I don’t go for these type of shows, but I have to admit she impressed the hell out of me. Go ahead and watch.

See what I meant? She has a future.

Jovantae Jackson had been trying to cut ties with a local gang and was beginning to turn his life around, his grandmother said, when he was shot dead walking home from school. He had recently finished a court-ordered house arrest for a gun charge. The 18-year-old senior at Stellar Leadership Academy Charter School had just found a job at a local fast food restaurant and was two weeks from graduating high school. Three weeks ago, he learned he was going to be a father.

Source: Jovantae Jackson gunned down two weeks before his high school graduation | Miami Herald

This is part of the article, I found it illuminating.

Davis, Jackson’s teacher, said he first noticed Jackson during first period reading class, because the teen was wearing an ankle bracelet — one ordered by a court. Stellar Academy is an alternative program for students who have left regular high schools because of behavioral and attendance issues.

So, we have here a “Former” gang member with already a felony conviction for a weapon’s charge, already with a girl pregnant… but he was a good boy who changed his ways but somehow was targeted.

And somehow I get the feeling that the accompanying photo for the article shows a very much younger Mr Jackson. Here is photo when he was booked:

Desperately seeking Trayvon, Part 2? It did work in the past, right?

“IS NO PLACE SACRED?” Asks Shannon Watts. The answer for a “protected group” is a resounding no.

A priest and several churchgoers have been taken hostage by fighters in Marawi City, on the Philippine island of Mindanao, as thousands of residents fled ongoing unrest that prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to declare martial law in the southern region.As the violence continues, Duterte said on Wednesday that he will consider expanding his martial law order throughout the country “in order to protect the people”. The violence erupted on Tuesday after the army raided the hideout of Isnilon Hapilon, a commander of the Abu Sayyaf group, which has pledged allegiance to ISIL. Abu Sayyaf fighters called for reinforcements from an allied group, the Maute, and dozens of gunmen managed to enter Marawi, home to about 200,000 people.

Source: Mindanao: Churchgoers ‘taken hostage’ amid Marawi siege | Philippines News | Al Jazeera

This is a major terrorist attack you have not heard about. Abu Sayyaf/ISIS initiated the take over the city of Marawi by attacking a church and kidnapping the parishioners. The unarmed Filipinos had to wait for Government troops to show up to start countering the assholes and nobody knows how many innocents they got to kill because they were unable to defend themselves.
This thing is still going after a week and people in town were forced to evacuate or die at the hands of Abu Sayyaf/ISIS.

So dear Shannon, yes, we pack for church. And if we could carry rifles, we would do so because Evil does not give a shit about the sanctity of the building where we congregate to celebrate God.

I saw the same article in The Portland Mercury that many bloggers did – This Week in Appropriation: Kooks Burritos and Willamette Week.

To recap.  Two white women vacation in Mexico.  They fall in love with the local tacos.  They watch the locals make them to figure out why they are so good.  They go back to Portland and do their best to duplicate the Mexican tacos in a taco truck.  Business is booming.  They get accused of cultural appropriation for being white women selling tacos.  They go under because SJWs are assholes.

I should blog about how awful this is and everything.

Instead, I’m having one of my terrible ideas.

I’ve always wanted to to go Portland for the Kershaw end of the year warehouse sale.

If I go, I’m going to go to every hipster coffee shop and throw a shit fit over every cinnamon raisin, cranberry, Asiago cheese, and jalapeno bagel I see.

See, my grandfather started and ran a Kosher Jewish Delicatessen.  Real bagels are boiled before baking, that’s what gives them that authentic texture.  Crap bagels are steamed during the baking process.

Authentic Jewish bagels are plain, egg, onion, garlic, salt, poppy seed, sesame seed, pumpernickel, or everything (salt, onion, garlic, poppy, and sesame).

Cinnamon raisin bagels are for goyishe women in yoga pants who buy their bagels from Panera Bread.

I wonder how much I can extort out of these hipster douche bags making a scene about how they are culturally appropriating Ashkenazi Jewish culture for breakfast.

I have to figure out how to draw some parallel between them baking and not boiling their bagels and sending Jews to the ovens because they are a bunch of Deli appropriating antisemites.

If I can get a hipster coffee shop shut down, it will be an ultimate victory.

Erin Palette of BlazingSword.org had a class on Active Shooter Survival Techniques scheduled for Mid June at the First Congregational Church of Winter Park, Fl.  No guns involved, no ninja shit, just a class. And yesterday she gets this communication from the church:

To say Erin was disappointed would be too weak a description. She explains in her Facebook page why she chose the church:

God Bless her for believing in the good intentions of organizations, but unfortunately it is not so all the time, even with churches.  The First Congregational Church of Winter Park is part of the United Church of Christ and by their own HQ website, virulently Anti Gun.

My take is that people in the  First Congregational Church of Winter Park received Erin’s initial request, saw that she was a member of the LGBTQ community and in a knee-jerk reaction said yes to the event. Then somebody either drop the dime or the church reviewed BlazingSword.org and an “Oh shit!” moment developed necessitating the canceling the class even though it had nothing to do with guns. The church could not afford be associated with a group that advocates Self Defense and Self Reliance because it contravenes the political stance of the Church in general.

And allow me to use some raw language here about Liberal organizations: As long as you follow the political dogma, you are a welcomed member of the  LGBTQ class. You stray from the dogma, and you are nothing more than a freak faggot for them, undeserving of Human Rights.

Now, expense had been made and Erin will have to eat the cost so we need your help. Sean Sorrentino is making an emergency fundraiser via Facebook to at least cover the urgent reprinting of the flyers. I am sure there are other costs and there will be future events also, so please donate a couple of buck their way. And seeing that Blazing Sword is a 501(c)3 tax deductible group, so you can write off any donations.

When grumpy does not even begin to cover it.