Thursday, January 18, 2018

How the Mighty Have Fallen

Christie Blocked at VIP Entrance to Newark Airport [More]
Looks like a bit of in-your-face Port Authority payback. But he's not completely "one of us" with tax-funded armed security.

[Via Jess]


File This Under 'WTF?'

FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump [More]
My first inclination is people are grasping at straws hoping to turn up something...anything, but that's just a guess and I can't pretend it's not subjectively influenced.  Then again, neither can Team Mueller and McClatchy, but they do.

I guess we'll see.

[Via Jess]

Her Lips to God's Ear

Oakland Mayor Says She’ll Go To Jail To Protect Sanctuary City Policy [More]
Oh no! She went for her waistband!

[Via Bluesgal]

And There was War in Heaven

Some New York gun owner rights advocates aren't happy with state NRA affiliate leadership. [More]

I'd say something but I don't want Jacob to get mad at me.

[Via Andy M]

We're the Only Ones Unprotective Enough

Judge Dale A. Drozd ruled in U.S. District Court in Fresno that established law says “there is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen.” [More]
Welcome to the party, pal.

Think somebody oughtta tell Popsey...?

How Did I Miss This One when It Came Out?



"Authorized Journalists"-- Is it any wonder I love them so?

[Via Skip W]

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Term 'Home Grown' Is

Blockbuster DOJ Report Shows Vast Majority of Convicted Terrorists in America Were Born Abroad [More]
Damn right-wing extremists...

[Via Michael G]

Bound to Happen


Nice to see Fred get one right. [More]

He's been long on accusations of bigotry and short on addressing the real issue of late.

[Via Wynn A

That's One Way to Destroy a Brand

Want to pay for some hate with your clothes? Buy @scottevest and keep the hate flowing!  [More]
Disavowal and distancing in 3...2...1...

It doesn't matter if he's "stepped down from the management of SCOTTeVEST and he is not involved in our daily operations." If he still has financial interests, any product you buy from the will enrich him.

Besides, they knew when he was still in control. It's just this time there's no keeping a lid on this.

A personal boycott is a fine idea, but hardly enough.

If you want to strike back, you need to find retailers carrying the brand, and let them know it's them or you, and do it publicly on social media, encouraging others to join in.

Let's hope any additional shareholders hold him accountable for their losses in court.

[Via Jeet]

Of Course They're Willing to Have You Killed

Tennessee Legislators move to make it a class E felony to use or possess bumpfire stocks or other accelerators [More]
And that's a lifetime disarmament ban should you survive both the SWAT experience and being a prison bitch.

I don't see this passing. Nonetheless, it doesn't hurt to know what Lee Harris and Dwayne Thompson think should happen to those who will not bend to their will.

[Via Ron W]



Marxist Wanted: Inquire Within

Grassroots Campaigns provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.  [More]
What about "conservative"?

[Via Bluesgal]

Blind Leading the Purposefully Blind

“I had no idea that those things (bump stocks) even existed. So that’s when I knew that I needed to take a stand. I believe that I was saved for a reason, and I need to make a difference.” Carroll, a mother of two, comes from a family of Republicans who enjoy hunting and support Second Amendment rights. “I grew up in a household with hunters. My boyfriend’s a hunter." [More]
So the six Democrats and five "Republicans" who voted for this infringement took their lead from someone who admits complete ignorance on what they want to ban and demonstrates complete ignorance on what the Second Amendment is about.

Call it idiocracy, call it legislative malpractice... I call it tyranny, cowardice and treason.

[Via Mack H]


Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

A years-old arrest has thrust a rising star in Portland activist circles into the middle of the #MeToo movement. Portland's Resistance co-founder Gregory McKelvey was jailed six years ago on suspicion of strangling and kidnapping an ex-girlfriend while he was an 18-year-old student at Oregon State University, records show. [More]
What's with the denials? Doesn't Team #TimesUp demand women always be believed? And isn't a call for presumption of innocence sufficient cause to vent furious demands to destroy whomever makes it?

We've reached the point where denying an assault accusation is tantamount to committing a new one.

I love it when leftist sharks devour each other in utero.

[Via Michael G]

And How Sorely They'll Be Missed


Gee, that's too bad.  But since some seats are opening...

Watch CNN lead the pack in making the absences the story of focus rather than the address itself.

If Gupta's dream comes true, look for these same attention-seeking rabble-rousers to loudly boycot the funeral and egg on Antifa protestors.

[Via Jess]

Witness for the Prosecution

Two weeks before a St. Louis man accused in a 2015 homicide was set for trial, the Circuit Attorney’s Office dropped charges against him, citing “witness issues.” [More]
Ah well. He'll be back.

Or dead.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Trailblazing Enough

The first Somali person to become a police officer in Maine was arrested Saturday night for disrupting a concert and heads to court Wednesday to face multiple charges for her behavior. [More]
Who needs UN troops on U.S. soil empowered to "legally" disarm Americans?

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Pushy Enough

Man seen on video pushing a young, female referee is a police captain, authorities say [More]
Pretty close to the edge there. If he'd lose it and go thug on a teenage girl in front of witnesses, imagine how he's used to behaving when he gets citizens alone. And imagine the tone he sets.

That he made captain speaks volumes.

And the bully's name...?

[Via bondmen]


If it Ducks Like a Quack

Trump's doctor, who has actually examined him: He's good -- a little bit of fine tuning on weight, diet and cholesterol, but all things considered, "Mr. Trump, 71, has remarkably good cardiac health, probably because he does not smoke or drink alcohol.

CNN's Sanjay Gupta: He's getting ready to keel over from The Big One!!!

That would be the same Sanjay Gupta who "wrote healthcare speeches for then first lady Hillary Clinton."

Speaking of Hillary, what did he have to say about her health?
"I wouldn't say that there's anything that's abnormal in here."
No, of course not:

Dissent Aside, NRA 2018 Board Candidates Ignore Greatest Threat to ‘Gun Rights’


Can it make a difference without first acknowledging an existential threat exists? [More]
Anyone who disagrees, be the first to provide  credible and testable evidence – not just isolated anecdotes and opinions – to show why concerns about millions of anti-gun foreign nationals on a "pathway to citizenship" are unwarranted.