Sadly, this is close to being correct:
Asking and pleading has not worked.
Tell them something different. I’m going with, “Please continue. I’m collecting evidence for your trial.”
News you can use
To summarize, the review examined various studies that compared median serum vitamin D levels to factors such as COVID-19-positive cases, the severity of the infection, disease survivors, deaths, levels of inflammatory cytokines and markers such as C-reactive protein, and the number of days spent in the hospital.
Overall, the results reported no significant associations between vitamin D levels and COVID-19 severity, mortality, or hospitalization duration. Vitamin D deficiency seemed to be associated with the likelihood of being COVID-19 positive, but the nearly significant association decreased when examined at a larger scale.
Another one bites the dust.
Vitamin D supplements are good for a lot of things but apparently COVID prevention and cure isn’t one of them.
Quote of the day—Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
Apparently there is no limit to what kind of ridiculousness the public will believe.
Once the Fake News industry convinced the country a president asking about using light therapy as a lung disinfectant was “recommending drinking bleach,” it was clear there was no limit.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
Tweeted on November 8, 2022
[It is truly amazing.
I’m reminded of something from an Heinlein book:
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser
than one man. How’s that again? I missed something.Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a
million men. Let’s play that over again, too. Who decides?
I don’t have any solutions to the problem. I’m inclined to just sit back with a large bowl of popcorn and make snarky comments. But the issues can be, literally, genocidally serious.
Prepare and response appropriately.—Joe]
Quote of the day—In Chains @InChainsInJail
I love admissions like this.
The good “doctor” was trying to argue that the Democrat Party isn’t coming for peaceful United States citizens’ firearms… by pointing out that the Democrat Party is, in fact, coming for those firearms.
In Chains @InChainsInJail
Tweeted on November 9, 2022
[This was in response to this tweet:
Lol. We are coming after your AKs and ARs. But not the others. I’ll be forever keeping my shotgun, my rifle, and my handguns.
The mind of those on the political left is so “interesting”. This is just like yesterday when we had the brainiac tell us, “Other than murder, violent crime is not up.”
Think about it! It’s all consistent..They spout contradictive nonsense which demonstrates they cannot detect simple logical errors. This explains why they (excluding the willfully evil) cannot understand, despite mountains of evidence, their leftist policies are economic suicide and catastrophic for individual rights.
They simply don’t have the mental processing capability to detect logic errors. It is like a variation of Peterson Syndrome. They are missing a thought process than the rest of us take for granted that nearly everyone has.
Fascinating!—Joe]
Quote of the day—Mona Charen
Other than murder, violent crime is not up. Did you know that? Violent crime is a key midterm voting issue, but what does the data say?
Mona Charen
Tweeted on November 5, 2022
[Visit this link for more context and appropriate attribution for these comments:
- ‘Other than murder’ is the most hilarious caveat ever.
- Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
- Imagine being so f—ked up with TDS that not only do you sell out every policy you ever claimed to care about, but you actually write the sentence, ‘Other than murder, violent crime is not up.’ Other than murder? ‘Other than the iceberg & all the death, how was the Titanic trip?
- Murder is by far the most easily visible and free from reporting biases crime. If murder is up, other crimes are too…they’re probably just being reported at lower rates. Also…murder is KINDA A BIG DEAL!
- I can’t believe this still needs to be said but ‘crime is down except for murder’ is not a winning or persuasive argument.
- If you’re not dead or don’t know a family member who has been murdered, things are great!
My contribution:
No wonder she doesn’t see a problem with restricting access to guns. She doesn’t see a need for self-defense. After all, it is only murder.
And her double down response to the criticism was almost as good as the original:
All crime is bad. I’m against it. But it is also a fact that perceptions of crime and actual crime are often out of sync. That may be true now. I found the Pew data surprising. That’s why I posted.
My response to this is to go slack jawed and walk away. Someone that dense is in danger of becoming a neutron star.
If this had been a fictional movie or book the editors would have insisted it be rewritten. She would not be a believable character in a work of fiction.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Erich Pratt
Just like we warned politicians after the Bruen decision, fall in line, or we will force you to. We are excited to see Kathy Hochul finally served a plate of humble pie, and we are fully prepared to continue the fight should she again attempt to disarm the citizens of her state at a time when her party’s policies are only escalating the danger that everyday citizens face.
Erich Pratt
Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America
November 7, 2022
GOA DEFEATS NY “CONCEALED CARRY IMPROVEMENT ACT” IN FEDERAL COURT
[See also:
- GOA Defeats NY “Concealed Carry Improvement Act” in Federal Court | GOA (gunowners.org)
- U.S. judge suspends many of New York’s new gun restrictions
- Hochul & New York State Suffer Huge Loss as Pro Gun Activists Win in Court
This is happening a little faster than I expected.
I’m anxiously awaiting some decisions on the “assault weapon” and “high capacity” magazine bans. The bans on 18 to 20 year-old gun ownership sales should show up about the same time. After that it is on to suppressors, short barreled rifles and shotguns, and, eventually, full autos. What a glorious time to be a gun rights activist!—Joe
Quote of the day—@AmyRangel
It’s a micro penis thing, the bigger the gun the smaller the…
You know
@AmyRangel
Tweeted on July 17, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
You have to wonder about these people. Did she do her own research and come up with different results? Or is she just another bigoted science denier?
