By the way some people are reacting, you could swear President Macron made a pact with the European Community and surrendered France to them.

Although I would not be surprised that Macron would surrender his Country to a foreing entity (Lord knows France does have a history of bending over) I am afraid that we cannot blame this on him. France surrounded to the EU long ago as show by its passport.

“Aww shit Miguel, there you go again. The passport thing ain’t bad!”

I am sure not. I guess you would not be bothered by something like this with Open Borders, right?

At Hanukkah event with @JFREJNYC in an moving speech, @Ocasio2018 shares that her family were Sephardic Jews who fled to Puerto Rico. “So many of our destinies are tied beyond our understanding” pic.twitter.com/68bjuCFnDD

— Taly Krupkin (@TalyKrupkin) December 10, 2018

I guess she was tired of being called out for being buddies with Linda Sarsour and the rest of the Lefty anti-Semite squad that just fell out of favor.

“See I’m not an anti-Semite, I’m a Jew* too.”

*Since this is the first time I heard this mentioned any in any way, I’m going to assume that she’s as Jewish as Elizabeth Warren is Native American.

This girl is just a mess.

Last month was the milestone of my second Smoking-Free year and used Chantix. So I kinda like what was done here and I am also a fan of Ray Liotta.

PS: Ray does an amazing role in Texas Rising as Lorca. It took me a long while to figure out it was him.

Hat Tip Jeremy W.

If you haven’t heard, actor and comedian Kevin Hart was tapped to host the Oscars.

The Oscars have been seeing decreasing viewership over the last few years, with them bottoming out in record lows in the age of Trump.

Middle Americans just got tired of watching multimillionaire celebrities applaud rapists, drug addicts, spousal abusers, and pedophiles while pontificating on just how racist, sexist, and downright evil working class Middle Americans are for liking their Trump tax breaks.  Only in Hollywood, is a celebrity with three personal assistants, who makes $20 Million for a few months work of work, with a mansion in Malibu, insulting a welder who pulls 60 hour weeks for $40,000 considered “punching up” because the welder wears a MAGA hat.  But I digress…

Considering just how much of a shit show the Oscars has become, the offer of hosting it to Kevin Hart might very well have been in insult.

Still, it came out that in 2011, some seven years ago, he made some anti-gay jokes on Twitter.  Nothing really terrible, just not nice.

For this, he was shit canned.

He’s still a celebrity, he’s got royalties from some movies and comedy specials.  He’s not hurting financially.

Then what other news broke.

Kyler Murray won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday.  He’s 21 years old.  He has his whole life ahead of him.

Unfortunately for Murray, he made some anti-gay insults on Twitter.  When he was 15 years old, back in the day of 2012.

Just for reference on the social conscience of the nation on homosexuality as a function of time, Obergefell v. Hodges was decided in 2015.

Instead of celebrating his Heisman win, he had to spend the weekend in an act of total public contrition for being a typical teenage boy.

Murray is also a baseball player and has been signed to the Oakland Athletics…. for now.

This is Twitter.  Sure, people in the media got criticized for digging up a six year old tweet by a teenage boy to ruin what should have been one of the proudest moments of his life, but it generates too many clicks and a whole lot of money, and since nobody got fired for it, they will do it again.

Victimhood is one hell of a drug, and Social Justice self-righteous outrage just too addicting for some people not to spend their free time digging through old Tweets or Facebook posts to take someone down for a nothing infraction.

Why would any parent let a child on Twitter.  Ten years from now, that kid could be grown up and sitting for an interview for a job, applying to the state Bar, starting a business, whatever, and hear “well, we found this Tweet from when you were 14 that was bigoted…” and that’s it.

I don’t think there really needs to be any more evidence that Twitter and, to a very slightly lesser degree, Facebook are cesspools not worth swimming in.

We don’t need a top-down Chinese style social credit system, American Progressive Social Justice Warriors are happy do to that voluntarily, searching through your social media and instigating media attacks and you and threats of boycotts against your employer.

This platform is doomed to failure.

Parents, get your kids off social media before a pre-pubescent tweet keeps them off the bench or board or state or field at adults.

