The more you trust the media the less informed you are

 And that's proven by science!  Well....  yeah.

The most accurate group was conservatives, with very conservative being the best, and very liberal being the worst. It’s not even close. Liberals have no idea what the truth is, and they believe the very worst to be the case.

Yesterday the organization released more data from their study, in order to explain why that is the case. Their findings were equally interesting because they give a very strong clue regarding what is driving that disparity.

And it’s exactly what you think: the greater the education you have and the higher the trust in the news media the less likely you are to have a grasp of reality.

Education + Trust in MSM=ignorance.

Having to deal with my socialist relatives, I can absolutely agree with the findings.  And having had to deal with college educated people for decades now, I can say with absolute certainty that having an education doesn't make you smarter, wiser, or more intelligent.  It just makes you credentialed.  

By request:

 Y'all wanted to beat the little Gamma troll when he showed up, so I took your advice, and selected a comment of his to mock for a bit.

This particular dropping was left on the post about Hunter Biden's expiative-laden messages to his lawyer.   This entire comment is a mishmash of gobbledygook pressed together with ignorance and ego.  Let's break it down, shall we?

Weird. Did the President hire his son for the Administration? So does this matter to how the country is run? No.

Non sequitur.  This was about how the media treats Joe Biden with kid gloves while viciously savaging anyone who dares attack the media's political party.  The little gamma troll obviously cannot defend the media's actions, so they attack a strawman.

 As I've said, there are tons of racist and rapist soldiers - if you want this to apply to Biden, then I get to call you a racist and a rapist based on some soldier who raped a girl in Japan in 1985.  Where You Go One, You Are All Rapists.

At this point, all a normal person can do is sigh and shake their head.  The little Gamma troll is so desperately trying to derail the conversation into an area where they feel comfortable - calling Soldiers names.  The Left has been doing this ever since Viet Nam, so by now it's old hat to them.

 Or do you not like having someone be able to erase your entire history, character, and personality simply by overlaying someone else from your cohort on you?

The little Gamma troll obviously don't understand that his ignorant opinion doesn't erase anything.  His hatred of America combined with his stunning ignorance has made him babble and expose himself as, well, a little Gamma troll, who's only purpose in life is to be metaphorically whacked with sticks.

So there you go.  That's just one comment that the little Gamma troll drops like a child dropping doodied on the carpet.  He left another one that was a classic case of projection.  Remember, SJWs always project.

At this point, I would list all the various destruction that the Left has wreaked on society, but he wouldn't learn anything, as facts simply bounce off of his hard noggin.  So if y'all want to educate him in the comments, be my guest.  I'm just going to delete him.  Honestly, it's what he deserves.

Oh, look. A walking, talking anal polyp.

Of course you won't be shocked to learn that said anal polyp is an "associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies"

In one of this anal polyp's tweets, she makes the claim (amidst other idiotic statements) that "Black Lives with Hypertension, Diabetes and Asthma matter".  Looking at the layers of blubber protecting the anal polyp from reality, it would seem that she's projecting just a wee little bit there.  Perhaps the "sexuality" part of her professorship is her fantasizing about pro-creating with a double-hot-fudge sundae from Baskin Robbins.  Based on her appearance, she does seem to be the type that would have a food fetish. 

Naturally, she hates Trump and all of you who voted for him.  Go read.  She hates you and wants you to die, but naturally she projects her mental psychosis on to you, and therefore you are all the bad people who want her to die according to the voices in her head.

Bah.  I have oil to change and spark plugs to replace.

There's a part of my job that requires I schedule training events

For anywhere from 50-100 people, depending on the units involved.  So not huge, not thousand-person events, but let's take a gander at some numbers, shall we?

Let's say I wanted to put on a training event in Portland, OR.  Just a hypothetical situation.

Training events for the USAR are mostly held in the summer time.  It's when kids are out of school, obligations are lower, so you can actually get Soldiers to an event.  Summertime per diem for Portland is $192 for lodging, $61 for meals, and $5 for incidentals.  That's per day.  So that's $258 per day, per person.

Going with my last training event that I held, we can assume 60-70 attendees.  Again, this is a rough number, but it gives you an idea.  So that's $15,480 - $18,060 being spent just on lodging and food.  And that's just for the attendees, not the staff, instructors, and various other costs.  And that's PER DAY.  Most of my training events are four days.  So the total amount of money being spent is $61,920 to $72,240.

That's a lot of money.  And again, that's not travel costs, or car rentals, or any other costs.  That's just one factor that I have to figure out when I'm holding an event.

But rest assured, there is not a single reason in the world why I would ever hold a training event in a shithole like Portland.  Portland used to be beautiful.  It is now a stinking, feces-ridden shithole populated by garbage people, run by garbage people, and controlled by fascist garbage.  I won't ever hold a training event in that shithole garbage city, because I'm not going to risk my people being assaulted by the screaming mobs that control the place.

