“Adam Winkler Asks If ‘Assault Weapons Ban’ Killed Gun Control” | protein wisdom: "Feinstein’s S.150 is not dead. Lacking votes to ram it through Congress, Harry “the gun owners friend” Reid has placed it on the fast track for passage by placing it on list of bills to be enacted by attaching it to a “must pass” bill. This is precisely the same path that Feinstein’s 1994 bill took. And Feinstein’s feigned upset not withstanding, this appears to have been the intent of Reid, Schumer, and the Senate Democrats."Read More......
Saturday, March 23, 2013
In Case You Were Wondering How Feinstein Will Win
Red Line
An update on Iran’s nuclear program | Power Line: "Reza Kahlili is the pseudonymous former CIA operative who penetrated Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and author of A Time to Betray. Kahlili has published two columns on disclosures he attributes to a high-ranking Iranian intelligence officer: one here in the Washington Times and one here at WorldNetDaily. Using Google Earth, Kahlili briefly summarizes the contentions of his Iranian source in the video below."
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Do You Know What You're Really Watching?
Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009 - YouTube: "Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009"
Turn. Off. Teh. T. V. Read More......
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Michael Crichton on Politics as Religion with Bonus COTD
Michael Crichton on Politics as Religion: "9 from an interview with Crichton
Q: What is the most serious threat facing our civilisation?
A: Loss of classical liberal values in those western societies that embraced them.
England was the first modern state, the first superpower, the first nation to deal with moral issues around the world, and the first nation to install the benefits of what we might now loosely term a liberal society. I mean that in the 19th century sense of liberalism. That notion of liberalism was also present in America, but made it to the Continent only in a pale and limited form. It is a wonderful social conception that must be vigilantly guarded. It is not shared by other nations in the world. Nor is it shared by many citizens in English-speaking countries. Peculiarly, many of our most educated citizens are least sympathetic to classical liberal ideals. Indeed the term 'liberalism' in the modern day has come to imply a constellation of attitudes that John Stuart Mill would not recognize as liberal at all. Nor would, say, John F. Kennedy recognize them as liberal. Kennedy's conception of liberalism was simultaneously more tolerant and more tough-minded: tolerant about varieties of behavior within the society, and tough-minded toward threats to a tolerant society from without.
That's all gone, now. Today there is far too much sensitivity within societies, and too little hard-nosed recognition of threats from without. We are inclined to be intolerant of speech by our friends and neighbors, and tolerant of beheadings, rape, and homophobia in distant lands.
This makes no sense. But here we are.
Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 05:30 PM (j3uk1)"
Heh
How well did Hansen (1988) do? | Watts Up With That?: "The graphic from RealClimate asks “How well did Hansen et al (1988) do?” They compare actual temperature measurements through 2012 (GISTEMP and HadCRUT4) with Hansen’s 1988 Scenarios “A”, “B”, and “C”. The answer (see my annotations) is “Are you kidding?”"
Suddenly Now A Problem?
On “the Promise of Gun Control” | protein wisdom: "Geoff B sends along the following chart — an annotated version of the chart that appears in the original post at Extrano’s Alley:"
Monday, March 18, 2013
Out O The Park
Bookworm Room » At CPAC, Dr. Ben Carson comes out swinging against President Obama: "But let’s say somebody was there and they wanted to destroy this nation. What would you do? Let me tell you what I would do. First of all, I would create division among the people. I would have everybody pitted against each other because a wise man by the name of Jesus once said “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” And then I would encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country. And then I would undermine the financial stability of the country, and drive us so far into debt that there was absolutely no chance that it could recover. And I would weaken the military and destroy the morale of the military. That’s what I would do and I guarantee you it would work. Now, the question is, it appears coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now. And the question is, How do we stop it. Can we stop it?"Perfect.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
By The Numbers
Stuyvesant class of ’17, by the numbers | Power Line: "On Twitter via John Podhoretz, I see that Kay Hymovitz points to the demographic breakdown of the entering freshman class at Stuyvesant High School. Stuyvesant is one of New York’s specialized public high schools where entrance is determined solely by Specialized High School Admission Test scores:And from the comments there's this from Larry Elder:
—Stuyvesant offered admission to 9 black students; 24 Latino students; 177 white students; and 620 students who identify as Asian."
