I Think Reid Is Confusing Dims And Reps

WTF?

MSNBC’s Joy Reid calls Republicans the ‘pro-rape, pro child marriage party’
“The greatest, and sickest irony of the @GOP’s new political strategy is that they are appealing to the most prurient fears of white Christian parents, while passing bills and maintaining alliances that normalize child brides and rape as a legitimate means of procreation,” Reid tweeted.

Hey, moron; I’m fairly sure that it isn’t those Republicans trying to stop Dim child grooming.

This Seems A Bit Excessive

I don’t care for their brews either, but come on.

Ohio National Guard member threatened to crash plane into an Anheuser-Busch plant, police say
A member of the Ohio National Guard has been accused of threatening to crash a stolen plane into the Anheuser-Busch plant in Columbus.

James Ricky Meade II, 26, has been charged with a third-degree felony of making a terrorist threat after having posted on social media in December that he wanted to steal a plane and crash it into the Anheuser-Busch plant

Seriously. If you don’t like the beer, just don’t buy it.

Sacramento Shooting: Surprise, Surprise, Surprise

To anyone who hasn’t been paying attention for decades.

In wake of the Sacramento shootingg that left six dead and twelve wounded, we’re seeing the usual blood-dancing victim-disarmers calling for more gun control, most notably universal background checks.

Hints: 1. Sacramento is in California. 2. California mandates universal background checks. 3. It didn’t work.

So far, three people have been arrested in connection. Let’s look at the current score:

1. Dandrae Martin, felon in possession.

2. Smiley Martin (yeah, brother), felon in possession>. Of a machine gun. But wait, there’s more! a stolen firearm , converted to a machine gun. (It doesn’t say, but my money is on a Glock with a giggle switch.)

3. Daviyonne Dawson, felon in possession.

So once again, here’s my — decades old, at this point — usual question:

How do the gun people controllers plan to persuade prohibited persons to voluntarily undergo background checks on their stolen guns, and prior to illegally converting them to machine guns? (the latter point being of more recent vintage than the basic question)

Bonus points for explaining how such criminal background checks don’t run afoul of HAYNES (1968) protections against self-incrimination.

That Explains Musk Getting On Twitter’s BOD So Fast

I thought it was a little odd that, mere days after Elon Musk bought up 9.2% of Twitter stock, he already got on the board of directors. I’m no expert on stocks and boardroom dealings, but usually that seems to involve the new major (NOT majority, as a couple of clueless reporters claimed) stockholder forcing a stockholders’ meeting and new director elections. Not this time, though.

All is explained.

Twitter to Appoint Elon Musk to its Board of Directors and Prevent Him from Buying Majority StakeA day after purchasing a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has been designated as one of Twitter’s Board of Directors in a deal that would prohibit him from owning more than 14.9% of the media giant’s common stock.

They cut a deal to keep him from a buying an actual majority. He’s limited to a max of 14.9% for the next 90 days. I expect that’s to give Twitter time to buy back stock to keep it out of Musk’s hands after the 90 days are up. If you play the market — again remembering I’m no expert — this might be a good time make some trades.

For those doubting that Musk could have bought a controlling interest…

Reprted he put over $2 billion into getting that 9.2%. And already turned a paper profit on the deal, as Twitter stock jumped dramatically after his buy. With another $240 billion in assets, yeah; Musk could afford to buy them out.

This stops him. For now.

Another interesting aspect is the way Twitter stock did jump when Musk, highly critical of the company’s current censorious ways, bought a massive chunk. If Twitter were in this to make money above social engineering, thet should take note that investors apparently think Twitter would perform a lot better with a little less censorship.

An Interesting Legal Theory

How ’bout we stop prosecuting murderers because not all murderers get identified?

A quote from an old friend comes to mind.


[PA] Lehigh County DA: ‘Likely hundreds of instances’ where people deposited more than 1 ballot into drop boxes for Nov. 2021 election
There will be no prosecution brought as a result of the investigation “because to prosecute those few whose identity can be proven would be unfair and unjust given the much larger numbers who cannot be identified and who also deposited multiple ballots,” [Lehigh County District Attorney Jim] Martin said.


Is it still too early?

I Think This “Don’t Say Gay” BS Lawsuit Is Going To Backfire

A bunch of damned-near-self-admitted groomers and their pseudo-parental enablers have filed a lawsuit to overturn Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill. It was filed in the federal Northern District of Florida, so I’m guessing if it goes to trial the groomers are going to get their asses handed to them.

