Larry Correia is a fine writer, and he wrote a piece about the sudden concern for legal processes

on the part of people who didn't give a damn when it was a corrupt FBI and other agencies screwing with people who are conservative, or worse, "Evil Right-Wingers".  I'm going to borrow some of it:

It is so funny (in a pathetic way) FINALLY seeing the liberals I know waking up to the fact that federal agents abuse regular people. Sure, it took attempting to deport illegals to get them to actually notice for the first time ever, but right now I'm seeing them doing this big histrionic freak out, all OMG federal agents came into people's homes and were rude and mean and wrecked stuff and took property even though those people were citizens and hadn't done anything wrong!

And I'm over here like no shit? First time? 😃

Of course right now they think ICE is the only agency that's ever been mean to people, and they don't realize this is NOTHING in the grand scheme of American history. And I figure it could go two ways for here. Either they'll slowly realize this is how dozens of big stupid government agencies routinely treat people (and worse, and get away with it) and they'll slowly stop being liberal and wanting ever increasing amounts of big government meddling in literally everything.

Or (and this one is far more likely) the second the left gets back in power these virtue signaling libs will go back to licking the jack boot and cheering on the government stomping on everybody they don't like.
Yes, at least most of them will.

If you spend any time on Fecesbook, here's the link if you want to read it all.

How close Europe came to a real-life, no bs disaster

Here's the link for the post.

And here's an article at Yahoo Finance:
A reliance on net zero energy left Spain and Portugal vulnerable to the mass blackouts engulfing the region, experts said last night.

In what is believed to be Europe’s largest power cut, tens of millions of people were left without electricity, while flights were grounded, trains halted and whole cities were left without power, internet access or other vital services.

The cause of the initial fault in the region’s electricity grid is still being investigated, and the EU has insisted that there were no indications that it was a cyberattack.

However, energy experts have blamed a heavy reliance on solar and wind farms in Spain for leaving the region’s power grid vulnerable to such a crisis.

A state of emergency was declared in Spain, while in Portugal, water company EPAL said supplies could also be disrupted.

Queues formed at shops of people seeking to purchase emergency supplies like gaslights, generators and batteries.

Energy operators are fighting to restore power in Spain, Portugal and parts of France, and residents are being urged to avoid travel and use mobile phones sparingly.
More at the link.

Must be making a bunch of the Net Zero  morons in Britain and Canada upset that all the peasants are getting information on this.

"Why don't other Arab nations take in the poor Palestinians?"

Because the history of doing so is full of bad results.  Like this.
Jordan on Wednesday outlawed and confiscated assets of the Muslim Brotherhood, a Hamas ally and Jordan’s largest opposition group, members of which were linked by authorities to a yearslong sabotage plot against the Hashemite Kingdom.

Jordanian Interior Minister Mazen Fraya said all Muslim Brotherhood activities would be banned in the country and anyone promoting the group’s ideology would be held accountable by law. The ban includes publishing anything by the group and closure and confiscation of all its offices and property, he added.

Fraya said Muslim Brotherhood members had planned attacks on security targets and sensitive locations in the kingdom, aiming to destabilize the country, but did not disclose what these targets were.

The history:
As is wont to happen the fame and gilt went to Palestinian heads, and before you know it they're calling for the overthrow of the Jordanian royal family. Their hosts1.

When they figured out that the rest of Arabia — romantics though they were — didn't quite cotton to this turfing off of the Jordanian king (and his family), they initially crawfished on that idea, but — as Palestinians throughout recent history have a habit of doing — they became a massive pain-in-the-ass to their Jordanian hosts. They ignored laws, declared themselves to be "countries inside of a country", and started occupying — forcefully — Jordanian cities.

To include Amman, the capital city of Jordan and the seat of Jordanian King Hussein2.
With "We've had it with these people" following.

All those other countries know what happens when they let a bunch of these people in, and they don't want it.  I suspect they also don't want the bad publicity with western idiots moaning and demanding Action! when they have to whack a whole bunch of said people for trying to take over.

So no, they don't want to let them in in the first place, and I doubt that'll change.  Which makes me wonder if the various governments aren't looking at happenings in Europe and Britain, and some universities and cities here, and wondering "What the hell is wrong with these people, don't  they know history?   Don't they see what these bastards and their useful idiots are doing, and want to do?"

And they wonder why people raise hell at school boards, and want their kids out

of public schools....
MR. SCHOENFELD: So, correct. The leather that they're pointing to is a woman in a leather jacket, and one of the words is drag queen in this—

JUSTICE GORSUCH: And they’re supposed to look for those?

MR. SCHOENFELD: It is an option at the end of the book, correct.

JUSTICE GORSUCH: Yeah. Okay. And you've included these in the English language curriculum rather than the human sexuality curriculum to influence students, is that fair? That’s what the district court found. Do you agree with that?

MR. SCHOENFELD: I think, to the extent the district court found that it was to influence, it was to influence them towards civility, the natural consequence of being exposed to—

JUSTICE GORSUCH: Whatever, but to influence them.

MR. SCHOENFELD: In the manner that I just mentioned, yes.
To influence kids as young as 3...

