If All You See…

By William Teach December 23, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will rise up, causing the island to tip over, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Science, with a post on a NJ town taking the NRA’s advice.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 23, 2012 – 9:39 am

Patriotic Pinup Gil Elvgren

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America, and only a few days till Christmas. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help (and a little more risque then normal. Just a little)

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Sister Toldjah wonders where the outrage was over Clinton’s COPS program
  2. Wake Up America has pre-data on Obama’s tax the rich scheme.
  3. Wizbang wonders why negotiations with Obama always fail
  4. This ain’t Hell... discusses Chicago gun violence
  5. The Strata-Sphere discusses GOP handwringers
  6. Doug Powers covers handwringers in the violence laden entertainment industry
  7. The Lonely Conservative writes that Obama is a violence
  8. The Daley Gator wonders why the Swiss have so little gun violence
  9. Dan Riehl has crazy postal workers
  10. Q&O discusses armed school guards
  11. Powerline highlights how great socialized medicine is
  12. Political Realities covers liberal hate speech
  13. Jihad Watch has info on the Sharia loving Syrian rebels
  14. Jammie Wearing Fools wonders about sneaker control
  15. And last, but not least, House Of Eratosthenes discusses WANT

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 out what 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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NY Times Really Upset Over Concealed Carry Laws

By William Teach December 23, 2012 – 8:15 am

The anonymous NY Times editorial board has been running editorial after editorial in their drumbeat to take guns away from law abiding citizens (no word from the editorial board as to whether they are going to do away with the armed security guards in their lobby), turning citizens into gazelle in a sea of lions. Here comes another

The Scourge of Concealed Weapons

As the nation’s leaders devise new gun control strategies following the Connecticut shooting, they should look for ways to strengthen state laws that govern the possession and use of firearms. In too many states, these laws are weak and, in some cases, seem almost designed to encourage violence.

Over the years, states have made it increasingly possible for almost any adult to carry a concealed handgun in public, including on college campuses, in churches and in state parks — places where people tend to congregate in large numbers and where, in a rational world, guns should be strictly prohibited.

In the real world, those places where people tend to congregate are typically gun free zones, and exactly where crazy people bent upon committing mass murder before suicide target. More often, college campuses, churches, state parks, malls, bars, restaurants, movie theaters, and so many other places are off limits for those with concealed carry permits, either through state restrictions, federal restrictions, or business restrictions. In North Carolina, the restrictions are:

Any location prohibited by federal law.

A law enforcement of correctional facility.

A building housing only state, federal or government offices.

A financial institution.

Any public or private school building or bus, campus, grounds, recreation area, athletic fields or other property used or owned by an educational institution.

Any assembly where a fee had been charged for admission or where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed.

Any other premises where notice that carrying a concealed handgun is prohibited by the posting of a conspicuous notice or statement by the person in legal possession or control of the premises.

It shall be unlawful for any person participating in, affiliated with, or present as a spectator at any parade, funeral procession, picket line, or demonstration upon any public place owned or under the control of the state or any of its political subdivisions to willfully or intentionally possess or have immediate access to any firearm.

It is further against the law to carry while under the effects of alcohol or drugs, except in cases of certain legally obtained drugs (like flu medicine) as long as the drugs do not cause impairment. Most States’ concealed carry laws are similar. And where do most of these mass killings tend to occur? In places where there are lots of gazelles. Or, perhaps we should say where there are lots of sheep, and sheep dogs are not allowed.

A more likely cause for this shift are the very forces that have undercut efforts to enact strong and sensible national laws, namely, the incredible power of the pro-gun lobby and its profitable allies in the gun manufacturing industry. The assertion on Friday by Wayne LaPierre, the vice president of the National Rifle Association, that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” was as much a sales pitch as it was a restatement of the organization’s perverse philosophy.

Well, if the NY Times and liberals don’t like that, perhaps they could tell us what a good guy could use when a bad guy comes after him/her with an illegal gun in a gun free zone. Harsh words? Dirty looks? Asking them to stop?

President Obama has promised to unveil a new gun control strategy soon (once he’s back from his long vacation). It is likely to include a renewed effort to ban the sale of assault weapons like the one used in the Connecticut massacre, as well as other familiar measures. But the strategy will be incomplete unless Washington becomes actively engaged in making sure that the states stop allowing guns to get into the wrong hands.

In Times Land, that means everyone (else) should be disarmed, and somehow, magically, criminals will give up their own guns.

BTW, under federal law people are not allowed to bring guns within 1000 feet of a school (k-12). That did not stop the Newtown shooter. Nor did he have a concealed carry permit. So, why the effort to roll back concealed carry? A disarmed population is a sheepish population.

