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Hank is part of the “Climate Change Cult”, every time he talks about climate he takes on fatalistic and grim tone. Now this video:
Yeah that cold summer we had was the “Hottest Ever”, according to NASA…who is on record for faking data.
This isn’t such a sinister cabal that is faking weather for some New World Order goal. I saw the same data manipulation when I worked for NMFS as a fisheries observer. The fleet would have a record catch of one fish speices, or would go to great lengths to avoid catching certain fish because of amazingly low quotas set, while the papers stated that these fish were in declining populations.
The motivation for these inconsistencies is not some horrible conspiracy, but from pressures from the .gov who funds them. NMFS is paid to REGULATE the fishing industry. If regulations become effective then the need to study interactions between the fisheries and population becomes less urgent. Rather than needing huge teams of scientists collecting and analyzing huge quantities of data, all that is needed is a small group keeping a close eye for changes on what has become a stable system.
Still who declares the efforts to be a success? Well the very large and expensive teams studying the fishery!
Let’s take a comical break for a second:
In Office Space Tom’s job is essentially superfluous, and the efficiency experts of Bob and Bob are honing in on him. Tom doesn’t resign to the fact that he can’t justify his salary, instead he embellishes to comical levels.
It’s funny to see him squirm, but we also have some sympathy for him. He’s old, stupid, and doesn’t have many skills. Unemployment might be VERY painful for him (the movie plays this out), and really he hasn’t done anything WRONG, he’s simply done the job the incompetent management have given him, and of course as things are playing out the Management is safe, while he is on the chopping block.
The same can be said for these scientists, they are simply refusing to write their own death warrant, and by fudging data they can keep their comfortable jobs. There is of course some morality at place here, but in modern “Progressive” America morality has become subjective. Putting fishermen out of business protecting a fishery that their compliance has helped saved is morally better than putting scientists who have outlived their usefulness out of business. I mean SCIENTISTS! They’re educated, they’re smart, they do SCIENCE! While fishermen tend to be less educated and are killing ANIMALS, granted for people who will continue to eat them…
Same with NASA, they keep getting to launch new missions and form new teams to expose the specter of “Climate Change”, and point out how it’s all our fault, because that’s what they are paid to do. Climate has NEVER been stable in the world’s history, but that natural fluctuation has little impact on politics. Now if this natural change can be pinned on industry or human lifestyles…well REGULATION!
It’s all one big mess, and it really is the FURTHEST thing from science. Rather than observed events leading to a hypothesis that can later be proven or disproved by research, we have uneducated (at least in science) people choosing a useful hypothesis, and then demanding science ONLY prove that hypothesis correct, or they will lose funding. It doesn’t take a scientist to predict the next event.
You don’t see this in private industry. Drug companies make money from creating drugs that meet a need. While there are certainly companies that have overstated a drugs effect, and understated the side-effects, those ventures on the free market have been disastrous. The best way to make money as a drug company is to make the best drug possible, and in the end there is just no way to fudge that.
Same goes with any private industry. You make a car that sucks, people won’t buy it. You make computer software or hardware that sucks people won’t buy it.
It only becomes ugly when people aren’t buying the end product but the “Science” itself. The .gov will ONLY buy “Science” if it proves what they WANT to prove, and that is why the quotes get placed around “science”.
A six-month old baby died and his mother was in critical condition after a family member stabbed them both on Thursday in a Sacramento suburb, police said.
This is just a really strange case. It was the mother’s nephew who stabbed her and her baby. No motive was given, and after the attack the monster advanced on the responding officer with the knife and still covered in blood.
Eyewitnesses suggest it might have been suicide by cop. So yeah, there was a “Gun Death” here, but that’s not what upset me.
Are you upset by this story? Was it because of the “Gun Death”? Why are we putting more weight on “Gun Death”?
First the quote from Braden Lynch:
If the gun control advocates took no more action and disavowed themselves from all of the rhetoric about confiscation for 50 years, would they get closer to their goal? I worry that people would get complacent and our resurging gun culture might recede and ownership levels actually decrease.
Of course, they are hard-wired to hate our firearms which represent, and are actually useful in, resistance to their despotic designs. So, no they can’t back off, and I think that gun culture will still flourish because it is such fun and the need for it will never go away.
Now the image:
Translation: SEE? We don’t want to BAN GUNS! We want to restrict people OWNING guns!
