I figured it out. “Stack up” is code for “I have a small penis”
Apparently Boosted Steve @Steverocks35
Tweeted on June 7, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Boosted is apparently at a loss for anything other than a childish insult as a response.
Via a tweet from In Chains @InChainsInJail.—Joe]
“Facts First” is the tagline of a CNN branding campaign which contends that “once facts are established, opinions can be formed.” The problem is that while it sounds logical, this appealing assertion is a fallacy not supported by research.
Cognitive psychology and neuroscience studies have found that the exact opposite is often true when it comes to politics: People form opinions based on emotions, such as fear, contempt and anger, rather than relying on facts. New facts often do not change people’s minds.
Keith M. Bellizzi
August 13, 2022
Cognitive Biases and Brain Biology Help Explain Why Facts Don’t Change Minds
[This is probably a big part of the reason that Mao Tse Tung coined the phrase, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”. Facts and reason are nearly irrelevant in politics. The only reliable means of changing people’s minds regarding politics is with a bullet.
Socialism and communism are so inefficient they cannot tolerate slackers or doubters. They need a very high compliance rate to sustain themselves.
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
The answers are pretty simple in nature. We have too many guns out there and too many guns in the wrong hands.
Bruce Harrell
Seattle Mayor
August 15, 2022
Flurry of Seattle weekend shootings ‘unacceptable,’ Mayor Harrell says
[The article fails to tell us how many of those shootings were justified. I wonder why.
Simple answers for simple minds. If the “wrong hands” are unsupervised in public then they will use clubs, knives, rocks, feet, and those very wrong hands to injury others even if they do not have access to guns. If those people predators are locked up then it doesn’t matter how many guns are “out there”.
His has a simple mind and/or he thinks you do.
I hope he enjoys his trial.—Joe
This stage design tool is cool:
This is a web application. No installing on your local machine is required.
Other features (from an email I received from them):
If you scroll down while on the web page there are a lot more target types to chose from.
You can save your stages online, include a stage description, print them out.
25 years ago when I was working for Microsoft on Direct X I fantasized about writing an application like this but with the added feature of using 3D and allowing you to walk through the stage and visualize it from any angle.
There are many other stage design tools. Some even use augmented reality which would be cool because you could superimpose your stage over your shotting bay using your phone camera.
Another type is, basically, Legos for stage designers.
With my own range now I think just the simple web app works for me. I can do the 3D visualization in reality rather than virtual space.
We do not support those who believe that the 2nd amendment gives them the right to buy assault weapons. If your beliefs are not in line with ours, we will not adopt a pet to you.
Kim Sill
Owner of Shelter Hope Pet Shop
Email sent May 31, 2022
[Via “We Will Grill You.” California Pet Shop Announces They Won’t Give You a Pet Unless You Support Gun Control
That makes her anti-SCOTUS and anti-American. That means she is also, probably inadvertently, pro rape, robbery, and genocide.
I’m sure the two legged predators will be far more interested in this bit of knowledge than the average gun owner.—Joe]
The big socialist talking points are justice and compassion.
The big socialist motivations are resentment and revenge.
The big socialist results are labour camps and mass graves.
Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith
Tweeted on August 15, 2022
[I would like to add that it seems the word “equity” is showing up a lot. And as I have pointed out before:
Full equality can only be approximated by everyone being in extreme poverty. Full equality comes with death. And it should come as no surprise the political left is well acquainted with death on a very large scale.
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
Thursday, a typical day based on police reports and aid calls, there was one “drug-related casualty” down the block and a dozen other calls for either narcotics or “behavioral/emotional crisis.”
That same day, while I was there, a man collapsed face-first on the sidewalk around the corner from the now-shuttered Amazon Go. When I asked his mates if they needed me to call 911, they daubed the back of his neck with a wet T-shirt and said, “No, no, he’ll pop out of it.”
He did. Later, though, I saw him shouting and bashing a wooden pole against a Pike Street building front.
Police have been trying to crack down. One day a week ago they busted eight people here for selling fentanyl and meth. The futility was acknowledged right in the news release: The cops said they ran down a 16-year-old who was selling fentanyl and had a gun, only to realize they’d just arrested the same teenager, pushing fentanyl with a different gun, at the same Third and Pike corner a few weeks earlier.
