Friday, October 02, 2015
And in the Obama and Bloomberg heaven of (formerly Great)Britain,
doesn't seem like those laws are helping much.
Police reveal there are 277,000 guns in Scotland as they warn of thriving black market trade in firearms
I'd have inserted 'that are known of' after 'Scotland', but that's just me.
There's lots of pearl-clutching(including "He bought a REPLICA on AMAZON!!"), but the real meat of the matter comes here:
Experts have mapped 107,000 shotguns and 80,000 firearms which are legally owned by 68,000 licence-holders.
But criminals can get hold of everything from revolvers to AK47 assault rifles on the black market and in former conflict zones.
And there you have the admission: honest people, no problem controlling; criminals get whatever the hell they want.
Someone needs to point out that line to Dear Leader.
Their answer, of course, is MORE LAWS!!
Cuddihy added: “As we have with drugs, I would like to see the creation of an offence of being concerned in the unlawful sale or supply of firearms and ammunition.
With 'concerned in' probably meaning "Anything we decide might let us go after someone else, no matter how idiotic it might be." Like, say, accusing Amazon for having those replicas. Etc.
“We must prevent bad people from accessing guns.”
Guy, you've made it plain you don't even want honest citizens accessing firearms; how's that working out on stopping the bad guys?
Police reveal there are 277,000 guns in Scotland as they warn of thriving black market trade in firearms
I'd have inserted 'that are known of' after 'Scotland', but that's just me.
There's lots of pearl-clutching(including "He bought a REPLICA on AMAZON!!"), but the real meat of the matter comes here:
Experts have mapped 107,000 shotguns and 80,000 firearms which are legally owned by 68,000 licence-holders.
But criminals can get hold of everything from revolvers to AK47 assault rifles on the black market and in former conflict zones.
And there you have the admission: honest people, no problem controlling; criminals get whatever the hell they want.
Someone needs to point out that line to Dear Leader.
Their answer, of course, is MORE LAWS!!
Cuddihy added: “As we have with drugs, I would like to see the creation of an offence of being concerned in the unlawful sale or supply of firearms and ammunition.
With 'concerned in' probably meaning "Anything we decide might let us go after someone else, no matter how idiotic it might be." Like, say, accusing Amazon for having those replicas. Etc.
“We must prevent bad people from accessing guns.”
Guy, you've made it plain you don't even want honest citizens accessing firearms; how's that working out on stopping the bad guys?
There's a clown named Arthur Chu
who became famous for winning on some game show, who's now very big in leftist circles. And, like so many leftists, he really doesn't like people being allowed to say things he doesn't approve of.
His solution is the equivalent of letting Ford or Toyota be sued because a drunk driver was in one of their cars when he caused a wreck. It's stupid, and have no doubt it's intended to make free speech more difficult. And more expensive, don't forget that.
One of the criticisms of AGW/Man-Caused Climate Change theory is that the models used are not accurate; they cannot account for all the factors involved, in part because we don't even know all of them. Case in point:
According to a study by the Institute of Catalysis and Environment in Lyon (IRCELYON, CNRS / University Lyon 1) and the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), the oceans are producing unexpectedly large quantities of isoprene – a volatile organic compound (VOC) – which is known to have a cooling effect on climate.
One thing, with possibly HUGE effects. God knows what else is out there we don't know about.
No, not ignoring the murders in Oregon. The blood-dancing started before we really knew anything, especially by the Dancer-In-Chief, leading to this:
I will say it's clarifying to see the president admit to willfully politicizing an event so he can confiscate guns of law-abiding people.
And, as was also noted,
Back then:
I believe in people’s lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away.”
Now:
He praised the gun control efforts in Australia, a nation that conducted a mass confiscation of firearms from its citizenry.
A bunch of Democrats are realizing/dealing with the fact that a lot of people are getting screwed in Obamacare, and they don't want to be linked to it.
His solution is the equivalent of letting Ford or Toyota be sued because a drunk driver was in one of their cars when he caused a wreck. It's stupid, and have no doubt it's intended to make free speech more difficult. And more expensive, don't forget that.
One of the criticisms of AGW/Man-Caused Climate Change theory is that the models used are not accurate; they cannot account for all the factors involved, in part because we don't even know all of them. Case in point:
According to a study by the Institute of Catalysis and Environment in Lyon (IRCELYON, CNRS / University Lyon 1) and the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), the oceans are producing unexpectedly large quantities of isoprene – a volatile organic compound (VOC) – which is known to have a cooling effect on climate.
One thing, with possibly HUGE effects. God knows what else is out there we don't know about.
No, not ignoring the murders in Oregon. The blood-dancing started before we really knew anything, especially by the Dancer-In-Chief, leading to this:
I will say it's clarifying to see the president admit to willfully politicizing an event so he can confiscate guns of law-abiding people.
And, as was also noted,
Back then:
I believe in people’s lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away.”
Now:
He praised the gun control efforts in Australia, a nation that conducted a mass confiscation of firearms from its citizenry.
A bunch of Democrats are realizing/dealing with the fact that a lot of people are getting screwed in Obamacare, and they don't want to be linked to it.
Thursday, October 01, 2015
The Clintons and 60 Minutes;
and anyone still wonders why the media's not trusted?
“Hey Obama, the 80s called. They’re asking for a real president who knew how to deal with the Russians without becoming their bitch.”
Why unbelievable? Obama cares about the military only as a way of pushing his crap; the lives of the troops are inconsequential.
It's almost like Obama WANTS Iran to have nuclear weapons, isn't it?
