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— more_meat_loaf (@more_meat_loaf) April 25, 2022

I was a regular reader of his blog where he had been covering his health issues. I am just finding out he has gone to The Big Range up in the Heavens.

May he rest in peace.

A man who admitted to defacing an LGBTQ mural in South Florida has been ordered by a judge to write a 25-page essay about the shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub, where a gunman killed 49 people in 2016. https://t.co/IZJIcNm0wn

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 26, 2022

Here is what the paper should say:

The PULSE night club was the site of a hostage crisis and mass casualty shooting on June 12, 2016.  The shooting was a terrorist attack carried out by Omar Mateen, a radical Islamist terrorist who pledged allegiance to ISIS. Mateen scouted out several soft targets for hos terrorist attack, including the PULSE nightclub and a Disney location.  Mateen was unaware of PULSE being a gay club and selected it due to its lack of security and being a gun free zone.  Mateen never mentioned homosexuality or homophobia as motivation for his shooting, instead citing his desire to kill Americans and forcing the withdrawal of American troops from the Middle East as his motivation.  Mateen was under surveillance by the FBI, who failed to prevent the shooting. 

The narrative that the PULSE shooting was a homophobic or anti-LGBT mass casualty hate crimes was fabricated by the major news media networks to attack presidential candidate Donald Trump.  On social media, many people have been lead to believe that a Right Wing, Trump supporter shot up the PULSE nightclub out of bigotry.  None of that is factually accurate according to all published reports by local, state, and federal law enforcement.  This was one of first major acts of journalistic malpractice carried out against Trump and Republicans.

I guatentee that this judge does not know the facts of the PULSE shooting and believes the media narrative.  I further suspect that this individual will be held in contempt of court if his paper does not reflect the narrative.

This judge, I believe, is using this punishment to coerce a lie out of the convicted, along an a mea culpa.

This is absolutely unacceptable.  No punishment issued by a judge should force a person to lie.

I fervently believe that this judge should be impeached because this judge clearly does not rely on facts but on Left Wing prejudice.

Antisemitic Attacks in New York Are at Highest Level in Decades
Last year there were 51 assaults across the state, a new high since the Anti-Defamation League began compiling such data in 1979.

Orthodox Jews assaulted on busy streets in Midtown Manhattan and in quiet neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Swastikas drawn on a Long Island home and spray painted onto Wall Street’s Charging Bull statue. A bomb threat against a Jewish community center in Albany, and fliers in Dutchess County that warned residents, “Jews want to take your guns.”

The number of antisemitic incidents in New York increased by 24 percent last year to the highest level in decades, including a surge in the number of assaults, as well as both criminal and noncriminal incidents targeting Jews, according to an annual report released on Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League.

The group said it counted 416 antisemitic incidents across the state, including 51 assaults, the most physical attacks it has recorded since it began compiling such data in 1979. The report was based on information collected from local law enforcement agencies and Jewish community leaders and individuals.

The surge was part of a nationwide trend that saw 2,717 antisemitic incidents across the United States, including 88 assaults, an increase of 167 percent from the year before.

The report focused on several high-profile incidents that took place during or shortly after Israel’s conflict with Hamas militants in Gaza last May, which killed at least 230 Palestinians and 12 Israelis.

Well over half the 51 assaults recorded in New York took place in Brooklyn, where 34 antisemitic attacks were recorded last year, most of them against people wearing traditional religious garb that identified them as Orthodox Jews, such as skullcaps, black suits or long beards and sidelocks.

So the majority of antisemitic attacks occurred in  Democrat majority city, in a Democrat majority state, with a Democrat majority government and Democrat governor, under a Democrat president.

But Trump was orange Hitler and was going to wipe out the Jews!!! 

Jews, especially conservative and orthodox Jews need to get out of the Blue places, buy and learn to use the tools for self defense.

Develop a culture where criminals are protected, police is to be destroyed and citizens cannot defend themselves and you get a rise in violent crime that is making your base thinking about voting for somebody else.

The solution: MICROSTAMPING!

The legislation requires that new semiautomatic pistols either manufactured by or delivered to any licensed firearms dealer in New York be microstamp-ready. Microstamping is a new technology that puts an identifiable code, usually a series of numbers and letters, on the cartridge casing each time the gun is fired. Law enforcement can then use that code to identify the make, model and serial number of the pistol, without needing to recover any other evidence, such as the gun or bullets themselves and connect the cartridge case directly to the gun that fired it, much like the license plate on a vehicle allows law enforcement to identify the vehicle’s make, model and VIN code.

