Sorta Blogless Sunday Patriotic Pinup

By William Teach March 29, 2020 – 10:00 am

Happy Sunday! It’s still better to be in the United States than anywhere else. The sun is shining, the geese are honking (good grief, they’re loud), and the squirrels are all over. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Althouse covers the polling with Trump and Handsy Joe head to head (what happens when they debate and we see Gaffe Joe?)
  2. Weasel Zippers highlights Handsy Joe’s answer on why the Obama admin didn’t replace N95 masks
  3. Watcher Of Weasels notes how long this could go on
  4. Victory Girls Blog covers a college dean dancing when students asked for a refund
  5. The Right Scoop notes the NRA suing California over gun store restrictions
  6. Theodore’s World has something different, a link to the whole Agatha Christie Death On The Nile movie, one of my favorites
  7. The People’s Cube has Hopeless Headlines
  8. The Other McCain features the NY Times blaming America’s Christians
  9. The Last Refuge covers NY gov Cuomo getting upset about a potential NY quarantine
  10. The Hayride notes the lack of doomsday numbers
  11. A rare link to The Gateway Pundit, which notes the police charging a man after throwing a big party
  12. The First Street Journal says that Coronavirus exposes the economic ignorance of the Left
  13. Raised On Hoecakes discusses medical masks
  14. Powerline says 1984 comes to Britain
  15. And last, but not least, Pacific Pundit highlights illegal aliens demanding their $1,200

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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Coronavirus Is A Dress Rehearsal For ‘Climate Change’ Doom Or Something

By William Teach March 29, 2020 – 8:35 am

I actually agree a bit with this climate cultist: it is a dress rehearsal. It shows exactly what a world with all the Hotcoldwetdry policies of the Cult of Climastrology would look like. Would it be this bad? Not in my opinion. Perhaps about half what we’re experiencing with job loss, people staying home, economic activity, and so forth

Professor Sees Climate Mayhem Lurking Behind Covid-19 Outbreak

Jem Bendell doesn’t shy away from doom and gloom.

The lockdowns and social distancing caused by the coronavirus are giving humanity a taste of the disruptions to daily life that will be caused by climate change, he said.

“In modern industrial societies, the fallout from Covid-19 feels like a dress rehearsal for the kind of collapse that climate change threatens,” Bendell said in an interview. “This crisis reveals how fragile our current way of life has become.”

When the Black Death killed 75-200 million people directly (from most of what we’re hearing Covid-19 doesn’t directly kill people) I’m doubting they were worried about the climate turning to a cool one. Nor yammering about what all those ox-carts were producing. But, climate cultists gotta climate cult.

The University of Cumbria social-science professor is well-known among environmentalists for his theory of “deep adaption.” In a 2018 paper, Bendell said that time was up for gradual measures to combat global warming. Without an abrupt transformation of society, changes in the planet’s climate would bring starvation, destruction, migration, disease and war — the collapse of civilization — within a decade.

Now he’s focusing his scalding assessments on the parallels and links he sees between climate change and the pandemic.

Cultists never let a good crisis go to waste. Especially when they have cushy jobs and don’t have to worry where their next paycheck comes from, nor losing their house or fossil fueled vehicle, getting a meal, etc.

While there’s no direct evidence linking global warming with Covid-19, animals are moving to cooler areas, according to Aaron Bernstein of Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. That’s brought humans in closer contact with them and the diseases they carry, he said. Epidemiologists say the novel coronavirus originated in bats.

Bendell is more willing to make the connection between coronavirus and climate change. He says that a warmer habitat may have caused the bats to alter their movements, putting them in contact with humans.

So, the bats flew into the market and into people’s mouths? These people just make it up as they go.

Dan Kurland: COVID-19 a test run for climate change

“Be prepared! That’s the Boy Scouts’ marching song. Be prepared!”

That was the start of Tom Lehrer’s 1953 satirical tribute to the Boy Scouts. But being Lehrer, the song quickly went awry: “Be prepared to hold your liquor pretty well. Don’t write naughty words on walls if you can’t spell …”

Yet the sentiment was right — as the novel coronavirus pandemic has shown. Forewarned is forearmed. And the same holds for the other crisis facing America and the world — climate change.

That article slowly attempts to make the link that Covid-19 was caused by animals moving around because of you driving a fossil fueled vehicle (which caused a slight increase on global temperatures over 170 years).

Here’s a thought: all this staying at home and a tanked worldwide economy has caused a dip what they call carbon pollution, known in actual science as carbon dioxide. How much is yet to be known. But, according to CoC dogma, CO2 is the control knob, so, what happens if there isn’t a dip in temperatures, and it’s just normal? Won’t that rather show that this is all mostly caused by nature? I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a dip in the urban areas, as, without all the moving vehicles and stuff happening, the actual air pollution which traps heat locally (Urban Heat Island effect), that heat can radiate.

