And yes, it is now time

to return to our somewhat-scheduled educational programming.

Also known as 'study the data'

And John Effing Kerry just doesn't understand...

Meanwhile, Kerry complains that “Assad has refused to have a serious discussion and Russia has refused to help bring him to the table in order to do that. So that’s why we are where we are.”
No, we're where we are because Obama gets so pissy when his demands aren't met, that he goes golfing and bitches about it.  Because actually doing anything, well, why should he soil His image with that?

So Syria- and everyone else- knows all they'll get is more words, so the Russians have stepped in to get their renewed client-state situation shored up.  While Kerry bloviates and Obama demands.


Well, NYPD, how's it feel to be treated like one of the commoners?

This push for women in combat despite all the evidence

also fits the weird modern determination to have sex everywhere but gender nowhere, to resent everything and see nothing when it comes to masculinity and femininity. But it’s not just an academic game.
...
So yes, the debate is closed. Until reality reopens it at a really bad time.
But the assholes responsible won't have THEIR precious ass on the line when it happens.  And they'll blame the troops, or the CO actually there, or anyone except themselves.


Kim duToit had a piece once that said simply "Let Africa Sink".  Appears that at least some parts of it are taking care of that, and it's a damn good thing he got out.


They're just determined to rule, aren't they?
She said: "I really believe that meat should be treated in exactly the same way as tobacco, with public campaigns to stop people eating it.

"Progress on animal welfare is being made at EU level... but in the end it comes down to not eating meat or dairy.
Note that 'at EU level'; I strongly suspect that boils down to "If I can't cause this here, I'll bet the EU will help me do it!"
"I have my own personal views on what I choose to eat, but I accept that we have a livestock industry in this country. What I want is for the industry to have the best welfare standards possible, to be sustainable as well as economically viable."
Considering she's leftist enough to make that nutcase choose her a minister, if you believe that's the whole truth, you're a fool.

And she makes me want to dig up a pipe and light up..

"There is more than one way to burn a book"

In the 50th anniversary edition, Bradbury includes a short afterword where he gives his thoughts on current culture. Almost as if he is speaking directly about the events above, he wrote: “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches.”

There’s that saying: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. When it comes to censorship, one might say that the road to thought and speech control is paved by people trying to protect other people’s feelings.

Well, from what son told me, training and readiness are in the toilet

and that doesn't exactly raise morale and confidence levels; so this isn't a surprise:
Released last December, the numbers were brutal. In response to the statement, “The senior military leadership has my best interests at heart,” only 27% agreed, down from 53% in a previous survey conducted in 2009. As for, “Overall officers in the military are good or excellent,” only 49% agreed, down from 78% in the 2009 survey. Agreement with, “Overall my quality of life is good or excellent,” dropped from 91% agreement in 2009 to 56% in 2014, and President Obama’s personal approval rating was an eye-catching 15%.
Hey, when you know the CinC is a clown who doesn't give a damn about you, and- in the event of conflict- doesn't actually want to win, what do they expect?
Carter is no doubt happy about the appointment because Fanning is, as the Washington Post puts it, a “Carter ally.” The White House is pleased because the appointment of a gay man represents an important advance in the progress of social justice. And the troops?
Well, really, who cares what they think?


"I have this condition, but racism is making it worse, so you white people need to pay for my therapy!"

When PC and lying is the Army rule

Even as the U.S. military denies reports that American troops were told to ignore Afghan child abusers, an 11-year Green Beret who was ordered discharged after he confronted an alleged rapist was informed Tuesday that the Army has denied his appeal.
"We have never done that(but if you do interfere with an Afghan child molester, your career is over)!"
I am so damned glad son is out from under the control of these assholes.

"Is necessary for collective good, comrade, so

hand over your medical records."
Because being a "It's for the overall good" control freak means never taking no for an answer.


And one more 'disaster' linked to nuclear power isn't.
Anybody surprised?
No one has been killed or sickened by the radiation — a point confirmed last month by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Even among Fukushima workers, the number of additional cancer cases in coming years is expected to be so low as to be undetectable, a blip impossible to discern against the statistical background noise. 

But about 1,600 people died from the stress of the evacuation — one that some scientists believe was not justified by the relatively moderate radiation levels at the Japanese nuclear plant.

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.

Can you spell 'set-up'?