“Hey Obama, the 80s called. They’re asking for a real president who knew how to deal with the Russians without becoming their bitch.”
Why unbelievable? Obama cares about the military only as a way of pushing his crap; the lives of the troops are inconsequential.
It's almost like Obama WANTS Iran to have nuclear weapons, isn't it?
There is a line in Serenity I've found more and more appropriate
as the SJW types push more and more to make people- in their view- 'better':
Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that.
First thing I thought of when I read this. I'll borrow a few bits and leave it to you to read the rest.
In 2012 a philosopher named Matthew Liao co-authored a paper that proposed altering human biology to combat climate change.
...
In the paper and in subsequent interviews Liao and his co-authors said that they’re not necessarily advocating for any one of these modifications in particular. Instead, they just think scientists should look into how feasible changing certain aspects of human biology might be. Co-author Rebecca Roache (who we talked to for the Eternal Life in Prison episode) told Leo Hickman of the Guardian that “human engineering may ultimately be unworkable; but this should be because it is impossible to implement, or because its costs outweigh its benefits.”
...
Another modification that Liao proposed was an induced allergy to meat, to help people reduce their consumption of animals.
...
Next we talk about breeding people to be shorter, something Liao says could reduce our carbon footprint.
And now we get to something more current, something some of his fellow 'progressives' have suggested variations of:
But what about less physical ways of decreasing someone’s impact on the climate? The next method Liao talks about is using cognitive enhancement to decrease the number of babies each person has. He proposes giving people access to things like Ritalin and Modafinil to increase their cognitive ability because there are some links between cognitive ability and having fewer children.
...
And this brings us to the last modification that Liao talks about: empathy. You might remember that just a few weeks ago we talked about empathy on this very podcast! And you might remember that empathy is actually a really hard thing to define. Liao’s idea is to give hormones like oxytocin and seratonin to people, and to perhaps decrease someone’s testosterone.
The author notes that nobody is(currently) talking about forcing anyone to do this, oh no; but nobody was talking about force being involved when the eugenics movement started, either(at least not openly). Question: anyone out there think that there are not people out there who just looove the idea of forcing this? On others, of course. Test subjects. The lower orders who wouldn't agree.
And I'll be most of the ones who like the idea are also horrified at the commoners having arms. In part because armed people make it somewhat more difficult to show up and take them in for modification.
Oh yeah, the comments are interesting. Including some like this:
Maybe not in your estimation.
Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that.
First thing I thought of when I read this. I'll borrow a few bits and leave it to you to read the rest.
In 2012 a philosopher named Matthew Liao co-authored a paper that proposed altering human biology to combat climate change.
...
In the paper and in subsequent interviews Liao and his co-authors said that they’re not necessarily advocating for any one of these modifications in particular. Instead, they just think scientists should look into how feasible changing certain aspects of human biology might be. Co-author Rebecca Roache (who we talked to for the Eternal Life in Prison episode) told Leo Hickman of the Guardian that “human engineering may ultimately be unworkable; but this should be because it is impossible to implement, or because its costs outweigh its benefits.”
...
Another modification that Liao proposed was an induced allergy to meat, to help people reduce their consumption of animals.
...
Next we talk about breeding people to be shorter, something Liao says could reduce our carbon footprint.
And now we get to something more current, something some of his fellow 'progressives' have suggested variations of:
But what about less physical ways of decreasing someone’s impact on the climate? The next method Liao talks about is using cognitive enhancement to decrease the number of babies each person has. He proposes giving people access to things like Ritalin and Modafinil to increase their cognitive ability because there are some links between cognitive ability and having fewer children.
...
And this brings us to the last modification that Liao talks about: empathy. You might remember that just a few weeks ago we talked about empathy on this very podcast! And you might remember that empathy is actually a really hard thing to define. Liao’s idea is to give hormones like oxytocin and seratonin to people, and to perhaps decrease someone’s testosterone.
The author notes that nobody is(currently) talking about forcing anyone to do this, oh no; but nobody was talking about force being involved when the eugenics movement started, either(at least not openly). Question: anyone out there think that there are not people out there who just looove the idea of forcing this? On others, of course. Test subjects. The lower orders who wouldn't agree.
And I'll be most of the ones who like the idea are also horrified at the commoners having arms. In part because armed people make it somewhat more difficult to show up and take them in for modification.
Oh yeah, the comments are interesting. Including some like this:
Totally agree. but where is it said that any humans have inherent ‘rights’.
They don’t.Maybe not in your estimation.
Yes, Obama wants your guns,
and he'll say anything to try to get them.
And don't forget just what a friggin' nightmare Clinton is on this.
And don't forget just what a friggin' nightmare Clinton is on this.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Hey, remember the scientists who wanted Globular Warmering 'deniers' prosecuted
under RICO? Guess what? They really stepped in it, and they've taken the letter off the website. And are trying to make it go away. Problem:
More followup:
...Now, instead of explaining why the RICO 20 letter was mysteriously withdrawn from the IGES website after questions began to be asked about the millions of dollars that George Mason’s Jagadish Shukla apparently has received, some of it while apparently “double dipping” against university policy, all the while claiming climate skeptics are the recipients of money that should be prosecuted under the RICO act, we find this curious missive posted in place of the RICO20 letter at the URL where it previously resided:
MUCH more at the link
You can imagine the horror on the signatories’ faces when they realised that some very determined people were about to take a close interest in their financial arrangements and those of their colleagues at IGES.No shit.
