According to former London mayor Ken Livingstone, hating black Africans doesn't necessarily mean that you're a racist.
The former Mayor of London continued: ‘It’s not anti-Semitic to hate the Jews of Israel and you can’t have a proper functioning democracy in a world in which the media, whether it’s the press or internet, can just spread lie after lie after lie.'
Sunday, March 31, 2019
BOTTOM LINE
As good as this looks, and it does look good, it will never EVER beat a St. Louis beer brat.
But thanks for playing.
But thanks for playing.
Saturday, March 30, 2019
TWOFER
Minnesota freshperson DEMOCRATIC representative Ilhan Omar pulls off the quinella. Anti-Semitic and anti-gay.
Following Omar's remarks, The Daily Wire reached out to her office via phone and email to get her thoughts on two recent news items.
The first story comes from Brunei, where Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah has said that new Sharia laws that are going into effect are a form of "special guidance" from God, according to Sky News.
The nation is going to introduce death by stoning as a punishment for gay sex and "amputation for those guilty of theft under sharia law, with both penalties to also apply to children once implemented."
The second story comes out of the Middle East, where the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas recently fired 20 rockets into Israel and destroyed the homes of innocent civilians.
The Daily Wire asked Omar if she could provide comment on either story and if she found either of these acts to be "abhorrent and inhumane."
Omar and her office refused to respond to multiple requests for comment.
The Daily Wire again contacted Omar's office on Friday via phone and email to give them another chance to respond and notified them that a non-response would be considered a "refusal to condemn" these acts. Omar's office again did not respond to the inquiries.
Omar's one of you, Dems. Good luck justifying her next year. The RNC attack ads are, as they say, already writing themselves.
Following Omar's remarks, The Daily Wire reached out to her office via phone and email to get her thoughts on two recent news items.
The first story comes from Brunei, where Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah has said that new Sharia laws that are going into effect are a form of "special guidance" from God, according to Sky News.
The nation is going to introduce death by stoning as a punishment for gay sex and "amputation for those guilty of theft under sharia law, with both penalties to also apply to children once implemented."
The second story comes out of the Middle East, where the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas recently fired 20 rockets into Israel and destroyed the homes of innocent civilians.
The Daily Wire asked Omar if she could provide comment on either story and if she found either of these acts to be "abhorrent and inhumane."
Omar and her office refused to respond to multiple requests for comment.
The Daily Wire again contacted Omar's office on Friday via phone and email to give them another chance to respond and notified them that a non-response would be considered a "refusal to condemn" these acts. Omar's office again did not respond to the inquiries.
Omar's one of you, Dems. Good luck justifying her next year. The RNC attack ads are, as they say, already writing themselves.
Friday, March 29, 2019
EXPLAIN SOMETHING, JAKE
What is it about CNN that turns decent journalists into slobbering, corporate ass-kissers?
When I was told over a year ago that I would be attending CNN’s “townhall” on the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, I knew it would neither be a journalistic endeavor nor a genuine townhall meeting where anyone would be permitted to speak. CNN’s own title said it all: “Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action.” So this was an advocacy event, not a journalistic undertaking, which makes the Walter Cronkite Award the news channel received last week for the program utterly undeserved.
The producers, a couple of whom I’ve known from other networks, seemed nervous. So did Jake Tapper, who approached me in the greenroom to thank me for participating – but who also seemed sheepish about the format, which unfolded with Scott Israel speaking onstage for about a half-hour before the televised event began.
When I was told over a year ago that I would be attending CNN’s “townhall” on the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, I knew it would neither be a journalistic endeavor nor a genuine townhall meeting where anyone would be permitted to speak. CNN’s own title said it all: “Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action.” So this was an advocacy event, not a journalistic undertaking, which makes the Walter Cronkite Award the news channel received last week for the program utterly undeserved.
The producers, a couple of whom I’ve known from other networks, seemed nervous. So did Jake Tapper, who approached me in the greenroom to thank me for participating – but who also seemed sheepish about the format, which unfolded with Scott Israel speaking onstage for about a half-hour before the televised event began.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
UH OH
My home town's trending on Twitter. What did we do now? Hmmmmm. I've lived here for basically my entire life and I've NEVER seen this done anywhere around here.
UPDATE: For the love of God, drop it. NOBODY does this here.
UPDATE: For the love of God, drop it. NOBODY does this here.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
WHOOPS
Meet John Brennan, Barack Obama's head of the Central INTELLIGENCE Agency.
Former CIA chief John O. Brennan now says his months of attacks on President Trump may have been based on “bad information.”
One of the president’s harshest critics had a muted tone on Monday as he discussed special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” No evidence was found to support the claim that Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign “conspired or coordinated” with Russia.
“Well, I don’t know if I received bad information but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was,” Mr. Brennan told host Joe Scarborough. “I am relieved that it’s been determined there was not a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government over our election.”
Mr. Brennan said in December 2018, for instance, that Mr. Trump should prepare for the “forthcoming exposure of your malfeasance & corruption.”
Old timer? You basically spent the last two years gleefully claiming that Trump was going to be impeached and/or go to prison and now all that you, who used to run the Central INTELLIGENCE Agency, can fall back on is that you got bad intel?
Right. Here's a suggestion, old man. Shut up for the rest of your worthless life.
Cuz when you've lost Terry Moran...
Former CIA chief John O. Brennan now says his months of attacks on President Trump may have been based on “bad information.”
One of the president’s harshest critics had a muted tone on Monday as he discussed special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” No evidence was found to support the claim that Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign “conspired or coordinated” with Russia.
“Well, I don’t know if I received bad information but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was,” Mr. Brennan told host Joe Scarborough. “I am relieved that it’s been determined there was not a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government over our election.”
Mr. Brennan said in December 2018, for instance, that Mr. Trump should prepare for the “forthcoming exposure of your malfeasance & corruption.”
Old timer? You basically spent the last two years gleefully claiming that Trump was going to be impeached and/or go to prison and now all that you, who used to run the Central INTELLIGENCE Agency, can fall back on is that you got bad intel?
Right. Here's a suggestion, old man. Shut up for the rest of your worthless life.
Cuz when you've lost Terry Moran...
THIS JUST IN
Chicago, Illinois determined to be the most politically corrupt place on Earth.
UPDATE: From Ace. Chicago's mayor and it's chief of police are outraged.
UPDATE: Two things, Juss. Take the contrived "win." Shut the hell up.
UPDATE: When you've lost Terry Moran...
UPDATE: From Ace. Chicago's mayor and it's chief of police are outraged.
UPDATE: Two things, Juss. Take the contrived "win." Shut the hell up.
UPDATE: When you've lost Terry Moran...
Monday, March 25, 2019
WHO KNOWS?
Maybe Donald Trump actually is the Antichrist because nobody should have a week this good. Mikey Nats, a guy serious people once figured as the Democratic presidential candidate for 2020, gets nailed for extortion, wire and bank fraud.
The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan announced on Monday that it has filed extortion charges against Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who famously represented porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Trump. Avenatti, who also was indicted by the U.S. attorneys office in Los Angeles on wire fraud and banking charges on Monday, was arrested in Manhattan earlier today.
According to the Manhattan indictment, Avenatti is accused of "attempting to extract more than $20 million in payments from a publicly traded company by threatening to use his ability to garner publicity to inflict substantial financial and reputational harm on the company if his demands were not met." Avenatti allegedly approached Nike in early March after an AAU basketball coach accused the sports retailer of paying families of top high school athletes. The complaint alleges that Avenatti threatened to "release damaging information" about the company in a news conference if Nike didn't pay him "millions of dollars" to handle the case. "I'll go take ten billion dollars off your client's market cap... I'm not f*cking around," he warned Nike's lawyers in a call that was recorded by federal investigators. “You guys know enough now to know you've got a serious problem," Avenatti told them, according to the filing.
The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan announced on Monday that it has filed extortion charges against Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who famously represented porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Trump. Avenatti, who also was indicted by the U.S. attorneys office in Los Angeles on wire fraud and banking charges on Monday, was arrested in Manhattan earlier today.
According to the Manhattan indictment, Avenatti is accused of "attempting to extract more than $20 million in payments from a publicly traded company by threatening to use his ability to garner publicity to inflict substantial financial and reputational harm on the company if his demands were not met." Avenatti allegedly approached Nike in early March after an AAU basketball coach accused the sports retailer of paying families of top high school athletes. The complaint alleges that Avenatti threatened to "release damaging information" about the company in a news conference if Nike didn't pay him "millions of dollars" to handle the case. "I'll go take ten billion dollars off your client's market cap... I'm not f*cking around," he warned Nike's lawyers in a call that was recorded by federal investigators. “You guys know enough now to know you've got a serious problem," Avenatti told them, according to the filing.
HUMAN NATURE
Politico? Hard to believe that you're this stupid but here's how life works. If you spend two years basically accusing me of treason only to find out that nothing happened, you'll get "healing" or "national unity" from me ONLY after I get an abject, groveling apology.
But after the nearly two-year investigation found no collusion or clear obstruction of justice, Trump and his aides showed little interest in healing or national unity. They quickly launched a fierce counterattack against both Democrats and the media, claiming that Trump had survived what amounted to an extralegal coup — and implying that other charges of wrongdoing against him should also be discounted.
And not before.
But after the nearly two-year investigation found no collusion or clear obstruction of justice, Trump and his aides showed little interest in healing or national unity. They quickly launched a fierce counterattack against both Democrats and the media, claiming that Trump had survived what amounted to an extralegal coup — and implying that other charges of wrongdoing against him should also be discounted.
And not before.
Sunday, March 24, 2019
SUXTABY U.
Sometimes your lottery scratchers turn out to be worthless pieces of cardboard.
MSNBC host Chris Matthews expressed outrage on Friday upon hearing reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had completed his Russia investigation and submitted it to the attorney general -- with further indictments not expected.
Matthews began his show by summarizing the breaking news, but stressed that Mueller handed his report to the Department of Justice “without ever directly interviewing the president of the United States.”