Danny Westneat
August 13, 2022
There are sprouts of hope in downtown Seattle, but they are wilting
[Via a comment from Chet who said, in part, “I am reminded of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and other stories of wickedness including Proverbs 16:27-29 that I heard so often when I was growing up.”
What you see here is the result of politicians who are either out of touch with reality and/or deliberately trying to destroy our nation.
This is what Barb calls Mugme Street.—Joe]
Two months ago, Jordan said that six FBI whistleblowers approached the committee. Two came forward about a memo related to alleged violence and intimidation at school board meetings and four in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. In the Senate, meanwhile, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in July that whistleblowers had come to his office to provide information, including disclosures relating to investigations into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.
“It’s becoming a well-worn trail of agents who say this has got to stop, and thank goodness for them and that American people recognize it, and I believe they’re going to make a big change on Nov. 8,” Jordan said, referring to the midterm elections.
In June, Jordan sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray warning that several former FBI officials were coming forward, while alleging the agency is “purging” employees who have conservative views.
“In one such example, the FBI targeted and suspended the security clearance of a retired war servicemember who had disclosed personal views that the FBI was not being entirely forthcoming about the events of January 6,” Jordan wrote in a statement. “The FBI questioned the whistleblower’s allegiance to the United States.
Jack Phillips
August 15, 2022
14 FBI Whistleblowers Have Come Forward: Rep. Jordan
[It seems to me it is long past time the Federal government had its “horns” trimmed. This is a job for the states. I hope they are up for the task. If they don’t a real uprising, the debt, and/or hyperinflation may bring about the collapse of everything, perhaps including a significant portion of the rest of the world.
We live in interesting times. Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
How about we stop pretending that men’s obsession with guns has nothing to do with their feelings of inadequacy, especially as it relates to genitalia? Everything? No.
A small piece? For sure.
pun intended #GunControlNow
Valerie @MsPinkBehavior
Tweeted on May 29, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
When you don’t have a principled, legal, or practical argument you go with the best you have… childish insults.
Via a tweet from In Chains @InChainsInJail.—Joe]
You are not in high school debate club anymore. You are a peasant in feudal Japan, and every day the Samurai get to denigrate, abuse, and rough up your kind as much as they want. But if you ever talk back to a samurai, let alone try to do a little roughing up of your own, you will be beheaded on the spot. And far from being punished for this, the samurai who does it will be praised for doing his duty, since uppity peasants are dangerous and immoral and need to be dealt with at once, before they threaten the established social hierarchy. That samurai is just protecting democracy the Shogunate. Pointing out the hierarchy of the social order as a peasant will be met only with a nod of approval: “yes, that is how it is, it’s good that now you finally understand.”
…
If you, Class B serf, do not enjoy this arrangement, your lamentations about hypocrisy will not change it, no matter how loud and shrill. Only taking back control of the levers of power and then using that power to strike the fear of accountability into the hearts of your ruling class will ever be able to do that.
N.S. Lyons
August 10, 2022
It’s not Hypocrisy, You’re Just Powerless — A quick Public Service Announcement for Class B
[“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” And, one must conclude, political power diminishes as your access to guns is infringed.—Joe]
You must’ve just woken up from a 5-year propofol coma and completely missed the Russia hoax, Steele dossier, FISA warrant, Kevin Clinesmith, Hillary paying fusion GPS, and your boss asking Susan Rice to write “by the book” in an email to herself on the last day of his presidency.
Rising serpent @rising_serpent
Tweeted on August 8, 2022
[This hints at the latest misunderstanding between the peons of the evil party and the stupid party. Both sides are running on high emotions and yelling at the other side.
One side is rejoicing that President Trump had his personal residence searched by the FBI and mocks the peons on the other side when they say things such as, “If it can happen to Trump it can happen to you!” And they get a response of, “Well, of course if you commit a crime and law enforcement presents sufficient evidence to a judge, they will sign off on a search warrant. It’s called ‘due process’, DUH!”
Apparently the Trump supporters have all the false accusations and manufactured evidence instances hard wired into their psyches and no longer think any reference need to be made. The Trump haters apparently never got the memos that all those years of claims of “Trump is going to prison any day now!” were just wet-dreams and not reality.