I’m not sure taking the letter down is going to help much though.
More followup:
...Now, instead of explaining why the RICO 20 letter was mysteriously withdrawn from the IGES website after questions began to be asked about the millions of dollars that George Mason’s Jagadish Shukla apparently has received, some of it while apparently “double dipping” against university policy, all the while claiming climate skeptics are the recipients of money that should be prosecuted under the RICO act, we find this curious missive posted in place of the RICO20 letter at the URL where it previously resided:
MUCH more at the link
From the consummate professionals of the Secret Service...
An assistant director of the Secret Service urged that unflattering
information the agency had in its files about a congressman critical of
the service should be made public, according to a government watchdog
report released Wednesday.
“Some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out,” Assistant Director Edward Lowery wrote in an e-mail to a fellow director on March 31, commenting on an internal file that was being widely circulated inside the service. “Just to be fair.”
Isn't that just wonderful, just professional as hell? And from an Assistant Director, yet.
Oh, let's not forget this, either:
That information was part of Chaffetz’s personnel file stored in a restricted Secret Service database and required by law to be kept private.
Wonder what the penalty is supposed to be for violating that law? And what the chances are of Lowery actually being charged for it?
The Chaffetz file, contained in the restricted database, had been peeked at by about 45 Secret Service agents, some of whom shared it with their colleagues in March and April, the report found. This prying began after a contentious March 24 House hearing at which Chaffetz scolded the director and the agency for its series of security gaffes and misconduct. The hearing sparked anger inside the agency.
The inspector general’s inquiry found the Chaffetz information was spread to nearly every layer of the service.
Take a minute and think about that. Restricted information, being passed around like a friggin' bottle at a party. Because the SS is all butthurt at being called on some real screwups...
Here's something that makes this even more interesting(if by 'interesting' you mean 'messy and unprofessional and downright stupid'):
Roth said in his report that it was “especially ironic and troubling” that the Chaffetz information circulated so widely inside the agency and yet Clancy did not know about it. Even Clancy chief of staff Michael Biermann and Deputy Director Craig Magaw had been privy to the information, the report said, but did not alert Clancy.
Clancy had previously raised concerns about the failure of his staff to keep him properly informed. At the March 24 hearing, he said he was “infuriated” that he was not alerted by his senior management to an incident earlier that month in which two senior supervisors drove onto the White House complex after a night of drinking and crossed through an active bomb-investigation scene.
Your own damned CoS and Deputy Director couldn't be bothered to let you know this land mine with a smoking fuse was out there? This is the best staff you could get?
And yeah, there's more. Go check it out, including the IG stepping in it.
“Some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out,” Assistant Director Edward Lowery wrote in an e-mail to a fellow director on March 31, commenting on an internal file that was being widely circulated inside the service. “Just to be fair.”
Isn't that just wonderful, just professional as hell? And from an Assistant Director, yet.
Oh, let's not forget this, either:
That information was part of Chaffetz’s personnel file stored in a restricted Secret Service database and required by law to be kept private.
Wonder what the penalty is supposed to be for violating that law? And what the chances are of Lowery actually being charged for it?
The Chaffetz file, contained in the restricted database, had been peeked at by about 45 Secret Service agents, some of whom shared it with their colleagues in March and April, the report found. This prying began after a contentious March 24 House hearing at which Chaffetz scolded the director and the agency for its series of security gaffes and misconduct. The hearing sparked anger inside the agency.
The inspector general’s inquiry found the Chaffetz information was spread to nearly every layer of the service.
Take a minute and think about that. Restricted information, being passed around like a friggin' bottle at a party. Because the SS is all butthurt at being called on some real screwups...
Here's something that makes this even more interesting(if by 'interesting' you mean 'messy and unprofessional and downright stupid'):
Roth said in his report that it was “especially ironic and troubling” that the Chaffetz information circulated so widely inside the agency and yet Clancy did not know about it. Even Clancy chief of staff Michael Biermann and Deputy Director Craig Magaw had been privy to the information, the report said, but did not alert Clancy.
Clancy had previously raised concerns about the failure of his staff to keep him properly informed. At the March 24 hearing, he said he was “infuriated” that he was not alerted by his senior management to an incident earlier that month in which two senior supervisors drove onto the White House complex after a night of drinking and crossed through an active bomb-investigation scene.
Your own damned CoS and Deputy Director couldn't be bothered to let you know this land mine with a smoking fuse was out there? This is the best staff you could get?
And yeah, there's more. Go check it out, including the IG stepping in it.
Covers it pretty well
Toobin concludes, correctly I think, that
Boehner’s “failures, political and substantive, were due mostly to
cowardice… Boehner tried nothing, accomplished nothing, and lost his job
anyway. It’s the legacy he deserves.”
Though he should've had 'betrayed, and sold out' right after 'accomplished nothing'.
Being an immigrant from some places means some people will find excuses for, and blame others for, anything you do. Including murder.
And if you think CBS had no idea, I have some seafront property in the panhandle to sell you.
Now the WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of the CIA’s clandestine service in Europe who was working directly with Blumenthal as a member of Clinton’s spy network, was concurrently working as a consultant to CBS News and its venerable news program 60 Minutes.
The New York Effing City Council: traitors are their heroes.
Lady, you didn't get those boobs from eating cannoli or drinking, and they're not going to shrink from sweating or something.
This isn't exactly news; bin Laden wailed a lot about the loss of 'al Andalusia' and other places, and how they had to be reconquered.
Except that it will be news to a lot of people. And will be dismissed as racist thought or something.
