Observation O’ The Day
As near a perfect exemplar of Cooper’s *Condition White*, as can be asked for.
*You are totally unaware of your surroundings and totally unprepared for even the prospect of danger.*
My first squad leader in the Army put it like this: “Experience is the best teacher and the best experience is someone else’s, because it’s usually less expensive and less painful.”
Observation O’ The Day
Fifty years ago this week ‘The Theme From Shaft’ kept John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ from getting the #1 spot on Billboard’s Top 40 and and it descended thereafter. I’m fine with that because I think ‘The Theme From Shaft’ was a way better song. Musically, and morally, superior.
Observation O’ The Day
Mother Jones couldn’t even put one of their own “beloved” above their cause. He didn’t even use a gun in his suicide, but they stood on his still warm body to promote gun control.
Mother Jones Pushes Red Flag Laws After Gun Control Activist Kills Himself
Mother Jones pushed red flag laws after announcing that former executive director of Everytown for Gun Safety, Mark Glaze, killed himself.
The New York Times noted, “Glaze, who was widely considered a founding figure in the modern gun-control movement, died on Oct. 31 in Scranton, Pa.”
NYT went on to point out that Glaze’s death was a suicide.
A Facebook post from Glaze’s family members reads, in part:
As we celebrate the life of our beloved Mark, we would be remiss not to mention his harrowing struggle with alcohol, depression, and anxiety. In the last years of his life, Mark actively sought help. He completed several treatment programs, with the hope of finding peace and breaking free of the addictive cycle that caused him to feel so desperately alone and in pain. Mark took his own life while being held on DUI charges at the Lackawanna County Prison. While it may be difficult to discuss this specific cause of death, with suicide as the tenth leading cause of mortality in the United States– the numbers and instances are too frequent and increasing to ignore.
Mother Jones reported Glaze’s suicide, then pushed red flag laws
There is no indication that Mark used a gun to kill himself. Still, he was a victim of a scourge he worked to oppose. Nearly two-thirds of all gun deaths in the US are suicides, according to Mark’s former organization. To fight gun violence is to fight suicide. Research shows that people who have access to guns are far more likely to kill themselves than people who don’t.
Glaze and others in his field advocated for the enactment, in 19 states and DC, of so-called Red Flag laws, which allow local police to confiscate guns from people who have threatened to harm themselves or others. These orders aim to stop not just murder, but suicide. Evidence suggests they are most effective at preventing people from shooting themselves.
Comment O’ The Day
I will once again say: this whole Dem tactic of “Americans just don’t understand” doesn’t hold water when the guy saying it can’t properly read the teleprompter
President Joe Biden was accused of mocking Americans’ intelligence on Saturday during remarks that he gave in the morning as he answered only a few questions from reporters.
Biden made the remarks about Americans’ knowledge of supply chains as he said that the pandemic has impacted the lives of every American.
Biden mocks Americans’ intelligence: “If we were all going out & having lunch together & I said let’s ask whoever's in the next table, no matter what restaurant we’re in, have them explain the supply chain to us. Do you think they’d understand what we’re talking about?" pic.twitter.com/lHAwLJZBfy
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 6, 2021
Observation O’ The Day
Elderly people with failing memories often fall back on those sweet memories of the good old days:
Observation O’ The Day
America’s Marie Antoinette class is Washington’s elites – and that shows it.
This is the gas-guzzling Biden motorcade.
But remember folks…
YOU must stop driving YOUR car.
YOU must stop flying abroad.
YOU must stop eating meat.
YOU must stop using a gas boiler.
YOU must immiserate YOUR life in the name of saving the planet. pic.twitter.com/AN7Aoufvgf
— Darren Grimes 🇬🇧 (@darrengrimes_) October 30, 2021
Biden tours Rome with 85-vehicle motorcade ahead of ‘climate’ summit
Observation O’ The Day
“Alec Baldwin has now killed more innocent people than Kyle Rittenhouse.”
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“Normally in establishing a police state, one first moves to ensure that the police favor the regime. Crapping all over them instead is a novel tactic.”
Observation O’ The Day.
“Doing The Psaki” – verb: Not answering the question by making a non sequitur response that has nothing to do with the matter.
Most often used by political hacks attempting to provide cover for the idiot they have whored themselves out to.
Observation O’ The Day
Some say that Nancy Pelosi just suffered a week from hell.
Some other people say that’s a taste of her future.
Observation O’ The Day.
The last time SloJoe said “I promise you, those people will pay” a drone strike killed an innocent man and children. Once again he can’t think past the first thing that pops into his head.
Observation O’ The Day
Another reason may just be the concentration of ownership of major media in the hands of a few, very wealthy, people. Wealthy people have feared armed commoners for most of recorded history, and especially since the invention of reliable, concealable firearms, so publication of news likely to encourage gun ownership is discouraged.
There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders in America. Here’s Why You Rarely Hear of Them.
While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know that firearms also save them.
On May 15, an attacker at an apartment complex in Fort Smith, Ark., fatally shot a woman and then fired 93 rounds at other people before a man killed him with a bolt-action rifle. Police said he “likely saved a number of lives in the process.”
On June 30, a 12-year-old Louisiana boy used a hunting rifle to stop an armed burglar who was threatening his mother’s life during a home invasion.
On July 4, a Chicago gunman shot into a crowd of people, killing one and wounding two others before a concealed handgun permit holder shot and wounded the attacker. Police praised him for stepping in.
These are just a few of the nearly 1,000 instances reported by the media so far this year in which gun owners have stopped mass shootings and other murderous acts, saving countless lives. And crime experts say such high-profile cases represent only a small fraction of the instances in which guns are used defensively. But the data are unclear, for a number of reasons, and this has political ramifications because it seems to undercut the claims of gun rights advocates that they need to possess firearms for personal protection — an issue now before the Supreme Court.
Americans who look only at the daily headlines would be surprised to learn that, according to academic estimates, defensive gun uses — including instances when guns are simply shown to deter a crime — are four to five times more common than gun crimes, and far more frequent than the fewer than 20,000 murders each year, with or without a gun. But even when they prevent mass public shootings, defensive uses rarely get national news coverage. Those living in major news markets such as New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles are unlikely to hear of such stories.
Observation O’ The Day
Current D.C. politics is nothing more than Kabuki Theater to lull the masses.
Observation O’ The Day
If you’re dealing with Chinese who have close family still living in China, it’s a good bet they’re compromised due to valid threats made against their family by the Chinese Communist goobermint.