Via a tweet from In Chains@InChainsInJail.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Leonard Williamson
I don’t think you’ll find any precedent in U.S. history in which a citizen has to go through so many hoops to exercise Constitutional rights. This is the first of its kind and, if it passes, it will wind up in court.
Leonard Williamson
Oregon trial attorney who specializes in firearms law
October 31, 2022
Opponents Setting Out Unintended Consequences of Oregon’s Gun Control Measure
[Via email from Rolf.
I almost welcome this sort of crap. The more outrageous the restrictions on our specific enumerated rights the easier it is to establish precedence and create a slippery slope in the correct direction.
Also, when the time comes, it will make it easier to get convictions.—Joe]
Americans Ron Paul wants disarmed
Via JPFO | Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership @JPFO_2A:
After Ruby Ridge, Waco, and many other lesser known incidents, I cannot immediately think of any reason to oppose this proposal.
Quote of the day—Kevin D. Williamson
Saul Cornell, who is a professor of history when he is not writing for Slate, is engaged in intellectual dishonesty. He claims, as I note below, that a 1964 study of firearms lethality says something that it does not say (and, indeed, that it could not say, given its date of publication) in the course of trying to make modern sporting rifles sound scary for cheap propaganda purposes. Saul Cornell knows that this is false, and I know that he knows this is false, because I have told him, and he has acknowledged the fact in emails to me. But the claim remains unretracted. Retracting the claim would mean admitting that the source he cites not only does not say what he says it says about AR-style rifles, but that it in fact does not say anything about those rifles at all.
Honest mistakes happen all the time in journalism. This is not one of those. This is a fabrication.
Kevin D. Williamson
May 25, 2022
A Little More Saul Cornell
[Gun control supporters lie. It is part of their culture. It has always been this way. It will always be that way. Without lies they have no hope of winning a public debate.
If you have the time to read it there is far more information and justification for the case of deliberate lies by Cornell.
Respond appropriately.—Joe]
Applied Intelligence Mentorship Program
I recently received this. It was paid for by my employer:
I already knew something about most of the material covered. But it was nice to get a refresh and some additional information.
I keep thinking I should be able to apply this skill set to our advantage in the gun rights domain. I’ve even discussed it with people who work full time in the gun rights community. No good application is apparent to us.
Perhaps I just haven’t been looking at the issue from the correct angle. Thoughts?
Quote of the day—Michael Beschloss
A historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I’m not certain of. But if that is true, a historian will say, what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed. We’re on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system, and it could be a week away.
Michael Beschloss
Presidential historian
November 3, 2022
NBC historian warns of a future where ‘our children will be arrested and conceivably killed’ if GOP wins
[Interesting…
Is this the same GOP which (sometimes) wants to:
- Reduce government power
- Require presidents to get approval of congress to change the law
- Enable ordinary people to own and purchase weapons to protect themselves from individual criminals as well as criminal governments
- Enable free speech on social media
It would appear one or more of the following is true about Mr. Beschloss:
- He is living in an alternate reality and only makes guest appearances here
- He is using some military grade mind altering drugs
- He is deliberately engaged in a “The Big Lie” propaganda effort
- Hi is engaged in the projection of his and his fellow political travelers intentions toward the GOP.
I considered adding “extreme hyperbola” to make a point, but multiplying realty by 10, 100, or 1,000 times only results in a larger vector pointing in the wrong direction from what he claims.
This is the kind of rhetoric used to justify mass killings and even genocide.
The election is only four days away. Prepare and respond appropriately.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Julia Gorin
Sexual and psychological insecurities don’t account for ALL men against guns. Certainly there must be some whose motives are pure, who perhaps do care so much as to tirelessly look for policy solutions to teenage void and aggressiveness, and to parent and teacher negligence. But for a potentially large underlying contributor, psycho-sexual inadequacy has gone unexplored and unacknowledged. It’s one thing to not be comfortable with a firearm and therefore opt to not keep or bear one. But it’s another to impose the same handicap onto others.
People are suspicious of what they do not know-and not only does this man not know how to use a gun, he doesn’t know the men who do, or the number of people who have successfully used one to defend themselves from injury or death. But he is better left in the dark; his life is hard enough knowing there are men out there who don’t sit cross-legged. That they’re able to handle a firearm instead of being handled by it would be too much to bear.
Such a man is also best kept huddled in urban centers, where he feels safer than he might if thrown out on his own into a rural setting, in an isolated house on a quiet street where he would feel naked and helpless. Lacking the confidence that would permit him to be sequestered in sparseness, and lacking a gun, he finds comfort in the cloister of crowds.
Julia Gorin
March 8, 2002
The anti-gun male
[Via Don in a comment to Quote of the day—Glenn Harlan Reynolds.
