Ah, that time of week arrives,

and with it, tonight, the next cold front.  Nice conditions for going over new data.

If they don't let this case proceed,

it'll be one more evidence of 'The system is fixed against us.' And I really don't think the cops and the city will like the result.


'Progressives'.  At a law school.
A member of the Chapter reminded the protestors that they were not allowed to interrupt me once I started. At that point, a member of the CUNY administration entered the room and walked right up to the protestors:
    All right, listen. Everybody stop. Let me tell you something. The university rules are people get to speak. You may protest. You may protest. But you may not keep anyone from speaking. If you do, I have other things to do, I will be back. Or you can resolve this yourselves. Or you can have me resolve it.

As she began to walk away, a student asked, “Why are you bringing racists into your school. Can you answer that?” “Why are you not providing support for students affected by this hate speech.”

The administrator repeated, “Did you hear me?” A student replied, “We are not children. You can’t talk to us like that.” 
 Yes you are: bad-mannered spoiled brats. And that's how an adult speaks to such.

Go read the rest; it's really not good when a law student says "Fuck the law!" and other such signs of deep thought.


The Government is Your Mother, and Mother Knows Best
The fascinating thing about this video is just how childish and patronizing it truly is. Note the bright colors, the cartoon figures, the sing-a-long verses and Mr. Rogers vibe of the host. This whole thing looks like it was designed for six year olds. This is what the Left thinks of people.

Ana Gasteyer’s argument is, essentially, that if one person does something stupid with a gun, that person has effectively ruined it for the rest of us, and all the guns must be rounded up and taken away, because clearly Americans are unable to handle them. She appoints herself Mom-in-Chief, under which the rest of us are supposed to obey like good little six year olds.

And when this doesn't work, they'll ban ALL knives in public.

or something equally stupid.  Because blaming objects for what people do just doesn't work.
So now the city intends to crack down on knives. Khan also has announced that "patrols have been stepped up with extra stop-and-search powers in place in the worst-affected areas." If London is anything like New York, those stop-and-frisk policies will target minorities and the poor at highly disproportionate rates, without achieving much of anything: In New York, stop-and-frisk searches found weapons a mere 1.2 percent of the time.
Note that Khan used to say this stop & frisk stuff was racist and probably islamophobic.  But now...

And the winner in this stupidity competition:
But that is still not enough for some. John Crichton, chairman of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland, wants the country to ban pointed kitchen knives as well. "He first suggested the move three years ago," reported the Express last year, "but his proposal did not win enough support from policy-makers. Since then dozens of people, including schoolchildren, have lost their lives as a result of attacks involving bladed instruments."
Because dying of a stab is much worse than death by cuts.  And- assuming you could actually ban pointed knives- no one would ever think of using a grinder(or file, or piece of sidewalk) to put a point on one.

(formerly Great)Britain.  Going down the drain.

I've got two gunny-type things to write about,

instead of the mostly yelling about political crap lately.  I've just got to make time to sit down and write them.  Also, one's a bit delayed until I've finished the first cycle of it to see how(or if) it works.

Until then,
Yes, it does matter where the price tag is placed.

Say you know someone of the anti-2nd Amendment persuasion, and they don't understand

why you think people want to take your guns.  Usually this involves that line "Nobody wants to take your guns!  Obama never even tried!"*

They don't like it when you show them evidence like this:
“People who own guns are essentially a sickness in our souls who must be cleansed.” Colorado Senator (Majority Leader) John Morse. 2013 (Cleansed?  “Final Solution” anyone?)
Tell you what: someone not only doesn't want me to own guns but states that I 'need to be cleansed', not only tells me they damn well DO want to take our guns, but he considers me a non-human to be dealt with.  Which makes me decide to get some more ammo, because these shitstains are serious.




Yes, I know, they're effing ignorant or lying; deal with that part later.

"Ban guns and the violence will stop!"

Right.

Couple of days ago got to handle a piece of history:

Springfield Trapdoor rifle, dated 1869, in .50-70.  Looked to be in quite shootable condition.

I really need to win a lottery

If I needed a new bank, I'd consider Wells Fargo,

their CEO seems to have the right idea.


In the Dark & Fascist State of New Jersey: "We'll refuse to give you the evidence you need to file until the deadline is past, so you can't sue us for our molester-with-a-badge behavior."


This could wind up with us needing those fences & walls with minefields people have joked about.

From the same people who'll try to yank someone's license because

a customer abbreviated a city name on a form:
A government watchdog said Monday the Department of Justice should do a better job keeping track of ammunition after a routine audit uncovered “significant deficiencies” in the current system.

Michael Horowitz, inspector general for the DOJ, said an audit of 13 sites operated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives between 2014 and 2017 “understated” its ammo inventory by a minimum of 31,000 rounds.

“Given that the ATF has over 275 offices, the number of unaccounted ammunition rounds is likely much higher,” he said. “When inventories are inaccurate, there is increased risk that ammunition may be lost, stolen, or misplaced without detection.”
Wonderful, isn't it?

