Shameless: NY Times Trots Out A “Won’t Someone Think Of The Children” Meme On Guns

By William Teach February 21, 2018 – 7:40 am

Just because some nutjob went nutjob doesn’t mean you get to take away my Constitutional Rights. That’s the whole purpose of the Bill of Rights: it’s about restricting what the Federal government cannot do, not saying what We The Citizens can do. And because the government dropped the ball doesn’t mean you can take away my rights.

People thought MSNBC’s Katy Tur was bad with this one

https://twitter.com/LizWFB/status/966029271025283072

Well, this is the NY Times Editorial Board, and, regardless of their utter bias, the NY Times is one of the top newspapers in the world

Will America Choose Its Children Over Guns?

As surely as there are camels’ backs and straws to break them, moments arrive when citizens say they’ve had enough, when they rise up against political leaders who do not speak for them and whose moral fecklessness imperils lives. We may be witness to such a moment now with the protests by American teenagers sickened — and terrified — by the latest mass murder at the hands of someone with easy access to a weapon fit for a battlefield, not a school.

Yeah, you’d be in big trouble with a single shot rifle on a battlefield. But, then, the handguns the armed security at the NY Times building are also weapons one finds on a battlefield. And military members carry knives into battle. Do we ban them?

These kids have had enough. They’ve had enough of empty expressions of sympathy in the wake of the sort of atrocities they’ve grown up with, like last week’s mass shooting that took 17 lives at a high school in Parkland, Fla. Enough of the ritualistic mouthing of thoughts and prayers for the victims. Enough of living in fear that they could be next in the cross hairs of a well-armed deranged killer, even with all the active shooter drills and lockdowns they’ve gone through. Enough of craven politicians who kneel before the National Rifle Association and its cynically fundamentalist approach to the Second Amendment.

They’d have a lot more classmates if the craven politicians, and editorial boards, who kneel before Planned Parenthood, did something to reduce murdering the unborn. I’m not going to slam the kids: they’re being whipped up into a frenzy by adult groups. Most have zero idea how the world works. But, they should remember, when you enter the big game of politics, when you’re trying to take away people’s rights, you make yourself fair game. There are some who go to far (such as Gateway Pundit), and have been slammed by fellow people on the Right, but, just because they’re kids doesn’t exempt them from criticism when deserved.

Anyhow, let’s see what the NY Times is proposing

To be effective, any movement needs a realistic program, not mere emotion. Otherwise, it risks coming and going in a flash with little to show for itself. A tighter federal system of background checks is a start, to better monitor would-be gun buyers with mental illness, for example, or histories of gun violence. Such a program should also include reinstating a nationwide ban on assault weapons — a state measure died in the Florida Legislature Tuesday — and ending an absurd prohibition against using federal public health funds to study gun violence.

Um

How about we start with enforcing our existing laws? How about they start properly reporting people to the FBI database as they’re supposed to? A ban on scary looking guns won’t make a difference. It didn’t last time, and won’t this time. However, this is not what the Times really wants

What the young protesters are saying now is: Put down the guns. We’re your children.

How can anyone not heed their pained voices?

What the Times wants is banning guns. And end to the 2nd Amendment. Just because voices are in pain doesn’t mean you get to take away my Rights.

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‘Climate Change’ (scam) To Accelerate Wacky Weather In Near Future Or Something

By William Teach February 20, 2018 – 4:40 pm

When in the near future? They don’t say

Climate change to accelerate extreme weather events in near future

Heat waves are expected to become more frequent and more intense, if we continue to emit these warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The unprecedented extreme weather that we’ve seen over the past year is clearly a result of human activities.

Unprecedented!!!!!1!!!!!

The types of events that occurred in 2017 was long back predicted by the scientists. Warming of the earth and oceans would supply more energy to intensify hurricanes and killer storms, there would be fewer rainfall events, creating more widespread drought. Moreover, more moisture in the atmosphere would increase the amount of heavy rainfall leading to Harvey and Irma like floods that the world has seen in the past few years.

So, drought and flood! More rainfall and less rainfall. Do we need to even discuss their completely failed prognostications regarding tropical systems and “killer storms”, as they dried up for over a decade?

