Biden Says 2nd Amendment Not Absolute, Calls For Lots Of Restrictions

By William Teach June 3, 2022 – 7:00 am

Guy surrounded by lots and lots of people with firearms that he wants to restrict, as well as ones which most of us average citizens care not allowed to have, had thoughts

And then

Biden says Second Amendment is ‘not absolute’ in call to reinstate assault weapons ban

President Biden said the Second Amendment is “not absolute” in a speech Thursday following a wave of mass shootings across the nation, pleading with to Congress to pass what he called “commonsense” gun control legislation, including reinstating an assault weapons ban, requiring background checks, and limiting magazine capacity.

The president, speaking from the Cross Hall of the White House, told Americans that the issue of restricting access to guns “is one of conscience and common sense.”

“For so many of you at home, I want to be very clear – this is not about taking away anyone’s guns,” the president said. “It is not about vilifying gun owners. In fact, we believe we should be treating responsible gun owners as an example of how every gun owner should behave.”

Oh, really? Just days ago he said no one needed an AR-15 (well, except his security, which carries a similar version that are fully automatic)

While they are all bad, the big one is the liability shield, which would allow lawsuits that would put gun makers and gun stores out of business.

Biden will milk this hard, regardless of whether anything happens, because it’s meant to deflect from the shit economy.

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Democrats Pushing Gun Legislation That Wouldn’t Stop The Shooters

By William Teach June 2, 2022 – 3:00 pm

I keep saying, Republicans should offer legislation that members of Congress and the Executive Office, especially the people who work for Biden along with Biden, should not be protected by armed security armed with “assault rifles” and handguns with magazines that hold more than 10 rounds

Democrats to Vote on 6 Gun Controls That Wouldn’t Have Prevented Uvalde Attack

Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee will hold a vote on a gun control package Thursday which includes six gun control measures that would not have prevented the Uvalde attack.

The package is titled the “Protecting Our Kids Act.”

In other words, the “Taking guns away from/making it more difficult for law abiding citizens while doing nothing against criminals act”

Punchbowl News reports that the package contains eight gun controls. Six of those gun controls would not have prevented the Uvalde attack.

Those six include background checks for “ghost guns,” gun storage requirements for homes with minors present, additional penalties for gun trafficking and straw purchases, a bump stock ban, and a requirement that existing bump stocks be registered under the auspices of the National Firearms Act.

Hey, remember when Obama’s Fast and Furious trafficked guns with straw purchases? Who was the VP then?

In addition to the six gun controls that would not have prevented Uvalde, the Democrats are pushing a “high capacity” magazine ban. This ban would not prevent attacks either.

On December 30, 2012, a review board that studied the April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech shooting found that a ban on “high capacity” magazines would have had a negligible impact on the outcome of the attack. The review panel said making the attacker use ten-round magazines instead of mags that hold 15 rounds “would have not made that much difference in the incident.”

I can change mags on my 10 round Walther pretty darned quick. How about you? Also, a federal court struck down California’s high capacity magazine law, which was then reinstated by an appeals court, and the Supreme Court is set to rule on a NY law that has similar restrictions.

None of these laws would stop any of these shooters.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 2, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooding from carbon pollution driven Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on how Biden killed the economy.

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Biden DOJ Finally Appeals Court Decision To End Masks On Public Transportation

By William Teach June 2, 2022 – 10:30 am

Requiring masks on planes, buses, trains, etc, is so important in slowing the spread of Wuhan Flu that the Brandon DOJ waited since April 18th, when the judge killed the mandate

Justice Department asks U.S. appeals court to allow transit mask mandate

The Justice Department on Tuesday called on a federal appeals court to reinstate the national mask mandate for public transit and airplanes after a U.S. district judge found the requirements to be unlawful in April.

In a brief filed with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Biden administration argued the January 2021 order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requiring travelers to wear masks on public transportation and in transit hubs to prevent the spread of COVID-19 “falls easily” within the agency’s statutory authority.

