Let's say you've been living in a dumpster behind the local Wal-Mart and you've failed for some reason or other to keep up with the news. Hey, I understand! The job market's so very good you haven't had time to catch up, right! Nose to the grindstone and all that?
And let's say further that you need somebody to bring you up to speed on what's happening out there in the world.
Well, Pilgrim, I'm here with good news! I happen to have some extra time on my hands these days and spend quite a bit of it learning who's doing what to whom, and why, and so I'd be delighted to help you out.
First, you need to know that whatever Donald J. Trump, 45th POTUS, wants to do, is racist.
Got that? We have it on good authority that whatever he wants to build is racist. If he wants to build a wall or a fence, it's racist. He's only doing it, Democrats and "Progressives" and Liberals and commies and socialists and "greenies" and the THM (Trump Hating Media) will tell you, because he hates all Brown and Black and Red and Yellow people everywhere. And probably White people, too, they think, but that doesn't matter.
And by building that wall, even though it was built a long time before he even arrived on the scene, and needs a whole lot of repair, and tens of thousands of illegal aliens are streaming across it daily, without letup, illegally, all day and all night, and bringing oodles of killer drugs with them, if he wants to fix it up, it's racist. If he wants to make it higher, it's racist. If he wants to make it impenetrable, it's racist!
I'm pretty sure if he wanted to remove it, they would call that action racist as well.
And whoever he wants to hire or appoint is racist, too. And no matter the job, or the appointee, or the location, or the gender, or the race, whomever he taps for a job is a racist as well. You should know that, too. Because whoever he'd appoint would have to be racist, right? Otherwise he wouldn't have appointed them, right?
And whatever he wears is racist. His suits, his ties, his pants, his shoes. Probably his shoelaces also. All racist. Racists only wear racist clothes, doncha' know.
And whatever his opinion, or thoughts, or words, or deeds, or actions, or "Tweets," the "Progressive" Leftist commie socialist redistributionist dweebs tell us that it's all flat-out, chrome-plated, diamond-dusted racism. Just believe it. I mean, it must be true, or they wouldn't tell us that, would they?
I mean, the "Dinosaur Media" and Democrats and lobbyists and candidates and pundits wouldn't lie to us, would they?
However, Trump was called a racist a total of 27 times by the 10 Dem candidates for POTUS in last night's Detroit debate. They wouldn't have accused him of something so awful unless it was true, right?
Even though The Donald was a Democrat for more than 40 years, and even though he gave the Democrat Party $Millions in donations during that time, and even though he won the annual NAACP Humanitarian of the Year Award, and even though Jesse Jackson once said he's the Black man's "best friend," he's still a racist. If he weren't, he wouldn't have become a Republican and run for POTUS, right? Because all Republicans are racist, right? Right?
And we know that his daughter and his son and his son-in-law and his daughter's-in-law and all their kids and their pets and probably everyone they ever met are all racists. That's what they tell us. Especially Ivanka, whose hair is super-blond. You probably can't have blond hair without being a racist, right?
And oh yeah, as all but a few Hollywoodn't-types will tell us, every single person who voted for Trump is a racist to boot. Every one. They must be, we're told, otherwise those toothless redneck beer-swilling ignorant hillbillies wouldn't have voted for him, right? It's their own damn fault! Right?
Now we know that The Donald just luuuuvs to smack back at anyone who gives him grief. If you insult him, he's gonna' insult you right back. Probably even worse then you hit him. Buuuuuuuut, if you decide to insult him, or his family, and you happen to be a member of any other race besides "White," then his response to that insult has just got to be...racist.
Hmmm...
So, even though Trump has overseen the very largest increase in Black and Brown and minority employment in the history of America, and even though his "Opportunity Zone" legislation is working stupendously, particularly in toilets like Baltimore, interestingly, and even though his "Second Chance" prison reforms have given primarily Black offenders another chance at a productive life, and even though Trump's Black polling approval rate has doubled of late, until all this craziness goes away and Trump is safely ensconced in some Federal jail cell somewhere, most likely for "collusion" or "corruption" or "obstruction" or "offensive Tweeting" or just "hurting someone's feelings," just remember: Trump is a racist.
God, I love long sentences...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Creative Epithets...
Back in 2009 radio show host Glenn Beck was universally excoriated for having opined that Barack Obama just might be a racist.
That followed, if you'll recall, the now (in)famous "beer summit," which resulted from Mr. Obama's lame - and quite likely racist - reference to white cops.
The "Establishment Media" circled the wagons around Obama and collectively deplored Beck's accusation as being "racist." To think! Having the temerity to actually call Obama a racist, makes one a racist! They all agreed that calling the POTUS, any POTUS, a racist, or any other nasty name, is just not done. It's outlawed. It shall not be condoned. A No No. As in, Do. Not. Do. It!
A lot seems to have happened between 2009 and 2019. Now, whatever you think of Donald J. Trump, you have to agree he's like a Hoover vacuum cleaner for nasty epithets. The Media, various celebrities, almost all late night TV opinion spewers and oodles of Lefty politicians started out by calling Trump a crook. And a liar. A pedophile. A thief. A rapist. A predator. A serial abuser. And, of course, that old "Progressive" fallback, "Hitler." And let's not forget that forgettable comment made by one Rashida Tlaib, newfer Palestinian socialist Congressweenie from Michigan, who proclaimed: "We're gonna impeach this mot*erf**ker! And that was before he was even inaugurated!
I wonder if she kisses her mommy with that mouth?
They went on to label him a Russian collaborator. And a spy. A tool of a foreign government. Even a traitor. A traitor! That last one will get your neck stretched if they can prove it (treason is a capitol offense!), which I gather the Lefties can't yet do. But God knows, they're sure trying. In short, there's literally not a slur that hasn't been hurled The Donald's way since he descended down the "Golden Escalator" that fateful day.
And since his election, his enemies have doubled and even tripled- and quadrupled down in their use of nasty names, reaching ever deeper into the well of nastiness to an extent never, ever before seen.
Never!
Now, being called a "liar" is pretty iffy stuff when we're talking about the President here. There's a fairly well accepted rule that we do not insult, defame, impugn, disparage or otherwise condemn our POTUS out of respect for the Office. And that's no matter who the POTUS is. That's just good manners, doncha' know, and also indicative of proper decorum in such political matters. And a good upbringing. Folks on both sides of the aisle have generally observed this little nicety. Thankfully.
But no longer. It seems we're fresh out of decorum and manners.
Now, with Trump in the Oval Office, the gloves have come off. We've all heard the usual epithets hurled The Donald's way. They include misogynist, racist, Islamophobe, imbecile, moron, fool, etc., etc. But in researching this matter I've come across some reeeeely creative epithets Trump's enemies have dreamed up for him. In fact, a quick Google search will turn up more than a thousand of them. And so I thought it might be a hoot to pick out a few for your reading pleasure...
- Angry Creamsickle - Blowhard
- Agent Orange - Bumbledor
- Alpha Molester - Bigoted Billionaire
- Angry Cheeto - Bouffant Buffoon
- Antichrist - Blowhard
- Cheeto Fuhrer - Captain Tantastic
- Cowardly Lyin' - Prima Donald
- Creep Throat - Darth TaxEvader
- Forrest Trump - Genghis Can't
- Grope Dope - Hair Apparent
- Hair Fuhrer - Mango Mussolini
- Putin's Pet - Sh*tler
- Short-Fingered Vulgarian - Tangerine Jesus
- Teflon Don - Trumpinator
- Captain Chaos - Cheeze Doodle
- Lord Voldemort - Two-bit Caesar
- Adolf Tweetler - Cheeto-Dusted Bloviator
And, one of my personal favorites,
- The Great Orange Hairball of Fear
So times have changed, my fellow Americans. Unfortunately. No longer must decorum reign in our Great Society. Now, if things don't work out the way you'd like or if the wrong guy wins the Election, instead of just trying harder next time, just stamp your little feet and hurl accusations and insults and scream at the top of your lungs the most hateful, vile, disgusting and defamatory insults you can possible conjure up until he/she/it leaves office. In shame. Yeah, that oughta' do the trick!
Don't worry. One of these days a Democrat will be back in office and things will return to normal. I hope. They can wait 5 and 1/2 years, can't they?
That followed, if you'll recall, the now (in)famous "beer summit," which resulted from Mr. Obama's lame - and quite likely racist - reference to white cops.
The "Establishment Media" circled the wagons around Obama and collectively deplored Beck's accusation as being "racist." To think! Having the temerity to actually call Obama a racist, makes one a racist! They all agreed that calling the POTUS, any POTUS, a racist, or any other nasty name, is just not done. It's outlawed. It shall not be condoned. A No No. As in, Do. Not. Do. It!
A lot seems to have happened between 2009 and 2019. Now, whatever you think of Donald J. Trump, you have to agree he's like a Hoover vacuum cleaner for nasty epithets. The Media, various celebrities, almost all late night TV opinion spewers and oodles of Lefty politicians started out by calling Trump a crook. And a liar. A pedophile. A thief. A rapist. A predator. A serial abuser. And, of course, that old "Progressive" fallback, "Hitler." And let's not forget that forgettable comment made by one Rashida Tlaib, newfer Palestinian socialist Congressweenie from Michigan, who proclaimed: "We're gonna impeach this mot*erf**ker! And that was before he was even inaugurated!
I wonder if she kisses her mommy with that mouth?
They went on to label him a Russian collaborator. And a spy. A tool of a foreign government. Even a traitor. A traitor! That last one will get your neck stretched if they can prove it (treason is a capitol offense!), which I gather the Lefties can't yet do. But God knows, they're sure trying. In short, there's literally not a slur that hasn't been hurled The Donald's way since he descended down the "Golden Escalator" that fateful day.