Nothing matters, because we know what this is all about: creating a government run world. Modern Socialism.

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The Coronavirus Is Fast Motion ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach March 28, 2020 – 3:37 pm

Yes, this would be the climate change that has brought us a measly 1.5F increase in global temperatures over 170 years and an utterly average 7-8 inches of sea rise during the 20th Century, with no escalation of either. But, you know, climate cultists gotta climate cult

The Coronavirus Is a Fast-Motion Climate Crisis

Warnings about the crisis went unheeded. Scientists were ignored and called doomsayers. The press accounts were labeled fake news and brushed aside. “The cure would be worse than the illness” went the argument. Government watchdogs saw their budgets gutted. Lawmakers misled the country and did more harm then good. We were told by leaders that “everything was under control” or that the worry was nothing more than “a hoax.”

They were all wrong.

In recent weeks, as the coronavirus spread inexorably across the world, destabilizing countries, causing misery, heartbreak and shattering even the most robust economies, most governments were found unprepared and quickly overwhelmed. The world changed forever in a matter of days.

Instead of readiness and competence, the Trump administration had disbanded the global pandemic team at the National Security Council, and when face to face with the long-predicted crisis, the president proceeded to try and lie, bluster, and bluff his way through the threat. Then lots of people began to die.

Remember when Rolling Stone was about music and culture, rather than unhinged cultist politics? Anyhow, for all the caterwauling about Trump Trump Trump, what of other countries who failed? Anyhow, the beginning was needed to get to

We have seen this horror movie before. The mishandling of the coronavirus has terrifying parallels to the climate crisis. It’s difficult to think about the other civilizational calamity on our doorstep. It’s much easier to be consumed by what’s happening right now, or better yet to hunker down and binge watch your favorite shows and hope the plague passes over. But we cannot. Both tests call for innovation and a collective response. During the pandemic, we have witnessed failures of leadership but also incredible bravery, resolve, sacrifice, and innovation. That is the blueprint for our future.

I agree, Warmists should show their collective response and give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their own lives carbon neutral.

For decades, scientists warned of the perils of climate change and yet we didn’t act. Worse, we doubled down on our addiction to fossil fuels as the industry bought our politicians and local governments. “Drill, baby drill” became a rallying cry when America could have led the world in shifting toward renewable energy sources. Instead, there was empty rhetoric and disinformation campaigns led by an industry bent on extracting every last dime from the earth.

What’s this “we”, Sparky? Get back to me when 10,000+ climate cultists are not taking long fossil fueled trips to vacation spots for climate conferences multiple times a year.

The last thing you want to read about right now is more doom-filled climate predictions. All the more reason to start thinking of the climate story as more than one of just doom – but as one of innovation and ingenuity, compassion and courage. This week and next, Rolling Stone is releasing its special issue on the climate, featuring Greta Thunberg on the cover. In it you’ll hear from scientists and activists and ordinary people, sharing their grief and their hopes and their hard work on issues such as the state of the oceans, solar power, and the fate of biodiversity. We will not stop covering the climate crisis. We’re not going to look away. There is still time to hold back the worst of the coming tide. Despite likely having contracted the virus herself, Greta hasn’t stopped. She’s continuing her Friday for Future as a “digital strike” until it’s safe to take to the streets again. And we have no doubt she will.

Right, right, because people will care about this while suffering and in fear. Hey, if Rolling Stone wants to do their part they would just shut down. Stop killing trees and burning lots of energy for their website.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 28, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded because solar subsidies are too low, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on Canada sending masks to China.

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Toilet Licker Says She’d “Pull Up And Cough On Dr. Phil

By William Teach March 28, 2020 – 10:30 am

Remember this wackjob?

https://twitter.com/realavalouiise/status/1238915362470625292

She made it worse

“I trolled America,” she told the Miami Herald. “It was a clean toilet seat on a sugar daddy’s plane.”

“I feel hot, rich and iconic,” she continued. “If those are the symptoms of corona, then b—ch, I’m ill.”

This “TikTok star and Instagram model’s” parents must be really proud

The college student who licked an airplane toilet said she’d ‘pull up’ and cough on Dr. Phil, who called her ‘spoiled and entitled’

Ava Louise, the woman who coined the phrase “I’d rather die hot than live ugly” and whose TikTok of herself licking an airplane toilet seat was shared widely, has officially stirred the pot with Dr. Phil.

The 21-year-old self-described “skinny legend” held nothing back when she spoke with the TV therapist about her decision to use the coronavirus pandemic to gain publicity.

“I was, like, really annoyed that corona was getting more publicity than me,” she told Dr. Phil in an interview that aired Thursday.

