Good Grief: People Protest In Texas Over “Pool Party”

By William Teach June 9, 2015 – 7:31 am

Everyone keeps saying that the video from the McKinney (illegal and against the community HOAs) pool party is hard to watch. Of course, they mean because of the supposed way these kids were being treated. It’s actually hard to watch because we see kids running rampant, refusing to listen to law enforcement, charging an officer causing him to pull his gun. Police officers are humans, and they get tired of listening to a bunch of hooligans, and telling them to settle down, especially when the kids are the ones who were in violations

(Fox News) Hundreds of demonstrators rallied outside an elementary school in a Dallas suburb Monday in response to a video that showed a white police officer pushing and pinning a black teenage girl to the ground before drawing his gun on two others who tried to intervene.

KDFW reported that many of the protesters came from outside the town of McKinney, about 35 miles northeast of Dallas. They held signs that included the phrases, “My skin color is not a crime,” and, “Don’t tread on our kids.” More than 150 people were part of a counter-protest on a nearby corner, waving flags and holding signs that said “Back the Blue.”

No, your skin color is not a crime, particularly since white kids were involved, as well. The party itself was a crime, as was trespassing, jumping the pool fence, fighting, assaulting the security guard, destruction of property, resisting, failing to listen to a duly sworn peace officer, and aggressively approaching a police officer.  As far as “treading on our kids”, where were the parents of these kids? Perhaps they should have taught them better values. Yes, kids will be kids, and I think we can all understand that many might have been upset about being invited to this party, reportedly being charged $15 for attendance, then being kicked out because the party was illegal per the HOA rules. Of course, that’s still no excuse for the fights, property destruction, etc.

A few dozen addressed the crowd through a bullhorn, including Derrick Golden, a pastor from McKinney who met earlier with the city’s police Chief Greg Conley. He said Conley “responded appropriately” in placing the officer, 41-year-old Eric Casebolt, on administrative leave following the incident. However, Golden said he would push for Casebolt to be fired due to the officer’s use of profanity and his brandishing of the gun.

But Benét Embry, a black local radio personality who witnessed the incident, said it was “not another Ferguson” or “another Baltimore,” referring to other police encounters that have left suspects dead and fueled a nationwide “Black Lives Matter” movement.

Let’s assume that Officer Casebolt went a little too far. That wouldn’t have happened if the illegal party hadn’t taken place, if the kids weren’t trespassing, abusing the security guard and residents (who pay a fee for the pool), fighting, etc and so on.

Robert Taylor, a criminology professor at the University of Texas at Dallas who has done studies for the McKinney Police Department, said both the officer and the teens at the pool party acted inappropriately.

The teens were not following police orders, he said, but the officer’s decision to pull out his gun did not help.

“That’s not the way we’re trained,” he said. “We’re trained in policing to de-escalate problem encounters like this. … Obviously, that officer lost his cool. No doubt about it.”

Maybe he did lose his cool. Police are human, and they certainly can get tired of the hooligan behavior, the yelling, the cursing, and do not appreciate anyone aggressively approaching them when they are attempting to restrain someone else, as the video shows.

Overall, this is typical. Something happens, and people go overboard in their protests, totally forgetting that the people they are protesting in support of were acting in a lawless manner. Perhaps they should spend their energy in teaching the kids civilized behavior, instead of attempting to ruin other people’s lives. By the way, residents of the neighborhood are being harassed and abused, and even threatened. Why aren’t the social justice warriors worried about that?

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Climate Change Is The Eschatology Of The Left

By William Teach June 8, 2015 – 4:08 pm

Eschatology: a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of humankind. Robert Edward Gordon tells us about the eschatology of the Left

I am always amazed that people without the capacity to verify the climate data are so convinced that “climate change” — which used to be “global warming,” but had to be changed to accommodate the “Great Pause” — is real and catastrophic. Since most people cannot independently verify the science of climate change, then those whose political leanings favor anti-capitalist solutions will accept the “facts” as if they are as true as gravity.