Irving Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne “later noted that the president had tweeted about the case and invited Ahmed to the White House before the pictures of the clock were even publicly available. Obama made no attempt to contact her office before making public comments in support of the Muslim teen.”
and
Mayor Van Duyne revealed that the family of Ahmed Mohammed has not only repeatedly refused to meet with city officials but refused to sign a school release form that would explain the school and police’s side of the story.

Instead, the family held a press conference in their front yard flanked by CAIR lawyers.
So, we now appear to have a combination: a set-up, and by(possibly) acting unnecessarily harshly the school and cops helped it work.  'possibly' because, at this point, I'm not sure they did a damn thing wrong, and I'm sure the family and their CAIR friends worked for this outcome.

I'm kind of sick of the news, so it's Isaac Shelby, and why

it's a really bad idea to threaten some people.

Mr. Clooney, couple of things to say:

First, until you hypocritical assholes get rid of
gleaming grey Lexus and a black Porsche Carrera as well as a tiny two seater electric Tango 600 plus various motorbikes.

But it’s a fair bet the family ‘Vette has pride of place in his heart.
and start getting around in one of the electrified roller skates you claim to be so fond of, I don't believe you actually believe the crap you spout about 'evil oil' and 'globular warmering/climate change/humans suck'.

Second, a note for you: 'mandatory volunteer service' would actually have one of two proper names: either 'indentured servitude' or 'slavery'.  You first, dirtbag.

A: must've been a real welcoming committe in Valhalla when he arrived

B: Screw the Geneva Convention, he should've been awarded the Medal at the time.
"We had been walking through piles of dead men when the general gave a sudden start, and then stepped over to the figure of a man who was bent over the barrel of a heavy machine gun. Very quickly, almost before I saw what he was doing, the general took out a knife and cut the Red Cross brassard from Ben Salomon's arm. Then he straightened up and looked around. There were ninety-eight Japanese bodies piled up in front of that gun position. Salomon had killed so many men that he had been forced to move the gun four different times in order to get a clear field of fire. There was something else that we noted, too. There were seventy-six bullet holes in Salomon's body. When we called a doctor over to examine him, we were told that twenty-four of the wounds had been suffered before Salomon died. There were no witnesses, but it wasn't hard to put the story together. One could easily visualize Ben Salomon, wounded and bleeding, trying to drag that gun a few more feet so that he would have a new field of fire. The blood was on the ground, and the marks plainly indicated how hard it must have been for him, especially in that last move," Love wrote.

...changing the reports in order to appeal to what they perceived as the Obama administration’s official line

that the anti-ISIS campaign was making progress and would eventually end with the group’s destruction.
Gee, I wonder why they might've done that?

If this is true, then there are some brass that need to be looking for new jobs.


Our allies.  What's being done to our troops to support our allies in Afghanistan.

General Napier had the right idea.  Screw 'their culture', they want our help they need to stop this crap.


Mark Steyn on the current "Mr. Trump, why didn't you correct what that man said!" crap:
1) Unlike Hillary Clinton's under-attended "rallies", a voter doesn't have to undergo a background check or sign a piece of paper pledging to support her in the election before being permitted into a Republican candidate's presence. So at our campaign events there are all kinds of people with all kinds of views - and it goes without saying I won't agree with them all. If you find that odd, maybe you've been covering Hillary too long.

2) Why does one Republican candidate's "scandal" get hung around the neck of every other guy's? I'll answer your question to me about Donald Trump's 'gaffe' after you ask Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Lincoln Chafee and Joe Biden about Hillary Clinton's server and how she handled Benghazi. Till then, get lost.
Oh yes, there's more.

Meanwhile, south of the border,

“The army took away our high-powered weapons such as AK-47’s and AR-15 and left us with only shotguns, we can’t go up against grenades with our limited weaponry. We are on the brink of extinction; we are being killed with the complicity of the government.” Josefa Contreras, autodefensa leader in the area, denounced.
The Mexican government has had this policy for a long time: "We may not be able(or want to) stop the cartels, but we can deal with you uppity peasants!  Better you raped/beaten/robbed/tortured/murdered than we allow you to have sufficient arms to protect yourselves!"  And a lot of people seem to be pretty sick of it.

This keeps going, at some point there's going to be a serious blowup between citizens trying to stay alive and the government.  And it'll get nasty.  Think what the border will be like then...