“Taking preventative measures is part of the CDC’s core mission. It is embodied in the name of the agency — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” Justice Department lawyers told the 11th Circuit in their filing. “It makes no sense to suggest that the agency would not incorporate preventative measures in the actions it undertakes.”

The findings in the CDC’s mask mandate, they argued, “provide ample support for the agency’s determination that there was good cause to make the order effective without delay.”

Such good cause that they waited over a month to file it. The initial finding from the judge in April determined that the CDC did not have the statutory authority to impose the mandates

The Biden administration officially appealed the decision from U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in April after the CDC said the transit mask requirement “remains necessary for public health.”

It does? For whom? There are almost no mask mandates left anywhere. Technically, Biden’s EO on wearing masks in federal buildings still stands, though, that has apparently been eased. Biden doesn’t seem to wear his mask inside that often. Nor do his people. Does he wear one on Air Force One or Marine One? He doesn’t seem to wear one when he’s giving wackadoodle speeches inside buildings with lots of people he doesn’t know.

The Justice Department, though, criticized Mizelle’s decision and accused the district court judge of adopting a “cramped reading of a statute aimed at preventing the spread of communicable disease.” The Biden administration also argued she erred in voiding the mask mandate nationwide and instead should have granted relief only to the five individuals who challenged the requirement.

“Article III and traditional principles of equity dictate that any remedy must be limited to redressing plaintiffs’ particular injuries,” the Justice Department argued. “Principles of comity and judicial restraint confirm that the district court should not have preempted the recent ruling by another judge upholding the CDC’s transportation mask order or the similar cases pending within other circuits.”

Same administration and CDC want to force everyone to comply, even when they are in little to no danger based on study after study after study. Remember when Biden said you could get your life back after getting the vaccine? Then told everyone, regardless of vax status, to wear a mask?

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Your Fault: Midwestern Corn Could Be Wiped Out From ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach June 2, 2022 – 7:00 am

Of course it’s gonna happen in 80 years. But, it won’t happen if you simply Comply

Climate change could spell the end for Midwestern corn, study finds

Follow the scienceThe midwestern Corn Belt — which roughly covers parts of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas — will be “unsuitable” for cultivating corn by 2100 if climate change continues on its current trajectory, a new study finds.

“The future climate conditions … will significantly reshape biophysical suitability across the Central and Eastern U.S., causing a near collapse of corn cultivation in the Midwestern U.S. by 2100,” the study, published in Environmental Research Letters, concludes.

Using climate and soil data, Emory University environmental studies professor Emily Burchfield modeled where crops would be successfully grown in a warmer future. Burchfield found that under scenarios with high or moderate greenhouse gas emissions, the climatic conditions necessary to grow corn, soy, alfalfa and wheat will all shift notably northward, “with the Corn Belt becoming unsuitable to the cultivation of corn by 2100.”

Computer models. Of course.

In fact, Midwestern farmers have already been successfully adapting to climate change. Due to a variety of technological advances, U.S. farmers today harvest more than five times as much corn per acre as farmers did 100 years ago. Some of these changes, according to a 2018 study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have been helpful to combating rising temperatures. For example, because plants have a cooling effect on their local environment, planting closer together has reduced the effects of global warming on corn crops. Farmers also have adjusted to higher temperatures by planting crops earlier in the season and cross-breeding more with more heat-tolerant Mexican varieties of corn.

Yes, because a minuscule 1.5F increase since 1850 has been hard to adapt to.

“It’s hard to gauge what actually is the trend,” Taylor Moreland, owner of Moreland Seed & Soil in Centralia, Mo., told Yahoo News. “In 2012, that was a horrible drought, Midwest-wide, that was a terrible drought and there were massive losses across most farms. 2013 was kind of a drought as well. And then ’14 was awesome, ’15 was extremely wet, to the point where a lot of corn couldn’t get planted at all because if the ground is wet you can’t plant … ’16 was another great year, ’17 was a great year, ’18 was a great year. And then, really, the past three years have been all so wet, where you typically want to plant corn in April and most farmers around here haven’t been able to plant all their corn yet this year at all, because it’s been so wet.”