“That means no charges against the president, his children or his associates after all those meetings with the Russians,” a visibly upset Matthews told his viewers.
The liberal cable news host opened the discussion to the panel, telling them his “biggest question” was “How can the president be pointed to as leading collusion with Russia, aiding a Russian conspiracy to interfere with our elections if none of his henchmen, none of his children, none of his associates have been indicted?”
“Why was there never an interrogation of this president?” Matthews shot back. “We were told for weeks by experts, ‘You cannot deal with an obstruction-of-justice charge or investigation without getting the motive… How could they let Trump off the hook?... He will not be charged with obstruction of justice or collusion without having to sit down with the Special Counsel Mueller and answer his damn questions. How could that happen?”
MSNBC host Chris Matthews expressed outrage on Friday upon hearing reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had completed his Russia investigation and submitted it to the attorney general -- with further indictments not expected.
Matthews began his show by summarizing the breaking news, but stressed that Mueller handed his report to the Department of Justice “without ever directly interviewing the president of the United States.”
“That means no charges against the president, his children or his associates after all those meetings with the Russians,” a visibly upset Matthews told his viewers.
The liberal cable news host opened the discussion to the panel, telling them his “biggest question” was “How can the president be pointed to as leading collusion with Russia, aiding a Russian conspiracy to interfere with our elections if none of his henchmen, none of his children, none of his associates have been indicted?”
“Why was there never an interrogation of this president?” Matthews shot back. “We were told for weeks by experts, ‘You cannot deal with an obstruction-of-justice charge or investigation without getting the motive… How could they let Trump off the hook?... He will not be charged with obstruction of justice or collusion without having to sit down with the Special Counsel Mueller and answer his damn questions. How could that happen?”
Saturday, March 23, 2019
BAG OF HAMMERS
Seems that Alexandria OhCrap-TheMoronIsTalkingAgain is steamed that Mitch McConnell scheduled a vote on legislation that she herself has proposed.
The GOP’s whole game of wasting votes in Congress to target others “on the record”, for leg they have no intent to pass, is a disgrace. Stop wasting the American peoples’ time + learn to govern. Our jobs aren’t for campaigning, & that’s exactly what these bluff-votes are for.
Kid? This isn't saying a whole lot since you're living proof that any blithering idiot can be elected to the US Congress but you're in the big leagues now. And if you're in the Show, people don't just uncritically accept whatever idiotic thought that pops into your staggeringly empty head.
Here in the real world, ideas get debated. They get modified. This is added, that's dropped. But since you seem to believe that this Green New Deal of yours came down from Mount Sinai, what other choice did McConnell have?
Get over yourself, High School.
The GOP’s whole game of wasting votes in Congress to target others “on the record”, for leg they have no intent to pass, is a disgrace. Stop wasting the American peoples’ time + learn to govern. Our jobs aren’t for campaigning, & that’s exactly what these bluff-votes are for.
Kid? This isn't saying a whole lot since you're living proof that any blithering idiot can be elected to the US Congress but you're in the big leagues now. And if you're in the Show, people don't just uncritically accept whatever idiotic thought that pops into your staggeringly empty head.
Here in the real world, ideas get debated. They get modified. This is added, that's dropped. But since you seem to believe that this Green New Deal of yours came down from Mount Sinai, what other choice did McConnell have?
Get over yourself, High School.
Friday, March 22, 2019
MODERN LIFE
"Crimes" are bad things that the wrong people do.
The legendary singer and actress said that Wade Robson and James Safechuck — whose allegations against the late King of Pop resurfaced in the recent documentary “Leaving Neverland" — “were thrilled to be there” and that what allegedly happened to them “didn’t kill them."
“[Jackson's] sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has," Streisand told The Times. “You can say ‘molested,' but those children, as you heard say [grown-up Robson and Safechuck], they were thrilled to be there. They both married and they both have children, so it didn’t kill them.”
Barbra Streisand is under fire for comments she made about two men accusing Michael Jackson of sexually assaulting them as children.
The legendary singer and actress said that Wade Robson and James Safechuck — whose allegations against the late King of Pop resurfaced in the recent documentary “Leaving Neverland" — “were thrilled to be there” and that what allegedly happened to them “didn’t kill them."
“[Jackson's] sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has," Streisand told The Times. “You can say ‘molested,' but those children, as you heard say [grown-up Robson and Safechuck], they were thrilled to be there. They both married and they both have children, so it didn’t kill them.”
WITH THE ONE WHAT BRUNG YA
Econ 101.
Businesses tend to locate in places where they are welcomed.
American Outdoor Brands Corp., the parent company of gun maker Smith & Wesson, has announced they are closing their New England warehouse operation.
The publicly-traded company will be moving their distribution center to a new facility in Columbia, Missouri later this year. The news came as AOBC announced their financial results for the third quarter which overall saw sales increase by about 3 percent in the wake of announcing more than 250 new products from across the corporation’s varied divisions.
“The ramp-up of initial operations at our new Logistics & Customer Services facility in Missouri is well underway and on track,” said James Debney, AOBC’s CEO. “This 633,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility will serve as our centralized logistics, warehousing, and distribution operation for all of our products, facilitating our growth, enhancing our efficiencies, and allowing us to better serve customers across our entire organization.”
Businesses tend to locate in places where they are welcomed.
American Outdoor Brands Corp., the parent company of gun maker Smith & Wesson, has announced they are closing their New England warehouse operation.
The publicly-traded company will be moving their distribution center to a new facility in Columbia, Missouri later this year. The news came as AOBC announced their financial results for the third quarter which overall saw sales increase by about 3 percent in the wake of announcing more than 250 new products from across the corporation’s varied divisions.
“The ramp-up of initial operations at our new Logistics & Customer Services facility in Missouri is well underway and on track,” said James Debney, AOBC’s CEO. “This 633,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility will serve as our centralized logistics, warehousing, and distribution operation for all of our products, facilitating our growth, enhancing our efficiencies, and allowing us to better serve customers across our entire organization.”
DO-OVER
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, REALLY hopes that Americans don't screw up again.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has publicly feuded with President Trump, is warning of the global implications if Trump is reelected in 2020.
“I think the next president hasn’t declared yet,” Khan said, according to the London Evening Standard. “I think it’s not going to be Trump. It can’t be Trump. Jeez!” he added, according to the paper.
“What happens in America matters for the rest of the world,” Khan said, according to the Standard. “I’m hoping those Americans who didn’t get involved in the last campaign get involved, get registered.”
“Who the president is affects not just American citizens. It affects all of us,” he added.
Saddy? We'll elect anybody we damn well care to and, well, you're not an American. So until you emigrate to this country and become a citizen, keep your stupid opinions to yourself because no one on this side of the Atlantic gives a crap what you think about anything.
But President Trump thanks you for the endorsement.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has publicly feuded with President Trump, is warning of the global implications if Trump is reelected in 2020.
“I think the next president hasn’t declared yet,” Khan said, according to the London Evening Standard. “I think it’s not going to be Trump. It can’t be Trump. Jeez!” he added, according to the paper.
“What happens in America matters for the rest of the world,” Khan said, according to the Standard. “I’m hoping those Americans who didn’t get involved in the last campaign get involved, get registered.”
“Who the president is affects not just American citizens. It affects all of us,” he added.
Saddy? We'll elect anybody we damn well care to and, well, you're not an American. So until you emigrate to this country and become a citizen, keep your stupid opinions to yourself because no one on this side of the Atlantic gives a crap what you think about anything.
But President Trump thanks you for the endorsement.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
GREETINGS FROM CONFEDERATE MISSOURI
Come to find out that there are people here in New South Carolina who think that the recently-filed mandatory gun ownership bills don't go nearly far enough.
Missouri may have just made the most monumental step towards freedom and individual liberty since the signing of the Bill of Rights. In an upcoming vote by Missouri’s state senate, the state is expected to pass a bill that would nullify ALL Federal gun laws and regulations, and make enforcement of those laws by federal officers within the State of Missouri a criminal offense. Republicans control both U.S. Senate seats and more than two-thirds of the seats in both the Missouri House and Senate.
Like it’s predecessor, SB613, Bill SB367 and it’s companion, House Bill HB786, would prevent all state agencies and their employees from enforcing any federal law that infringes the Second Amendment in any way, including gun registrations, fees, fines, licenses and bans. Originally authored in 2014, a former version of the bill was also passed, but vetoed by then Missouri Governor Jay Nixon.
Well, since "sanctuary" cities and states are apparently a good thing, I don't suppose that this will be too much of a problem. But what would such a law involve?
“All federal acts, laws, executive orders, administrative orders, court orders, rules, and regulations, whether past, present, or future, which infringe on the people’s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States I and Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution shall be invalid in this state, shall not be recognized by this state, shall be specifically rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state.”
Meaning what? Pretty much everything, by the sound of it.
(a) Any tax, levy, fee, or stamp imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition not common to all other goods and services which might reasonably be expected to create a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(b) Any registering or tracking of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition which might reasonably be expected to create a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(c) Any registering or tracking of the owners of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition which might reasonably be expected to create a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(d) Any act forbidding the possession, ownership, or use or transfer of a firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition by law-abiding citizens; and
(e) Any act ordering the confiscation of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition from law-abiding citizens
If you're an ATF or FBI agent assigned to go to Missouri and arrest some gun law violator or other, let your significant other or others know that you might not be home right away.
Here’s where things get interesting. The Missouri bill also includes criminal charges for any federal agent who violates SB367. As per the new law, state and local (municipal & county) law enforcement officers would be given “discretionary power” to determine if they will press criminal charges against federal agents who break the law by enforcing the now nullified federal gun control measures.
Will this hold up in court? Maybe.
The bill’s main provision calling on the entire state to cease enforcing federal gun control measures stands on solid legal ground under the anti-commandeering doctrine. Court precedent from 1842 to 2012 stipulates that the feds simply cannot require a state to help them violate your Constitutional rights, and allows states the power to refuse to enforce such federal laws it deems unconstitutional. Besides, the feds simply don’t have the manpower to do it at the state level without the assistance and partnership of state and local agencies.
