Remember the result of the GAO investigation where it was confirmed Gun Owners are very much respectful of the law for internet sales? Democrats are not happy about it and want to force GAO to repeat the experiment till they get the results they want.

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers don’t like the methodology that the Government Accountability Office used to find that it’s difficult to buy firearms illegally on the internet.

The Democrats requested the report on online gun sales, but now they seem to want a new study to be conducted with different methodology.

“Well, when we send something to GAO, we allow them to do the process that they think makes sense. But we do have a disagreement with their methodology, and we’re going to go and sit down with them and discuss how to get at the problem,” Hawaii Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz told The Daily Caller last Thursday.

Dems Mad That Government Report On Gun Sales Didn’t Confirm Their Talking Points.

The point was never to find out if regular gun owners were following the law and selling illegally to known prohibited persons. The point was to kill internet sales and send everybody to a FFL for Universal Background Checks.

If this “changes in methodology” crap and redoing the study seem familiar, you are not wrong. This is the same crap they pulled with the CDC reports during the Clinton Administration which said over and over could not find a relationship between Gun Control and a reduction in criminal and/or gun violence. That did not make the Democrats stop and they kept demanding for more reports, wasting the time of the CDC and the taxpayer’s money which was the reason the Republican-dominated congress put the brakes on any further expenditures for such studies. The Dems have been trying to use that as proof the Republicans and the NRA are in cahoots to hide the real (but never found) reasons of “gun violence” without success even when Obama managed to bypass the congressional mandate, the results came the same as before.

But have no fear, Democrats will continue to throw tantrums and beat on a barn full of Dead Horses till they think they will get their way, even if they have to fake a report.
Maybe they need to hire that FBI guy who redacted the Hillary’s Mail Server investigation report.

Hat Tip John R.

It started with CNN this morning.

– He's an environmental hero

– He was a socialist before it was cool

– He never let a political disagreement turn nasty

Many Americans have turned MLK into a safe holiday mascot, but some say King still speaks in ways that go beyond civil rights https://t.co/zMBtSBfPIm pic.twitter.com/Y8gl4Kx7lP

— CNN (@CNN) January 15, 2018

Excuse me CNN, but “he was a socialist before it was cool” is a fucking awful sentiment.  I know that socialism is hip among the privileged Left in America, but in reality socialism isn’t cool.  It end up with people eating from garbage dumps and beating livestock to death with rocks like a scene from a zombie apocalypse movie.

Righteous voices on the internet had none of CNN’s bullshit.

news organization wrongly stating MLK was a socialist. millions who died under socialism would prob disagree with @CNN's statement it's "cool" https://t.co/mFx1SjB0SS

— Elisha (@ElishaKrauss) January 15, 2018

Enter professor Anthony Zenkus of the Columbia School of Social Work.

Odd how you forget the millions who died under #capitalism. The two world wars, centuries of slavery and the genocide of native americans. Bet they didn't think that was cool either. https://t.co/8Fr4WYA7vD

— Prof Zenkus (@anthonyzenkus) January 15, 2018

This is going full fucking retard.

The cause(s) of WWI is/are difficult to understand.  Ask ten different history experts and you get ten different answers.  What is clear is that there were several factors that contributed to the war such as a series of interconnecting alliances, a really nasty game of family feud between the last remaining monarchs of major European states, ethno-nationalism of various groups under the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  The one thing everyone can agree on was that it was kicked off by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian national.

Nowhere in any of that was “capitalism” listed as a cause.

WWII is a little easier to explain.  An economically depressed Germany was taken over by a tyrant named Adolf Hitler.  Hitler believed in Nationalsozialismus or National Socialism.  The political party he lead was called the NAZI party, which is an acronym for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, translated to English as National-Socialist German Workers’ Party.  Hitler invaded Germany’s neighbors because he wanted lebensraum or “living space.”  Then he invaded Russia, mostly for their Oil.  It all went down hill after that.  

