NY Times: National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Is A Threat To Law And Order Or Something

By William Teach December 6, 2017 – 7:43 am

The Editorial Board of the NY Times is Very Upset that about this notion, which is actually built into the U.S. Constitution, ie, reciprocity. The subhead as showing on the app version says “concealed-carry reciprocity is a threat to law and order”

Going National With Concealed Guns

It’s hard to believe that congressional Republicans would react to the nation’s latest mass shootings by advancing a measure that would allow travelers to more easily carry hidden, loaded handguns across state lines. But that’s exactly what the G.O.P. majority on the House Judiciary Committee did last week when it approved a bill that pleases the National Rifle Association while ignoring the public’s desperate need — and broad support — for stronger gun safety.

Except, it was actually introduced on 1/3/2017. It’s great how the NYT, one of the leading papers in the U.S. and even the world, can’t get their facts straight, eh? Oh, ok, they spin it a bit with the “advancing” part. Regardless, it’s not in response to a shooting, and, hey, the nutter was using rifles, many which were homemade.

The bill could go to a floor vote this week. It would require each state to recognize the “concealed carry” gun permits of all other states, no matter how weak. The permit of a gun owner from Georgia, where weak standards allow even abusive partners to carry hidden guns, would be legally valid in New York, which strictly restricts gun sales and does not recognize any other state’s concealed-carry permits. In other words, Georgia and other states would have more say than New York in determining how many guns are safe to have on the streets of Manhattan. The inflow of weapons that could then be carried around secretly would threaten law and order.

Genuine self-defense episodes, however, are scarce. Deaths caused by concealed-carry gun owners are not. Research shows that far from stopping mayhem, concealed-carry gun owners have been doing more harm to themselves, their family members and other innocent victims. Since May 2007, they have been responsible for at least 1,119 deaths not involving self-defense, including in 31 mass shootings and the killing of 21 law enforcement officers, according to the Violence Policy Center, a gun safety group.

There were more people murdered in Chicago in 2016 (762) and 2017 (587 so far) together than in all cited above. There are more people killed with automobiles yearly: should we not allow people to drive them across state lines? It’s easier to get a license in some states than others.

I’d like to see the bill expanded, where people who are lawfully allowed to open-carry a legally owned handgun be able to do the same in the gun-grabbing states. Anyhow, if the NY Times doesn’t like this, tough. To use the words of Barack Obama, the GOP can say “I won.” Oh, and has the NY Times given up their own armed security at their Manhattan office yet?

Oh, and two of the fastest growing holders of concealed carry permits are women and gays: does the NY Times wish to deny protection to them when they are in the violent and dangerous, low law and order Democrat states?

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Winter’s Future Is Totally Bleak, You Guys

By William Teach December 5, 2017 – 2:36 pm

All because Someone Else refused to mortgage their future and buy a Tesla and buy carbon credits from So Gore

Why winter’s future is bleak

After a string of beautiful days that weather forecasters insist on calling “crisp” (why do they do that?), cloud moved in through the afternoon, the temperature climbed, and it rained.

And in the cafe where I like to read the papers over a flat white, they were playing In the Bleak Midwinter:

“In the bleak midwinter/ Frosty wind made moan/ Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone/ Snow was falling, snow on snow/ Snow on snow / In the bleak midwinter/ Long ago…”

Ok, seems nice. Then the crazy train arrived

The forecasters and the bookies suggest we’re in for one this winter, the coldest temperatures since records began and other headline-grabbing nonsense.

Yet this crazily fluctuating weather is something we should all worry about, not global warming (though the globe is warming), not climate change (though the climate is changing), but climate chaos. (Snip)

But from nature’s point of view, and from that of this nature writer, the only bleak thing about midwinter 2017 is that it stands on the verge of extinction.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 5, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…are plants that will die from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Small Dead Animals, with a post on the SJW playbook.

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‘Climate Change’ Might Lower Salaries Or Something

By William Teach December 5, 2017 – 10:30 am

The latest in scary this might possibly maybe could we think prognostications from the Cult of Climastrology, and this is a Whopper from the same people who think abortion on demand is super awesome, and that fetus’ are just lumps of tissue

Climate Change Might Lower Salaries

Even if countries take moderate action on climate change, by the end of this century, Phoenix is expected to have an extra month of days above 95 degrees Fahrenheit, while Washington, D.C., is expected to have another three weeks of these sweltering days, as the Climate Impact Lab and New York Times reported.

A new study suggests that even days that are an average of 90 degrees Fahrenheit, or 32 Celsius, might have long-term, negative impacts on developing fetuses. The stress of the hot weather might show up as reduced human capital once those fetuses reach adulthood.