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Know Who’d Be A Warmist? Jesus

By William Teach December 22, 2012 – 5:34 pm

According to the lunatics at Think Progress (via Tom Nelson)

My vision of Jesus and the life he would lead today is quite the opposite of today’s masters of the universe. In fact, Jesus would probably champion low carbon living. Clearly this is not the focus of fundamental Christians today perhaps because it would require such an inconvenient lifestyle.  Today’s fundamentalist Christians seem more focused on belief and faith rather than acting to follow in Christ’s footsteps.

This is all in context of

How might appeal to “virtue-based” ethics spur people to action to reduce their carbon footprint?   To attempt an answer this, let’s step back for a moment.  When we make appeals to people to change their behavior or lifestyle to forestall global warming, we usually ask two things:  change our buying or investment patterns and/or change our daily actions.  For example, do we buy a 48” plasma television, or perhaps a more energy efficient option; do we invest in energy efficiency upgrades for our home or live with higher heating bills; do we take public transit to work or drive?

What Warmist Max Wei is positioning is that his fellow Warmists should live the low CO2 lifestyle. Too bad few will. But, hey, Jesus!

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 22, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil beer can spewing CO2 into the atmosphere, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on Dana Loesch suing Breitbart.com

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Surprise! Warmist David Roberts Ties Hotcoldwetdry To Newtown

By William Teach December 22, 2012 – 12:47 pm

I actually read this article at Grist by David Roberts the other day (I read most stuff at Grist, one of my favorite websites), but never made it down to the end. Fortunately, Steve Milloy did, and notes the Warmist aspect

Newtown: Tragedy, empathy, and growing our circle of concern

Can you guess what “growing our circle of concern” means?

Yet for every ton of carbon we emit, we are firing a bullet into the air. We may not live to see it, but those bullets will rain down on the children of the future, and they will suffer for it. Obama said of the nation’s young:

We know we’re always doing right when we’re taking care of them, when we’re teaching them well, when we’re showing acts of kindness. We don’t go wrong when we do that. (note: this comes from Obama’s Newtown speech)

He also said, of our efforts to protect them: “Surely we can do better.”

Yes. Surely we can do better in protecting today’s children from random acts of violence. But surely we can also do better in protecting tomorrow’s children from suffering that, however distant and theoretical it may seem to us now, will yield just as many broken lives and broken hearts.

That’s right, Roberts used the Newtown tragedy to push “climate change”.

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Crazy And Hypocritical Warmist Set To Become Secretary Of State

By William Teach December 22, 2012 – 9:13 am

In case you haven’t heard

(AP) President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, one of Washington’s most respected voices on foreign policy, as his next secretary of state.

Obama even mentioned Kerry’s service in Vietnam, but it was strange that he failed to mention Kerry coming home and slurring the men and women who served in the military during the Vietnam War. Nor did he mention Kerry’s slurs towards the men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Of course, Kerry is also a big time Warmist. Marc Morano writes

Democratic Senator John Kerry is set to become the next U.S. Secretary of State, replacing Sec. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Kerry has declared his intention to treat man-made global warming as a national security threat. See: Sen. John Kerry To Be Nominated As Next Secretary of State: Kerry ‘believes climate change is the ‘biggest long term threat’ to national security’ & A Secretary John Kerry Would Elevate Climate Issues: Reaction: ‘about as far as 2010′s failed Kerry-Boxer climate bill, which failed to launch’

Climate Depot Statement on Sen. Kerry: “Senator Kerry is on record expressing outlandish climate and national security claims based on his basic misreading of climate science. Having a Secretary of State who views the emission of a trace essential gas in the atmosphere – CO2 – as some sort of monster threat to national security or the equivalent a the 9/11 terror attacks or the equivalent of old Soviet nuclear warheads, is a sad day in American history. Kerry is ignoring a large body of data and research that demolishes his beliefs. (see below) The American people deserve much better.” #

Let’s not forget that Kerry compared globull warming to 9/11. He compared it to Armageddon. As dangerous as a nuclear armed Iran. And plenty of other wackadoodle statements. Morano provides many smackdowns to Kerry in the article.

Let’s also not forget that John “Waffles” Kerry is a massive climahypocrite. He lives in a massive McMansion, which uses lots and lots of energy and water, and puts out huge amounts of CO2. And has several homes. He takes lots of unnecessary fossil fueled flights. He owns many fossil fueled vehicles, including SUVs. His “carbon footprint” is much, much higher than that of the average American citizen. He’s the same Warmists who told Senators to make “polluters” pay by instituting cap and tax, but refuses to modify his own lifestyle to become carbon neutral.