Looking at the unprecedented events, clearly the impact these of climate changes is no longer subtle as the cost of inaction is already far greater than the cost of action. It is sure that soon, the Greenland ice sheet and the west Antarctic Ice Sheet will be seen melting and sea levels will be seen rising.

Things are seen getting worse day by day, we need to do is to take the steps earliest possible in the form of decreasing our emissions and transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy to save the earth.

Day by day! And in the near future, doom! And there was even a handy dandy graphic of what will happen sometime in the “near future”

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 20, 2018 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Small Dead Animals, with a post on media collusion.

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Surprise: Humans Reversed Global Cooling Per Pollen Data

By William Teach February 20, 2018 – 10:50 am

If we did, that would be a good thing, would it not? Remember the 75 million killed by the Black Plague during the beginning of the last cool period? How about all the wars, famine, strife? And how Mankind jumped ahead in technology, life expansion, medicine, women’s rights, and so forth during this warm period?

Pollen data shows humans reversed natural global cooling
Current temperatures are hotter than at any time in the history of human civilization

That subhead is astounding. Human civilization has charitably been around for 6,000 years, and modern humans for around 200,000 years. Can they prove it has never been hotter? Meh, that doesn’t matter to cultists, it’s all about the Narrative.

In order to understand today’s global warming, we need to understand how Earth’s temperatures varied in the past. How does the rapid warming we see now compare with past natural climate changes? Also, how long have humans been having an impact on the climate? These are some questions that can be answered through paleoclimate studies. Paleoclimate research uses natural measurements of the Earth’s temperature. Clever scientists are able to estimate how warm or cold the Earth was far back in time, way before we had thermometers.

An estimate is not hard data.

What the authors found was very interesting. Using data from 642 sites across North America and Europe, the temperatures they found closely matched those expected from computer simulations. They found that throughout most of the Holocene period (the last ~11,000 years), the Earth was warming very slightly. Only in the last ~2000 years has the Earth been in a cooling period (which probably would have continued except that human emissions of greenhouse gases have now reversed the cooling).

Probably? So, they don’t actually know? Hmph.

The authors attempted to put the recent warming (last century or so) into context. They found that the recent temperatures are much higher than temperatures over the past 11,000 years. In fact, according to their calculations, 2016 was warmer than 99.41% of all simulated Holocene years.

So, this is all based on computer models?

This finding is profound. First of all, it means that human greenhouse gas emissions were easily able to overturn what should be a natural cooling trend. Second, the warming we have caused is far outside of the natural range.

Which is funny, since Warmists tend to blame nature when their prognostications fail to materialize.

We have now pushed the Earth’s environment outside of where it should be. There are consequences for this disruption. Those consequences will include significant sea level rise, changes to rain/drought patterns, acidification of ocean waters, and a warmer atmosphere and ocean. There is still time to stop some of the coming climate change, but we are rapidly running out of time. The longer we delay, the worse things will get.

Right! Let’s get back to the time we all lived in huts with no electricity, had unreliable food, women died a lot during child birth, and we all prayed to the gods for a good harvest and pleasant weather.

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Illegal Alien Trying To Go Through Correct Process Is Arrested By ICE And This Is Mean Or Something

By William Teach February 20, 2018 – 8:03 am

We have another poster child for the illegal alien supporters, one who was just trying to do the Right Thing, you guys, as Jeff Gamage and the Philly Inquirer show their bias

Seeking legal status in America, immigrant grabbed in Philly by ICE and jailed

Let’s write that correctly: “Attempting to game the system, previously deported illegal alien in Philly picked up by duly tasked ICE and jailed.”

Paul Frame says his husband, Jose “Ivan” Nunez, was doing exactly what immigration critics always demand — “getting in line,” filing papers “the right way” so he could live in America legally.

Three weeks ago, the married couple were in the middle of an interview with officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in West Philadelphia, Frame and his supporters say, when ICE agents showed up, locked Nunez in handcuffs, and took him away.

He is now in custody at the York County Detention Center, where federal authorities frequently hold undocumented immigrants.

