Surprise: Americans Are Rather Skeptical Regarding Gun Control Laws

By William Teach April 16, 2022 – 10:30 am

Have you noticed that the typical weeks long news cycle post-mass shooting did not appear in the wake of the Brooklyn subway shooting? We usually get lots and lots of pieces – op-eds, opinions, analysis, and “straight news” – in the wake of an incident from all across the country. Yet, because the shooter did not fit the Narrative, even the NY Times barely has coverage. You do have unhinged leftist Dem Rep Jamaal Bowman quietly pushing. After an initial bought of gun grabbing language, even NYC Mayor Eric Adams is responding differently

(The Root) In response to criticisms following the arrest of Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James, Mayor Eric Adams further defended his new policies on policing and gun control on NY1. “I thought Black lives matter?,” he asked, alleging many of New York’s shooters and shooting victims are Black.

Adams spoke out against the criticisms of his newest NYPD policies to fight gun violence including an increased police presence on subways and a revised plainclothes unit to patrol the streets. Adams thanked the first responders who assisted in finding James and assured new safety measures will be taken to protect the subways such as gun detection.

Of course, most of those officers, even the black ones, will want little to do with getting involved with potential black perps, because they do not want to be frivolously accused of raaaaacism or anything else. And, yes, FBI data does show that over 50% of shooters and those shot are black. Meanwhile

Poll: Voters Skeptical of Effectiveness of gun Control Laws

Americans are skeptical about gun control measures, according to a new poll.

Rasmussen reports released new polling showing that the majority of Americans do not think criminals will obey federal gun control laws. The poll comes on the heels of a mass shooting in Brooklyn and President Joe Biden’s speech on gun control earlier this week.

“In the wake of Tuesday’s mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway train, most voters don’t think more control laws will prevent such incidents,” Rasmussen said.

“The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters don’t think stricter gun control laws would help prevent shootings like the one Tuesday that left 29 people injured in Brooklyn,” Rasmussen said. “Thirty-eight percent (38%) think stricter gun control laws would help prevent mass shootings, while another 11% are not sure.”

The question on the Brooklyn shooter’s gun is whether he purchased it legally or not in 2011. Among his lengthy rap sheet

(ABC6) He has nine prior arrests in New York City dating from 1992 to 1998 for offenses including possession of burglary tools, a criminal sex act and theft of service, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said in Wednesday news conference.

However, James had no previous felony convictions so was able to purchase a gun, according to Essig.

So, nothing legally to stop him. Was a background check performed? Unless Democrats simply want to ban firearms, you can’t stop this. James was in violation of numerous NYC and New York state firearms laws, including carrying it concealed and having magazines over 10. Wildly, he didn’t comply with those laws.

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Maryland Passes Major Climahysteric Bill

By William Teach April 16, 2022 – 7:15 am

I can’t wait till residents of Maryland start complaining about the skyrocketing cost of living, and then abandon the state

Maryland lawmakers pass sweeping climate legislation, wave of environmental bills

St. GretaAfter two years of frustration, Maryland environmental advocates have much to celebrate after the conclusion earlier this week of what one called a “landmark” General Assembly session in Annapolis.

Over the course of 90 days, lawmakers enacted sweeping climate change legislation that committed Maryland to the most ambitious greenhouse gas reductions of any state in the nation. They also passed a flurry of other “green” bills, including measures to reduce environmental inequities, beef up water pollution enforcement and boost efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay’s diminished oyster population.

I like how they unintentionally put that: in essence, climate change is not the environment. They are two separate issues.

The most significant environmental bill to pass this year was the Climate Solutions Now Act, an omnibus measure that advocates say has restored Maryland to the top rank of states addressing global climate change and its impacts. The law calls for a 60% reduction in climate-warming carbon emissions by 2031, a near-term target unmatched by any other state, and net-zero emissions by 2045.

“We have just put a stake in the ground that says we are going to lead on climate [and] greenhouse gas reduction goals in the country,” said Kim Coble, executive director of the Maryland League of Conservation Voters.

The measure’s 100-plus pages spell out a variety of initiatives to work toward those goals, notably a requirement that large existing buildings reduce carbon emissions by improving their energy efficiency. By 2030, all state facilities would have to get at least 75% of their electricity from low– or zero-carbon sources. The state also must electrify its fleet of cars by 2031 and light-duty trucks by 2036.

