- Some women. Are scary. Young, naive, idiotic women, I hope. But still …
- Carl-Bear riffs on my recent JPFO “Gunowners as terrorists” piece. Nice job, Carl.
- Jeez Louise, cheeseheads. What did you expect to happen once you grudgingly tolerated a little “reasonable regulation”?
- Fasting for three days can regenerate your immune system.
- Well, at least it’s creative thinking: Detroit should pass a homestead act to fight blight.
- Hm. So how do I get an order to prevent Feinstein’s body guards from buying or possessing guns? Clearly they must be dangerous loons to work for a person like that.
- What happens when the CIA takes to Twitter. Pretty hilarious. (Via Wendy.)
Willful ignorance is truly scary.
My favorite comment to the assertion that women should learn to defend themselves;
“icky to pretend like self defense is the answer.”
…uh, and what, exactly would you recommend as an appropriate answer to violent crime?
I checked my dictionary to be sure icky really is a word. Childish vocabulary from the mind of a child masquerading as a grown woman.
The lack of logic and the conformity to popular social idiocy is astonishing.
RE: Cheese boards. Too bad the FDA hasn’t kept up with the scientific literature. Wood is better than plastic. The porous structure actually helps kill microorganisms; it’s been known for years.
RE: Miss USA vs the idiots. I wonder how many of those fools would refuse prophylactics and antibiotics on the grounds that disease shouldn’t happen, therefore there’s no reason to protect yourself in the meantime.
(Side note: Thanks, Claire.)
I see a couple of things that might be involved in the artisan cheese problem.
1) The commercial cheese industry (such as Kraft, etc) is putting pressure on the FDA to help lower the competition from artisanal cheese; AND/OR
2) The FDA is retaliating against the European countries for denying American cheese manufacturers the right to use cheese labels such as Parmesan, Stilton, etc. if the cheese is not made in their country.
Either way, it becomes political――and the artisan cheesemakers will lose big-time.
(Wonder if FDA will try to regulate wine out of oak barrels next? After all, the wine touches wood.)
Wonder if we’ll start seeing Prohibition style black market bootleg cheese? Cheese boards out in the forests like the old time stills.
And those comments re the Miss America statement just scare the crap out of me to think they’re out there, they vote and they undoubtedly breed. Seems every day something comes up to make me more and more glad that I’m old and won’t be around to see how this all turns out in the long run.
On homesteading Detroit – this guy’s got his cart so far in front of his horse they’re not even in the same yard. There’s not a word in that article about the reasons all those empty buildings and lots exist in the first place, so he certainly doesn’t address why anyone would ever want to ‘homestead’ them. Nor does he mention that Detroit property is already available for purchase virtually free, with no takers.
Never mind the unofficialcrime and violence, the moment you wrote your name on the line the city would descend on you for back property taxes and the bill would no doubt be staggering. Desperate for cash as the city government is, there’s no way they’d agree to waive taxes.
Those properties became ‘blighted’ for good economic reasons which haven’t gone away. Nobody’s moving back to that city until they’re corrected – and you’d have to start by bulldozing every facet of the city government.
There will be rebellion when the FDA goes after my Scotch.
Joel: “and you’d have to start by bulldozing every facet of the city government.”
Now there’s a fundraiser idea: Raffle off the privilege of driving the bulldozers.
I suppose all of the green freaks and AGW idiots would freak out completely, but it would seem easier and much cleaner just to burn the derelict sections of Detroit. Then the bulldozers can clear the rubble easier and faster.
But, again, as Joel says… the disease that caused those buildings to be abandoned in the first place must be remedied before anything can rationally be built there again.
Don’t get me started on Stuff (65%) White Women Like. I’ve known two women who had horrific come to Jesus moments on guns. And both only now have a the understanding of how cruel Diane Feinstein is to believe that someone who’s emotionally scarred should even have less right to a weapon. But I have to wonder how one can lack so much imagination as to not understand the reality of being the victim until the physical weight bares down on them with all it’s brutality? Are these women really so stupid and out of touch with the physical world that defending themselves is no longer a viable option? Perhaps they’re telling us in a very subtle way that they don’t belong in the gene pool.
