After years of silence, Ted Bundy’s long-term girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall, her daughter Molly, and other survivors come forward for the first time in a docuseries that reframes Bundy’s crimes from a female perspective. The series reveals how Bundy’s pathological hatred of women collided with the culture wars and feminist movement of the 1970s in one of the most infamous crime stories of our time.

I should have read this description in detail to save the missus and myself the hour plus of boredom of the first and half second episodes.

Ted Bundy was a charming and prolific serial killer. But apparently he became a serial killer because he was a reactionary Republican when the Women’s Lib movement exploded and he had to kill victims… or some woke explanation like that.  A third of the time the show concentrates on the women of Bundy’s life and his victims, the rest is a protracted story about Women’s Liberation  by the nags that are still alive and participated in it. They even went to include the Bobby Riggs con defying Billie Jean King to Tennis matches portrayed back then as The Battle Of The Sexes which turned out to be a marvelous make quick and lotsa money scheme by Riggs.  I was 13 at the time and even figured that one out.

So rather than be a memorial for the victims of Bundy, you are forced to watch a bad history class on the 70’s.

And in worse news, Netflix apparently is not doing season 3 of Mindhunters. The actors have been released from their contractual obligations.

Today, Rush Limbaugh announced that he had lung cancer.

Love him, hate him, occasionally listen to him when you’re in the car, the fact is he is a successful author and talk show host.

The Left hates him because he’s conservative and has a large audience.  They hate anyone and anything that challenges their desire for monopoly.

Reza Aslan is a Progressive author and media personality.  You probably know him from his Tweet where he sad that Covington Catholic schoolboy Nick Sandmann had a “punchable face.”

He felt the need to Tweet something shitter than that, so Tweeted this in response to the news about Rush.

Wow, clearly he is hoping for Rush’s death.

He was challenged, so he took the Progressive route of walking this back as not a death wish but as something more benign.

1: It’s not a philosophical question.

2: Rush is a Conservative radio host, I’m not sure how he is even indirectly responsible for the mass suffering of countless people.

That Aslan thinks like this is not surprising in the least.  He’s a typical Progressive.  His ideas are so great that they don’t deserve to be criticized and anybody that does criticize them is so awful that they deserve to die.

It’s only notable that more and more these people are convinced by their echo chamber that they should show the rest of us how they truly feel.

It would be real shame if the blue-collar mechanics who listen to Rush in the shop should find out about this before Aslan takes his Mercedes in for service.  I’d hate to see some angry mechanic make a mistake that causes Aslan’s brakes to go out at speed.

But we know that won’t happen on purpose because Conservatives don’t silence their opposition with violence or celebrate their misfortune.

This is not sarcasm, this is real.

Too many fictional straight wizards have been quoted for too long.

I wonder if anybody in Clymer’s circle knows that the Democrats had an actual wizard, a Grand Wizard, serving in Congress until he died in 2010.

General Bill by Massullo
Threats: Prohibits threats to use firearm or weapon with specified intent.
Effective Date: October 1, 2020
Last Event: Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 2:25 PM

I sat down and watched the live-streaming of the committee discussion. The original issues I had with the bill being so generic I think have been addressed with an amendment to the amendment.

if the threat is sufficient to cause a well-founded fear in a reasonable person that the threat will be acted upon.

IANAL but that sounds like a very defined language with little room for legal game playing. I do believe it is close to what we already have  for Self Defense. Also the penalty was dropped from Second Degree Felony to Third Degree.

Click on the top link to read all the bills and amendments. Easier for me that way.

Now we need to see the Senate version match this one. They are about halfway there and I would love to see the “well-founded” clause inserted.

Florida Gun Rights 2020 – HB 311 – Threats – BAD BILL – ACCEPTABLE

Hat Tip to Manny L

Everyone ready to play?

Islamic State Claims Responsibility for London Stabbing Attack
The attacker, who was shot and killed by police, had served prison time for terror offenses.

THE ISLAMIC STATE terrorist group claimed responsibility Monday for a knife attack that left multiple people injured in London over the weekend.

The group’s Amaq news agency said the attacker, who was shot and killed by police, was “a fighter of Islamic State, and carried out the attack in response to calls to attack the citizens of coalition countries.”

Law enforcement added that the suspect had recently been released from prison where he was serving a sentence for Islamist-related terrorism offenses.