I am with mom at the medical center. They cater to the elderly and it also offers activities, a place to sit safely and talk with friends and even meals.

But 5 minutes ago, techno music started to thump and a therapist started to herd the “viejitos” to the meeting room and get them to dance.

You know a hip or two are gonna go south before this is over.

This from Mother Jones:

House Dems Will Push for Background Check on Every Gun Sale

House Democrats plan to prioritize a bill that will require a background check for every gun sale, according to multiple sources close to the matter. The legislation represents an aggressive shift in strategy by Democrats and their gun reform allies, who in previous years had tended to pursue more modest background check bills that would have exempted large numbers of gun purchases.

Federal law currently only requires licensed firearm retailers, such as gun stores or hunting shops, to run the would-be buyer through the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System. This means any firearms purchased outside those venues—on the internet or from a private dealer at a gun show, for instance—can be sold without taking that step. According to a 2017 study in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which was funded in part by supporters of gun control, 22 percent of US gun owners obtained a firearm without a background check over the past two years…

But with Ryan leaving Congress and Democrats winning control of the House, Thompson now plans to introduce a bill that will go further than any of those earlier proposals: It will require a background check for every gun sale or transfer, regardless of who’s doing the selling or transferring. The move has been in the works since before the election, when Thompson met with outside gun reform allies like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, the Center for American Progress, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and Giffords to talk about what they might push for if Democrats won the House.

So now that the Democrats regained control of the House, they want to ban all private firearm transfers.

All.  Of.  Them.

You want to give a gun to your son or daughter?  You better go to a dealer and have an NICS run on them.  Somebody dies and you inherit the guns?  The estate is going to have to have an FFL have you do a 4473.  Do you want to borrow a gun from your buddy to try it out?  You get the idea.

One of the groups pushing for this bill, but not mentioned in Mother Jones, is Doctors Demand Action.

I bet you can guess who is bankrolling them?

They were “founded” (I use quotes because it was hardly organic) by a couple of doctors after the NRA sent out a tweet saying “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves.”

This is why I hate Twitter, 140 characters are not enough to make a reasoned point and it just becomes who can make the snarkiest comment.

The fact is that the medical profession is leaning ever further Left, especially in areas like pediatrics.

We watched under Obama a portion of the medical community tried to use their medical credentials in an entirely  partisan way.  Vivek Murthy founded Doctors for America, a group of medical doctors that pushed hard for Obama and Obamacare.  Murthy was rewarded for his politicking by being made Surgeon General, despite having made no significant medical research, having no significant history of patient care, or having never managed a hospital or a medical school.  He pretty much ran a medical super PAC for Obama.

We saw this again with the medical and psychology community collectively decide that Donald Trump was clearly insane and should be removed from office under the 25th Amendment, all from watching TV interviews.

The APA had to publicly remind those in the profession about the Goldwater Rule before every psychologist who wanted to virtue signal found a CNN or MSNBC camera to stand in front of an diagnose Trump with being unfit.

From Josef Mengele to the psychologists of the Soviet Union to Japanese Unit 731 (Japan had an army of Mengeles who performed medical torture on Chinese and US prisoners in WWII), history has shown us just how quickly politics can turn any MD in a white coat into a partisan hack capable of the most brutal human rights violations in the name of political ideology.

There is nothing to suggest American physicians are any different.

What disgusts me is that these people use their position as doctors as a facade of objective, evidence based professionals, while being totally partisan.

“My medical degree, board certifications, and white coat are all the proof you need to see that I am beholden only to the highest professional standards of objectivity, while I claim that all assault weapon owners and NRA members are sociopaths and all Trump voters are pathological and need to be lobotomized.”

So that a bunch of Medical Doctors who know nothing about firearms policy or law, come up with some highly partisan study, try to influence politics in a partisan way, get called out by the NRA is not unreasonable.

There were a lot responses to that Tweet like this:

Or this:

Besides being a potential HIPAA violation, is the “I have taken bullets out of bodies so I know about gun violence.”

