It’s Wednesday, January 25th, 2023…but before we begin:
EDITOR’S NOTE: Be 100% certain to catch both our Video of the Day and Tales of The Darksideofferings accessible through links #2 and #3 respectively at the top of the page immediately below the Quote of the Day. They feature two Republican congressmen, California’s Tom McClintock and Texan Chip Roy, offering the cold, hard undeniable facts of green energy and the 2nd Amendment respectively, in a most refreshing fashion.
In a related item, it takes incredible chutzpah for L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna to offer this description…
“…Gun-control advocates have a problem here, in that they are calling for the ban of a weapon that is already illegal. The state can increase the criminal penalties for possessing one, but it cannot ban it harder.
California has the strongest gun safety laws in the nation and has been a trailblazer for gun safety reform for the past 30 years. California has been the first state in the nation to adopt a number of gun safety reforms, ranging from assault weapons restrictions and strong background check requirements to extreme risk protection orders and domestic violence protections.
Fines and jail time are in place to punish but also to deter crime. But the mass shooter in Monterey Park clearly didn’t care about any laws, legal or moral. That shooter committed suicide as police closed in. How do you deter someone who is willing to die? In cases of “suicide by cop,” how do you deter someone whose goal is to be killed in a shootout with police?
While it is possible that the 72-year-old mass shooter traveled to another state to legally purchase his Cobray M11, it is likely he purchased his weapon on the black market.
Last year, Newsom signed the nation’s first legislation allowing individuals to sue those people spreading illegal guns as California continues to ramp up its gun-safety protections. The law allows Californians to “sue those making, selling, transporting or distributing illegal assault weapons and ghost guns — guns made at home to avoid tracing — for damages of at least $10,000 per weapon involved. The same damages are also available against gun dealers who illegally sell firearms to those under 21 years of age.”
You probably noticed the word “illegal” in there, meaning California is enabling civil lawsuits as an additional consequence to breaking the law. “Manufacturing, distributing, transporting, importing, selling or giving away assault weapons” can carry a penalty of up to eight years in prison. It is fair to wonder just how much those who are willing to risk eight years in San Quentin to sell guns illegally will be deterred by the threat of lawsuits down the line.
This is the distilled essence of the modern gun-control movement: throwing additional civil penalties atop the considerable criminal penalties imposed on illegal-gun dealers, in the hopes of keeping guns out of the hands of those who, because they are not in their rights minds and don’t necessarily plan on living long enough to face justice for the crimes they intend to commit, will go to nearly any length to procure weapons.“
And now another aged Asian male, 67-year-old Zhao Chunli, has killed again. The problem here are not the inanimate objects protected under the 2nd Amendment, but rather, as shown in this scene from The Jerk…
This is in no way to make light of what happened in Monterrey Park and Half Moon Bay, only to correctly identify the true cause of the killings.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, given the abject failure and counterproductive destruction which characterized 46*’s WuFlu response, reading this headline…
…we were struck by the fact abject failure seems the only discernible achievement of almost every Biden appointee. Sorta like Mayor Pete’s undeniable ineptitude being rewarded with significantly greater responsibilities.
Since we’re on the subject of undeniable ineptitude, Best of the Web reports on…
“There’s at least one virtue of having a president who has occupied senior federal office for all but four years of the last half century—and who supported massive government expansion even during the brief period when he was not occupying federal office. Joe Biden cannot reasonably blame predecessors for the federal debt pile that is now larger than the entire U.S. economy. According to the Treasury, more than 90% of U.S. government debt has accumulated since Mr. Biden joined the Senate in January of 1973. Over his decades in Congress and in the White House—and of course as the shutdown candidate of 2020—Mr. Biden has been a consistent advocate for higher federal spending.
Can you name anyone who bears more responsibility than our president for the staggering debt burden now being imposed upon America’s children? Beyond Mr. Biden’s Senate body of work and his presidential spending blowout for a pandemic emergency that had already ended, there are also the specific policies on student loans that recently accelerated the speed at which Washington collided with the statutory debt limit.
Now the president wants to rewrite the law to increase this debt limit but he currently lacks the necessary votes in either house of Congress. Normally when a president believes a change in law is necessary but faces opposition among the people’s representatives, he undertakes what is called a negotiation. But Mr. Biden refuses and insists that lawmakers must allow federal debt to continue to rise without any reform of federal spending.
Consistent with his Beltway history, he seems to be making no effort at all to restore sound fiscal policy. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget notes today:
Press reports indicate that President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget will be submitted this March, well after the statutory deadline of the first Monday in February. This is the third year in a row that the President has missed the budget submission deadline, and it likely means that the rest of the Congressional budget process will be delayed.
Whenever the Biden budget arrives, don’t expect it to include sensible spending restraints.
Political pundits are giving him cover to continue the accumulation of debt by presenting reliable recklessness as the greatest of political virtues. The conventional media view is that politicians are not allowed to act wisely to restrain spending now if they previously acted unwisely under different political circumstances. As if taxpayers must now suffer and the United States must continue on the path to financial ruin in order to prevent politicians from being revealed as hypocritical…”
If fiscal responsibility were brains, the collective IQ of the entire Washington establishment when squared would grow smaller. It’s not funny, it’s not sad, it’s downright criminal.
