Month: April 2026

Quote(s) Of The Day

QOTD

Germany edition:

  • “This historic responsibility of Germany is part of my country’s Staatsräson. That means, for me as German Chancellor, the security of Israel is never negotiable. And if that is the case, then these must not remain empty words in the hour of truth.” —  Germany’s then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, March 18, 2008.
  • “What the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip, I no longer understand the goal…” — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, May 2025.
  • “Perhaps if German children had been beheaded or burned alive in their beds on October 7, 2023, he would have a clearer understanding of Israel’s ‘goal’ in the Gaza Strip.” — Unknown

Taking Away The Bennies

Gummint, Illegal immigrants, Subsidies

Stephen Green points me at this:

Republican lawmakers in Texas have spent the past year implementing regulatory changes to limit access to services for the estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrants residing in the state, prompting both support from state officials and criticism from activist groups.

A report by the Texas Tribune detailed the steps taken, which include tightening eligibility requirements for occupational licenses, restricting access to commercial driver’s licenses, and limiting who can qualify for in-state tuition at public universities. According to the report, more than 6,400 refugees and DACA recipients have lost their commercial driver’s licenses. Additional restrictions are expected to affect non-citizens working in licensed industries such as construction and medicine.

State officials are also examining the 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe, which requires public schools to educate non-citizens.

In a sane world, none of this would even be a topic under discussion.  Of course illegal immigrants should not get any kind of state (or federal, for that matter) benefits whatsoever.  Tax-based (i.e. government) funds should be spent exclusively on the citizens who paid those taxes, and not just on anyone who happens to be standing there.

I know, I know:

“That’s Krool & Hartless, Kim.  Why would you deny education to the CHIIIILDREN?  It’s not their fault their parents brought them here;  why would you punish them so?”

Ask their parents that question:  why would you bring your children with you and involve them in your criminal enterprise?  (Yes, illegal immigration is a crime, ipse facto.)

No.  Nobody deserves to be rewarded for criminal behavior — which is what all this is — and while I agree that it would indeed be cruel and heartless to deny medical care to anyone, it still doesn’t make it right that our hospitals treat illegal immigrants for their ailments and injuries, especially when it is precisely that (free) treatment which gives them an incentive to come over here in the first place.  Ditto child education.

Here’s the thing.  What did people think was going to be the result of our government actually following and enforcing immigrant law to its proper extent and function?  Of course this was going to create hardship on the illegal immigrants and their families — in the same way, incidentally, that sending a criminal to jail for, say, armed robbery creates hardship for their family.  That should be part of the deterrent.

But guess what?  Failure to enforce the law — as the Biden government failed to do — simply creates an incentive to break the law.  If you are not going to prosecute people for the crime of shoplifting, for example, then don’t be surprised when shoplifting becomes endemic.  We’ve seen this happen in cities governed according to this foolishness — why would we think it would be any different for any other kind of crime, such as in this case illegal immigration?

I’m really glad that Texas legislators are doing what they’re doing — what they’re supposed to be doing — which is to take away incentives for people to break the law and suffer no consequences.  And ignore idiots like this squish:

“These all represent a broader and more coordinated shift … to create a pipeline of exclusion that stretches from limiting access to K-12 education, all the way into participation in the workforce and basic mobility through the state,” Corinne Kentor, with the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, told the outlet.

Yup.  Keep going, guys, and get rid of the benefits of criminal behavior;  this is what we voted for.

Ask Me Again

Psychos, Shootin' Time

…why I never walk out of my house without carrying a gun:

A knife-wielding maniac was shot and injured by cops after he started terrorizing a New York City grocery store overnight, the NYPD said Monday.

The suspect was shot outside the City Fresh Market near 120th Street in Harlem just after 1:30 a.m. when he repeatedly refused to drop the 13-inch kitchen blade, according to cops.

The man had been thrown out of the grocery store some time earlier after getting into an argument with someone inside.  He later showed up brandishing the knife, police said.  Surveillance video obtained by Pix11 captured the man lingering outside the sliding doors and waving the weapon as workers huddled inside.

