American Airlines and Delta are scrapping the requirement that their pilots have a 4 year degree, because requiring people to be educated is racist or something.
Remember what happened last time major airlines were flown by pilots without degrees.
Antigun
Cage Weighs In
If you remember, there was quite a bit of disagreement on whether or not Baldwin was responsible for checking to ensure that the firearm he pointed at a staff member was safe, or if it was proper for him to accept another staff member’s word for it.
There are bloggers who insist that anyone who hasn’t made movies is unqualified to have an opinion. Perhaps Nicolas Cage has enough experience making movies for his opinion to matter. Cage explained that he believes it is an actor’s responsibility to be educated in the use of guns as part of their craft. Here is what he has to say on the matter:
You need to know how to fight. You’re going to do fight scenes. You need to know how to ride a motorcycle. You need to know how to use a stick shift and drive sports cars, and you do need to know how to use a gun. You do. You need to take the time to know what the procedure is. Those are part of the job profiles.
Nicolas Cage on the Baldwin ‘Rust’ shooting
Of course, we all know that rich and famous people follow a different set of rules from everyone else. For that reason, I don’t expect a rich, antigun movie star to be held legally accountable. Still, that doesn’t change his responsibility for what happened, even if he will never be held accountable.
Cancel Culture
Easier to Cancel You
How did I miss this? A Minnesota school board is making it easier to cancel those who they disagree with. Their rules say that, in order to speak to the board at a meeting, a speaker must:
- The speaker must state their home address before speaking
- Board members cannot be addressed directly
- No one may discuss any issue not on the agenda for the meeting
- If anyone cheers, claps, or speaks out of turn, the public forum will be shut down at once.
Effective tonight, open forum participants are prohibited from calling out or addressing any individual school board or school district staff member. If this occurs, open forum will be closed,. Beginning at the Nov. 1 school board meeting, open forum will be limited to those individuals who wish to speak to an item on the board agenda.
Crowd noise, or any sort of grandstanding during open forum, including applause, talking, hollering or any outburst will result in open forum being closed. Further, beginning at the Nov. 1 school board meeting, open forum participation will be limited to those individuals who wish to speak to an item on the board agenda.
So much for petitioning your government for a redress of grievances, eh? I wholeheartedly agree with the author of the linked page when he said:
This is exactly the kind of subtle tyranny that’s being implemented across the country, from private employers to the federal government to classrooms and everywhere in between.
Sure, no one is forcing you to take the vaccine, but you’ll lose your job if you don’t. Sure, no one is forcing your child to adopt the ideology of critical race theory, but they’ll be alienated by their peers and told in class they’re a racist if they don’t repent of their whiteness.
Sure, no one is banning you from speaking out against local school board policies, but just go ahead and tell everyone where your kids sleep if you’d like the opportunity to do so.
What’s next? I shudder to imagine.
Please take a few minutes and read the entire article.
Antigun
I Wonder
The Manhattan DA has said he will not seek prison sentences for any crimes other than homicide or other cases involving the death of a victim, a class B violent felony in which a deadly weapon causes serious physical injury, domestic violence felonies, sex offenses in Article 130 of the Penal Law, public corruption, rackets, or major economic crimes, including any attempt to commit any such offense under Article 110 of the Penal Law, unless required by law.
Does that mean you won’t do time for owning an AR15 and a dozen 30 round magazines?
Anti American left
Projection
This attorney, former history teacher, former Marine, and current liberal claims that the defeat of last January 6’s “attempted coup” was due to the overwhelming force that the Federal government can bring to bear. He goes on to say that local school boards are at risk because they are “soft targets.”
No, the reason that it failed as a coup is that it WASN’T a coup. No one except the police were armed. There is even video on this very website of the police letting them into the building. Contrast that with the violent riots of the summer of 2020, where dozens were killed, and which party represents the greatest threat?
This guy is an asshole. He doesn’t even realize that the home addresses of every Florida voter are posted online. Florida has a very robust public records law, and we like it that way.
In fact, thanks to that law, we can see that this article and this man are both liars. See, the claim is that Mr. Filipkowski was a Republican until January 7th, when he was so disgusted by the actions in the Capitol the previous day, he went down and changed his party affiliation to Democrat. Well, looking up his voter registration tells a different tale:
- FILIPKOWSKI, RONALD JOSEPH was born 30 October 1968, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 201 S Palm Ave, #401, Sarasota, Florida 34236. Florida voter ID number 100252455. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2021.
Previous information: - 30 November 2020 voter list: RONALD J. FILIPKOWSKI, 201 S PALM AVE, #401, SARASOTA, 34236 Florida Democratic Party.
- 31 July 2020 voter list: RONALD J. FILIPKOWSKI, 3782 KINGSTON BLVD, SARASOTA, 34236 Florida Democratic Party.
- 31 May 2019 voter list: Ronald J. Filipkowski, 8220 Lakewood Ranch BLVD, APT 402, Lakewood Ranch, 34236 Florida Democratic Party.