Will they charge Mark Steyn again, or find another heretic

to try to take to the stake?
Bill 59 assigns new powers to the Quebec Human Rights Commission (QHRC) to combat hate speech, as well as a variety of other provisions meant to protect against extremism, by censoring speech that promotes “fear of the other.” Ominously, the bill would allow the QHRC to pursue websites that in its estimation describe and denounce Islamism.

The bill takes its inspiration from recommendations made public by the QHRC in November 2014. Jacques Frémont, the commission’s president, explained that he planned to use the requested powers to sue those critical of certain ideas, “people who would write against … the Islamic religion … on a website or on a Facebook page.”
"Of course you have free speech!  As long as we agree with what you wish to say."
The details of Bill 59 are chilling. Article 6 would “give the QHRC the power to initiate legal proceedings before the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal without having to wait for complaints from the public.” Article 3 allows members of an identifiable group as well as people outside the group to make complaints triggering suits for hate speech before the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal.
Wonder if, at some point, they'll just start calling it 'heresy'?


On the subject, College of du Page: "You can't do that without a permit(and we'll make it damn hard for you to get one)!"


There're reasons Kim du Toit used to call it 'New York Fucking City'.
The family of a college student murdered at her East Harlem housing project doesn’t deserve a dime from the city — because she should have known the “risks” of being on the dangerous grounds, city lawyers claim in court papers.


Over in EU land, as the consequences of "Come on in!" are coming home,
Orbán and the leaders of Poland and Slovakia announced themselves unwilling to take extra migrants, adding that they preferred that the ones they took be Christian. 

European leaders have generally mocked Orbán for his provincialism, then denounced him for his immorality, and then pursued his policies to the letter:

In Austria, the Social Democratic premier Werner Faymann likened Orbán to the Nazis. Faymann leads a coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who joined forces two years ago to keep the hardline anti-immigrant Freedom party (FPÖ) out of power. Now the FPÖ appears to have a shot at winning the municipal elections in Vienna in early October, and Faymann has imposed his own border controls.

Snork...
likewise, Christians are the most backward, misogynist, racist ppl in America, and how dare you suggest Obama isn't one.


This is the first I'd heard of this case.  Besides the "So 'Child Protective Services' did it again?" problem, there's this:
Those closest to Bond displayed no such forbearance. The father of Bella departed upon hearing of Rachelle Bond’s prostitution activities.
But you left your kid with her?


Well,  wonder what that might feed into...
Young people taking antidepressants like Prozac are far more likely to commit violent crimes and doctors should warn of the dangers when prescribing, scientists at Oxford University have said.

A study of more than 850,000 people in Sweden found that those aged between 15 and 24 were 43 per cent more likely to be convicted of crimes like assault.
At some point, some parent faced with a school/child 'protective' regime insisting their kid be put on some drug "or you'll lose custody!" is going to get a lawyer who digs up all the 'Here are the effects common from this medication' information and goes after the school/cpr for trying to kill the kid. 

What happens when they stop being scientists

and become politicians:
You have signed the death warrant for science.
What stirred this up?
In February, Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., attempted a McCarthyite witch hunt against climate scientists he found disagreeable. And Sheldon Whitehouse is sitting U.S. Senator. He’s now publicly encouraging legal persecution of people who conduct scientific research and/or those that have opinions about it he disagrees with.
And twenty climate scientists signed a letter to Obama and his AG asking them to do this...

Part of Prof. Currys' response:
What you have done with your letter is the worst kind of irresponsible advocacy, which is to attempt to silence scientists that disagree with you by invoking RICO.  It is bad enough that politicians such as Whitehouse and Grijalvi are playing this sort of political game with science and scientists, but I regard it as highly unethical for scientists to support defeating scientists with whom you disagree by such methods.   Since I was one of the scientists called out in Grijalvi’s witch hunts, I can only infer that I am one of the scientists you are seeking to silence.

Peter Webster did not exaggerate when he wrote:
You have signed the death warrant for science.

It's simple tonight:

Data.  Study.  Take notes.

What apparently passes for 'leadership' in the current Army...

Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl said he interviewed Bowe for a day and a half and “did not find any evidence to corroborate the reporting that Bergdahl was … sympathetic to the Taliban.”

Instead, Dahl said, Bergdahl wanted to call attention to what he considered poor leadership of his unit. Bergdal believed that by leaving his observation post and running 23 kilometers (about 14 miles) to a nearby base he could cause a stir and gain access to a high-ranking officer to complain, Dahl said. . . .

