The Obama regime tried to ban the export of 3-D printable gun parts designs. The Trump administration conceded that plans for legal guns are not illegal. In response, the hoplophobes found their nearest libtard judge to ban the internet publication of legal plans for legal guns. Why?. From Bearing Arms:
3D printed guns have been a thing pretty much since 3D printing first popped up, but they’re not going to be the risk people think unless materials science takes a massive leap forward. The plastic used in printing isn’t remotely strong enough to serve as a firing pin, much less as a durable barrel. The all plastic guns of today aren’t really a threat.
Not that it’ll change the impression in the minds of the anti-gunners. Reality rarely does.
Hoplophobes don’t have independent minds. They do as told by their handlers.
* Interesting that the majority of the people that are screaming about Russian influence in our elections are the same ones who think it’s okay to bring millions of illegal aliens in and allow them to vote.
* Speaking of Russian collusion and the farce surrounding the charges thereof, Interesting that many people who are calling for the end of the obvious Witch Hunt set up by the Democrats as regards Russian collusion, has its purposes. So far the only thing they’ve come up with is collusion on the part of the FBI the CIA and the Democrats. Shutting down the investigation now would prevent those findings from being prosecuted. Maybe we should keep this thing going, and let the Democrats bury themselves.
* Interesting that those that are so worried about the 3D printed gun, haven’t realized that if you can make a gun you can make an even larger threat… A Bendy straw.
* Interesting how the lame stream media hasn’t touched the story of the Union’s getting their backsides handed them in the courts.
Anderson Cooper seems to think he is somehow in the government, the senior senator from what West Dakota or something. Cooper can not get over the fact that President Trump did not take Cooper into his confidence and bare his soul about everything he told Russian Premier Valdamir Putin, from Kate, Small Dead Animals, video:
Maybe Donny was afraid that diplomacy was over Cooper’s head? Or more likely PDT knew that Cooper was not interested in the gist of the summit but just looking for a damning pull quote. On the other foot, Steven Cohen seemed to have developed a understanding of what Trump and Putin discussed. Are Cooper and Max Boot too stupid to figure out the outline of the discussion, and just pouting because Donny did not grovel for their personal approval? Film at Eleven
The nice thing about Classic Economics is that it timeless. The bad thing about some politicians is that they are clueless. The late great economist Milton Friedman lived in San Francisco, evidently without imparting any wisdom to the City Fathers, from Investor’s Business Daily:
Economics: Free-market economist Milton Friedman once famously observed that “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Now San Francisco’s uber-liberal government might just make free lunches illegal.
Friedman, who lived in San Francisco until his death at 94, was explaining the fact that nothing is cost-free — especially government regulations, mandates, benefits, economic interventions. They all come with side effects, even if they aren’t obvious.
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Which is why many restaurants have shut their doors. Yelp found far more closing than opening in San Francisco over the second half of last year — after the minimum climbed to $14 an hour.
So, what is San Francisco doing in response to help the city’s struggling restaurant business?
Two members of its board of supervisors introduced legislation that would try to force workers to eat out for lunch. How? By banning any more companies from offering free lunches to workers — existing free lunch providers like Google, Twitter, et al., would be exempt — and outlawing in-house cafeterias in new office buildings.
Yes, going out of a modern glass enclosed fortress to carefully tread over the human feces and discarded needles sounds like a winning plan to me. What say you?
If you’re tired of being labeled an enemy of the people, maybe it’s time you stopped acting like an enemy of the people.
The New York Times and the Washington Post have a long history of pursuing a far leftist agenda, an agenda that has been rejected by the American people. Walter Duranty would probably be proud of what you’ve accomplished, but very few Americans would. the thing is, there are far too many people in the show called news industry who consider the New York Times to be the gold standard and are pursuing the same political agenda… Ultimately, an anti-American agenda.
The American people have not been, as your self- promoting ads claim, living in a political bubble, you and your fifth columnists have.
Donald Trump has this one right. I have always had serious problems with the man, but this isn’t one of them. He’s got you and your organization pegged exactly correctly.
I have on my bookshelf at home a Barnhart dictionary. Date of publication is 1956. In it, there are two words that describe the problem with the New York Times.
The first is “newsman”. The dictionary defines that word as someone who reports the news.
The second is “journalist”, what’s the dictionary defines as someone who writes what he thinks.
Ponder the differences, Pinch, your job was reporting the news not writing what you think. Your organization has been doing that since long before Walter duranty was walking your halls. And, long after.
Ponder the idea that you might not be in the predicament that you’re in right now with failing sales, reduced income and an absolutely destroyed reputation, if you had stayed with the original mandate which was to be News men, not journalists.
It’s time for that dinosaur of yours to die a much-deserved death. The faster that happens the better off America, and with it the rest of the world, is going to be.
Addendum: Eric
Armstrong Williams at his place this morning says it well…
The New York Times editor tells President Donald J. Trump that his characterizations of the press could lead to violence. How about The Times stand up for those who choose to work in government, yet get kicked out of restaurants and badgered by extremists? Same side of the coin, eh editor?
This is a prime example of the blatant hyprocrisy and double standards that exist in today’s media. This is why so many Americans on both ends of the political spectrum distrust and dislike the media as much as they do because what’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander.
Will The Times report on these heinous acts and condemn from its editorial pages? Will they state the obvious issues that exist on both sides or will they point the finger at everyone else while hiding behind their own issues?
