Author: David

Over-educated Curmudgeon, Bit-Bucket Tuner and Budding Brewmeister.
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Darkness Hates the Light. . .

. . . even when light offers to hide under a basket.

Or, as Kurt Schlichter puts it,

They Will Still Hate You Even If You Disarm

Pull quote:

“It would be nice to have libs and their media goons not sliming us all the time with manifest falsehoods. It would also be nice to have a pet unicorn named Chet always ready to make a run to the liquor store to pick up a sixer of Dos Equis and some Doritos. Neither one is going to happen, and you can’t change that by giving in. No matter how much you abase yourself it will never be enough for them to not hate you. “

Yep.

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“Gun Violence” *mhwa*

[Extracted from a ub-thread of a discussion discussing the disparate topics of “mass shootings” and wrongful shootings by cops.]

To whatever extent wrongful shootings by police exists (and any is a Very Bad Thing, IMO), it can more easily be explained by Lord Acton’s pithy comment, Rudyard Kipling’s “General Summary,” or even the theological concept of universal moral depravity. Humans being what we are, any group of people is going to have apples that are, urm, “badder” than the norm, and unfortunately, there are bad apples in government jobs at almost any level (LEOs, run-of-the-mill bureaucraps, public “persecutors,” politicians, and corrupt judges), and they ARE be a problem, universally, to some degree or another. How to deal with the bad apples without crucifying the “less bad,” maybe even marginally OK apples? (“Marginally OK” because as long as their PEERS do not stop them, the “badder apples” will find it easier to abuse their authority.)

Well, that’s the nut, isn’t it?

Qui custodit ipsos custodes?

But as for being a “problem with guns,” well, it’s the same answer as to the issue of “gun violence.” Guns do not commit violent acts. People do. One way (really, AFAIK, the only legitimate way for governments that are not supposed to infringe on natural rights but protect them) is to make the punishments for serious violent acts serious punishment, pour encourager les autres, as it were, and those punishments should apply to ALL, with no weasel room for LEOs to argue “qualified immunity.” (“So I shot the guy seven times. I thought that UNARMED MAN SPREADEAGLED ON THE FLOOR was a threat, and how was I to know that I busted down the door at the wrong address? Qualified immunity” “Well, I thought that baby she was holding was a deadly weapons, so I killed her.” Qualified immunity. Etc.)

But, demanding that our faux “nobility” give up special privileges just isn’t going to fly, I don’t think. *sigh* Meanwhile, anti-gun folks argue that citizens should surrender their rights because of an almost vanishingly small number of bad actors. *smh*

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Thx for the info

Book begins:

“[Xx] didn’t like the [Yy], there were too many rules.”

Since the lede is a COMMA SPLICE, I have all the information I need to know the writer DGARA about killing readers’ brain cells, and was too cheap to pay a literate proofreader or editor.

Pass, because the book’s a FAIL.

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Baltimore *munches popcorn-sips beer*

Sequence:

Trump verbally “trashes” Baltimore.

Loony Left Moonbat heads explode in rage.

Video after video after video emerges of past comments (over just the last few years) from Loony Left politicians confirming Trump’s remarks and some going even further.

Loony Left Moonbats: “Unfair!”

Hivemind “reporting”: largely *crickets* or simply attempts to bolster Loony Left Moonbat outrage.

Reporter gathering “[homeless] man on the street” remarks to bolster the “unfairness” of Trump’s original comment has rat photobomb her “report.”

Meanwhile, wwhile politicians and governments are sitting on their hands and pointing fingers at one another (and isn’t THAT a pleasant picture? Ewww. . . ):

Trump supporter organizes Trash Cleanup Day to support Baltimore< /a>

Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind: *crickets*

Folks, entertainment just doesn’t get more amusingly farcical than this. *munches popcorn-sips beer*

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Gun “Control”? #feh

A site I visit now and then, just to bring a smile to my face.

“When any government deprives a citizen of his freedom or property, the individual must take action to publicise his grievances. To this end, I hope to illustrate in the following pages, the futility of gun control, and that no amount of arbitrary legislation can ever prevent those wanting firearms from owning them. The individual who has the ability to construct his own homemade gun can never be permanently disarmed by any level of gun control legislation.”

https://thehomegunsmith.com/

Do note that the “expedient firearms” featured at the site are rather crude, and not examples of firearms I would ever be tempted to build, but it is nice that, even though the site creator has passed away, there are those committed to natural rights who have been willing to step up and maintain the site.

Below, “gun control” as desired by the enemies of the people:

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Three Citizens, One Goblin Down

I’m withholding any comments aside from the following, until more facts emerge.

1. 3 Dead People = evil.
2. That LEOs who can in no way qualify to be employed by the Broward County Sheriff’s Department were present resulted in what good there may be in this, so far, namely
3. One Dead Goblin.

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3 People Killed, Including 6-Year-Old Boy, in Mass Shooting at a California Food Festival

(I assume the death of the shooter doesn’t count as a dead “person.” I know, I know: far past simply harsh, but he is the one who chose to dehumanize himself.)

No word as of the latest reports on the incident on where Scot Peterson was hiding out.

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Always Another Option. . .

My Lovely Wonder Woman has a way about her. . .

I mentioned to her that completing the repairs on a ceramic “canister” (ceramic can?!? *feh*) would take ~$11-$12, but that I’d end up with a lot of extra materials to store, possibly for future projects. . . or whatever. *heh* Her solution?

“Well, I could break more things.”

Another possibility? Just replace the thing, I suppose. *sigh* I hate not just repairing a broken item, but sometimes. . .

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Cat Cleaner

I am considering putting “cleaning pads” on Cat #2 (A/K/A “CATrina), since she has taken up “sharpening her (non-existant*“>*) claws on the glass of our French doors.

* Reluctantly declawed on front because she would NOT stop climbing my Wonder Woman’s drapes. She’s still a pip, though.

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“Dr Muerte’s Panacea for Pain”

Picked up some kind of contact rash in the last day or so. Despite observing pretty good hygiene with handwashing, etc. (including having worn nitrile gloves), I seem to have spread it to. . . rather uncomfy areas. So, tried an astringent product from FAK to alleviate itching. It works, but kinda like after stubbing one’s toe and asking “Dr. Muerte” for pain relief, getting a punch in the nose. I don’t really notice the itching now that everything is BURNING.

*heh*

“Pain is just weakness leaving the body” (and other convenient lies. 😉 ).