Idiot Democrat Congressional Candidate Pulls Stunt With AR-15, Now In ATF Crosshairs

By William Teach March 9, 2018 – 6:48 am

The average cost of an AR-15 is around $1200. Leave it to a Democrat to destroy one for a stunt and not realize she’s breaking the law

(13NewsNow) The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is investigating congressional candidate Karen Mallard after she posted a video on Facebook that shows her cutting apart an AR-15 rifle.

The school teacher and Democrat is running for Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, hoping to oust Republican Congressman Scott Taylor.

In the video, as Mallard introduces herself, she says, “I grew up in Wise County, surrounded by guns. Our family had guns my whole life. We use them for hunting, for protection, and recreation.”

She goes on to explain that she wasn’t happy when her husband bought the AR-15 “a while back.” Mallard adds that after the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on February 14, and the renewed outcries for stricter gun control that followed, she and her husband agreed they didn’t want the AR-15 in their home.

The couple later decided they didn’t want it it anyone else’s house, either.

“So, today, we’re going to destroy it,” states Mallard before taking a handheld power saw to it.

Here’s what it looked like

Mallard had a hissy fit over “right wing trolls” in her Twitter feed. Some of them pointed out something interesting

Several others said Mallard broke federal law by taking a legal firearm and altering it, making it into an illegal one. Many of them referred to details contained within the Sawed-Off Shotgun and Sawed-Off Rifle Act which, in part, prohibits people (except for those permitted by the act) from having a rifle that has been “modified to an overall length of less than 26 inches.”

13NewsNow even shows the relevant statutes in the Virginia code. And

And

https://twitter.com/RealWriteWinger/status/971778220876967936

Will she be charged? If it was you or me, we would be. But politicians seem to be treated differently.

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King Penguins Could Maybe Possibly Disappear By 2100 Or Something

By William Teach March 8, 2018 – 4:31 pm

Today’s story of Future Doom (well, one of them, because there are lots out there)

Study: King penguins could disappear by end of century

Rising temperatures due to climate change could push Antarctica’s king penguin populations to the brink of extinction, according to a new study published on Tuesday.

The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, predicted that under a “business-as-usual” scenario, 70 percent of today’s 1.1 million king penguin breeding pairs would abruptly relocate or disappear before the end of the century.

Flightless king penguins are the second largest species of penguin, after the emperor.

They breed only on specific isolated islands — with no ice cover and easy access to the sea — in the Southern Ocean and can make round-trips of more than 370 miles hunting for fish and krill in the Antarctic waters, while their chicks fast for up to a week at a time.

With warming oceans, the Antarctic polar front — a nutrient-rich upwelling that occurs where cold, deep seas mix with temperate seas and supports a huge amount of marine life — is being pushed further south.

That means the adults have to travel farther away from their nests to look for food, leaving their offspring hungry for longer.

Interestingly, these same penguins have survived numerous Holocene warm periods, but, now, since Warmists take long fossil fueled trips to complain about Other People using fossil fuels you eat cheeseburgers, these penguins are doomed. Maybe. Possibly. But, we can solve this with a tax, you know!

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 8, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a mountain devoid of snow because Someone Else used a plastic bag, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on the failing blue wave.

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Say, Can White Roofs Help With Urban Heat Island Effect?

By William Teach March 8, 2018 – 10:35 am

Every once in a while Warmists make a mistake in highlighting that all their caterwauling about ‘climate change’ is beyond overblown

(YaleEnvironment360) Summers in the city can be extremely hot — several degrees hotter than in the surrounding countryside. But recent research indicates that it may not have to be that way. The systematic replacement of dark surfaces with white could lower heat wave maximum temperatures by 2 degrees Celsius or more. And with climate change and continued urbanization set to intensify “urban heat islands,” the case for such aggressive local geoengineering to maintain our cool grows.

The meteorological phenomenon of the urban heat island has been well known since giant cities began to emerge in the 19th century. The materials that comprise most city buildings and roads reflect much less solar radiation – and absorb more – than the vegetation they have replaced. They radiate some of that energy in the form of heat into the surrounding air.

The darker the surface, the more the heating. Fresh asphalt reflects only 4 percent of sunlight compared to as much as 25 percent for natural grassland and up to 90 percent for a white surface such as fresh snow.