And since his election, his enemies have doubled and even tripled- and quadrupled down in their use of nasty names, reaching ever deeper into the well of nastiness to an extent never, ever before seen.
Never!
Now, being called a "liar" is pretty iffy stuff when we're talking about the President here. There's a fairly well accepted rule that we do not insult, defame, impugn, disparage or otherwise condemn our POTUS out of respect for the Office. And that's no matter who the POTUS is. That's just good manners, doncha' know, and also indicative of proper decorum in such political matters. And a good upbringing. Folks on both sides of the aisle have generally observed this little nicety. Thankfully.
But no longer. It seems we're fresh out of decorum and manners.
Now, with Trump in the Oval Office, the gloves have come off. We've all heard the usual epithets hurled The Donald's way. They include misogynist, racist, Islamophobe, imbecile, moron, fool, etc., etc. But in researching this matter I've come across some reeeeely creative epithets Trump's enemies have dreamed up for him. In fact, a quick Google search will turn up more than a thousand of them. And so I thought it might be a hoot to pick out a few for your reading pleasure...
- Angry Creamsickle - Blowhard
- Agent Orange - Bumbledor
- Alpha Molester - Bigoted Billionaire
- Angry Cheeto - Bouffant Buffoon
- Antichrist - Blowhard
- Cheeto Fuhrer - Captain Tantastic
- Cowardly Lyin' - Prima Donald
- Creep Throat - Darth TaxEvader
- Forrest Trump - Genghis Can't
- Grope Dope - Hair Apparent
- Hair Fuhrer - Mango Mussolini
- Putin's Pet - Sh*tler
- Short-Fingered Vulgarian - Tangerine Jesus
- Teflon Don - Trumpinator
- Captain Chaos - Cheeze Doodle
- Lord Voldemort - Two-bit Caesar
- Adolf Tweetler - Cheeto-Dusted Bloviator
And, one of my personal favorites,
- The Great Orange Hairball of Fear
So times have changed, my fellow Americans. Unfortunately. No longer must decorum reign in our Great Society. Now, if things don't work out the way you'd like or if the wrong guy wins the Election, instead of just trying harder next time, just stamp your little feet and hurl accusations and insults and scream at the top of your lungs the most hateful, vile, disgusting and defamatory insults you can possible conjure up until he/she/it leaves office. In shame. Yeah, that oughta' do the trick!
Don't worry. One of these days a Democrat will be back in office and things will return to normal. I hope. They can wait 5 and 1/2 years, can't they?
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Social Engineering...
Following one of the more recent mass shootings, several of our prominent businesses decided to no longer wait for the Federal Government to "do something about gun violence," and decided to do something about it themselves.
Now, those of us blessed with common sense know that people who'd be affected by more rigorous, onerous, even fascist gun ownership and use restrictions are not the folks who are doing these mass shootings.
No, my friends, it's the disaffected, mentally challenged of all stripe and Islamic jihadist terrorist murderous thugs who are doing all the shooting, and thus would be unaffected by any new and "improved" anti-gun laws we might choose to pass.
I mean, HELLO! We already have more than 25,000 Federal, state, county, city and township gun control laws on the books and they don't seem to be preventing the mentally challenged or Islamic murderers from wrecking havoc, do they?
Just think of it: Chicago has the very toughest gun laws in the United States. It's almost impossible to buy and own and use and keep a gun there legally. But obviously not illegally. Last weekend another 41 people were shot there, and 7 of them died. And they're claiming victory because it's down a tad from last year (!).
(Memo to legislators: Criminals don't obey laws. Passing even more anti-gun laws won't mean that criminals will finally, FINALLY start obeying them...)
But that doesn't stop them; no, they're dead-set on removing our ability to acquire, keep, use, store and bear firearms, as has been guaranteed as an individual, human Right by the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, and as reaffirmed by the Supreme Court (Heller v. District of Columbia).
And so while the Democrats in Congress debate whether and/or how much to modify the anti-gun laws currently on the books, some of our largest corporations have decided to weigh in on their own. You may recall Dick's Sporting Goods announcing its decision last year to stop selling so-called "assault rifles" in all its stores nationwide. And to up the minimum age to purchase firearms in all their stores to 21, regardless of what each state's laws on the subject might be. You might be interested to note that Dick's just took a $150 Million charge against earnings for the sales downturn this little bit of social engineering cost them.
(NOTE: Once again, "assault rifles," meaning military fully-automatic machine guns have been outlawed in America since 1934. Rifles currently for sale are semi-automatic, just like your grandpa's shotgun.
Because the AR-15 is not a military rifle, it is not used by any military anywhere in the world!)
And you may also have heard that Dick's stock value plunged as a result. It's lost more than 20% of its then-market value so far.
But no matter to Dick's; it doesn't seem to care as its CEO just announced its intent to double-down and remove ALL firearms and ALL ammo and ALL related products from ALL its stores. Annnnnd, you'll be interested to know that Dick hired a team of lobbyists to beg Congress to further limit our Constitutional Rights so they'll wind up in the mainstream.
Some companies are run out of business by the competition. Some by unfavorable market or economic conditions. But very, very few fail due to suicide...
I guess Dick's Sporting Goods is now just Dick's Goods...
And ALL its hunting and shooting business has moved on to any of the other stores which are happy to sell legal products to legal buyers, legally. Oh yeah, and good ol' Dick was just sued because refusing to sell firearms to those under 21 is unconstitutional. It would be karmic if Dick not only lost a bundle in sales and stock but also loses in the Supreme Court.
And then the Bank of America and Citibank chose to get involved. Both have issued press releases indicating they'll no longer loan money to or do business with, any manufacturer or reseller of any firearms they deem "dangerous." THEY deem! No matter that the weapons they have blacklisted are legal. And no matter that there are more than 15 million of them in circulation. And no matter that rifles of all types are used in less than 3% of mass shootings!
In other words, they've chosen to use their God-given right to do bizz with whomever they choose. And to cease doing business with those who offend their tender little Progressive sensibilities. And their customers are now choosing to reward or punish them for those decisions.
I've been doing business with the Bank of America for 41 years. I ran my businesses and personal transactions through this Bank for my entire career. When I learned of this action I wrote Brian Moynihan, the CEO of BofA, expressing my concern over and dissatisfaction with their decision.
Some weeks later I got an unsigned form letter from some junior functionary in "corporate communications" explaining to me why their feeble effort at "social engineering" was in my best interests. I tried to call the functionary whose name appeared at the bottom of the page. I was going to ask her the name of BofA's biggest competitor to save me the trouble of researching prospective future banks. Funny, she never returned my call. I guess that's the new "customer service" at the BofA.
One of the very nice things about America is that we can vote with our feet. If we don't like the laws or the taxes in one state, we can move to another. The 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees us that. And if we don't like the way a business treats us, we can choose to move our business elsewhere.
I wonder if the junior dweeb who sent me the unsigned form letter from BofA ever found out I moved my account. I picked Wells Fargo. They've been given an "F" by the Bloomberg gun control group, so I know they're the perfect choice for me.
And maybe you?
Now, those of us blessed with common sense know that people who'd be affected by more rigorous, onerous, even fascist gun ownership and use restrictions are not the folks who are doing these mass shootings.
No, my friends, it's the disaffected, mentally challenged of all stripe and Islamic jihadist terrorist murderous thugs who are doing all the shooting, and thus would be unaffected by any new and "improved" anti-gun laws we might choose to pass.
I mean, HELLO! We already have more than 25,000 Federal, state, county, city and township gun control laws on the books and they don't seem to be preventing the mentally challenged or Islamic murderers from wrecking havoc, do they?
Just think of it: Chicago has the very toughest gun laws in the United States. It's almost impossible to buy and own and use and keep a gun there legally. But obviously not illegally. Last weekend another 41 people were shot there, and 7 of them died. And they're claiming victory because it's down a tad from last year (!).
(Memo to legislators: Criminals don't obey laws. Passing even more anti-gun laws won't mean that criminals will finally, FINALLY start obeying them...)
But that doesn't stop them; no, they're dead-set on removing our ability to acquire, keep, use, store and bear firearms, as has been guaranteed as an individual, human Right by the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, and as reaffirmed by the Supreme Court (Heller v. District of Columbia).
And so while the Democrats in Congress debate whether and/or how much to modify the anti-gun laws currently on the books, some of our largest corporations have decided to weigh in on their own. You may recall Dick's Sporting Goods announcing its decision last year to stop selling so-called "assault rifles" in all its stores nationwide. And to up the minimum age to purchase firearms in all their stores to 21, regardless of what each state's laws on the subject might be. You might be interested to note that Dick's just took a $150 Million charge against earnings for the sales downturn this little bit of social engineering cost them.
(NOTE: Once again, "assault rifles," meaning military fully-automatic machine guns have been outlawed in America since 1934. Rifles currently for sale are semi-automatic, just like your grandpa's shotgun.
Because the AR-15 is not a military rifle, it is not used by any military anywhere in the world!)
And you may also have heard that Dick's stock value plunged as a result. It's lost more than 20% of its then-market value so far.
But no matter to Dick's; it doesn't seem to care as its CEO just announced its intent to double-down and remove ALL firearms and ALL ammo and ALL related products from ALL its stores. Annnnnd, you'll be interested to know that Dick hired a team of lobbyists to beg Congress to further limit our Constitutional Rights so they'll wind up in the mainstream.
Some companies are run out of business by the competition. Some by unfavorable market or economic conditions. But very, very few fail due to suicide...
I guess Dick's Sporting Goods is now just Dick's Goods...
