josh Shapiro (as explained above), RI, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and D.C. (unsurprising, the 1 office they have in DC is an a majority black neighborhood. Dems love aborting black babies) think they will win? The Supreme Court will most likely mention that they can provide funding themselves.

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