Good News: Half Of States Have Permitless Carry

By William Teach January 3, 2023 – 7:00 am

I’m assuming these gun grabbers are referring to concealed carry permits, since “permitless carry” sounds oh so much worse for gun haters

The start of 2023 means carrying a gun without a license is now legal in half of US states: ‘Lipstick, an iPhone, maybe a little Smith & Wesson .38’

With the start of the new year, it became significantly easier for Alabamians to legally carry guns.

The state passed a law last year allowing people to carry concealed handguns without state permits, a change that went into effect on January 1.

The law signaled a gun rights landmark for the US: Now, half of the 50 states allow people to carry handguns without permits.

It’s a mark of how gun control rights have expanded within the US over the past two decades. In 2010, for instance, only two states allowed people to carry guns without permits. In the 13 years since, however, almost 24 states have passed similar laws, 11 of which were greenlit in the last three years, The Huffington Post’s Roque Planas reported Sunday.

Hooray! Though, I’ll be honest, I do approve of requiring that anyone carrying concealed should need to pass a course to understand the laws, proper use of a firearm, etc. Not a really hard one, just one designed to express confidence.

State governments have loosened gun control over the past 20 years, even as activism in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and others ramped up. More than 600 mass shootings transpired in the US in 2022, making it the second-highest annual total for mass shootings on record, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit tracking gun violence.

How many of those were committed by people with a concealed carry permit, or even just a legal license to carry? How many of them were legal purchases by people who should have been denied their background check?

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Climate Cult Now Linking “Gun Violence” To Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach January 2, 2023 – 3:04 pm

Have I seen this one before? I’m not sure, at least in this specific manner. But, this is a cult, so, no matter the issue, they’ll link it

Is climate change linked to gun violence? A new study shows how KC area is impacted

On the hottest day of 2022 in Kansas City, three people were shot and killed. Three more were shot and survived, the Kansas City Police Department said.

The temperature clocked in at 101 degrees on July 23, according to Jared Leighton, a lead forecaster with the National Weather Service in Kansas City.

With 171 homicides, this year became the second deadliest on record in Kansas City — and some of those fatal shootings may be linked to an unexpected cause: climate change.

Researchers analyzed more than 116,000 shootings in 100 cities and found that nearly 7% could be attributed to days with above-average temperatures, not only in the summer, but also at other times of the year when it was unseasonably warm.

In Kansas City, Missouri, the percentage of shootings tied to days with above-average temperatures was 6.13%, while in Kansas City, Kansas, it was 7.86%, according to the study published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

“An increase in warmer temperatures and more frequent extreme heat events due to climate change may create environments with higher risk of firearm violence in the future,” the study said.

So, people are more likely to be out and about committing crime when it’s warmer? Huh. What does this have to do with a slight rise in temperatures over the past 170 years, which the climate cultists blame on Mankind?

Anecdotally, more violence occurs in the hotter months, said Janell Friesen, spokeswoman for the Unified Government’s Public Health Department. She noted that the study also touches on environmental justice.

“Structural racism and discriminatory policies and practices have led to inequities in the impact of climate change and environmental hazards, including a greater impact on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color),” Friesen said. “The Health Department is working to better understand how it can tackle environmental justice issues, and how this connects to addressing other public health issues like violence.”

Good grief. Oh, wait, is Friesen and the health department saying that BIPOC folks are more likely to get violent and shoot things up when it gets warmer? Isn’t that racist?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 2, 2023 – 1:01 pm

…is a palm tree growing in far north latitudes due to climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Depot, with a post on environmentalism having a difficult relationship with democracy.

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Marxist Health Group Demands Indefinite Masking Because Raaaaacism

By William Teach January 2, 2023 – 10:30 am

What’s the end goal here? Why are they pushing this? Is there some sort of deep motive, or simply a kneejerk reaction with little thought behind it?

Far-Left Health Advocacy Group ‘People’s CDC’ Calls for Continued Mask Mandates

A far-left (borderline Marxist) group calling itself the “People’s CDC” has called for more radical coronavirus policies like indefinite mask mandates and social distancing, charging that America’s relaxed pandemic policies stem from a racist eugenics impulse beholden to corporate interests.

Profiled at length in the New Yorker, the People’s CDC can best be described as a “ragtag coalition of academics, doctors, activists, and artists who believe that the government has left them to fend for themselves.” Founded by Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a professor of urban policy and health at the New School, the group has thousands of supporters who receive weekly newsletters and emails highlighting the latest pandemic trends while advocating stricter policies.

How much do you want to bet that these are the same people who voluntarily wear a mask but leave their noses uncovered and it’s so loose that it would be less than worthless?

While the group puts up a science-oriented front on its website, the rhetoric from some of its top members suggests Marxist leanings. For instance, not only does the group claim that the CDC relaxed pandemic policies to appease corporate interests under President Joe Biden’s leadership, but it also suggests that those relaxed policies had racist intent. Per the New Yorker:

The People’s C.D.C. strongly supports mask mandates, and they have called on federal, state, and local governments to put them back in place, arguing that “the vaccine-only strategy promoted by the CDC is insufficient.” The group has noted that resistance to masks is most common among white people: Lucky Tran, who organizes the coalition’s media team, recently tweeted a YouGov survey supporting this, and wrote that “a lot of anti-mask sentiment is deeply embedded in white supremacy.”

