Strict Gun Laws In Chicago Can’t Stop Gun Violence Says….NY Times? Now With Climate Astrology!

By William Teach January 30, 2013 – 8:32 am

A random act of journalism from the Paper Of Record

(NY Times) Not a single gun shop can be found in this city because they are outlawed. Handguns were banned in Chicago for decades, too, until 2010, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that was going too far, leading city leaders to settle for restrictions some describe as the closest they could get legally to a ban without a ban. Despite a continuing legal fight, Illinois remains the only state in the nation with no provision to let private citizens carry guns in public.

And yet Chicago, a city with no civilian gun ranges and bans on both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, finds itself laboring to stem a flood of gun violence that contributed to more than 500 homicides last year and at least 40 killings already in 2013, including a fatal shooting of a 15-year-old girl on Tuesday.

The Times’ writer, Monica Davey, attempts to paint a picture that so much of the problem stems from people purchasing guns legally outside of the city limits, which, yes, is true, because, um, there are no gun shops in Chicago. What she fails to point out is that law abiding citizens who live in Chicago are mostly not the ones purchasing, they are just the ones left without a means to defend themselves from the criminal elements in Chicago. And the criminals, quite a few whom are gang members, know this.

Chicago is awash in gangs, such as the Vice Lords, Latin Kings, La Raza Nation, and Gangster Disciples. CBS had reported that gang violence is so bad that police attend funerals in an attempt to stop revenge killings.

Lately, the police say they are discovering far more guns on the streets of Chicago than in the nation’s two more populous cities, Los Angeles and New York. They seized 7,400 guns here in crimes or unpermitted uses last year (compared with 3,285 in New York City), and have confiscated 574 guns just since Jan. 1 — 124 of them last week alone.

Most of them are being taken from criminals, many of them arrested for committing a crime.

Yet, Chicago wants to make it even more burdensome on the law abiding citizens who simply want a way to protect themselves from the lawlessness and violence rampant upon Chicago’s streets, a condition created by the same Democrats who want to disarm the law abiding citizens.

In the weeks since the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., Toni Preckwinkle, the Cook County Board president, has introduced a countywide provision requiring gun owners beyond the city limits to report lost or stolen guns, though a first offense would result simply in a $1,000 fine. In the city, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has pressed for increased penalties for those who violate the city’s gun ordinance by failing to report their guns missing or possessing an assault weapon.

Perhaps the politicians in Cook County, along with Emanuel, should look towards going after the actual criminals themselves. But being tough on criminals doesn’t seem to be in the DNA of Democrats.

More: I’d usually drop this in a new post, but, since I did a crosspost, I’ll add this here:

(Daily Caller) On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the Center for American Progress’ Christie Hefner said that Chicago’s sky-high murder rate could be blamed — at least in part — on climate change.

“Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago],” Hefner, the former chairwoman and chief executive officer of Playboy Enterprises, said. “And this year we are already outpacing last year’s numbers. Now, there are contributing factors that are not under anybody’s control and may seem odd, but it is factually true. One of them is actually the weather. There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that.”

She tried to walk it back a bit, but, we all know that these climate astrologists thing hotcoldwetdry is to blame for everything, and, face it, dear reader, you are to blame for failing to go carbon neutral, or at least purchase lots of carbon credits to enrich people like Al Gore.

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Station Which Names Winter Storms Says Cold And Global Warming Go Hand In Hand

By William Teach January 29, 2013 – 8:54 pm

That’s right, in case you missed it, the Weather Channel has been naming winter storms, which everyone else has decided is idiotic and won’t participate. And, as typical for them, are engaging in more pseudo science cult behavior

Cold Snaps, Global Warming Go Hand-in-Hand

Frigid temperatures like these are sometimes used to refute the idea that the planet as a whole is getting warmer with each passing year. That’s just not so, say NASA scientists, who point out that even on a warming planet, bitterly cold temperatures and harsh winter weather will still be possible and even commonplace.

That’s not what the climate astrologers used to tell us.

One of the reasons they can coexist is a phenomenon known as Arctic Oscillation, a phrase used to describe the interaction of the jet stream and Arctic air during the winter. It can cause unseasonably cold air masses to sweep over what are normally temperate latitudes, NASA reports, making for unusually cold and severe winter weather across many parts of the U.S.

Um, if the natural process of the Arctic Oscillation is making things cold, why can’t natural processes also cause warmth? Oh, right, right, Lefties need a way to advance their Progressive/fascist policies.