Though he should've had 'betrayed, and sold out' right after 'accomplished nothing'.
Being an immigrant from some places means some people will find excuses for, and blame others for, anything you do. Including murder.
And if you think CBS had no idea, I have some seafront property in the panhandle to sell you.
Now the WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of the CIA’s clandestine service in Europe who was working directly with Blumenthal as a member of Clinton’s spy network, was concurrently working as a consultant to CBS News and its venerable news program 60 Minutes.
The New York Effing City Council: traitors are their heroes.
Lady, you didn't get those boobs from eating cannoli or drinking, and they're not going to shrink from sweating or something.
This isn't exactly news; bin Laden wailed a lot about the loss of 'al Andalusia' and other places, and how they had to be reconquered.
Except that it will be news to a lot of people. And will be dismissed as racist thought or something.
Greedy dirtbag lawyers don't like Stand Your Ground laws, and the CSGV
just loooooves those lawyers.
Aside from the lies from the lawyers, there's this:
Victims’ rights are undermined in states with statutory immunity from criminal prosecution and civil suit related to Stand Your Ground cases.
I venture a speculation and say this is the real reason the ABA is opposed to SYG/Immunity: It is bad for their pockets. And did you notice the use of the word victim? It is being applied to the critter that needed the defense and not the person who had to use force to stop the attack. Who has not heard of cases in which a criminal or his family has sued in civil court even though it was their precious snowflake the one that wanted to carve his initials on a stranger and get his money or her sex? We still hear the lamentations of “He was a good boy! Just because he was flinging a machete does not mean he deserved to be shot!” from weeping mothers and other relatives?
Aside from the lies from the lawyers, there's this:
Victims’ rights are undermined in states with statutory immunity from criminal prosecution and civil suit related to Stand Your Ground cases.
I venture a speculation and say this is the real reason the ABA is opposed to SYG/Immunity: It is bad for their pockets. And did you notice the use of the word victim? It is being applied to the critter that needed the defense and not the person who had to use force to stop the attack. Who has not heard of cases in which a criminal or his family has sued in civil court even though it was their precious snowflake the one that wanted to carve his initials on a stranger and get his money or her sex? We still hear the lamentations of “He was a good boy! Just because he was flinging a machete does not mean he deserved to be shot!” from weeping mothers and other relatives?
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
So Zuckerberg wants to be the Speech Commissar for Merkel?
The Facebook CEO was overheard responding that "we need to do some work"
on curtailing anti-immigrant posts about the refugee crisis. "Are you
working on this?" Merkel asked in English, to which Zuckerberg replied
in the affirmative before the transmission was disrupted.
...
Earlier this month, Facebook vowed to clean up what it deemed was racist content on the German version of its website. At the time, the social network said it would partner with a non profit group to oversee hate postings.
Yet any action from Facebook is likely to stoke concerns about free speech. In the past, the social network has come under suspicion for suppressing or deleting posts and groups that advocate unpopular beliefs.
No shit? Gee, maybe that's because Commissar Zuckerberg wants to 'clean up' speech he disapproves of? And Merkel is cheering him on?
"Free speech does not include things we disapprove of!"
That's what you think, assholes.
...
Earlier this month, Facebook vowed to clean up what it deemed was racist content on the German version of its website. At the time, the social network said it would partner with a non profit group to oversee hate postings.
Yet any action from Facebook is likely to stoke concerns about free speech. In the past, the social network has come under suspicion for suppressing or deleting posts and groups that advocate unpopular beliefs.
No shit? Gee, maybe that's because Commissar Zuckerberg wants to 'clean up' speech he disapproves of? And Merkel is cheering him on?
"Free speech does not include things we disapprove of!"
That's what you think, assholes.
There is NOTHING the legions of the perpetually-offended don't/won't object to,
but there is hope.
Over a mad-scientist-theme party,
“We are disappointed at your choice of the name for the event, as well as your rationale for allowing the name ‘Mudd Goes Madd.’ Your disregard of the concerns of the mental health community and their allies trivializes issues that we deem extremely important to our community. Further, the exclusion of the mental health community in the discussion of allowing the event name is inappropriate.”
Among the responses from people with some brains and sense of humor,
As TCF notes, several students who suffer from mental issues expressed support for the party’s theme:
Yes, the anti-rights people are still pushing "The National Guard is the militia and the 2nd Amendment was referring to THEM!" crap.
Let's see... the IRS investigated itself, Holders' DoJ 'investigated' him, now the Secret Service is involved in investigating itself... And they wonder why people don't trust them.
Over a mad-scientist-theme party,
“We are disappointed at your choice of the name for the event, as well as your rationale for allowing the name ‘Mudd Goes Madd.’ Your disregard of the concerns of the mental health community and their allies trivializes issues that we deem extremely important to our community. Further, the exclusion of the mental health community in the discussion of allowing the event name is inappropriate.”
Among the responses from people with some brains and sense of humor,
As TCF notes, several students who suffer from mental issues expressed support for the party’s theme:
Another student wrote the decision was “patronizing” and a third added “I have anxiety and my closest friends have depression. I think the name is clever and fun,” according to screenshots obtained by The College Fix.
Another student told the Claremont Independent, which first reported the story, that: “I am actually bipolar and I am offended that people infantilize the whole issue of mental illness by suggesting we should be protected from anything that could damage our ‘fragile’ psyches.”Damn right.
Yes, the anti-rights people are still pushing "The National Guard is the militia and the 2nd Amendment was referring to THEM!" crap.
