Month: November 2020

Deplatforming: The Cyber Gag is on and even more dangerous.

Via Legal Insurrection and various readers who sent links.

I guess most of you may have already heard about The Conservative Treehouse being told they will be evicted from their webhosting service.  Well, add to that new movement email service Mailchimp who now has refused to provide service to the Northern Virginia Tea Party.

Add to that the actions of Facebook and Twitter silencing accounts of people they do not like politically, Online fundraising playing favorites and politics and we have one sad reality: The Internet is now controlled by people who hate our side and took their time encroaching the means of service. The Internet, the new Media is now acting like the Old Media and with much more effectiveness.

They are expecting and betting that the electoral “result” will not be changed and the new executive power will reward those who helped them by not only not coming down on their business, but even protecting them from any potential violations of intellectual property and private communications.

If the Senate falls, before the end of 2022 we will have a SCOTUS decision favoring the creation and enforcement of Hate Speech Laws which will dutifully be celebrated by POTUS #47 and assorted Federal Law Enforcement agencies.

 

 

Negligent discharge with death at a Rancho Cucamonga indoor range (Graphic)

https://videos.gunfreezone.net/videos/watch/380fca22-f3bf-4bd1-b300-b2f37ff55796

And a news article about it.

A woman was fatally shot and a man was wounded when a handgun accidentally went off at an indoor firing range in Rancho Cucamonga, police said Thursday.

Police responded to the gun range along the 9000 block of 9th Street about 5:55 p.m. Saturday.

A man and woman were each found suffering from a gunshot wound, and they were taken to a hospital, police said in a news release.

Tatianna Holt, 36 of Compton, was pronounced dead at the hospital, while Cory Carmichael, 34 of Claremont, was treated and later released, police said.

Woman fatally shot, man wounded when handgun accidentally goes off at Rancho Cucamonga indoor range

I know I come across as a huge asshole when it comes to safety at a range. And I have expressed before, I don’t care about your feelings being hurt but I care about people bleeding and dying because Gun Safety was not observed.

You feelings will eventually heal. Getting you or a loved one out of a coffin is way beyond my abilities. Stay alive to be pissed at me, I can take it.

SW Fla Blogshoot.

And fun was had. It was great to finally shake hands and see faces behind the names, nicknames and URLs. I always enjoy meeting people who gather around guns just to remind me how different we all are in real life but how the Second Amendment and the thirst for Freedom gets us together.

Here are some pics.

KODAK Digital Still Camera

Doing the introduction thing,

Lovely wives making sure the husbands did not end up in need of bail money
Our lovely hostess, The Queen Of The World,  kicked Borpatch’s ass, but it seem his cranium is hard indeed.  We are truly appreciative of her efforts to keep us comfortable and fed.
Santa was checking the naughty list.
There were cans to be pewpewed
There were moments of heart palpitation when this gizmo showed up. But it ended up being the evilest of water guns. 

 

For being the first one, I can’t say it went bad at all. The basic premise was ” See how many show up, maybe some shooting and chat” and that was achieved. I heard the final number of participants was 19 which was a nice surprise.

Borepatch wants to have another done in February and I am all for it. I know some that could not make it for sudden health and other reasons and are pissed they missed it.

So, thank you Borepatch and The Queen Of The World for having us around.

The Racist Failure of the word “Latinx.”

“Though Latinx is becoming common in social media and in academic writing,” a recent Merriam-Webster “words we’re watching” entry noted, “it is unclear whether it will catch on in mainstream use.” And last week a progressive pollster ran the numbers and found that it hasn’t caught on at all: “Despite its usage by academics and cultural influencers, 98 percent of Latinos prefer other terms to describe their ethnicity. Only 2 percent of our respondents said the label accurately describes them, making it the least popular ethnic label among Latinos.”

Beyond its novelty, there are obvious reasons for that stark unpopularity: When spoken, “Latinx” sounds like neither normal English nor conversational Spanish, and it looks like what it is, a word designed for ideological purposes rather than for felicity in speech. If you are deep inside progressive discourse, you will immediately understand those purposes — “dismantling the default masculine” of romance languages, centering gender neutrality or nonbinariness in place of a cisgender heteronormativity. If you are outside that discourse, politicians who use it will sound like they don’t know how to say “Latino,” or like they’re talking to an audience that doesn’t really include you.

Liberalism’s Latinx Problem

The Left has immense desire of apply Zero Year to everything they touch. Nothing from the past seems to be good enough and needs to be erased/transformed/rebuilt. And they are truly surprised when its intended target does not prostrate immediate at their White Feet, thanking them and pledging eternal allegiance at their obvious superiority.

“Despite its usage by academics and cultural influencers, 98 percent of Latinos prefer other terms to describe their ethnicity.

You Libs have an issue: The “Influencers” are not so much and there is one academy in charge of the Spanish Language already: La Real Academia de le Lengua Española. (Royal Spanish Academy) some 300 years old and very much appreciated from anybody who went to school and learned the language.

In a world where Hispanics suffer fast unexpected changes and not all of them good, Spanish is the one constant we have that unites us all. Spanish, no matter where in the world, will have the same almost immutable grammar and spelling that allow us for easier communication and faster settlement. It is a warm safe spot in a confusing world. One of those immutable things is “genero” or genre which does not come from some political orientation but by simple observation of the reality of life: There are males and females in almost every aspect of observable Nature and our language reflects that.

But the Spanish language has this little interesting quirk: Neutro (Neutral). Neutro are words in the language that are to be used in general terms to encompass both sexes. Some are specific and some to be taken as neutral depending how they are used. Example: The pronoun “Nosotros” (We) has its female counterpart with “Nosotras” when the groups of people are either male or female. But when we have a group of mixed sex, then “Nosotros” becomes a neutral term and nobody gets their intellectual “calzones” in a bunch becuase it should have been Nosotrix or some stupid shit like that.

