If I were a Washington State resident I’d be online this morning, ordering at least 100 magazines for a modern rifle (AR) as well as other standard capacity mags. The governor will sign the mag ban passed by the legislature.
Me (some time ago) with my grandson:
Bullies.
Like those who demand women, BIPOC, Ethnic, & LGBTQ+ communities to be forcibly disarmed. Unable to protect themselves.
Oh wait…
that is @washdems to #wastate Women, BIPOC, Ethic, & LGBTQ+ communities
#waleg #wapolitics #wa2A #wcra
sacrebleu14 / SA Hinchcliffe @sacrebleu141
Tweeted on February 27, 2022
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Barb sometimes hints that I have too many t-shirts or caps.
I would like to suggest to my daughters that if the correct selection is made I’ll find a way to sneak something into the closet. Here are some suggestions:
I found these via an email from Pete:
Hey there,
My name is Pete and I run a business called Eagle Six Gear – https://www.eaglesixgear.com/
Our mission is simple – to employ service disabled veterans and help them transition into the civilian workforce.
I really like your site and I was wondering if your readers would be interested in hearing about us?
I’d love to send you a hat or tee for you to review.
I’ll cover the hat and shipping…all I ask for is a review and a link back to our site.
Hopefully we’re a match and this works out!
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Pete
I declined the free hat.
Any person who voluntarily goes near or touches a gun literally does not have a brain or soul and its completely okay to end such an individual cos they are already dead and exist in hell.
tommybigdick @tommybigdickpr1
Tweeted on February 24, 2022
[Via In Chains.
This is what they think of you. They want you dead.
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
Another shooting death one block away from the one on Sunday.
Police are investigating after a man in his “late teens or early 20s” died after being shot in downtown Seattle Wednesday night.
The shooting happened around 7:15 p.m. on the 1500 block of Third Avenue, which is near the intersection of Third Avenue and Pike Street. When officers arrived, they found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The one on Sunday was at 3rd and Pine. Pine and Pike are one block apart.
Barb’s nickname of Mug Me Street is appropriate.
Here is a recent video of the street (via Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras) :
HAPPENING NOW: Just hours after a shooting on 3rd Ave in Downtown Seattle, the insanity has returned. This is the stretch between Pike/Pine St. Open air drug use, sales of all kinds of merch, trash everywhere. How is this allowed?@MayorofSeattle @downtownseattle @SeattlePD pic.twitter.com/UQPmg9krhU
— Jonathan Choe Journalist KOMO News (@choeshow) February 28, 2022
See also this article.
So, what is your assessment of the “defund the police” policy?
Can anyone tell me why there is such a big social response to the Ukraine invasion but there wasn’t a similar response the Crimea invasion?
Or is my perception of the situation out of tune with reality?
Thanks.
Those stupid gun nuts keep saying that the federal assault weapons ban didn’t work, but I can’t find proof of a single bayoneting during the 10 years it was in effect.
Rob Romano (@2Aupdates)
Tweeted on March 2, 2022
[That should be proof enough for anybody.—Joe]
My elected home country definitely gets my support over the former place where my family was held in detention for at least 14 years of my life. I consider Communist party membership to be a death penalty offense, same as Nazi party membership.
Oleg Volk
February 28, 2022
Facebook comment.
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Nineteen Eighty-Four was a dystopian novel. It was not a how-to manual.
Evil has become incredibly brazen.
Prepare appropriately.
“I can’t tell what’s truth, propaganda, lies, or fraud on social media and in the news right now!”
… wait… you think this is different than usual?
Larry Correia @monsterhunter45
Tweeted on February 27, 2022
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
I saw these on the wall of a U-Haul store:
They are a little too close to the truth.
Seattle’s popular Piroshky Piroshky Bakery is closing its Third Avenue location in downtown “until further notice” over “countless safety concerns.”
Following a fatal shooting Sunday afternoon at Third Avenue and Pine Street, the bakery sent a series of tweets detailing problems with crime in the area. The shooting on Sunday was the third in the area in a month, according to the bakery.
KING 5 Staff
February 27, 2022
Piroshky Piroshky closing downtown Seattle location over ‘countless safety concerns’
[This is Mug Me Street in Seattle. If you look at the picture at the top of the article you will see the McDonald’s store which is ground zero of Mug Me Street. My boss, a former Seattle cop, recently told me a story of his undercover coworker shooting a drug dealer in that store several years ago when a drug deal went sour.
Defunding the police is working just as expected.
