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The Epidemic of Guns is once again on the front burner in the Wake of the recent Las Vegas Tragedy. Epidemic…”Their words, NOT MINE. Late night talk show hosts are weighing in with various and sundry policy statements and rants. Listening to the Kool-Aid drinking cuck liberals, one would get the impression this a huge problem….Literally millions falling from guns…shoot-outs on every street corner (that seems more real in Chicago). So what about it?
The Washington Times has an update on the “take a knee Foundation” doing business as the National Football League. At least two teams are ending such public displays under threat of punishment. The Players association which appears short on Constitutional Scholars these days said, “We should not stifle these discussions and cannot allow our rights to become subservient to the very opinions our Constitution protects. That is what makes us the land of the free and home of the brave.”
Marc Edelman, law professor at the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business, said that players working for a private-sector business like the NFL don’t enjoy First Amendment protections while on the job.
No. You don’t. (Update: Goodell thinks it might be time to ask everyone to stand for the National Anthem)
Meanwhile, over in California, Jerry Brown signed the “middle finger to Trump” bill making California a Sanctuary state. ICE responded.
Simple facts regarding the fallacy of gun control as a means of preventing terrorism.
Gun hating progressives want to extreme-vet me if I happen to buy a gun. They also want to collect data on my ammunition purchases.
But a person not born in this country, who is not a citizen, can get a driver’s license, good for five years in NH, ten years in California. That person is not extreme-vetted to buy a car or rent a truck.
If you don’t know, George Soros is the multibillionaire that, when a child, helped the Nazi in their Holocaust death camps. He is known for making money by currency manipulation of sovereign countries. He is an open faucet of money, via a whole gaggle of Progressive “charities” and when followed, it almost looks like money laundering. He’s one of the Left’s biggest donors over the decades. Also, he is no friend of Freedom and actively is working for a single world government and open borders.
In this piece from DC Whispers, he’s at it again. The Democrats talk about Trump in collusion with the Russians? Republicans ought to be yelling about Soros more often as he’s really trying to crush our sovereignty. Here’s one of those times where I do quote quite a bit of that post (reformatted, emphasis mine):
AMERICAN COUP: Big Money Donors Trying To Overthrow Trump Revealed. Here’s The List…
We don’t need you. We have your children – Herrman Goebbels
That second question in the title is from a post I did back in 2009 – and the question has only become more and more important over the last eight years so I suggest that you read it because here is another example of what Progressives in education believe about “truth”:
Two Canadian professors have developed an approach they call “Trojan horse pedagogy” to peddle social justice to otherwise unassuming students. Sal Renshaw and Renee Valiquette, both of whom teach at Nipissing University in Ontario, detailed their extensive “ruse” in a recently published book, boasting that their “Introduction to Interdisciplinary Analysis” class is actually a “social justice” course in disguise… “Our goal in this class is to move both hearts and minds, in part by ‘forcing’ an encounter with at least some knowledges that students have already decided they are not interested in,” Renshaw and Valiquette explain, adding that the classes are “rooted in… post-structural feminist theory.”
Boy, does this segue well from my previous post about Progressives lying in “the means justifies the end”. I DVR’d WMUR’s CLOSEUP as I usually do and I know for a fact that the anti-gunners DO want a complete confiscation of any and all civilian firearms: “If I could have banned them all – ‘Mr. … Read more
I’d like to wish the folks out in the Durham area a Happy ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Durham, New Hampshire, is the first municipality in the Granite State to adopt the second Monday in October as ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day.’
(c/o WMUR)“After much consideration and reflection regarding the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus, the town council has come to support this resolution to designate the second Monday in October as ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day,’” said Durham Town Administrator Todd Selig. “Not only is it appropriate to our local history, but also to recognize and value indigenous people everywhere. The designation will encourage residents to learn more about the legacy of Christopher Columbus and the ‘Doctrine of Discovery,’ while also recognizing the devastating effects of colonialism on indigenous peoples.”
Durham’s made it an amalgam day, with the European oppressor and the indigenous oppressed sharing billing, but how long do we honestly think that “relationship” is going to last because this feels a lot like progressive incrementalism to me.
I’m going to watch it again, but it was class Rice-Crispies operandi – dripping with condescension and her favorite tactic of hijacking the conversation while someone else is talking (in this case, Susan Olsen representing the Women’s Defense League). I have to give Susan kudos for the attempt, but it was clear that Zandra Rice-Hawkins was as haughty as ever (as she treats me every time we meet up). We’ve blogged about this outlook of Progressives before – that we believe they are misguided, but they believe we are EVIL. That came out quite clear yesterday (and she is a pro-abortion extremist as well, so the image above fits).
Thus this post from The Federalist caught my eye and well sums up why there is no common ground.
When a gun control advocate starts with their standard heart-wrenching plea for gun owners to cooperate in helping them make everyone safe, all I hear is gun confiscation. This gun control mantra isn’t about personal safety – it is about disarmament. Any plea by gun grabbers that this isn’t the case is flat out nonsense.
Most vocal gun grabbers have no idea what they are talking about regarding weapons; it’s just a fad opinion they picked up like a teenager going vegan to save the planet. The planning for, funding of, and talking points about gun confiscation comes from select left wing sources – professional anti-Second Amendment planners. Most citizen anti-gun activists pick up their agenda like they stepped in chewing gum. If it weren’t guns, it would be offensive statues, or foul language, or history that doesn’t meet their standard. It never stops.
