Month: February 2018

More on David Hogg

Who the fuck is paying this kid?

It’s not the Sheriff’s total lack of leadership that caused his deputies to be cowards when the bullets were flying and glory hogs when the cameras showed up.  It is Governor Scott’s fault.

Apparently responsibility jumps right over the head of the law enforcement agency that failed and straight to the governor, who didn’t appoint him because the Sheriff is an elected position.

Nikolas Cruz, the FBI, and BSO were not responsible for the deaths of 17 kids but the NRA, Dana Loesch, Marco Rubio, and Rick Scott are. 

Are we sure that Hogg didn’t cross into our dimension from Bizarro World, because he is 100% diametrically opposed to everything that is right.

He can’t be this consistently wrong by accident.  Someone has to be paying him to be this wrong every time he speaks.

A missed comment and complimentary corrections.

I had not checked the Comments’ Spam folder for a while and I noticed a post trapped there from a real human, one KG in Oregon.  It brought memories of out old friend Jason Kilgore AKA Baldr Odinson. And if it is you, Jason, don’t be afraid to let us know.

I wanna add my thoughts to his comments, so here I go:

 

Owning guns in the US is a HOBBY. The NRA is a CLUB for gun owners.

You sat POTATO, we say you are pissing way off the pot and deluded.

They aren’t crusaders for constitutional rights.

The constitutional rights you don’t like.

They aren’t a well trained, well regulated militia.

Do we need to revisit this again Jason KG?  According to Constitution.org:
The phrase “well-regulated” was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people’s arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.

They’re a bunch of people with a HOBBY. They think that a little NRA collateral damage in the form of dead children is OK so long as they get to play with there assault toys.

And that is why we can’t have a real conversation to fix the real issues: You are full of crap and foaming at the mouth. Incendiary insults lead to nowhere other than the urgent need to make fun of you.

Does anyone know of another CLUB that defies regulation and can get large numbers of children killed at a moments notice for no reason at all?

The only  aggregate of idiots who can get large numbers of children killed at a moments notice for no reason at all are the ones that after almost 20 years still thinks Gun Free Zones in Schools actually protects Children. Don’t you belong to that club Jason KG?

 Maybe they could have done better but none of this is the fault of the FBI or police departments, or mental health professionals or anyone else on the front lines trying to serve and protect.

“Can do better” is applied to your teenage son or daughter if the second coat of varnish did not quite had the finish you wanted or if the Goulash just need one small pinch of salt. What the “FBI or police departments, or mental health professionals” did was a brutal dereliction of duty. And only a few gun control morons are even stepping to defend them… speaking about clubs anyway.

None of the deaths are on the heads of officers, doctors, record keepers or school officials. It’s the fault of a callus and self interested gun CLUB and the lawmakers they paid to put children in jeopardy. This has to end!

Dear Jason KG: It will end when Gun Free Zones are eliminated.  There have been three relevant mass shooting in Florida: The Fort Lauderdale Airport, Pulse Nightclub and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. All there had the same thing in common: They are, by law, Gun Free Zones. Coincidence that they were targets? I was going to say even you could not have the guts to deny it, but I am probably wrong about you having guts.

As for callous, I don’t know anybody in my circle who would not have gone toward the sound of gunfire to try to save the children. Maybe we would have failed, but probably not. But you and your cadre? I can imagine you hiding behind the School Resource Officer waiting for shit to die down  so you can tweet your indignation that serves as cover for your lack of Toxic Masculinity and advanced mental emasculation.

 

I actually did this.

Sometimes the original title for a post is changed or it is only a working title that evolves and sometimes is just a couple of words so the post shows in the Draft folder. Twice in the last days I have clicked the “publish” button before checking the damn title and making sure is the one I want., so I had to resort to this:

 

It is right in front of my face… and I am sure I’ll miss it too.

Any ARRP-type comments from the gallery will result in immediate banning and tag you as spammer 🙂 😀

Why would?

Just saw this in Drudge:

 WASHINGTON
Two incidents hit The Miami Herald in recent days that underscore new tactics by those seeking to discredit mainstream media, and they augur what experts said are dark days in the battle between credible news and misinformation…
…In the first incident, a perpetrator used a software tool to create two fake tweets that looked like they came from the account of Alex Harris, a Herald reporter preparing tributes to the slain students. One fake tweet asked for photos of dead bodies at the school and another asked if the shooter was white.

In a second incident, someone again used a software tool to create a phony Miami Herald story — in the high tension following the Parkland shooting — saying that a Miami-Dade middle school faced threats of “potentially catastrophic events” on upcoming dates, indicating that a new mass shooting was in the offing.

Hoax attempts against Miami Herald augur brewing war over fake, real news

I find that I need to take this events with a not-so-small dose of Schadenfreude. The Miami Herald has pushed, twisted and molded news to fit their political vision that  my guess is somebody decided to return the favor in concentrated form.