Dahl testified that he thought Bergdahl was “very bright and well-read.”
When asked what in Bergdahl’s background might have caused his behavior in the military, Dahl said that the combination of growing up in rural Idaho on the “edge of the grid … being home-schooled” and the fact that he “internalized a lot of what he read” resulted in him having “idealistic and unrealistic expectations of people.”
So, we have a couple of possibilities:
Maj. Gen. Dahl is a fucking idiot.
Maj. Gen. Dahl got-or is expecting to get- his price.  "I'm guaranteed that next star, and all I've got to do is sell out and crap on the lives of the troops who died looking for this guy?  Sign me up!"

Wonder what this is going to do to morale in the Army?

Another civil rights victory

over DC.  Not a complete victory; that'll be the next step.


Well, of COURSE nobody's been fired.  In Gunwalker ATF
violated an international border,
helped run thousands of guns to the cartels,
got we'll-never-know-how-many people killed,
lied under oath,
submitted false documents,
and nobody was fired; you actually think EPA is going to fire someone for this?
Running a federal agency means never having to say "You're fired."


I can't help thinking the proper initial response would've been to tell the kid "Do a poster of someone with an Occupy button and note that they're often seen at Democrat Party meetings."  And see what happens.


You may or may not have heard all the yelling about the evidence that a lube called Fireclean is actually Crisco.  In response to all this, and as a response to 'What's the best gun oil?', I have an answer:

This sounds good.  The problem is you don't know if he actually believes this(at least for now), or figures it'll get the most votes.

Now go forth, study hard,

and know it's a much better subject matter than, say, (fill in the blank) Studies.

Sally Jewell: among the people who need to be reminded who they work for

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell is refusing to testify before Congress about her department’s ongoing investigation of the massive toxic mine spill caused by EPA workers last month.
Despite an invitation Republican lawmakers to get Jewell to come before the committee Thursday to testify on the Interior’s investigation, the former CEO of REI has declined. Instead, Jewell’s staffers sent an unsigned statement to House lawmakers.
"You think I actually answer to you?  I am above you people!"  Won't even sign the "I won't show up" letter.  People who need to be fired.


The CSGV is having another stroke; go enjoy.  It's stupid enough that even some of their members are calling them on it.


From that earthquake in Chile; yeah, that'd mess with your shopping experience

Tell, you what, Mr. President: you nudge me,

and I'll kick you in the balls.

Then hunt down Sunstein and do the same to him.  Repeatedly.

For some reason it doesn't surprise me that the name 'Kennedy' shows up

in this corruption.
Judicial Watch today released Obama administration correspondence containing a letter from Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick F. Kennedy asking Hillary Clinton’s lawyer to destroy all electronic copies of a classified email found in records Clinton decided to turn over to the State Department six months before.  Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, rejected the request as Congress and other investigators had demanded electronic records be preserved.  The correspondence also shows Hillary Clinton has ignored a demand to turn over all electronic copies of the approximately 55,000 pages of emails she previously returned in paper form.  The correspondence was disclosed by the State and Justice Departments in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in which Judicial Watch is asking a court to issue a preservation order to protect any emails Clinton has yet to turn over, including those emails in which she and her lawyers unilaterally determined to be personal. (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (1:12-cv-02034))
This shit isn't going to get cleaned up until judges start throwing people in prison for perjury and ignoring court orders.  Then it might start.

Rep. "Due process should be what we say it is" Polis doesn't like it

when people actually pay attention to his words, and tell him what a shit he is.

So out comes the standard "I misspoke" to try and cover up what he said.  Or excuse it.  He doesn't care, as long as it takes some of the heat off.

Miserable little shits wind up in Congress, and stay there, because enough of the voters approve of this crap to keep them there.  At least until one of them, or their kids, winds up in the grinder.  THEN they'll discover a problem with this.


"We need to give ATF more money! 
That way they can do more things they'll lie under oath about."
Or, stealing from Tam, Increasing funding to the BATFEIEIO to combat gun trafficking is like giving money to the Sinaloa Cartel to cut down on dope smuggling.


And the prosecutors, staff and 'regulators' who're lawyers aren't yet up for disbarment why?

About that "Very few criminals among illegal aliens" push,

...But the government agencies that crunch crime numbers are utterly unable -- or unwilling -- to pinpoint for the public how many illegal immigrants are arrested within U.S. borders each year.

