It must have annoyed Stephen Hawking no end that the Universe was created in an environment where the laws of physics did not apply, and therefore its creation was well beyond his explanation or for that matter, an understanding that he would admit to having.
Irony indeed, that his funeral would be on Easter Sunday.
David Hogg, of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, fancies himself a modern day Joan of Arc leading the crusade to roll back the Second Amendment, Declaration of Independence and Magna Carta, or in other words roll back over a thousand years of civil rights. Yet rather than stepping forward like a man, Hogg lasts like a spoiled brat, which in truth is what he is. Hogg whines about not being admit to several California colleges. It might further his cause he he were female, of color and of course illegal.
As a self declared, albeit imaginary, Hogg imagines himself a leader. As as Theodore Roosevelt would put it, Hogg has entered the arena. Being in the arena, Hogg is a legitimate target. To which a proverbial arrow was slung, from Laura Ingraham:
David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.)
Stung by one rather puny arrow, Hogg declares himself a mere child, and protected non-combatant, from David Hogg:
I 100% agree an apology in an effort just to save your advertisers is not enough. I will only accept your apology only if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I in this fight. It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children.
Hogg declares himself a child. Sobeit. I propose to treat Hogg like the child he says he is. Off to bed without your supper and banish yourself from the public arena until you grow yourself a pair.
Reynolds, earlier today;
BANKS LIKE CITIGROUP WANT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST GUN SELLERS, I think that federal and state banking regulators should get involved to make sure that doesn’t happen. Bake the cake, bankers.
And if the parties were reversed, activists and allied groups would already be making Citigroup’s CEO Michael Corbat radioactive.
Oh, absolutely.
I would truly love to see that happen.
It has been pointed out that the gun phobia that we are currently seeing from the left is hardly new. There is a course the Janet Reno quote…
And there are several more..
“There is no reason for anyone in this country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun. The only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.”
–– Michael Gartner, former NBC News president, USA Today, 1/16/92
And…
“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America turn ’em all in, I would have done it.”
— Senator Diane Feinstein referring to what she wished she could have done with regard to “assault weapons” (60 Minutes, CBS, Feb. 1995)
And…
“Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of Americans to feel safe.”
— U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein, quoted by the Associated Press Newswire, 11/18/93
And…
“Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.”
–– U.S. Senator Joseph Biden, 11/18/93, Associated Press article
And so on and so forth and suchlike.
The examples of this kind of rhetoric are numerous and can be dredged up pretty much at will. This despite the fact that the usual Suspects… Always these same people, will also tell you that they’re not after your guns, merely “Common Sense gun control”. Of course that never really gets defined, does it?
Well, with the understanding that I take everything the left says with a grain of salt, I’d like you to ponder the following;
Are they really after actually removing guns?
Long time readers of these spaces will remember that I have said often now that the worst thing you can do to a Democrat is provide an actual solution to a problem because the moment you do that you’ve taken away their ability to demagogue the situation and thereby prevented them from gaining political power.
Think about all of the above, and then consider that for the eight years that Obama was infesting the White House, not one gun control bill came into existence. No votes, no big push. Nothing from the White House, nothing from the Democrats who were in control of Congress at the time. This, despite some of the worst mass shootings in history.
Now, with a Republican in the White House, and the GOP controlling Congress ostensibly, it’s suddenly a big deal? Why the change?
I see this sudden push for gun control as a cynical and desperate move on the part of the Democrats to regain political power…. And gun control per se’, may very well end up being part of that, but it’s not the primary motivation….Regaining power is their primary motivation.
It’s no secret that there are large numbers of The Usual Suspects on the left funding directing and promoting this controversy. If you’re watching it all it’s perfectly clear that this was arranged the moment Hillary Clinton lost the election, and at the first opportunity to use these plans the Democrats sprung into action, colloring a few useful tools along the way, like David Hogg for example.
Think…All those shootings that occurred while Obama was in the White House … Some of the worst in our country’s history… could have been used pooitically to the end of removing guns from society. Any one of them individually or collectively could have been used toward that goal if that was really what they’re about. But they didn’t use them as such. Why? Because they were in power. There wasn’t a political need to play those cards toward the goal of remaining in power.
