15 Monday May 2017
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Anything post-Roy O., I mean, and especially anything post-Roy Jr.
Pirates allegedly stole a new Pirate movie from the formerly entertaining entertainment company. The motives are unknown. Disney has refused to pay a ransom for the work – maybe even they don’t want it.
Flickr / Disney.
I’m not paying either. Let it go down to Davy Jones locker.
By the way, I did recently re-watch part of a real movie: McClintock!
“…yet!” United Artists / YouTube.
15 Monday May 2017
Posted in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes
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college, firearms, freedom, government, gun control, law, Second Amendment, SJW
The day or week, I can’t recall, I mentioned a federal court case from Kansas, U.S. v. Cox, No. 6:15-cr-10150-JTM-01, 02 (D. Kan., 2016). Cox ran a firearms business, in Kansas, and without an Imperial license. Nominally “protected” by Kansas law, he felt the federal formality unnecessary. The Empire took issue and prosecuted him for breaking its illegal gun control laws.
As part of his defense, Cox challenged those laws – all federal gun control, in fact. He sought a declaration of the truth, that all of these laws run afoul of the Second Amendment. He lost. His Motion to Dismiss and his entire position failed; a jury convicted him of something.
Some maintain hope that either the Tenth Circuit or the Supreme Court will reverse the injustice. I, having tried federal firearms cases and knowing the system like few others, know better. I didn’t need to look far into this matter. The legality really doesn’t matter. Freedom from D.C. comes only when D.C. goes the way of Rome. The good news, by that measure, is that it is now about 470 A.D. Tick, tick, tick.
However, the smaller victories come forth on a near daily basis. Today, even the looniest of the lefties – once the most ardent gun grabbers – open tote ARs in the streets. Given enough time, and if they don’t shoot themselves in the process, this may actually turn them into real Americans. The rest of us are armed to the teeth and enjoy one legal success after another.
State after state after state, the gun controls continue to break down. For example, one jurisdiction after another passes some form of “campus carry”, allowing guns at colleges. This improves safety and civic atmosphere. It also has other, unexpected but tangible, benefits.
The prospect of a man or men, armed, in the classroom, drives the communist professors nuts. It also drives them out the door.
An associate professor at the University of Kansas has publicly resigned in protest of the school’s new weapons policy allowing students to carry concealed guns on campus.
Jacob Dorman, an associate professor of history and American studies at the university for the past 10 years, had his resignation letter published Friday by the The Topeka Capital-Journal.
“Kansas can have great universities, or it can have concealed carry in classrooms, but it cannot have both,” he wrote. “Let us not let the NRA destroy the future of the state of Kansas with a specious argument about the Second Amendment.”
Actually, professor, they can have both. The facts of the new law and your departure prove that. This could have far-ranging positive ramifications.
Cox lost but the students of higher education in Kansas won. (The geographic location of both these stories was a coincidence.
The students, now free to carry, are free from the fear of the likes of Abdul Artan or Dylan Roof. Freedom and safety, together. Very nice. And, with the riddance of people like Dorman, they now stand to actually get an education.
This map is already out of date. NCSL.
Dorman, formerly a KU “history” professor, theorized both Amerika and the Harlem “Renaissance.” He wrote a both about chosen black Israelites and is writing one about Black Muslim black magic in the Orient … or something. All to do with Amerikan history, you know. He’ll now do that some place else. Going forward, the Kansas students, while actually learning, will have to come up with their own fantastic fairy tales.
The morals, here, are several. Live free. Humor the idiot empire; pay their bribes and buy their licenses and laugh. Project and protect freedom and intellectualism on campus. Watch the SJWs run.
This is real American history in the making.
14 Sunday May 2017
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Don’t get caught in the next wave.
Security experts are warning that the global cyberattack that began on Friday is likely to be magnified in the new workweek as users return to their offices and turn on their computers.
Many workers, particularly in Asia, had logged off on Friday before the malicious software, stolen from the United States government, began proliferating across computer systems around the world. So the true effect of the attack may emerge on Monday as employees return and log in.
Moreover, copycat variants of the malicious software behind the attacks have begun to spread, according to experts. “We are in the second wave,” said Matthieu Suiche of Comae Technologies, a cybersecurity company based in the United Arab Emirates. “As expected, the attackers have released new variants of the malware. We can surely expect more.”
This monster seems to be mainly aimed at Microsoft products. For God’s sake, update everything and protect yourselves. Yesterday, a former NSA hacker friend told me where to find a video lecture on this system (also by a former NSA hacker) and how to beat it – that I totally forgot…. Another friend, a brewery consultant, had copious amounts of his latest creation on hand… Umm….
