She calls it 'genocide inversion' to describe

why supposed liberals had to tear down pictures if Israeli victims and hostages.  It threatens their self-image.  Best explanation of that idiocy I've heard.

And no, you don't have to be on X to read and listen to it, so take a look.

We've got far too many public officials who want to follow the Stasi line on speech from Germany,

not being suitably punished for it, and too many people committing perjury who aren't being charged for it.

And that's too bad.


Speaking of people playing Speech Police, you may have heard of WorldCon, BIG science fiction convention, who has a interesting way to choose program participants:

We received more than 1,300 panelist applicants for Seattle Worldcon 2025. Building on the work of previous Worldcons, we chose to vet program participants before inviting them to be on our program.

And by “vetting” program participants, they mean “barring anyone that doesn’t toe the far left social justice warrior line”:

Several individuals have asked to see the ChatGPT query that was used in the vetting process. In the interest of transparency, this was our prompt:
REQUEST

Using the list of names provided, please evaluate each person for scandals. Scandals include but are not limited to homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism, fraud.

Wonderful, isn't it?


This isn't connected, but I want to get it down before I lose track of it.
LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
...
While inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and maintenance, the utility companies that use them typically install firewalls to prevent direct communication back to China.

However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.

Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.
Not comforting, is it?

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.

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.

Ah, the geniuses studying at Harvard

Harvard University recently closed its Mather House Campus Police substation due to students' feelings about law enforcement.

Students voiced emotional concerns of intimidation, citing several instances of armed officers eating lunch in the upper-class dining hall, The Crimson reports.
And various other whiny bullshit.  Wait a while, and since the nearest cop shop is now a lot further away, as the muggings, robberies and rapes go up, they'll be bitching about how they're not safe on campus.

Or, as Jennifer put it,

'Dance, monkeys'

Just in case you haven't seen Jennifer's piece before, it's here.

Stability Privilege, full post

Scott Reichek gave permission to put the whole thing up, so here it is:


Stability Privilege: Why the American Left Thinks Gun Control is a Good Idea 
Scott Reichek·Tuesday, June 21, 2016 

This one’s been brewing for a couple of weeks now. I continue to be shocked how the left is so totally sold of disarming itself. I asked myself how it is possible that a political segment so rife with actively oppressed people could be on board with this. I’m especially flabbergasted that they could be okay with disarming people who have been placed on a secret list that is created without a single judge even reading the names. Finally, I came up with an answer: Stability Privilege.

 FOR ALL MY CONSERVATIVE/LIBERTARIAN FRIENDS...STAY WITH ME. THERE’S A LIGHT AT THE END OF THIS TUNNEL.

For those who need an introduction, the concept of privilege is that, due to circumstances beyond their control, society benefits certain people in a way they did nothing to earn themselves. The corollary concept is that due to this “privilege,” those people with it find it nearly impossible to imagine the world as it genuinely exists for those people without it. This concept is wildly popular with the American left, and has some limited validity.

The American left supports gun bans, magazine bans, and the abolition of the 2nd Amendment wholly as a function of what I’m calling “Stability Privilege.” Almost no one out there on the left can remember a time when America was not economically and politically stable, relatively speaking. It’s been half a century since a president was assassinated, and even then, the transition of power was seamless. It’s been a little less time since a president was forced out of office. Again he left quietly, not a shot fired, with the reins passing quietly. It’s been at least 70 years since the last time American citizens were rounded up and placed in prison camps without so much as a hearing, and we haven’t had a food riot in anyone’s recent memory.  The American left wakes up every day in America confident that the stores will be open, there will be food in them, and that no one will be rounding them up today to be shot for saying something controversial...and that’s the problem.

The American left exists in a bubble that doesn’t exist outside of CONUS (Continental United States...for the uninitiated). They don’t believe they can be rounded up and shot, because “that could never happen here.” They don’t believe someone would break down their door for the food in their pantry, and slaughter them if they resist. They don’t believe they could be rounded up and raped by the truckload for worshipping God differently than their next-door neighbor. They don’t really believe that any of these things are happening anywhere. If they do on any level, they seem to think they can hashtag it out of existence. They believe all of this because of their stability privilege, because they’ve never seen it with their own eyeballs, and so they think “It can’t happen here.” All they’ve seen themselves is firearms misused near them, and so that is the one thing they can wrap their heads around. They don’t see the use, the purpose, the importance of the 2nd Amendment and modern arms.

