Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Yes, they do want to take your guns away!-----House Democrats introduce bill prohibiting sale of semi-automatic weapons
"House Democrats have introduced a bill banning semi-automatic firearms in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., announced Monday he is introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018. More than 150 Democrats have signed on in support of the legislation, Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., said.
...The bill prohibits the “sale, transfer, production, and importation” of
- semi-automatic rifles and pistols that can hold a detachable magazine,
- as well as semi-automatic rifles with a magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds.
Cicilline’s legislation names 205 specific firearms that are prohibited, including the AK-47 and AR-15..."
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Obamacare: 20 states file lawsuit to kill health care law, citing Trump mandate repeal - Washington Times
Obamacare: 20 states file lawsuit to kill health care law, citing Trump mandate repeal - Washington Times:
"Twenty states filed a lawsuit Monday arguing the new law President Trump signed last year revoking Obamacare’s individual mandate actually makes the rest of the 2010 health law unconstitutional as well.
Led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, the lawsuit says the individual mandate — upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012 — was the crux of the Affordable Care Act’s legality.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts ruled that the mandate — and thus most of the ACA — was constitutional under Congress’s taxing powers. But the attorneys general say if the government isn’t collection money under the mandate, it’s not using the taxing power, so the law no longer has legal underpinnings."
"Twenty states filed a lawsuit Monday arguing the new law President Trump signed last year revoking Obamacare’s individual mandate actually makes the rest of the 2010 health law unconstitutional as well.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts ruled that the mandate — and thus most of the ACA — was constitutional under Congress’s taxing powers. But the attorneys general say if the government isn’t collection money under the mandate, it’s not using the taxing power, so the law no longer has legal underpinnings."
How Often Do Citizens Use Guns to Stop Violence? - Just Facts
How Often Do Citizens Use Guns to Stop Violence? - Just Facts: "...In 2013, President Obama ordered the Department of Health and Human Services and CDC to “conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it.”
In response, the CDC asked the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council to “convene a committee of experts to develop a potential research agenda focusing on the public health aspects of firearm-related violence….”
This committee studied the issue of defensive gun use and reported:
- “Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed….”
- “Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million….”
- [S]ome scholars point to a radically lower estimate of only 108,000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey,” but this “estimate of 108,000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.”
- “Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was ‘used’ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies….”
Much here, read on!
History for February 28
History for February 28 - On-This-Day.com:
Mary Lyon 1797 - Educator, founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary (later Mt. Holyoke College), Sir John Tenniel 1820 - Cartoonist, illustrator, Ben Hecht 1894 - Novelist, scriptwriter, playwright
Linus Pauling 1901 - Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954, Nobel peace prize winner in 1962, Earl Scheib 1907, Milton Caniff 1907 - Cartoonist
1885 - AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) was incorporated. The company was capitalized on only $100,000 and provided long distance service for American Bell.
1940 - The first televised basketball game was shown. The game featured Fordham University and the University of Pittsburgh from Madison Square Gardens in New York.
1951 - A Senate committee issued a report that stated that there were at least two major crime syndicates in the U.S.
1953 - In a Cambridge University laboratory, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.
1979 - Mr. Ed, the talking horse from the TV show "Mr. Ed", died.
1983 - "M*A*S*H" became the most watched television program in history when the final episode aired.
1993 - U.S. Federal agents raided the compound of an armed religious cult in Waco, TX. The ATF had planned to arrest the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, on federal firearms charges. Four agents and six Davidians were killed and a 51-day standoff followed.
2013 - Benedict XVI resigned as pope. He was the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415 and the first to resign voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Lawsuit: 100,000 noncitizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania - Washington Times
Lawsuit: 100,000 noncitizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania - Washington Times:
"More than 100,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in Pennsylvania alone, according to testimony submitted Monday in a lawsuit demanding the state come clean about the extent of its problems.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, which has identified similar noncitizen voting problems in studies of Virginia and New Jersey, said Pennsylvania officials have admitted noncitizens have been registering and voting in the state “for decades.”"
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, which has identified similar noncitizen voting problems in studies of Virginia and New Jersey, said Pennsylvania officials have admitted noncitizens have been registering and voting in the state “for decades.”"
USDA: 35,891 Retailers Engaged in Food Stamp Fraud
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has published a report estimating that 35,891 food retailers around the country engaged in food stamp fraud, illegally “trafficking” more than $1 billion in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits annually over the three-year period from 2012 through 2014.
