If All You See…

By William Teach April 17, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrendous scary assault rifle used by people who deny Mankind is causing the earth to boil, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post wondering when Andrew McCabe is going to jail.

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Gun Grabbers Tell Us Not To Freak Out About Requirements To Lock Up Guns

By William Teach April 17, 2018 – 10:50 am

See, now, this is exactly the kind of thing which makes 2nd Amendment supporters refuse to even consider passing any laws on firearms, which could even help restrict criminals from getting firearms, because we know that what gun grabbers really want is to kill off private ownership of firearms for law abiding citizens using the death by a 1,000 papercuts method. I’ve mentioned this 10 days ago, and here we have them telling us what they really want to do

The Next Big Gun Controversy Is Forcing People to Lock Them Up
Naturally, gun owners are freaking out.

Well, yeah, naturally, because this affects law abiding gun owners 99% of the time, not criminals

Two weeks before Christmas in 2012, a 22-year-old masked man armed with a stolen assault-style rifle went on a shooting rampage in a crowded shopping mall in Happy Valley, Oregon, just outside Portland, thrusting holiday shoppers into a maelstrom. By the time the bullets stopped flying, three people, including the gunman, had been fatally shot, and a 15-year-old girl was wounded.

Now family members of the deceased victims are pushing for a ballot measure that would make Oregon one of the few states in the nation to mandate that gun owners lock up their firearms. They contend that such a law could have thwarted the afternoon massacre at the Clackamas Town Center mall.

The measure that Clackamas survivors are now pushing would enact a so-called safe-storage law, under which gun owners would have to lock up firearms not under their direct control. The measure would also require anyone whose guns are lost or stolen to report the incident to law enforcement within 24 hours.

Violations of either provision could result in fines—reaching up to $2,000 if a child picked up the firearm—and expose gun owners to civil liability if their purloined weapons are used to injure someone within five years.

Actually, the law is rather vague on locking up firearms not under direct control: it almost looks as if all firearms have to be locked up with some sort of trigger lock at all times, including when carrying. And, notice, fines on those who have had their property stolen. We do not penalize people who have had other property stolen, such as motor vehicles, that are used to hurt other people. This is all about trying to scare citizens into not exercising their Constitutional rights.

“There’s no appetite by some of the legislative leadership to bring gun bills forward unless the gun-violence prevention advocates make it so difficult for them they can’t ignore it,” said Kemp, himself a gun owner who, along with Yuille, helped found the group Gun Owners for Responsible Ownership.

“They’ve had 20 or 30 years to fix this stuff, and they’ve chosen not to do a damned thing.”

First, the name of the group sounds just like something the Left would come up with as a distraction from their real agenda. Second, every time we try to pass harsher penalties on actual criminals, Liberals freak out and threaten to sue, they claim raaaaacism, you know the playbook.

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Florida Kids Sue Governor Rick Scott Over ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 17, 2018 – 10:36 am

Of course, this is all backed by the deep pockets of the Cult of Climastrology

Florida Kids Sue Gov. Scott Over Climate Change: You Have ‘Moral Obligation’ to Protect Us

Eight young Floridians, ages 10 to 19, sued their state and its climate-policy-averse governor on Monday for failing to protect residents from the impacts of a warming climate.

They say they already see signs of climate change around them—from powerful hurricanes to extreme heat waves to tidal flooding that now regularly washes into coastal roads and parks as sea level rises—and they want the state to do something about it.

The lawsuit filed Monday is the latest in a wave of legal cases filed by children against states and the federal government that accuse government of depriving them of the fundamental right to a stable climate.

The Florida plaintiffs accuse the state of violating their constitutional rights by “perpetuating an energy system that is based on fossil fuels.”

I didn’t see them complaining when there was a long period of hurricanes not striking Florida. Heat waves? It’s Florida. When my family went to Florida (Bay Biscaine) for Christmas every other year where the grandparents lived, we never took jackets, which seems necessary as of late. Tidal flooding? It’s a low lying state. They’ve always had this problem.

A stable climate? When has the climate ever been stable? There is no fundamental right to it, nor is there any violation of constitutional rights for using fossil fuels. Of which a lot will be used to shuttle the kids around to their court dates, speaking engagements, appearances on Left wing TV shows, along with all the fossil fuels used by the lawyers and advocates and members of Cult of Climastrology group backing them, Our Children’s Trust.

“The plaintiffs are asking the state of Florida to adhere to its legal and moral obligation to protect current and future generations from the intensifying impacts of climate change,” the group said in a statement.

Their lawsuit asks that state officials “prepare and implement an enforceable comprehensive” plan to phase out fossil fuel use and “draw down excess atmospheric CO2 through forest and soil protection so as to stabilize the climate system.”

When all those involved in the lawsuit, including the kids, give up all their own use of fossil fuels, I might believe that this is anything more than a shakedown, one which would force lots and lots of government on citizens. Oh, and on these little human shields, who do not realize that they are asking government to rule over them.

BTW, I wonder if some of the older kids have their own fossil fueled vehicles.

