Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
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And please allow me to introduce Dindu Noffin’s cousin from south of the Border: Mr Yono Izenada
This is a video of Michael Bloomberg talking about government healthcare rationing.
This video of Bloomberg saying we should deny care to people once they're past a certain age (because it isn't worth it) is everything about him which is so awful.https://t.co/iL1FGf3Ha0
— Eli Steinberg (@HaMeturgeman) February 16, 2020
Let me make this perfectly clear. This is not a Jewish value. Absolutely and without equivocation, in no school of Jewish teaching would this be considered acceptable.
It is a duty to choose life.
A doctor might say “at 95, I don’t recommend treatment because the side effects of chemotherapy will kill you faster than cancer.”
But to say “at 95, it’s just not worth the money to treat you” is evil.
It opens the door to some bureaucrat deciding what the value of all human life might be. Do we stop treating people for cancer at age 70? How old does someone need to be before we decide even a blood transfusion or a course of antibiotics is too expensive?
What about Bloomberg himself? He’s 78 years old. He would be 82 at the end of his first term. If he wins a second term and gets cancer is he too old or is he special because he’s President and a billionaire?
Of course, he thinks he’s special and the rules don’t apply to him.
Bloomberg can call himself many things, but he can’t call himself a Jew anymore. He’s a Progressive and has given up every value and shred of morality that has been handed down to us by God.
I generally hate the New York Daily News, it is the opposite of the New York Post, a far left-leaning New York paper. It’s famous for its provocative covers, which have been cruel and slanderous to the NRA and gun owners.
But, every once in a while, even the worst people will stumble onto the right answer.
“Bail reform, it’s lit!” Barry said. “It’s the Democrats! The Democrats know me and the Republicans fear me. You can’t touch me! I can’t be stopped!”
When he was finally released after his hearing early Saturday, Barry was still enthusiastic about Albany’s decision last year to eliminate bail for nonviolent crimes.
“It’s a great thing. It’s a beautiful thing,” he said. “They punk’ed people out for bull–t crimes.
Barry, 56, who has served six stints in state prison, has been arrested six times since New York’s bail reform laws took effect Jan. 1.
One court hearing Barry skipped is related to a Jan. 19 incident in which he was given a desk appearance ticket for allegedly stealing $50 out of woman’s hand inside the subway station at W. 42nd St. and Sixth Ave. near Bryant Park. The other hearing he missed was related to a theft in December.
The arrest was the 139th in Barry’s career. His criminal record includes six felonies, 87 misdemeanors, and 21 missed court hearings, records show.
This guy is beyond a career criminal. He enjoys being a criminal, preying on the law-abiding of New York City and getting away with it.
The good people of New York are nothing more than marks for criminals who know the system is rigged in their favor. Being a law-abiding citizen in a Progressive city is a sucker’s game, you exist to be taken advantage of.
Miguel posted a video this morning of protesters calling Bloomberg a fascist.
(To be fair, it’s hard for me to disagree with that assessment of Mr. McGunSodaVapingWalkingWhileTextingTransfatSugarBan)
But as history has shown us, the Revolution will always come for its own over purity tests.
Bloomberg might survive due to the amount of money he has in the bank. Those who will pay the price are his supporters.
David Klion is a writer for Jewish Currents, which is a “Progressive, secular magazine” for the “Jewish Left.” Really it’s a magazine for Communists who reject their Judaism but like to eat bagels and lox.
One would think that a Jew would uniquely understand the dangers of making lists of political enemies because Jews are pretty much always toward the top of those lists, but as I’ve said many times, Progressive/Leftist Jews stop being Jews and just become pure Leftists.
Matt Bruenig here is dispensing with the warning and going straight to making lists of names.
Every Socialist and Fascist (just two flavors of Leftist) government of the 20th century created lists of dissidents. The people on those lists had their ashes scattered across Germany or were buried in mass graves in Poland or Siberia.
If the Democrat party manages to rig the primary to make Bloomberg “the Moderate” the winner, I have a feeling that the violence that we see directed toward his staff will be tantamount to what we’ve seen carried out by Antifa in Portland. The Left always ends up destroying itself, and the Democrat offices and officials that will be responsible for this fix are located in deep blue states that have made room for Antifa in the past.
Normally I wouldn’t care if Leftists destroyed each other, but the revolution never has an “are we the baddies” moment. The victors always end up being the worst and most extreme members.
Maybe I’m being overly negative, but what I see in the future for the Left is terrible for America.
Protesters Chant ‘F***** Fascist’ At Bloomberg Rally in Virginia
Do you know what Bloomberg did? Laugh.
Why? Because he won.
At the end of the day, Virginians went to sleep and they woke up under the thumb of a bought Blue Legislature and Executive.
I know these kinds of demonstrations make for a somewhat therapeutical release, but they are at best chinese food: 30 minutes later you are still screwed up. You must prepare for the next battle and stop trying to win the one you already lost.
As for everybody else, specially Florida, get ready for November as they are coming for us. There are legislators leaving because Term Limits and we need to vet whomever is going to substitute them thoroughly.
And no Democrats, sorry Charlie.
My last post was about a shitty movie and in a few more before that, I wrote about the 737 MAX disaster.
That got me thinking about a very cheesy movie, that I happen to like called No Highway in the Sky.
Jimmy Stewart plays a nerdy and awkward engineer, what his British superiors call a “Boffin.”
What I love about this is that he’s a materials test engineer and failure analyst.
He is introduced in a lab where he is running a cyclic fatigue experiment.
The newest model aircraft for the company he works for is having crashes and he’s assigned to figure out why. He suspects metal fatigue and is sent to one of the crash sites, just to discover that he’s on one of these airplanes approaching the flight hours at which he suspects failure will occur.
Of course, the executives don’t want to believe him that their new, state of the art, plane is unsafe. He gets fires, just to be proven right in the end.
(Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, Boeing)
Some of the details are wrong. Fatigue isn’t that predictable, S-N curves are scaled logarithmically so cycles to failure at a given load can vary by +/- an order of magnitude. Also, fatigue is not that sensitive to temperature. There is thermal fatigue, which occurs due to cycles in thermal expansion. The fatigue properties in metals change with microstructure, so they are different above and below the ductile/brittle transition temperature or above the austenite transition temperature. But a difference of 40 degrees in aluminum isn’t going to change the fatigue life.
But I am willing to let that slide because this is the first and only movie I can think of where metal fatigue is the villain.
What’s more interesting is that this movie was released in 1951, and the de Havilland Comet was launched in 1952, and that is perhaps the most famous case of fatigue failure in commercial aircraft.
A de Havilland disaster movie – a la Sully (the 2016 film) – would be interesting. There were a number of courts of inquiry that ultimately lead to fatigue being identified as the cause of hull losses. Early crashes were blamed on pilot error which was actually a stall problem, which was turned into a different air disaster movie called Cone of Silence which was released in the US as Trouble in the Sky.
Despite the cheesiness and factual inaccuracies, I love this movie because a metallurgist is the hero.
It’s also what I used to do for a living, and would like to do again: failure analyst and materials test engineer. This is related to an aviation job that I wouldn’t mind having called a damage tolerance engineer.
Materials test engineer: “What does it take to break it? Let me find out by breaking it on purpose.”
Failure analyst: “Why did it break?”
Damage tolerance engineer: “How broken can it be before it totally comes apart and kills people?”
The general metallurgical principles are the same. It’s something that I enjoy doing and happen to be really fucking good at.
The movie is available online, so if you are at all nerdy and technically inclined.
Also, if you know about a need for a failure analyst (full time or consultant) let me know in the comments, it would be appreciated.