I came up with this idea because there ARE so many on the left, so many populations they pretend to serve that ARE being actively oppressed. It floors me that the same woman who was told, “maybe you shouldn’t have worn that dress,” actually buys it when they tell her that she’s being made helpless “for her protection.” It floors me that a LGBT community that has people actively murdering them in broad daylight while the police and judiciary still winks at the murderer and lets him off light, actually BELIEVES it when they’re told they’re being disarmed, “for their safety.” It blows my mind that there is an African American community still getting crosses burned in their yard and their churches burned down, that still totally swallows it when a candidate pushes to make them even more powerless, and says “To make your neighborhoods safer.”

I remember that I am related to people I will never get to meet, because they were never born, because their would-be parents were rounded up and shot in Russia for being Jews. Try to remember that Sarajevo once hosted an Olympics. Remember that Beirut used to be called “The Paris of the Middle East.” Remember that women used to wear lipstick and miniskirts in Tehran. Most of all...remember that it CAN happen anywhere. It can happen here. The bubble can break. The bubble WILL break.

"He actually used our contact information?

And let other people know it?  DOXXING!! THREATS!!"  Etc. ad Bullshit.


And yes, leftists are losing their crap over a black woman on the $20.


Why Rabbi, why are you being such a shit?
It's all stealing, and the kids loved it and they told the guy – I got an email from them the next day saying the school's on fire.  That's all they're talking about.  We have a speaker every week.  You're the best speaker we ever had -- duh -- and they want you to come and do a day, and then he said parenthetically, "We record all of these things, but the Rabbi has deleted your video."  "He did what, now?"  "He deleted your video because you made an off-color remark about the school."  "What remark about the school?"  "The business about somebody here calling you Hitler."  "Well, he did call me Hitler.  Why would I invent that?"  He used that as justification to erase the video.  He didn't sequester the video.  He didn't put the video on hold and not drop it and release it until they found out the truth of it.  He deleted the video and he deleted the video because I was effective and I had an impact on those kids. And if we take this kind of message to the American people, we will make more Republicans.  We just have to have the brains to do it.

Well, I'm either having a nasty allergy situation,

or I've got the plague.  Don't really feel feverish, but can't check because my thermometer is gone walkabout.

Speaking of plagues, we have Bernie Sanders and his "I think it will make us feel and look good, so screw the consequences, someday they'll thank us for it!" idiocy on free trade..
Ok, one of his idiocies.


Every stupid bastard on this drug task force should be fired.  And prosecuted for the property that's been lost(or stolen).  This is bullshit and dung beetle would turn its nose up at.


Steyn slowly rose and riposted, in a tone of withering contempt, “I wasn’t going to do funny stuff. I was going to be deadly serious. (But) I’m slightly amazed at Simon’s ability to get big laughs on gang rape.” Vigorous applause. He went on, “Mme Arbour scoffs at the ‘newfound feminists.’ I’m not much of a feminist, but I draw the line at a three year old … and a seven year old getting raped.” Vigorous applause.

Tab clearing

Why Do Muslims Get to Ignore the Same Laws Used to Prosecute Christian Businesses?
Because double-standards, and muslims are a protected species.


Why a lot of leftists seem to have a soft spot for pedophiles.  And they do.


Well, if a lot of intelligence people weren't pissed, that would surprise me.  And I love the 'orange jumpsuit' line.


Using Twitter to hold up signs — it’s exasperating precisely because the one “Red Line” that actually seems to still exist is the one forbidding the media from holding the one guy who can do anything about these foreign policy meltdowns and humanitarian crises responsible. 