Most of the roughly 2 percent of the earth’s land surface covered in urban development suffers from some level of urban heating. New York City averages 1-3 degrees C warmer than the surrounding countryside, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – and as much as 12 degrees warmer during some evenings. The effect is so pervasive that some climate skeptics have seriously claimed that global warming is merely an illusion created by thousands of once-rural meteorological stations becoming surrounded by urban development.

In other words, Skeptics are correct. While the majority of the warming since the end of the Little Ice Age is natural, Mankind does have an influence in the form of the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI), along with land use, and, yes, a small part from the release of greenhouse gasses. What we are doing is way, way less than 50% of the warming.

Climate change researchers adjust for such measurement bias, so that claim does not stand up. Nonetheless, the effect is real and pervasive. So, argues a recent study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, if dark heat-absorbing surfaces are warming our cities, why not negate the effect by installing white roofs and other light-colored surfaces to reflect back the sun’s rays?

Researchers makes stuff up to protect their Warmist funding.

During summer heat waves, when the sun beats down from unclouded skies, the creation of lighter land surfaces “could help to lower extreme temperatures… by up to 2 or 3 degrees Celsius” in much of Europe, North America, and Asia, says Sonia Seneviratne, who studies land-climate dynamics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, and is co-author of the new study. It could save lives, she argues, and the hotter it becomes, the stronger the effect.

Realistically, it’s not a bad idea. It is humorous that they can’t write about something like this without attempting to protect their cult, though.

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Gun Grabbers: Hey, Let’s Go After The Companies That Manufacture Guns

By William Teach March 8, 2018 – 7:59 am

Remember, Democrats are not trying to grab all your guns. They aren’t trying to take away anyone’s 2nd Amendment Rights. They’re just trying to implement some common sense gun control, you guys. Or so they say, right up till they keep exposing their true agenda, which is to disarm all law abiding citizens

Our National Reckoning On Guns Hasn’t Included The Firearm Industry. It Should.

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While this movement has distinguished itself from previous calls for gun reform with its endurance, it has continued to focus on the NRA and the politicians and companies aligned with them. This campaign ― much like previous iterations ― has not emphasized the role of business leaders, like Debney and Chris Killoy, CEO of Sturm, Ruger & Co., the second largest U.S. firearms manufacturer in 2016.

“I really think that it’s important for companies to weigh in on this, or even for them to be called out because they are the people that are manufacturing it,” said Aly Sheehy, a Stoneman Douglas senior who is involved in the political action efforts and survived the Parkland shooting by hiding in the school auditorium. Still, she added, “right now our focus is more on the lawmakers and the power they have to change things.” (big snip)

Although gun manufacturers are subject to basic compliance inspections by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, they bear effectively no legal responsibility once products leave their warehouses. And with millions of their guns flooding onto the market each year, collateral damage is inevitable. (snip)

Collectively, gun buyers, dealers and manufacturers fuel a corporate machine whose very existence relies on the sale of more and more firearms. The overwhelming majority of these products are sold to law-abiding individuals, who use them as intended. But the sheer number of guns, as well as the weak national patchwork of laws intended to regulate them, has made epidemic levels of gun violence the norm. (snip)

And this is one of the particularly factious dynamics at the heart of gun politics. Those who support and profit off of firearms manufacturing are often insulated from the gun violence that is in many ways a natural byproduct of the industry. The Springfields of the U.S. end up paying for a gun policy set by its Hampdens. The Debneys and Killoys focus on putting more guns into a country already full of them, returning undisturbed to their well-appointed suburban homes.

Taken as a whole, what this is is a call for demonizing and attacking people and companies who make products that are legal under the law. The only thing missing in this screed is the call to make gun manufacturers legally liable when their product is used in a crime. You know, like we do when someone uses their car in a crime, we hold Honda, Toyota, Ford, etc liable. Oh, wait, we don’t.

One of the under the radar pushes by the gun grabbers is to find ways to drive gun manufacturers and sellers out of business, partly by making it so expensive to do business that they throw up their hands and close their doors. Because this isn’t about going after criminals for gun grabbers: it’s about disarming all the law abiding people.