In the absence of comprehensive data, FoxNews.com examined a patchwork of local, state and federal statistics that revealed a wildly disproportionate number of murderers, rapists and drug dealers are crossing into the U.S. amid the wave of hard-working families seeking a better life. The explosive figures show illegal immigrants are three times as likely to be convicted of murder as members of the general population and account for far more crimes than their 3.5-percent share of the U.S. population would suggest. Critics say it is no accident that local, state and federal governments go to great lengths to keep the data under wraps.
Gee, I wonder why?
Statistics show the estimated 11.7 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. account for 13.6 percent of all offenders sentenced for crimes committed in the U.S. Twelve percent of murder sentences, 20 percent of kidnapping sentences and 16 percent of drug trafficking sentences are meted out to illegal immigrants.
Dreamers, one and all, we're told.
Adams opened a rare window into the dearth of public data when he obtained an internal report compiled by the Texas Department of Public Safety and revealed its contents on his Pajamas Media blog. The report showed that between 2008 and 2014, noncitizens in Texas -- a group that includes illegal and legal immigrants -- committed 611,234 crimes, including nearly 3,000 homicides. Adams told FoxNews.com that other states have also closely tracked illegal immigrant crime, especially in the wake of 9/11, but said the statistical sorting “is done behind closed doors.” States closely guard the statistics out of either fear of reprisals from the federal government or out of their leaders' own insistence on downplaying the burden of illegal immigrant crime, he said.

My first thought is "God knows what the actual numbers are."  Remember, these are the numbers dug out with a lot of agencies trying to hide them; if we knew the real numbers...

And, of course, the protest will be "That's Faux News, you can't believe them!"  Well, we sure as hell can't believe the feds.  Or a number of states, like Californicated.  On this, I have to go with Fox.

Earplugs, custom, tryout Pics added

Anymore, wanting to keep what hearing I've got, I'm even more picky about ear protection.  Which means at the indoor range, if there's anything bigger than .22 being used, plugs and muffs.  For that matter, at outdoor ranges, with rifles I often use both.  Also wear plugs when on the bike on the highway; wind noise can be nasty.  The problem is the plugs.

Either I've got something weird about my ear canals(left especially), or this may be more common than I thought, but the damn things will not stay in place; they slowly- sometimes suddenly- back out.  Which means finding a quieter place to reseat them, which is a pain.  Especially on the bike.  And yes, I've tried foam plugs, Surefires, and other types; they all do it, some worse than others.

All this brings me to what someone recommended on Book of Face, these Radians do-it-yourself custom plugs*.  Figuring it's worth a try, ordered a set.

Comes as two containers, each holding a different compound, one with the hardener, a carry bag for when they're done, and instructions.  Short version:
Divide each compound to two equal pieces, and keep them separate.
Take one piece of each, work together until no streaks, just solid color.
Push into ear, work it to fit.
Don't talk or drink for at least ten minutes while they cure.
I gave them fifteen minutes, just for cushion, and they set up fine.

Left plug on the left

Turned.  The part that goes into the ear canal is pointing up on the left, down on the right

Kind of odd putting them in the first time, have to lift the top of the ear, then push and rotate slightly for them to slide into place.

I've now tried them at the range, and on a couple of short highway hops on the bike.  They're at least as sound-blocking as the good earplugs I've used, and- this is a big thing- they stayed in place.  Quite comfortable, and especially under the helmet or muffs a LOT more comfortable than some plugs I've used.

Two things come to mind:
One is that if you like your plugs on cord, I'd guess you could either insert the cord in each one right after you finish molding it into your ear, or after it's hardened drill a hole and glue the cord in.

The other is, some earbuds have a, call it a wand, that fits into the cushioned earpiece(these do), and I'm wondering if you could drill an appropriate hole in these to fit the wand?



*The ones I got are blue, and the price has shifted.

Even if Koskinen was fired/quit,

do the clowns in charge have any idea how long it'll take to try to rebuild any trust in the IRS?

Or, considering what crap they've been caught in, the DoJ?

Hell, you could take that story and substitute FBI or ATF or DoJ, or Congress for that matter, and it'd still work.


People are idiots, bears and cameras edition.

Remember Tams' 'someone is getting put in cattle cars' post?