And if you think that Missouri's bluffing...
Just in case that isn’t enough, Missouri’s Senate also passed a measure supporters say will work hand-in-hand with SB367, solidifying it by codifying the Second Amendment into Missouri’s state constitution. Senate Joint Resolution 36 (SJR36) proposes an amendment to the Missouri state constitution with text obligating the state government to uphold the right to keep and bear arms. It passed the Senate today by a vote of 29-4. If passed by the House, it will be entered on the ballot for Missouri voters’ approval this fall. The amendment would elevate the Right to Bear Arms to “unalienable status,” thereby obligating the state, its courts and agencies to defend it as a guaranteed right of Missouri citizens.
You're a Puke, Johnson. What the hell's going on? Got me. Except for the first several months of my existence, when my mom and dad forced me to live in Billings, Montana, I've lived here all of my life and I've followed local politics long enough to remember when Democrats ran this state.
Maybe we're reacting to the recent ultra-hard-left turn of theBolsheviks Khmer Bleu Democrats. Maybe folks here think that another civil war actually is coming and want to make sure that regular Missourians are prepared for it.
Either way, I've got a volume of Calhoun that I really need to get to one of these days. And if aBolshevik Khmer Bleu Democrat wins the presidency any time soon, Missouri is declared in rebellion or something and some kind of Internet blockade is established here, it's been wonderful interacting with all of you.
Deo Vindice.
Missouri may have just made the most monumental step towards freedom and individual liberty since the signing of the Bill of Rights. In an upcoming vote by Missouri’s state senate, the state is expected to pass a bill that would nullify ALL Federal gun laws and regulations, and make enforcement of those laws by federal officers within the State of Missouri a criminal offense. Republicans control both U.S. Senate seats and more than two-thirds of the seats in both the Missouri House and Senate.
Like it’s predecessor, SB613, Bill SB367 and it’s companion, House Bill HB786, would prevent all state agencies and their employees from enforcing any federal law that infringes the Second Amendment in any way, including gun registrations, fees, fines, licenses and bans. Originally authored in 2014, a former version of the bill was also passed, but vetoed by then Missouri Governor Jay Nixon.
Well, since "sanctuary" cities and states are apparently a good thing, I don't suppose that this will be too much of a problem. But what would such a law involve?
“All federal acts, laws, executive orders, administrative orders, court orders, rules, and regulations, whether past, present, or future, which infringe on the people’s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States I and Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution shall be invalid in this state, shall not be recognized by this state, shall be specifically rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state.”
Meaning what? Pretty much everything, by the sound of it.
(a) Any tax, levy, fee, or stamp imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition not common to all other goods and services which might reasonably be expected to create a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(b) Any registering or tracking of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition which might reasonably be expected to create a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(c) Any registering or tracking of the owners of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition which might reasonably be expected to create a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(d) Any act forbidding the possession, ownership, or use or transfer of a firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition by law-abiding citizens; and
(e) Any act ordering the confiscation of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition from law-abiding citizens
If you're an ATF or FBI agent assigned to go to Missouri and arrest some gun law violator or other, let your significant other or others know that you might not be home right away.
Here’s where things get interesting. The Missouri bill also includes criminal charges for any federal agent who violates SB367. As per the new law, state and local (municipal & county) law enforcement officers would be given “discretionary power” to determine if they will press criminal charges against federal agents who break the law by enforcing the now nullified federal gun control measures.
Will this hold up in court? Maybe.
The bill’s main provision calling on the entire state to cease enforcing federal gun control measures stands on solid legal ground under the anti-commandeering doctrine. Court precedent from 1842 to 2012 stipulates that the feds simply cannot require a state to help them violate your Constitutional rights, and allows states the power to refuse to enforce such federal laws it deems unconstitutional. Besides, the feds simply don’t have the manpower to do it at the state level without the assistance and partnership of state and local agencies.
And if you think that Missouri's bluffing...
Just in case that isn’t enough, Missouri’s Senate also passed a measure supporters say will work hand-in-hand with SB367, solidifying it by codifying the Second Amendment into Missouri’s state constitution. Senate Joint Resolution 36 (SJR36) proposes an amendment to the Missouri state constitution with text obligating the state government to uphold the right to keep and bear arms. It passed the Senate today by a vote of 29-4. If passed by the House, it will be entered on the ballot for Missouri voters’ approval this fall. The amendment would elevate the Right to Bear Arms to “unalienable status,” thereby obligating the state, its courts and agencies to defend it as a guaranteed right of Missouri citizens.
You're a Puke, Johnson. What the hell's going on? Got me. Except for the first several months of my existence, when my mom and dad forced me to live in Billings, Montana, I've lived here all of my life and I've followed local politics long enough to remember when Democrats ran this state.
Maybe we're reacting to the recent ultra-hard-left turn of the
Either way, I've got a volume of Calhoun that I really need to get to one of these days. And if a
Deo Vindice.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
HISSY FIT
I'm old and don't remember things as well as I used to but I don't recall conservatives throwing this much of a shrieking, foot-stomping temper-tantrum after Obama's two wins . But let Hillary Clinton lose a presidential election to UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP and suddenly the whole American governmental structure is seriously, if not fatally, flawed.
How? Let me count the ways. There's the "legitimacy" of the Supreme Court. Why should anyone respect any Supreme Court nominee of any "president" who didn't receive a majority of the popular vote? Then there's the Senate. Explain to me again why we have to allow people who actually choose to live in...shudder...Wyoming to have any say in US presidential elections.
These days, it's the Electoral College. All current Democrat nominees are more or less in favor of abolishing, or at least finding ways around, that "outdated" institution. Let all votes everywhere, even in...shudder...Wyoming, count equally.
Let United States presidents be selected by New York, New England, Chicago and California which is obviously the only fair way that make sure that everyone's vote "counts."
Aside from the frightening number of Americans who slept through civics class, to Democrats, the only time the Electoral College is an existential "problem" is when Republicans win presidential elections.
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, for example.
So what should be done?
1. Write the amendment.
2. Get 2/3 of the House and Senate to approve.
3. Get 38 state legislatures to approve.
Walk in the park. The only legal way it can happen. And why it's never going to happen.
How? Let me count the ways. There's the "legitimacy" of the Supreme Court. Why should anyone respect any Supreme Court nominee of any "president" who didn't receive a majority of the popular vote? Then there's the Senate. Explain to me again why we have to allow people who actually choose to live in...shudder...Wyoming to have any say in US presidential elections.
These days, it's the Electoral College. All current Democrat nominees are more or less in favor of abolishing, or at least finding ways around, that "outdated" institution. Let all votes everywhere, even in...shudder...Wyoming, count equally.
Let United States presidents be selected by New York, New England, Chicago and California which is obviously the only fair way that make sure that everyone's vote "counts."
Aside from the frightening number of Americans who slept through civics class, to Democrats, the only time the Electoral College is an existential "problem" is when Republicans win presidential elections.
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, for example.
So what should be done?
1. Write the amendment.
2. Get 2/3 of the House and Senate to approve.
3. Get 38 state legislatures to approve.
Walk in the park. The only legal way it can happen. And why it's never going to happen.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
LOCK AND LOAD
It seems that there are actually two Missouri bills filed requiring gun ownership rather than just one. While the AR-15 proposal would not apply to me since it has a upper age limit of 35 which I passed a LONG time ago, this one sounds like it just might.
The first bill, the McDaniel Second Amendment Act, would require Missouri residents aged 21 or older to purchase a handgun. It also would allot up to $1 million per year in tax credits for residents who purchased weapons to comply with the law. The bill was filed in late February.
Better start saving my money.
Although I still think that both bills will eventually be found unconstitutional, the more I ponder the idea, the more I'm coming to believe that these bills actually will pass. The reason has to do with the political geography of this state.
While there are a few exceptions here and there, Blue Missouri consists of St. Louis and Kansas City while Red Missouri consists of every place else. Red Missouri really detests Blue Missouri and the feeling is mutual. Both Blue and Red Missouri will come into Kansas City or St. Louis for Royals or Cardinals games but the rest of the time, neither likes each other very much.
This is why, on guns, we're now a constitutional carry state. This idea has "Let's stick it to those stuck-up city a-holes" written all over it.
The first bill, the McDaniel Second Amendment Act, would require Missouri residents aged 21 or older to purchase a handgun. It also would allot up to $1 million per year in tax credits for residents who purchased weapons to comply with the law. The bill was filed in late February.
Better start saving my money.
Although I still think that both bills will eventually be found unconstitutional, the more I ponder the idea, the more I'm coming to believe that these bills actually will pass. The reason has to do with the political geography of this state.
While there are a few exceptions here and there, Blue Missouri consists of St. Louis and Kansas City while Red Missouri consists of every place else. Red Missouri really detests Blue Missouri and the feeling is mutual. Both Blue and Red Missouri will come into Kansas City or St. Louis for Royals or Cardinals games but the rest of the time, neither likes each other very much.
This is why, on guns, we're now a constitutional carry state. This idea has "Let's stick it to those stuck-up city a-holes" written all over it.
AYFKM??
Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, ladies and gentlemen. I REALLY hope this isn't true because this is the sickest thing I've ever seen.
UPDATE: There is something seriously wrong with this guy.
UPDATE: There is something seriously wrong with this guy.
MISSIONARY POSITION
Over the last several years, it has become a custom for professional sports teams all over this country to periodically honor the Hispanic communities in their towns by putting Spanish (or pseudo-Spanish) names on their uniforms. Los Soles de Phoenix, for example. The San Antonio Missions baseball team, of the Triple A Pacific Coast League starting this year, are no exception and whenever they do that, they refer to themselves as the Flying Chanclas de San Antonio.
That thing down there is their logo. I have no idea what it's supposed to be but I know what it looks like. What does it look like to you? Of course it does. Toddlers and infants know what that thing looks like. Hell, the fetus currently residing inside my niece knows what that thing looks like. When he saw it on the Internet the other day (my niece offers free wi-fi) and called me up, he couldn't stop laughing. If I were you, I'd give this a serious rethink, Missions. Either that or change the name to Los Guillermo Clintons de San Antonio.
