Whoah

Las Vegas shooting.

Early reports say the gunman shot from a hotel window. (Other say there were several shooters, so we really don’t know). Sniper(s) from above at the crowd at the concert.

50 dead, 200 injured. Suspect is named as Stephen Paddock.

Prayers for the folks there.

ETA: AAAND the Gun Control propaganda has already started. Plus “Fully Automatic Weapons”!!! and “Any Assault Weapon is easily converted” (which is bullshit).

But they cannot help but dance in the blood of the victims, can they?

ETA2: something odd about this. A 60+ year old from an ASSISTED LIVING facility did this? 

An example:

Of the real reason why we need the Second Amendment.

Borepatch shows one good one.

The police can be stormtroopers in Spain, as there is really no right to own firearms, and everything must be licensed and each license is difficult to obtain.

Therefore the police can run amok and few can stop them. The “citizens” have no real way to fight back.

They can do that here in the US too…..once. Then the citizens can take the offensive if the need arises.

Let us hope we never get to that point here. 

Bummer

No more of those books that the Left and (most of) our government think we should not have access to.

Seems that Paladin Press has fallen on hard times and will close after 40+ years of publishing. So long to the “most dangerous publisher in the world”.

If there is something of theirs you were thinking about buying, do it now. There will be no more orders after Nov 28th.

One wonders what some of those guys at the gunshows will sell now?

Just so you know:

Today, in 1960, was the day TheFlintstones was first broadcast.

This was the first animated show ever to be broadcast in prime time.

And generation of kids watched it in reruns for DECADES.

Lack of communication

Didja ever notice that some folks (CoughLeftistsCough) hear what they *think* you said rather than what you actually said? And no matter how carefully you phrase something, they hear it through the filter of their preconceptions.

Even after you carefully repeat your statement, then carefully rephrase it?

How do you communicate with folks like that? When they cannot overcome their biases to actually hear what you said (or wrote).

(Yes, I am referring to CP and others)

And can’t we all say that about our jobs?

 “I’m really good at it, and I really like it. And it’s heartbreaking to me it doesn’t pay what I feel it should.” Read that again: It isn’t fair that I can’t get paid what I want for what I want to do…

My heart bleeds for her. We’d all like to make more money at what we do.

We all gotta make choices. Sometimes it means doing what we gotta rather than what we want to do as a career. If what we want to do doesn’t pay enough, the we gotta find something that does. One does not have to be an academic.

Like I said:

Puerto Rico’s issues are cause by Puerto Rico’s government.

Much like Hurricanes Katrina, the planning, response post hurricane and recovery was, to a large extent, helped or hindered  by the local and state government’s competence (or lack, in some cases) (compare the recovery of Louisiana to Mississippi ferinstance).

Puerto Rico’s government has, apparently no competetence.

The aid is there, the containers are piling up by the thousands, but there are no cleared roads to take it anywhere….and there is no plan as to where to take it. No one knows what is needed, or where, and no one has planned clearing of any routes to those locations that they haven’t planned, nor have they arranged any method of transportation to get it there.

The failures here are not those of George Bush Trump, but of (again) the liberal government officials. It ain’t like this is the first time a hurricane has hit the island. What damage will happen, and where, and how much aid and where (and how) to distribute it should be an easy plan to make, really.