Saturday, July 04, 2026
Two things this evening
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
The second, I'll link so you can read the whole thing, from Lawdog a few years back:
My siblings and I grew up in Africa, and the Middle East. We have seen poverty — the poverty where mothers make cold-blooded decisions about which child to sell so that she can feed the rest of her children.
America’s poor enjoy a level of comfort that is the envy of the well-off in Africa.
My brother and sister an I have seen repression — we have seen the crushing of the Ibo people (and we saw how the Ibo people treated their own ohu1 and osu2); the ‘Years Of Lead’ in Morocco aren’t a mystery to us; we weren’t there when the Gukurahundi3 swept through Matabeleland, but we knew some who disappeared; we saw the comfortable contempt of the Emiratis for the Filipino and Baluchi; and we have close personal experience with the casual repressive brutality of those cultures and many others.
America’s people enjoy a freedom from brutality and repression that is unimaginable for most of the rest of the planet.
Is America perfect? Of course not, but it is the closest thing to it that we will find this side of the grave.
Happy 250th 4th to you all
As told my kids a long time ago, the founders of this country were people, with all the faults of any; doesn't mean they didn't try to do it the best they could. And we've still, despite idiots and evil men, got the results of their best, and it's up to us to keep them.
And, because it never hurts to repeat, how it came out
Friday, July 03, 2026
In "My, this could be very useful", we have
I mentioned the other day the Democrat calling for murder as a standard action by Democrats; I can't find the article, but remember Van Jones? Self-described as a 'revolutionary Marxist' when he hit the airwaves? He's having fits about the open communists running for office- or in office- in NYeffingCity. The question that comes to mind is, does he actually think they're going too far, or just being too open about it? Bunch of other Democrats as well, and they're smashing the actual American Democrats. This will not go well.
The Brit government is still working hard to destroy the country. Multiple rapist gets out of prison early, AND can't be deported. Wonderful.
Someone mentioned and I looked up Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration. One part in particular I wish had remained in it, would've saved a world of trouble in generations to come.
Unconnected with the above, the physical therapy on the shoulder has moved from "Let's loosen you up some" to "Let me know when this gets to the 'almost too much' point, which caused me to laugh and refer her to the torture scene in 'The Princess Bride', which made her laugh.
Thursday, July 02, 2026
Under the heading of "Why won't you give on the 'right to arms' thing you keep talking about?", we have the example of
As a 'moderate position'.
I guess the non-moderate would be to start the camps and cattle cars.
NEVER give up your arms.
Wednesday, July 01, 2026
If nothing else can be done about Fauci, yank his ass into committee,
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Part of why South Africa is screwed,
These people are proving just what racists and accessories to murder lots of the NGOs and church organizations have shown themselves to be, too.
I've been buying movies on disc for the last few years, not a whole bunch but
Yes, a bunch of 'educators' spent a lot of time demeaning the trades
Son learned to be a machinist, got his first job before he finished the classes and never looked back. And for quite a while he was, in his 30's, the youngest guy in the shops he worked at, and those shops were desperate to get more people. In his early 40's he was still the youngest guy in that shop. And they can use a lot more.
Bless Mike Rowe for his work and what he's done to push the trades, and it's working.
'France says it's the fault of the US that they've got piles of dead people
In other news you can blame us all you want, Froggy, you tax the hell out of everything and make it all, including energy, more expensive than need be, because you don't care how many people die as long as you can paint yourself as caring.
Which makes you an asshole. Kiss our ass.
Monday, June 29, 2026
A new Taurus wheelgun with two cylinders,
Speaking of 'when they tell you what they are', we have the Democrat in the race for a House seat (added)
Meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, running in the Democrat primary for NY’s 13th Congressional District, & who has the full backing of NYC Mayor Mamdani:
▪️Celebrated after Hamas brutally murdered, raped, tortured & kidnapped thousands living in Israel
▪️Claims Israel doesn't exist.
▪️Called the US a “fucking disgrace” and tweeted “ I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me”
▪️Doesn’t believe in borders & wants to not only abolish ICE, but to stop ALL deportations, even for violent criminals
▪️Wants to abolish prison- even for murderers
▪️On the police - “We’re gonna defund and abolish”
▪️Believes the government should seize private property & nationalize major industries
▪️Wants a universal basic income
▪️Wants to abolish private insurance & replace with Medicare for all
And yes, multiple sources have reported this. Also her playing "Why do you want to talk about past statements instead of what I want to say right now?" games in interviews.
This is what the commies elected. Barring a LOT of people deciding to start voting and otherwise making their thoughts known, NY is screwed. As if it wasn't already with Mamdani having already started the process, without lube.
