Parkland Shooting: Did Obama-Era School Discipline Policies Enable It? | National Review

Parkland Shooting: Did Obama-Era School Discipline Policies Enable It? | National Review:

"Broward County had adopted guidelines designed in part to limit law-enforcement involvement with students, even those who posed a threat.
The closer you look at the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., the more you realize that it might have been one of the most preventable significant crimes in recent American history. We’re familiar by now with the government’s sins of omission — how it failed to act time and again in the face of evidence that the shooter presented a clear and present danger to the public.
But how about a sin of commission? Did an Obama-era policy designed to reduce the “school-to-prison pipeline” prevent police from using available tools that could have stopped the shooting?"

The Destroyer of Worlds | The Z Blog

The Destroyer of Worlds | The Z Blog: 
"...A big part of this lunacy is the fact that the Left was sure that Trump could not win the election. 
It’s not that they were sure they had the better choice. 

It was that they were completely convinced that there were no circumstances where Trump could become President. 
They were so sure, in fact, that they had all of official Washington convinced of this as well. 
A month before the election there was no one in either party talking about a Trump victory. 
In fact, the topic of debate was the size and scope of the Clinton victory.
...Of course, in a world where the scrupulous following of protocol is essential to maintaining the status quo, a break down in the rules puts everyone at risk. 
That seems to be Trump’s game here with the spying charges. 
The establishment has tossed out the rules in their effort to attack him, so he is threatening to further bust up the system, which works to his favor and to their disadvantage. it’s a foolish game the Left has decided to play as they have much more to lose in a world without rules.
...That’s probably why he went nuclear over the weekend. 
He’s looking around at a city full of crooked politicians calling for investigations so he is turning the table and threatening to open the investigation up to everything. 
Imagine Trump coming out and asking for a special prosecutor to look into Obama, Clinton, the IRS people, the DOJ and maybe even the FBI itself. 
There’s a lot of people in Washington with a lot to hide and Trump certainly knows it, which is why he is going on the attack over the tapping of his offices.
A long time ago I pointed out that Trump was The Mule, the character from the Asimov novels. Trump is the destroyer of worlds, not because he has some grand vision of the future and wants to plow under the existing order to make room for his utopia. 
He is the destroyer because the old order can only exist if Trump does not exist. 
His rise to the White House is the nullification of the established order. 
It’s why Washington is going for total war to destroy him. 
They see it is a matter of survival.
It’s probably too late. 
The Mule has arrived."

Venezuela bans private gun ownership - BBC News

Venezuela bans private gun ownership - BBC News:
June 1, 2012
The government implemented a gun amnesty ahead of the introduction of the new law
Venezuela has brought a new gun law into effect which bans the commercial sale of firearms and ammunition.

...Under the new law, only the army, police and certain groups like security companies will be able to buy arms from the state-owned weapons manufacturer and importer.
The ban is the latest attempt by the government to improve security and cut crime ahead of elections in October.
...The government has been running a gun amnesty in the run-up to the introduction of the new law to try to encourage people to give up their illegal arms without fear of consequences.
Analysis---By Sarah GraingerBBC News, Caracas
Besides the health of President Chavez, security is the main concern for voters ahead of presidential elections in October.
While voters don't seem to hold Mr Chavez responsible for the insecurity, the situation has worsened throughout his 13 years in office.
...Criminal violence is set to be a major issue in presidential elections later in the year..."
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And this:
Crime in Venezuela...which has the second highest murder rate in the world

2018----"Crime in Venezuela is widespread, with violent crimes such as murder and kidnapping often increasing annually. The United Nations has attributed crime to the poor political and economic environment in the country,^[1][2] which has the second highest murder rate in the world.^[3][4] Crime has grown so pervasive in Venezuela that the military is ordered to avoid public places during nighttime hours since criminals often attempt to steal their weapons, with robberies in the country often targeting unaware individuals using a kill first, steal later method.^[5]

Rates of crime increased rapidly during the presidency of Hugo Chávez..."

AM Fruitcake

History for March 6

History for March 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475, Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806, Ed McMahon 1923
 

Leroy Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper 1927, Marion Barry 1936, Shaquille O'Neal 1972 - Basketball player


1820 - The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.


1836 - The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.


1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.


1899 - Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.


1960 - Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.
1960?!!

1960 - The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.


1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.


1992 - The last episode of "The Cosby Show" aired. The show had been on since September of 1984.

Violent criminals among illegal immigrants caught in California raid derailed by Dem mayor | Fox News

Violent criminals among illegal immigrants caught in California raid derailed by Dem mayor | Fox News:

"Of those 232, 180 “were either convicted criminals, had been issued a final order of removal and failed to depart the United States, or had been previously removed” from the country and had come back illegally.
The arrests included 115 who "had prior felony convictions for serious or violent offenses, such as child sex crimes, weapons charges and assault, or had past convictions for significant or multiple misdemeanors."
The numbers might have been greater, but for the intervention of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who tweeted out a warning of the impending raid, tipping off others who might have been caught."

