Gun Free Zone

This is a Tweet from a professor of Economics at the University of Utah.

Because the Jews have a nation and self-determination in our ancestral homeland in a little strip of land between the eastern edge of the Mediterranean sea and the Jordan River, his life is in danger in Salt Lake City, Utah.  And that is because the Israeli Defense Forces are supporting white supremacists, who do and have hated the Jews, to engage in violence in the United States, which is Israel’s oldest ally.

I think this Tweet makes even less sense than David Hogg’s Tweet about non-binary LGBTQ indigenous women gun control activists.

There is a reason for that, Hogg only learned his bullshit at Harvard.

Econ Marshall here learned his bullshit at the University of Oxford, the finest academic institution on the planet.

This is really nothing but paranoid antisemitism, but given that it comes from a professor, it’s given the patina of respectability and not the lunatic ravings of someone who if you replaced the Leftist boogieman of “white supremacy and fascist” with “black” could easily pass for a Neo-Nazi.

I think the lesson we are learning is the more prestigious the eduction, the less their opinions are based on facts and the more their opinion are based on prejudice and hypoxia due to having their heads up their own asses.

I long for the day when someone with a degree from an elite university stands up and says something and the rest of society says in unison “sit down and shut up, you fucking ignorant moron.”

The world will be a far better day when that happens.

Miguel beat me to the post with David Hogg’s nonsensical rantings about non-binary and LGBT indigenous women who fought for gun control.

This is a tweet for for the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books.

We may not know all your names but thank you.

— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) January 27, 2020

Clearly, this doesn’t come from the mind of a rational person who knows anything about US history.

The first and most obvious question is if those “entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people” that pushed gun control “never got on the news or in most history books” then how does he know about them?  But that is only one of his glaring errors.

Native Americas were prohibited from owning guns on reservations.  The Wounded Knee Massacre was the result of the US Army being sent to disarm the Sioux people.

Likewise, black slaves were prohibited from owning guns and the South after emancipation did it’s very best to disarm free blacks.

I’m also not sure what non-binary and LGBTQ black, brown, and indigenous communities he thinks existed centuries ago, but having lived in the heart of Indian Country in South Dakota, I never saw any sort of history chronicling the Native American Tenderloin District in Pre-Columbian North America.

This is little more than an ignorant bouillabaisse of Woke Social Justice jargon in a gun control broth.

Why would he Tweet such crap?

Because he had to.

Hogg’s previous Tweet was a little too White Knight for the internet.

Being a white savior will not end gun violence and neither will white fragility.

— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) January 27, 2020

White Savior is exactly what David Hogg is.

And White Fragility is a bullshit concept that demeans white people who are not racist and did not oppress anybody not wanting to be lectured at about how they are bad because they are the unwitting beneficiaries of white privilege and complicit in an inherently racist system.

It’s a Kafka Trap, where you are guilty of being a fragile white person if you are unwilling to subjugate yourself to your own browbeating and plead guilty of whatever racism you are accused of.

But Hogg got called out for being a White Savior in his anti-White Savior Tweet, so he had to make amends.  Hence some gobbledygook that gives credit to the intersectional dream team.

Later he Tweeted this:

?2nd of semester here we go?

College is awesome there is so much knowledge in the same place it’s like paradise.

Only downside is that Cambridge is a little cold and unbelievably expensive.

— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) January 27, 2020

Really?  I guess it’s that secret history of gun violence prevention knowledge at Harvard that isn’t published anywhere else.  Remember that it is impossible to flunk out of an Ivy League college.  No Ivy League would admit that they admitted a kid who couldn’t hack it.

So the reality is Hogg isn’t there to learn shit.  He isn’t supposed to, he was a political admission, to reward a kid who pushes the correct talking points and attacks the Right.

He doesn’t need to be factually accurate on anything.  He just needs to know how to play the youth activist Woke game and he will be rewarded for it mightly.

This tweet makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If there was a group of people that were into the “Gun Violence prevention movement” were precisely Whites like him that staring in Colonial times made sure  Black, Brown and others had no access to firearms lest they get uppity and defend themselves and their rights.

And after looking at his latest image, I do believe an intervention may be needed.

Or not.

An “arrogant and remorseless” machete attacker who left a police officer with skull fractures and deep gashes to the head has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Handyman Muhammad Rodwan, 56, struck PC Stuart Outten over the head with a 2ft blade after being pulled over in Leyton, east London, last August.

He must serve at least two-thirds of his sentence and will be freed only when the Parole Board considers him safe. He will serve a further three years on extended licence

Muhammad Rodwan: ‘Arrogant’ machete attacker who slashed PC jailed for 16 years .