That thing down there is their logo. I have no idea what it's supposed to be but I know what it looks like. What does it look like to you? Of course it does. Toddlers and infants know what that thing looks like. Hell, the fetus currently residing inside my niece knows what that thing looks like. When he saw it on the Internet the other day (my niece offers free wi-fi) and called me up, he couldn't stop laughing. If I were you, I'd give this a serious rethink, Missions. Either that or change the name to Los Guillermo Clintons de San Antonio.
Monday, March 18, 2019
PLATFORM
Andrew Yang, whoever he is, recently announced for the US presidency in 2020 and I think he's found an issue FAR more important than that "climate change" crap. Running on it, Andy can end our national divisions and unite this country like it hasn't been united since World War II.
Outsider presidential hopeful Andrew Yang’s latest idea is both literally and figuratively his most unorthodox yet: He’s taking a strong public stance against circumcision.
The Democratic candidate revealed in a little notice tweet last week that he was against the ritualized practice of cutting a newborn’s foreskin. But in an interview with The Daily Beast, he said that if he were elected he would incorporate that view into public policy, mainly by pushing initiatives meant to inform parents that they don’t need to have their infants circumcised for health reasons.
“It’s sort of pushed on parents in many situations,” Yang said, describing pressure to circumcise a child as a “cultural onus” imposed on families.
Finally. An American politician brave enough to take on Big Foreskin.
Outsider presidential hopeful Andrew Yang’s latest idea is both literally and figuratively his most unorthodox yet: He’s taking a strong public stance against circumcision.
The Democratic candidate revealed in a little notice tweet last week that he was against the ritualized practice of cutting a newborn’s foreskin. But in an interview with The Daily Beast, he said that if he were elected he would incorporate that view into public policy, mainly by pushing initiatives meant to inform parents that they don’t need to have their infants circumcised for health reasons.
“It’s sort of pushed on parents in many situations,” Yang said, describing pressure to circumcise a child as a “cultural onus” imposed on families.
Finally. An American politician brave enough to take on Big Foreskin.
IN LOCAL NEWS...
I'm outside the age range for this, I don't have to money to do it anyway and if this is adopted, I seriously doubt that it would pass constitutional review. But I REALLY hope that this proposed Missouri bill handily passes the General Assembly just so I can point and laugh as American ultra-leftist hysterics like Kammi, Richard Blumenthal, Spartacus, Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkely, Dick "Dick" Durbin, Chief Fakes-Her-Ethnicity, Maizie Hirono or the Democratic Party Steno Pool shriek hysterically at the top of their lungs before collapsing on their fainting couches.
A bill introduced in Missouri would require residents to own AR-15 guns.
Andrew McDaniel (R-Deering) introduced House Bill 1108 late last month. The bill would establish the McDaniel Militia Act, “which requires every person between 18 and 35 years of age who can legally possess a firearm to own an AR-15 and authorizes a tax credit for a purchase of an AR-15.”
A bill introduced in Missouri would require residents to own AR-15 guns.
Andrew McDaniel (R-Deering) introduced House Bill 1108 late last month. The bill would establish the McDaniel Militia Act, “which requires every person between 18 and 35 years of age who can legally possess a firearm to own an AR-15 and authorizes a tax credit for a purchase of an AR-15.”
THIS JUST IN
Kammi's never going to be president.
In an interview broadcast yesterday by National Public Radio, Sen. Kamala Harris (D.-Calif.) said that she would not impose the death penalty on someone who committed treason against the United States.
In the interview, which aired on NPR’s Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep had the following exchange with Harris:
Inskeep: California’s current governor, Gavin Newsom, has this week, as I am sure you know, announced a moratorium on the death penalty in California. Is there a federal equivalent that you would do? Federal executions, of course, are quite rare. But there’s a federal death penalty.
Harris: Yes, I think that there should be.
Inskeep: A moratorium, an end?
Harris: Yes. I do, I do believe that.
Inskeep: No one would be executed?
Harris: Correct.
Inskeep: If you were president of the United States?
Harris: Correct.
Inskeep: For any crime?
Harris: Correct.
Inskeep: Not even, I don't know, treason.
Harris: Not in the United States, no.
Inskeep: There’s nothing that rises to that level?
Harris: Not in the United States, no.
In an interview broadcast yesterday by National Public Radio, Sen. Kamala Harris (D.-Calif.) said that she would not impose the death penalty on someone who committed treason against the United States.
In the interview, which aired on NPR’s Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep had the following exchange with Harris:
Inskeep: California’s current governor, Gavin Newsom, has this week, as I am sure you know, announced a moratorium on the death penalty in California. Is there a federal equivalent that you would do? Federal executions, of course, are quite rare. But there’s a federal death penalty.
Harris: Yes, I think that there should be.
Inskeep: A moratorium, an end?
Harris: Yes. I do, I do believe that.
Inskeep: No one would be executed?
Harris: Correct.
Inskeep: If you were president of the United States?
Harris: Correct.
Inskeep: For any crime?
Harris: Correct.
Inskeep: Not even, I don't know, treason.
Harris: Not in the United States, no.
Inskeep: There’s nothing that rises to that level?
Harris: Not in the United States, no.
Friday, March 15, 2019
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
I guess you've all heard by now what just happened in Christchurch, New Zealand. Gunmen opened fire at two mosques, killing something like 50 worshippers and I guess that horrible total may go up. Last I heard, three people were in custody for this abomination and I expect that they'll be dealt with to the fullest extent of New Zealand law. I hope so, anyway.
But let's try an experiment. Since this tragedy is going to be politicized to death, let's take guns completely out of the picture. An EF-5 tornado, the strongest possible, is bearing down on St. Louis, Missouri. It directly strikes a mosque, instantly killing 300 worshippers assembled for prayer. How do you suppose a reaction to such a tragedy similar to this would be received?
But let's try an experiment. Since this tragedy is going to be politicized to death, let's take guns completely out of the picture. An EF-5 tornado, the strongest possible, is bearing down on St. Louis, Missouri. It directly strikes a mosque, instantly killing 300 worshippers assembled for prayer. How do you suppose a reaction to such a tragedy similar to this would be received?
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
MAXIM
If you take a shot at Victor Davis Hanson, you better not miss.
Read the whole thing. Because this is what the kids these days refer to as a beatdown.
Read the whole thing. Because this is what the kids these days refer to as a beatdown.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
LEMMINGS
The password is...videoconference (ding).
Extracting and processing materials, fuel and food contributes as much as half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, the UN said Tuesday, as experts gathered in Kenya to find ways to rein in exploding global consumption.
Which "experts" had to fly to Kenya from all over the world to conclude.
Extracting and processing materials, fuel and food contributes as much as half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, the UN said Tuesday, as experts gathered in Kenya to find ways to rein in exploding global consumption.
Which "experts" had to fly to Kenya from all over the world to conclude.
Using dozens of data sources, the authors of a major new report presented lawmakers and businesses with a stark choice: drastically reform the global economy to get more from less, or risk the collapse of global infrastructure.
With countries already committed under the Paris climate deal to curb emissions to fend off the worst impacts of global warming, experts said there was little hope of meeting that goal without an "urgent and systemic transformation" in how we use Earth's resources.
The Global Resources Outlook 2019 said that worldwide consumption of basic commodities such as water, minerals and fossil fuels had tripled since 1970.
Or every single person in the world could just kill themselves. That should work.
Monday, March 11, 2019
ADVENTURES IN TRUMPO-CLUELESSNESS
National Review's David French really doesn't like Donald Trump.
The redefinition of good character that we so often see on the Trump right reminds me of the powerful words contained in the Southern Baptist Convention’s 1998 resolution on the moral character of public officials. At the height of the Clinton scandals, the Baptists rightly declared, “Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestrained immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God’s judgment.”
Erick Erickson took this line in the Washington Post. How could any Christian worthy of the name of Our Lord possibly pull the lever for anyone as horrible as Donald J. Trump?
But here's the deal. Who's turning Trump's vices into virtues? Name them. And the other thing is that most of us Christians are well aware that all of our Bibles have Romans 3:10-12 in them.
"None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
Which the Apostle Paul quotes from Psalm 14:1-3 or Psalm 53:1-3, whichever you'd prefer. So I don't care who you run, Dave. He or she is going to be flawed.
It's like this, Dave. You need some work done around your house so you go online to find a contractor. Whatever online database you check spits out two names.
You personally know both of them. One is a fine, decent, upstanding regular church-going fellow who is happily married but who is, quite frankly, a lousy contractor. Constantly late, shoddy work, constant complaints, etc. The other one's been married and divorced three times, he sleeps around with just about anybody but he does great work at half the cost.
Which one are you going to hire, Dave?
Who'd the GOP run in 2008? John McCain. War hero, decent guy by most accounts. Not a particularly strong Christian but hey, who is? McCain had a divorce under his belt but those happen. My family's had three of them, two with one sister.
But I still love them.
The most important thing, Dave, is that John McCain and his team had no idea how to successfully win an election against a Democrat when one considers that Democrats do whatever it takes to win and that McCain would also have to fight theDNC Press Office "American news media" at the same time.
So McCain lost. But he was a decent guy.
Who lost.
Decently.
Fast forward to 2012. That year, the GOP put forward former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. And for all those conservatives at National Review and other places who later bellowed that "Trump's no conservative!!" the simple fact of the matter was that Romney wasn't either.
Mitt was a slightly taller William Weld, he was pretending and we all knew it. And that was why evangelicals sat out that race, Romney lost and gave us four more years of Barack Obama.
So we got eight years of Obama. Eight years of Planned Parenthood getting everything it wanted, eight years of groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor being legally forced to violate their consciences, eight years of abominations like the Syrian slaughter and the Iran deal.
But we got all that decently.
Decent losers are still losers, Dave. And losers influence nobody.
Fast forward to 2016. Who did the GOP put forward for president that year? John Kasich? Jim Gilmore? Marco Rubio? JEB!? Not to put too fine a point on it but any one of them would have been decently slaughtered by Hillary Clinton.