Police say that Amman stabbed two people on Sunday before he was shot and killed by a “proactive counter-terrorism surveillance operation [that was] following the suspect on foot.” A third person was injured by glass following the discharge of a police gun.

Who has ISIS Connection, Previous Conviction(s), and Under Surveillance?

Man shot dead by British police wanted girlfriend to behead her parents

The man shot dead by police after wounding two people in a stabbing spree on a busy London street had been jailed for promoting violent Islamist material and had encouraged his girlfriend to behead her parents.

He had also once written a list of “goals in life” which included the desire to die as a martyr.

In November 2018, Amman had pleaded guilty to 13 offences of possession of terrorist documents and disseminating terrorist publications and the following month he was sentenced to more than three years in prison. He was released last month having served half the sentence.

Does anybody have Early Release?

When officers examined his computers and phone, they found he had downloaded material about making explosives and carrying out terrorist attacks, court documents show.

“In online chat you tell your girlfriend that you have declared a pledge to Islamic State and that you wish to purge society and carry out acid attacks,” Judge Mark Lucraft said when he sentenced him to prison.

Internet Radicalization anybody?

He also described Yazidi women as slaves and said the Koran made it permissible to rape them. In another message he encouraged his girlfriend to behead her parents.

Does anybody have “That’s not real Islam, it’s a Religion of Peace™”

Amman’s mother told Sky News her son was a “nice, polite boy” who had been radacalized by watching extremists Islamist material online and became more religious while in prison.

This is a tough one.  I bet most of you didn’t know that the “he was a good boy” defense was a thing in the UK too?

Anybody have BINGO?

The more of these that happen the more it’s like these terrorists are a stock character from central casting.

I guess British soft-on-crime policies are as effective as New York and California’s soft-on-crime policies as preventing violent recidivism.  That is, not at all.

What I’m waiting for is an article in which some shop owner in London is thrown in prison forever for selling to tourists fake bloody T-shirts that say “I visited London and all I got was culturally enriched.”  Because you know the police will take that very seriously.

This was published in the New York Post:

NY and CA spend billions more in taxes than TX and FL — and get worse results

America’s four largest states — California, Texas, Florida and New York — have a lot in common. They are iconic, dynamic and diverse. Each could be formidable countries themselves.

And, yet, they are also very different in their politics and governance. California and New York are dominated by Democrats who have implemented the nation’s highest and sixth-highest marginal income tax rates, respectively, to help finance large social programs and bureaucracies. (New York’s rate rises to second-highest if New York City income tax is included.)

Texas and Florida, meanwhile, have been governed mostly by conservative Republicans for decades; they are among the few states that levy no income tax on workers, while maintaining leaner social programs.

Our big four states provide a good test case for two very different visions: Do higher taxes and bigger government actually deliver better outcomes, particularly in terms of education, poverty alleviation, and infrastructure? Or can simpler governments and lower taxes actually raise the fortunes of their citizens?

Can you guess the outcome?

Of course you can.

Spending two-and-a-half times as much money doesn’t make New York’s students any better off than Florida’s.

Florida and Texas do not have New York’s famous “rubber rooms” where incompetent, violent, and sexually predatory teachers who cannot be allowed in classrooms go to spend their day because it’s almost impossible to fire them.

It seems like dumping huge money into welfare only encourages people to stay on welfare instead of decreasing the poverty rate.

Also, the high cost of living means that welfare, like other money, doesn’t go as far.

I know a little about this one.  A good family friend runs a civil engineering firm in Miami.  South Florida is a thin strip of livable land packed between an ocean and a swamp.  You either have to drain swamp or build next to ocean, both of which are expensive and challenging.

New York, on the other hand, their swamp is a sewer of corruption, graft, make-work union jobs, and other enormous wastes of money that make some people very rich while making New York City the most expensive subway-per-mile construction costs in the world.

The big picture here across all three metrics is the Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

Big Blue states with big Blue bureaucracies have a lot of overhead.  Huge spending on bureaucrats and regulators doesn’t’ mean that the final result is better and it usually means it’s worse.

Big government won’t solve the college education crisis or anything else, because it is inclined to create more bureaucrats to eat up the money than solve problems.

This article is proof that everything the Democrats say they will do if they just get to tax and spend the way they want won’t happen.  California and New York show us why it won’t.