“Obviously this has broad civic consequence if you have a citizenry that doesn’t know where to turn to get truthful information,” (Edward) Wasserman said. “Your information flows are being contaminated in ways that are very difficult to discern and very difficult to disentangle.”

Dear Mr. Wasserman (Who used to work for the Miami Herald and now is the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism over at Berkeley) you  know well that the media, specially newspapers have not been interest in the veracity of an event for a long time. They are in the NEWS business not in the TRUTH business. And if anything, the financial degradation of the Miami Herald shows that people have long ago stopped trusting them.

Do you know why the hoax items was believed by many? because journalists in the past have behaved equally ghoulish and insensitive. How many repetitions and versions of the question “How do  you feel?” being asked to an obviously grieving person who just lost a loved one have settled the idea of journalistic callousness among us. And the undisguised left-wing leanings found in editorials and articles do not help making us trust you. So, when we hear or read outlandish stuff like that, it is easy to take seriously. There is a reason why The Onion and Duffle Blog are so popular: They are outlandish, the sound good but they don’t hide they are full of crap and making shit up for profit.

Let me tell you something that happened just this past week. I had not been a subscriber of the Miami Herald in years, but kept one for the Nuevo Herald which is the Spanish Language newspaper of the county and run by the same company to keep mom entertained. My sainted mother got tired of the BS and said not to waste any more money on that “pedazo de mierda” (You use Google translate if you want) so I cancelled that subscription too over a month ago.  On Thursday I get a call from them asking me to reconsider my decision. I don’t take offense since I can understand how any company would like to keep making money but I told the young lady on the phone that mom was the only reader and she is the one not wanting. Then she asked me if I would consider a subscription for the Sunday edition only because “it has well over $100 in coupons every week!”

I asked She Who Must Be Obeyed since she is the  coupon-warrior of the house and the offer was waved off. She explained that she gets better coupons online and keeps them on het phone. Plus we get “sales bulk media” (junk mail) every Thursday that has pretty much the same crap and it is for free. I passed along the denial to the Herald Sales lady and hung up.

It did not strike me till a bit later that the Miami Herald could be so desperate that was using as an excuse to subscriber its Sunday Edition as a vessel to deliver discount coupons for Publix and  $19.99 oil change at Midas. I am guessing it is the American Version of England’s using the newspaper for Fish and Chips.

Let’s face it: Fake news complaining that somebody is doing Fake News using their name simply does not strike much sympathy in this day and age.

F**k you David Hogg

I am getting really tired of David Hogg.

He has become the face of the Parkland shooting moment by becming and activist while unjustifiably wrapping himself in the unimpugnable character of “survivor.”  I use survivor in quotes because he wasn’t shot, he wasn’t even in the same building as the shooting.  He was hiding in a room in another building wondering how he could get the whole thing on video and use it for activism.

“While I was in there, I thought, ‘What impact have I had? What will my story be if I die here?’” said the student, who works at the school’s TV station and volunteers at a local newspaper.

“The only thing I could think of was, pull out my camera and try telling others,” he continued. “As a student journalist, as an aspiring journalist, that’s all I could think: Get other people’s stories on tape. If we all die, the camera survives, and that’s how we get the message out there, about how we want change to be brought about.”

We know that he wants to be a professional journalist.  So obviously he is running towards every camera, news crew, and opinion show he can.  He was even been doing his own interviews of students during the shooting, and has continued since then.

His dad is a retired FBI agent, and for a shooting that “everyone predicted,” it seems that telling his dad about it wasn’t on his list of things to do.

I’m not buying into the conspiracy theories, I’m just saying that he is an opportunistic media attention whore.

He has gone on the record to defend the BSO RSO coward Scot Peterson, for not running into the building to protect the kids.  He went on the record to defend the FBI.

Who he has blamed for the shooting is the NRA and Dana Loesch.

If it were just the typical far Left leaning activism that he is engaged in, I wouldn’t be as mad as I am.

What has really pissed me off is his use of the #NeverAgain hashtag.

Until Parkland, Never Again was a phrase that was primarily associated with the Holocaust, and was a statement of defiance, that such an event would never happen again.  It has been a call for Jews to arm themselves, and fight back against Antisemitic violence and the threat of genocide.

There is a quote from  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s, The Gulag Archipelago that really exemplifies the attitude that Never Again has in the mind of many Jews, as well as other victims of Fascist or Communist dictatorships, and our allies.  

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

When the jack boots come to haul us away to camps, fight them.  Make them fear every time they knock on a door.  That is how we win, and the having guns favors us with the balance of power.

David Hogg has turned Never Again from a statement of defiance, reminding those from groups that have been targeted for genocide to be armed and vigilant, into a statement of disarmament.

Going to through #NeverAgain is now a call for big goverment to kick in doors and take away ]guns.

The new popularization of Never Again has turned it from a statement of resistance to oppression to calling for oppression.

This is unforgivable.