Let us not forget some of the words in British reports after the little meeting

at Lexington and Concord:
During the whole affair the Rebels attacked us in a very scattered, irregular manner, but with perseverance & resolution, nor did they ever dare to form into any regular body. Indeed, they knew too well what was proper, to do so. Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself much mistaken. They have men amongst them who know very well what they are about, having been employed as Rangers against the Indians & Canadians, & this country being much covered with wood, and hilly, is very advantageous for their method of fighting.

From what I know the piece at Wiki is pretty accurate.

I'll close with this

To celebrate part of that business I've been tied up on getting done,

I shall post something non(mostly)-political

I can honestly say I'm not guilty here, I was fully aware of how they actually looked

This girl is brave, in two ways; first to put her face in public for the slavers to see,

second because the Brit government will really want to shut her up.  And the janissaries pretending to be peace officers will happily take orders to make it happen.


Which brings us to this:
THIS Labour government has many delusions, but perhaps most astonishing is that it seems to believe we still live in the pre-internet era. That’s the only possible explanation for Jess Phillips, Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, sneaking into the Chamber on Tuesday afternoon, hours before the Commons broke for Easter Recess, in the hope of brushing the betrayal of grooming gang survivors under the carpet.

By all accounts, her fellow Parliamentarians were given just 45 minutes’ notice of the statement that Phillips read out. Phillips herself seemed almost bored by what she was reading, racing through it at breakneck speed with the attitude of a surly teenager. But the words are there in Hansard, available to all online. They read: ‘We will set out the process through which local authorities can access the £5million national fund to support locally-led work on grooming gangs.’

In other words, the five inquiries for which the £5million had been earmarked have been scrapped. Instead, any local authority will be able to apply for funding for ‘more bespoke work’ – victims’ panels, audits of the handling of historical cases, and suchlike. With more than 50 towns implicated in the atrocity, that £5million won’t stretch very far.
When you consider the number of council members and cops and politicians* who've been involved in this, both passively and actively, both trying to cover this all up  and some actually taking part... the facts actually get out, an awful lot of the British people would, I think, say "Now or never" and start acting.  And even nothing more than demonstrations would probably blow the place apart**.

Which is exactly what it appears is needed.


*testimony and records of actions, which included cops raping the girls, whether as payoff or because they were part of it; want to take bets on how many politicians were bought off the same way?
This also includes the chickenshits in both parties who never had the balls to say or do anything about it, and now are terrified they'll be held to account.

**The minute a lot of people go out waving flags and calling for justice, the janissaries will be sent out to stop them, no matter what they have to do.  Which at some point becomes the badge as a mark for the enemy.  Throw in a bunch of the muslims who've been allowed to decide they run the place starting to beat and kill people in these crowds, with the cops protecting them while they do it, well, a lot of people just might decide their ancestors didn't fight and bleed and die to let this happen.  

This is promising

On Monday news came that the era of zero-tolerance was over. The National Shooting Sports Foundation heralded the announcement from the Trump Administration in Monday’s edition of Bullet Points.

NSSF praises the announcement today by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that the agencies are doing away with the Biden-era “zero-tolerance” policy that punished lawful and highly-regulated Federal Firearm Licensees (FFLs) for minor clerical errors.

The administration’s announcement also noted that the Biden-era regulatory policies on “engaged in the business” and pistol stabilizing braces would be reconsidered. Both of which were viewed – rightly – as regulatory overreach by the agency on issues that should have been addressed legislatively by Congress.

 We'll see how all this works out.

Same here:
Spurred by the Biden Administration’s redefining braced pistols as short-barreled rifles (SBRs), placing them under the auspices of the National Firearms Act (NFA), a U.S. Congressman and a U.S. Senator have filed companion bills in Congress to remove short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and so-called “any other weapons (AOWs)” from NFA regulation.
Considering the split in Congress I have little hope right now.   Again, we'll see.

Just to remind you I'm not dead yet,

And over here, the EffingBI... can cleaning out be enough,

or just flat get rid of the place?
New chat logs released by the House Judiciary Committee this week show the extraordinary lengths the FBI went to behind the scenes to shut down any discussion of Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020 after the New York Post broke the story.

The conversations, withheld by the FBI under Director Chris Wray, show that senior leadership issued an internal “gag order” on the laptop.

The FBI had been in possession of the abandoned MacBook Pro for 10 months by that stage, after computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac handed it over and warned of the potential crimes and national security concerns he had found.
We've been told that with Patel in charge, the Good Agents are actually doing their jobs again... We'll see.  It's going to take a lot for that place to start regaining some trust.

Further on when your government doesn't care about you commoners, but

they really want to be seen as friendly to the enemy.  Because that gives them diversity points, no matter how many girls are raped.

And that inquiry the Labour Party promised into the rape and slavery gangs?
Fat chance.  Not only would that upset the criminals, think about how many members are complicit in the crimes.

Now throw in this: lady in prison, not allowed to see her sick husband and her daughter, because "We won't let you say things we don't approve of."

Then the "You can call for dead Jews, and taking over this country, that's fine; but don't you people DARE to carry a British flag, or say anything that might upset the invaders!" over the past few years.

