Bullet Points:
** Some local businesses are welcoming the National Guard to Memphis with open arms – and open legs.
** When “words are violence,” and silence is also violence, the leftist speech police have total control. That’s why they redefine words, or drain them of all meaning. Violent Jew-haters will call Jewish conservatives “Nazis.” Angry imbeciles will call supporters of free speech, free markets, and smaller government “fascists.” Bigots will call people who want to judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin “racists.” Science-denying narcissists will call medical mutilations intended to deny your actual gender “gender-affirming care.” Labeling speech you don’t like “hate speech” is a power game used as a cudgel by people who couldn’t persuade people without coercion, and couldn’t win a debate to save their lives. They don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi. They call you a Nazi so they can kill you.
** Ancient Roman soldiers relied on posca, a drink made from vinegar and water, for their survival. Its acidity was key in preventing dysentery within the legions. This staple of Roman military health, a sour wine or vinegar-water mix, was used for centuries, dating back to at least the 2nd century BC. Its primary purpose was to make questionable water sources safe to drink, drastically reducing the risk of illness among the legionnaires. The practice was not limited to ordinary soldiers. Noted historical figures like Cato the Elder and even Emperor Hadrian were recorded as consuming posca, underscoring its cultural importance and perceived effectiveness.
** Jimmy Kimmel sure landed on his feet. He apparently doesn’t have the gray matter to learn to code, but they found a job he could do.
** “The Texas Education Agency is investigating Texas teachers whose actions called for or incite violence following the Charlie Kirk assassination.” Over 100 TEACHERS in Texas will now have their teacher certification suspended and become ineligible to teach in Texas public schools after they endorsed Charlie Kirk’s assassination or incited more violence, Governor Greg Abbott announces.
** There is an enemy that you can’t kill?
** Stephen King’s new movie, The Long Walk, flopped at the box office, following backlash over his comments on Charlie Kirk. King sparked backlash after claiming Charlie Kirk “advocated stoning gays to death” and later issued an apology after sparking outrage. But his new movie has now flopped, taking just $11.5 million domestically across nearly 3,000 theaters over the weekend. With a $20 million production budget, the opening weekend fell short of what analysts expected for a Stephen King adaptation.
Democrats in Congress
I may have found the smartest Democrat in Congress. That sounds like the set-up for a cruel, list-making joke. E.g., let’s identify the most impressive leftist SCOTUS member, the most mentally-healthy Squad Member, the most attractive Antifa Member.
The competition is not exactly stiff. But my candidate is Ro Khanna. Because on Tuesday, on CNN, he said, “Every Democrat was horrified by the assassination of Charlie Kirk.” I didn’t say Ro was the most honest Democrat. (The candidates for that one could fit into a phone booth!) I said he was the smartest Democrat. He has the sense to know what your average third-grader should know. If you’re a politician who wants to win elections, you’re supposed to SAY at least that you’re horrified by the assassination of a good man from your political opposition!
Even as he was saying that, Ro realized that he was in trouble, since for the last week all PWFEs (People With Functioning Eyes) had watched literally thousands of Democrats all over the country ghoulishly celebrating Charlie’s murder. So “all Democrats are horrified” wasn’t going to fly. He amended the thought two sentences later, saying, “That has been what every elected Democrat has said.” That was a little better – again, most minimally competent politicians know enough to hide their evil glee from the public – but it was still, sadly, a lie.
Disgusting Ilhan Omar trashed Charlie during an interview with the equally disgusting Mehdi Hasan, the day after Charlie’s murder, and Grandma Squanto Warren, J(um)B(o) Pritzker and many other elected Dems pivoted within seconds from Charlie’s murder to blaming Trump’s rhetoric. Which is not something that anyone truly horrified by a murder would do.