And ALL its hunting and shooting business has moved on to any of the other stores which are happy to sell legal products to legal buyers, legally. Oh yeah, and good ol' Dick was just sued because refusing to sell firearms to those under 21 is unconstitutional. It would be karmic if Dick not only lost a bundle in sales and stock but also loses in the Supreme Court.
And then the Bank of America and Citibank chose to get involved. Both have issued press releases indicating they'll no longer loan money to or do business with, any manufacturer or reseller of any firearms they deem "dangerous." THEY deem! No matter that the weapons they have blacklisted are legal. And no matter that there are more than 15 million of them in circulation. And no matter that rifles of all types are used in less than 3% of mass shootings!
In other words, they've chosen to use their God-given right to do bizz with whomever they choose. And to cease doing business with those who offend their tender little Progressive sensibilities. And their customers are now choosing to reward or punish them for those decisions.
I've been doing business with the Bank of America for 41 years. I ran my businesses and personal transactions through this Bank for my entire career. When I learned of this action I wrote Brian Moynihan, the CEO of BofA, expressing my concern over and dissatisfaction with their decision.
Some weeks later I got an unsigned form letter from some junior functionary in "corporate communications" explaining to me why their feeble effort at "social engineering" was in my best interests. I tried to call the functionary whose name appeared at the bottom of the page. I was going to ask her the name of BofA's biggest competitor to save me the trouble of researching prospective future banks. Funny, she never returned my call. I guess that's the new "customer service" at the BofA.
One of the very nice things about America is that we can vote with our feet. If we don't like the laws or the taxes in one state, we can move to another. The 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees us that. And if we don't like the way a business treats us, we can choose to move our business elsewhere.
I wonder if the junior dweeb who sent me the unsigned form letter from BofA ever found out I moved my account. I picked Wells Fargo. They've been given an "F" by the Bloomberg gun control group, so I know they're the perfect choice for me.
And maybe you?
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
One Man's Opinion...
Fifty years ago I was sitting in a dayroom at an Army base in Germany, rapturously observing Apollo 11's landing on the Moon.
The dayroom would ordinarily seat about 100. That day there were at least 250 souls there, all transfixed upon the old black and white TV. Shoulder to shoulder. I was filled with pride. The hundreds of other G.I.s there that day were as well. You can expect that soldiers would be patriotic. But that particular day imbued all of us with an out-of-this world dose of patriotism and pride in our Country unmatched before or since.
So, knowing of my general age, and my service, you could assume I'm a proud American, and believe all others should be as well. You'd be absolutely correct.
That stated, an old friend just asked my opinion about the recent dust-up concerning the words and deeds of certain notable celebrities and our Flag.
I told him, "Our Flag symbolizes Patriotism. And honor. And freedom. And duty to God and Country. And it symbolizes those who died in the pursuit and defense of that Freedom.
And then, I said, "To those who know what Patriotism means, no definition is necessary. To those who don't, no definition is possible."
That may be my most insightful - and perhaps briefest - statement ever. And so, at the risk of "gilding my own lilly," I'd like to take a little deeper look into this unfortunate situation.
To continue: A whole lot has been said of late about our Flag. The Flag of the United States of America. Its symbol.
And about whether one should be able to burn it at will, and stomp on it, and desecrate it, and demean and denigrate and besmirch it, and also the Country for which it stands, and all without legal, or even social retribution or retaliation of any kind.
And about whether one should stand, respectfully, silently, reverently, hand-over-heart when the Flag is raised, and whether you're to be deemed anti-American if you do not. And about whether it actually represents America in 2019, and even whether that matters anymore.
And whether choosing to use the Flag as a medium of protest is acceptable in our society. And what to do about it if it's not...
That's a whole lot of questions. Some, perhaps, without answers.
As a proud American, it pains me to see this divide develop. I'm one of those lucky Americans who was born and raised up in a society just emerging from a World War. A War that killed millions worldwide, including tens of thousands of our own brave soldiers and sailors and Marines. A War that redefined our society, our government, our politics and our lives. A War that served to define our Great Country from that day forward. And, I would add, continues to define it.
And I'm one of those lucky enough to have had the privilege of serving America in uniform. Not that doing so is absolutely necessary in my opinion in order to know and embrace patriotism, but I don't know anyone who has...who doesn't...
In short, my friends, we seem to be at some sort of "tipping point." A tipping point that previews what just might happen if this wave of anti-Americanism continues to grow and fester. And become for the uninitiated masses "cool," somehow.
What might happen, in my opinion, is nothing less than the dissolution of our society.
I personally don't care if you hate America. Or its people. I don't care if you despise what we stand for. And our Flag. And the Anthem. I just don't care. However, if you're one of those who holds such views, and expresses them, firstly I'd like you to just stay out of my way. I'd prefer to have nothing to do with those who'd prefer to have nothing to do with America.
In the words of my father, a little bit of you must surely go a long, long way.
And second, I'd certainly prefer if you were not an elected pandering politician (but I repeat myself), or a biased news reporter, or a two-dimensional celebrity with a following of impressionable drooling Millennials. Trying to keep America American is hard enough without a bunch of miscreant anarchists getting in the way...
The dayroom would ordinarily seat about 100. That day there were at least 250 souls there, all transfixed upon the old black and white TV. Shoulder to shoulder. I was filled with pride. The hundreds of other G.I.s there that day were as well. You can expect that soldiers would be patriotic. But that particular day imbued all of us with an out-of-this world dose of patriotism and pride in our Country unmatched before or since.
So, knowing of my general age, and my service, you could assume I'm a proud American, and believe all others should be as well. You'd be absolutely correct.
That stated, an old friend just asked my opinion about the recent dust-up concerning the words and deeds of certain notable celebrities and our Flag.
I told him, "Our Flag symbolizes Patriotism. And honor. And freedom. And duty to God and Country. And it symbolizes those who died in the pursuit and defense of that Freedom.
And then, I said, "To those who know what Patriotism means, no definition is necessary. To those who don't, no definition is possible."
That may be my most insightful - and perhaps briefest - statement ever. And so, at the risk of "gilding my own lilly," I'd like to take a little deeper look into this unfortunate situation.
To continue: A whole lot has been said of late about our Flag. The Flag of the United States of America. Its symbol.
And about whether one should be able to burn it at will, and stomp on it, and desecrate it, and demean and denigrate and besmirch it, and also the Country for which it stands, and all without legal, or even social retribution or retaliation of any kind.
And about whether one should stand, respectfully, silently, reverently, hand-over-heart when the Flag is raised, and whether you're to be deemed anti-American if you do not. And about whether it actually represents America in 2019, and even whether that matters anymore.
And whether choosing to use the Flag as a medium of protest is acceptable in our society. And what to do about it if it's not...
That's a whole lot of questions. Some, perhaps, without answers.
As a proud American, it pains me to see this divide develop. I'm one of those lucky Americans who was born and raised up in a society just emerging from a World War. A War that killed millions worldwide, including tens of thousands of our own brave soldiers and sailors and Marines. A War that redefined our society, our government, our politics and our lives. A War that served to define our Great Country from that day forward. And, I would add, continues to define it.
And I'm one of those lucky enough to have had the privilege of serving America in uniform. Not that doing so is absolutely necessary in my opinion in order to know and embrace patriotism, but I don't know anyone who has...who doesn't...
In short, my friends, we seem to be at some sort of "tipping point." A tipping point that previews what just might happen if this wave of anti-Americanism continues to grow and fester. And become for the uninitiated masses "cool," somehow.
What might happen, in my opinion, is nothing less than the dissolution of our society.
I personally don't care if you hate America. Or its people. I don't care if you despise what we stand for. And our Flag. And the Anthem. I just don't care. However, if you're one of those who holds such views, and expresses them, firstly I'd like you to just stay out of my way. I'd prefer to have nothing to do with those who'd prefer to have nothing to do with America.
In the words of my father, a little bit of you must surely go a long, long way.
And second, I'd certainly prefer if you were not an elected pandering politician (but I repeat myself), or a biased news reporter, or a two-dimensional celebrity with a following of impressionable drooling Millennials. Trying to keep America American is hard enough without a bunch of miscreant anarchists getting in the way...
Saturday, July 20, 2019
The Guv Could Use a Vacation!
Our newest Governor has been working overtime!
From the very moment California's Governor was immaculated, he launched himself into a cornucopia of Leftist, Progressive, socialist actions and reactions in an effort to turn what's left of the once-Golden State into a veritable Utopia.
A place, as he said, that welcomes all who come to CA looking for a handout, a nice free driver's license, plenty of free food and free legal representation and free rent and free education, etc., etc. And now, he's even offering FREE HEALTH INSURANCE!
But only if you're here illegally, of course. Not to citizens, not to veterans. Just illegals...
In short, he's offering a new place for them to inhabit. To infest. A place where all from everywhere will be welcomed as our newest Democrats...
For a little background, Gavin is Speaker of the House San Fran Nan Pelosi's nephew. And J. Paul Getty's Godson. Not a bad place to start off life, right? Born a millionaire, and doing his very best to make sure nobody else attains that lofty goal.
But so prepared, he launched himself and his sycophantic Democrat minions in Sacrataxyou into a blizzard of new and ever more radical, nonsensical laws and rules and regulations designed to turn us, the once-Golden State, into his Socialist Dream. And, given that his Party has the uncontested supermajority in both houses of our Legislature, meaning they can conjure up any idiotic law they may choose, and then pass it without even a single Republican vote, he's been able to run roughshod over any vestige of political resistance, passing every wild-eyed, Left-wing measure you could possibly dream up.
And so this, his first year in office, has ended its legislative session with some very interesting new laws. 982 of them, to be exact. Some examples? Sure...
- He started by naming California America's First "sanctuary state." Now, that means that his first act was an unconstitutional act of unamerican sedition. He essentially withdrew CA from the U .S. of A. Sort of a soft secession, doncha' know.
