Instead of enacting, “A person may legally bear arms across state lines,” which officials can violate without repercussion, the law must say, “Anyone who interferes with a person legally bearing arms, shall go to prison and pay a fine.”
Alan Korwin
December 12, 2016
Stop The National Carry Permit
[See also Diplomatic Carry where Alan says, “As good as it is, Constitutional Carry is not enough.”—Joe]
His real dick and his imaginary dick
Elsa Lion @ElsaLion2
Tweeted on February 18, 2016
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via a tweet from Linoge.
What do you expect? Insults are the best she and other anti-rights people can come up with to oppose SCOTUS decisions. The KKK used insults against blacks too.—Joe]
I don’t think they seriously think ROT13 is a means of secure communication. I agree it seems to be confusing people enough to collect a good set of downvotes, but for the rest it’s just intended as a lighthearted joke. Everyone knows you at least need ROT14 to be secure.
issor
December 10, 2016
Comment to Op-ed: I’m throwing in the towel on PGP, and I work in security
[I broke out into a laugh that Barb probably heard half way across the house.
Yeah. It’s a joke for computer nerds. And probably mostly old nerds.
Via email from Sean.—Joe]
Via Justin J Lehmiller:
I have done research on human subjects and had to get the research approved by distrustful committees so I have a glimmer of understanding of what she was up against and more than a little sympathy for her.
Almost as a side note I thought one of the points she made was very good. And that is that nearly everyone has used sex, either solo or with a partner to help them get to sleep at night. But sleep therapists, not a single one as far as she could determine, even mentioned this as a potential aid in overcoming sleep difficulties. Could this cut down on the use of pharmaceuticals? It would seem likely and probably have fewer undesirable side effects.
Similar benefits might exist for other issues as well. Orgasms affect mood and brain chemistry. Knowing more about this would seem likely to lead to better, or at least alternate, treatments for things like depression, right?
She not going so far as to endorse Dr. Joe’s Cure For Everything, but she is on the right track.
An emotional part of me would welcome them being scooped up, a la Soylent Green, shoved into camps, and exterminated. Just so they SHUT THE FUCK UP and stop wasting things we need, like tax money, food and air.
The rational part of me understands that once that line is crossed, it never ends–there’s always someone else “unfit” who needs eliminated.
So if such righteous justice were instigated, I’d be put into the position of opposing it.
mzmadmike
December 9, 2016
What I Hate Most About The “Tolerant” “Left.”
[The never ending list of the “unfit who need to be eliminate” is what happened in the USSR. They murdered tens of millions before the system finally shutdown after the death of Stalin. That isn’t the only example of the 20th Century but it’s one of the better known and documented ones.
Don’t ever forget there are certain inalienable rights all humans have.—Joe]
This is what the left thinks of the first female presidential campaign manager to win an election–Kellyanne Conway celebrates her historic win; Left focus on Conway’s body, hurl sexual slurs.
The language is so revolting and foul I don’t want it on my blog.
Seen in this light, Obama’s greatest regret is one of freedom’s clearest victories. The Second Amendment survived his presidency.
AWR Hawkins
December 8, 2016
Obama Tells CNN His Greatest Regret Was Failure To Secure More Gun Control
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
I don’t need any brass at the moment but it appears Chicago is where to go to restock. Via The Onion:
Promising that every effort would be made to limit the impact on residents’ day-to-day lives, Chicago officials announced Wednesday that a fleet of plows was working around the clock to clear more than 18 inches of fresh bullet casings that had blanketed the metropolitan area overnight.
Sources at the city’s Department of Streets and Sanitation confirmed that over 250 ammunition-removal vehicles had been deployed to deal with the knee-deep layer of spent cartridges, which have been steadily accumulating on Chicago’s streets, alleys, and pedestrian walkways since the previous evening.
There must be a fair amount of lead available for reclamation as well. Of course a significant portion would have been claimed by the hospitals.
