Scattershots – 25jun21 (updated 29jun21)

George Rebane

Biden on gun control smirked at the notion of guns in civilian hands being effective against a tyrannical government.  He cited that any such insurrection against our federales will require disgruntled citizens to have at least “F15s and a few nuclear warheads” to be successful.  This is the common hypocritical response of the Left that feared the unarmed 6jan21 Capitol mob as insurrectionists, and then continues to fear a population legally armed with politically-identified “assault rifles”, guns very seldom used by criminals to perpetrate ‘gun violence’.  The Left knows and has always known better than anyone else of what an armed citizenry is capable.  Bumblebrain now demonstrates daily that he the nation's ‘compleat idiot’ when it comes to governance, history, and human nature.

Rodney King’s ‘Why can’t we all just get along?’ is still an attractive nothing-burger for far too many light thinkers.  Mr Ryan Smalley writes (here) in the 25jun21 Union about the “true silent majority” that would be able to ‘just get along’ were they given a chance through a centrist third party on our political scene.  Unfortunately, he does not understand the nature of our polarization which involves diametrically opposite futures for America (see ‘Toward Unification’), and believes, that magically, the center will spontaneously coalesce to a collection of commonly supported public policies that its elected politicians will be able legislate, and we will all live happily ever after.  These policies will have the magical quality in that they will come into being without any notion of a commonly held or resolved view of America’s tomorrow.  As I’ve pointed out ad nauseam, our country is full of such Rodney King disciples who are incapable of understanding the problem and making progress toward a solution.

Juneteenth was sensibly opposed by 14 House Republicans.  All of them, including our Doug LaMalfa (here), explained their reasons to their constituents.  In a 25jun21 letter to The Union, a history-deprived and poorly-read Dean Olson could not fathom why anyone would oppose Juneteenth as a federal holiday.  Reps LaMalfa and McClintock published their most reasonable reasons for their oppositions, which were, of course, both ignored and/or misunderstood by our more progressive neighbors.  In its comment stream RR reader Gregory attempted to set them straight.  My own views are memorialized in ‘The Joys of Juneteenth’.

SBC job opportunity heads up.  The unfortunately misnamed Sierra Business Council is looking for some equally unfortunate individual who is required to have at least a high school education and “min 1-2  years” experience having done a long list of analytical tasks in the energy audit and consulting field.  And s/he will do all this for the princely sum of $20-24/hr as a “Planning Technician”.  This is less money that most property owners pay for an illegal alien doing weed eating on their property in preparation for fire season.  Nevertheless, as a RR public service, interested parties can get more information here and here.

[26jun21 update]  Here is that lying SOS Bumblebrain announcing agreement on an infrastructure bill that later he immediately made conditional on the passage of the most horrendous economy destroying tax increases in American history.  Have no idea what passes for thinking in that wrinkled melon on his shoulders.  This latest Big Lie is a sure fire reason for Republicans to walk away from the whole thing. (H/T to reader.)

[Later]  Bumblebrain has no idea what he says into a mic.  Apparently his handlers got tangled up with his first message.  Now he’s making “perfectly clear” again, this time that he will not hold infrastructure hostage to the humongous $4T vote buying bill of goodies that the Dems want to also pass.  But it ain't over yet - the adventures with an addled president.

A rehab that worked.  (The following from a correspondent.) 

After 6 burglaries, 3 car thefts, multiple illegal trespasses, an ongoing cocaine and alcohol addiction, committing 2 violent home invasions, 3 armed robberies, dealing Fentanyl and Meth, passing counterfeit money, beating 4 victims senseless and being arrested 23 times since 1998, George Floyd hasn't committed a crime in over one year now!

BUT.....IT DID NET HIS FAMILY $27 MILLION FROM THE STATE AND $20 MILLION FROM A GO FUND ME ACCOUNT.

We are one sick country to fall for this scam! Not to mention that our demented President and his VP met with the Floyd family on May 25th, the one year anniversary of his death and Nancy Pelosi, in June, 2020, gave the Floyd family a folded American Flag that had flown over the Capitol on the day he died, as though he were a fallen hero!  How SICK is that?

[27jun21 update]  The Defense Departments UFO report is essentially a cover-up nothing burger.  They told the country that they didn’t know what was happening and what is behind all the sightings recorded by the military from their ships and aircraft.  That kind of ignorance from our mainline national security institution is pretty scary in and of itself.  So now we’re supposed to remain sanguine about UFOs buzzing our aircraft and ships, and demonstrating kinematics and operational domains unknown to us mere terrestrials.  Given the information so far, my assessed probabilities are P(extra-terrestrial) = 0.8, P(terrestrial) = 0.2.  ETs have had billions of years to populate our galaxy and/or send info gathering drones anywhere they want.  (My take on SETI is here, here, and here.)

