Mother Jones: Study Shows Global Warming May Cause More Rape

 

The phenomenon of global warming has been used to explain many things, but now Mother Jones is quoting a study saying it might cause more rapes of women. 

Matthew Ranson, an economist, avers that there is a historical connection between warmer temperatures and increased crime. He said, "Looking at the past, we see a strong relationship between temperature and crime. We think that is likely to continue in the future."

Ranson utilized the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's projections of the effects of global warming in the U.S. to estimate that between 2010 and 2099, warmer temperatures will "cause" an additional "22,000 murders, 180,000 cases of rape, 1.2 million aggravated assaults, 2.3 million simple assaults, 260,000 robberies, 1.3 million burglaries, 2.2 million cases of larceny, and 580,000 cases of vehicle theft."

That amounts to 2.2% more murders and 3.1% more rapes. John Roman, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, agreed with Ranson that the warmer temperatures would indeed be a problem, saying, "To the extent that climate change causes people to be out and interacting more, there will be more crime."

More @ Breitbart

Bull's-eye on bus drivers: 'Are you bleeding?'

Driving a bus is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. The danger doesn’t come from accidents, but from the violence directed at bus drivers who say it is an everyday part of their lives when they are behind the wheel.

And an overwhelming amount of that lawlessness is black mob violence, black-on-white crime or comes from black people.

One of the latest – and most vicious – attacks came Tuesday in Olympia, Wash. And it is caught on video: All 28 punches to the driver’s face when he was largely defenseless.

The video begins with the driver telling Kiel Duggins to leave the bus because he is harassing passengers and using abusive language. Duggins refuses: “I have the right to hit you in the face,” he said. “And fight to the death.”

More @ WND

Court: School OK to Ban Flag Shirts on Cinco de Mayo

 

A Northern California high school's decision to order students wearing American flag T-shirts to turn the garments inside out during a celebration of the holiday Cinco de Mayo was appropriate, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the school officials' concerns of racial violence outweighed students' freedom of expression rights. Administrators feared the American-flag shirts would enflame the passions of Latino students celebrating the Mexican holiday. Live Oak High School, in the San Jose suburb of Morgan Hill, had a history of problems between white and Latino students on that day.

More @ Newsmax

Smart Meters

Via Adam

Federal Reserve's Yellen: Congress Should Look at Bitcoin Regulation

Gee, how surprised we are............

The U.S. Congress should look into legal options for regulating virtual currencies such as bitcoin, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Thursday.

Japan-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox went dark on Tuesday, leaving customers unable to access their accounts. Experts have warned they might not have much recourse to recover their money.

Yellen said the Fed had no jurisdiction over bitcoins, which are created using a network of computers that solve complex mathematical problems and are not traded or held by banks.

More @ Newsmax

Spike Lee Voices Profane, Segregationist Rant Against Whites

Via Billy

One can only imagine the understandable outrage of the mainstream media had the races in this diatribe been reversed. 

 Filmmaker Spike Lee recently made some shocking remarks regarding the influx of white residents into traditionally black neighborhoods. Decades after the American civil rights movement marked the end of our shameful segregation policy, Lee apparently wants to bring back the institution by keeping Caucasians out of his New York neighborhood.

His lengthy rant, complete with the liberal use of profanity, left little doubt that he wants to maintain exclude whites “in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights” and other traditionally black communities.

“You can’t just come in the neighborhood and start bogarting and say, like you’re [expletive] Columbus and kill off the Native Americans,” he said. Lee asserted that whites bring with them their culture and effectively ruin the experience of being black in such neighborhoods.

More @ Western Journalism

Alabama Senate: no more alcohol, tobacco, strippers or gambling with welfare checks

Via Billy

Several other welfare reform bills passed by the Senate on Wednesday including:

• SB63, sponsored by Sen. Trip Pittman, R-Montrose, which allows for drug testing in instances where welfare applicants have a prior drug conviction.

• SB87, sponsored by Sen. Bryan Taylor, R-Prattville, which requires able-bodied adult food stamp recipients without dependents to participate in at least 20 hours of work, job training or community service a week within three months of obtaining benefits.

• SB114, sponsored by Sen. Orr, which makes it a crime to defraud many state and federal government-funded assistance programs like Medicaid, Social Security, food assistance and public housing.

• SB115, sponsored by Sen. Orr, which would require welfare applicants to apply for at least three jobs before receiving benefits

More @ Yellow Hammer News

Stars & Bars In Raleigh

Via Bernhard

Saturday, 1 March – 2PM, Raleigh’s Old Capitol Building

Annual Confederate Flag Day Observance – Historic House Chambers

Sponsor:  NC Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Tom Smith, Commander

Keynote Speaker: Larry E. Norman of Louisburg, North Carolina

The Stars & Bars will fly over the building during the ceremony.

11 year old girl shot cougar that was stalking her brother, 13, outside their house

Via Ninety Miles From Tyranny

 

• Shelby White, 11, killed her first cougar on her grandfather's ranch in Twisp, Washington, last week
• Female cougar had been spotted near family's home twice in the days prior to the shooting
• Shelby's 9-year-old brother, Cody, shot a 125-pound cougar earlier this month 
• Tanner White, 13, Shelby and Cody's oldest brother, killed a big cat near the ranch around same time
• Shelby has been hunting since she was 8 or 9, and so far she has bagged herself three deer
• State officials and hunters killed 10 other cougars during the winter season

More @ Daily Mail

While Evils Are Sufferable

Make your will and more.

Jefferson wrote, in the Declaration of Independence:

...mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

While evils are sufferable. Are they still? How much more are a people supposed to suffer at the hands of unrestrained and lawless government? Is not every day spent wondering, dreading the next dictates from on high? Is there not a sense that there is no recourse to the unconstitutional acts of the bureaucracy? Is there not a feeling that the Supreme Court is acting against the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness inherent to every free individual?

It is clearly the intent of the Constitution to secure these rights, it is the very purpose of its construction to do so, yet time and time again the Court finds in favor of government power against the liberty of the people.

More @ Christian Mercenary