Added:
Avila Chevalier, a sociology PhD student whose victory sent shockwaves throughout the Democratic establishment, has been under fire for a since-deleted Twitter account, previously reported by CNN, that included phrases such as “seize the means of production,” along with calls to abolish police, prisons and borders. Other controversial tweets include one that said Black and Arab men are both “Fetishizing ugly colonizer women” and another that described wiping her dirty hands on the American flag in lieu of a napkin.
As an undergraduate, Avila Chevalier attended Columbia University, where she organized with Students for Justice in Palestine, and after graduation became involved in pro-Palestinian campus protests over Israel’s war in Gaza. She also attended a controversial October 8, 2023, pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square — one day after Hamas’ attack on Israel — that featured speeches and rhetoric praising the attack.
She previously told CNN, “I have grown considerably in the years since these tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community’s future.”
Translation: "I'm still a communist, I still hate this country, and I won't deny it."
Well done, Democrats.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Saturday, June 27, 2026
That time of week, that doesn't require a bunch of typing,
And for the adult-type people,
Commander Salamander on a idiot politician finding out
I hadn't realized this, idiot Europeans actually built hospitals without central air. So it's not just keeping commoners from having it in their houses. The insanity of these Net Zero people is amazing.
Friday, June 26, 2026
Kim takes note of a case of "She shouldn't dress like that
Well, bullshit. She looks good, and carries it off well, so the complainers can shut the hell up.
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Those damn Brit enviroweenies are really messing with important stuff now:
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Today was first day of evaluation and physical therapy,
I did ask if it were best for me to say something or make noises if something became painful, and I was assured that both are fine. So some noises were made, but nothing that required some level of screaming. Close in one case, but not quite.
"Hey, how did this happen?!?
"A few shots fired, what's the big deal?"
"You leave out the shots fired, one cop wounded, and all the rest, don't you?"
They got used to getting away with garbage like this thanks to socialist politicians, and they have real problems with "No, you can't walk away from this here."
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Speaking of civil rights in places where they only have the ones the .gov allows,
In the United States, we (still) recognize that. In the EU and the UK, they increasingly do not. And that’s more dangerous to how we treat speech in the US than the abuses that happen in places like China or Iran, because we aren’t likely to turn into China or Iran. But we may turn into the UK, or Germany, or Finland, where they purport to maintain their belief in free expression but have rationalized it into a corner where it can do very little good. So while we’re never shocked at horrifying censorship in China or Russia, we should continue to be shocked by the retreat from liberalism that we’re seeing in the Anglosphere and in Europe. We also need to be vocal in opposing it, because it really could happen here.
Lots of examples in the post.
And why the politicians who push this crap should be labeled traitors to their country.
Monday, June 22, 2026
Civil rights victory,
In the 11-page decision in the appeal of U.S. vs. Comeaux (24-30307) published in the Western District of Louisiana on June 18, the court fell back on the "text, history, and tradition" guidelines of Bruen and the meaning of "bear arms" as explained in the Heller ruling ("wear, bear, or carry . . . for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in case of conflict with another person.") to explain that "silencers" (suppressors) are bearable arms.
Which can set it up to go to the Supremes.
This will have Starmer, his equally-asshat replacement, and the Labour Party trying to make sure
One of the things that’s become extremely apparent to me after spending a few days here with a group of Americans and other nationalities is how much of a fucking pussy English people are in general when it comes to arms, guns, and basically protecting their nation. We’ve been totally pacified in the UK and through removal of our arms, our right to bear arms, it’s caused a big problem for us.
Another reminder: we can NEVER let the leftists take the 2nd Amendment out of the Constitution.
This I'll take time for
And
On, the media noting Starmer crying?
First, he's important, y'see, unlike those common girls and other victims.
Second, for his time as a 'prosecutor' and PM, yeah, he should pay. But the chances are just about zero, and those are probably, at least in part, tears of relief as he considers that.
Yes, it's Monday, and right now the only thing I can mention is this
Otherwise? The left hates Trump, and if he solved all big troubles in one swoop they still would. Some on the right hate him, too, and the same.
Ah, I'd forgotten the ACLU showing once again that they only truly care about rights they approve of:
“Protecting the rights of marijuana users.” Note that neither the phrase “gun rights” or “Second Amendment” appears anywhere in the ACLU’s email blast to donors cheering their win representing Ali Hemani at the Supreme Court in a unanimous ruling.
The ACLU’s big takeaway here:
The court has sent a strong message that the government cannot criminalize the conduct of large numbers of people by making categorical and unfounded assumptions about whether they are dangerous.
The fact that those people have a civil right to keep and bear arms never seems to enter into the equation for the “nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.”
Well, some of the individual rights and liberties, anyway.