The Democrats are angry and accusing the judge in Trump’s politically motivated trial of using politics to delay that trial until after the election.
Price Controls
Layoffs and Minimum Wage
California’s minimum wage is increasing 25% in April, to $20 an hour. Employers are going to raise prices, but that can only be done so much before customers decide to eat at home. That point, it appears, has been reached. So now the layoffs begin. Pizza Hut just laid off 1,200 workers in California. Fatburger has implemented a hiring freeze. Both chains have eliminated paid time off.
It’s almost like those of us who understand economics have been warning of this for years.
Anti American left
Carlos
My wife and I recently had lunch with her best friend. We had a chat about the little Marxist that is her step-son. I’ve known the kid since he was an eight year old child. He was awkward when I met him, but he is intolerable now. He is a 17 year old leftist that spends his spare time protesting capitalism. Every time I am in his presence, I want to punch his face, so I simply avoid him.
About a year ago, he decided to be some sort of odd alternate gender. Although he is interested in girls, he couldn’t get laid at a goat farm because he is so opinionated and political all of the time. He has said that’s OK, because he isn’t interested in sex. That’s when he started wearing a skirt on the outside of his pants. He complained that he had no friends because everyone here is homophobic.
He announced that some girl he likes is going to college in Boston, so he wants to go there too, where they will be more tolerant of his deviant behavior. It isn’t the weird sexual deviancy thing going on that’s keeping him from having friends or getting dates. He is just an asshole with no social skills, and I doubt that he will have any better luck making friends there than he has here.
What we have here is an entire generation that has no social skills because their parents abdicated raising children, instead giving them cell phones and Internet access. They learned about life by reading the Internet.
I think that there should be a law restricting Internet capable devices with full Internet capability to children over the age of 15. For the ages of 10-14, they only have a watered down machine that only gets access to age appropriate PG content. Below that, they are restricted to G rated material only.
Sorry, but children are being groomed and set up to be complete failures in life. It’s time that we accept that children just aren’t intellectually and emotionally capable of handling adult topics.
Me
Inheritance and Deception
As my readers will recall, my mother passed away a little over a month ago. When we initially went to the funeral home, her husband told us that he didn’t have any money, so my brother and I covered the costs associated with the cremation and other expenses. Over $3000 worth of expenses. At the time we paid, we designated my sister as the point of contact for the family. We paid for the cremation, 4 certified copies of the death certificate, and urns to split the ashes. (The Husband wanted some, my sister did, too. My brother and I didn’t get one, we just got the free container, because it’s our intention to bury Mom’s ashes in the grave that her and Dad already paid for.)
Once that was done, he asked us to provide him with one of the copies of Mom’s death certificate, and he also said that Mom didn’t want to be buried with her late husband (my Dad), but instead wanted to be buried with him (the widower). He asked us for another 10 large to cover the costs associated with a plot for the two of them, again claiming that he was broke. That was one thing that we weren’t going to pay for. Not my responsibility to pay for the burial plot for a man I barely knew.
He and mom were married a little over two years before her death. At that time, mom disposed of most of her stuff somehow, and moved in with him. Mom’s husband asked us to come over to his house and clean out Mom’s belongings. We agreed, because we were trying to find out what happened to a house full of expensive furniture, as well as the whereabouts of 150 thousand dollars in retirement funds.
Mom didn’t leave a will. Or so we thought. While we were cleaning out the detached garage, we found $4000 in cash and a copy of four wills. The first three were from when Dad was still alive. The fourth was interesting- it was less than 10 years old, named my brother as being the executor of the estate, and even though it was from before she remarried, it was the most current will. My sister handed the cash to the husband and his daughter before my brother and I could stop her. As a reader here, you would know that my sister is kind of stupid like that. She is also a Democrat, which explains why she doesn’t understand money, the law, or most other things of practical value.
WE contacted Mom’s stock broker to trace the money. What we didn’t know was that the husband and his daughter had taken Mom’s death certificate and a copy of their marriage license to the bank and had them cut the husband a check for the money. Not only that, but we found out that the husband had given Mom’s car away to his ex-wife. It turns out that the husband and daughter knew where the funds were the entire time, but neglected to tell us. They are deliberately hiding her assets.