[29jun21 update]  The Democrats, all of whom are guilty of fomenting the nation’s crime wave with countable marginal deaths that can be laid directly on their feet, have now run out of all excuses for their horrible values and social ideology.  Their last gasp is to apply Saul Alinsky on steroids and blame the whole thing on the Republicans.  And you know what?  Their constituents are sufficiently dense between the ears so that a goodly share of them will actually believe the bull crap now being trumpeted through the lamestream.  Maybe some will even come here to exhibit their gray matter.  ‘A nation ignorant and free …’

 

 

Comments

[Don Bessee]

Ya what about that, with the demise of actual teaching in schools that bucks the party line and no one actually reading history the thought police have a monopoly -

Bill Maher trashes Facebook, Google for suppressing Wuhan lab-leak theory: 'You were wrong!'
'This is outrageous that I can't look this information up!'

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-facebook-google-china-wuhan-lab-leak-theory

;-)

[scenes]

Just a thing to keep an eye on, especially since at least some of the mafias controlling the executive branch feel like fighting the Russians. Maybe it's just a job security thang.

https://shape.nato.int/news-archive/2021/nato-allies-and-partners-ready-for-exercise-sea-breeze-21

Lots of potential for excitement. Although it's not in the topic list, 'Scattershots' seems like a good spot.

[scenes]

re: moi@5:57AM

Surprisingly, a detailed newspaper article in an era of clickbait.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9716689/Russian-military-fires-warning-shots-British-destroyer-fighter-jet-drops-bombs-path.html

[Walt]

I would like to inform the Left of another loss they just racked up.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcallen-first-philosophy-propels-small-businesses-back-conservative-deep-blue-south-texas
""Amazing news! McAllen, Texas is a major border town of 140,000 people. 85% Hispanic — and just elected a Republican mayor. The macro realignment accelerates in South Texas, and elsewhere, as Hispanics rally to America First: Strong Borders Economic Nationalism Pro-Police," tweeted former Trump 2020 campaign adviser Steve Cortes.

Hidalgo County, home of McAllen, went to President Biden by roughly 17 points in the 2020 election."

[🐠]

...... in June, 2020, gave the Floyd family a folded American Flag that had flown over the Capitol on the day he died, as though he were a fallen hero! How SICK is that?

Democrat politicians ride the inner city black community just like jockeys ride horses.

If you recall Grampa Badfingers “Superpredator” rhetoric from the early 90’s or the treatment Browns Pin Cushion gave to minor drug offenders and school truants when she was a prosecutor.

Apparently this state of affairs is acceptable the the black community.

[Don Bessee]

Unforced error but creepy grampa joe does not even know his own states voting laws -

"I'm highly skeptical and I think they may ultimately regret this move. It could indeed clarify this issue in a way the Biden administration does not want," Turley said.

Turley raised questions over the merit of the lawsuit citing similarities between Georgia and other states such as Delaware. "But, this is a very dubious case in my view. Because the Georgia law has great overlap with other states like Delaware" he said.

Turley also mentioned the popularity of requiring identification when going to the polls to vote, a key component of the Georgia voting law. "Voter identification as an example is extremely popular with voters And you now see a lot of democratic members beginning to say really, ‘we are not questioning that anymore.’" he added.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/doj-to-sue-georgia-over-election-law

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Good question -

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/06/26/kemp-why-isnt-the-doj-suing-delaware-or-other-states-with-more-restrictive-election-laws/

;-)

[George Rebane]

The Left (democrats, socialists, communists, etc) know from history and the marrow of their bones that it doesn't take F-16s, cannons, nukes, ... in the hands of people to bring down a tyrannical government. The weapons Americans already own legally by the millions is way more than adequate for the task. That's why legal owners must be disarmed and criminals ignored. There is even no need for par force any more as the Founders originally apprehended and provided for.

https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2008/04/par-force-an-un.html
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2018/04/par-force-in-the-second-amendment.html

[Bill Tozer]

Might fit here. I am bored to tears with our former News Director hogging the mic and holding court over “this discussion.”

The Sage of South Central, aka The Elder Statesman speaks.

ELDER: VP Harris, What About The ‘Root Cause’ Of Urban Homicide?