Let's see... the IRS investigated itself, Holders' DoJ 'investigated' him, now the Secret Service is involved in investigating itself... And they wonder why people don't trust them.
Monday, September 28, 2015
I needed a brass catcher
Happily, that's pretty straightforward:
Take some 1/4" diameter bar I had, a piece about six feet long. Bend into a circle
This stuff isn't hard to bend, even cold. I did this around a 14" wheel.
Get the shape neatened-up a bit, then bend so you've got two legs
Figure how high you want it to stand, bend the legs back at the appropriate point
Bend the backs of the legs so they overlap
You can leave them loose, but I'd suggest either taping, wiring or welding them together. Do any necessary bending to make it sit flat, then lace on some netting or something, and you have this
Tried it out a few days ago, and it worked nicely for things that eject to the right and a little forward or back, just move to properly intercept. If it's windy you can set something heavy on the legs, another reason to have them overlap at the back. Or if you don't mind the weight when moving it you could weld or otherwise attach a piece of bar or something heavy enough to stabilize it.
Take some 1/4" diameter bar I had, a piece about six feet long. Bend into a circle
Get the shape neatened-up a bit, then bend so you've got two legs
Bend the backs of the legs so they overlap
When seconds count, some cops
drive away.
Robert Peel must be trying to dig out of his grave so he can use his headstone on the people who've screwed-up his creation so badly.
Robert Peel must be trying to dig out of his grave so he can use his headstone on the people who've screwed-up his creation so badly.
This is clearly unpossible, Britain has CSGV-approved laws on such things!
A 19-year-old who plotted a massacre at his former college has been jailed for life with a minimum term of eight years.
Liam Lyburd was convicted at Newcastle Crown Court of possessing an arsenal of weapons including pipe bombs and a gun, with intent to endanger life.
I mean pipe bombs, well, yeah, but he got a GUN? However could that be?
Lyburd replied: "Buying a gun was just like buying a bar of chocolate. I didn't see it as a big deal at the time."
Apparently it be pretty damn easy.
So, despite all those laws, to the point an old lady gets arrested for carrying a pepper shaker to defend herself with, someone plotting mass murder has no problem putting together pipe bombs, and buying a pistol, magazines, and a bunch of ammo?
Why, you'd almost think those people don't care about the law or something!
Liam Lyburd was convicted at Newcastle Crown Court of possessing an arsenal of weapons including pipe bombs and a gun, with intent to endanger life.
I mean pipe bombs, well, yeah, but he got a GUN? However could that be?
Lyburd replied: "Buying a gun was just like buying a bar of chocolate. I didn't see it as a big deal at the time."
Apparently it be pretty damn easy.
So, despite all those laws, to the point an old lady gets arrested for carrying a pepper shaker to defend herself with, someone plotting mass murder has no problem putting together pipe bombs, and buying a pistol, magazines, and a bunch of ammo?
Why, you'd almost think those people don't care about the law or something!
When everything is a microaggression to somebody,
unless you're a minority of some kind. In which case you can say all kinds of racist and bigoted crap and excuse yourself because 'only white people can be racist'.
As the College Fix reported, during a recent microaggression seminar at Northwestern University, when asked by a student if his entire speech was a “microaggression against white people,” Sue informed the poor rube that only white people can be racist, since minorities like him “do not have the power to oppress in the way that a white person might do because they have the very institutions that support it.” You know, unlike a widely published Ivy League professor whose views are forced down the gullets of helpless participants in compulsory campus training sessions.
No matter what you say or do, SOMEBODY will be offended somehow, therefore you're always guilty when accused. And supposed to abase yourself. And if you don't, if you disagree, that's 'proof' that you're racist/bigoted/fill-in-the-damned-blank.
As the College Fix reported, during a recent microaggression seminar at Northwestern University, when asked by a student if his entire speech was a “microaggression against white people,” Sue informed the poor rube that only white people can be racist, since minorities like him “do not have the power to oppress in the way that a white person might do because they have the very institutions that support it.” You know, unlike a widely published Ivy League professor whose views are forced down the gullets of helpless participants in compulsory campus training sessions.
No matter what you say or do, SOMEBODY will be offended somehow, therefore you're always guilty when accused. And supposed to abase yourself. And if you don't, if you disagree, that's 'proof' that you're racist/bigoted/fill-in-the-damned-blank.
About that European paradise where guns are highly restricted
and crime rates are low,
My acquaintance said to the police that he would make a complaint. The senior among them advised him against wasting his time. At that time of night, there would be no one to complain to in the local commissariat. He would have to go the following day and would have to wait on line for three hours. He would have to return several times, with a long wait each time. And in the end, nothing would be done.
As for the police, he added, they did not want to make an arrest in a case like this. There would be too much paperwork. And even if the case came to court, the judge would give no proper punishment. Moreover, such an arrest would retard their careers. The local police chiefs were paid by results—by the crime rates in their areas of jurisdiction. The last thing they wanted was for policemen to go around finding and recording crime.
Not long afterward, I heard of another case in which the police simply refused to record the occurrence of a burglary, much less try to catch the culprits.
The article is a few years old; think things have improved since? Don't hold your breath.
Wonderful combination: Don't hold 'those people' to standards, because that would be 'racist' or 'intolerant' or something, but try to keep them in certain areas so they don't loot and burn the whole damn place. And don't even officially report a lot of crimes, because who wants to deal with the truth of the matter?
Now they've got no-telling-how-many 'refugees'(some really are, the rest want benefits) coming in, some of whom will be quite happy to lead the residents of the cités in serious attacks; wonder how that's going to work out?
