Dem Barbara Lee Tries The “We Need A Department Of Peace” Route

By William Teach February 27, 2013 – 8:18 am

I wonder who should lead this department? How about Bill Clinton? No, that would be the Dept of Piece. Somebody with a Nobel? How about Obama? No, wait, he loves personally picking who the recipients of drone strikes are and launching wars of choice. Anyhow

(Daily Caller) California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee has introduced legislation to create a federal Department of Peacebuilding that would cultivate peace and take on the causes of violence and conflict.

Lee’s legislation H.R. 808 “Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2013″ also would create a Cabinet-level Secretary of Peacebuilding focused on creating peace and preventing violence.

“This culture of violence that we live in is unacceptable,” Lee said in a statement her office distributed earlier this month. “On our streets and across the globe, the pervasive presence of violence has infected the lives of millions, and it is far past time we address it as a nation. We invest hundreds of billions each year in the Pentagon, in war colleges, military academies, and our national defense universities all to develop war tactics and strategies.”

Well, in part she is correct, there does need to be something done about violence. Unfortunately for Lee (and her 8 cosponsors), Liberal/Democrat ideas on crime tend to increase crime, since they want to disarm citizens and tend to treat criminals with kid gloves. It’s not so much that they are soft on crime (sometimes yes, sometimes no), it’s that their policies tend to lead to more crime and tend to go easy on criminals.

Democrats know that when someone commits a crime, it is society that has failed and should have to pay — in the form of higher taxes and reduced freedom.

No, that can’t be right

“Now we need that kind of investment in peace and nonviolence here at home,” Lee added.

The proposed department carries on an idea initially proposed by former Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who attempted to establish a Department of Peace.

We all know what Democrats mean by “investment, which is more and more money from the taxpayers, which will be needed to run this massive bureaucracy that will accomplish nothing but reducing individual liberty. And it’s not even original.

The department would also create a four-year Peace Academy in the model of the military service academies, and offer grants and incentives for peacebuilding initiatives. The Secretary will also encourage Americans to observe and celebrate “Peace Days.”

Perhaps it should tell liberals to be peaceful, because they do tend to get out of control quite often.

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Sec State Kerry: You Have A Right To Be Stupid

By William Teach February 26, 2013 – 4:12 pm

At first, I was ready to criticize Kerry for this, but, he is kinda correct

(Reuters) “As a country, as a society, we live and breathe the idea of religious freedom and religious tolerance, whatever the religion, and political freedom and political tolerance, whatever the point of view,” Kerry told the students in Berlin, the second stop on his inaugural trip as secretary of state.

“People have sometimes wondered about why our Supreme Court allows one group or another to march in a parade even though it’s the most provocative thing in the world and they carry signs that are an insult to one group or another,” he added.

“The reason is, that’s freedom, freedom of speech. In America you have a right to be stupid – if you want to be,” he said, prompting laughter. “And you have a right to be disconnected to somebody else if you want to be.

“And we tolerate it. We somehow make it through that. Now, I think that’s a virtue. I think that’s something worth fighting for,” he added. “The important thing is to have the tolerance to say, you know, you can have a different point of view.”

It’s put inarticulately, stupidly, if you will, but, he is right, you do have the right to be stupid. We have to wonder just in what context he meant this, such as people daring to be religious and/or speak their minds. Unfortunately, we have quite a few stupid people who voted for Obama.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 26, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle creating a flooded world, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on the Obama presidency being for sale.

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Fish Wrap: Hotcoldwetdry Arguably Most Important Issue Evah!!!!!!!

By William Teach February 26, 2013 – 12:05 pm

Doom?

(NY Times) Climate change is arguably the most important issue humanity has ever faced. The Earth’s average surface temperature continues to climb and weather is increasingly volatile. Our current trajectory looks perilous.

Except, there has been no global warming in 16 years. The average global temperature has risen a whopping, humongous, immense .28 degrees Fahrenheit between 1990 and 2012. Oh, and if it’s so damned important, why they hell is it being discussed on the crosswords pages of the Times? That’s write, this whole article about the mathematics of climate change is on the puzzle page.

Is the situation really that critical? I asked atmospheric chemist Dr. Laura Foster.

