Because You Drove A Fossil Fueled Vehicle, Volcanic Explosions May Soon Rise

By William Teach June 16, 2016 – 5:13 pm

Another dire prognostication from the Cult of Climastrology, preaching doom and gloom

VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS COULD SOON BE ON THE RISE DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change is responsible for a great deal of adverse weather problems we experience around the world today. From hotter days to heavier floods, to stronger hurricanes, we are getting it all and more with volcanic activity also on the rise too.

The last big surge of volcanic activity was thought to have been around 10,000 years ago when the last ice age ended. Generally, the state of eruptions has been steady over the years but is slowing on the rise. An average number of volcanic explosions to occur in one year is normally around 50, with the number of earthquakes occurring greater than magnitude six at around 150.

In recent years, scientists have seen those numbers increase significantly, with some areas of the globe seeing a rise of almost 10 percent. Places that are at risk the most from the increase in volcanic activity and earthquakes are those that experience major glacial melting, such as Alaska, Iceland, and the Himalayas.

We see these increases due to the effects of global warming. The higher temperatures are causing the glaciers to melt, which is, in turn, causing a rise in the sea-level. This rise in sea-level increases the pressure on the ocean floor, while reducing pressure on the continents and it is this change in pressure that causes volcanic eruptions to happen.

So, of course, this means future doom. Why won’t you stop using electricity at home, take 2 minute showers, use 2 sheets of toilet paper, and walk to work?

Really, Warmists just can’t help themselves when it comes to linking and/or blaming everything on the fictitious notion of anthropogenic global warming.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 16, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful non-planet killing alternative to dairy ice cream, but is also evil because of energy used for freezers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on a wimp with a byline trying an AR-15.

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CBS Shocked, Shocked!!!!! That It Only Took 38 Minutes To Purchase An “Assault Weapon”

By William Teach June 16, 2016 – 10:20 am

It seems to be a big thing now for Leftist media fools to go into gun stores and purchase an “assault rifle” to prove how easy it is. It’s as easy as going into a Starbucks and ordering a cup of coffee, you guys!

(CBS News) In Virginia, where the Virginia Tech shootings killed 32 people, there is no waiting period for a firearm, even for a so-called assault rifle similar to those used in Orlando and San Bernardino, reports CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave. (WT: the VA shooter had two handguns, not a rifle)

CBS News sent a producer into a gun store in Alexandria, just outside of Washington D.C. Per Virginia law, she provided two items to prove state residency – a drivers license and voter ID card – as well as her passport to prove U.S. citizenship.

She filled out some federal and state forms requiring her name, date of birth, social security number and a few basic questions about any past criminal activity or current restraining orders. And she passed a brief electronic background check.

All told, it took 38 minutes and $1,030 for her to walk out of the store legally armed with a rifle, 100 rounds of ammunition and a 30-round magazine.

In other words, the National Instant Criminal Backgrounds Check System (NICS) worked. Did said producer think she would be turned down for something in her past? Or, is she just another law abiding citizen?

“Throughout most of America, you could go into a gun store and buy an AR-15, just like you’d go into a Starbucks and buy a cup of coffee,” said UCLA law professor Adam Winkler.

It’s been a long time since I wasted money buying Starbucks coffee, but, I doubt they have added background checks, have they? BTW, coffee is not a Constitutional Right. Oh, and just to make it fun

Except it wasn’t an AR-15. Great journalism there guys, you can’t even name the actual rifle purchased.

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Skeptic Subpoenaed By Massachusetts AG Has Pithy Response

By William Teach June 16, 2016 – 8:29 am

Unfortunately, this response is not appropriate for court, which is certainly where this is headed

(Daily Caller) Alex Epstein had a terse response to a subpoena sent by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey Wednesday.

Healey demanded the oil giant ExxonMobil hand over 40 years of documents, including information pertaining to the company’s dealings with about a dozen think tanks and trade associations, which have been targeted by environmental groups for opposing left-wing global warming policies.