My acquaintance said to the police that he would make a complaint. The senior among them advised him against wasting his time. At that time of night, there would be no one to complain to in the local commissariat. He would have to go the following day and would have to wait on line for three hours. He would have to return several times, with a long wait each time. And in the end, nothing would be done.
As for the police, he added, they did not want to make an arrest in a case like this. There would be too much paperwork. And even if the case came to court, the judge would give no proper punishment. Moreover, such an arrest would retard their careers. The local police chiefs were paid by results—by the crime rates in their areas of jurisdiction. The last thing they wanted was for policemen to go around finding and recording crime.
Not long afterward, I heard of another case in which the police simply refused to record the occurrence of a burglary, much less try to catch the culprits.
The article is a few years old; think things have improved since? Don't hold your breath.
Wonderful combination: Don't hold 'those people' to standards, because that would be 'racist' or 'intolerant' or something, but try to keep them in certain areas so they don't loot and burn the whole damn place. And don't even officially report a lot of crimes, because who wants to deal with the truth of the matter?
Now they've got no-telling-how-many 'refugees'(some really are, the rest want benefits) coming in, some of whom will be quite happy to lead the residents of the cités in serious attacks; wonder how that's going to work out?
Sunday, September 27, 2015
When the authorities are covering up rapes, and (link fixed)
you're being told to change your clothing and how you act 'so as not to offend', and a good many of the 'refugees' aren't but your elites and government don't seem to care, you're pretty much screwed.
‘We paid a trafficking agent for false visas to fly here to Germany,’ says 34-year-old Atif. ‘We claimed asylum and came to Giessen camp with other migrants. Three weeks ago, because we had families, they gave us a proper home.’
Atif is well-dressed and speaks perfect English. He used to be a transport manager at Karachi airport and is from a well-to-do family. Between mouthfuls of curry, he adds: ‘But there is violence between political gangs in Karachi. Lots of people are leaving for Europe. The trafficker decided that Germany was the place for us because it is welcoming refugees.’
'Refugees'. Yeah, you throw the gates open and say "Come in and we'll take care of you", you have very little control over who's actually coming, and why.
Controversially, the letter suggests that in the migrants’ culture, women are viewed differently: ‘It is a fact that women and children are unprotected. This situation is opportune for those men who already regard women as their inferiors and treat unaccompanied women as “fair game”.’
...
In other parts of the country, Germans are being told to adapt their lifestyles when migrants arrive. Police in the Bavarian town of Mering, where a 16-year-old girl was reportedly raped this month, have warned parents not to allow their children outside unaccompanied.
...
At Pocking, another well-kept Bavarian town, the headmaster of the grammar school wrote to parents telling them not to let their daughters wear skimpy clothing. This was to avoid ‘misunderstandings’ with 200 migrants who were put up in the school’s gymnasium over the summer, before being moved on this month.
...
Astonishingly, police kept silent about the rape, which took place in June. Only this month, after a local newspaper revealed that it had happened — and claimed German authorities are not ‘going public’ about crimes involving migrants because they don’t want to ‘give legitimacy’ to critics of mass migration — did they confirm it had taken place.
Get some time, check out the rape situation in Sweden. And what happens to people who point out the uncomfortable fact that most of them are committed by muslim immigrants. Can't have nasty facts causing problems with the Preferred Narrative, now can we?
Unless Germany and a few other places pull their leaders heads out of their anal orifices, they're screwed. Possibly for good and all.
‘We paid a trafficking agent for false visas to fly here to Germany,’ says 34-year-old Atif. ‘We claimed asylum and came to Giessen camp with other migrants. Three weeks ago, because we had families, they gave us a proper home.’
Atif is well-dressed and speaks perfect English. He used to be a transport manager at Karachi airport and is from a well-to-do family. Between mouthfuls of curry, he adds: ‘But there is violence between political gangs in Karachi. Lots of people are leaving for Europe. The trafficker decided that Germany was the place for us because it is welcoming refugees.’
'Refugees'. Yeah, you throw the gates open and say "Come in and we'll take care of you", you have very little control over who's actually coming, and why.
Controversially, the letter suggests that in the migrants’ culture, women are viewed differently: ‘It is a fact that women and children are unprotected. This situation is opportune for those men who already regard women as their inferiors and treat unaccompanied women as “fair game”.’
...
In other parts of the country, Germans are being told to adapt their lifestyles when migrants arrive. Police in the Bavarian town of Mering, where a 16-year-old girl was reportedly raped this month, have warned parents not to allow their children outside unaccompanied.
...
At Pocking, another well-kept Bavarian town, the headmaster of the grammar school wrote to parents telling them not to let their daughters wear skimpy clothing. This was to avoid ‘misunderstandings’ with 200 migrants who were put up in the school’s gymnasium over the summer, before being moved on this month.
...
Astonishingly, police kept silent about the rape, which took place in June. Only this month, after a local newspaper revealed that it had happened — and claimed German authorities are not ‘going public’ about crimes involving migrants because they don’t want to ‘give legitimacy’ to critics of mass migration — did they confirm it had taken place.
Get some time, check out the rape situation in Sweden. And what happens to people who point out the uncomfortable fact that most of them are committed by muslim immigrants. Can't have nasty facts causing problems with the Preferred Narrative, now can we?
Unless Germany and a few other places pull their leaders heads out of their anal orifices, they're screwed. Possibly for good and all.
'Are they in collusion with the Clintons?