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
Via the JPFO:
The clearer the “memory” the immune system has, the more sophisticated the antibodies it can produce. According to new research, someone who’s had three exposures to the spike protein on the Wuhan virus via three doses of vaccine is capable of developing antibodies that can neutralize variants that didn’t exist when they were vaccinated, like Omicron. Just as the virus evolves in the wild as it passes from host to host, the T cells and B cells of someone who’s been boosted will generate more “evolved” antibodies.
And those T cells and B cells don’t fade in a matter of months like antibodies do. The latest data points to them lasting years, which means a person who’s had three doses might be equipped to avoid severe illness from the next serious variant to come down the pike even if that variant doesn’t arrive until 2025 or whatever.
ALLAHPUNDIT
February 21, 2022
New data: Protection from COVID boosters may last for years, avoiding need for fourth shot near term
[It seems to me the pandemic has focused a lot of attention on the immune system which resulted a rather rapid advance in the understanding of how it works and how to enhance it.
Two popular phrases come to mind:
The fact that we’re seeing an emergence of modern rates of rise at all of these individual study sites as well by the mid 20th century just further demonstrates the really significant influence of global sea-level rise especially in the last century. By delving into individual sites the better understanding we have of regional and local processes impacting sea-level rise will continue to improve our understanding for future impacts.
Dr. Jennifer Walker
Rutgers University professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
February 25, 2022
Burning coal has been driving sea level rise since the 19th century: study
[There are other things of interest in the article:
Utilizing a global database of geological sea level records from the past 2,000 years, the international team of researchers modeled global and site-specific sea level rise. They determined that in the United States, modern sea level rise can be discerned earliest in the Mid-Atlantic region somewhat later in the 19th century. By doing so, they hope to facilitate a better understanding of local processes driving variations in sea level changes.
This is not the first time I have seen stuff like this that I find bizarre. They appear to believe the ocean levels can change locally. Am I’m missing something? Or are they really that stupid?
How can you have local changes in the ocean level that do not become global within a day or less? There is a bulge of water than travels entirely around the globe in one day. It is due to gravity from the moon and sun. It is causes what are called tides, remember? Any local change in ocean level will spread out evenly around the entire earth, right? Why do these “scientists” claim there are local changes?—Joe]
The gun prohibition lobby would have America become vulnerable to such aggression as we are now seeing on television screens from coast to coast. This isn’t some action movie Americans are watching, this is real life, and it vividly illustrates why so many of us fight day and night to protect and defend our Second Amendment rights.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the good citizens of Ukraine. We can only hope that gun prohibitionists, or at least their supporters in the establishment media, learn something from this tragedy. To live in peace, one must always be prepared to defend it.
Alan Gottlieb
CCRKBA Chairman
February 24, 2022
CCRKBA: ‘UKRAINE CRISIS UNDERSCORES IMPORTANCE OF SECOND AMENDMENT’
[I do not expect, and I doubt Gottlieb does either, gun prohibitionists will “learn something from this tragedy” that will cause them to reduce their efforts to disarm private citizens. I expect many of them would celebrate the destruction of the USA and imagine they can, and should, accelerate that destruction by eliminating or neutering the 2nd Amendment.
We live in interesting times. Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
By the way banning AR15s is not anti 2A.
March for our lives @GregWooll5
Tweeted on February 21, 2022
[Lot’s of good responses. My favorites:
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
What looked like a major flub during the 2012 campaign — and was used as a political cudgel by Obama — now looks very, very different. It should serve as a reminder that history is not written in the moment — and that what something looks like in that moment is not a guarantee of what it will always look like.
Chris Cillizza
February 22, 2022
It’s time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia
[See also what David Rutz has to say about this.
How gracious to admit his political bedmates were wrong. Isn’t he a nice guy? I wonder how they got it wrong to begin with?
One might be tempted to claim, “Never attribute to malic what can be adequately explained by ignorance and/or stupidity.”
When the hypothesis of ignorance and/or stupidity is put to the test you have consider that the political left is so much more friendly, and almost reasonable, with their political opponents after those opponents are no longer a political threat When they are a political threat they are called “Hitler”, “fascist”, “racist”, “sexist”, etc. It happened with McCain, it happened but both Bush’s, it’s a consistent pattern. It’s to the point that they come across as schizophrenic.
But, again, the hypothesis of mental illness of a wide swath of the general population needs to be tested. In my estimation the simpler, and therefore more likely, answer is the behavior is a calculated and deliberately deceptive action.—Joe]
Tamara graces us with her wisdom yet again with The Paradox of Site Moderation.
There are no good guns. And normal people don’t want their kids around any kind of gun. None.
Voting Rights is Job #1 @KeepingSunny
Tweeted on February 20, 2022
[This is what they think of us and our culture.
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]