Monthly Archives: July 2020

Less-lethal self-defense

I like the pepper ball gun, which looks less like a weapon and more like a rolled up magazine. But all five are good alternatives. Especially the steel Shillelagh.

Not that I get out much but it couldn’t hurt to be prepared, especially in a town where the lib pols have defunded the police by $11 million.

Via Instapundit

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Rule 5: Nathi Figueiredo

Send in the feds

For years now we’ve been hearing about how multiple federal agencies have SWAT-like forces for emergencies. This would seem to be one in Portland (after 50 days of escalating “protests”) and, indeed, feds are being dispatched, using tear-gas to disperse the mobs around the federal courthouse and making arrests.

Brilliant, really, on Trump’s part. Takes the onus off federalizing the guard and avoids the controversy that would come with sending in the active-duty army. Although local Dimocrat officials, who have preferred mob rule, are protesting, they aren’t being heard.

Via Fox News

Wuhan Diary

Interesting memoir by a prominent Chinese writer about the early China virus days at the initial epicenter of Wuhan—comparable in size to Chicago. So far (up to entries of early February) no mention about the authorities then welding virus sufferers into their apartment buildings, presumably to enforce quarantine. Maybe mention will come later in the book. Stay tuned.

UPDATE:  Finally, on Valentine’s Day, she wrote this: We need “just a little more humanistic spirit…just enough so that when someone is infected with coronavirus, a crowd of people doesn’t end up sealing their front door with a steel rod so that everyone is locked inside…” Note it’s not the authorities who do it but just “a crowd of people.”

NFL on the brink

“If the multibillion-dollar NFL decides that multimillionaire players have no obligation to stand to honor a collective national anthem, and that there will be separate anthems and politicized uniforms, then millions of Americans will quietly shrug and change the channel.”—-Victor Davis Hanson at PJMedia

Because some lives don’t matter

Protesters Spell Out ‘Love’ With Burning Homes And Businesses

Via The Babylon Bee

Texas: seasonal flu worse than China virus

While the Mediacrats and their Dimocrat puppeteers go off on Texas for reopening amid rising positive tests of the China virus, here’s one you won’t likely hear from them:

The last two seasonal flu outbreaks in Texas were four times as lethal.

That is, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, almost 12,000 died in 2017-18, October to October, and the 2018-19 toll was just more than 10,000. To date, the China virus has killed a little more than 3,000, with just three months to go until October.

The seasonal flu deserves a lot more media and government attention and the China virus deserves a lot less.

Via  Gateway Pundit

UPDATE:  Gov. Abbott says there are no plans to shut down the state’s economy again.