Guns Or Butter: I‘ll Take Guns

We don’t have a Jihadi problem, we’ve got a gun problem. I know, because the New York Times tells me so ("The Gun Epidemic" )

For the first time since 1920 the NYT has seen fit to publish its own opinion of what life in America should be like on their front page. Apparently they’ve relinquished their role as a member of the (previously) venerable Fourth Estate  to serve as a community organizer for the new Ministry of Truth.

So here is the latest position of the

But at least those countries are trying. The United States is not. Worse, politicians abet would-be killers by creating gun markets for them, and voters allow those politicians to keep their jobs. It is past time to stop talking about halting the spread of firearms, and instead to reduce their number drastically — eliminating some large categories of weapons and ammunition.

It is not necessary to debate the peculiar wording of the Second Amendment. No right is unlimited and immune from reasonable regulation.

Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership.  It is possible to define those guns in a clear and effective way and, yes, it would require Americans who own those kinds of weapons to give them up for the good of their fellow citizens.

Two things come immediately to mind:

1) Does the NYT actually understand the purpose of the Second Amendment?

2) Do they believe that they, too, are not immune to government imposed “reasonable regulations” on their First Amendment right to free speech?

With respect to #1,  the answer is no. They do not think that the Second Amendment is intended to protect we the people from a tyrannical government (theoretically in the future) but rather only refers to your right to go hunting – something else they don’t approve of. So as you see, there is no reason to maintain the Second Amendment at all.

If the NYT editorial board actually understood the intent behind the Second Amendment, it should be clear that citizens should have a right to own and maintain any type of arms that the police and military have access to - as they are the ones who will serve as agents of tyranny.

It’s not deer we fear – unless they’re armed

And with respect to #2, don’t you realize that the Media’s right to free speech is an absolute and inalienable right!?!

What’s wrong with you!?!

Besides, who needs government censorship when we censor ourselves so well?

 

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Jihadists Just Want to Jihad

I understand Barry is planning some more Executive Actions to implement “common sense gun controls.”

First question:  What Are the ‘Common Sense Gun Laws’ that Would Have Prevented the San Bernardino Massacre? Answer: None. Next Question.

Seriously, “common sense” measures to rein in terrorists? Terrorists don’t deal in common sense, they deal in terror. The Paris terrorists didn’t buy their Kalashnikovs at a gun show on the Champ Elysees. Syed Farook did not buy his guns at a gun show; in fact, he didn’t even buy several of his “legally purchased” guns at all. Somebody else did that for him.

So Progs can keep talking  “common sense gun control”  all they want, Barry can continue with his stealth Executive Order creep (first they came for the non-existent gun show loophole, then you came for the guns) all he wants. It isn’t going to dissuade criminals, nut-jobs or  jihadists from doing what they came to do. If you don’t believe me, ask Rahm Emanuel.

Jihadists are going to keep on jihading - with or without the Progs support of the Second Amendment. So I ask you, if you happen upon a jihadist in full body armor walking towards you on Main Street U.S.A. which storefront “Safe-Place” would you dart into?

Gun free or Gun Rich, your choice. Choose wisely, weedhopper.

It’s a travel day for MOTUS, so I’ll see you tomorrow, when I’ll be back on EST.

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Obama’s Winter Holiday In Amerika: “Merry Safe-Place”

I don’t know about you, butt I’ve heard enough about the Muslim killers. It may not be enough for Barry, butt when you leave home with your wife, body armor, high capacity arms and a GoPro, I’m 100% certain you aren’t making a holiday YouTube for the family.

So what do you say we discuss the complete transformation of America instead.

Here’s a good example: this year’s traditional gingerbread replica of the White House as prepared by the new White House pastry chef, Susie Morrison, who replaced (old white guy) pastry chef Bill Yosses last year.

Chef Yosses old white guy gingerbread version of the White House

Chef Morrison’s “White” House, transformed into a safe space

Having determined that covering gingerbread in white chocolate was a cultural appropriation (which we don’t approve of) as well as a micro-aggression Chef Susie opted for the more politically correct dark chocolate.

