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A week ago I wrote a post Kamala Harris is going to totally destroy the tech sector in the United States.  My thesis was the Kamala Harris’ proposed Equal Pay Certification was going to destroy the economy by adding layer upon layer of bureaucratic oversight to employee pay.

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal totally backed me up on that.

Instead of having workers claim and then prove discrimination, Kamala Harris wants the opposite: Companies would have to prove a negative—that they aren’t discriminating. https://t.co/YvjBvaesAH

— Wall Street Journal Opinion (@WSJopinion) May 28, 2019

Yeah, it’s bragging, but I’m going to take a victory lap on knowing more about economics that just about all a California Senator, or the rest of the DNC.

Reported in The Express:

Japan stabbings: Children among DEAD after knifeman kills three in park RAMPAGE

According to reports, the attacker stabbed at least 15 children at a bus station near a park in Kawasaki. A suspect has been arrested following the attack local media have reported. The attack took place at 07.44am local time (10.44pm BST).

I don’t believe this.  I have been totally assured that this sort of thing ONLY happens in the United States and only because of our gun culture.

As of yet, it is unclear as to the motive of the attacker on Tuesday morning.

Wasn’t Trump just in Japan?  It must be Trump’s fault.

And the NRA.

A witness told Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK): “I heard screaming, then I saw a man standing with a knife in each hand.

Japan has some of the most restrictive knife laws in the world.  Japanese knife laws make London knife laws look permissive.

“Then he crumbled to the ground.”

According to local news outlet NHK, the attacker stabbed himself in the shoulder before being detained and subsequently died at the scene.

Must have been one of those extra lethal assault knives with a high capacity ghost clip that goes up.

US President Donald Trump offered “prayers and sympathy” to the victims of the horrific attack.

Trump also added: “All Americans stand with the people of Japan and grieve for the victims and for their families.”

Everyone who listens to Hollywood and the Democrats know that “thoughts and prayers” don’t do anything.

Here is how restrictive knife laws are in Japan:

Blades of all kinds are controlled in Japan via the Swords and Firearms Possession Control Law of 1958, which was amended in 1993, 1995, 2008, and just now in 2018. Here’s the gist of it: owning a knife with a fixed blade longer than 15 cm requires permission from the prefectural public safety commission, but only for home ownership. Pocket blades on the other hand, including Swiss Army knives etc. are legal to carry around as long as the blade is shorter than 6 cm. Anything longer and you will need the same kind of permission from the prefectural public safety commission… UNLESS the blade exceeds 8 cm in length, in which case it is banned outright.

You need a permit to have a 5.9 inch knife at home and you can only carry a pocket knife with a blade less than 2.2 inches.  If you get special permission, you can carry a pocket knife that is all of 3.1 inches long.

So a man running around with two fixed blade knives in public is doubly banned.

From the same article above:

You can also petition the government to possess spears, some switchblades, Bowie knives and other assorted blades, but you will similarly have to keep them in your home. A notable exception are double-edged daggers which were banned around the country under the 2008 revision of the Japanese law after they were used during the Akihabara massacre to murder four people. Japanese knife laws may be strict, but no one can argue they don’t exist for a good reason.

So after a single mass stabbing with a double-edged dagger, all double-edged daggers were banned.  If that seems like a ridiculous over-reaction than… you are probably right.

Also, notice that such a ban didn’t stop this mass stabbing from happening.

All the restrictions on possession in Japan didn’t stop this mass stabbing from happening.

The reality is that bad things can happen anywhere.  Bans only affect the law-abiding.

My big kit came is in a blue zippered bag that is nothing but that: no compartments or even a simple separation which means it does not matter how you fix the bag, the moment you move it, contents shift and the stuff you want no longer can be located where you left it . I like the old school paramedic had cases that look like they stole the idea from the bass fishermen and painted it orange but I see the new flavor is the soft case and tend to be a buttload cheaper that whatever you can find in hard cases.

This is the ugly old sucker. Size is about 13.5″ by 9″ x 9″. The replacement can be bigger, no problem. But it has to have some sort of pockets/division where I can keep stuff in one place and find it when I need it.

Open to your suggestions. I am cheap, so used in good condition is an approved alternative.

After over 2,000 years, you would say we have the knowledge about sending people way up and way down.

This is Venezuela’s Minister of the Popular Power for Agriculture and Lands Wilmar Castro Soteldo. The speech he is giving is in Spanish and I apologize to the Non-Speakers, but what he is saying is that corn on the cob, a bunch of it placed in the tread of tanks, will immobilize it.
No, I am not screwing with you.

He also went to say if you toss it inside a plane’s turbine, it will stop it and it corn on the cob can also be used as impact weapon to hit a top of the head at an enemy or stuck it in the eye and he will be stunned.

If you understand Spanish, you can go ahead and leave confirmation of the idiocy in the comments.

Because they are so dumb, not only they have a stupid John Wayne strategy but they are stupid enough that they prepare and serve the evidence for the prosecution.

It seems the dumb asses still have not realized that their interactions in this Facebook Florida Gun Group is evidence obtainable for an investigation and eventual trial.

The part the ticked me off is that there were people who actually gave both warnings but went mostly ignored.

Be very careful and very choosy where you get your legal advice from.  I am sure that none of the Idjits above have been in court defending somebody, much less successfully and sure as hell none of them will show up to back your sorry ass in court for following their advice, specially if they are themselves under court proceedings for murder.

Since I am working on old newspapers, I picked a small town publication from 1891.