Guy Protected By People Carrying Actual Assault Rifles Wants AR-15s Banned Yet Again

By William Teach July 18, 2024 – 10:30 am

Funny, the guy was shot and shot at isn’t calling for “assault rifles” to be banned, but, the guy surrounded by people with fully automatic rifles with large capacity magazines is

President Biden renews call to ban AR-15 rifles after Trump assassination attempt

President Joe Biden renewed his call for stronger gun control Tuesday following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump after staying quiet in the immediate aftermath of the shooting about the AR-15-style gun that nearly killed the former president.

Biden did not mention guns or gun violence during his first three public remarks on Saturday’s shooting including during a primetime Oval Office address Sunday night. But in a speech Tuesday in Las Vegas at the NAACP National Convention, Biden finally did ? declaring it’s time to ban assault weapons like the one used in the shooting at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pa.

“An AR-15 was used in the shooting of Donald Trump, just as it was assault weapons that killed so many others including children. It’s time to outlaw them,” Biden said, drawing applause from supporters. (snip)

Biden waited three days following the Trump assassination attempt to make his latest appeal on guns. Biden had initially steered clear of an emotional and polarizing debate over guns at a time when he’s called for the nation to “cool down” the temperature in politics.

“Now, just because we must lower the temperature of our politics, it doesn’t mean we have to stop telling the truth,” Biden said in his remarks to NAACP members.

Let’s start by removing all scary looking rifles from the hands of the people who provide protection for Biden, the White House, Kamala, and all of Biden’s federal employees. Since the rifles are so Evil, we should start there. He’d be fine with that, right? Too bad elected Republicans just never seem to understand to play hardball with Biden and Democrats on this.

Gun control advocates said they hoped for a larger national discussion about gun reform following the assassination attempt ? but have applauded the efforts of Biden.

“It’s incredibly disheartening that we’re not hearing more calls to talk about the ways in which this shooter was able to really be empowered to shoot the president because of the easy access to a high-powered rifle,” said Christian Heyne, chief policy and programs officer at Brady, a gun violence prevention group. “I do think that the Biden administration has been doing everything they can.”

Yes, yes, let’s take the guns away from people who didn’t break the law. As for high powered, hunters typically use rifles that aren’t scary looking that are more powerful. Such as the Winchester 70 in .308 is much more powerful, and can be more on-target at distance than most “assault rifles”. Had the wackjob, who took the rifle from his father, used a typical hunting rifle we would most likely be having a different conversation about Trump, namely, that he was dead or on life support.

Reportedly, there are over 20 million AR15’s in the hands of U.S. citizens. Yet, how many shootings are really happening by lawful owners? Biden is protected all around by people with military grade/automatic rifles. Take them away, let them only have the “approved” rifles per the gun grabbers. Who would then come after those rifles.

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Hotcold Take: Rising Seas Make Days Longer

By William Teach July 18, 2024 – 7:15 am

It’s always some sort of doom with these people

Study: Rising sea levels causing longer days

The melting of polar ice due to climate change is lengthening days on Earth milliseconds at a time, according to research published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The research indicated that while the pull of the moon’s gravity has caused the gradual, steady lengthening of days every century, the melting of polar ice is slowing the planet’s revolution more by redistributing mass at the equator.

Co-author Surendra Adhikari, who works as a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, specifically compared the revolution of the earth to “a figure skater,” who will pull their arms inward to skate faster, but spread their arms when slowing down. Similarly, he said, the earth will spin slightly slower when more mass is concentrated at its center.

Adhikari told The Hill in an interview that the moon’s gravitational pull already extends the day slightly more every century. The research, he said, indicates that rising sea levels are already compounding that and could add more time than the moon—up to 2.6 milliseconds—by the end of the century.

Seriously, 2.6 milliseconds in the next 75 years? Maybe? This is about as worthless as so many of those influencer and celeb stories on the Yahoo front page.

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Biden Receives Brutal Polling From Democrats, As Big Wigs Call For Him To Bow Out

By William Teach July 18, 2024 – 7:00 am

Maybe this is why he “came down” with Wuhan Flu yet again (all those boosters and stuff sure haven’t worked, eh?) and he blew out of Las Vegas early to head home to the beach in Delaware, certain to stay there through at least Sunday

I’m not quite sure it’s even necessary to excerpt any of the article

Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party nominate a different candidate, according to a new poll, sharply undercutting his post-debate claim that “average Democrats” are still with him even if some “big names” are turning on him.