But Moreland, who grew up on a farm in Missouri, pointed out that the Midwest has always seen wide fluctuations in weather.

“The weather patterns do tend to change,” he said. “If you track back before I was doing this, we had droughts, we had wet years, we had hot years. I remember my grandpa talking about this, how there were a couple years in a row where they’d have crops burn up and the family would be broke.”

Damn, things change. And this is all your fault.

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Brandon Admin Releases Their Inflation Plan

By William Teach June 2, 2022 – 6:45 am

Does anyone remember Obama post it note?

That was roundly ridiculed as very silly, unserious, and not even a plan. Brandon one-ups that

That’s it. Nothing more. No link for more detail. There’s nothing at whitehouse.gov with more details. We’re supposed to take this seriously?

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Here’s How You Can Fight Climate Apocalypse This Summer Or Something

By William Teach June 1, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Yes, it seems like there’s at least on cult piece on this every year, and USA Today’s Kaleb A. Brown steps up to the plate, though, he forgot to tell us whether he’s following these steps. And what the USA Today is doing, as they use quite a bit of fossil fuels to deliver their overpriced papers

With global warming intensifying, here are 10 ways you can fight climate change this summer

In December of 2017, 196 countries signed the Paris Agreement. Through reducing carbon emissions, this agreement aims to limit this century’s temperature increase to 2º C (3.6º F) at most, though it has 1.5º C (2.7º F) as a lower, more optimistic threshold. “[1.5º C] is an indicator of the point at which climate impacts will become increasingly harmful for people and indeed the entire planet,” said World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas in a recent statement.

Blah blah blah. Here are the 10

Put on your walking shoes

Free from the cold of winter and the allergies of spring, summer is when many find being outside a treat instead of a chore. Since the weather’s so nice, why not give walking a try? According to the EPA, transportation makes up a vast majority of carbon emissions, so it’s a good idea to cut back on your car rides where you can or try carpooling.

Ride a bike when a walk just won’t cut it

Or, you can mind your own f’ing business

Wear a bathing suit made from recycled materials

Put on ocean-friendly sunscreen

Use bug spray that keeps wildlife safe

Use a reusable bag for groceries

Drink from a reusable water bottle

Charge your devices with a solar-powered battery

Have you noticed that most of these are about the environment, not ‘climate change’?

Swap your meat for Beyond Meat

Opt for a fan instead of the AC

Speaking of beating the heat, you’ll want a way to cool off besides drinking water. For many people, this means buying and using air conditioning. But that uses a lot of electricity and therefore burns a lot of fossil fuel. We’ve compared fans and AC and found that part of what makes using a fan so effective when you’re feeling overheated is that a fan cools you down directly, instead of the whole room around you. Consider using a fan if you can stay close to the fan and if it’s under 95º F outside. We recommend the Dreo tower fan for its 90-degree oscillation and many speed options. Plus, you can integrate it with Alexa and Google Home.

Did Kaleb do this? How about at the USA Today buildings?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 1, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an area perfect for a massive solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Common Cents Blog, with a post wondering how long the Russia forces can sustain their momentum.

PS: the whole grabbing the hair thing is overdone.

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NC Pre-School Teacher Quits After Getting Caught Using Inappropriate Flashcards

By William Teach June 1, 2022 – 10:30 am

Why was the teacher using these types of flashcards in the first place? There’s no rational reason, except to attempt to indoctrinate the very young children

Wake County teacher resigns following ‘pregnant man’ flashcard controversy

A preschool teacher in Fuquay-Varina has resigned following a controversy surrounding LGBTQ flashcards beings used in her classroom.

On May 27, House Speaker Tim Moore (R) posted about the flashcards, saying Rep. Erin Paré (R-Wake) learned of them from a concerned constituent.