The future world will be a warmer place with different weather patterns and disease patterns and coastlines. We will have to adapt to these changes.

The pessimist in me thinks of human beings on Earth like bacteria in a petri dish: we’re going to pollute our petri dish to the point that we can no longer survive in it.

The situation is that critical. Climate change is real. Responding to it will be full of challenges. But there will also be opportunities — an aspect of climate change emphasized by Dr. Emily Shuckburgh, a climate scientist based at the British Antarctic Survey.

Dr. Shuckburgh speaks widely about climate change, and if you happen to be in San Francisco next week, you’ll have the opportunity to attend one of her talks. Dr. Shuckburgh will be giving a public lecture titled “Climate Disruption: What Math and Science Have to Say” as part of a Mathematics of Planet Earth series being sponsored by the Simons Foundation.

Wow, the climate of the planet can actually change? Who woulda thunk it? That never happened before. Oh, and how does Dr. Shuckburgh get to Antartica? I’m sure she take a wind powered sailboat from Antarctica to San Fran, right?

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Kentucky Senate Passes Gun Nullification Legislation

By William Teach February 26, 2013 – 9:52 am

Kentucky wants no part of the draconian gun ‘n law abiding citizen restrictions flowing from federally elected Democrats

(Kentucky.com) The state Senate on Monday overwhelmingly passed a nullification bill that would prohibit Kentucky from enforcing new federal gun control laws if they’re enacted, despite concerns about the bill’s constitutionality.

The vote was 34-3. Three of the Senate’s 14 Democrats voted no, stating that the measure would be trumped by the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

Sen. Jared Carpenter, a Berea Republican, sponsored the bill. He said the Supremacy Clause applies only if Congress is acting in pursuit of its constitutionally authorized powers, which he said wouldn’t apply to stricter gun measures.

“If I thought the bill would be symbolic, I would’ve written a resolution,” Carpenter told the Associated Press. “I thought it needed more than that.”

It’s not just laws that could be passed, but Obama regulations that will be ignored as “unenforceable”, particularly when it comes to scary looking guns, also known as “assault rifles”. Whether it would hold up in federal law is questionable. At least 20 other states are attempting similar measures. Of course, Democrats are claiming that the Central Planning Office is not coming for your guns, but if that was the case they’d be focusing on legislation that would target actual criminals, instead of turning law abiding citizens into criminals.

Meanwhile, in the federal Senate

(The Hill) Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has scheduled Thursday votes on four separate gun-control measures, including proposals to ban assault weapons, to make gun trafficking a federal crime, to provide schools with enhanced security protections and to expand background checks surrounding gun sales.

These votes will be in committee. Expect all to make it out, but, as for an actual floor vote, Harry Reid is a big guns supporter, so the assault weapons ban may not ever make it. Fortunately for Team Obama, there can be no retroactive application of the gun trafficking legislation.

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Sequestration In Context: US Borrows Cost Of Sequestration Every 28 Days

By William Teach February 26, 2013 – 9:24 am

Daily reminder: they aren’t cuts. Just a slight reduction in the rate of spending increase, but, you know, if the Sequestration is allowed to proceed the animals in the national parks will turn feral and start eating tourists before joining forces and attacking cities

(Daily Caller) In an effort to put the looming automatic spending cuts into “perspective,” House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said the sequester only cuts “less than” what the federal government borrows in “one month.”

House Republican leaders called on President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats to “lead” and propose a plan to reduce the deficit.

“The president’s only idea to solve a problem is to take more from the hardworking taxpayers. Let’s put the sequester into perspective: It is $85 billion. We have a spending problem in Washington. We borrow more than a trillion dollars a year. We roughly borrow $85 billion every 28 days,” McCarthy said on Monday at the Capitol.

“So what we are looking to do is cut less than what we borrow in one month — not what we spend, but what we borrow. This is not time for a road-show president, but this is a time to look for someone who will lead and work with us because we are willing to work with them to solve America’s problems.”

Obviously, that’s Bush’s fault. But, Obama wants to “close loopholes”. Republicans should start with those that affect Hollywood, Google, General Electric, unionized auto manufacturers, Facebook, “green energy”, Progressive Insurance, Media Matters…..shut them. See how willing Obama is to closing those loopholes.