Now they’re not in power, having been handed stinging defeats both for the White House and for Congress, and so now, they’re banging this talking point to death because they see it as a way to regain power. I suggest that what we are seeing here is demagoguery of the first order. Apparently, they’re not afraid to use children toward that goal. After all, it’s all about the children. Once they gain power, it will become old news until it’s needed again. As will of course the tools they’re using… These high school students for example.
All this anti-gun rhetoric, all this incomprehensible noise has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with gaining power. The Democrats are using gun control as they would any weapon of the like…. Against their political enemy.
Buddy John Hawkins today:
.Is David Hogg even smart enough to know that he’s a sock puppet? After all, he has no new insight on this problem. He has no great wisdom to share. Many of his own classmates don’t agree with his viewpoint. But, Hogg has adults with an agenda telling him what to say and adults in the media who put him on TV and treat him with kid gloves because they want him to parrot their beliefs about guns. He and the other Parkland kids you see on TV are put there to be human shields for gun control advocates. They tell the sock puppets what to say, but no one’s supposed to respond because they speak for those dead kids. But, do they? Really?
Of course they don’t.
Who was it they are speaking for? The Usual Suspects, of course.
Sultan Knish examines this:
Take Everytown, the noisiest and most dishonest anti-gun group on the scene. The one consistent thing about anti-gun groups is that that they are usually the opposite of what their name says they are.
Everytown for Gun Safety was formed out of two other groups: Moms Demand Action and Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Both are actually front groups for Michael Bloomberg, the lefty billionaire and former boss of the Big Apple, who used New York City resources to host at least one of its websites.
So Everytown is really New York City.
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None of this has much to do with Parkland. The mass shooting by a mentally ill man who should have been committed and arrested long before he carried out his massacre was a political opportunity.Now that opportunity is being exploited to the hilt by a professional class of political activists.
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I strongly suggest you go and read the whole thing. Anybody who thinks that this situation hasn’t been manipulated by the Democrats are fooling themselves. This is Democrat Party political opportunism and nothing but.
From New York Post:
Parents of a Texas high school student who was reported missing in late January had abused their daughter after she refused an arranged marriage, leading her to run away from home until she was found in mid-March, police said.
Maarib Al Hishmawi, 16, was reported missing on Jan. 30 after she was last seen leaving Taft High School in Bexar County.
[…]
Police said the man who was arranged to be married to Al Hishmawi may also be charged in the case.
Ask your liberal friend why he still believes that all cultures are somehow equal?
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As to this sham of a protest in DC today, I am reminded of the disaster that the Democrats had on their hands trying to convince the entire country and indeed the world that they were the party of young ideas when both of their leading candidates were well into their seventies.
Think there’s no connection between that and what we saw today?
Young faces? Certainly. Young ideas? No. These ideas Have been on the tongue of every tinpot dictator in history.
I tend to agree with Mark Tapscott here :
It was those same Washington Republicans who wrung their hands in dismay when Reagan called the Soviet Union “an evil empire.” Then they advised Reagan not to say “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” But look who won the Cold War. It was Reagan, not the Washington Republicans.
And can you guess who went into free-market meltdowns when Reagan imposed a five-year tariff on Japanese motorcycles that had Harley Davidson, America’s lone bike manufacturer, on the ropes? Four years later, Harley wanted the tariff to be dropped because the firm couldn’t keep up with demand. Neither could the Japanese, by the way, thanks to the Reagan economic boom.
Look…I’ve said here before and I still hold to the idea that Donald Trump is not the next Ronald Reagan. He was certainly never my guy.
. And as I suggested yesterday, I have my differences with him…. Most recently in yesterday’s bit, his signing that spending bill. (I am certainly convinced that for example Ted Cruz would have never signed such a monstrosity…) …But as Tapscott suggests in his piece, Trump has more in common politically speaking with the American people than does the establishment GOP, and certainly the Democrats.
Which in turn is precisely why both parties and why the fedeal law enforcement and intelligence agencies as well are apparently all fixated on the idea of bringing this presidency down… As they were Reagan’s.