“I just don’t think that this is as concerning as possibly as it could be, because I don’t have coronavirus. I don’t have any symptoms. No one I know has symptoms,” she said, adding that because she went on spring break and Florida and is still healthy, the disease can’t be that serious. (snip)

She said she was so frustrated by Dr. Phil’s criticism of her video — which since been taken down from TikTok — that she was tempted to cough on him.

“I’ll pull up and I’ll cough on you,” she told Dr. Phil, who then called her “spoiled and entitled.”

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Climate Cultists Whine About The Stimulus Not Being “Green”

By William Teach March 28, 2020 – 7:12 am

Well, see, the thing is, it’s not supposed to be a stimulus, it’s meant to simply give people and companies money so they will still be around to offer jobs when this is finally over (though, again, I think lawmakers of both parties missed the point, because $1,200 won’t mean much, and some people who do not have their bank account info on record with the IRS won’t see a check for months). But, Warmists have a sad

The Only Thing Green About the COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Is the Money

After more than a week of squabbling over what should go into the third coronavirus relief package, the White House and Senate leaders reached a compromise on Tuesday night. And while no climate-friendly provisions made it into the $2 trillion stimulus bill, it wasn’t necessarily bad news for the planet either.

In the days leading up to this near-final bill, much of the debate centered around Democrats’ attempts to include certain green provisions, like support for the struggling renewable energy industry, and a requirement that a bailout for airlines be contingent on emission reduction promises.

Struggling renewable energy industry, eh? I wonder why that could be?

The fight broke down into a sandbox tussle on Monday when Mitch McConnell accused Democrats of delaying relief for hospitals and struggling Americans in their pursuit of the Green New Deal, while Democrats argued that if the government was going to bail out the oil industry by purchasing $3 billion of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, why not help other hurting energy industries, too? The clash seems to have ended in a draw, as neither the oil bailout nor any clean energy or emissions reduction measures are in the most recent version of the bill. The only thing that stuck was $32 billion for the airline industry—no strings attached.

That’s because citizens and people who aren’t cultish realize that airlines are a necessary industry. Call them Evil if you want, but, it is necessary. The SPR is also necessary.

In the midst of the negotiations, a coalition of scientists, academics, and advocates from the environment, justice, and labor movements penned a letter to Congress with their own “menu of solutions” to make the stimulus a win-win for the economy and the environment. (snip)

The ideas range from the familiar, like creating green jobs in clean energy, construction, the food system, transportation, and manufacturing, to the creative, like expanding funding for the National Endowment for the Arts to support out-of-work artists and makers. There are layers of proposals within each of the umbrellas I just mentioned, like providing direct funding to transit authorities to help them through the slowdown, changing zoning regulations to promote dense development, providing no-interest loans for local governments to build parks, supporting indigenous farming practices and protecting native seeds, and ending fossil fuel subsidies and directing those funds to help workers transition to new jobs.

That whole greens job thing didn’t work under Obama’s Stimulus. Most just disappeared when the government money ended, right? Well, except for the “activists”, who tend to have big carbon footprints. Zoning regulations? Really? How does that help Bob and Betty from down the street?

Even though the $2 trillion stimulus that Congress is voting on this week is void of consideration for the planet, experts are saying it will probably only get us through the next few months. That means many of these ideas could still come into play in future legislation.

They will never give up, because it’s a cult. Again, if this goes on for months, none of this $2 trillion will matter, and people will be broke and getting evicted, losing their cars and homes, not able to buy food. Giving money to transit authorities won’t mean jack shit.

National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson writes

What will happen next with the coronavirus epidemic is unknown, but it seems certain to claim one very high-profile victim: the so-called Green New Deal.

Good riddance.

Don’t bet on it. These climate cultists will never give up.

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Leftist Seem Pretty Upset That Trump’s Approval Ratings Are Surging Despite Him “Being Awful”

By William Teach March 28, 2020 – 6:50 am

Uber-leftist magazine The Week’s Damon Linker thinks he has the answer. Or is just whining. In fact, I can see him looking like this

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1243549110180941824

with the waving arms and yelling at the computer (or maybe unhinged Haley Stevens)

Trump has never been worse — but his approval is surging. Why?

My estimation of President Trump has never been lower than it is right now. And his approval rating has never been higher.

That disjunct has become familiar to lots of liberal-leaning journalists, intellectuals, and academics over the past three years. Though this hasn’t kept plenty of them from trying to deny or explain it away. Unwaveringly convinced that the president and his party are inept, corrupt, ignorant, and brutally callous, they have written and published article after article under headlines like, “This is the end of the Trump presidency.”

We saw this when Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. It happened again in the months surrounding the midterm elections, when Republicans took a big hit in Congress and lost control of the House. The headlines reappeared repeatedly before and during Trump’s impeachment trial and subsequent acquittal. And we’ve seen it in the midst of a global pandemic, the seriousness of which the president at first dismissed, then grudgingly conceded, and now seems eager to deny once again, this time in the name of “restarting the economy.”