Michael Kennedy · Top CommenterIt's not cool to be smart. Full. Stop. Coming. Soon. Because. O. This. Read More......
Larry Elder talks about a library near where he lives in LA. The sidewalk outside is full of black kids on skateboards and break dancing. Inside it is filled with Korean kids studying with their mothers hovering over them.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Welcome To The Banana Republic O Colorado
Colorado Sheriff Says Dems Are Using Salary Threats to Pressure Sheriffs to Support Gun Control Bills | TheBlaze.com: "One Colorado sheriff is claiming that Democrats are pressuring pro-gun sheriffs in the state with tactics he think border on extortion.So much for those pledges to uphold the Constitution. We might as well just use it for TP at this rate -- the Jack*sses certainly do. Read More......
In a radio interview with KVOR on Saturday, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said he received an email last week with a threat to stop or stall pay raises to the state’s elected sheriffs if they don’t support Colorado’s pending gun control legislation."
Monday, March 11, 2013
CQOTD
Video: How to break 15 laws in 33 seconds « Hot Air: "There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. -Ayn Rand"Welcome to your world. Read More......
Touch Your Nose..
Who Spends The Most Dollars Lobbying Washington, DC? | Zero Hedge: "Oil? Financials? Aerospace? When someone asks who the biggest sources of lobby dollars for DC's politicians-for-purchase are, these are the three usual suspects that come to mind. Some may, therefore, be surprised to learn according to the database kept by OpenSecrets between Pharmaceutical and health product industry, hospital and nursing homes, health professionals and health services, HMOs, or more broadly Pharma/Healthcare/HMO, the total lobby dollars spent between 1998 and 2012 was a staggering $5.3 billion, or nearly three times greater than the second most generous industry: insurance, and well above Oil and Gas at $1.4 billion, and Securities and Investment at $1.0 billion. Is it becoming clearer why the US government has few qualms about unsustainable taxpayer funded healthcare spending, especially when there are so many current benefits accruing to the politicians who see so many billions in benefits from passing lobby-friendly laws now (by which we mean generous taxpayer funding, the bulk of which benefits the healthcare industry's bottom line)?"
5X
Ace of Spades HQ: "So here's a better question: How many times more money does Tides donate than the Koch Brothers' foundations?Go RTWT and then profess to me how shocked you are... Read More......
a) 150% as much
b) Twice as much
c) Three times as much
d) Five times as much
The Joe Bloggs answers for this question are anything less than "five times as much."
Now, given that Tides Foundation, a leftwing group founded by radicals is donating five times as much as the Koch Brothers, we'd expect at least as many mentions of Tides, right?
But of course not. Tides is permitted to operate in secret, with scarcely a mention; the Koch Brothers have the Scare Campaign ginned up against them."
Only Just Begun
The War Against the Second Amendment Has Only Just Begun | Power Line: "Note how closely this reasoning applies to the Democratic Party’s effort to ban “assault weapons,” certain randomly designated semi-automatic rifles which are identified by cosmetic features. Rifles (all rifles, not just semi-automatics) are the least popular method of committing murder; more people are beaten to death with bare hands, and five times as many are knifed. The singling out of “assault weapons,” defined by a seemingly random assemblage of insignificant features, is utterly arbitrary. Bear in mind, too, that there is a constitutional right to own and carry firearms, while there is no corresponding right to consume sugary beverages, so an assault weapons ban would be judged by a more stringent standard."
To call this one a RTWT is an understatement. It crystallizes the Dem modus operandi perfectly. Read More......
Thursday, March 7, 2013
The Prison Towers Of Pluto
Moonbattery » US Debt Visualized in $100 Bills: "While Obama stages theater of the absurd by squeezing misery out of a slight temporary reduction in government growth, here’s what his government is doing to our future:"
Or if you prefer aerospace try estimating how far into orbit "just" $1T of $1 bills would stretch placed end to end. All the way into earth orbit you say?