I would like to believe, but I’m a hopeless optimistic, some of the high emotions and agitation would dissipate if people would patiently explain the reality as they see it while the other side patiently listened. Then they might attempt to resolve their differences with reason and examination of the evidence rather than by yelling louder.—Joe]
From Neuroscience News:
Research led by Drs. Yuhai Zhao and Walter J Lukiw at the LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center and the Departments of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Neurology and Ophthalmology, reports for the first time a pathway that begins in the gut and ends with a potent pro-inflammatory toxin in brain cells contributing to the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). They also report a simple way to prevent it.
…
The highly potent neurotoxin BF-LPS is a natural by-product of GI-tract-based microbial metabolism. Bacteroides fragilis abundance in the microbiome, which is the source of the neurotoxin BF-LPS, can be regulated by dietary fiber intake.
“Put another way, dietary-based approaches to balance the microorganisms in the microbiome may be an attractive means to modify the abundance, speciation, and complexity of enterotoxigenic forms of AD-relevant microbes and their potential for the pathological discharge of highly neurotoxic microbial-derived secretions that include BF-LPS and other forms of LPS,” Lukiw explains.
The researchers conclude that an improved understanding of the interaction between the GI tract-Central Nervous System axis and the GI-tract microbiome and Alzheimer’s disease has considerable potential to lead to new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in the clinical management of Alzheimer’s disease and other lethal, progressive, and age-related neurodegenerative disorders.
It has been estimated that Americans eat 10–15 grams of fiber a day on average. The USDA recommends that women up to age 50 consume 25 grams a day and men 38 grams. Over age 50, women and men should consume 21 and 30 grams daily, respectively.
Eat your lentils, chickpeas (garbanzo beans), and shredded wheat*. One half cup of lentils contains 7.8 grams of fiber. The same amount of Chickpeas contain 6.3 grams of fiber. One cup of shredded wheat contains 6.2 grams of fiber. Other sources of dietary fiber may be substituted.
* We grow lentils, chickpeas, and wheat on the farm.
Via sacrebleu14 / SA Hinchcliffe @sacrebleu141:
And the next question is, “What do the anti-gun people want to happen to me after I am disarmed?”
advocating for gun control is a death threat
Michael Malice @michaelmalice
Tweeted on August 3, 2022
[He is not wrong.
And, in some circumstances, it is punishable by death.—Joe]
Fortunately for everyone, SCOTUS ruled in favor of the Constitution in Bruen. This significantly reduced the odds of armed conflict over the keeping and bearing of arms by private individuals.
Still, the anti-gun people keep whining about guns. At this point the debate is mostly over. There will be edge cases to consider for years. Machine guns? Semi-auto artillery with HE rounds?
While I think the above response is more than acceptable, I think my response to these losers will be more along the lines of, “Stop whining. You lost this debate in SCOTUS in June 2022. The game is over.”
This is from the most recent annual report of the electrical utility cooperative in north central Idaho:
Boomershoot is located in Clearwater county. There was nearly a 30% increase in cooperative members in just one year. People are leaving the blue states and moving to Idaho. I have posted about this before. But I did not know any county by county numbers.
Another indicator is that recently I was talking to a guy that works for a construction company out of Orofino (Clearwater County). They mostly do earth moving and concrete stuff. He said they have a three year backlog.
We live in interesting times. Prepare appropriately—If it is not too late.
No sane person trusts any government. Period.
Firearms Policy Coalition @gunpolicy
Tweeted on August 8, 2022
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
The alliance seems less “unlikely” when you remember that the American civil rights movement has long had a gun rights component. This dates back as far as the abolitionists, such as Frederick Douglass, who declared in 1854 that “the True Remedy for the Fugitive Slave Bill is a good revolver, a steady hand, and a determination to shoot down any man attempting to kidnap.”
Douglass continued to preach the virtues of armed self-defense throughout the rest of his life. In 1893, as the noble aims of Reconstruction were giving way to the horrors of the rising Jim Crow regime, Douglass argued that “the liberties of the American people were dependent upon the ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge box.” Without all three securely in place, he maintained, “no class of people could live and flourish in this country.”
Damon Root
August 1, 2022
The New York Times Is Surprised To Find Public Defenders Championing the Second Amendment–Yet the civil rights movement has long had a gun rights component.
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