But there was also Donald J. Trump who sounded for all the world like he knew what beating a Democrat would require in this day and age and who was willing to do it. So it really shouldn't have surprised anyone when the GOP base rebelled, voted against the instructions of Professional ConservatismTM and gave Trump the nomination.
Trump won.
And once he won, Dave, he actually...did stuff. Take the US embassy in Israel. That was the easiest vote in the world, wasn't it, Dave, all those congressional votes declaring that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel, knowing that NOTHING WHATSOEVER WAS EVER GOING TO HAPPEN? Hell, even a leftist Democrat would have found that an easy vote.
Then Trump won the presidency. Israel's capital is Jerusalem? Move the embassy there. But...but...that will anger the Palestinians. Well, they're usually pissed off about something. Move the damned embassy to Jerusalem.
And then there wasMurder Inc. Planned Parenthood. A Republican Congress had two years to rip the funding from those Nazis but didn't want to do it. So Trump went around them and did it himself. Will it stand up? Don't know.
But he's actually doing stuff, Dave. He's trying things. Things that Professional ConservatismTM repeatedly found excuses not to try.
Pay close attention, Dave, because Alexandria Brown is only going to say this once.
The Establishment never defunded Planned Parenthood. So. You know. Shut up. Seriously. Shut up. The soi disant Establishment has spent over 30 years not accomplishing anything other than Eternal War. Two years of Trump. Trump's done things. Shut. Up.
I was not at all enthusiastic about the idea of President Donald J. Trump, Dave. But I'm a whole lot less enthusiastic about people who claim to agree with me but can't trouble themselves to follow through. So I guess I'm going to be buying a MAGA hat pretty soon.
End of the day, it comes down to one word, Dave.
Results.
The redefinition of good character that we so often see on the Trump right reminds me of the powerful words contained in the Southern Baptist Convention’s 1998 resolution on the moral character of public officials. At the height of the Clinton scandals, the Baptists rightly declared, “Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestrained immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God’s judgment.”
Erick Erickson took this line in the Washington Post. How could any Christian worthy of the name of Our Lord possibly pull the lever for anyone as horrible as Donald J. Trump?
But here's the deal. Who's turning Trump's vices into virtues? Name them. And the other thing is that most of us Christians are well aware that all of our Bibles have Romans 3:10-12 in them.
"None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
Which the Apostle Paul quotes from Psalm 14:1-3 or Psalm 53:1-3, whichever you'd prefer. So I don't care who you run, Dave. He or she is going to be flawed.
It's like this, Dave. You need some work done around your house so you go online to find a contractor. Whatever online database you check spits out two names.
You personally know both of them. One is a fine, decent, upstanding regular church-going fellow who is happily married but who is, quite frankly, a lousy contractor. Constantly late, shoddy work, constant complaints, etc. The other one's been married and divorced three times, he sleeps around with just about anybody but he does great work at half the cost.
Which one are you going to hire, Dave?
Who'd the GOP run in 2008? John McCain. War hero, decent guy by most accounts. Not a particularly strong Christian but hey, who is? McCain had a divorce under his belt but those happen. My family's had three of them, two with one sister.
But I still love them.
The most important thing, Dave, is that John McCain and his team had no idea how to successfully win an election against a Democrat when one considers that Democrats do whatever it takes to win and that McCain would also have to fight the
So McCain lost. But he was a decent guy.
Who lost.
Decently.
Fast forward to 2012. That year, the GOP put forward former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. And for all those conservatives at National Review and other places who later bellowed that "Trump's no conservative!!" the simple fact of the matter was that Romney wasn't either.
Mitt was a slightly taller William Weld, he was pretending and we all knew it. And that was why evangelicals sat out that race, Romney lost and gave us four more years of Barack Obama.
So we got eight years of Obama. Eight years of Planned Parenthood getting everything it wanted, eight years of groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor being legally forced to violate their consciences, eight years of abominations like the Syrian slaughter and the Iran deal.
But we got all that decently.
Decent losers are still losers, Dave. And losers influence nobody.
Fast forward to 2016. Who did the GOP put forward for president that year? John Kasich? Jim Gilmore? Marco Rubio? JEB!? Not to put too fine a point on it but any one of them would have been decently slaughtered by Hillary Clinton.
But there was also Donald J. Trump who sounded for all the world like he knew what beating a Democrat would require in this day and age and who was willing to do it. So it really shouldn't have surprised anyone when the GOP base rebelled, voted against the instructions of Professional ConservatismTM and gave Trump the nomination.
Trump won.
And once he won, Dave, he actually...did stuff. Take the US embassy in Israel. That was the easiest vote in the world, wasn't it, Dave, all those congressional votes declaring that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel, knowing that NOTHING WHATSOEVER WAS EVER GOING TO HAPPEN? Hell, even a leftist Democrat would have found that an easy vote.
Then Trump won the presidency. Israel's capital is Jerusalem? Move the embassy there. But...but...that will anger the Palestinians. Well, they're usually pissed off about something. Move the damned embassy to Jerusalem.
And then there was
But he's actually doing stuff, Dave. He's trying things. Things that Professional ConservatismTM repeatedly found excuses not to try.
Pay close attention, Dave, because Alexandria Brown is only going to say this once.
The Establishment never defunded Planned Parenthood. So. You know. Shut up. Seriously. Shut up. The soi disant Establishment has spent over 30 years not accomplishing anything other than Eternal War. Two years of Trump. Trump's done things. Shut. Up.
I was not at all enthusiastic about the idea of President Donald J. Trump, Dave. But I'm a whole lot less enthusiastic about people who claim to agree with me but can't trouble themselves to follow through. So I guess I'm going to be buying a MAGA hat pretty soon.
End of the day, it comes down to one word, Dave.
Results.
Sunday, March 10, 2019
PUBLIC FACE
Know who's going figure prominently in Republican campaign ads from one end of this country to the other next year? I'll give you a hint.
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed political moderates at the South by Southwest Conference & Festivals in Austin, Texas, calling their views “misplaced” as she defended her progressive politics in a room full of supporters.
“Moderate is not a stance. It's just an attitude towards life of, like, ‘meh,’” the New York Democrat said Saturday during an interview with Briahna Gray, senior politics editor for the Intercept. “We’ve become so cynical, that we view ‘meh,’ or ‘eh’ — we view cynicism as an intellectually superior attitude, and we view ambition as youthful naivete when ... the greatest things we have ever accomplished as a society have been ambitious acts of visions, and the ‘meh’ is just worshipped now, for what?”
Not really sure what Allie High School is getting at there but do go on.
The self-declared Democratic socialist also criticized the treatment of minorities throughout American history, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which she claimed was racist, to Ronald Reagan's policies, which she said "pitted" white working class people against minorities in order "to screw over all working-class Americans,” particularly African-Americans and Hispanics.
Of COURSE you think that, moron.
"And it's this whole tragedy of the commons type of thinking where it's like because ... this one specific group of people, that you are already kind of subconsciously primed to resent, you give them a different reason that's not explicit racism but still rooted in a racist caricature," Ocasio-Cortez continued. "It gives people a logical reason, a 'logical' reason to say, 'Oh yeah, no, toss out the whole social safety net.'"
Still don't have the slightest idea what you mean, kid.
“The most important thing is the concentration of capital, and it means that we prioritize profit and the accumulation of money above all else, and we seek it at any human and environmental cost… But when we talk about ideas like democratic socialism, it means putting democracy and society first, instead of capital first; it doesn’t mean that the actual concept of capitalistic society should be abolished,” she said.
That must have been some top-shelf weed.
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed political moderates at the South by Southwest Conference & Festivals in Austin, Texas, calling their views “misplaced” as she defended her progressive politics in a room full of supporters.
“Moderate is not a stance. It's just an attitude towards life of, like, ‘meh,’” the New York Democrat said Saturday during an interview with Briahna Gray, senior politics editor for the Intercept. “We’ve become so cynical, that we view ‘meh,’ or ‘eh’ — we view cynicism as an intellectually superior attitude, and we view ambition as youthful naivete when ... the greatest things we have ever accomplished as a society have been ambitious acts of visions, and the ‘meh’ is just worshipped now, for what?”
Not really sure what Allie High School is getting at there but do go on.
The self-declared Democratic socialist also criticized the treatment of minorities throughout American history, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which she claimed was racist, to Ronald Reagan's policies, which she said "pitted" white working class people against minorities in order "to screw over all working-class Americans,” particularly African-Americans and Hispanics.
Of COURSE you think that, moron.
"And it's this whole tragedy of the commons type of thinking where it's like because ... this one specific group of people, that you are already kind of subconsciously primed to resent, you give them a different reason that's not explicit racism but still rooted in a racist caricature," Ocasio-Cortez continued. "It gives people a logical reason, a 'logical' reason to say, 'Oh yeah, no, toss out the whole social safety net.'"
Still don't have the slightest idea what you mean, kid.
“The most important thing is the concentration of capital, and it means that we prioritize profit and the accumulation of money above all else, and we seek it at any human and environmental cost… But when we talk about ideas like democratic socialism, it means putting democracy and society first, instead of capital first; it doesn’t mean that the actual concept of capitalistic society should be abolished,” she said.
That must have been some top-shelf weed.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Syllogism. If A, then B. A therefore B.
Shamima Begum was 19, pregnant, and wanted to return home to Britain. But she had spent four years with ISIS, so Britain revoked her citizenship and she gave birth in a Syrian refugee camp that has now proved fatal to her infant son, who died Thursday or Friday of pneumonia at the age of less than three weeks. The boy, named Jarrah, was apparently in good health when he was born Feb. 17, reports the AP, but was reportedly having respiratory problems recently. The BBC that conditions in the camp are "pretty appalling," with no heat in tents and temperatures that dip into the 30s at night.
After the Second World War, those Europeans who fought in German "foreign legions" or otherwise collaborated with the Nazis led miserable lives. Some were killed while many others led lonely existences, shunned out of decent society for the rest of their days.