H/T to Say Uncle.
Protect OH daycares, campuses, airports & local gov’t buildings.
No to Guns Everywhere.
OCAGV @ohioceasefire
Tweeted on December 7, 2016
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Looks like the oil-party isn’t over just yet.
Short version: a new method to extract “unconventional oil” in oil shale and similar formations using microwaves to heat it is being explored. It uses much less water, and will be usable in places where fracking might not be for various reasons. To put it in perspective:
If producers can find a way to microwave oil shales in the Green River Formation, which sprawls across Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, the nation’s recoverable reserves could soar andenergy independence could become more than an election slogan. Even with existing methods — strip-mining the shale and then cooking it, or injecting steam to cook the rock underground (hydraulic fracturing is useless here) — the formation contains enough oil to last the U.S. 165 years at current rates of consumption. Microwave extraction could goose those numbers even higher. After all, there are more than 4 trillion (with a “t”) barrels of oil in the Green River Formation.
Yeah. Looks like we might manage to muddle through on that whole energy thing. Especially considering we might soon have nuclear frikkin’ batteries.
They are not for “gun safety”, else they’d recognize that the NRA has the only truly comprehensive, child-friendly gun safety education program around. They are not against “gun violence”, else they’d be marching in places like Chicago and Baltimore, where the “gun death” rate is orders of magnitude higher than the rest of the nation. They are not against criminals getting guns, else they’d be demanding the Fed.gov prosecute every current straw purchase and NICS denial to the fullest extent of the law. They are not against guns being carried in public (open or concealed), else they’d advocate disarming police and federal agents in the course of their duties as well as average citizens.
None of these describe their real position. If they were honest, they’d just come out and say it: “We’re not against guns, we’re just against you having guns.” That’s a much more accurate description of where they’re coming from.
Archer
December 2, 2016
Comment to Quote of the day—Kevin D. Williamson
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Appellants’ position is that it is physically impossible to comply with the dual microstamping requirement using current technology. At this stage in the proceeding, we must accept that allegation as true. It is unreasonable to require an individual to attempt what is impossible to accomplish. Accordingly, substantial compliance is not a consideration.
Acting P.J. LEVY, J. GOMES, J. FRANSON
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION, INC., et al.,
Plaintiffs and Appellants,
v.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
Defendant and Respondent.
December 1, 2016
[H/T David Hardy.
I find it very telling it took, not the legislature, not the governor, not the district court, but all the way up to the appeals court level for someone to finally agree it is “unreasonable to require an individual to attempt what is impossible to accomplish”. Anti-gun people are either willfully ignorant, evil, or have mental problems, and engage in crazy talk with no shame.—Joe]
Why are progressives so violent?
Via Tyler Durden:
A website hosted on the Dark Web claims to be asking for Bitcoin donations and “expert advice” to help fund the assassinations of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
According to CSO, which first uncovered the “murder-for-hire” site, the darknet portal went live last week and calls for assistance to fund an assassination attempt against Trump, and features an image of the president-elect in crosshairs. The website is located on the Dark Web, and can be accessed only using the Tor browser, which masks IP addresses.
It would be entirely consistent with the character of progressives, but my best guess is that this is a scam.
@SovereignGuy @JebBush Why are the right so obsessed with having guns to make up for their penises?
Sonia Prince@Die__Trying_
Tweeted on February 17, 2016
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via a tweet from Linoge.—Joe]
Sometimes something comes along and gives evidence that not only God exists, but he’s got a sense of humor. Such is this:
Modern Progressives, SJWs, and most politicians attempt to build in the world of words. Obama is a perfect example. We just say or don’t say certain things and they will spring to life, or cease to exist.
Muslim terrorism (the world of atoms), or the Obamacare website (the world of bits) We just SAY there is a line-in-the-sand, we just SAY refugees are vetted, we just SAY Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, we just SAY you can keep your doctor, we just SAY health care will be better and prices will drop; we just SAY those things and then they will just magically happen. Or if they don’t, we just ignore it and say some new things.
