So, a 4.5 mile run

is about 8000 steps, give or take.  The Mrs. gave me her old FitBit when she got the newer whizbang model.  I don't use it all the time, but I wear it to see just how much activity I'm getting whilst going about my day.

It's more to assuage my curiosity than anything else.  Plus, it helps me kick her butt into gear when we need to go walking.

Over 2 million defensive uses of a gun every year

As Insty said, the science was settled. And Secret.

Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck conducted the most thorough previously known survey data on the question in the 1990s. His study, which has been harshly disputed in pro-gun-control quarters, indicated that there were more than 2.2 million such defensive uses of guns (DGUs) in America a year. 

Now Kleck has unearthed some lost CDC survey data on the question. The CDC essentially confirmed Kleck's results. But Kleck didn't know about that until now, because the CDC never reported what it found.

That's over two million criminal acts that were prevented or stopped by the victim having a firearm.

That's not a small number, folks.

Kleck further details how much these CDC surveys confirmed his own controversial work: 

The final adjusted prevalence of 1.24% therefore implies that in an average year during 1996–1998, 2.46 million U.S. adults used a gun for self-defense. This estimate, based on an enormous sample of 12,870 cases (unweighted) in a nationally representative sample, strongly confirms the 2.5 million past-12-months estimate obtained Kleck and Gertz (1995)....CDC's results, then, imply that guns were used defensively by victims about 3.6 times as often as they were used offensively by criminals. 

For those who wonder exactly how purely scientific CDC researchers are likely to be about issues of gun violence that implicate policy, Kleck notes that "CDC never reported the results of those surveys, does not report on their website any estimates of DGU frequency, and does not even acknowledge that they ever asked about the topic in any of their surveys."

If the government actually reported the numbers their studies had discovered, it would have shot a cannonball-sized hole in the gun-control argument of the 90's.  So they just hushed it up.

When you hear the Left scream about how they just want to end gun violence, remember that they're trying their best to prevent YOU from being able to defend yourself against a violent criminal.  The data backs up gun owners.

Remember Brandon Eichs? Welcome to the new rules

There are people saying that the far-left, snorting hate-beast who teaches at Fresno State shouldn't get fired for what she said about Barbara Bush's death.  And there are plenty of conservative reasons why a person shouldn't get fired for their grossly ignorant, hate-filled tweets.

But while Jarrar is facing calls to be terminated, she attracted support from multiple advocacy organizations and professors who defended her right to free speech.
“Jarrar’s tweets are unquestionably protected speech under the First Amendment and Fresno State has no power to censor, punish, or terminate Jarrar for them,” Adam Steinbaugh, senior program officer for FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), said in a statement to Fox News. 

FIRE also joined other free speech advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, in opposing the university’s decision to investigate Jarrar, saying it conflicts with the First Amendment.

Normally, I would agree with FIRE on this.  However....

The rules do not apply equally to both sides.  Not yet.  When the CEO of a company can be hounded out of his position not for any public statements he made, but for donating to a political cause that the Left didn't like, then this blubbery, bloated abscess can and should be hung out to dry for what she said publicly.

If the Left doesn't like their rules, then they shouldn't be forcing everyone else to play by them.  And until the Left feels the sting of the rules they demand for the Right, then they'll continue marching through public and private institutions demanding that everybody bow to them and their rules.  Well, watching this corpulent canker-sore get fired might just make some people on the Left figure out that their rules can be applied both ways, and they won't like living by their own rules.

These are not rules that the Right has come up with.  They are entirely created by Leftism, and dammit, the Left should be held to them the same as any conservative would be.  So, sorry not sorry to the Fat Festering Fuckhead of Fresno State.  Conservatives have lost their jobs for far less.  Time for the Left to enjoy the rules they have established.

They were warned that they would not like their rules.  They didn't give a shit as long as they could attack conservatives without repercussion.  That time is now over.

The Mrs. has a CriCut

And a heat press.  And I have tee-shirts with reflective vinyl to use for PT.  And she has a nascent business.

She made me a coffee cup that reads "Coffee doesn't ask me stupid questions in the morning.  Be more like Coffee."

She also made me a unit mug.  And my office all has matching work-out gear. 

I think she'll be keeping this up for a bit.

Just a reminder

That Robert Mueller is a political hack, and has been for decades.  He's only "respected" because he helps cover up Democrat corruption and government over-reach.

