Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 29, 2024 – 9:28 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in the Once and Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and just a few days from the new year. This pinup is by Henning Ludvigsen, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogpshere? The Fine 15

  1. IOTW Report: France’s ‘Christian Terrorist’ Turns Out to Have Been a Muslim All Along
  2. Jihad Watch: Only Man Ever to Head Both FBI and CIA is Against Trump’s Appointees, and That’s Good
  3. Legal Insurrection: Will NPR and PBS Survive the Trump-Musk Era? Maybe Not
  4. Moonbattery: Happy Festivus, Tax Slaves
  5. neo-neocon: When is an insurrection not an insurrection? When the left does it
  6. Pacific Pundit: Left wing filth rag The Hill calls for an insurrection to stop Trump from becoming president again
  7. Sultan Knish: The End of Never Trump
  8. The First Street Journal: Today’s left are crying about increasing homelessness while supporting the policies which increased homelessness
  9. The Gateway Pundit: Disney Producers ‘Devastated’ at Decision to Axe Trans Character From Animated Series – Claim Trans Character Would Have ‘Saved Lives’
  10. The Lid: Microsoft Billionaire Bill Gates Wants to Destroy Vax Skepticism with Artificial Intelligence Censorship
  11. This ain’t Hell…: Getting Mexico’s attention with “military strikes” mention
  12. Victory Girls Blog: Joe Biden: China Lies Unmasked
  13. Independent Sentinel: What European Woke Looks Like
  14. Gates Of Vienna: A Slap on the Wrist for the Jew-Hunters
  15. And last, but, not least, No Tricks Zone has New Study Finds 1970s-Present Antarctic Ice Loss Is ‘Unexceptional’ And Not Due To ‘Climate Change’

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 Advisor Warns PRC Not To Interfere With Deportation Orders

By William Teach December 29, 2024 – 7:00 am

Everything will be fun and games for Democrats as they try and stop illegal alien criminals from being deported right up till they are arrested for violating federal law. Those in the People’s Republik Of California should be careful, because the Trump admin is not messing around

Top Trump advisor warns California cities not to block immigration enforcement

California officials, along with dozens of others across the country, received letters this week from Stephen Miller’s nonprofit, America First Legal, warning them of the consequences for interfering with or impeding illegal immigration enforcement.

Miller has been named President-elect Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy. In a written statement, the nonprofit said it had sent 249 letters to elected officials in states and cities with sanctuary policies.

The officials who received the letters include Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell, San Diego County Supervisor Nora Vargas and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, among others.

The letters, all dated Dec. 23, state that people living in the country illegally are subject to removal and that it is a crime to conceal, harbor or shield them.

“As Attorney General, on December 4, 2024, you stated that the State of California will not enforce federal immigration laws, encouraging defiance by all California jurisdictions,” the letter to Bonta reads in part. “… This rhetoric illustrates the State’s intent to blatantly violate federal law. Such lawlessness subjects you and your subordinates to significant risk of criminal and civil liability. Accordingly, we are sending this letter to put you on notice of this risk and insist that you comply with our nation’s laws.”

I am so looking forward to what comes next, when they FAFO, not think that the Trump administration will actually enforce federal laws against Them! How dare they!

“The fact of the matter is that you and the other officials who support or enforce sanctuary laws, policies, and regulations have a very personal stake in the matter — you each could face criminal prosecution and civil liability for your illegal acts,” the letter concludes.

The look of shock on the face of the first charged/arrested will be priceless, as well as the looks on the faces of other Democrats who’ve been attempting to jam up deporting illegal aliens. But, really, the mass deportation, especially of the criminals, should start in the states that voted for Trump. Get them out of the Blue states and let the Red states deal with the illegal aliens, especially the criminals, they are trying to protect till the end.

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ClimaTalking Point Today: You Caused Earth To Have 41 More Days Of Dangerous Heat Or Something

By William Teach December 28, 2024 – 3:00 pm

This tidbit is making all the rounds through the climaCredentialed Media

Climate change added 41 days of dangerous heat around world in 2024

Once upon a time Scientists say human-caused climate change added an average of 41 days of dangerous heat worldwide in 2024. The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central comes after a year likely to be the world’s hottest on record. The heat scorched everywhere from cities in North America to West Africa to the Acropolis in Greece and even South and Southeast Asian countries. Some areas saw 150 days or more of extreme heat due to climate change. The scientists also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout the year.

People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024.

The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the end of a year that shattered climate record after climate record as heat across the globe made 2024 likely to be its hottest ever measured and a slew of other fatal weather events spared few.