The same principle is at work here. One can't join something as monstrous and barbaric as the Islamic State and then expect mercy to be the default position if you change your mind. If you happen to get it, good for you. If you don't, you really have no one to blame but yourself.
As they say, never ever pray for God's justice because you might get it.
The kid was three weeks old, Chris. I know that. But the fact of the matter is that Great Britain didn't kill Shamima Begum's son Jarrah. Shamima Begum did.
Shamima Begum was 19, pregnant, and wanted to return home to Britain. But she had spent four years with ISIS, so Britain revoked her citizenship and she gave birth in a Syrian refugee camp that has now proved fatal to her infant son, who died Thursday or Friday of pneumonia at the age of less than three weeks. The boy, named Jarrah, was apparently in good health when he was born Feb. 17, reports the AP, but was reportedly having respiratory problems recently. The BBC that conditions in the camp are "pretty appalling," with no heat in tents and temperatures that dip into the 30s at night.
After the Second World War, those Europeans who fought in German "foreign legions" or otherwise collaborated with the Nazis led miserable lives. Some were killed while many others led lonely existences, shunned out of decent society for the rest of their days.
The same principle is at work here. One can't join something as monstrous and barbaric as the Islamic State and then expect mercy to be the default position if you change your mind. If you happen to get it, good for you. If you don't, you really have no one to blame but yourself.
As they say, never ever pray for God's justice because you might get it.
The kid was three weeks old, Chris. I know that. But the fact of the matter is that Great Britain didn't kill Shamima Begum's son Jarrah. Shamima Begum did.
Friday, March 8, 2019
JUSTICE
In cases of first-degree murder, there are times when a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole is appropriate. Let the bastard rot and die completely alone; best case scenario, he repents before God and accepts his fate as entirely earned. But there are other occasions where such a sentence would, all by itself, be a crime against humanity.
I'll leave it to you to decide which one this is.
Watts told investigators his 4-year-old daughter, Bella, walked into his bedroom holding her blanket and asked what was wrong with her mom; he told her that Shanann didn't feel well, the report said.
I'll leave it to you to decide which one this is.
Watts told investigators his 4-year-old daughter, Bella, walked into his bedroom holding her blanket and asked what was wrong with her mom; he told her that Shanann didn't feel well, the report said.
Watts wrapped his wife face-down in a bed sheet and tried to carry her downstairs, but lost his grip and ended up pulling her down the stairs, the report said.
Bella watched her father drag her mother down the stairs and began to cry, and asked, “What’s wrong with mommy?” Watts told investigators.
Watts told investigators he put both daughters in the back of his truck on the bench seat, and he said Bella asked, “Is mommy okay?”
Bella and Celeste each had a blanket with them and Celeste had a stuffed animal, Watts told police, the report said.
Watts told police he put Celeste's blue Yankees blanket over her head and strangled her in the backseat, the report said.
When Watts returned to the truck, Bella asked him in her soft voice, “Is the same thing gonna happen to me as Cece?" he told police.
Watts told investigators he then strangled the 4-year-old with the same blanket, the report said. Bella fought back the best she could, according to investigators.
Bella's last words were “Daddy, no!” Watts told police, according to the report.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
NANNER MCBOTOX?
I know you've got your hands full right now, what with being unable to get House Democrats to condemn Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar's (Dem-MN) anti-Semitism. But I thought you might want to know that "Doctor" [chortle] Dave Duke couldn't be more supportive of Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Oman (Dem-MN).
So you've got that going for you.
So you've got that going for you.
ALLERGIES
My allergies are flaring up again. Stupid allergies.
Marcus was 13 months old, lying in a bed inside a medical facility, struggling to stay alive.
His tiny body was racked by fevers and infections due to severe heart and lung defects. A ventilator and trach tube were the only things keeping him fed and breathing.
Marcus was motherless and alone. He was born three-months premature, weighing 1-pound, to a heroin addict, and then abandoned at the hospital. No one was coming for Marcus.
And that’s when he felt a kiss on the cheek, and heard a voice whisper in his ear.
“My name is Kelly. I want to be your mom. Would you like to come home with me?”
“He smiled so big when I kissed his cheek, and I knew I was going to do everything I could to give this baby a chance,” Lively said. “In my heart, I felt he had just been waiting for me. It gave me chills. I knew he was my son."
God exists because people like this would be impossible without Him.
Marcus was 13 months old, lying in a bed inside a medical facility, struggling to stay alive.
His tiny body was racked by fevers and infections due to severe heart and lung defects. A ventilator and trach tube were the only things keeping him fed and breathing.
Marcus was motherless and alone. He was born three-months premature, weighing 1-pound, to a heroin addict, and then abandoned at the hospital. No one was coming for Marcus.
And that’s when he felt a kiss on the cheek, and heard a voice whisper in his ear.
“My name is Kelly. I want to be your mom. Would you like to come home with me?”
“He smiled so big when I kissed his cheek, and I knew I was going to do everything I could to give this baby a chance,” Lively said. “In my heart, I felt he had just been waiting for me. It gave me chills. I knew he was my son."
God exists because people like this would be impossible without Him.
PRAYING HARD
Damn it. I don't envy the person who replaces him. It'll be like replacing Vince Lombardi.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT
Pointless international organization schedules useless meeting next year. Guess who's already bitching about it. I'll give you a hint. Their name starts with E and ends with Piscopalians.
Executive Council has asked The Episcopal Church’s bishops and their spouses, and the House of Bishops collectively, “to prayerfully and carefully consider her/his/their response, choices and actions” in the light of what it calls the “troubling circumstances” of the decision to exclude same-sex spouses from the 2020 Lambeth Conference of bishops.
So all of them might stay home? Have their own, oh, let's call it the "Trinity-Wall Street Conference" with right-thinking Anglican bishops from all over the world?
Awesome.
I officially give the Episcopal Organization permission to steal this idea. You don't even have to credit me. I live to serve.
“Exclusion of spouses at Lambeth Conference: When does all mean all?” calls the decision “particularly misguided and inconsistent with the stated purposes of the conference,” in part because the conference planning group decided to run a joint program for bishops and their spouses, rather than the traditional parallel programs. The FAQs section of the Lambeth2020 website says that the joint conference “is in recognition of the vital role spouses play across the Anglican Communion and a desire to support them in their ministry.”
Right on schedule. Our way or the highway. Damned if we're going let a bunch of unsophisticated Africans impose their ridiculous and outdated "theology" on us. In the Communion, the West and the West alone does the theology-imposing. Got it?
The resolution came in response to a Feb. 15 Anglican Communion News Service blog in which Anglican Communion Secretary General Josiah Idowu-Fearon wrote that Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby had invited “every active bishop.” However, Idowu-Fearon said that “it would be inappropriate for same-sex spouses to be invited to the conference.” He said the Anglican Communion defines marriage as “the lifelong union of a man and a woman,” as codified in Resolution 1.10 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference.
Resolution 1.10, huh. Little late in the day to invoke that old chestnut since the Communion has spent the last 20 years pretending that 1.10 never happened. PresBish Mike Curry got this in.
Curry said, “It reflects our commitment to be an inclusive church, not based on a social theory or capitulation to the ways of the culture,
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, STOP IT, MIKE, YOU'RE KILLING ME, MAN!!
but based on our belief that the outstretched arms of Jesus on the cross are a sign of the very love of God reaching out to us all. It reflects our belief that the words of the Apostle Paul to the Galatians should be true for the church today: ‘All who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female, for all are one in Christ.’”
And the last thing anyone who's truly baptized into Christ wants to do is to rewrite the Word of God so he or she doesn't feel guilty about sleeping with...ah, what's the point?
The resolution includes a lengthy summary of what it calls General Convention’s more than 40 years of “support of homosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, their partners, spouses and families, both in secular society and in the church,” beginning in 1976.
See "long game" reference in the post just below this one.
Section 15.5 of that statement says, “Some in the Anglican Communion are discerning that much of what is held to be true of Christian marriage between a man and a woman is also found and given expression in faithful, committed, monogamous, lifelong relationships between two men or two women, whether it is called a marriage or something else. This provides an opportunity for continuing conversation within the Communion, and listening to the experiences of gay and lesbian disciples of Christ.”
Until you idiot Africans get it through your heads that you're completely wrong.
“[If] we don’t give him the space, if there is any, to change his mind,” the rest of the communion will feel that Welby is “bound to the pressures” of The Episcopal Church, Konieczny said.
Which it is.
Pollard urged the council to approve the resolution because it shows that the council disapproves of a decision that is “unfair to those that we hold dear.” In addition, she said, “Giving the archbishop [of Canterbury] quote, wiggle room, unquote, is a very good strategic idea while trying to avoid telling him to do something.”
Which is exactly what we are doing.
The Rev. Mally Lloyd reminded the council that it meets three more times before the Lambeth Conference convenes on July 23, 2020. “What I like about this resolution is that it is very open, and if we need to narrow it down and be more directive [Told you - Ed.], we can,” she said.
Seriously. At this stage, any conservative or traditionalist Anglican who believes that any accommodation whatsoever with these people is still possible is worse than a fool.
The Anglican Communion are Protestants who think they're "apostolic." They're not "apostolic" and they never were.
Deal with it.
Give up the Communion and get on with the Gospel.
Executive Council has asked The Episcopal Church’s bishops and their spouses, and the House of Bishops collectively, “to prayerfully and carefully consider her/his/their response, choices and actions” in the light of what it calls the “troubling circumstances” of the decision to exclude same-sex spouses from the 2020 Lambeth Conference of bishops.
So all of them might stay home? Have their own, oh, let's call it the "Trinity-Wall Street Conference" with right-thinking Anglican bishops from all over the world?
Awesome.
I officially give the Episcopal Organization permission to steal this idea. You don't even have to credit me. I live to serve.
“Exclusion of spouses at Lambeth Conference: When does all mean all?” calls the decision “particularly misguided and inconsistent with the stated purposes of the conference,” in part because the conference planning group decided to run a joint program for bishops and their spouses, rather than the traditional parallel programs. The FAQs section of the Lambeth2020 website says that the joint conference “is in recognition of the vital role spouses play across the Anglican Communion and a desire to support them in their ministry.”
