I have a friend who expressed the following in Facebook

I have to say, all the slapping around of an old ass (recovering) drunk Indian is starting to feel like beating up the local “special needs” kid. I mean, sure, you can do it, but it doesn’t feel good.

I think there’s a point where going after him as harshly as he deserves starts to make us look like the bullies. What do you think? I’ll stipulate that he’s a liar, a poor excuse for a Marine, and a bully. I’ll also stipulate that he deserves everything he’s got coming. My question is, does our piling on make us look bad?

I understand my friend’s point, specially knowing he is what regular folks a good person. But we are engaged in what somebody called a Cold Civil War and it is my belief that Phillips still needs a good dose of dragging over the coals.  A video can be misconstrued. but the honorable thing would have been to step up and stop the fake narrative in the many interviews he had, yet he chose to support and augment the lie and it was profitable to him.  And lest not forget he did that inciting hate so much, he put high school kids, who had done nothing to him or anybody, in danger of bodily harm.

Does it make us look bad? Unfortunately, breathing the same air as the Chose Ones makes us look bad. We are Gun Owners so we got the image of monsters sometime in the Clinton Administration and then Terrorists after 9/11.

So, I am for the total destruction of the Nathan Phillips persona and have it rebuilt as ” liar, a poor excuse for a Marine, and a bully” and then some more. He deserves punishment and part of it is to serve as an example for future political con artists that actions come with serious consequences and we are playing with their own rules now and the shit is for keeps.

So yes, keep piling on the recon ranger, codename Whirlpool Warrior who sneaked behind enemy lines in Vietnam and stealthily fixed the Vietcong’s refrigerators.

And it seems somebody has figured a reason why Journalism is doing so poorly…not.

A professor of Journalism at Columbia opines that Capitalism is bad for Journalism. This demonstrates very well the absurd mentality that plagues her and her colleagues.

“a complete absence of sensible alternative funding models”

That is simply they need to be subsidized by the Government. Never mind the sad examples of Pravda (USSR) and Granma (Cuba) as papers that had zero input from Capitalism and are still the running joke about news in the communist world (Pravda and Izvestia, meant “the truth” and “the news” respectively, a popular saying was “there’s no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia”.) The Miami Herald is often referred by the Cuban Community as the Granma of the North. I also forgot, when you are being “alternatively funded” by the Government, you write what the Government tells you to write and specially not to criticize them.

Back in the late-late 80s or early 90s if memory serves, there was a great uprising within the TV news establishment because the three major networks were about to cut the time of the daily News shows citing cost. The big names Talking Heads came out decrying the measure and it was let out that the News section had not turned out profit in over a decade. I think it was Dan Rather (don’t quote me) who bitched about being all other departments had the responsibility to carry the news because it was the most important part of the Network and it would not exist without it. So the lesson was that thanks to Capitalism, the News department had been up and running all that time. Not “alternative funding” but the labor of others in the same corporation were subsidizing their arrogant asses.

I love this load of crap:

“a widespread misunderstanding that profit does not equal value”

She does not understand life, does she. Honey, you have it backwards: You are offering a product without value and thus generates no profit. Offer a good newspaper or News TV show, and people will flock or would in other times as your formats are dying. I don’t even watch local news anymore because they don’t even care for local stuff but the local weather, traffic and a couple of items that must have blood on them (Some exceptional shooting, some accident, a fire) or some sexual assault. After that it is a local repetition of the Big Network’s news with heavy political slants. I can get all the crap that takes them 30 minutes to broadcast by a simple look at their home page lasting under 30 seconds.

And I won’t bother with newspapers. How many times have we seen the same lies printed over and over whether be “hard” news or the opinion page? If you ever read the Miami Herald,  you know that with a 90% certainty, Leonard Pitts will have an opinion piece waving the race card. There is nothing new to offer in his columns, nothing of impact, just stale journalism stuck in a formula he was told is the only one, and not even the truth.