I remember coming across that kind of silliness on self-defense on a smaller scale a few years ago. To make it even more silly, the same person who complained about the idea of teaching people to defend themselves being an unacceptable response to the threat of rape had at the same time been complaining about how relatively few younger women identify themselves as feminists anymore. She seemed genuinely mystified.
Not just a black belt – she’s a fourth dan, and in taekwondo too – an art for super fit super flexible young people (watch the “human weapon” edition on taekwondo – the big, numb, professional wrestler got knocked out cold and the MMA guy (how old would he be then? about 27?) buggered his own knee trying one of the kicks).
Fortunately there are very effective arts for older and less perfectly formed specimens too – just watch folks well into their eighties throwing each other and youngsters around in Aikido.
On the subject of less than perfect specimens, apparently Bruce Lee, chose Wing Chun as his first art, because he was incredibly short sighted, and with Wing Chun, the range was close enough that he could actually see what he was doing. Also his right leg was about an inch and a half shorter than his left, and he developed his technique around that disability, turning it instead into an advantage.
Sanchez’ critics would do well to begin training in an art; it is something which takes years of continuous training and attention to detail, it also requires facing up to and overcoming ego and preconceptions – it hurts so much worse when your ego is thinking “this shouldn’t be happening to me”.
Keith, that would be wonderful for someone with the time, energy and money to engage in all that martial arts stuff. Unfortunately, the bad guys are not necessarily going to wait for all those years to target someone, especially older women.
Nobody ever raped a .38….
That link on Miss Nevada is excellent. Refreshing to see a beauty queen who seems far smarter than the feminist media icons.
You can buy a fixer upper or an empty buildable lot in Detroit quite cheap. A few hundred ucks. But unlike the old days out west you get to contend with sky high land taxes and the city of Detroit/Wayne county/ laws and regulations too. Here the goverment takes Captain Reynold’s explanation of what government’s purpose is to heart. Homesteading would easier in Alaska than here.
I get that the college sexual assault problem can’t be solved in 30 secs but still icky to pretend like self defense is the answer.
Dear Ms Benson, there are a lot of things in this old world that are “icky.” And gross and nauseous and brutal. It isn’t fair. It isn’t progressive. It isn’t “the way things should be.” But out here in the real, imperfect, shades-of-gray world, sometimes you have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.
On homesteading Detroit – this guy’s got his cart so far in front of his horse they’re not even in the same yard.
It’s the equivalent of the early homesteading program if the government had given farmers and ranchers 160 acres, and prohibited farming and ranching.
@LarryA:“It’s the equivalent of the early homesteading program if the government had given farmers and ranchers 160 acres, and prohibited farming and ranching.”
Funny you should mention that…
Goats Evicted In Detroit: An attempt at urban farming runs afoul of city ordinances in Detroit
It’s like the city council sits around dreaming up ways to save the city… only the council members are Moe, Larry, and Curly.
Larry: Hey, Moe! I know how to renew Detroit.
Moe: Yeah, Larry?
Sure. We restrict the [bleep] out of how people can use their land, then confiscate it after they bail out, and sell to another batch of fools.
Curly: Nyuck, nyuck, nuck!
Re Miss Nevada thing: just a symptom of a culture in which it has become preferred to not take responsibility for oneself. These people will be winnowed out when SHTF, for the most part. A few may learn with experience.
Re Cheese: Thank heaven for the FDA. I just don’t know how life itself could continue without our industrious and conscientious federal bureaucrats taking care of us. (/sarcasm)
Cheese will be made on boards again, after the Revolution…
Re Feinstein: These kinds of articles make me tired. If a person can so easily be disarmed, he deserves to be a slave.
Feinstein does not matter. What matters is what individuals will put up with, and when they will decide to stop putting up with it. Liberty is not a question for tyrants to decide, but for those whom the tyrants seek to oppress.