You have just announced to all friends and neighbors who know you (and may not have the best of intentions for you), that you are an unarmed female ready to be brutalized.

Well done!

Statement from R. Lee Ermey’s long time manager, Bill Rogin:

It is with deep sadness that I regret to inform you all that R. Lee Ermey (“The Gunny”) passed away this morning from complications of pneumonia. He will be greatly missed by all of us.

Semper Fi, Gunny. Godspeed. pic.twitter.com/vf4O78JKmb

— R. Lee Ermey (@RLeeErmey) April 15, 2018

Starbucks sent out this Tweet:

We apologize to the two individuals and our customers for what took place at our Philadelphia store on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/suUsytXHks

— Starbucks (@Starbucks) April 14, 2018

Okay, what happened?

Apparently two black men were arrested at a Starbucks in Philly.

Here are the facts:

1. They came in and asked to use the bathroom without buying anything.
2. The manager asked them to leave.
3. They said they were waiting for someone but still hadn’t bought anything.
4. The manager called the police.
5. They men were arrested.

Now Starbucks is being blasted for being racist.

https://twitter.com/80sGirlCheryl/status/985504236275367943

https://twitter.com/IAmRaeHope/status/985495558742839297

Even VOX got in on it “Two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks for doing nothing.”

This is what an entitled victim mentality ultimately leads to.

The black men did nothing and that was the problem.

Starbucks is a business.  It is not a hangout.  They make money selling coffee and snacks.  They spend money on rent, cleaning supplies, and labor.  If you use the bathroom you cost them money.  If you buy something from them, you make them money.

This is why the policy “bathrooms are for paying customers only” is a thing.

It also keeps vagrants out of the bathrooms.  There is nothing worse than a homeless man giving himself a sponge bath with the hand towels in a bathroom.  (Yes, at one point in my life I had to deal with that.)

I have bought more cups of coffee or frozen lemonades* than I can count just to be able to take a baby into a bathroom to change a diaper.

*Chick-Fil-A has the cleanest, most family friendly (diaper changing stations in men’s rooms) bathrooms of any chain restaurant I’ve ever seen.  I will go out of my way to find a Chick-Fil-A when I hear “daddy I need to potty.”

The manager called the cops because that is precisely what he was supposed to do.  Employees are not supposed to get into confrontations with customers or other people in the store.  That’s become standard policy.

When I worked in a convenience store, the employees were not allowed to stop shop lifters.  You could walk in and start carrying cases of beer out the door and all they could do is say “stop.”  The rule was they had to call the cops for any type of disturbance.

This whole situation could have been avoided if the two men had the common courtesy of buying a drink before asking to use the bathroom.  That’s how I was raised.

When the manager approached them and asked them to leave had they said “We’re waiting to meet someone, but how bout we buy some drinks?”  I’m sure the manager wouldn’t have called the cops.  But not being a paying customer and asking to use the bathroom and not offering to buy anything after being confronted by the manager is asking for trouble, regardless of race.

The Starbucks near where I used to leave would kick people out after so long because kids would buy a short coffee and use the WiFi for hours taking up tables.

A business exists to make money and if you are not making them money, they have every right to ask you to leave.

But when you have a world full of people who are entitled victims, they don’t get that and see racism as the only reason why two men can’t loiter in a Starbucks and use the restroom without a purchase.

Of course Starbucks issued an apology and “plans to investigate the pertinent facts and make any necessary changes to our practices that would help prevent such an occurrence from ever happening again.”

What they should say is “we’re sorry that these men were arrested but if you want to pee in a Starbucks, buy a drink first.”

Nope, they apologized so the dumping on by cry-bullies will continue.

So I am plowing ahead with Lost In Space.

Why?  Because I am not a quitter.  I’m going to finish this turd sandwich.  It’s like building up a a tolerance to iocane powder.  If I can handle Deep Space 9, I can handle this.

So…

The Robinsons and other survivors are stranded on an unknown planet with dangerous creatures.

They don’t have guns.

If they want guns, they have to use the 3-D printer to make them, but they need a “colony representative” to authorize the build.

Keep in mind they are on their way to a new planet in a new solar system with a small colony of perhaps only only a few thousand people (it’s never specified).

So of all the survival equipment they have, they don’t have guns, and when a family is stranded alone in the wilderness far from civilization, they can’t make any.

THEN…

The Maureen finds out that John tried to print one and couldn’t, and she tears into him about “you know how I feel about weapons in the house.”

Yet mom completely trusts Will in the care of an alien robot.

THEN…

The robot somehow manages to override the gun ban and prints one, then gives it to Will, who hides it under his mattress where it is stolen by Dr. Smith (who has already killed one person and tried to kill another).  So the ONLY gun on the planet in in the hands of a psychopath.

Sure, it makes for more suspenseful plot, but Jesus.  You’d think that the first thing that would happen when a bunch of people are stranded on a planet filled with dangerous creatures is break out with the guns.

Nope.

People are going to get eaten, I guarantee it, and I’m not going to give a shit because they all support gun control.

I’m not going to go into the woods on Earth without a gun because I don’t want to get turned into bear shit.

If I’m going to go to an unknown and dangerous planet, I’m going to take a gun because I don’t want to get turned into alien shit.

