This sucks. But.....

As Kurt Schlicter has said, "The Left will not enjoy living by the rules they have established."

Last week, Kato Mele’s 23-year-old daughter said some things on Facebook that many people found appalling. She wrote that the White Rose Coffeehouse in Lynn, which her mother owns and where she worked, would never host a “coffee with a cop” event, klatches designed to build goodwill between police and the community.

It goes on from there.  And it's not nice.  In fact, it's rather horrible.  But it was just as horrible when a Christian baker was hounded out of business and fined hundreds of thousands of dollars.  It was just as horrible when a non-political pizza shop was hounded by Leftist zealots.  It was just as horrible when a Christian florist was hounded out of business BY THE STATE SHE LIVED IN for expressing non-approved Leftist views. 

People are sick of it.  They're lashing out, and this is what happens.  And it can be blamed entirely on the Left.  These are their rules.  We're just playing by them.

Things what make me like Trump's tax plan

Rand Paul is on board.

I’m all in for tax cuts @realDonaldTrump. The biggest, boldest cuts possible - and soon!

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 20, 2017

There's quite a bit that Libertarians and I don't see eye to eye on, but Taxes is one issue where we're shoulder to shoulder.  If Rand Paul likes the plan, I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Light Blogging Alert

Here's my schedule for the next ten days:

0430 - out of bed.
0545 - leave house, head to course
0700 - start course
1930 - finish course, head home
2030 - arrive home, eat, fall into bed.

Repeat until 30 October.

I might post music or YouTube.  Not much else.

Reminds me of the petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide.

College students love Trump's tax plan when told that it's Bernie Sanders'.

President Donald Trump’s proposal for comprehensive tax reform was almost immediately dismissed as heartless and impractical by his political opponents. 

But what would some of those opponents think if they were told the same plan was being proposed by someone they adore—Senator Bernie Sanders?

I expect college kids to be somewhat ignorant - they're in college.  They haven't really learned anything yet.  But these kids are just reacting to the name of Trump or Sanders, and not bothering one bit to actually see what the plan is.

Our education system needs to be destroyed.

That's funny shit right there!

Halloween comes early on the east coast... pic.twitter.com/4b7KlW8gXe

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 20, 2017

HAH!

Things the Democrat Media Complex don't want to tell you.

Like, California was keeping an illegal alien criminal arsonist away from ICE before the Sonoma fires went ka-floom.

“Once again, a non-cooperative jurisdiction has left their community vulnerable to dangerous individuals and preventable crimes. ICE lodged a detainer against Jesus Gonzalez with Sonoma County jail officials on October 16, following his arrest on felony charges for maliciously setting fire to a property. This is especially troubling in light of the massive wildfires already devastating the region. Over the past year, ICE has lodged detainers against Mr. Gonzalez after four separate arrests by Sonoma County on various felony and misdemeanor charges. ICE was never notified of Mr. Gonzalez’ various releases. Additionally, Mr. Gonzales has been returned to his home country of Mexico on two separate occasions. The residents of Sonoma County, and the state of California, deserve better than policies that expose them to avoidable dangers. Non-cooperation policies – now enshrined in California state law – ensure only one thing: criminals who would otherwise be deported will be released and left free to reoffend as they please.”

I have one little quibble - the state of Kalifornia and the residents of Sonoma County do NOT in any way deserve better.  The state of Kalifornia, and especially the uber-liberal residents of Sonoma County have voted for exactly the things that have happened.  They deserve to have everyone else walk away and leave them to fester in their burned-down sanctuary city.

But Americans, being decent and good people, won't do that.  Mores the pity.

Democrats attempt to shit on Donald Trump, shit all over a Gold Star Family

And Gen. Kelly responds.



I was going to post a whole screed, but I don't think I need to do so.

Well, that explains it

I've often wondered why Cara Delevingne was a lesbian.  I mean, hot girl, famous, could have any guy she wants, and goes muff diving.  Turns out that 'ol Harvey Weinstein was attempting to be the fatty meat in a Delevingne sammich.  If that doesn't turn you off from guys forever, I just don't know what would.

