because they are full of lying scum. Take AP’s bit on the car ramming one of the Checkpoint Charlies near the Capitol:

The crash and shooting happened at a security checkpoint near the Capitol as Congress is on recess. It comes as the Washington region remains on edge nearly three months after a mob of armed insurrectionists stormed the Capitol as Congress was voting to certify Joe Biden’s presidential win.

Car rams into police at Capitol barricade; officer killed

Really? Can the AP point to one of the thousands of photos and video taken and show these alleged armed insurrectionists?

And this is why one of my favorite news item is when News Corporations have to get to rid journalists for lack of sales and I get to do the #LearnToCode.

A Left leaning US Army General getting a paycheck from CNN:

A Republican United States Senator from South Carolina:

In 1994, there was an Assault Weapons Ban – the evidence indicates that there was really no change at all in crime, because the crooks are going to get a gun!

Today at @PalmettoArmory I fired one of the weapons they are trying to ban. #2A pic.twitter.com/XI985BZ96F

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) April 1, 2021

This is why “I was in the [military branch] so I know more about how dangerous these guns are for civilians” is bullshit.

We Canadians are a compliant flock. We have faith in our government. We share a strong egalitarian streak. If there is a line, we’ll stand in it peacefully. But the Liberal government’s bungled rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations is ruffling feathers here, and many people in my parents’ cohort have ditched the wait and flown south in search of their own vaccinations. This may be hard for Americans to understand, but in Canada this qualifies as subversive.

Snowbirds Fly South for the Vaccine

For Floridians, this is not a major revelation. And truthfully we rather have Canadians take advantage of the vaccine program rather than the denizens of the Garden and the Empire, at least Canucks are polite (I know, the Quebecois suck a bag of sugar free richards too).

These people have been cooped up for more than a year, unable to hug their grandchildren or stroll without fearing the quiet menace of aerosol particles. Many complain that the vaccine registration systems, controlled by provinces, are impenetrable or Soviet: You have to know someone or hope for a lucky glitch that lets you slide into the queue. The statistics also offer little hope. So far, 1.8% of Canadians have been fully vaccinated, a rate that puts us slightly behind Brazil.

Holy crap. These are the numbers I just picked up for the US:

Florida sports 16.25% for the completed 2 shot series only, but we are almost at 6 million Floridians vaccinated with one or both doses. And either my math is really bad, or my calculator says that out of 37 million Canadians, only 666,000 have been vaccinated so far. Please tell me I am very wrong.

  Further, when the first round of jabs began around February, disheartening news followed. In early March, Canada became the only country in the world to delay the second dose by four months. We love our quirks, but uniquely inept life-and-death policy decisions strain one’s patience. When addressing how that extension would affect the province of British Columbia, Canada’s chief science adviser, Mona Nemer, framed it as a “population-level experiment.” How comforting.

OK, that Canadians are not staging Honduran-type caravans and crossing the northern border illegally reflects how nice they are and hate to impose on anybody else. But I also know that when Canadians finally lose their minds, it is spectacular and worth of Pay-Per-View.

Dear Canadian healthcare: You were are not supposed to out-Cuomo the asshole in Albany.

Full Hat Tip for PaulKersey.

Dr. Leana Wen on March 10: “The CDC and the Biden administration needs to come out a lot bolder and say ‘If you are vaccinated, you can do all these things, these are all these freedoms that you have.’

Otherwise, people are going to go out and enjoy those freedoms anyway.” pic.twitter.com/pc21Eie2tj

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 2, 2021

Let’s start with who is Dr. Leana Wen. Her last listed job was president of Planned Parenthood and before that she was Commissioner of the Baltimore City Health Department, so basically she went from killing poor minorities at a city scale to nationwide.

With that covered, who the flying fuck of a barrel of Chinese monkeys doe she think she is? “You Americans have too much freedom! Must comply with the party! Vaccinate or we release the bat virus again! Love you long time GI!”