Try orbit of the Earth around the Sun. Yes, that's 1 AU.
The math works like this:
A dollar bill is about 6 inches long, so 1T of them is 500B feet. That's:
500,000,000,000
To convert to miles you can round a bit and divide by 5,000. That means that you take away three zeroes and convert the 5 to a 1:
100,000,000
The Sun is roughly 93,000,000 miles from earth. 93,000,000 is within 10% of 100,000,000 so $1T in $1 bills laid end to end is approximately the distance to the Sun (or 1 AU).
The official debt is >$16T which means that you could string $1 bills to the Sun and back 8 times to equal it.
If you take a GAAP view rather than listening to corrupt and self serving politicians (but I repeat myself) then there are estimates of the actual national debt ranging from $50T to over $200T.
If Pluto were measured this way, at it's aphelion it would only come in at $48T.
We couldn't pay that back even if every child born from now on made Albert Einstein look stupid.
And trust me, we're going the wrong direction on that one. Read More......
A Just Torpedoing
Instapundit » Blog Archive » THIS IS PROBABLY WHY JOHN MCCAIN AND LINDSAY GRAHAM HAVE THEIR PANTIES IN A WAD: Rand Paul filibust…: "And Prof. Stephen Clark emails: “Rand Paul did the unforgivable: He upstaged ‘The Dinner.’ Worst of all, though thinking about it for a while, Paul decided to do it on his way into the Senate yesterday morning more-or-less on the spur of the moment. For god’s sake man, he torpedoed a whole news cycle focused on the two of them and the mysteries of conversations unheard but lovingly hinted at by both McCain and Graham.”
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 11:58 pm"
"Torpedoing" is one of those words that make you do a double-take isn't it? But there's no "double think" involved ;) Read More......
I Seem To Have Missed It Also
Ace of Spades HQ: NYT shocker: Global warming averted impending ice age [Purp]: "So, can someone explain to me again why mile thick glaciers over the northern states are desirable again? I missed that explanation the first time."Good Galloping God. Read More......
But There's More! (Homicides In Strict Gun Control States)
New Study Finds Firearms Laws Do Nothing to Prevent Homicides | Power Line: "But there is more: note that Fleegler’s study covers all 50 states, but leaves out the District of Columbia. Why do you suppose he chose to do that? Because the District has 1) some of the nation’s most draconian gun laws, and 2) the highest murder rate in the country, higher even than Louisiana’s. In 2011, the District had a firearms homicide rate of 12.46 per 100,000. Now let’s redo Fleegler’s math, with the District counted as one of the ten strictest jurisdictions. We now have an average rate of 4.0 gun homicides per 100,000 in the ten most anti-gun jurisdictions, and a gun homicide rate of 3.5 per 100,000 in the ten jurisdictions with the fewest gun regulations, even if we include the outlier, Louisiana."Read More......
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Tyranny
Moonbattery » Attorney General Okays Using Drones to Kill Americans on American Soil Without Trial: "You can stop pretending you don’t live under tyranny when the federal government claims authority to use unmanned drones to assassinate American citizens on American soil without due process of law"
Sunday, March 3, 2013
On Taking The F'in Moron's Advice
Moonbattery » Women Take Biden’s Shotgun Advice: "Good thing average Americans are brighter than our kakistocratic rulers. Imagine conducting your household finances the way Washington manages the budget — if the federal government even had a budget. Worse yet, imagine being dumb enough to take (illegal) advice on home defense from the moron who is a heartbeat away from the presidency:"
What a sanctimonious, ignorant prick this moron is. I'll stop there to avoid the week-long version. Read More......
It's Not Just Financial Rape They Support
Moonbattery » Rapists for Gun Control: "At least gun-grabbing Democrats are advancing the best interests of their constituents — i.e., criminals. Will Bill for America explains:"
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