Healey’s subpoena targeted the Center for Industrial Progress (CIP), a for-profit think tank founded by Epstein. Epstein wasn’t exactly happy about being targeted for disagreeing with Healey on global warming, so he sent the AG’s office the following response:

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/743159705963470848

Good for him. CIP isn’t even funded by Exxon Mobile. This is an intimidation tactic by Healey, who has subpoenaed a wide range of skeptic organizations, designed to shut down First Amendment Rights, especially free speech and free association. It is authoritarian government abuse at its finest, but, then, this is what Warmists want. They’ll be very upset when it is used against themselves.

Meanwhile, Exxon has gone to court, asking that Healey’s subpoena against the company be squashed

Exxon Mobil Corp asked a federal court on Wednesday to throw out a subpoena that would force the oil company to hand over decades of documents as part of a wide-ranging inquiry into whether it misled investors about climate change risks.

In its filing in a U.S. district court, Exxon said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey overreached with her April subpoena and that it violated constitutional amendments on free speech, unreasonable search and seizure and equal protection.

It’s an abusive fishing expedition known as Lawfare, designed to use the power of the Government to attack and destroy any entity engaged in Wrongthink.

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NY Times Now Blames The NRA For Orlando

By William Teach June 16, 2016 – 7:53 am

Yesterday the NY Times Editorial Board was blaming Republicans, Conservatives, and anyone who is not a Muslim that has a problem with gays, gay marriage, and allowing the gender confused (as well as pretenders who use the laws for Bad Purposes) into the opposite biological bathrooms, showers, and changing rooms. But, no blame towards ISIS, Al Qaeda, or extremist Islam in general.

Today they have another group to blame

The N.R.A.’s Complicity in Terrorism

“America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms,” one spokesman for Al Qaeda said in a 2011 recruitment video. “So what are you waiting for?”

Few places on earth make it easier than the United States for a terrorist to buy assault weapons to mow down scores of people in a matter of minutes. The horrific massacre in Orlando last weekend is only the latest example. And all this is made vastly easier by a gun lobby that has blocked sensible safety measures at every turn, and by members of Congress who seem to pledge greater allegiance to the firearms industry than to their own constituencies. There is a word for their role in this form of terrorism: complicity.

Is the NRA complicit with the use of scary looking rifles for the attacks in Paris?

What Democrats and the NY Times, but, I repeat myself, want is passage of a bill allowing anyone on the terrorist watch list to be barred from being able to purchase a gun. The problem with the list is that it is so vague that it is certain to be abused. All that is necessary is a “reasonable belief”. No one in government would ever take advantage of that, would they?

Some critics say the government’s terror watch lists sweep up far too many innocent people. But the Feinstein bill allowed law enforcement officials to block a sale only after showing that a prospective gun buyer on the watch list was known or suspected to be involved in terrorism. If blocked, the person could challenge that denial in federal court.

Yes, they can. As long as they are notified correctly that they are on the list, and file within 60 days. Oh, and the Attorney General can withhold certain documents from the court. Page 11 of the Bill. There is still a 4th and 5th Amendment.

Other effective measures include universal background checks to intercept people who are legally barred from gun ownership, like those convicted of domestic abuse and the mentally ill;

We already have a backgrounds check requirement in place. Oh, and the tougher one in California did not work particularly well for the San Bernardino Muslim extremists, did it?

and limits on magazine capacity, which some states have already enacted.

Did not work in San Bernardino, but, Dems love their “clip” limits

Mr. Mateen was able to kill 49 people largely because the assault rifle he was using could fire 30-round clips as fast as he could pull the trigger. No civilian anywhere should be allowed to have that ability.

The Founders of this nation would disagree.  So would the 2nd Amendment. If Democrats do not like it, they should attempt to repeal or modify the 2nd.

Regardless, this is the same old same old from the leftist gun grabbers, who cynically use any tragedy to blame the gun, rather than the user of the gun. Unless they are White, of course. Or Christian. Then they have no problem assigning blame while also using the incident to take guns away from those citizens who are not using guns for nefarious purposes. But, they just can’t wrap their minds around blaming Muslim extremists.

