Good News: ‘Climate Change’ Isn’t All Bad News

By William Teach June 3, 2018 – 4:11 pm

The flat earther’s in the Cult of Climastrology who think that any minor change in the Earth’s temperature, something that never happened during the previous 4.5 billion years, is doomy have found something to be positive about

Climate change isn’t necessarily all doom and gloom for Newfoundland and Labrador
‘Doom-and-gloom’ view on climate change is one-dimensional and unproductive, say local researchers

See? It’s unproductive

First, a disclaimer: overall, climate change has a negative impact on global ecosystems, biodiversity, and economy.

And most of the article is about doom and gloom.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 3, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible, evil gas powered grill cooking horrible, evil meat that’s causing the world to turn to desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on how NFL fans feel about the kneeling ban.

It’s grilling week on IAYS!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 3, 2018 – 9:14 am

Peter Ciernia Patriotic pinup

Happy Sunday! Another super fine day in the great nation of America. The Sun is shining, the mockingbirds are mocking, and it’s a great day to be outside. This pinup is by Peter Ciernia, with a wee bit of help.

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

  1. Independent Sentinel highlights more awesome (bomb making) Middle East imports
  2. Weasel Zippers covers Texas’ plan for armed veterans in schools
  3. This ain’t Hell... has some feel good stories
  4. The Right Scoop covers how NFL players plan on continuing to ruin the sport
  5. The Powers That Be isn’t impressed by Comrade Sanders’ latest scheme
  6. The Lid covers Congress passing the “Right To Try” law
  7. The Last Tradition highlights another burger joint having to apologize to the police
  8. The First Street Journal covers #NeverTrump Bill Kristol losing the last of his mind
  9. The Daley Gator has the left’s war on kids
  10. White House Dossier also covers the Right To Try law, and how the MSM ignored this
  11. Powerline discusses how illegal marijuana is shipped from Colorado to other states
  12. Political Clown Parade thinks there must be a pony nearby with all this (John Brennan) manure around
  13. Pacific Pundit features a lunatic at The Atlantic fantasizing about Trump punching Melania
  14. Legal Insurrection has Starbucks’ SJW training manual
  15. And last, but not least, Just One Minute wonders if Mueller can subpoena Trump

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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Ohio Is Using Actual Law To Go After Actual Criminals With Illegal Firearms

By William Teach June 3, 2018 – 7:57 am

See, on one hand, you have Vox pimping yet again an article of the Australian solution, which is banning and forced confiscation, but, remember, no one wants to take away your guns

Then we have this from the Biz Pac Review

Pay attention, Chicago. Ohio blows up gun control narrative – laws not new, just need enforcement

The latest number of gun and violent crime indictments in Ohio just threw cold water on the liberal narrative about gun control.

On Friday, the Department of Justice announced 13 new gun-related indictments in the state, making for an increase of about 60 percent over the previous two fiscal years, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Liberal media outlets are not likely to focus on the news of gun control that works – the kind that takes firearms out of the hands of criminals and uses the law to punish them.

The Ohio indictments covered crimes ranging from falsifying information on a background check, illegal possession of a firearm by a felon to possessing a firearm in a drug crime, laws that aren’t new but just needed to be enforced.

The latest indictments and the increased number of gun-related prosecutions are aimed at keeping dangerous criminals off the streets according to Justin Herdman, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. The defendants have long criminal histories with many violations including drug trafficking, robbery, felony assault and assault on a police officer.

“These defendants include those with a long history of violent crime, as well as defendants who have illegally obtained guns for criminals to use in violent crime like carjackings,” Herdman said in a statement. “As part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, we will continue to work with local police and federal law enforcement to target the most dangerous offenders and make our community safer.”

There was a big focus on going after actual criminals, in keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and people who should not have firearms, and it is working. Rather than going after the rights of law abiding citizens by passing more “common sense gun control” laws, the existing laws were used in the manner in which they were designated.

