I had been out most of the morning doing some grocery shopping at the Big Box Di count Club as per the missus’ instructions and I also went ahead and did a couple of other errands. I decided to change my regular cap and wear one that, as I was told,  may attract verbal attacks and possibly even physical violence because it represents hate and death. A Confederate Flag colors? KKK? Nazi patch? Nope:

So, either Miami Dade County is full of great poker players, or nobody got the memo that I was supposed to be tarred and feathered, cops called and taken out-of-town on a rail. There was no reaction at my hat that I could see and I was paying attention most of the time.

However, that does not mean that there is a group of dedicated idiots that will not rest till we are eliminated from the political structure of our country. And if it takes filling abandoned mines with the bodies, so be it.

But as for a majority of Americans hating/disliking the NRA? I can say that my little slice of the Sunshine State does not seem to care much for that.

From CNN:

How Parkland students feel about their new mandatory clear backpacks

Hint: they don’t like them.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students encountered security barriers and bag check lines as they entered campus Monday morning.

Inside the school, administrators handed out the students’ newest mandatory accessories: a see-through backpack much like the ones required at some stadiums and arenas, and an identification badge they must wear at all times.

This is the quote that really kicked my ass.

First, students lost their classmates and teachers. Now, with the bags, they’re sacrificing their privacy for what he and others consider an ineffective security measure.

“It’s difficult, we all now have to learn how to deal with not only the loss of our friends, but now our right to privacy. My school was a place where everyone felt comfortable, it was a home away from home, and now that home has been destroyed,” he said.

Senior Delaney Tarr tagged Rubio in a tweet of a picture of her bag with feminine products and the orange price tag attached to it.

“Starting off the last quarter of senior year right, with a good ol’ violation of privacy!” she said in another tweet.

I just want to see if I understand this.  Goebbels Jr. and crew have been pushing for gun control for the last six weeks.  I’ve heard talk about assault weapon bans, magazine bans, gun registration, and even gun confiscation.

Taking the actions of Deerfield, Illinois as the model for what a lot of anti gun people want, what you are asking for is for me to have a transparent gun safe.  You want the police to be able to come into my house, look at the guns that I have, decide what I can and cannot keep, and take what they don’t you don’t like.  Yet somehow that is not a massively overbearing invasion of my right to privacy.

Clear backpacks may deter some from bringing weapons into school, but without metal detectors people can still conceal them in folders or in between papers, junior Isabella Pfeiffer said.

And backpacks won’t prevent firearms from getting in the hands of dangerous people in the first place, she said. It would not have prevented the February 14 rampage, because the gunman was not a student.

“This isn’t a solution to making sure that a tragedy like the one that happened at Douglas doesn’t happen again,” she said. “Many of us think that this is a way that legislators can pacify us instead of enacting actual change.”

And you don’t think the clear back pack rule will keep anybody safe.  Guess what, neither will talking semi auto rifles and high capacity magazines from law abiding citizens.  We’ve got reams of data on that going back decades.

Junior Connor Dietrich used tissue paper to obscure the contents of his bag. He, too, thinks the bags are not the answer to preventing guns from getting into the hands of the wrong people, which is what he and other students are fighting for.

Maybe Connor Dietrich should go to jail.  He’s obviously trying to get around the intent of the law and is risking other student’s lives.  If he’s not up to something bad why is he trying to stop people from looking in his back pack?  He doesn’t “need” privacy.

“You know it’s only difficult because if we were being listened to and common sense gun legislation was brought into play we wouldn’t need all of this to be safe.”

You don’t want the police looking in your back pack so you want them to raid my house?  Fuck you kid.

Junior Jack Macleod said he is not opposed to the clear backpacks if they are used with other safety measures, such as metal detectors or wands.  But safety may come at the cost of a productive school environment, he said.

“I definitely feel safer, but in no way is school going to be a place of cognitive education and creativity when it feels like a jail cell,” he said.

