Month: June 2022

Oh, Really?

Anti-Gun Nannies, Resistance

From our worthy Texas Senator:

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) brushed off NRA opposition to his gun control package Wednesday, noting that the gun rights group cannot be allowed to “veto good public policy.”
The bill expands background checks for some gun buyers, uses taxpayer money incentivize red flag laws, and broadens the NICS prohibited purchasers’ list (by using domestic violence statutes to cover dating relationships).

My suggestion to Cornyn:  start exploring your post-Senate career opportunities, because we will not forget this when your reelection time comes.

Also:  the NRA doesn’t mean spit in this state;  it’s the gun owners that matter.

As you will find out, you fucking squish.

News Roundup

Bad News

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So let’s get down and dirty:


…wow:  you overwork and abuse workers, and then have problems getting fresh meat to grind?


…just doing what they’ve always (never) done.


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…only whilst they and their ilk are still alive.


…because crime rages.


…you mean it’s a crime to burn Renaults, Peugeots and Citroens?


…the problem is that there weren’t enough smoking guns at Uvalde.


…excellent stuff.  More like this, please.  And in Massachusetts?


…the cynics might say that the best way to get inside the political elite’s heads is with a cleaver or a .45 bullet, but I’m not one of those.


…if by “repair” you mean using the above-mentioned cleavers and .45 bullets, then yes.


…for my Murkin Readers, smelling salts are available.  40%?


…actually, it’s to make people laugh, but I’ll take “offending” as a good second option.


…LOL.  He might be a good boss, but he’s still the boss.  Diss him, expect consequences.


…they should just use electric tractors. [/Biden Administration]

And in today’s INSIGNIFICA:

      

Finally:

Eugenie who?, you ask.

Oh yeah… that  Eugenie.

So much for the news.

Short Answer: No

Muzzies, Third World, Two-Minute Hate

…and:

The simple  answer is the title of this post.

Longer  answer:  Do not expect help from those whom you hate and actively seek to destroy.

Fuck ’em;  their medieval belief system, their backwards society, their honor killings and their hijabs:  fuck ’em all.

They’re savages and should be treated as such.

Needless to say, our Congress is no doubt authorizing a few billion dollars in aid, which just makes me all the more eager for November 2022.

“Because Nunya”

Good Stuff, The Gun Thing

So much for that bullshit.

“The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not ‘a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees,’” Thomas wrote in the opinion. “The exercise of other constitutional rights does not require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special need. The Second Amendment right to carry arms in public for self-defense is no different. New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public.”

Clarence Thomas for the win.  And about time.

Big Shot

Music

I must admit to having mixed feelings about Billy Joel.  On the one hand, I really enjoy his rocking music (far more so than his syrupy ballads) and indeed, my most recent earworm was Big Shot.

Which leads to why I find him less than desirable as a person.  You see, he has an annoying habit of acting exactly like what he accused then-wife Christie Brinkley of being in the above song (and yes, it was aimed at her):  a big shot / superstar who treated all around him like shit.

The brutal, uncaring and hurtful way he fired his brilliant drummer Lib DeVitto (after 30 years together!) seems to just about sum Joel up — a stark contrast to his nice-guy image.  (And if you haven’t seen the music video linked at the top, Lib just about steals the show with his background antics.)

So once again, we’re faced with a common showbiz issue:  brilliant entertainer for the public, horrible fuckup as a human being.