Anyway, the hunt is on (even as I suggested Friday) for the attackers.
International investigators are hunting for those behind an unprecedented cyber-attack that affected systems in dozens of countries, including at banks, hospitals and government agencies, as security experts sought to contain the fallout.
The assault, which began Friday and was being described as the biggest-ever cyber ransom attack, struck state agencies and major companies around the world — from Russian banks and British hospitals to FedEx and European car factories.
“The recent attack is at an unprecedented level and will require a complex international investigation to identify the culprits,” said Europol, Europe’s police agency.
Europol said a special task force at its European Cybercrime Centre was “specially designed to assist in such investigations and will play an important role in supporting the investigation”.
Be careful when you open emails. Except from me. My email list is ready for a beta-test and I may (after this crap settles) soon send out a salvo. It’ll be fun. Promise.
Brain Pop.
13 Saturday May 2017
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America, government, media, news, truth
Charles Krauthammer recently said on Fox News that, given the GOP-DNC-Comey-Russia-Trump-media mania and mass misinformation campaign, that the American people increasingly have nowhere to turn for accurate information. Considering that the mass media is mostly owned for four or five large companies, all beholden to special interests and incestuously tied to the crazed government in D.C., it makes perfect sense. Of course, I’m not sure most people want accurate information. Air conditioning, cable, and beer – yes. Info – maybe not.
These trends are doing to the media and reporting what a lack of income has done to retail – killing it, slowly but surely.
Consequently, a new study shows the number of reporters on the streets, digging up facts, is collapsing. A snapshot of the largest media markets over the past ten years or so:
BLS / Apartment List.
Odds are your city has 100 reporters or less. A few places are growing – D.C. especially – but the overall trend is down, precipitously.
At the rate things are going, I calculate that by 2027 we will be down to just 11 reporters nationwide. Two of those will be Russian hackers, the rest robots.
Enjoy the AC and TV.
12 Friday May 2017
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Hackers are demanding money to unlock computers in multiple countries following a massive ransom-wear attack. England is particularly hard hit.
LONDON — Hackers exploiting data stolen from the United States government conducted extensive cyberattacks on Friday that hit dozens of countries around the world, severely disrupting Britain’s public health system and wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of computers elsewhere.
Hospitals in Britain appeared to be the most severely affected by the attacks, which aimed to blackmail computer users by seizing their data. The attacks blocked doctors’ access to patient files and forced emergency rooms to divert people seeking urgent care.
Corporate computer systems in many other countries — including FedEx of the United States, one of the world’s leading international shippers — were among those affected.
The kicker is that the malicious software used was developed by the NSA in America – to protect us and such. Just as similar hacking tools from the CIA were recently made public, so the NSA has a hard time keeping track of its cyber weapons. Way to go, government.
In this case, people’s lives are at stake. It sounds like no British NHS patients died but they could have. They were certainly inconvenienced. This is more than a breach of privacy. This is an act of terrorism or of war. It should be treated as such. Perhaps one government can clean up the mess caused by another.
Tracking down the hackers will be very difficult. Still, I imagine it could be done. And it should be. Theresa May should turn MI6 loose with orders to hunt down and eradicate the vermin – in Africa, Russia, Mexico – wherever they’re hiding.
And maybe the Military-Security Complex can do a better job of managing its monsters. That, or just not have them.
Eon / United Artists.
11 Thursday May 2017
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America, culture, history, Jeff Davis, New Orleans, race, society, stupid
I congratulate the City of New Orleans and its upstanding citizens on their successful removal of the Statue of Jefferson Davis, first, last, and greatest President of the C.S.A.
Workers in New Orleans in the early hours of Thursday took down a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. It was the second of four such statues or monuments targeted for removal as city officials seek to erase the vestiges of an era that celebrated white supremacy and racism.
Crews, wearing masks to cover their faces, worked under a heavy police presence starting at 3 a.m. to dismantle the statue, which was erected in 1911, nearly 50 years after the end of the war, and commissioned by the Jefferson Davis Memorial Association.
Wearing masks over their faces … like the Klan. Irony lost, certainly.
Begone, era of white supremacy and racism! Begone, history, heritage, pride and civility! Hell, begone all ye old, dirty, usurping, 0-culture crackers! Comes now the era of the SJW, the post-1965 Amerika!
Annie Flanagan / Carlos Slim’s Blog.