Meanwhile, in cities which tout gun-control laws like Chicago, the criminals seem to have the upper hand. More than 1,000 extra police officers patrolled Chicago’s neighborhoods over the Memorial Day weekend but there were still eight people killed and 32 others wounded by gunfire, according to WLS-TV.

As BPR points out, most all the cities on the Forbes most dangerous list have Democrat mayors. To take that further, most of them have a majority of Democrats sitting on their legislative chambers, if not full control. Chicago, and places like NJ, can whine all they want about guns coming in from the outside, but they aren’t really trying to do anything about the criminals who use the guns, just interfering with the Rights of law abiding citizens.

BTW, this Tweet featured at a Hill article about youths marching in orange is a hoot

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Who’s Up For Some Nikki Derangement Syndrome?

By William Teach June 2, 2018 – 4:55 pm

There’s plenty of Trump Derangement Syndrome around, like this blue check nutball who actually linked Trump to the Buffalo Wild Wings Twitter hack.

Then there’s Nikki Haley Derangement Syndrome (via Twitchy)

Seriously, people having a hissy fit over a necklace. But, wait, there is more post Twitchy post!

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 2, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a jungle that will soon disappear from carbon pollution atmospheric cancer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on sounding crazy when trying to explain the gender confused craziness.

And a doubleshot under the fold, clearing out the last photo I downloaded, so, also see Legal Insurrection, with a post on Covered California doing a bit of rationing.

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The EU’s Article 13: Why Government Controlling The Internet Is A Bad Thing

By William Teach June 2, 2018 – 11:25 am

For those who are big supporters of the Obama era Net Neutrality rule from O’s FCC, do you really, really think it’s a good idea to give the government a massive say in how the Internet acts? Is it really a good idea to treat it as a public utility, like the phone system from the 1940’s? Because nothing could go wrong, right? They wouldn’t get a bee in their burr and decide to get a little wild, right? You love your memes, right?

(Moonbattery) Many take open communication on the Internet for granted. They shouldn’t. The free Internet will not last unless there is major pushback against attempts to put it in a straitjacket, like the European Union’s Article 13:

Article 13 of the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market, to give it its full name, is an attempt to reshape copyright law for the internet age. It’s based around the relationship between copyright holders and online platforms, compelling the latter to enforce tighter regulation over protected content. …

The Article stipulates that platforms should “prevent the availability” of protected works, suggesting these ISSPs will need to adopt technology that can recognise and filter work created by someone other than the person uploading it. This could include fragments of music, pictures and videos. …

The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition has previously warned that: “Some requirements contained in Article 13 can enable abusive behaviour, thereby threatening freedom of expression and information”. Last October, 56 leading academics published a set of recommendations on the proposed directive, including claims that Article 13 is “incompatible with the guarantee of fundamental rights and freedoms and the obligation to strike a fair balance between all rights and freedoms involved”.

All those memes you like to spread around? Most would be illegal under Article 13. Would you be happy that your ISP would be monitoring your every move on the Internet? That they’d be checking every upload to make sure it is Compliant? When you give up power to government, they will use that power. And then mission creep slips in, and you wonder what happened.

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Totally Not A Religion: Pope Summons Oil Execs To Talk ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach June 2, 2018 – 7:42 am

Nice that this pope cares more about a mythical issue way more than the murder of the unborn. How often does he talk about that? Summon Liberals to the Vatican to talk about it? Did you hear the Pope chiming in about the recent vote in Ireland to allow abortion on demand? Anyhow, remember, folks, this is totally about science.

Pope summons oil execs to Vatican to talk climate change

Pope Francis will meet with some of the world’s oil executives next week, likely to give them another moral nudge to clean up their act on global warming.

Climate change policy and science experts are cautiously hopeful but aren’t expecting any miracles or even noticeable changes.

