Baltimore Merchants Very Concerned Over Business Dip In Violent Baltimore

By William Teach May 29, 2015 – 7:21 am

This is what happens when the mayor offers to “give room to destroy” to thugs

(Fox News) An epidemic of murder that has gripped Baltimore in the month following the Freddie Gray riots is threatening to undo decades of rebirth in the city’s popular downtown — and in the process, wipe away tens of millions of tourist dollars.

“Sales are next to nothing,” said Kenneth Robinson, manager of the Fudgery, an iconic candy store tucked in the heart of the Inner Harbor.

Local merchants were just starting to see business bounce back after last month’s riots. But a crime crisis has since gripped Baltimore, with police saying criminals have taken advantage of the situation to wreak havoc on Charm City.

Nine people were killed and nearly 30 wounded over the holiday weekend, about three weeks after the rioting. With 38 homicides so far in May, Baltimore is seeing its deadliest month since 1999. The number of killings this year is now at 111, compared with 211 for all of 2014.

Well, let’s be honest: business wasn’t all that great prior to the riots. Baltimore is a city renowned for the use of thick, often bullet-proof, plexiglass at merchants, meant to protect the employees and merchandise from the patrons. This is a city that has to “surge” all its law enforcement, with help from the State police, to protect places like the Inner Harbor during July 4th weeks over the past several years from roaming gangs of “youths”.

A debate is now raging in Baltimore and beyond over whether police, in the wake of the riots, are being constrained and are reticent to patrol aggressively — as crime soars.

Baltimore police union boss Lt. Gene Ryan said in a statement Thursday that criminals are “taking advantage” of the situation and “feel empowered now.” He said “police are under siege” and afraid of going to jail for “doing their jobs.”

In roughly the first two weeks of May, arrests were down by 57 percent, which has also resulted in accusations that the police have intentionally retaliated. “My hope is the police will get the support they need from the community to be able to get some answers and bring some of these individuals to justice,” Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told reporters Tuesday regarding the crime wave.

The police in very Liberal Baltimore are rightly concerned that the Social Justice Warriors will come after them, and that they will not have the backing of the city they work for, what with the mayor and chief prosecutor being SWJs themselves, seemingly on the side of the looters and rioters.

Consider the Baltimore Orioles: their attendance has plummeted from last year post-riots. Who wants to go somewhere that they cannot expect a reasonable measure of safety? It’s a microcosm of Baltimore, where citizens and visitors alike cannot expect a reasonable measure of safety.

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Obama Admin To Require Faith Based Grant Recipients To Hire LGBTs

By William Teach May 29, 2015 – 7:03 am

Everyone else can be a protected class but those who practice religion (well, not hardcore Islam, of course. Leftists always seem to exempt them)

(Breitbart) The Obama Administration is poised to require faith-based recipients of federal grants to accept applications from LGBT individuals, according to a report published today by the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam).

By executive order last summer, President Obama amended the Johnson-era federal order on non-discrimination in hiring by federal contractors to include non-discrimination based on “sexual orientation and gender identity.” That order has roiled faith-based groups.

A confidential source tells C-Fam that the White House has directed federal agencies to include “sexual orientation and gender identity” as protected classes in all grant agreements.

This goes directly back to what Erik Erickson wrote, “you will be made to care“. While that is about gay marriage, the point still applies. Those of faith will be forced to care. They are being forced to be involved in gay marriage, despite their beliefs. Faith based organizations are being forced to offer contraceptives, abortifacients, and abortion services directly through their insurance or through slight of hand. All for a tiny, tiny portion of the population.

The Johnson-era order was amended in 2002 by President George Bush to include a religious exemption so that faith-based groups would not be forced to hire those in opposition to their teachings. It is unclear whether grant recipients have similar protections. And even those protections are under assault by those who want all such exemptions ended.

Team Obama will surely make sure there are no exemptions, and we can certainly bet the farm that LGBT activists will inundate faith based grant recipients with applications, and, if they aren’t hired, they will sue, surely with the help of the Obama Department of (Social-Political) Justice.

