Is “Universal Background Checks” Legislation Dying Out?

By William Teach April 1, 2013 – 7:01 am

One of the things about this debate about “universal background checks” is that no one within the elected “representative” community is saying that this is about handguns: it seems to be aimed at all gun purchases and transfers. And, to be honest, I personally have no problem with a quick background check on all gun purchases. Why are handguns different from a rifle that could fire accurately up to several hundred yards away? Anyhow, what Senators, mostly Democrats, are pushing may be dying out

(Washington Times) Senators from both parties signaled Sunday that universal background checks could be the next gun measure to get shoved toward the legislative scrap heap or significantly watered down.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer, whose bill to expand background checks to cover virtually all gun transactions, including private sales, has cleared the Judiciary Committee, said he is nevertheless hunting for a compromise on the issue.

If he’s hunting for a compromise it means his legislation is too extreme. Wasn’t this legislation supposed to be the easy one? Simply expand background checks to all guns. What is ChuckE putting in his bill that could make it so difficult?

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that out of about 80,000 people who failed background checks last year, just 66 were prosecuted.

“Why in the world would you expand that system if you’re not enforcing the law that exists today to include private transfers?” Mr. Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “So I think that legislation is going nowhere. But I would like to have a robust debate about improving the system to make sure that people who are mentally ill do not get a gun to begin with. And there’s a lot we could do in a bipartisan fashion.”

Wait, the government is not following the law yet is complaining about bad people getting guns? Raise your hands if you’re surprised by governmental incompetence.

Lawmakers are looking for a way to extend checks to almost all transactions without creating a record-keeping system that gun rights supporters fear could turn into a gun registry.

Well, what of the way records are kept for handguns? There has been no muss or fuss about that system. Why not expand it? Certainly because Democrats (and some Republicans) want a massive data base on Americans with guns. They aren’t concerned with all the issues involved with targeting people with mental health issues, violating their privacy, stigmatizing them, and denying them their Constitutional Right to own a gun while also violating their 4th and 5th Amendment rights.

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Watcha Reading?

By William Teach March 31, 2013 – 4:44 pm

Finished The Greatest Domestic Threat, was actually a damned good book, but the ending left you hanging just a tiny bit.

Made it most of the way through Zombie Bay (Death On The Beach), but just couldn’t finish it. Truly bogged down and became boring.

Also gave How To Save The World: An Alien Comedy a try. Kinda interesting, but couldn’t hold my attention too long. Nor could The Rebellion for Democracy, which forgot to include detail, things just skipped like you’re supposed to know what is going on.

Getting into The Last Roman (The Praetorian Series: Book I). So far, damned good!

BTW, someone emailed and wrote that my book reviews suck. Well, this post isn’t about reviewing books. It’s simply about what I’m reading and asking what you, dear reader, are reading yourself. What interests you. If I run across a spectacular book, I might drop a bit of a review. Otherwise, nope.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 31, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a forest dying and a river drying up because Someone Else drove a fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Atlas Shrugs, with a post on #MyJihad and an Easter day attack.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 31, 2013 – 10:44 am

Happy Easter Sunday! A time to remember what the this specific day means, and to remember in general the once and future nation of America. This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Weasel Zippers points out that the Easter Bunny has beaten the rap
  2. The Victory Girls have an Easter pinup!
  3. This ain’t Hell… has your Easter feel good story
  4. At The Powers That Be, guest poster Joyanna Adams wonders what happened with Superstorm Sandy relief
  5. The People’s Cube has clean green muscle power
  6. The Lonely Conservative says Dems understand their policies suck
  7. The Jawa Report has many Easter Bible quotes
  8. The Astute Blogger finds an interesting use for the new gay marriage symbol
  9. Theodore’s World has Liz Cheney
  10. Sister Toldjah has the story of Jeremy’s Egg
  11. Scared Monkey’s covers the freest states in the Union
  12. At Right Wing News, we learn that Chicago Dems have solved all their gun problems, so……
  13. Pundit and Pundette has lots about Easter
  14. Public Secrets covers just how well high speed rail is doing in Brokeifornia
  15. And last, but not least, Primordial Slack tells us about a new Commandment

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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Is Your Easter “Sustainable” And “Ethical”?

By William Teach March 31, 2013 – 9:42 am

That’s right, it’s time again for “let’s see how the Warmists/envirowackos can attempt to ruin a holiday”

Happy Easter! Don’t forget to buy ethical chocolate. When you’re biting the head off a chocolate bunny this weekend, the last thing you want to be thinking about is whether your sweet treat was the product of child slave labor. But, this is going to be a bummer, it probably is. Well, I mean, it’s definitely possible. Have you checked where your chocolate is from? You should!

And

How sustainable is your Easter egg?

Easter egg fans can check the sustainability of the chocolate eggs this year following a campaign to rate the UK’s top brands on their use of sustainable palm oil.

Palm oil is used in a surprisingly large number of products from soap to margarine. Rainforests are often cleared in countries such as Indonesia and in the Congo Basin in Africa to make space for large palm oil plantations.