Our media collectively demands accountability for these conflicts from every single person…except the one person who has any real power to stop or mitigate it. This has always been the anecdote in Obama’s foreign policy: 1) show up 2) demand the world follow him 3) world leaders balk at his demands 4) he shrugs his shoulders and goes and plays with his selfie stick somewhere.


The leftists really want this country to have been based on slavery, don't they?


Piece on why people(including scientists) fall for bogus research.  Big part:
This "publication bias" means that journals are basically selecting for outliers. In other words, they are in the business of publishing papers that, for no failure of method but simply from sheer dumb luck, happened to get an unusual sample. They are going to select for those papers more than they should -- especially in fields that study humans, who are expensive and reluctant to sit still for your experiment, rather than something like bacteria, which can be studied in numbers ending in lots of zeroes.


Never forget the kind of crap Bill Clinton and Hillary thought was a good idea:
What he wanted was quite a bit more serious. Disturbing even. The administration supported frivolous lawsuits against gun makers and sellers in hopes of either bankrupting them or effectively nationalizing them to be run as the government saw fit. In 2000 Smith and Wesson, then under British ownership conceded to the Clintons and agreed to most of their demands. The resultant boycott reduced the value of the company to about 10% of its original value.

The stuff that S&W agreed to would only have been the beginning. Found at Arms and the Law, is a link to a pdf (6 pages) from the Clinton library detailing what Bill and Co. had in mind for the firearms industry. The first link is a summary and makes for easy reading. The pdf goes into detail with legal jargon. If you can get past the legalese, the details are horrendous. All this was to be put into effect as a result of lawsuits rather than legislation which Bill recognized he could never get passed.


Here's an idea: just get rid of DHS instead of trying to 'improve' it.

It is what we've come to expect from most journalists

Where to begin? For starters, note that the network is apparently afraid of even using the word Muhammad. Instead, the Islamic religious figure is referred to by CNN merely as “the Prophet.” Not a prophet. And not even the prophet. “The Prophet,” with a capital P.

If we are to take CNN’s memo at its word, no other prophets existed before or after Muhammad. He is literally the only one. Forget Moses. Forget Abraham. Forget that both are major prophets for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Nope. Muhammad is the only one (even if that statement itself is heretical to the ideology they’re desperately trying not to offend) and he will be faux-respected by fearful news executives, even if that faux respect results in the blatant disrespect of other religions that outright reject Muhammad’s alleged teachings. Your offense is only worthy of note if comes packaged with a death threat.
Them, and the NYEffingTimes, and a whole bunch of others.
It’s also OK to show most of the protest cartoons making the rounds online, though care should be taken to avoid examples that include within them detailed depictions of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
Yeah, screw that; a day to be offensive, anyone?

I'm going to have to gather every one of these I can find and put them all in a single post. 

If you want some of the originals that started the whole "Offend us and our religion of peace will kill you!" crap, Michelle Malkin-  who has more balls than CNN- has them.

Having done my labor for the day

pruning trees(among other things), I'm now sitting on my ass browsing around.

Looks like the current strain of ebola mutated off another strain pretty recently.  This one
has had a higher transmission rate and lower death rate than others, and researchers are curious if any of these mutations are related to that. (Right now, social factors are thought to be the main causes of these two changes.)
And the longer it goes on, the more chances to mutate.  Say, becoming air-transmittable.  Which would be a nightmare.


This kind of crap is exactly why people don't trust or like the cops anymore: it's apparently too difficult to actually look at the damned video and compare faces, much better to keep a guy in jail for hours instead of, y'know, actually looking for the robber.


Tim Blair, a Aussie writer I need to read more often
A few years ago I became involved in a little online dispute with left-wing Brisbane feminist Kim Jameson. It all began when Kim criticised visiting Somalian author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a victim of female genital mutilation who subsequently abandoned her Muslim faith.

“Her view on Islam,” wrote Kim, “is too much coloured by her own experience.”

