Posts Tagged ‘Football’
Friday, February 22nd, 2019
Enjoy a 2/22 LinkSwarm!
“Trump Is On Solid Legal Ground In Declaring A Border Emergency To Build A Wall.”
A review of existing federal laws makes clear that President Donald Trump has clear statutory authority to build a border wall pursuant to a declaration of a national emergency. Arguments to the contrary either mischaracterize or completely ignore existing federal emergency declarations and appropriations laws that delegate to the president temporary and limited authority to reprogram already appropriated funding toward the creation of a border wall between the United States and Mexico.
When lawmakers want to talk to President Donald Trump, they just pick up the phone. (Hat tip: Ann Althouse.)
Andy Ngo helpfully provides an extensive list of fake hate crimes in the Trump era.
“Covington teen Nick Sandmann sues The Washington Post for $250M.”
Shocker: Washington Post tells the truth about guns:
Gun homicides have dropped substantially over the past 25 years — but most Americans believe the opposite to be true. Why? Perhaps in part because of the media focus on multiple-victim shooting incidents in recent years. Perhaps, too, because of the number and deadliness of those incidents. We’ve noted before that the number of fatalities in major mass-shooting incidents has increased dramatically in recent years; it’s possible that people are conflating increases in frequency and deadliness of mass shootings with the United States getting more dangerous generally.
New York Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez adapts quickly to the ways of Washington, puts her boyfriend on her congressional payroll. But that’s not all! She also featherbedded him on her campaign payroll by laundering the funds through a third party.
The fight between Second Amendment activists and Michael Bloomberg’s money:
The time for division is not now. We need a strong NRA. If you quit NRA over bump stocks or red flag laws, you aren’t helping. I’m not saying we can’t have disagreement, but we all need to be rowing in the same direction and understanding what’s important. Miguel notes that activists in Florida are concentrating on Open Carry. I would advise concentrating on stopping the ballot measure Bloomberg is going to foist on you in 2020. NRA has to have money to fight that. We cannot write off the third most populous state. We will never be able to outspend Bloomberg, but we sure as hell can out-organize him. We have a blueprint, and last I heard the dude who pulled off defeating the Massachusetts handgun ban is still alive. The odds were stacked against him too.
Forget about the fucking bump stocks. It’s not where the fight is. That’s over. The fight is preserving the right to own semi-automatic firearms. That’s ultimately what they want, because they are well aware no state’s gun culture has ever come back from an assault weapons ban. Gun bans are a death blow to the culture. If you want to get the hard-core activists worked up over saving an impractical range toy, or in some misguided effort to (badly) get around the machine gun restrictions, you’re not paying attention to where the actual fight is.
“Government report reveals CBO was scandalously off in Obamacare estimates.”
The Supreme Court unanimously rules that there are limits to civil asset forfeiture under the Eighth Amendment. Good. Now congress should tackle such abuse legislatively.
Note the obvious truth that the media is overwhelmingly liberal? Expect to be attacked.
Nicolas Maduro would rather let his own people continue to starve rather than let foreign food aid reach them. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
His army evidently relies on Cuban military personnel. Too bad for him that Cuba’s military intervention in Angola showed the world that Cuban troops sucked. (Hat tip: The Other McCain.)
“Even the UN IPCC says we’re not headed for climate disaster.”
The boy who inflated the concept of wolf:
Suppose that instead of one shepherd boy, there are a few dozen. They are tired of the villagers dismissing their complaints about less threatening creatures like stray dogs and coyotes. One of them proposes a plan: they will start using the word “wolf” to refer to all menacing animals. They agree and the new usage catches on. For a while, the villagers are indeed more responsive to their complaints. The plan backfires, however, when a real wolf arrives and cries of “Wolf!” fail to trigger the alarm they once did.
What the boys in the story do with the word “wolf,” modern intellectuals do with words like “violence.” When ordinary people think of violence, they think of things like bombs exploding, gunfire, and brawls. Most dictionary definitions of “violence” mention physical harm or force. Academics, ignoring common usage, speak of “administrative violence,” “data violence,” “epistemic violence” and other heretofore unknown forms of violence.
Ditto “Gas-lighting.” (Hat tip: Ann Althouse.)
Pro-top: Try not to steal guns from the SHOT show.
The English-language narrator of Islamic State execution videos has been captured.
Gay magazine takes the Mullah’s side to own Trump:
Former women’s tennis champion and out lesbian Martina Navratilova vilified for daring to point out that men shouldn’t be competing in women’s sports.
“Medical examiner barred from Travis County courtrooms amid Rangers investigation.” (Hat tip: Dwight.)
Stafford: the Texas city without property taxes.
B-1s to be retired before B-52s.
Followup: But they’re buying more F-15s. (Hat tip: The Political Hat.)
Philadelphia’s stupid soda tax has not reduced consumption, brought in less revenue than expected, and has cost Philadelphia over 200 jobs. Also, corrupt union officials helped push it through as a “screw you” to the Teamsters. (Hat tip: Director Blue.)
Lt. Governor Dan Patrick bitchslaps some shoddy journalism from the Houston Chronicle so hard they had to retract the story. (Hat tip: Cahnman’s Musings, though the Scribed link is broken.)
