A sure sign of global warming is when 80% of New Mexico is covered with snow.
National Snow Analyses – NOHRSC – The ultimate source for snow information
Overheated air from the rapidly melting Arctic travels south, and causes snow to fall in the tropics in Mexico. For lefties on crack, the logic is simple.
In the Obama world, America haters are more equal than loyal Americans
The Washington Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) inquiry into whether NBC’s David Gregory possession on national TV of an illegal 30-round “high-capacity” magazine has been ongoing for three weeks. Meanwhile, U.S. Army veteran James Brinkley is still grappling with the fallout from his arrest last year on the same charge.
Mr. Brinkley’s story is just one example of at least 105 individuals who, unlike Mr. Gregory, were arrested in 2012 for having a magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds.
On Sept. 8, Mr. Brinkley says he intended to drop his wife and young children at the White House for a tour and then head to a shooting range to practice for the U.S. Marshals Service test. Just like Mr. Gregory, Mr. Brinkley called MPD in advance for guidance on how he could do this legally. Mr. Brinkley was told that the gun had to be unloaded and locked in the trunk, and he couldn’t park the car and walk around.
Unlike Mr. Gregory, Mr. Brinkley followed the police orders by placing his Glock 22 in a box with a big padlock in the trunk of his Dodge Charger. The two ordinary, 15-round magazines were not in the gun, and he did not have any ammunition with him.
As he was dropping off his family at 11 a.m. on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue, Mr. Brinkley stopped to ask a Secret Service officer whether his wife could take the baby’s car seat into the White House. The officer saw Mr. Brinkley had an empty holster, which kicked off a traffic stop that ended in a search of the Charger’s trunk. Mr. Brinkley was booked on two counts of “high capacity” magazine possession (these are ordinary magazines nearly everywhere else in the country) and one count of possessing an unregistered gun.
Despite the evidence Mr. Brinkley had been legally transporting the gun, his attorney Richard Gardiner said the D.C. Office of the Attorney General “wouldn’t drop it.” This is the same office now showing apparent reluctance to charge Mr. Gregory.
Mr. Brinkley refused to take a plea bargain and admit guilt, so the matter went to trial Dec. 4. The judge sided with Mr. Brinkley, saying he had met the burden of proof that he was legally transporting. Mr. Brinkley was found not guilty on all firearms-related charges, including for the “high-capacity” magazines, and he was left with a $50 traffic ticket.
h/t to Dave G
This is essentially the same strategy as was effectively used by their kindred souls in Russia and Germany during the early part of the last century.
WASHINGTON — Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using measurements from NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) revealed.
An international team of scientists used a combination of satellite measurements and models to differentiate between the two known causes of melting ice shelves: warm ocean currents thawing the underbelly of the floating extensions of ice sheets and warm air melting them from above. The finding, published today in the journal Nature, brings scientists a step closer to providing reliable projections of future sea level rise.
NASA – Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ice Loss from Antarctica
Sea ice around Antarctica has been increasing for more than three decades, and was above “normal” every day in 2012. NASA concludes that ocean currents (which they can’t model) are causing ice loss, and that they can predict future sea level rise based on this.
After Sandy hit and people in New York were freezing in the dark and unable to obtain fuel, Mayor Bloomberg called for restrictions on fossil fuels and higher prices.
After the massacre of defenseless adults and schoolchildren at a gun free zone in Sandy Hook, Mayor Bloomberg called for more gun-free zones full of defenseless adults and schoolchildren. The Journal News then published a complete list of all gun-free households in several counties, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk.
These people are dangerously stupid and insane.
Law enforcement officials from a New York region where a local paper published a map identifying gun owners say prisoners are using the information to intimidate guards.
Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco, who spoke at a news conference flanked by other county officials, said the Journal News’ decision to post an online map of names and addresses of handgun owners Dec. 23 has put law enforcement officers in danger.
“They have inmates coming up to them and telling them exactly where they live. That’s not acceptable to me,” Falco said,
Robert Riley, an officer with the White Plains Police Department and president of its Patrolman’s Benevolent Association, agreed.
“You have guys who work in New York City who live up here. Now their names and addresses are out there, too,” he said adding that there are 8,000 active and retired NYPD officers currently living in Rockland County
Inmates using newspaper’s gun owner map to threaten guards, sheriff says | Fox News
h/t to Dave G
David Appell has spammed about three dozen times
Where is the proof of your claim that guns “deter tens of millions of potential crimes every year?”
You obviously can’t count events that didn’t happen, but you can estimate. There are about 15,000,000 crimes reported in the US every year. My model very conservatively calculates that there would be twice as many without guns as a deterrent.
Appell’s belief system depends on models which are both unproven and discredited. What a clown.
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You are more than twice as likely to be killed by someone hitting you with their fist, as you are from being shot by a rifle. Hands need to be banned.
More people are killed in the US by bad drivers every three days, than by rifles during an entire year.
You are more likely to be killed by a hammer than by a rifle, yet mental midgets like Feinstein and Bloomberg are out to ban rifles.
Chicago Has Tough Gun Laws, But Leads Nation in Gun Violence
Despite the city’s efforts to ban semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, the weapons frequently used in Chicago — which had 506 homicides in 2012 — are handguns, which are rarely purchased through legal channels.
Chicago has tough gun laws, but leads nation in gun violence | Fox News
The presence of legal guns owned by honest citizens is a massive deterrent to crime, but our brainless elected officials are determined to take that away from us.
(Who is electing brainless politicians???)