Little further along those lines:
The city fighting we’d see in Europe would look like what we saw in Sarajevo ten years ago. You know, ragtag bands of men with no uniforms, stolen weapons, and a desire to kill anybody who looked Muslim (or on the Muslim side, European).
...
Want to take the worst-case a little further? Both countries border Germany, which might feel the very legitimate need to march in to restore Ordnung. I think we all know what usually happens once the Germans start goose-stepping through their smaller neighbors.

No, the result wouldn’t be World War III (or V?). But Europe could very well become Bosnia on a continental scale, with all the devastation, mass graves, and ethnic cleansing that implies. You can bet, at best, there would be a whole lot of people put at gunpoint onto refugee boats bound for North Africa and the Levant. Assuming, of course, the Europeans win in such a scenario. If not, the poor refugees would speak languages much like our own, and be bound for our own shores – just like Will suggested.

Me, though, I’d put my money on the Europeans winning a war of mass, mechanized murder.

After all, they invented it.

Extra points if in session at the time

G-nome must've taken a security gig

Proof that idiocy lives on, and a high income and Big-Name-College education

doesn't mean you're not an idiot.
“I don’t know anyone who is a Donald Trump supporter. I don’t know anyone who knows anyone who is a Donald Trump supporter. They are like this huge mystery group,” the CEO said. [Shades of Pauline Kael! -- Ed] “So it’s a combination of shock and bewilderment. No one really knows why this is happening.
Yeah, lots of people know why it's happening; but people like you are so busy breathing each others oxygen and kissing each others ass that you DON'T PAY ATTENTION.  Because a whole bunch of people have told you exactly why it's happening, and you still don't know.

“I don’t think Trump is going to win, but I do worry about all the damage being done to Republicans among Hispanics and women by him being such an idiot,” said a senior executive and major GOP fundraiser at a large bank who also declined to be identified by name.
Let's see... his support has actually gone up among those two groups.  Possibly because lots of citizens of latino descent aren't all that wild about illegal aliens either?  And maybe a lot of women like someone who's not so busy kissing PC ass?

In the Politico article you hear lots of "We don't understand why Jeb isn't doing well!" and "What's keeping Hillary down?" 

Did I mention these people are idiots?

Hillary is in the pockets of Wall Street(and vice versa), and Jeb is too.  Everyone knows it.  And lots and lots of people are sick to death of career politicians who're sold-out before they ever hold office.  How damned hard is that to understand?

Apparently, for some people, pretty damned hard.

And they wonder why so many don't trust or respect them anymore...

A Texas cop who shot and killed a man for driving off during a traffic stop will not face charges – even though the dashcam video shows the officer firing into the driver’s side window from the side – nowhere close to being struck by the car.
However, Brownsville police say they found a screwdriver inside the man’s car and that was enough for the Cameron County grand jury to not charge officer Rolando Trujillo Jr with any crimes Wednesday.
It's also why the justice system is considered corrupt and worthless by so many; really, a SCREWDRIVER?


And this crap.  "How dare you not immediately obey whatever commands we give!  People must be taught a lesson!"

A while back, I was given a puzzle.

I happened to look like a largely-disassembled chainsaw.

It's been interesting, and it's not completed yet, but

It's ALIVE!!!!

I wonder if he knows- or cares?- what he's done to the careers

of the officers who ran the study?

He's just called them either incompetent, dishonest, or unwilling to fully and properly carry out orders; he's the SECNAV, that kind of thing from him destroys people.

Of course, what's destroying careers to a Obama appointee given results he didn't want?

Libya, and Yemen, and Syria,

and Iraq, and Ukraine...

'Smart Diplomacy'.

Once again, there are real consequences to people AND animals

when an idiot "Save the animals, screw the people!" movement goes on.
Since Botswana banned trophy hunting two years ago, remote communities like Sankuyo have been at the mercy of growing numbers of wild animals that are hurting livelihoods and driving terrified villagers into their homes at dusk.

The hunting ban has also meant a precipitous drop in income. Over the years, villagers had used money from trophy hunters, mostly Americans, to install toilets and water pipes, build houses for the poorest, and give scholarships to the young and pensions to the old.
And a very important thing Capstick used to point out in his books:
“Before, when there was hunting, we wanted to protect those animals because we knew we earned something out of them,” said Jimmy Baitsholedi Ntema, a villager in his 60s. “Now we don’t benefit at all from the animals. The elephants and buffaloes leave after destroying our plowing fields during the day. Then, at night, the lions come into our kraals.”
You can deal with some livestock losses and such when you know hunters bring in money that more than covers it; when you're losing the livestock and making nothing, and worrying about your crops being destroyed, and you maybe getting eaten, not so much.