No you don’t.  Pulling bullets out of bodies has nothing to do with gun policy.  It’s politics driven by emotion and bloody pictures from a hospital, not an understanding of the root of a lot of gun violence as a gang and drug related problem.

Many of the Tweets as well as the policy of Doctors Demand Action call for CDC funding of “gun violence research.”

Apparently, like the partisans that they are, they ignore research they don’t like.  Such as the CDC report that said:

Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.

Because they don’t want the truth, they want the CDC to make up a justification for massive gun control with the CDC giving the facade of an objective study instead of a partisan hatchet job to a Constitutional right.

That brings us all the way to this article from Annals of Epidemiology.

California’s comprehensive background check and misdemeanor violence prohibition policies and firearm mortality

Purpose
In 1991, California implemented a law that mandated a background check for all firearm purchases with limited exceptions (comprehensive background check or CBC policy) and prohibited firearm purchase and possession for persons convicted within the past 10 years of certain violent crimes classified as misdemeanors (MVP policy). We evaluated the population effect of the simultaneous implementation of CBC and MVP policies in California on firearm homicide and suicide.

Results
The simultaneous implementation of CBC and MVP policies was not associated with a net change in the firearm homicide rate over the ensuing 10 years in California. The decrease in firearm suicides in California was similar to the decrease in nonfirearm suicides in that state. Results were robust across multiple model specifications and methods.

Conclusions
CBC and MVP policies were not associated with changes in firearm suicide or homicide. Incomplete and missing records for background checks, incomplete compliance and enforcement, and narrowly constructed prohibitions may be among the reasons for these null findings.

So California’s universal background check law did… just like the Brady Bill before it… fuck all nothing to reduce crime or gun deaths!

But that study didn’t come to the conclusion that they wanted, so the Democrats and Doctors Demand Action are just going to ignore it and keep driving forward with their political desires.

There is one thing that all of this conclusively proves:

It is not about safety, is is about control.  They are going to take your rights because they want to.  Saving lives is the excuse they will use, even though there is no evidence that their bill will do that at all.

From rapes to arsons to guns, Florida’s school districts are hiding countless crimes that take place on campus, defying state laws and leaving parents with the false impression that children are safer than they are.
Many serious offenses — and even minor ones — are never reported to the state as required, an investigation by the South Florida Sun Sentinel found. A staggering number of schools report no incidents at all — no bullying, no trespassing, nothing.

Florida schools cover up crimes: Rapes, guns and more

First we heard about it with Trayvon Martin case and then with Marjorie Stoneman Douglass High School shooting: Crimes and dangerous behavior in school were being covered-memory holed-not reported. Now and thanks to an amazing work by the Sun Sentinel we find out it is an endemic issue across the state.

“At Parker Elementary in Panama City, a 12-year-old boy stole a school bus in July 2014 and went on a two-hour joyride, just hours after he had appeared in court for another bus theft. The theft was never reported to the state. The school district did not respond to requests for comment.”

“Despite the warning, LaVoy Exceptional Center School in Tampa reported no sex crimes during the 2016-17 school year, the same year teacher George Summers molested a disabled teenage student. He’s now a registered sex offender.
Schools spokeswoman Tanya Arja said the district reported the crime to police, but annual safety reports list only incidents in which students are disciplined. Arja said she would ask the state to clarify, ignoring that the state had already made it clear many times before.”

Even murder has been ignored. A student at Coral Gables Senior High got a 40-year prison sentence for a fatal stabbing in 2009, a case that attracted national attention, but the Miami-Dade County school district never reported it to the state.

But it was always easier to blame Gun Owners. It was always easier to blame the NRA. It has been said that Florida’s Teacher’s Union and the School Boards are powerful mafias in the state and I have to say this seems to prove it. Will something be done? No idea, I hope some of the newly elected state legislators are already checking the legislation to see how will it be improved.  And let’s see if the new Governor and new State’s Attorney hit the ground running with this

As for Florida Gun Owners, we need to throw this back in the faces of our accusers, 24/7 and 365 days a year.

“Stop Blaming Guns. Fire the School Boards. Do It For The Children!”