Saw this last night:

The eggs went to restaurants and stores, including Walmart and Food Lion, in Florida, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, Colorado and West Virginia.
Waffle House was one of the restaurant chains that purchased the eggs.
In grocery stores, the eggs were sold under brands that include:
Country Daybreak
Crystal Farms
Coburn Farms
Sunshine Farms
Glenview
Great Value (Walmart’s store brand)
Food Lion’s store brand

ZOMG! We are all gonna die!.. not quite.  only 22 people affected out of 206 million eggs comes about one in 9,363,000 or about ten times less than getting hit by lightning. You will get the shitters faster by eating your regular fare at Taco Bell.

But if you pause for a second and think “how the fuck 200 million eggs got contaminated with Salmonella” just don’t worry, you are simply not getting the full info. From USA Today (I know, amazing):

The egg recall is the largest in the United States since 2010, according to Food Safety News.
The recall involves eggs with the plant number P-105, with the Julian date range of 011 through 012 printed on either side of the carton or package.

200 million eggs recalled over salmonella fears

So instead of throwing away any and all eggs from your fridge, you simply check the boxes and see if they corresponds with the recall. If they don’t, go ahead and get yourself some scrambled eggs.

Oh, and a small reminder: Chickens in the US are not treated with antibiotics, remember? They are making sure you know in the commercials because apparently is a selling point. so you are eating potential salmonella grenades every time you go sunny side up. Check your local/state health department for the cooking temperature of eggs and just enjoy the suckers.

Above one of Brisbane’s busiest commuter intersections, a billboard advertises the Victrix bolt-action rifle.
Although the same Victrix bolt-action rifle is marketed in the US as suitable for uses including “military” and “law enforcement”, in Australia the Victrix (and similar weapons) are categorised with firearms licensed for hunting and sport.
Gun control advocates have dubbed the Victrix guns “high-powered and military-style”. They warn that an increasing range of these guns – which still have design specifications that allow them to be classified as sporting and hunting firearms – have hit the Australian market.
Gun Control Australia has called for a rewrite of weapons classifications, which the group says are outdated and do not properly codify modern hi-tech guns.

Guns advertised on Brisbane billboard sold as ‘military’ use in US

Bolt action rifles are well over a century-old technology. The only thing that has changed has been the materials used as they have improved and made lighter: Better steel, better workmanship for a smother works, synthetics for the stock, etc.

Your “grandpa deer rifle” is now about to be considered a military weapon in Australia and bound for confiscation.

You have been warned, repeatedly.

Mike Mulvaney is my favorite person right now.

One of the golden rules of politics is: whatever you do to your opponents now, your opponents can do back to you when they gain power.

The Democrats spend the Obama years forgetting that.

Remember when Harry Reid removed the filibuster from the Senate for presidential nominations.  The so called “nuclear option.”

That bit them in the ass when Trump got elected.

Remember when the Democrats cheered when Obama said he “had a pen and a phone” and could executive order whatever he wanted?

Now they are pissed that Trump has a pen and a phone too.

The Democrats passed Dodd-Frank.  The language in the bill gave Congress little to no oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because Obama was president.

Then Congressman Mike Mulvaney protested at the time that having no Congressional control of the CFPB was a bad idea.  Now he is in charge of the agency and is making Senate Democrats eat their words.

Mulvaney, a conservative who was an outspoken critic of the bureau during his time as a congressman, told Warren in a letter sent Wednesday that the structure of the agency, which she helped design, shields him from accountability.

“I encourage you to consider the possibility that the frustration you are experiencing now, and that which I had a few years back, are both inevitable consequences of the fact that the Dodd-Frank… Act insulates the Bureau from virtually any accountability to the American people through their elected representatives,” Mulvaney wrote.

In his second day of appearing before the Senate, Mulvaney has gone all out of poke Senate Democrats in the eye.

When Mick Mulvaney served in the House, he tried to warn colleagues that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was too independent of Congress. Now that he’s running the CFPB, Mulvaney wants to demonstrate just how correct he was. For the second straight day, the acting director has told a congressional panel that he can just sit in front of them all day and ignore their questions, and there’s nothing they can do about it:

“While I have to be here by statute, I don’t think I have to answer your questions,” Mulvaney told the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. “If you take a look at the actual statute that requires me to be here, it says that I ‘shall appear’ before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate. And I’m here and I’m happy to do it.”

“I believe it would be my statutory right to just sit here and twiddle my thumbs while you all ask questions,” Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told the House Financial Services Committee.

Fuck yes, he did.

And it is GLORIOUS!!!

The lesson here should be to remind everyone about the golden rule of politics.

No side will be in power forever and you have to be prepared to reap the whirlwinds that you sow.

Argue that Heller was wrong and push gun control now and find out when happens.

Hell, if I were in Congress I’d be pushing bills to put YUGE excise and windfall profit taxes on movies and TV.  Most of the crap that comes out of Hollywood is garbage and I will fuck them sideways on every cent of profit the have just to shit in some Liberal star’s organic breakfast cereal.

Come after my guns and maybe your beachfront property needs to be turned into a homeless shelter via some eminent domain.

Unfortunately I think that the Democrats, most politicians in fact, are too stupid to learn this lesson.  Which is too bad because it’s just going to make things worse.