Some NASA related news:

The board of trustees for the Citrus College in Glendora, California voted to allow the Rocket Owls to travel to Huntsville to participate in the Student Launch competition.

They originally weren’t allowed to participate because there’s a California law on the books that went into effect last year that bans publicly-funded travel to states deemed to discriminate against gay and transgender people. Alabama is one of the eight states on the list.

What law are they talking about?  Alabama allows church based adoption agencies to not place children with gay couples.  Not “private” but church based.  Being gay is also not the only limiting factor to the adoption restrictions.

Maybe it’s my “leave me the fuck alone” impulse, but I’m not going to get offended is an adoption agency associated with the Baptist Church didn’t want to adopt a child to me because I’m Jewish, and would prefer to adopt children to Baptist families.

I don’t want to force Churches to violate thier religious principles.

California does.  Which is why California is facing a crisis as it shuts down church based foster homes and adoption agencies.  Apparently forcing the Catholic Church out of the foster system over gay adoption has hurt a lot if kids.

So california decided that these backwards states that don’t force Churches to abide by the tenants of Progressivism should not be visited with state funds.   Official travel to Cuba, however, is allowed.

Back to these college kids.  They got caught in the middle of this California state virtue signaling – and perhaps unconstitutional interference in interstate commerce – and had to get special permission to visit Marshall Space Flight Center.

I’m actually a little pissed that they got special permission.   Not that I don’t want them to compete.  I want them to learn a valuable lesson.  The California legislature is the problem.   The state wanting to micromanage the lives of both its residents AND the residents of other states is oppressive.

California has its own adoption problems and is shafting college students out of a NASA competition because Alabama doesn’t want to copy California’s adoption problem.

This would have been a good way to learn the lesson of limited government, I’m just not sure that it will click now that they were exempted from the  consequences of California’s arrogance.

Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon is apparently running for governor against Andrew Cuomo.

Somehow that lead to this spat between Nixon and NYC mayoral candidate Christine Quinn.

It was reported on this way:

Christine Quinn bashes ‘unqualified lesbian’ Cynthia Nixon https://t.co/AEntK1YkBd pic.twitter.com/vBIdy3f4X4

— New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) March 20, 2018

I don’t know what election laws are in New York, but some quick internet searching leads me to believe the best way to solve this spat is with a kiddie pool filled with Jell-O.

David Hogg says he understands politics because of Netflix's "House of Cards," claims it's "real life." pic.twitter.com/o4oCghjCUn

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 19, 2018

I got my PhD in European History by marathon on The Tudors, and earned my Special Warfare Insignia by beating every game in the SOCOM series on xBox.

Didn’t he get the memo that Kevin Spacey is not to be talked about in polite company for what he did to costars about David Hogg’s age?

Only an idiot teenager would admit that his grasp of national politics, which he’s been part of for the last month, comes from a tv show.

No wonder he keeps getting rejected by colleges.

Just got rejected from another college but that’s ok we’re already changing the world. Goodnight everyone

— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) March 17, 2018

I think the DC Councilman who thinks that the Jews control the weather has a firmer grasp of meteorology than Hogg has on the Constitution.

If young Mr. Hogg is such a fan of House of Cards, I bet he could get a real resume booster by scheduling a private tutoring session with Mr. Spacey. 

If we really want to break this thing  wide open, we need to get a State Rep in Florida to add a duty to protect clause to the Florida Constitution.

Suggest it be a criminal violation for police not to prevent a crime if tipped off.

Make police and politicians explain why that’s impossible.

If we can’t get someone in office to do that we need someone to run for office on that.

I got $20 for Miguel’s campaign coffers if he’s up for it.

Sarah Kendzior is a writer from St. Louis.  She wrote a book titled The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior.  You’d think from that title it is an honest explanation to coastal elites while life in Middle America is like.  It’s not.  It a book by a wannabe coastal elite wanting entrance into elite society, criticizing Middle America using every elite talking point.

She took a drive through Alabama for some reason and stopped for gas.  She Tweeted this.

Rural Alabama gas station. I was there getting a Snickers. pic.twitter.com/eGraFplA43

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 18, 2018

Of course, the elites and progressives in her Twitter feed were in a panic.