This kind of accusation is common for the People’s C.D.C. Their messaging has the unmistakable inflection of activist-speak, marked by a willingness to make eye-popping claims about the motivations of politicians, corporations, or anyone in power. “To name it clearly, the CDC’s policies are eugenic,” the Weather Report team wrote, in August. “They rely on and promote the indefensible stance that disabled and elderly, poor and working class people are disposable, unworthy of care, and unworthy of participation in society.” Eugenic policies have a long and ugly history, commonly associated with the Nazis, white supremacists, and others who advocate the racial purification of humanity. I asked Thill whether she truly believes that the C.D.C. is eugenicist, along these lines. “Just because a charge is difficult or impactful doesn’t make it a wrong charge,” she said.

They’re welcome to wear masks. As usual, these far left folks want to get government to force everyone to comply. Anyhow, it’s cute that mask resistance jumps right to white supremacy. What about vaccine resistance? Blacks were one of the groups with the lowest rate of getting vaccinated. Does that mean vaccine resistance is black supremacy?

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Extinction Rebellion UK To Temporarily Stop Acting Like Wackos

By William Teach January 2, 2023 – 7:00 am

Well, they state they are going to stop doing all the nutty stuff, like gluing themselves to roads and paintings, throwing liquids on paintings, blocking roads, etc. I wonder if the base loons will say “eh, they hell with the big wigs”

UK climate group calls temporary halt to disruptive protests

The U.K. division of climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion says its activists would temporarily stop blocking busy roads, gluing themselves to buildings and engaging in other acts of civil disobedience because such methods have not achieved their desired effects.

Gee, you think? When they end up annoying and causing problems for people who would be sympathetic to XR’s cause, to a degree, those people will say “F*** those wankers!”

I’m amazed that people do not take XR seriously

“As we ring in the new year, we make a controversial resolution to temporarily shift away from public disruption as a primary tactic,” the group said in a New Year’s Eve website post. “We recognize and celebrate the power of disruption to raise the alarm and believe that constantly evolving tactics is a necessary approach.”

To further its goals of getting politicians, corporations and the public “to end the fossil fuel era,” the group said it would instead focus on broadening its support with actions such as getting 100,000 people to surround the Houses of Parliament in London on April 21.

“In a time when speaking out and taking action are criminalized, building collective power, strengthening in number and thriving through bridge-building is a radical act,” the website post said. “This year, we prioritize attendance over arrest and relationships over roadblocks, as we stand together and become impossible to ignore.”

What will they do if they cannot get 100K? My be it 10K show up.

In its Sunday post titled “We Quit,” the U.K. branch of Extinction Rebellion said that while the group has helped bring about “a seismic shift” in the climate conversation, “very little has changed. Emissions continue to rise and our planet is dying at an accelerated rate.”

Maybe they should convince all their fellow climate cultists to make their lives carbon neutral instead of trying to get Government to force Other People to action.

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Sigh: Trump Talks About Running Third Party

By William Teach January 2, 2023 – 6:45 am

This won’t help. It would just split Right leaning votes between 2 candidates, and Biden, or whomever they replace him with, would easily win

Trump Appears To Float Third-Party Threat If GOP Won’t Back Him

Former President Donald Trump has appeared to float the idea of running a third-party campaign if increasingly disgruntled Republican leaders don’t get behind his 2024 run for the presidency.

Trump signaled the possibility by posting an article on Truth Social Wednesday ? “The Coming Split,” by Dan Gelernter, in the right-wing journal American Greatness ? promoting just such an option.

Gelernter believes such a move would torpedo Trump’s chances of winning the White House. But it would also wipe out Republican hopes, which Gelernter argued would be a deserving punishment for rejecting the popular former president.

“Do I think Trump can win as a third-party candidate? No,” he wrote. “Would I vote for him as a third-party candidate? Yes. Because I’m not interested in propping up this corrupt [GOP] gravy-train any longer.”

Gelernter claimed that the “Republican machine has no intention of letting us choose Trump again: He is not a uniparty team player. They’d rather lose an election to the Democrats, their brothers in crime, than win with Trump.”

He asked: “What should we do when a majority of Republicans want Trump, but the Republican Party says we can’t have him? Do we knuckle under and vote for Ron DeSantis because he would be vastly better than any Democrat? I say no, we don’t knuckle under.”

The problem is, even if a large majority of Republicans want Trump (which I seriously doubt at this point), he won’t get the Independents, squishy Republicans, and squishy Democrats who are tired of the Democrat insanity. It’ll look much like 2020. Even without all the Democrat cheating, there is no path to 270.

I suspect that a lot of Republicans who like Trump’s ideas and policies are done with him, because he cannot win. There is no surprise like 2016. This is about his ego at this point.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 1, 2023 – 12:57 pm

…is a wall erected to stop sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on a quiet New Year’s Eve in France.