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Warmists Heavily Pushing “Climate Change Is A National Security Threat” Meme

By William Teach May 28, 2015 – 4:07 pm

The meme is nothing new: Warmists have been trotting it out now and then for the past 5 years or so. However, they’ve recently ramped up their use of it in order to push their politics. Here’s Phil Plait (who’s really cool on all the science programs he appears on) pushing it at Slate

Climate Change Denial Is a Threat to National Security

First, let me be clear about this reality: Planet Earth is warming because of human activity, because of us, and that is profoundly affecting the climate. There is no honest doubt about this; the overwhelming evidence supports it, so much so that 97 percent of climate scientists agree on it.

Interesting: Phil starts of with what is essentially opinion, not science, in the first link. In his 2nd link he trots out “consensus”, which is not science, using a study that has been debunked. Why should we believe anything else he has to say?

The effects of climate change are profound. We are already seeing more extreme weather, more powerful tropical storms, more wildfires. As the sea level rises, coastal populations are threatened, including military bases.

No, we aren’t.

I have been saying for a long time that climate change is a threat to our national security, and it’s long past time to call out those who would deny this as abetting that threat.

President Obama did just this last week, in a speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. My Slate colleague Eric Holthaus wrote all about this, and I strongly urge you to read that article. Obama used words like “negligence” and “dereliction of duty”: (snip)

Take a moment and ponder this. The president of the United States of America said that people who deny the reality of climate change are a threat to national security. And he strongly implied that members of Congress who do so are guilty of dereliction of duty.

And there is the point of all this: to brand people who do not buy into the notion that humans are mostly/solely responsible for all changes in the weather as Enemies. As Threats. As Traitors.

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/603900856480694272

That goes for all you Warmists who refuse to give up fossil fuels and go “Carbon neutral”.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 28, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded by too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on unions who love the $15 minimum wage wanting an exemption.

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We’re Saved: Ben & Jerry’s Comes Out With Climate Change Ice Cream

By William Teach May 28, 2015 – 8:01 am

Nothing says “save our climate!!!!!” like coming up with a new ice cream flavor that will be distributed using fossil fueled vehicles and kept frozen using climate killing refrigerants in stores that use vast sums of electricity

(Takepart) Known for its punny titles and imaginative ingredients, ice-cream innovator Ben & Jerry’shas added a taste of politics to its newest flavor, Save Our Swirled.

The raspberry ice cream flecked with marshmallow and raspberry swirls and dotted with mini dark- and white-fudge ice-cream cones, which hit stores on Wednesday, is part of the Vermont company’s eponymous climate change campaign, developed in conjunction with environmental advocacy group Avaaz and Tesla Motors.

Each pint directs consumers to an online petition calling on global leaders to nail down concrete steps to curb global warming at the December climate change summit in Paris. The petition’s lofty goal aims to keep the global temperature from rising 2 degrees Celsius by demanding leaders to work toward 100 percent clean energy and completely phase out carbon pollution by 2050.

“If it’s melted, it’s ruined,” reads the campaigns tagline—which is as true for ice cream as it is for the planet.

The ice-cream innovator didn’t skimp on flavor to make its point, but if you look closely while eating the ice cream, you’ll see that it makes a statement while tasting good: As the ice cream inevitably melts, the tiny fudge cones appear to drown in a sea of creamy goodness, a reminder of the difference a couple of degrees makes.

So, everyone who believes in anthropogenic climate change needs to run down to the supermarket in your fossil fueled vehicles to buy it! Think of the carbon footprint from all those cows needed to produce milk, then transporting that milk via fossil fueled tankers.

Along with this awareness campaign, the creamery is working to make its own production increasingly green. Manufacturing ice cream can leave a rather hefty carbon footprint, from transporting and storing products to harmful methane emissions from dairy cows. The company continues to work on renewable energy sources in its major freezers and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions with local farmers. But Ben & Jerry’s is just one company, and for large-scale change it needs some help from the world’s top environmental experts and leaders to implement international regulations.

In other words, they’re climhypocrites, they know they’re climahypocrites, and they make the same excuse most Cult of Climastrology adherents make about Everyone Else being forced to lower their “carbon footprint” by Government Rule.

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Hutzpah: Dem Lawmakers Want Obama To Declare Baltimore A Disaster Area Due To Riots

By William Teach May 28, 2015 – 7:44 am

Just to be fair, so is Maryland Governor Larry Hogland (R)

(The Hill) Maryland lawmakers are pressing President Obama to issue a major disaster declaration for Baltimore in the wake of riots late last month. 