Can you guess what is missing from this and all the other doomy articles? Actual data. There is no mention of what they consider “dangerous heat” and how much more there was. Where was it? North Carolina didn’t seem anything but usual. How does this all compare to previous Holocene warm periods?

Millions of people endured stifling heat this year. Northern California and Death Valley baked. Sizzling daytime temperatures scorched Mexico and Central America. Heat endangered already vulnerable children in West Africa. Skyrocketing southern European temperatures forced Greece to close the Acropolis. In South and Southeast Asian countries, heat forced school closures. Earth experienced some of the hottest days ever measured and its hottest-yet summer, with a 13-month heat streak that just barely broke.

Do they understand that this is the way averages are made? 4+2 is 6. The average is 3. Right? Oops, sorry, I keep forgetting that this has all become a doomsday cult, and facts, figures, reality, history, science, none of that matters to them.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 28, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are rough seas from climate change driving wind, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Palestinians attacking a Bethlehem church.

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Republicans Note That Trump’s “Imperialist Crazy” Is Negotiation Tactic

By William Teach December 28, 2024 – 10:30 am

I mean, Politico is hitting the nail on the head, but, they do not really believe it

‘Crazy worked just fine the first time’: Why some Republicans see Trump’s imperialist musings as an act of negotiation.

Donald Trump is heading into 2025 with imperialism on the brain.

Since his November victory, the president-elect has suggested the U.S. should own Greenland, annex Canada and reclaim the Panama Canal — an expansionist air he doubled down on in a spree of Truth Social posts on Christmas Day.

But if Trump’s overtures are evidence that his America First policy agenda may have an interventionist component, they also served as an early reminder of how the incoming president conducts foreign policy: Lots of threats, confusion, freewheeling and a dose of unpredictability. And Republicans are largely writing it off as saber rattling, an approach that sometimes helped Trump get what he wanted out of allies and adversaries during his first term, but also at times threw his administration into chaos or sowed confusion like the famous late-night “Covfeve” tweet.

“I was there at the State Department when a tweet would be issued, and then, every intellectual in the building had to somehow figure out if there’s any logical sense to this and policy to this and if there’s any upside, or if this actually is Covfefe,” said Matthew Bartlett, a GOP strategist and appointee in Trump’s first administration.

Well, yeah. The lefties at Politico and other Credentialed Media outlets just do not seem to get that Trump is not a career politician: he’s a businessman who ran for office, and mostly sticking with those private sector business tactics. Sure, they do not always work. That’s life. The moonbats think Trump actually wants to invade and take over Greenland, Canada, and Panama. No. Just sabre rattling. And he keeps them all guessing, unsure of what he will do, because the people Trump is speaking to are career politicians and bureaucrats, who do not understand business, just Politics Speak. They do not do things this way in Politics Speak world.

“But from a foreign policy context, crazy worked just fine the first time,” he said. “If leaders are like, we may not respect you but we absolutely think that you’re bonkers, and we don’t know what’s coming at us next, great. Full send. And if that leads to better peace and prosperity in Ukraine, in Israel, with terrorists on watch, with foreign states. Great. They should be put on notice.”

It mostly worked just fine during the first Trump term, while, during the Political Speak term of Biden-Harris things got a whole lot worse, as they did during the Obama-Biden years.

Dave Carney, the longtime Republican strategist who served as senior adviser this year to the pro-Trump Preserve America super PAC, said Thursday that Trump may be “trying to soften the ground for negotiations,” recalling his threats during his first term to withdraw from NATO — which some Republicans credited with pressuring other countries to increase their defense spending. He said Trump’s unpredictability can be an asset in some scenarios.

“With the president, there’s, I think, always the possibility that other countries think, ‘holy shmoly, he may actually do that, we should try to accommodate him,’” he said.

Correct.

But Trump’s freewheeling nature has also spelled trouble for his administration in the past, prompting concerns from foreign policy and national security experts. His abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria in 2018 was made without consulting his national security team or allies, stunning lawmakers and his own Cabinet when he reportedly reached the decision after a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And Trump regularly used Twitter during his first term to issue nuclear threats against countries or orders to the military, a habit that spurred chaos and confusion throughout the ranks of command.

In other words, the career politicians and bureaucrats did not like it. Surprise, and, oh, well.

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New York Governor Finally Signs Laws Making Businesses Pay For Climate (scam) Emissions

By William Teach December 28, 2024 – 7:00 am

What could possibly go wrong with this?

New York to charge fossil fuel companies for damage from climate change

Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

The new law requires companies responsible for substantial greenhouse gas emissions to pay into a state fund for infrastructure projects meant to repair or avoid future damage from climate change.