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Citizenship Question Will Spook Census-takers Or Something

By William Teach April 17, 2018 – 8:04 am

There has been very little on the Trump administration reinstating the citizenship question on the Census, something that was asked for around 100 years. So, the Washington Post and writer Maria Sacchetti decided to bring the scary stuff back

Amid crackdown, advocates for immigrants say citizenship question will spook census-takers

When the 2020 Census lands in Langley Park and asks residents whether they are U.S. citizens, the response is likely to be no — if residents respond at all.

“I wouldn’t answer it,” said a 42-year-old undocumented construction worker from Guatemala.

“Nobody is going to do this. Nobody,” said a jewelry saleswoman from El Salvador.

In this Maryland enclave less than 10 miles from the White House, 58 percent of residents are not U.S. citizens, the highest percentage of any city, town or unincorporated community in the United States. The number of noncitizen adults is even higher: Nearly 80 percent of the men and two-thirds of the women in Langley Park cannot vote for president, qualify for federal financial aid or apply for a U.S. government job.

Many are undocumented and afraid of federal immigration agents, community leaders say. Now, they are also afraid of the census.

What’s so scary? As far as we know, the question is simply going to ask citizenship status. It isn’t going to ask resident status. There are lots of people living in the U.S. who are not citizens. You have those here on visas, such as work and school ones. There are those who are legal permanent residents. You have refugees who were brought in who are not citizens. You have people going through the citizenship process the correct way, earning citizenship. And, then you have the illegal aliens. But, the question won’t be asking the difference.

But, this is all about the illegal aliens, and pandering to people who have broken our laws.

The decision to include the question has generated alarm in ethnic media and in states where many noncitizens live. Even though it is illegal for the Census Bureau to share information with other federal agencies, immigrants’ advocates say some fear the question — coming as President Trump has vowed to aggressively enforce immigration laws — will be used to find and deport them. If those immigrants therefore refuse to fill out the census survey, it could trigger an undercount that would deprive jurisdictions — including those that voted for Trump — of a share of political power and federal funds for roads, bridges and schools.

If the question being asked makes no determination of legal status, do you know how much work it would be to match up all the names to the rolls of those who are here legally, then start looking for all the illegals? And not have the unhinged liberal media get a sniff of what’s going on? The ACLU and so many others would be filing suit in a heartbeat. I know Lefties think Trump is an idiot, just like they do with every Republican, but, it’s not going to happen.

If the media weren’t in Trump Derangement Syndrome, they’d be publishing stories that the question is no big deal, that nothing bad can come of it, and that illegals shouldn’t worry about answering it. Instead, they’re once again playing right into Trump’s hands, and their scaremongering stories could actually be causing an undercount of people in the U.S. (the language of the census in the Constitution is meant to count all people present, not just people lawfully present).

But under Trump, many say they now live in fear of federal immigration agents — “la migra” — and have no interest in reminding Uncle Sam through the census that they are not citizens.

“You feel like animals in the woods. You don’t know when they’re going to hunt for you,” said the 42-year-old construction worker from Guatemala, who gave his name only as William. He and others refused to give their full names, because they are undocumented or have temporary legal status that will expire in 2019.

First, they should be living in fear. If a reporter can find them, so can the government (this is provided they even exist, rather than being made up people from the minds of leftist reporters). They know they are breaking the law. Criminals should be scared. Second, why are reporters failing to report criminals to law enforcement? That is illegal.

Third, all of us who are against illegal immigration should be thankful for the liberal media, which is continuously scaring illegal aliens, causing them lots of heartache, sleepless nights, as well as seeing many self deport and not come in the first place.

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Hotcoldwetdry Today: It’s Only Important To Persuade The Elites To Force Action On The Proletariat

By William Teach April 16, 2018 – 1:30 pm

Does this sound very much like what I’ve been writing about for well over a decade here at Pirate’s Cove?

How the science of persuasion could change the politics of climate change

Jerry Taylor believes he can change the minds of conservative climate skeptics. After all, he helped plant the doubts for many in the first place.

Taylor spent years as a professional climate denier at the Cato Institute, arguing against climate science, regulations, and treaties in op-eds, speeches, and media appearances. But his perspective slowly began to change around the turn of the century, driven by the arguments of several economists and legal scholars laying out the long-tail risks of global warming.

Now he’s president of the Niskanen Center, a libertarian-leaning Washington, DC, think tank he founded in 2014. He and his colleagues there are trying to build support for the passage of an aggressive federal carbon tax, through discussions with Washington insiders, with a particular focus on Republican legislators and their staff.

I wasn’t aware of the notion that Conservatives and Libertarians were super interested in wanting massive government interference in people’s lives and the economy.

Hint: real ones aren’t. And Taylor surely isn’t either, at least not anymore. Especially when you read ahead

Lesson one: Pick the right targets

Political scientists consistently find that mass opinion doesn’t drive the policy debate, so much as the other way around. Partisan divides emerge first among “elites,” including influential advocacy groups, high-profile commentators, and politicians, says Megan Mullin, an associate professor of environmental politics at Duke University.