“In summary, we found that ATF did not maintain a current balance of all rounds of ammunition on hand,” the report said. “This issue was further impacted by the fact that several sites were comingling (sic) loose rounds of different types of the same caliber of ammunition and none of the sites tracked inventories of ammunition used for test-fire and demonstration purposes.”
I repeat: same people who'll take any error on a form, no matter how small, and use it as a hammer on people.

But hey, there are improvements:
Horowitz didn’t deliver all bad news to the agency, however. In the three years studied during the audit process, the ATF reported 26 instances of special agents losing or stealing firearms — a “substantial improvement” Horowitz said over the last review conducted a decade ago.
...
“We determined that the monthly rate of loss decreased by over 55 percent since a prior 2008 OIG audit, but was still higher than the rate in a 2002 Treasury OIG audit,” the report concludes.
Think anyone will face punishment for an- stop laughing dammit, at least let me finish first.

Meanwhile, where Great Britain used to be,

Yeah.  Never a reason to carry the most basic and personal of tools.  Because this crapstain says so.

But wait!  There's MORE!
The "tough, immediate" measures involve an incredible police crackdown, a ban on home deliveries of knives and acid, and expanding law enforcement stop-and-search powers so that police may stop anyone they believe to be a threat, or planning a knife or acid attack.
...
Parliament is also set to take up heavy "knife control" legislation when it resumes this week. The U.K. government is expected to introduce a ban on online knife sales and home knife deliveries, declare it "illegal to possess zombie knives and knuckledusters in private" — "zombie knives" are those defined as being manufactured for the purpose of being used as a person-to-person weapon — and ban sales of caustic materials to anyone under the age of 18, the Independent reports.
So if you've got your para grandfather's knife from WWII, it'll be illegal for you to keep it.  Or much of anything else.  Because 'dangerous object'.

At this point, I don't know if Britain CAN be saved.

Yes, it's Saturday;

and yes, the data came in

The weather went to crap today, definitely a good night (also, see note at end)

to be indoors and study

Busy, busy, etc.

not much the next few days.  In the meantime,

The hell they don't want to take guns.  And they don't like that 4th Amendment crap getting in the way.  It should just take someone(neighbor, co-worker, pissed-off ex-girlfriend or wife or whatever) saying you're  a problem to do it.


Liz Warren's a liar?  This is my shocked face.


Top 10 Reasons Liberals Reflexively Blame the NRA for Shootings


"What's the FBI hiding?"
I don't have time to write that list.

And now I must get started on the weekend stuff.

More insanity from where Great Britain used to be

A 78-year-old homeowner has been arrested by murder detectives after a suspected burglar he fought with in his own kitchen died of a stab wound.

The pensioner, named locally as Richard Osborn-Brooks, was upstairs asleep with his wife when he was woken by the two men breaking into his suburban home in Hither Green, south-east London last night.

He was forced into his kitchen by one of the men, who was armed with a screwdriver, before a struggle ensued.

The intruder, a 38-year-old man, was left with wounds to his chest and local residents say he collapsed in a neighbouring road and died in hospital.

The homeowner was initially detained on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm but was later arrested on suspicion of murder.
Because, in (formerly Great)Britain, there's really no right of self-defense anymore*, as Kevin noted a few years back.  Much like what much of the left wants here.


*Unless you're a protected species, such as the Sikhs protecting their places during the riots a few years ago

A crises. Over yoga...

No wonder these people are unhappy.  The problem is they want EVERYONE ELSE to be unhappy, too.


There's an organized invasion group heading across Mexico to get to the US border.
Note that this is the Mexico that is very picky about arresting and deporting anyone who crosses THEIR sacred border.  Unless they're helping them cross Mexico to get to the US(and I wonder what guards are watching to make sure none of them try to take a side trip or stay in Mexico?).

Their plan is to get here and demand 'amnesty'.  The President is saying "Screw you, no" and planning to use the military to aid the Border Patrol in stopping them.

This ought to get interesting.  The Democrats will scream about 'dreamers' and 'They just want a better life!', and everyone else will say "Don't let the bastards in!  And if Mexico doesn't like it, that's their damned problem."


Screw just Comey & Co., why should we trust the EffingBI anymore?
But Comey provided zero transparency over the following 11 months prior to President Trump’s firing him last May. The FBI even redacted Mateen’s endorsement of ISIS in the initial transcripts they released of his discussions with hostage negotiators on the night of the shooting.
They're as bad as the Brit cops who won't talk about who actually runs the 'grooming' gangs because they're afraid of being called racist.


"Hey, I'm an advocate!  So who cares if I get drunk on the job and molest people?

And if you do care, it's just because you want to stop my advocacy!"

In the place where Great Britain used to be,

Prosecutors told a Telford grooming victim's father they couldn't prosecute the alleged abuser because the 13-year-old had consented to have sex with the man, according to uncovered documents.
Yeah, that's why.  I mean, why else wou- oh, yeah.
In early March, it was revealed a pair of whistle-blowers, who raised fears over the Telford child sex abuse scandal which affected up to 1,000 girls, were both punished and silenced.