Hitler was a socialist.  He believed in national socialism, really wasn’t all that much different from Stalin’s Socialism in One Country idea.  The only ideological difference between Hitler and Stalin was who was going to be in charge.

Again, nowhere in any historically accurate understanding of events was capitalism a factor.

Then it gets worse.

Hitler was a capitalist. Good friends with Henry Ford. Please, use the Google machine. It's there for all of us. https://t.co/sL3PqlyM4l

— Prof Zenkus (@anthonyzenkus) January 15, 2018

Hitler was a socialist.  That’s what he called his party.  Hitler liked Henry Ford because Ford published a book called The International Jew which Hitler loved.  They bonded over mutual hatred of the Jews, not capitalism.

But this is what this sick fuck believes about world history.

His anti-capitalist, pro-socialist bullshit is the core of his existence.

He gave a TEDx talk about it.

His thesis in a nutshell: capitalism hurts children.

This comes from some research that shows that growing up poor has a negative effect on brain development.

He makes a very clear case staring at 9:31 that he believes wealth needs to be taken from the rich and given to the poor until everybody has a “middle class” standard of living, in a radical wealth redistribution scheme.  His justification is that above “middle class” there is no amount of money that improves childhood development, so the rich don’t need anything above “middle class” and that should go to the poor.

Of course what will really happen is that we all end up eating out of garbage dumps and killing our neighbors’ dogs for food, but never mind that.

The problem is that America has a “compassion shortage,” which is odd because his form of compassion has lead to food shortages elsewhere in the world.

Then he jumps over to a story about how David Bowie helped bring down the Berlin Wall.  Youths in East Germany rioted when they heard David Bowie blasting music over the Berlin Wall from a concert in West Germany.

That East Germany was the anti-capitalist, socialist Germany and West Germany was the free, capitalist society blows right by him.  The riot was by the starving, oppressed people in the socialist country wanting what they heard in the capitalist country, not the other way around.

Nobody from West Germany risked getting shot in the back to hop over the wall to East Germany saying “I got to get me some of that Soviet lifestyle.”  Nobody risks their life on a homemade raft to float from Miami to Cuba.  The guy undoes his entire thesis with his anecdote and is too much of a true believer fuck-wit to get it.

And this fuck-wit teaches college.

Basic facts are outside the realm of his grasp.  What would happen if you gave every American a basic living wage of $48K per year?  Well, $48K per year would suddenly be worthless as (hyper) inflation caught up with us as – I guarantee – at least one quarter (if not more) of the population said “now that I have a living wage, I’m not going to work anymore.”

This idiot professor retweeted this like it was some kind of wisdom.

https://twitter.com/TheTweetwit/status/952515032398491653

Except that wealth is not exclusionary.  When one person gets a raise, somebody else doesn’t get a pay cut accordingly.

And he teaches this to college students.

I’m all for free speech, but at some point we need to draw a line in the sand and say a public university can’t hire people into a classroom that doesn’t teach basic objective facts, like, say, Hitler was a capitalist.

I don’t believe that freedom of speech protects someone with no medical education to walk into a classroom and teach med students that they don’t have to scrub up before surgery because the power of positive thinking will protect patients.

What do we do about it?

Yesterday I said that Chelsea Manning was running for Senate in Maryland and is going to win.

This is why.

From The Intercept, written by Glenn Greenwald:

Centrist Dems Launch Smear Campaign Against Young Trans Woman, All to Keep an Old Straight White Man in Power.

According to  popular voice in the far Left media

OVER THE WEEKEND, Chelsea Manning announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate by posting a video outlining the broad themes of her campaign. Manning, a whistleblower who served seven years in a U.S. military brig for exposing systemic U.S. war crimes, was held under prison conditions so brutal that the U.N. formally denounced them as “inhumane.”

While her whistleblowing made her a hero around the world, Manning has also now become an icon of LGBT equality and trans rights with an act of profound bravery that at least matches, if not surpasses, her whistleblowing. She announced her transition, and demanded the dignity and treatment to which she was entitled, while she was imprisoned in the middle of a sprawling U.S. military base, in a brig at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

You see, Chelsea manning is a hero and a political prisoner.  A victim of the evil United States for being just too pure at heart and a victimized trans person.