Oh, and Kerry was totally against the Cape Wind Project. He’s cool with wind turbines elsewhere, but not in his own “backyard.”

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Mayor Of City With Horrendous Murder Rate And Strict Gun Laws Calls For More Gun Laws

By William Teach December 22, 2012 – 8:43 am

If there was a media that was interested in exposing facts instead of pushing a political position, someone might actually ask Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel “how’s that current gun ban working?”

(WGNtv) Gun violence is a daily occurence for mayors across the Chicago area and the state of Illinois, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is leading the push for stronger gun control.

“Whether you are a Democrat, whether you are a Republican, whether you’re rural or urban or suburban, whether you’re from Illinois or Gary, Indiana, given what goes on in some of the transfers of illegal guns – having comprehensive legislation at the national level doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t do what we need to do here in the state,” Emanuel said today at a City Hall news conference.

Mayor Emanuel urged state legislators in Illinois and Indiana to pass an assault weapons ban and other common-sense gun control measures.

In urban areas, straw purchases and gun-running are huge problems, so Emanuel and others are looking for ways to better regulate and track the sales of guns.

Except, the criminals who have guns have them illegally, and really don’t care what the laws are. In fact, the Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits most straw sales and transfers of guns to people who should not have them. Interestingly, they still get them. Weird, eh? Even more strange, murder violates the law, yet people still do it. Stranger still, gun running is illegal, yet, criminals still do it.

“I’m standing here today to support the call for stronger gun regulations and to ask more city leaders, regardless of the size of their community, and especially those who are in smaller communities, to join our cause,” Mayor Teresa Kernc of Diamond, Ill., said at today’s news conference.

All this does is take guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens, leaving them prey to the aforementioned criminals.

In fact, most handguns are banned in Chicago and many of the surrounding towns. And

Since January 1, 1990, an astonishing 14,973 people have been murdered in Chicago. Even worse, many of the victims have been children.

The ban has been in place since 1982. On the flip side, since 1990 the number of murders has dropped from the 900’s down into the 400’s, much of which can be contributed to serious law enforcement efforts to do away with gangs (the 1980’s and 1990’s where huge decades for organized gangs) and citizens getting the hell out of Chicago. Also, better medical care. Over 440 school age children have been shot in Chicago, but “only” 62 have been killed. That’s what’s happening in the city with one of the most stringent gun control laws.

If Emanuel, Mike “Nanny” Bloomberg, and others want to do something, they can get tough on the criminals that have guns. Of course, that’s difficult, and involves breaking Liberal tenants which require law enforcement to treat actual criminals as sociological studies, and, we surely wouldn’t want to infringe on their rights, now, would we? It’s easier for them to stick it to law abiding citizens and call it a day.

And, perhaps all those mayors would be willing to disarm their bodyguards. Practice what they preach.

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Hotcoldwetdry Could Maybe Sorta Possibly Cause More Cataracts

By William Teach December 21, 2012 – 2:41 pm

Have you hear the latest scary story from Warmists?

(Environmental Health News) Higher summer heat is associated with increased risk of a rare birth defect that can lead to blindness. A 5-degree increase in temperature was associated with a 51 percent increase in congenital cataracts. The strongest link in this new study was found during a specific time of pregnancy when the eye is developing. The finding could be worrisome given climate change and increases in extreme hot-weather events.

First of all, it’s not science when they refer to it as “climate change”, instead of “anthropogenic global warming”. It’s politics. Secondly, let’s take a look at an article at Watts Up With That? by Willis Eschenbach

A 5°F (2.75°C) increase in summer temperature is significantly associated with congenital cataracts? Really? Now, think about that for a minute.

This study was done in New York. There’s about a 20°F difference in summer temperature between New York and Phoenix. That’s four times the 5°F they claim causes cataracts in the study group. So by their claim that if you heat up your kids will be born blind, we should be seeing lots of congenital cataracts, not only in Phoenix, but in Florida and in Cairo and in tropical areas, deserts, and hot zones all around the world … not happening, as far as I can tell.

Warmists tried something similar back in 2008 on World Health Day, saying that increased UV from hotcoldwetdry would cause more cataracts and blindness from cataracts. So far, hasn’t increased. But, without the scary stories which no one in the media tends to follow up a few years down the road Warmists would have a tough time pushing their cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 21, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil stove that uses evil fossil fuels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pundit Press, with a post about all the threats on Mayan apocalypse day.

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