When Ro was ratioed into next week, and buried with thousands of clips and examples of Dems cheering Charlie’s death, he finally had to retreat to saying that “every elected Dem I talked to” was horrified by the assassination. Okay, Ro, we get it. You talked to yourself in the green room mirror at CNN before going out to sell that line. Nice try, anyway.
I’ve got a short list of some good news that I see coming out of this heartbreakingly awful story:
1. There is now a massive new spotlight on Charlie Kirk’s work. And that necessarily means more people following in his footsteps and joining his cause. (Witness the 54,000 new applications for Turning Point membership or chapters. 54,000!) Because any normal person with an unclouded mind (regardless of political priors) who watches any number of randomly chosen videos of Charlie’s speeches and debates will see a lot to admire, as well as realize that the gloating leftist mobs have been lying about him.
2. There is also now a massive new spotlight on the left, and everywhere that spotlight moves, it reveals a bunch of sick, hateful humans scattering like cockroaches at being exposed. (No offense to cockroaches, who are just as God made them, and haven’t intentionally shriveled their souls by choosing a path of gleeful leftist hatred, like certain teachers, “journalists” and elected officials I could name.)
3. An ancillary benefit of all of the malevolent lefties exposing themselves through their own social media ghoulishness is that waves of them are being fired. And that doesn’t just make me giddily happy – though it certainly does that! It also improves every school, organization, and workplace out of which their sorry asses have been kicked. Think about that. Every school, every hospital, every newspaper that is no longer employing those ghouls has now increased its collective IQ, mental health, workplace quality of life, and ability to serve its students or customers.
4. Another ancillary benefit is that the remaining employed lefties have learned that it’s not the Biden years anymore, when they could behave horribly without consequences. Every normal person has now been emboldened to push back on those lefties if they start acting like idiots in the future.
5. The exposure to Charlie’s wholesomeness and the left’s creepiness is prompting many people to leave the left and move at least tentatively toward conservatism. More importantly, IMHO, many are also coming to Christ, or at least moving in that direction. (Seeing a good Christian man martyred by evil goblins can do that.)
Hate Crime Laws
Conservatives should push back hard against hate speech laws for the same reason we should do so against hate crime laws: because both of them sound good initially, but they are far too subjective, and give far too much power to government bureaucrats. It sounds good to say that you’re going to enhance criminal sentences if you kill someone because of their race, gender, sexual preference, or religion, because we don’t like racism, sexism, etc. But that has three main flaws.
First, we often have to guess at people’s motives for their crimes. (Criminals will quickly learn to claim that they killed for whichever motive will draw the least severe sentence.) Second, how important is motive, really? Am I any less dead if I’m a white guy killed by a black guy, or vice versa? Or a woman killed for being female vs. a man killed for being male?
But most importantly, hate crime laws punish people differently based on whether they committed the identical crime for government-approved motives – I killed you to rob you, or because you stole from me, or because I was drunk and just lost $5 betting on the Bears – or government-disapproved motives – I killed you because of your skin color, or genitalia. And I don’t think the government should have that kind of power. After our experience over the last decade or so, do any of us trust judges or the legal system as much as we used to?
Everyone knows that in a deep blue city or state, hate crime enhancements go lopsidedly in one direction. A far-left judge or jury will look into the heart of a white murderer of a black person and see racism, when they won’t see racism in a black killer of a white person – even when the white killer has no documented history of racism, and the black killer is on video muttering “cracker” and “white devil” while stabbing his white victim.
Listen to many leftists – and academics – of any race, and they’ll tell you that it’s not even POSSIBLE for a black person to be racist against whites! Does that sound like a recipe for an unbiased application of hate crime enhancements?
Hate speech is even more problematic, since it necessarily clashes with fundamental free speech rights. Hate speech is nearly always in the eye of the beholder, and inevitably comes down to “speech that I hate.” Especially when the totalitarian left and its voracious desire to control everybody are involved.
Identify the Tank
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Parting Shot
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(1) Some part of the semi-endless Joe Stalin series. I would have to look it up.
