Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 1, 2019 – 9:29 am

Happy Sunday! Another awesome day in America. Getting some much needed rain, set up a new fish tank (the old one was gorgeous, all glass, but, was a nightmare to keep clean for just 6.3 gallons. Tons of algea buildup), and December is here. This pinup is by Vaugan Bass, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jihad Watch has more information on the crazy ISIS member who went on a stabbing spree in London
  2. Weasel Zippers covers the illegal alien child sex predator released by Philly being caught by ICE
  3. Vox Popoli explains why Trump is a legend, and it involves rice and China
  4. This ain’t Hell… has a feel good story of a Marine helping save a kids life
  5. The Other McCain wonders why Democrats hate Jesus
  6. The Last Refuge discusses Narwhal tusks (seriously, in a kitchen full of sharp knives, ultimate guy move in grabbing a narwhal tusk)
  7. The Crawdad Hole notes that there is no truth, just Narratives
  8. White House Dossier covers a woman who tried to ruin a man for wearing a MAGA hat getting fired
  9. Powerline discusses Biden’s potential running mates
  10. Pacific Pundit highlights Bloomberg’s idea on why taking more money from the poor is a good idea
  11. Noisy Room wonders who’s watching out for potholes as the blind lead the blind
  12. News Busters discusses the failure of the new Woke movie Last Christmas
  13. MOTUS A.D. covers journalists as “Useful Idiots”
  14. Moonbattery discusses no longer needing White Guilt
  15. And last, but not least, Legal Insurrection features a cat fight between Mayor Pete and AOC

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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USA Today: Swimming In Underwear Teaches You About Donald Trump And Getting Away With It Or Something

By William Teach December 1, 2019 – 8:09 am

Trump Derangement Syndrome abounds. First we had the idiot Newsweek reporter and her story of how Trump was going to spend Thanksgiving golfing, tweeting, and more, which was clearly a huge bit of TDS. Then, of course, Trump went to Afghanistan to visit the troops. Not sure the reporter, or, is that, “reporter”, should have been canned, as Newsweek and the rest of the media pull this stuff on a daily basis, but, there you go. And here we go

What swimming in my underwear taught me about Donald Trump and getting away with it

Last month I swam laps at a public health club in my underwear. I forgot my bathing suit and was damned if I was going to spend an hour walking home and back to get it.  As I approached the pool, the horrified stares from two older women in the whirlpool made my humiliation feel as though I’d accidentally taken a double dose of my daily “skin on fire” niacin. But as a litigator, I’ve learned to watch my case circle the drain and not flinch. And so I shot the women a look that said “You perverts, haven’t you ever seen a man in a Fruit of the Loom bathing suit?”

With each lap, I expected a pool skimmer to hit me on the head before security dragged me out of the pool. But it never happened. And so instead of making a beeline to the locker room when I was done swimming, I was emboldened. I smiled at the same ladies as I joined them in the whirlpool. By this time, their shock had subsided and their expectations recalibrated. They didn’t raise an eyebrow as they shared a hot bath with a stranger in his underwear.

As I walked home it occurred to me: That’s how President Donald Trump gets away with it.

Anyhow, Excitable Michael J. Stern goes on a rant after that about Trump, facts, how big a meaning Trump is, and that impeachment is super awesome, and why he should be impeached

The insidiousness of Trump’s forward inching by desensitizing us to a train off the rails must be stopped. That’s where impeachment comes in. For too long we have relied on pundit babble and impotent congressional subpoenas as a response to pieces of the sky falling.

So, desensitizing us is reason for impeachment? In other words, Democrats are very unhappy that Trump is doing what Republicans never do, which is to Fight Back.

Beyond branding Trump a failed president, for Democrats impeachment is a strategic necessity. Nothing breeds voter apathy quicker than the thought that your leaders are doing nothing in the face of a disaster that demands they do something. The 2020 platform must be built around: “We’ve done all we can. If you’re unhappy with what Trump and the Republican Senate have done, vote us back into power.”

Meanwhile, in the real world, the economy is doing great, unemployment is at historic lows, and consumer confidence is still high, despite all the doomsaying from the media on a “coming recession”.