Speaking of criminals, in the Res Ipsa Loquitur segment, ICYMI, we’re told the…
Family of 6-year-old Virginia student who shot his teacher breaks silence, insists gun was secured
“The family of a 6-year-old Virginia student who police say shot his teacher inside his classroom in early January is now speaking out, saying the firearm the child brought to school was “secured” and that they are praying for the teacher who was struck.
…“Our heart goes out to our son’s teacher and we pray for her healing in the aftermath of such an unimaginable tragedy as she selflessly served our son and the children in the school,” the child’s family said Thursday in a statement issued by their attorney.
The statement said the weapon used in the shooting, which police said was a 9-millimeter Taurus handgun, had been “secured.” “Our family has always been committed to responsible gun ownership and keeping firearms out of the reach of children,” the statement added, but did not elaborate on where the gun was being kept prior to the shooting.
The family said the child involved in the shooting “suffers from an acute disability and was under a care plan at the school that included his mother or father attending school with him and accompanying him to class every day,” yet the week of the shooting “was the first week when we were not in class with him.” “We will regret our absence on this day for the rest of our lives,” the statement read, also revealing that the child has since “been under hospital care and receiving the treatment he needs.” …”
Res ispa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself: Your developmentally-challenged son carried your 9mm Taurus to school and shot his teacher. There is NO WAY ON EARTH that handgun could have been “secured”.
“Last week’s rejection by Florida governor Ron DeSantis of the College Board’s pilot AP African-American Studies (APAAS) course has kicked up a controversy. Last Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre falsely accused DeSantis of trying to “block . . . the study of black Americans.” In reality, DeSantis barred only this specific and very biased APAAS course plan — while inviting the College Board to revise it. Florida’s Stop WOKE Act actually mandates the teaching of a series of topics in the history of black Americans, from slavery, racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination, to the overcoming of these injustices, and more. So there is no question here of “blocking the study of black Americans.” The issue is what specific sort of curriculum a given state should favor.
The debate over APAAS has been complicated by the College Board’s secrecy. The College Board has steadfastly refused to release the APAAS curriculum framework or associated materials. Nonetheless, I obtained a copy of the APAAS curriculum and wrote about it in September, laying out its socialist agenda and its promotion of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Unfortunately, no one could judge the accuracy of my characterization because the curriculum remained secret. I confined myself at the time to a “fair use” discussion of the framework, declining to publish the full curriculum out of respect for the College Board’s insistence that it was a “trade secret.” In the wake of the controversy, however, the Florida Standard newspaper has obtained a copy of the pilot APAAS curriculum and made it public.
In another new development, I have now obtained a copy of a second document, the “APAAS Pilot Course Guide,” a manual designed for use by teachers. Taken together, the curriculum framework and the teacher’s guide expand our understanding of the course in a way that confirms the wisdom of DeSantis’s decision.
…In short, as I argued last September, the final quarter of APAAS conveys and promotes a story of leftist political radicalism as a model for student activism. That radicalism is grounded in Marxist socialism, is far from averse to violence, and is consistent with the core assumptions of CRT. Virtually no conventional liberal or conservative voices emerge in the final quarter of the course to contradict this narrative. So the additional information provided by the still-secret APAAS teacher’s guide, a copy of which I have now obtained, confirms what we already knew.DeSantis was right to block this course. Indoctrination in socialism and CRT have no place in Florida schools. Both are rightly prohibited by law and policy.
And now, with new evidence confirming the radicalism of APAAS, what will other governors say and do?“
Having successfully obtained the still-secret APAAS teacher’s guide, maybe Kurtz can score a copy of Obama’s college transcripts.
Moving on, here’s a sextet of special selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
(1). Watch as a school administrator in Ohio admits what anyone with half a clue already knows:
BREAKING: Ohio administrators pledge to “trick parents” if Ohio passes a ban on critical race theory.
Here’s the juice: At the conclusion of the video, both NYU Professor Stephen Gillers and narrator Bill Curtis were confused, in Gillers case because Maddox, Mason and Sharpton didn’t “disserve” their cause. Like every good race hustler, their “cause” was and remains THEMSELVES. And Curtis’ comments notwithstanding, the COUNTRY doesn’t have a long way to go, rather the likes of Obama, Biden, Black Lies Matter, the “Reverends” and so many more are allowed by a pliant Liberal MSM to manufacture false racial incidents in their pursuit of personal power and profit.
“…The motive for the shooting is unclear, with police saying that they found King “suffering from trauma sustained by a firearm” after responding to a home in the 2100 block of Presbury Street. King later was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Charging documents citing Wilson’s stepfather said Devin recently expressed an interest in shooting guns and was taken to a gun range for his 18th birthday, WBFF reports. Wilson’s stepfather also told police that the 18-year-old traded a puppy for the shotgun used in the shooting…”
Do we understand this right: The stepfather knew the 18-year-old traded a puppy for a shotgun?!? They’re not known as Baltimorons by chance.
Magoo
Video of the Day
Courtesy of our energy correspondent Jeff Foutch, California congressman Tom McClintock schools a Socialist on the realities of their green energy goals.
Tales of The Darkside
Texan Chip Roy schools Andrew Nadler on the usefulness of semi-automatic weapons and the true purpose of the 2nd Amendment.
On the Lighter Side
More great moments in unintended consequences; Which begs the question, how ignorant and/or ill-advised must the intentions be before they become meaningless?
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