Lawmakers approved the bill earlier this year to force big oil and gas companies to contribute to the cost of repairs after extreme weather events and resiliency projects such as coastal wetland restoration and upgrades to roads, bridges and water drainage systems.

“The Climate Change Superfund Act is now law, and New York has fired a shot that will be heard round the world: the companies most responsible for the climate crisis will be held accountable,” said state Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat who sponsored the bill.

I wonder if Hochul and Krueger have given up their own use of fossil fuels? Nah. We know they haven’t.

The law won’t start penalizing companies immediately. Instead, the state must come up with rules on how to identify responsible parties, notify companies of the fines and create a system to determine which infrastructure projects will be paid for by the fund. Legal challenges are expected.

They’ll have to figure out how much the cost of living will go up from this law, and how many companies will leave NY. Let’s go back to when they were discussing this earlier in 2024

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie threw cold water on a bill that would require major energy companies to pay for climate change remediation, saying the measure could ultimately result in higher costs for utility ratepayers.

The Climate Change Superfund Act would require companies that contributed significantly to the buildup of greenhouse gases to pay for part of the mitigation efforts to offset climate change, including major infrastructure projects like water barriers.

The measure was approved in the state Senate, but has stalled in the Assembly.

Heastie says he’s concerned that it would result in higher utility prices, as the energy companies pass down the costs of the new requirements to ratepayers.

“I’ve never in my life seen corporations choose the ratepayer over the stockholder,” Heastie said. “Asking these companies to pay more, it’s going to be, of course, taken out on the ratepayer.”

It’s unknown if they managed to figure out a way to make it so the fees/taxes can’t be passed on, but, that would mean more companies leaving. They will be passed on. Hopefully those companies that stick around really sock it to the government for government purchases.

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Democrats Upset That Deporting Illegals Could Mess With Agriculture

By William Teach December 28, 2024 – 6:45 am

There was a time when there was a pretty big business in migrants with visas coming up from Mexico and Central America to work agriculture, then going home when the job was done. Or even being in the US for a few years on a legal visa. Now, Democrats just want all the illegals and fake asylum seekers to clean their homes, do their yards, and pick their veggies and fruits

Trump migrant deportations could threaten states’ agricultural economies

If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to deport millions of immigrants, it could upend the economies of states where farming and other food-related industries are crucial — and where labor shortages abound.

Immigrants make up about two-thirds of the nation’s crop farmworkers, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, and roughly 2 in 5 of them are not legally authorized to work in the United States.

Agricultural industries such as meatpacking, dairy farms and poultry and livestock farms also rely heavily on immigrants.

“We have five to six employees that do the work that nobody else will do. We wouldn’t survive without them,” said Bruce Lampman, who owns Lampman Dairy Farm, in Bruneau, Idaho. His farm, which has been in the family three decades, has 350 cows producing some 26,000 pounds of milk a day.

“My business and every agriculture business in the U.S. will be crippled if they want to get rid of everybody who does the work,” said Lampman, adding that his workers are worried about what’s to come.

OK, so, is Lampman employing people not authorized to work in the U.S., be it due to being unlawfully present or fake asylum seekers? That would be illegal. If they are authorized to work, not problem. Unless they are a criminal. Does Lampman, and other companies, want murderers, rapists, child abusers, thieves, etc., working for them? Because those are whom the Trump admin will go after first.

Anita Alves Pena, a Colorado State University professor of economics who studies immigration, noted that many agricultural employers already can’t find enough laborers. Without farm subsidies or other protections to make up for the loss of immigrant workers, she said, the harm to state economies could be significant.

Well, how about getting legal migrant workers? What they really want is to pay these people minimum wage or less to do the job. Are they saying their business model relies on illegal aliens?

How about having those sentenced to jail work the fields? Do the agriculture business owners want these people?

You want them, business owners?

Meanwhile

Migrants can accrue profound emotional trauma when journeying to the US. Mental health workers are stretched thin.

There’s a phrase in Haitian Creole that describes feelings of extreme stress, anxiety, or depression that are all too common among the thousands of new migrants arriving in Massachusetts: tet chaje.

The literal translation is “burdened head,” a feeling of being overwhelmed. People who work with the state’s surging number of new arrivals, a majority of whom are from Haiti, hear the term often.

Migrants may accrue profound emotional injury both in their home nations, where gang violence or state-sponsored oppression are common, and through the journey to the United States. Many experience rape and assault or witness the deaths of fellow travelers.

Can anyone think of a solution so they do not that profound emotional trauma?