Of course images like this, or recent pressers like this aren’t a concession on the old saw of gun-banning, but an understanding of the playing field. The NFA was originally supposed to include ALL handguns (hence why they went to such trouble to define long guns), and the Brady Campaign used to be called Handgun Control Inc. Their original plan was to ban all handguns from the American people. Only a bulk of the American people OWNED handguns and didn’t want them taken away or taxed. So the antis started focusing on “Assault Weapons” and the newer handguns that had “Evil” features and larger magazines rather than the single-stack pistols and revolvers that were the most popular handguns of the 60’s through about the 80s when the Wonder-Nine trend started up.
They were successful in the 90s with their ban on “Assault Weapons”, but of course this ban also inspired curiosity and brought a LOT of people into the fold for loving the utility of the so-called “Assault Weapons”.
Now they’re saying they aren’t interested in banning guns, instead they want to restrict people’s right to keep and bear them. (Bonus points for throwing in a poorly understood “Well Regulated” quote).
Still they aren’t coming around on “Assault Weapons” or even their longer-held desire to ban handguns. The antis fought to the bitter end in Chicago and DC gun bans. They have fought the last three carry bans in DC, Chicago, and Wisconsin with their all. Places like New York, California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, among others, who all have some form of “Assault Weapons” Ban aren’t seeing any political pressure to back down.
No they still want to ban ALL GUNS, not just add the restrictions they’re asking for today. Hell they want NATIONAL “background check” laws passed that criminalize most gun ownership, but currently that is a political impossibility, so now they’re focusing on a state-by-state ballot imitative method, and pressuring state government, like we have seen in Colorado and Washington.
The end goal? Making gun ownership such a pain that fair-weather gun owners give up their guns (either by choice, or conviction) and the stalwarts have difficulty recruiting new shooters to the cause. If they can freeze gun ownership to just those who have guns RIGHT NOW, it’s only a matter of waiting until they die before the battlefield is clear to pass whatever laws they want.
Essentially in the earlier days gun control was being fought as an all-out ground war, with both sides slugging it out toe-to-toe. At first the antis were VERY successful of this tactic, but really after the high point in 1994 they started losing ground, and were forced to change tactics.
Now it it is a guerrilla war we’re fighting, with a much smaller force of stalwart anti-gunners doing pinpoint strikes then vanishing into the hills. This of course can be JUST as deadly, just look at Iraq and Afghanistan for examples. Now of course the insurgent forces in those nations don’t inspire the awe and fear that say the Axis Powers did in WWII, but what we must remember is just because their tactics have changed doesn’t mean their goals have.
Also if they manage to turn the tide they can start building up their forces again, until they again are staging an all-out ground war against us again, but how many would be on our side once we get there?
Police say a Rhode Island dealership owner who was struck with a two-by-four in a fight over a junk-car deal that went wrong has died.
So not only do we have a common implement for life used as a murder weapon, but evidently a junk car was enough to kill a man for.
Hey, but only “Gun Death” counts!
H/T Kevin
So tonight we’ll be talking about SHIRTGATE!!!!
Yep, humans landed a robot on a comet after a 10 year mission, and even when the lander totally fucked up, they still had a mission success! Still once the dust cleared from the landing, the only issue with the MSM and the Social Justice Warriors was one of the scientists was wearing a cool shit (and cool ink too!)
Image grabbed from this blog post so you can get a taste of the butthurt.
We’ll also talk about GLOBAL WARMING! As in the kind that is freezing the great lakes and dumping ridiculous amounts of snow.
And of course our most important topic on The Squirrel Report IS YOU!
Call in at 9pm EST at 214-530-0036 and answer this question: “What nerdy gaff embarrassed you the most?”
Gonna be a FUN one, I’m telling you!
(The Squirrel Report is a hostile work environment according to Social Justice Warriors!)
This one almost doesn’t qualify for the “Gun Death?” Files. Not all of these stories involve a dead body, but generally gunplay is NOT part of the story. In this story a man was shot by police. But WHY he shot by police is why we have the tag:
man was shot and killed Wednesday after he allegedly poured gasoline on a woman and tried to set her on fire before charging a Bakersfield police officer.
…Witnesses saw the man “behaving erratically,” including screaming, yelling obscenities and throwing outdoor furniture, Grubbs said.
Next, he walked over to the woman who was pumping her vehicle with gas in the 2100 block of East Brundage Lane. The woman’s children were inside the vehicle.
The man removed the gas nozzle from her vehicle, poured gasoline on the ground and on the woman’s pants and tried to set her on fire with a lighter, he said.
The woman got in her car and drove away, Grubbs added.
