Super Socialist Super Excited To Make Other People’s Districts More Fair

By William Teach July 30, 2018 – 6:49 pm

I would assume Super Socialist agrees with this sentiment since she retweeted it, and, sure, a retweet doesn’t necessarily mean agreement, it usually does, this is Super Socialist we’re dealing with

Huh.

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/1023911053728665601

The 2016 election had Dem Joe Crowley winning with 82.9% of the vote. Previous elections saw the Democrat winning with well over 70% of the vote. Seems like a pretty big Blue district where it’s impossible to compete. Say, by that measure, we should be splitting up California to be equal party districts, right? Seems like a good socialist thing to do, right?

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Trump’s Not Happy To Be Part Of Kids’ Climate Change Lawsuit Or Something

By William Teach July 30, 2018 – 3:57 pm

Apparently, reporter members of the Cult of Climastrology can read minds

Climate change: Trump not happy to be listed in climate case
Young people taking legal action in 10 US states all say their lives and futures are irreparably affected by climate change, writes Caroline O’Doherty

In the US, Donald Trump is among the defendants listed in a climate case and he’s not one bit happy about it.

But then it probably doesn’t help that the people who listed him are children.

They range in age from 11 to 22 — they were aged eight to 19 starting out — and come from 10 states, although half are in the state of Oregon, home to the lead plaintiff, Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana.

Kelsey was 19 when she and her co-plaintiffs, with the assistance of the Our Children’s Trust campaign group, filed their case in 2015 against the president personally, the office of the president, seven government departments and their secretaries [ministers], the US Environmental Protection Agency and numerous other federal agencies.

Barack Obama was president at the time and he left the case as a legacy to his successor who has been instructing his legal representatives to block its hearing any way possible.

How does Caroline O’Doherty know that Trump is “not one bit happy about it”? There’s nothing in the screed to substantiate this claim, other than the reality that the Trump admin is trying to squash this suit

They’ve been to the local court in Oregon and to the Supreme Court arguing for an end to “this clearly improper attempt to have the judiciary decide important questions of energy and environmental policy to the exclusion of the elected branches of government”.

Interestingly, Catherine forgets to mention that the Obama administration itself attempted to quash the same suit when it was filed against his administration. And still fought on against it. Does this mean that Obama was “not one bit happy about it”?

But, this is the age of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and how many who read articles such as the one above will do any research or ask questions?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 30, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is the need to live on a boat from doomy sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on political blackface and Marxist minstrel shows.

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City Which Refuses To Give Up Fossil Fuels Looks To “Urge” Insurers To Refuse To Cover Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach July 30, 2018 – 10:40 am

Could we possibly put this under of government sponsored extortion?

San Francisco climate change resolution ‘just the start of pressure’ on US insurers

The city of San Francisco has taken a definitive stance towards climate change by passing a resolution urging insurance companies to stop insuring and investing in fossil fuels. It’s the first municipal body in the US pressuring insurers to break ties with dirty energy.

“This resolution is sending a powerful message: San Francisco is committed to acting on climate, and that means it won’t work with insurers who are perpetuating destructive fossil fuel projects. This resolution is an invitation to all cities to cut ties with insurers that are creating climate risks for current and future generations,” commented Ross Hammond, senior advisor for US Campaigns at The Sunrise Project, a group that supports social movements to drive the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy as fast as possible.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is first urging the city to screen potential insurers for investments in coal and tar sands, as they’re “fueling climate change and creating an uncertain future for California,” according to Hammond.

Now, the actual resolution is aimed specifically at coal and tar sands projects, not oil and gas. They have gone after those previously. Yet, even if it is about coal and tar sands, why won’t the city give up its own use of fossil fuels 100%? Further, this kind of extortion would be illegal in the private sector, would it not? It’s a shakedown.

Perhaps San Fran should worry more about the poop, dirty needles, and people doing drugs opening in their streets than this silly thing.

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Next Big Gun Grabber Idea: Restrict Ammunition And Big Guns

By William Teach July 30, 2018 – 8:20 am

Remember, they aren’t coming for our guns. Or so they keep telling us

One way to reduce gun deaths: restrict big bullets and guns

The bigger the gun, the deadlier it is. Or, rather, the bullet.

The Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham on Friday highlighted a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open that found larger-caliber firearms are much likelier to kill a shooting victim than smaller-caliber ones. Caliber measures the internal diameter of the barrel of the gun, or how wide the bullet is.

Analyzing data on hundreds of shootings in Boston between 2010 and 2014, researchers Anthony Braga of Northeastern University and Philip Cook of Duke University discovered that on a bullet-by-bullet basis, shootings with larger-caliber guns were deadlier than smaller-caliber handguns, but they’re not more accurate. Shootings with a medium-caliber weapon were 2.3 times likelier to result in death than with a small-caliber gun; large-caliber guns increased the odds of death by 4.5 times compared to small-caliber guns.