The UN (yeah, the same UN that hates America and Israel and puts Nigeria, Iraq, Cuba, and Afghanistan on the Human Rights council) decided that Manning’s confinement was equivalent to torture.  That fact that he was put in solitary because he was passing classified information to our enemies (by way of Wikileaks) and the military wanted to cut off his access to the outside world was not a factor.

Manning’s opponent in the Democratic Party primary is one of the most standard, banal, typical, privileged and mediocre politicians in the U.S. Congress: Benjamin Cardin, a 74-year-old white, straight man who is seeking his third six-year Senate term. Cardin’s decades-long career as a politician from the start has been steeped in unearned privilege: he first won elective office back in 1966, when his uncle, Maurice Cardin, gave up his seat in order to bequeath it to his nephew Benjamin. With this dynastic privilege as his base, he has spent the last 50 years climbing the political ladder in Maryland.

The current Senator is a white guy of privilege, which regardless of political alignment,  makes him literally the devil and a worse version of Hitler.

Cardin has remarkably few achievements for being in Congress for so many years. One of his few distinctions is that he has become one of the Senate’s most reliable and loyal supporters of AIPAC’s agenda and the Israeli government, if not the single most loyal. In 2015, he joined with Lindsey Graham in kicking off the annual AIPAC conference, causing neocon columnist Jennifer Rubin to gush about how identical they sounded.

This would be irrelevant except that it’s some good Lefty anti-Israel Jew hatred.  Another good way to smear someone before the radical Left – “he supports Israel.”

Why have so many establishment Democrats so quickly decided to back a white, straight male politician steeped in privilege, while devoting themselves to opposing a candidate who would make history by becoming the first trans woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, in the process inspiring trans youth around the world and helping to erode the stigma that has made them so vulnerable to discrimination and violence?

Because, maybe, backing identity politics isn’t the best idea when the trans person was convicted of violating the espionage act?

They’ve decided to do this presumably because they find Cardin’s centrist ideology and politics more appealing than Manning’s more radical politics, and believe that this trumps what could be the historic value of Manning’s candidacy. They’ve apparently decided to prioritize their own centrist ideology over the important gender, sexual orientation and trans equality progress that Manning’s victory would ensure.

By all means, support the radical that backs Antifa.  That’s a good way to say that you have a national platform that should be respected.

One can certainly make an argument that the license they’ve granted themselves here – to prioritize ideology and politics over identity – is a reasonable one. But one wonders whether they intend to maintain a monopoly on this license or extend it to others.

Prioritize politics over identity, except when it is the  exhaled victim identity of  trans.  Then by all means put a trans person convicted of violating the espionage act above politics.

If you worry about trans people, you might not want to put a tranny traitor at the forefront of the movement.  Now, not just do I believe that trans people are mentally unstable freaks who want you to call them Xir while they record videos of your daughters peeing in public restrooms, but they are all anti-American traitors as well.  Good job!

This is it, right here.  This is Manning’s entire campaign.  Vote for the trans political prisoner over the privileged rich white guy.

Forget about the treason.  Forget about passing US secrets to our enemies.

This is a victim of the white, cis, hetero patriarchal military industrial complex and its his time to hold power.

Among the radical Chic and far Left, this is a winning strategy.

For the rest of the US, it spells doom.

Oscar Perez was a Venezuela Bolivarian Police’s Helicopter pilot who stole a chopper last year and took a couple of rifle shots to the Presidential Palace. He and his buddies had been hiding till yesterday when he was finally found by Government forces. He refused to surrender and apparently taken out.

One of the weapons used? RPG.

There has been an outcry by Opposition and non-chavista people in general because they used an RPG. Apparently there are rules to be followed and that includes only shooting people with foam bullets or some shit like that.

