Friday, February 19, 2021

Ending the Week with Daily Defense

You can watch the proceedings over at Facebook. I'd add you can find a radio station or listen via live streaming at the AAR website but it looks like it's currently down for maintenance.

A Gulag for Antonia

 Private land ownership is a beautiful dream gone badly wrong. [More]

Y'oughta see how the other way works.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Miscounting Enough

 However, the defense presented evidence to indicate that Zhao had used a 20-round magazine, which he was entitled to possess. [More]

Kind'a makes you wonder what kind of dick "Only One" would go after someone for that in the first place.

Officers James C. McClain and Brian Wilson, the floor is yours.

[Via Mack H]

Your Tax Dollars at Work

 General Assembly votes to give undocumented students access to college financial aid [More]

But....but...but how did this happen???

Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue"!

[Via Mack H]

And Now, the Rest of the Story

 Phil over at Busted Nuckles reposted a cartoon. It needed two more panels, so I helped out on it. [More]

And what would this be without Paul Harvey's trademark signoff?

[Via  An Hour of Wolves]

How Now Brown Drow?

Stanford prof: ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ is racist [More]

Whatever you do, don't tell him about swertings.

[Via Michael G]

The Virtual Rope-Seller

 In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work. [More]

Maybe they promised to claim Larry Ellison's island last...

[Via Michael G]

A Commonsense Gun Safety Advpcate

 'Shooters want money': Baltimore convict-turned-activist says city should PAY killers not to kill to lower city's murder rate [More]

Sorry, pal. We love the thinking outside the box and all, but that's what governments are for.

To Boldly Go Where No Non-Binary Person of Color Has Gone Before

 Univ. of Utah Proposes Allegiance to DEI as a Condition for Promotion and Tenure [More]

The Department of Physics & Astronomy?

Tell me that won't get us to the stars.

[Via Michael G]

Idiocracy Descending

People are getting stupider, it’s a scientific fact [More]

I'm not sure his analysis is complete.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Capitolizing Enough

One officer had taken selfies with some rioters, while another wore a MAGA hat and started directing rioters, Ryan said. [More]

Could someone please explain to me why some "news" outlets are still claiming it "led to the death of Officer Brian Sicknick" if not to perpetuate the discredited fake fire extinguisher lie and suppress the fact that the correlation between the melee and his stroke has not been positively established?

[Via bondmen]

UPDATE
35 Capitol Police Officers Under Investigation, 6 Suspended for Letting Protesters inside US Capitol — The Same Protesters Who Were Later Arrested for Entering US Capitol
[Via Michael G]

Torah! Torah! Torah!

 BIDEN HINTS AT KILLING SECOND AMENDMENT: ‘WHAT HAMAN WANTED TO DO ON PURIM’ [More]

The original story did not end well for the aggressor.

[Via bondmen]

Not to Fear-Monger or Anything...

 Read that again folks: NOT ONE VACCINATED CAT SURVIVED A CHALLENGE WITH THE ACTUAL VIRUS. [More]

Dare I suggest that more work needs to be done?

I'm not sure -- look how many have been destroyed for suggesting the same about election investigations.

[Via bondmen]

They Blow Up So Fast These Days

 30 Taliban Fighters Die in Explosion During Bomb-Making Class [More]

That's kind of like telling Lee Paige to "Hold my beer."

[Via bondmen]

Hunter Biden

 The JoeBiden.com website featured a page that included a rousing endorsement from such sportsmen/sportswomen for Biden... [More]

That's why those peddling the lie that owning guns unifies us all and how we vote shouldn't matter are so subversive. As the truism goes, it's not about guns, it's about freedom.

Damn every Fudd who throws other gun owners under the bus. I have more contempt for them than I do for out-and-out antis. 

[Via bondmen]

A Falling Tide Strands All Boats

Our Descent Into Collective Madness [More]

How can that descent keep accelerating without turning into a free-fall?

[Via bondmen]

Persona non Grata

 Nikki Haley Tried to Get a Meeting With Trump — But He Shot Her Down [More]

I'm thinking a lot of Republicans are coming to regret their betrayals when they realize who much of the base looks to...

[Via Jess]

The Tiger Need Not Be Paper

South Dakota is pushing back on Washington. Recently, the South Dakota state legislature introduced a bill, HB1194, that would give our state Attorney General, Jason Ravnsborg, the authority to nullify any Executive action from the White House that is deemed unconstitutional or harmful to the state in critical areas. [More]

So at what point are they going to realize that what they need to back that up is what the Founders deemed "necessary to the security of a free State"?

Doing What Works

 TV Shows Push Gun Control Myths -- in Sync With Biden [More]

Well, you are traveling through another dimension.

Hey, when you have a proven method that you know from experience works and can count on audiences dumb enough to waste their lives watching such garbage to willingly fall for whatever psyops manipulation you want to subject them to ...

[Via Michael G]