In other words, Newsom started out by deciding he didn't have to actually honor ALL of America's laws. Just the ones he likes the best...
- Next, he and his drooling acolytes passed a series of "cap and trade" laws to "fix" America's greenhouse gas emissions problem. All. By. Itself. If we have a problem, that is. The fix? He and his gang started by raising the price of gasoline first $0.7 cents a gallon, with another $72 cent increase coming this winter. So, since they think gasoline causes pollution, just price gas out of the reach of drivers! Problem solved! $5.00 gas, anyone?
- Our boy Gavin slapped an additional new tax on every household to help pay for ordinary tap water! We used to have a drought. No longer. But that's no reason to stop taxing like we still did, right?
- He passed a new law which will release any imprisoned lifer who's over the age of 60 and has already spent 25 years or more in the Gray Bar Hotel. If Charlie Manson had just waited a bit before dying he'd now be eligible for release. The Melendez brothers only have to wait 12 more years...
- He's just added a new $50 per year tax on all residents of mobile home parks to address "living condition enforcement" in mobile home parks. Could somebody tell me what that means?
- And here's a nice new law forcing Tesla to either unionize, using the United Auto Workers, or forego State incentives to buy their little electric cars! Ummm, isn't this political blackmail? Who's paying off whom? If we had a proper Media, wouldn't they be all over this?
- Oh yeah, and he just reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor the act of intentionally transmitting the AIDS virus to an unwitting partner. I'm sure there's a reason for this. Not a GOOD reason, but a reason...
- A new CA law gives "preferential treatment" to prisoners convicted of serious felonies who are under 25 because "...their brains are not developed enough to know right from wrong." Ummm, what?
- If you have a corporation over 50 employees or doing $5 Million a year or more, you must, MUST appoint at least two women to your board of directors. Why? Because they can?
- Another bit of folly requires the DMV to now omit our "true sex" from our drivers' licenses. An answer to a question nobody was asking...
- CA has now established "safe zones" to be run by the State so they can oversee people illegally injecting heroin. More of that "civil disobedience" thing I've been telling you about...
- And finally, the Guv just signed a law making it A-Okay for us peons to bring our own used plastic bags and cups and Styrofoam containers out to eat with us so we can bring home our leftovers without contributing to...whatever they're worried about us contributing to.
I don't think so...
There's been a whole slew of other objectionable laws passed, but hey, this gives you an idea up with which we somehow must put (with thanks to Yoda). And I'm thinking he's been working so verrry hard since assuming the throne of the People's Republic of California that he really needs a break. A little respite from the storm. The work-a-day world. A nice, laid-back, sunny, breezy little getaway, perhaps on the shores of some tropical island.
Yeah, that's it! A tropical island!
How about we few remaining taxpaying citizens here set up one of those "Go Fund Me" pages to help get the Guv one of those all-expense paid vacations to...the Dominican Republic?
From the very moment California's Governor was immaculated, he launched himself into a cornucopia of Leftist, Progressive, socialist actions and reactions in an effort to turn what's left of the once-Golden State into a veritable Utopia.
A place, as he said, that welcomes all who come to CA looking for a handout, a nice free driver's license, plenty of free food and free legal representation and free rent and free education, etc., etc. And now, he's even offering FREE HEALTH INSURANCE!
But only if you're here illegally, of course. Not to citizens, not to veterans. Just illegals...
In short, he's offering a new place for them to inhabit. To infest. A place where all from everywhere will be welcomed as our newest Democrats...
For a little background, Gavin is Speaker of the House San Fran Nan Pelosi's nephew. And J. Paul Getty's Godson. Not a bad place to start off life, right? Born a millionaire, and doing his very best to make sure nobody else attains that lofty goal.
But so prepared, he launched himself and his sycophantic Democrat minions in Sacrataxyou into a blizzard of new and ever more radical, nonsensical laws and rules and regulations designed to turn us, the once-Golden State, into his Socialist Dream. And, given that his Party has the uncontested supermajority in both houses of our Legislature, meaning they can conjure up any idiotic law they may choose, and then pass it without even a single Republican vote, he's been able to run roughshod over any vestige of political resistance, passing every wild-eyed, Left-wing measure you could possibly dream up.
And so this, his first year in office, has ended its legislative session with some very interesting new laws. 982 of them, to be exact. Some examples? Sure...
- He started by naming California America's First "sanctuary state." Now, that means that his first act was an unconstitutional act of unamerican sedition. He essentially withdrew CA from the U .S. of A. Sort of a soft secession, doncha' know.
In other words, Newsom started out by deciding he didn't have to actually honor ALL of America's laws. Just the ones he likes the best...
- Next, he and his drooling acolytes passed a series of "cap and trade" laws to "fix" America's greenhouse gas emissions problem. All. By. Itself. If we have a problem, that is. The fix? He and his gang started by raising the price of gasoline first $0.7 cents a gallon, with another $72 cent increase coming this winter. So, since they think gasoline causes pollution, just price gas out of the reach of drivers! Problem solved! $5.00 gas, anyone?
- Our boy Gavin slapped an additional new tax on every household to help pay for ordinary tap water! We used to have a drought. No longer. But that's no reason to stop taxing like we still did, right?
- He passed a new law which will release any imprisoned lifer who's over the age of 60 and has already spent 25 years or more in the Gray Bar Hotel. If Charlie Manson had just waited a bit before dying he'd now be eligible for release. The Melendez brothers only have to wait 12 more years...
- He's just added a new $50 per year tax on all residents of mobile home parks to address "living condition enforcement" in mobile home parks. Could somebody tell me what that means?
- And here's a nice new law forcing Tesla to either unionize, using the United Auto Workers, or forego State incentives to buy their little electric cars! Ummm, isn't this political blackmail? Who's paying off whom? If we had a proper Media, wouldn't they be all over this?
- Oh yeah, and he just reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor the act of intentionally transmitting the AIDS virus to an unwitting partner. I'm sure there's a reason for this. Not a GOOD reason, but a reason...
- A new CA law gives "preferential treatment" to prisoners convicted of serious felonies who are under 25 because "...their brains are not developed enough to know right from wrong." Ummm, what?
- If you have a corporation over 50 employees or doing $5 Million a year or more, you must, MUST appoint at least two women to your board of directors. Why? Because they can?
- Another bit of folly requires the DMV to now omit our "true sex" from our drivers' licenses. An answer to a question nobody was asking...
- CA has now established "safe zones" to be run by the State so they can oversee people illegally injecting heroin. More of that "civil disobedience" thing I've been telling you about...
- And finally, the Guv just signed a law making it A-Okay for us peons to bring our own used plastic bags and cups and Styrofoam containers out to eat with us so we can bring home our leftovers without contributing to...whatever they're worried about us contributing to.
I don't think so...
There's been a whole slew of other objectionable laws passed, but hey, this gives you an idea up with which we somehow must put (with thanks to Yoda). And I'm thinking he's been working so verrry hard since assuming the throne of the People's Republic of California that he really needs a break. A little respite from the storm. The work-a-day world. A nice, laid-back, sunny, breezy little getaway, perhaps on the shores of some tropical island.
Yeah, that's it! A tropical island!
How about we few remaining taxpaying citizens here set up one of those "Go Fund Me" pages to help get the Guv one of those all-expense paid vacations to...the Dominican Republic?
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Civil Disobedience
It seems to me that illegal stuff is going to remain illegal until enough folks are doing it routinely so that keeping it illegal is no longer possible...
Got that? That's all you really need to know as you (painfully) watch the news each day. The stuff that used to be illegal...is now often legal. Because, I guess, so many people are now doing illegal stuff that continuing to try and enforce sanctions against that illegal activity can no longer be attempted.
Examples? Sure. Let us discuss a few...
How about Prohibition? We had a bunch of teetotalers in the Government who just could not abide the fact that America was enjoying itself too too too much. The ordinary folks were partying and laughing and dancing and whooping it up and the straight-laced Bible-thumpers just couldn't bear it. This mass ingestion of alcohol just had to stop, they thought. Probably the result of their Puritan heritage.
So, in an effort to stop people from having fun, they passed a Constitutional Amendment making the consumption of alcohol illegal. There. That oughta' do it!
Did it stop? Noooooooo! It continued unabated, except the home-brewed alcohol they were then reduced to drinking often killed them, and made outlaws like Alfonso Capone a $Billion Dollars.
Sort of like the "Law of Unintended Consequences" run amok.
So they repealed it by Constitutional amendment a few years later. A classic example of a failed attempt to micromanage other peoples' lives. Funny how that happens.
Remember my old admonition about Lefties: "They just want to be left alone to live our lives."
There are people in prison right now for drug crimes that would get you a receipt today. Maryjowanna is now legal or decriminalized in 17 of our 50 states. Another 22 states will just write you a ticket for simple possession. And once the others find out how much tax money they're foregoing by keeping it illegal, they'll stop...foregoing it, that is.
But in the meantime there are prisoners languishing in Gray Bar Hotels all across our fruited plain for having had the temerity to get caught with a few grams of a...plant. A plant that grows wild. And many of them are still there. I wonder how it must feel to look through the bars at the local CA or CO or WA or MD county jail and see people buying pot at a legal dispensary across the street?
How did it get "decriminalized?" Simple. Civil disobedience. The very same way Prohibition was quickly snuffed out. Dumb laws make smart people crazy. And they turn honest folks into outlaws. Enough folks just gave the System the finger that the System had to bend to keep from breaking. And it did. And is...
Another? Sure. Remember when it used to be heavily frowned upon for men to enter the women's changing room at your local clothing store? Frowned upon so much that the swat team would have been called and the local news crew would be doing 24/7 reportage?
