Early again, but being as it's wet and cold out there,

that's just fine.

Right now I've got nothing to say,

and crap to do.  See you later.

E-mail last night, the 15-22

has arrived in the PROM.  We'll see what they think.

Just how effing stupid are hoplophobes and leftists?

This effing stupid:
“Senator Kaine should not have rushed to judgment, should have waited for the facts to come in, as should have the police that were there who ended up shooting — who we now know — is someone who aligned himself with ISIS,” Konst said.

Kelly interrupted her response to clarify: “Did you say the police should have exercised more self-control?”

Konst continued: “They want to make sure the attacker is still alive so they can question him.” She maintained that the police officer should have shot to injure the terrorist and not kill him.
This is what you get when people who don't know what the hell they're talking about think they should tell other people what should be allowed to them.

It's a bit early, but

the data is in.  So get to work

Why am I not surprised?

Before he was shot dead while attempting to murder a bunch of people with a car and a butcher's knife, Ohio State University student Abdul Artan—a Pakistani immigrant who reportedly became radicalized after learning about injustices committed against fellow Muslims—was enrolled in a class called "Crossing Identity Boundaries." 

In fact, he had a group project on "microaggressions" due later this week. The assignment, worth 15 percent of his grade, required students to find a dozen examples of microaggressions on social media and explain which identity groups were the victims, according to the syllabus.
They spend their time they're victims, and 'it's horrible what's happening to you!', and then wonder why they attack the supposed victimizers.


And it will never be abused, oh no, we can trust the EffingBI...
Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure was updated earlier in the year, but didn't come into force until today, which gave Congress time to stop the rule change if it so wanted. This update to the rule allows federal law enforcement to seek permission to hack into large numbers of computers in any jurisdiction with a single judge's permission. Before today a judge could only authorize hacking into computers within his or her own district.


Guy who said Trump's election was a 'whitelash', whose side is cheering wildfires because 'Trump voters are suffering!' says
“The Republicans see themselves as the party of color-blind individualism, and that’s beautiful. But they have somehow created a space for a small number of racially hateful people to come in their party. They’ve got to deal with that too.”
Your party has some of the nastiest bigots around, Jones, you doing anything about that?

He also says
“Liberals and Democrats, we see ourselves as champions of the poor and downtrodden,” added Jones, a former adviser to President Obama.
“But we have somehow let a little camp of elitist-sounding, snobby people come into the party, and it's obnoxious. They talk down to people, and everybody hates it.”
'Somehow'?  You worked to put them in charge, you nasty little commie bastard.  Your party is also the one trying to make this guy the party head.  Anything to say about that?


In the land of Mommies Want and Bloomberg-approved gun laws,
In a year of relentless violence, Chicago has hit another grim milestone, exceeding 700 homicides for the first time in nearly two decades, according to official Police Department records.
...
The year got off to a violent start with 50 homicides in January and rarely let up even after the end of the summer — the peak season for shootings.

The 701 homicides through Wednesday marked a nearly 56 percent jump from the 450 killings a year earlier. With one month still to go, that represents the most homicides since 704 in 1998. There were 761 homicides in 1997.
We have been informed that this is all because surrounding states don't have Chicago-style gun laws.  Unexplained by these people is why, then, the surrounding states don't have the same homicide problems Chicago has.

Because throwing money at education isn't a cure-all

Australia's education minister is embarrassed by the 'appalling results' of the nation's students in the latest international maths and science tests, which have seen them drop behind countries such as Kazakhstan.

Also, this is worrying:
The council's Sue Thomson highlighted the huge role socio-economic background - measured by the number of books at home - played in a student's success.
Makes me wonder just how they're trying to play this, because 'number of books' does NOT equal 'lots of money in the family'.


More from the caring, tolerant left

They were warned, and they didn't care

Now looks like it'll bite them in the ass, and 'We regret that.'
Senator Chris Coons (D., Del.) said on CNN Tuesday that he regrets the rule change Senate Democrats made to the nomination process.

“The filibuster no longer acts as an emergency brake on the nomination,” Coons said.
Next it'll be "It's up to Republicans to not take unfair advantage of this, to reach across the isle and let us block their nominations."

Both parts sound about right

“Then he looked at me and said, ‘How was I supposed to know that cowboy George Bush would announce he wanted us ‘dead or alive’ and then invade Afghanistan to hunt us down?’” Mitchell writes. “KSM explained that if the United States had treated 9/11 like a law enforcement matter, he would have had time to launch a second wave of attacks.” He was not able to do so because al-Qaeda was stunned “by the ferocity and swiftness of George W. Bush’s response.”

