I see that the NYPD finally came to the city’s rescue and started arresting the fuzzies at the Columbia campus.
My only problem is that the arrests were probably made with 2024-style decorum, i.e. not featuring the “batons, tear gas and dogs” methodology of the early 1960s. Especially the dogs:
Man, I miss those days…
Paid ‘Professional Agitators’ Are Fomenting Violence on America’s Campuses
…leading to the question: so who is doing the paying? Silly rabbits:
George Soros-Connected Groups Paying for Antisemitic Campus Protests, Calling for Revolution
…which in turn leads to my question: Why hasn’t this old fucking Nazi’s U.S. citizenship been revoked yet?
It’s not often that I find anything worthwhile in my former home country, but this is sure as hell in the top 3:
A police tactical firearms team in South Africa shot dead nine members of a brutal gang suspected of raping a young girl in front of her screaming mother. But when shocking details emerged from the mother of the sexually tortured girl who was repeatedly raped during a house robbery, officials ordered a crackdown on the criminal group.
Swift justice was handed out when the elite unit was ordered by top brass to find the eleven men who had put their victim through such a sickening ordeal.
The ruthless gang based near Durban, KwaZulu-Natal province, is believed to be behind a series of serious crimes including murder and armed robbery.
In this case, Africa certainly won, probably for the first time in ages. None of that “fair trial” bullshit for animals like these.
Anyone think that when it comes to Murka and, say, MS-13 or Crips gang members, we should do the same?
I had no idea.
Was chatting to my insurance guy the other day, and the result of said discussion was that as far as my VW Tiguan is concerned, I’m screwed if I ever get into a wreck because the book value of the 2013 model with 130,000+ miles is in the single-figure thousands.
This would be barely enough for a deposit on a “new” (i.e. second-hand) replacement, assuming I could even find one in acceptable condition — mine is near-perfect because I look after my cars, and it has the “leatherette” seats which are like hen’s teeth in this model. (I’m a huge fan of the Tiggy because I’ve owned two, consecutively, and neither ever gave me any trouble, for a total of 210,000 miles.)
And to continue on the math of the thing, a $5,000 deposit would result in a $450+ monthly car payment, which I can’t afford #CrappyCashFlow.
So I’m stuck with what I’ve got, and the only thing I’ve got going for me is that a month’s total driving tops out at about 200 miles. Had I not done Uber for a couple years, the mileage would now stand at about 40,000 miles, but I had no option in the matter (did I already mention #CrappyCashFlow?).
Anyway, I’ll just have to be careful out there, as a wise TV cop once said.
But there is an advantage to not having a modern — i.e. 2015+ — model, in that the electronics of the Tiguan are minuscule: no keyless entry, no mapping software or any of that jive. In fact, other than electric windows and -rearview mirrors, it’s about as electronics-free as one could imagine: no seat “memory”, no “touchless trunk-closer”, none of any of those apparently-must-have “features” which are now common in cars nowadays. Hell, my Tiggy doesn’t even have an Event Data Recorder (EDR) chip installed (that came after the 2014 model year).
This non-modernism is a real advantage when it comes to dealing with bastardy of this nature:
In a world where privacy is becoming increasingly elusive, drivers are facing an invisible foe that could be costing them money. A New York Times report details how automakers are sharing information on driving habits with insurance companies which can have a harmful impact on people’s wallets.
Insurance companies have “offered incentives to people who install dongles in their cars or download smartphone apps that monitor their driving, including how much they drive, how fast they take corners, how hard they hit the brakes and whether they speed.”
Car companies have established relationships with insurance companies, so that if drivers want to sign up for what’s called usage-based insurance — where rates are set based on monitoring of their driving habits — it’s easy to collect that data wirelessly from their cars.
But in other instances, something much sneakier has happened. Modern cars are internet-enabled, allowing access to services like navigation, roadside assistance and car apps that drivers can connect to their vehicles to locate them or unlock them remotely. In recent years, automakers, including G.M., Honda, Kia and Hyundai, have started offering optional features in their connected-car apps that rate people’s driving. Some drivers may not realize that, if they turn on these features, the car companies then give information about how they drive to data brokers like LexisNexis.
Here’s the thing: I am one of the world’s most careful drivers; in fifty-odd years of driving, I’ve had two wrecks of any consequence (and none at all in the past forty years) and two — count ’em, two — speeding tickets (both for doing less than 50 in a 40mph zone). That’s it.
So if anyone would qualify for a lower insurance premium, assuming that I’d agree to let my insurance company snoop on my driving, it would be me.
But I’ll see them all burn in hell before I agree to this bullshit. Fuck these assholes, fuck their Big Brother snooping, and fuck any car company who goes along with this foulness. I’ll stick with my old ‘un, thankee:
No wonder ol’ Fred’s smiling. He doesn’t have to put up with all this bullshit.
You need to read the report about the “pipe bombs” that were discovered outside both the DNC and RNC heaquarters buildings in Washington D.C. on Jan 6 2020. The report exposes either incomparable incompetence by the FBI, or else a degree of indifference about the supposed bombs and their implications, which leads me to suggest the executive summary of the whole business.
There were no bombs, and the FBI knew they weren’t bombs. The bomb-like devices were a plant to increase the supposed imminence of civil unrest and insurrection and feelings of paranoia and fear among members of Congress and the public on Jan 6. And the FBI were absolutely complicit in, if not the actual creators of this entire charade.
Now you can read the article, and see if the above summary is refuted by anything therein.
I thought this nonsense had been declared illegal:
Several major credit card companies have decided to move forward with a plan to track purchases made at gun retailers in California, CBS News reported Monday.
American Express, Visa, and Mastercard will implement a new merchant code for firearm and ammunition retailers, allowing banks to track “suspicious” purchases to comply with a new California law.
As I’ve said before, whenever government needs a BJ, corporations have absolutely no problem falling to their knees.
Fuckers.
Cash. Gun shows/estate sales. Individual purchases. (I don’t know how any of this would help CA residents, as they appear to be doomed, gun-wise.)
Update: Seems like Idaho has the right idea, though.