Finally, however slim, impeachment brings a hope for deterrence. Last month was not the first time I forgot my bathing suit and swam in my underwear. Perhaps if security had hit me on the head with a skimmer and dragged me out of the pool the first time, I’d make sure I packed my bathing suit before heading to the gym.

Back to the underwear. Stern should remember that this sets the bar for future presidents. Using this standard, Obama could have been impeached 5-10 times. Any future Democrat could see this happen to them. You reap what you sew.

 

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Climate Cultists Now Have The Perfect Gift For Their Climate Denying Uncle Or Something

By William Teach November 30, 2019 – 4:21 pm

Warmists sure seem to care what their uncle thinks, eh?

Patagonia has the perfect gift for your uncle who doesn’t believe in climate change

In 2011, Patagonia took an almost unprecedented stand against Black Friday with its now infamous “Don’t Buy This Jacket” ad. Now, as the annual chaos around Black Friday ensues, not only does Patagonia not want you to shop at its stores but the company is actually willing to pay you not to.

Well, sort of.

Starting today, and running until December 31, the brand is matching donations to grassroots environmental organizations through its Action Works platform. The holidays are a time when families get together to eat, drink, be merry—and likely argue about politics. Every gathering has a climate-change denier (or at least a contrarian), so maybe instead of yelling at them about the planet, this provides an opportunity to take the high road. Uncle Pete from Brooklyn doesn’t think we’re in a climate emergency? Now you can donate to The River Project on his behalf. Aunt Sharon from Chicago doesn’t see what all the fuss is about? Put her name on a donation to the Environmental Law and Policy Center.

Or, Patagonia could recommend that little climate cultists practice what they preach, give up their smartphones, live in tiny off the grid homes, grow their own food, etc. And Patagonia could stop shipping their products, much of which surely comes from China. Heck, they should just close shop to save the climate.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 30, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is Christmas capitalism causing climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The People’s Cube, with a post on Barbie and Ken under Socialism.

And, since I uploaded the below photo, not realizing it was so tiny, a double shot with The Lid, with a post on Angela Merkel saying we have to take away free speech or we can’t be free.

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Good News: Woke Is Just Another Word Ruined By White People

By William Teach November 30, 2019 – 11:49 am

The NY Times has an opinion piece up today entitled In Defense of ‘Woke’ (on the web front page it reads “Stop Giving The ‘Woke’ A Hard Time) by Damon Young, the author of “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker.” The subhead even reads “Donald Trump and his supporters want the rest of us to stay asleep.” I was expecting a bunch of whiny-assed Woke stuff. What I didn’t anticipate was blatant racism. Not raaaaacism, but racism.

After several paragraphs of whiny, in which his “disdain for the president and his supporters remains, my capacity for hyper-consciousness has faded”, we find out that Woke is a black term

Drat, there’s that word: “woke.” Rarely has a colloquialism had as many mutations. When I was in college in the late 1990s, “conscious” was the term du jour, a cultural phenomenon reflected in zeitgeist-molding musicians (Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, the Roots), movies (“Love Jones,” “Slam”) and TV shows (“Def Poetry Jam”). “Militant” was a variant of it — conscious, but also ready to throw hands for the cause.

Woke, however, described a racial awareness and cynicism so extra that it bordered on parody; where you’re so awake that your “third eye” saw things that aren’t there. The movies “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” and “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood” satirized this concept. Each film’s most racially conscious character was either married to a white woman or willing to trample a sista to get to one. Also, woke was used exclusively by black people to refer to other black people. It was our word, because only we were mindful enough to recognize when that pro-blackness was a performance.

But, hey, they white people started using the term!

It was no coincidence that this happened alongside Barack Obama’s political ascent. Being liberal — and communicating exactly how radical you wanted people to believe you were — had cultural benefits. For the first time in my lifetime, you could earn progressive social capital by merely just supporting the commander in chief. “I would have voted for Obama for a third term if I could” wasn’t just the most effective joke in the movie “Get Out.” It was the bumper sticker real-life (white) progressives stuck to their foreheads.

