Mr. Potato Head At Davos

Dave sent me this image.

Stelter? The guy who basically got canned by CNN for being too biased and pushing lies? CNN? Surely that’s a joke; because it seemed a bit over the top even for WEF.

Nope. Real.

 

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TZP: Column: Mass Semi-Auto Ban

Always read the fine print.



Always read the fine print. I saw a report on a bill filed in Massachusetts, HD 353.
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Yes, and no. The bill does change some definitions in current law, specifically “Large capacity weapon”, any firearm, rifle or shotgun.” That would include assorted characteristics involving capacities and magazines.
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TZP Column: Court Procedures Over Rights


SCOTUS NEEDS TO GET ITS PRIORITIES IN ORDER
No doubt regular TZP readers heard about the recent Supreme Court lack of a decision in ANTONYUK v. STEVEN NIGRELLI. For those who haven’t: Plaintiffs filed suit challenging New York’s recent, post-Bruen, weapons carry law, notably declaring a wide assortment of sensitive places where the state claims it can ban firearms.

The district court issed an injunction against enforcement of the ban pending full trial on the matter. The state appealed to the Second Circuit, which — for no particular reason — stayed the injunction.

Plaintiffs appealed to SCOTUS asking the Court to lift the stay. SCOTUS declined to do so.
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The Blood Of Tyrants, Xiden

Never forget that part.

Gropin’ Joe Xiden gave a little MLK speech today.

Biden’s MLK Speech: ‘Ban the Number of Bullets That Go in a Magazine’
Biden then said, “I love my right-wing friends who talk about the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. If you need to worry about taking on the federal government you need some F-15s. You don’t need an AR-15.”

The actual Jefferson quote is:

And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

But his mind is gone:

Biden said, “I am going to get ‘assault weapons’ banned. I did it once and I’m going to do it again.”

Nope. Never happened, Gropin’ Joe. You got sales and imports of new so-called “assault weapons” banned. For civilians at least. For some reason the law specifically allowed the police to keep getting new evil, military-style weapons designed to kill as many as possible as quickly as possible. But you never banned a single existing firearm because people smarter than you knew what would happen if they tried.

“The sheer immorality of victim disarmament aside, one would hope every law enforcement officer out there would stop to consider all the possible ramifications of kicking in several million doors because the occupants are well armed.”
— Moi

And this:

He added, “And ban the number of bullets that go in a magazine.”

Try to parse that. A ban on “bullet” (psst, Joe, cartridges) restrictions. A ban on any cartridges in a magazine? What?

And those F-15s Biden thinks free Americans would need? Got em; or jet fighters anyway.

I’ll just drop one of my favorite Babylon Bee headlines here:

‘You’ll Never Beat The Government With Just Guns,’ Says Party That Also Believes Government Was Almost Toppled By Unarmed Mob On January 6

Then I’ll refresh memories of just how little it can take to take on “the government.”

Not a one of them needed and F-15.

I wonder what Martin Luther King, Jr. would think of a US president commemorating his birthday by threatening Americans lives with real, goverment weapons of war.

 

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Oh, Yeah. It’s MLK Day.

Time to dust off this Air Force classic again.

That was, honest to Bog, a real flyer for a real planed event to celebrate MLK day at Robins Air Force Base a few years ago. It got pulled pretty quickly.

I’ve long figured that some smartass sergeant like me convinced a PAO butterbar that this would be a good idea.

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House Dims Demand To Know Why Republican McCarthy Didn’t Do Their Opposition Research For Them

RE: Liar George Santos

House Democrats who made Ethics complaint against George Santos now demand Speaker McCarthy disclose what he knew about freshman GOP lawmaker’s ‘web of lies’ ahead of his 2022 midterm victory
A pair of House Democrats are calling on Speaker Kevin McCarthy to divulge what he knew and when about freshman GOP Rep. George Santos’ so-called ‘web of lies,’ as they phrased in a Sunday letter.

Roughly a couple of weeks before he was sworn into the 118th Congress, Santos admitted to fabricating details of his backstory including his career, education and family heritage.

Personally, I didn’t pay attention to the guy’s campaign claims because I’m not in New York, much less his disrict, and I had more important-to-me things to watch. When claims of falsehoods started coming out, I did think he was pretty young to have accumulated his alleged experience. I also figured he’d fit in just fine in DC.

The other thing I wondered is why in hell the Dims seemingly hadn’t done an iota of oppo research on the clown since “he was pretty young to have accumulated his alleged experience.”

So now they’re finger-pointing at a Republican rep from California who failed to do what they should have done themselves.

True, you’d think Reps would vet their own would-be candidates, but clearly — since they didn’t talk Santos out of running, or prep any damage control in advance — they didn’t.

 

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Laws Around The World

Did you know it’s illegal to flush the toilet after 10pm in Switzerland? Or ride a cow while drunk in Scotland? 21 of the world’s most bizarre laws
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5. Illegal to swear in UAE
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I was a GI in UAE. I can damned well guarantee that we all violated the fuck out of that shitty law.

 

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TZP Column: Illinois Assault Weapon Ban

Puzzling definitions in the new IL ban: “assault rifles” and “assault weapons” that are rifles; both semiauto.


ILLINOIS ASSAULT WEAPON BAN ODDITIES
I had occasion to look over the definitions section of Illinois’ new assault weapon ban bill, and I noticed some odd stuff.

First, Illinois achieved a first-in-the-world prize: semiautomatic “assault rifles.”
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Oopsie

A teacher at a Maryland high school inadvertently sent out sexually explicit photos to students. He emailed pics to every student. “Inadvertently.”

What got me was this line from the letter the principal sent to parents about the screwup.

Our Mental Health Clinician and Professional School Counselors are available to provide direct support as needed to any student.

Makes you wonder just what sort of pictures they were, that they would traumatize 21st century high school students to the point of needing mentaal health treatment. I’m guessing you’d be hard pressed to find an American high school student who hasn’t been looking at porn already.

And that school wasn’t so concerned about students’ mental health when a 14yo girl was sexually assaulted by 6 guys.

My sister wonders how that porn differs from the porn schools are stocking in classrooms and libraries these days.

 

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