The conference will be a follow-up to the pope’s encyclical three years ago calling on people to save the planet from climate change and other environmental ills, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirmed Friday. Cardinal Peter Turkson, who spearheaded the encyclical, set up the June 8-9 conference with the executives. The pope himself will speak to the leaders on the second day of the summit, organized with the University of Notre Dame, Burke said.

Officials at the Vatican and Notre Dame would not disclose who is coming. BP, however, confirmed that its CEO Robert Dudley plans to attend, and Exxon Mobil said CEO Darren Woods would be there. Woods said this week that his company is trying to balance the risks of climate change with growing demand for energy to raise living standards in the developing world.

It is rather amusing that the Pope is summoning oil execs to take fossil fueled trips to the Vatican to discuss Hotcoldwetdry from the use of fossil fuels. And the Pope came back in January from taking long fossil fueled trips to Chile and Peru. And plans on trips to Switzerland, Ireland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and India this year. Will he be walking? Biking? Taking a horse? Rollerblades?

Dana Fisher, a sociologist who studies environmentalism at the University of Maryland, said the pope is cementing his leadership on climate.

“He certainly is trying to lead for the planet and lord knows we need it,” she said.

Gary Yohe, an economics and environment professor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, said the executives might feel compelled to listen to the spiritual leader of nearly 1.3 billion Catholics.

“This is not somebody you can ignore,” Yohe said. “It might be a come to Jesus moment for them.”

Totally not a religion.

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Bummer: Gun Control Not What Young People Care About Anymore

By William Teach June 2, 2018 – 7:24 am

Remember how this younger generation was going to go to the polls and vote to wipe out guns in America? Never mind

(Daily Caller) Six percent of Americans aged 15 to 34 consider gun control the top issue facing the country, according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV poll reported on Wednesday.

That number is down from a high of 21 percent who considered it the top issue in March, according to the poll.

Four in 10 surveyed still gave the government an “F” grade on handling gun control issues.

These numbers come in as March For Our Lives organizers like David Hogg remain in the news, most recently for pressuring Publix to end contributions to Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam over his support for the National Rifle Association.

The poll was taken between April 23 and May 9, and surveyed 939 youths, a rather long time to take a poll. Must not have been getting the results they wanted. Regardless, you have to wonder where that number has dipped to now. Of course, how would they make an informed decisions when 52% “say they rarely or never read or watch news about the midterm elections”?

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Bummer: Too Many Of London’s Cyclists Are White Males

By William Teach June 1, 2018 – 3:03 pm

And this is a big, big problem

5 reasons why you should care about the lack of BME cyclists in London

Earlier this week, Will Norman, London’s walking and cycling commissioner, said something that shouldn’t be at all controversial – and that, in truth, isn’t even very original.

According to Norman, London’s cyclists are too white, male and middle-aged. This is backed up by evidence. While 41 per cent of London’s population is black or from an ethnic minority, only 15 per cent of cyclists are, according to Transport for London figures. Moreover, only 27 per cent of London’s cyclists are women.

Norman went on to say that for cycling to be considered a success in the capital, it must be taken up by a more diverse population, which, coincidentally, I also said last month in the New Statesman. 

BME is “Black and minority ethnic”.

To the online mob, this is just another case of the liberal elite seeing racism in everything (WT-it is). Cyclist critics of Norman have argued that if more money is spent on cycling infrastructure, it will lead to a more diverse population of cyclists. Others acknowledge the problem, but say it is low on the priority list.

Here’s why they are wrong:

You’re welcome to read it, but, really, what are they going to do: force BME’s to ride bikes? Restrict white, middle age males (WMAM) from doing so? OK, so one of their plans is to spend more public money through the Walking And Cycling Commission (think on paying people for this job) on letting BMEs know about the bikes. As if they don’t already. Has it occorred to any of these Liberal World weenies that perhaps they don’t want to bike? What then? Will they force compliance? Again, tell the WMAM’s that only some may use the bikes?

And, yes, they are seeing raaaaacism where it doesn’t exist. Were the BME’s complain? Or just eh White Liberal Elites who would not dare use a bike?

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