Category: General Blog

Door Number Three

In my view, there are two main types of people who shut down this debate: The first group are those who are openly racist against Black Americans… The second group are people who call anyone who raises this topic “racist” in order to shut down any discussion of it. [More]

There’s a third leg to that stool. I’d say more influential in the black community are its members who are openly racist against white Americans. Since the majority of the problem does not lie with those they blame for their own poor choices, focusing on the racist/woke dichotomy won’t solve it.

Racism is collectivism. I say that because it ignores individual worth, and as a culturalist.

And outside of natural rights, “entitlement” is Marxism.

And yeah, we know it’s overwhelmingly geographically limited to non-diverse, self-segregated concentrations, and we know the great enabler of it all. And to fools who say “it’s poverty,” you don’t know poverty. Generations of our ancestors did, and they were growers and builders.

As a final note, I reject the racial weaponizing of capital letters.

If a truth offends, the fault does not lie with the teller.

We’re the Only Ones Timely Enough

“We have a lot of things that are legal, but is it the right thing to do? We have to rise above that. And sometimes it requires an evolution of our thinking. What was written in 1789 may not be appropriate for 2022 unless we’re okay with kids being killed.” [More]

So, after Obama’s “What works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne” pronouncement, the totalitarians now claim control of all space-time. As if it works in Chicago…

Still, I have some questions for this jackass:

And to those who feel this is too dangerous, that it is uncalled for, that it is unneeded because we have the vote, or the right to speak, that we have evolved beyond such crude reminders of our barbaric past, I must ask where in history is any civilization guaranteed stasis? Has not despotism and mass destruction plagued every civilization that preceded ours? Is it not, in fact, still commonplace throughout the globe? By what suspension of reality, by what denial of the observable and the probable, by what art, device or magic are we sheltered few immune from catastrophe? Are we certain, from our brief and privileged vantage point, that such things will ever remain headline curiosities? Is it not just plain stupid to proclaim that our familiar way of life will forever be the norm, when everything that has gone before us shows we are, instead, the extremely lucky beneficiaries of a rare and fortunate convergence of circumstances; and one, by the way, that has only been preserved under force of arms?

This badged stooge will work out great in Seattle.

Meanwhile, Across the Pond (For the Children Edition)

Watchdog will make apps use facial recognition and other age checks to identify children… The largest tech firms will face multi-billion-pound fines under the Online Safety Act if they fail to protect children and instead allow them to access harmful content such as porn, child sex abuse images and violence. [More]

So, they’ll have a database of identifiable faces that AI can morph into aging, at least until they don’t need to after such checks become mandatory renewal requirements for all…

But don’t worry. Some child sex content will still be allowed, and they get to decide what’s violent.

Until someone else gets to.

Would you?

Promises, Promises

Homan and Trump Aim to End ‘Anchor Baby’ Citizenship [More]

Just going forward? Millions are already here and coming of voting age. Since there’s no precedent to make it retroactive and there’s a Constitutional proscription against are ex post facto laws, I question if this is something they can just do by decree without years of legal challenges.

[Via Michael G]

The Key Word is ‘Purportedly’

Newly uncovered photos and online accounts purportedly associated with the Wisconsin teen school shooter suggest a deeply disturbing obsession with other school shooters such as Columbine killer Eric Harris — and even show her wearing a T-shirt of his favorite band. [More]

But we have no way of knowing that, do we?

I reject this excuse and this one. The evidence left by the perpetrator on social media will not change and there is no realistic way to keep names from being shared. Both the First and the Second Amendments are put at risk by accepting authorities to be the sole possessors of knowlege vital to contextualizing what they tell us.

Change my mind.

[Via bondmen]

We’re the Only Ones Overcompensated Enough

NYPD’s $400K-a-year top earner, Quathisha Epps, is retiring early as astronomical overtime pay is investigated: sources [More]

How many criminals did she collar and crimes did she stop?

As long as they’re investigating, here’s something I’d check out because I’ve seen it done before in San Francisco and Philadelphia:

Had she consistently completed all firearms qualification recertifications to carry a gun?

[Via bondmen]

Careful What You Wish For

That and who will relocate illegal aliens to my town?

[Via Michael G]

Sleeping with the Enemy

NSSF is especially thankful to U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-La.) and U.S. Reps. Steve Scalise (R-La.), Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Blake Moore (R-Utah) for their leadership in guiding this vitally important legislation to passage. [More]

I’d be a lot more thankful if Everytown hadn’t called Manchin “a guiding light,” and if Heinrich wasn’t a prohibitionist.

[Via Jess]

Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair

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Somehow, I don’t think they mean that in a good way. I’m probably going to spring for a paid upgrade to find out.

My biggest laugh is seeing how many papers there cite my stuff. I wish I’d saved the letter from the dean who threatened to expel me unless I shaped up. And could remember my physics professor’s name…

Some of us are more interested in life’s teachings, and learning based on passions and interests.

Police Blackout of Madison Shooter’s Social Media Denies Information Public Has Right to Know

This is exactly why, unlike some “gunfluencers” who advocate suppressing shooter names, I’m against keeping them held back. [More]

The only way to discourage such demons is to deny them the one thing they want more than “fame”– success. And that won’t happen as long as government denies the obvious remedy.

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