Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 7, 2013 – 9:15 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day to honor the memory of the United States Of America, which will possibly rise back up one day. This pinup is by Peter Dribben, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Scared Monkeys covers the gun shop which sold Adam Lanza’s mother a gun having their license suspended
  2. Wake Up America covers the Washington Post spin on guns
  3. Doug Powers catches moonbattery from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Gitmo
  4. The Daley Gator finds something interesting in the Obama budget
  5. Sister Toldjah has the morning after pill tweet of the week
  6. Rhymes With Right covers Harry Reid and unconstitutionality
  7. Right Truth covers Christians being the biggest threat, according to the US government
  8. Public Secrets wonders why Obamacare isn’t simpler as promised
  9. protein wisdom has the latest insanity from the People’s Republik Of Brokeifornia
  10. Political Clown Parade is less than impressed with Obama on the Constitution
  11. Maggie’s Notebook points out that Hanoi Jane’s mistake was something other than what Jane thinks
  12. Joshuapundit has more outrage featuring the RoP
  13. Jammie Wearing Fools features outrage that sounds like leftist bloggers
  14. House of Eratosthenes features accurate but sexist
  15. And last, but not least, Flopping Aces covers Warmists still hiding the decline

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 outwhat I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts

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.

The posts do take a long time, so, if you want to send me your links for Rule 5 babeage or links, use ye olde email in the header bar (remove the NOSPAM part). Preferably, create the html link so I can copy and paste how you want it to read.

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Liberal States Look To Tax Guns And Ammunition

By William Teach April 7, 2013 – 8:04 am

Would you be surprised that Illinois, which contains the murder capital of the US (Chicago) despite draconian and oppressive gun laws aimed at law abiding citizens, is leading the way?

(USA Today) Cook County, Ill., this month began collecting a $25 tax on gun purchases, and at least six states are considering new taxes on firearms or ammunition as a way to help pay for the consequences of gun violence.

The Cook County tax applies to purchases in Chicago’s suburbs, but not the city. The tax is expected to raise $600,000 a year, which will help pay for indigent gunshot victims’ medical care at county-run Stroger Hospital.

The criminals, especially the gan-bangers, are thrilled with this tax, which won’t affect themselves. It just makes it more costly for those who want guns for hunting, target shooting, and most especially, defense from those who roam the lawless streets of Chicago and the surrounding area.

Gun and ammunition purchases are subject to local sales taxes, and manufacturers pay a federal excise tax — 10% for pistols and revolvers, 11% for other guns, shells and cartridges — that funds wildlife programs.

Lawrence Keane, general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which represents gun manufacturers, distributors and retailers, says proposals for new gun taxes are “a coordinated effort by gun-control groups to try to impose a poll tax on the exercise of the Second Amendment.”

This is double taxation on the law abiding citizens, who will have to pay the tax as they are treated like the criminal. It’s not against the Constitution, but the Supreme Court has previously ruled against the ability to tax the same item/property/person more than once.

Democrats in Congress have submitted legislation putting a 10% tax on handgun purchases. New Jersey, Washington, California, Nevada*, Massachusetts, and Maryland have all passed or are looking to pass taxes on gun and ammunition purchases.

The Maryland General Assembly passed a bill that includes a fee of up to $25 for handgun licenses. Delegate Jon Cardin, a Democrat, also proposed a 50% tax on ammunition purchases to increase funding for mental health programs and to modernize permitting and licensing procedures.

“This is not taking away people’s guns,” Cardin says.

Perhaps not, but it is making it more and more expensive for law abiding citizens to purchase and use their guns, much like the tax on cigarettes. Except guns are covered by the US Constitution. And, really, none of this affects the criminal, the person who would use a gun in a violent crime. Strange how virtually none of the legislation, be it the aforementioned taxes or others, is aimed at actual criminals, wouldn’t you say?

*Yes, Nevada is a liberal state, at least in the Legislature, which Democrats control.

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Good Grief: GIFs Highlight Seas Swallowing 8 Cities

By William Teach April 6, 2013 – 2:45 pm

Bat guano crazy

(Mashable) Climate change and global warming may cause sea levels to rise and flood coastal cities across the world. Over the past century, the Global Mean Sea Level has risen by 4 to 8 inches. And according to estimates by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (PDF), it will keep rising between 8 inches and 6.6 feet by 2100.