If this is just so darned important, why don’t they do this now? Why wait till 2031 for the 60%? Make it happen now. Tear the band aid off immediately.

Under another provision, lawmakers established a “climate corps” for youths and young adults to work on climate mitigation projects. They also established a $5 million fund for climate projects and directed 40% of it be spent in low– to moderate-income neighborhoods — an attempt to tackle inequities in how climate change is both felt and addressed.

So, a cushy government job for kids being indoctrinated and Spreading The Word. And paying off people to essentially vote Democrat.

Yet, there’s nothing in there restricting the lawmakers and the high ranking people in the Governor’s office to electric vehicles, as well as no more fossil fueled flights.

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Chinese Coronavirus Cases Rising Again

By William Teach April 16, 2022 – 7:00 am

This was predicted when the cases in Europe were rising, with the actual experts expecting a spike in North America soon after. This makes COVID cultists and the power hungry politicians happy, because it gives them an opportunity to implement citizen controls, even though those controls made almost no difference

It’s not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US

Yet again, the U.S. is trudging into what could be another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline.

One big unknown? “We don’t know how high that mountain’s gonna grow,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University.

No one expects a peak nearly as high as the last one, when the contagious omicron version of the coronavirus ripped through the population.

But experts warn that the coming wave – caused by a mutant called BA.2 that’s thought to be about 30% more contagious – will wash across the nation. They worry that hospitalizations, which are already ticking up in some parts of the Northeast, will rise in a growing number of states in the coming weeks. And the case wave will be bigger than it looks, they say, because reported numbers are vast undercounts as more people test at home without reporting their infections or skip testing altogether.

Strange that the surges start in the liberal areas which say they’re totally for all the restrictions, right? The question now is, does it look like Israel, with just a bump, or Europe, which had a pretty big surge.

Ray said government leaders must be careful to strike the right tone when talking to people about protecting themselves and others after COVID restrictions have largely been lifted. Philadelphia recently became the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate after a sharp increase in infections. But Vermont’s Levine said there are no plans to bring back any of the restrictions that were imposed earlier during the pandemic.

“It’s going to be hard to institute restrictive, draconian measures,” Ray said. “Fortunately, we have some tools that we can use to mitigate risk. And so I hope that leaders will emphasize the importance for people to watch the numbers,” be aware of risks and consider taking precautions such as wearing masks and getting vaccinated and boosted if they’re not already.

And there’s the other question, what do the COVID authoritarians try and do?

If masking is so important, if the citizens are in such danger that a mandate must be reinstated, why is Philly waiting till Monday?

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GenZers Super Concerned About Doom From ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 15, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Hey, this shows that doomsday indoctrination works

1,500 Gen Zers were polled about climate change. Here are the results

Climate change is a primary concern for a majority of teenagers, but it’s also one of their biggest sources of motivation.

That’s according to a new nationwide poll published Wednesday, which found that 84% of teenagers believe climate change left unchecked will trigger global political instability and render parts of the planet uninhabitable. A vast majority of respondents said companies and legislators aren’t doing enough, and said they still wish to become involved in helping the planet’s future.

“Climate change is something that’s very top of mind for teens,” said Julia Majors, public relations manager for the national council of 4-H, a nationwide youth development organization. (snip)

The survey was conducted on behalf of 4-H by The Harris Poll, an American marketing and analytics company. Some 1,500 respondents between 13 and 19 years old were polled to gain a better understanding of what concerns teenagers have about the environment.

One interesting thing in the poll is how little the snowflakes spend outside, with 53% saying they spend 5 hours or less a week outside. 25% spend 6-10 hours a week outside. Yet, they think access to the outdoors is a human right. And, as usual, the poll fails to ask what they would give up to Do Something about ‘climate change’, what restrictions on their own lives they’d accept. We do get

So, really not doing much of anything, and all those things are environmental, not ‘climate change’. What about giving up their own use of fossil fuels, stop eating meat, buy clothes second hand, give up their massive electrical use of streaming and uploading? More below the fold

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 15, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on data showing a contraction on non-essential consumer spending.