You don’t want to go to school in a jail but don’t mind America becoming a police state?

I’m actually kind of glad life slammed into these kids.  Not the shooting.  I don’t like the shooting, I wish that never happened.  But the mystery they are facing should teach them a lesson.

The golden rule of politics is: don’t impose laws on others that you don’t want imposed on yourself.

They want gun owners to face severe restrictions and a loss of rights, and they got that heaped on their heads.

Only if someone in the school could walk them through the lesson here, they might learn something.  Somehow, I doubt that will happen.

I made fun of Cameron Kasky when he shared a picture of a clear backpack full of Tampons.  His intention was obvious “annoy the uptight conservatives with feminine hygiene products because they think vaginas are oogie.”

Well Kasky decided he needed to up the level of his virtue signaling on this topic.

https://twitter.com/cameron_kasky/status/981145903162626049

How?  Fucking how, shit-for-brains teenager?

First off, how are tampons not easy to access.  Every fuck grocery store, dollar store, convenience store, gas station, and pharmacy in America sells them in one way or another.  There isn’t some restriction on them like you have go to a federally licenced tampon dealer, show ID, and fill out a form 4473 to buy a box.

Or do you mean they are just too expensive?

This kid’s grasp of economics is worse than his grasp of gun rights.

One of the basic rules of free market competition is that it drives down price.  A perfect example of this is how food costs less of a percentage of our income now that at any other point in history.  Food is so cheap in modern America that our poor die of obesity related diseases.  Less than 100 years ago, our poor would have have been dying of starvation or malnutrition.

Let me put it another way.  In 1987, a cell phone cost $3,000.  That is $3,000 in 1987 dollars.  And all it did was make phone calls.  The median household income in 1987 was $24,000.  Cell phones were for the super rich.  Today, you can buy a TracFone, for $10.  A cell phone costs less than a pair of shoes.  Sure, you can spend $800 on a new iPhone but that thing is a fucking super computer that has more processing power and digital camera technology in it than all of NASA had in 1987.

So, in America, which is still largely a free market economy for consumer goods, competition drives down costs.

I did some hunting on the internet and Dollar General sells DG (store) brand tampons for $5.50 for a 36 pack.  I have no idea how well they work or how long 36 will last, but if I assume that 36 is a single cycle supply, that is a total cost of $66/year.

Walmart sells Equate (store brand) tampons for $5.27 per 56.  Now that’s down to $31.56 per year.  Going to the high end name brand, that’s $20.35 for a 36 pack.

Sorry that woman have to buy these and men don’t.  Until you get married and your wife tosses a box of them in the grocery cart and you pay for it along with everything else because you are the breadwinner because that’s your fucking job as a man.

Life’s not fair.  That’s the first lesson of being an adult.  We all have to make choices in our life on how to spend our money on what we need.  Some of us have health problems or dietary restrictions that we have to budget for.

Guess what?  Life’s not fair.  What drives me nuts is some college Women’s Studies major bitching about the unfair price of tampons while she spends $10 a day on venti soy lattes.

But now that you’ve virtue signaled to all your female classmates just how woke you are, what is your solution?

Just how do you think you are going to disrupt the free market to make them cheaper?

Before you answer that question, ask the Venezuelans about their toilet paper shortage, and how toilet paper has become so valuable that the Venezuelan army awards soldiers for loyalty with it.

Or are your going to fight the “tampon tax?”

First of all, there is no specific tax on tampons, or any other feminine hygiene products.  Read that sentence again, just so it sinks in.  I say that because you kids are stupid and you don’t know about the laws you talk about.

The reality is in many state they are subject to sales tax like many goods.  Now it is time for a lesson in tax jargon.  A “necessity” isn’t what you think a necessity is.  Clothes are a necessity, right?  You have to wear them, you can’t go around naked.  Clothes aren’t a necessity for tax purposes in 44 states (you still pay tax on them).  Illinois taxes your prescription and OTC drugs.  You’d think that a diabetic shouldn’t be taxed on his insulin?  Illinois disagrees.

A “luxury” isn’t a luxury in tax speak either.  A luxury is anything that is not a “necessity.”  Real luxury items like jewelry, alcohol, tobacco, guns, etc. are subject to “excise” or “sin” taxes.

So when your teenage girlfriend says “tampons aren’t a luxury they shouldn’t be taxed like one.”  She’s showing the same level of knowledge about tax law as she is about the Second Amendment.  Which is to say, fuck all nothing.

Some states tax more, some tax less, but in all, there is a balance.

Here is a real discussion I had with my mom when she moved from Florida to Alabama.  She was pissed that Alabama charges a 9% sales tax on food.  Florida has no food sales tax.  Then I asked her about her property taxes.  She paid $2,000 in property taxes in Alabama.  She paid $12,000 in property taxes in Florida.  So I asked her “do you think you are going to pay $10,000 in sales tax on food this year?”  She said “of course not.”  My response was “Than overall, you paid less money.  You’re just upset that you paid more at the grocery store.”

Now I’m a low tax guy.  I agree women shouldn’t pay taxes on tampons.  But let’s not be sexist.  I don’t want to pay taxes on my anti-dandruff shampoo or fluoride mouthwash or any of my medical/grooming needs.  Lets  end all sales taxes on OTC and hygiene products.

But what is the balance?  You are cutting a revenue stream so money has to be raised somewhere else.  Where is that going to be?  What are you willing to pay more in taxes for to offset the reduction?  Or have you not thought that out either?

I know.  By “steps must be taken to make these health products easier to access” you mean’t government subsidy.  How will that work?  Are we talking about goverment price fixing?  Maybe any woman can walk into a store, flash some government issued card, and get a box for “free.”  By “free” I mean paid for with tax dollars and all the bureaucratic inefficient that goes along with it which is how you get $640 toilet seats.

Alright Hans Fritzsche Jr., what did you mean by your meaningless statement?

I know we’re supposed to take every shit-ass terrible idea you Parkland kids have as gospel from the mount, so how am I going to be inconvenienced by this?  I don’t “need” and assault rifle, so I guess I don’t “need” more of my income either?  You can just take that from my cold, dead hands too, I assume?

I can just pay for your girlfriend’s tampons so she doesn’t have to worry about having one less pumpkin spice latte per month to cover her feminine costs.  You know, like a responsible adult in the real world would do.

Or maybe you just did it to get the progressive activist chicks wet?

Can I marry Cameron Kasky cause like

— ? (@sasanahh) April 3, 2018

How about this:

Finish high school, go to college, get married, get a job, pay your income taxes, buy a house, buy a car, have a kid, then you can talk about economic issues.

As long as you are still living at home and getting an allowance from your parents, you can kindly shut the ever-loving fuck up.

Good Ole Josh is having another of his TDS seizures.

Poor bastard. Must suck to live with so much hate inside.

The Left, having abused the “Death to The NRA” returns to their favorite dead pool nominee. Senator Kamala Harris had also made a joke earlier today about the death of President Trump in the Helen Show.

If I were the Secret service, I’d be worried about the crazy asshole who is right now alone in his apartment getting the idea that killing POTUS not only is OK but that he will be celebrated for his assassination.

As Michael Bane smarty has said: “They are chumming the waters.”

The second speaker here was awesome.

The first speaker was good.  He was professional.

But the second guy really hit the nail on the head.  Why does the government seem to treat law abiding, tax paying citizens worst of all.  We’re the first to get taxed more, lose our rights, and not be considered.

God Bless the Texans for trying, but I would be so skeptic with past history and all.

I have spoken before about the Happy Land fire and how $1 worth of gas was more effective than any high-capacity BS the Antis are trying to sell.

This video popped this morning and it is  decent summary of what happened.