Yes.'
Throughout 2015, Ortel has carefully studied and documented a decade’s worth of domestic and global fraud, theft, corruption and violations of strict IRS rules being perpetrated by a prestigious multi-billion dollar charitable organization known as the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Unlike Markopolos, who went to the SEC and was largely ignored because of incompetence, Ortel believes that the IRS is actively in collusion with the Clinton Foundation.
And one of the things discovered?
Ortel calculates that 2004 was the year when the foundation began engaging in massive fraud. Now guess who was director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Rulings & Agreements Division at that time? And guess who in December of 2005 was promoted to director of the entire IRS Exempt Organizations Division? Does the name Lois Lerner ring a bell?
No wonder she's scared to death of answering questions, with all this lurking in the background.
Some interesting stuff on buying gold and silver, and what's been/being done in counterfeiting.
If women have to struggle and still mostly fail, standards will be lowered. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the nation’s top military officer, admits it. If women aren’t meeting a standard, “the burden is now on the service to come back and explain . . . why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?”
In short, women won’t have to run as fast or hit targets as accurately as men to be in combat.
Someone should bluntly ask Dempsey how many dead troops are allowable so his social conscience will feel good.
So you're scared of spiders; do you have to be THIS BLOODY STUPID about it?
Throughout 2015, Ortel has carefully studied and documented a decade’s worth of domestic and global fraud, theft, corruption and violations of strict IRS rules being perpetrated by a prestigious multi-billion dollar charitable organization known as the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Unlike Markopolos, who went to the SEC and was largely ignored because of incompetence, Ortel believes that the IRS is actively in collusion with the Clinton Foundation.
And one of the things discovered?
Ortel calculates that 2004 was the year when the foundation began engaging in massive fraud. Now guess who was director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Rulings & Agreements Division at that time? And guess who in December of 2005 was promoted to director of the entire IRS Exempt Organizations Division? Does the name Lois Lerner ring a bell?
No wonder she's scared to death of answering questions, with all this lurking in the background.
Some interesting stuff on buying gold and silver, and what's been/being done in counterfeiting.
If women have to struggle and still mostly fail, standards will be lowered. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the nation’s top military officer, admits it. If women aren’t meeting a standard, “the burden is now on the service to come back and explain . . . why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?”
In short, women won’t have to run as fast or hit targets as accurately as men to be in combat.
Someone should bluntly ask Dempsey how many dead troops are allowable so his social conscience will feel good.
So you're scared of spiders; do you have to be THIS BLOODY STUPID about it?
When you consider what'll happen when(if) these people get out of college
and face the real world, it's kind of terrifying.
Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. Recent examples mentioned included a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bitch” and two students who had sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in their off-campus apartment.
Those two actually called the cops. About a mouse.
...Our students are no different from what is being reported across the country on the state of late adolescence/early adulthood. There has been an increase in diagnosable mental health problems, but there has also been a decrease in the ability of many young people to manage the everyday bumps in the road of life. Whether we want it or not, these students are bringing their struggles to their teachers and others on campus who deal with students on a day-to-day basis. The lack of resilience is interfering with the academic mission of the University and is thwarting the emotional and personal development of students.”
And what happens when they don't have a teacher to cry to? And school-provided "Now, now, it's not the end of the world" to support them?
And this:
• Students are afraid to fail; they do not take risks; they need to be certain about things. For many of them, failure is seen as catastrophic and unacceptable. External measures of success are more important than learning and autonomous development.
Doesn't that sound a lot like the "Doesn't matter if what I'm saying/doing actually fixes anything, I'll be SEEN as a Good Person if I say/do it!" attitude?
Far too many pieces of the future, Deity help us.
Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. Recent examples mentioned included a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bitch” and two students who had sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in their off-campus apartment.
Those two actually called the cops. About a mouse.
...Our students are no different from what is being reported across the country on the state of late adolescence/early adulthood. There has been an increase in diagnosable mental health problems, but there has also been a decrease in the ability of many young people to manage the everyday bumps in the road of life. Whether we want it or not, these students are bringing their struggles to their teachers and others on campus who deal with students on a day-to-day basis. The lack of resilience is interfering with the academic mission of the University and is thwarting the emotional and personal development of students.”
And what happens when they don't have a teacher to cry to? And school-provided "Now, now, it's not the end of the world" to support them?
And this:
• Students are afraid to fail; they do not take risks; they need to be certain about things. For many of them, failure is seen as catastrophic and unacceptable. External measures of success are more important than learning and autonomous development.
Doesn't that sound a lot like the "Doesn't matter if what I'm saying/doing actually fixes anything, I'll be SEEN as a Good Person if I say/do it!" attitude?
Far too many pieces of the future, Deity help us.
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Earplug report
Which is part of a range report, but the rest I'll get to later.
Spent several hours at the outdoor range the other day(busy out there this time of year), with the do-it-yourself custom-mold Radians earplugs in. Pluses:
They stayed in place the whole time. No adjusting or reseating needed.
Worked as well as any earplugs I've used.
Comfortable under the earmuffs.
Negatives:
I can't think of any.
I'm sold on the things. And at ten-eleven bucks(plus shipping, depending) they're equal to or less pricy than most of the good earplugs I've used.
One thing about the earmuff matter: on an AR, when I'm wearing muffs I have to lift the right-side muff about halfway up my ear to get my cheek on the stock(another reason to wear plugs as well); when means that on some earplugs, it gets damn uncomfortable after a few minutes. Not really a problem with these. Were a couple of times could have used a bit more muffling, but when the second bench down has a 7mm Magnum, and the one a couple down from that a .338 Lapua(with recoil-reducing-blow-the-hat-off-the-poor-bastards-on-either-side muzzle device), it's a bit loud no matter what you're wearing.