Maya Rossin-Slater, a health-policy professor at Stanford University, said she and her team wanted to understand the long-term consequences of climate change on people. For the study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, she and other researchers looked at data on births, weather, and earnings in half the states in the United States. For a given county, on a given day, they measured how many days above 90 degrees a child born that day would have experienced during gestation and during their first year of life. They then compared that person’s salary as an adult to someone born in that same county on that same day in other years.

It turned out fetuses and infants exposed to a single extra 90-plus degree day made $30 less a year, on average, or $430 less over the course of their entire lifetimes. Right now, the average American only experiences one such day a year. (This study looked at the average temperature throughout the entire day, not the highest temperature that day.) By the end of the century, there will be about 43 such days a year.

They went looking for an answer to their beliefs, and, shockingly, found one! I wonder how long it will be till this study is memory holed because it had serious issues?

What’s more, the study used data from the 1970s, when more and more people were installing air conditioners in their houses. The researchers found the difference in earnings went away in areas where most people got air conditioners installed.

These are the same air conditioners that Warmists want to make really, really expensive for Other People, particularly Blacks and Asians.

It’s not entirely clear how hot temperatures would be causing this dip in earnings. Fetuses and infants are especially sensitive to heat because they don’t yet have the ability to self-regulate their body temperatures. Rossin-Slater said there are three potential pathways by which being too hot could impact the fetus: The heat could overstress it, which could affect the child’s health. Heat could also affect how nutrients are delivered to the fetus, or harm its cognitive development, and thus potentially things like focus or self-control.

Interesting. They really aren’t sure, but they’ll be happy to scaremonger.

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The climate scam reduces Warmist IQs by 50 points.

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Witch Hunt: Mueller Expands Investigation, Subpoenas Trump Deutsche Bank Records

By William Teach December 5, 2017 – 7:17 am

It’s been a year since Trump won the election. Democrats have been yammering about Russian interference even longer. Mueller has been investigating for the majority of 2017. So far, no proof of Russian collusion. People said this investigation would go off the rails in investigating everything, rather than “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump…” Mueller can basically do whatever he wants, with really no control on the scope of investigations by the Judicial branch nor Legislative Branch. At this point, the investigation is so far outside the original scope as to be nothing but revenge for winning an election

(Bloomberg) Special prosecutor Robert Mueller zeroed in on President Donald Trump’s business dealings with Deutsche Bank AG as his investigation into alleged Russian meddling in U.S. elections widens.

Mueller issued a subpoena to Germany’s largest lender several weeks ago, forcing the bank to submit documents on its relationship with Trump and his family, according to a person briefed on the matter, who asked not to be identified because the action has not been announced. (snip)

Deutsche Bank for months has rebuffed calls by Democratic lawmakers to provide more transparency over the roughly $300 million Trump owed to the bank for his real estate dealings prior to becoming president. Representative Maxine Waters of California and other Democrats have asked whether the bank’s loans to Trump, made years before he ran for president, were in any way connected to Russia. The bank previously rejectedthose demands, saying sharing client data would be illegal unless it received a formal request to do so. Trump has denied any wrongdoing. (snip)

Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank stretches back some two decades and the roughly $300 million he owed to the bank represented nearly half of his outstanding debt, according to a July 2016 analysis by Bloomberg. That figure includes a $170-million loan Trump took out to finish a hotel in Washington. He also has two mortgages against his Trump National Doral Miami resort and a loan against his tower in Chicago.

Trump’s holdings and other things related to Deutsche have virtually nothing to do with any sort of collusion accusation, except though magical thinking in that Deutsche does business with Russia. Like lots of giant banks.

In July, Trump said in an interview with the New York Times that if Mueller examined his family’s finances beyond any relationship with Russia he’d consider it “a violation.” Mueller’s investigation had expanded to examine a broad range of transactions involving the president’s businesses, including dealings by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a person familiar with the probe told Bloomberg News after the publication of the Times interview.

One has to wonder if Mueller is intentionally attempting to get Trump to fire him, so that Democrats can push impeachment over “obstruction of justice.”

This farce has gone on long enough. It was based on whiny complaints made up with no evidence, along with the totally fake FusionGPS document. Then ramped up after the election by Sore Losers. Mueller hasn’t found any evidence of collusion after all this time. A main investigator for Mueller, who’s also a Democrat supporter, was a big time Hillary supporter and wrote nasty things about Trump. And let’s not forget that none of Hillary’s aides were punished for lying to the FBI. Nor has Hillary been charged, despite lying to the FBI.

Unless Mueller can offer concrete proof that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia at this time, end it. No more witch hunts.