“Given the massive impact that the situation in Baltimore is having on the state’s resources, we respectfully request that you urgently approve Federal assistance,” members of the state’s congressional delegation wrote in a letter to Obama, which was sent on Tuesday but released Wednesday. 

The letter was signed by Maryland Democratic Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, as well as Democratic Reps. Steny Hoyer, Elijah Cummings, Chris Van Hollen, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Donna Edwards and John Delaney. 

The lawmakers also offered “strong support” for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s (R) request for the major disaster declaration for Baltimore.

So, let’s see: Baltimore residents rioted, looted, burned buildings and cars, destroying their own neighborhoods, and they want money to replace what they destroyed? They burned the town down and now want federal funds? This is like asking your insurance company to pay you after you intentionally burned down your own house.

On the flip side, because Baltimore residents rioted, looted, burned buildings and cars, attacked police officers and other citizens, the city is in trouble (well, further trouble). Who wants to visit? Who wants to do business? This is a city that had to keep people at their baseball park due to the threat of violence. This is a city which played a baseball game with no spectators, because of massive concern for the spectator safety from mobs. This is a city having to spend oodles of money they do not have trying to secure the city from violence.

On the third side, maybe this money should come from the mayor, who wanted to give the thugs “room to destroy”. From the Dems request

The Governor has provided the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with a preliminary damage assessment of over $19 million in expenditures for local jurisdiction law enforcement, security, firefighting, and emergency management costs as well as out-of-state resources required to supplement local and state resources. This Major Disaster declaration is necessary to address emergency protective measures and public buildings and contents per Category B & E of Public Assistance under the Stafford Act. This situation has the potential to negatively impact services in other areas, given an already strained state budget environment.

That’s right, the thugs caused $19 million in expenditures. And what the Dems want is more money to protect Baltimore property and citizens from thugs in a system that the Democrats created and have upheld since the late 1960’s. Let Maryland and Baltimore pay for it, not federal taxpayers from other states.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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LA Times: Say, Shouldn’t Illegal Aliens Be Given Political Clout?

By William Teach May 27, 2015 – 3:06 pm

Have you heard of the “one person, one vote” controversy? The very fact that this is considered controversial should tell you all you need to know about the political leanings on the Left

Supreme Court redistricting case could reduce Latinos’ political clout

For 50 years the “one person, one vote” principle has been used to divvy up political power by counting all people in states and putting them into electoral districts of roughly equal size.

But the mathematics of power may be about to change in a way that could shift political clout away from fast-growing Latino communities in states such as California, Texas and Florida and move it to the suburbs and rural areas.

The problem here is that many of these people are not eligible to vote, because they are not U.S. citizens, either here legally or illegally. They should have zero political clout, at least in terms of voting.

The Supreme Court surprised election-law experts Tuesday and said it would hear arguments this fall about whether voting districts should continue to be drawn by using census population data, which include noncitizen immigrants who are in the United States both legally and illegally, or whether the system should be changed to count only citizens who are eligible to vote, as conservative challengers are seeking.

Oh, good, the LAT noticed that part about noncitizen voting.

Districts in the Legislature are required to have virtually the same population. But in some districts, a large share of residents are noncitizens. That’s particularly true in parts of Los Angeles and the Central Valley that have large immigrant populations. The number of citizens can be as much as 40% higher in some districts than in others.

Here’s a simple solution: get rid of your illegals. Send them back where they belong.

But Assemblyman Luis Alejo (D-Watsonville), chairman of the Latino Legislative Caucus, said the issue was a question of fairness.

“Many of us who represent a large number of noncitizen immigrants assume a responsibility to represent everyone within our districts, regardless of their citizenship status,” he said in an email. “These individuals deserve to have representatives that will also champion their concerns too.”

No, they don’t. Your American citizen individuals deserve 100% of that representation.

How such a switch might affect the partisan balance within the state is harder to forecast, in part because much depends on how new district lines might be drawn. Currently, Democrats represent many of the areas that would be relative losers, but also many of the affluent districts that would gain clout.