The NY Times’ Charles Blow calls the Orlando killer, Omar Mateen, an “American Monster“, and utterly fails to note that he’s a radical Muslim who pledged allegiance to ISIS multiple times. Of course, Blow blames guns, the NRA, and Republicans and gun owners. But, not radical Islam.

This is the narrative, where Leftists will do all they can to attack the law abiding gun owners and take away their rights will protecting the Islamic extremists.

Anyhow, remember, the GOP offered an alternative piece of legislation for being able to block people on the no fly/terrorist watch list from obtaining a firearm, which Democrats blocked, apparently because it allowed people exercise their 4th and 5th Amendment protections. They should offer it again.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Wacky Leftists Think Everyone Should Take The No Shower Challenge

By William Teach June 15, 2016 – 3:24 pm

This has all the hallmarks of the Barking Moonbat left: unhinged environmentalism (as opposed to sane environmentalism), climate change, and plain old wackadoodle, with a throwback to the dirty hippy period

The no-showering challenge: why we should all take part

James Hamblin, senior editor of the Atlantic, recently joined the unwashed masses. As part of his series If Our Bodies Could Talk, Hamblin, a relatively sane-looking man, took on a no-showering challenge to examine the effect of overcleansing the body. He reduced the number of showers he took and eliminated shampoo and soap when he did. (snip)

It’s not just scent or aesthetics, either – although dermatologists suggest that slowing down on soap use can improve acne and eczema. Reducing the frequency of showers (and the number of cleansing products used) has very real implications for our environment. The average shower lasts seven minutes and uses 65 litres of water.

That’s 65 litres of clean, potable water that we’re infusing with suds and washing down the drain each and every day – sometimes more than once.

But, no worries about smell

If this whole thing is giving you the heebie-jeebies as you recall the last time you were pressed cheek to jowl with those who evidently already skimp on the showers – and have clearly not reached the hallowed scent-free stage yet – relax. Many cleansing-reduction enthusiasts still use deodorant if they find it necessary (everyone’s natural scent varies in, er, intensity, and can be affected by a host of factors including diet, hydration and exercise) and hand-washing with soap is still recommended as a vital way cut down on the spread of infectious diseases.

No matter how much these nutters try and justify, they always seem to want to take human society backwards hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 15, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is evil ice cream from an evil moo cow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Theodore’s World, with a post on Democrats walking out on a moment of silence.

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NYDN Gun Grabber Decides To Shoot An AR-15, Basically Wets His Skivvies

By William Teach June 15, 2016 – 8:01 am

It doesn’t matter that the Orlando ISIS loving killer did not use an AR-15 or any variant. But, he, facts don’t matter. We already have a Philly.com writer claiming it took her just 7 minutes to purchase an AR-15. It’d take longer than that to fill out the paperwork. Did she expect to be turned down during the instant background check? And it took two Huffington Post writers just “38 minutes to walk out of a gun shop with a death machine.” Yes, an AR-15. Interestingly, they surely drove to the gun shop in a a multi-ton death machine. Nothing tops this, though, from NY Daily News hysteric Gersh Kuntzman

Firing an AR-15 is horrifying, menacing and very very loud

It feels like a bazooka — and sounds like a cannon.

One day after 49 people were killed in the Orlando shooting, I traveled to Philadelphia to better understand the firepower of military-style assault weapons and, hopefully, explain their appeal to gun lovers.

But mostly, I was just terrified.

It’s been awhile since I fired one myself, but, it was about as bothersome as firing my Walther P22, which is a .22 caliber handgun. You want terrified? Well, more like heavily surprised? Have someone fire a Desert Eagle in the lane 6 down. Which wasn’t allowed and got the guy kicked out. They fire actual cannons at ECU Pirates football games (using blanks, obviously.) Kuntzman should go to a Civil War or Independence War re-enactment to see a real cannon.

And, if it feels like a bazooka, he should go to the gym more.

Not in my hands. I’ve shot pistols before, but never something like an AR-15. Squeeze lightly on the trigger and the resulting explosion of firepower is humbling and deafening (even with ear protection).

I listen to heavy metal louder than an AR-15. Much, much louder.