You couldn't pay me to visit Portland.  Why the hell would I want to spend money there?

Liberal Projection

Don Lemon is one of the first nutjobs on TV to accuse Republicans of being a bunch of sexual assaulters, rapists, etc.  Maybe because that's what he does, so he thinks everyone else does it and he can just accuse anybody of doing what he himself does.

Gounelas' version of the story is the same as Hice's: Hice offered to buy Lemon a drink, and Lemon declined. A few minutes later, Lemon came up to Hice, put his hand down his own shorts and rubbed his fingers on his genitals, and then shoved his fingers under Hice's nose and uttered that now-immortal phrase: "Do you like pu*sy or di*k?"

April Ryan, who is nothing more than a fat stupid cow with a microphone, bleating out DNC talking points, likes to accuse Trump of clamping down on the free press.  Maybe that's because she does it, and so she'll project her anti-media actions on the President.

An odd story has circulated on social media the past couple of days about an incident involving CNN contributor and White House correspondent April Ryan and a member of the press. She gave the nod and her bodyguard tossed the reporter out of an event in New Jersey.

I know I'm not the only one who has said this, but if you are being accused of some action by a Democrat, you can be damn sure that the Donk is doing it themselves and accusing you in order to draw attention away from themselves.

Oh, and if you scroll down that story, you'll see that the Fat Very Stupid Cow April D. Ryan is now blocking anyone on twatter who dares to repost the story, with footage, of Ryan's bodyguard tossing the media from her speech.

Anyone who depends on that Fat Very Stupid Cow April D. Ryan for news deserves to be ignorant.  Because they will be ignorant, given that the Fat Very Stupid Cow April D. Ryan doesn't actually report any factual news.

Here's another example:  Democrat bashes Republican for not believing in public schools, while at the same time sending his kids to a private school.

The hypocrisy inherent in the Democrat Party is staggering.

I'm glad I left Seattle when I did

When we left in 2004, the "finding used heroin needles" issue was mostly contained on Capitol Hill and First Hill.  Now it's pretty much spread to the entire city, as the socialists run amok with predictable results.

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

When you subsidize something, you get more of it.  It really is that simple.  When you make it easy for drug addicts and homeless people to congregate in an area, and give them money and food and all the things they want, you end up with more drug addicts and homeless people.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

Whoa, whoa whoa....  let's not just skip over that ONE BILLIONS DOLLARS.  If they're spending $100,000 per homeless person to "fight homelessness", where the hell is that money going?  I'm willing to bet it's going into the same place that it goes in every socialist-run location:  Into the pockets of the politically connected.

Read the entire piece.  Seattle is a laboratory for what occurs when leftists/socialists/marxists take control of a city and begin to operate based on their ideology instead of reality.  Running a city on unearned moral superiority using other people's money to fund your ego never works.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Legal Breakdown Edition

ON the Proggie Activist Judges re-writing law out of whole cloth in order to serve their Leftist Masters:

There is no way to pretend that what these courts are doing is in any way compatible with democracy, law, tradition, history, or even Western Civilization. What we are witnessing is a literal breakdown of civil society and a descent into structural lawlessness. This has been a long time in the making, but it is becoming increasingly impossible to even pretend that there is a coherent or meaningful legal structure of any kind in the United States.

The Left has done their best to destroy the rule of law for decades.  What they're doing under President Trump is dropping a nuclear bomb on the entire concept of the Rule of Law.  What this Leftist Activist Judge in Hawaii has done is essentially say "The Law is whatever I say it is based on my FEELZ."

“The Hawaii judge’s decision says he has a First Amendment constitutional right to do so because he’s Muslim. It was one of the most extraordinary interpretations of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment ever given, which is that because these are Muslim countries that were banned where the issue of terror arises from that that meant they had a special right to access the country and visit the country,” he said.  

“As long as there is somebody here that wants them here, no president can ever preclude them from coming here. He basically gave First Amendment rights to everybody around the world and gave special preferences to people who are Muslim under his interpretation of the First Amendment,” Barnes summarized.

This isn't just bad law, this is extraordinarily bad law that will help destroy the entire Rule of Law as we know it.  This judge doesn't just deserve to be disbarred, he deserves to be thrown in jail.  That's how bad this ruling is.  This ruling completely ignores the Rule of Law and instead creates new law based on Marxist, globalist bullshit.

This is how your Leftist masters want you to live.  Where they can control the rules of the game and change them at a whim.

71 mentally deranged freaks arrested in Portland, OR

And you can see their mug shots here.  There's not a single person in those mug shots you would ever invite into your house.  Their mental disease has progressed to the point that it's reflected on their faces.  Go take a gander, seriously.  These lunatics range in appearance from "barks at moon and finger-paints with own feces" to "Uncle Badtouch, never allow near children".