When dealing with communist forces, you cannot go Kumbaya, hope their souls start crying and that they will surrender: not gonna happen. And they have no problem using overwhelming force to annihilate you and the go get some cold ones. The problem with Venezuela is that people is firmly programmed to believe only a peaceful solution can save the country or foreign intervention. It is a sad mix of stupid wishful thinking and cowardice.

I do sincerely hope we don’t send troops down there. It ain’t worth it.

“Everything you send is stored on my server… So all your sex messages and you, like, d*ck pics are on my server now…”

“All your illegitimate wives and, like, all the girls you’ve been f*cking around with, they’re are on my server now… I’m going to send it to your wife, she’s going use it in your divorce.”

“So, what happens is like, you like, write something or post pictures on line, they never go away… Because even after you send them, people are like analyzing them, to see what you are interested in, to see what you are talking about. And they sell that data.”

HIDDEN CAMERA: HUNDREDS of Twitter Employees Paid to View “Everything You Post Online” Including Private “Sex Messages”

This has been a shock for many people who are trying to rack their brains remembering what kind of shit they shared via DMs.  And as unethical and disgusting Twitter engineers are, they are most likely protected by the law. Why? you gave up your right to privacy when you joined Twitter, remember?

And the one physical problem companies had before that we don’t have now is cheap storage. The cost of a megabyte of storage is now literally cents and the profit they can get from the info obtained by a couple of hundred clients will offset that cost rather fast.

Back in the Age of Internet Dinosaurs, there was an expression regarding what to send via email: “Never write anything so private you would not dare to send it in a postcard.” The problem is that now we have generations that have no idea what a postcard is, so we need to update it to something the can relate.

“Never send anything so private you would not dare to have it posted in a bumper sticker.”

I am open to suggestions on this slogan thing.

So…

I picked the boy up from daycare.  I walked in and one of the daycare ladies, a younger one, was saying something about experiments and STEM.

I asked if they were doing science in daycare.  She said “yes” and told me they did the baking soda and vinegar thing.

I laughed and said “that’s a start I guess.”  She mentioned how my boy liked it.

I said –

“Well, he takes after his dad.  I can’t wait until I start to get calls from angry science teachers about science fair experiments.  ‘(in falsetto) Mr. [J.Kb.] this is your son’s science teacher.  We need to talk about his science fair project.  He brought in a home made killbot and it went on a rampage.  No one is dead but there are 27 injured.’  (Back to my normal voice) So are you thinking a B+ then?  How many casualties did the other kid’s killbots get?   ‘(in falsetto) Children shouldn’t be making killbots for the science fair.’ (Back to me) Oh, that should have been in the handout from the school then.”

The daycare lady looked at me wide-eyed and asked “you would make weapons with your son?”

I replied “Why not?  I love my job.”

“You make weapons.”

“Along with, like, half the engineers in Huntsville.  Within 15 minutes of here is America’s oldest gun maker, an Apache attack helicopter repair depot, a US Army arsenal making ballistic missiles, a warhead test range, warhead guidance systems manufacturer, and a pretty much half the internal components for most of the military aircraft in our inventory.  So… yeah.”

I think I frightened her.

I finally got around to Kingsmen: The Golden Circle.

I believe this is THE dumbest movie ever.

Let me see if I get this right.

The world’s largest drug dealer poisons her own drugs infect drug addicts world wide.

She holds these addicts hostage for money and clemency.

The Kingsmen have to steal the antidote for the toxin to save the world’s drug addicts.

The President of the United States is the bad guy for wanting to let America’s drug addicts die from the toxin they ingested from their illegal narcotics.

What the fuck!?!

I think it is clear that Hollywood exists in a parallel bizarro universe.

I’m with the President on this one.  Sure Hollywood and the music industry would take a hit, but overall government expenditures would drop hugly, the economy would see a massive boom with a record government surplus, crime would fall to near zero, and the GOP would have a super majority and never lose a presidential election ever again.

I guess that makes me a Hollywood super villain.