The Dallas dead and wounded

Posted on July 8, 2016 | 2 comments

This is why passive,uncooperative Irish Democracy is always a better solution to tyranny than gunfire. Cops in Minnesota and Louisiana killed two black men and a black male sniper in Dallas killed four five police officers and wounded six more, several of them critically.

The Dallas officers obviously weren’t the shooters in Minnesota and Louisiana. So their deaths won’t in any way make the Minnesota and Louisiana police more cautious in the future. Killing the innocent in retaliation is not only stupid. It just escalates the situation all around.

Peace to all of the families of the dead and disabled. Let’s hope it stops before even more die. As the Instapundit says: 1968 sucked the first time around. And it included two political assassinations: Dr. King and Robert Kennedy.

Via FoxNews

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The crook versus the racist

Posted on July 7, 2016 | 4 comments

So some are styling the coming presidential election. The crooked Hildabeast versus the racist Trump. Gonorrhea or syphilis.

Except I think most people of whatever political stripe do believe that she’s a crook whereas whether he’s a racist or not entirely depends on your political viewpoint.

If Trump’s various tweeting peccadillos are racist, well, that’s the sort of nonsense the Democrat news media hangs on every Republican nominee every four years. If his alleged intention to build a wall on the southern border to at least slow down the waves of new, mainly-Hispanic illegals is racism, well shet my mouf and call me a racist, too, ’cause I’m all for the wall. The higher the better. Not that I ever expect to see one—certainly not in the Rio Grande Valley.

But it’s obvious to me (and I think to most Democrats in their heart of hearts) that Mrs. Clinton is incredibly corrupt. Lying and thieving. And her husband and their daughter (barely out of college and worth $15 million already) and their entourage. Not to mention our little Barry Hussein and AG Lynch. Perhaps Comey as well.

But only the Hildabeast is running for president. If she wins she will go down in history as the most corrupt president—even before she takes the oath. Fortunately it won’t really make all that much difference. Not even eight years of her.

As National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson puts it so well: “Yes, it matters who the president is, but not as much as we think. It matters what the character of our government is and who we entrust to run it, but not as much as we think. Jackass A or Jackass B will do his or her worst, to be sure, and the damage will be both real and painful, but America will go on, because America doesn’t actually need these jackasses as much as Americans think.”

Nor the furriners who have no vote and wring their hands over it all from a distance.

Via Althouse

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The end of the rule of law

Posted on July 6, 2016 | Comments Off on The end of the rule of law

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None, unless, like her and her friends, you’re a member of the political elite. It’s naked, crony government, ugly and exposed. Time for Irish Democracy, folks! Silent, dogged resistance. Truculent, passive withdrawal. Rub their uplifted, powdered noses in their own shit.

UPDATE:  Austin Bay is peeved.

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Actually, Comey convicted her

Posted on July 5, 2016 | 11 comments

From commenter John Henry at Althouse:

“First he told us that all the stuff that Hilary was supposed to have done? Yup, she did it. And here’s a couple more things you didn’t know about. He pronounced her guilty.

“Then he said ‘Forget it Jake. It’s Chinatown.’ Oops, no. He didn’t quite use those words. He said:

“‘To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.

“What I hear him saying is ‘She broke all sorts of laws that anyone else would get in deep shit for. But, you know, Hilary. Not even I can touch her.'”

Via Althouse.

UPDATE:  And, having done such a devastating job laying out the evidence against her, Comey’s may have been only the first shoe to drop.

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Here’s a real Independence Day

Posted on July 5, 2016 | 5 comments

To the Hildabeast, Slick Willie and our little Barry Hussein: Fuck off.

“The attorney general secretly canoodles with the husband of the subject of criminal investigation by her own department and the president, the enforcer of our laws, shrugs. The media, the challenger of the powerful, smirks. They rub our noses in their contempt for the law. And by doing so, demonstrate their contempt for us…

“We are not all equal before the law. Our constitutional rights are not being upheld. We are not being defended – hell, we normals get blamed every time some Seventh Century savage goes on a kill spree. Yet we’re still supposed to keep going along as if everything is cool, obeying the law, subsidizing the elite with our taxes, taking their abuse.”

To the Hildabeast, Slick Willie and our little Barry Hussein: We owe you nothing. Not respect. Not loyalty. Not obedience. Try running a country whose citizens pay you no mind. No mind at all.

Via Instapundit

UPDATE:  Far as I’m concerned, Famous But Incompetent’s decision today not to prosecute the Hildabeast was no surprise. The way things work in Washington these days, it was only to be expected. And in no way does it change any of the foregoing.

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Fireworks Day

Posted on July 4, 2016 | Comments Off on Fireworks Day

Calling it Independence Day seems ridiculously inappropriate. Happy 4th, some people say. That’s about right. Fireworks are illegal here in Austin and in most other places, after all.

And as for independence, that’s more historical than factual. We merely traded an actual king for a string of presidents who think they’re kings and a big federal government with thousands of laws which have watered down the constitution that supposedly set us free. And the real king’s historically onerous taxes for theirs.

About the only thing the feds haven’t tried to do to us that King George did is quartering soldiers in our homes. Not yet anyhow. So Happy 4th. At best.

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Grizzley days these

Posted on July 4, 2016 | 2 comments

“I think the word they are looking for is ‘grisly.’ This is the sort of mistake an intelligent high school student wouldn’t make, but those are the sorts of people who don’t seem to be going to work for outfits like CBS News anymore. It is also the kind of mistake that editors used to catch, back in the days when there were editors.”

Too true. Hard to know who to blame. In these days when even the daily farms its printing to San Antonio, its editing to Palm Beach and rumors are afoot of the impending sale of its building. But that’s newspapers. I suppose cBS has been in decline ever since old Dan Rather and his suspenders were booted from the air for reporting a “fake but accurate” story against W.

Via PowerLine.

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