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From Locomotive Breath 1901:

Hat Tip CBMTTek

This picture must be photoshopped:

Alexa, show me the whitest thing in the history of the world pic.twitter.com/4C9ofwuml8

— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) October 30, 2019

I cannot believe that a hipster like that could carve letters into nine pumpkins without slicing his baby-butt soft hands open.

Remember all those hipster fuckwits having to go to the emergency room because they lost a knife fight to an avocado?

This guy looks like hes a non-tenure track male professor of Feminist  Literature at some North East liberal arts college.

Either that or his wife’s boyfriend did carved those at his request.

On Monday I wrote about Bloomberg Politics lionizing the ISIS leader Baghdadi after he blew himself to hell during a Special Forces raid.

Now they publish this garbage:

Raising taxes on the wealthy could deliver something meaningful that millions of Americans would feel rather quickly: happiness https://t.co/nsgdxdMHq0

— Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion) October 29, 2019

From the article:

Recent research found that progressive taxes may make the average citizen happier and more content. In the course of their study, psychologists Shigehiro Oishi and Kostadin Kushlev of the University of Virginia and Ulrich Schimmack of the University of Toronto eschewed the usual debate about tax increases: Are they bad for economic growth? Instead, they focused on a more emotional one: Do Americans feel happier – and experience a greater sense of fairness – under more progressive taxation? 

The researchers found a very strong correlation between progressive tax policies and how happy respondents rated themselves. This effect was most pronounced – and statistically significant – among taxpayers in the lowest 40% of incomes. The correlation steadily diminished among higher-income groups, disappearing altogether for the top 40%.

So poor people are happy at the idea of rich people having more of their money taken by the government.

Is anyone shocked by this?

The Soviet Union came to power by promising the poor that they will shoot the Kulaks or send them to gulags to be worked to death.

Convincing the poor to resent the rich and empower the government to hurt the rich only caused 100 million people to be murdered in the name of Socialism in the 20th century.  Why not give it a go in the United States?

I’m not sure if promoting American dekulakizaton is worse than a terrorist hagiography, either way Bloomberg News is just as much a pile of shit as its namesake creator.

From Time Magazine:

Katie Hill is the first millennial lawmaker to resign because of nudes. She won't be the last https://t.co/4xbRa67S1I

— TIME (@TIME) October 29, 2019

From Chris Hayes:

.@chrislhayes on the implications of Rep. Katie Hill's resignation:

“There’s going to be a generation of politicians where there are thousands of images around. We’re going to have to decide as a society if we’re going to let that be a permanent source of blackmail…” pic.twitter.com/5D9jt0Bbiz

— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) October 29, 2019

If it is going to be a problem with Millennials not being able to get elected because of the potential for revenge porn blackmail, I’m going to be a shoe-in.

There are exactly zero pictures of my dick floating around out there.

Every day I am more glad that my digital Luddism seems to preemptively cover my ass from the latest shit trend.

Last week I mentioned a bill:

H.R.4789 – To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes.

The text is now available:

SECTION 1. PURCHASE OF RETIRED HANDGUNS BY FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

(a) In General.—A Federal law enforcement officer may purchase a retired handgun from the Federal agency that issued the handgun to such officer.

(b) Limitations.—A Federal law enforcement officer may purchase a retired handgun under subsection (a) if—

(1) the purchase is made during the 6-month period beginning on the date the handgun was so retired; and

(2) the officer is not prohibited from possessing or receiving the handgun under the laws of the United States or the laws of the State, territory, or possession of the United States in which the officer resides.

(c) Cost.—A handgun purchased under this section shall be sold at the fair market value for such handgun taking into account the age and condition of the handgun.

(d) Sense Of Congress On Use Of Funds.—It is the sense of Congress that any amounts received by the Government from the sale of a handgun under this section should be transferred and used to fund Federal gun safety programs.

