Happy Birthday, Mommy

My Mother is 96 today.

She still swims laps and walks a couple miles most days.

Here's the card I made her, front and inside:

For the record, she was gentle and loving in spite of my many provocations. And Dad didn't have to raise a hand because just the look and the low-key but dead-serious tone, along with assured and consistent commensurate consequences, were always enough to make me rethink if I really wanted to keep pushing.

Where the Rubber Meets the Groad

Global condom shortage looking likely after world's biggest producer shuts down over coronavirus [More]

That oughta send the aninmaladjusted environmentalcases into a[nother] rage (not that they weren't causing unintended consequences).

[Via Jess]

Unqualified Susceptibility

The University of Michigan’s refusal to recognize an accused student’s “clearly established due process rights” led a federal judge to deny its administrators “qualified immunity” in the student’s lawsuit. [More]

I wouldn't mind seeing more of that.

[Via Michael G]

Down By the Old Mills Ream

We urge you to contact Governor Mills and respectfully request that Gun Shops be added to the list of “Essential Businesses” as soon as possible. [More]

One question: Why would I want to be respectful to a turncoat?

[Via Felix B]

The Big Sleazy

Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans refuses to take responsibility for her decision not to call off Mardi Gras over concerns of the Wuhan coronavirus. That decision has caused New Orleans to become the epicenter of coronavirus cases in the state of Louisiana, according to medical experts. So who exactly does the Democratic mayor blame for not canceling Mardi Gras in her own city? Donald Trump. [More]

Well, Louisiana does rank 49th out of 50, and I bet if you took New Orleans out of the equation they'd move up considerably.

[Via Michael G]

The More You Shoot the Better You Feel

The people panic buying now are mainly first-time gun owners and anti-gun hypocrites.⁣ [More]

They still need to learn and fast. Ranges that are closing down due to government stay-at-home orders demonstrate how infringements make things more dangerous for everybody.

[Via bondmen]

Depends On Who You're Asking

Are Gun Stores ‘Essential’ Businesses? [More]

Maybe we should ask that question of someone being brutalized by a released inmate.

[Via bondmen]

Keep On Truckin'?

Truckers Call for Second Amendment Right Nationwide During Emergency [More]

Only for truckers? And only during emergencies?

Can we exclude these guys, who supported Hillary and who represent Biden campaign workers?

Captain's Log

• Bear arms
• Slaveheart
• Ah Chiu
• Unfinished business
• We're the "Only Ones" prioritizing enough

Welcome to the Party, Pals

Defense attorneys for the famous couple and other parents still fighting the charges say the case cannot stand because investigators bullied their informant into lying and then concealed evidence that would bolster the parents’ claims of innocence. [More]

Well, yeah, nobody actually takes what the Bureau's slogan stands for seriously...

So rich, leftist celebrities should get a pass on the type of enforcement their political choices impose on the rest of us...?

[Via Michael G]

But They've Always Been So Good at Listening Before...

ATF TO DISREGARD GUN OWNER INPUT ON PREVENTING ILLEGAL REGISTRATION [More]

It's his to blow...

[Via Jess]

The Solution We've All Been Looking For

Former British PM Gordon Brown Calls for New Global Government to Fight Impact of Coronavirus [More]

H.L.'s gettin' a workout today.

[Via Michael G]

Be Honest Now

[No link, Fox News doesn't allow them from Blogger anyway...]

Tell me when you look at this picture that a quote from H. L. Mencken doesn't come to mind.

Trump Pills

Episode 871 Scott Adams: It's Time to Stop Using an Obama Afghanistan Strategy Against a Virus [Watch]

I stipulate I'm absolutely not qualified to weigh in with an informed opinion on the science, but this looks like something to ask those who may be. $20 and "a bit of diarrhea" or "drown in your own lung juice"? Centralized planning by those whose incompetence and power obsessions got us into this mess, or take matters into our own hands?

It does seem worth asking your doctor what he'd do if things got up close and personal.

One other thing Adams mentions briefly toward the end is pressure from the people as a factor in government deciding to reopen businesses, and that makes me wonder if we will start to see civil disobedience. I know many are desperate. As I mentioned in an earlier post, younger feral son Qusay is a chef at a local restaurant (who is still working thanks to take-out and catering orders while most of the staff has been "furloughed") and he told us one of their food suppliers had a "friends and family" sale to unload inventory that's not moving and get some cash coming in, and to mitigate its losses.

True, cities can retaliate against individual businesses by pulling their licenses, but if a critical mass of the tax base joined forces and had a reopening "strike," what are they gonna do? Send the cops in to round up them and their customers?

When the choice is between dying and trying, what have people got to lose?

[Via Carlos Perdue]


UPDATE - This seems relevant:

“What does Governor Doug Ducey know about medicine? He’s a stupid politician. You, my doctor, who specializes in respiratory illnesses, is a far better expert on the subject. You more than anyone should know when it is safe to give this test, and to whom. That you are allowing a politician tell you how to treat your patients is to my mind literally unethical.”

[Via Michael G]

#BelieveWomen

Biden’s “hands were on me and underneath my clothes,” she said. “He went down my skirt but then up inside it and he penetrated me with his fingers,” she added. [More]

I wonder if @womensmarch is going to even acknowledge this.