Enemies Foreign and Domestic

 Democrats' HR1 election bill boosted by liberal dark money group financed by foreign national [More]

Squeeze.

Just Give Them What They Want?

A young British mom was murdered in front of her baby daughter in Greece on Tuesday as she tried to hide from burglars who tied up her husband and hanged their dog outside their house, according to police. [More]

And they don't kill the one witness who can provide authorities with clues?

ANTs in her Pants

 Let’s examine what happens when a fatal shooting occurs: Is it the gun that kills people, as gun control advocates insist? Or is it the person holding the gun, as gun rights advocates insist? ANT would say the answer lies in a different question, highlighting the matrix that enables the action: the pull of the trigger, the explosion of gunpowder, even the humidity of the air that the bullet travels through to reach its target. [More]

I'm not sure where she's going with this, but I won't be surprised to find out humidity is racist.

And what does Mr. Pynchon remind us?

Smell Tester

 Montana: Senator Tester Refuses to Commit to Protecting Your Gun Rights [More]

Who else is only now figuring out the guy's a fraud?

Tap Into Your Inner Ungulate

Learn to Think Like Someone Who Chose to be Unarmed [More]

I tried and then choked on the grass.

Candidly, I also don't see much point, but then, my niche is no longer about trying to argue the self-destructive and the closed-minded off the ledge. 

U.S. Media to Pravda and Izvestia: Hold Our Vodka

 At no point during the discussion did Pope disclose to the audience or to the other attendees that the Trace and the Dart Center were both on the payroll of the country’s wealthiest gun-controller. [More]

Name a DSM outlet that's not on the payroll of wealthy gun controllers.

They Needed a Study?

 Gun buyback programs (GBPs), which use public funds to purchase civilians' privately-owned firearms, aim to reduce gun violence. However, little is known about their effects on firearm-related crime or deaths. Using data from the National Incident Based Reporting System, we find no evidence that GBPs reduce gun crime. Given our estimated null findings, with 95 percent confidence, we can rule out decreases in firearm-related crime of greater than 1.3 percent during the year following a buyback. Using data from the National Vital Statistics System, we also find no evidence that GBPs reduce suicides or homicides where a firearm was involved. [More]

That's not why the antis hold them, is it?

[Via Michael G]

A Preemptive Strike

 DeSantis signed the bill (SB 1884) on Friday after the Republican-controlled Legislature passed it in party-line votes late last month. The bill, which will take effect July 1, will broaden a 2011 law that can make local governments pay as much as $100,000 in damages if they are sued for imposing gun regulations. [More]

Just a thought about unintended consequences, so someone with legal knowledge please give me a read here: Could that be used against "Second Amendment Sanctuary" cities and counties?

[Via Remarks]

The Crappiest Place on Earth

 Disney asks employees to complete 'white privilege checklist,' insists America was founded on 'systemic racism,' according to leaked documents [More]

And what screams that louder than Main Street USA, Frontierland, Tom Sawyer Island, and the Mark Twain Riverboat?

And let's not forget their Dumbo and Peter Pan rides, celebrating cartoons they now issue warnings over because of the crows and the "redskins"...

Or "Snow White"...

It would seem the woker they get, the more they paint themselves into a corner...

Maybe if they tore down the statue...

And just to keep things on theme for this blog, everybody knows about the guns, right...?

[Via Mack H]

Livin' It Up at the Hotel California

Caitlyn Jenner says she favors path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants [More]

And the rational choices keep on comin'...

It's like Archie said...

[Via Mack H]

And This Surprises Who...?

 Attorney General Bill Barr threatened to quit last year over Trump's attempts to fire FBI Director Chris Wray [More]

Some of us had sounded the alarm on both Barr and Wray. How do you keep The Swamp out when you keep letting it in?

Maybe the reason Trump is so good at firing people is that he's so crappy at hiring them.

[Via Mack H]

So Much for Your Body Your Choice

 Casual sex will be allowed again for the first time this year as part of the Government's latest lifting of lockdown measures. [More]

Some don't wait for permission.

And the answer, I'm afraid, is still "No."

The World is Not Enough

De Blasio calls for gun control after Times Square shooting... [More]

Of course he does.

He demands what doesn't work in NYC to be imposed on the rest of the Republic. 

There's a reason such diseased creatures are called "totalitarians."

[Via Mack H]

Define 'Victory'

 If we win the war, what does America look like? [More]

Don't ask me. From where I sit, asking those who complain the loudest to do the simplest of things is like pulling teeth.

Para los Niños

 

Mexican villages arm children in desperate bid for attention [More]

Curious. There's no Mamás Exigen Acción calling them municiónsexuals...

Carrying on the Tradition

 

Found another one. Once again, ordinances/laws against open & concealed carry in certain areas are historically used to criminalize and fine minorities. #ShannonWatts and her army of neoliberal moms are continuing the tradition. https://t.co/GReyzDFV0e@BLM757 @Gabby_Hoffman pic.twitter.com/2TlV08swkU

— MomAtArms (@mom_at_arms) May 8, 2021

Well, it's not exactly like their leadership screams "Diversity!" now, is it?

Schlock Jock

 Leftist anti-gun radio personality glad people are dead because they might be Trump voters [More]

Doesn't this stool sample have a woman to beat up or something...? 

And wouldn't that have made him a "prohibited person" or did the deal his lawyers cut preempt that...?

Told You the Guy Was a Weasel

 However, the Senate created a worse problem. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick was told ahead of time that at least one of the Senate amendments if adopted, would violate House rules. This would allow the anti-gunners to kill Constitutional Carry in the House on a technical violation — before the House could even decide to concur or go to a conference committee. Despite knowing this, the Lt. Governor still pushed through his packet of amendments and refused to listen to multiple warnings. [More]

Tell me that wasn't intentional.

And technically, I think the word I used was "poltroon."

UPDATE (via Mack H):

And Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. 

Whither Thou Goest

Google has decided it will no longer support Feedburner, so I've removed that gadget from the sidebar over there on the left.  I already have a "Follow by Email" gadget where readers can sign up for updates to this blog, and just under it I am trying out Follow.it.

I'm told they will not spam you and share email addresses.

Having all the modern technical skills of someone still stuck on "C://" prompts who once used engineering drawings and parts lists to manually fill out 80-column forms and send them to a department called "Keypunch" to produce cards that were run through a tape drive mainframe to generate huge tractor-fed dot matrix-printed indentured product structure/bills of material reports, I'm afraid I'm a bit stuck finding the right place in the template to insert activating new-fangled, consarned kid-designed HTML code.

I either did it right and everything will work fine or I screwed everything up and saved Google the trouble of deciding too many "woke" sensibilities have been triggered here and I deserve to be canceled.

Spider & the Fly

Raúl Castro Retires with Blood on His Hands [More]

New articles include:

• A book on Marx by James Simpson
• Several more Cuban tyrannical abuse examples
• Venezuela accepting capitalist bailouts
• Artist alters photos - Khmer Rouge victims smile
• Dispatches from Bolivia, Ecuador, North Korea, and more...