(I’ll get to the FBI and the CIA the NSA and so on in a later Post)
But obviously now comes the question… How to eliminate the establishment GOP without electing Democrats?
Clearly, the primary process is not working toward that goal. We have complained bitterly in these spaces about the Democrat Party rigging its own primary for the benefit of Hillary Clinton. But why has so little been said about the primary process being rigged against actual conservatives like Cruz?
I’ve been waving the banner on this one for over two decades now. As an example…
.Alas, so it is with me GOP leadership. The rank and file of the GOP is by far more conservative than the leadership is, and has a better idea of what we are supposed to be about. The leadership is so wrapped up in its fearful traditions, that it stands no chance whatsoever to fight for the values they claim to support. Which, in turn, is how we end up with the John McCains the Mitt Romney’s and the Jeb Bush’s of the world. And how it is that we have a huge number of the of the rank and file sitting on their hands during every election cycle.
One can easily understand why the conservative gets disrespected by the GOP leadership. After all, they are being asked by the tenants of the conservatism to reject the use of the power that they have in their hands to “effect change”. It doesn’t take too many years for somebody with power in their hands to start seeing it as a good thing as opposed to the evil that needs to be controlled as the founders saw it. I suggest that this is precisely why the founders never foresaw the terror of multi-decade “service” in government. Do you know, that if there was a 12 year limit on service in Congress for example, was that over a half of the congressman and senators would have to go find themselves a real job?
Clearly the intent of the founders was to make sure that people coming into both houses of Congress would not be there long enough to become infected by the love of power. By the love of government power.
There’s something else, here too. The GOP establishment is deathly afraid of being seen as conservative, because they’re still shooting at the political center. Well, children, the political center is a myth. It does not exist in this country. Never has.
Consider the liberal reaction also to George W Bush, whom they compared to Adolf Hitler. And Bush wasn’t a conservative. Neither was his old man. Both of them were at best centrists. Trust me when I tell you, that the left isn’t going to like this any less if we actually stand up for our beliefs.
Which brings me to my final point for this lesson. There’s a reason they don’t stand up for our beliefs, the leadership. It’s because they don’t believe in them. I’ll say this again, the GOP leadership needs to be replaced immediately.
We are now seeing indications that the GOP rank and file has had enough and is about to go nuclear on the leadership. 15 years ago I argued against such an eventuality. Its to the point now where I’m actually looking forward to it because I see it as the only way to save the GOP.
But, I can’t remember a time when the need for holding the GOP establishment feet to the fire on putting forward actual conservatives was more needful.
And at this point I wonder if even that will be successful in getting things back in line, so great is the damage.
I have said repeatedly I would support Donald Trump when he was right, and rip him a new one when he was wrong. Alas, we come to the latter of the two.
The Associated Press came up with their own spin on the thing, of course…
.WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump grudgingly signed a $1.3 trillion federal spending measure Friday and averted a midnight government shutdown — but only after undercutting his own negotiators and setting off a mini-panic with a last-minute veto threat. The episode further eroded the already damaged credibility of both the president and a White House staff that had assured the nation he was onboard.
The fact of the matter is it it’s the Republicans in Congress, Paul Ryan and so on, that have damaged their credibility. But still it comes down to the idea of the Trump didn’t call them on this.
Wrong move, Donald.
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has read this website for any length of time at all it should come as no surprise to anyone who has red this website for any linked of time at all that this is precisely the situation I warned of prior to the election. Instead of standing on principle, the Donald is far too interested in making deals.
It’s it open question at this point whether or not any of this is salvageable.
…. Is that Putin actually has the ability to win an election that’s rigged in his favor.
The police chief in Austin spent a good deal of time trying to tell us what the bomber’s motivations were not.
“Instead, it is the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his personal life that led him to this point,” he said
Uh huh.
And I said both here and on Facebook that what was unique about the situation was the politics in and around the Austin area. Specifically, the prevalence of leftist politics. Kick some serious grief for saying it too, exactly as I expected.