The way we were-----The Ronettes - BE MY BABY

Boob-tube-----MY LITTLE MARGIE TV SHOW - 1955

Buss: The condoning of cowardice

Buss: The condoning of cowardice: 
"...Qualities traditionally considered “good” — bravery, sacrifice, even just fulfillment of basic job duties — are apparently no longer necessary in the face of evil. 
Instead, some thought leaders tell us that we’re not to go too hard on those who display cowardice and fear. 
...Something has changed following Parkland. 
The overwhelming narrative has been to assign moral agency to inanimate objects: the guns. Everybody else, and the morality of their action or inaction, is somehow irrelevant.
...one Parkland student David Hogg defended the inaction. 
And while he’s only one student, the predictably disappointing cable news media have made his point of view the defining meme for the moment.
Peterson, “just like every other police officer out there at heart — is a good person. 
...Peterson’s rectitude has been defended by others who claim that the “good guy with a gun” couldn’t stop the bad guy with a gun, and therefore armed officers aren’t the answer to stopping school shootings. 
But he doesn’t get to be the “good” guy with the gun unless he had proven he was willing to actually be good. 
That involves going to every length to stop the shooter and protect students — his most basic duty.
Otherwise he’s just a guy with a gun.
...So now a growing number of Americans seem comfortable with the position that courage and bravery are hard qualities to live by, and so, not expected even in an instance that cries out for them. 
We’re willing to give a pass to those too cowardly to stop evil, even if it comes in the form of an AR-15.
It’s a downright terrifying prospect for our future. 
Because no matter how hard gun control advocates want a world in which no one has guns, and no one is evil, that world will never exist. 
We will always need good guys — those who are actually “good” — to stop the bad."
Read it all!

SO MUCH WINNING: The United States will dominate the oil industry for the next 5 years...

Instapundit » Blog Archive » SO MUCH WINNING: The United States will dominate the oil industry for the next 5 years, Internation…:
"SO MUCH WINNING: The United States will dominate the oil industry for the next 5 years, International Energy Agency forecasts. 
“Oil demand will keep expanding over the next five years, and the United States will fulfill most of the world’s growing appetite, the International Energy Agency said on Monday. . . . The IEA projects the United States will pump 17 million barrels a day of crude oil, condensates and natural gas liquids, easily defending its title as the world’s top producer of petroleum products.”

"I remember when Barack Obama mocked Sarah Palin for suggesting that we could “drill our way out” of our energy problems.
You know, kinda like he mocked Trump for suggesting he could bring back manufacturing, or when he mocked Romney for suggesting that the Russians were a threat."---Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

NYC Homeless Staying In Shelters Longer | The Daily Caller

NYC Homeless Staying In Shelters Longer | The Daily Caller:

"Homeless persons in New York City on average stayed nearly 100 days longer in shelters in 2017 than four years ago, according to an upcoming report from the Manhattan Institute.
Under Mayor Bill de Blasio, the average adult homeless person stayed in the shelter for 383 days in 2017 compared to the 293-day average stay in 2013.
“The more comfortable an adult or a family feels in a temporary housing situation, the weaker the motivation could become to move back into the community,” Stephen Eide, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told the New York Post, which first reported on Manhattan Institute’s study expected to be released this week."

Tariffs on steel, aluminum are long overdue - MarketWatch

Tariffs on steel, aluminum are long overdue - MarketWatch
"Yesterday, President Donald Trump said that he has decided to impose tariffs of 25% on all steel imports and 10% on aluminum imports, promising to sign the measures next week. Trade remedies for steel and aluminum are long overdue.

Trump promised quick action after announcing investigations of the national-security threats imposed by steel and aluminum imports nearly a year ago. 

Delays worsened the import crisis for thousands of U.S. steel and aluminum workers, many of whom are facing layoffs and plant-closing announcements.

The crisis in steel and aluminum trade is driven by the development of massive amounts of excess production capacity, which has led to import dumping by China and a number of other countries singled out in the Commerce Department’s reports on its Section 232 investigations into the impact of imports of steel and aluminum products on national security.

The United States is the world largest importer of steel, and imports exceed exports by nearly four to one. 

Ten steel furnaces have closed since 2000, and we have lost 52,000 U.S. steelmaking jobs (37.8%) since January 2000..."

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China is selling a lot of steel to third countries, which then process the steel into products sold into the United States.