When police arrived on the scene, the man allegedly kept pointing the knife in their direction before an officer fired.  The knifeman took a bullet to his abdomen, was taken to a hospital for surgery and remains in a critical condition.

Sorry, but faced with a similar situation, I’m not going to wait around for the cops to show up.  Wave a knife at me, especially one like that, and whatever happens after that is on you.

I’m not boasting or whatever;  I’m stating the obvious.  Gawd know I don’t want to shoot someone.  But I really don’t want to be stabbed just because I happen to be at the supermarket.

Reader Question

Africa, Military

Reader Brian H. sends me this pic and asks:  “Seriously, which one is you?”

Seriously, neither could possibly be me:

  • I don’t smoke
  • I’m not Rhodesian
  • I wasn’t drafted till 1977
  • They’re holding guns, not a guitar, and finally:
  • I’d never wear those little shortie-pants in the African sun;  my lily-white skin would burn to a crisp in about half an hour.

But I’m flattered that you think I would have been in the Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI).  Those guys were maniacs.

Collection

Anti-Gun Nannies, Government Thugs, Mocking Furriners

So… it looks very much as though the Canucki government wants to go on a gun-confiscation expedition:

Then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation known as C-21 to freeze handgun purchases and a “buy back” of military-style semi-automatic firearms in May 2022, with the bill receiving Royal Assent in December 2023. Conservative Member of Parliament Dane Lloyd of Alberta questioned Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree about the apparent large-scale refusal to comply from gun owners.

“Minister, the declaration period for firearms owners is scheduled to end next week. So far, only 2.5 percent of the estimated two million effected firearms have been declared and 98 percent [of] firearms owners haven’t made a declaration,” Lloyd said. “So, if they’re not declaring by next week, what’s your plan, Minister?”

And the response:

“The plan we have is as of March 31st, the time to complete the enrollment, will be, will be done and then the RCMP and other agencies will be available throughout the spring and the summer to do the collection.”

Remind me again how they know where to do these  collections  confiscations, and from whom?

Oh yeah, that’s right:  guns and gun owners are “registered” up there in the Great White Empty Space.

So the next time some Leftoid asswipe suggests registering guns and gun owners here in the U.S., please remember the above proposed action by the Canucki gummint.

Afterthought:  Canuckis being the milder version of the North American tribe, I’m kinda curious to see to what degree they’ll resist this foul confiscation drive.  I’m also very curious to see how many Mounties (active or retired) will actually show up to perform it.

Expected Outcome

Journalist Scum, Media Assholes

When you attempt to present a factual alternative to a narrative (in this case, The Narrative About EEEVIL Global Cooling Climate Warming Change©) in a forum run by the BBC, you should expect to be shut down, muzzled or otherwise gagged.

But Charlie Spedding nevertheless tried, and was of course shut off:

The website moderators informed me that my post had been deleted because it broke their house rules: ‘We reserve the right to fail comments which . . . are considered likely to disrupt, provoke, attack or offend others, are racist, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objectionable; contain swear words or other language likely to offend.’

It will come as no surprise to anyone that absolutely none of the above applied to what he tried to post, but that didn’t matter:

‘In this instance, we believe the moderator made the correct decision so we will be unable to uphold your appeal. Due to the volume of correspondence we receive, we are unable to discuss this matter further.’

And that, as the actress said to the bishop, was that.

The problem, of course, is that some people still think that the BBC still behaves in the WWII-era of trusted news source, whereas they are more like the Soviet-era Pravda  than anything else.

At least with Pravda, though, they had reason to fear retribution from an actual hostile government, whereas in the U.K. the government isn’t involved at all:  it’s the BBC who are the censorious (and self-censuring) types.

Which of course is why the Beeb is at the forefront of all attacks on independent media (like Twitter and no doubt TCW) who dare to give a voice to the unruly members of the public whose views (the BBC considers) are either “fake” or “disruptive, provocative, offensive, racist, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objectionable”.

That “freedom of expression” thing?  That’s just so American, and therefore vulgar (from the Latin word vulgus, a crowd).