Controlled sport hunting has proven to be the best thing that can happen to preserving wildlife; but the "Oh, no, don't hurt the poor animals, just let them live and roam!" idiots cannot or will not understand the matter.

'Warmest July on record!' my ass

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced this week that according to their calculations, July 2015 was the hottest month since instrumental records began in 1880. NOAA says that the record was set by eight one-hundredths of a degree Celsius over that set in July 1998. NASA calculates that July 2015 beat what they assert was the previous warmest month (July 2011) by two one-hundredths of a degree.

But government spokespeople rarely mention the inconvenient fact that these records are being set by less than the uncertainty in the statistics. NOAA claims an uncertainty of 14 one-hundredths of a degree in its temperature averages, or near twice the amount by which they say the record was set. NASA says that their data is typically accurate to one tenth of a degree, five times the amount by which their new record was set.


Speaking of climate,
Using DMI’s 30% concentration ice as the measure of extent, 2015 was the shortest melt season on record in the Arctic. Ice peaked around March 25, and bottomed around September 3. The melt season was about three weeks shorter than average.


Now, if this were connected to anyone other than a rich and "I know people" politician,(and even then if it was a 'not friendly to the administration' R) the EffingBI would've been at the door with a warrant for the server, ANYTHING that might've been connected to or had data transferred to from the server, and any records on the matter as soon as they heard about it.  Since it's Clinton, not so much.

But the EffingBI director, we're told, is a very ethical guy who can be trusted.


"And in gun control news, Senators Schumer and Feinstein introduced the Law Enforcement Safety Act of 2015, which calls for the registration of floor tiles and truck bedliner, and requires it only be sold to licensed professionals."


Ok, officers, crap like this really doesn't help you be seen as in-control good guys.


Yes, I still want to see this someday.  As I've noted, preferably not in a "OHGODWE'REGONNA DIE!" circumstance, but I DO want to see it.


I want to hear these questions asked.  Every one of them. 

Well, lady, this is exactly what you trained him to be;

so why are you bitching?  WE'RE the ones you've sent him off to inflict himself upon.

I guess you're just fine with him screwing with other peoples' lives in the name of 'environmentalism', but you don't want him troubling you anymore.


Ah, but Hungary is one of the places not falling into line with the Preferred Actions™, so you ARE evil.  At least to idiot leftists like Fisk.


Apparently the possible pedophile* congressman, Jared Polis(Felix Dzerzhinsky wannabe-CO) is getting some blowback.  I doubt he'll care, and it doesn't involve a jet engine as it should, but it's a start.




*Some congressmen have been caught molesting interns and such, and Polis is a congressman, so there's at least a chance it's true.

Tab clearing, starting with

Iran has reportedly found an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium, following assessments that the country is running low on the nuclear raw material and just days after President Obama essentially secured an international nuclear deal with the country's leaders.


Markos Moulitsas, of Daily Kos, is full of shit.  In multiple ways(I know, since when is that news?)


The University of Californicated: "Free Speech is what we say it is."  And don't you dare be honest about anything they don't approve of honest words being spoken about.


Seems to be the thing with leftists, especially since Palin: any female who won't follow the Preferred Narrative 'isn't really a woman', or in this case 'isn't an actual woman'.

I remember when this ladys' book came out, the cover seriously pissed the Watts types off: good-looking lady in a short dress and heels, holding a EBR and a "Go ahead, try it" expression.  They flat hated that.


So this is the kind of thing that goes on in philosophy departments of colleges...


The Scooby Doo movie I'd like to see.


History.  Battle of Bladensberg.  Seems the idiots running DC have always hated private citizens with arms, and the means to make them go bang.
Starting in 1803 the City banned even the militias arms from having flints. The men could still own the required arm- required under the 1792 militia act- but when it came to the three flints the city prohibited the men from having them. The city also imposed heavy fines and even city jail time for members of the militia showing up at the required muster with their gun.


Ok, I really want to see this train dug out.


Yeah, I'm sure all the people who lost their insurance(that they'd been promised they could keep) are just effing THRILLED at how this is working out.