Four to eight inches per century is well within the average historical norm over the last 7-8 thousand years. We should actually expect a higher rise during a warm period, because the average comes along with the cool periods, with lower rise and even drops, and those periods have tended to be longer than the warm periods. But, notice that word “may” along with a hell of a difference between 8 inches and 6.6 feet. Looks more like prognostication rather than science.

Anyhow, a bunch of people put together some drawings of what doom might look like and Mashable made GIFs of them (I wonder how much energy it took to do all that, and how much to put them on-line, putting out lots of CO2 and dooming us all?) Here’s my favorite

Notice the bridges: the 14th St Bridge is 30-35 feet above the mean low tide level. High tide level would be at about 20-25 feet. This same effect happens with most of the GIFs, in where the rise is well beyond what could be expected even on the outside of prediction. These people are nuts.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 6, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will rise up and cover all the land because Someone Else used hairspray, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The People’s Cube, with a post on Comrade Obama’s ideas for IRA’s.

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You’re Just A Racist

By William Teach April 6, 2013 – 11:32 am

Via American Perspective. You can see all of Dixon Diaz’s work here.

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Surprise: Stimulus Recipient Fisker Auto Lays Of 75% Of Their Workforce

By William Teach April 6, 2013 – 8:32 am

Another “green” company to add to the list of Obama green failures (h/t Dana)

(The Hill) Fisker Automotive, a federally backed maker of plug-in hybrid cars, laid off 75 percent of its workers Friday as it struggles to stay afloat and find new capital, according to press accounts.

Fisker drew $193 million of a $529 million Energy Department loan agreement reached in 2009 before the department halted payments in 2011.

Here’s the Associated Press Friday on what ails Fisker:

Fisker, which makes the $100,000 Karma plug-in hybrid sports car, hasn’t produced any cars since last year after its battery supplier filed for bankruptcy protection (WT-that would be another Obama Stimulus recipient, A123 Systems). The company has struggled to attract investment and was shopping around for a buyer or company to join it in an alliance. Last month, its co-founder resigned and Fisker furloughed its staff of about 220 for one week. The company at one time had about 600 workers.

They barely produced any cars in the first place, and, as the Occupiers would say, they all went to 1%ers. Not much call for the common folk to purchase a $100k “green” car that doesn’t go very far on a charge. While they supposedly sold around 1,800 vehicles, but, this was nowhere near what they needed, resulting in suspending production at their Valmant Automotive plant in Finland and the layoffs of half that workforce.

Sadly, Obama could have used the Stimulus to wisely put the United States on a path towards greater use of alternative energy sources that would have competed cost wise with traditional sources, like coal, fossil fuels, and nuclear. But, nooooo, instead he played political games (roughly 80% of the stimulus green money went to Democrat donors) and made risky loans. How many companies out there with a good, viable, workable idea were ignored? It would have been better had the money gone to research and development. I’d hazard to say that most of us would agree that there is nothing inherently wrong with looking towards the future and having cleaner energy sources. Unfortunately, Obama has made “green” energy a laughingstock.

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Students, Rights Groups Not Interested In More Police In Schools

By William Teach April 6, 2013 – 8:01 am

Remember, the NRA and other plans aren’t necessarily about putting more police in school: the best plan would be to use one or two people at a time just to hang out at the school with a gun, like a retired military member or someone’s grandpa, or even an armed security service, there simply to be there as a discouragement to nutjobs, not to act as law enforcement. Likewise, having a few school employees armed would work the same in simply providing a deterrent

(USA Today) As post-Newtown proposals aimed at making U.S. schools safer take shape, civil rights groups are taking an unusual stand, saying “no thanks” to more police in school.

Several groups have already told Congress that more armed officers in schools won’t necessarily make students safer. On March 28, a coalition of young people from across the nation announced its opposition to “the deployment of additional armed guards” in schools.

“We don’t need more guns,” said Judith Brown Diannis of the Advancement Project, a coalition of civil rights groups that supports the students. “We need people who can build relationships with young people.”

Right, because that’s going to protect them how, exactly? Oh, wait, I forgot, this is the era of squishy progressivism, where Kumbayaism will Save Us All or something.

Hers and others are pushing for schools to hire more counselors and social workers, saying the threat from outside intruders like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is exceedingly rare. “Unfortunately, when these tragedies happen, we never make the choices that are about the long-term solutions,” she said.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, did they just say “f*** it, things like this happen”?