Liberals are sheep, led by their political masters, and have been told to Believe in anthropogenic climate change, and that we’re all doomed. In order to forestall the doom, we must change the economic system to a Progressive/Marxist economy, and implement tons of rules, regs, and laws which restrict personal freedom, the freedom of private entities, and control of the economy. Of course, they all think this should happen to Other People, never themselves, and mostly refuse to change their own lives to match their talking points.

The Left need causes that necessitate unitarian government. As such, they are global universalists. They want universal health care, global government via the United Nations, a world without borders. Global climate change is a perfect totalizing umbrella to unite the world under a single, controlling, horrifying rubric of an Earth in jeopardy underwritten by the prestige, authority, and inaccessibility of high science. The truth is that the earth is a religion to the Left, and climate change is its eschatology — an end of the world scenario. It used to be global thermonuclear war. Movie after movie in the 1980s fabricated a readymade collective anti-reality that only Leftist politics of disarmament and a “new world built on the ashes of the old” could solve. But that needed to be changed after the fall of the Berlin Wall (another reason to hate Reagan). A new collective umbrella needed to be fashioned.

Calling it “unitarian government” is a nice way of discussing what Warmists, part of the Progressive/Leftist movement, want, namely, an authoritarian centralized government.

Why, hasn’t anyone ever wondered why Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance (1992) was released so shortly after the fall of Russian Communism? Indeed, its subtitle is “Forging a New Common Purpose.” Climate change skeptics are not denying that a legitimate scientific issue exists that humans need to grapple with, but the political aspirations of those promoting its purported catastrophic consequences, whose ideas and solutions for humanity just might actually end life as we know it. Food for thought.

Al Gore, and other leading Warmists, have made quite a bit of money pushing these notions, jet setting around the world, gathering acolytes, while demanding that the rest of us reduce our lifestyles. Food for thought.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 8, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful rain forest, which needs some solar panel farms, you might just be a Warmsit

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on misuse of EBT cards.

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Lindsay Graham Goes Climahysteric, Desperately Wants To Be Democrat Nominee

By William Teach June 8, 2015 – 9:39 am

Obviously, Senator Graham has long been a member of the Cult of Climastrology, and part of the Progressive wing of the GOP. That said, his campaign should go about as far as Jon Huntsman’s did in 2012 with this kind of moonbattery

(Politico) Sen. Lindsey Graham is urging action on climate change and endorsing a budget plan that includes tax increases — another example of how the South Carolina Republican breaks with many other conservatives seeking the GOP presidential nomination.

He’s not a conservative. He has some decent national security cred, and a few others issues, but, he received a 74 by the ACU for 2014, and a 68 for 2013. His lifetime rating (20 years) is 87.13.

In a wide-ranging interview aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Graham also called out two of his Republican rivals by name and challenged his party for not having an environmental policy.

“Here’s a question you need to ask everybody running as a Republican: What is the environmental policy of the Republican policy? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare,” he said in the interview taped Saturday in Boone, Iowa, where a number of GOP presidential hopefuls attended Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst’s “Roast and Ride.”

Republicans want to make sure the air, water, and land are clean. “Climate change” has nothing to do with real environmental concerns.

“If I’m president of the United States, we’re going to address climate change, CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way,” the South Carolina senator said. “I do believe that climate change is real.”

”When 90 percent of the doctors tell you you’ve got a problem, do you listen to the one?” Graham added, in a nod to the vast majority of scientists who say climate change is real and caused by human activity.

When 90% of doctors are telling you to use leaches and trepanning to cure illness, do you listen to them? Or the guy/gal saying “whoa, whoa, whoa, let’s look at actual science”? Lindsey, goes with the leaches.

Of course, belief in “climate change” has caused Lindsey to give up his own fossil fueled lifestyle and go carbon neutral.

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Officer Pulls Weapon During “Pool Party”, Media Freaks

By William Teach June 8, 2015 – 7:25 am

Have you seen this one yet?

Texas Police Officer “On Administrative Leave” After Pulling Weapon On Teens During Pool Party

The officer was filmed aggressively handcuffing black teens before drawing his weapon to scare away others who had come to their aid.

