Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 16, 2012 – 9:35 am

Patriotic Pinup Munson

Happy Sunday! Yet another fantastic day to be an American. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the Mayan apocalypse is almost here. This pinup is by K.O. Munson, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Wild Thing points out Obama’s quiet amnesty
  2. The Looking Spoon has talking guns
  3. The Lonely Conservative discusses Obama and Detroit
  4. The People’s Cube wants to ban cars and pools
  5. Doug Powers highlights what’s happening in the city with the most restrictive gun laws
  6. Victory Girls Blog discusses feminists having another fit over panties
  7. Watts Up With That? discusses the real IPCC AR5 bombshell
  8. 1389 Blog discusses being wrong
  9. All American Blogger catches more insanity from the TSA
  10. Allergic To Bull notices who Barack Obama follows on Twitter
  11. Bookworm Room provides some context on crime
  12. Cynthia Yockey has some facts on gun free zones
  13. Fausta says spend less, tax less, grow
  14. Joshuapundit covers our possible next Sec Of Defense
  15. And last, but not least, Primordial Slack provides some context on stopping shootings

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 Daily News: Ban All Killer Weapons Because We’re All To Blame

By William Teach December 16, 2012 – 8:22 am

Never let it be said that Liberals won’t take advantage of each and every tragedy to push their political agenda (too bad they didn’t push to make communism criminal, as Stalin and Mao murdered tens of millions of people)

Ban killer weapons and do it right now: The logic is simple: New laws will prevent mass murder

I think we already have laws against mass murder. People who break them obviously do not care about The Law.

Newtown. Oak Creek temple. Aurora. Tucson. Fort Hood. Virginia Tech. Columbine. The Long Island Rail Road. The list goes on like the names of battlefields from far-off wars.

But it is the war at home. Mass shootings, year in, year out. Doubt that we are at war? More Americans have been killed in our country within in the last year by guns than all U.S. soldiers killed in all of the years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Want to know who’s to blame? Each and every one of us, gun owners and non-gun owners. Muffled outrage and wringing of hands are not enough.

Personally, I feel no blame. I feel no remorse for sticking up for the 2nd Amendment rights of gun owners. None of the gun laws that Liberals are pushing would have stopped this tragedy. We also have laws against blowing up buildings. That did not stop Timothy McVeigh. We have laws against raping women and killing them. That didn’t stop Ted Bundy. We have laws against hijacking airplanes. That didn’t stop the 19 Islamists on 9/11.

Afterwards we can reflect on what else to do. But we owe these 20 precious, dead 5-to-10 year old children the solemn obligation to take serious measures, and swiftly. Why ban assault weapons and large capacity magazines? Not because it will save every last life. Since when is that the standard?

Because it will help. In virtually every single one of the mass shootings in America going back to the McDonald’s slaying in California in 1984, an assault weapon has been used and in every single one, one or multiple large capacity magazines have been used.

The Newtown child-killer may or may not have used handguns, and not an assault weapon, to murder children. But wouldn’t you rather prevent the deaths you can prevent?

Neither handgun used in this tragedy would be covered by any of the legislation that Democrats have proposed. They aren’t assault weapons, and they aren’t high capacity mags. The insane killer did have a .223 Bushmaster, but that was left in the car when he went on his murderous rampage.

The only answer would be to ban all guns. Not just scary looking weapons (many non-scary looking guns with the same caliber are manufactured and used for legitimate hunting purposes) and high cap mags. That’s the only way to be sure. Lock down all the borders to keep guns from coming in to the country.

Want to blame someone? Let’s blame the entertainment industry for using guns on TV and in movies. Let’s blame organizations that use armed security guards in their lobbies (like, say, The NY Times Building (there is no info I can find on the NY Daily News building)). Let’s blame violent video games. Let’s blame politicians who have Secret Service protection which carries weapons, including scary looking sub-machine guns. Let’s blame Democrat voters who refuse to give up their own firearms.

Or, we can blame the unhinged shooters, who apparently want their 15 minutes of fame as they commit mass murder prior to suicide.

If only Liberals showed the same outrage when the Obama administration was running guns to Mexico which resulted in the deaths of over 200 Mexicans and at least 2 US federal agents.

More: Just so Liberals stop whining and deflecting, let it be noted that information that came out after this post was published states that the .223 Bushmaster was the weapon used, not the handguns. Previous reports stated that the Bushmaster was in the killer’s car. (WordPress for Android was cutting off some of the article if I used it to edit)

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Saturday Night Awesome

By William Teach December 15, 2012 – 6:49 pm

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 15, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled machine that No One Else should be allowed to own, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Rhymes With Right, with thoughts on the Newtown shooting.