As usual, the GOP lied

And now they're trying to find any way they can to save Obamacare.

Alexander said he’ll present details of the package to Republicans this week. Along with the insurance subsidies, the package would give states new flexibility on how their Affordable Care Act markets are run. It will also encourage states to meld their markets together, and let more people buy low-cost, limited-coverage plans.

"But Dave, that's just Lamar Alexander, not the whole GOP!"  Nope, they've lost the benefit of the doubt.  Until the GOP actual does what they promised to do for almost a decade now, every time I see something like this floated like a turd in a pool, I am assuming that it's got the backing of the GOP establishment. 

The GOP, especially the Senate, have proven time and time again that they care more about keeping Obamacare than they do about listening to the people who got them elected into office.  That's why Steve Bannon is out on a rampage right now working to get primary challengers to these noodle-spined statists that infest the GOP.

Bergdahl pleads guilty

Gosh, I'm so glad we traded five top Taliban leaders for this fuckwit.

Bergdahl, 31, is accused of endangering his comrades by abandoning his post without authorization. He told a general after his release from five years in enemy hands that he did it with the intention of reaching other commanders and drawing attention to what he saw as problems with his unit. 

It wasn't immediately clear whether his defense has conceded that he's responsible for a long chain of events that his desertion prompted, which included many decisions by others on how to conduct the searches. Despite his plea, the prosecution and defense have not agreed to a stipulation of facts, said one of his lawyers, Maj. Oren Gleich.

Bergdahl walked away from his post. He set down his rifle and walked the fuck away, straight into the Taliban's arms.  Good men died trying to rescue him.  Good men who should not have had their lives wasted trying to rescue a fucking moron who walked the fuck away from his post.

Bergdahl was not worth those men's lives.  He wasn't worth the five Taliban leaders that Obama willingly set free, who are now back fighting against our troops in the Middle East. 

At this point, I don't even want this fucking dolt in Ft. Leavenworth, because I don't want the military to spend any more time on his worthless ass.  Dishonorable Discharge, forfeiture of all pay and benefits, reduction in rank to Private, and kick his ass to the curb.  Let him go back to smoking dope and being a drain on someone else. 

Things what help keep me awake

Especially when I'm being run ragged.

It's coffee pouches that you use like snuff or dip.  They were invented to help people quit using chewing tobacco, but I've found they're great at helping me stay awake.  Nothing but coffee and flavor, so you're not spitting everywhere.  And each pouch is about the equivalent of a quarter-cup of coffee.  I'm about to take a ten-day class that'll be running my ass into the ground.  I'm getting a six pack of these bad boys. 

Am I glad I voted for him?

How's Trump doing these days, eh?

Now, almost nine months into his first term, how is he doing? Real unemployment is on the wane. The stock market is at an historic high. So is consumer confidence. Illegal immigration is down nearly 70 percent. America is now a net exporter of energy. Just a few days ago, Trump declined to re-certify the malevolent nuclear deal that Obama made with Iran, winning from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu this commendation: “I congratulate President Trump for his courageous decision today. He boldly confronted Iran’s terrorist regime. . . . If the Iran deal is left unchanged, one thing is absolutely certain—in a few years’ time, the world’s foremost terrorist regime will have an arsenal of nuclear weapons and that’s a tremendous danger for our collective future.” 

Just a couple of days ago, Trump, having been disappointed by a supine Republican Congress, issued an executive order that will make it easier for people to band together to obtain health insurance tailored to their needs (instead of being forced into federally defined, one-size-fits-all plans) while also ending the unconstitutional federal subsidies (unconstitutional because the money wasn’t appropriated by Congress) to big insurance companies, amounting to some $7 billion per year (the price of getting those companies on board with Obamacare in the first place).

Can you imagine how much we could have accomplished of the GOP Establishment wasn't a bunch of big-government socialist fucktards trying to stymie Trump at every turn?  Ho.  Lee.  Crap.

And I shall continue to not watch

Rodger Goodell caves, won't tell players to stand.  Even though it, y'know, in the rule book and stuff.