Well, um, yeah. That’s kinda the way it works. I openly carry my Walther P22, which is a .22LR caliber weapons, as a deterrent, not necessarily to kill an attacker. I don’t want to have to pull the trigger. Having a gun pointed at your face will make most people stop. If you break in my home, I’m pulling the 9mm, though.

This is what they consider to be sizes

Notice anything missing? Where’s the .223/5.56 ammo, which is the predominant caliber in all those scary “assault rifles” like the Frightening AR-15? It’s almost like they left it out on purpose. It would most likely be classified as a medium caliber, or at least around the low end on large caliber

“Whether a victim of a serious assault lives or dies is to a large extent a matter of chance, rather than a question of the assailant’s intent,” Braga and Cook write. “The probability of death is connected to the intrinsic power and lethality of the weapon. That suggests that effective regulation of firearms could reduce the homicide rate.”

In other words, having fewer big guns on the streets could make gun violence in America less deadly.

In other words, they want to grab the larger caliber weapons and bullets from the law abiding citizens, who use them to protect themselves and their families from criminals. I have to wonder, would these gun grabbers also restrict ownership from law enforcement, which has embraced the .40 and 10mm calibers? They’re guns are lost and stolen, as well.

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November Is The Last Chance To Save Democracy Or Something

By William Teach July 30, 2018 – 7:58 am

Remember this?

And these people are writing for major media outlets, like George Packer for the New Yorker

All That’s Left Is the Vote
The midterm elections are the last obstacle to Trump’s consolidation of power—and the greatest obstacle to voting is the feeling that it doesn’t matter.

In the haze of summer, with books still to be read, weeds pulled, kids retrieved from camp, it’s a little hard to fathom that, three months from now, American democracy will be on the line. The midterm elections in November are the last remaining obstacle to President Trump’s consolidation of power. None of the other forces that might have checked the rise of a corrupt homegrown oligarchy can stop or even slow it. The institutional clout that ended the Presidency of Richard Nixon no longer exists. The honest press, for all its success in exposing daily scandals, won’t persuade the unpersuadable or shame the shameless, while the dishonest press is Trump’s personal amplifier. The federal courts, including the Supreme Court, are rapidly becoming instruments of partisan advocacy, as reliably conservative as elected legislatures. It’s impossible to imagine the Roberts Court voting unanimously against the President, as the Burger Court, including five Republican appointees, did in forcing Nixon to turn over his tapes. (Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s nominee to succeed Anthony Kennedy, has even suggested that the decision was wrong.) Congress has readily submitted to the President’s will, as if legislation and oversight were burdens to be relinquished. And, when the independent counsel finally releases his report, it will have only the potency that the guardians of the law and the Constitution give it.

Does anyone want to point out to George that Obama did everything pretty much with his pen, because he rarely engaged Congress with dialogue, even the Democrats, instead using his pen to manufacture more rules and regulations? Or that Trump’s administration has been mostly working to reduce those rules and regs, along with many, many others? Nah, let’s just revel in the unhinged scribblings of someone in desperate need of mental health therapy.

And George goes on to whine incessantly about the way Democrats vote in mid-terms, this that and the other, ending with

This year, something seems to be changing. The new faces among Democratic candidates, the new energy behind them, suggest a party of members, not squatters. But, come November, they will have to vote. It’s the only thing left.

Well, they say that every year, don’t they? And then they’re shocked when it doesn’t materialize. But, George is right on one thing: voting is all they have left, because their platform is a mess

Don’t forget abortions available at any time right to the point of delivery, government pays for abortions, government pays for gender reassignment procedures, the gender confused in bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms with little girls, and more and more government control of your life.

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You Too Can Plant A Tree Everytime Trump Lies About ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach July 29, 2018 – 4:26 pm

Good news: we have a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome and ‘climate change.’ Because Leftists apparently can’t know how to plant a tree without having it explained to them by activists

Here’s how to plant a tree every time Trump says something dumb about climate change

Imagine, for a second, that you had one of those stress balls that you could squish in your palm whenever Trump said something about the environment that really frustrated you.

Now imagine that a tree popped out whenever you used it.

Treespond, a campaign that allows users to sponsor the planting of a tree in response to Trump’s misleading commentary about climate change, launched earlier this week. Treepex, the nonprofit behind Treespond, hopes to harness your political frustration and turn it into carbon sequestering forests.

The idea for the campaign came when Bacho Khachidze, Treepex’s cofounder, noticed how frustrated people got about climate change deniers. “It’s normal to get angry when people with power spread false information about a problem that needs urgent attention, their words can do real damage,” he admitted, “But we wanted to provide people with something actionable they could do that wasn’t, like, screaming back.”

So, they aren’t actually doing something themselves, just paying someone else $9.99 to supposedly plant a tree, for which you get “a certificate with your tree’s ID number, a photograph of the tree, and its geographical location.” Kinda sounds like a scam to me. Does anyone ever audit these schemes?