Meanwhile, Politico wonders if Obama is telling the truth on the effects of Sequestration (that Obama proposed). The answer? Obama and company are pretty much fear mongering and exaggerating. And an interesting part not mentioned is that these “cuts” to the states would be meaningless if the economy wasn’t in shambles and the states weren’t reliant upon the extra federal (borrowed) money because their economies are in shambles.

Also from Carrie Budoff Brown, one of the few (mostly) non-cheerleader journalists out there

(Politico) President Barack Obama broke Republicans once on taxes — and his risky strategy for winning the sequester fight assumes he’ll do it again.

He will divide, isolate and defeat Republicans using all the powers of his office and all his skills as a political campaigner. As Americans grow frustrated with the cuts, Republicans will reject their party’s no-tax mantra and demand that Congress end the standoff, even if it means raising some new revenue – just the way Obama is demanding.

See, here’s the problem: the POTUS, Obama, is making no attempt to actually work to solve the spending issue, he’s only trying to demonize and create conflict. And this is what he does every time. Why would anyone think the Republicans would want to work with this bully and jerk?

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Grist: What Should The Climate Movement Do Next?

By William Teach February 25, 2013 – 3:42 pm

I’ve got a few things in mind, one of which is STFU and GFYS, you silly wanker hypocrites

(Grist) But whether you like the campaign or not, it’s too late for second-guessing at this point. The fight is underway; it’s already freighted with symbolism. Within the next few months, the Keystone decision will be made, for good or ill. Then the question arises: What’s next for the climate movement?

This is an opportunity to take a step back and think carefully about the effort to address climate change and the role activism plays in it. I’ll probably do several posts on this — it’s a rich subject — and I hope others will join in the discussion too.

As you can easily guess, there’s not one idea about practicing what they preach, giving up all use of fossil fuels, etc and so on. You know the drill. The only comment recommending this would be …… mine, which is sure to elicit plenty of personal attacks and deflections. There are plenty of ideas for “spreading awareness” and agitation campaigns, along with shutting down debate.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 25, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an awesome Gaia friendly bicycle in an obvious drought world, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Newz, with some more news on Bob Mendendez’s underage hooker scandal.

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Math Is Really Hard For Warmists

By William Teach February 25, 2013 – 10:18 am

2+2=5.34649479

(SFGate) The poll found that 64 percent of Californians believe global warming is happening and something should be done to fight it, with more than half of the respondents, 37 percent, deeming it a serious problem worthy of immediate action.

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Guns Banned In Phillipines Ahead Of May Elections, Criminals Didn’t Receive The Memo

By William Teach February 25, 2013 – 7:21 am

Still less violence than in the Liberal Mecca of Chicago

(GMA News) A man running for councilor in the upcoming elections in May was shot dead by motorcycle-riding gunmen Sunday evening in San Fernando City in La Union.

Danilo Nisperos Sr., 59, died while receiving medical treatment at Bethany Hospital in San Fernando City, said Ilocos regional police spokesperson Superintendent Jovencio Badua on Monday.

The police recovered five spent shells and five slugs of a still unknown type of firearm from the scene of the crime.

Nisperos was killed despite the implementation of the nationwide gun ban in connection with the May elections.

The day before another political candidate was killed.

As of February 22, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has arrested 1,138 gun ban violators: 1,034 civilians, six soldiers, 13 policemen, a member of the Bureau of Fire Protection, 14 government officials, 62 security guards, and two Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit members.

Still, some armed groups managed to slip through the gun ban. On January 26, armed men fired shots during a robbery at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City, causing panic among mall goers.

And there were other shootings by criminals, who don’t seem particularly interested in following the ban. Weird, eh?

Under the gun ban, which is being enforced since January 13, all permits to carry firearms are suspended. Only uniformed law enforcers are exempted.

Remember, this is just a temporary suspension of the ability to carry. Here in America Democrats want to not only eliminate the ability to carry (they do this by continuously expending where people can’t carry) but to dink and dunk their way towards eliminating most privately owned guns, leaving only The Government with guns.

Meanwhile, a liberal astroturf group, Progressive USA Voters, is offering to pay people $9-$11 an hour to agitate for more gun control.

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