Thursday, April 23, 2020

The House at Wu Corner

Racist plaques depicting Winnie the Pooh holding a bat with chopsticks have begun to pop up around Atlanta, and police have no leads as to who is responsible. [More]
I'm sorry, I look at the definition and Inigo Montoya comes to mind:


Boy, the commies and their useful idiots sure are touchy.

Speaking of real anti-Asian racism...

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Familial Enough?

A Vermont police officer faced a judge on Monday, charged along with his father in connection with what investigators say was the long-term sexual abuse of a family member. [More]
I've seen too many false accusations to draw any conclusions without a lot more evidence. And then there's the crazy factor.

A purpose of the "Only Ones" is to call out special privileges and exemptions the rest of us don't get. In this case, I'm withholding judgment, which is the way all of us would want such reports to treat us. There's nothing special about that.

[Via Neil W]

The Mask is Off

Which means the media are themselves practitioners of coverups, as well as collaborators in coverups--of crimes against humanity up to and including mass-murder and genocide. [More]
Same as it ever was...

'...Or the Right of the People to Peaceably Assemble...'

CHP bans protests at California Capitol after rally against Newsom’s stay-at-home order [More]
Yeah, well, like we just got done sayin'...

[Via Roger J]

The Remedy for Freedom

“I do think the state has put forth some authority that during a state of emergency, the executive powers are in effect and that they are empowered to provide for emergency remedies which may infringe on fundamental constitutional rights,” Bernal said. [More]
The right against self-incrimination, the right against cruel and unusual punishment, y'know, sometimes a totalitarian's gotta do what a totalitarian's gotta do...

Fortunately, the State of California is making sure some rights remain uninfringed...

[Via Mack H]

When Totalitarians Collide

We need Big Brother to beat this virus - Don’t let the civil liberties lobby blind us to the fact that greater state surveillance, including ID cards, is required [More]
Would you people get your stories straight?

[Via Michael G]

A Plan Comes Together

Coronavirus Changes Trump Re-Election Calculus in Key States - Rising job losses, coronavirus cases and political tensions may affect the president’s prospects in the states that ensured his victory in 2016 [More]
Well, yeah. Nobody but a deluded tool really thinks Democrat string-pullers care about the useful idiots' and Deplorables' health, do they?

What a time to alienate people who wanted to support him...

Meanwhile, the billionaire capitalist says we need more socialism. Funny, who's "profiting" from all this...

Contradictions in Terms

Giffords Law Center Presents Anti-Gun Arguments That Contradict Not Only The Constitution, But Their Own Positions [More]
Not to mention the truth, reality, and what the Founders termed "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"...

Someone to Watch Over Me

Police were called to the property after someone called them to report a violation of the state’s stay-at-home orders... [More]
How do we know it wasn't Quade taking advantage of anonymous "snitching" for "legal" cover?

As can be done with gunsnitch programs, by the way...

[Via Michael G]

Where Quality is Job One

Coronavirus: US university stops using Chinese testing kits after some found to be contaminated [More]
You get what you pay for and pay for and pay for...

[Via Jess]

Democrat Stimulus

Slipped into the plan is an amnesty for the nearly 700,000 to 800,000 DACA illegal aliens who currently reside in the United States...[More]
Why do you think she would do that?

Good thing this has nothing to do with that  "single issue." Right, "Saviors"?

And Let Them Eat Cake

Gov. Cuomo Tells Unemployed Americans To ‘Go Take A Job As An Essential Worker’ [More]
Elites born into dynasties sure are tone-deaf before they're loaded into tumbrils.

Two More to Go

Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Thomas: Court precedent isn't sacred - Justices call for abandonment of 'mistaken' decisions [More]
So stare decisis über alles may not be what the Founders intended, particularly when it comes to the Bill of Rights?

Vanishing Act


Since yesterday, "News" has dropped around 2K and "All" around 8K.

Inconvenient Truths

He was banned from possessing a weapon for nine months and had to attend “counselling in anger management.” [More]
What have we learned?

That won't stop someone determined not to let a crisis go to waste.

"Authorities" certainly are being coy...

More here...

Still no word on the gun(s)...?

Amazing What You Can Accomplish by Limiting Choices

All of this enforced working at home will have a huge impact. It is completely culturally acceptable to work at home, where even three months people would have winced at that. [More]
So this is also an experiment in mass behavior modification?

And when a critical mass says "Enough"?

[Via Michael G]

We'd Just as Soon Not Allow Our People to Choose for Themselves

U.S. Approves an At‐​Home COVID-19 Test—But Four States Ban It [More]
I have to wonder if the concern is really over safety and efficacy or if it's because knowing would cause more people to seek treatment from already overburdened systems. Might there be other concerns, political ones...?

Say it works and people in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island die as a result of unnecessary delays, does anyone think outraged constituents will change party affiliations?

[Via Michael G]

Anti-Gun Democrat Enabler of the Year

NSSF Honors Senator Shelley Moore Capito as Legislator of the Year [More]
Yeah?


Maybe Larry Keane would like to take the challenge...

Maybe Shelley would.

How much are her "good" votes on guns going to do us in 10 or so years?

It's Not Like You'll be Going Out on the Town...

Join us for a live (online) event: Constitutional Rights in the Age of Government Overreach - New date and time: SUNDAY, April 26, 8:30 p.m. [More]
For those of you who can tear yourselves away from American Idol, subscribe to Morning Insurrection for details.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Having Discretion Enough


[More]
Good for them.  But before I jump on the "Yay, community heroes!" bandwagon, what kind of DISCRETION, DISCRETION, DISCRETION do they have when an edict they're enforcing runs afoul of "shall not be infringed"?

[Via Michael G]