State Dept. Was Granted $120 Million to Fight Russian Meddling. It Has Spent $0. - The New York Times

State Dept. Was Granted $120 Million to Fight Russian Meddling. It Has Spent $0. - The New York Times:
"WASHINGTON — As Russia’s virtual war against the United States continues unabated with the midterm elections approaching, the State Department has yet to spend any of the $120 million it has been allocated since late 2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy.
As a result, not one of the 23 analysts working in the department’s Global Engagement Center — which has been tasked with countering Moscow’s disinformation campaign — speaks Russian, and a department hiring freeze has hinde  red efforts to recruit the computer experts needed to track the Russian efforts.
...The United States spends billions of dollars on secret cybercapabilities, but these weapons have proved largely ineffective against Russian efforts on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere that simply amplify or distort divisive but genuine voices in the United States and elsewhere.
...On Wednesday, Mark E. Mitchell, a top official in the Defense Department, said much wrangling remained before any of the promised $40 million is transferred to the State Department.
“We’re still a ways off,” Mr. Mitchell said..."
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Lunch video-----Dom Raso: Truth is They Want to Ban Every Gun

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Andres Anduaga, Mexican man, assumed identity of U.S. citizen Abraham Riojos for 37 years - Washington Times

Andres Anduaga, Mexican man, assumed identity of U.S. citizen Abraham Riojos for 37 years - Washington Times:

"SAN DIEGO — California court records show a Mexican man assumed the identity of an American citizen and received more than $360,000 in U.S. government benefits for nearly four decades.
Documents obtained by the San Diego Union-Tribune reveal Andres Anduaga used a fake birth certificate in 1980 to develop a seemingly legitimate persona by applying for a California driver’s license, Social Security number and U.S. passport. The official U.S. documents identified him as Abraham Riojos, born in Texas in 1958."

20 New Science Papers Find Climate is Driven by Solar Changes | Principia Scientific International

20 New Science Papers Find Climate is Driven by Solar Changes | Principia Scientific International
"Earlier this month, the first installment in the accumulating list of hundreds of new peer-reviewed scientific papers supporting a skeptical position on climate change alarm was made available. Included on the list were 38 papers linking climate changes to solar forcing: 38 Sun-Climate Scientific Papers, January-March 2017

Just in the last few weeks alone, another 20 scientific papers were identified which link solar variations to climate changes, which means 58 papers have already been published in 2017.

20 New Sun-Climate Papers

High Solar Activity (Warming), High Crop Yields – Low Solar Activity (Cooling), Low Crop Yields

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1. Huhtamaa and Helama, 2017

...“The rapid mid-15th century cooling, which followed a major atmospheric circulation change over the North Atlantic (Dawson et al., 2007; Meeker and Mayewski, 2002) and coincided with the culmination of the Spörer solar minimum (Miyahara et al., 2006), has been evidenced in various summer and winter season reconstructions of the region (Haltia-Hovi et al., 2007; Helama et al., 2009b; Klimenko and Solomina, 2010; Luoto and Helama, 2010; Zhang et al., 2015).”

“The culmination of the ‘LIA’ [Little Ice Age] in Finland has been commonly dated to the late 17th and early 18th centuries ad (Luoto, 2013; Luoto and Helama, 2010; Tiljander et al., 2003), which is synchronous with the onset of the phase of the lowest yield ratios in our reconstruction. The Maunder solar minima (c. 1645–1715) and several volcanic eruptions preceded the culmination (Shindell et al., 2003).”..."
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#1 Movie this week 1983-----TOOTSIE - Trailer ( 1982 )

The NHTSA Says Electric Vehicles Can No Longer Stay Silent at Low Speeds

The NHTSA Says Electric Vehicles Can No Longer Stay Silent at Low Speeds: 
"A new ruling mandates that, by 2019, electric and hybrid cars must emit artificial sounds so pedestrians, cyclists, and the blind can better detect these ultraquiet machines. 
...The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates the added noise will prevent 2400 pedestrian injuries each year after September 1, 2020, when every new hybrid and EV must be equipped to make sounds. 
Automakers must equip at least half of such models by September 2019. 
Only vehicles under 10,000 pounds GVWR are included; electrified motorcycles, three-wheelers, and medium- and heavy-duty trucks are exempt. 
Want more logic? 
Gasoline and diesel vehicles with auto stop/start systems aren’t required to make extra sounds while stationary, while EVs and hybrids must..."
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#1 This day 1967-----Love is Here and Now You're Gone - The Supremes

Seattle task force recommends ‘head tax’ to fund help for homeless | The Seattle Times

Seattle task force recommends ‘head tax’ to fund help for homeless | The Seattle Times
"A Seattle task force is recommending the City Council adopt a $75 million-per-year “head tax” on high-grossing businesses to help address homelessness.
Members of the community panel set up by the council reached consensus during their last meeting Thursday after about two months of work.
...Under the November proposal, the city would have taken 6.5 cents per employee, per hour, from companies grossing more than $10 million per year.
...With representatives from nonprofits, advocacy groups and businesses, the task force was told to consider “new progressive revenue sources,” including a head tax (also called an employee-hours tax) capable of raising $25 million to $75 million a year.
By choosing the high end of that range, the panel is recommending a tax that would yield three times more than what the council turned down a few months ago
The panel, co-chaired by Councilmembers M. Lorena González and Lisa Herbold, is recommending the council dedicate about 80 percent of the tax money to low-income housing and about 20 percent to emergency shelter and services...."
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You ought to know!