Oh, then there’s this

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 29, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea boiling from climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The People’s Cube, with a post on an Alaska candidate who’s never been to the state.

It’s Greek ladies week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 29, 2018 – 9:21 am

Gil Elvgren Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! A fantastic day in the America. The birds are signing, the flowers are blooming, and the Dodgers are establishing their hold on 1st place. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. PJ Media (Matt Margolis) discusses why Obama is the worst president every
  2. The Other McCain notes California being a no-go zone for Republicans
  3. Hogewash discusses biology and those that don’t know
  4. Powerline covers how dumb are Socialists
  5. The Political Hat notes that the left is obsessed about childhood sexuality
  6. Climate Change Dispatch covers the Miss Climate Change competition
  7. Jo Nova notes rising alternative targets and energy costs
  8. The Deplorable Climate Science Blog has data on this “extreme” summer
  9. 357 Magnum notes how old Animal House is
  10. American Power covers an interesting poll on Democrats being outside the mainstream
  11. Chicks On The Right notes when Obama said Trump would need a magic wand to fix the economy
  12. Datech Guy’s Blog discusses that you should stop trying to find yourself
  13. Geller Report notes Leftists trying to save ISIS jihadis in Britain
  14. Jihad Watch highlights a hilarious irony of an Antifa anti-racism soccer tournament being cancelled
  15. And last, but not least, the Blogosphere lost a great guy with the passing of Jonn Lilyea of This ain’t Hell… RIP

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. 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.

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3D Printing Of Firearms Means Carnage Is A Click Away Or Something

By William Teach July 29, 2018 – 8:05 am

The Washington Post Editorial Board Is Very Concerned about this state of affairs

3-D-printed guns put carnage a click away

PEOPLE WHO are barred from purchasing firearms or want to own a gun that is illegal in the jurisdiction where they live may soon have an easy way to get around the law. All they would need to do is download a computer file and use a 3-D printer to stamp out a gun. No background check would weed out felons, those with mental illness, domestic abusers or possible terrorists. No serial number would allow police to trace a weapon used in a crime. And there would be no problem getting past metal detectors with a gun molded from high-quality plastic.

Plans by a Texas organization to publish, starting Aug. 1, downloadable blueprints for 3-D-printed plastic firearms — so-called ghost guns — have rightly alarmed leading gun safety groups and law enforcement officials. Credit for this dangerous scenario — in which getting an AR-15-style rifleis just a matter of a few computer clicks — goes to the Trump administration for its inexplicable decision to settle a lawsuit it was on the verge of winning.

In fact, the notion of a 3D printed firearm is a minor, tiny, negligible threat. Few people have a 3D printer, and if you just make a plastic replica, it would be more of a danger to the user than the people being shot at. And if you make a plastic-metal hybrid? The associated cost would make it smarter to just buy a real firearm. For criminals, it’s easier to steal them. It’s not like your average gangbanger has access to the necessary hardware, and they’re probably more worried about using their (stolen) computer to mix their latest rap project as an “aspiring rap artist” then searching for the plans that are already on the web.

What this is really about is Blaming Trump, though, not about 3D printing of firearms

The case involves Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, who sued the government in 2015 after the State Department under the Obama administration made him take down do-it-yourself gunmaking blueprints he had posted online, saying they violated export regulations governing military hardware and technology. Mr. Wilson, an avowed anarchist who hopes for a world in which governments can’t stopindividuals from getting guns, claimed his First Amendment right to free speech was being violated. But he lost at every stage of litigation, including a refusal by the Supreme Court to review a decision that the code could not be published during the course of the lawsuit.

So it was stunning — but not surprising, given this administration’s worship at the altar of gun rights — that the State Department elected last month to quietly settle the case. In addition to signing off on the public release of the 3-D printing tutorials, the State Department also agreed to pay nearly $40,000 of Mr. Wilson’s legal fees. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out how this senseless decision was reached, and whether groups such as the National Rifle Association were involved. It, along with Everytown for Gun Safety and Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, tried unsuccessfully Friday to get a federal court in Texas to block what it called a “troubling” and “dangerous” settlement.

It’s a bit more complicated in regards to the settlement, but, regardless, this whole screed was about blamestorming Trump. One has to wonder where all the concern about firearms was when team Obama was running guns in Operation Fast and Furious, loosing almost 2,500, which ended up in the hands of criminals who wounded and/or killed hundreds and hundreds of Mexicans, including children, killed at least to U.S. federal agents, and even showed up in Paris during an Islamic terrorist attack.

That’s not enough. Ghost guns are already a problem; they are used not just by lone shooters but as part of criminal enterprises. Releasing instructions for their manufacture, which now only circulate on the dark Web, will lead directly to the loss of more innocent lives. The administration should stop the State Department from going ahead with this foolhardy move, and Congress should act to plug the loopholes that these guns are designed to take advantage of.

You can’t stop ideas (but there are plenty of laws that already cover things like ghost guns, undetectable guns, and such).

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