Moore’s post says the flashcards depicted a pregnant man and were being used to teach colors in a preschool class at Ballentine Elementary School.

To teach colors? There are tons of flashcards available to do that, including free ones. Were there not ones provided by the preschool? Instead, the teacher chose to purchase these ones and bring them in.

Paré contacted the school’s principal who confirmed the cards had been used in the classroom and “were not part of approved curriculum and that she was unaware that they were being used.”

In response, Wake County Public School System officials said they were concerned “to learn of the inappropriate instructional resource found in a preschool classroom.”

“An initial review determined that flash cards were not tied to the district’s Pre-K curriculum, did not complement, enrich, or extend the curriculum and were used without the Principal’s review, knowledge, and/or approval,” Wake County Public School System officials said in a news release Friday. “The materials have been removed from the school. The district is reviewing the matter.”

The nutters think they can get away with this stuff, but, parents are catching on, and the Fuquay-Varina area isn’t exactly a left leaning location. The teacher at the Ballentine Elementary School has resigned. This story is getting play across the Triangle news outlets, including ABC11 and WRAL, which also has a piece on LGBTQ advocates protesting the parental bill of rights legislation. Perhaps the LGBTQ folks should control their members so it’s not needed, eh? The News And Observer writes

Some critics on social media had demanded that the teacher be fired, but a parent in that special-needs preschool class praised the teacher as being a caring educator.

Wait, this was a special needs pre-school class? Really? Really taking advantage of the children.

“A North Carolina preschool is using LGBT flag flashcards with a pregnant man to teach kids colors,” U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, tweeted Tuesday. “We went from Reading Rainbow to Randy Rainbow in a few decades, but don’t dare say the Left is grooming our kids!”

They are grooming. The NY Post, one of many outside the Triangle area outlets which picked up the story, notes the $20 cards

The teacher who doled out the laminated flashcards was not identified by district officials. They were made by a company called ByUs Box, which billed them as a way to “bring anti-racism and inclusivity directly into family homes,” according to its website.

The company launched its “ByUs Box” positive educational toolkits in July 2020, but is no longer accepting new orders, its website states.

The flashcards used in the preschool classroom were intended to be a way to teach diverse “races, ages, sexualities, genders and abilities” to young minds.

So, grooming cards.

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Climate Cult Wants To Tackle Consumerism

By William Teach June 1, 2022 – 7:15 am

This is at WPVE, a branch of NPR. Maybe we can start by stopping them from selling products?

Can we address climate change without addressing consumerism?

Is it possible to address climate change without also addressing consumerism? A listener in Muncie wanted to know.

It’s no secret that the less stuff you buy, the less energy and materials are needed to make that new product — and that’s good for the climate. There are other kinds of consumption too — like how much electricity we use in our homes or how much gas we use to fuel our cars.

Amrou Awaysheh is the executive director of the Indiana University Business Sustainability and Innovation Lab. He said many businesses have set aggressive goals to lower their carbon emissions and more companies are making consumers aware of what they’re doing for the climate.

That means consumers can make a positive impact by “voting with their dollars.”

“If they choose to buy products and goods from a company that doesn’t care about the environment, or doesn’t care where the raw materials are extracted from — then that’s on them,” Awaysheh said.

Or, those companies that say they care about Hotcoldwetdry can stop selling products. And the climate cultists can stop buying stuff, stop using electricity, stop using fossil fuels.

Zach Schrank is a sociologist at Indiana University South Bend and teaches classes on the intersection between the environment and consumption. He said there are other things you can do to reduce your impact — like buying things used and sharing items with your neighbors.

But Schrank said just by being in an affluent society like the U.S., we consume more and we don’t always have control over that.

Sounds like an excuse to blow off walking the talk.

“It is the responsibility of the entities that are making these things and the governments that are regulating the production and sales of these things, so that consumers have good options,” he said.

So, basically putting the government in charge of the economy? Huh.

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