They need proof, that’s it.

Anyway, the attacker’s name is Zachary Greenberg. He was indeed arrested and is out on bail.

But we are the violent ones.

But the sickness continues to expand and now there a new twist.

An armed group attacked an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, a town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on February 27. It wasn’t an isolated incident– three days earlier, an armed group also attacked another health centre about 15 kilometres away from the first. In both cases, the assaillants didn’t harm patients or staff but instead sought to burn and destroy the buildings and medical equipment, according to our Observers.

Go over Bayou Renaissance Man to catch the rest.

This last strains have been killing half the patients who catch it. You have a better chance of surviving by being shot with a handgun.

Took cancer to send this asshole to Hell.

Whether they like him or not, whether they think he’s done a good job or not, and whether they think no one could have been prepared for what happened on 2-14 or not, the question facing Broward County School Board members Tuesday is whether Superintendent Robert Runcie remains the best person to lead the school district and champion its 271,000 public school students in Tallahassee.

In our view, given the community’s deepening divide over Runcie’s stewardship and the chilly reception awaiting him in the Capitol, he is not.

Broward Schools needs a new leader | Editorial

It seems the School Board meets today and there is a vote about keeping him or letting him go. And Broward’s Democratic Party machine must have been measuring the polls and finding him a liability if you get to see an editorial like this.

The Op-Ed goes on to explain he is not a bad man after all but caught by the  circumstance of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglass High School Massacre. Yet they go into a description on how Broward Schools have been slipping under his command. And if that is not enough, the Sun-Sentinel editorial board suddenly has developed a bad taste for the use of the Race Card by Runcie’s allies to defend him. That is all the indication you need  to detect he is persona non-grata in the county’s politics.

So there is a good chance he will be gone, but my hope is that he is not. I hope his allies put significant pressure on the board to keep him in at least till the next election. Runcie makes for a fin albatross hanging around the neck of Debbie Wasserman Schulz Club for Liberals.

“But  Miguel, you don’t care for the school children?”  My answer: I don’t live in Broward and elections have consequences.

People argue that there’s been an election since the shooting and board members who supported the superintendent won re-election, which means the community has spoken.

We’d note that the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board endorsed all but one of those board members for re-election, for which we, too, have gotten grief.

We will see what the day brings.

From the Washington Examiner:

AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies

Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.

The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat’s chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of “dark money” in politics.

Chakrabarti’s companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used.

The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.

Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication “there’s something amiss.” They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.

I am shocked, shocked I say… okay, not that shocked, that a Socialist is really as corrupt as the day is long.  That’s par for the course.

From the Daily Caller:

OCASIO-CORTEZ AND HER CHIEF OF STAFF ‘COULD BE FACING JAIL TIME’ IF THEIR CONTROL OVER PAC WAS INTENTIONALLY HIDDEN, FORMER FEC COMMISSIONER SAYS

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti obtained majority control of Justice Democrats PAC in December 2017, according to archived copies of the group’s website, and the two appear to retain their control of the group, according to corporate filings obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. If the Federal Election Commission (FEC) finds that the New York Democrat’s campaign operated in affiliation with the PAC, which had raised more than $1.8 million before her June 2018 primary, it would open them up to “massive reporting violations, probably at least some illegal contribution violations exceeding the lawful limits,” former FEC commissioner Brad Smith said.

“If the facts as alleged are true, and a candidate had control over a PAC that was working to get that candidate elected, then that candidate is potentially in very big trouble and may have engaged in multiple violations of federal campaign finance law, including receiving excessive contributions,” former Republican FEC commissioner Hans von Spakovsky told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

And fellow former FEC commissioner Brad Smith told TheDCNF that if “a complaint were filed, I would think it would trigger a serious investigation.” He also noted that such a probe could potentially result in jail time for Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff, Chakrabarti.

Here is the thing.  Normally, having that magical “D” after her name would insulate her from any negative ramifications for her criminal actions.

Except…

She cost New York City the Amazon HQ2.  She staged protests against Nancy Pelosi.  Her first draft of the Green New Deal was a public embarrassment of the Democrats.  She is ginning up support for a 70% income tax rate that would hit people like Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and all the other high dollar grifters in the Democrat party.

Then there was that whole deal about her using her activist Twitter followers as thugs to enforce compliance among moderate swing district Democrats.

