There's a name for these people: the enemy

My Capitol office was vandalized yesterday in a vile act of hate in which the posters of the more than 100 people still held hostage in Gaza (including 8 Americans) were ripped from the wall, shredded and tossed across the hallway. pic.twitter.com/zSh86mdvIX

— Rep. Brad Schneider (@RepSchneider) July 5, 2024
Hey, guy, your party has been encouraging these asshats for a long time. And I'll bet none of them go to jail for this.  Also encouraged by your party.

And then we have these assholes, on our Independence Day, carrying terrorist flags and calling for death to America.  And I wonder how many of them are here illegally?  And know nothing will happen to them, no matter what they do?

Ok, it's time for that first one for this seven-day period,

and it's waiting.

Oh, and we can't forget the United Tyrants- er, nations

when we're talking about slimeballs.
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Call me crazy, but I think that the UN warning of an epidemic of aid workers sexually abusing women in Gaza is a PRETTY BIG DEAL.

From an April report:
Humanitarian actors must scale up their PSEA [Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse] and Safeguarding capacity to prevent an epidemic of SEA abuses committed by personnel related to humanitarian operations. This should be also seconded by programmatic actions to protect the most vulnerable from sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers but also other actors.

I had previously quoted another UN report from May that some women in Gaza prefer to go without food rather than subject themselves to sexual abuse while queuing for aid; and that aid workers were forcing some women into prostitution in exchange for aid.

Insufficient and unreliable aid, distributed under conditions of insecurity that do not allow adequate targeting, expose vulnerable groups to violence, exploitation and abuse, trafficking and forced prostitution, including by aid workers.

Somehow, this didn't make it into the @NYTimes or @CNN or @Reuters.

Completely unfounded Hamas lies about the IDF abusing women get quoted in news articles without evidence, but multiple UN reports confirming actual sexual abuse by the people who are meant to help Gazans are ignored. (And this sexual abuse by aid workers has been going on for years, evidenced by hotlines and advertising in Gaza to report such abuse.)

Major media has reported on sexual abuse by UN members in the CAR, DRC, and Haiti, among other places. But not a word about Gaza, even when it has dominated headlines for nine months.

The news media aren't merely biased. They actively work to quash stories that don't fit their narratives and goals.
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It's funny as hell watching every media weenie who spent the last years

calling anyone pointing out Biden's mental deterioration a Russian dupe, a liar, a conspiracy nut, etc., now trying to follow their marching orders- the new ones- and get Biden to go away.  Preferably with Harris.

And no, they don't seem to care what hypocrites they've shown themselves to be, or what liars, you're supposed to forget everything before NOW and keep believing and trusting them.

And now we have the current excuse: "It doesn't matter if it's actually his staff running the country, when we elected Biden we elected his staff, too!"
Which is utter, rotted, stinking bullshit.

This is the conspirators(what else would you call them?) trying to make excuses so as to not actually answer the question "WHO IS ACTUALLY RUNNING THINGS?"

This shit really needs cleaning out.  REAL cleaning out, this garbage has to stop.  And if our Professional Journalists are so in the tank they can't even ask the damn questions, they need to go, too. 

After all, they're basically on his staff too.

I have a question

The tragedy occurred around 8:30 p.m. at Humphrey Double H Farms Enterprises Inc. in Carrollton when an unidentified shopper who was viewing a firearm began “manipulating it,” state troopers said Monday.
Either someone left a round in the thing, or this 'manipulating' involved dumbass putting a round in(maybe thinking it was a snap cap?).

Either way, someone is dead because dumbass.

It may be the time has come again

It may not get much publicity, but there it is, smack-dab in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution: Congress has the power to grant citizens “letters of marque and reprisal.” Meaning that, with Congress’s permission, private citizens can load weapons onto their fishing boats, head out to the high seas, capture enemy vessels, and keep the booty. Back in the day, these patriotic pirates were known as “privateers.”

At the start of the Revolutionary War, America had a meager navy, so we had to rely on these privateers, who captured nearly two thousand British vessels and confiscated vast amounts of food, uniforms, weapons, and barrels of sherry. They included Jonathan Haraden, who captained several vessels, including the delightfully named Tyrannicide. He once fought three British ships at once off the coast of New Jersey—and captured all of them.