Damn good question

How come we're not talking about the guy on the Southwest flight who PLUGGED UP THE HOLE IN THE PLANE WITH HIS BODY. https://t.co/9FyB7IPHKI pic.twitter.com/uHPvkxB56n

— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) April 18, 2018

The pilot did what she was expected to do - get the plane on the ground in the case of an emergency.  She did an admirable job.  You could say she went above and beyond, and it's probably true.  But no passenger is ever asked to plug a HOLE IN THE PLANE with THEIR OWN BODY.  IN MID-AIR.

God forbid we have positive stories about men in the news.  That doesn't help the narrative.

Oh great, now I have to buy this

Just....  wow.

In case you don't know, I love a capella

Yes, I do.  Damn you Kim, I spent far too much time listening to this.

This rabid land-whale is a tenured professor

So, Barbara Bush died yesterday.  Her husband held her hand all day, and was there when she passed.  While I think that Bush 41 was a horrible president, this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that his wife of 73 years...

Let me repeat that - his wife of 73 years....

....has passed on, and quite frankly I don't know how much longer 41 has after this.  When people have been married for that long, sometimes they follow one another through that gate.  In any case, this was the perfect opportunity to express some good will, as well as hold a seven-decade marriage up as an example of what kids today should aspire to.

So naturally, a professor from Fresno State had to come out and demonstrated what a good little progressive leftist normally does.  In other words, by vomiting out some of the most demented bullshit one can think of.

You can go read the festering hatred if you wish.  This is a woman who's soul is blackened with corruption and rot.  And as usual, the outside soon begins to look like the inside.

Yeah.  That paragon of health and beauty decided that expressing hatred towards a woman who's lived a good life was a grand thing to do.  So now she's "on leave" from Fresno State.  Which means they are hunkering down and praying that the storm will blow over.  Sadly, they're saddled with that raging ProgNazi until she dies.  The good news is that given her blood type of Jell-o Pudding, that eventuality might not take too long.

Two-legged warthogs like this are why college is more and more of a sham and a scam.  Why on God's green earth should anyone spend $40,000 a year or more to get lectured by this snorting hate-beast?  Exactly what purpose does she serve, other than as an example of what NOT to be or do?

It's Tax Day.

Otherwise known as "The Day The Government Rapes You Without Lube Or A Reach-Around". 

Well, this is rare

The Ragin' Mrs and I have sampled multiple variations of Boudin sausage, and I think it's safe to say that we don't quite enjoy any of them.

This may piss off multiple Cajuns, but it's all a matter of opinion.  We like what we like.  And although we can make an authentic boudin, it's not something that we want to do.

Andouille, on the other hand....

Big changes a-comin'

Let's just say that a lot of plans that I had made for the next couple of years have been tossed in the trash and set on fire.  But in a good way, mostly.

In the meantime, have you seen Comey's book?  I think he's implicated himself legally at least five or six times.  This guy is NOT the "smart" man than he tries to portray.  He's merely an educated one.

And so now we're bombing Syria

Well, just....  Fuck.

There is no good outcome in Syria, other than letting the Kurds take over, and they don't want the damn place either.  No matter who wins in Syria, it will be a radical islamist sect who hates America.  What.  The.  Hell.

If the world wants to stop Assad's weapons, the same world who LUUUUUUURVED Obama when he played his bullshit games with Syria, then let the World stop Assad.  He's a dictator who doesn't have a tin-pot to piss in other than what other countries give him.  If this is so damn urgent for the World, then let the World actually get their hands dirty for once instead of demanding that more Americans risk their lives for the ungrateful fucking shitwads.

Just fuck.

You know, I don't think this actually happened.

It's the "On the verge of tears" that makes this. pic.twitter.com/Q23sWahaK6

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) April 12, 2018

First and foremost, James Comey the Clinton Flunky swore under oath that he never had a one-on-one meeting with Obama.  Second, nowhere does he describe how he wiped Obama's sperm off his chin after the meeting.  Thus we know it could not have happened.

I'm back

So, did anything happen while I was gone?

More music of my yoot and then some

It's amazing how much music you listen to, only to find out that it was first done by a master.



Louie Prima, y'all.

More music of my yoot, and then some

So way back when, They Might Be Giants put out "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)".  I mentioned the song to my dad, he said "Oh, yeah, that's a re-make."

Say what?

The Remake:

The Original:

This is the post you get today.

On the shit-canning of Kevin Williamson

Ace sums up quite a few of my opinions about it:

This is most of the reason people voted for Trump: everyday Americans who are not insulated from toxic Social Justice Warrior mobbing by virtue of the fact of working for a (nominally) conservative magazine are sick and tired of being bullied and want someone to finally start pushing back. 