According to the Mirror, police chaplain Keith Osmund-Smith was suspended after he passed papers to the newspaper and a report commissioned by the council revealed social workers knew of the sex crimes before the turn of the millennium.

Meanwhile, a woman who was hired by sex abuse charity Axis Counselling, based in Shrewsbury, was forced to leave her role after she tried to speak up.

...

It is alleged that social workers first knew of abuse in the 1990s, but police took a decade before launching a probe.

Previously unseen files apparently showed that council staff viewed abused and trafficked children as 'prostitutes', not victims, and that the authorities had failed to keep details of abusers from Asian communities for fear of 'racism'.

Ah, the truth outs: they were too PC-at-any-cost, and too chickenshit, to actually deal with this.

Makes you wonder how many places this has actually happened in, and where it's still going on.

How about giving the headmaster a flogging?

"My daughter was so massively bullied in her school in Frankfurt am Main by Muslim girls that we had to take her out of school for protection," the mother told the German newspaper Bild.

The mother said her daughter was harassed for a few reasons. "She had blond hair, no headscarf, has a German-Hebrew name — and we are Christians!" the mother said.

"My daughter broke down nervously in fifth grade," she continued. "She had bruises and massive fear of going to school."

The headmaster's response? "Your daughter does not have to say she is German. Besides, you can give her a headscarf!"
Ever notice that these assholes scream constantly about the threat of bullying, but when it's committed by a protected species, they're silent?

And while all those Democrats and journalists are yelling about guns

and kissing Hogg's ass, they're not having to talk about this.
Every one of the 44 House Democrats who hired Pakistan-born IT aides who later allegedly made “unauthorized access” to congressional data appears to have chosen to exempt them from background checks, according to congressional documents.

Among the red flags in Abid’s background were a $1.1 million bankruptcy; six lawsuits against him or a company he owned; and at least three misdemeanor convictions including for DUI and driving on a suspended license, according to Virginia court records. Public court records show that Imran and Abid operated a car dealership referred to as CIA that took $100,000 from an Iraqi government official who is a fugitive from U.S. authorities. Numerous members of the family were tied to cryptic LLCs such as New Dawn 2001, operated out of Imran’s residence, Virginia corporation records show. Imran was the subject of repeated calls to police by multiple women and had multiple misdemeanor convictions for driving offenses, according to court records.
Isn't that just interesting as hell?

Among the 44 employers, the primary advocate for the suspects has been Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who introduced a bill Monday that would require background checks on Americans purchasing ammunition. “Without bullets a gun is just a hunk of useless metal,” she said, calling ammunition the “loophole” in gun control policy.

Wasserman Schultz was also chair of the Democratic National Committee when Wikileaks published its emails. (The Wikileaks emails show that DNC aides called Imran when they needed the password to her device.) Since then, she and other Democrats have described cyber breaches in the strongest possible terms, such as “an act of war” and “an assault on our democracy.”

But there is no indication Democrats put those concerns into practice when they entrusted the Pakistani dual citizens with their data, nor when suspicious activity was detected. Police banned the suspects from the network after the IG report, but Wasserman Schultz kept Imran on staff anyway. He was in the building and in possession of a laptop with the username RepDWS months later, according to an April 6, 2017 police report.
Someone was paying off or blackmailing someone, and a whole bunch of Democrats are right in the middle of it.  Yet when was the last time most media talked about this?

I know, silly damned question, but I have to ask.

"Why do liberals dislike poor blacks

and want them helpless?"
Because it's much harder to command people who don't depend on you to try to protect them.  And because so many leftists have such a low opinion of blacks.

Actually listen to this: (updated)

whole bunch of tv news heads talking about the dangers of 'fake news'

and they're ALL reading the SAME DAMNED SCRIPT...


Update: I skimmed over some of this, and missed something: the company involved WAS using a script, promising not to allow fake news in, and calling out a lot of major media and places like Fecesbook for their crap.  Which has caused a bunch of said media weenies to lose their shit.
Note to self: check everything out better than I sometimes do.

But since most of them aren't being shot, I'm sure someone will explain how their deaths

aren't as bad as someone who was killed with a bullet.  Or something.

Two bits from this: first,
“It comes down to one simple thing, we’ve got to stop young people carrying knives in the first place,” he added.
I would beg to differ, which brings us to the second bit:
The Metropolitan Police commissioner, Cressida Dick, said last year that London’s crimewave was being driven by a “core group of young offenders” repeatedly committing assault and robbery “with relative impunity” and questioned whether tougher prison sentences could deter them.
Note 'core group' and 'with relative impunity'.

See the problem?  The 'anti knife-crime charity' guy is worried about hardware, while the commissioner has a bit of an actual clue.  But: chances of them continuing the 'Turn In Your Knife!' noise, and screwing with people carrying a basic tool for legal reasons, 100%.  Chances of them actually dealing with the real problem, very low.  Because that'd mean dealing with the facts that
The core problem is PEOPLE, not objects, and
Dealing with people means making judgements, and holding them to account, and all that messy stuff.

Lord, what a mess.