The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

We have a saying here down south: Bless your heart. The shell casings would not be flying by your face if you’re holding the weapon correctly. The weapon is made to have little kick. One of the reasons women love to have them for self defense (which Liberal gun grabbers want to take away and replace with rape whistles). Nor is he firing an old-school black powder musket to get the sulfur odor. PTSD?

Even in semi-automatic mode, it is very simple to squeeze off two dozen rounds before you even know what has happened. In fully automatic mode, it doesn’t take any imagination to see dozens of bodies falling in front of your barrel.

Is Kuntzman claiming that he was able to fire the weapon in automatic mode? I didn’t see that in the video at the article. Nor do they come in automatic. But, most gun grabbing liberals reading the article wouldn’t understand the lie.

Over at Bearing Arms, Mike McDaniel skewers Kuntzman, including

As a fellow member of the patriarchy, I worry about Mr. Kuntzman’s masculinity and self-image. I have, on numerous occasions, introduced females, including little girls no older than 10 and no more than 70 pounds, to the awe-inspiring power of the AR-15. Granted, they had to fire from a supported position, lacking the strength to support the 7-pound rifle for long otherwise, but after firing many rounds, their universal reaction was one of delight–they found the little rifle’s accuracy and ease of use pleasing–and not a bruise among them. The same is true of adult women, many no more than 110 pounds sopping wet.

And over at Legal Insurrection, Kemberlee Kaye notes

If a .223 rifle bruises your shoulder, you should eat more bananas.

I wonder when Kuntzman will decry the use of fully automatic weapons by the security details for Obama and Hillary?

More: Frank of Frank’s Gun Shop, where Kuntzman went, replies

Yesterday the man in this video from the NY Daily News called and asked if he could come and interview us about the basic principles of how an AR-15 works. We acknowledged his offer so that we could prove that an AR-15 is indeed a great and safe weapon as stated in the video. After the video was filmed there was another Q&A type conversation on how things work in other countries, what are some of the things others believe would be a step into the right direction of gun control. To our knowledge we did not know that Mr. Kuntzman would completely turn things around and make our establishment look like one of anti-gun advocates…..

Currently we are doing everything we can to take this article down because after reading it we are just as disgusted about it as all of you are…..

And for the record, if you get a bruised shoulder or PTSD from shooting an AR-15 you may be a Katie Couric, liberal with ought testicular fortitude

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NY Times: America’s Corrosive Politics Towards Gays Is To Blame For Orlando

By William Teach June 15, 2016 – 7:11 am

So far, the NY Times Editorial Board hasn’t blamed guns for the Orlando Islamist massacre. There have been plenty of other op-eds that have done that, as well as thinly veiled opinion pieces masquerading as articles. Because the EB knows exactly what’s to blame. No, not hardcore extremist Islam. What, you think they would actually go down that road? Pfffffft

The Corrosive Politics That Threaten L.G.B.T. Americans

Omar Mateen shattered the tenuous, hard-fought sense of personal safety that many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have begun to feel as the movement for equality has made significant gains in recent years. His bullets and the blood he left behind that early morning were a reminder that in many corners of the country, gay and transgender people are still regarded as sinners and second-class citizens who should be scorned.

Huh. It’s the fault of our citizens.

https://twitter.com/KimwithpanacheG/status/739705472786169858

While the precise motivation for the rampage remains unclear, it is evident that Mr. Mateen was driven by hatred toward gays and lesbians. Hate crimes don’t happen in a vacuum. They occur where bigotry is allowed to fester, where minorities are vilified and where people are scapegoated for political gain. Tragically, this is the state of American politics, driven too often by Republican politicians who see prejudice as something to exploit, not extinguish.

See? They don’t quite know what the motivation was….

https://twitter.com/Ladyred133/status/739792486176985091

…but they can sure tell you that it’s Republicans who refuse to agree with things like gay marriage and the gender confused in bathrooms with young girls.

Yet, that fight remains far from over. Since the marriage ruling, several Republican-led state legislatures and Republican governors and federal lawmakers have redoubled their fight against legal protections for people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. So far this year, more than 200 anti-L.G.B.T. bills have been introduced in 34 states.