Right on schedule. Our way or the highway. Damned if we're going let a bunch of unsophisticated Africans impose their ridiculous and outdated "theology" on us. In the Communion, the West and the West alone does the theology-imposing. Got it?
The resolution came in response to a Feb. 15 Anglican Communion News Service blog in which Anglican Communion Secretary General Josiah Idowu-Fearon wrote that Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby had invited “every active bishop.” However, Idowu-Fearon said that “it would be inappropriate for same-sex spouses to be invited to the conference.” He said the Anglican Communion defines marriage as “the lifelong union of a man and a woman,” as codified in Resolution 1.10 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference.
Resolution 1.10, huh. Little late in the day to invoke that old chestnut since the Communion has spent the last 20 years pretending that 1.10 never happened. PresBish Mike Curry got this in.
Curry said, “It reflects our commitment to be an inclusive church, not based on a social theory or capitulation to the ways of the culture,
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, STOP IT, MIKE, YOU'RE KILLING ME, MAN!!
but based on our belief that the outstretched arms of Jesus on the cross are a sign of the very love of God reaching out to us all. It reflects our belief that the words of the Apostle Paul to the Galatians should be true for the church today: ‘All who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female, for all are one in Christ.’”
And the last thing anyone who's truly baptized into Christ wants to do is to rewrite the Word of God so he or she doesn't feel guilty about sleeping with...ah, what's the point?
The resolution includes a lengthy summary of what it calls General Convention’s more than 40 years of “support of homosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, their partners, spouses and families, both in secular society and in the church,” beginning in 1976.
See "long game" reference in the post just below this one.
Section 15.5 of that statement says, “Some in the Anglican Communion are discerning that much of what is held to be true of Christian marriage between a man and a woman is also found and given expression in faithful, committed, monogamous, lifelong relationships between two men or two women, whether it is called a marriage or something else. This provides an opportunity for continuing conversation within the Communion, and listening to the experiences of gay and lesbian disciples of Christ.”
Until you idiot Africans get it through your heads that you're completely wrong.
“[If] we don’t give him the space, if there is any, to change his mind,” the rest of the communion will feel that Welby is “bound to the pressures” of The Episcopal Church, Konieczny said.
Which it is.
Pollard urged the council to approve the resolution because it shows that the council disapproves of a decision that is “unfair to those that we hold dear.” In addition, she said, “Giving the archbishop [of Canterbury] quote, wiggle room, unquote, is a very good strategic idea while trying to avoid telling him to do something.”
Which is exactly what we are doing.
The Rev. Mally Lloyd reminded the council that it meets three more times before the Lambeth Conference convenes on July 23, 2020. “What I like about this resolution is that it is very open, and if we need to narrow it down and be more directive [Told you - Ed.], we can,” she said.
Seriously. At this stage, any conservative or traditionalist Anglican who believes that any accommodation whatsoever with these people is still possible is worse than a fool.
The Anglican Communion are Protestants who think they're "apostolic." They're not "apostolic" and they never were.
Deal with it.
Give up the Communion and get on with the Gospel.
YES AND NO
At The Federalist, Glenn Stanton is delighted that the recent United Methodist General Conference vote on human sexuality went the way that it did.
At the end of February, the United Methodist Church bravely dodged what would have been a self-inflicted kill shot. Pushed to definitive action by gay activists within their ranks, they not only refused to mutilate clear biblical teaching on same-sex couples and gay clergy, the UMC voted to strengthen its adherence to biblical sexual ethics.
We must appreciate just how against-the-tide this move is for a mainline denomination, and they should be roundly celebrated for their bold fidelity. But here’s the spin.
Many media stories are going with the “United Methodist Church Positions Itself for a Massive Split” angle because of the “hard-liners” inflexibility—as if all would have been hunky-dory if the denomination acquiesced to LGBT demands. The media is getting this one all wrong. (Why stop now, right?) The UMC did nothing short of averting its own death.
The adopted Traditional Plan strongly asserts the value of all people without exclusion, each being “of sacred worth, created in the image of God.” It proclaims that “All persons need the ministry of the Church” and affirms that “God’s grace is available to all.”
Those of us in the traditional camp know this is not mere happy talk to just make people feel better. It is basic Christianity. But just as basic, the plan also affirms a traditional sexual and marital ethic in line with what the Methodist church, and Christianity itself, has always held without doubt or contest.
Better yet, it gives real teeth to the matter, requiring every bishop to submit an official and public statement declaring whether they can or cannot fully uphold and enforce the church’s biblical standards around marriage and the ordination of clergy. This will halt the shenanigans LGBT agitators have been playing within the church to move their ball inch-by-inch down the field. If these leaders cannot affirm church teaching, a protocol is established for them and their congregations to go somewhere else so they can create some other faith from their own wishes.
Encouraging as far as it goes. But we former Anglicans know two things about the Christian left. The first, and most important, is that they believe that they not only have the only right answer, they have the only conceivable answer. QED, any other answer cometh from the evil one.
Since they believe that, they're entirely willing to play a long game. Whether it takes them four years or eight years or twelve years or sixteen years or twenty years or even longer than that, they're going to stay at this until they fully achieve and implement their goal.
At one of the past iterations of this site, I started covering the Anglican implosion in 2003, the year Gene Robinson got his pointy hat and I finally abandoned Anglicanism. But the controversy had been brewing at least a couple decades before that.
And since the left has the only right and only conceivable answer, their goal is not merely to be "tolerated." If this plays out like it did with the Anglicans, the exhausted Methodists will eventually, at some point down the road, pass some sort of "compromise" measure which would allow conservatives and liberals a brief period of "peace."
But once the Methodist left acquires enough power, that "compromise" will become a dead letter the day before yesterday. Consider Episcopalianism. Does anyone still seriously believe that anyone with traditional Christian views could even graduate from an Episcopalian seminary anymore, much less find a parish or be selected as a bishop?
Is the UMC doomed to follow the Episcopal Organization's path? Not necessarily; it depends on how seriously the UMC acts upon this resolution they just passed should the need arise. For the sake of the Gospel, I pray that the UMC has faith and courage because it's going to need both.
At the end of February, the United Methodist Church bravely dodged what would have been a self-inflicted kill shot. Pushed to definitive action by gay activists within their ranks, they not only refused to mutilate clear biblical teaching on same-sex couples and gay clergy, the UMC voted to strengthen its adherence to biblical sexual ethics.
We must appreciate just how against-the-tide this move is for a mainline denomination, and they should be roundly celebrated for their bold fidelity. But here’s the spin.
Many media stories are going with the “United Methodist Church Positions Itself for a Massive Split” angle because of the “hard-liners” inflexibility—as if all would have been hunky-dory if the denomination acquiesced to LGBT demands. The media is getting this one all wrong. (Why stop now, right?) The UMC did nothing short of averting its own death.
The adopted Traditional Plan strongly asserts the value of all people without exclusion, each being “of sacred worth, created in the image of God.” It proclaims that “All persons need the ministry of the Church” and affirms that “God’s grace is available to all.”
Those of us in the traditional camp know this is not mere happy talk to just make people feel better. It is basic Christianity. But just as basic, the plan also affirms a traditional sexual and marital ethic in line with what the Methodist church, and Christianity itself, has always held without doubt or contest.
Better yet, it gives real teeth to the matter, requiring every bishop to submit an official and public statement declaring whether they can or cannot fully uphold and enforce the church’s biblical standards around marriage and the ordination of clergy. This will halt the shenanigans LGBT agitators have been playing within the church to move their ball inch-by-inch down the field. If these leaders cannot affirm church teaching, a protocol is established for them and their congregations to go somewhere else so they can create some other faith from their own wishes.
Encouraging as far as it goes. But we former Anglicans know two things about the Christian left. The first, and most important, is that they believe that they not only have the only right answer, they have the only conceivable answer. QED, any other answer cometh from the evil one.
Since they believe that, they're entirely willing to play a long game. Whether it takes them four years or eight years or twelve years or sixteen years or twenty years or even longer than that, they're going to stay at this until they fully achieve and implement their goal.
At one of the past iterations of this site, I started covering the Anglican implosion in 2003, the year Gene Robinson got his pointy hat and I finally abandoned Anglicanism. But the controversy had been brewing at least a couple decades before that.
And since the left has the only right and only conceivable answer, their goal is not merely to be "tolerated." If this plays out like it did with the Anglicans, the exhausted Methodists will eventually, at some point down the road, pass some sort of "compromise" measure which would allow conservatives and liberals a brief period of "peace."
But once the Methodist left acquires enough power, that "compromise" will become a dead letter the day before yesterday. Consider Episcopalianism. Does anyone still seriously believe that anyone with traditional Christian views could even graduate from an Episcopalian seminary anymore, much less find a parish or be selected as a bishop?
Is the UMC doomed to follow the Episcopal Organization's path? Not necessarily; it depends on how seriously the UMC acts upon this resolution they just passed should the need arise. For the sake of the Gospel, I pray that the UMC has faith and courage because it's going to need both.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
BATTING PRACTICE
Skeet shooting. Javelin throwing.
Though so often thought about in binary terms, just as with gender, there are many different sexualities people identify as.
Conducting the New York Philharmonic. Playing the back nine at Sawgrass.
Autosexuality is one such identification that is seldom talked about. It’s the idea of being sexually attracted to yourself, and can also come with being autoromantic – experiencing the relationship with yourself as romantic.
Practicing the oboe. Waving the flag.
It can mean being turned on by your own look and nudity, getting butterflies when you think about yourself, being excited to spend time alone, and masturbating to the idea of yourself. It’s all the feelings we get for a potential new suitor but for ourselves.
Hitting for six. Harpooning the whale.
Ghia Vitale is autosexual and autoromantic.
And now for the punchline.
She is also engaged to get married to herself after proposing in March 2017.
PLEASE let this happen in an Anglican church.