Furthermore, we’ve replaced much of the traditional, tasteful Winter Holiday decorations around the Big White with more culturally appropriate decorations. Now the firing of White House floral designer Laura Dowling (old white woman) last year makes more sense too.

This year’s official Holiday tree

Teddy Bears transformed by traditional African fabric

Gum ball Holiday tree, reportedly made with Holiday Nicorettes, for Barry

Artfully arranged artificial (due to global warming) snowmen.

For yesterday’s preview of the Winter Holiday decorations Lady M dressed up as one of America’s favorite Winter Holiday characters:

That’s right! How adorable.

The Trumpster would be proud.

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You Look Mahvelous!

What’s life like when you’re surrounded by sycophants? No matter what you do, no matter how wrong, embarrassing or just plain stupid they will tell you how great you look, did, are. Take Hillary for example.

“What difference at this point does it make!?!”

Her aides were tripping over themselves to congratulate her for nailing it at the first Benghazi hearing:

Notably, the emails show her aides congratulating her after her initial January 2013 testimony on the attacks before Congress. During that hearing, she got into a dispute with Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., over the conflicting narratives about the motivation for the attack and what preceded it – the State Department had come under fire for initially pointing to a protest over an anti-Islam film. Clinton told Johnson, expressively, “what difference, at this point, does it make?”

During and after the hearing, aides forwarded Clinton congratulatory messages.

“I’m being flooded with emails about how you rocked,” deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin wrote. “And you looked fabulous.”

Yes dahling, you looked mahvelous. Ambassador Stevens, not so much.

Sorry, I’m pressed for time again today; carry on troops!

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Obama Shines His Light Upon The World.

Tired of preaching to the citizens of the United States, Barry arrived at the Climate Summit in Paris where he had the opportunity to agitate preach to a much larger audience. Sort of like the Pope, only more ecumenical. Come to think of it though, as the Pope has taken to preaching social justice and climate change it is exactly like the Pope.

Anyway, like a junkie in need of a fix Barry-the-community-organizer (BTCO™) jumped at the chance to apologize for America once again.

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.” - P. G. Wodehouse

Droning on 5 times longer than his allotted time, he apologized for America’s sins against humanity:

I’ve come here personally, as the leader of the world’s largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it.”

Ignoring hundreds of millions of years of natural climate change Barry, along with other world leaders, again signed onto the theory of man-made global warming in order to rationalize man-made economic manipulations designed to make a lot of money for alternate energy investors while stopping climate change (and economic growth) in its path. Too bad about Spain’s largest solar company going the way of Solyndra though.

Then, today, BTCO™ took his hubris to an entirely new level at his presser where he reiterated that climate change is a bigger existential threat than the Islamic State; took credit for forcing China to sign onto his carbon emission reduction plan by leading the way in the U.S. (“because I was able to put my money where my mouth was, when I sat down with President Xi…”).

Let the record reflect that only one thing has ever been documented near Big Guy’s mouth and it wasn’t his money.

I suppose it’s possible that Barry was so persuasive that President Xi felt compelled to sign onto cleaning up the air in China. Or it could be that the Chinese people are simply getting tired of burning eyes and lungs.

Beijing, 8:00 am. Ah, there’s nothing like the smell of hubris in the morning!

He also advised us that we won’t be able to wipe out ISIS for years to come, so we might as well focus on global warming and keep the fish out of the streets in Miami;

Some are more interested in keeping thugs off the streets of Chicago

And, he took credit for containing and controlling Ebola (unclear how, butt presumably by bringing it home to study it).

So if I were to grade this trip, I’d give Barry a solid A-. The same grade he will give himself in his third autobiography (terms of which are currently under negotiation, along with his cut of the alternative energy industry).

Meanwhile, may the solar and wind industries live long and prosper. Because if too many more go bankrupt, we’re going to have to find a new scam light-bringer to push the global warming agenda.

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We’ll Tell You Which Black Lives Matter

We’ll tell YOU which black lives matter. And odds are better than a million to one that those that matter will only be those that advance the progressive narrative in some unconstructive way. Furthermore, let’s just stipulate to this upfront: none of them will be either conservative or Republican.