I can’t confirm this, but I think that is Chambley’s in Valley, Alabama.  It’s a hunting and outdoor store that also sells gas.  It is along the Alabama/Georgia border right off Interstate 85, outside of Troy.

That also makes sense because I doubt that a wannabe elite would stray to far from the Interstate in Alabama.

As for us who live there, all I can say is “Go ‘Bama.”  Welcome to the land of freedom where a business owner can get an FFL and sell what he wants.

It’s not just the guns that upsets these people but that idea of business freedom.  How dare a man sell guns, gas, and candy!?!

Hell, I’ll tell you right now, when I start my own business I’m getting an FFL.  Why?  Because I want one, can afford to have one, and Alabama will let me.

I’m going to put my 30 round mags next to my 20 oz sodas just to piss Michael Bloomberg off.

My business, my choice.

I think David Hogg overdid himself.  In the beginning he was a “victim” of the Parkland shooting (even through he was in a different building on a different part of campus).  Then he was elevated to be the voice of scared kids, filled with righteous anger,  who didn’t want to get shot while in school.

As he spent more and more time in front of the cameras his radical partisanism  became not just evident but overwhelming.  Now I think he’s on his way into sliding into Clintonian irrelevancy where he still has followers among the radical Left, but moderates are going to find him distasteful.  The more he sticks around the the more of a dead albatross he becomes.

A few days ago, Hogg starred in a political ad for a new hashtag, #WhatIF.  Because that’s what we need, a new hashtag.

Bravo.  Calling Republican politicians “the bitch of the NRA” is so edgy.

I remember another far Left ad where kids cursed for a cause.   Feminists got a bunch of prepubescent little girls in princess costumes to say “fuck” a lot for some reason.  That was as popular as a sloppy, wet fart and, expect for the worst kind of Solanasque feminists, was disliked by women.

This ad will be just as popular among anybody who actually cares about America’s discourse, and isn’t into “win at any cost” politics.

But this isn’t the end.  Hogg and his partisan cohorts did a live Q&A with Twitter, because everybody loves extreme partisanism from a Social Media mega-monopoly.

It devolved into the worst form of social justice.

Hogg went full “soft bigotry of low expectations” and “so well spoken” on black communities while calling America racist in his take on gun violence.

David Hogg says white privilege is one of the biggest obstacles he's faced in his anti-gun agenda, says media wouldn't cover the incident the same way in a black community "no matter how well those people spoke."

Cameron Kasky says mass shootings like Parkland "happen everyday." pic.twitter.com/chKvSnUV32

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 19, 2018

Except that is the pro-gun rights movement that keeps pointing out that gun bans don’t stop killings in black neighborhoods and that other solutions need to be implemented because gun bans don’t work.

He also talks about the lack of “diversity of opinion” and proportional representation in politics.

David Hogg says it's "disgusting" that more minorities and women are not in government because "It creates this system where we have one line of thinking where it's a lot of rich white men like myself that are in politics." pic.twitter.com/wfERl0Lrov

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 19, 2018

Mr. “You better agree with me or you have blood on your hands and you hate kids you NRA bitch” wants diversity of opinion?  Bullshit.

Also, when did a highs school student become a “rich white man.”

He sounds more like a liberal arts teaching assistant at a mid-grate California college than a high school kid worried about getting shot while taking a math test. He’s parroting all the same shit that has caused enrollment at liberal arts colleges to decline.

The more down this path he goes, the more moderates will go “yeah, that kid is stupid.”  The more he slides into irrelevancy the more obnoxious he will get.

The best thing for us is for him to keep talking.  Maybe he’ll end up full Hillary and just traveling the world insulting Americans, making everything associated with him look like poison.

Kroger is committed to the emptiest of gestures after Parkland.

They will no longer carry magazines that feature assault rifles.

Kroger says it will stop selling magazines that feature assault rifles. https://t.co/rHdtFsihei

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) March 19, 2018

From a business standpoint this sort of laughably makes sense.  It allows them to say they are doing something without doing anything that will upset thier customer base.  I can still conceal carry in Kroger so I’m not gong to boycott them.

Honestly, the first question I had when I saw that was “wait, people still buy print magazines?”