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Hotcoldwetdry Could Make Flu Season Worse

By William Teach January 29, 2013 – 2:47 pm

Scary stuff

(India.com) Scientists led by Sherry Towers, research professor in the Mathematical, Computational and Modelling Sciences Centre at Arizona State University, studied waves of flu and climate patterns in the US from the 1997-1998 season to the present. The team’s analysis indicates a pattern for both A and B strains: warm winters are usually followed by heavy flu seasons, the journal Public Library Of Science Currents: Influenza reports.

Know what they use as evidence?

‘It appears that fewer people contract influenza during warm winters, and this causes a major portion of the population to remain vulnerable into the next season, causing an early and strong emergence,’ said Towers, according to an Arizona statement. ‘And when a flu season begins exceptionally early, much of the population has not had a chance to get vaccinated, potentially making that flu season even worse,’ Towers said.

So, warmer winters should be good for smaller flu seasons. But, Warmists have an agenda, so no matter what happens, “climate change” is to blame.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 29, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a flooded drought world, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on liberal logic.

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Why Do Dems Want Women To Be Unable To Protect Themselves?

By William Teach January 29, 2013 – 11:29 am

It’s an interesting dichotomy: Democrats create a society of criminal activity through their soft on crime policies, then they want to disarm citizens who need to protect themselves from criminals created by Democrat policies

(WWLP) Ware Guns owner Mike Weisser told 22News, he’s seen an uptick in the number of women who are taking the necessary classes to legally carry a firearm.

Weisser says the reasons for women buying handguns are also much different than men. “I’ve noticed a lot more women in the classes than I used to see, they’re not coming in as hobbyist the way that many of the males do. ”

They seem to be much more concerned about personal protection.

Don’t worry ladies, the good news as you are disarmed is that Obama is expanding free health care!

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Draft IPCC Report Shows 20 Years Of Overestimated Globull Warming

By William Teach January 29, 2013 – 7:07 am

At one point, Warmists might have been actually interested in real science, but, that quickly switched to pushing junk science in order to move forward their Marxist ideas of people control

(Fox News) A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming.

The report — which is not scheduled for publication until 2014 — was leaked by someone involved in the IPCC’s review process, and is available for download online. Bloggers combing through the report discovered a chart comparing the four temperature models the group has published since 1990. Each has overstated the rise in temperature that Earth actually experienced.

“Temperatures have not risen nearly as much as almost all of the climate models predicted,” Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, told FoxNews.com.

The IPCC graph shows that the midpoints of the various models predicted that the world would warm by between about 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit and 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit between 1990 and 2012. Actual warming was much less than that: 0.28 F, according the data the IPCC cites.

Wow, .28F. Scary stuff. We’re doomed. Everybody panic. It’s no wonder Warmists fail to act like it’s a crisis with data like that.

Of course, the draft report tries to shift the blame for the failure of all their garbage in garbage out computer models on other processes, mostly natural ones. Weird how they never seem to consider that the warming since the end of the Little Ice Age is mostly or solely natural.

And, it is a draft report, so we can expect the UN IPCC to change things up and most likely remove any data that shows that they’ve been wrong all along, and add in all sorts of dire predictions which require vast amounts of money to shift hands (with a good chunk ending up in the hands of the UN) and loss of freedoms.

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Surprise: Democrats Have No Intention Of Securing The Border Before Amnesty

By William Teach January 29, 2013 – 6:48 am

While Soros funded Think Progress is saying that the border is more secure than ever (at least on paper, what with all those pesky illegals sneaking across, plus drug runners, plus the Obama admin running guns the other way), other Democrats are saying “yeah, don’t worry about that border securing commission”, and

(Washington Post) That’s a legitimate worry, according to Frank Sharry, the executive director of America’s Voice, a group advocating for immigration reform. But he tells me that on a conference call yesterday, Democratic Senators reassured immigration advocates that this commission won’t be constructed in a way that will hold up the process for too long.

As Sharry put it, Democrats realize that they can’t “allow the commission to have a real veto” over setting in motion the path to citizenship. He noted that Dems see the commission as “something that gives the Republicans a talking point” to claim they are prioritizing tough enforcement, giving themselves cover to back a process that “won’t stop people from getting citizenship.” However, Sharry added: “The details of this are going to matter hugely, and we’ll have to fight like hell on the individual provisions.”