This is being turned into a big raaaaacism issue by the mostly leftist media and websites covering it, along with Police Brutality. Sites like the Huffington Post go down the same route. This evil cop apparently pulled his gun! On Black kids in bathing suits! The McKinney PD has responded

On June 5, 2015 at approximately 7:15 p.m., officers from the McKinney Police Department responded to a disturbance at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool. The initial call came in as a disturbance involving multiple juveniles at the location, who do not live in the area or have permission to be there, refusing to leave. McKinney Police received several additional calls related to this incident advising that juveniles were now actively fighting.

First responding officers encountered a large crowd that refused to comply with police commands. Nine additional units responded to the scene. Officers were eventually able to gain control of the situation.

McKinney Police later learned of a video that was taken at the scene by an unknown party. This video has raised concerns that are being investigated by the McKinney Police Department. At this time, one of the responding officers has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of this investigation.

Buuuuuuuut, there are a few issues with the Leftist narrative, which the Leftists attempt to gloss over

(Breitbart) Left media is ablaze with articles condemning the police response to a pool party at a McKinney, Texas, subdivision. Now a video is emerging showing why police were called to the scene to begin with – violence.

Residents in a McKinney subdivision were hosting an end-of-school party in their private community pool. Many teens who were not residents of the subdivision began showing up. Some had been invited by residents, some had not. An ad for the event had been placed on social media sites.

Teens who were not invited began climbing the fence to get in, according to reports from residents of the area. Trouble began when they were asked to leave by residents and pool management.

The kids were fighting with the adults who asked them to leave, because they were trespassing. And fighting. And breaking things.

One resident, Benet Embry, a black man, posted on Facebook about the events leading up to the police call. “Look, I LIVE in this community and this ENTIRE incident is NOT racial at all,” Embry wrote. “A few THUGS spoiled a COMMUNITY event by fighting, jumping over fences into a PRIVATE pool, harassing and damaging property. Not EVERYTHING is about RACE. WE have other issues that NEED our attention other flights of made up make believe causes.”

Another McKinney resident, Bryan Gestner, posted on Facebook, “This was a Twitter party that turned into a mob event. Jumping pool fence. Assaulting 2 security guards, attacking a mother with three little girls. The video doesn’t show everything.” He continued saying the kids were drinking and “smoking weed” and they would not listen to any of the adults around the pool.

Watch the video. Notice that the police officer pulls out his gun when a kid is quickly approaching him while he attempts to get the girl in the bikini down on the ground, while she resists. He used the proper amount of force in attempting to get her to the ground, while she resists, which, remember, is a criminal violation. Pulling his service weapon may not have been the optimum solution, however, he saw a threat coming towards him during a volatile situation, one in which he was down near the ground and only had one hand free.

The police could have charged the girl, but, instead, they let her go after being briefly detained.

Gestner wrapped up his post alleging that these same kids came back into the neighborhood Saturday night. They were “kicking in people’s front door, stole a truck and crashed it into many vehicles. They vandalized dozens of cars and were stealing things.”

So, a bunch of teenage thugs, who shouldn’t have been at the pool in the first place, caused all sorts of problems, then came back to cause more. Funny how all the Leftists are excusing that behavior.

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Malaysian Earthquake Blamed On Naked Mountain Climbers

By William Teach June 8, 2015 – 7:03 am

The god of the mountain was offended, causing the magnitude 5.9 earthquake Friday

(Fox News) A Malaysian government official has blamed last week’s deadly earthquake on a group of ten tourists whom he claimed “showed disrespect to [a] sacred mountain” by posing for photos naked at the summit last week.

Joseph Pairin Kitingan, the deputy chief minister for the Malaysian state of Sabah, told reporters Saturday that a special ritual would be conducted at a later date to “appease the mountain spirit.” Meanwhile, authorities said that five of the ten climbers were believed to still be in Malaysia and would not be permitted to leave on grounds of gross indecency.

The foreigners, who included two Canadians, two Dutch and a German national, broke away from their group and stripped naked before taking photos at the mountain peak on May 30, officials have said.

Apparently, the mountain god refuses to allow non-blurry pictures. Over at the UK Daily Mail there are a few more pics, and

A few weeks ago, the ten foreign holidaymakers stripped naked, posed for a series of photographs and were accused of urinating as the scaled the mountain in the Malaysian state of Sabah. The photos didn’t appear on social media until days before the earthquake.