These morons have watched too much Disney (and television commercials) where 80% of the American population would appear to be LGBTQXYZLMNOP-WTF. I do believe they’re going to be shocked to discover that most folks are sane.

The filing is 80 pages of But how I am supposed to teach 5yos about their sexuality, How do I discuss the meaning of a lesbian first-grader’s literature essay on how she came out, But this won’t let me tell kindergarteners about my same-sex love life, but lets straight teachers talk about theirs.

It’s an 80 page confession of verbal child abuse and grooming.

A legitimate teacher already knows how to deal with the question of how to tell K-5 grade students about their personal life.

They DON’T.

You don’t using your personal menage a trois stories as math word problems.

You don’t tell kids how important it is to be trannies by reinventing world history as “LGBTQ… influenced everything“.

You don’t give essay assignments requiring children to publicly discuss their sexuality. If a child chooses to use a personal coming-out story as the basis of an essay…

What if students address aspects of LGBTQ identity in essays for which teachers must provide grades and feedback?

That’s easy. If you are not a pedophile:

  • You check it for spelling.
  • You grade it on grammar.
  • Punctuation.
  • Clarity.

You do not “address aspects of LGBTQ identity” because that is not your fucking job.

Funny thing: Never once in elementary school, high school, or college did I submit a paper or essay that discussed my gender identity. For one, I would have considered that none of the instructor’s bloody business (much less that of the class). Plus, I’m not a fan over oversharing; TMI, folks.

Most of all… I was never given a writing assignment for which such would have been “appropriate” in the first place.

Your job is to teach basic skills: reading, writing, math. To impart basic facts (not your opinions). To the extent that it is your job to teach one how to be a better person or citizen, you should be teaching how to gather, analyze, and evaluate facts.

It is not your goddamned job to “teach” feelz or rightthink.

When sane people read this lawsuit filing, I strongly suspect some will wish HB 1557 went beyond allowing parents to file complaints, and start shooting predatory teachers.

I wonder at what point fed-up people are going to view these judges as ACCESSORIES to the crimes.

Ah, New York…

Ex-con fails to show up for ankle bracelet after being freed without bail in gun case
A soft-on-crime judge cut loose an ex-con charged with packing heat inside a Bronx restaurant on the condition that he get fitted with an ankle bracelet — which he promptly ignored and is now loose on the streets, The Post has learned.

Bronx Criminal Court Judge Valentina Morales overruled a prosecution request to set bail for Frankie Centeno, 39, at $100,000 cash or $300,000 bond after he was busted around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, a spokesperson for Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said Tuesday.

I also found this bit of the thug’s conviction history interesting.

Centeno has four prior gun-possession convictions that date to 2003, according to court records.

The most recent was in 2018, when he pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of an unregistered firearm, stemming from his arrest after cops spotted him “holding what appeared to be a handgun with a long barrel” outside a gas station in The Bronx.

That weapon turned out to be a loaded, silencer-equipped Ruger MKI pistol and he was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, according to court records.

Hmm. Felon in possession of an unregistered NFA weapon…

Where were the feds? Was the ATF too busy stomping kittens, or denying/slow-walking applications from those upstanding folks silly enough to try following the rules?

New TZP Column


NOT SEEING WHAT ONE DOESN’T WANT TO SEE
So far, Mr. Chesley is correct, at least according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. Anecdotally, based on decades of media reports, I concur. Blacks are disproportionately committing crimes, and being victimized. One — and Chesley does — wonder what causes that. How do we fix it?

Chesley’s answer is…

Guns. Too many guns. Easy access to guns.

Of course, it is. [-roll eyes-]
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If the guns are the cause of the problem, why are black men disproportionately using the guns, and disproportionately on each other?


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My answer, naturally, is a litte different.

Background Checks, Right

Big shooting in Sacramento over the weekend. Latest reports say 6 dead, 12 wounded (some said more, but WTF knows given the state of news reporting). As expected, the victim disarmers are crawling out of the woodwork demanding “gun control” instead of criminal control.

Aside; When I heard the first reports, my immediate thought was that it would be turn out to be a shootout between rival groups whom it’s politically incorrect to call out. That now seems to be the case.

Here’s a typically, fucking stupid example:

Warriors’ Steve Kerr calls for tighter gun control following Sacramento shooting
(Yeah, I always turn to basketball players for firearm policy & law expertise.)
“I don’t think moments of silence are going to do anything,” Kerr said in his postgame press conference. “At some point … our government has to decide are we going to have some common sense gun laws, it’s not going to solve everything, but it will save lives.