(2) Panzer I
(3) KV-85
(4) “KV-0”. Prototype KV-1 with a 76 and a 45.
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Good
I am not that versed in armor but I will give it a go –
1 – Soviet IS-5
2 – German Pz.Kpfw. I Panzer 1
3 – Soviet IS-1/IS-85
4 – Soviet KV-1
Correct, well done.
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1. The T-10 was actually named the IS-5 but following Stalin’s death it was renamed the T-10.
2. Panzer I tank 17.
3. IS-1
4. Kliment Voroshilov (KV) heavy tank, specifically a KV-1 variant, a Soviet heavy tank used by the Red Army during World War II.
Identify the Tank:
1. T-10?
2. Panzer I Ausf A
3. KV-85
4. KV-1 Model 1939
Texas; The Wylie school district ( Abeline) where 2 of our grandchildren attend, employed 2 teachers that may not be included in the stats. On 9/11 they were blabbing on social media their rhetoric. Backlash ensued. To avoid being fired, the Band Director and an elementary teacher resigned by the end of the week.
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Short list on the Good News: Now my all time fave Sermonette.
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If Ayaan Hirsi Ali can do a 180°, how many more lost sheep can be found? Source; A.D.F. article from 8/26 )
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It would be a reading and possibly a viewing interest for me IF King has a paradigm shift and starts writing like Ted Decker.
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i’m torn. on one hand its wonderful to see the libs get there due. on the other hand it seems to be an over reaction to disgusting-but-free speech. let them talk, shower them with insults, but let them talk so that we may see who/what they are. shun them, shame them, but don’t cancel them. to do so we become them. the pendulum is swinging, maybe a bit too hard. when the roles are reversed they will have president in their eyes to put us in the camps. well, try anyway. i don’t see this ending well.
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Good point. I’m more ‘less complicated’ with it: “Your right to say offensive things ends at the end of my nose”…as in, stay outta my face with your anger.
Free Speech is protected, firing because you are projecting the wrong image for a business, etc, by being obnoxious with egregious evil spout-age is within the right of the owner/manager/club president to toss your rear-end. Wanna ‘go off’ online in private, or scream epithets at your MAGA neighbor…go for it…just don’t whine about the lesser consequences if they occur. However, doing the same at the office or PTA meeting, not a good idea. Then again, some gals with an Only Fans account find themselves shunned from the neighborhood HOA or Church group or are looking for a new job. People have no right to say anything and everything when it is directed at others in a personal manner. Time to rekindle respect and some level of proper decorum…altho, getting harder to avoid, so maybe this harsh pushback will result in a little re-balancing.
agreed
Jimmy Kimmel as a Walmart greeter is better than as a late night TV comic, but if he was at our local Walmart, I’d wonder how long before he shot someone for wearing a MAGA hat or any sign of being further right than Presidents for Life Xi or Kim.
All crime is based on hate. Hate for being without money. Hate for being a low-life lazy bum. Hate for someone having more than another. Hate for being ignorant and too stupid to realize it. Hate for not being in control of perverted desires. The list goes on, but adding hate to a crime is a waste of time, allows officials to pervert justice, and accomplishes nothing. If judges did their job, refused plea bargaining, except when it demands the harshest crime, and stopped allowing attorneys to slow-walk the system, the swift justice would allow a safer society. Adding “hate” only allows more time, more tax dollars, and is useless.
I heard her statement, wasn’t what she meant. But no matter, Pam needs to stop going on shows. She was able to speak well when in Florida as the AG, but now anything said without decent context or perfectly will be picked apart, taken out of context then used against her. She needs to stick to the basics, most of us ‘aware’ WTP are intelligent enough to understand such things without additional taglines or explanation that keeps getting her in trouble.
She sure appears lightweight.
In order to alleviate/diminish internecine stress, the “Nazis” I know have heretofore remained vocally (re)/contrained when political discussion arises; this is neither fear nor cowardice.