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Bummer: Biggest Tax Bill Losers Would Be Blue Staters Earning More Than $200,000

By William Teach December 5, 2017 – 6:52 am

The NY Times is Very Concerned

Among the Tax Bill’s Biggest Losers: Blue State Taxpayers Who Earn More Than $200,000

While the Republican tax overhaul would add up to an overall tax cut for individual taxpayers, at least through 2025, millions could still immediately receive a tax increase. For many, particularly in Democratic areas, the increase would come from the repeal of the state and local tax deduction, known as SALT.

Highly-populated counties in Democratic-leaning states like Californiaand New York tend to claim much higher SALT deductions.

Because Democratic voters are more concentrated in high-tax states like New York and California, taxpayers in counties that voted for Hillary Clinton take much larger SALT deductions on average. Upper-class taxpayers are much more likely to claim more than the higher proposed standard deduction (roughly $24,000 for couples in both versions of the bill). (snip)

Taxpayers earning $200,000 or more, who make up 4.5 percent of all returns, are at the highest risk of a tax increase from the SALT repeal, because many currently deduct much more in state and local taxes than the bill’s new standard deduction.

Interesting. I thought that Democrats thought that paying more in taxes was patriotic? I thought they just liked the idea of higher taxes to fund Government? Remember all the times Mr. Obama proposed increasing taxes on those paying $200,000 individual/$250,000 joint? I guess Democrats have Someone Else syndrome when it comes to taxes. They’re A-OK with raising taxes on Someone Else.

Of course, and as usual, the Times is preaching doom and gloom from lowering taxes. Not as bad as Nancy Pelosi or those saying this means death, though. Or some Millenials.

Then there’s this

A quick snippet from the piece, worth reading the whole thing, where they start out discussing advocacy journalism in terms of papers like the NY Times coming out against the tax bill(s) in what is supposed to be the non-opinion section, exactly as with the article I cited

“The Republican tax bill hurtling through Congress is increasingly tilting the United States tax code to benefit wealthy Americans.” That’s the beginning of a 37-word first sentence in a stage-setting front-page New York Times story on the Senate tax bill last week.

It’s a nice illustration of creatively phrased advocacy journalism. “Hurtling” suggests irrational, uncontrolled, threatening movement; “tilting” suggests abandoning upstanding fairness; spelling out “the United States tax code” suggests an ominous attack on a respected national institution. And all this “to benefit wealthy Americans.”

This is less reportage than it is advocacy journalism, written to advance the argument that GOP tax bills are harmful because they make federal taxation less progressive.

But it’s also an argument against any tax cut at any time. After all, if you start off with a progressive system that imposes higher rates on high earners and doesn’t tax low earners at all — as is the case with the current federal income tax — then every tax cut takes that shape.

It kinda does.

In fact, Republican tax writers this year have devoted much less attention to cutting income-tax rates for high earners than their predecessors did in 1981 and 2003 or their presidential nominees in 2008 and 2012. Instead, they want to increase the child tax credit and double the standard deduction.

That would reduce taxes for many modest earners and get the government out of the business of encouraging some behaviors and therefore discouraging others. This could reduce the scope of lobbyists larding up the tax code with special exemptions and favors.

Let’s also not forget, as the article notes, that Obama himself proposed lowering the corporate tax rate several times. He just never got around to discussing it with Congress, because he rarely ever tried to work with Congress.

Anyhow, one would think that the people who constantly call for The Rich paying their fair share would be will to pay their fair share, right?

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Will National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Hit House Floor This Week?

By William Teach December 4, 2017 – 6:54 pm

They should look to pass more than just concealed carry reciprocity, but, hey, steps

(Breitbart) National reciprocity for concealed carry is expected to be introduced on the House Floor for a vote next week.

Breitbart News reported that the legislation received a markup from the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. That markup indicated committee members were confident national reciprocity had the momentum to reach the House Floor.

The legislation, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017, was introduced by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) on January 3, 2017. It treats concealed carry permits like driver’s licenses, making a permit from one state valid in the other 49. This saves the common man the hassle of navigating the cumbersome patchwork of concealed carry laws that exist in the U.S., making it easier for him to be armed to defend himself and his family should the need arise.

Obviously, the typical gun grabbers are upset that people would be allowed to carry weapons to defend themselves when visiting dangerous Democratic Party run states. Thing is, reciprocity is baked into the Constitution, this shouldn’t be necessary, but, Liberal states hate allowing citizens to use their 2nd Amendment Right.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 4, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is CLIMATE CHANGE BEING ALREADY HERE CAUSING SNOW IN SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post wondering if Excitable Kamala Harris will be the Democrats nominee in 2020.

Forgot to mention that it’s Canadians week.