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Moonbat Wants Term “Master Tapes” Removed From Music Lexicon

By William Teach April 15, 2022 – 10:30 am

See, the screed writer got a bee in her bonnet, so, Everyone must comply

Why the Music Industry Must Remove the Racist Term ‘Master Recording’ From Its Vocabulary

During the spring and summer of 2020, as protests across the country illuminated the systematic injustices Black Americans have faced and continue to face, the music industry was one of many that was called out to take accountability and action for its treatment of a group of people that is largely responsible for its many decades of profitability. While the industry’s unfair treatment of Black Americans is longstanding and deep-seated, one seemingly simple course of action is to cease all usage of the term “master recording,” which may sound innocuous but, as detailed in Variety’s expansive August 2020 interview with Pharrell Williams, derives from the words “master and slave.”

For those not aware, the terms have long been used to distinguish between a source recording (the “master”) and the subsequent copies made (the “slaves”), which has led to a pervasive use of both terms in many industry contracts. Although these charged words have been normalized to indicate a dominant/ subservient relationship, it does not negate the weight that they carry, especially in context of the music industry.

LOL. The copies are not called slaves. These people. Making things raaaaacist where no racism lies

For as long as the music business has existed, Black performers often have been in a subordinate position to label executives, the majority of whom are white, even though their music is the vital resource upon which this industry is founded. Digging deeper, when you consider that most of these performers do not have control or ownership of the underlying copyrights to their music, parallels can easily be drawn to how slaves did not have autonomy over their lives since they themselves were the property. Many of these performers, most famously Prince and Kanye West, have outright said that their experiences in the music industry have felt like modern-day slavery.

This lady is a lawyer, and goes full on moonbat race baiter, rather white knighting for black people. Because the word bothers her, so, she makes massive leaps of logic

As soon as I realized the term’s origins, I implemented a policy in my firm to no longer use the term “master” in our contracts, and to implement this change into any agreements that we negotiate on behalf of our clients. Sony, Universal, Warner Music Groups and Sound Exchange have either removed or have vowed to remove this language from their form contracts and license requests moving forward; the American Association of Independent Music’s board voted unanimously to remove this language from their contracts prospectively as well. While this is a most critical step in the right direction for the industry at large, I am dismayed at the reticence of other attorneys to embrace this change.

Of course the music groups follow along. They’ll virtue signal. They also probably realize they can take advantage of this to make some money. But, boo hoo, other lawyers won’t embrace the SJW.

It is my hope that this sheds light on the issue — enough so that more can and will embrace this impactful change. Removal of such language is a simple yet meaningful step that can make our industry a more welcoming and inclusive space and allow us to reinforce the principle that music is for everyone — no matter one’s race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or background.

Now do the certainly sexually explicit, violent, and demeaning to women music her clients are making.

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Good News: Supreme Court May Toss “Important Climate (scam) Too”

By William Teach April 15, 2022 – 7:00 am

If Democrats really want this rule, they should attempt to specifically pass it in Congress. That’s where something of this magnitude belongs, not an Executive Branch agency using sorta maybe possibly related in a tiny way language from previous legislation that is really unrelated

Supreme Court may toss an ‘important tool’ for regulating climate change

The Supreme Court is on the verge of restricting the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

The court’s conservative majority appears likely to side with Republican-controlled states and coal companies in West Virginia v. EPA, for which the court heard oral arguments on Feb. 28 and is expected to issue a ruling in June. Such a ruling could eliminate some of the key methods that the Biden administration can use to accelerate the power sector’s transition to cleaner sources of energy, potentially hamstringing its ability to meet the president’s goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Experts say the court is virtually guaranteed to side with the petitioners — a coalition of red states and coal companies — but that the still unknown logic and details of the ruling may determine the shape of U.S. climate regulation in the future.

“Taking the case is a very clear sign that they’re going to rule against EPA in some way, but we don’t know how,” David Doniger, senior strategic director of the Climate & Clean Energy Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Yahoo News. “It wasn’t clear from the oral argument what the dominant approach would be.”

Observers do not expect the Supreme Court to overturn previous rulings that give the EPA authority to regulate carbon pollution, but they say it’s possible the court may say the agency cannot use certain tools in doing so.

It all depends on how the ruling goes. It looked like Obama’s Clean Power Plan was on it’s way to getting whacked at the Supreme Court, having almost always lost at the lower court level, until the Trump EPA did away with it. It should cause a lot of apoplexy from Warmists if the Court rules against the EPA. You know, the same Warmists who won’t make their own lives carbon neutral.

