AG Merrick Garland: “In the FBI’s view, the top domestic violent extremist threat comes from racially or ethically motivated violent extremists specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race.”
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— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 15, 2021

Who have been beating up Jews in America recently?

Nobody.  Because the first rule of Democrat support of Palestinians is you don’t talk about Palestinian anti-Semitism.

Although… considering that Woke whites just overflow with the condescending bigotry of low expectations, one might argue that Antifa, i.e., Woke whites, violence is white supremacism.  But I don’t think he means it like that.

People are shocked by this:

“Anything on you that’s gonna hurt me?”

“Only my words…only what I believe in.”

Canada is a dark place right now.@GadSaad @jordanbpeterson @ezralevant @thevivafrei https://t.co/Kg4Ck27Gob

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) June 11, 2021

Never, ever, ever forget that the Canadian government interred 90% of all Japanese Canadians and kept the internment until 1949, years after the Empire of Japan surrendered.

The Canadian Constitution, unlike our Constitution, expressly states that the fundamental freedoms can be limited by law as necessary.

Canada has a totalitarian streak that most people are unaware of because we think of Canadians as nice and sort of bland, but when they take the mask off they get ugly fast.

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It has to do with California’s regulatory landscape, which could be compared to a vampire, or a huge blanket of strangling kudzu.

I find it darkly hilarious, myself. California was oh so proud of how forward thinking they were, and then they turned around and strangled the legal suppliers so badly it’s still more profitable to grow pot and sell it on the sly.

This reminded me of a story I believe I told already but bears repeating. I am not a fan of the European Union. It is what happens when you leave a bunch of mid level bureaucratic idiots with a low-level real life IQ have to much power controlling people.

In the early 90s IIRC, the EU went full blast regulating the production of grape-based alcoholic products. The old joke about you can only call it champagne if it comes from that region of France? Yup, that EU effort.  So they decided in Brussels to control every single aspect and quantity of the production in order to preserve the quality and reputation of the wines and spirits, at least that is what they said.

Now wine in Spain is like soda in the US: Everybody drinks it in almost every meal and some in every meal, including breakfast. There are no Soda-like manufacturing industries, nor they could be done as we are talking different processes and basic products other than water. So what was done back in the day is that towns would depend on local vineyards for their regular supply of wine and a lot of times it would take several small vineyards to keep the equivalent of a county happy with the red liquid.

To make a long story short, the EU decided those mom & pop places could no longer operate “out of boundaries” and they had to follow the same procedures as they imposed on the big boys. One particular vineyard was owned by a family of a dear friend of mine. It had been in the family for almost a century and the owner at the time was the uncle of my buddy. He got the notification from the EU alongside a trio of 4 inch 3-ring binders full of rules and paperwork he had to follow so they would not be fined and shut down. After going through the binders, he decided that keeping the local county in wine was not worth his effort or patience in dealing with the EYU, so he retired and passed the torch to his three adult kids.

The kids, all grown ass adults with university degrees in real fields, had to hire “experts” to help them understand the reams of bureaucratic bullshit and what would financially take to comply. After several months of planning, they reached a decision with the father’s consent: They bulldozed the vineyard, sold some of the property to developers and used that money to create a landscaping farm to grow decorative bushes and flower plants and anything related to gardening which was unregulated by the EU.

As for the town’s wine supply? probably and as it happened with many other towns, they had to buy the less quality and more expensive stuff sold by mass producing facilities.

And to make it more identifiable for us, imagine DC regulating the BBQ industry to include your local family BBQ pits that has been source for pulled pork and ribs since your grandpa was a boy.

J. Kb sent me this:

Airbnb has a secretive team to keep disaster stays out of the press and gives staff blank checks to help rape victims and pay to clean up dismembered human remains, according to a report.

The short-term property rental company, which went public in December, has spent an estimated $50 million every year on payouts to hosts and guests when things go wrong, according to Bloomberg Businessweek which interviewed several former members of the secretive safety team.

‘Airbnb has a secret ‘black box’ team that forks over $50 million a year in settlements’ | Daily Mail Online

Most of you guys know I worked Hotel Security for several years and the last thing I am going to do is pontificate how regular hotels are safer than some short term rentals without any basic set of security procedures.

Hotel chains have security for one reason alone: Lower number of lawsuits and/or lower amounts to be paid off.  The unspoken truth working hotel security is we were there as evidence of “Reasonable Effort” so the company would not be take to the cleaners when the inevitable lawsuit landed at their feet. To put it in other terms. I wasn’t working for your safety but for the Company’s bottom line. This is why I still do not trust hotels to provide me safety when I go on a trip and I add measures of my own.