Frame is lucky that law enforcement rarely ever charges citizens with violation of federal statutes on illegal immigration, such as 8 US Code 1324 about sheltering illegal aliens. Anyhow, what we mean about “getting in line” is going through the whole legal process, not sneaking into the country, marrying a citizen, then trying to game the system

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said in a statement that Nunez had been previously removed from the United States in August 2010. People who reenter the U.S. after being removed or deported can be charged with a felony offense — although that can be rare. Nunez, for instance, was never charged.

What occurred in his case, his supporters said, is what commonly happens at the Mexico-U.S. border: Nunez was stopped when he attempted to enter the country, briefly detained, then quickly sent back. It’s common enough that people who are returned to Mexico often don’t even realize the U.S. government may consider them to have been deported. Many of them attempt to return within a day or so — as Nunez did, and succeeded.

ICE officials said in their statement that while the agency focuses on people who pose a threat, “all of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention, and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States.”

It really is that simple. Why is this so hard to understand?

Frame and Nunez met at a wedding in 2014, and were married in Chester County on April 9, 2016.

“He is the love of my life,” Frame said.

OK, then you can apply for citizenship in Mexico. They have a process, too. And will throw you in jail immediately if you violate it.

Frame described himself as scared and nervous over his husband’s fate. He can understand, he said, how people here without legal documents would be afraid to try to become citizens.

“I’m mad,” he said, “because we were trying to do the right thing.”

No, you didn’t. The right thing would have been Nunez going back to Mexico and applying for citizenship.

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Dan Rather Network Gives “5 Things More Difficult To Buy Than Guns” The Old Pre-School Try

By William Teach February 20, 2018 – 7:44 am

The network that brought you fabricated documents that weren’t verified in the least due to political bias is doing stupid things yet again. I wonder if they plan to give up the armed security at all their properties, as well as stop using guns in their TV shows? Anyhow, this is about as click-baity as click bait goes, where average, rational people are going to say “you people are nuts”

5 things that are more complicated than buying a gun in Florida

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To get an AR-15, gun store owner Moto Adika told CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz: “If you are a law-abiding citizen, then we can sell you that gun. The whole process can take no more than 15 minutes.”

Yes, after filling out a federal background check form and showing your ID. And you can’t take it with you unless you already have a concealed carry permit. How long does cBS think it takes to fill out a form with your name and address, then enter it into a website? Anyhow, it’s supposed to be easier to buy cold medicine

Don’t expect to be able to stockpile Sudafed for your winter sniffles. Florida State law prohibits consumers from purchasing more than nine grams of common cold medication like Sudafed within a 30-day period. It’s also illegal to purchase more than three packages at once. This is because the medication contains an ingredient called pseudoephedrine, used to create the illegal drug methamphetamine. In 2016, 327 people died from methamphetamine use in Florida. That same year, 2,559 gun deaths were recorded in the state. You can buy as many guns as you like at one time in Florida — most gun purchases are not registered.

In order to purchase common cold medication, like Sudafed, customers are required to show a form of photo identification that proves they are at least 18 years old. Each purchase is recorded within a store’s database to monitor the amount sold over the counter.

You don’t have to fill out a federal form for which you can be prosecuted for lying, nor do you need to wait 5 days to take possession of your purchase. Hey, perhaps liberals could have not glorified the production of meth in the show Breaking Bad. Oh, and then there’s a marriage license

Hoping for a shotgun wedding in Florida? Hold your fire. (oh, that was cute) State residents must either attend a premarital course or wait the mandatory three days before the marriage license takes effect. There is no waiting period for shotgun purchases in Florida but there is a three-day cooling-off period for handgun purchases, and a five-day waiting period for guns like the AR-15 in certain counties. That’s waived if you have a concealed carry license.

To obtain a marriage license in Florida, both parties must be at least 18 years old. Minors must provide consent from both of their parents or a legal guardian. Photo identification is required for all ages.

Still sounds harder to get a gun permit. They then cover fertilizer, for anyone buying more than 25 pounds (you can make bombs with it), and one must be screened on the terrorist watch list. Did you know that happens when you buy a motor vehicle? Hmph. But, that’s it. Somehow, that’s harder than buying a gun. Which would also see you checked on the terrorist watch list.