“Retailer trafficking of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits occurs primarily when SNAP recipients sell their benefits for cash to food retailers, often at a discount,” the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service said in a summary of the report..."
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760-mph Hyperloop transit system considers Detroit-Chicago route | MLive.com
"A California-based company is in talks with Michigan transportation officials to consider whether Detroit could be a potential stop for a futuristic transportation system.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) is looking to create a high-speed tube-based transportation system from Cleveland to Chicago that would theoretically reach speeds up to 760 miles per hour.
"Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has reached out to us regarding the feasibility of a Detroit to Chicago line," said a Michigan Department of Transportation spokesperson in an email.
...Hyperloop, "faster and easier to board than a commercial airplane," seeks to solve traffic congestion and mobility problems, by bringing airplane speeds to ground level, with passengers and cargo capsules hovering through a network of low-pressure tubes, according to HTT.
The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) and HTT signed a public-private partnership agreement to begin a $1.2-million feasibility study in the region that will take six to nine months.
The futuristic transportation system would transform commutes from hours to minutes, the company claims..."
Read on!Feminist PANICS After Dana Loesch Suggests Women Who Carry Guns Are Harder To Rape | Daily Wire
Feminist PANICS After Dana Loesch Suggests Women Who Carry Guns Are Harder To Rape | Daily Wire:
"Feminist author and blogger Jessica Valenti was disappointed to learn, Wednesday night, that some women find arming themselves a useful way of protecting themselves against sexual predators.
Actually, that's putting it mildly. Valenti panicked after hearing National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch suggest that the Second Amendment is a helpful tool in preventing violence against women, and launched into a four-tweet diatribe about how women are all going to be dead as a result of being armed."
Actually, that's putting it mildly. Valenti panicked after hearing National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch suggest that the Second Amendment is a helpful tool in preventing violence against women, and launched into a four-tweet diatribe about how women are all going to be dead as a result of being armed."
DAX Slides After German Top Court Rules Cities Can Ban Diesel Cars | Zero Hedge
DAX Slides After German Top Court Rules Cities Can Ban Diesel Cars | Zero Hedge:
"The DAX legged lower, led by sliding shares of Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler after Germany’s top administrative court ruled German cities have the right to ban diesel cars, a move which could have far-reaching consequences for the 12 million vehicles in Europe’s largest auto market, the FT reported.
The national court in Leipzig upheld earlier decisions from lower courts in Stuttgart and Düsseldorf, which had allowed the bans.
Those rulings had been appealed amid legal uncertainty over whether municipalities have the power to make such restrictions.
Prior to the ruling, Bloomberg predicted that if the court backs the city-level diesel bans, it would likely jump-start a wave of new policies targeting the fuel..."
The national court in Leipzig upheld earlier decisions from lower courts in Stuttgart and Düsseldorf, which had allowed the bans.
Those rulings had been appealed amid legal uncertainty over whether municipalities have the power to make such restrictions.
Prior to the ruling, Bloomberg predicted that if the court backs the city-level diesel bans, it would likely jump-start a wave of new policies targeting the fuel..."
Incompetence Wasn't the Problem in Broward County
Incompetence Wasn't the Problem in Broward County:
"...I detailed some of this last week in an article on what one public interest magazine called the "Broward County solution."
In Broward County, they call it more modestly the "PROMISE Program."
As an attached Associated Press article noted, "One of the nation's largest school districts has reached an agreement with law enforcement agencies and the NAACP to reduce the number of students being charged with crimes for minor offenses."
The goal, as the article explained, was to create an alternative to the zero-tolerance policies then in place by giving principals, not law enforcement, the authority to determine the nature of the offense.
...Although nonsensical on the face of it – one is hard pressed to recall a crime spree by the disabled – this language opened the door for Nikolas de Jesus Cruz.
An adopted son of the late Roger and Linda Cruz, the future school shooter had a name that fit the "metrics" of the collaborative agreement, regardless of his DNA.
It is not hard to understand why Broward County officials would be eager to adopt this program. Miami-Dade had been receiving all kinds of honors for its efforts to shut down the dread "school-to-prison" pipeline.
On February 15, 2012, Miami-Dade County Public Schools put out a press release citing a commendation the Miami-Dade Schools Police (M-DSPD) had recently received.
The Department of Juvenile Justice had singled out Miami-Dade for "dramatically decreasing" school-related "delinquency."
Said M-DSPD Chief Charles Hurley, "Our mantra is education not incarceration."...