SJWs do this, they think name-calling is the same as a physical thing. That it rearranges atoms and builds or destroys.
The world of words is the ultimate in magical thinking.
This is what kind of world people that have never done a physical thing live in. Never created a thing that didn’t exist prior: Electricity, food, housing, cars, roads, the mail, travel, even the order or society, morals, all of it; all are just magical things that just happen.
If there is privilege, going through life where every single thing dealing with your survival and comfort just magically happens, would be it.
Greg Hamilton
Founder and Chief Instructor InSights Training Center
Facebook post on December 2, 2016
[Wow!—Joe]
here’s a puzzler:
It’s a cardinal sin in the progressive weltanschauung to deny someone the validity of their own narrative.
Unless their narrative is “I’m doing this for Islam and the caliph!”
It’s not really a puzzler. Let me explain in a roundabout way.
I received an email a few weeks ago which said in part:
Standard progressive technique against non-progressives is the “basket of deplorables” attack: accuse them of *-ism and watch them wilt as they do a mad scramble trying to show they are actually good people. What the victims of those attacks don’t realize is that the attack has no connection to fact, and denials aren’t helpful because it isn’t about evidence or truth. Harry Reid knew this well and used it against Romney, as did many others.
My reply, in part, was:
The psychology of the progressives is that of a personality disorder. If you were to read the book Stop Walking on Eggshells I would bet you would see, as I do, amazing parallels between Borderline Personality Disorder and the political left in this country. I don’t have the book in front of me right now but here are some things that I remember:
- It is always your fault when something goes wrong.
- They create or maneuver things such that you are put in “can’t win” situations.
- They are at high risk of hurting themselves (riots damaging their own neighborhoods is my analog of this) if they get mad at you.
- They constantly start fights over nothing.
- The attempted use of facts will result in accusations of “You always have to get your way”, “You need to compromise.”, or increase the verbal and/or physical abuse.
- There is no successful treatment.
- The best you can hope for is to expend less energy/time dealing with them without complying with their crazy demands (or as Barb says, “Getting on their crazy train.”)
The basics of how you deal with them, as individuals, is to tell them you aren’t going to tolerate their misbehavior. They will go ballistic at this, after all, it is all your fault, not theirs. They have done nothing wrong. Then ignore them, walk away, or otherwise disengage and do your own thing when they inevitably misbehave. You must not give in to their misbehavior. They will only encourage them to misbehave more.
…
I just wish there was a way to divorce ourselves from the political left. I’m tired of the constant abuse and crazy talk.
Back to Tamara’s puzzlement.
These people are nuts. Barb and I have both had decades of experience attempting to deal with people like this and spent time talking to counselors getting help dealing with personality disordered people. Several times a week during the first year or so we were together one of us would tell a story and ask, “Why did they do this?” It took a while but it finally reached the point where the other person would say, “Don’t try to make sense of it. You will go crazy if you try.” That shortened to, “You are trying to get on crazy train with them.”
We mostly have the stories out of our system and it is now rare for one of us to tell one. And if one does come out the response is just, “Don’t get on the crazy train.”
And that is what our response to these sort of puzzlements should be. Give them “that look” and tell the sane people attempting to appease or understand the progressives, “Don’t get on the crazy train.”
Just got word that Back from The Dead, the first half of The Stars Came Back, is out in paperback and hardcover for those w/o Kindle readers. They are not “connected” on Amazon, yet, but I’m sure they will be soon. In the meantime, reviews are welcome.
Via Sean:
So what the New York Times and other anti-second amendment activists are really saying is that honest people should be defenseless even though bad guys always will have the ability to arm themselves.
Daniel Mitchell
December 1, 2016
The New York Times Just Accidentally Debunked the Gun Control Fairy Tale
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