And now? Well, woke floats in the linguistic purgatory of terms coined by us that can no longer be said unironically, levitating next to “swag” and “twerk” in the “Words Ruined by White People” ether. What was a compliment just a few years ago has become, at best, an eye roll. If a stranger at a dinner party is introduced — or introduces himself — as woke, I know that I’ll need some whiskey before talking to him.

First, it’s funny that this race baiter is slamming his Progressive, Democratic Party voting brethren. But, to him, they aren’t really his brothers, because they’re white. His book very much seems race baiting, denigrates anyone not black, but, especially white people, as does the website he helped cofound, VerySmartBrothas.com, which now is part of The Root, very much a black supremacist website.

Second, imagine the NY Times allowing a white person to write the phrase “Words Ruined By Black People.” You’re having a hard time imagining that happening, eh?

Bonus points for understanding the graphic.

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Climate Cultists Looking To Rebrand ‘Climate Change’ Language Yet Again Or Something

By William Teach November 30, 2019 – 7:23 am

About five years ago, some leading Warmists recommended that the doom and gloom talk relax, because it wasn’t helping. The scaremongering wasn’t helping move the Cult forward. Of course, most Warmists failed to listen, and now they want even more scaremongering

Alarmists Propose Rebranding ‘Climate Change’ for Greater Shock Value

Climate change alarmists are pushing for a change in vocabulary to scare people into taking global warming more seriously, starting with terms like “global meltdown” and “climate collapse.”

Writing for AdAge this week, Aaron Hall argues that in order to get people to “take action” against climate change, “rebranding” is crucial, since people have gotten too used to the idea that climate is changing and need to be shocked into the notion that the world as we know it is ending.

“Is there a better way to convey the urgency of the situation, while also encouraging folks to take action? Could the tools of branding and brand naming create a more resonant, powerful name?” Mr. Hall asks.

What he and his marketing team came up with was a series of much more frightening labels to stick on climate change in the hope of jolting people into meaningful engagement.

The terms “Global Meltdown” or “Global Melting,” for instance, deliver a more negative image than mere “Global Warming,” he contends. “The names signal that ice caps are melting, but also create a more visceral image in the mind — that real feeling of ‘melting’ when it’s too hot outside. A meltdown is a disastrous event that draws from the ultimate terror of a nuclear meltdown, an apt metaphor for global destruction.”

“Climate Collapse” and “Climate Chaos,” on the other hand, “instill a clear message or even a direct call to action,” Hall notes, adding that “there’s nothing neutral about collapse or chaos.”

They have been constantly attempting to change the language for most of this century, ever since they changed from global warming to climate change. But, hey, they wouldn’t go too far, would they?

To up the rhetoric even more, Hall proposes the weaponized term “Scorched Earth.”

“Sometimes a brand name needs to be hyperbolic to truly capture hearts and minds. If we don’t take massive action now, Earth will be uninhabitable — an irreversible barren wasteland,” he insists. “‘Scorched Earth’ paints the direst picture of what’s to come and what we must avoid and is likely the edgiest brand name from our exploration.”

The problem with this language, though, is that the Doom they say will happen never comes to pass. And they can’t brainwash everyone.

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Socialism In Action: Venezuelan Kids Fainting From Hunger In School

By William Teach November 30, 2019 – 7:11 am

You know, this is a major embarrassment for the self-proclaimed Socialist government

Students Fainting From Hunger in Venezuela’s Failing School System

Hundreds of children filed into their school courtyard to hear a local Catholic bishop lead prayers for their education.

“We pray for the youths who are on the streets and can’t come to school,” said Bishop Jorge Quintero, addressing the Augusto D’Aubeterre Lyceum school in the beach town of Boca de Uchire on a steamy morning in October. “There are a lot of them.”

By the end of the 15-minute ceremony, five children had fainted and two of them were whisked away in an ambulance.

The faintings at the primary school have become a regular occurrence because so many students come to class without eating breakfast, or dinner the night before. In other schools, children want to know if there is any food before they decide whether to go at all.

“You can’t educate skeletal and hungry people,” said Maira Marín, a teacher and union leader in Boca de Uchire.

What’s causing this?

