Snowflakes, whiny bitch snowflakes everywhere

According to The Brandeis Hoot, “Buyer Beware” “deals with the modern atmosphere of college protest movements” and its plot revolves around a white Brandeis student named Ron who plans to perform a stand-up routine on campus “in the style of Lenny Bruce.” Bruce was a famous 20th-century comedian and satirist known for his provocative style and use of obscenities.
Ok.  So?
The private university announced recently that it had cancelled plans to present the play “Buyer Beware” on its campus after students and alumni complained the production “seeks to vilify” black voices and issued concerns because its script includes a white protagonist who uses the n-word as part of a comedy routine.

Complaints over its content have pushed the play off campus, with an alumnus calling the play “overtly racist” and an outspoken student saying it elevated “the already privileged voice of a white man on the matter of Black Lives Matter protests.”
"How dare you have a play we don't approve of!", etc.

Tell me again about the wonders of the Canadian health system

When Dr. Joy Hataley, a family practice anesthetist in Kingston, Ont., recently tried to send a patient to a neurologist at the Kingston General Hospital, she received a letter from the specialist’s office telling her that the current wait time for new patient referrals is 4.5 years.
But wait!  There's MORE!
Dr. Hataley said she’s used to hearing back from specialists who are unable to see her patients for months, and even up to 2.5 years.  But a 4.5-year wait is “insane,” she told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview.
Months is bad enough; flat out horrible in some circumstances, but 2.5 YEARS to see a specialist?  They're used to that?

Bleep.

He actually expects anyone to believe that?

"Do you have any concerns about the DNC's involvement in the primary in 2016?" Hunt asked.

"You know, again, I didn't follow it. I'd like to see what Donna Brazile has to say. I will read it, but—" Schumer started.

"Bernie Sanders has never complained about this to you before?" Hunt asked incredulously.

"Oh, he's complained all the time," Schumer said.
 'I didn't follow it'... Such a lying bastard.

So, basically another Bernie supporter trying to kill someone for political reasons

Sen. Rand Paul is recovering from five broken ribs and bruises to his lungs, and it is unclear when he will return to Washington, aides said Sunday, signaling that injuries he sustained Friday are far more severe than initially thought.
The asshole who did it?
Jeff Jones, a registered nurse who worked with Boucher at the Bowling Green Medical Center, described Boucher’s politics as “liberal.”
...
Jim Bullington, a former member of the city commission, knows both men. He said Sunday that Boucher is divorced and lives alone. Bullington described Boucher as a socialist.

“He’s pretty much the opposite of Rand Paul in every way,” Bullington said in an interview.

Piece of walking garbage murdered a bunch of people

in Texas.  Appears was stopped when someone grabbed a rifle and shot back.

The blood-dancers are kicking and screaming, as you'd expect.

We'll see what facts actually come out.

Why are woke social-justice clowns such whiny, weak bitches?

Students put together a safety plan for the day of my speech that reads like parody, but was real. It included the now-common “safe spaces,” but also safety and emotional support teams. The Library was designated one such safe space and “will provide coloring books, zine kits, markers, construction paper etc.,” per a campus email. In case students had trouble finding a safe space, “Safe(r) spaces will be occupied by designated Vassar students with glowsticks.”
...
“We strongly urge you, on account of students undergoing serious and real pain, to take our words and ideas seriously, and work towards breaching the contract, ultimately preventing him from coming to campus on Wednesday... We urge you to think critically about these things. Rather than just engaging the abstract, we urge you to understand how these ideas have physical implications for the safety and well-being of real students on this campus..."
Because someone was going to point out that free speech includes people they don't like and ideas they don't agree with.  I repeat: weak, whiny bitches. 

Weather this time of year goes up and down; right now

it's on an upswing, but that's no reason to ignore your studies

Speaking of "WHY are we supposed to trust any of these people?"

Judicial Watch today released Justice Department records showing that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe did not recuse himself from the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecure, non-government email server until Tuesday, November 1, 2016, one week prior to the presidential election. The Clinton email probe was codenamed “Midyear Exam.” 
...
In June 2017, Circa reported that social media photos showed “McCabe wearing a T-shirt supporting his wife’s campaign during a public event and then posting a photo on social media urging voters to join him in voting for his wife.” The Justice Department IG is investigating whether McCabe properly disclosed payments to his wife’s campaign on his ethics report, as well as possible Hatch Act violations.

Crap like this, and I'll bet those cops can't figure out

why people don't like or trust them.
Her arrest caused a stir in conservative blogs, which were first to report the charges had been dropped. Police spokesman Lt. Brian O’Keefe referred questions to City Solicitor Emily Rice, who was at training all day and not available, her assistant said.

Willard did not respond to a text message. But he told New Hampshire Political Buzz that he consulted with Rice and “we made a collective determination that we were not going to go forward with prosecuting the case.”
Translation: "This is making us look like fucking idiots, make it go away."