“But the bodies don’t lie. Blacks between the ages of ten and 43 die of homicide at 13 times the rate of whites, according to the CDC, thanks to comparably high rates of violence.”

Unless one is prepared to argue that Blacks are simply genetically more inclined to commit homicide, where is the discussion about “root causes”? When there is a horrific urban shooting, Democrats are quick to call for more gun control legislation. Democrats, when there is an alleged case of police abuse against a Black suspect, demand police reform, with some elected officials even calling for a defunding of the police. Democrats, when it comes to disparities in homeownership or net worth, readily talk about the “legacy of slavery and Jim Crow,” while failing to address, let alone explain, the increase in the rate of unmarried motherhood in America following the ’60s “war on poverty.” And despite clear evidence about the relationship between crime and fatherlessness, the left does not want to talk about that “root cause.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/elder-vp-harris-what-about-the-root-cause-of-urban-homicide

[Bill Tozer]

Once again, the Biden Administration offers no solutions from the border crisis, to the education crisis, to the murder crisis of blacks and black children in our Dem run cities. Talking about these items does not change one damn thing.

The Return of ‘Law and Order

“But the departure of millions of working-class voters from the Democratic Party of Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy, and its move to the party of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, testified that Middle Americans believed in safe streets and would reward leaders who would keep them safe — with more cops.

Biden spoke Wednesday as though the inner-city menace was the guns with which people are being shot, not the criminals using them.

But some of the folks helping to produce record gun sales today are Black folks who know who and what the threats to their families really are. Gun control is not crime control, and it is crime that is the enemy.”

https://buchanan.org/blog/the-return-of-law-and-order-149763

[Bill Tozer]

re update

DERANGED Hayes: Republicans Working With Dems on Infrastructure Is Racist!

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2021/06/25/deranged-hayes-republicans-working-dems-infrastructure-racist

[Don Bessee]

You might think they had cut funding for LE and put crazy limits aka handcuffs on cops -

2021 on track to be deadliest year of U.S. gun violence in 2 decades

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/2021-track-deadliest-u-gun-141933216.html

;-)

[George Rebane]

For the casual reader - please read the above comments to confirm that Democrats belong to the evil party.

[Bill Tozer]

Meme:

https://www.facebook.com/113676922032321/posts/4053846518015322/

[Don Bessee]

Anyone remember how quickly the rodney king riots were ended? -

Trump Aides Prepared Insurrection Act Order During Debate Over Protests

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-aides-prepared-insurrection-act-141012690.html

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Had a conversation about fire evacuation and a concern was will there be enough cops to conduct evacuations and secure evacuated areas with whats coming in Jan? This does not take into account the lack of academy enrollees. -

An eye-opening front-page New York Times story today, "Why Police Have Been Quitting in Droves in the Last Year" (subscription), found that Asheville, N.C., has lost 80 of 238 cops

A survey of 194 police agencies, released this month by the Police Executive Research Forum, found that for the year ending in April, retirements were up 45% — and resignations up 18% — from the previous year.

https://news.yahoo.com/cop-crisis-thousands-police-officers-111535726.html

;-)

[Don Bessee]

The most judges appointed in 1 term ever is already paying off -

Trump-appointed judges obstruct Biden 'pen and phone' policies just months into term

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/trump-appointed-judges-obstruct-biden-101159047.html

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Now thats good! -

Add award-winning novelist Joyce Carol Oates to list of those who've had enough of cancel culture.

Oates last week mocked as "oppressive" a student-prepared list at Brandeis University in Massachusetts that suggested banning words and phrases such as "picnic," "survivor" and "you guys."

"What is strange is that while the word ‘picnic’ is suggested for censorship, because it evokes, in some persons, lynchings of Black persons in the US, the word ‘lynching’ is not itself censored," the author of "A Garden of Earthly Delights" tweeted Thursday.

"Being vague about important issues risks miscommunication and can also avoid accountability," the list said.

"what sort of punishment is doled out for a faculty member who utters the word ‘picnic’ at Brandeis?--or the phrase ‘trigger warning’? loss of tenure, public flogging, self-flagellation?" she wrote.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/joyce-carol-oates-brandeis-oppressive-words-picnic-you-guys

;-)

[Walt]

The woke nut jobs will find racism in the strangest places.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-archives-rotunda-structural-racism

[Gregory]

On the Other Voices comment thread referenced above, Frisch chimed in with a non sequitur following my correcting of the history:
"Isn't it ironic that just as people of color are fully realizing their equality and eventual majority in our American democracy there is a strong white minority in our nation that is gladly renouncing democracy to retain power. That is the best proof that the basic tenet of critical race theory, that American legal and social systems have perpetuated segregation and discrimination, is true."