Now, as I’ve said the police chief spent a good deal of time telling us that it wasn’t about hate. The impression… if you take the Chiefs word at face value…. was that there was no political motivation.
But I beg to differ. I say again, leftist politics are front-and-center of this bombing as they were in the school shooting, and for that matter most such events.
Consider something that I wrote on this website back in 1998. I wrote it while sitting in a gymnasium in Ohio waiting for Trace Adkins to perform. Wrote it on my cell phone. Totally killed my battery doing it too.
Now, this is an extended quote from back then but I think you’ll see the reason behind it. The framework is a shooting out in California that happened earlier that day. The perpetrators had a combination of no hope whatsoever and no moral guidelines. As we have seen recently that’s always a deadly combination.
Travel back in time with me, to a few summers ago.. Way back when the Lewinsky scandal was under the surface, Remember? We were inundated with more and more news reports about kids going out and breaking out massive firepower, and using it to deadly result. The left was screaming (as usual) that it was all because guns were too easy to obtain, and that the only salvation was Clinton’s new gun controls. It got to the point where even President Clinton, apparently seeing a diversion from his legal problems, took a stab at it. (Pun intended.)
Clinton at the time said, among other things, something which I can actually agree with; (A fairly unique happening, I assure you…) He stated that these violent attacks the result of a changing culture,and the pressure that those changes bring to bear.
As has been pointed out by me in this medium previously, the left gets an occasional point right, but refuses to come to the only logical conclusion that such discoveries offer. Clinton it seems, is no exception, apparently understanding that at the core of the problem is the social agenda that liberals have been pushing for decades. It’s all come home to roost, now, and the left doesn’t know what to do about it, or, more likely, is unwilling to do what’s needed. What Clinton to this day doesn’t get, is that it is he, and those on his side of the political and social isle, who have been generating and encouraging those changes in our culture, which have resulted in such destruction. Each are cultural changes which, alas!, even ostensibly conservative people have been caving in on for years, now. Instead of dealing with the cultural problems he’s identified as being causal, Clinton went on to attack not that problem, but GUNS… something which despite his best efforts, we Americans can still legally own, and use.
The classes in proper gun use and care being given to young people today, including the NRA’s Eddie Eagle program have come under attack from the left, as being the cause, not the cure for such problems.
This is because, we are told, in one case in Oregon the young man in question was a part of those classes. (Notice it’s usually young boys?)
But the connection is less direct than the left makes it; There are many myriad self-defense and martial arts classes going on at any time in our country; my son attends one of the better ones. Given that one commonality they and the NRA’s gun classes share is training on the /proper use/ of their training and the tools given, why do we not see attacks by martial arts students in the news? Could there be an agenda, here, do you suppose?
Now, it is not unlike the left to use a well-publicized issue to work it’s will on another, totally unrelated issue. Race, and welfare rights, are two such. (I.E.; There are more whites than blacks on welfare, but when someone proposes a cut of welfare payments, liberals will invariably scream about how it’s racial bias against blacks.) So, I suppose I shouldn’t be overly surprised when they pull that same stunt regarding guns. One need not look too deeply to find their over-riding concern. It is, of course, the same concern expressed by every other socialist in history including Adolph Hitler; the removal of guns from society, altogether… except for the representatives of government, thereby placing the power in the hands of the government alone. (Let’s not kid ourselves; the founder put the second amendment in place to defend us from tyrants within government.)
Let’s not let the left divert us into thinking that the solution to violence is simply removing guns. Let’s hold them to the core issue; violence vis a vie cultural changes… There has been quite a bit over the last few years, said and written, about the culture’s values, and the effect the change of those values would have on the people within the culture.
Of the people affected by cultural change… a change of the roots, if you will, it is younger people, whose roots have not been established, who would be the most affected. No shock, therefore, that the largest number of crimes, particularly the massive violence under discussion, would be teenagers.
Simply put:These teenagers have lost hope.
And why?
Let’s look at the agenda of the modern America, as driven by the left…Perhaps we’ll find a pattern there.We’re told that man is destroying the earth. The problem is that too many of us exist, we’re told. We’re told that man is a problem for the further existence of the earth.