People like her, insulated in their little comfortable Liberal capsules do not understand that America by definition is ornery and contrary. Ask us nicely and you will get our help and cooperation. Get bossy and we will tell you to go enjoy  copulation with a side of eggrolls vaginally and crab wontons rectally.

Half a Hat Tip to PaulKersey

This old but excellent news interview:

I have bad knees from years of heavy weightlifting.

I think I might need a good shillelagh to help me get around pedestrian cities like New York.

I suspect that a lot of elderly Jews and Asians have bad knees and could use a quality piece of Blackthorn as a cane.

The American in me likes a nice piece of Hickory, but Blackthorn is more traditional.

Please be careful. Scammers plague the net for the desperate. Read the whole thing for some extra details you may want to know.

It was bound to happen.

It’s a supply and demand thing.

Whenever there’s heightened demand for a product — any product — and a limited supply, the scammers swoop in.

Because of the ammunition shortage, conmen are now targeting unsuspecting gun owners via Facebook Messenger and other social media platforms.

They’re offering fantastic deals, such as $35 for a brick of 1,000 small rifle primers, and $467 for a case of 55gr Remington 5.56.

Man, if only it were true.

They’ll take your money via PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Zelle.

The only problem is the ammo and primers don’t exist.

Scammers targeting gun owners on social media, offering cheap ammo and primers – The Gun Writer

 

From FOX News in LA:

Gascón to downsize, rename LA County DA Hardcore Gangs unit, sources confirm

Sources in the LA County DA Office’s Hardcore Gangs told Melugin that they were informed by the office’s upper management Wednesday evening that their unit will be downsized. On top of the downsize, the unit will be renamed because “administration doesn’t like it,” Melugin reports.

“So there isn’t going to be a hardcore gang unit anymore, because I guess the DA, George Gascon, finds that term offensive to the community,” a prosecutor in Gascón’s office told FOX 11 under the condition of anonymity.

The prosecutor was one of the members of the unit who were called to the meeting to learn that the Hardcore Gangs unit was going to be downsized.

The Hardcore Gangs unit is one of the oldest units in the office and it’s responsible for prosecuting the most heinous and complex gang-related crimes in the country. In Melugin’s report from two weeks ago, prosecutors had said they feel they’ve already been hamstrung by Gascón’s decision to ban them from using gang and gun enhancements. With that in mind, prosecutors told Melugin earlier in the month that disbanding the Hardcore Gangs unit will be a disaster waiting to happen, given the surge in violent crimes across Los Angeles.

This really needs to be understood.

Most human beings find it very hard to cause real horrible physical pain to others.  We have empathy, and that is hard to overcome.  A US Army study after WWII showed that 80% of soldiers could not line up the sights on an enemy solder and kill him.  Casualties were pray and spray or artillery or aerial bombardment.

Modern military training is designed to make soldiers killers by making shooting reflexive.

A man who can deliberately cause pain and kill is a rarity.

The best way to find these men is to look for people who have already caused pain or killed, many of whom are criminals.

So when a group needs knee-breakers, pipe-hitters, and killers, they look to recruit from violent criminals.

The Soviets did this.  The blamed these men’s crimes on Capitalism and said they were victims. Then the Soviets gave them uniforms and made them political enforcers, prison guards, torturers, jobs that required the ability to hurt and kill.

Che did the same in Cuba, Pol Pot in Cambodia, and Chavez in Venezuela.

So why disband the Hardcore Gangs Unit or dismiss charges against Antifa?

To protect and carry favor with the meanest thugs on the street so that they can put a uniform on them and make them political enforcers.

Mark my words.  Next will be a policy, in the name of equity and reparations, to rake these “disadvantaged” violent gang members and give them government jobs.  They won’t be called enforcers, they will be “community relations” or something benign and anodyne sounding, but that’s what they will be.

Sometimes it sucks knowing history because you can watch it repeat itself but can’t do anything to stop it.