I do believe she has been testing the waters about running for some sort of public office. It is interesting that the LeggingGate affair brought out this little tidbit I may have missed.

What is Emerge America?

From their website:

A political farm for future female Democrat candidates. Kinda sexist if you ask me. What about men that identify as transgender Lesbians…OK, never mind.

But yes, Shannon is expanding her comments well beyond the usual Gun Control activities.

I have no doubt that we will see her running for some DC Congress seat soon. Maybe she will even move to Zionsville, Indiana to Albany, NY and run for the Senate.

PS: How will this affect Moms Demand? In my opinion not good. Running for office is a full-time job and an Astroturf Group like MDA so attached to her name is bound to be somewhat put in the back burner by Shannon. That would mean they need to get a substitute to run things (I am betting Erika Soto Lamb or somebody selected by her.) Further complicating things, she may end up taking political positions that may run against some beliefs of  women now paying attention to her and supporting MDA.

We’ll see.

PS: I just had a disturbing thought: Shannon R. Watts is actually Shannon Rodham Watts.

The Washington Post posted an article today about United Airlines and #leggingsgate, that said absolutely nothing new from yesterday.

I read it.

Then I read the comments.

The people commenting fell into two camps.

Camp A: United has a dress code for Pass Riders, this family should have known that, United enforced their policy as is their right.

Camp B:  Sexism, policing women’s bodies, stop sexualizing women, legging are comfortable, what other passengers would have cared what these girls wore, miscellaneous social justice jargon, etc.

It hit me like a ton of bricks why this nothing of a story exploded so much so fast.

It is everything we as a nation have been dealing with since 2008.

Illegal immigration and sanctuary cities.

State legalization of marijuana.

Anti-Trump/Antifa/Campus protests.

Executive orders.

The same two camps appear at every issue.  It is the battle between people – mostly conservatives – channeling Walter Sobchak and those – mostly Progressive Liberals – inspired by Eric Cartman.

This is America right now:

VS.

This is petty bullshit. If you have an issue with the company, leave.  The firearms community is small enough that word of mouth quickly spreads if a company is doing crap. It is also small enough that the name of the person who did this will be whispered among the HR departments making the individual undesirable for hiring.

So yes, you will get your 15 minutes of Interwebs fame, but the cost might be a bit longer than you intended.

Hat Tip Tommy C.

I have no idea if this is a troll. The Facebook page looks true enough, but this is…comedic? Then again it fits with their political views.
You decide.

Apparently Huma Abedin is trying to work things out with her husband Anthony Weiner.

I wonder how much the Clintons are paying her to prevent it from becoming possible for the government to compel them to testify against each other?

According to The Guardian, the man who attacked civilians and police with a car and knife on the Westminster Bridge and outside the House of Parliament, had no ties of ISIS or Al-Qaeda.  Therefore his motives remain unknown.

Information gathered from British authorities, exclusive to the Gun Free Zone, is that Scotland Yard now believes that while witnesses thought that they heard the suspect yelling “Allah Akbar!” that was the result of implicit bias and Islamophobia.

In a culturally sensitive re-evaluation of the facts, it was determined that the suspect was shouting “a challah snackbar” indicating that he was Jewish and looking for a Kosher deli.

This release of information has been approved of by a council of London’s Islamic religious leaders and British Minister of Social Justice.

Just fresh from the Fifth District Court of Appeals: Why Burden of Proof on Immunity from Prosecution hearings should be the responsibility of the Prosecutors? Because abuse of power.

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – An appeals court Friday ruled that a woman should not face charges in the shooting of her husband because she was acting in self-defense under Florida’s “stand your ground” law.
A panel of the 5th District Court of Appeal overturned a Brevard County circuit judge’s ruling that Victoria Reid should stand trial for shooting her husband, James Wesley Reid, in the leg during a domestic dispute.
Victoria Reid was charged with aggravated battery with a firearm while inflicting great bodily harm but argued she should be shielded from prosecution because of the “stand your ground” law.

Source: Court Grants ‘Stand Your Ground’ In Domestic Case « CBS Miami

As with many of the gun and defensive laws we have in Florida, we are in a continuous state of fixing the damned things as if they were an old building full of gremlins. And the gremlins are identified as bad prosecutors and judges who just want to be dicks because they can. This case is a prime example: Husband is an abusive drunk who beats the wife, has threatened her with guns in the past and on the night in question, he makes a move as to reach for a gun in their home. She gets a gun of her own and shoots him in the leg. During the hearing even the husband (as prosecution’s witness) admits his actions could have been interpreted as going for a gun and that he also believed the shooting was accidental because the gun had no safety.

The only other piece of evidence is the transcription of the 911 call where the Petitioner said  “My husband, he is injured. He threatened to shoot me and I shot him.” That was it, nothing else was presented by the prosecution and yet, the judge decided out of left field not to grant Immunity from Prosecution.

If you really want to get mad, go read the court’s opinion on why they reversed such stupid decision:

“We conclude that the trial court erred in denying Stand Your Ground immunity to Petitioner because no factual disputes were raised in this case. See Peterson v. State, 983 So. 2d 27, 29 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008) (“[W]hen immunity under this law is properly raised by a defendant, the trial court must decide the matter by confronting and weighing only factual disputes.”). Both parties testified that Petitioner was afraid that Reid was reaching for a firearm when she shot him. They also testified that Reid had committed acts of domestic violence against Petitioner while he was under the influence of alcohol and that he had resumed drinking shortly before the shooting. The statements made by Petitioner during the 911 call were consistent with the testimony presented at the hearing and indicated that she believed Reid was about to shoot her.”

And if your blood is not boiling yet at the disregard shown by the court and prosecution in this case, a reminder that aggravated battery with a firearm is a second degree felony (Florida Statutes 784.045 – 2)  punishable with a term of 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine ( 775.082, s. 775.083).

We need to make our Legislators understand that there cannot be any wiggle room that Prosecutors or Judges can use in a law to screw with the Rights of defendants. We need to forget the concept that members of the Judiciary will not lower themselves to disrespect and abuse the Spirit of the Law with court room shenanigans.  They are lawyers after all.