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Surprise! 40% Of Democrats Own Guns

By William Teach December 15, 2012 – 12:00 pm

If Democrats really want to go down this road, perhaps they should practice what they preach. In 2011, Gallup did a survey of self-reported gun ownership in the U.S. What did they find?

Forty-seven percent of American adults currently report that they have a gun in their home or elsewhere on their property. This is up from 41% a year ago and is the highest Gallup has recorded since 1993, albeit marginally above the 44% and 45% highs seen during that period

Republicans (including independents who lean Republican) are more likely than Democrats (including Democratic leaners) to say they have a gun in their household: 55% to 40%. While sizable, this partisan gap is narrower than that seen in recent years, as Democrats’ self-reported gun ownership spiked to 40% this year.

Of those 40% of Democrats who report a gun in the house, 28% say it is their own gun.

So, I reiterate: if Democrats want gun control, they need to give up their own guns. They need to disarm themselves….what’s that? You Dems say you often have guns for home protection, particularly in cities in which your own policies have made you less safe? And you’re a law abiding citizen? Not a threat to go batshit insane? Nope, sorry, doesn’t matter. Give them up.

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Warmists Really Excited Over New Global Warming Poll

By William Teach December 15, 2012 – 9:14 am

Notice that I did not term global warming as “hotcoldwetdry” as usual. There’s a reason for that, which I’ll get to after the story, reported breathlessly at the Washington Post (a Warmist emailed me about this story yesterday, wondering why I hadn’t commented on it. That was due to seeing it soon before heading to work, and an inability to see the study itself at the time)

AP-GfK Poll: Belief in global warming rises with thermometers, even among science doubters

Hooray, we’ve already jumped to politics, and that’s just the headline, in referring to those who do not buy into the notion that the current warm period is causing mostly or solely by Mankind as “science doubters”.

A growing majority of Americans think global warming is occurring, that it will become a serious problem and that the U.S. government should do something about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds.

Even most people who say they don’t trust scientists on the environment say temperatures are rising.

I guess us Climate Realists are losing this, eh?

The poll found 4 out of every 5 Americans said climate change will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it. That’s up from 73 percent when the same question was asked in 2009.

No, 4 out of 5 did not say hotcoldwetdry, ie, “climate change”, was a serious problem. The completely unscientific phrase “climate change wasn’t mentioned in the poll. What we do get in the poll was exactly what I expected to see

If you ask me that question, my answer is “probably been happening.” In fact, warming has been happening. It started in the mid-1800’s as the natural pattern of a cool period ended and the Earth moved into a warm period (which will be followed by a cool period, etc), just as has been happening since the end of the last glacial period 20,000 years ago.

What is missing from the poll is any assignment of causation. They question asked is about warming, but not what the cause is. None of the questions ask about cause. And that is what this debate is about, not warmth, not temperature rise, but causation. Most Climate Realists understand that the earth has warmed since the end of the Little Ice Age, but know that most of the rise has been natural, with some global anthropogenic causes, mostly from agriculture and landfills. Throw in land use, such as the Urban Heat Island Effect, and the perceived rise is much lower. Perhaps 10-15% of warming comes from those last two, with the rest being natural.

But, yes, 80% of respondents are freaking out over the warmth, saying we’re dooooooooomed! 49% say it’s “very serious”, 31% say “somewhat serious” Let’s give Warmists some props for a 20+ year campaign of getting people to freak over a whopping 1.4 degree Fahrenheit rise since 1850. If that figure was constantly published, people would be much less likely to believe that we’re doomed.

Of course, Warmists still won’t practice what they preach.

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Carolyn McCarthy Tells Obama “Gloves Will Come Off” If He Fails To Act On Gun Control

By William Teach December 15, 2012 – 8:28 am

Barely minutes had passed after the tragic mass murder occurred in a Connecticut school before Democrats around the country immediately jumped to proclaiming that gun control is needed now. Other than banning all “assault weapons” they’re a little short on details. What should be banned and/or controlled? Which guns? From which people? And here’s a sitting member of the House

(Politico) In the wake of the deadly Connecticut school shooting, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy said she has warned the White House “the gloves are off” if President Obama fails to act on the issue.

McCarthy (D-N.Y.), the foremost gun control advocate in Congress, said she spoke with White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew before Election Day and told him she will exert pressure on the White House to push for gun control legislation.

“I said, ‘Jack, I know the president is going through an election and I’m telling you after the election I’m coming out full force,’” McCarthy told POLITICO Friday. “I was just giving the White House a heads up that the gloves are off on my side and I was going to do everything I possibly could. … If that meant embarrassing everybody, that’s what I would do.”

Embarrassing the White House, McCarthy said, meant building a large-scale public campaign to ban assault weapons. She pledged to continue to work with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others to build support for her cause.

