It’s Wednesday, September 4th, 2019…but before we begin, we mark the passing of a very dear, if not terribly old friend, Abigail McKee:
For 12 wonderful years, Abby brought us enormous joy in a very small package. But right decisions are often the toughest, and this one was no exception. If all dogs go to Heaven, Abby’s already up there enjoying herself with the rest of the McKee pack.
Now, we present an abbreviated edition of The Gouge!
First up, here’s one infringement of the 2nd Amendment we won’t have to worry about fighting…
…’cuz Beto’s got about as much chance of even sniffin‘ the White House as Jeffrey Epstein does of testifying against Bill Clinton in court. By the way, Are we the only one who’s noticed the more Beto speaks, the dumber he sounds?!?
Since we’re on the subject of those who dig themselves a deeper hole every time they open their mouth, the WSJ‘s Holman Jenkins details how…
“…Let’s not pretend to know more than we do. It is impossible to say for sure that Donald Trump would not be president if not for Mr. Comey’s unwarranted interventions in the Hillary Clinton case.
It is impossible to know what course Mr. Trump’s ideologically noncommittal and weakly partisan administration might have followed had it not been weighed down by the(wholly-fabricated) Russia incubus. The New York Times reminds us this week that Mr. Trump was widely understood by the electorate to be “substantially more moderate than his party.”
It is impossible to know how Mr. Trump’s own behavior and calculations would have been different if he had been greeted with the usual presidential honeymoon rather than a concerted campaign to portray him as a Russian stooge.
But one judgment we are ready to render on Mr. Comey’s tenure: If he had chosen a different career (say, driving instructor) and never joined the FBI, I doubt we’d be lamenting his absence now. Indeed, it seems overwhelmingly likely that the country would be better off today without his heedless and ill-advised decisions.
Though a precedent from U.S. history doesn’t leap to mind, one from popular culture does: Maxwell Smart, the bumbling master spy with the inflated ego and talent for disaster from the TV show “Get Smart.” As Mel Brooks, creator of the rollicking 1960s sitcom, told a reporter at the time, “No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”…”
Jim Comey was not only the first, he was also the worst…though Bob Mueller comes in a close second, seeing as he willingly participated in a play he had to have known to be a farce from the get-go.
Next up, also writing at NRO, Kevin Williamson offers this helpful primer for…
“There was another massacre, this one in Midland and Odessa, Texas. As usual, tragedy was followed by stupidity.
The New York Times, in its poetical mode, observed that the crime “clashed with the typically serene and dusty rural landscape of the region.” In reality, Odessa is the most dangerous city in Texas, with a murder rate about twice the national average. So much for “serene.” It is not particularly rural, either, though you pass through a good deal of rurality on the way there: Midland and Odessa effectively run together to form a city about the size of Madison, Wis., or Buffalo, N.Y. So much for “rural.”
It is dusty.
The killer was — see if this sounds familiar — well known to police, and well known to his neighbors as a raving lunatic who lived in a commercial shed without running water and at night fired his rifle into the darkness.
…After the Midland-Odessa shootings, Joe Biden brought to bear his trademark alloy of dishonesty, sanctimony, and stupidity, insisting that only scheming special-interest groups had prevented us from taking the obvious measure of banning “magazines that can hold multiple bullets” — which is to say, magazines, categorically, inasmuch as holding multiple bullets is what magazines do. A proposal such as Biden suggests would mean an effective ban on nearly all modern handguns and most rifles, along with a goodly portion of shotguns.
…What might a serious proposal look like?
For one thing, a serious proposal would not carry the hallmark of the unserious proposal — i.e., it would not be focused, as progressives’ proposals almost exclusively are, on creating additional restrictions for federally licensed firearms dealers and the people who do business with them, people who constitute one of the statistically least criminally inclined demographics in these United States. It is difficult to become a licensed firearms dealer, and doing business with one — which is the exercise of a constitutional right — requires a lot more scrutiny than does, say, voting: valid photo identification from a small list of approved sources, background check, copious paperwork, etc.
The so-called assault rifles that make up a large part of the dealers’ inventories — because they are the most popular sporting firearms in the United States, owned by millions and millions of Americans — are used in crime so rarely that the FBI doesn’t even bother keeping statistics on them. Yes, they are sometimes used in the theatrical public shootings that sometimes command our national attention — which is what these acts of theater are intended to do — but those acts constitute a vanishingly small portion of violent crime in the United States. All “long guns” together — all rifles, shotguns, etc. — account for about 3 percent of murder weapons. For perspective: People who are beaten to death with the bare hands of their assailants are about double that percentage of all murder victims.
What’s missing is ordinary, unglamorous, labor-intensive law-enforcement and public-health work — i.e., the one thing no one employed by government will seriously contemplate and no politician answering to government workers and their unions will seriously consider…
…The failings of our prosecutorial, probation, parole, and mental-health systems are fundamental and in some cases catastrophic. In spite of that, the U.S. homicide rate today is about what it was in the Eisenhower years. There is not very much cause for panic, and there is not very much cause for a panicked crackdown on the legal sale of firearms through firearms dealers. But demagogues benefit from panic. Demagogues love nothing better than a population that is ignorant and terrified, one that needs only someone to blame. Joe Biden, in his nearly pristine ignorance, is ready to supply whatever — whomever — suits on that front. Most Democrats and some Republicans are ready to go along with him.
Send a fool on a fool’s errand, they say. There, we have an embarrassment of riches. On the matter of intelligent measures to reduce crime, we are paupers.“
Meanwhile, it was just another weekend in the city with the toughest gun laws in the country, as…
And in one of Bernie and Lieawatha’s favorite Socialist paradises, a…
“A man who recently served time for attempted murder allegedly killed eight children and injured two others who were attending their first day of school in China, police said. The 40-year-old man, only identified by the surname Yu, was taken into custody late Monday after he allegedly attacked the kids at an elementary school in Chaoyangpo village of Enshi city in Hubei province.
It was not immediately clear how the children were attacked…”
Though in the now, it’s apparent, as with so many other mass-killings in the PRC, guns being unavailable, the perp used a knife.
And in today’s Muslim Minute, brought to us, as always, by the Religion of Pieces…as in what a significant segment of its adherents want to blow us all into…Jeff Foutch forwarded the following from Frontpage Mag:
“The following are some of the abuses, categorized by theme, that Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of June, 2019…”
Remember, this was all in just one month. So many infidels, such little time.
Which brings us, incongruously enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these bits of brilliance from Balls Cotton and Ed Hickey:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with the Nature Section, and news of a…
Reports Rosie O’Donnell was recently recreating off Cape Cod are purely coincidental!
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