But the cucks laugh at that rationale. Why, it's silly to think you're being bullied, Hobbits. 

But now Kevin Williamson, who was blazing a trail that many of the cucks hoped to follow by decamping to a truly educated, sophisticated place like The Atlantic (not quite educated and sophisticated enough to know that French words end in -isme not ism, but at least more educated and sophisticated than the outlets serving the TrumpenProletariat) is the victim of Social Justice Warrior mobs demanding bloody scalps for speech they don't like, and now the cucks are suddenly bothered by this form of sociocorporate totalitarianism.

Kevin Williamson was one of the first people to attack and insult Trump supporters during the run-up to the 2016 election.  It wasn't "We have some disagreements", it wasn't "Let me convince you to vote for my guy", it was "You Trumpkins are stupid idiots and your towns should just die and cease to exist."  No, really, he was the guy who essentially told working-class whites that all of those factories closing and coal mines shutting down was their fault, and they just need to shut up and move.  Or die. 

It's amazing that once we had a government that didn't kow-tow to China or the EU, jobs came back.  It's amazing that once we had a government who actually understood that taking over 1/3 of profits from a company as taxes is BAD for business, we started having job growth.  Quite a few of those places that Kevin Williamson wanted to just shut up and die are making a come-back, or at least starting to turn around, and it's due to the man that Kevin Williamson hated so much that his hatred overflowed to that man's supporters.

But back to Williamson's firing, and the bevy of Liberal Republicans all falling on their fainting couches:

This has been going on for 8 years running everywhere in America except conservative magazines (and even there -- it went on some). 

Where you been all this time? Do you only get bothered by Social Justice Warrior scalp-hunting when they start coming after members of your tiny, tiny, microscopic class of Liberal Republicans Working for Liberal Republican Magazines Who Would Like One Day to Work at Liberal Democrat Magazines? 

Oh that's right -- you and your ilk have been spending these past few years attacking Kurt Schlichter for correctly saying that the left is imposing an intolerable speech code on us through sociocorporate power and that it's time to impose "New Rules" on them so they feel a similar pain (and are encouraged to de-escalate). 

But now that they got Kevin Williamson, it's only now a tragedy worth discussing, eh?

Williamson was quite possibly the worst anti-Trumper at National Review, and that's saying something.  After they came out with their "The Case Against Trump" issue, I cancelled my subscription.  That's not a shock to most folks.  What shocked the hell out of me was this:  My father did the same. 

NR went off the rails and into liberal delusions gradually, but they followed Sarah Hoyt's dictum:  Roll Left, then Die.  They fired Mark Steyn.  They fired John Derbyshire.  They got rid of some of the most eloquent conservative voices, and then they went hard against the man who would eventually win the Oval Office.  Williamson was jumping ship while the jumping was good, and now he's figured out what the rest of us already knew:  THE LEFT HATES YOU, NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO APPEAL TO THEM. 

I've seen lots of shock at the sheer schadenfreude that has come from Williamson's firing.  The establishment RINOs are in full scolding mode, fingers shaking and chins wobbling.  What they don't understand is that they could all suffer the same thing that happened to Williamson, and we wouldn't care.  They have already told us what they think of us.  The scorn and distain drips from every Williamson piece, and they take every opportunity to express their disgust with us low, common people who voted for Trump instead of their donor-class figurehead.  The Trump Derangement Syndrome is still growing in people like Williamson, but they're finally forced to face the reality that their awesome liberal Democrat cocktail party pals won't help them out like they thought would happen.

Oh well. Guess you're stuck with us, cucks. Looks like the Cool Kids you admire you so much don't admire you enough to let you sit at their table for longer than a few minutes. 

Maybe this will finally open your eyes to what's actually going on right now. 

But probably not. You've been so arrogantly wrong about so many things for so long, you're kind of addicted to it.

Williamson getting fired falls under the category of "Stupidity becoming painful again".  I expect the first dose of reality won't take.  Its going to require multiple doses in the future, and there's no guarantee that it'll actually work.

But of course

The Obama junta was giving money to George Soros in order to fund his left-wing activities in Europe.  Why am I not surprised?

No wonder the Democrats shriek about the Koch brothers so much - they are projecting their sins upon the GOP.  While I don't agree with everything the Koch's say, if the GOP actually listened to them they'd be much better off.