Sarah Kendzior is a writer from St. Louis.  She wrote a book titled The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior.  You’d think from that title it is an honest explanation to coastal elites while life in Middle America is like.  It’s not.  It a book by a wannabe coastal elite wanting entrance into elite society, criticizing Middle America using every elite talking point.

She took a drive through Alabama for some reason and stopped for gas.  She Tweeted this.

Rural Alabama gas station. I was there getting a Snickers. pic.twitter.com/eGraFplA43

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 18, 2018

Of course, the elites and progressives in her Twitter feed were in a panic.

I can’t confirm this, but I think that is Chambley’s in Valley, Alabama.  It’s a hunting and outdoor store that also sells gas.  It is along the Alabama/Georgia border right off Interstate 85, outside of Troy.

That also makes sense because I doubt that a wannabe elite would stray to far from the Interstate in Alabama.

As for us who live there, all I can say is “Go ‘Bama.”  Welcome to the land of freedom where a business owner can get an FFL and sell what he wants.

It’s not just the guns that upsets these people but that idea of business freedom.  How dare a man sell guns, gas, and candy!?!

Hell, I’ll tell you right now, when I start my own business I’m getting an FFL.  Why?  Because I want one, can afford to have one, and Alabama will let me.

I’m going to put my 30 round mags next to my 20 oz sodas just to piss Michael Bloomberg off.

My business, my choice.

I think David Hogg overdid himself.  In the beginning he was a “victim” of the Parkland shooting (even through he was in a different building on a different part of campus).  Then he was elevated to be the voice of scared kids, filled with righteous anger,  who didn’t want to get shot while in school.

As he spent more and more time in front of the cameras his radical partisanism  became not just evident but overwhelming.  Now I think he’s on his way into sliding into Clintonian irrelevancy where he still has followers among the radical Left, but moderates are going to find him distasteful.  The more he sticks around the the more of a dead albatross he becomes.

A few days ago, Hogg starred in a political ad for a new hashtag, #WhatIF.  Because that’s what we need, a new hashtag.

Bravo.  Calling Republican politicians “the bitch of the NRA” is so edgy.

I remember another far Left ad where kids cursed for a cause.   Feminists got a bunch of prepubescent little girls in princess costumes to say “fuck” a lot for some reason.  That was as popular as a sloppy, wet fart and, expect for the worst kind of Solanasque feminists, was disliked by women.

This ad will be just as popular among anybody who actually cares about America’s discourse, and isn’t into “win at any cost” politics.

But this isn’t the end.  Hogg and his partisan cohorts did a live Q&A with Twitter, because everybody loves extreme partisanism from a Social Media mega-monopoly.

It devolved into the worst form of social justice.

Hogg went full “soft bigotry of low expectations” and “so well spoken” on black communities while calling America racist in his take on gun violence.

David Hogg says white privilege is one of the biggest obstacles he's faced in his anti-gun agenda, says media wouldn't cover the incident the same way in a black community "no matter how well those people spoke."

Cameron Kasky says mass shootings like Parkland "happen everyday." pic.twitter.com/chKvSnUV32

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 19, 2018

Except that is the pro-gun rights movement that keeps pointing out that gun bans don’t stop killings in black neighborhoods and that other solutions need to be implemented because gun bans don’t work.

He also talks about the lack of “diversity of opinion” and proportional representation in politics.

David Hogg says it's "disgusting" that more minorities and women are not in government because "It creates this system where we have one line of thinking where it's a lot of rich white men like myself that are in politics." pic.twitter.com/wfERl0Lrov

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 19, 2018

Mr. “You better agree with me or you have blood on your hands and you hate kids you NRA bitch” wants diversity of opinion?  Bullshit.

Also, when did a highs school student become a “rich white man.”

He sounds more like a liberal arts teaching assistant at a mid-grate California college than a high school kid worried about getting shot while taking a math test. He’s parroting all the same shit that has caused enrollment at liberal arts colleges to decline.

The more down this path he goes, the more moderates will go “yeah, that kid is stupid.”  The more he slides into irrelevancy the more obnoxious he will get.