Spent several hours at the outdoor range the other day(busy out there this time of year), with the do-it-yourself custom-mold Radians earplugs in. Pluses:
They stayed in place the whole time. No adjusting or reseating needed.
Worked as well as any earplugs I've used.
Comfortable under the earmuffs.
Negatives:
I can't think of any.
I'm sold on the things. And at ten-eleven bucks(plus shipping, depending) they're equal to or less pricy than most of the good earplugs I've used.
One thing about the earmuff matter: on an AR, when I'm wearing muffs I have to lift the right-side muff about halfway up my ear to get my cheek on the stock(another reason to wear plugs as well); when means that on some earplugs, it gets damn uncomfortable after a few minutes. Not really a problem with these. Were a couple of times could have used a bit more muffling, but when the second bench down has a 7mm Magnum, and the one a couple down from that a .338 Lapua(with recoil-reducing-blow-the-hat-off-the-poor-bastards-on-either-side muzzle device), it's a bit loud no matter what you're wearing.
"Sending your kids to public school is child abuse" is a line Insty uses;
far too many cases, he's right.
As this was conducted by school officials, rather than law enforcement, it would appear that it didn’t implicate a duty to have a parent present for questioning, but then the school officials took their actions to an unexpected place:
Yeah, this sounds like the kind of thing this backstabber would do:
According to those sources, outgoing House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) agreed that her Democratic caucus would join Boehner along with a handful of Boehner loyalists and moderate establishment Republicans to continue Planned Parenthood funding, along with a few other budget items President Obama says were must-haves, in order to avoid a Government shutdown.
Boehner resigned because he knew that after he cut that deal, conservatives in his own party would be so furious with him that it would make challenges to his Speakership a certainty, sources say. Even if he survived those challenges, his remaining year and three months in office would be contentious and personally uncomfortable for him.
I'd figured he decided he'd rather 'retire rather than become a distraction and harm the Party' than lose a vote on staying Speaker. If true, this means he committed one final serious act of betrayal as his "Screw you people for not kissing my ass" on his way out.
Lie after lie after lie...
A newly uncovered document shows that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton personally signed off on a questionable employment decision she previously claimed she was not involved with.
It would be easier to list where she's told the truth than where she's lied.
At this point, screw pretty words: that bastard in the White House is a traitor to this country.
How much does President Obama still want the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison shuttered? He just released the man trained to be the 20th hijacker for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Rule you keep hearing is "Don't talk to cops. If you have to, have an attorney." Because of crap like this. Which may well get them something, but also gets them a reputation as bastards not to be trusted.
Third, law enforcement agents may be questioning you not to investigate and discover evidence, but to trap you. It is routine now — particularly with federal law enforcement — for agents to approach a suspect at the close of their investigation, not at the start of it, in hopes of piling more charges onto the prospective defendant. Federal agents will approach a suspect, ask them if they did something, and if they say “no,” add a charge of making a false statement onto whatever charges they were already seeking.
As this was conducted by school officials, rather than law enforcement, it would appear that it didn’t implicate a duty to have a parent present for questioning, but then the school officials took their actions to an unexpected place:
They went on to say students were warned not to talk about the meeting or the line of questioning and that if they did, they were told they could be expelled.That is utter bullshit. That is some control freaks worried that parents might object and threatening the kids if they tell them. Kind of like abusers trying to keep the kids shut up.
Yeah, this sounds like the kind of thing this backstabber would do:
According to those sources, outgoing House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) agreed that her Democratic caucus would join Boehner along with a handful of Boehner loyalists and moderate establishment Republicans to continue Planned Parenthood funding, along with a few other budget items President Obama says were must-haves, in order to avoid a Government shutdown.
Boehner resigned because he knew that after he cut that deal, conservatives in his own party would be so furious with him that it would make challenges to his Speakership a certainty, sources say. Even if he survived those challenges, his remaining year and three months in office would be contentious and personally uncomfortable for him.
I'd figured he decided he'd rather 'retire rather than become a distraction and harm the Party' than lose a vote on staying Speaker. If true, this means he committed one final serious act of betrayal as his "Screw you people for not kissing my ass" on his way out.
Lie after lie after lie...
A newly uncovered document shows that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton personally signed off on a questionable employment decision she previously claimed she was not involved with.
It would be easier to list where she's told the truth than where she's lied.
At this point, screw pretty words: that bastard in the White House is a traitor to this country.
How much does President Obama still want the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison shuttered? He just released the man trained to be the 20th hijacker for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Rule you keep hearing is "Don't talk to cops. If you have to, have an attorney." Because of crap like this. Which may well get them something, but also gets them a reputation as bastards not to be trusted.
Third, law enforcement agents may be questioning you not to investigate and discover evidence, but to trap you. It is routine now — particularly with federal law enforcement — for agents to approach a suspect at the close of their investigation, not at the start of it, in hopes of piling more charges onto the prospective defendant. Federal agents will approach a suspect, ask them if they did something, and if they say “no,” add a charge of making a false statement onto whatever charges they were already seeking.
Friday, September 25, 2015
And yes, it is now time
to return to our somewhat-scheduled educational programming.
Also known as 'study the data'
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?
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..
...
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..
Thursday, September 24, 2015
"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.
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!"
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!"
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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