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"...I detailed some of this last week in an article on what one public interest magazine called the "Broward County solution."
In Broward County, they call it more modestly the "PROMISE Program."
In November 2013, Sundance first reported that Broward County was "willing to jump on the diversionary bandwagon."
As an attached Associated Press article noted, "One of the nation's largest school districts has reached an agreement with law enforcement agencies and the NAACP to reduce the number of students being charged with crimes for minor offenses." ...Although nonsensical on the face of it – one is hard pressed to recall a crime spree by the disabled – this language opened the door for Nikolas de Jesus Cruz.
An adopted son of the late Roger and Linda Cruz, the future school shooter had a name that fit the "metrics" of the collaborative agreement, regardless of his DNA.
It is not hard to understand why Broward County officials would be eager to adopt this program. Miami-Dade had been receiving all kinds of honors for its efforts to shut down the dread "school-to-prison" pipeline.
On February 15, 2012, Miami-Dade County Public Schools put out a press release citing a commendation the Miami-Dade Schools Police (M-DSPD) had recently received.
The Department of Juvenile Justice had singled out Miami-Dade for "dramatically decreasing" school-related "delinquency."
Said M-DSPD Chief Charles Hurley, "Our mantra is education not incarceration."...
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DOJ Says Atty. Gen. Used Alias to Conduct Official Business to Protect Security, Privacy - Judicial Watch
DOJ Says Atty. Gen. Used Alias to Conduct Official Business to Protect Security, Privacy - Judicial Watch:
"Though the DOJ recently furnished the documents with Lynch’s fake name, the records were part of Judicial Watch’s original 2015 FOIA request. The records also show that then Assistant Attorney General John Carlin touted SCN at an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization. A year later Carlin would launch the Michael Flynn counterintelligence investigation and seek the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant now in question."
"Though the DOJ recently furnished the documents with Lynch’s fake name, the records were part of Judicial Watch’s original 2015 FOIA request. The records also show that then Assistant Attorney General John Carlin touted SCN at an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization. A year later Carlin would launch the Michael Flynn counterintelligence investigation and seek the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant now in question.""A Huge Surprise" --Ultra-Dense Neutron Stars Light Up the Universe: 'A Teaspoon Would Weigh a Billion Tons' - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel
"A Huge Surprise" --Ultra-Dense Neutron Stars Light Up the Universe: 'A Teaspoon Would Weigh a Billion Tons' - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel:
"...Now, a Caltech-led team using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has identified a fourth ULX as being a neutron star -- and found new clues about how these objects can shine so brightly.
Neutron stars are extremely dense objects -- a teaspoon would weigh about a billion tons, or as much as a mountain.
Their gravity pulls surrounding material from companion stars onto them, and as this material is tugged on, it heats up and glows with X-rays.
But as the neutron stars "feed" on the matter, there comes a time when the resulting X-ray light pushes the matter away.
Astronomers call this point -- when the objects cannot accumulate matter any faster and give off any more X-rays -- the Eddington limit..."
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"...Now, a Caltech-led team using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has identified a fourth ULX as being a neutron star -- and found new clues about how these objects can shine so brightly.Neutron stars are extremely dense objects -- a teaspoon would weigh about a billion tons, or as much as a mountain.
Their gravity pulls surrounding material from companion stars onto them, and as this material is tugged on, it heats up and glows with X-rays.
But as the neutron stars "feed" on the matter, there comes a time when the resulting X-ray light pushes the matter away.
Astronomers call this point -- when the objects cannot accumulate matter any faster and give off any more X-rays -- the Eddington limit..."
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Gay U.S. Olympian Asks What 'TF' Ivanka Is Doing at Winter Olympics
Gay U.S. Olympian Asks What 'TF' Ivanka Is Doing at Winter Olympics
Early Sunday morning, Kenworthy tweeted out a picture of his fellow Team USA competitors. Kenworthy wrote, “So proud of all these people! Everybody here has worked so hard to make it to the Olympics and have the opportunity to walk in the closing ceremony! Well… Everyone except Ivanka. Honestly, tf is she doing here??”
Ivanka’s presence at the Winter Olympics is pretty easily explained.
According to the AP, “The elder daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump is watching the closing ceremony in the same box as South Korean President Moon Jae-In and top North Korean official Kim Yong Chol.
She has said the purpose of her visit is to advocate maximum pressure on North Korea to halt its nuclear program...”
Sadly, much more from this moron.
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