And the followup

But KSM said something else that was prophetic. In the end, he told Mitchell, “We will win because Americans don’t realize ... we do not need to defeat you militarily; we only need to fight long enough for you to defeat yourself by quitting.”

Ah, the caring and tolerance of many on the left

Classy, people, real classy.

That's just three of them.  Lots more.

Our current President is an idiot

Or a tool of the enemy.  Or horribly deluded.  Take your pick.
“President Castro, I think, has pointed out that it, in his view making sure that everybody is getting a decent education or health care, has basic security in old age, that those things are human rights as well.”

“The goal of the human rights dialogue is not for the United States to dictate to Cuba how to govern themselves,” the president continued. “Hopefully, we can learn from each other.”
At this point I'm voting 'tool of the enemy'.


So, fake 'hate crimes by Trump supporters' vs. actual crimes by leftists.  Who're we supposed to be worried about, again?


So, at what point does 'diversity officer' be defined as 'propaganda officer for the enemy'?


Argue about cops all you want, but this response really had to piss them off:
“I don’t know you, I don’t like you,” Diane Butler declared. Butler’s son, Tyrone West, reportedly died after being restrained by police officers.

“I’m sorry for your loss. As far as you not liking me, it really doesn’t bother me. I’m used to it. I’m like the homecoming queen. All the ugly girls hate you. That’s part of my life. I never take anything personally,” Barkley responded.

Someone referred to it as 'life among the barbarians', and it fits

Women in Morocco have reacted in horror after a programme on state television demonstrated how they could use makeup to cover up evidence of domestic violence. 

The segment in the daily programme Sabahiyat, on Channel 2M, showed a smiling makeup artist demonstrating how to mask marks of beating, on a woman with her face made up to appear swollen and covered with fake black and blue bruises. 

“We hope these beauty tips will help you carry on with your daily life”, the host said at the end of the segment, broadcast on 23 November – two days before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
There's the 'this was an error in judgement and inappropriate' sort-of apology; however, the mindset that thought this was a good idea in the first place, and let this be shown, shows through.


Five of the idiot leftists who were screaming "Do something about GUNS!" while a guy was using a car and a knife to attack people.


There is an Idiom attributed to Aesop: a man is known by the company he keeps.

What you see above is a list of Leftist world leaders who fell over themselves to absolve Fidel Castro of the atrocities that he committed against the Cuban people to be part of the Radical Chic.

If you want to understand why I own guns.  This is why I own guns.  This is why my father taught me to shoot.  This is why the mantra of Jews, Cubans, and so many other is (in various languages): “never again.”

It is said, scratch a Liberal and find a Fascist underneath.  The slobbering eulogies given by these leaders demonstrates that to a tee.  Not one condemned Castro for the subjugation, torture, or execution of innocents and dissidents.   No one condemned Castro’s control of the press or internet, or suppression of free expression.  They only praised his non-existent accomplishments.


Well, some of them get it

Just because

A: They've corrected it, but in the category of "Most stupid headline"

we have

And from the usual idiot suspects, we have this:

More on this crap here

'Active shooter on campus!' You can hear the Mommies and CSGV typing as you read it,

but:
An Ohio State spokesman says some students were stabbed, others injured after being hit by a vehicle. Other injuries are also being evaluated.

So I check another news site:
Hospital officials told the Associated Press eight patients they received from the scene have non-life-threatening injuries. The eight patients were split among OSU Wexner Medical Center, OhioHealth Grant Medical Center and OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital.
The injuries include stab wounds, injury by motor vehicle and other injuries that are being evaluated.
So far it sounds like the only 'active shooting' was the cops punching his ticket.

"But Batista was a tyrant, so this doesn't count!" Or something.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reported in 1966 that 166 Cuban prisoners were executed on a single day in May of that year. But before they were killed, they were forced to undergo the forced extraction of an average of seven pints of blood from their bodies. This blood was sold to Communist Vietnam at a rate of $50 per pint. Those who underwent the bloodletting suffered cerebral anemia and a state of unconsciousness and paralysis. But that didn’t stop the executions; the victims were carried on a stretcher to the killing field where they were then shot.