I think Steve is asserting the right of people to vote in the version of history they want, with facts to the contrary to be tossed into the nearest memory hole.

[fish]

Posted by: Gregory | 27 June 2021 at 09:44 AM

....progressive drone says something progressive.

Yawn.

[RXCross]

Quote of the day from former AG Bill Barr, "“If there was evidence of fraud, I had no motive to suppress it. But my suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there. It was all bullshit.”

It seems Barr is trying to salvage what is left of his credibility.

[Walt]

Sure Babs,, so those hundreds of sworn affidavits from people who witnessed the monkey business first hand were all liars.
Now what happened to the LIB mantra "accusers MUST be believed!"?
All dismissed without a second glance.

The video in living color of fraud ballots being counted..
Yup,, our ly'n eyes. The water main break that wasn't.

You and Emery lipp'n off the same bottle of cheap rye?

[Bill Tozer]

It’s Only $6 Trillion:! ABC Pressures Manchin to Move Left, Bring GOP With Him

“The bill Karl wanted Manchin to support was being written by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and it would cost an estimated $6 trillion. “I know that you've suggested that's a little rich for in terms of what you want. But what is your bottom line? How much more do you want,” Karl demanded to know.

Adding: “As you just said at the top of this, the bill that you're negotiating with the Republicans would be the biggest infrastructure bill in the history of the United States. How much more are you willing to add on top of that?”

Manchin shot down the idea by arguing that his bill was paid for and wasn’t going to add to America's already out of control debt problem. “Well, I think there’s some real questions whether or not this bill is truly paid for,” Karl shot back.

Karl’s line of questioning on the matter was kicked off by pointing out that the more radical elements of the party were not enticed by something reasonable:

KARL: But Nancy Pelosi said she's not even going to bring up your bipartisan bill unless this bigger Bernie Sanders bill also gets passed by the Senate. And listen to what -- how Elizabeth Warren described her understanding of what is going on here.

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA, via soundbite): I can't vote for some small subset that, you know, the infrastructure train leaves the station and child care gets left on the platform, green energy gets left on the platform, billionaires don't have to pay gets left on the platform. It that all of the pieces have to move because ultimately, it's one deal.
“So, what is going on here? Are you sure progressives are going to support your bipartisan bill if they don't get a guarantee on something bigger also passing,” he asked.

Manchin stuck by his principles.“

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2021/06/27/its-only-6-trillion-abc-pressures-manchin-move-left-bring

[RXCross]

Gee Waldo 1:29 -- No court in the land found the sworn affidavits to be anything but misguided here say..no proof. Either they were liars or stupid beyond belief and "I taught I taw a puddy tat" deranged.
Have you thought about anger management? Facts like these seem to really piss you off. It's not really my fault you bought into trump's bullshiit. That rests totally upon you and you over indulgence in cheap hooch.

[Bill Tozer]

Top 10 Worst Things Biden’s Expensive, Partisan Infrastructure Bill Will Do
Republicans are hesitant to endorse Biden's plan — and for good reason

https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/29/top-10-worst-things-bidens-expensive-partisan-infrastructure-bill-will-do/

[Bill Tozer]

Whoppers.

‘Whoppers’: Washington Post Factchecker Hits Biden With Four Pinocchios Over 2nd Amendment Claims

The far-left Washington Post delivered a blow to President Joe Biden by dismissing his recent claims about guns with a single word: “Whoppers.”

The newspaper owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos hit Biden with a fact check and ruled his claim on the Second Amendment was worthy of four Pinocchios — the highest level it uses.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoppers-washington-post-factchecker-hits-biden-with-four-pinocchios-over-2nd-amendment-claims
——————
In related news (no, not the WH doubling down on “Republican are the party of defunding the police”) is a fairly good article.

‘The People Behind Joe Biden’s ‘Fact Check’ Team Have A History Of Lying To The American People’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-people-behind-joe-bidens-fact-check-team-have-a-history-of-lying-to-the-american-people

[Bill Tozer]

Take us to your leader.

‘Fumbled infrastructure rollout leaves Republicans asking who's really in charge at White House’

Republicans are "trying to figure out who to negotiate with at the White House — because apparently, it's not the President United States," said Missouri Republican Rep. Jason Smith.

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/thu-botched-infrastructure-roll-out-leaves-republicans-wondering-whos-really