Well, yes. Having your genitals destroyed by some maniac with a knife might tend to have that effect. Jameson then considered the overall subject of Islamic girl cutting: “I believe that the best step that can be taken to work against it is to give support to those who are best placed to do so where it occurs, not to politicise the issue.”
...
My response, back in the day: “You’d think if there was one issue on which a Western feminist might be moved to loud denunciation, it’d be the genital mutilation of little girls. But no; this instead turns out to be an issue (one of the few) about which the likes of Kim are inclined to shut the hell up. In the rock-scissors-paper hierarchy of the modern left, sensitivity to Islam trumps clitoral scissors every time.”

Horrific events in the UK now demonstrate the consequences of Western “sensitivity” towards Islam.


Got into a bit of a go-round on Bookface the other day on the subject of the idiot 'consent' law about to be passed in Californicated.  Opinion of two other people: 'Sexual assault is such  plague and out of control that it's worth it to ditch that 'beyond reasonable doubt' and 'presumption of innocence' crap to fight it.'

Ignoring the bullshit in a lot of the numbers on the 'plague', the idea of dumping those things because "This is IMPORTANT!" scares hell out of me.  The were put in our system for very damned good reason.  I've always liked this scene from 'A Man for All Seasons' to illustrate:
Drives me up the wall, the people I've known who think it's just fine to dump these protections- at least in a matter they are all wound up about- because "It's worth it."  They never seem to understand, or care, about about the dangers.  Or what happens down the road to THEM when it's used against them.


Remember when FEMA and DHS announced that people should have at least three days supplies in case of natural disaster or terrorist attack?  Then a few months later DHS was telling LE that anyone 'stockpiling' food, water and medical gear should be considered suspicious?  How long do you think the delay will be this time?


And last, before I fall over, is the current reaction by the Brit authorities to a bunch of muslim males raping girls over years time:
A British social worker who noted the Pakistani heritage of sexual predators said she was told to never mention race in her reports on the abuses and was forced to take a two-day diversity training class.
Either the Brits will actually get serious about this and fire a bunch of people, or they'll play games and hope the noise goes away.  I'm betting on the latter.

Well, that was fun

Get to doctors office.  "We show you scheduled for this time yesterday, but when we called it showed your number disconnected."
What number?
"That's nowhere near my number."
Etc.

So now it's rescheduled for tomorrow(better than I'd hoped for by far).  In the meantime,
Physics matters.  But I think the marks on the truck bumper might polish out.


Moms Wants Action had a gathering at a Chipotle restaurant. 
Oklahoma Open Carry had received word that MDA was going to go to the local Chipotle's for lunch, so they decided to meet them there. Chipotle restaurants in Oklahoma have officially taken the position that they would rather see people leave their guns at home, but they won't ask you to leave if you don't; after all, in Oklahoma it is legal to openly carry, so they at least respect the law and your rights.

Moms Demand Action on the other hand, seemed to be demanding a little much on this Saturday afternoon as they approached management and asked them to throw OKOCA members out of the restaurant because they were "offended" by the presence of guns.

To be honest, we were expecting this, and we figured that we would be asked to leave; but what happened next was nothing less than awesome. The manager refused to kick out OKOCA and even gave them free drinks. MDA activists then proceeded to take pictures of the gun owners and attempted to portray them as intimidating and threatening. The management wasn't having any of it; he threw Moms Demand Action out of his store!
Moral: being asshat SJWs and screwing with people in a restaurant may not end well for you.


"Yes, there's lots of fraud, but it would be trouble and work to do anything about it, so we won't."


"Well, those people in Benghazi weren't wearing uniforms, so it's not a problem to leave them behind."


Vote for every tax increase that comes along, then get upset that you're being taxed to death...


Oh, great.  And President Bow handed five enemy bigwigs back over for this guy?

And the PC meme is being shaped about this murderer

He used a gun to kill everyone, only hated women, and was right wing.   Sure.
Truth means nothing to these people.


Man says If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it’s late at night, I’m walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there’s a guy that has tattoos all over his face — white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere — I’m walking back to the other side of the street.” and immediately gets the standard "You're a racist!" treatment.

Really?

You see someone dressed like- possibly acting like- a gangbanger or wannabe and you're going to ignore it?  You see someone who looks like a standard-issue troublemaker and you're going to ignore it?

This isn't racism or bigotry, it's paying attention.  And, happily, some people will point this out.