The best thing for us is for him to keep talking.  Maybe he’ll end up full Hillary and just traveling the world insulting Americans, making everything associated with him look like poison.

Here we go again. Here is what they are proposing. Remember, this is not just a new law but the State Constitution. If passed, all state courts will have to abide by it and that means a longer and more expensive challenge to take it to Federal Court to battle.

A proposal to amend Sections 2 and 8 of Article I of the State Constitution to remove a provision authorizing laws that regulate or prohibit the ownership, inheritance, disposition, and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship, to limit the age to purchase a firearm to at least twenty-one years of age, to require three days between the purchase and delivery of a firearm, to require a comprehensive background check during the period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm as prescribed by law, and to prohibit specified acts relating to the sale and possession of a bump-fire stock.

And the title is amended as follows:
Delete lines 88 – 89
and insert:
law, to prohibit specified acts relating to the sale and possession of a bump fire stock, and to prohibit the sale and transfer of assault weapons. s.

A proposal to amend Section 8 of Article I of the State Constitution to limit the age to purchase a firearm to at least twenty-one years of age, to require ten days between the purchase and delivery of a firearm, to require a comprehensive background check during the period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm as prescribed by law, to prohibit specified acts relating to the sale and possession of a bump-fire stock, to prohibit the sale and possession of assault weapons, and to prohibit the sale and possession of large capacity magazines.

A proposal to amend Sections 2 and 8 of Article I of the State Constitution to remove a provision authorizing laws that regulate or prohibit the ownership, inheritance, disposition, and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship, and to prohibit the sale and transfer of assault weapons.

I will go in detail the next days about each proposal.

But in the meantime, start emailing the crap out of the people in the Constitutional Commission. NRA Alert follows.

Some of the members of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) are very anti-gun and they are proposing and pushing gun ban and gun control amendments to put in the Florida Constitution.

Commissioners will be voting on these amendments soon. Links to these amendments are listed at the bottom.

Among these amendments are:

*An “assault weapons” ban which bans the distribution, sale, transfer, and possession of so-called assault weapons and any detachable magazine that has a capacity of more than 9 rounds.  (Makes possession illegal with no compensation provided for those already possessed that must be surrendered)

*A ban on any semi-automatic rifle that is able to accept a detachable magazine or has a fixed magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds. (that means almost all semi-automatic rifles)

*A ban on the sale and transfer of “assault weapons” and defines “transfer” as the conveyance “from a person or entity to another person or entity WITHOUT any conveyance of money or other valuable consideration.”  (Note: to “convey” between persons without compensation could mean the simple act of handing the firearm to another person while hunting, on the range, or anywhere)

*A 10 day waiting period (excluding weekends and legal holidays) on all firearms to facilitate a background check.

*A ban on the purchase of any firearm by a person under 21 years of age.

*A ban on the sale, transfer and possession of bump stocks and other accessories, tools, kits, etc.

Please email CRC Commissioners and tell them to OPPOSE gun control amendments!

PLEASE DO IT NOW!!! They could be voting on these amendments at any time!

IN THE SUBJECT LINE PUT:  VOTE AGAINST GUN CONTROL AMENDMENTS

(To send your message to all just Block and Copy All email addresses into the “Send To” box)

jose.armas@flcrc.gov
pam.bondi@flcrc.gov
lisa.carlton@flcrc.gov
timothy.cerio@flcrc.gov
hank.coxe@flcrc.gov
jose.diaz@flcrc.gov
erika.donalds@flcrc.gov
don.gaetz@flcrc.gov
emery.gainey@flcrc.gov
anna.gamez@flcrc.gov
brecht.heuchan@flcrc.gov
marva.johnson@flcrc.gov
darlene.jordan@flcrc.gov
arthenia.joyner@flcrc.gov
fred.karlinsky@flcrc.gov
belinda.keiser@flcrc.gov
frank.kruppenbacher@flcrc.gov
tom.lee@flcrc.gov
gary.lester@flcrc.gov
patricia.levesque@flcrc.gov
roberto.martinez@flcrc.gov
rich.newsome@flcrc.gov
chris.nocco@flcrc.gov
jeanette.nunez@flcrc.gov
jimmy.patronis@flcrc.gov
sherry.plymale@flcrc.gov
darryl.rouson@flcrc.gov
william.schifino@flcrc.gov
chris.smith@flcrc.gov
bob.solari@flcrc.gov
chris.sprowls@flcrc.gov
john.stemberger@flcrc.gov
pam.stewart@flcrc.gov
jacqui.lippisch@flcrc.gov
carolyn.timmann@flcrc.gov
nicole.washington@flcrc.gov