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LGB: Newest Quinnipiac Poll Is Brutal

By William Teach April 15, 2022 – 6:45 am

Even the lefty Daily Beast cannot figure out how to spin this

Biden and Democrats Should Be Absolutely Terrified by New Poll Numbers

In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character is asked how he went bankrupt. “Gradually, then suddenly” is the reply.

This formulation might also help explain how it feels to lose an election. President Joe Biden’s collapse of popular support has been so long coming that a new Quinnipiac poll showing him with just a 33 percent approval rating (!) was greeted mostly with yawns.

Or, laughter

Dig a little deeper, though, and things are even scarier for Democrats.

Biden is polling at a dismal 24 percent approval among Hispanics (with 54 percent disapproving). And while his numbers among African-Americans are still above water at 63 percent, his numbers have fallen almost 20 percentage points since last April.

This poll may constitute a new low, but it’s no flukey outlier. The trends are clear. NBC News recently compared polling from 2018 (a great midterm year for Dems) with its own 2022 polling—and college-educated women are the only cohort that has become bluer. (Conversely, NBC News found a “pronounced [Republican] shift among men of 20 points,” as Steve Kornacki noted.)

It takes hard work to get to that number, like ruining a credit score

The main explanation, though, is probably a simple one: Hispanics and African-Americans—like a lot of us—are worried about inflation.

As Democratic pollster Jay Campbell told CNBC, “Cost of living has just blown everything else, including COVID, out of the water. And part of the reason for that is, there are attitudes about the economy that are largely a partisan phenomenon,” Campbell said. “That is not the case with inflation, or at least not right now. It is the top issue for Democrats, independents, and Republicans.”

This makes even more sense when you consider that inflation hurts low-wage Americans worse than anyone, and a disproportionate percentage of minorities belong to that economic cohort. As a result, some formerly reliable Democratic voters may be prioritizing their “working class” status over their racial identity.

At the end of every single poll, regarding the middle and lower classes, it comes down to the pocketbook. The kitchen table budget. The cost of putting food on the table. And all the basics of life. Biden is not only ignoring these, his policies are making them worse.

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Vegan Egg Food Truck To Troll Ted Cruz, Other Climate Change Skeptics or Something

By William Teach April 14, 2022 – 3:00 pm

What the heck is a vegan egg? Kinda sounds like it is not egg

Ted Cruz and fellow Republicans mocked for climate inaction – by vegan ‘eggs’

Members of Congress are subjected to plenty of scrutiny — from constituents, the press, and now, from vegan egg sandwiches.

Eat Just, a brand of plant-based “eggs,” is plastering a series of advertisements around Washington DC ahead of Earth Day on 22 April, in order to shame certain members of Congress for inaction on the climate crisis. And, as an added dig, they’ll be driving a food truck serving vegan egg sandwiches named after a few select senators.

Some of the ads broadly call out inaction from the legislative branch of the government. “This egg sandwich is more effective against climate change than Congress,” reads one. (The company’s website says that their product uses significantly less water, land and emissions to create than regular eggs.)

Other ads — plus the sandwiches — take aim at specific lawmakers. One sandwich is dubbed “Ted Cruz’s Cancun Vacation” and consists of vegan egg, plant-based pepper jack “cheese”, spinach and and chipotle aioli.

Yeah, not cheese, either. I wonder if they’re doing this just to drum up business from gullible Warmists, who will be happy to overpay for fake eggs and cheese. They’ll be others named after Rick Scott, James Inhofe, and even Joe Manchin.

Mr Rossmeissl (Eat Just’s head of global marketing) says that the company has previously focused on the benefits of a plant-based diet but, in light of the recent dire warnings of the United Nation’s IPCC climate report, that focus alone seemed “inadequate for the moment”.

“Individual lifestyle change is important, but it’s not enough,” Mr Rossmeissl said.

The ads have shown up in Washington as of this week, and the food truck will operate in neighbourhoods across the city from next Wednesday through the following Wednesday.

Will the food truck operate on fossil fuels? Anyhow, the company is pretty much serving up a side of clmavirtue signaling. Hey, if it makes them money, good job duping Warmists.

Meanwhile, nice to see our Treasury Secretary going full climahysteric

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 14, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful palm trees that will soon grow in the Arctic due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on how many people are saying they won’t do business with Disney.

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