- 31 October 2016 voter list: RONALD J. FILIPKOWSKI, 3810 TORREY PINES BLVD, SARASOTA, 34236 Florida Democratic Party.
He has been a Democrat since before the 2016 election, perhaps longer. I am sure that he was once a Republican, because his 28 year old son is named Ronald Reagan Filipkowski, but the switch to the left occurred before the Trump campaign was a thing, and long before last January.
Anti American left
Socialism is never for the Socialists
As New York reports a record number of COVID cases, the NYPD is making small children cry while tossing them from Applebee’s for not being vaccinated, Florida’s Governor DeSantis is being heavily criticized for not being as forward thinking as New York.
Why New York is so forward in its thinking that its own members of Congress are seen sipping drinks in Miami while maskless.
Cancel Culture
Creating Villains
This article is an attempt to paint gun owners as being terrorists and Nazis. Case in point:
The Atlanta Gun Show, held over a weekend in late September, had everything one might need for a coming apocalypse or civil war: flame throwers, hundreds of rifles, thousands of handguns and knives, body armor, survival kits, medical supplies…Nestled in the middle of the show at the Atlanta Expo Center, a man proudly displayed Nazi memorabilia: medals, swastika patches and a model of a German amphibious vehicle occupied by toy Nazi soldiers. People crowded around his table, asking questions about buying and selling Nazi stuff.
Let’s look at that table of Nazi memorabilia.
Looks evil, right? Let’s take a closer look:
Not a Nazi. This table is selling war memorabilia from all three of the major suppliers of weapons, but a person buying and selling Japanese WW2 military items doesn’t support the true goal here: making gun owners look like they are trying to kill minorities. This is about turning 2A supporters into racist killers.
This is another attempt at making the same stupid “terrorist” argument they always do. Trump supporters were terrorists in October.
NBC claimed that Republicans are planning an armed insurrection and that Steve Bannon has turned Breitbart News into a right wing ethno-Nationalist Propaganda mill. (Oct 4, 2021)
The Guardian says that Republicans are meeting as a part of secret hate groups who want to target non-whites and LGTBQOENC… (Sept 30, 2021)
It became apparent in June that Biden’s plan was to demonize and target the right as terrorists so he can bring the full power of the Federal government’s anti-terror laws to bear.
This editorial in the Washington Post says that anyone who opposes the COVID vaccine is committing domestic terrorism.
San Francisco has declared that the NRA is a terrorist organization, and is urging the Federal Government to do the same.
This isn’t new. It’s been going on for more than a decade. From twelve years ago:
Americans affiliated with a foreign terrorist group would be stripped of their U.S. citizenship under bipartisan legislation introduced by Senator Joseph Lieberman.Americans affiliated with a foreign terrorist group would be stripped of their U.S. citizenship under bipartisan legislation introduced by Senator Joseph Lieberman.
Anti American left
It’s about Control
Fauci wants vaccines for air travel. Others on the left want to just eliminate all air travel.
Cancel Culture
He’s Looking At Me
A guy in a gym is looking at a woman. That apparently justifies her and her husband in threatening the man. It isn’t a crime to look at someone, but it certainly IS a crime to threaten someone with violence.
Chicks like this dress the way that they do because they WANT people to look at them. They just don’t want people who they find unattractive to look at them. If the man had been “hot” she would have enjoyed the attention and continued to show off for him. Because he wasn’t physically attractive, she decided to play like she was offended. These women seem to think that they can use or threaten force because a guy that they don’t find attractive dares to look at them. This is evidenced by the fact that they post videos and pictures of themselves all over the internet for people to ogle. They enjoy being the center of attention.
Back in 2011, I was standing in line in a Quizno’s sandwich shop in Tampa. The woman who was standing in line in front of me had on one of those midriff-bearing tops, and had a tattoo in the middle of her back. The tattoo was in an old English type of font, with her pants covering the lower half of the letters. I was standing in line, trying to figure out what the tattoo said when she turned around and asked me what I was staring at.
I replied that I was looking at her tattoo, and asked her what it said. Now it’s been my experience that people with tattoos love to show them off. Not this woman. She got angry and said, “Did I give you permission to look at it? Where do you think you get the right to stare at me without my permission?”
Now my natural smartass came out at that point, and I replied “What were you thinking when you put on that outfit this morning- ‘Oh, I hope no one looks at me!’ ??”
At this point, some huge guy, presumably her boyfriend, comes over and asks her if I am bothering her. She replies in the affirmative, and the meathead tells me that we are stepping outside to settle this. I tell him that there is no way that I am going outside and that I am not going to fight him, to which he replies that either I am going to go on my own, or he is dragging me outside, and he is kicking my ass whether I like it or not.
At that point, I tell him that it would be a VERY bad idea to drag me outside, and tell him that he needs to just let it go. Long story short, I didn’t have to go outside, and I didn’t have to shoot anyone.
Cancel Culture
Symbols Taint Jury
In Tennessee, a black man was granted a new trial because the room where the jury deliberated had historical displays in it that contained a portrait of Jefferson Davis and an example of the Third Flag of the Confederacy (which was only in use for 36 days before Lee’s surrender).