From Professor Glenn Reynolds, Blogfather of us all:
“Of course, there’s no action so vile that you can’t find an academic to defend it.”
I’m reminded of the old one:
“Whenever there’s a Communist boot stomping on a face, there’s always an affluent liberal to point out that the face has free medical care and education.”
From her lair deep in the wilds of Berkshire in Britishland, Mrs. Sorenson (a.k.a. “The Catholic” on these pages) sends me the following Bad Things:
…and The Royal Berkshire Shooting School:
I’d sell my first-born to go Over There to partake of both but the Son&Heir, no doubt sensing my plans for his future, has been making himself scarce of late so I’m thwarted at every turn.
What makes it worse is that I was a guest of the Sorensons at RBSS many years ago, and it was spectacular fun. Here I am, shooting the leaves off the tops of the trees:
…and here’s Mrs. Sor, firing a shotgun for the first time in her life:
Note the close personal attention, a reassuring hand placed on her shoulder by young Jason, her instructor. (We had to drag her out of there, unsurprisingly.)
I am not exaggerating when I say that if I had the moolah, I would repeat that exercise at least once a year for the rest of my life — as well as going to the Barbury School in Wiltshire in the company of Mr. Free Market (as per my last visit Over There):
And to return to the very first pic: I’ve never tasted Sweeney Todd’s pies.
Maybe next year, when the Chinkvirus bullshit has disappeared… [sigh]
Because we are not subservient Europeans who expect the State to protect them at all times, this development should come as no surprise to anyone:
About a 10-minute drive from Downtown Kenosha, two men stood this week with AR-15 firearms protecting their subdivision.
The armed men were Jason and Gilbert, part of a group of about 10 residents of the subdivision that have been out nights since Tuesday protecting their neighborhood in light of the unrest in Kenosha.
Gilbert, one of the armed residents standing guard, said, “All we’re doing is making sure the community here is able to go asleep, sleep fine and are not worried about anything.”
He noted that the armed residents use flashlights at night to alert approaching vehicles to their presence. If the vehicle pulls into the subdivision, the armed residents stop it and let the driver know he or she will be watched while in the development.
The message here is simple: if government is unwilling or unable to provide security for the lives and properties of its citizens, the community will then take matters into its own hands.
And for the wailers who kvetch about “taking the law into their own hands” and similar handwringing, let me remind you of this fact: the law never left our hands. We citizens deputize the enforcement of our laws to the police; but if the police departments are unwilling, unable or ordered not to do so by their superiors (governors, mayors and so on), we reserve the right to enforce our laws ourselves.
I have to tell you, if our community was in a similar predicament, I would be the very first volunteer in line for such civic duty. Happily, though, our local cops have told me in no uncertain terms to leave everything to them, because their superiors are not liberal asswipe Democrats. (The actual quote was: “If it’s at your house, then do what you have to; but leave the damn streets to us.”)
I admit to sleeping better at night because of that.
Heard at the “Justice for Jacob” rally in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last Saturday:
“If you kill one of ours, it’s time for us to kill one of yours.”
Interesting, that. The only problem is that other people may be thinking the same thing — and not all of them on his side, either.
Just sayin’.
Here’s a happy ending:
A Los Angeles English teacher was forced to flee her home after receiving numerous death threats for wearing an ‘I Can’t Breathe’ T-shirt during one of her virtual class sessions.
The teacher at El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California wore the shirt in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and included instruction about racial injustice in her teaching, which the school allowed.
But a parent upset with her class allegedly shared a photo of the teacher on social media along with her e-mail address and invitations to harass her.
The photo was later shared by Elijah Schaffer, the podcast host of YouTube’s ‘Slightly Offens*ve’, on his Twitter account, which led the teacher to receive hundreds of emails and threats.
Meanwhile, oh boo-hoo-hoo:
‘I can’t afford to go to a hotel and I can’t go home. My daughter’s a ninth-grader starting at this school. We can’t stay in our home,’ the teacher said to CBS Los Angeles.
Not so much fun when the Alinsky Rules are used against you, huh?
The last word comes from one of the good guys:
Scott Blodgett is one of the parents upset with the teacher’s curriculum that covers the civil unrest unfolding across the country.
‘I just want my daughter to go to English class and learn about English,’ Blodgett said.
Yup. Stick it to them, good and hard. And this happened in Califuckingfornia.
Okay, this “new week, new challenges” nonsense is getting out of hand, and crap like this doesn’t help:
Given infinite time, any task can be completed. Quite clearly, the stupid Danish tart never had a scumbag boss telling her that it had to be done by five or she’d lose her job.
But let’s get on with Teh Funneez:
And finally:
So just to add a little non-narcotic anti-depression:
