74 years ago was Operation Overlord, the invasion of mainland Europe through Normandy.

Back then, Evil was faced and defeated. Now we give them full benefits and a seat at the decision table.

Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA has told eight foreign clients it will be unable to supply the contracted volumes of crude oil, a company employee told S&P Platts.
“Among the affected clients due to the low availability of crude to export are Nynas, Tipco, Chevron, CNPC, Reliance, Conoco, Valero, and Lukoil, which will partially receive the volumes established by the contracts,” the person said.
The amount the company will not be able to supply is close to half of the total committed volumes of this grade, Merey 16, for June. It only has 578,000 bpd of the grade available, while the total contracted volume is 1.271 million barrels daily. PDVSA’s total crude commitments for the month stand at 1.495 million bpd, but it only has 694,000 bpd available.

Venezuela’s PDVSA Fails To Meet Oil Supply Obligations.

When I was a little kid in school, we were told about Alonzo De Ojeda and Americo Vespucci discovering Maracaibo lake  in 1499. One of the things they saw was the indian huts built on the water and on stilts. The other thing? This tar-looking thing coming out of the bottom of lake that the natives used to waterproof their boats: Petroleum.

Vespucci, the cartographer of the expedition, was taken by the edifications that he called the region Little Venice which eventually ended up being Venezuela.

Fast forward 500+ years and decades of investing in oil infrastructure and personnel, Socialism has managed to screw up to gather enough of the product that pops naturally from underground to fulfill contracts. Like Stalin did before WWII, Chavez endeared himself in getting rid of PDVSA engineers and workers that did not align themselves with the Revolution and substituted them with politically loyal but totally petroleum-ignorant people.

In the 1970s after President Perez nationalized the oil industry (No, it was not Chavez and they keep saying) the government did a smart thing: The gave full scholarships to anybody with decent grades to go study anything oil-related to the US. While back them with the Oil boom it was said that Miami was the biggest neighborhood of Caracas because all the Venezuelans shopping there, the second biggest was Houston with all the students soaking the Oil Business.

The students came back and transformed PDVSA into a revolutionary (in the good sense) Oil company who produced 2.5 million BPD with the regularity of the tides. Equipment failure and accidents were extremely rare and the company had a worldwide reputation for excellence and innovation.

Now PDVSA is known for being the organization where the Venezuelan oil income has been deviated to secret bank accounts all over the world by Chavistas and Socialists. Corrupt to the core and slowly strangling the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs of every penny they can.

It is a lie the Socialism hates wealth. They just hate you being wealthy, they don’t mind suffering it so the people do not have to do it. Like Sin Eaters but with caviar, champagne and penthouses.

So AMC had created a new TV show called Dietland based off the novel of the same name.

Here is the plot in a nutshell:

Plum Kettle is a smart woman with several degrees but because she weighs 300 lbs, she can only work as a ghost writer for a teen fashion magazine for crap pay.  She goes to a Weight Watchers knockoff and fails at it.  She is a miserable person.

Of course, this all because she is fat.  That is life for women in America.  It doesn’t matter how smart or skilled you are, if you are fat, nobody wants you.  You could be a god damned brain surgeon, but if you are fat, patients would rather end up as vegetables from aneurysms than have your fat fingers fiddling at their brains.

Despite the fact that she is 300 lbs and nobody will ever love her because if it, she is constantly being sexually harassed.  In fact, every man she meets is a rapist or harasser or some other sort of despicable person.

She gets involved with a woman at the fashion magazine she works for who is part of an anti fashion industry resistance movement (WTF?) and a “vigilante” group called Jennifer.  Jennifer has been killing men accused of rape and harassment by throwing them out of planes.

Yep.  This is a TV show.  The author of the novel write it as a “feminist version of Flight Club.”

Here is HuffPo doing a video with the cast of Dietland talking about the show as a “female revenge fantasy.”

If you don’t want to watch the whole intolerable video this link will take you the important part starting at 3:22.

One of the women read the book and wonders why women don’t fight back more when they feel unsafe.

Because… KIDNAPPING MEN AND MURDERING THEM OVER SUSPECTED ACTS IS NOT FIGHTING BACK.

These women, and the feminists who love it, fundamentally do not understand the difference between fighting back in self defense and vigilante murder.

A group of women operating under the blanket name Jennifer has begun to kill men accused of sexual assault and assorted misogynist misdeeds. After luring the men into their midst, the rogue group slaughters the offenders and then drops their bodies from the sky.

Jennifer’s escalating vigilantism catches the attention of a downtrodden serial dieter named Plum Kettle (Joy Nash), who spends her days responding to reader letters on behalf of Kitty Montgomery (Julianna Margulies), the editor of a beauty magazine called Daisy Chain. Kitty is a prototypical villain in the editrix mode, saddling Plum with the task of responding with apolitical truisms to letters from self-loathing teens who beg “Kitty” for her wisdom of all sorts (fitting in at school, cutting their breasts with razors). Dissatisfied with her career, and with a boss who wields thinness as a weapon, Plum is eventually drawn into the mysterious underground clique of women fighting back against anything from unrealistic beauty standards to sexual abuse.