Barring a direct miracle from above, Britain is screwed.

How you know your .gov does not give a damn about its own citizens

You might remember this is the same NHS/.gov that let two children die- hell, made SURE they died- by refusing to let them be flown to other countries, at zero cost to the NHS, because "We said they're going to die, and they're going to die right here!"

It's been suggested that 'evil' is the proper description; I agree.

Two articles: this could be an important piece for a lot of guys,

not just the ones in trouble, but those around them.


And this one could be just as important to a lot of women.

Now, get the Hearing Protection Act going, and this

would make things even better.
Spurred by the Biden Administration’s redefining braced pistols as short-barreled rifles (SBRs), placing them under the auspices of the National Firearms Act (NFA), a U.S. Congressman and a U.S. Senator have filed companion bills in Congress to remove short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and so-called “any other weapons (AOWs)” from NFA regulation.

Count on the Usual Suspects to crap their pants in fear and outrage, etc.  

I could really stand to get to the range, but not enough time as yet

So, in lieu of that,

Tell me again why we shouldn't take phones away from kids in class,

and get rid of that rot known as the Department of Education.
Most of our students are functionally illiterate. This is not a joke. By “functionally illiterate” I mean “unable to read and comprehend adult novels by people like Barbara Kingsolver, Colson Whitehead, and Richard Powers.” I picked those three authors because they are all recent Pulitzer Prize winners, an objective standard of “serious adult novel.” Furthermore, I’ve read them all and can testify that they are brilliant, captivating writers; we’re not talking about Finnegans Wake here. But at the same time they aren’t YA, romantasy, or Harry Potter either.

I’m not saying our students just prefer genre books or graphic novels or whatever. No, our average graduate literally could not read a serious adult novel cover-to-cover and understand what they read. They just couldn’t do it. They don’t have the desire to try, the vocabulary to grasp what they read,2 and most certainly not the attention span to finish. For them to sit down and try to read a book like The Overstory might as well be me attempting an Iron Man triathlon: much suffering with zero chance of success.

Students are not absolutely illiterate in the sense of being unable to sound out any words whatsoever. Reading bores them, though. They are impatient to get through whatever burden of reading they have to, and move their eyes over the words just to get it done. They’re like me clicking through a mandatory online HR training. Students get exam questions wrong simply because they didn't even take the time to read the question properly. Reading anything more than a menu is a chore and to be avoided.

College students, mind you.

Their writing skills are at the 8th-grade level. Spelling is atrocious, grammar is random, and the correct use of apostrophes is cause for celebration. Worse is the resistance to original thought. What I mean is the reflexive submission of the cheapest cliché as novel insight.
...
What’s changed?
The average student has seen college as basically transactional for as long as I’ve been doing this. They go through the motions and maybe learn something along the way, but it is all in service to the only conception of the good life they can imagine: a job with middle-class wages. I’ve mostly made my peace with that, do my best to give them a taste of the life of the mind, and celebrate the successes.

Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies. Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” Faculty have seen a stunning level of disconnection.

No, it's not all the phone.  It's also what 'education' has become in our schools, which has little care for actual education.  It's 'Everyone Gets A Trophy!', it's "We can't hold this student back just because he can't read!" and all the other crap.

It's letting kids they know aren't ready for college in, because 'equity' and because that keeps that money rolling in, and screw that the kids are going to drop out.  Or worse: they're letting students slide through college, including MEDICAL STUDENTS get through(if they're the right skin color/sex/whatever the current excuse is) not  knowing what they need to know.  And people have, and will, die because of it, and the idiots in charge don't care, not as long as they get their reputation of being Good Humans Who Care About The Right Things.  You know, like the bastards who let "We Suppport Decolonization And Trans And Gay And Getting Rid Of Jews" 'student' groups insult, belittle, threaten, and attack Jews and other students/staff who won't kiss their ass get away with it.

Oh yes, this pisses me off.  Partly because it's screwing lots of kids out of their possible future, from grade school on; partly because it makes it harder to find someone who can do a job; partly for the simple reason that if I wind up in a  hospital I want to know the staff isn't going to kill me because they're incompetent, hired because "We don't have enough 'X' employees and it'll cause problems if we don't get more."  And partly because it includes teachers who see their job as, as one put it  openly on his social media, "I only have a few months to train these kids to be Marxist revolutionaries", not dumb things like how to think, and reason, and learn some important facts and history.

And that's all the time I've got to yell about this right now.

How you know you're not supposed to die yet

 

A piece I'll strongly recommend about some of the things being pushed toward

by the idiots.  Like this one.  Who seems so wound up in his virtue that he doesn't realize he's trying fairly hard to either get shot, or run over if the driver thinks he's going to get her.  

And, since so many leftist idiots have been allowed to get by with scaring people to death, as well as attacking them, he probably wouldn't realize that in many places it would be considered lawful self-defense and no charges filed.  Especially if there are kids in the car with her.

Here it is.

As the man says, sooner or later this is going to get someone shot,

and the stupid bastard will deserve it.
And so will every idiot out there who's encouraging this.  That, or prosecution for taking part in it.

At least, on occasion, I can provide entertainment