As silly as this sounds, thee people still in Malaysia are potentially in big trouble. The two Canadians are possibly being held, and the Canadian Foreign Ministry is involved. They, and any others who haven’t left the country, could be charged, though the type of charge has not been named in any article I’ve run across.

This is the latest example of a growing trend that sees tourists get naked at major tourist attractions, including Machu Picchu in Peru and Angkor Wat in Cambodia, for keepsake photos.

Apparently, it’s not enough to just visit these places and soak in the majesty, beauty, and history.

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NW Time’s Super Thrilled For A Carbon Tax That Will Skyrocket The Cost Of Living

By William Teach June 7, 2015 – 5:58 pm

Yes, this does come from the same paper that kills lots of trees and uses vast amounts of power and fossil fuels to gather the news, publish their paper, and distribute their paper

The Case for a Carbon Tax

In a welcome development, businesses are asking world leaders to do more to address climate change. This week, the top executives of six large European oil and gas companies called for a tax on carbon emissions.

These companies — the BG Group, BP, Eni, Royal Dutch Shell, Statoil and Total — are not taking a bold environmental stand. They are being pragmatic. They want an efficient and predictable policy to limit greenhouse gas emissions because they realize something must be done. Numerous scientists, economists, environmentalists and political leaders have previously proposed similar ideas.

They understand two things: first, they can pay lip service to the Cult of Climastrology, partially thinking that this will catch them a bit of a break from the unhinged activities of CoC activists (who take fossil fueled trips to protest fossil fuels companies). Second, they understand that they can make a boatload of money off a carbon tax, as the price of their product skyrockets due to Government

A carbon tax would raise the price of fossil fuels, with more taxes collected on fuels that generate more emissions, like coal. This tax would reduce demand for high-carbon emission fuels and increase demand for lower-emisson fuels like natural gas. Renewable sources like solar, wind, nuclear and hydroelectric would face lower taxes or no taxes. To be effective, the tax should also be applied to imported goods from countries that do not assess a similar levy on the use of fossil fuels.

Revenue generated by carbon taxes could be used for a variety of purposes. A lot of the money should surely be given to households, especially the poorest, through tax credits or direct payments to offset the higher prices they would have to pay for gasoline, electricity and other goods and services because of the tax. Some of the money could be used to invest in renewable energy and public transportation, or to lower other taxes.

Even the NY Times EB admits that this will skyrocket the cost of living, which will hurt the poor and middle class, unlike the uber-rich folks on the NY Times Editorial Board. If they think that money will be returned in the form of tax credits or direct payments, they haven’t been paying attention to Government. Furthermore, even if some is, there is no possible way that the money would even approach what the increased costs would be. This increases the size and power of Government, and all for little to no gain. Carbon markets have failed around the world, including in California. The Left leaning governments in Australia were summarily booted out over their passing of a carbon tax. Most nations are moving away from these failures. And Warmists mostly refuse to give up their own fossil fuels addictions.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 7, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful forest that should be full of wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Wizbang, with a post on a teacher too liberal for even San Francisco.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 7, 2015 – 9:42 am

Patriotic Pinup Arthur Sarnoff

Happy Sunday! Yet another beautiful day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, summer is on the way. This pinup is by Arthur Sarnoff, with a wee bit of help from Patriot Fish.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Right Wing News features a Muslim Congressman demanding the arrest of Draw Mohammed attendees
  2. The Daley Gator notes something the NY Times forgot to mention about traffic tickets
  3. Gateway Pundit notes that a CAIR activist made up her Diet Coke on a plane story
  4. The Last Refuge notes that there’s an app for the Stazi system
  5. The Lonely Conservative wants you to imagine a life with no inequality
  6. The People’s Cube tells us how to tell age in Progressive World
  7. This ain’t Hell… has the tragic story of a woman patiently waiting for her gun permit
  8. Independent Sentinel has nutty people
  9. Pam Geller features State Department dhimmitude in Indonesia
  10. Legal Insurrection wonders if we’ve degraded ISIS
  11. Lady Liberty 1885 had Ted Cruz agreeing with her on Common Core (literally, in person)
  12. Jihad Watch notes that ISIS burned a Christian woman alive
  13. House of Eratosthenes says “Goodbye, Sweden”
  14. Fire Andrea Mitchell notes bomb threats called into a Joni Ernst event
  15. And last, but not least, DaTechGuy wonders if our nation is becoming increasingly immoral