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Who’s Up For Some 2025 Climate (scam) Resolutions?

By William Teach December 27, 2024 – 3:00 pm

It begins

Here are 12 climate resolutions to take with you into the new year

As we head into a new year, it’s a good idea to think about climate resolutions: what small actions can you take to reduce your carbon footprint?

From ditching disposable coffee cups to starting a community garden, our individual efforts go a long way.

Here is Change by Degrees’ handy monthly guide for making meaningful environmental change in 2025.

January: rethink your food

Start the year by focusing on what you eat. Agriculture accounts for a significant portion of greenhouse gas emissions so even small shifts – like cutting back on meat some days – can help. Eating local food that’s in season supports small farmers and reduces the carbon footprint of imported produce. It’s a win-win that will have an immediate and positive impact on your health and the pockets of small, organic farmers.

Would these be the same local farmers that Big Government is trying to destroy?

February: care for soil and trees

That’s environment, keeping a clean environment.

March: throw a ‘what should I do?’ party

Many people don’t realise their potential to contribute. Host a “what should I do?” party to connect friends with action. Untapped talents can inspire collective change, whether lobbying, organising cleanups, or creating art. Already know your role? Use this month to plan your year of action.

How about giving up your own use of fossil fuels and making your own life carbon neutral?

I’ll let you read the rest. These are all minimal things for the cultists. Will any of them do these? It’s all very silly and cult-like.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 27, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is snow that will SOON! melt away and never fall, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on Larwyn’s Linx.

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Dem Senator Brian Schatz Thinks They Need To Talk Like Normal People

By William Teach December 27, 2024 – 10:30 am

Well, good luck with that. Along with talking to normal people

Brian Schatz to Democrats: Talk Like Normal People

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) can seem mellow. Having grown up in Hawaii, he exudes not only the Aloha spirit but what could be called shaka vibes. You know, that hang loose and catch-a-wave-when-it-comes sense of equilibrium that imbues many who hail from America’s Pacific paradise. (big snip)

I spent 45 minutes with Schatz earlier this month in his holiday and Hawaii-bedecked Hart office. He was blunt about a range of topics, most significantly his party’s failures and the necessity that they drop their faculty club and interest group vernacular. He was particularly scathing on the tic of using “center” as a verb. (snip)

You’re not quitting Twitter are you?

I still have an account. I am posting mostly on Bluesky.

But on the information environment piece, I think there’s the question of left-wing infrastructure, which I think should not be confused with the liberal project of preserving journalism and democracy, which is super important. But the problem is, a lot of liberal donors believe if we just fund good journalism, that that’s a counterweight to the right-wing noise machine. And I think that we’ve now learned that we have to build our own infrastructure, and that’s going to take money and staffing and all of that. I will help with that, but obviously as a federal legislator, that’s not my primary function.

He fails to realize that the vast majority of the news media is full of Democrats, and they push the Democrat narrative. And, if he’s sitting mostly on Bluesky, he’s speaking mostly to the choir, with the nuttiest of the nutters having moved over there. You can’t speak normal or to normal people if that’s your primary platform.

The third part of that, is that it’s not just that we’re unable to reach people. It’s that people are unable to reach us. So, when inflation was pissing people off, you could scarcely find a person in mainstream, left-wing circles, who would even talk about it. Except to explain that the Biden economy was better than other countries. And that the Biden stewardship was better than other industrialized nations. And by the way, I continue to think that’s true and totally irrelevant — If you’re talking about the question of are people pissed about the price of eggs, the answer is flatly yes they are. Not, ‘Don’t you know people are paying more in Paris and shouldn’t you be happy about that.’

He does have a point there, but, they won’t. Democrats think they are better than everyone else, so, they cannot be honest with anyone. They expect everyone to just go along with what the Elites say. Keep your mouth shut, suck it up, vote Democrat.

But who appeals to you in ’28?

I think whomever we nominate has to talk like a normal person. That is to me the most important thing. Normal doesn’t mean that they have an affect that is identifiable midwestern or southern or some sort of regional — But this person is real. If you had them over for dinner, you could understand what the hell they were talking about. And so I think we are looking for someone who can plausibly fit in as a human being all across the country. I don’t know who that’s going to be. But the challenge is going to be, how do you maintain your progressive values and not sound like you just got your post-doctoral thesis in sociology. And God bless those people.

Good luck with that. A goodly chunk of your elected officials, their advisors, and all your Credentialed News folks speak in Progressive. Who can they nominate who does not speak like an Elitist wackjob lefty? Who talks down to people who aren’t getting with the program?

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