We’re told that we can’t make it without that government handout. We learn quickly, thereby, that we have no real say in our lives, and therefore, no future. As if to give credence to the thinking that life is worthless, abortion has become commonplace. Jack Kevorkian is teaching us that killing ourselves is a valid option, and the government is at least powerless if not unwilling to deal with the issue. Every value we have ever had as a culture is now being abandoned by the government.. Indeed, the government has become outright hostile to the traditional values of the culture that built said government. Can such things be without consequence? The evidence suggests not.
Both parents now work regardless of wanting to or not, simply to pay the taxes… because the taxes imposed by the government consume upwards of 60-65% or our annual income. What kind of basic value will children hold of themselves when parents find they have to work? I understand well the forces that drive such choices, (being driven by
them myself;) but can such choices be without consequence? The evidence suggests not.Mothers who stay at home are universally castigated by the feminist left, as ‘not being in touch with themselves’ and ‘being a burden on the sisterhood’ whatever the hell THAT is. Can this kind of disdain for traditional family values be without consequence? The evidence suggests not.
Remember when America used to have leaders whom you could look up to? Political leaders, ball players, and to a larger degree than today, even film and TV stars were people which could be held up as examples. Granted, many were never perfect, but they were trying to live up to the then universally held American ideals. Who do we have to hold up in their place today? PeeWee Herman. Tupac Shakur. Madonna. Dennis Rodman. The Spice Girls. Larry Flynt, Bill Clinton. Can this be without consequence? The evidence suggests not.
Is anyone of sound mind, foolish enough to suggest that our governmentally induced transition from a values-based society to what is now an essentially valueless society, which provides little if any hope on an individual level, has no effect negative on the people
within it?History, I think, will record the greatest failure of the governments of the last 60 years, to be not in the financial or political areas, and not with it’s law enforcement, regarding guns, but in the cultural… I.E.; support of the majority culture, and the values that it holds dear. Because in the final view, it’s this which is causing the violence, not guns, per se’. Guns are simply a tool. What people do with guns, and for that matter, what they do with all other weapons of every type, and indeed, how they deal with all conflicts, and live their lives , is a product of their environs, as focused through their values.
And when you remove the values, our sense of right and wrong, the rest falls away.
So I said, nearly 20 years ago. The situation hasn’t changed. It remains precisely the same as it was then. those values and the lack of Hope and lack of morality that they instill, particularly in our young people, is as much the problem then as now.
Ponder this for a moment. The Usual Suspects were all kinds of ready-to-use our kids as a prop for promoting the removal of guns from society.
Thing is, they seem strangely silent when they find that explosive materials are equally effective in causing damage… and that the causality in both the cases of the recent bomb attacks and the recent shootings are one in the same. And so, the problem isn’t guns after all it’s a lack of values.
And if they’re honest with themselves they will find the cause in the mirror.
So, the Austin bombing suspect is… or, WAS a local guy, as I anticipated. Stand by for the other shoe to drop
With all the information that we’ve been getting on these bombings in Austin Texas including the word that one of the package bombs white off in the FedEx headquarters hundreds of miles away, I am still convinced that we are dealing with a local suspect, someone who has reason to support the politics that is unfortunately so common in Austin, and someone who has a good knowledge of the neighborhood.
With regards to the bombings happening with some frequency down in Austin Texas, I’ll just leave this here for the time being… What is unique to the politics of Austin, that is true nowhere else in Texas?
Diversity should be thought of as a debatable means to obtain greater competency, but never as end into itself. Kate on the Florida International University bridge collapse:
950 tons on a single 174 foot span.
A concrete ROOF.
5.5 tons of dead weight per linear foot.
For a pedestrian walkway.
Kick in groins from a construction company project manager, from Squawker:
Leonor Flores, FIU alumna, and MCM project exec says her number one priority when building bridges is to make sure they look pretty. Nothing else matters:
What moron hired Ms Flores? Beauty is never the upmost priority, and engineering is never a matter of a single design criteria. I know local trail clubs that can, and have, built better bridges. Some lawyers are going to get rich off this case.