OK, I shall eat crow with pleasure even though I believe 11 years is not enough for the attack he made.  And look at that thing and do not forget that the weapons charge was dropped because it was a “tool for gardening” but a guy with a potato peeler got arrested.

The government loves to limit the capacity of Americans’ products.

I had a shower head that I bought years ago.  I loved it so much that I moved it across the country with me four times through five homes.

It was a Moen handheld shower head that predated the last of the EPA water flow rate regulations.

It finally died over the weekend.  I amount of epoxy could fix it, I tried.

So I bought a new one.  Same model, just that it conforms to the EPA regulations.

Thanks Obama, it pisses on my head and tells me that its a shower massage.

I fixed it with a needle nose plier and a DeWalt drill.  I don’t know what the current flow rate is, but it makes me happy.

I also opened up my water heater and cranked it to max temp.  Don’t try using just the hot water in my house.  We live dangerously here.

I’m an American, I don’t want anybody to tell me what the flow rate of my shower should be, how many rounds my magazine can hold, and what my miles per gallon of my truck or sports car must be.  The only limit should be what I can afford.

If I want to shower with a fire hose, pass everything on the road but a gas station, and CCW a SAW, that’s my business.

And even though I don’t vape, if want to inhale aerosolized nicotine that tastes like a bowl of fruit loops too, that’s also none of the government’s business either.

Stop putting limits on what I as an American can have.

An EPA mandated lukewarm stream of piss is not a luxurious hot shower.

I can’t believe this is real, but it is:

From the trade magazine, Dairy Heard Management:

Dear Starbucks, I Think You’re Confused

I’m exhausted. Not only am I tired of large chains and celebrities pointing fingers at agriculture to reduce Green House Gasses (GHGs). I’m tired because there’s a spunky, independent and wildly determined two-year-old at my house. What’s worse, I can’t run to town to get a Starbucks. That’s because the coffee giant recently announced they’ll be encouraging customers to turn away from dairy and toward plant-based beverages in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint.

Is this a joke?  Starbucks is going to shame me into ordering my very rare Starbucks coffee with soy milk instead of actual milk from a mammal?

That isn’t going to go well for them at all.

According to Bloomberg, the milk used by Starbucks accounts for just 0.3% of U.S. milk production. However, the decision to formally denounce dairy and declare an emphasis on non-dairy options may encourage other food-service outlets to follow suit.

Starbucks is going to annoy it’s customers and offer a less tasty coffee to reduce the carbon footprint of just 0.3% of US milk production.

What is Starbucks missing here? Well, a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimates global GHG emissions from the dairy industry totaled 1,712 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent, or about 3% of total world emissions, in 2015.

So all dairy emissions are about 3% of world greenhouse gases.

Now let me reference some research I did in a previous post about how much of a dumbass Andrew Yang was for attacking the beef industry over CO2.

Let us crunch some numbers. The US is responsible for less than 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Only 9% of US greenhouse gasses come from agriculture, and only 42% of all agriculture emissions come from animal agriculture.

Put that all together and 42% of 9% of 15% is 0.57%. Less than six-tenths of one percent of global greenhouse gases come from all US animal agriculture. Being generous, let’s say that beef is half of US animal agriculture, which is three-tenths of one percent of global greenhouse gases.

If we make the assumption that the agricultural output of greenhouse gasses is proportional around the world than 15% of the 3% of dairy emissions are ours, so 0.45% of dairy greenhouse gases belong to the US.

If Starbucks uses only American milk in US stores (and there is no reason to assume it doesn’t), then Starbucks milk is responsible for 0.135% of greenhouse gas production.

Starbucks could offset that in so many other ways than ruining their overpriced coffee.

Dear Starbucks, I think you’re confused. I’m not sure how a company that sources its coffee from Asia and always has a drive through line 10 cars deep is going to reduce its carbon footprint by cutting milk, which on average travels less than 100 miles from cow to refrigerator.

That’s the truth.

I would put even money on the carbon footprint of the ice in an iced coffee being larger than the carbon footprint of the milk.

I could almost guarantee that the generation of high-pressure steam to foam the milk has a higher carbon footprint than the milk itself.

And what is the carbon footprint of making a single shot of espresso?  Using all those ground only one time to get the extra strong coffee.

If Starbucks is really worried about its carbon footprint that much, it should shut itself down.

Who really needs to pay $6 for one cup of coffee in a plastic-lined cup with a plastic lid and plastic stirrer when the future of the planet is at stake?

Turning Starbucks into public restrooms didn’t destroy the business fast enough.  I guess shaming customers in making their coffee worse will accelerate that.

It screamed for a lampooning and I had to answer.