And there is the actual issue: Democrats couldn’t care less about the illegals, they care about the political power.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 27, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is hay which is used to feed climate killing cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post explaining the debate on the NSA.

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So, A Sea Lion Walks Into A Bar….Forget The Joke, It Must Be Climate Change!

By William Teach May 27, 2015 – 11:01 am

An amusing story, turned into bat guano insane by a Cult of Climastrology member at Grist

Sea lion, fed up with climate change, hits the bar

Sea lions have been driven out of the sea and onto city streets because their tasty sources of food — like anchovies and sardines — are being decimated by acidifying oceans. In San Francisco, for example, they’ve been wandering the streets starving and confused, but in Southern California (of course) they’re a little bolder.

Last week, a sea lion flopped onto dry land in Orange County, declared “ugh,” and, just like you, immediately headed to the nearest bar.

From the Los Angeles Times:

The pup wandered off the beach, through the parking lot and up the steps leading into Beach Ball just before 11 a.m. May 12, bar patrons said.

Sea lion sightings have become more common recently along Orange County beaches. More than 2,000 of the animals, most of them dehydrated and malnourished, have washed ashore this year in California, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The sea lion, in addition to being fucking hungry because humans ruined his home, has an eye infection which, in the perfect intersection of tragic and cute, makes him look like he’s winking all the time.

The LA Times article also went Warmist, after starting off cute regarding the bar always carding patrons, and the sea lion not having ID.

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Doom: Models State Most Himalayan Glaciers Could Disappear By 2100

By William Teach May 27, 2015 – 8:42 am

I recently mentioned “cli-fi”, which is “climate fiction”, a growing subsection of novels and stories which incorporate climate change into the overall story. Rather like when authors would write fiction books based on nuclear war, EMP events, even zombies (I love a good zombie book, FYI, and read the heck out of them). Of course, most apocalyptic fiction books were more on the story, and how people survive, rather than being preachy about the subject, unlike cli-fi. I wonder, can we put all the doomsaying from the Cult of Climastrology into the realm of cli-fi, since it does seem rather fictional?

Scientists warn Everest glaciers at risk of disappearing

Glaciers in the Everest region could shrink at least 70 percent or even disappear entirely by the end of the century as a result of climate change, scientists warned on Wednesday.

Researchers in Nepal, the Netherlands and France studied weather patterns on the roof of the world and then created a model of conditions on Everest to determine the future impact of rising temperatures on its glaciers.

“The worst-case scenario shows a 99 percent loss in glacial mass… but even if we start to slow down emissions somewhat, we may still see a 70 percent reduction,” said Joseph Shea, who led the study.

Doom in 2100? Check. Computer models? Check. Blaming Mankind for “emissions”? Check. Forgetting that there has barely been any warming since 1998, which goes against 95% of the computer models (the same computer models that also fail when applied to pre-model data)? Check. Hedging their bets with un-scientific words like “could” and “may”? Check. Don’t tell the UK Guardian, though, because they are All In In Doomology

Most glaciers in Mount Everest area will disappear with climate change – study

Most of the glaciers in the Mount Everest region will disappear or drastically retreat as temperatures increase with climate change over the next century, according to a group of international researchers.

The estimated 5,500 glaciers in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region – site of Mount Everest and many of the world’s tallest peaks – could reduce their volume by 70%-99% by 2100, with dire consequences for farming and hydropower generation downstream, they said.

Even the Guardian couldn’t avoid using the word “could”. Then they slipped this in down in the article, after proclaiming Doom

There is still much uncertainty about how deeply levels of greenhouse gases will affect temperature, snowfall and rainfall, and very few of the region’s glaciers have been measured in detail. However, increasing rates of snow and ice melt are already observable and precipitation is expected to change from snow to rain at critical elevations, where glaciers are concentrated.

So, deep uncertainty, but, the Guardian and other Warmists are certain of doom.

The researchers caution that the new results should be seen as a first approximation to how Himalayan glaciers will react to increasing temperatures in the region.

“Our estimates need to be taken very cautiously, as considerable uncertainties remain,” said Patrick Wagnon, a glaciologist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Grenoble, France and co-author of the report.

In other words, this is just another in a long line of scary stories, cli-fi, if you will, based on computer models and partisan political Beliefs.

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