Tiny type, major impact on NYC’s gun violence – New York Daily News (nydailynews.com)

Microstamping comes in two flavors: A firing pin that leaves a coded imprint in the primer and a barrel with a camber grooved with a code. Both codes are unique to the firearm and both have been tried again and again and failed miserably.

Millions of dollars later, Maryland has officially decided that its 15-year effort to store and catalog the “fingerprints” of thousands of handguns was a failure.

Since 2000, the state required that gun manufacturers fire every handgun to be sold here and send the spent bullet casing to authorities. The idea was to build a database of “ballistic fingerprints” to help solve future crimes.

But the system — plagued by technological problems — never solved a single case. Now the hundreds of thousands of accumulated casings could be sold for scrap.

Maryland scraps gun “fingerprint” database after 15 failed years – Baltimore Sun

Once again: In fifteen years not a single case was solved. That is why the idea of microstamping went under fast and deep.  It is only being resuscitated because the Gun Control idjits think we have forgotten the Maryland fiasco and they can make brownie points with their constituents by appearing tough on criminals (law abiding gun owners and gun companies are the real criminals in their eyes, not the actual violent offenders free on no-bail.)

The other issues is that we are not in the year 2,000. Gun ownership has exploded ever since and one single state no longer is a make or break proposition for a gun manufacturer. A government can impose a series of impossible demands on guns and the manufacturers can simply ignore them because the market will absorb whatever temporary deficit they may have by not selling to that state. This is the same policy they tried to do via Law Enforcement purchases till they realized the sales to some localities amounted a day’s or week’s worth of guns in the real world.

I am no planning to lose any sleep over this. In fact, this post is way too much work for such an useless proposition being resurrected for failure once again.

Hat Tip Royko (again, the lazy bastard has me as his writer now 🙂 )

An eighth-grade teacher at San Francisco’s Creative Arts Charter School brought cotton plants in to show her class the sharp edges of the shrubs while teaching about slavery in the U.S., as well as the cotton gin and its impact on enslavement and the Industrial Revolution.

The social studies teacher, who is not being named by The San Francisco Chronicle, was not at school for five weeks after the controversial lesson, which was investigated within 24 hours of the incident. The report says that the school would not confirm if the teacher’s absence was due to a suspension.

San Francisco teacher under fire after reportedly using cotton plants to teach about slavery (yahoo.com)

The best history teacher I ever had and the one responsible for me to actually like the subject, was one that forsake the traditional ways of memorizing dates, people and events and immersed us in the times we were studying. We made us research (via the newspapers of the time we were involved with) what was to be a normal person then. How much things cost, how much the average person made, how travel was made, what kind of health care was available, what do people die of, etc. It made us find context and realize the importance of any even we were studying.

This is what this apparently punished teacher was doing. I have seen cotton plants in film and photos, but never touched one so even if it does take a lot of imagination to figure out the frigging thorns and sharp edges would hurt, it is not the same as actually manipulating the darn thing to feel the consequences of manipulating it. I bet those kids that got to touch the shrubs, will see slavery in a very new and powerful light.

But there is always one woke fly in the ointment:

A Creative Arts parent, Rebecca Archer, who is Black and Jewish, was concerned about the lesson for her mixed-race children. She expressed fears that the lesson, which put the raw cotton in the children’s hands, could “evoke so many deeply hurtful things about this country.”

“There are people who think this lesson plan promotes empathy; I’ve heard that and understand that,” said Archer. “There are a lot of people who don’t understand why it’s hurtful or offensive.”

Somewhere in the last half a century, the idea that lessons (all kinds) must be soft, cuddly and harmless has taken possession of the people’s brains. We must be careful not to hurt anybody’s sensibilities and must avoid or rewrite history to do so. Of course, Life does not give a damn about how you feel and provides very hurtful events that you could have avoided if you were taught properly. Santayana was right and History does repeat itself because there are new generations that need to be taught the hard, painful and deadly way.

Hat Tip Royko

The horror!

This is the Irishman who embarrassingly does not know the difference between a real gun and a BB gun.

You are a frigging journalist with an operating smartphone, couldn’t you have taken a second to Google the damned things in front of you before posting your ignorance? The geotag has him posting from Hallandale Beach Blvd in Broward County, Florida. Do we even tell him one out of every 10 people he is mingling with in the street may be carrying a real firearm?

I bet he is telling his editors that he is behind the lines in dangerous Florida, where DeSantis’ lunatics are all over the place wearing MAGA hats and burning crosses in the front yard of the hotel he is staying.

I hope he did not go by kitchenware. He’d have a heart attack at the free displays of silverware just there for the taking without age restrictions or ID checks like back home. (See below)

Go home, Paddy. The spirit of the IRA is crying in shame at your presence in America.