And buying large amounts of anti-diarrhea medicine? The FDA might want to talk to you. And we all buy large quantities, am I right?

Medical marijuana is available for purchase in Florida, however, it is illegal under federal law. Licensed dispensaries are only allowed to sell medical marijuana to qualified customers.

One must get your doctor’s permission. ZOMG! Of course, you’re still a criminal under the eyes of the feds.

As Red State points out, this is just garbage reporting, making things up, which shows this isn’t about reporting, it’s about a Narrative.

Say, you know what’s a lot easier to do than purchase a gun in every state? Or killing a person convicted and sentenced to die?

Killing an unborn baby.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 19, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bicycle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on your Monday feel good stories.

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We Can Totally Stop ‘Climate Change’ By Giving Girls Birth Control

By William Teach February 19, 2018 – 10:30 am

Wired’s Robin George Andrews thinks she totally has the solution to fixing this whole (made up) issue

TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE, EDUCATE GIRLS AND GIVE THEM BIRTH CONTROL

CLIMATE CHANGE IS a ubiquitous hydra, a many-headed beast that affects everyone and everything in some form. Solutions to climate change range from the effective and the practical to the potentially catastrophically dangerous—but, in this somewhat heated debate, a potent weapon in our arsenal is falling by the wayside: the empowerment of women.

Last year a coalition of scientists, economists, policymakers, researchers, and business people published Project Drawdown, a compendium of ways to prevent carbon dioxide from escaping skywards. Drawing from a plethora of peer-reviewed research, the document ranks 80 practical, mitigating measures—along with 20 near-future concepts—that could push back the oncoming storm. (snip)

But two lesser-known solutions also made this most practical of lists: the education of girls (number 6) and family planning (number 7). This is a stunning revelation, one that couldn’t be more pertinent, and yet, for the most part, discussions of mitigation and de-carbonization focus heavily on other matters, from the perceived perils and bona fide benefits of nuclear power, to just how quickly solar power is proliferating.

Got that? We have to educate girl because of Hotcoldwetdry. Not because they deserve education (most education systems in the 1st World are run by leftists: why are they not educating girls already?), but because of a manufactured issue based on junk science. Hey, I wonder if these same Warmists will finally take on Islam, and especially Islam, for their treatment of women?

Then there’s family planning, something that’s indivisible from the education of girls. The planet is overpopulated, and the demands of its citizens greatly exceed the natural resources provided by our environment.

Contraception and prenatal care is denied to women across the world, from those in the United States, to communities in low-income nations. It’s either not available, not affordable, or social and/or religious motives ensure that it’s banned or heavily restricted. As a consequence, the world’s population will rise rapidly, consume ever more resources, and power its ambitions using fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide will continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.

What they really mean is contraception to make sure “minorities”, ie, Africans and Asians, in 3rd world countries do not breed, via contraception and abortion.

It’s farcical that this isn’t forming a major part of the debate over climate change mitigation. It’s not entirely clear why this is the case, but I’d suspect that regressive societal attitudes, along with the tendency of commentators to focus on the battle between different energy sectors, play suppressive roles in this regard.

Or, it could be that some people, even in the high end Warmist community, think it’s a Bad Idea to make the racist notion of aborting, sterilizing, and reducing the population in 3rd world countries a top shelf talking point. Even though this type of eugenics idea has been part of Progressive dogma for over 100 years.

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Focus On Dreamers Is Breeding Resentment From Other Illegal Aliens Or Something

By William Teach February 19, 2018 – 7:21 am

The other illegal aliens do have a point: why should there be a focus on the DACA kids? What makes them so special? But, then again, they’re all illegal, and should be deported

Focus on Dreamers breeds resentment from other immigrants here illegally

Ever since Sam Paredes crossed into the U.S. illegally from Mexico nearly 30 years ago, he followed a simple philosophy of keeping his head down and trying to stay out of trouble.

The 39-year-old put in long hours for little pay as an office manager at a clothing wholesaler. He paid his taxes and hoped that after many years of waiting, there would come an immigration reform that would grant him a pathway to becoming an American citizen.

How is he working like this? He can’t get a legal work permit. Is he using someone else’s social security number and information? That’s the only way to lawfully fill out an I-9 form.