But, seriously, congratulations to the people of the Big High-Crime Drainage Ditch. All their problems are now solved. Never again need they fear: ridiculously, hilariously failed schools; high unemployment; crime to make Detroit wince; gangs; drugs; welfare careerism by the generation; illiteracy; an economy as stagnant as their beloved swamp; the swamp; 110% humidity; tropical diseases; public corruption; public urination; public vomiting; vagrancy; illegal gun raids; looters; Superdome sodomy and rape sprees; police looters, and; the next Katrina.
Getting rid of one old white man accomplished so much. Two men – I think they did away with Gen. Beauregard too, him and his horse. Two men and a horse gone and N.O. becomes paradise on earth. It’s like Newspeak for the statuary aware – out with the old and tainted and in with a better, brighter, if lower and dumber future. You will see this improvement immediately upon your next visit to N’Awlins. You will; I’ve made my last trip.
This pitiful episode, and the hundreds like it around the faltering U.S., do lend some optimism to the prospect of one day tearing down other monuments – those to Amerika’s favorite plagiarist, drunken womanizer, and communist. I think the FBI files will be unsealed in ten years or so.
Until then, in honor of anti-Southern hatred in N’Awlins and elsewhere, I leave you with this:
I do not give a damn!
08 Monday May 2017
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Or something.
I’ve held back on all of the steerage-class aviation disaster stories of late because there’s very little to say about them. If you’re an adult in America today, then you should know exactly what kind of torture you’re signing up for when you willingly climb aboard a commercial sardine can in the sky.
I even refrained from commenting on the terrible demise of Simon, the giant rabbit, the most famous bunny since Bugs. Today I actually looked into the story and found it more pitiful than I had imagined. Simon, alone of all the recent victims, has my sympathy. He did not independently agree to his fate.
R.I.P. Simon. USA Today.
All of this got me thinking about “accepting fate.” That is something one does not have to do – not without a fight. For more on that, please read James Altucher’s wisdom:
How To Start Over At 40 [or any age]
Remember: as bad as it might be, you’re not Simon.
08 Monday May 2017
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Last night, in congratulating Mr. Macron, I wrote: “I assume ISIS will get back to work this week or this month. Tonight they breath an understandable sigh of relief. Five more years of attacks should be all that’s needed to swing the majority around.”
I was right. They got right back to … something … just one day after the election.
ONE of the busiest train stations in Europe was placed on lockdown as heavily armed cops reportedly hunted for ‘three dangerous men’.
French authorities confirmed a police operation was underway at Gare du Nord – the station at which Eurostar trains arrive in Paris from London.
The Paris police headquarters said the operation was to “dispel any doubt” about a threat, but would not give more details.
However reports in Le Parisien claimed cops were hunting for “three dangerous men”.
Officers are said to have emptied a train of more than 200 people that was arriving from the northern town of Valenciennes as they searched for the trio, whose profiles were apparently flagged to French security chiefs by a “partner country” on Friday.
Since then, there have been three reported sightings in Paris, Marseille and Bordeaux.
The latest sighting was made by a conductor and a ticket vendor, the paper claimed, and sparked the huge police presence.
Macron’s New Normal. The Sun.
Could be anything, could be nothing. Maybe just a little preemptive, overreaction by the cops. It could be any three dangerous men. Surely it’s no reason to regret turning the national back on the candidate dedicated to stopping this sh!t.
The comments (so far) are hilarious:
edmond day 2 minutes ago
The FROGS are coming out of the sewer.
Kevin Roberts 4 minutes ago
The world will now get to watch what happens when you turn a European nation over to muslim-sympatico simpering Lib.
Enjoy what’s left of your future, France.
Ron Duibs 12 minutes ago
You French asked for this why bother us now, if they kill some of you that is macron’s new normal, stop bothering the rest of us just accept your fate.
chiangmai1 14 minutes ago
you voted for your man macron.you get what u voted for well done
Edward Studor 19 minutes ago
This is what you wanted France. The mass stupidity of a nation voting for more of this is beyond belief.
Bob she 20 minutes ago
Emboldened by Macrons win, not appeased.
Chico CDM 18 minutes ago
Nothing appeases Muslims other than being burried with a missing head.
Chico CDM 25 minutes ago
Thank the left for mass importing Muslims, helping them build mosques and protecting their vile behavior as the new norm. Thank your left wing friends and politicians.
Minnie Hallman 26 minutes ago
Macrons favorite people…….Muslim terrorists.