Believe me, I get it.  There are few traumas in life that are worse than being sexually assaulted or raped, and I know I am unlikely to ever experience that.

I fully support the right of a woman to shoot the piece-of-shit who is trying to rape her in the chest.  But being harassed or even raped is not a license to kill other men after the fact.

This goes even further.  Plum is fat and unhappy and because she gets wolf-whistled at or some girl who reads the magazine she works for has low self esteem (from the fucking magazine), men need to die.

This is is what excites miserable feminists and their limp-dick allies.

Compare this to the hatred and hand wringing of the last male revenge fantasy movies.

Death Wish: Guy’s wife is murdered and daughter raped.  Guy kills everyone involved with the rape and murder of his daughter and wife.

This was a “terrible, pro NRA talk piece.”  No, it wasn’t, but because Paul Kersey used guns, and was a man, it was bad.

Dietland has women kill men who wolf whistle, and don’t use guns, so it is feminist empowerment.

This is why you can’t have guns.

They know that they want to “solve” what they have identified as social ills with killing.

First, they don’t want you to have guns to defend yourself

Second, many of them feel this hatred in their hearts and are afraid that if they had guns they couldn’t control themselves.

They project their evil onto you and then work to deny your rights because they assume you are as awful as they are.

In this case I have to agree with them part way.  If you can’t tell the difference between defending yourself against and attacker at the moment of attack and after-the-fact vigilante justice, you probably shouldn’t have a gun.

One of the things about going to two small colleges was the graduation was fairly quick.

My wife went to a big state school and that took for damn ever to hand every graduating student their diploma.

The college I attended was a private school.  We actually practiced our graduation the day before and were told, very clearly, that any disruptive behavior would be met with severe punishment.   Punishment like not getting your diploma.

Everyone was well behaved, including the parents and guests attending.

At my wife’s graduation, there were people who brought banners and air horns like it was a football game.  It was embarrassing to watch.

Apparently at the University of Florida, when students started to do a victory dance worth of a Touchdown celebration penalty, a dean hurried the students off stage.

Unfortunately for the school, the graduates caught on video doing this were black.  Now the school is facing accusations of racism.

I get that graduating from college is something to celebrate, but some things are solemn and the graduation procession is one of them.

Getting married is worth celebrating but that doesn’t mean you can hold a wet t-shirt contest in the baptismal font.

That’s what the reception and after party are for.

Unfortunately a bunch of students not taking this shit with the seriousness and reverence that they should is ruined graduation for everyone else and is getting the school in hot water.

Patriot Prayer went to Portland and got into a fight with Antifa.

Of course Antifa is still active in Portland.  Why the hell not.

It was a mess.  People were beating each other, spraying each other with pepper spray, hitting each other with sticks.  For the most part the Portland police just sort of let it all happen.

I’ve always wanted to go to the Kersahw warehouse sale at the end of the year, but between Antifa and Vegan BBQ, I have no interest in passing though Portland.

I have no idea why Patriot Prayer went there, except maybe to pick a fight.

I tell you the one thing that did come to mind when I saw all those Antifa mass for action.

Then again, I’m a really terrible person.

From ABC news:

“The swatting incident was just a silly prank," Hogg tells @ABC.

"It’s not going to take our focus off what we’re super excited about—the March For Our Lives bus tour to get young people to vote and promote gun law reform." https://t.co/BvGCtEyWnb

— ABC News (@ABC) June 5, 2018

Also from ABC News:

Hogg, who graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Sunday, is not at the Florida home but with his family in Washington, D.C., where he is expected to accept the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.

So he’s a thousand miles from home, with his entire family in DC, and his house gets swatted.  When asked about it, he called it a “silly prank.”

People have been killed being swatted and he calls it a “silly prank.”

Then he continues to use it to push his message.

Hogg, who is out of town, said the hoax at his home “was just a silly prank.”

“It’s not going to take our focus off what we’re super excited about; the March for Our Lives bus tour to get young people to vote and promote gun law reform,” he told ABC News Tuesday.

Accuse me of being paranoid or feeding into conspiracy theories but this seems very fishy.

Of all the times to get swatted, it’s when he KNOWS everyone he loves will be out of the house.

He’s apparently not angry over the fact that someone might have sent the BSO to kill him.

Me thinks he needed some more victim cred.

I hope to god that the FBI does one hell of a job investigating this.  I want to know where this call originated.

And if I am reading it right, it is the biggest May since the beginning of NICS.

So far, we have 11,357,627 checks for this year. Same period last year brought us 10,699,334 so we are up↑ 658,293 checks.

Not bad, not bad at all.