Yet, none of those Republicans do this

It’s hard to say how many politicians take these positions as a matter of principle and how many do so because it has proved to be an effective way in the past to raise money and turn out the vote. As the funerals are held for those who perished on Sunday, lawmakers who have actively championed discriminatory laws and policies, and those who have quietly enabled them with votes, should force themselves to read the obituaries and look at the photos. The 49 people killed in Orlando were victims of a terrorist attack. But they also need to be remembered as casualties of a society where hate has deep roots.

The NY Times, like so many other Leftist organizations and individual Leftists, is utterly unable to assign any blame what so ever to the extremist wing of Islam, for which, depending on the study, has anywhere from 10-25% believing in the hardcore version, which believes in things like hanging gays, stoning gays, whipping gays, throwing gays from buildings, etc. 52% of British Muslims want to make being gay illegal. In Muslim countries around the world, well over 3/4ths say being gay is immoral. They want Sharia law, as well. And there is a large percent of Islam that is more than willing to use force to defend Islam.

A good chunk of Muslim countries have laws that say it is illegal to be gay, and good number have law that says being gay is punishable by death.

But, hey, it is so much easier to blame all Republicans with a broad brush, rather than target the segment of Islam that is willing to

https://twitter.com/Coco1Hunter/status/742547310601588736

You can start here if you’re willing to read about and view pictures of gays being stoned to death by ISIS. Obama’s BFF’s Iran loves hanging gays. Glenn Greenwald wants people to “stop exploiting LGBT issues to demonize Islam and justify anti-Muslim policies.” Certainly, there have been some attacks done in the name of Christianity against gays, yet, the vast majority of Christians find the attacks abhorrent. Hating gays in Islam is formalized.

Why is it so difficult for Leftists to assign blame to the hardcore extremist portion of Islam? Leftists have certainly prioritized extremist Islam over LGBT.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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We Now Have The First Mammal Species Wiped Out By Hotcoldwetdry Or Something

By William Teach June 14, 2016 – 5:08 pm

This has made Warmists giddy. One of their duckspeaks has finally come to pass! Of course, not giddy enough for each and every Warmist to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral

(Guardian) Human-caused climate change appears to have driven the Great Barrier Reef’s only endemic mammal species into the history books, with the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent that lives on a tiny island in the eastern Torres Strait, being completely wiped-out from its only known location.

It is also the first recorded extinction of a mammal anywhere in the world thought to be primarily due to human-caused climate change.

An expert says this extinction is likely just the tip of the iceberg, with climate change exerting increasing pressures on species everywhere.

The rodent, also called the mosaic-tailed rat, was only known to live on Bramble Cay a small coral cay, just 340m long and 150m wide off the north coast of Queensland, Australia, which sits at most 3m above sea level.

This is all blamed on sea rise due to human caused climate change

In their report, co-authored by Natalie Waller and Luke Leung from the University of Queensland, the researchers concluded the “root cause” of the extinction was sea-level rise. As a result of rising seas, the island was inundated on multiple occasions, they said, killing the animals and also destroying their habitat.

Because sea rise has never happened during any of the other warm periods.

Globally, averaged sea level has risen by almost 20cm between 1901 and 2010, a rate unparalleled in any period during the last 6,000 years. But around the Torres Strait, sea level appears to have risen at almost twice the global average rate between 1993 and 2014.

20cm equals 7.874 inches, which is anything but “unparalleled”. Once again, the average sea rise over the last 7,000-8,000 years, a time period used because the great melt from the end of the last glacial age had seriously slowed, is 7 to 8 inches per century. To create an average, you take multiple numbers and divide by the total number of numbers. So, the average of 15, 1, 17, and -3 is 7.5. Holocene cool periods last longer than the warm ones, and will see small sea rise to even negative, and, since they last longer, those numbers mean that the warm periods need greater sea rise. So, if this is man’s fingerprint, that perhaps we’re actually limiting the sea rise we should be seeing.

But, facts matter little. It’s all in the duckspeak. Science is not relevant. This is politics.

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