These crazies are always trying to ruin every holiday, especially the religious ones…..hey, wait a minute, these are issues I agree with! And not to be too preachy, you should too. I’ve written many times about the use of palm oil and how forests are cleared and wildlife, including orangutans, are intentionally killed to create palm oil farms, mostly in terms of how palm oil is used as a biofuel. I haven’t touched on the use of child slave labor for chocolate production, but these are all real issues, one of environmentalism and one of human rights.

Meanwhile, how does Google celebrate Easter?

On Easter Sunday, Google is honoring the birthday of the late labor organizer Cesar Chavez by placing a Chavez portrait within the middle “o” of the Google logo that appears on the homepage of the popular search engine.

Great, a union socialist. More at Twitchy.

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Good Grief: Picking NCAA Brackets By Carbon Footprint

By William Teach March 30, 2013 – 5:01 pm

Can’t the Warmists stay out of just one thing? (Via Tom Nelson)

Greener Brackets: Analysis Looks At Carbon Intensity To Pick March Madness Teams

Q. Did you find yourself rooting for teams based on their carbon footprint?

A. After doing the analysis, it’s hard not to.

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Lucy Explains Liberal Choices

By William Teach March 30, 2013 – 2:12 pm

Via Steven Goddard from Suyts Space.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 30, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will rise up so we need to give lots of money to unions that vote D to build walls, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on Medicare/Medicaid maybe covering sex changes.

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“Voice Of Sense” Rep. Mike Thompson (D) Won’t Give Up His Guns, But Has No Problem Taking Yours

By William Teach March 30, 2013 – 11:15 am

The LA Times calls Thompson (D-Ca) the “Voice of sense in gun debate”

As the national firearms debate reaches a crescendo, a California congressman is proving that you can be both a gun lover and a gun controller.

Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, a moderate “blue dog” Democrat who represents the rugged North Coast and the premier Napa-Sonoma wine country, puts the lie to the National Rifle Assn. demagoguery that this is a firefight between pro-gun and anti-gun forces.

So, he’s already gone barking moonbat. So much for being the “voice of sense”.

“As a hunter and gun owner, I will not give up my guns and I will not ask other law-abiding Americans to give up theirs,” says Thompson, 62, a former state legislator and eight-term congressman. “But as a father and grandfather, I also know we have a responsibility to keep our kids, communities and country safe from gun violence.”

And boom, there you have, the typical liberal position: they won’t make changes in their own lives, yet have no problem slapping restrictions on Someone Else.

“My philosophy is it’s not gun control, but gun violence prevention,” he asserts. “We ought to have reasonable laws that protect the 2nd Amendment and keep our communities safe, and I think we can do both.”

What does he want? Common sense legislation we can all agree on? Not by a long shot. He’s behind Diane Feinstein’s scary looking weapon ban because they “give a bad name to gun owners.” Really?

Thompson also wants a federal ban on magazines which hold more than 10 rounds. He’s calling them “assault magazines”. This is a guy from a state that wants to restrict gun ownership for 10 years for anyone who has been convicted of two DUIs within 5 years, because one has something to do with the other, and surely highlights that Democrats aren’t interested in going after criminals who use guns, but (mostly) law abiding citizens (you know what I mean).

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Hot March In 2012, Cold March In 2013, Obviously Both Are “Climate Change”

By William Teach March 30, 2013 – 8:50 am

Because everything proves their cultish beliefs

(Climate Central) March is finally on its way out, but not before leaving its mark in the unusually cold and snowy weather that affected much of the U.S., Europe, and parts of Asia. The chilly weather has come courtesy of a stuck weather pattern that has repeatedly directed blasts of cold Arctic air southward, while leaving Greenland and northeastern Canada much warmer than average for this time of year.

Think of the Arctic as the Northern Hemisphere’s refrigerator. The blocked weather pattern — which some scientists think may be tied to the rapid warming of the Arctic and the subsequent loss of sea ice cover — has opened the refrigerator door, causing cold air to spill out of the freezer that is the Far North and help develop winter storms in the northern mid-latitudes. One such storm occupied much of the Northern Atlantic on Thursday, stretching from just south of Greenland all the way east to Ireland and Spain.

The cold weather this month has been in stark contrast to last March, when an unprecedentedly long-lasting and intense early spring heat wave sent temperatures soaring into the 80s all the way to the U.S. border with Canada.

Ice Age Now calls the current Warmist talking point about global warming causing massive cold and snow a load of crap. Real Science notes a 35:1 ratio of cold to hot records. Anyhow, first the climate astrologers were telling us that the jet stream was staying northwards because of “climate change”. Now they tell us that it has come further south than normal because of “climate change”. I suppose the warmth has also seen Alaska’s climate go down 2.4 degrees F over the past 10 years.

In the UK they are concerned about people freezing to death, I guess because of all the warmth, if we use the Warmist prognostication.

I can also guarantee, using my super duper computer models (no, you aren’t allowed to see the raw data or methodology), that the minute it starts getting warm the climate astrologers will tell us that the “melting Arctic” is causing it to get warm. All because you drove an SUV and refused to turn your lights out for 1 hour this year.

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