How the media and the folks on the Left (but I repeat myself) have taken to the attack on Scott Pruitt….

It all stems, it seems, from his choice to base policy on SCIENCE, rather than fashionable “consensus” Junk Science….He wants an honest assessment of the “data” that is used to make policy….to let everyone examine the methodology and the datasets themselves. To base policy that affects many millions of people and hundreds of millions of dollars on actual, you know, science….

The Left is up in arms, and for good reason. He won’t hear of spending money or making policy where there is no science…or where the data cannot be examines or the methodology is secret…where the results cannot be independently verified or reproduced……

But that has been the modus operandi of the “environmental” folks at the EPA for YEARS…decades, even…..Come up with at theory (generally unresearched and unproven or researched using poor “science”) as to how Mother Gaia is being damaged (usually the fault of some Big Business)…and make a regulation to fix the (nonexistent, or marginal) perceived problem….

Read this

Now, what do we do about it? 

14 high school students dead after truck crashes into bus.

Note that this is nearly the same number of High School kids killed in Parkland.

By a truck driver.

We must do something. Trucks are too easy to get. Truck drivers need to be subject to a more rigorous background check.

(Please note that I am not making light of ANY of those deaths. Both incidents are a tragedy. 14 more kids are dead, and that is terrible.)

I’m just pointing out the illogic of the arguments….

My prayers for the families of the dead and injured.

50 years ago,  or four years ago,  or 3 years ago, or 26 years ago.  No changes to the behavior.

There seems to be a race thing….or a culture thing, or something that makes Black people living in Black neighborhoods periodically riot and burn and loot their own neighborhoods  when they perceive (truthfully or not) that an injustice has been done

Dorothy Tucker of CBS 2 Chicago explains (watch the whole thing at the link,…the video won’t embed).

They rioted and burned….and their neighborhood has never recovered…even 50 years later.

Why don’t other races do that?

Yeah, I know, pointing out the above makes me a rayciss. 

Overheard:

“I didn’t pay any taxes this year, I got money back!”. This from a guy driving a local contractors work truck and wearing a union hat to his buddy at the gas station….

If I had had the time, I might have explained exactly how that part works….Sadly (Or maybe it is better) I didn’t.

No, you idiot, you PAID TOO MUCH every paycheck and at the yearly settlement, you got your EXCESS TAX PAYMENTS back.

It’s no wonder the government and the Media can lead folks around. 

Via Kenny

I’d like to buy this dude a beer. Watch it.

I’m thinkin’ more of us need to follow his example at our city, county and state meetings. 

I don’t see him telling us to carry guns to prevent crime……

Surgeon General suggests that more people carry Naxolone to prevent opioid overdose deaths.

Why not promote the carriage of firearms to prevent all those muggings and shootings (in the streets as well as in schools) such? Especially in places like Chicago, Baltimore, LA and, of course, New Yawk? Just think, after the first week, all those criminals will be aired out and then crime will drop….Leaving more time for the Police to watch for overdoses……

More of that liberal logic, I guess

This is what passes for Liberal logic?

Why a census question about citizenship should worry you, whether you’re a citizen or not

The fallacious premise is that illegals have the same rights to services as citizens.,,,,and that the citizens (via government) have to pay for them. 

Those poor Parkland students.

But the question comes up:

What, exactly, are you hiding there?

What do you NEED an opaque backpack for?

While I applaud the President’s wish to secure the southern border…I think that deploying National Guard troops is a really poor choice of methods. They aren’t policemen, have no arrest powers and are not properly trained nor equipped for the job.

Having said that, they must be effective, as a whole slew of Hispanic advocacy groups are up in arms….The cries are loud that this won’t work, that it is not needed and, of course, “Racism”>

Which, in my opinion, shows where the loyalties lie….Race over country.

Who, exactly, is racist?