The Guardian is pushing this story that OMG, REPUBLICANS ARE SEXIST BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT WOMEN TO SHOW THEIR SHOULDERS IN THE HOUSE AND IT’S JUST LIKE ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE.’

The Mary Sue doubled down on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ analogy.

Because not being able to wear a sleeveless blouse or open toe shoes is the same as being forced into a Amish Burka.

Of course, some more reasonable media outlets have explained that the dress code for the Speaker’s Lobby predates Ryan and that reporters are warned about dress codes before entering.

Here is what no media outlet has said, that I feel needs to be said:

The dress code for men in the House is a suit.  A suit.  Your shoulders are not giving me the vapors because I am already light headed from my wool pants, undershirt, oxford shirt, tie, and silk lined wool jacket.

You can’t wear a light, sleeveless blouse.  Boo hoo hoo, I’m forced into a wool jacket.

You have to worry about your skirt being too short.  I’m in wool pants.

Sure, I’m not in Congress, but I experienced this exact same thing in business.

My choice of attire was a black suit, a gray suit, or a blue suit.  If I was feeling really daring and the weather was nice, I could wear a camelhair suit.

I left “business” to go into manufacturing.  I still have a uniform.  Long, heavy cotton pants, composite toe boots, and a shirt with a collar.  Every day.

I’d see the women in the company, not in engineering (usually accounting or marketing) wearing skirts and blouses and sandals to work while I’m sweating to death on aching feet in boots and something to protect me from chemical spills, abrasions, metal chips, etc.

Don’t tell me about the sexism of “professional dress codes” when my choices in daily wear are a wool suit and oxfords or a cotton/nomex blend and safety toe boots.

Maybe Speaker Ryan should change the Speaker’s Lobby dress code.  Full suits with jackets all around for everybody.

Norman v. State of Florida, an Open Carry case,  has now been filed in the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sean Caranna just informed that an official press release by Florida carry is upcoming and I will leave them to explain the details. In the meantime you can read the writs filed.

Norman v. Florida : PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI.

Norman v. Florida : PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI (appendix).

More to come and we are going to need everybody’s help to raise funds for this one. Supreme Courts cases are not cheap and we have a hell of a lawyer.

Yes, it is a boat.

Imagine the balls of congressmen wanting to have the tools to be able to defend themselves from the likes of Liberal Democrats like Josh.  People is supposed to comply and be good victims, right Mr. Hortwitz.

As I heard Massad Ayoob say many years ago:

“Hunting ain’t fun when the bunny shoots back.”

Ain’t that a kick in the head.

Author and columnist Sarah Kendzior was on vacation in Branson, MO, and went to the grocery store, a non-event which precipitated this tweet.

I was trying to figure out just how anti-gun this post is.  Ms. Kendzior didn’t seem particularly pearl clutching, and even followed up with this.

She is the author of the book The View From Flyover Country which is a collection of essays about politics from a Liberal in St. Louis.

She gives her professional credentials as:

I am currently an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail, where I focus on US politics. I also am the US correspondent for the Dutch news outlet De Correspondent. Previously I was an op-ed columnist for Al Jazeera English, where I wrote about exploitation, particularly in higher education, the diminishing opportunities of America’s youth, and gentrification. I have also covered internet privacy, political repression, and how the mediashape public perception.  My April 2013 article “The wrong kind of Caucasian” is the most popular AJE op-ed of all time.

I have also written for POLITICO, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Quartz, Slate, The Atlantic, Medium, Radio Free Europe, Opinio Juris, Alternet, HRDCVR, POLITICO Europe, The Chicago Tribune, The Baffler, Blue Nation Review, Alive Magazine, Ethnography Matters, Registan.net, The Common Reader, The New York Daily News, La Stampa, World Policy Journal, The Brooklyn Quarterly, The Diplomat, Marie Claire, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Teen Vogue, City AM, World Politics Review and The New York Times.

Perhaps as a flyover resident, even Left of center, she was just illustrating America’s gun culture.

No tweet about guns goes unnoticed on the internet, and the regular fools came along to voice their opinions on this horror as well as devolving into typical Red State bashing.

But this one was my favorite

The answer is: it doesn’t matter.

Branson is a few hours drive from Ferguson, site of the famous Ferguson Unrest.  A series of “protest” in the name of a new “civil rights movement.”

AR-15’s and high capacity handguns are not for vampire ducks and zombie deer.  They are for arsonists and looters who might turn you into the next Reginald Denny (Yes, I know that was LA in 1992, but the horror of that video has been burned into my mind).

It’s not about ducks and deer.  It’s about keeping you from becoming a casualty of those – from Ferguson, to Portland, to Baltimore, to Berkeley, to Hamburg – who, more and more, think that smashing things, beating people, and burning buildings is the way to get their point across.

When you have to use the memory of dead and wounded cops event though your organization is AntiCop and you also have to defend Concealed Carry.

Recently, two San Antonio police officers were shot in a gunfight in broad daylight while on duty — and one died.Our families and law enforcement heroes won’t be safer if we cut concealed carry permitting and training requirements. The answer lies in educating and training our fellow Texans who choose to arm themselves while preventing those who are deemed “too dangerous” to legally buy a gun from getting one and carrying it in public. As a volunteer with the Texas chapter of Moms Demand Action, I have seen the gun violence prevention movement grow dramatically over the past few years.

Source: Don’t weaken conceal-carry in special session – San Antonio Express-News

I think the drain plug in Moms Demand’s boat has been pulled and water is coming in. Let’s help make the hole bigger.

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