Some facts on guns, and who uses them to ill effect

Elsewhere, I’ve read that if we subtracted out the blue-state-shithole stats, our murder rate as a country wouldn’t be that much different than it is in Europe…if anything, it might actually be lower. Chicago, Baltimore, and the rest, however, are blowing the average out of the water:

America Doesn’t Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Democrat Problem

America’s mass shooting capital isn’t somewhere out west where you can get a gun at the corner store. It’s in Obama’s own hometown.

Chicago is America’s mass shooting capital. There were over 400 shootings with more than one victim. In 95 of those shootings, 3 or more people were shot.

2,995 people were shot in Chicago last year. Shootings were up, way up, in Baltimore. With an assist from Al Sharpton and #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore beat out Detroit. But Detroit is still in the running. Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit all have something in common, they’re all run by the party of gun control which somehow can’t seem to manage to control the criminals who have the guns.

The murder rate in Washington, D.C., home of the progressive boys and girls who can solve it all, is up 54%. The capital of the national bureaucracy has also been the country’s murder capital.

These cities are the heartland of America’s real gun culture. It isn’t the bitter gun-and-bible clingers in McCain and Romney territory who are racking up a more horrifying annual kill rate than Al Qaeda; it’s Obama’s own voting base.

Gun violence is at its worst in the cities that Obama won in 2012. Places like New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, St. Louis, Kansas City and Philly. The Democrats are blaming Republicans for the crimes of their own voters.

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Scott Alfter

8 Jan 2016

This one’s for Marion:

A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the water’s edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the paper reports “The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto their backs.

— Audubon Society Magazine

Make tumors glow to aid in their removal

An interesting new find that should improve the odds of surviving cancer by getting more of the tumor out:

Injectable Agent Illuminates Cancer During Surgery

Doctors have tested a new injectable agent that causes cancer cells in a tumor to fluoresce, potentially increasing a surgeon’s ability to locate and remove all of a cancerous tumor on the first attempt.

Defy America, Pay No Price

Did anyone think the elevation of some shitty two-bit community agitator to de facto Leader of the Free World would work out any differently? The world has taken 0bama’s measure and found him wanting. We are all less safe as a result:

Iran Nuclear Deal & Iranian Regional Hegemony

Obama is not enforcing the terms of the Iranian nuke deal — and Iran is emboldened as a result.

Scott Alfter

6 Jan 2016

Quoted for truth.

Scott Alfter

6 Jan 2016

Hardly anybody out here tonight…people must be worried about getting wet. (It only just started raining now, as I’m about to head out.)

She could’ve just said “SJWs always project.” It would’ve been shorter.

Bill and Hillary Clinton ought to be radioactive to any of the usual suspects who screech on about “rape culture,” but consistency has never been their strong suit:

Coulter Lambastes Media Over Epstein Rape Case: This Is What Media Thought UVA Rape Case Was

Ann Coulter says the Epstein rape case is “not just a Clinton sex scandal,” but the “elites” “covering up and protecting one another.” “This is what MSNBC and the rest of the networks have been describing what they thought these fraternities, what they thought the [Duke] lacrosse rape [case was],” Coulter said on FOX News’ Hannity. This is the elites circling the wagon and protecting a pederast. It’s a shocking case and that’s just the known facts.”