From a commenter on this post:
“[James] Madison was 25 in 1776; by the time he was [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s] current age he was drafting the Constitution.”
Compare and contrast Madison’s output with that of Horseface’s Green New Deal.
And people wonder why we old-fashioned conservatives revere bygone times, and their inhabitants…
I speak here not of the dreadful John Lennon song on the Beatles’ White Album, but that apparently (according to the rankings on this list), Texas is only the ninth-most-friendly state for gun owners. This, despite:
Texas does well across the board in our survey thanks to a strong RTC law (that now includes open carry), strong use-of-force laws, and its lack of restrictions on black rifles, magazines or NFA items. The NRA’s Annual Meeting was held in Dallas this year and you could have fit all of the protesters in a VW Beetle.
Maybe if we started handing out .22 rifles to trick-or-treaters on Halloween… except I think they already have them, mostly.
Good grief. I need a drink, and it’s not even ten o’clock.
I’ve spoken about this topic before.
Adele Bellis, 26, from Suffolk was attacked when Anthony Riley arranged for acid to be thrown over her face in 2014, sustaining life-changing injuries.
She lost an ear in the brutal attack and was left partially bald, suffering serious burns to her face, neck and arm, and is still undergoing treatment today.
Either more assholes are playing with their chemistry sets than ever before, or else it’s just being reported more often. Either way, it’s a disgusting feature of modern life.
In the past, I think I’ve advocated a return to an older time, when “an eye for an eye” was considered a just punishment. Now I’m starting to think that we need to go back even further, to when the chemistry major would first suffer the torment he inflicted on someone else, and then be slowly immersed in a vat of boiling oil. I don’t remember who exactly came up with this excellent punishment, but I think it was either the Chinese or Japanese.
It’s not going medieval on someone; it’s going pre-medieval on their horrible asses. Maybe these toads would hold back a little, what with that prospect of retribution hanging over their heads. And by the way: the punishment would be visited on both the actual acid-thrower, and whoever caused it to happen.
Feel free to disagree with me in Comments, but you’d better have a good argument.
One of the many wise things my brother-in-law (Uncle Mike) said to me was this:
“The ideas people always end up getting fucked by the money people.”
The occasion of his utterance was many years ago, when the vulture venture capitalists were giving me the runaround with funding — in essence, they thought my business plan was great, as long as I changed the product, its marketing and its target market — and when I refused to change anything, they promised to release the funds… after six months’ further study. Result (as Longtime Readers may remember): a third of a million dollars’ savings lost, staff laid off, followed by ruin and bankruptcy.
The same is true not just of venture capital gnomes, though. It is a fact of life in the music business, where creative people are happy just to get an opportunity to create music, make albums and perform at concerts for their fans; while in the background the loathsome accountants and managers collect the money, demand more and more “product” from the artists, and try to justify their greed and rapacity by pleading that they “invest” in the artists and are therefore entitled to a return on their investment.
I recently watched the biopic of the late Amy Winehouse, the British jazz singer and ultimate Train Smash Woman, on Netflix. I would urge everyone to watch it — if you can stomach it all the way through — to see exactly what I’m talking about in the previous paragraph. All Amy had was boundless talent; all she lacked was maturity, commonsense, guidance, protection and security, and nobody ever helped her by giving her any of it. Instead, her life was one long catalog of exploitation, enabling and vampire-like sucking of everything she had, with the predictable outcome. And she didn’t deserve any of it. To say Amy was vulnerable would be guilty of gross understatement, and her world treated her like a sadist would kick a newborn puppy, just because the squeals sounded good.
Here’s my comment on the tragedy of Amy Winehouse:
Every single person involved in this vulnerable young woman’s sad life: her “friends”, her producers, her record company’s executives, her “bodyguards”, the press reporters and paparazzi who hounded her every move, her husband, and most especially her father — every single one of them deserves to be put into the stocks and beaten with heavy chains. For hours.
Sorry, but I’m getting sick of conservatives becoming punching bags simply because the Left is going batshit insane.
Let’s hope that one of these twerps doesn’t pick on the wrong guy to vent his Trump-hatred.
I think we all know what I’m talking about, here.
