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Archive for 2022
June 17, 2022
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: Are Those Mangos In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy to Tranny?
GOT A COUPE DE VILLE, BUILT TO THRILL: Cadillac EVs May Be Bound for Europe.
OKAY, GROOMERS: A Blight on the Presidency and the Nation. The Biden administration’s executive order encouraging “affirming care” and gender transition is final confirmation that support for procedures deforming and sterilizing children goes to the top of the American power structure.
THAT’S BECAUSE IT ISN’T: Miami Police Try Hard to Explain How It’s Legal for Them to Ship Guns to Ukraine…and Fail Miserably.
The Miami Police Department currently has no export licenses or permit to ship firearms to the Ukraine, but they’re working on getting them, or at least they claim they are.
In a story published Wednesday, we revealed how the department has a gun buyback scheduled for Saturday, which they’re calling “GUNS 4 UKRAINE.” Miami Police spokeswoman Officer Kenia Fallat said that the weapons collected at the buyback will be shipped to the Ukraine for use in their ongoing war against the Russian military.
Their plan was fraught with legal entanglements, since shipping firearms to a foreign country without the proper paperwork violates federal law, specifically the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, known as ITAR. The plan also violates state law, specifically, Florida Statute 790.08, which regulates what police can do with firearms or other weapons that come under their control. Shipping guns to a foreign military is not one of the options allowed by the statute.
Well when you start — as most police do — with the assumption that gun laws don’t apply to them, you wind up in places like this.
HMM: Colorado’s marijuana sales decline continues. “The latest market data showed $611 million in cannabis sales for the first quarter of 2022, a 20% drop compared to the first quarter of 2021 but a 4% increase compared to the same quarter in 2020.”
It looks like people started using more during the lockdowns and have since backed off.
SAY ANYTHING: Joe Biden Busted for His Latest Inflation Whopper.
READER FAVORITE: Nisaku Hori-Hori Weeding & Digging Knife. #CommissionEarned
$500M EXAMPLE OF THE SWAMP AT WORK: Work for Obama, help launch NGO, work for NGO and lobby former colleagues, work for Biden, help NGO get big bucks from U.S. taxpayers.
HOW’S THAT CLEAN ENERGY WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA, AUSTRALIA? Resources minister wants coal-fired plants back online to ease energy crisis amid fears of ‘expensive winter.’
WELCOME BACK, CARTER! White House plan to send gas rebates complicated by chip shortages: “Biden officials are taking a second look at whether the federal government could send rebate cards out to millions of American drivers to help them pay at gas stations — an idea they examined months ago before ruling it out. Aides had found that shortages in the U.S. chip industry would make it hard to produce enough rebate cards, two people familiar with the matter said. White House officials also fear there would be no way to prevent consumers from using them for purchases other than gasoline, according to another person familiar with the discussions. Even if the administration embraces the proposal, it would probably require congressional approval and face long odds among lawmakers wary of spending more money.”
As John Nolte adds, “The delicious irony in all this is that due to the Biden administration’s stupidity, lack of empathy, and insane priorities (correct pronouns are more important than affordable energy), one thing stopping this insane White House from creating even more inflation with more federal spending, is their computer chip shortage.”
WOULD I STILL GO TO THE GYM IF I COULD GET THE BENEFITS FROM A PILL? The benefits of exercise in a pill? Science is closer to that goal.
I’d like to say yes, but I’m not sure.
SOME PEOPLE GET IT. A friend writes: “Some people get it. Downtown Knoxville. Guy looked like a restaurant worker and yes, he was a minority.”
HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN: Fifty Years After Watergate, A Generation of Frightened Editors. The Washington Post’s strange journey from ousting Richard Nixon to ousting Felicia Sonmez.
One voice I’ve missed in the mini-uproar was that of the Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos. He’s held forth lately on Twitter about how he thinks President Joe Biden is mishandling inflation, but not about the recent turmoil at the Post, or even the broader cultural challenges the episode represents. This is a missed opportunity. The reality is that editors and other managers at values-based institutions are only as strong as owners allow them to be.
In sharp contrast: SpaceX fires employees behind open-letter campaign against Musk: “It blows my mind that people are actually arguing that a commitment to free speech means you would tolerate your employees undermining you and your business in public. Are you guys f**king high?”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: ‘Is the US Heading for a Recession?’ Asks Robert Reich and I Want to Tell Him: ‘Duh.’
CATO DOES A LOT OF GOOD, BUT LIKE MANY LIBERTARIANS GENTRY-CLASS TRIBAL MORES HOLD EXCESSIVE SWAY: The Cato Institute fails to stand up to cancel culture: Why wouldn’t they defend one of their own? This is a paywalled Spectator piece, but it’s good to see Cato taking some heat here for their spinelessness.
CANCEL CULTURE EXPLAINED: Us versus them: Harming the ‘outgroup’ is linked to elevated activity in the brain’s reward circuitry.
Getting beyond tribalism — the norm for humans — was a huge accomplishment, one that was scrapped with barely a thought by those in charge of our culture.
Related: Our Caveman Politics.
HOW TO RESPOND TO WOKE EMPLOYEE MANIFESTOS: Elon Musk’s SpaceX fires at least five over critical letter. “Private rocket company SpaceX fired at least five employees after it found they had drafted and circulated a letter criticizing founder Elon Musk and urging executives to make the firm’s culture more inclusive, two people familiar with the matter said.”