Hillary and Bill Take A Break From the Campaign Trail

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This Isn’t Even Normal Gun-Grabber Ignorance

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I have no idea what to make of this. The Huffington Post is arguing that Americans have no legal right to shoot a violent attacker because it violates the criminal's right to a fair trial. I feel confident in saying this is by far the dumbest attempt to subvert our gun ownership rights ever and that’s saying a lot considering how insanely stupid gun grabbers are.

Justin Curmi is a dyslexic guy with a degree in philosophy. According to his bio he is, “A blogger that seeks to engage people in thought and conversation through presenting new views to matters, new or old.” Writing for The HuffPo, he presented one hell of a view concerning our right to not be murdered by a maniac killer.

Oddly enough, this thing starts out very un-HuffPosty by acknowledging that the 2nd Amendment does protect private gun ownership:

"The Second Amendment is highly contested. There is no doubt that people do have the right to carry and have a stockpile of guns (“the right of the people to keep and bear arms”) and a state has the right to organize a well-regulated Militia. But, the main issue is on the right to self-defend with a firearm."

It’s still worded sarcastically, but that does seem like the author reluctantly agrees with the people’s right to keep and bear arms. Now here is where things become unhinged:

"The main problem with the notion of self-defense is it imposes on justice, for everyone has the right for a fair trial. Therefore, using a firearm to defend oneself is not legal because if the attacker is killed, he or she is devoid of his or her rights."

And if you thought that was idiotic, check out the other reasons why the author thinks we can’t use guns in self-defense: - READ MORE

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The journalist Glenn Greenwald once wrote that “American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.” He was right, and that was even before the 2016 election circus rolled into town.

To the Nation of Canada....

Dear Canada,

If Trump is elected and you do not take these miserable celebrities off our hands, it may be considered an official declaration of war.

Fair warning.

[via Red Blooded American]

P.S. Watch out for that Sharpton guy. He's bad about paying his taxes.

A Veiw From the Cheap Seats

Bernie's Toast

After Madam Cankles has seemingly coughed and barked her way to the lead and ready to mount the Democrat Party Mantle and hump it all the way to the White House, Bernie Sanders is basically toast......

Sanders is planning to lay off “hundreds” of
campaign staffers across the country 

"After Tuesdays drubbing in the latest round of Democratic party primaries, the great Bernie Sanders socialist revolution is officially on life support. Following a comment from Democrat Senate capo Harry Reid that there was no path to the nomination for Sanders, the pressure is going to be turned up on the old goat to give up the ghost and drop out of the race.
It’s quite clear that the sell by date for the Sanders campaign has now passed and after losing all of the votes last night with the exception of Rhode Island the fat lady is now humming as she gets closer to bursting into song. 

The increasingly desperate codger is grasping at anything to save him as he gets slowly sucked under by the quicksand of history, like floating the idea of recruiting progressive heroine Elizabeth Warren as his running mate."- (READ MORE)

Reports today say Bernie is ready to lay off hundreds of campaign staff. As the old hunting saying goes: it’s time to call in the dogs and piss on the fire, Bernie

Trump Gets All Foreign Policy and Stuff

Dressed with the trappings of gravitas, Trumps Foreign Policy speech was held at the stately Mayflower Hotel (after a last-minute location change blamed on “overwhelming interest” - from the media) and was presided over by Zalmay Khalilzad, a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq. 

Gaul is supposed to be a big deal, but it’s
nothing. Very disappointing. Terrible hotels. 

Trump used a teleprompter despite the fact that he has mercilessly mocked his rivals for doing the same, saying at one point: “If you’re running for president you shouldn’t be allowed to use a teleprompter.”

I read the text of Trumps Speech. (I did liked the complete sentences) But all in all, it was a bunch of lines from other Trump speeches forced into an outline by some poor speech writer.  I learned nothing new, except that when a text of his usual blather is shoved in front of him, he can deliver it with only minimal digressions into calling things "great", "wonderful" and "tremendous". And by some miracle, the only wall he mentioned was the Berlin one. (really no need, this was not a rally of rabid supporters to lather up) But Trump did give an indication of believing what he was saying. The Big Question left is whether Trump is too big of a flake to live up to executing his own speech once in office.

Get ready to start hearing from the media about how presidential he is, at least until the next rally where he pulls down his pants, waves his dick around, and the crap gets beat out of someone.

Clinton Campaign Unveils New Slogan, Readies to Take on 'The Donald'

With Donald Trump's pronouncement he is the Republican "Presumptive Nominee"
and Bernie Sanders basically toast,  Her Majesty readies to battle the Barbarian. 

Tennessee Pokes a Finger in the Eye of Political Correctness

Looks like the Tennessee Legislature has suddenly grown a pair, and has struck a blow against PC on behalf of the citizens of the state. First  they cut taxes in a big way, then passed a bill that will allow the faculty of the University of Tennessee to carry weapons on campus. And then then went on to defunded the University of Tennessee's “Office of Diversity”. 

Thursday, lawmakers voted on a final version of the bill to defund the UT Office of Diversity and Inclusion. A conference committee finalized a version of the bill that defunds the office for one year. The more than $430,000 will instead fund scholarships for minority engineering students.

And the response from some of the faculty and UT snowflakes was as expected.

This bill caused an uproar at UT Knoxville, with thousands of students and professors walking out of class earlier this week. 

The bill's sponsor says the legislation was in response to diversity office programming like sex week and suggestions that students use non-gender specific pronouns and not mention or observe anything religious when celebrating winter holidays.

"This legislation is a warning shot across the bough to the administration at UT," said bill sponsor Rep. Micah Van Huss.  In some ways we could have done a whole lot more with this legislation." He warned if the UT office did not "get its act together" he would bring similar legislation in the future....."

This all comes on the heels of the university, beginning in the fall semester, revamping charging for faculty and staff parking through a tiered, equitable pay structure. The new employee parking payment structure has four cost levels and is based on an employee’s annual compensation.

No word yet whether the White Male faculty members will be charged an extra "Sir Charge" in the name of gender equality. 

[Channel 5 Nashville]

In Memory of Ol' Blackie

I raised Blackie from a puppy. He wasn't the smartest dog to ever walk the earth. He did a lot of stupid things in his life, like inviting himself to join the cat in a bowl of fresh tuna, drinking out of the toilet, chasing the mailman and attempting to lick honey from the neighborhood beekeeper's hives. One day I took Blackie to the zoo. Blackie would have been 10 Years old today.