This might just be the year that kills the NFL.

Step One in repealing Obamacare

Just happened.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that will allow Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines. 

The order is intended to expand choices to current Obamacare plans and increase competition so that costs come down for consumers.

If Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan were actual conservatives, instead of money-grubbing, scum-sucking, big-government Democrat swamp dwellers, legislation to do this would have been sitting on Trump's desk on day one.  Instead, we got...  nothing.  McConnell and Ryan have fought harder to keep DACA than they have to repeal Obamacare.

But since Obamacare was pretty much an executive order, with a bunch of executive orders pushing it along, I'm fine with repealing it by executive order.

This ain't good

The fish rots from the head, doesn't it?

First and foremost, standards at West Point are nonexistent. They exist on paper, but nowhere else. The senior administration at West Point inexplicably refuses to enforce West Point’s publicly touted high standards on cadets, and, having picked up on this, cadets refuse to enforce standards on each other. The Superintendent refuses to enforce admissions standards or the cadet Honor Code, the Dean refuses to enforce academic standards, and the Commandant refuses to enforce standards of conduct and discipline. The end result is a sort of malaise that pervades the entire institution. Nothing matters anymore. Cadets know this, and it has given rise to a level of cadet arrogance and entitlement the likes of which West Point has never seen in its history. 

(.......) 

Even the curriculum itself has suffered. The plebe American History course has been revamped to focus completely on race and on the narrative that America is founded solely on a history of racial oppression. Cadets derisively call it the “I Hate America Course.” Simultaneously, the plebe International History course now focuses on gender to the exclusion of many other important themes. On the other hand, an entire semester of military history was recently deleted from the curriculum (at West Point!). In all courses, the bar has been lowered to the point where it is irrelevant. If a cadet fails a course, the instructor is blamed, so instructors are incentivized to pass everyone. Additionally, instead of responding to cadet failure with an insistence that cadets rise to the challenge and meet the standard, the bar for passing the course itself is simply lowered. This pattern is widespread and pervades every academic department.

I have dealt with several West Pointers in my career.  With the exception of one of them, I have found them to be....  underwhelming.  In one case I wondered how the hell they ever managed to obtain the rank they did, given their complete, total and overwhelming lack of any kind of leadership what so ever.

I guess now I know.

This brings me to the case of now-2LT Spenser Rapone. It is not at all surprising that the Academy turned a blind eye to his behavior and to his very public hatred of West Point, the Army, and this nation. I knew at the time I wrote that sworn statement in 2015 that he would go on to graduate. It is not so much that West Point’s leadership defends his views (Prof. Hosein did, however); it is that West Point’s senior leaders are infected with apathy: they simply do not want to deal with any problem, regardless of how grievous a violation of standards and/or discipline it may be. They are so reticent to separate problematic cadets (undoubtedly due to the “developmental model” that now exists at USMA) that someone like Rapone can easily slip through the cracks. In other words, West Point’s leaders choose the easier wrong over the harder right.

This cannot and will not end well for the Army.  Commie Twatwaffles like Spenser Rapone will end up being "unfortunately killed by the enemy by a 5.56 round through the back of the skull" in a combat zone.  An Army who's leadership is so morally bankrupt cannot lead Soldiers into war.  Soldiers know if their leadership is worthy or not, and they act accordingly.

Huge number of people at West Point need to be relieved of command and responsibility.  The sooner the better.

Will Harvey Weinstein help bring down Hollywood?

I doubt it.  There are too many perverts, creeps, degenerates and flat out rapists in power and in control.  But it sure is fun to watch them squirm for a bit.

Seydoux says she saw Weinstein making similar moves on a young actress at a subsequent event. “That’s the most disgusting thing,” she writes, “Everyone knew what Harvey was up to and no one did anything. It’s unbelievable that he’s been able to act like this for decades and still keep his career.”

The heads of Hollywood have done something I had previously thought impossible - they have made me think even LESS of Hollywood in general.  I didn't think my opinion of Hollywood and the entertainment industry could get any lower.

