I spent some time this weekend gathering up material for more posts of this type.
It didn’t take long.
As a start, here is a radical feminist making a video about “straw feminist tropes”. She whines about a handful of television portrayals of radical feminists and how unrealistic they are, all the while sounding and acting exactly like those “unrealistic” portrayals.
Colorado Rep. Diana DeGuette put up a post over at the Huffington Post on Friday because she wanted to clarify her idiotic statements from last week, or something.
Rather than debate me on the merits of this common-sense proposal, the gun lobby has decided to distort remarks I made at a recent forum in Denver to attack me personally. After the forum, opponents of my bill intentionally mischaracterized one phrase from my remarks, spreading half-truths to mobilize their on-line allies. This is what they do and what they have done for decades to distract the public conversation from the critical issue of reducing gun violence. And this week they employed these tactics to undermine my high-capacity magazine ban.
The gun lobby wants to divert the public’s attention from the fact that a high-capacity magazine ban would reduce the number of magazines in circulation, simply because they would no longer be available for lawful purchase. If Congress passed a high-capacity magazine ban, disturbed individuals like the Aurora shooter would not be able to purchase a 100-round magazine through a few clicks on a website, or buy a 30-round magazine at their local sporting goods store.
No ma’am. You said something stupid that proved you have no idea about the items you are trying ban. You can mischaracterize the reaction to that as much as you like, but the secret is out.
We know you want to eventually disarm law-abiding firearms owners and deny them their civil rights. That is why we are exposing you as an know-nothing. Your hope to dance in the blood of victims in order to score political points is quite blatant. And disgusting.
If you had watched ABC’s This Week show on Sunday, not only would you have likely been bored to tears, but you would have seen the nation’s top proponent of devaluing our currency, Paul Krugman, claim that there is no evidence that government regulation is helping keep our unemployment rating as high as it is.
Ignoring the numerous news stories of these facts is his speciality, because he has a narrative to push.
So one member of the US Senate is looking to give Krugman and those like him some evidence he cannot ignore:
Senator Ron Johnson (WI), Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting and Oversight today announced the release of the first installment of his Victims of Government project. The series will perform oversight of the cost and impact of unnecessary, ineffective, and excessive federal regulations. Johnson also invited anyone who has been dealing with excess regulation to submit their stories on his Senate website.
“The root cause of our economic and fiscal problems is the size, the scope, and the cost of government – all the rules, all the regulations, and all the government intrusion into our lives,” Johnson said. “The Victims of Government series is designed to demonstrate that – in a very personal and powerful way. Over-regulation consumes massive amounts of the people’s money, too often lacks common sense, has no heart, costs jobs and economic growth.”
If you know a business owner of any size, send them to Senator Johnson’s site to tell their personal story.
I have little doubt that if every business owner who is suffering or has suffered under the overwhelming regulations and edicts of the government were put their stories on a page or two that they would soon stack up as high as the Obamacare bill.
Of course, they’re gonna watch the $50 Billion of Hurricane Sandy money like hawks.
Sure they are.
And yours too if you don’t support gun control
Holmes Psychiatrist Warned of Threat Before Colorado Theater Attack
A psychiatrist who treated James Holmes told campus police a month before the Colorado theater attack that Holmes had homicidal thoughts and was a danger to the public, according to documents released Thursday.
Dr. Lynne Fenton, a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado, Denver, told police in June that the shooting suspect also threatened and intimidated her. It was more than a month before the July 20 attack at a movie theater that killed 12 and injured 70.
In the days after the attack, campus police said they had never had contact with Holmes, who was a graduate student at the university.
But campus police Officer Lynn Whitten told investigators after the shooting that Fenton had contacted her. Whitten said Fenton was following her legal requirement to report threats to authorities, according to a search-warrant affidavit.
Legitimately crazy dude that no one who could have done something did anything about.
But it is the gun’s fault.
The right side of the blogosphere is talking about the idiocy of Democrat Colorado Representative Diana DeGuette believing that “magazine clips” are used up once the ammunition is fired out of them and then believing that she is informed about issues concerning firearms.
If you want to watch more of that, as well as one very sharp state Representative, Kevin Lundberg, and the Sheriff of Larimer County, Justin Smith, take on her idiocy, then hit the above link to watch the video of the entire exchange during the Public Forum hosted by the Denver Post.
It is un-embedable or I would gladly host it here.
The Forum is just over 90 minutes long and I would almost advise you to wait until this weekend to watch it. Except that I don’t trust the Denver Post to leave the incriminating evidence up for that long.
Lundberg and Smith do a commendable job being the only two on the panel in favor of civil rights.
Right near the end, a man who looks to be in the “post-retirement” phase of his life asks a question that we cannot hear, but one can only assume he is asking the anti-civil rights members of the panel what they would suggest he do if his home is invaded by multiple armed thugs. DeGette says that “Luckily, you live in Denver and the police are only minutes away.” Which draws laughter from the crowd.
She follows up the laughter by stating that it probably doesn’t matter because even if he had a gun he’d “be dead anyway.”
Nice to see she care about her constituents like that.
“That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the races, until the Indian race becomes extinct, must be expected. While we cannot anticipate this result but with painful regret, the inevitable destiny of the race is beyond the power or wisdom of man to avert.” — Governor of California Peter H. Burnett, 1851
With his powers as governor, Peter H. Burnett sought to achieve that goal of exterminating Native Americans using Article VII of the first California Constitution, which gave the governor the power “to call for the militia, to execute the laws of the State, to suppress insurrections, and repel invasions. .
Thus, with the Native Americans facing “extermination†at the hands of the governor and still being able to defend themselves with firearms and ammunition purchased on the open market, the proverbial crisis that precedes most gun control measures was born. The solution was to create the first California firearm law, which regulated a class of “prohibited persons.â€
–“California’s First Gun Control Law: The Racist Roots and Evolution of the Gun Control Movement,” by Jason Davis. Emphasis mine. The more things change….
Mr. Davis is the go-to-guy when the Calguns Foundation or California gun owners need to fight an unlawful firearms confiscation from a lawful gun owner by CA law enforcement, or unlawful prosecution of a lawful gun owner by our State and local governments, both of which still happen, not infrequently enough.
Mr. Davis’ office offers this handy tear-away card, which is a great improvement on the “have your attorney’s card in your wallet” idea.
Unlike last Friday’s generalization, this woman is the modern face of feminism.
Background here, dongle-masher
If you’re not detecting a theme among the last several of my posts, well, I’ll make it explicit for ya. I aim to be a Brakeman on this Hell-Bound Train we’re all riding, now.
Read Bloch’s masterpiece below, and you’ll see that enjoying the moment, even while hurtling towards doom, is what it’s about.
Example: am I short of ammo? Yes. But what am I buying for the next several months? Ardbeg Ugueidail, Highland Park 18-year-old, Lagavulin 16, and Knob Creek — because I don’t want to be caught when they don’t make any more for a while. Ammo’s comin’ back when the scare dies down, but in a general slide small-production luxury products such as boutique whiskeys will, I think, vanish permanently first. So I’m gettin’ mine now.
Have I given in to the inevitability of doom? Not a whit! If bein’ a brakeman means anything, it’s that you’re in a position to slow things down, maybe stop ’em. But doesn’t mean you can’t have fun watching the show, too.
Spinning Coin, by John Mayall
Ewan Dobson, Reuben’s Train
And That Hell-Bound Train, by Robert Bloch:
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