Our 'Justice Department'; can't do anything about illegal aliens except turn them loose, can't investigate federal crimes by the IRS, but they can screw with legal businesses getting financing!

'Bout time somebody did:

U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischman is pushing to overturn an order by President Barack Obama that prohibits military surplus weapons from being brought back into the United States after they have been sold or donated to foreign allies.
I don't know about anything else, but that would allow all those M1 Carbines and Garands in South Korea to come back.


Did the IRS deliberately violate law and ethics for political reasons?  Yes.  And people need to go to jail for it.


Let's see if this progressive gets ANY real static from the people who're running that team owner out:

@RobGeorge You willingly worked for Newt? OK, house boy, now I know to never take you seriously on anything. Ever. @thedahlimmama—
Joshua E. Bigger Ⓥ (@joshuabigger) May 21, 2014

Followed quickly by these two:

@RobGeorge My pleasure, house nigger. @thedahlimmama—
Joshua E. Bigger Ⓥ (@joshuabigger) May 21, 2014

and

@AACONS Yes, being conscious, I recognize house niggers for what they are. You'll do ANYTHING fo Massa. Anything. @RobGeorge—
Joshua E. Bigger Ⓥ (@joshuabigger) May 21, 2014

Ah, such wonderful people!


There's a leftist named Oliver Willis, it seems.  He's as bigoted a clown as you'll run across, and a fine demonstration of current 'liberal' thought.
Really, that about covers it.


On the subject of 'Fat is BAD!',
One reason we consume so many refined carbohydrates today is because they have been added to processed foods in place of fats — which have been the main target of calorie reduction efforts since the 1970s. Fat has about twice the calories of carbohydrates, but low-fat diets are the least effective of comparable interventions, according to several analyses, including one presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association this year.


Oh, for...  Remember that 'Enough arms for a small army or militia!' bullshit the other day?  Tam has a picture; some of them are BB GUNS...


There's lots more, but I've got some floor to scrape. 

Another addition to the Green-approved hypocrite list

Steyer claims to be a man of principle who has no financial interest in the causes he supports, but acts only for the public good. That is a ridiculous claim: Steyer is the ultimate rent-seeker who depends on government connections to produce subsidies and mandates that make his “green” energy investments profitable. He also is, or was until recently, a major investor in Kinder Morgan, which is building a competitor to the Keystone pipeline. 
And
Today, he is a bitter opponent of fossil fuels, especially coal. That fits with his current economic interests: banning coal-fired power plants will boost the value of his solar projects. But it was not always thus. In fact, Steyer owes his fortune in large part to the fact that he has been one of the world’s largest financers of coal projects. Tom Steyer was for coal before he was against it.


The rest is tab clearing:
The point is Mr. Bundy is no Rahm Emanuel, Al Gore, or Jay Carney. He is no Jay-Z or Sean Penn. He is a world away from the Kardashians and the BMW meets Mercedes crowd of the California coastal corridor or the psychodramas of brats at Dartmouth. Bundy does not have the white privilege that those who have it — mostly liberal, wealthy, and seeking an apartheid existence — damn in others.


The 'War on Poverty' that spread poverty.  But it DID get blacks voting Democrat, just like Johnson thought.


Yes, Obama's a damned liar.  Whether the sycophants want to deal with it or not.


'Consensus' my ass.


And, because I'm sick of politics,

Whyever might people be suspicious of Governor Howler

and associates?
New York isn’t saying how many gun owners refused to register by the April 15 deadline, partly because state police, given the lack of a central registry up until now, don’t really know. Some estimates put the total at about 1 million people.
Yeah, nothing there to bother people, is there.

You'll also notice a lot of 'so-called law-abiding' crap about people who have a problem with being told they have to say "Commissar may I" to be allowed to keep their property.


'Leftists think conservatives are evil, and conservatives think leftists are stupid.'  More evidence of who's right.


No, I haven't forgotten about taking pictures of the other frame work on the 1911; I just haven't done it yet.  Working on it tonight.

Well, MAIG is full of crooks, so why not other 'ban the guns' groups?