NFL writes a pathetic letter

Gosh, wouldn't it be so nice if everybody stood for the National Anthem?

It's not enough.  Not by a long shot.

Note that the letter (which can be viewed here, if the above pic isn't big enough to read) sticks to this "we believe" and "we would like" type language. It never invokes the actual rulebook, nor does it instruct anyone that they must stand for the flag. 

Personally, I hope that more players take the knee. Burn it down. Let the NFL serve as horrifying example of what happens when you go Full SJW Retard.

At this point, it would take a hell of a lot more than this to bring me back to watching football.  This is one of the most mealy-mouthed, pathetic, whinging bits of dumb-fuckery that I've seen in a while.  This doesn't solve anything this just pisses people off.  Rodger Goodell should loose his job for this.  Hell, he should have lost his job when he did absolutely nothing while that fucktard from the 49's started kneeling in violation of the NFL's own rules.

I was listening to Rush yesterday, and he pointed out "Does nobody even look at the ads the NFL plays during games?  Do they really think their fans are the wine and brie set?"  More and more I'm convinced that these people got to where they are through a combination of dumb luck and old money, because anyone who's bothered to watch a game, and the commercials during that game, could deduce rather quickly who the NFL fans are and what they would think about kneeling during the National Anthem.  Apparently, the NFL owners, and marketing people, and Rodger Goodell, are too fucking stupid to do even that.

Sadly, I agree with her.

We can't trust the FBI.

The FBI is discounting ISIS’ claim that the Las Vegas attack was jihad. But is the FBI really trustworthy? 

The Islamic State says Steven Paddock converted six months ago. He filmed himself killing; jihadis do that and post it online. The attack was meticulously planned, as jihad attacks are, and Paddock likely had an accomplice. Paddock made numerous trips to the Middle East. Over 200 of his foreign financial transactions were flagged for possible “covert terrorism financing.” 

Contrary to the ignorant, misinformed and delusional talking heads in the media, ISIS does not take responsibility for events that are not theirs. This has led even the New York Times’ terrorism expert to give credence to ISIS’ claims. The Philippines attack at Resorts World Casino was theirs. And there again, ISIS’ initial claims of responsibility were dismissed.

The absolute shitshow that is James Comey, Robert Muller, the entire DOJ refusal to go after the government officials who broke the law (and are currently breaking the law), the hounding of private citizens for political reasons....  I can go on.  Geller does go on, and you should read the whole thing.  But that this point the FBI is a political entity used to attack the Right.  The CIA is worse.

Seriously, one massive reason Donald Trump got elected is because the average person does not trust the government.  And why should they?  Exactly what actions have the government taken to prove that they're trustworthy?  I can name multiple actions to prove why they are UN-trustworthy.

Drum, if you wanna get away, I know a few places you can go....

Because this shit right here makes me think that societal collapse isn't too far behind in Kalifornia.

Beginning in 2018, California law will have harsher penalties for health care workers who address a senior transgender patient with the “wrong” pronouns than for people who knowingly infect others with HIV. 

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on Friday lowering the maximum penalty for knowingly infecting or exposing a person to HIV to six months in prison — down from a maximum of eight years. Also last week, Brown signed legislation allowing for penalties of up to one year in jail for health care workers who “willfully and repeatedly” use the “wrong” pronouns to refer to a senior transgender patient.

I will not be going back to Kalifornia  Ever.  I certainly won't be having any kinds of surgery in Kalifornia, because people with HIV can now donate blood in Kalifornia and get nothing but a slap on the wrist for it.  Ain't Leftism grand?

I know there are people in Kalifornia who are good, honest, hard working people.  But that state is controlled by Los Angeles and San Fransicko, and those are two cities who deserve the whole Sodom and Gomorrah treatment.

Happy Columbus Day

If Columbus hadn't sailed the Ocean Blue, then folks here would still be slaughtering each other, enslaving each other, starving to death, and performing human sacrifices a bit further South.

Think that's harsh?  It is.  America wasn't some Utopian Paradise until the White Man showed up.