Now? Thanks to Mr. Obama, it's now, ummm, normal-ish. So "normal" that some Targets built third bathrooms in its stores for people who just couldn't make up their minds where to pee. No swat teams, no news crews, just perps spying on little girls in front of God and everybody. Thank you, Mr. Obama! Near as I can tell, this one accomplishment represents the primary legacy from your eight years in office...
One more? Of course. How about illegal immigration? I recall it wasn't too long ago that illegal aliens were called...illegal aliens. Because, that's what the Constitution calls them, doncha' know. Because...that's what they are. If you're here illegally, you're illegal. And if you're not a U.S. citizen, then you're an alien. Got it? But that was before the Looney Left decided to adopt them, wholesale, sensing a yuuuuge potential bloc of new voters to replace the forlorn Middle Class the Democrat Party has recently so publicly abandoned. So they softened up the language to make breaking into America for unlawful purposes seemingly less serious.
So what had been a decades-long trickle of illegal immigration a few years ago, now is a veritable torrent! Tens of thousands are crossing every month. 1,400 in one day at one checkpoint just this past week. More than 250,000 in just the past two months! 1,500,000 are expected to arrive...uninvited...during 2019.
So what do we call them now? "Undocumented Workers." Or perhaps "Uninvited But Oh-So Welcome Visitors." Or just, "New Democrats." In either case, they are not only not illegal anymore, here in CA we're giving them drivers' licenses and free health care and rent subsidies and food stamps and probably a nice used car for all I know.
And if the car thing isn't happening yet, it's only because our "more equal than you" haven't yet dreamed it up.
The truth of the matter is that if enough people do something that's illegal, it will shortly become legal. Just because the threat of sanction, i.e., a ticket, or a fine, or a prison sentence, is no longer a sufficient disincentive. Antifa? A bunch of anarchist thugs burning and marauding and pillaging is illegal. Unless enough people are doing it. And so it's now legal. Just look at what happened to the poor gay Asian reporter who got the crap beat out of him by Antifa thugs in Portland a few days ago. Without interference by the authorities. Who were watching. Unfortunately.
So, my fellow Patriots, the moral of this screed is that obeying laws is now passe; if you don't like them, just simply ignore them. And if enough of your friends and neighbors go along with you, then that law...or those laws...and maybe all of the laws...will either be overturned, or simply ignored.
On the way out the door, let me toss this in for consideration: Every single illegal alien has lied to obtain a phony Social Security number. Doing so is a felony. There are at least 11,000,000 such felons running around loose in these here United States. And most likely twice that number. Is anybody looking for them? Trying to lock them up? Deport them? Nooooooooooo!
You see how that whole "civil disobedience" thing works?
Got that? That's all you really need to know as you (painfully) watch the news each day. The stuff that used to be illegal...is now often legal. Because, I guess, so many people are now doing illegal stuff that continuing to try and enforce sanctions against that illegal activity can no longer be attempted.
Examples? Sure. Let us discuss a few...
How about Prohibition? We had a bunch of teetotalers in the Government who just could not abide the fact that America was enjoying itself too too too much. The ordinary folks were partying and laughing and dancing and whooping it up and the straight-laced Bible-thumpers just couldn't bear it. This mass ingestion of alcohol just had to stop, they thought. Probably the result of their Puritan heritage.
So, in an effort to stop people from having fun, they passed a Constitutional Amendment making the consumption of alcohol illegal. There. That oughta' do it!
Did it stop? Noooooooo! It continued unabated, except the home-brewed alcohol they were then reduced to drinking often killed them, and made outlaws like Alfonso Capone a $Billion Dollars.
Sort of like the "Law of Unintended Consequences" run amok.
So they repealed it by Constitutional amendment a few years later. A classic example of a failed attempt to micromanage other peoples' lives. Funny how that happens.
Remember my old admonition about Lefties: "They just want to be left alone to live our lives."
There are people in prison right now for drug crimes that would get you a receipt today. Maryjowanna is now legal or decriminalized in 17 of our 50 states. Another 22 states will just write you a ticket for simple possession. And once the others find out how much tax money they're foregoing by keeping it illegal, they'll stop...foregoing it, that is.
But in the meantime there are prisoners languishing in Gray Bar Hotels all across our fruited plain for having had the temerity to get caught with a few grams of a...plant. A plant that grows wild. And many of them are still there. I wonder how it must feel to look through the bars at the local CA or CO or WA or MD county jail and see people buying pot at a legal dispensary across the street?
How did it get "decriminalized?" Simple. Civil disobedience. The very same way Prohibition was quickly snuffed out. Dumb laws make smart people crazy. And they turn honest folks into outlaws. Enough folks just gave the System the finger that the System had to bend to keep from breaking. And it did. And is...
Another? Sure. Remember when it used to be heavily frowned upon for men to enter the women's changing room at your local clothing store? Frowned upon so much that the swat team would have been called and the local news crew would be doing 24/7 reportage?
Now? Thanks to Mr. Obama, it's now, ummm, normal-ish. So "normal" that some Targets built third bathrooms in its stores for people who just couldn't make up their minds where to pee. No swat teams, no news crews, just perps spying on little girls in front of God and everybody. Thank you, Mr. Obama! Near as I can tell, this one accomplishment represents the primary legacy from your eight years in office...
One more? Of course. How about illegal immigration? I recall it wasn't too long ago that illegal aliens were called...illegal aliens. Because, that's what the Constitution calls them, doncha' know. Because...that's what they are. If you're here illegally, you're illegal. And if you're not a U.S. citizen, then you're an alien. Got it? But that was before the Looney Left decided to adopt them, wholesale, sensing a yuuuuge potential bloc of new voters to replace the forlorn Middle Class the Democrat Party has recently so publicly abandoned. So they softened up the language to make breaking into America for unlawful purposes seemingly less serious.
So what had been a decades-long trickle of illegal immigration a few years ago, now is a veritable torrent! Tens of thousands are crossing every month. 1,400 in one day at one checkpoint just this past week. More than 250,000 in just the past two months! 1,500,000 are expected to arrive...uninvited...during 2019.
So what do we call them now? "Undocumented Workers." Or perhaps "Uninvited But Oh-So Welcome Visitors." Or just, "New Democrats." In either case, they are not only not illegal anymore, here in CA we're giving them drivers' licenses and free health care and rent subsidies and food stamps and probably a nice used car for all I know.
And if the car thing isn't happening yet, it's only because our "more equal than you" haven't yet dreamed it up.
The truth of the matter is that if enough people do something that's illegal, it will shortly become legal. Just because the threat of sanction, i.e., a ticket, or a fine, or a prison sentence, is no longer a sufficient disincentive. Antifa? A bunch of anarchist thugs burning and marauding and pillaging is illegal. Unless enough people are doing it. And so it's now legal. Just look at what happened to the poor gay Asian reporter who got the crap beat out of him by Antifa thugs in Portland a few days ago. Without interference by the authorities. Who were watching. Unfortunately.
So, my fellow Patriots, the moral of this screed is that obeying laws is now passe; if you don't like them, just simply ignore them. And if enough of your friends and neighbors go along with you, then that law...or those laws...and maybe all of the laws...will either be overturned, or simply ignored.
On the way out the door, let me toss this in for consideration: Every single illegal alien has lied to obtain a phony Social Security number. Doing so is a felony. There are at least 11,000,000 such felons running around loose in these here United States. And most likely twice that number. Is anybody looking for them? Trying to lock them up? Deport them? Nooooooooooo!
You see how that whole "civil disobedience" thing works?
Saturday, July 13, 2019
"Rapinoe vs. Netherlands"
Did you get to see the finals in the World Cup soccer competition just ended? You know, the one between Megan Rapinoe and the Netherlands?
You did? Great! Then you know that Megan defeated them handily, just like she did all the other countries she faced on her way to the Tonite Show.
Oh, it was truly glorious! Megan spanked them hard, she did! She clouded up and rained all over them! It was no contest! How were they even permitted to compete with someone so fabulous, so wonderful, so spectacularly talented and truly special as Megan? We, America, should feel ourselves lucky to have a person of her caliber deign to represent us. She lets us know that every day. And God knows, we do.
We all bask in her reflected glow.
Oh, there were some other folks on the Team, but they don't really matter. That whole "Team" thing is soooo passe! We don't do Team anymore, do we? Just Megan and her Own Special Agenda. An Agenda we must all embrace, willingly, or be called out as homophobic, racist, sexist, misogynistic, pink hair-hating and anti-equal pay. And we surely don't want that, now do we?
I was just reminded by an old friend that there's no "i" in Team. But there is an "i" in Rapinoe, doncha' know...
She let us know that starting back a couple of years ago. She first refused to stand for the National Anthem, preferring rather to kneel. And when finally ordered to stand, she did so, but refused to place her hand over her heart. Anything to keep from honoring the Country of her birth and upbringing. It seems she decided to join forces with activist Colin Kaepernick and his little anti-Flag, anti-Anthem, anti-cop crusade against America.
Remember back when the guys won the 1980 Hockey world championship? You know, the one they called the "Miracle on Ice?" Do you remember the name of any Team member? Besides the goalie, maybe? No? Well, there's good reason for that; 1980 was waaaay before "woke-ness" and open borders and personal agendas and pro-gay rainbow flags and "equal pay or we'll strike." Those guys really missed an opportunity, didn't they?
So, now Ms. Megan, who was kind enough to share with us, and the entire world, before even the first game, that if she won, she won, she wasn't "...going to no f**king White House!" Well that's certainly different...
And even after her sweet victory, during her ticker tape parade down NYC's "Canyon of Heroes," she was videoed saying, "I deserve this! I deserve all of this!" Ahhh, Megan, your humility defines you.