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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Reverend Michael Pfleger Blames Mass Chicago Violence On NRA

By William Teach June 7, 2015 – 8:23 am

You remember Reverend Michael Pfleger, right? He’s a big pal of Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright, the pastor of whom Barack Obama listened to for 20 years, sat in the the pews of Wright’s church. Obama would also listen to Pfleger give guest sermons. He has a long history of hating America, playing the race card (even though he is white), and joining in with far, far left politics. Is this any surprise?

(Breitbart) On June 6, Reverend Michael Pfleger listed recent shootings in heavily gun-controlled Chicago then said the NRA “will pay pay for the murder of our children.”

He was joined by Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence president Dan Gross.

Pleger, Jackson, and Gross rallied outside of Chuck’s Gun Shop, where Jackson recently rallied for the ban of guns already banned in Chicago.

Pleger began his speech at the rally by pointing out that ten persons were shot and three were killed on the night of June 5 alone. He then said, “I’m not a gun grabber, I’m a life lover,” after which he pointed to Chuck’s Gun Shop and said, “And I love life more than the death that they are perpetrating.”

He went on to blame Chuck, to blame the NRA, to blame the gun manufacturers for the “blood running down our streets, and our children laying in cemeteries”.  He went on to say we need to “title guns like cars”. Chicago, and Illinois, have some of the most draconian gun restrictions in the country, and every legally purchased handgun requires a federal background check and waiting period.

At the end of his speech he stated

At the end of the day you can argue with us [and] you can call us names, but you got to deal with God. And the blood of our children is on your hands. And you will pay for the murder of our children.

An interesting notion, considering he’s been a Reverend for over 30 years, and supports abortion on demand, which kills more Blacks than guns. Consider

Father Pfleger has been politicking for over thirty years, and for what? His Auburn-Gresham neighborhood is still one of the most dangerous in Chicago. The renegade priest’s partisan social gospel doesn’t seem to be working.

It’s easy for Pfleger to blame guns, the NRA, Chuck, and others, but, he never seems to account for the fact that the Blacks in his neighborhood have been extremely violent, and are shooting each other. He doesn’t note that 75% of Chicago murders are committed by Black people. He never notes that Leftist policies have utterly failed the Blacks in his majority Black neighborhood. He never notes that the guns used are not legally acquired. He also fails to note that, absent guns, his neighborhood, and most of Chicago, has a high crime rate (though it’s still safer than Baltimore). There’s a 1 in 111 chance of being a victim of a violent crime in Chicago, over double the rate for Illinois. There’s a 1 in 28 chance of being a victim of a property crime.

Then there’s this

(The Blaze) On July 9, 2013, a bill to recognize Illinois gun owners’ right to carry concealed firearms was passed by both chambers of the state Legislature. Illinois became the last state in the nation to allow public possession of concealed guns.

Gun control advocates warned that high-crime areas, like Chicago, would only see more violence if residents were allowed to carry guns in public.

In reality, the opposite may be happening.

On Tuesday, the Chicago Police Department announced that the city experienced its lowest murder rate since 1958 in the first quarter of 2014. There were 6 fewer murders than the same timeframe in 2013 — a 9 percent drop — and 55 fewer murders than 2012, police said.

Further, there were reportedly 90 fewer shootings and 119 fewer shooting victims compared to last year. There have also been 222 fewer shootings and 292 fewer shooting victims compared to the first quarter in 2012.

Crime actually dropped in Chicago after concealed carry was passed and implemented. Furthermore, has anyone been talking about how murderous Chicago has been recently? Perhaps he should worry about why the people in his area are so violent and murderous, and stop attempting to restrict law abiding citizens from being able to defend themselves.

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