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AG Sessions Has Harsh Words For California On Immigration

By William Teach March 8, 2018 – 7:40 am

He doesn’t mince words

(CNS News) “Immigration law is the province of the federal government,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a gathering of law enforcement officers in Sacramento on Wednesday, as he announced that the Justice Department is suing California over its sanctuary policies.

“Stop treating immigration agents differently from everybody else for the purpose of eviscerating border and immigration law and advancing an open-borders philosophy shared by only a few,” Sessions said. “Stop protecting lawbreakers and giving all officers more dangerous work to do so that politicians can score political points on the backs of officer safety. I cannot accept that,” he said.

Sessions noted that the mayor of Oakland recently warned illegal aliens about an immigration roundup so they could avoid apprehension by ICE agents, and that mayor was praised by California’s lieutenant governor for doing so. “This is an embarrassment to the proud State of California,” Sessions said. He also said the mayor’s advance warning endangered the community by leaving 800 wanted criminals at large that ICE agents will now have to go looking for.

“So here’s my message — how dare you! How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical, open-borders agenda,” Sessions said about the mayor. (you can see full remarks here)

Democrats do not care. They’ve decided they’ll use illegal immigration as a wedge, despite it placing illegal aliens above lawful citizens and people who are lawfully present in the U.S. They don’t care if Americans are hurt, both in a physical manner and in having their wages deflate, along with having their lives ruined from identity theft.

Hilariously, California Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Xavier Becerra think this is about the 10th Amendment

Brown and Becerra at a news conference in Sacramento said the three challenged laws are “fully constitutional.”

The 10th amendment of the U.S. Constitution “provides California with the right to decline to participate in civil immigration enforcement,” Becerra said.

It’s amusing when Statists trot out an argument using the 10th Amendment, as they’re usually all about Los Federales being the dominant force and expanding powers never delegated to it

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Immigration policy is expressly delegated to the federal government, known in the Constitution as the “United States.” What California is doing is blocking immigration policy and enforcement.

Let’s not forget, Democrats were super excited when Team Obama sued Arizona over their SB1070 law, a law which increased immigration enforcement at the state and local level. They weren’t blocking enforcement: they were helping. Here you have California passing laws that thumb their nose at the immigration law.

It would have been more fun, though, if, instead of filing lawsuits, Sessions and Trump said that they would no longer operate in California, so all illegals should stream into the state. Let California deal with the fallout.

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Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ Can Affect Mental Health And Create Total Doom

By William Teach March 7, 2018 – 3:00 pm

Hey, look, more gloom and doom from the Cult of Climastrology, which can be solved with a tax! But, certainly, the people who say this won’t actually give up their own fossil fueled travel, like from Boston to Edmonton (interestingly, the article has changed since when I saved it to Pocket this morning

Climate change can affect mental health, expert tells Edmonton conference

Climate change can impact mental health in a variety of ways, an American expert told an international conference Tuesday in Edmonton.

People get stressed when confronted with a problem of the magnitude of climate change, said Patrick Kinney, urban health professor at Boston University. He spoke to Postmedia at the Cities and Climate Change Science Conference at the Shaw Conference Centre.

Really, it’s just a small number of people who are making themselves nuts worrying about things they have no control of and mostly not causing.

The big issue in Canada is wildfires, he said.

“Climate change is making wildfires more prominent,” he said. “They are getting bigger, they are lasting longer.”

And wildfires, besides causing cardiovascular and respiratory effects from air pollution, can force people to leave their homes, as happened in Fort McMurray in 2016.

Wildfires never happened before the invention of the combustion engine, you know.

Northern latitudes have been and will be warming more rapidly than the rest of the globe, said William Solecki, a professor at City University of New York and co-director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network.

In other words, it’s only a small part of the world that is showing warming, they don’t know why, so, hey, what the hell, they’ll just blame Mankind. They just have to keep making it all up in order to perpetuate the fascist and tax raising ways.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 7, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is food that soon won’t grow because plants don’t like carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on history, race, and “science”.

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‘Climate Change’ (scam) Will Soon Wipe Out Strawberries Or Something

By William Teach March 7, 2018 – 10:30 am

Today’s story of maybe possibly we feel future doom which could be solved if we pass a tax

New Study: Eat Your Strawberries Before Climate Change Wipes Them Out
Avocados, almonds, peaches, and many other California crops are also threatened.