The new survey by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, conducted as Biden works to salvage his candidacy two weeks after his debate flop, also found that only about 3 in 10 Democrats are extremely or very confident that he has the mental capability to serve effectively as president, down slightly from 40% in an AP-NORC poll in February.

Oh, I guess there was more information. It’s really not a good thing for that few to think he has the mental capacity. Of course, that 70% will still vote for him. Then there’s this

(Reuters) U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer told President Joe Biden in a meeting on Saturday it would be better for the country and the Democratic Party if he ended his reelection campaign, ABC News reported on Wednesday.

U.S. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has expressed similar views directly to Biden, ABC News reported, citing a source familiar with the conversation.

In a statement, Schumer’s office called the report “idle speculation” and said Schumer “conveyed the views of his caucus directly to President Biden on Saturday.”

Why is he telling Joe? He should be telling Jill, since she seems to be in charge. Oh, and even this Progressive wacko is done, and doesn’t even want Kamala

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Scientists Want To Dump Chemicals In Ocean To Stop Climate Doom

By William Teach July 17, 2024 – 2:54 pm

What could possibly go wrong with this? Seriously, I read enough science fiction books and watch enough scifi movies and TV shows to know that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. And some scientist screwing around with things better left alone. Especially when you’re dealing with a most fake issue

Scientists Seeking Permit to Dump Chemical Into Ocean in Experiment to Fight Climate Change

Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution want to dump 6,600 gallons of sodium hydroxide, otherwise known as caustic soda or lye, into the ocean off the coast of Cape Cod in an effort to slow climate change.

The unusual plan will likely face significant headwinds, not just from US regulators but from local fishing communities and environmentalists as well, as local news station WBUR reports.

The idea is deceptively simple: by diluting extremely basic chemicals in the waters, they’re looking to increase the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the air above, a process known as ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE).

It’s just one of several geoengineering efforts aimed at slowing the advancement of climate change, but whether these efforts will pay off in the long run remains to be seen — and critics remain skeptical and concerned about the possible risks involved.

You know, like ocean killing and then Earth killing doom

The team of Woods Hole researchers maintains that the sodium hydroxide won’t have any lasting negative effects on marine life.

“We care about the environment, too,” co-principal investigator and recently retired Woods Hole scientist Dan McCorkle told WBUR. “We wouldn’t be doing this if we thought there was going to be a big impact [on marine life].”

Yeah, well, just keep playing in the laboratory, buddy. The entire ecosphere of the oceans is a bit more complicated. As far as “lasting negative effects”, that sure sounds like there will be some immediate negative effects.

The team is adamant that we must act now before it’s too late.

“Given our seeming inability or unwillingness to rapidly shift away from fossil fuel burning, which we absolutely have to do, it may be important to start studying whether any of these methods really are going to be helpful,” McCorkle told WBUR, “whether they’re going to help get carbon out of the atmosphere.”

The opposition to their plan, however, is already building, with the Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association arguing in a recent letter to the EPA that more work needs to be done “before truckloads of liquid alkaline can be dumped in the ocean.”

Have you ever hear the term slow is smooth, smooth is fast? Take your time, kiddies. By the time you get it right the Earth will probably be entering a Holocene cool period.

OAE on the other hand aims to slow down the oceans’ waning ability to absorb human-induced CO2 emissions. When the gas is dissolved in seawater, the resulting carbonic acid causes the ocean’s acidity to increase, which can have devastating impacts on marine life.

The added sodium hydroxide is meant to reverse this process, or at least mitigate it.

The problem they’re missing is that there have been multiple warm periods since the end of the last glacial age, ones that were just as warm if not warmer than the current one, and the oceans and life have done fine. Don’t mess with things.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 17, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooding from Bad Weather rain, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on the GOP’s Israel platform.

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Biden Is Supposedly Going To Push For Term Limits For Supreme Court

By William Teach July 17, 2024 – 10:30 am

No mention of term limits for Representatives and Senators….remember, Joe was a Senator from 1973 until January 2009, when he took office as VP…nor any explanation on how Joe’s plan actually comports with the Constitution

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes

President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

He is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

The announcement would mark a major shift for Biden, a former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has long resisted calls to make substantive changes to the high court. The potential changes come in response to growing outrage among his supporters about recent ethics scandals surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas and decisions by the new court majority that have changed legal precedent on issues including abortion and federal regulatory powers.

