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It's The Gun's Fault

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:55:20 AM
   After a shooting in downtown New York between a street vendor and the police, Mayor Bloomberg got to get on his soap box about illegal guns. It is not clear how the guy got the gun, but if guns were made illegal clearly there would be no violence, at least in Bloombergs reality.
 
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was asked about the shooting while appearing at a Manhattan charity event and used the chance to discuss one of his signature issues -- illegal firearms and gun violence in New York and other big cities.

"We've got to stop this," Bloomberg said. "This is one of the great public health threats. And our police officers are clearly in danger."
 
   Guns are a public health threat in Bloomberg's eyes; not the lunatic gunman. Just another flawed arguement about how if we took the gun away, people wouldn't do awful things with them. And in some ways he is right. There would be less 'gun' violence. But clearly, there would would be more knife violence, baseball bat violence, and whatever else that could be used as a weapon. Twist it any way you want, but Bloomberg seems to be missing the point, as some many people are who want to take your guns. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Seems cliche, but it is still the truth.
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Playing With The Word 'Nazi'

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:15:06 AM
   Lord Monckton, a climate skeptic, told some greenies they are like the Nazi youth. One of the girls in the video even confronted him, asking that he stop calling them nazis. There is little I hate more than the easy use of the word nazi.to describe someone or something. There was only one regime in this world that were the nazi's. As Dennis Prager has said on his radio show, use of that word demeans its value. People are throwing that word around now like the F-word was used on the Soprano's.
 
   The fact is, the nutters used this word a lot when Bush was in office, and some who are on the right side are starting to use it. But for someone to use it for anything other than describing the Third Riech, well, is hateful and childish. This does not help our cause.
 
   Here is the video:

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CLimate Money Everywhere

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, December 12, 2009 10:23:03 AM
   Here is an article from NRO contributor Christopher C. Horner about the new Kyotohagen treaty, the leaked documents, and where the money is going.
 
   Some third world nations are upset following some leaked documents out of the U.N. showing a possible transfer of the Copenhagen climate money to the World Bank. And as it is written, they are beginning to see that they actually may have to reduce their emissions. that But as Horner explains, they have little to worry about.
 
Even on its own terms, the draft’s obligations are unimpressive. By committing selected developing countries to the gauzy notion of “nationally appropriate mitigation actions,” and making clear that these will be underwritten by the rest of us, it amounts to a largely free lunch. Nor does the document assign any figures for emissions reductions (even rigged ones), if only for the purpose of negotiating leverage or applying pressure through the leaked document. The countries now squealing about the prospect of having to do anything emissions-wise are expected to do so voluntarily, and need only lift the enormous bags of money parachuted out of our C-130s.
 
   Once again, it's always about the money, and we will be forced to give them ours.

 
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Transfering The Wealth Through Environmentalism

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, December 11, 2009 10:54:21 AM
   Charles Krauthammer has an article out in the Washington Post today discussing the new global wealth transfer: environmentalism.
 
The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.
 
One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in the tristes tropiques.
 
Politically it's an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man's guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt. But the idea of shaking down the industrial democracies in the name of the environment thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts of Copenhagen. It thrives on the national scale, too.
 
   I like the use of the color metaphor:
 
Socialism having failed so spectacularly, the left was adrift until it struck upon a brilliant gambit: metamorphosis from red to green. The cultural elites went straight from the memorial service for socialism to the altar of the environment. The objective is the same: highly centralized power given to the best and the brightest, the new class of experts, managers and technocrats. This time, however, the alleged justification is not abolishing oppression and inequality but saving the planet.
 
   The interesting thing is, socialism might have failed but many still are trying to make it work. Either way, as I have said many times, if the U.N. is involved, they are simply looking to grab the power and the money.
   
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