Borrowing from a piece linked at Insty,

During the 1930s, there were many apologists for Joseph Stalin’s brutalities, which he committed in the name of building a workers’ paradise fit for an improved humanity. The apologists complacently said, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” To which George Orwell acidly replied: “Where’s the omelet?”
Having just gone through some bullshit of "Everything you wrote about Castro is false!  He raised literacy!" etc., I think they only omelet they care about is "He was a socialist!", and all the death and ruined lives and so forth doesn't count.


Antarctic sea ice had barely changed from where it was 100 years ago, scientists have discovered, after poring over the logbooks of great polar explorers such as Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. 

Experts were concerned that ice at the South Pole had declined significantly since the 1950s, which they feared was driven by man-made climate change. 

But new analysis suggests that conditions are now virtually identical to when the Terra Nova and Endurance sailed to the continent in the early 1900s, indicating that declines are part of a natural cycle and not the result of global warming.
But globular warmening is still a big threat we must act on, etc.


But I thought the science was settled!
“The idea that the speed of light could be variable was radical when first proposed, but with a numerical prediction, it becomes something physicists can actually test. If true, it would mean that the laws of nature were not always the same as they are today.”
Why, it's almost like the 'laws of nature' aren't, and there are things we just don't know yet...

Watching people kiss the ass of a dead tyrant who put gays in camps,

tortured, murdered, was a racist bastard and looted the country has been amazing. 

And it's usually said by people who compare Trump to Hitler.

I don't know what color the sky is in their world, but it must be amazing.

From up north, in reaction to the PM's slobbering farewell to the tyrant,
For all the parochial Canadian susceptibility to the propaganda myth that pits a shabby-bearded rebel in olive fatigues against the imperialist American hegemon, by the time he died on Friday night Castro was one of the richest men in Latin America. Ten years ago, when he was handing the presidency to Raúl, Forbes magazine calculated that Fidel’s personal wealth was already nearly a billion dollars.
Which tends to get overlooked.  A lot. 


And a few other things:
●He outlawed private enterprise and labor unions, wiped out Cuba’s large middle class and turned Cubans into slaves of the state.
●He persecuted gay people and tried to eradicate religion.
●He censored all means of expression and communication.
●He established a fraudulent school system that provided indoctrination rather than education, and created a two-tier health-care system, with inferior medical care for the majority of Cubans and superior care for himself and his oligarchy, and then claimed that all his repressive measures were absolutely necessary to ensure the survival of these two ostensibly “free” social welfare projects. 

You see, EVERYTHING was made better by Castro.  And if you don't believe it you're a fascist.  And probably a racist, too.  Etc.

The usual idiots are in mourning for Castro, so

I've got a couple of things in response.  First,
Outside its small tourist sector, the rest of the city looks as though it suffered a catastrophe on the scale of Hurricane Katrina or the Indonesian tsunami. Roofs have collapsed. Walls are splitting apart. Window glass is missing. Paint has long vanished. It’s eerily dark at night, almost entirely free of automobile traffic. I walked for miles through an enormous swath of destruction without seeing a single tourist. Most foreigners don’t know that this other Havana exists, though it makes up most of the city—tourist buses avoid it, as do taxis arriving from the airport. It is filled with people struggling to eke out a life in the ruins.
...
Cuba was one of the world’s richest countries before Castro destroyed it—and the wealth wasn’t just in the hands of a tiny elite. “Contrary to the myth spread by the revolution,” wrote Alfred Cuzan, a professor of political science at the University of West Florida, “Cuba’s wealth before 1959 was not the purview of a privileged few. . . . Cuban society was as much of a middle-class society as Argentina and Chile.” In 1958, Cuba had a higher per-capita income than much of Europe. “More Americans lived in Cuba prior to Castro than Cubans lived in the United States,” Cuban exile Humberto Fontova, author of a series of books about Castro and Guevara, tells me. 
...
When the ailing Fidel Castro ceded power to his less doctrinaire younger brother Raúl in 2008, the quasi-capitalist bubble expanded, but the economy remains heavily socialist. In the United States, we have a minimum wage; Cuba has a maximum wage—$20 a month for almost every job in the country. (Professionals such as doctors and lawyers can make a whopping $10 extra a month.) Sure, Cubans get “free” health care and education, but as Cuban exile and Yale historian Carlos Eire says, “All slave owners need to keep their slaves healthy and ensure that they have the skills to perform their tasks.”

And a slight modification of a shirt:

Yeah, I know, posted this the other day; I like it.


The PM of Canada kissed the dead ass of the dictator, and a lot of Canadians aren't exactly happy.