When we pointed out that the estate hasn’t closed yet and they couldn’t be spending the money and giving away her possessions because things like funeral expenses needed to be paid from that estate, the daughter said “You aren’t expecting my father to pay for all of those things for your mother, are you? That’s HIS money now, because YOUR mother was planning on using that money to buy my dad a house. Her cremation expenses are your problem.”
My brother is PISSED. So am I. We are now paying an attorney to sue his ass and enforce the will. I don’t care if I don’t get a dime, but that asshole and his greedy twenty something daughter aren’t getting a penny more than the law says that they have to.
Folks- have a will. Keep it current. Don’t make your relatives deal with this sort of bullshit.
Police State
Police LARP
A short platoon of armed cops are raiding a house while armed with grenades and suppressed machine guns. The way that they bunch up and ignore their rear tells you that they either don’t know how to advance to contact, or they don’t really think that the people inside are a threat.
They’d already been to this house multiple times looking for the person of interest and knew he no longer lived there, yet they tossed a grenade inside, injuring an infant.
They’re larping. Unfortunately when these jackboots larp, it has real world consequences. Ones they don’t have to pay for because they have qualified immunity.
Now ask yourself- if these guys were engaged in an ambush being carried out by an armed, well motivated and trained opposing force, how many casualties would they take?
Crime
A Year Ago
Last year, I blogged about a concealed carrier who smoked an armed robber in a Houston restaurant. The leftist prosecutors wanted him tossed in jail because he shot the guy “too many times.” The prosecutors took it to a grand jury. The jury refused to return a true bill.
Take that, you criminal loving commies.
Lawfare
That’s Gonna Get Appealed
A federal judge in Florida ruled a U.S. law prohibiting people from having firearms in post offices is unconstitutional. That is a ruling guaranteed to be appealed.
Antigun
Not Conflict Resolution
The author of this piece is Dr. Tom Hastings, the conflict resolution coordinator at Portland State University. Portland. Enough said, but let’s look closer at his nonsense anyhow.
It is long past time to repeal the Second Amendment.
Why?
To strengthen democracy.
I don’t want democracy. With democracy, 50.1 percent of the voters would be able to legalize slavery. The voters could easily vote to euthanize everyone over the age of 65, or even confiscate the property of everyone who has a net worth of more than $500,000 so that it can be redistributed. The beauty of our system of government is that, while they are democratically elected, our representatives can’t violate the rights of the individual.
Already in 2022, as of Sept. 25, there have been 32,643 gun deaths in America from a variety of causes, including murder, homicide, accidents and suicides. Many of these deaths were in places that attempted strict gun control, including a ban on assault rifles, but were successfully sued by the NRA or other gun rights groups and their local or state laws vacated by rulings prompted by the Second Amendment.
Let’s start with the “gun deaths” metric. First, a “gun death” is a stupid metric. An early death is no more tragic if carried out by cancer, diabetes, being tossed out of a helicopter, or simply beaten over the head with a hammer.
Second, more than 26,000 of those “gun deaths” were actually suicides. A person intent on killing themselves could, if guns were outlawed, simply step in front of a train, leap from the window of a tall building, or overdose on sleeping pills. Getting rid of the Second Amendment would not save the lives of anyone intent on suicide. The fault in logic here is stunning- the left contends that people who wish to take their own lives would not do so if there were no guns in the home. Ridiculous and easily demonstrated as a false premise. In the United States, over 48,000 people take their own lives each year, and there is no reason to believe that things would improve with the outlawing of guns. Take Guyana as an example, where the government has passed every single dream of gun control proposed by the left.
In Guyana, Category B firearms are only available to sport shooters who hold a license to practice for at least 6 months, with a medical certificate, without a criminal conviction, and additionally require at least three shooting sessions with an instructor. Specific purchase and possession permits can then be applied for from a local police department, are valid for 5 years and can be extended. These weapons can then only be used for sport shooting in shooting ranges, never for hunting. Category B includes all assault rifles such as AK-47/AKM, AK-74 or AR-15/M16/M4, as well as all similar weapons, even if they are chambered for rimfire (.22 LR) cartridges. These can only be semi-automatic. All handguns, including those using rim ammunition, are classified as Category B. It is illegal to possess these Category B weapons after the expiry of a specific non-renewed license: the weapons must be disposed of (e.g., sold to a firearms store or otherwise destroyed).