With its year-round sunshine and vast tracts of fertile land, California is one of the jewels of US food production, providing a third of the nation’s vegetables and two-thirds of our fruits and nuts. As the climate warms, can we continue to take this $50.5 billion bounty for granted?

That’s the question posed by a team of University of California researchers in an eye-opening new paper published in the journal Agronomy, in which they digest recent research to “document the most current understanding on California’s climate change trends in terms of temperature, precipitation, snowpack, and extreme events such as heat waves, drought, and flooding, and their relative impacts” on the state’s agriculture.

They address these topics one by one, and the results are hardly comforting to US eaters.

For one thing, the scientists found, a temperature change of just a few degrees is “closely related to yield reductions” in some of the most cherished California crops: almonds, wine grapes, strawberries, walnuts, freestone peaches, and cherries. Avocado production could plummet by the middle of the century. Because of fewer winter chill hours, by the end of the century, the paper suggests, only 10 percent of the Central Valley will remain viable to grow fruits like apricots, kiwis, peaches, and nectarines.

Could. Suggests. This is climate science. Looking into a crystal ball and reading tea leaves.

In short, California’s climate has already “changed significantly” since the first half of the 20th century, when the state emerged as a linchpin of our food system. And “this change can be expected to continue in the future.” As I put it in a 2015 New York Times piece, the time has probably come to de-Californify the nation’s produce supply—that is, increase fruit and vegetable production in less water-stressed areas.

It’s always amazing that these self-described lovers of science think that the the climate of the Earth should never ever change, despite billions of years of the climate changing, sometime a little, sometimes a lot.

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Washington Post: The Public Has Spoken On Gun Control, So Don’t Wait For White House Or Something

By William Teach March 7, 2018 – 7:36 am

I wonder if the Washington Post Editorial Board ever thought “perhaps we should put our #Resist away, stop our Trump Derangement Syndrome, and act like adults, because, if we aren’t unhinged, perhaps we could convince Mr. Trump to deal with issues.” Na.

The public has spoken on gun control. Don’t wait for the White House.

ACTION ON gun-control legislation has stalled in Congress as Republican leaders try to get some sense of what President Trump might support. We have a better idea. Rather than trying to decipher signals from a president who changes his mind by the hour, lawmakers should listen to the public they are elected to represent. Its message in the aftermath of last month’s fatal shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has been clear: It’s time to end the decades-long stalemate on gun control and enact laws to keep guns from falling into the wrong hands.

Of course, the majority of those laws inhibit law abiding citizens from exercising their 2nd Amendment Rights. Except for one mentioned

Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn) is among the co-sponsors, along with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), of a bill that would bring improvements to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The bill, which also enjoys bipartisan support in the House, was introduced after last year’s mass shooting in a rural Texas church showed breakdowns in information being fed to the system. The bill essentially strengthens existing law, and passage should be a no-brainer. The same can be said about legislation banning bump stocks — devices made notorious by the Las Vegas gunman who used them to kill 58 people in the country’s deadliest mass shooting in the modern era.

I personally have no problem with either. Interestingly, it is Democrats who are blocking both, because they are scared that if they pass, Republicans will not do more gun grabbing. Seriously, the WPEB should read their own newspaper, which reported just a few days ago that Democrats, including Murphy, have been downplaying Murphy’s bill (direct link to WaPo piece). I wonder why the WPEB forgot to mention this bit of news?

It is time for Congress to act on these most modest of reforms — and to tackle more ambitious and needed changes. A recent Politico-Morning Consult poll showed that 88 percent of Americans now support universal background checks, 81 percent think a person should be at least 21 to buy a gun, 70 percent favor a ban on high-capacity magazines and 68 percent think assault-style weapons should be banned. If Congress continues to ignore the public’s clamor for reasonable gun-control legislation, voters should use the upcoming midterm elections to reiterate the message.

Yes, we should ban assault style weapons. And they are, because citizens cannot legally possess automatic weapons (unless they qualify for the ATF stamp, and your average citizen won’t get it). High capacity magazines are already banned in California. That didn’t stop the San Bernadino, California shooter (who was also an Islamist). Since many of the mass shootings over the past few years have been committed by by Islamists in the name of Islam, the WPEB should be good with banning Islamists, right?

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