Dec 212022
 

The great majority of the time when someone says “there aught to be a law,” there really aughtn’t. But a law I’d get behind: any new bill in Congress must be read, in it entirety, on the floor of the House and Senate by those who wrote and co-sponsored it before it is allowed to come up to vote. Only those who sat there and listened to at least 75% of the reading would be allowed to vote on the bill; those who weren’t there are automatically registered as “no” votes. This would have the effect of making bills *vastly* smaller than the bloated monstrosities they’ve become.

Take, for example, the latest budget. The R. Lee Ermey bit at the end wholly encapsulates things.

 Posted by at 3:58 am
Dec 152022
 

Tell me if this sounds familiar: convicted felon out on parole commits murder. This time, execution-style multiple murder on the street because he was asked to leave a birthday party.

Even in Illinois, it is illegal for a felon on parole to have a pistol. So yet another Gun Grab Success Story as well.

 

There is, of course, a solution for this sort of thing. The killer here was charged with first degree murder (in a home invasion) in 2009, but got a lesser sentence because his co-defendant admitted to the killing (which should nevertheless have made him complicit in felony murder). He was paroled in October. Had he been sentenced to life without parole or, better, death, or  even better, jettisoning off Earth towards the moon via mass driver, this problem would not have occurred.

 

This is what “progressive” polices lead to.

 

 Posted by at 1:40 pm
Dec 152022
 

And here we are:

There are of course comments by people who don’t understand the concept of “context:”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Posted by at 8:17 am
Dec 132022
 

Huh.

 

Can anyone explain why a modern, rational nation concerned about the welfare and future of its people and culture would not respond to this sort of thing with mass deportations?

 Posted by at 1:22 pm
Dec 132022
 

And so Adam Savage goes to the Royal Society In England and gets to look at not only a first edition of Newton’s “Principia,” but the actual *manuscript.* And both he and the archivist handle them with their bare hands.

Shudder.

There are books that *I* own that I hesitate to actually touch without cotton archival gloves. But the Principia? Dude, I wouldn’t touch that unless I was fully sealed. I’d be deathly afraid of not just touching it, not just sneezing on it, but simply *breathing* on it.

 Posted by at 2:39 am