Well done, morons.  You now have more people seeing you as dangerous to them and their kids.  Great way to get the public to agree on something.

It's a chilly, kind of damp evening, so

you know what's coming

Gun porn:

Colt Woodsman

I had a chance to shoot this lovely thing a few days ago.  It's another "You do know who invented that, don't you?"* pistol from the Master, manufactured by Colt from 1915 to 1977, in three variations: Target, Sport, and Match Target.

This is a early Target model, ser# indicates made in 1924, with a 6" barrel and an adjustable-for-elevation front sight.

There's a pin at the front, screw at the rear; loosen the screw and the blade- which is spring-loaded- will rotate a small amount for adjustment.  It came with a pair of two-color magazines

that worked as they should.

Why two-color?  My understanding is that they only heat-treated the part of the body that needed it, the feed lip area, and that the bluing they used didn't color that area well.

How'd it shoot?  Lovely.  Clean trigger, sights that really needed better light for me to get the best from(those suckers are small), zero problems with CCI standard-velocity ammo, and more accurate than I am.

Why standard?  Somewhere I once read that a lot of early semi-auto .22 pistols would function with modern standard-velocity, and that it put less stress on the works.  There was some standard available, so tried it, and it worked quite well.

That 'more elegant weapon for a more civilized age' quote comes to mind.



*Credit to Tam for that very useful phrase

In prison for legally-owned firearms; what Brady and Clinton & Co. would like for all of us

They think the Dark & Fascist State of New Jersey is a fine example for the country; everyone else thinks it's a fine example of politicians and some sorry bastard cops who need to decorate trees.


"He keeps citing the Constitution, this man is a lousy justice!"
Only in your world, you plagiarizing leftist hack.


Ran across this over at Insty, and I'd say he's right: if a party hack like Brazile is saying all this in the open, there's a serious problem for the Clintons.  Which is fine, as these clowns all deserve each other.


Schumer and Gov. Howler getting slapped in the face with their responsibilities in the terrorist attack; they don't like it.

Screw both of 'em, they're nasty little control-freak bastards who think they should never be held to account.

Short on bloggage for a few days,

lots of things to take care of.

"Ignore the assaults and arson and such, they're just peaceful protesters!"

Yeah.  Right.
“Ties between three key leaders of the Oakland group [names redacted] met in Hamburg with a leader of the AQAP [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] and the AQIM [Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb],' the report continued. 'The leader from AQAP is an Egyptian-born male [name redacted] who is known to be in charge of finances and recruiting for the group.

“There is evidence from informants that he is helping the Oakland group acquire the weapons they are seeking, primarily bomb making equipment and toxic chemicals and gasses.

"One of the men from Oakland traveled to Syria to meet with ISIS; the purpose was for training in tactics, but was thought to be primarily a bonding visit to discuss possible massive disruptive attacks in the U.S.

"While in Hamburg, several of the Oakland-based criminals were photographed throwing Molotov cocktails and wielding iron bars, which have been their weapons of choice, though they are almost certainly on the verge of upping the caliber of their weaponry for use in the U.S.

"Despite having their faces covered by masks, they were positively identified.
Don't know why this would surprise anyone, a lot of the left has long ties to people you'd think they'd find radioactive; look at Queers for Palestine, look at the 'women's' movement having Linda Sarsour as a leader.

You are one of the reasons for the 2nd Amendment, asshat

“Silencing speech is fascism,” she tweeted. “The petition is useless. We aren’t going anywhere.”

The Kent State Socialist Collective (KSSC), a student organization that was formed in 2013, responded to Westbrook by tweeting a map of the Soviet Gulag system and telling her that “there's one place you might be going…”

They always want to wind up with people in camps.  Which is why they want lists, so they know who to go after first.

And why they want private ownership of arms banned; it's so much more difficult to stuff people into boxcars when they shoot you when you start giving orders- oh, that's right, they plan to order other people to do that part of it, they'd never get their own hands directly dirty.

Oh, that's such a wonderful- excuse? "It wasn't THAT bad"?

He and his partner said they only ever committed crimes while in uniform. “The most I did were robberies while working, never outside of work,” Gondo said.
What'd they do?
The men stole money and drugs from citizens during traffic stops, after detaining them, and after falsifying affidavits to obtain search warrants and entering their homes, according to court records. They would turn off body cameras when they needed to, prepare false reports to conceal what they’d stolen, and coach one another on one how to give false testimony.
And just who were these bastards?
Gondo, nicknamed “G Money,” and six others were first arrested and indicted back in March. All of them were members of the Gun Trace Task Force, which works to get illegal guns off Baltimore’s streets. The men are accused of shaking down citizens for cash, falsifying court documents, and overtime fraud. An eighth officer was arrested and indicted in August.