Biden previewed the shift in a Zoom call Saturday with the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Right, right, and how would this work?

“I’m going to need your help on the Supreme Court, because I’m about to come out — I don’t want to prematurely announce it — but I’m about to come out with a major initiative on limiting the court. … I’ve been working with constitutional scholars for the last three months, and I need some help,” Biden said, according to a transcript of the call obtained by The Washington Post.

Term limits and an ethics code would be subject to congressional approval, which would face long odds in the Republican-controlled House and a slim Democratic majority in the Senate. Under current rules, passage in the Senate would require 60 votes. A constitutional amendment requires even more hurdles, including two-thirds support of both chambers, or by a convention of two-thirds of the states, and then approval by three-fourths of state legislatures.

I’m using the Washington Post article, because pretty much every other article feeds off this article, and nowhere does it mention that the Constitution pretty much establishes that the only way to remove a Supreme Court justice is to impeach them if they are not engaged in Good Behavior, per Article 3 Section 1. Or pass a Constitutional amendment

(National Judicial College) Many judges pointed out that term limits may be a moot proposition because the Constitution appears to give Supreme Court justices lifetime appointments. It would take a constitutional amendment to change that, and with the country so evenly divided politically, amending the Constitution appears impossible for the foreseeable future.

Good Behavior doesn’t mean removal for rulings people do not like, it means criminal behavior, like storing classified documents they have no right to have in the garage next to the Corvette

Several judges also took a cynical view of the proposal, seeing it as an attempt at decisional manipulation.

“So you disagree with the opinions of the justices on the court and now you want term limits? This is precisely why lifetime appointments are so important,” one unnamed judge wrote. “Someone has to protect the Constitution.”

Further, how would this work? Democrats have been pushing for a rotating 18 year limit

“An 18-year limit would enable a regular and planned refresh of the court and avoid the political upheaval associated with sudden death and which party is in power,” declared one anonymous judge.

But Judge Eugene M. Velazco, Jr. of the Merrillville, Indiana, Town Court was skeptical.

He imagined a scenario in which a president could name two candidates during an initial four-year term and two more in a second term. “You could also go long periods of time without a full bench because an opposing party from the president in the Senate could block the selection.”

That could end up being bad for one party or the other. Further, it wouldn’t start for quite some time, so, Dems would have to deal with the Conservatives on the Court ruling for the Constitution for almost 2 decades before this starts.

And, really, is this what people care about? It’s low hanging fruit, especially with the inflation, high prices of food, housing, and more, wars raging that could get much, much worse, illegal aliens who came in record numbers, and other issues. Will the Democrats spend a lot of time whining about the Supreme Court at their convention? I guess we’ll see.

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NY Times Seems Upset That GOP Convention Isn’t All About Climate Doom

By William Teach July 17, 2024 – 7:00 am

I wonder how much about ‘climate change’ will be at the DNC? I’m sure it will be mentioned, but, I’m betting it will mostly be about Trump. Though, the DNC will surely include some speeches about taking reliable, affordable, dependable fossil fuels from the peasants

At the Republican National Convention, Climate Change Isn’t a Problem

st greta carThe United States is experiencing scorching new levels of heat fueled by climate change this summer, with dozens of people dying in the West, millions sweating under heat advisories and nearly three-quarters of Americans saying the government must prioritize global warming.

But as the Republican Party opens its national convention in Milwaukee with a prime-time focus on energy on Monday night, the party has no plan to address climate change.

While some Republicans no longer deny the overwhelming scientific consensus that the planet is warming because of human activity, party leaders do not see it as a problem that needs to be addressed.

“I don’t know that there is a Republican approach to climate change as an organizing issue,” said Thomas J. Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, a conservative research group focused on energy. “I don’t think President Trump sees reducing greenhouse gases, using the government to do so, as an imperative.”

No, we really don’t, especially since the Democrats version of Doing Something is mostly all about implementing government control over citizens while removing their freedom and life choices.

The party platform, issued last week, makes no mention of climate change. Instead, it encourages more production of oil, gas and coal, the burning of which is dangerously driving up global temperatures. “We will DRILL, BABY, DRILL,” it says, referring to oil as “liquid gold.”

It really should mention implementing next generation nuclear power stations, and spending on research for true clean alternatives.