Giant “nightmare bee” previously thought to be extinct found alive. Pleasant dreams:
A new football league, the Alliance of American Football, just debuted. Their main bread and butter isn’t ticket sales or broadcast rights, its refining technology to help boost sports gambling.
Trump-supporting comedian Terrance K. Williams recovering from a car accident:
Speaking of Williams:
Instant classic:
“Atheist Requiring Evidence To Believe Anything Knows For Certain Trump Colluded With Russia.”
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Tags:Air Force, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Andy Ngo, Austin, B-1, B-52, Border Controls, border fence, civil asset forfeiture, Covington Catholic, Crime, Cuba, Dan Patrick, Democrats, Eighth Amendment, F-15, Football, Global Warming, Guns, Houston Chronicle, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, LinkSwarm, Martina Navratilova, Michael Bloomberg, Military, Nick Sandmann, Nicolas Maduro, NRA, Second Amendment, Social Justice Warriors, Stafford, Star Wars, Terrance K. Williams, Texas, Travis County, Venezuela, Washington Post
Posted in Austin, Border Control, Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, Guns, Jihad, Media Watch, Military, Social Justice Warriors, Supreme Court, Texas | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 24th, 2013
Monday’s was late, this one is early:
“A lot of conservatives are angry at the GOP too. They want a Republican Party willing to fight.”
“What Ted Cruz did – and what the go-along, get-along gang of Republican stegosauruses hate – is that he fought. He fought.”
More:
This was really about the war between the growing conservative majority in the GOP and the dying GOP establishment minority.
It’s a war that must be fought, and which we should welcome. And it’s a war we conservatives will win.
The party has changed from the bottom up in the last decade. Those at the top of the pyramid are finally realizing that they and the base below are out of synch. The GOP establishment was very, very happy to support the pre-Obama consensus that government would grow and that the Republicans would campaign against it at home then let it expand unhindered in D.C. The problem – in the eyes of the establishment – is that the newly conservative GOP base, energized and activated by Obama’s radicalism, actually wants to shrink the government.
We’re serious. That’s the problem. And with the unblinking eye of the social media upon them, they can’t fake it anymore.
An awful lot of ObamaCare pricing information exposed (via Ace of Spades and Jammie Wearing Fool).
All the lying shills of ObamaCare.
Thousands get insurance cancellation notices due to ObamaCare.
Death panels come to the Great White North.
The UK’s NHS already has death panels. And they pay doctors to let you die.. “I could keep you alive. Or I could pocket this splendid £50. Decisions, decisions.”
Who knew there were so many black farmers in Chicago?
In Virginia, Nurse Bloomberg is backing gun-grabber Terry McAuliffe to the tune of $1.1 million. Let’s hope his spending is every bit as effective as it was in Colorado…
China is killing our pets again.
“How dare Dan Snyder disagree with something that the left didn’t care about five minutes ago? How dare he?”
Tags:Elections, Football, ObamaCare, Redskins, Republicans, Ted Cruz, Terry McAuliffe, Virginia
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Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Over on Facebook, a lot of people have their knickers in a knot over this picture of Super Bowl parking rates from WTHR:
The irony is that most of the people who are shocked, shocked at expensive pricing for Super Bowl parking are the same people who were caterwauling a few months ago about how it was unfair that the 1% had so much money. Well, guess what folks? The vast majority of people who can afford to attend the Super Bowl in the first place are among the 1%, or within spitting distance of it, So on the one day when local businesses can make a killing rooking Mr. Big Shot 1% because he wants to park his Ferrari or Escalade within walking distance, you get all outraged over “price gouging.” I guess because someone’s actually making a profit off Mr. 1% rather than the government stealing it from him to pay off the debt from your Masters in Women’s Studies.
A parking space has no “intrinsic value.” It’s worth whatever people will pay for it. (And while we’re on the subject Marx’s Labor Theory of Value is bunk. Just in case you hadn’t figured that out yet.) Why should you care that a guy who’s already paid $1,200 for tickets has to cough up another $200 for parking? No one’s forcing Mr. 1% to park there. The market pays what the market will bear.
Tags:Economics, Football, parking, Super Bowl
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
I’m a UT graduate, and I follow football. (I know, “rooting for laundry.”) Here in Texas, the UT Longhorns have a friendly rivalry with the Texas A&M Aggies (“friendly” in the sense of “no recent homicides on record” and “rivalry” in the sense that the Longhorns won a National Championship in 2006, while A&M’s biggest post-season accomplishment this decade was winning the last GallereyFurniture.com Bowl in 2001).
However, today this Longhorn fan would like to offer up three cheers to the stalwart denizens of Aggieland for voting down redlight cameras. Study after study has shown red light cameras actually increase accidents, and merely exist as a way of extracting yet more money from taxpayers, and to line the pockets of the companies that sell and run them. (And, as always when money and politics are combined, one hand washes the other.) Good riddance to a bad idea, and hopefully more Texas municipalities (Round Rock, I’m looking in your direction) will follow suit.
As for Aggie football returning to its glory days, well…A&M is currently 5-3, and should be favored against Baylor and Colorado, so a sweet berth in the Texas Bowl (the successor to the GallereyFurniture.com Bowl) is well within reach…
Tags:Aggies, College Station, Elections, Football, Longhorns, red light, red light cameras, Texas, Texas A&M
Posted in Elections, Texas | 2 Comments »