Case in point: Clarence Thomas. George Will’s column is an elaboration on Justice Thomas’ position that the judicial branch should move to limit the legislative branch’s practice of delegating its power to the executive branch.

If you’ve been paying attention over the past 40 years or so you’ve noticed how this shift has taken place, slowly at first and ultimately at lightening speed. Let’s use Obamacare as an example.

This is the Obamacare Bill (which few if any members of Congress read before voting on):

This is Obamacare on drugs, i.e. the administrative rules – so far:

And this is how Obamacare works within the labyrinth of government bureaucracy:

So it looks as if Justice Thomas has a point. Congress has delegated pretty much everything they are responsible for - other than fund raising, pandering to special interest groups and holding court for lobbyists - to either staff or administrative agencies. Justice Thomas’ very legitimate point is that we’ve reached the point where the hundreds of thousands of “rules” that are written to “implement” the laws passed by Congress dictate how we are allowed to go about living our lives.  This is not how the Founding Fathers envisioned America working.

As it turns out the thousands of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats ARE the boss of us.

The capable hands of your government bureaucracy

So what are the WaPo readers worried about? Government control? Bureaucratic overreach? Unelected dictators? Lack of accountability?

No, they’re concerned with Clarence Thomas, the nation’s second black Supreme Court Justice. Commenters attacked him, calling him everything from an Uncle Tom to a constitutional ignoramus. They launched ad hominem attacks on his intelligence and moral fiber. Don’t bother trying to check the comments now however, because overnight somebody at the WaPo disappeared all the racist, derogatory comments about Justice Thomas (and his wife) down the memory hole. Who knew the WaPo engaged in such strict oversight of our First Amendment rights?  Now that I know how it works I’ll never bother to comment on, or even read, their articles.

And WaPo readers seem willing to give Congress a pass, saying we can’t expect them to be experts on everything they have to pass legislation on. Fair enough, butt is it asking too much for them to at least read the legislation that they’ve delegated to the “experts” to write?

Ah yes, we are in the very best of hands. And Justice Thomas – well, he’s just another ignorant, Neanderthal from the rightwing reactionary club. His is a black life that doesn’t matter. And if you disagree, you’re probably a racist.

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Post-Thanksgiving Jedi Moves

We  all saw Lady M receiving this year’s Winter Holiday tree last Friday. The Wee Wons refused to serve as props this year, so Little Bo and Sunny were called in as stand-ins.

They didn’t appear to be any more delighted with the assignment than the girls. 

And you might have expected that Big White Winter Holiday tours would have been suspended due to Joey Caputo’s antics on Thanksgiving.

            

Joey sprung for a shave and haircut just before his Big White debut

SS found him with an American flag “cape,” a “Captain America” flash drive, a pocket guide to the Constitution, and weightlifting gloves, leading many to speculate that Joey just wanted to get in a good workout with Lady M before going home to stuff himself.

Daily Mail reports:

The Secret Service later found a car linked to Caputo parked three miles away from the White House. The Ford Taurus had Connecticut plates spelling 'caputs'.

It is unclear what was inside the folder he was carrying, but based on his political ramblings online, it may have been a letter for President Obama.

Some of his plans include scrapping the constitution and starting over with, well, something else:

'I believe that in a democracy the people lead, and that we need revolution, and that parties are a useless waste of time, meant to keep us from leading our nation as we should be by distracting us with redundant and passionate debates meant to keep us bickering with one another,' he said. 

So take note MSM: he’s clearly a Republican.

The Star Wars fan was studying for a bachelor's degree in martial arts studies at the University of Bridgeport and turned in a bizarre 18-page essay in March on the relationship between Jedis and east Asian philosophy.

This is all starting to make sense

Anyway, the Big White tours proceeded as normal after the Jedi Captain America was under custody. Although it looks like the Secret Service are still having trouble keeping track of all our invited visitors. this woman, for example, wandered away from the official tour group and wound up in the  family quarters where she stumbled upon Lady M’s throne:

h/t Doug Ross

As Thirdtwin noted on iOTW, this gives a whole new meaning to “Let’s Move!”

Oye! That’s about all I can take for one day.  Have at it Jedi warriors.

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