Going back to my post on Canuckistan’s gun confiscation plan, there’s this headline:
Alberta and Saskatchewan Have a Message for
Ottawa on Gun Confiscation: GFY
Of course, if said two entities were to become U.S. States #51 and #52, this would be less of an issue… just sayin’.
Ambrose Bierce once said something along the lines of: “Whenever politicians talk, no matter what the topic, it’s always about money.”
In that spirit therefore, I offer up this little piece of shit masquerading as a pearl:
Democrats have moved to enact legislation that would establish retroactive liability for American energy producers through so-called “climate superfund” laws which penalize companies for lawfully providing energy that Americans rely on every day.
Beyond potential political challenges, the Democrat plan to punish energy producers also faces significant legal hurdles.
The Justice Department and Vermont in late March faced off in the federal courts over the 2024 climate superfund law that would require fossil fuel providers to pay for the alleged costs of climate change. The Trump administration has sued to block the law, claiming it violates the Constitution. The administration believes that climate superfund laws are unlawful attempts to regulate emissions that cross state lines. API and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have filed their own lawsuit against Vermont.
Jonathan Rose, who represented Vermont at the late March hearing, said, “We don’t need to convince the court that climate change presents serious challenges to the state of Vermont. The act is intended to recover some of the costs it’s going to need to adapt to climate change,” he said. “What it doesn’t do is, it doesn’t try to mitigate climate change, stop climate change, or otherwise impact global emissions or anything like that.”
Yeah, it’s not even attempting to paint itself as having “noble” intentions (i.e. staving off Global Cooling Climate Warming Change©); it’s a naked grab for money, pure and simple. The accepted “fact” that Global Cooling Climate Warming Change© is actually a thing simply gives the theft a foundation. (Corollary: if Global Cooling Climate Warming Change© is not real — it isn’t — then all this bullshit should go away — it won’t — because they’ll always clamp onto some other imaginary catastrophe as a pretext for their theft.)
A cursory look at a couple of other states trying to do similar: New York and Hawaii. Both Bluer than Paul Newman’s eyes, both stuck with massive Democrat government-created spending deficits.
Germany edition:
…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.
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.
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).