And that comes to the last point I wanted to make:  A Truth sells. You tell people the truth and they will buy your journalistic product. Even when you make the mistake, but step up and tell the truth by saying you screwed up, you will continue to sell and do what you love at the same time. It is an amazing thing, they should try that method.

Truth is I get better information from fellow Bloggers than Official News Networks. I get a daily summary of what is hot checking Drudge Report and whatever else is left by the outrages in Social Media including the heathens putting pineapple in pizza.

My wife just brought me old issues of the Wall Street Journal from where she works. I will not say I read them or that I use them to collect fecal matter from pets, nothing that crass. No, the WSJ has a very noble usage in this household: to get charcoal lit in the chimney so I can grill me some steaks.

Proof it’s all about emotion to liberals! I’m not a small guy, and she was afraid of my @realDonaldTrump hat!

Are You Kidding Me!!!

Thank you @FogCityMidge for standing in battle with me! #maga #trump #WomensMarch pic.twitter.com/I5aFjLHXZQ

— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) January 24, 2019

“You should pay attention to fear, not logic.”

I understand the use of characters that are trying to elicit empathy as in “I am hurting, help me!” But it there is a level where a normal person cannot process the level emotional self-flagellation. You cannot ask me to understand what you call pain when any rational human being sees you are just either making stuff up or just too stupid and bought that some political totems actually hurt you.

Translation: You know for when you register your scary black rifle as we want you to, well, being the nice people we are, we are going to make those records exempt from Florida’s Sunshine Law. That is so nice of Representative  Carlos Guillermo Smith (D) to bring us this bill.

Now IMHO, this is not something a Democrat would have thought on his own, in fact, they would not mind leave those records open so their buddies from the media could use them to doxx gun owners. That leads me to believe there might be an undeclared RINO approving the AWB Ban bill. Trust no Republica till they have voted guns,.

Two days after Newsom’s comments, Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) reintroduced a bill that had been vetoed by Brown to allow teachers, employers and co-workers to seek court orders temporarily removing guns from people thought to be a danger to themselves or others.

Gov. Gavin Newsom makes aggressive, early moves on his gun control agenda for California

Have you had a co-worker that does not like you? Or had an argument with your boss who is a dick and wishes he could mess with you without HR getting in the way? Imagine a Berkeley teacher finding out that one of his students belongs to the NRA or shoots clays? The left will weaponize the crap out of this law.

And you know what? Californian Gun Owners should return the favor. Do you know the shitstorm that will happen if one of this Berkeley rabid Lefty professor gets a 3 am warrant served by SWAT? The same goes for some underling working for a gun control congresscritter, see how they like them apples. And clogging the system ain’t a bad idea either. There are so many police officers out there anyway and they would have to either hire more or deal with a very slow response to this evil contraption.

What is good for the goose and all that.

This just happened in one of the barrios in Caracas that was protesting last night. Police sent is FAES teams (sort of SWAT mixed with shock troops) through the barrios to impose order and shoot whomever needs shooting.

Al momento #24Ene 1:26 pm vecinos en pánico ante acciones del FAES en el barrio José Félix Ribas de #Petare @provea @ForoPenal pic.twitter.com/7vq583Vr9n

— Faro Comunitario (@FaroComunitario) January 24, 2019

And I also saw this photo posted:

My thought was: “Just park one car across the street and what a beautiful ambush site you get. Start from the back and walk your way forward.”

And then I remembered that only the criminals have guns and they are not going to do shit they don’t get a profit from.  Going bullet to bullet against trained cops is not profitable. Besides, cop keep the regular civilians in check so it is an advantage for the criminals.  By tomorrow or day after, the cops will be gone and things are back to normal, so why not take a couple of days off, doing the honeys and getting high?

And that is living in a Gun Free Zone Country for you.  Don’t forget they voted in favor of being disarmed.

UPDATE: Come on! A couple of Molotov cocktails tossed from above and that APC is done!

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