By contrast, Mr. Biden has taken the most aggressive action of any president to cut emissions from coal, oil and gas and encourage a transition to wind, solar and other carbon-free energy. He has directed every federal agency from the Agriculture Department to the Pentagon to consider how climate change is affecting their core missions.

Weirdly, the Times fails to mention the vast amounts of fossil fuels Biden uses every week with all his limos, helicopter, and airplanes. Nor the huge number of people who will be taking fossil fueled trips to Chicago for the DNC.

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Chicago Mayor To Remove Washington Statue From City Hall

By William Teach July 17, 2024 – 6:45 am

Remember when Progressives were all about removing statues and plaques and renaming buildings and roads and military bases, and Republicans and other sane people wondered where it would end? And they said “no, no, all we want to remove are the Confederate stuff.”

Johnson to remove George Washington statue from outside his City Hall office

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration plans to remove the George Washington statue from outside the mayor’s office, his spokesman confirmed Tuesday while hinting at instead honoring a Black Chicagoan with a City Hall display.

Fielding questions at an unrelated news conference after reports of the statue’s impending removal, the mayor would not address his reasoning or explain plans for a replacement. But his spokesman, Ronnie Reese, later confirmed to the Tribune that the statue would be moved because “we’re just making some updates to some areas in and around City Hall.”

Reese denied the reason was because of the first president’s legacy of owning slaves: “No, it’s literally just moving a statue.”

Reese did not answer questions about when it would be moved, the cost of the move or the fate of the Washington statue, which he said was on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago and remained in City Hall late Tuesday afternoon.

But he floated names of local Black historical figures as alternatives, among them Ida B. Wells, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable and Harold Washington — the city’s first Black mayor whom Johnson invoked throughout his mayoral campaign.

They couldn’t, you know, add the statue without removing the Washington one? We all know that Progressives feel that George Washing is “problematic”, just like most of the Founders of this nation and the people who fought to free the Colonies from England. Nice that Johnson and his people have time for this stuff while the city is over-run with illegals and suffering from crime and shootings. I sure hope the GOP will be mentioning the removal of the statue once the Democrat convention starts.

Of course, perhaps George Washington would want his statue out of Chicago considering what an embarrassment it is.

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CNN Has Their Knickers In A Twist Over New Twister Movie Not Mentioning Climate Doom

By William Teach July 16, 2024 – 3:00 pm

I do have to ask, is anyone interested in the upcoming Twister movie? Maybe it will be really good, but, the previews do not interest me. It seems focused too much on action, rather than plot and the people, as the original did. Anyhow, CNN is big mad

You won’t hear about climate change in ‘Twisters.’ Here’s why

Like its titular tornados, “Twisters” blasts through a lot in its 122-minute runtime. A summer blockbuster with a surprising amount of brains to match Glen Powell’s brawn, it features subplots that are signs of the times – disaster capitalists; the Faustian bargain between scientists and financiers – and a deluge of imagery portraying lives and livelihoods threatened by nature’s awesome power. But two words you won’t hear from any of its characters are “climate change.”

“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like (it) is putting forward any message,” director Lee Isaac Chung explained in an interview with CNN. “I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.”

To his credit, there is some scientific justification for the omission, too. Generally, scientists are the least certain about the connection between tornadoes and climate change as it’s unclear how warming temperatures are changing storms themselves or the outbreaks.

So, of course CNN tries to Explain that tornadoes are getting oh so much worse and it is your fault. Except, they are not getting worse.

“We’ve never seen tornadoes like this before,” says Javi, Anthony Ramos’ entrepreneurial storm chaser, in one scene. He goes on to convince old friend Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) to join his research team, promising “We can save lives.”

In the film, ever-more destructive tornados carve up increasingly urbanized areas of Oklahoma.

It’s a movie. Things have to be bad, much like the Tommy Lee Jones movie Volcano, which was in Los Angeles, mini-series like 10.8 (about an earthquake), and more.

“I wanted to make sure that we are never creating a feeling that we’re preaching a message, because that’s certainly not what I think cinema should be about,” said Lee. “I think it should be a reflection of the world.”

In other words, he doesn’t want to get all preachy and have stuff that will drive the paying public away. He just wants a fun film that makes a lot of money. Who wants an action film that gets all preachy? I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a blockbuster. If CNN wants one with all sorts of climate doom preaching, they can fund it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 16, 2024 – 2:27 pm

…is a valley perfect for a massive solar farm far from the big Warmist cities which need the power, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on the Secret Service give a bizarre reason for failing protection.

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