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We The People Pledge To Force Other People To Fight ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach December 4, 2017 – 10:51 am

It’s always interesting when high ranking members of the Cult of Climastrology yammer on about pledging to Do Something about ‘climate change’, but never say what they’re doing in their own lives. In this case, it’s Laurence Tubiana, a French diplomat and economist, who was appointed French ambassador for international climate negotiations in connection with the 2015 COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris, and is super involved in all things Hotcoldwetdry

We The People Pledge To Fight Climate Change

President Trump’s declaration on June 1, 2017, that he was withdrawing the United States from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which I helped to design, was framed as a call to nationalism, saying he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”

But 75 percent of Pittsburghers voted for Hillary Clinton, who was in favor of the agreement, and since then the mayors of Pittsburgh and Paris have together endorsed the Paris agreement, in the joint goal of building a cleaner, safer world.

As local governments see how climate change is linked to citizens’ well-being, they are taking concrete actions such as setting milestones for air quality, banning diesel cars or combustion engines, and implementing renewable energy systems.

Notice, this is not We The People Voluntarily Changing Our Own Behavior, it is government attempting to force compliance. There’s a vast difference between me pledging to get 50,000 steps during the work week on my FitBit, and government forcing me to do so.

Obviously, a lot of this screed is about #Resist to Trump, and ends up with standard Statist boilerplate

The global movement that was founded upon the statements in the Paris agreement is about people, citizens’ concerns, economic expectations and technological development. It is not a technocratic legal document, nor about abandoning national sovereignty. We are working toward a shared vision of a common future, with the goal of safeguarding the planet for all.

The global movement is composed of hypocrites, especially the leaders. As Instapundit is fond of writing “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis act like it’s a crisis”, to which I add “and give up the use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral, not just purchase carbon offsets.”

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Politico: Clinton Should Run For Tom Cotton’s Arkansas Seat Or Something

By William Teach December 4, 2017 – 8:22 am

The ideas that hardcore leftists like Politico’s Bill Scher come up with

Clinton Should Run for Cotton’s Senate Seat

With rumors swirling that Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton will soon head for the CIA, another Senate race may be added to the 2018 list. The safe money is for an open seat in Arkansas to stay in Republican hands. But who thought Alabama would host a competitive Senate race? If Democrats can find a credible candidate, and unruly Republican voters again fail to take their nomination process seriously, anything could happen.

However, to call the Arkansas Democratic Party a shell would be an insult to turtles. There are no Democratic officials holding statewide office, nor any in the U.S. House delegation. Out of the 135 members of the Arkansas state legislature, only 33—less than 25 percent—are Democrats. Not a single Democrat has yet stepped up to run for governor next year. The only Democratic Senate prospect that Arkansas Times columnist Jay Barth could come up with isn’t even a Democrat, but former Republican state House Speaker Davy Carter, who has been critical of President Donald Trump and could run as “an Independent with Democratic backing.”

If Arkansas Democrats want to field a serious Democrat, there’s only one name to consider. I’m talking, of course, about Clinton.

Scher goes on to note all the baggage that both Bill and Hillary carry, like Hillary’s lying, being super unpopular, etc, oh, and Bill’s sexual assaults and such, so…..

That leaves us with one Clinton: Chelsea.

She has the Clinton name but little of the Clinton baggage. She wouldn’t hurt for name recognition or campaign cash. She’s vice chair of the controversy magnet known as the Clinton Foundation, but emails released during the presidential campaign by WikiLeaks and the State Department show Chelsea getting caught doing good, seeking to root out corruption by foundation officials and warning of problems with Haiti earthquake relief.

So, another carpet bagger. Sure, she might have been born in Arkansas, but, at this point, she’s a New Yorker through and through. She doesn’t live in Arkansas, and hasn’t for a long, long time. It’d be fun asking her things like “what do you think of your father sexually assaulting women?” and “do you think federal officials should obstruct justice, refuse to read security requirement documents, and use un-sanctioned, un-approved, in-secure servers to hold America’s national security material?” And then there would be questions about shady activities in the Clinton Foundation, which Chelsea was involved in.

As Legal Insurrection notes

The idea of the Clinton dynasty just will not die, and poor Chelsea is going to be sacrificed on its altar. Remember when the media and left was pushing the idea of a Chelsea run for the U. S. House of Representatives in New York? That fizzled out quickly.

Not only is the progressive base less than excited about a Chelsea Clinton in elected office, but Chelsea has all of her mother’s less desirable traits and none of her father’s political instincts or charisma. As such, she’s not a likely candidate for anything much less the U. S. Senate.

I’m up for her running. It’d be fun having her show her disdain for Arkansas and those icky Flyover country/Jesusland folks, and the resulting questions about her parents and their shady dealings and doings.

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