But one glimmer of hope afforded many young immigrants escaped him: Because the New York resident came too long ago, he did not qualify for immigration relief under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA.

Now he watches as the White House and Congress continue to grapple and negotiate and argue — but at least talk about — the future of the so-called Dreamers.

“I’m very bitter. These DACA kids definitely have this sense of entitlement,” Paredes said. “People fought for them and they got DACA and they got their work permit and then they went to sleep, instead of working to fight for the rest of us.” (long snip about the Dreamers)

But the focus on Dreamers has caused tension between those in the community who can qualify for DACA and those who cannot.

Awww, what a shame, pitting one set of illegal aliens against another

Alessandro Negrete, 35, was getting ready for a night out in downtown Los Angeles recently when one of his friends worried aloud about Trump taking away the protection he got from the DACA program.

Negrete, a public relations worker, was 3 months old when a smuggler carried him from Mexico into the United States. Too old now to apply to become a Dreamer, he said he cannot help but feel resentment at how much attention the plight of this one segment of the immigrant community is receiving while people like him seem to get so little.

“You think you have it hard?” he angrily told his friend. “You at least have legal status. For some people like me, my mom and some of my neighbors, we don’t have [that].”

How is he working? Again, there’s no legal way to fill out an I-9, except with false documents. A driver’s license from the State of California won’t cut it. More documents are needed. Regardless, it’s amusing that those not eligible for DACA are resentful of the DACA recipients.

And there are even food fights between the Dreamers who are demanding a “clean” bill, one which just gives legal status with no strings like border security (what makes illegal aliens think they can demand the terms of the U.S. being generous to them?) and those who are willing to compromise, who are willing to take anything just to be legalized.

If DACA legislation does pass, Hvidston said she believes it’s only a matter of time before that group then advocates for those left out.

“The overall impression is that DACA recipients are the champions of those here illegally,” she said.

Don’t forget that the overall end goal is to legalize all the illegals, and, more importantly, make sure that they are citizens with the ability to vote. They won’t accept anything such as permanent legal resident status. The illegal aliens supporters will keep pushing the envelope to get them all legalized with the ability to vote. DACA is a stepping stone.

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Democrat Talking Point: Russia Russia Russia Is Like Pearl Harbor And 9/11

By William Teach February 19, 2018 – 7:01 am

Apparently, a talking point bulletin went out on recently to compare Russia placing a few ads and having some Twitter trolls as the worst ever. I caught this idiotic opinion piece by the Washington Post’s Max Boot late in the afternoon

Trump is ignoring the worst attack on America since 9/11

Imagine if, after 9/11, the president had said that the World Trade Center and Pentagon could have been attacked by “China” or “lots of other people.” Imagine if he had dismissed claims of al-Qaeda’s responsibility as a “hoax” and said that he “really” believed Osama bin Laden’s denials. Imagine if he saw the attack primarily as a political embarrassment to be minimized rather than as a national security threat to be combated. Imagine if he threatened to fire the investigators trying to find out what happened.

That schtick goes on and on and on, because, apparently, Russia made Hillary not campaign in Wisconsin. And faint on 9/11. Which is all an interesting take, since half of Democrats think that President Bush was behind 9/11. Are 9/11 Truthers. And, remember how many Democrats wanted to sit back and think about what we the USA did to precipitate the attack (which, in the Bush Derangement Syndrome, forgot they would have put the crosshairs on Bill Clinton) rather than attack Afghanistan, the Taliban, and al Qaeda?

Anyhow, I thought this was just typical, unhinged Democratic talking points, till we find this via Twitchy

https://twitter.com/DavidRutz/status/965296557682765826

As they note, “Facebook ads and memes = attack on our country that launched the U.S. into WWII. Got it!” Then we have Jonathan Alter, a Daily Beast columnist and constant MSNBC personality making the same comparison. And Rep Jerry Nadler (D-NY). And ABC News’ Matthew Dodd. And Paul Begala. And the Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty. And, of course, all the retweets and comments by Liberals saying “yeah, you’re right!”

Then there’s this

Why would it be that Democrats do not want any report on Russia Russia Russia released prior to the mid-terms? Hmmmm.

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