And she didn't miss the chance to thank New York City, either. She said, "New York, you're the mother***ing best!" Hmmm. Remember when soccer was a G-rated sport?
And Megan, who spent most of her time off the field during the World Cup matches in a Twitter-fight with POTUS, will likely now go on to a lucrative Big$Money contract with Nike, and a recurring role on the View, and no doubt a talk show on MSNBC, and maybe a position on the Democrat National Committee, where she'll be called upon to explain to all of us peons, in stark and gory detail, the inadequacies and shortcomings of America.
In fact, she mentioned during one of her myriad TV interviews that she'll be coming to D.C. "...to have a substantive conversation...with anyone who believes the same things we believe in."
Well now, that should prove mind-expanding!
And who knows, we just learned today that her girlfriend advised her the MSMedia wants her to run for President! I mean, considering her many and varied talents, how could she possibly lose?
Remember back when playing on the World Stage for your country was considered the height of individual privilege? Especially in a team sport? When the chance to represent your Country, its Flag , its people and its values was a personal dream of all athletes? It certainly was mine.
But that was back when no one would have even considered involving themselves or their team in controversy or political intrigue? Back when people were just too patriotic and reasonable and pro-Country and sane and respectful and just plain "nice" to open their mouths and spew all sorts of vile, insidious crap where the world would be an unfortunate witness? I guess we don't do "nice" anymore, do we?
Yeah, I'd like those days back again, too.
So I'd like to send along my personal congratulations to Ms. Megan Rapinoe and her recent victory over the country of the Netherlands. Good job, Megan! You couldn't have done it without you!
You did? Great! Then you know that Megan defeated them handily, just like she did all the other countries she faced on her way to the Tonite Show.
Oh, it was truly glorious! Megan spanked them hard, she did! She clouded up and rained all over them! It was no contest! How were they even permitted to compete with someone so fabulous, so wonderful, so spectacularly talented and truly special as Megan? We, America, should feel ourselves lucky to have a person of her caliber deign to represent us. She lets us know that every day. And God knows, we do.
We all bask in her reflected glow.
Oh, there were some other folks on the Team, but they don't really matter. That whole "Team" thing is soooo passe! We don't do Team anymore, do we? Just Megan and her Own Special Agenda. An Agenda we must all embrace, willingly, or be called out as homophobic, racist, sexist, misogynistic, pink hair-hating and anti-equal pay. And we surely don't want that, now do we?
I was just reminded by an old friend that there's no "i" in Team. But there is an "i" in Rapinoe, doncha' know...
She let us know that starting back a couple of years ago. She first refused to stand for the National Anthem, preferring rather to kneel. And when finally ordered to stand, she did so, but refused to place her hand over her heart. Anything to keep from honoring the Country of her birth and upbringing. It seems she decided to join forces with activist Colin Kaepernick and his little anti-Flag, anti-Anthem, anti-cop crusade against America.
Remember back when the guys won the 1980 Hockey world championship? You know, the one they called the "Miracle on Ice?" Do you remember the name of any Team member? Besides the goalie, maybe? No? Well, there's good reason for that; 1980 was waaaay before "woke-ness" and open borders and personal agendas and pro-gay rainbow flags and "equal pay or we'll strike." Those guys really missed an opportunity, didn't they?
So, now Ms. Megan, who was kind enough to share with us, and the entire world, before even the first game, that if she won, she won, she wasn't "...going to no f**king White House!" Well that's certainly different...
And even after her sweet victory, during her ticker tape parade down NYC's "Canyon of Heroes," she was videoed saying, "I deserve this! I deserve all of this!" Ahhh, Megan, your humility defines you.
And she didn't miss the chance to thank New York City, either. She said, "New York, you're the mother***ing best!" Hmmm. Remember when soccer was a G-rated sport?
And Megan, who spent most of her time off the field during the World Cup matches in a Twitter-fight with POTUS, will likely now go on to a lucrative Big$Money contract with Nike, and a recurring role on the View, and no doubt a talk show on MSNBC, and maybe a position on the Democrat National Committee, where she'll be called upon to explain to all of us peons, in stark and gory detail, the inadequacies and shortcomings of America.
In fact, she mentioned during one of her myriad TV interviews that she'll be coming to D.C. "...to have a substantive conversation...with anyone who believes the same things we believe in."
Well now, that should prove mind-expanding!
And who knows, we just learned today that her girlfriend advised her the MSMedia wants her to run for President! I mean, considering her many and varied talents, how could she possibly lose?
Remember back when playing on the World Stage for your country was considered the height of individual privilege? Especially in a team sport? When the chance to represent your Country, its Flag , its people and its values was a personal dream of all athletes? It certainly was mine.
But that was back when no one would have even considered involving themselves or their team in controversy or political intrigue? Back when people were just too patriotic and reasonable and pro-Country and sane and respectful and just plain "nice" to open their mouths and spew all sorts of vile, insidious crap where the world would be an unfortunate witness? I guess we don't do "nice" anymore, do we?
Yeah, I'd like those days back again, too.
So I'd like to send along my personal congratulations to Ms. Megan Rapinoe and her recent victory over the country of the Netherlands. Good job, Megan! You couldn't have done it without you!
Thursday, July 11, 2019
California has Finally Solved all its Problems!
Are you Black? And do you have an "Afro?"
You do? Great news! Well, my Black friends, you can now grow your "natural hair" in the manner you most fervently desire in the once-Golden State of California!
Not if you're White. Nooooo! Only if you're Black.
Now, nobody can tell you how you should wear your hair. Whether you like big poofee Afros, or spikey little "Spankeys," or tightly braided "cornrows," or Rasta-inspired braids, you may now choose to wear your hair any way you like.
And I'd say, that's good.
Yes, my friends, now, through the unflagging efforts of your modern Democrat Party, this problem has finally been resolved! Via Senate Bill-188, California has just passed the "CROWN Act." That stands for "Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair."
Yes, that's what it stands for. I'm not joking. Although I truly wish I was.
Anyway, the "CROWN Act" will serve to finally, FINALLY permit Black women to wear their hair according to their individual preference without fear of recrimination or retaliation in the workplace.
Now, I've searched high and low, but mostly "high" (heh, heh), looking for an instances, any instance at all, where a Black woman was canned due to her hair style. Or even a man identifying as a woman (California, doncha' know!). Oh, I'm sure there's been an instance or two, just as there are sworn reports of Liberals passing fiscally viable and economically prudent laws on occasion.
I'm sure they're have been some, however, I've yet to find one.
And to that we must add that California, just like every other state, has an "at will" employment understanding. You offer a job, somebody accepts it. Your relationship, each with the other, is willful. That means you each decide to form a working relationship. One that can end at any time with either side so choosing. And without any notice.
So, assuming an employer didn't release a Black female employee wearing an Afro while explaining to her...that the reason for her termination was...because she's Black and wearing an Afro (Gloria Redbuns, where are you?), I'd say this is just another of those feel-good bits of virtue-signaling Liberal nonsensical idiotic tomfoolery with which we've become so accustomed of late. Unfortunately.
So, soaking in the reality of this, I have to believe that California must have finally solved all its other pressing problems to be able to focus quality legislative time on something so, if you'll pardon me, insignificant, unnecessary, ridiculous and vacuous as this. But that's just me.
Oh wait! While I was preparing to push "publish" on this, the latest in my never-ending but oh-so-entertaining-and-informative blog postings, CA just announced it's solved One More Problem! Wanna' know what it is? Sure you do! And here's the answer:
California has now outlawed the use of elephants and lions and tigers in the circus! No excrement! To prevent any possibility of one of God's, ummm, larger creatures being mistreated by humans, I assume, CA has just removed creatures from the equation altogether. Buuuut, I might offer up that a circus without elephants and lions and tigers isn't really a circus. Which will be the end of the circus and the loss of thousands more jobs, of course. And the end of wholesome family entertainment spanning more than a century and a half. But you already knew that.
So, this is just another instance of California ruining a tradition for the sake of...ruining a tradition, me thinks.
To sum up, fellow Patriots, if CA can deign to stoop to kneel to worry about such stuff as Afros and elephants, then California obviously has no more problems of any kind.
Except that part about having more homeless than any other state in the Country, and having more poverty than any other state in the Country, and harboring more illegal aliens than any other state in the Country, and having more Middle Class out-migration than any other state in the Country, and having the highest unfunded pension debt than any other state in the Country, and having higher income taxes than any other state in the Country, and having the highest gas taxes of any other state in the Country, and a whole bunch of other stuff too numerous to mention, that is.
Except for all that, California has finally solved all its Problems!
You do? Great news! Well, my Black friends, you can now grow your "natural hair" in the manner you most fervently desire in the once-Golden State of California!
Not if you're White. Nooooo! Only if you're Black.
Now, nobody can tell you how you should wear your hair. Whether you like big poofee Afros, or spikey little "Spankeys," or tightly braided "cornrows," or Rasta-inspired braids, you may now choose to wear your hair any way you like.
And I'd say, that's good.
Yes, my friends, now, through the unflagging efforts of your modern Democrat Party, this problem has finally been resolved! Via Senate Bill-188, California has just passed the "CROWN Act." That stands for "Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair."
Yes, that's what it stands for. I'm not joking. Although I truly wish I was.
Anyway, the "CROWN Act" will serve to finally, FINALLY permit Black women to wear their hair according to their individual preference without fear of recrimination or retaliation in the workplace.
Now, I've searched high and low, but mostly "high" (heh, heh), looking for an instances, any instance at all, where a Black woman was canned due to her hair style. Or even a man identifying as a woman (California, doncha' know!). Oh, I'm sure there's been an instance or two, just as there are sworn reports of Liberals passing fiscally viable and economically prudent laws on occasion.
I'm sure they're have been some, however, I've yet to find one.