Charlie Kirk’s murder (sorry! alleged murder) has, apparently, removed the bindings to their vocal cords. a number of “highly progressive” family members to this day still believe Charlie Kirk to be an anti-Semitic, gay-bashing racist despite much proof to the contrary; there have been several loud “conversations”; no crockery has been thrown — yet
I, a non-observant “Nazi”, may endure my SIL’s synagogue for Rosh Hashanah services, primarily to listen to the (highly progressive) rabbi’s sermon:
I think I’m going to take great joy watching him walk on water — or at least tread very carefully; membership has slipped a bit.
Hate Crime…it’s just crime. But this is the world we live when loy-yers have to redefine everything in their own terms then argue forever about those terms,a dding complications on top of simplicity. Just prosecute the [actual] criminals, let alone parole boards/Lefty judges gotta quit letting them out before full sentence. Both prongs might have an affect on the next dufus nutjob “who wants what you have and demands you give it to him”, incl. your life.
Ps. The Left and Dem’s are on their heels, exactly where we want them, yet are so brainlessly arrogant and haughty they have no idea they are losing the foothold previously attained under ‘certain’ sympathetic subversive Administrations, DA’s, Judges, and AG’s. A Necessary Reckoning.
I’ve always opposed “Hate” adders. Thought crimes?
But I believe a line is crossed and punishment is due when the speech solicits or approves of murder.
In fact, for any crime. It almost makes one an accomplice pre or post facto.
if the speech induces (or demands that the followers of a faith) murder other (comparatively) innocent human beings, then it is no longer “Hate” speech
there is another term for such speech, particularly if the act is accomplished and the murderer admits to doing the act in response to the demand, but I’m not a lawyer and I’m not certain of the word(s). should we (our republic) ban such a faith?
but I worry greatly about “Hate” speech
Adolf could hate all the Jews (und anderer Untermenschen) he liked, but once his followers began acting on his words (commands?), that’s a horse of another color
should there be a prison term if no (anti-social) acts are committed? I could not get behind that notion.
Eggs Ackly. But support murder? That’s not hate speech, that’s aiding and abetting.
Going back a day or two here , after making comments here on your page about Army BDU’s in public , I ran across an article in an online site “Task and Purpose” , about the Army going back to what they described as the ASGU (army service green uniform) for pretty much what I described and for reasons I mentioned . It will be worn in a class A , with a jacket , or class B (tropical) jacketless and short sleeve I suppose in warm weather depending on the HMFIC of the command or region . The BDU’s will be worn as necessary on mission /task at hand . The site had a PDF of the new uniform instructions . It showed a picture of the newer uniform , very similar to a WWII uniform , with the guidelines for ribbons, medals, rank etc . This order is in effect and said recruiters may already be wearing these as of now . This has been in planning for some time , I ain’t the only one thinking that BDU’s as a uniform of the day looks slovenly . I remember an old Kris Kristofferson (an Army vet) song that starts out in the lyrics sitting at a bar and he says , “you must be reading my mail ” . As far as your site goes , people must be reading your mail . The new jacket has a cinch belt mid belly , to suck that shit in . Ha!
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-uniform-changes-phone-belts/
Me thinks there is mischief afoot—
“A false path will always be tensely, angrily, violently defended by those
it has deceived, because who are so easily deceived are ever too arrogant to repent.”
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Regarding the Stephen King garbage, the stupid mouthings of Mark Hamill haven’t helped at all. Screw them, they both suck big donkey members.
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As to Posca, love the stuff. A nice vinegar posca is like drinking a sports drink but without the sugar. And the evolution of said posca is a nice glass of ice-cold pickle juice. One of my favorite drinks when sweating like crazy, or when I’m sick.
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I just found you a few weeks ago. great blog. what movie is this from, ” There is an enemy that you can’t kill?”