So far, McCarthy has introduced a few pieces of legislation (HR 308, 591, 1781, and 6241) on gun control, none of which would keep weapons out of the hands of wackjobs intent on getting their 15 minutes of fame by committing mass murder before suicide. In fact, we have laws right now against murder. Most follow them. People intent on breaking them really don’t care if assault weapons are banned (will Senator John Kerry, rumored to be the next Secretary of State, give up his own assault rifle?), nor about large capacity magazines being banned, nor about closing the gun show loophole. They’ll use a shotgun. Pistols with mags which hold 10 or less bullets. Make bombs. Use a knife. Manufacture a gun.

Her own statement following this tragedy is pathetic

“Our hearts go out to the victims and families from this horrific tragedy, especially during the holidays when kids should be thinking about presents and having fun with their families and friends, not America’s deadly problem with gun violence.

“There are a lot of unanswered questions right now, but one thing is clear – there’s too much gun violence in our country.  These shootings are becoming all too common, and it’s too easy for dangerous people to get the weapons that help them perform mass executions like today’s.

“Leaders in Washington from both parties, and groups like the NRA, all say that now is not the time to talk about how gun safety laws can save lives in America.  I agree, now is not the time to talk about gun laws – the time for that conversation was long before all those kids in Connecticut died today.

“We owe it to our children to work harder to reduce gun violence.  The Second Amendment is the law of the land but it was never intended to allow murderers to take the lives of innocent kids.  It’s our moral obligation as policymakers and as parents to do more to save lives.

“I hope the President’s words about taking ‘meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this regardless of the politics’ stay true as we continue down this road again.”

She took approximate 2 seconds to express that Someone Else is saddened before politicizing this tragedy. She could not even say that she herself was saddened.

The White House petition website has already seen an influx of petitions calling for some sort of nebulous gun laws, as well as a “national dialogue”, including one that has over 67K signatures. I’ll tell you what

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Hamas Linked CAIR Tries To Reposition “Jihad” Through PR Campaign

By William Teach December 14, 2012 – 2:46 pm

Because apparently jihad is all sorts of soft and fuzzy bunny

(Daily Caller) An Islamic-advocacy group linked to terrorism is launching a public-relations campaign to argue that jihad doesn’t mean Islamic holy war, but instead a “concerted effort … with the purpose of getting to a better place.”

However, the campaign, which is being launched Dec. 14 by an affiliate of the Council on American Islamic Relations, isn’t a formal religious declaration by United States or Arab Islamic authorities and clashes with orthodox judgments dating back 1,400 years to the beginning of Islam.

“It is [public] education about what we believe,” said Ahmed Rehab, who serves as the founder of the project, head of CAIR’s Chicago affiliate and CAIR’s strategic communications chief.

The article goes on to describe how jihad has been used by some Islamists. You know, in all those violent ways that are specified in the Koran. Things like killing the un-believer.

In contrast, Rehab’s “MyJihad” public-relations campaign portrays jihad as “a concerted and noble effort against injustice, hate, misunderstanding, war, violence, poverty, hunger, abuse or whatever challenge big or small we face in daily life, with the purpose of getting to a better place,” according to the campaign’s website, MyJihad.org.

Does “getting to a better place” usually involve blowing people to kingdom come? Beheading them? Supporting groups which intentionally target civilians?

Robert Spencer covers this article, as well as explaining jihad.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 14, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fridge heating up the planet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on how the liberal media de-legitimizes dissent.

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Here We Go: Warmists Pushing “Micro-Housing” Again

By William Teach December 14, 2012 – 11:55 am

I dare them to move in themselves

(Grist) At the bus stop one day, Molly noticed a building of “aPodments” — a trademarked brand of microhousing that has sprung up in Seattle over the last year like mushrooms after a rainstorm. (One local blog counts at least 15 projects constructed or in the works in just one neighborhood.) She called to inquire on a Friday and moved in on Monday. She has a three-month lease and pays $595 per month (utilities and internet included) for a furnished, dorm-sized room with a private bathroom, refrigerator, and access to a full-sized common kitchen.

Microhousing — a catch-all term for ultra-compact apartments that sometimes share common spaces — offers a way to reconcile rising urban housing prices with a financially struggling generation’s preference for city living. It’s proliferating in cities where the tension between those contradictory trends is most acute: Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Vancouver. San Francisco updated its city code to allow developers to build smaller individual units (a minimum of 150 square feet), and New York is reviewing design proposals for a pilot microhousing project of apartments around 275 to 300 square feet. Seattle’s approach has been a bit messier.

Good grief. Altogether, I pay around $800 a month for mortgage and utilities for a 1,200 square foot townhouse with a view of the Neuse River here in Raleigh. I even have my own kitchen! These crazies pay approaching that for a tiny dwelling. Of course, this is what Warmists want for Other People, to live tiny lives. It’s also easier to control and monitor people if you get them all living in the cities.

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