“Despite the fact that 80 to 90% of Americans support background checks and you know, you think about all of the common sense laws we could and should put in place.”

OK, Mr. Dribblin’ Gun Law Expert; ‘splain this:

How in the hell are you going to persuade criminals to voluntarily undergo background checks to receive goddamn stolen guns?

Bonus points, Kerr: Reconcile your solution with the HAYNES limitations on self incrimination.

What? No answers?

The STFU, basketball boy.

Sure, Let’s Treat Voting Like Guns

I do love these comparisons.

ELAINE HARRIS SPEARMAN: Anyone touting ‘constitutional right to vote’ amid gun talk?
There are many sheriffs in Alabama who back “constitutional carry” and are not concerned about the loss of the permit fee. There are others who are concerned that ending the permit requirement will be a serious blow to sheriff’s budgets across the state.

Some claim the real beef is “having to pay to exercise a constitutional right.”

One lone Republican to speak out against the bill, Rep. Allen Farley, R-McCalla, said, “The sheriffs use this (money) for school resource officers, patrol officers, radios, computers, cars, automatic defibrillators, extradition of felons from other states, DARE programs and children’s advocacy.”

The first thing we can start with is to decline to call carrying a gun without a permit a “constitutional carry.” The Second Amendment to the Constitution states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” (Ratified 1791)

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights because they lay out Americans’ fundamental rights and freedoms. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which were ratified after the Civil War ended, changed America’s history. Slavery was ended, civil rights were affirmed and the right to vote was extended.

Spearman really doesn’t like the fact the the right to keep and bear arms is treated as a Constitutional right. And is peeved that we don’t all agree that carrying a firearm should be subject to… infringements.

But somehow voting remains a Constitutional right.

Sure.

RKBA was <i<recognized as a preexisting right in 1791, as part of the Bill of Rights required to get the original Constitution ratified.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Note that it ends at “shall not be infringed.” It does not say “shall not be infringed except for getting government permission slips to carry after being photographed, fingerprinted, questioned as to ‘need,’ and paying multiple fees.”

Contrariwise, Spearman’s sacred voting gets somewhat less attention in the Constitution.

Voting by the people, the general population, has one mention in the original Constitution: Article 1 Section, where the people vote for members of the House of Representatives every two years. But Section 4 leaves it to the individual state legislatures to determine how and where those elections take place.

Nor is it anywhere in the Bill of Rights. You have to fast forward to 1868, 14th Amendment Section 2, to find it at all. Then it pops up again in 1870, 15th Amendment.

In 1913, the 17th Amendment finally (if unfortunately, in my opinion) allowed the people to vote for Senators.

The 19th Amendment in 1920 allowed women to vote.

Not until 1964, 24th Amendment, are the people explicitly allowed to vote for electors, who in turn vote for the President.

And, at last, the 27th Amendment extended to vote to 18 year-olds in 1971.

But in that, it’s still left to the state legislatures to run their elections their way.

Where I live, voting is pretty damned simple. I show up at the county clerk’s office, flash a government ID, and fill out a voter registration application. No fees. A few days later, I have a lifetime (assuming I don’t move or feloniously disqualify myself later) voter registration. Done.

To actually vote, I show up at the poll station, flash my ID to prove I’m the person with that lifetime registration, and cast a ballot. No fees. Done.

Compared to carrying a firearm for self defense, that hardly seems fair. So, Spearman, I propose a compromise in which the voting and toting plying fields are leveled.

Let’s make constitutional voting just as fun to do as constitutional toting.

To register to vote, you need to appear to the probate court and fill out an application. You’ll need government issued ID.

You’ll pay an application fee.

You’ll pay a background check fee (happily, my county rolls the two together so you can pay with one check).

You’ll be photographed.

You’ll be fingerprinted.

Your crimianl and mental history will be investigated.

If you pass all that, you’ll get a lifeti… 5 year license to vote.

To actually vote, you’ll have to appear in person (no mail in ballots, just as no guns in the mail), present your government photo ID and you voter license, pay another background check fee, and if you pass a NCIS check, cast your ballot.n

Don’t like that, Spearman? Let’s try it the other way.

Currently, in my state, one can walk into the polling station with no ID, o voter registration card, no fees… and cast a provisional ballot.

Cool.

Let’s do that for RKBA. No ID, No license, no fees…

Except that purchasing a firearm to carry, from a dealer, still requires a fee and background check. So let’s get rid of that part, too. We do want to treat those two Constitutional rights consistently after all.

Then we’d have Constitutional Carry.