If the media is to ever regain the trust of the American people, it needs to conduct a deep dive into its own problems and correct them before it can be honest in its criticisms of others. #AW NYT Politics
Yeah well, don’t hold your breath Armstrong. The fact of the matter is they’ve never owned up to the whole Walter Duranty thing. The chances of them actually owning up to something more recent seem at best miniscule, absent a threat to the survival of the New York Times larger than Salzburger himself.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is sixty today.
from Wikipedia:
The President Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA in 1958[10] with a distinctly civilian (rather than military) orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science. The National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed on July 29, 1958, disestablishing NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The new agency became operational on October 1, 1958
Happy birthday! Now rollover and die. NASA has accomplished her mission. She got to the Moon and back. There is no where else in the Solar System worthwhile for manned exploration, and no means to go beyond the Solar System.
Hat Tip: Instapundit.
If you can’t find any evidence, just find a bigger soapbox and scream even louder. Michael Mann is long on hysteria, but short on evidence. Even his cited evidence does not support his loudly proclaimed conclusion, from Guardian(UK):
Extreme weather has struck across Europe, from the Arctic Circle to Greece, and across the world, from North America to Japan. “This is the face of climate change,” said Prof Michael Mann, at Penn State University, and one the world’s most eminent climate scientists. “We literally would not have seen these extremes in the absence of climate change.”
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Mann points out that the link between smoking tobacco and lung cancer is a statistical one, which does not prove every cancer was caused by smoking, but epidemiologists know that smoking greatly increases the risk. “That is enough to say that, for all practical purposes, there is a causal connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer and it is the same with climate change,” Mann said.
Hat tip: Watts Up with That.
What a scientist does to adapt his theory to explain the evidence. What Mann does is alter his evidence to explain his theory. Call what you will. It is not science.
I see that scientists have reportedly discovered an underground Lake on Mars.
I’m taking bets as to how long it’s going to be before the EPA declares jurisdiction over it.
From Ed Driscoll
TWITTER CEO APOLOGIZES FOR ALLOWING CONSERVATIVES ON PLATFORM IN FIRST PLACE.
It’s a parody headline. But is it, really?, to coin an Insta-phrase
I’ve been saying for a couple of decades now the comedy doesn’t work unless there’s a grain of Truth at the center of it. In this case The Comedy Works like crazy.
Bless his little heart, Rand Paul (R – KY) is not totally useless. Paul exposed the communist posing a security advisor, John Brennan’s effort to sabotage US foreign policy, from Daily Caller:
The Kentucky Senator claimed that Brennan, then Obama’s top White House adviser on counter-terrorism, gave classified information to a group of former Obama advisers turned TV commentators about a Yemen terror plot that Washington had “inside control” of through a double-agent.
After Brennan’s briefing, one of the call’s participants, Richard Clarke, went on ABC and broadcast the government implying that there was a Western spy inside the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula bomb-making group.
Points:
- The media does not employ ‘rats as expert commentators, but rather only as operatives with by-lines.
- Former government officials had absolutely to need to know the fact that we employed a double agent, and even a communist like Brennan is smart enough to know this.
- What kind of “briefing” only includes members of one party. This was not a brief. It was the issuance of marching orders.
- This was no leak, as in an accident. Brennan, the good communist that his is, was out to subvert United States government policy, even at the cost of human lives.
President Trump can not remove Brennan’s security clearance fast enough.
Hmm.
I have to say, this is nice to see, but maybe we should be pondering the idea that if the IRS wasn’t so powerful, the scam wouldn’t have been nearly as effective.
Put another way, the scam was effective because the Americans that they were harassing wouldn’t put it past the IRS to act like that.
Perhaps part of the answer going forward is reining in the IRS both in terms of power and in attitude?
And maybe we should be examining why it took them so long to accomplish this. I wonder if it has anything to do with the change in the White House…
Yesterday I made mention of the New York Daily News and it’s imminent collapse. I suggested that the left-leaning it’s been doing for decades now is finally taking its toll.
This morning comes news that Mark Zuckerberg lost 16 billion dollars yesterday.
You know, eventually somebody’s going to figure out that there’s a trend to all of this.
But I predict that before that happens, Twitter will follow suit.
Mrs. Clinton, former Secretary of State and formerly known as the Smartest Woman in the World, has neither the need for classified information, nor the mental aptitude necessary to even recognize it, from Daily Caller:
President Donald Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of former CIA Director John Brennan; Comey; former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; former Director of National Security Michael Haden; former National Security Adviser Susan Rice; and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
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“There is more than ample evidence that Hillary Clinton committed, whether its gross negligence, or, as [former FBI Director James] Comey would like to say, extreme carelessness,” Williamson told TheDCNF. “Just from the documented evidence, there was enough to prosecute. If there’s evidence to prosecute, then there’s certainly grounds to pull somebody’s clearance.”
Being shown to be grossly negligent, is ample reason to revoke Mrs. Clinton’s clearance.
So now we hear that Stormy Daniels husband is filing for divorce.
Wait…. She was married?
Okaaaaay. I have to confess I wasn’t aware of it. From what I can see the way she was acting she wasn’t aware of it, either.
Her husband is saying that he can’t believe that she would be cheating on him.
Personally I have difficulty believing that the guy can possibly be that stupid, so I am inclined to believe he is bald faced liar, and not a very good one. And of course we’ve already established that she is, as well.
She, meanwhile, is saying that we should all back off and give her privacy for the sake of her family.
Personally I plan to give her precisely the amount of privacy that she gave Donald Trump and his family.
Forgive me, folks, but I think Jeff Foxworthy’s commentary applies here. It’s kind of like buying a rental car. If you go into a situation where you know the car has been driven that hard by that many people maybe, just maybe you don’t want to put your key in it.
As to why these little tidbits are relevant on the national scene, I suggest that it’s always good to keep in mind the kind of people that we’re dealing with.