She has also threatened to get her younger Progressive friends to primary the Old Guard grifters of the Democrat party.

AOC has really turned into a thorn in the side of the Democrats who have been there for a long time and know on which side their bread is buttered.

Having AOC be taken out by a corruption charge would get her and her antics out of the spotlight.

The Democrats don’t even need to remove her, they just need to not defend her all that vigorously, letting the Republicans do the dirty work of prosecuting.  Then Pelosi could say that AOC taken out by those evil sexist Republicans and that she (AOC) is a martyr to the Progressive cause, actually making AOC useful to the party for once.

What keeps politicians out of prison is their usefulness.  AOC is not useful to the Democrats in office and is useful to the Democrats as a martyr.

She may be headed to prison.

I just don’t have the words.

Remember Representative Eric Swalwell?

He was the Member of the House of Representatives from California who said the Second Amendment was no longer useful as a bulwark against tyranny because the US Government could nuke American citizens.

So he’s back at it with his anti-gun bullshit on Twitter.

If you read the actual article from CNN, it turns out that speed limit technology being added to new Volvos is being mandated by the EU.  Essentially, in Europe, they want to make it so that the car cannot exceed the speed limit posted on the road using RF technology or something similar.  So it’s a lot less Volvo being responsible as much as Volvo doing what they have to, to keep selling cars in Europe.

Most of the critical comments in the thread point out that owning cars is not a right, like guns are.  Which is true.

Others point out that most people don’t go 112 or even 150, which is also true.  Data from NHTSA and the IIHS show that most speeding is around 10 MPH over the limit.  So what gets people killed in high speed accidents is going 70 in a 60 zone, not 140.  I’ve driven in the HOV lane of I-95 in Miami and even on that death trap, the highest speed most people go is about 90 MPH.

I’m not going to waste a lot of time even trying to refute the “What if they recognized assault weapons have no useful role in our communities and stopped making them?”  When a group of three or five people break into your home armed with the intent to do you harm, it’s not up to Swalwell to tell you what kind of weapon or how many rounds you can have to defend yourself.  Double that when a race riot brakes out in your city and you find yourself on top of your roof watching everything you worked your entire life for get looted and burned.

No.

What pissed me off to no end was this part of his Tweet: “Don’t they have a conscience? Or are they motivated purely by greed?”

The late Charles Kruthammer famously said:

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

You see this again and again, when Liberals try to ascribe motivation to Conservatives, they assume what motivates us is maliciousness.

This is part of the healthcare debate.  Often those on the Left say that the reason Conservatives don’t support universal healthcare is that they (Conservatives) hate the poor or want people to die of disease or simply don’t want people to go see a doctor.  Clearly (to the Left) the reason that Conservatives don’t want to spend $32 Trillion dollars on bureaucratic healthcare is that we are mean people.

Congressman Swalwell is doing the same exact thing here with guns.

He hates guns.  So those people who make guns must do it for no reason than they are immoral people, devoid of a conscience, who simply want to make money, no matter how many die as a result.

The defense contracting community is a small one.  You get to know a lot of people.

I have friends and drinking buddies who are or have been with Remington, Taurus, Beretta, SIG, Smith & Wesson, FN USA, and Knights Armament.  They are all wonderful people.  They have families, husbands or wives, kids, dogs, people they care about and care about them.  They are all patriots who love their jobs.  A few of them are veterans who served this country with honor.

Those who work for gun makers that sell to law enforcement or the military have a sense of duty as well.  It’s a feeling that we make what our service members do possible.  Without the best weapons and equipment, our war fighters would not be as effective as they are, and if we fail them in doing our best, some of them might not come home alive.

Yet according to Swalwell, each and every one of my friends who worked or works for one of these companies is a bad person who lacks a conscience and is just making baby killers for money.

Considering that Swalwell is very pro-abortion, has been endorsed by NARAL, and rushed to the defense of Planned Parenthood when they were caught on video admitting to selling aborted babies for money, that’s a hell of a position for him to take.

He’s never met a gun maker, doesn’t understand what motivates them, and honestly, he doesn’t want to.

It’s easier for his world view for them to be faceless evil, much like the billionaires or CEO’s, or any other group he disagrees with, so it he can attack and scapegoat them for all the problems in the world.

I would weigh the hearts of my gun maker buddies against that of Swalwell’s any day of the week and and 100% sure would find Swalwell’s lacking.

He really is a piece of shit.