It’s bike week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 1, 2023 – 9:01 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The New Year is here, time to put away the old one, and hope that Democrats do not screw this one up like the last one. This pinup is by Bill Randall, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jihad Watch notes that as the Taliban beats women Sec. Blinkin is releasing playlists
  2. Legal Insurrection says that Democrats may regret releasing Trump’s taxes
  3. Moonbattery shows EV charging stations becoming homeless encampments
  4. Pacific Pundit notes ABC Australia paying tribute to Olivia Newton John with a drag queen
  5. The First Street Journal covers how wealthy New Englanders fight ‘climate change’
  6. The Gateway Pundit discusses Brandon cheering his “historic” year
  7. The Lid wonders if China will reinfect the world
  8. The Right Scoop discusses Biden shipping illegals around the country
  9. This ain’t Hell…. has stupid people of the week
  10. Independent Sentinel highlights a dangerous shortage of regular medicines
  11. Not A Lot Of People Know That features the BBC warmists lying
  12. No Tricks Zone covers Germany public TV recommending only bathing every 3 days
  13. Real Climate Science notes another climate scam prognostication biting the dust
  14. The Air Vent highlights there being no acceleration in sea rise
  15. And last, but, not least, 357 Magnum wonders what the value of a university degree is

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). 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 and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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CNN: Trump’s Taxes Are A Big Nothingburger

By William Teach January 1, 2023 – 7:00 am

For all the caterwauling by Democrats over the release of Trump’s taxes, it ended up being a big, big letdown for them. They thought that this would finally be the thing that put Trump behind bars. Or, at least embarrass Trump (can he be embarrassed?)

Opinion: Trump’s tax returns are much to do about nothings

Hallelujah! The House Ways and Means Committee has released former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020. If nothing else, this will – let us hope! – release me from being asked about the release of Trump’s tax returns, as I have been for over six years now.

There’s plenty we already knew. In 2020, the New York Times analyzed 20 years of Trump’s tax returns, including some of the ones released Friday. And earlier this month, the House Ways and Means Committee released two reports that found the Internal Revenue Service failed to audit Trump in the first two years of his presidency despite the IRS’ mandatory audit program for US presidents, and summarized in detail the top-line numbers for the full six years.

What we got from this latest data dump is thousands of pages of returns, exhibits, schedules and such. Dedicated accountants and journalists will pore over these documents and we are sure to see plenty of headlines like “Top 10 surprises in Trump’s tax returns” in the coming days and weeks.

But we have long known the basic story. Trump is a bad businessman who seems to lose money on everything from casinos to golf clubs, with steaks and vodka and even a so-called university in between. So the main reason he often pays so little, if any, in taxes, is that he often reports a loss. He also lost other people’s money and got big tax breaks for that.

If there was anything big in his returns it would be the primary headline. They even changed the headline on the front page to “The Real Outrage in Trump’s Taxes”, which is that The Rich aren’t paying their fair share or something. I really do not need to expound on the stupidity of this liberal HotTake, right?

The Washington Post still has no smoking guns, and coverage is dropped to way low, down into the Politics section. By Saturday night, the NY Times didn’t even have an article on it featured on the web front page. Same with the LA Times. Coverage is minimal at NBC, CBS, and ABC news. Cue sad faces. Maybe they’ll get him next time.

Did they ever consider that Trump was refusing to release his taxes was simply to mess with them?

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Your Fault: 2022 Was Another Mile On The Way To Climate Hell

By William Teach December 31, 2022 – 2:59 pm

How is this possible? I thought we all died from ‘climate change’ years ago? Or was that the end of Net Neutrality? Or Trump starting WWIII?

Environmental review of 2022: another mile on the ‘highway to climate hell’

Two events in 2022 symbolised the climate breakdown that humanity is careering towards and the real, though fast-fading, hope that the world can still be steered away from calamity.

The first was the apocalyptic floods that submerged a third of Pakistan, the world’s fifth most populous country, affecting 33 million people. Scientists found that the climate crisis had made the deluge up to 50% more intense.

The second was the re-election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the president of Brazil. Experts had said the fate of the Amazon rested on the vote. Another term of the rampant destruction seen under Jair Bolsonaro could have pushed the world’s biggest rainforest past its tipping point, with global consequences.

Overall, however, the climate crisis is bleaker than it has ever been. In October, a slew of reports laid bare how close the planet had neared to irreversible climate breakdown, with one UN study stating there was “no credible pathway in place to 1.5C”, the internationally agreed limit for global heating, and that progress on cutting carbon emissions was “woefully inadequate”.

Well, if all the climate cultists would practice what they preach there’d be no problem, right?

Scientists had revealed in September that five “disastrous” tipping points may already have been passed due to the 1.1C of global heating to date. These included the collapse of Greenland’s ice cap, eventually producing a huge sea level rise and the collapse of a key current in the north Atlantic, disrupting rain upon which billions of people depend for food.

Who gets blamed when the Greenland ice cap doesn’t collapse? Who’s held responsible for the scaremongering?

The climate equation remains simple: carbon emissions must halve by 2030 to have an even chance of keeping to the 1.5C limit. But in 2022 emissions will have risen to a record level. “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator,” said the UN secretary general, António Guterres.

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