They, in turn, set the terms of debate in the public mind, spreading the parties’ views through tested and refined sound bites in media appearances, editorials, social media, and other forums.

Basically, this is a “you peons should listen to your political masters, and we need to influence the political masters to Force the plebes to act in a certain prescribed manner” schtick.

And, yes, if you read the rest, you rather do get inklings of Alinsky’s rules for radicals. But, the most important part is about playing to the elites, getting them to comply, and, hey, what politician doesn’t like power?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 16, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a stream flooded from carbon pollution created atmospheric rivers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on Syrian refugees entering the U.S.

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Weather Happens, Warmists Lose Their Minds

By William Teach April 16, 2018 – 10:05 am

When it was snow and cold, it was ‘climate change’. When it’s wind and rain and thunder and tornadoes, it’s also ‘climate change’. But, nothing tops this bit of TDS

There’s plenty more cray cray out there, but, this should cover it for a bit.

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Even More Jurisdictions Joining Anti-Sanctuary Movement In California

By William Teach April 16, 2018 – 7:17 am

There are still lots of folks in California who haven’t been brainwashed into being pro-illegal immigration. And probably don’t need cheap labor to do the yard scaping

(SacBee) More local governments in California are resisting the state’s efforts to resist the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, and political experts see politics at play as Republicans try to fire up voters in a state where the GOP has grown weak.

Since the Jeff Sessions-led Department of Justice sued California last month over its so-called “sanctuary state” law limiting police collaboration with immigration agents, at least a dozen local governments have voted to either join or support the lawsuit or for resolutions opposing the state’s position. Those include the Board of Supervisors in Orange County, which has more than 3 million people.

More action is coming this week, with leaders in the Orange County city of Los Alamitos scheduled to vote Monday on a proposal for a local law to exempt the community of 12,000 from the state law. On Tuesday, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is meeting to consider joining the Trump administration lawsuit.

Most of the resistance to California’s sanctuary state law is happening in Orange County, but, there are some cities from elsewhere in California. And it is expected to continue growing. There are actual Republican controlled areas of California, though a lot of them are in areas of California which do not generally have issues with illegal aliens.

I still maintain that the best thing the Trump administration could do would be to say that ICE will not go after illegal aliens in a few California cities, such as Los Angelos, San Francisco and the surrounding cities, and, most importantly, the capital city of Sacramento. Let Dems deal with all the problems that come from illegal immigration in the capital.

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Surprise: NJ Wants To Go After NRA And Gun Friendly States

By William Teach April 16, 2018 – 6:59 am

Once again, Democrats show their true colors. Instead of going after people who use firearms unlawfully along with implementing laws that make it even harder for criminals to not be able to purchase firearms, and putting big, big penalties on criminals who possess them and use them, NJ Dems are considering assaulting the 1st Amendment Rights of the NRA and the U.S. citizens who are members

(NJ.com) Democratic lawmakers want to take the state’s tight gun control laws and expand them outside of New Jersey’s borders.

There’s new legislation that would ban state-sponsored travel to any states that don’t require their residents to obtain a permits before they purchase a firearm.

The goal is to send a message to the National Rifle Association, said State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, the bill’s sponsor.

“Fighting the NRA on the basis logic and rational thinking has not worked,” Weinberg, D-Bergen, said. “So I think the thing that might work is fighting them with their pocketbook.”

Let me ask: how has all that gun control worked in New Jersey? It is considered to be one of the most restrictive states in the nation, yet, gun crime still occurs. A lot. Because most of the laws are aimed at law abiding citizens, not criminals. And meant to turn law abiding citizens into criminals.

And meant to go after the Free Speech rights of U.S. citizens.

If enacted, state-sponsored travel for public workers and elected officials would be banned in 37 states, according to state licensing data from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

It’s unclear if the legislation would require New Jersey’s governor to abide by the rule if it becomes law, Weinberg said. But she said she hopes Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, would “honor it” if it clears the Democrat-controlled state Legislature and he signs it into law.

Yeah, that ought to do it. “Oh, noes, a few people from NJ might not come to our state. What shall we do?????1???”

Murphy has promised to sign the bills, including one to reduce magazine capacity, another to ban armor-piercing bullets, another to make it tougher to obtain a permit to carry a handgun, another to expand background checks on private gun sales, and two to keep firearms out of the hands of people deemed a threat to themselves and others in the state.

NJ is already at a maximum of 15 rounds for magazines. I guess they want to play the 10 rounds game. But, more importantly, they want to make it harder for law abiding citizens to protect themselves. Really, none of this is aimed at criminals. Even the last one, about being threats to themselves and others, is more about getting creative about seizing firearms than taking them from criminals.

Meanwhile, Murphy slipped a provision to tax guns in his budget. He promised to do this as a gubernatorial candidate. There aren’t any real details, but he expects to raise $1.4 million per year. A straight purchase tax would equate to about $777 dollars per firearm. Again, this is something that goes after the law abiding, not the criminals.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 15, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a field of flowers soon to be destroyed by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on who’s in and who’s out in Europe.

It’s ladies in nature week.

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