NYT Reports On Gang Violence In Sweden | The Daily Caller

NYT Reports On Gang Violence In Sweden | The Daily Caller:

"The New York Times published a report Sunday on Sweden’s growing problem with immigrant gangs — more than a year after the paper chided President Donald Trump for calling attention to the same worrisome development.
Entitled “Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class,” the report examines how weapons of war and clan-like violence have accompanied an influx of immigrants from certain parts of Europe and the greater Middle East."

The History of the 'Assault Weapon' Hoax. Part 1: The Crime that Started it All - Volokh Conspiracy : Reason.com

The History of the 'Assault Weapon' Hoax. Part 1: The Crime that Started it All - Volokh Conspiracy : Reason.com:
"The "assault weapon" controversy first became a national issue in January 1989, when a career criminal murdered five children at school playground in Stockton, California.
The failures of law enforcement before and during that crime—and the media and political failures thereafter—were similar to those related to the recent murders in Parkland, Florida. 
These failures are part of the reason why school shootings, and other mass attacks, persist in the United States today.

• This article is the first in a series detailing the "assault weapon" hoax from 1989 to the present.

The Stockton perpetrator, had whose name I won't repeat, had a difficult start in life.
...In a period of about two to five minutes (reports vary), he fired around 105 shots.
He hit 37 people, including one adult; five children were killed.
The police arrived five minutes after he had begun shooting.
By that point, he had killed himself.
The Stockton murderer could have been stopped before he started if the government had enforced existing criminal laws or had used existing laws to commit and provide mental health treatment for a plainly disturbed and imminently dangerous individual.
The same has been true for many subsequent mass killers.
In an article for the Howard Law Journal, Clayton Cramer I detail other notorious homicides, including mass shootings, that could have been prevented if existing laws had been used to commit and treat people who were well-known to be severely and dangerously mentally ill.
...Part of the problem was apparently that the Broward Sheriff, and the school administration, were diligently implementing the Obama administration's demand to shut down the "school to prison pipeline," by not arresting students...

• The next article in the series will examine the rifle the Stockton criminal used, and the misinformation that was spread about it.
• Future articles, will examine more of the past and present media inaccuracy about so-called "assault weapons," the many libels against law-abiding gun owners, and media coverage that has the effect of inciting copycats.

And of course the 1989 and 2018 stories of Presidents who imagined that they could find political advantage by breaking their campaign promises and betraying the people who elected them."
Read it all!

AM Fruitcake

History for March 5

History for March 5 - On-This-Day.com:
Gerhardus Mercator 1512 - Flemish mapmaker, William Oughtred 1575 - Mathematician, credited with inventing the slide rule, Antoine Cadillac 1658 - Founder of Detroit, MI


Rex Harrison 1908 - Actor, Penn Jillett 1955 - Magician (Penn and Teller), Andy Gibb 1958 - Singer


1624 - In the American colony of Virginia, the upper class was exempted from whipping by legislation.


1770 - "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter.


1836 - Samuel Colt's Patent Arms Manufacturing of Paterson, New Jersey, was chartered by the New Jersey legislature.


1842 - A Mexican force of over 500 men under Rafael Vasquez invaded Texas for the first time since the revolution. They briefly occupied San Antonio, but soon headed back to the Rio Grande.


1922 - "Annie Oakley" (Phoebe Ann Moses) broke all existing records for women's trap shooting. She hit 98 out of 100 targets.


1933 - The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections.


1946 - Winston Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain Speech".


1953 - Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died. He had been in power for 29 years.

Senator seeks answers on why FBI waited weeks to act on Weiner laptop in Clinton case | Fox News

Senator seeks answers on why FBI waited weeks to act on Weiner laptop in Clinton case | Fox News:

"A Republican senator is pressing for answers on why the FBI waited weeks to act after the 2016 discovery of thousands of emails on ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop that potentially were relevant to the Hillary Clinton email investigation. 
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., fired off a letter Thursday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asking about the timeline, citing texts between two key FBI investigators.
The messages, first reported by The Wall Street Journal in late January, indicate that top bureau officials were aware of the discovery of thousands of emails from Weiner well before the FBI sought a search warrant in late October, and effectively revived the Clinton probe right before the election. "

The way we were-----The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Boob-tube-----70's News Bloopers