What happens when you do not have an structural corporation with firm assets and standards for safety?

The unidentified Australian woman, who was 29 at the time, and a group of friends had rented a first-floor apartment on West 37th Street, close to Times Square.
The group had picked up the keys for the apartment from a bodega close by without having to show any identification, Bloomberg reported.
They went to a party together, but the 29-year-old returned back to the property alone – ahead of her friends.
The suspect, 24-year-old Junior Lee, was allegedly already inside the apartment hiding in the bathroom when she returned.
He raped her at knifepoint. 
Lee then returned later that night when police were there and was arrested and charged with predatory sexual assault.
Police said he had a set of keys to the apartment on his person at the time. 

Hotel keycards do provide for a measure of security from the random predator or average thief.  They are generated at the moment of your check in and the lock will reprogram itself to that particular key card the first time you use it. Old keys will be invalidated if they are not expired by the time you check in. If procedures are followed and you are also a bit safety conscious, easy access to your room is difficult which makes ambushes also difficult. And hotels only deal with one door for entrance while an Airbnb being a normal domicile may have several entry/access points which can be accessed.

Locks you do not have control of or not are changed are just a juicy invitation for crimes to be committed. An enterprising criminal or gang can spend some money renting several locations for one night, get the keys, make copies and then go back at their leisure when another guests are occupying the places.  Hell, if they are smart, they will wait for you to leave before coming in and check your belongings in peace and decide if you are worth robbing or raping, maybe do nothing but copy your personal information, making copies of the keys of your house for later burglary or grave bodily harm.

Be paranoid: It pays.

The California Legislature on Monday approved a $100-million plan to bolster California’s legal marijuana industry, which continues to struggle to compete with the large illicit pot market nearly five years after voters approved sales for recreational use.

Los Angeles will be the biggest beneficiary of the money, which was proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to be provided as grants to cities and counties to help cannabis businesses transition from provisional to regular licenses.

California offers $100 million to rescue its struggling legal marijuana industry (yahoo.com)

“Legalize pot” they said. “It will get rid of the drug dealers and provide extra income for the government!” they said.

Now, taxpayer’s money are scheduled to go to rescue dope dealers from sucking at what the uneducated corner pusher does every day.

Hat Tip AL

From Seattle, because of course it is.

A fight broke out at the Lake City Ace Hardware over masks. When Bobby says he went to complain about poor customer service to a manger, he was met with two employees — one with a bat.

Then, they fought.

Bobby joins the show today to discuss what happened. (WARNING: Language) pic.twitter.com/eHQSGuMk5h

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) June 15, 2021

You can literally go into a small business in Seattle, shoot up heroin, take a shit on the floor, grab whatever you want off the shelves, and walk out the door with it, and as long as you are wearing a mask it’s fine.

Try to go in as a paying customer without a mask and an employee will try to cave in your skull.

I’m pretty sure that getting hit with a bat has a higher mortality rate than COVID, but what do I know.  It’s for your safety.

Hunter Biden’s art to sell as high as $500K and the buyers will be kept ‘confidential’

President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has taken a turn into artistry and the first paintings he’s selling are going for as high as $500,000.

The first son’s first foray into the art world has seen his pieces picked up by art dealer Georges Berges, who has priced the younger Biden’s artwork between $75,000 and $500,000 depending on the size and scope of the collage artwork.

That’s a pretty big haul when compared to other artists’ first sales. In fact, Biden’s pieces are worth more off the bat than a piece by Jean-Michel Basquiat that sold for $20,900 in 1984 – $53,770.96 in today’s dollars after adjusting for inflation.

“I don’t paint from emotion or feeling, which I think are both very ephemeral,” Biden told artnet on Monday. “For me, painting is much more about kind of trying to bring forth what is, I think, the universal truth.”

“It has that authenticity that I see in a lot of artists that I personally love, be it Freud or Bacon,” he said. “A lot of the issues that are thrown at Hunter is what makes him produce really great work.”

Even without formal training, Biden’s pieces carrying five- to six-figure price tags put his work in the same range as established artists in the field.

Hunter’s universal truth is that he has figured out another way to leverage the family name for money.

The “issues” thrown at Hunter are his insatiable appetite for crack cocaine and hookers.

This is a bribe, that’s all that this is.

Joe is going to get his cut and Hunter is going to cash out from anonymous sources.

Everybody knows it.