Entertaining as always, but with a healthy dose of WTFery when he discusses the condition of the Moskva prior to being attacked. It’s… kinda astonishing. A ship that on paper was damned impressive, capable of dishing out heaps of violence, and able to defend itself from heaps of violence, turned out to be almost wholly inoperable. With an unforeseen diversion into the One True Cross, because apparently a chunk of it was on the Moskva. Whoopsie.
It seems like anytime anyone mentions the new “SAFE-T Act” in Illinois, some reference to “The Purge” is made. What the Act will do, among other things, is end the cash bail system. There are good arguments for and against ending cash bail, where someone can pay a chunk of change to be able to go home and begin work on their defense. But what the Act does is *not* to end bail so that everyone arrested for a crime has to stay in jail, but instead to send a lot of violent offenders straight home. This is part and parcel of the “defund the police” movement and the “abolish prison” movement. It’s a step towards legalizing violent crime.
Memphis had a spree shooting incident a few days ago. Why did the shooter, one Ezekiel Kelly, do this? Hard to say. But there’s a little detail that seems kinda important. A detail that had it been different, might have led to a very different outcome. From THIS LINK:
In February 2020, Kelly was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, possession of a firearm and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, court records obtained by Heavy show. A grand jury indicted on him on those charges in June 2020. He was 17 years old at the time.
He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in April 2021 and was sentenced to three years in prison. Kelly served only 11 months in prison and was released only about six months ago, authorities said in the news conference.
Huh.
For starters, he tried to murder someone and was sentenced to only three years… and then only served eleven months. If the justice system actually worked, he would still be in the early stages of his “life plus ninety days to help stink up the joint” sentence. Murderers – actual murderers, not people who kill in self defense, or purely accidentally, etc. – need to be separated from society *permanently.* And attempted murderers are simply murderers who are slightly less competent, and thus should receive the same sentence.
People need to start suing government officials responsible for letting murderers walk among us.
“Rings of Power” is – so far – bad television, worse politics and *terrible* Tolkein. But what it’s good at is inspiring humor.
Normally, the role should go to Charles. But this is Modern Britain. The idea of a white ethnically British male getting the job? Pffff.
From yesterday:
Britain went from being a globe-spanning colonizing power to being colonized by the globe.
Nearly two decades ago, a lesbian named Norah Vincent decided to go through a substantial level of effort – working out, makeup, voice training, etc. – to be able to pass as a man. She spent 18 months being a “man,” and wrote a book about her experiences, the summary being “men have it hard too.” This was not exactly a shatteringly surprising conclusion for men, but it seemed to surprise a bunch of women who yammer on about “male privilege” and “patriarchy” and other such things that have never seemed to provide me with so much as a dime. Shrug. Well, she’s back in the news:
To be fair, the story here seems to be missing a lot of details. For, example, *why* exactly she self-deleted. The author seems to conclude that her experiences as a man screwed her up… but that was a decade and a half ago. Given the dearth of details, there could have been a whole laundry list of other problems that cropped up in that time that led to her end. A New York Times article about her is similarly lacking in details.
Project Veritas filmed another assistant principal talking proudly about how he gets rid of teachers based on their politics. But this time, not only are his actions criminals… so are his speech patterns. This guy does that wretched “uptalk” thing that the smugwoke do regularly, and it makes him difficult to listen to.
If this is true, it speaks volumes about the Russian military:
“IF” being an important word there. This could be true; it could be false. If it’s false, it could be:
1) Western intelligence disinformation (not clear what the point of that would be)
2) Western intelligence misunderstanding/mistake (believable if it’s the same nitwits who plunged the world into the Biden Recession thanks to RussiaGate)
3) It’s actually Chinese weaponry, but filtered through North Korea because… reasons.
Buying North Korean weapons is a violation of UN Security Council Resolutions on North Korea. I suspect Putin doesn’t care. I guess I’d more or less trust Nork artillery shells to generally work, but I’d be leery of any missiles. Of coourse, it would be the height of jocular hijinks to sneak into the Nork shipments and tinker with the artillery shells so that every now and then they detonate immediately. A reasonable chuckle will be had by all!
… it doesn’t actually point to specific solutions. Such can of course be inferred, but it would be nice if some candidates or such ran this ad with “And vote for me or something, I dunno, let’s try something different, anyway.” It would also be a good lead-in to The Labor Day AR-15 Sale at Big Jim’s Gun Emporium.
As rants go, this one is both entertaining and on the mark: