Dear Florida GOP, we told you so.
And you went ahead and acted like the fool passing a stupid law with the escape hatch so more killings will happen.
But what about Palm Beach County?
Miami Dade School Board is thinking about it although Miami-Dade County Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has said he is opposed to the program. So that would be the kiss of death for the three biggest school systems of the state.
Oh yes, they all want to see if it is possible to get the monies anyway even if they don’t arm school personnel.
Tell me again why should I vote for those GOP legislators who vote for this stupid bill?
Facebook vs. Congress
Watching Mark Zuckerberg square off against Congress is like watching cancer square off against tertiary syphilis with America being the body
On one side we have a wealthy, out of touch, oligarch who thinks his money and political influence puts him above the law and gives him the supreme moral authority to shape America how he wants and uses our personal information against us.
On the other side we have a group of wealthy, out of touch, oligarchs who thinks their money and political influence puts them above the law and gives them the supreme moral authority to shape America how they want and uses our personal information against us.
One is a private company and not bound by the Constitution, the other has long since stopped giving a fuck about the Constitution.
Do I want the cancer of Congress to have to power to regulate a society destroying, data mining, privacy ignoring, venereal disease of a website?
Or do I root for the youth ruining super vilian?
Whoever wins we lose.
Sorry for the lack of posting.
It has been a bit busy lately. Caring for an elderly parent is both expensive and time-consuming, and mom can be a handful. Add to that her regular doctor was on extended vacation and left a substitute that turned out to be Old School I am God-I Know It all who could not understand that I might know more about my mother’s condition than his 5 minute perusal over her files would ever do. But when your mother is not covered by any insurance, you cannot be too choosy.
Seriously, why do doctors have such a difficult time absorbing the concept of quality of life? Mom is 86 years old and had transient ischemic attack last September 2 weeks before Hurricane Maria. She was taken to a hospital, checked up and down and she was OK. But her blood pressure although very much down from the original TMI attack, would not come down to what the doctor’s wanted. When I heard the docs wanting to keep her another day, I warned the doctors that even she looked calm, mom hates anything medical and hospitals and that was what was keeping her BP high. We finally won the battle and she was allowed to go home where I proceeded to check her BP: a 15 drive dropped her numbers 20 points. Almost 2 weeks later, Hurricane Maria graced us with her presence and even with that fucking monster threatening us, mom’s BP did not spike. She is happy and calm at home.
This last doctor? She let him have it. When he asked about having her do a colonoscopy, she ripped him a new one reminding him that those things are very uncomfortable and that the last one she had left her in pain for weeks. And there is no way that she would ever do one again. She closed with “I feel good and I just wanna die in peace.” I looked at the doctor , smiled and told him we would sign a waiver so he would be off the hook.
On the way back home, Mom spent at least 10 minutes criticizing the substitute doc and although she did not use salty language (OK, she did use “pendejo”) the poor guy’s ears must have been on fire. Damn, this woman on Twitter would give a lot of people a run for their money.
So we finished having some coffee (Decaf espresso for her) and now she is watching the Hispanic TV shows that are a mix of Jude Judy and Divorce Court and Maury.
And she is safe and content which is about the only thing as a son I can give her.
London to the rescue
I don’t want to seem like I am dancing on graves. I’m not.
However, I do believe that this London murder spree has come really when the zeitgeist needed it most.
In continued following of the new Battle of Britain, I came across this Tweet from a few days ago from Regents Park Police.
These items were found during a #weaponSweep near #MackworthHouse #AugustasSt during #OpSceptre . Safely disposed and taken off the streets pic.twitter.com/53HdeqMKu1
— Regents Park Police (@MPSRegentsPark) March 16, 2018
Yep, pliers are now being taken in a weapons sweep.
I don’t know what the circumstances are that resulted in this, but at face value, this is beyond ridiculous. Except for the file, that looks like it was taken out of tool kit I put in my wife’s glove box.
The London police cannot ban items and confiscate tools fast enough to make a dent in their crime wave.
Why? Because it’s the people, that’s why.
What is a weapon to one is a livelihood too many more. The Mayor and the police don’t care about that and your garbage disposal is going to stay broken, less you decide to go on a rampage with your needle nose pliers.
To go even further the government has decided to implement a “ban on home deliveries of knives in government crackdown after surge in London stabbings.”
Anyone buying a knife online will be banned from having it sent to a residential address, under a government crackdown following a surge in street stabbings.
That’s the London equivalent to universal background checks. Your Amazon order for a new set of steak knives is now a crime.
Of course, if you go into the comments on any of these posts are articles, Americans are dunking on the UK. The fact is, the UK has engaged in the biggest and cruelest experiment in the English speaking world. If you try to reduce criminality by limiting the items available to the general public, all you will do is criminalize the general public and lose control of the crime rate.
This is the gun argument a thousand times over pushed to the extreme.
Knife bans and blunt tipped knives are not saving lives any more than magazine capacity and assault weapon bans are. They just nail innocent people.
Every TV discussion on this topic needs to go back to London where when they were done taking the guns away from law abiding citizens, they went after their needle nose pliers and eyeglass screwdrivers while the bodies still piled up.
The Women’s March might have finally gone too far
The Women’s March was the best that modern, Third Wave, Social Justice feminism had to offer.
It was co-founded by Rasmea Yousef Odeh, a convicted Palestinian terrorist who was deported after falsifying her entry into the US.
It was lead by anti-Semite, anti-Zionist, terrorist sympathizing Linda Sarsour.
The Women’s March supported Assata Shakur, a convicted radical cop killer on the lam in Cuba.
The Women’s March has supported Louis Farrakhan, and continues to defend his anti-Semitism.
How much more out of touch could it get?
There is always defending child prostitution.
Backpage is a website that hosts, among other things, advertisements for sex services. Two of the site’s managers have been charged by the FBI with prostitution and money laundering, and the founder for human trafficking.
This is the Women’s March response.
. The shutting down of #Backpage is an absolute crisis for sex workers who rely on the site to safely get in touch with clients. Sex workers rights are women’s rights. Follow @SafeSpacesDC @melissagira @swopusa @KateDAdamo @supporthosechi @anaorsomething for more info. https://t.co/S3Orx3aM8Z
— Women's March (@womensmarch) April 7, 2018
In the coming days, we will be sharing more about sex workers rights to uplift this critical issue. We’re all still learning and as always, we have to listen to the voices of those most impacted. #SexWorkIsWork
— Women's March (@womensmarch) April 7, 2018
The hashtag these women are willing to die on is #DecrimNow, which aims to decriminalize all sex work.
Somehow that is a benefit for women and society in general.
So much for women in STEM, being a street walker is honorable career choice too. Until you are murdered by a pimp or a pervert.
Nothing makes for a high quality of life in a city like rampant prostitution.
I can’t think of anything more intersectional than a bunch of white, upper middle class liberal women fighting for the right of sexually abused teens from broken homes to be able to sell their bodies.
Don’t forget, you are not supposed to objectify the women you are paying to have sex with either, you toxic mansplainer.
Considering that the Women’s March has backed March for Our Lives, I can’t wait to see Hogg and the Parkland SS wade into this pro-teen prostitution argument.
“I want to take your guns away and turn your daughters into whores.”
That’s a message Americans can really get behind.