And to that we must add that California, just like every other state, has an "at will" employment understanding. You offer a job, somebody accepts it. Your relationship, each with the other, is willful. That means you each decide to form a working relationship. One that can end at any time with either side so choosing. And without any notice.
So, assuming an employer didn't release a Black female employee wearing an Afro while explaining to her...that the reason for her termination was...because she's Black and wearing an Afro (Gloria Redbuns, where are you?), I'd say this is just another of those feel-good bits of virtue-signaling Liberal nonsensical idiotic tomfoolery with which we've become so accustomed of late. Unfortunately.
So, soaking in the reality of this, I have to believe that California must have finally solved all its other pressing problems to be able to focus quality legislative time on something so, if you'll pardon me, insignificant, unnecessary, ridiculous and vacuous as this. But that's just me.
Oh wait! While I was preparing to push "publish" on this, the latest in my never-ending but oh-so-entertaining-and-informative blog postings, CA just announced it's solved One More Problem! Wanna' know what it is? Sure you do! And here's the answer:
California has now outlawed the use of elephants and lions and tigers in the circus! No excrement! To prevent any possibility of one of God's, ummm, larger creatures being mistreated by humans, I assume, CA has just removed creatures from the equation altogether. Buuuut, I might offer up that a circus without elephants and lions and tigers isn't really a circus. Which will be the end of the circus and the loss of thousands more jobs, of course. And the end of wholesome family entertainment spanning more than a century and a half. But you already knew that.
So, this is just another instance of California ruining a tradition for the sake of...ruining a tradition, me thinks.
To sum up, fellow Patriots, if CA can deign to stoop to kneel to worry about such stuff as Afros and elephants, then California obviously has no more problems of any kind.
Except that part about having more homeless than any other state in the Country, and having more poverty than any other state in the Country, and harboring more illegal aliens than any other state in the Country, and having more Middle Class out-migration than any other state in the Country, and having the highest unfunded pension debt than any other state in the Country, and having higher income taxes than any other state in the Country, and having the highest gas taxes of any other state in the Country, and a whole bunch of other stuff too numerous to mention, that is.
Except for all that, California has finally solved all its Problems!
Monday, July 8, 2019
Reparations Could get Confusing...
All of the 2020 Democrat POTUS candidates have come out in favor of reparations for the descendants of slavery.
Yes, all of them.
It seems that every now and again some delbert dufus dumbass opens his or her yap and mumbles something about pandering to all those poor Black people who just might vote for them if they could make them feel somehow inferior, or mistreated, or abused, or ignored. And in return? Their votes. Early and often...
How nice.
Just vote for me, Mr. and Mrs. and Ms. Black America, they say, and we'll get White people to pay you off for what they did to your ancestors.
Riiiight...
But what about one Ms. Kamala Harris? She's sort of "Black-ish," to be sure. Actually, as befits her mixed heritage, she's more of a nice shade of muted mocha, doncha' know. And she's come out in favor of reparations. She said "on day one" she'd cough up an Executive Order and create a committee to start redistributing some more of that "White money," toward Black folks.
Buuuuuuut, Ms. Harris isn't "Black," in the classic sense. She's half Jamaican, and half Indian. Indian, as in "red dot," not "whooo whooo!"
Which means that she's not eligible for reparations, especially considering her family on her father's side owned slaves! Or, so said her father (!). Nice of him, I thought, to offer that up. He, Donald Harris, a retired Stanford economics professor emeritus, even referred to her candidacy as a "travesty," stating that her Jamaican grandparents "would be turning over in their graves."
So, I guess she'd be one paying those reparations, right? Even though she's "Black-ish," kind of like B. Hussein Obama was Black (he was descended from Arabs, not Africans), she wasn't the progeny of slavery sufferers, so she'd be a Prime Target for the tax man to come and get some of that money for all those Black folks. Annnd, as a descendant of slave owners, she's the one who should be paying!
Also, she's married to a White guy, one Mr. Douglas Emhoff. He's a 54 year-old lawyer who meddles in entertainment and copyright law. So he'd be one of the White folks forced to pay Black folks for something somebody else did to...somebody else...way back when.
Confused yet? Don't worry, it'll get worse.
Unless, of course, the Democrats manage somehow to make reparations law using only skin color as the yardstick, not heritage or history, to gauge who gets the gravy. And if not, then Mr. Harris, excuse me, Mr. Emhoff, would have to pay.
Tough Noogies.
And so would Kamala. Maybe if she was forced to pay a penalty to Black folks even though she loudly proclaims her own Black-ness, that would be the knee-slapper of the decade, me thinks!
So he'd be paying, and she'd be paying. Is this what they had in mind?
Cory Booker, too. His mommy and daddy were both Ivy League lawyers, infesting Wall Street with their talents. And Cory, born in Washington, D. C., far from being held back by his heritage or skin color, matriculated first at Stanford, where he earned a Masters degree, then on to Oxford, and finally a law degree from Yale.
Sort of a far cry from that poor Black sharecropper in Arkansas image they'd like to convey, wouldn't you say?
So, Cory being the offspring of multi-millionaires, born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple, doncha' know, now has the challenge of somehow trying to make himself look beaten down and mistreated and spurned by "Whitey." The ex-two term Mayor of Newark, N.J. A city whose murder rate skyrocketed during Mr. Booker's leadership. Good luck, Cory! You're gonna' need it...
And then there's Liz Warren. Here's a woman who climbed the corporate, educational, financial and political ladder under the auspices of being a Native American. Yes, her folks always taught her that high cheekbones meant you're an Indian, she says. Is she really that ignorant? Maybe. But it's a testament to the American Dream that a person of less than stellar intellect can wind up a full Professor at Harvard, teaching one, one-hour class a week, at the grand old salary of $431,000 a year, plus serving as a Senator from Masssachusetttts, at $174,000 per year, and still manage to run for President in her spare time! Is America a great place, or what?
Oh yeah, and to further obfuscate her sketchy history, she's just come out in favor of reparations for gay couples! Yep, I guess if you're a good Democrat, there's just no limit to your pandering.
BTW, even though she's all for reparations, she'd be the one paying them. Maybe that wouldn't be so bad after all...
And then there's Wayne Messam. Don't worry, I've never heard of him either. He's one of the dozens and dozens running for the Dem nomination. He's currently the Mayor of Miramar, Florida, a town of 140,000. Yes, he's Black. And yes, he's not African-American. He's the progeny of Jamaicans, who emigrated here...legally...to cut sugar cane. Not slaves, contract workers. They obviously felt that working in America was better than being unemployed in Jamaica. So they came here, got a job, put their little boy Wayne through school, and lived the American Dream! Yet, he rails against slavery as if it had negatively affected him. And yes, he is one of those steadfastly behind reparations for Blacks. Er, I'm sure he means African-American Blacks. Both he and Kamala are suffering from JHD. That's "Jamaican Heritage Disease."
Maybe if they talk often enough, and loudly enough, nobody will notice...
Yes, all of them.
It seems that every now and again some delbert dufus dumbass opens his or her yap and mumbles something about pandering to all those poor Black people who just might vote for them if they could make them feel somehow inferior, or mistreated, or abused, or ignored. And in return? Their votes. Early and often...
How nice.
Just vote for me, Mr. and Mrs. and Ms. Black America, they say, and we'll get White people to pay you off for what they did to your ancestors.
Riiiight...
But what about one Ms. Kamala Harris? She's sort of "Black-ish," to be sure. Actually, as befits her mixed heritage, she's more of a nice shade of muted mocha, doncha' know. And she's come out in favor of reparations. She said "on day one" she'd cough up an Executive Order and create a committee to start redistributing some more of that "White money," toward Black folks.
Buuuuuuut, Ms. Harris isn't "Black," in the classic sense. She's half Jamaican, and half Indian. Indian, as in "red dot," not "whooo whooo!"
Which means that she's not eligible for reparations, especially considering her family on her father's side owned slaves! Or, so said her father (!). Nice of him, I thought, to offer that up. He, Donald Harris, a retired Stanford economics professor emeritus, even referred to her candidacy as a "travesty," stating that her Jamaican grandparents "would be turning over in their graves."
So, I guess she'd be one paying those reparations, right? Even though she's "Black-ish," kind of like B. Hussein Obama was Black (he was descended from Arabs, not Africans), she wasn't the progeny of slavery sufferers, so she'd be a Prime Target for the tax man to come and get some of that money for all those Black folks. Annnd, as a descendant of slave owners, she's the one who should be paying!
Also, she's married to a White guy, one Mr. Douglas Emhoff. He's a 54 year-old lawyer who meddles in entertainment and copyright law. So he'd be one of the White folks forced to pay Black folks for something somebody else did to...somebody else...way back when.
Confused yet? Don't worry, it'll get worse.
Unless, of course, the Democrats manage somehow to make reparations law using only skin color as the yardstick, not heritage or history, to gauge who gets the gravy. And if not, then Mr. Harris, excuse me, Mr. Emhoff, would have to pay.
Tough Noogies.
And so would Kamala. Maybe if she was forced to pay a penalty to Black folks even though she loudly proclaims her own Black-ness, that would be the knee-slapper of the decade, me thinks!
So he'd be paying, and she'd be paying. Is this what they had in mind?
Cory Booker, too. His mommy and daddy were both Ivy League lawyers, infesting Wall Street with their talents. And Cory, born in Washington, D. C., far from being held back by his heritage or skin color, matriculated first at Stanford, where he earned a Masters degree, then on to Oxford, and finally a law degree from Yale.
Sort of a far cry from that poor Black sharecropper in Arkansas image they'd like to convey, wouldn't you say?