The Founding Fathers were big fans of privateers. Late in life, John Adams wrote glowingly about the 1775 Massachusetts law that first legalized them, calling it “one of the most important documents in history. The Declaration of Independence is a brimborion in comparison with it.” You read that right: in Adams’ opinion, a law authorizing patriotic piracy is much more important than that trifling tidbit about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Yes, he's applied for a letter.  We'll see how that goes.

Some incredible pictures of a Space X launch

 over here.

“Because I’m a veteran, and he goes to post to do all this stuff,

I was like, he needs a beret,” D’Arcy said. “Nobody’s dog has a beret. So I took one of my old ones from the '90s and made the holes and cut it up and put it on him to wear.”

What more need be said

for now?

 

This will annoy hell out of the first immigrant activists,

as they consider this idea to be virtually hate speech.
Now a new study on the decline of giant herbivorous mammals – megaherbivores – points a finger at humanity.

Fossils show that, 50,000 years ago, there were at least 57 species of megaherbivore. Today, just 11 remain. They include notable behemoths such as hippos and giraffes, as well as several species of rhino and elephant, many of which continue to dwindle.

Such a dramatic decline, researchers say, is inconsistent with climate change as the sole cause.

The Northumbria cops and the 'counter-terrorism' assholes of (formerly Great)Britain

demonstrate, once again, what chickenshits they are.  And how good it is that some of our ancestors told the King to go screw himself.

Because screwing with a 12 year old Jewish kid and his family because he said unapproved words and has a toy crossbow is SO much safer and easier than actually, y'know, GOING AFTER TERRORISTS.

Holy shit, these people are useless.

Glancing over some of the online 'News' feeds, I wonder

if the upward trend of 'Screw Taylor Swift' articles might in part be because people are sick of another performer's private life being reported as 'news'?

No, I did not know that about vultures

What is truly amazing about vultures, however, is the way they are designed to ensure they can perform this cleansing process without it resulting in great harm to them. Did you know, for example, that the acid in the vulture’s gizzard is the strongest of any animal in the world?

The vulture’s gizzard acid is even more corrosive than the acid in the battery of your car or truck. Even more amazing is the fact the vulture’s gizzard acid destroys such deadly pathogens as Anthrax, Tuberculosis, Botulism and Cholera.
I knew about the cleanup duties, but not about this

While we're hearing "UNPRECEDENTED!" and other such crap about the weather being hot(in late June

and the start of July), 
Where I used to work it was a 24/7 operation.  When I'd been working evenings this time of year, when it got hotter than average, you'd get off around midnight; it'd be in the upper 80's, sometimes low 90's when really bad, and the humidity so high you half expected to see small frogs kicking past you.  Lord, that's miserable.  And usually very little wind at those times, , which made it worse.

So when the Usual Suspects start bitching about the evils of air conditioning and how we were better off without it and would be now, I want to pick  up something long and heavy and beat them with it.  

A good explanation of what those two Supremes rulings mean

for gun owners.  Very short version, ATF is among a bunch of federal agencies that just had their "We wrote a new rule for you to obey" powers cut off.

And, of course, there’s ATF’s practice of seeking to fine FFL’s through its own internal administrative proceedings for alleged violations of ATF rules would now seem to be barred under Jarkesy. ATF will be required to file a civil lawsuit or a criminal indictment…which I suspect it will be far less likely to do.  

What of ATF’s current jihad against FFLs, in which it seeks to terminate federal licenses based on even the slightest technical mistakes? That could be a tougher call, as the issuance of licenses may fall under the “public rights” aspect of the law that doesn’t implicate the Seventh Amendment. We’ll have to see how the post-Jarkesy case law shakes out.

In a post-Jarkesy communication with Prof. Hamburger, he told me that he expects the feds will try to take a very narrow view of the Court’s opinions, and more fights will undoubtedly be needed. Fortunately, the NCLA has already set up a “Relentless Working Group” which is tasked with monitoring and identifying agencies that are resisting the Supreme Court’s holdings, and they’ll bring test cases where appropriate. The administrative state is down, but it’s by no means out.