So there are Hipanos (males) and Hispanas (females) and when we are all conglomerated in one group, the several hundred years of true scholarly academy work has accepted that Hispanos is more than enough and well settled to understand when boys and girls from our culture across the world get together and need to be identified.

“Latinx” sounds like neither normal English nor conversational Spanish, and it looks like what it is, a word designed for ideological purposes rather than for felicity in speech.

It does not “look like,” it is an ideological tool that has achieved zero resonance among the Latino/Hispanic community. And the “felicity in speech” threw me for a loop. Are the creators and user of Latinex implying we are not happy with the Spanish language? Other than being an elementary school kid having to learn all the Reglas  Gramaticales (Grammar rules) the rest of the Spanish-Speaking world seems to be rather happy about the language.

If you are outside that discourse, politicians who use it will sound like they don’t know how to say “Latino,” or like they’re talking to an audience that doesn’t really include you.

We cherish the constancy of our language. In a universe of so divergent people as Latinos, it is the unifying center of our world and not just our politics. The book Don Quijote de la Mancha was written in the XV Century and the above mentioned elementary school kid can actually read and understand over 95% of it because the Spanish language is not subjected to a popularity contest every year to see what new words will be added because of “fun” or other irrelevant crap. I still remember the uproar that caused the acceptance by the academy of the works “whisky” (whiskey) in the dictionary and how some academics said it marked the beginning of the end of the language.

So when we have some Liberal politician who has not been raised in Spanish but is but a secondary thought in his/her race for elective position, trying to tell me I have to be defined by a made-up political term, we do tend to ignore it and even the less sophisticated among us (me included) will reply with a rather less than refined comment: “Anda que te den por el culo.”

 

Trudeau said the quiet part out loud

Well shit…

Apparently, 2020 is borrowing heavily from the plot of V for Vendetta.

If you had “COVID being used for the Socialist takeover the world” on your Bingo Card, congratulations, it’s no longer a conspiracy theory, you can check off that box.

 

Who are you going to believe, Antifa or your lying eyes

This post is an add-on to Miguel’s post, You have been warned.

Remember, Antifa means “anti-fascist” so if you are against Antifa, that means you are pro-fascism.

Thems are the rules.

 

This is the same logic that caused George Orwell to name the government bureau that tortured the citizens of Airstrip One into submission, the Ministry of Love, or Miniluv.

Self-evident truths cannot be allowed to exist that challenge the narrative.

We’ve seen what Anitfa was up to over the weeken.

This sums it up pretty well:

And this is what Antifa has to say about it.

Antifa are the real victims, Trump supporters are the real violent instigators, and anyone who sees it differently is a fascist.

Who are you going to believe, Antifa or your lying eyes?

Well, you better believe Antifa, or they will blind your lying eyes with Mace because you’re a fascist.

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas to all, f**k Dr. Fauci, good night.

Every Who Down in Whoville Liked Christmas a lot…
But the Fauci, Who lived just north of DC, Did NOT!
The Fauci hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don’t ask why. We all know COVID’s the reason.

It could be that he lacked perspective from inside his ivory tower.
It could be, he was a bureaucrat now addicted to power.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

Staring down from his office with a sour, Fauci frown,
At the warm lighted windows below in their town.
For he knew every Who down in Whoville beneath,
Was busy now, hanging a mistletoe wreath.

“And they’re having a party!” he snarled with a sneer,
“They can’t have a family get-together with cheer!”
Then he growled, with his Fauci fingers nervously drumming,
“I MUST find some way to stop company from coming!”

THE FAUCI GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!
“I know just what to do!” The Fauci laughed in his throat.
And he made a quick mask and lab coat.
And he chuckled, and clucked, “What a great Fauci trick!”
“With this coat and this mask, I’ll tell people they’ll get sick!”

But, you know, that old Fauci was so smart and so slick,
He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!
“Why, my fellow Americans” the Doctor Fauci lied,
“You can’t have more than 10 people inside.”
“So I’m shutting you up in your homes using fear.”
“I’ll make you lonely and miserable without Christmas cheer.”
And his fib fooled the people since he was a talking head.
And they learned to believe what the TV man said.

“PoohPooh to the Whos!” he was Faucihishly humming.
“They’re finding out now that no Christmas is coming!”
“They’re panicking now! I know just what they’ll do!”
“They’ll cover their mouths for a year maybe two.”

“Muffled talking in masks” grinned the Fauci, “That I simply MUST hear!”
And the Fauci then put his hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.
It started in low. Then it started to grow.
But the sound wasn’t sad! Why, this sound sounded merry!
It couldn’t be so! But it WAS merry! VERY!
He stared down at Whoville! The Fauci popped his eyes!
Then he shook! What he saw was a shocking surprise!
Every Who down in Whoville, the tall and the small,
Was singing and partying without masks at all!

He HADN’T stopped Christmas from coming! IT CAME!
Somehow or other, it came just the same!
And the Fauci, with his head up his ass where the sun doesn’t glow.
Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?”
“It came despite lockdowns, it came despite bans!”
“It came despite tyrannical government’s plans!”

And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Fauci thought of something he hadn’t before!
“Maybe it’s lockdowns and fear porn that people abhor.”
“Maybe Christmas with family means a little bit more!”

And what happened then? Well…in Whoville they say,
That the government lockdown enforcement teams grew three sizes that day!
And the minute the Fauci’s grip didn’t feel quite so tight.
He appeared on the TV in the bright morning light,
And he brought back the threats of non-COVID compliance!
And he, HE HIMSELF! The Fauci would tolerate no more defiance!