So, Cory being the offspring of multi-millionaires, born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple, doncha' know, now has the challenge of somehow trying to make himself look beaten down and mistreated and spurned by "Whitey." The ex-two term Mayor of Newark, N.J. A city whose murder rate skyrocketed during Mr. Booker's leadership. Good luck, Cory! You're gonna' need it...
And then there's Liz Warren. Here's a woman who climbed the corporate, educational, financial and political ladder under the auspices of being a Native American. Yes, her folks always taught her that high cheekbones meant you're an Indian, she says. Is she really that ignorant? Maybe. But it's a testament to the American Dream that a person of less than stellar intellect can wind up a full Professor at Harvard, teaching one, one-hour class a week, at the grand old salary of $431,000 a year, plus serving as a Senator from Masssachusetttts, at $174,000 per year, and still manage to run for President in her spare time! Is America a great place, or what?
Oh yeah, and to further obfuscate her sketchy history, she's just come out in favor of reparations for gay couples! Yep, I guess if you're a good Democrat, there's just no limit to your pandering.
BTW, even though she's all for reparations, she'd be the one paying them. Maybe that wouldn't be so bad after all...
And then there's Wayne Messam. Don't worry, I've never heard of him either. He's one of the dozens and dozens running for the Dem nomination. He's currently the Mayor of Miramar, Florida, a town of 140,000. Yes, he's Black. And yes, he's not African-American. He's the progeny of Jamaicans, who emigrated here...legally...to cut sugar cane. Not slaves, contract workers. They obviously felt that working in America was better than being unemployed in Jamaica. So they came here, got a job, put their little boy Wayne through school, and lived the American Dream! Yet, he rails against slavery as if it had negatively affected him. And yes, he is one of those steadfastly behind reparations for Blacks. Er, I'm sure he means African-American Blacks. Both he and Kamala are suffering from JHD. That's "Jamaican Heritage Disease."
Maybe if they talk often enough, and loudly enough, nobody will notice...
Friday, July 5, 2019
For Every Action...
It's taken awhile, but California weenies have finally figured out that a firearm without ammunition is nothing but an expensive paperweight.
Yes, fellow Patriots, the commies in charge up there in Sacrascrewyou passed a law a few years back (Prop. 63) that forces citizens desirous of purchasing a box of cartridges for the Family Firearm to now, as of July 1st, pass a Federal Background Check. The same one, it turns out, that one must use to purchase a firearm.
Yes, we have one of those. The Leftoid gun-grabbers have been calling for "Universal Background Checks" for years and years, and we've had "Universal Background Checks" which the Federal Government calls the "NICS" (National Instant Criminal System") for years and years (since 1998!).
You didn't know that, did you? What else haven't they told you?
But back to buying ammo and what the State is doing to keep you from it...
Yes, fellow Pilgrims, after decades of trying to fatally erode the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution via thousands of anti-gun laws, they've finally hit upon the one they think will work; make people spend four or five or six times as much to actually USE their guns as it has, and should, and could. First, they've started doing this by making you pay $1.00 for each and every ammunition purchase you make just to piss you off.
And then, they'll force you to pay another $19.00 - $25.00 for each transaction for State/Federal background checks. It could wind up costing more, but no one knows at this point for sure.
So, at the very least, you'll pay $25.00 for a $5.00 box of .22 rimfire cartridges. That's a 5x increase since...June 30th. Exactly as I had warned when this legislation came up for review. And exactly as it has panned out.
Does anyone think this will prevent someone dead-set on shooting up a school or a mosque or a church to change their mind? Somehow I doubt it.
But will this prevent someone on a fixed-income from being able to acquire enough ammo to go out and practice? The ammunition they will need to hunt for table food to get them through the winter? Will it cause an unnecessary extra delay for both the buyer and the seller? And will it add untold extra handling and inventorying and carrying costs, which must all be passed along to the citizen? Of course it will. How could it not?
This newest impediment by the State to insert itself between a citizen and his Constitutional Rights deserves a response. A forceful one. And I have just the idea:
Remember what happened when New York State increased the tobacco tax on cigarettes by 200% a couple of decades ago? Within minutes a pack of smokes went from $5.00 to $8.50. And within minutes trailer truckloads of bootleg cigarettes were on their way to NY from Virginia, all ready to circumvent its newest "sin" tax. And it worked. NY's tax revenue from their new dumbass tax fell by 87% in the year immediately following imposition of their new tax, costing them $Billions. And that means profit from smuggling and tax avoidance increased by 87%. Predictable. To all but Progressive weenies, that is.
So, using that bit of history as our guideline, I propose we all get together and form the "So-Cal Ammo Buyers Co-Operative." It would work like this:
1. Everybody who cares joins the Club and throws a few bucks and their order form into the center of the table.
2. One of us Patriots with an empty trunk and a full tank of gas heads off to Las Vegas (where they can still read the small print on the Bill of Rights!) to stock up on ammo. Fill that trunk, my boy! And, not only can you buy ammo there in unlimited quantities at lower prices (everything's cheaper there!), they don't charge any bogus extra fees or force duplicative background checks, nor do they hit you with sales taxes! So, the savings on the ammo and taxes will more than make up for the cost of gas (much cheaper in Vegas due to their much lower gas taxes!). What's not to like?
Oh yeah, and if you don't care for Vegas, make it AZ or UT or ID or, or, or...
3. Back home in Taxifornia, the Members of the Co-Op stop by and pick up their orders. No grief, no hassle, no extra charges. Just like they enjoy in 49 other states!
It's said you tax something you want less of. And in the case of "sin" taxes, like tobacco and alcohol, and now ammunition, I guess, that's exactly what they'll get; less tax revenue. They'll learn one day that simply mandating that people take a certain action the ruling elites find abhorrent, unnecessary, wasteful, deceitful or purely political doesn't mean they'll actually take it. Some will respond with civil disobedience.
The quote goes, "For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction." If they pass asinine laws, the People will exercise their will via civil disobedience. Been that way, is that way, shall always be that way...
Yes, fellow Patriots, the commies in charge up there in Sacrascrewyou passed a law a few years back (Prop. 63) that forces citizens desirous of purchasing a box of cartridges for the Family Firearm to now, as of July 1st, pass a Federal Background Check. The same one, it turns out, that one must use to purchase a firearm.
Yes, we have one of those. The Leftoid gun-grabbers have been calling for "Universal Background Checks" for years and years, and we've had "Universal Background Checks" which the Federal Government calls the "NICS" (National Instant Criminal System") for years and years (since 1998!).
You didn't know that, did you? What else haven't they told you?
But back to buying ammo and what the State is doing to keep you from it...
Yes, fellow Pilgrims, after decades of trying to fatally erode the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution via thousands of anti-gun laws, they've finally hit upon the one they think will work; make people spend four or five or six times as much to actually USE their guns as it has, and should, and could. First, they've started doing this by making you pay $1.00 for each and every ammunition purchase you make just to piss you off.
And then, they'll force you to pay another $19.00 - $25.00 for each transaction for State/Federal background checks. It could wind up costing more, but no one knows at this point for sure.
So, at the very least, you'll pay $25.00 for a $5.00 box of .22 rimfire cartridges. That's a 5x increase since...June 30th. Exactly as I had warned when this legislation came up for review. And exactly as it has panned out.
Does anyone think this will prevent someone dead-set on shooting up a school or a mosque or a church to change their mind? Somehow I doubt it.
But will this prevent someone on a fixed-income from being able to acquire enough ammo to go out and practice? The ammunition they will need to hunt for table food to get them through the winter? Will it cause an unnecessary extra delay for both the buyer and the seller? And will it add untold extra handling and inventorying and carrying costs, which must all be passed along to the citizen? Of course it will. How could it not?
This newest impediment by the State to insert itself between a citizen and his Constitutional Rights deserves a response. A forceful one. And I have just the idea:
Remember what happened when New York State increased the tobacco tax on cigarettes by 200% a couple of decades ago? Within minutes a pack of smokes went from $5.00 to $8.50. And within minutes trailer truckloads of bootleg cigarettes were on their way to NY from Virginia, all ready to circumvent its newest "sin" tax. And it worked. NY's tax revenue from their new dumbass tax fell by 87% in the year immediately following imposition of their new tax, costing them $Billions. And that means profit from smuggling and tax avoidance increased by 87%. Predictable. To all but Progressive weenies, that is.
So, using that bit of history as our guideline, I propose we all get together and form the "So-Cal Ammo Buyers Co-Operative." It would work like this:
1. Everybody who cares joins the Club and throws a few bucks and their order form into the center of the table.
2. One of us Patriots with an empty trunk and a full tank of gas heads off to Las Vegas (where they can still read the small print on the Bill of Rights!) to stock up on ammo. Fill that trunk, my boy! And, not only can you buy ammo there in unlimited quantities at lower prices (everything's cheaper there!), they don't charge any bogus extra fees or force duplicative background checks, nor do they hit you with sales taxes! So, the savings on the ammo and taxes will more than make up for the cost of gas (much cheaper in Vegas due to their much lower gas taxes!). What's not to like?
Oh yeah, and if you don't care for Vegas, make it AZ or UT or ID or, or, or...
3. Back home in Taxifornia, the Members of the Co-Op stop by and pick up their orders. No grief, no hassle, no extra charges. Just like they enjoy in 49 other states!
It's said you tax something you want less of. And in the case of "sin" taxes, like tobacco and alcohol, and now ammunition, I guess, that's exactly what they'll get; less tax revenue. They'll learn one day that simply mandating that people take a certain action the ruling elites find abhorrent, unnecessary, wasteful, deceitful or purely political doesn't mean they'll actually take it. Some will respond with civil disobedience.
The quote goes, "For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction." If they pass asinine laws, the People will exercise their will via civil disobedience. Been that way, is that way, shall always be that way...
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