Meanwhile, Guyana has the highest suicide rate of any nation in the world: 40.8 suicides per 100,000. That number represents a suicide rate three times that of the United States. So gun laws have no effect on suicide rates, which are more of a mental health issue than they are a firearms issue. In Guyana, the suicide problem is related closely to alcoholism, not guns.
Civilized countries enact laws that actually protect their children. Unlike every single other developed or large country in the entire world, the number one cause of death for children in the US is firearms.
Wrong. Homicides don’t even come close to being the number one cause of death, even including homicides by all mechanisms. Unless you consider 15-24 year olds as being children.
To prevent Civil War 2.0.
With approximately 400 million guns floating around US society and an armed MAGA-driven polarization met by an increasingly armed leftist radical wing, along with evermore virulent rhetoric and escalating numbers walking around open-carrying war weaponry in public, half of America believes that civil war is coming. Tossing out the Second Amendment would free legislatures and city councils to begin seriously ending such belligerent displays of combat weapons.
During Vietnam, the left thought they were clever by asking “What if they threw a war and no one showed up?” The more important question is “What if they threw a war and only one side showed up?” The answer to that is, of course, genocide. Disarming one side allows the other side, still armed, to do with the unarmed as they please.
It’s as if he thinks that getting rid of the Second Amendment would cause the 600 million plus guns already in US hands to simply disappear. Instead, the repeal of 2A would cause many of those 600 million guns to be used against the very people who would be attempting to confiscate them, guaranteeing the onset of an American civil war.
This guy, who is supposed to be interested in conflict resolution, is advocating for the one thing that is guaranteed to cause more conflict than any other single thing that the government could do. Clueless, but the left’s ideas usually are.
Anti American left
Ha, Ha
Liberals moving to Canada to live the perceived liberal Utopia there are discovering that their ideas don’t work. They are finding that “free” health care is a great benefit when you are healthy, but if you are sick waiting lists are quite long.
Niren, who has lived in both the US and Canada, voiced similar concerns. He said his own mother, who needs a hip replacement, had been on a waitlist for 18 months. “There are people who have to fly to other countries — including the United States — to get cancer treatment because it takes too long,” he said. “In the US, you can get a specialist appointment in two days.”
Niren also said Canadians paid elevated taxes to support such a comprehensive healthcare system.
“People call it free healthcare — it’s not free,” he said. “It’s very expensive because you’re paying through the taxes.”
Wait, you are telling me that the Doctors and Nurses in Canada don’t work for free? WTH?
He added that there was still an opioid crisis in British Columbia, but it wasn’t as striking as it is in Portland. Ouellet said that in the three years he’d lived in British Columbia, he’d seen one syringe on the ground, compared with Portland, where he saw dozens a day.
That’s because you live in leftist shitholes. I have NEVER seen a syringe on the ground. That’s what you get for living in Portland.
“When you’re out in public, and you hear a noise, no one runs, no one checks over their shoulder, no one thinks that it could possibly be gun violence.”
The reality is that, outside of a few leftist shithole cities, so called “gun violence” is as rare in the US as it is in Canada. The simple fact is that Canada has a population density that is much lower than in the US, and when you compare cities of equal density, you get similar crime rates. Couple that with the fact that blacks (the demographic most likely to participate in violent crime) only make up 4.9% of Canada’s population, and the result is low crime.
Still, lefties- GTFO
Taxes
Democrats and Taxes
Florida Democrats are proposing a law that would require HOAs to donate 15% of their dues money to charities in the community where they are located. The bill text is found here. (pdf warning)
This amounts to a 15% tax placed on the backs of all property owners. What this means is that all HOAs in Florida would have to increase their association dues. This will increase the costs of housing for everyone in the state. Even renters.
Democrats: they hate property owners. They hate America. The only groups that they like are sexual deviants, criminals, and illegal immigrants.
So how do you fight this, should it pass? The law doesn’t specifically say what organizations that the donations have to benefit. This is what it requires:
Donate or use at least 15 percent of the association’s total annual income to benefit the community in the county in which the community served by the association is located.
What constitutes a “benefit the community”? Perhaps using it to donate to a progun group, establishing firearms safety courses, or some other pro-liberty cause. I mean, increasing gun ownership benefits the community, at least in my opinion.