The national group that represents school police officers notes that the rise of SROs in the early 2000s coincided with a 17% decline in juvenile arrests and a 13% decline in violent crime. But civil rights groups point to recent statistics in places like Florida that suggest cops in school led to more arrests for minor, often routine disciplinary disturbances, often tied to district “zero-tolerance” policies for violence, drugs and weapons. These arrests, they say, send kids down a path of school suspension, expulsion and delinquency, worsening what they call the “school-to-prison pipeline.”

So, these groups aren’t interested in having more police in schools because they might arrest kids for criminal violations of the law like violence, drugs, and weapons? These groups would prefer that juveniles are allowed to continue on with their drugs, violence, and weapons. Great. I guess they will need the social workers, who will be able to hopefully place these future convicted felons into minimum wage jobs.

Again, how about simply having a school employee or two (or as many as want to) carrying a gun on property? Require that they attend training course on weapons usage and safety. They aren’t there to act as a law enforcement officer, just to deter wackjobs from coming to a “gun free zone” for an easy kill rate.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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The Nation: Hey, Hotcoldwetdry Involves Every Human, So They Should All Participate

By William Teach April 5, 2013 – 5:58 pm

They call it “unique”

(The Nation) The climate movement can’t  be compared to any other social movement in history. Here’s why it’s unprecedented and why we need new strategies to transition from the current climate movement of the few to a vibrant worldwide movement of the many.

First, the climate movement is historically unique in scope and urgency. Never before has an issue involved every single human being on this planet, and never before has the window for action been so short. (An International Energy Agency report states that we have until 2017 to start the transition away from fossil fuels before irreversible calamity.)

Everything The Nation story writers position is about increasing homogenization in Others, we can call this the Sheeple Effect, where no one is allowed to diverge from the approved doctrine. What this shows is the nature of the movement, namely that it is not scientific, but political, moving to push far left Progressivism. Oh, and here’s a handy dandy picture, via the story, of what “climate change” looks like

Hey, they don’t look particularly hot, they actually look kinda cold.

Interestingly, and as normal, the story fails to mention that Warmists should practice what they preach.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 5, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil can of hairspray, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Perspective, with a video of a young girl astounding people with her 2nd Amendment protection speech.

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Liberal Suggests U.S. Should Spend Lots More To Create Jobs

By William Teach April 5, 2013 – 12:02 pm

No, really (via Memeorandum, though I did see the opinion piece while perusing the LA Times android app this am)

(LA Times) Why add to the deficit right now? Jobs. Our economic models clearly show that without increased government outlays we’ll be unable to generate enough GDP growth to seriously attack unemployment. If we tried to balance the budget through tax hikes, our still-recovering economy would be hurt. That leaves a temporarily bigger deficit as an important option.

I could probably make a joke about not taking economic advice from someone with a Greek (Dimitri B. Papadimitriou) sounding name, but that would be unfair to all those of Greek descent who understand just how absurd this notion is, not too mention that Obama and the Democrats tried it. Remember that $850 billion Stimulus passed in 2009? How’d that work out? Tons and tons of temporary jobs. Jobs that appeared only on paper. Jobs that were saved (typically union jobs like teachers) but once the federal money (mostly borrowed) dried up, those jobs were on notice because the economy still stunk and the states didn’t have the money. And still don’t in most cases (except the poster child for awesome, North Dakota, due to their growing fossil fuels industry).

As one of the commenters wrote “The man who wrote this is your worst enemy.   He is an advocate for failure.” Without knowing mroe about Dimitri, I can’t position that this is what Progressives want to do, fundamentally change the way government acts within the marketplace. Of course, when they try it, things rarely work out well in the end (see: Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, etc). And another comment

Do you want to create jobs? Then lets use an amended version of “separation of church and state” and adopt “separation of government and market place” and you will see an explosion of economic activity. Central planning has never and will never work. Central planning causes harm and any fix causes more harm.

Government is inherently unreliable and inefficient, and consider that so many have no knowledge of how economies work, just how they want them to work. And the more government digs itself into debt, the more the private companies will be concerned and be conservative in what they do. And where will this money come from? It can either be borrowed and/or taken from the private sector in the form of fees and taxes. Then government will waste it (see: Fisker, Solyndra, Abound Solar, the program to install energy efficient window, etc).

Finally, I’d hypothesize that the whole point of the opinion piece is to increase government. That’s what Liberals have been pushing.

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