(e) Definitions.—In this section:

(1) the term “Federal law enforcement officer” has the meaning given that term in section 115(c)(1) of title 18, United States Code;

(2) the term “handgun” has the meaning given that term in section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code; and

(3) the term “retired handgun” means any handgun that has been declared surplus by the applicable agency.

The bill also has five co-sponsors, four of which are Republicans.

I like this bill.  With the Army’s adoption of the M17 and more government agencies moving to 9mm and the SIG P320, there are going to be a lot of Glocks, SIGs, and Berettas in 40 S&W and 357 SIG which are going to be liquidated.  Not to mention old guns that need replacement.

Nothing in this bill says federal LEOs can only buy their issued gun or that they cant resell it.

I really don’t  have a problem with the money is going to federal gun safety programs.  Bureaucrats love money. They are addicts for it.  Sucking it in like cocaine up a A-list Celebrity’s nose.

If this goes well, I see the potential for some sort of federal LEO service pistol to CMP sale just to make more money.  Once the government finds another revenue stream, they usually pump it for all that it’s  worth.

I’ll support this bill with hope that it opens the door to even better things for us.

(Reuters) – San Jose, the 10th most populous U.S. city and political center of Silicon Valley, on Tuesday moved to ban natural gas in most new residential buildings beginning next year.

With a unanimous vote by the 10-member city council and Mayor Sam Liccardo, San Jose became the largest U.S. city so far to seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by favoring appliances that run on renewable electricity sources over those powered by natural gas.

San Jose moves to ban natural gas in new residential buildings 

Standby generators run on Natural Gas and they connect to the existing distribution pipelines. If there is something we sorely miss in South Florida is NG distribution because it makes us dependent of only one source of energy for everyday usage and emergencies.

Now, the geniuses of San Jose, trying to be the ultimate Greta fans and Uber Woke have decided that new housing will not have access to an alternative energy source because we need to save the planet and get our power from solar panels and Quixotic windmills. Emergencies and the survival of citzens be damned.

These are the people that, in an emergency,  should be the last to leave town in a solar-powered Greyhound bus. If you believe what you push, you should risk your life just like everybody else.

Hat Tip Manny L

From the Star Tribune:

Minnesota Armenians upset U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar didn’t support measure recognizing genocide
Omar was one of three members who voted “present” as the House voted overwhelmingly to approve the measure in a clear rebuke to Turkey.

Members of the Twin Cities Armenian community criticized U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday for not supporting a measure that recognizes the century-old mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide.

The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to approve the measure in a clear rebuke to NATO ally Turkey in the wake of its invasion of northern Syria. Omar, however, was one of three members who voted “present.”

It passed 405-11 at a time when American lawmakers have criticized Turkey’s incursion against the Kurds along the Turkish-Syrian border.

Hijab wearing Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Somalia) didn’t vote to condemn the genocide of Armenian Christians at the hands of Muslim Ottoman Turks?

I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you.

This is the text of the statement she released:

“A true acknowledgement of historical crimes against humanity must include both the heinous genocides of the 20th century, along with earlier mass slaughters like the transatlantic slave trade and Native American genocide, which took the lives of hundreds of millions of indigenous people in this country.  For this reason, I voted ‘present’ on final passage of H.Res.296, the resolution Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide.”

So she can’t vote to condemn the Armenian Genocide because of what the US did with the slave trade and to the Native Americans.

That is some incredible whataboutism mental gymnastics to both shit on America at the same time as letting Turkey off the hook.

Omar is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions campaign against Israel, and has pushed BDS actions in Congress.  BDS had simultaneously falsely accused Israel of committing genocide while working to end Israel as a Jewish state.

For anybody who has kept track of Omar’s history, her refusal to condemn the Armenian Genocide is as predictable as the sun rising in the east.

Welcome to the club Armenians.  Your Genocide will also be erased, ignored, justified, or called a hoax by the progressives who want to kowtow to the Islamists.