Michael R. Bloomberg, who bypassed his own run for the presidency this election cycle, will endorse Hillary Clinton in a prime-time address at the Democratic convention and make the case for Mrs. Clinton as the best choice for moderate voters in 2016, an adviser to Mr. Bloomberg said.

Source: Dismayed by Donald Trump, Michael Bloomberg Will Endorse Hillary Clinton – The New York Times

I didn’t want to bring this crap back but, Is your “conscience” agreeable with this? Elections have consequences. Don’t forget that.

Vote Guns!

I caught this post over at the MDA Facebook page.

It links to this article from The Trace about how Indiana is responsible for the murders in Chicago and it’s all VP candidate Mike Pence’s fault.

This subject is something I know a lot about.  More than just about any other reporter or political hack (but I repeat myself) does.

Here are my credentials: I lived in Terre Haute, Indiana, 7 miles from the Illinois border, then lived in Aurora, Illinois in the Chicagoland MSA.  I was a gun owner in both Indiana and Illinois, and I had concealed carry permits from both states.  I have first hand experience with buying and carrying guns in Indiana, Illinois, and Chicago in particular.

Indiana is a fairly lax state when it comes to gun laws.  There is no permit to own or waiting period for Indiana residents.  Indiana concealed carry permits are easy to get.  There is no training required.  Fill out the application and take it to your local PD or Sheriffs department for a fingerprint check.  Assuming you are not a prohibited person and you pass the Indiana State Police fingerprint check, you will get your CCW in about 90 days (usually a lot less).  Mine cost me $15, but that was about 10 years ago.  It may have gone up in price.

Illinois is the opposite of Indiana.  You cannot own a firearm in the Land of Lincoln without a FOID (Firearms Owners ID).  To obtain one of those, you have to apply through the Illinois State Police.  The paperwork is pretty much a Form 4473, plus sending in a passport size picture, and $10.  Between 45 and 90 days later, you will receive a yellow card that says you can buy and own guns and ammo.  It is not a permit to carry.  To get a permit to carry, you have to fill out more paperwork, take 16 hours of training, and pay $150 to the state of Illinois.  The training usually runs $150 to $250 for a class.  The optional fingerprinting is another $60.  Fingerprinting takes your wait time down to about 30 days. Without it, it is closer to 90  days for the permit.  Then there is the cost of the 100 rounds of ammo you will need for the live fire qualifications.  I spent about $550 for the total cost of my IL CCW permit, not including the FOID I got the year before.

The biggest difficulty for permit holding, gun carrying citizens in Chicago is criss-crossing the many gun free “safe passage zones” in the city, and not entering the many business with 430 ILCS “no guns allowed” signs.  Carry your legal gun into one of these and get caught, and you lose your CCW and maybe even your FOID.  In some areas of the Chicago, you are better off not carrying and leaving your gun in your car, than risk becoming a criminal.  But that is the point.

This, of course, is what you do if you want to be a law abiding citizen.  If you are a gang member in Chicago and want to carry illegally all you have to do is tuck a gun somewhere and go for walk.  If you want to buy a gun in Chicago illegally, you find a cousin or fellow gang member or trafficker who is not a prohibited person and buy one from them.

The basics of this are simple, someone who is a resident of Indiana (or another border state) lawfully buys guns in Indiana, here and there, one at a time, at different stores, so not to attract attention.  He then drives into Chicago and sells them without a background check in a gang neighborhood.

It is harder if you are an Illinois resident.  Gun stores check your ID.  Long gun purchases in Indiana are legal, with a 24 hour waiting period.  Handgun purchases across state line are illegal.

Of course keep in mind that ALL NON FFL SALES OF FIREARMS ACROSS STATE LINES ARE A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW.

The Obama administration fully admits that it doesn’t bother to prosecute these types of crimes.  For all the call by Democrats for universal background checks, the one thing that they don’t seem to discuss is how the Federal Government doesn’t actually punish people who violate current federal background check laws.

Apparently enforcing the law against criminals who want to break the law is just too much work.  It is much easier to criminalize more common behaviors and bust the law abiding citizens who accidentally violate the law and then claim victory for “doing something.”

While Obama and the media love to blame Indiana for Chicago’s gun violence, at the end of the day, this is a Chicago issue.  All the lax guns laws in Indiana don’t result in 4 people killed an 62 wounded in 4th of July weekend in Indianapolis.  Chicago saw 72 murders in June, 2016 alone.   There is a cultural rot in the heart of Chicago’s worst areas that make this kind of violence possible.  There is no amount of gun laws that could be put in place in Indiana that will change the values of the gangs of Chicago.

They blame Indiana for Chicago’s South Side, they lame Georgia, Virginia, and Florida for Brooklyn and the Bronx, they blame Texas for LA and Oakland.

This attack on the good people of Indiana is just deflection by the Left so as not to have to address the issues they created in America’s urban areas.