Kroger is committed to the emptiest of gestures after Parkland.

They will no longer carry magazines that feature assault rifles.

Kroger says it will stop selling magazines that feature assault rifles. https://t.co/rHdtFsihei

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) March 19, 2018

From a business standpoint this sort of laughably makes sense.  It allows them to say they are doing something without doing anything that will upset thier customer base.  I can still conceal carry in Kroger so I’m not gong to boycott them.

Honestly, the first question I had when I saw that was “wait, people still buy print magazines?”

I saw this over at Gay Patriot.

The Lottery is 1948 story about a rural town the has an annual lottery to choose a victim to be stoned to death to guarantee a good harvest.

According to The Washington Times, a college professor from Pasadena City College has been teaching The Lottery for 30 years.  The professor says that in the past students were horrified by the story.  Now they aren’t.

“The story always impressed the class with the insight that I felt the author had intended: the danger of just ‘going along’ with something habitually, without examining its rationale and value. In spite of the changes that I had witnessed over the years in anthologies and in students’ writing, Jackson’s message about blind conformity always spoke to my students’ sense of right and wrong.”

Then in the 1990s, something started to change dramatically in how her students responded to the sobering tale. Rather than being horrified by it, some claimed they were bored by it, while others thought the ending was “neat.”

When Ms. Haugaard pressed them for more of their thoughts, she was appalled to discover that not one student in the class was willing to say the practice of human sacrifice was morally wrong! She describes one interaction with a student, whom she calls Beth:

‘Are you asking me if I believe in human sacrifice?’ Beth responded thoughtfully, as though seriously considering all aspects of the question. ‘Well, yes,’ I managed to say. ‘Do you think that the author approved or disapproved of this ritual?’

“I was stunned: This was the [young] woman who wrote so passionately of saving the whales, of concern for the rain forests, of her rescue and tender care of a stray dog. ‘I really don’t know,’ said Beth; ‘If it was a religion of long standing, [who are we to judge]?’”

I don’t think the lack of moral judgement is the problem.  I think it is worse than that.  Totalitarian Progressivism is Utopian at heart.  If they kill enough of the right people to get total conformity, peace on earth and pleanty for all will happen.

This is the core of Nazism, Communism, Maoism, etc.  Just put the wrong thinkers to death and then magically everything gets better.

How many times have we seen from radical environmentalists that humans are a virus or cancer.

It sold not be a shock Beth is willing to sacrifice people but wants to save the whales.  She’s been told all her life that to save the whales all the people that drive SUVs and eat meat need to die.

Collectivists killed over 100 Million people to try for Utopia.  Now that a generation has passed that has not witnessed those horrors first hand (be it WWII or the Cold War) more believers are willing to kill millions to try it again.

What is stoning one innocent person for a good harvest when your heroes starved 10 million Ukrainians or 2 Million Cambodians to death for the same goal.

The news in Ohio is that a student was suspended for staying in class during the March 14th national student walkout.

He just wanted to be apolitical, not supporting gun control but not wanting to appear to not care about the Parkland victims.

For his desire not to be a pawn of the Left, he was punished by his school.

If it were really a natural, grassroots uprising, conformity wouldn’t needs to be forced.

Violating a student’s First Amendment rights to make them fight our Second Amendment rights sounds like the worst form of authoritarianism.

We’ll have to wait and see how many cases like this happened across the country.