It turns out I have quoted from this article before. Read the whole thing.—Joe]
Quote of the day—J.D. Tuccille
The theft of “thousands of firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition” from the federal body tasked with enforcing firearms regulations on the private sector is just further evidence that the ATF has no good excuse for existing. Like so many other government agencies, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives should be abolished, and its employees sent into the world to seek honest jobs in the private sector, if anybody will have them.
J.D. Tuccille
October 31, 2022
ATF, Enforcer of Gun Laws, Lost ‘Thousands of Firearms, Firearm Parts’ to Thieves
[I’ve met some inspectors that seem capable of honest work and could probably find a job in the private sector. I say, give them a shot at productive work which benefits society.
Those obviously hostile to the exercise of the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms? I hope they enjoy their trials.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Chris Enloe
“As the first Mexican-born American Congresswoman, I thought the Hispanic Caucus would be open in working together,” Flores said Wednesday. “This denial once again proves a bias towards conservative Latinas that don’t fit their narrative or ideology.”
…
The caucus is composed entirely of Democrats, and its bylaws explicitly prohibit Republicans from membership.
Chris Enloe
Octotober 27, 2022
First Mexican-born congresswoman denied membership in Hispanic caucus because she is a Republican
[Someone has a problem with diversity.—Joe]
The message was clear
Via Tracey, End of quote? @Tracey_T19:
And of course there was the BLM and Antifa riots, looting, killings, and arson.
The message was clear. Violence and threats of violence were the political currency necessary and fully justified to get your way…. As long as it was the political left committing the crimes.
Prepare and respond appropriately.
Quote of the day—Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin
What’s interesting is that the people complaining about @elonmusk taking over Twitter have absolutely no reason to fear censorship, bans or shadowbanning. Their complaint is that other people won’t be censored.
Says a lot.
Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin
Tweeted on October 28, 2022
[It’s not quite that simple. Those people will tell you they fear “hate speech” and “bullying” will intimidate people from having their say.
The thing is that what they think of as “hate speech” and “bullying” are frequently verifiable facts which they refuse to acknowledge.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Ketchup dripping down the wall + Pink Lemonade @PinkLemonadePie
Yours is tiny too? I’m sorry. Did you two form a special small boys club?
Ketchup dripping down the wall + Pink Lemonade @PinkLemonadePie
Tweeted on July 6, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Scott Adams could have been referring to Markley’s Law:
When they find out they have a losing hand they just double down with another childish insult against a full house of SCOTUS decisions.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Guns, and their use, on the other hand, are pretty darn real. You can’t fire a shot now for “future use.” You can’t correct a mistake in a future edition. You can’t do a write-through on a bullet.
What’s more, you can’t spin your way out of a mugging or a rape. Guns, simply by existing, are a reminder that there is another, more concrete world out there, one where reality is more fixed, and where actions have inescapable consequences, consequences that can’t be talked out of existence. I suspect that most journalists are threatened by this world, and perhaps by the sense that they wouldn’t do very well in such situations. Their hostility to guns is a way of dealing with insecurity and a form of denial fueled by performance anxiety: If you’re afraid you’re not up to protecting yourself or your family, you compensate by deriding the means of such protection. And, given that it’s a defense mechanism and journalists are herd animals, any colleague who disagrees is a threat who must be shouted down. (Unsurprisingly, of all the journalists I’ve dealt with, the folks at Popular Mechanics—where they write about real things with concrete consequences all the time— were the most comfortable with guns).
If I’m right, then there’s not a lot gun enthusiasts can do to win over journalists in large numbers. You may change a mind or two, but most of them hold their opinions because doing so is less threatening to their self-esteem than agreeing with you. Those who wield a pen have a vested interest in believing that the pen is mightier than the sword. And apparently they’ve been that way at least since Mark Twain’s time.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
August 2020
Why So Many Media Members Are Opposed to Your Freedom
[See also yesterday’s QOTD about insecurity and performance anxiety.
I’ve read enough insider stories by fed up journalists and seen disconnected from reality reporting of gun events where I was there to know the national mainstream media is, almost without exception, delusional and/or evil. The primary exception is the Newsweek writer who attended Boomershoot (pictures here). But she had Stephanie Sailor “holding her hand” for a couple days and I’m sure that made a big difference.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Sarah DiMuccio and Eric Knowles
The present research illuminates the impact of manhood threat on male aggression in the political domain—specifically, men’s adoption of political views that communicate toughness, forcefulness, and strength. Contrary to our original expectations, our data suggest that it is liberal —not conservative—men who engage in increased political aggression after experiencing threats to their masculinity. This finding has crucial implications for the future of gendered politics in the United States, as it suggests that right-wing candidates might benefit from media strategies designed to induce masculine insecurity among liberal men.
Sarah DiMuccio and Eric Knowles
October 21, 2022
Something to Prove? Manhood Threats Increase Political Aggression Among Liberal Men
[Via a tweet from Rolf Degen @DegenRolf.
Interesting!
This appears to be applicable to Markley’s Law. Liberals attack the masculinity of their political opponents because they view that as an extremely potent attack—as it would be against themselves. They are insecure about their manhood and they imagine the same of their political opponents.
As frequently suspected, projection is strong with these people.—Joe]