UPDATE: Inquiring minds want to know. Did she do the whole down-on-one-knee bit when she popped the question? And I'm delighted that she apparently said yes; turning herself down would have been 673,294 kinds of humiliating.
I hope that she and she picked out a nice engagement ring together. Where are the one of them registered? Is she going to take her own name? And how's she going to handle throwing rice at herself, never mind carrying herself across the threshold?
Though so often thought about in binary terms, just as with gender, there are many different sexualities people identify as.
Conducting the New York Philharmonic. Playing the back nine at Sawgrass.
Autosexuality is one such identification that is seldom talked about. It’s the idea of being sexually attracted to yourself, and can also come with being autoromantic – experiencing the relationship with yourself as romantic.
Practicing the oboe. Waving the flag.
It can mean being turned on by your own look and nudity, getting butterflies when you think about yourself, being excited to spend time alone, and masturbating to the idea of yourself. It’s all the feelings we get for a potential new suitor but for ourselves.
Hitting for six. Harpooning the whale.
Ghia Vitale is autosexual and autoromantic.
And now for the punchline.
She is also engaged to get married to herself after proposing in March 2017.
PLEASE let this happen in an Anglican church.
UPDATE: Inquiring minds want to know. Did she do the whole down-on-one-knee bit when she popped the question? And I'm delighted that she apparently said yes; turning herself down would have been 673,294 kinds of humiliating.
I hope that she and she picked out a nice engagement ring together. Where are the one of them registered? Is she going to take her own name? And how's she going to handle throwing rice at herself, never mind carrying herself across the threshold?
Monday, March 4, 2019
IT'S A CAN OF OYSTERS, NOT A SEVEN-IRON
There's a definite spring in the Johnsonian step these days. Guess who's a candidate to be the next Episcopal bishop of Michigan.
The Rev. Bonnie A. Perry, [lesbian] rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chicago, Illinois.
YESSSSSSSSSS.
If you're wondering about that post title, Bonnie "Lies Over The Ocean" once delivered a sermon entitled "It's A River, Not A Pie." I'm still not exactly sure what that meant but the Rev. "It's A Belt Sander, Not An Apple Brown Betty" immediately became a favorite with this site.
The jokes write themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not getting my hopes up. "It's An Anchovy And Pineapple Pizza, Not The Great Seal Of The United States" has been screwed out of a pointy hat more than once by the Episcopal Organization.
But a guy can dream. Take down this pot, Bonnie. We're all pulling for you.
In other girl bishop news, this here's Cathy Bascom, the new Episcopal bishop of Kansas, and I may have to start Bad Vestments back up again.
The Rev. Bonnie A. Perry, [lesbian] rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chicago, Illinois.
YESSSSSSSSSS.
If you're wondering about that post title, Bonnie "Lies Over The Ocean" once delivered a sermon entitled "It's A River, Not A Pie." I'm still not exactly sure what that meant but the Rev. "It's A Belt Sander, Not An Apple Brown Betty" immediately became a favorite with this site.
The jokes write themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not getting my hopes up. "It's An Anchovy And Pineapple Pizza, Not The Great Seal Of The United States" has been screwed out of a pointy hat more than once by the Episcopal Organization.
But a guy can dream. Take down this pot, Bonnie. We're all pulling for you.
In other girl bishop news, this here's Cathy Bascom, the new Episcopal bishop of Kansas, and I may have to start Bad Vestments back up again.
AWWWWW
Allie High School is so stupid that it's starting to be adorable.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not completely ruling out Amazon coming back to New York if the process is done with community input, a top aide said.
“We welcome a process, we welcome having a community process, but I don’t know where the talks are at at this stage,” Saikat Chakrabarti, the New York congresswoman’s chief of staff, said on Bloomberg Television.
“What she was vocal about was the process by which it happened, the deal,” Chakrabarti said. “Amazon is the company that chose to step away from the negotiating table.”
Allie girl? Let me see if I can somehow fire this through that thick, titanium skull you seem to have. Fact is that NYC needs Amazon and those thousands of jobs it was going to provide one hell of a lot more than Amazon and those thousands of jobs it was going to provide needs NYC.
You've been getting a lot of crap about killing this deal, haven't you? So now you're trying to walk things back? How life works, Allie girl, is you don't get do-overs in these situations.
Suck it up and deal with it, comrade.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not completely ruling out Amazon coming back to New York if the process is done with community input, a top aide said.
Allie girl? Let me see if I can somehow fire this through that thick, titanium skull you seem to have. Fact is that NYC needs Amazon and those thousands of jobs it was going to provide one hell of a lot more than Amazon and those thousands of jobs it was going to provide needs NYC.
You've been getting a lot of crap about killing this deal, haven't you? So now you're trying to walk things back? How life works, Allie girl, is you don't get do-overs in these situations.
Suck it up and deal with it, comrade.
Sunday, March 3, 2019
DON'T YOU HATE WHEN THIS HAPPENS?
Boy, if I had a dollar for every time I almost recircumcised my...really, dude? Taking your 9 along just to go for a walk? Either Marion, Indiana has some REALLY tough neighborhoods or someone likes guns a smidge too much.
TO QUOTE PROFESSOR REYNOLDS...
I'll believe that "climate change" is a crisis only when the people who confidently assure me that "climate change" is a crisis start acting like "climate change" is a crisis.
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to save the planet with her Green New Deal, but she keeps tripping over her own giant carbon footprint.
“We’re like, ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ ” the progressive darling said in January, speaking of herself and her fellow millennials. “And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II.”
Last week, she ratcheted up the rhetoric: “It is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult” due to climate change. “And it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: is it OK to still have children?”
The guiding principle of her eco-vision is to bring about “a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases” within 10 years.
To achieve this, the GND fact sheet says, the nation must “totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail … create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle.”
But the woman who boasts of a “razor-sharp BS detector” seems to have trouble sniffing out her own.
Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign heavily relied on those combustible-engine cars — even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst campaign office.
She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show. The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone.
In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $29,365.70 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals — even though her Queens HQ was a one-minute walk to the 7 train.
I haven't worked since the end of 2012. I live on a small inheritance my dad left me. I can pay the rent, buy groceries and indulge in a very occasional extravagance but not much more than that. I don't own a car anymore because I can't afford to keep one going and I live where I currently do only because there's a supermarket/pharmacy right across the street.
Life's pretty damned boring if you're me.
But it is nice to know that I'm a more climatically responsible citizen than Allie High School.
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to save the planet with her Green New Deal, but she keeps tripping over her own giant carbon footprint.
“We’re like, ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ ” the progressive darling said in January, speaking of herself and her fellow millennials. “And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II.”
Last week, she ratcheted up the rhetoric: “It is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult” due to climate change. “And it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: is it OK to still have children?”
The guiding principle of her eco-vision is to bring about “a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases” within 10 years.
To achieve this, the GND fact sheet says, the nation must “totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail … create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle.”
But the woman who boasts of a “razor-sharp BS detector” seems to have trouble sniffing out her own.
Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign heavily relied on those combustible-engine cars — even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst campaign office.
She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show. The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone.
In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $29,365.70 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals — even though her Queens HQ was a one-minute walk to the 7 train.
I haven't worked since the end of 2012. I live on a small inheritance my dad left me. I can pay the rent, buy groceries and indulge in a very occasional extravagance but not much more than that. I don't own a car anymore because I can't afford to keep one going and I live where I currently do only because there's a supermarket/pharmacy right across the street.
Life's pretty damned boring if you're me.
But it is nice to know that I'm a more climatically responsible citizen than Allie High School.
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Friday, March 1, 2019
ADVENTURES IN IRONY-DEFICIENCY
Planned Parenthood's obergruppenführer actually tweeted the following.
PRIME SUSPECT
The International Olympic Committee murders the Olympics.
The proposed new rules would allow transgender athletes to compete after one year of hormone replacement therapy and no surgery is required.
The Olympics are reportedly adopting a new policy that opens the field of competition to transgender athletes.
The International Olympic Committee received proposed guidelines in November from its 'Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism', which allow for broader policies that would include transgender athletes.
Olympic officials have not confirmed the new guidelines, which have already been adopted by other regulatory sports organizations, but the policy is available on the organization's website.
The policy change would be in line with NCAA standards in the United States, which allow male-to-female and female-to-male transgender athletes to compete without having gender reassignment surgery, according to ESPN.
TRADE-OFF
Alexandria OhComeOnNow-NoSentientHumanBeingCanPossiblyBeThatStupid may be dumber than a bag of hammers but at least she's got a thin skin.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took aim at The Wall Street Journal on Thursday after an op-ed writer asserted in a column that the freshman lawmaker encouraged young people to "take pride" in ignorance.
In a column Thursday by Grace Marie-Turner that was shared by the Journal's Twitter account, Turner writes that Ocasio-Cortez "leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance—of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom—and still succeed."
"As much as conservatives are aghast at the over-the-top collectivist ideas of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we cannot ignore the oversize intrigue with this young woman, who has gained instant influence and celebrity," the column continues.
Ocasio-Cortez fired back Thursday in a tweet, writing that the conservative newspaper's editorial board "takes pride in their ignorance of our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, & mass incarceration; willful doubt on the decades of science on climate change; targeting of indigenous peoples, and the classist, punitive agenda targeting working families."
You go, High School.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took aim at The Wall Street Journal on Thursday after an op-ed writer asserted in a column that the freshman lawmaker encouraged young people to "take pride" in ignorance.
In a column Thursday by Grace Marie-Turner that was shared by the Journal's Twitter account, Turner writes that Ocasio-Cortez "leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance—of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom—and still succeed."
"As much as conservatives are aghast at the over-the-top collectivist ideas of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we cannot ignore the oversize intrigue with this young woman, who has gained instant influence and celebrity," the column continues.
Ocasio-Cortez fired back Thursday in a tweet, writing that the conservative newspaper's editorial board "takes pride in their ignorance of our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, & mass incarceration; willful doubt on the decades of science on climate change; targeting of indigenous peoples, and the classist, punitive agenda targeting working families."
You go, High School.
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