Interesting. Didn’t I write yesterday that this commission would essentially rubber stamp that the border was secure, that way all these illegals, many who will immediately qualify for social safety net programs and bring little in the way of skills and education, will immediately be put on this so-called pathway to citizenship? Yes, I did. And then there’s this from Mickey Kaus regarding the 5 page release from the Gang of 8

If you read closely, you learn that illegal immigrants will actually be legalized immediately–given “probationary legal status,” allowing them to “live and work legally in thee United States” (according to Politico). The only thing that’s delayed, pending “stricter border enforcement,” is the opening of a “path to citizenship.” As if, once legalized, the 11 million are going to be unlegalized if  enforcement measures are implemented with less than 100% efficacy.

So, this whole thing is like going to see a magician. They’re saying look over here, secure border, while they actually go and legalize people who came to this country illegally. The question remains, will Republicans go along with this, or will they fight?

Meanwhile, Rep Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) says it “would be madness not to include LBGT issues in the shamnesty bill.”

Also, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is begging Obama not to release his own plan, because that will throw a wrench in the works. Allahpundit wonders why Obama would release one when there’s a deal on the table. Probably because he doesn’t care if it passes, and, really, at this point, Obama seems to want to pick fights out of habit, and create a great kerfuffle when the deal dies, which it surely will once Obama gets involved. He could care less about his fellow Democrats and their prospects. That’s his M.O. And PBO plans on releasing his own sticky note version of a plan today.

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Carolyn McCarthy: Women Shouldn’t Use Scary Looking Rifles

By William Teach January 28, 2013 – 4:22 pm

Jon Lilyea says she’s being sexist (via Andy at Ace’s)

(The Blaze) PIERS MORGAN: I have an interview coming up with two young women who wrote a piece in which they said they wanted the rights of the AR-15 weapon at home because they feared they would be attacked and they wanted a gun that would guarantee they would murder or would kill their attacker. How do you respond to that particular argument, which is they believe under their second amendment right they should be allowed an AR-15?

CAROLYN MCCARTHY: I will tell you, if you talk to professionals, hunters and certainly sportsmen, they’ll tell you that’s not the gun to use. A rifle is more accurate. It’s certainly easier for a woman to be able to do that.

Um, wait, what? Is she saying that assault rifles are less accurate than the non-scary looking versions? And easier? And not really a rifle rifle? Actually, many “assault rifles” are a whole lot easier to use for women, since they are often lighter than many standard rifles, and it is easier to hold while reloading. Plus, with collapsible stocks they are easily customized for the size of the user. That’s are some of the reasons hunters like them. And people who like shooting. And people who want to protect their homes.

Let’s not forget that McCarthy is a proponent of women serving in combat roles. As Jon writes

I’d like to hear her explanation of the mechanics of her contention. So, since she opposes scary-looking rifles, does she think that the military should be teaching women to fight with bolt-action or lever action rifles in their new roles as combat soldiers? Or maybe she’s just unaware of what women are capable of – or doesn’t really care when she’s making idiot political statements.

Personally, I prefer my handguns for home defense, and, if I lived in a bigger place, probably a shotgun. With a pistol grip and no stock. Others prefer a scary looking rifle, because the first thing you want to do is scare the crap out of an intruder so you don’t have to fire. But, if you do, you want control and power.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 28, 2013 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on waste heat.

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In Order To Solve “Climate Change”, We Need Vast Amounts Of Marxist Babble

By William Teach January 28, 2013 – 11:52 am

You could also refer to it as progressive babble, communist babble, socialist babble. It’s all one and the same, and generally means “someone else must be forced to Do Something. Meanwhile, I’m not planning to change my life at all”

(Fish Wrap) Well-intentioned critics of fossil fuel divestment have called for students to lobby their senators and representatives as a more direct path to federal action on climate change. These critics underestimate the fossil fuel industry’s stranglehold over our political system, and their suggested path would only repeat past failures of the climate movement. They also ignore the networks of institutions, influence and capital that can be moved to support an end to extraction and fight climate change.

To make change, players including universities, foundations and public pension funds must be pushed to act for the greater good.

By building the skills and relationships necessary to overcome government inaction, student activists, working alongside those already fighting for a sustainable future, can not only push Washington to enact adequate legislation, but can also create a mass movement to demand truly sustainable societies and economies.

Is there like some calls Leftists take to learn to write this way? Or do they simply learn it at there far left group meetings?

Kate Aronoff is a student organizer with Swarthmore Mountain Justice and a board member at the Responsible Endowments Coalition.

She even manages, in the last paragraph, to compare the fight (that others must be forced to engage in) against hotcoldwetdry to the fight against apartheid. At least the latter was a real issue.

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