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— Mark Walters (@aarmark) January 26, 2022
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Daily Defense
A Taxing Proposition
San Jose passes first U.S. law requiring gun owners to get liability insurance and pay annual fee [More]
If not defeated in court, watch all this come to pass.
Texas TL in Exile Ep 8
A patriot enters the world of local, local, local with his experiences at the Precinct Captain level, which allowed him to meet three candidates for Governor of Texas. [Listen]
We've talked about the precinct project before...
UPDATE:
Also see T.L.'s latest, "The Most Dangerous Time."
We're the Only Ones Resigned Enough
Brookside Police Chief Mike Jones resigns amid criticism of ticketing policies [More]
Maybe they watched the same episode I did...
[Via Michael G]
The Magic Number
Biden’s Deputy National Security Adviser Says Americans Should Care About Ukraine Because ‘Borders Should be Inviolate” — As Record 518,360 Illegals Invade US Border in First Fiscal Quarter of Year [More]
How many years has it been set at "11 million..."?
I ask because I haven't seen it change from 2006 up to now...
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
[Via Michael G]
Coming Soon to a Province Near You
There is an exemption, however, for accessing pharmacies and food inside those stores, but there’s a catch. The unvaccinated wishing to do so must be accompanied by a store employee to ensure they do not make any other purchases. “The hope is making shopping more difficult will push more holdouts to get the jab,” reported CBC’s Valeria Cori-Manocchio. [More]
Because nothing brings about unity and healing like stigmatizing.
Hey, maybe they could brand their foreheads or notch their noses or something, and not only save on having to hire escorts but create plenty of public merriment in the form of jeering and pelting with eggs and stones...
[Via Michael G]
Quotations from Chairman Mike
Is democracy flaunted by the US blind to people’s lives? Is freedom touted by the US about the freedom of shooting? [More]
Interesting allies, our domestic gun-grabbing Democrat/ Everytown/ Moms Demand/ Brady/ Giffords, etc. useful idiots have...
Interesting Twitter "ratioing." Curious that none of the big gun-grabber names are retweeting this, or adding their approvals to the ranks of "likes."
[Via bondmen]
Now we see if this gets me kicked off...The Gray Man
Why the Masked and the Unmasked Have Disdain for Each Other [More]
I'll confess I size up where I am and gear up accordingly, not because I believe in masks being effective, but because I believe blending is a necessary habit. Not calling attention to myself and appearing part of the innocuous herd is how I was able to regularly practice "permitless carry" in California from 1979 to 2007.
[Via bondmen]
Warning Signs
Town councilmembers in the are calling for Supervisor Don Trout to resign after outrage over a meme he posted to Facebook about white supremacy. On January 13, Trout posted a cartoon to Facebook with the "warning signs of white supremacy" including traits like full-time employment, auto insurance and being literate. [More]
No doubt a Democrat saw an opportunity to make some noise and the rest of them are cowed and desperate to prove how woke they are lest anyone comment on their own lack of diversity...
[Via bondmen]
Giving in to Terrorists
“So long as we stand, Dartmouth will never be a safe space for [right-wingers] to spew their misinformation. Wear black to show your solidarity and hide your identity!” one member of the group wrote on Twitter. [More]
That sure sounds like a terrorist threat made by an anonymous coward to me.
It figures even bigger cowards in academic administration would fold.
[Via bondmen]
Do You Come from a Land Down Under?
Australian reportedly killed when explosive vest detonates [More]
That must have been one hell of a speed bump.
So they know where he was from and how old he was, but they can't tell us his name? I was going to bet it wasn't Donk or Nugget, but the bit about his being a father and a soldier has made me reconsider.
[Via bondmen]
The Honeymoon is Over
The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Defender Services, The Bronx Defenders, the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and Queens Defenders welcomed some of the planned measures, including job development, but criticized "Mayor Adams' focus on discredited punitive and surveillance-based strategies, including his call for additional rollbacks to bail and discovery reform, amendments to Raise the Age, increased use of facial recognition and reinstatement of the NYPD's historically racist Anti-Crime Unit." [More]
Anything but holding the responsible people accountable...
[Via Jess]
Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise...
'The police did nothing to help her': Son's fury at the Met after mother-of-two was stabbed to death by violent ex-husband - despite anti-stalking order - before he was killed by have-a-go-driver [More]
So naturally, they arrested the driver.
Sounds like a whole lotta trouble could have been avoided if the "law" hadn't prevented her from shooting the crazy sumb!tch early on...
[Via Steve T]
One Down, One to Go...
It is not every day that a writer pens a column admitting that, at least to him, his publication’s entire ethos is a fraud. But it is hard to read this Tim Miller column at the Bulwark as anything else. [More]
Now when do we get a similar admission from National Review?
[Via Michael G]
Signs of a Dying Civilization
Michael Rapaport films alleged shoplifter boldly robbing an NYC Rite Aid [More]
All you need to know is that the police can't stop them, the prosecutors won't prosecute them, and in-store security theater performers fear the consequences of trying to intervene from both the thieves and scared "woke" corporate governance.
GIGO
Scientists during the 1970s used a computer and observations on changing trends to predict exactly when society would collapse. [More]
You know, back when "climate change" meant "global cooling."
It's not like there's been any new data or algorithms to add to the Doomsday model in the past half-century...
Yet again the "settled scientists" presume mastery over the unknown.
Virtual Reality
[I]nvestigators learned that other students who had been in the bathroom tweeted about the shooting, identifying the suspect and the victim, instead of calling 911 or alerting staff that a classmate had been shot. [More]
What does it say about a generation that prioritizes online life over the real thing?
What does it say about intellectualizing on a master programmer by people who scoff at intelligent design and a Creator God?
But back to our story: They got in their obligatory dig at "ghost guns," and that's what really matters.
[Via Steve T]
Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control
AzCDL is very disappointed to announce that the 2022 Front Sight trip has been canceled. [More]
It boils down to money.
Dirty Jobs
At each and every one of them it has taken me about five minutes to discover, or reconfirm, that the working class—particularly young male minorities—is essentially conservative. [More]
Perhaps the owner/managerial class, but certainly not most union workers, and certainly not as an overall demographic.
Drawing unfounded general conclusions like this is specifically why I say "not anecdotes."
[Via Michael G]
Liar for Sheriff!
I am a Republican who supports the Second Amendment. I respect the entire Bill of Rights, and Constitution. I have raised my hand and sworn to uphold the Constitution in every position I’ve held. I take that oath very seriously. [More]
That must be why he supports insane, totalitarian prior restraint Red Queen laws.
[Via Jess]