Thursday, December 01, 2016

Levi’s ‘No Guns’ Request in Keeping with Past Company Actions

Nor, based on the “respectful request” is Bergh eager for heartland customers to know about his company’s consistent history of anti-gun activism. Fortunately, longtime gun owner rights advocates, along with the Internet Archive/Wayback machine, do not forget. [More]
Naturally, the "progressives" are trying to paint gun owners advocating a boycott as "anti-Semitic."

And the Hits Just Keep on Coming

Kate Brown has announced the first of what we are sure will be an epidemic of anti-gun bills for 2017. [More]
Slowly I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch.

The Great Divide

If a woman tells me that she favors gun control, I can with confidence predict that she favors unchecked immigration, sanctuary cities, affirmative action, banning the Confederate flag, suppressing Christianity, homosexual marriage, abortion, feminism, and the dumbing down–she will call it something else–of schools to avoid wounding the self-esteem of the usual suspects. [More]
I don't hang around long enough to find out, life being too short and all to focus on someone who's already proven she's a waste of time. Somebody else can look for converts. We're too far along for one-on-ones with ignorant heel-diggers.

Anyway, Fred on Everything's latest is about more than that, and as usual, it's a good read.

[Via Keith B]

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Once they’re off script, we’re basically dealing with people who live in a bubble of celebrity privilege, where those at the top attain their station and remain there by adhering to Hollywood’s “progressive” orthodoxy, one that will tolerate no “heresies” nor recognize and reward traditional “conservative” American values. That probably goes a long way to explain how screwed up so many of these people are in real life, as evidenced by the celebrity tabloids screaming about their latest scandals from the supermarket checkout counter racks. So few of them, it seems, control themselves. How telling those seem to be the ones bent on controlling the rest of us. [More]
What do Kim Kardashian, Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke, Mark Wahlberg, John Mayer and Chris Evans have in common?  Go on, guess.

(I actually submitted this at the start of last month, but my editor told me I had a day before press time to submit an election post-mortem.  I actually prepped two outlines and fleshed out the one where Trump won the day after the vote.)

When Black Friday Comes

Funny -- what with all the WalMart brawls over the last item on the shelf, you'd think "violent gun owners" would give us more to talk about than "they bought a lot of guns." I guess that's why they had to amp up the hysteria here. [More]

[Via Florida Guy]   

A Man for All Seasons

Arrested German spy was a onetime gay porn actor — and a secret Islamist [More]
And remember, our diversity is our strength!

[Via Steve T

Nothing More than Feelings?

“Selling Tupperware doesn’t give my life purpose but making people feel safe and confident, and help their kids feel safe and confident is huge," Lusk told Denver7's Anne Trujillo. [More]
See, it's not about "feeling" safe...

I have mixed "feelings" about this.  About instilling expectations that a device will do the trick, and about the conspicuous absence of the one device that does it best...

[Via cydl]

About Those Foreign Entanglements...

So a NATO member is setting us all up to take on Russia, and we're obligated by treaty to go...? [More]

Or is this just posturing?

By Golly, the Slogan is Right

Liberalism is a mental disorder. [More]

[Via Steve T

By Hook or By Crook

Looks like the recount's not going to work, so get ready for Plan B... [More]

Defender of the Oppressed

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Quite the "libertarian." Guess he never kept up with Rothbard, or actually understood the property implications.

Me, I wouldn't wear a knotted scarf in a fluid situation. And I'd also pick something with a bit more range than an "assault shotgun" for that terrain.

But what do I know? It's been some years since I was young, immortal and all-knowing. I'm just intolerant enough to believe cultural terraforming in favor of socialism and a theocracy of submission is not likely to produce liberty...

[Via Florida Guy]   

Speaking of Full of Malarkey

The NRA doesn't represent any Average Joe. [More]
True enough. He works for Bloomberg.

My guess is this Casey character is just ignorant enough to believe the crap he spews, but just self-preserving enough to realize that results in page views and comments to persuade his editor that someone else ought to get pushed out of the emptying trough.

I wonder if I'll get another "thank you" note for helping.

[Via Mack H]

''Progressive" Economic Justice

I forgot to say "Opposite Day"... [More]

Katie Bar the Door

She'll do anything to make herself appear appealing. [More]

Perhaps a change of venue would be appropriate.

[Via Neil W]

The Fat of the Land

Animal fat found in Britain's plastic money angers vegetarians, religious groups [More]
As for the herbivore extremists, they're certifiable anyway, so naturally, an inclusive society will need to stop everything and accomodate their delusions. Somebody needs to tell them what they get around to their protests in travels on tires compounded and vulcanized with tallow-based stearic acid.

As for "religious" objections,  "Bite the cartridge" comes to mind.

Now where did I put that Center for Biological Diversity gorilla hand ashtray...?

Shut Up and Entertain

Mark Wahlberg Thinks Celebrities Need to Shut Up About Politics [More]
Good for him. Not to take one last poke, but I like to think that this may have had some catalyst effect on his transformation.

Hamilton Boycott Fail?

Not so fast on the gloating there. [More]

Besides, there's more than one venue.


Knock This Chip Off My Shoulder

"I dare you," says the Opposite Day "progressive" fox once tasked with guarding the whole damn chicken farm. [More]

OK. Start by cutting off federal funds.

The strategy is to bog everything down in legal challenges, again illustrating why the importance of a Supreme Court that understands who it is they are being empowered to secure the "blessings of Liberty" for.

This monster's role in Fast and Furious has never been fully explored except to note that disgraced Dennis Burke (with the conveniently whitewashed bio) was her man.