Venezuela’s devastating six-year economic crisis is hollowing out the school system — once the pride of the oil-rich nation and, for decades, an engine that made the country one of the most upwardly mobile in the region. These schools in the past provided children even in remote areas with a solid shot at the country’s best universities, which in turn opened doors to top American schools and a place among Venezuela’s elite.

Hunger is just one of the many problems chipping away at them now. Millions of Venezuelans have fled the country in recent years, depleting the ranks of students and teachers alike. Many of the educators who remain have been driven from the profession, their wages made nearly worthless by years of relentless hyperinflation. In some places, barely 100 students show up at schools that once taught thousands.

What could be at the root?

It is a major embarrassment for the self-proclaimed Socialist government, which has long preached social inclusion. The situation is in sharp contrast to countries that Venezuelan leaders have held up as role models — Cuba and Russia — both of which have managed to shelter the primary education system from the worst effects of a comparable downturn in the 1990s.

See? It’s a major embarrassment! Because Cuba and Russia have made it work or something! Hey, is anyone actually talking about the quality of the educational systems of those nations? Bueller?

Some Venezuelan children are staying home because many schools have stopped providing meals or because their parents can no longer afford uniforms, school utensils or bus fares. Others have joined parents in one of the world’s biggest displacement crises: About four million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2015, according to the United Nations.

The article does delve into the some of the major economic problems in Venezuela, but, fails to make the link that this is what you get with a Modern Socialist government. That this started with Hugo Chavez, mentioned in the article, and has continued with Madura. That the policies are unsustainable.

Maracaibo’s biggest school no longer has any functioning bathrooms. It was designed for 3,000 students; only 100 now show up.

Welcome to Socialism.

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St. Greta: Everyone Will Be Required To Participate In Climate Scam

By William Teach November 29, 2019 – 3:00 pm

James Delingpole highlights the pure Marxism of this. We can call it that, it’s still authoritarian in practice

Delingpole: Greta the Teenage Climate Puppet Goes Full Marxist

In her latest public statement, she says that the ‘climate crisis is not just about the environment’:

To anyone familiar with the workings of the green movement, Greta’s statement will come as no surprise whatsoever.

That’s why I called my book on the subject Watermelons.

Environmentalists are often green on the outside, red on the inside. Their movement is essentially a global socialistic redistribution exercise hiding behind a mask of green righteousness.

What if we do not want to participate? Will will be forced? Sure appears so. The Cult of Climastrology is becoming more forceful in saying that everyone will be forced to participate, whether they want to or not.

And, no, this really isn’t about climate. And, there’s no way St. Greta, nor the two other youngsters as co-authors, wrote the actual piece.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 29, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle causing heat snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Dan Bongino’s alternative to the left leaning Drudge.

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Everyone, Even Skeptics, Have Climate Anxiety Or Something

By William Teach November 29, 2019 – 12:19 pm

That’s right, man-caused climate change skeptics, even you have climate anxiety

In US, climate anxiety churns up psychological storm

In the melting Arctic, communities are racing to maintain their way of life. In the rising Pacific, residents are sounding alarm bells. And in Rhode Island, Kate Schapira and her husband are not having a baby.

Fears about climate change are prompting worldwide action, but one knock-on effect in the United States is mounting anxiety about everything from plastics to class-based environmental disparities.

Schapira, a 40-year-old senior lecturer in the English department at Brown University, is addressing that unease in a number of ways. (snip)

So in 2014, Schapira started setting up a “climate anxiety” booth in public spaces, such as farmers’ markets. It’s a bit like Lucy’s psychiatry stall from the beloved comic “Peanuts.”

“Climate anxiety counseling, 5 cents. The doctor is in,” the booth’s sign reads, welcoming passersby in Providence to talk about their fears.

Yup, they’re all nuts. Or is it “we’re all nuts”?

For Lise Van Susteren, a Washington-based psychiatrist who has been studying the mental health impacts of climate change for 15 years, refusal to recognize the potential hazards is common for “people who are trying to deny that they too are vulnerable.”

“I actually have no hesitation in saying that on some level, I believe that everyone now has some climate anxiety,” Van Susteren said.

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