Chico CDM 29 minutes ago
ISLAM.
All this jumping to conclusions… Logical, rational, going to be 100% correct conclusions.
05 Friday May 2017
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The TSA has issued a warning report to trucking companies about ISIS’s designs to use large vehicles as weapons of mass destruction.
Truck owners and truck rental agencies in the U.S. must be “vigilant” about the increasing frequency of “ramming attacks” by terrorists using vehicles as killing machines, according to a new Transportation Security Administration report obtained exclusively by NBC News.
The unclassified report warns owners, operators and rental agencies to protect their vehicles from theft. Entitled “Vehicle ramming attacks: Threat landscape, indicators and counter measures,” the report was sent Tuesday to local law enforcement agencies and private companies working with the Department of Homeland Security.
The report notes that in the past three years, at least 173 people have been killed and more than 700 wounded in 17 ramming attacks around the world. Of the 17 attacks, 13 resulted in fatalities. Five were carried out in France both before and after the Nice attack and four took place in Israel.
With nearly 1,000 victims in year or so, this isn’t idle speculation. The warning seems a little late. And it does nothing to address the knife attacks, shootings, and bombing perpetrated by terrorists. ISIS even suggests their agents use rocks as deadly weapons.
What’s the solution, here? Ban trucks? There’s a lot of them and their rather needed. Ban knives? The same but in even greater numbers. The left would love to ban guns but that’s not going to happen – nor would it help. And there is no way to ban all the everyday items and chemicals that one can use to make a bomb. Then there are other weapons.
NBC.
Why not just ban the terrorists. Literally, physically kick them out of the U.S. and refuse to allow another single one inside. apparently that’s not going to happen either.
I have a sneaking suspicion about all of this. Government loves to expand its reach and power. The TSA has already made flying a nightmare. Perhaps they wish to extend their intrusive, costly, and useless security theater to the roads? Trucking would be a good place to start. If it was a start. They’ve already been working that plan. And they, and ICE, claim border authority hundreds of miles form any actual border.
None of this I like. I also can’t fathom why my legitimate solutions are routinely ignored. Maybe the government isn’t really out to fight terrorism. Maybe we’re their enemy. That would make them ours.
03 Wednesday May 2017
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The final leg of the French Presidential Election is heating up. Sunday’s vote may decide the fate of the nation, maybe of Europe.
Emmanuel Macron’s majority in the polls is slipping hard and fast as the people consider whether they want an agent of the Rothschild Clan running France. Note: he’s not just a friend or former agent of an associated outfit – He actually worked for the Beast itself.
Last minute endorsements are coming in. The establishment, in Paris and around the Continent, is behind the banker boy wonder. Now, Mrs. Le Pen can boast a far better (and better looking) supporter – Brigitte Bardot.
The French film icon Brigitte Bardot has urged her fellow countrymen not to vote for Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential election on Sunday, saying you can see his lack of compassion in “the coldness of his steel eyes”.
The animal rights campaigner tweeted to her followers that they should not vote Macron, fearing the situation for animals would deteriorate under his presidency.
“The contempt he gives to animal suffering can be seen in the total lack of empathy reflected in the coldness of his steel eyes.
“Whilst the scandals are increasing, he takes the side of the animal breeders and the hunters against animal rights associations that are fighting with the lobbies that seem to have power over this candidate.”
One of the best-known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, Bardot came out as a supporter of populist candidate Marine Le Pen at the beginning of the year. In a wide-ranging interview with Le Figaro that touched upon cultural issues, Ms. Bardot was asked what she thought of contemporary culture.
“We live in a period when everything is vulgar, ordinary, and mediocre,” Bardot said. “France no longer has the radiance, the majesty it had.”
When asked if she was close to Le Pen’s anti-mass migration party, the Front National, the actress responded:
“I am very patriotic. I was raised by a father and a grandfather who fought for France and instilled in me a love of my homeland. I am not proud of what France is today… I’m not a ‘facho’ [fascist], any more than Marine Le Pen is.”
“Marine Le Pen has the will to take France in hand, to restore borders and give priority to the French.”
Wow! Do as she says… The Independent, UK.
The French a priority in France. Who could imagine that?
The endorsements are telling:
The evil globalist establishment and the original criminal banksters support Macron. A nearly blinding beauty, concerned with beauty and love of her people, supports Le Pen. If you don’t side with B.B., you’re worse than a communist.
Le 7 mai, honorez Bardot – Votez Le Pen. Sauvez la France!
PERRIN LOVETT 
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