When the officer arrived at the scene, police said, the man ignored his orders and charged him, carrying a possible bicycle lock. The officer then fired one shot at the man.
Thankfully the woman got away before she could be set ablaze. And then this lunatic charged a peace officer attempting to restore order. It didn’t have to end that way, but that was how this guy chose it.
Now gasoline and fire is VERY serious stuff. If she had been ignited at BEST she would probably be dealing with disfiguring burns, if not serious physical impairment or death. If an officer being charged with a “Bike Lock” (one of the small padlocks might be a minor impact weapon, some of those big bar locks or heavy locking chains are MUCH more formidable weapons) seems a bit severe for getting center-punched, think about if the officer didn’t act. They guy already showed he was willing to kill a total stranger in front of her kids, and was acting erratically.
I call good shoot. Again this WAS a “Gun Death”, but if it hadn’t been, there still might have been death. Which do you think was the better outcome?
Maybe somebody can help me out with this story:
So SIG came up with an arm brace for AR-15 pistols. The statement that the arm brace could be used as a shoulder stock was talked about, but it turns out the ATF doesn’t care how you use the arm brace, and they don’t consider it a stock.
And the people rejoiced.
Still in this story the gun is a SHOTGUN. Now when it comes to a rifle with a short barrel, but no shoulder stock is a pistol, and since the arm brace is not a shoulder stock it doesn’t count to this definition. (Note that the “Rifle” can never have been a true rifle at any point of it’s existence otherwise it is now an evil Short Barrel Rifle, and it needs to be registered and taxed because the NFA makes a ton of sense).
Now with a shotgun it appears to be a Saiga 12 type shotgun, meaning it A) Has a barrel larger than .50 Cal (.72 Caliber for 12 gauge) and B) Has a smooth bore barrel. Now again because the NFA makes tons of sense, if the gun was never a long shotgun (because the gun will remember, and it’s now evil forever!!!!) and the barrel is RIFLED and chambered in .410, it would be considered a pistol, hence why you can buy a .410 derringer or revolver in any free-state gun shop like any other pistol. Still for a bigger gauge, short barrel, smooth bore, and no stock, and never having been anything else but this it is an “Any Other Weapon” and still needs to be registered with the NFA, but taxed at $5 rather than $200.
So yeah, at BEST I see this gun as being an AOW, and possibly a Short Barreled shotgun for whatever reason, but NOT a non-NFA item.
What am I missing with this story?
So everybody is talking about the New Taurus Curve
So I’ll first start with my first, and most optimistic opinion. The gun kinda looks like a hip flask. I have a few flasks in my liquor cabinet, and have even dropped one in my pocket for situations where that was legal and socially acceptable, and that slight curve to the flask body means it carries well and doesn’t print much at all.
So yeah, Taurus might be onto something with this idea.
But yeah, it’s Taurus. It’s a DAO hammer-fired gun, so you can expect the patented “Pulling a piano down a dirt road with your finger” trigger, and super shoddy quality control that will have some guns leave the factory as amazing examples of the design, and others completely non-functional, and require warranty work that may or may not fix the problem on the first, or second trip back to Florida.
Also it’s a micro .380…a gun platform that most find hard to complain about comfort of carry or concealability. I suspect there will be glowing reviews from all the usual suspects who dig deep to praise T&E guns that they KNOW are terrible, but also don’t want to be cut off from the company that comes out with a radical new gun every quarter. Still, for all their talk, what does this gun gain from the run-of-the-mill LCP or similar? If it was a bigger, and more powerful gun we might be looking at something more interesting, but right now it seems to be answering a question nobody asked.
What do you lose from the conventional micro .380s? Well sights, that’s a big one.
Also looks like they took the Magazine design directly from the S&W Sigma .380, because that was such a good design….
Last, there appears to be two radically different prototypes, but one looks like the barrel is contoured into the curved front-face of the slide, meaning the top of the barrel is shorter than the bottom. I can’t imagine this would be good for accuracy.
So yeah, those are my thoughts, what are yours?
Many of these images are straw men so unrealistic they harken to the propaganda posters of the KKK in the Jim Crow South:
First of course the crazed, overweight white gun owner carrying more guns than he could ever possibly use. Yep, that’s as realistic as the big-lipped, soot-black, dim-witted, lazy, cowardly Negro of the KKK propaganda.
And of course Jason likes to point out we’re “Paranoid” while he and his ilk see NO reason for ANYBODY to own a firearm, and want them all banned and confiscated. Who’s paranoid?