This is what so many leftists just don't- or won't- understand:

The right to speak freely is not the same as the right to rob others of their voices.
Problem is, the leftists do believe exactly that.  Which a lot of teachers and professors are finally admitting is a threat, and that they helped create and encourage it.

Good piece by a teacher realizing the monster they helped create is eating them.
Understanding this argument requires an ability to detect and follow nuance, but nuance has largely been dismissed from the debates about speech raging on college campuses. Absolutist postures and the binary reign supreme. You are pro- or anti-, radical or fascist, angel or demon. Even small differences of opinion are seized on and characterized as moral and intellectual failures, unacceptable thought crimes that cancel out anything else you might say.
Berkeley, anyone?  Evergreen?  How many very-expensive universities?

No one should have to pass someone else’s ideological purity test to be allowed to speak. University life — along with civic life — dies without the free exchange of ideas.

Saturday night,

and still chilly.  Well, it is late October, so not exactly unexpected.  Do yourself a favor: imbibe some of your favorite antifreeze and stay out of the weather; there's data to be studied

Further proof that these people are out of their damned minds

The Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act(also known as the 'Make Sure Democrats Lose The Next Few Elections Act') contains a “zero-emission vehicle mandate” that would amend the Clean Air Act to require 80 percent of vehicle manufacturers’ U.S. sales to be derived from zero-emissions vehicles by 2027. The requirement would increase to 100 percent of sales in the U.S. by 2035. The goal of the legislation is to “justly transition away from fossil fuel sources of energy to 100 percent clean energy by 2035.”

Unsurprisingly, from the supporters in the People's Republic of Maryland,

Maryland state Del. Shane Robinson (D), who spoke at the press conference in support of the bill, told PJM why he would support a ban on the sale of gasoline vehicles in the state of Maryland.

“I think a ban would be useful to push industry more quickly. I believe GM has already talked about moving away from internal combustion engines. We’ve seen action in the UK, in France, in Germany to move as nations away from this, so we can get on that bandwagon to help make this go faster,” he said.

"They're doing it in Europe, so it MUST be good!  We must jump on now!"

Robinson said more charging stations are needed around the nation. State and local governments, he said, must “take some initiative” on the infrastructure that’s needed to support electric cars.

“I mean, everybody I talk to wants an electric car, they are just not affordable for them or practical. I live in a townhouse with street parking so it’s harder for me to have an electric vehicle because you’ve got HOA rules about digging up the sidewalk. So those are other laws we would have to look into,” he said.

Got that?  'Everybody I talk to wants one!'  Therefore everyone must actually want one(except those stupid people in flyover country).

Now let's look at a real sign of mental retardation:

“It’s a complex thing, but it’s not difficult. It’s just multifaceted and complex. We just need people to lead on this and say ‘look, we’re going to do it,’ and then work backwards on how we actually get there. We’ve done much harder things, you know; we went to the Moon,” he added.

A: Robinson said a statewide ban on gasoline vehicles would serve as a “symbolic act” and help push the private sector to innovate at a faster pace.

'a complex thing, but it’s not difficult. It’s just multifaceted and complex.'  If actually believing that statement isn't a sign of a non-functioning brain, I don't know what is.
B: He thinks an actual law banning gas-powered vehicles would be a SYMBOLIC ACT?  A freaking LAW that can put people in jail, destroy companies, is SYMBOLIC?

As far as his 'we went to the moon' line, I swear to Deity, if we actually try to do that again he'll be one of the idiots trying to stop it because
"We need the money for social justice!"
"Do you know how much pollution this project would cause?"
"These engines are not carbon-neutral!"

Let's throw in one more thing: many millions of vehicles forcibly changed over to electric; where the hell do these people think the energy to charge them is going to come from?
Gabbard said the bill would move the “entire country forward” without “leaving anyone behind” by investing in clean-energy technologies as well as job-retraining programs for coal miners.
What, because only coal miners would be screwed by this?  Hell, they'd need more miners to- oh, that's right, they think that if they just cover every inch of available ground in solar panels and bird cuisinarts, that'll somehow generate enough power to both charge all the new vehicles AND replace the coal and gas plants they want to shut down.  Because they're fucking nuts.

I'm sorry to say that this doesn't surprise me. At all.

In the real world, the outrage would have continued unabated until either The Creepies publicly repented and slithered quietly away, or were run out of Dodge by the angry villagers. But Mr. and Mrs. Creepy knew something my wife and I didn’t understand at the time – in Hollywood, there’s something more toxic than spooning in bed with other people’s kids.

A friend of The Creepies, another Hollywood wife, approached my better half as a sort of ambassador – attempting to explain away her friend’s conduct. When her flawed argument was rejected, Mrs. Ambassador let it slip.

“Well, [Mrs. Creepy] did say you guys were conservatives.”

Fits right in with "Racism is WONDERFUL!  As long as you're racist against white people."  Because that doesn't count.  Or something.