Their mental debilitation is written on their faces.  You don't even have to hear them say anything to know these people are seriously fucked in the head.

The more I hear about higher education

The less I think of it.

Why should journalists know anything about economics or history? That’s the question the journalism department at UNC–Chapel Hill couldn’t answer, and so it has eliminated these basic requirements...

We are producing a nation of imbeciles, and paying handsomely to do so via the university system.  And in the end, we will have a huge group of over-educated half-wits, drooling morons with fancy parchment on their walls, who do not and cannot understand exactly what makes the world go 'round.  Overly-coddled ignorant cry-bullies completely incapable of dealing with the real world, who make a poopy in their pants and demand that you give them a trophy for doing so, while simultaneously demanding that the US taxpayer foot the bill for the Marxist incubation hive they spent four, five, ten years infesting.

Short of a hard science, why in the name of God would I ever suggest that a young person today go to a university?

Reality hits a ProgNazi, they remain ignorant

But at least they're unemployed and ignorant.  Which makes me feel a little bit better, and can be used as a teaching example to folks who aren't so indoctrinated.

An independent San Francisco bookstore says it will be closing its doors by March 31, despite having its best year ever in 2014. And it’s pointing at San Francisco’s newly enacted minimum wage law as the reason.

Here's where I say they're still as ignorant and indoctrinated as a fat pig in a sty:

“Although all of us at Borderlands support the concept of a living wage in principal and we believe that it's possible that the new law will be good for San Francisco -- Borderlands Books as it exists is not a financially viable business if subject to that minimum wage.” 

San Francisco voters easily approved a measure last November that would lift the city’s minimum wage from $10.74 to $12.25 an hour as of May and then gradually raise it to $15 an hour by July 2018. That hourly wage works out to a minimum salary of $31,000 a year for a full-time worker.

And there we go, folks.  Although now that they're going to be unemployed, they'll have more time for their communing class, or their protest against cis-male hetro-normative patriarchy or whatever the hell liberal losers do when they're unemployed and not too high to move.

More Racism in the NFL

But of course, it is the racism which shall never be mentioned.  And since it's effecting my Seahawks, I'm going to mention it.  There's a report out about the problems encountered by the Seattle Seahawks with regards to how players are meshing in the locker room, and why Percy Harvin got traded.

There is also an element of race that needs to be discussed. My feeling on this—and it's backed up by several interviews with Seahawks players—is that some of the black players think Wilson isn't black enough.

This, again, was similar to the situation with McNabb. And this, again, will be denied by Seattle people. But there is an element of this.

This is an issue that extends outside of football, into African-American society—though it's gotten better recently. Well-spoken blacks are seen by some other blacks as not completely black. Some of this is at play.

Russel Wilson is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL right now.  He's also well spoken, clean-cut, and doesn't do stupid shit, at least not that anyone knows of.  He's a big part of the reason that everyone was wearing Superbowl rings, including Percy Harvin.  But in today's society, if you have dark skin you have to act "black", talk "black", vote "black", and if you dare to step off the plantation you're labeled as a race traitor.

It's the same thing that happens to black conservatives.  Think of the vitriol, abuse and hatred directed at Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, Alan West, Thomas Sowell, and any other black person who doesn't immediately kow-tow to the Democrat Party.  Yes, I said hatred and abuse, because that's what they have to put up with.

And now that mindset has transferred into the NFL.  Of course it has.  The NFL is only a representation of the people who make it up, and there's no indication that the blacks in the NFL somehow think differently than the blacks outside of the NFL. 

So here's my question:  What exactly does "acting black" or "talking black" look like?  What does it take for someone to be "completely black?"

Here's another question that'll make the Left go nuts, although that's not too hard....  Who would you want taking care of your child?  Someone who was "completely black", or someone who was scorned as not being "black" enough?

Who would you want as a role model for your child?  Someone who acted "completely black", or someone who was scorned as not being "black" enough?

So France Dissolved their Government

How many times is this now for France?  Five?  Six?  Not counting all the times that their government was dissolved for them by the Germans.

And amazingly, every left-wing shibboleth was tried in France.  They got more socialist.  They spent more of other people's money.  And yet....  failure.

But that won't stop the Left in America from hurling us down the same path.

I want them to hurt

I want them to hurt so very badly....

'I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,'

WHO THE HELL DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO PAY FOR IT, YOU STUPID IGNORANT BITCH?!?!?!?!

Human beings learn from two things - pain, and repetition.  Repetition ain't gonna work on the Low Information Voters; that leaves pain as the only method of getting them to learn.  I want them to hurt.  I want all the Democrat American Communist Party voting ignorant dipshits to hurt, and hurt bad. I want them to spend years and years in economic depression.  I want them to feel the pain that they have inflicted on everyone else who actually understands economics and voted against that fucking communist shitheel in the White House.

They need to hurt.  Badly.  For a long, long time.