The article by News Times failed to report the fact that records from the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection show a long history of criminal behavior and that Neil Heslin is a felon. All of which means that Neil Heslin is not allowed per State and Federal law to purchase, own or possess any firearms. So often we find that the strongest critics of the right to bear arms are those people who cannot be trusted with firearms themselves.

In fact, despite multiple convictions for drunk driving and losing his license, Mr. Heslin continued to drive and was eventually charged with driving under suspension.
...
Another major issue left out of the reporting so far has been Heslin’s financial and civil issues. He has been sued several times for not paying his bills through his businesses and for not paying child support as well. Now, Mr. Heslin has found the employment he has needed for so long lobbying against the rights of the citizens of Connecticut and the rest of the country as well.
Apparently Connecticut Carry has been getting various threats for having let this information out; the gun bigots will happily work with crooks, but they don't want people to know about it.


Speaking of 'working with crooks' and protecting them,
The shocking scale of the Establishment cover-up of former Liberal MP Cyril Smith’s sickening sex abuse of boys is revealed today.

For four decades, the depraved 29st politician was free to prey on vulnerable children as young as eight.

Police received at least 144 complaints by victims of the predatory paedophile yet the authorities blocked any prosecution – allowing Smith brazenly to continue his abuse.

The Liberal Party even put his name forward for a knighthood in 1988 in spite of the rumours of his sordid activities swirling around Westminster.
Connected, from the gentleman at Belmont,
It is in some ways a whole lot easier to fight extremist gangs in dusty, far away African places. These mean, low-down, murderous critters whose life on earth is arguably a waste of oxygen are also in their way powerless villains, whose main sin is having no lobbyist in Washington to represent them. If they had it would already be politically incorrect to despise them. But one wonders whether low-rent thugs people like Kony are the truly dangerous men of this world when compared to those who hover, above reproach, in our most glittering circles, in the center of our most respected human rights organizations?


Joe Huffman notes a Brady Campaign gathering, and comments on their aims:
[I find the language used very interesting. “Thought leaders”? “Hone the skills needed to effectively engage…”? “Spreading our message”? 

We don’t want people to have their “thoughts led”. We want people think for themselves.
We don’t “hone our skills” to engage people. We arm ourselves with facts. 

We don’t “spread messages in congress”. We demand our congress critters obey the law and respect our rights. 

They think differently from me. Perhaps more different than I can think.—Joe]


Just how DID Harry Reid get so rich?

A response to the TSA agent:

But our best bet is to take the frustration toward the TSA agent confiscating our over-sized liquids, and re-direct it to the people at TSA headquarters who are being paid the big bucks to make the rules — the ones who make the call as to whether our toothpaste is verboten and whether our shoes will need extra screening.
A: We ARE pissed at the headquarters assholes who ignore good sense, intelligence, and the Constitution, and your asshole Director who's decided that 'flying is a privilege'; what the hell makes you think we're not?

B: YOU are the butthead molesting people and screwing with medical devices and abusing people who don't kiss your ass enough(not to mention the ones stealing our shit); so yeah, we're going to stay pissed at you, too.


A guy who co-founded Greenpeace says AGW is unproven.  You might remember that he left the organization because “After 15 years in the top committee I had to leave as Greenpeace took a sharp turn to the political left, and began to adopt policies that I could not accept from my scientific perspective,” he said. “Climate change was not an issue when I abandoned Greenpeace, but it certainly is now.”


Leftists become incandescent when reminded of the socialist roots of Nazism
They do indeed.


The Left has to change the subject to vigilantism because the case for self-defense is so manifestly obvious. Is the state respecting the fundamental rights of citizens — including their right to life — if it mandates passivity in the face of violent attack? Of course not. It does, however, respect the right to life when it empowers self-defense while also prosecuting those rare few who seek to mask murderous intent behind a self-defense pretext. 

Protecting the right of self-defense is just. Mandatory disarmament is not.

Factory is in the south? The union didn't win?

Then it's either Racism or Nazis responsible!

This is why I have a label for Liberal 'Thought'...