Over and over again, those who report on and analyze politics at close range have documented the president’s lies, exposed his schemes to enrich himself, taken note of his errors and their consequences, and highlighted his incompetence and cruelty — and at every step of the way they have assumed this would make a political difference. But it hasn’t.

This all applies to The Week. Linker trots out a few Reasons

Maybe most of what has been written about the president and his party in the mainstream media is true — and yet it won’t mean that this produces “the end of the Trump presidency” at all. Maybe enough Americans in enough states just don’t care. Or maybe enough of them do care but in an affirmative way. They like politics conducted like pro-wrestling. They smile at the vulgarity. They approve of a president who acts and thinks like a mob boss and prefer a politics of clientalistic corruption to an administrative state of well-trained experts and bureaucrats who aspire to scrupulous competence and ideological neutrality (while sometimes falling short of achieving it). Maybe instead of responding to evidence that Trump is a clownish demagogue, they respond by saying, “Good, and thanks for noticing.”

Maybe they like these things because they’re Republicans and Republicans benefit from the Republican president ruthlessly pursuing policies that Republicans want. (Every faction of the GOP has enjoyed victories and gains during the Trump administration.) Maybe they also like these things because they follow politics for the entertainment and the Trump presidency is fun. He spews rhetorical sulfuric acid at their political and cultural enemies, and he does it with relish and humor. And the victims of his vitriol typically respond by flying off into an indignant, self-important, and self-defeating rage. What could be politically sweeter than that?

Now let me be clear: This is bad. Very bad. It means that a large and politically potent segment of the American public is both actively contemptuous of expertise, specialized knowledge, and the effort to combat political corruption when it benefits them, and beyond the reach of being persuaded otherwise.

It will of course be even worse if they happen to get their president re-elected.

See? Reasons! And there are plenty more. And these Modern Socialist TDS infused folks just don’t get it, and never will.

But really, what’s the alternative when contemplating the future of the center-left in a country that re-elects Donald Trump to the presidency? Continuing to jump up and down, pointing at the president while screaming, “Look at how bad he is!,” while nearly half the country rolls its eyes and turns its backs in indifference?

Aww, you’ll be OK, tater. Well, probably not. Y’all are wack crazy.

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Greta Wasn’t The First Young Warmists To Demand Other People Listen To Her

By William Teach March 27, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Some people want their fame, and, we’re all supposed to listen to children opine about Important Issues, right?

The screed is behind the paywall, but, you can read the whole thing by using Pocket

Their photos often appear side by side, like bookends framing the long campaign by young people to persuade adults to take significant steps to fight climate change. Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen activist, is the latest child to sound the alarm. Severn Cullis-Suzuki, the daughter of an environmental scientist in Vancouver, Canada, came first.

In 1992, when Severn was 12, she traveled with three other young activists to the United Nations climate conference in Rio de Janeiro. The science of global warming had just begun to resonate. The UN had created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, now the leading authority on climate science, just four years earlier, and world leaders weren’t accustomed to listening to children lecture them.

That’s a pretty long fossil fueled flight.

Severn became known as “the girl who silenced the world for six minutes,” setting a precedent for young activists to express their sense of impending doom in the clear-eyed way that only children can. “You must change your ways,” Severn told the delegates. “Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market.”

Yet, the world is doing fine, and, we had a nice long pause lasting from around 1996-2016/7. So, no doom. Has she changed her ways? And now for the lady in the photo

Delaney Reynolds, 20, who lives in Florida, one of the places most vulnerable to climate change, is increasingly frustrated with the lack of action. “A lot of adults in power today are way too focused on money and profits,” she says. “As soon as we can replace them, we will replace them.”

The caption with the photo is what Tom Nelson is referring to. And there are no tide gauges for Florida that show anything other than normal to below normal sea rise for a Holocene warm period.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 27, 2020 – 1:00 pm

….is a fish that will soon be swimming at the poles due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, with a post noting that it’s time we talked about China, and the Chamber of Commerce.

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When Crocodiles Mess With Lockdown

By William Teach March 27, 2020 – 10:30 am

You think it’s bad not finding TP and fresh chicken, beef, and pork?

(The Blaze) As cases of COVID-19 in the eastern African country of Rwanda climbed, authorities there implemented a “total lockdown” Sunday, the BBC reported. So far, Rwanda has at least 40 confirmed cases.

The government has reportedly said it would help people struggling under the order, but that has apparently done little for the many poor citizens who were negatively impacted almost immediately.

On Wednesday morning, an unidentified man breached the lockdown to go fishing along the Nyabarongo River, according to the BBC. While he was out at the river, he was killed and eaten by a crocodile.

Don’t tell celebs, they’ll make some more Lecturing videos from their multi-million dollar mansions.

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