So, did the Founding Fathers imagine automatic weapons?
After all, we Conservatives all look the same to them (are they “Lookists?): She thinks that all of us Conservatives are racists (she certainly called me such on a number of occasions) just because she can. (H/T: Powerline)
Back in March, President Trump signed an Executive Order asking the EPA to review the (the awful terrible) Clean Power Plan. EPA has, and now they are taking a hatchet to it. “I’m here to make an announcement that’s very, very important for you. Tomorrow, in Washington, D.C., I’ll be signing a proposed rule to … Read more
Lots of talk about rebellion and “resistance” these days.
The NFL thugs on their knees, the Antifa children-of-the-corn and the countless Sherry Frost nutcakes who see “oppression” in every blade of grass. It is nothing more than Pecksniffian silliness. I have no doubt this will all end with a whimper, leaving no lasting mark on our country or society.
But we do have examples in our national past of truly courageous defiance, where the players and their families faced very real consequences for their risky acts that helped forge the creation of the United States. The anniversary of one of these events is coming up this month, so let’s take a look.
Occasional podcast guest and friend of the Grok Warner Todd Huston has found himself a target of the “tolerant left™.” After many years as a conservative writer without issue, someone or a pack of someones has taken to vandalizing his home and property.
Over the course of this year, someone in my neighborhood has targeted me. At first, I thought it was just random vandals as the attacks were penny-ante nonsense, but now I am pretty sure it is being done by someone who knows I am a conservative writer who has a body of work stretching back to 2001 and they are trying to intimidate me.
It started early this year when a flag was pulled off my flag-staff and left ripped and in pieces on my lawn.
Two ruined flags, and an egged garage door later, the idea that it might just be hooligans was still a functional explanation. And then something else happened.
Heh! Trump Administration Is About To Give ObamaCare The Planned Parenthood Treatment After all, abortion is all but a sacrament for the Left? They ENDORSE abortions. They LOVE abortions. They PROTECT the ability to have us pay for it. Their MORALITY declares that minors should be able to have one even without their parents consent … Read more
I’ll be away from the Internet most of the day today, so there won’t be much if any new content from me today. But we’re hoping for some news and opinion from the other Groksters if they’ve got the bandwidth. Tomorrow, I will be back on Girard at Large after a week off. The new … Read more
(H/T: Powerline)
Some wounded still hover between life and death. The dead are not yet buried. Americans mourn the dead and injured of the Las Vegas shootings. We wonder how such an event could happen.
And leftists do what they always do; use a crisis to try to take away the rights of the more than 318 million Americans who didn’t harm anyone.
Make no mistake; leftists want to take away the American peoples’ Second Amendment rights. Ignore their denials; occasionally leftists, like Senator Diane Feinstein, admit their goal. They don’t want you to have guns for hunting, for target shooting, for other legal uses, and not even for self-defense.
According to leftists only police and rich leftists’ (whose lives are much more valuable than ours) personal security should have guns.
After each tragedy, e.g., Sandy Hook, Orlando, and Las Vegas, leftists immediately demand restricting the rights of law abiding American people with laws that wouldn’t have avoided any of the tragedies.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
We have seen a number of militant gay couples go to Christian small businesses like flower shops, wedding photographers, wedding chapel owners, and t-shirt makers and demand to be served. At almost every turn, anti-discrimination ordinances or that any business was a “public accommodation”, along with biased bureaucrats and judges, either put these businesses out of business or have put them into years long court battles that may well bankrupt them even if they win on First Amendment grounds.
Now, what happens when the shoe is on the other foot? Is a gay person allowed to “discriminate” against Christian customers?
A gay Seattle coffee shop owner kicked a group of Christians out of his coffee shop Sunday, after declaring he would [Rule #1 prevents me from pasting this in -Skip]. The owner heatedly tells the Christians to leave his shop immediately in a video posted to Facebook by Abolish Human Abortion, a Christian group seeking to end the practice of abortion.
“I’m gay, you have to leave,” the owner tells the group. “This is offensive to me. I own the place. I have the right to be offended.” The group tried to explain that they hadn’t placed any in the shop, but the owner repeatedly told them to”shut up.”
Yes, I’m doubling down today and I liked the turn of phrase. (H/T: Powerline)
And on Obamacare. And on contraceptives. And on LGBT issues. They must think we are stupid because the “conversation” has never really stopped – they NEVER keep yammering. What they they mean by “conversating” is for us to SHUT UP and adopt their way of thinking as if we were soft cantalopes. Not happening, as Kurt Schlichter writes. In part (reformated, emphasis mine):
Nothing Makes Liberals Angrier Than Us Normals Insisting On Our Rights
I don’t agree with liberals often, because I’m not an idiot and because I love America, but when they once again say, “We must have a conversation about guns!” I still couldn’t agree more. And, since all we’ve heard is you leftists shrieking at us all week, I’ll start it off.
You don’t ever get to disarm us. Not ever.
That was the nicest part. He get more amusing:
Now, we should have this conversation because in recent years we’ve seen a remarkable antipathy for the fact that normal Americans even have rights among those on the left. We should have this conversation to clear the air before leftists push too far and the air gets filled with smoke. But we really don’t need to have a conversation about our rights to keep and bear arms. They’re rights. There’s nothing to talk about.