Our nation was created so that the states could make laws that best reflected the needs and values of the populations of the states.  What works in Florida doesn’t work in New York or Nebraska.  Attacking a state like Indiana, which makes laws that reflect on the needs and desires of the people of the Hoosier State for the shortcomings of the people of the Windy City is both a willful denial of the real problems Chicago faces as well as an attack on the principles on which America was founded.

But then, when as the Democrat party every been interested on really fixing problems or respecting America’s founding principles?

The U.S. transposed over Europe maintaining the same latitudes.

I saw how Florida matches Egypt and decided to check the latitude of a well know Egyptian historical site: the Valley of the Kings where the pyramids are located.  You have seen video of the place, hot as hell, sandy, etc.

It turns out that the latitude for the Valley of the Kings is 25.7402° N. Miami’s latitude is 25.7617°and we have humidity enough to rust plastic.

Oh yes, quite soft, aren’t we?

…and then I have to close it again. So much stupid is not good for my blood pressure.

But, if you think about it, she is proof God exists. A lesser-loving deity would have sent a lightning bolt to scorch the stupid.

One of the common ideas you see in Social Justice feminism is that we (society) need to teach men not to rape.  We will be subject to laundry lists of ways to teach men not to rape.  If a woman say that teaching men not to rape won’t work or that women should learn to protect themselves, that is just victim blaming and cause for social outrage and ridicule.  God forbid a man who has never committed a rape, and is by all accounts a decent guy, says that he doesn’t need to be taught not to rape because he knows it’s wrong; the Social Justice media will go at great lengths to prove why that attitude means that he needs to be taught not to rape all the more.

Let’s take idea this and cross the Atlantic with it.

The Norwegians  are currently teaching “do not rape women” classes to Muslim immigrants.  The German government is handing out flyers at festivals encouraging (presumably Muslim) men not to rape or sexually assault women in public.

Why won’t it do anything to teach men – especially Muslim immigrant men – not to rape.  Rape is a crime of sex and violence.  Studies show that rapists lack empathy for their victims.  There is some level of aberrant psychology that makes a rapist a rapist.  Most men are highly unlikely to commit a rape because they are psychologically well adjusted.

Psychology is a combination of biology and culture, nature and nurture.  In America, we generally look down on rape and rapists.  We send men to prison for rape.  However, within subgroups of the US, there cultures that cover up rape and make rape more normalized and rape statistics show that within these groups, rape and sexual assault is higher.  Take a man who is predisposed to being able to rape, and raise him in a culture that devalues women and covers up sexual assault, and PRESTO! you cooked yourself up a rapist.

Let’s, once again, take this across the Atlantic.

Start with a religion that teaches that women are worth less than men and that teaches that non-believers are worth less than believers, then add a culture that stones women to death for being raped, lastly add in leaders who say it is OK to rape non believers, and you have made the perfect rapist generating ideology.

This is not something that a couple of days of class can undo.  A quick look at rape statistics in Europe will show you just how well this tactic is working.  Not. At. All.

Rape isn’t the only issue Europe is facing.  Europe is under siege from terrorism as well.  In the last week we saw a shooting and truck attack in France and two shootings in Germany.  The list of terrorist attacks in Europe going back to 2015 is awful.  We are seeing an attack or two per week.

What is the European response?  Well, if teaching Muslim men not to rape is not working, how about teaching Muslim men not to commit terrorist attacks.

The big difference is, when this fails, as it wont to do, the Social Justice progressives in the US and Europe will do what they would otherwise protest: victim blame.  See, it’s not the fault of the Muslims, it is the fault of the French, or Belgians, or the French again that there is Islamic terrorism in Europe.  The British will blame the economy, although poor Sikhs and Hindus don’t seem to be shooting up Europe.  Even in the US, we are starting to see more and more domestic Islamic terrorism, and the US has always been the proverbial ‘melting pot’ when it comes to ingratiation.

We are seeing in real time how naive the idea that a few hours of classes could undo 1,400 years of history and culture.  We cannot expect a leaflet or freshman seminar to make a rapists no a rapist, or a terrorist not a terrorist.

We must understand that those who want to do us harm will do us harm regardless of what we have to say about it.  We must be prepared to meet force with force.  Don’t be a good victim.  For the women of the world, for the men and women of the United States and Europe, for decent people everywhere.  I will leave you with the unassailable words of Sgt. Major Basil Plumley.

Stolen without shame from 90 miles.

A police officer shot an unarmed black man in the street with his hands up.  This was captured on cell phone video.  The black man is a therapist at a group home and he was trying to assist an autistic man who had escaped the home and was playing with toy truck in the street.

Now I doubt that this shooting was racially motivated as, right now, there seems to be no reason the cop should have fired at all.  I’m going to guess that it was just a lack of trigger discipline in a stressful situation.

Hopefully this cop will have plenty of time to learn this lesson – in prison.

Sound harsh?  Maybe, but consider that if you are I shot somebody in an AD, our negligence gets us sent to prison.