Thursday, September 5, 2019

If We Can Save Just One (All the Others Won't Matter)

Our hair-trigger society continues to go bonkers over mass-shootings perpetrated by mentally deranged people, chronically blaming guns instead of the minds behind them.  Thanks particularly to the loud left, which increasingly never seems to have seen a constitutional amendment it cares to leave alone, corporations such as banks and Wal-Mart listen to a minority of all the wrong people and make snap decisions to the detriment of a majority of its customers.  Has no one yet learned that voices of boycott, banning and censorship are generally leftist pressure groups with no other goal than to suppress rights of the individual?

The real domestic terrorists of the moment happen to live under cover of the now-decimated Democrat Party, in my opinion.  Total control, absolute power over us all, this is all they can offer, for they truly are democratic socialists and that eventually spells communism, no matter how fragrant the odor exuded from each potential candidate.

Here's a legislative idea for the crazier representatives in the House:  The Odessa, Texas shooter, like others, went even more nuts than he already was once he was fired from his job.  Surely, a member of "the squad" or some other House faction can advance a bill that outlaws firing from one's employment?  Maybe call it the "Save a job, save a Wal-Mart" bill.  Obviously, potentially fired employees must be protected and kept un-fired by an act of Congress -- otherwise businesses will fold under the slightest media and other leftist pressure influences.  If we can save just one person from being fired, imagine the benefits to society.

Flippancy aside, I want more people walking around with legal guns in stores, not less.  The measure of extra protection offered to shoppers who may end up as little more than police chalk line models when one or more lunatics wield total power could be incalculable.  And if anybody thinks background checks keep bad guys from obtaining firepower, the Odessa shooter, who failed a proper gun purchase inquiry already because he was crazy, proved otherwise.

The left should also ban boats immediately:  While congressional lawmakers eagerly contemplate an anti-firing law, why not legislate a boat ban as well?  Did 34 people not just die in a horrible diving boat tragedy off the coast of California?  No guns, no bullets, no Wal-Mart, no psychotics (as far as we know) to blame, so indeed this is another matter altogether.  That many of those aboard were also celebrating birthdays, any bill walking out of Congress should explicitly ban not only boats, but birthday celebrations on any bodies of water.

Speaking of Congress, we hope some serious investigations are going on into the current and past activities of Rep. Omar, who seems to have quite a connection to people and groups involved with terrorism.  N. Pelosi, above all, needs to be immensely cognizant of the implications here.

Where guns should grow like weeds:  Hong Kong.  We hand out compassion sparingly these days, but what's left of our heart goes out to the freedom-craving residents of Hong Kong.  China is everybody's enemy and communist party puppet Xi is just one more throwback monster in a long line of Chinese monsters (hello, Mao).  The complicating factor now is the use of technology in its most evil form (hello China helper, Google).  We wish every protestor in Hong Kong had instant access to the enormous firepower required to at least slow China's bullying murderers down.  Then let Taiwan in on the action; the more the merrier.

No saddle required:  An American Airlines passenger boarded a flight with a small "comfort horse" a few days ago.  While we fully understand and appreciate the need that military veterans and the like have for service dogs, we cast a very wary eye upon other members of the flying public who demand the right to be accompanied by their own variety of "comfort" animals due to real or phony anxiety issues which would probably best be addressed by mental health personnel who don't encourage this nonsense or a "scared straight" program guaranteed to shock them out of their need to become infantile depressives aboard an aircraft.  The Wright Brothers would slap these folks in the face mercilessly.

Bedbugs at the New York Times:  Good place for 'em.  All the bugs that's fit to print.  Unfortunately, a NYT columnist became enraged when another writer called him a bedbug and he took it oh-so-personally.  Good grief, are there any thick skins anymore?  Does everybody require a comfort animal to get them through a day?  Or maybe a comfort bedbug?

Hurricanes:  Despite the cackling out there, there is precedent for large, catastrophic hurricanes, and evidence exists even long before modern records were kept.  The climate change bunch lives and dies for weather events, as if meteorological events never happened before they came along to save us while blaming Donald Trump.  As we always prefer to note:  Of course things seem worse because there are more people, more buildings and more human-populated areas, so the hit-or-miss option is constantly in jeopardy.

Sports:  Too big, too important -- especially when we're exposed to a never-ending stream of casualties involving highly paid and pampered people.  So now it's  newlywed baseball player Tyler Skaggs found dead with a mixture of Fentanyl, oxycodone and booze in his bloodstream.  Naturally, the network news shows concentrate on this self-induced tragedy instead of, oh, say -- congressional rep Omar and her alleged connections to terrorist folk.

Wal-Mart was just sued in El Paso by a couple asking why there was no armed security when the massacre took place there.  We will answer that here:  Now that Wal-Mart will no longer sell bullets or a variety of firearms because of all the bitching, this is a question with a ready response -- nobody wants guns, so why this quest for armed security in the store?

Vaping:  We don't vape and we don't smoke, kinda having this crazy idea that we're born with one set of lungs and they really need to last a lifetime.  Nevertheless, Michigan just banned flavored vaping ingredients, even the menthol variety, in order not to hook children on vaping.  Also, nobody really knows yet why a sudden spike in lung illnesses have occurred, but here's panic in progress.  Question:  What about adults who want flavored vaping?  Must everything in this society be tailored "for the children?"  The kids aren't voting and they don't pay taxes, so it seems lawmakers could concentrate on doing things for adults instead of banning everything that might influence today's crop of, frankly, wussie-fied children whose pathetic lack of parental upbringing will mess up the national thought process for years to come.  Should kids be vaping?  Of course not, but parental control has gone to Saturn or some place far away, so good luck.

Smart phone radiation:  New studies suggest smart phones may leak more radiation than previously thought.  Now what?  Now nothing.  Tomorrow is another day of discoveries too plentiful to handle.

Back to (commie) school:  We remain astounded at the grasp so many leftist college professors have on American youth now.  Parents footing the bill really need to be aware of the rat holes (and rats) swallowing college tuition used pretty much  to teach their kids how not to think and to embrace the socialist party line.  This dangerous foolishness is sure to be hyped up on campuses across the country as 2020 elections near.