Alice In Wonderland Comes To Beloit, Wisconsin

Invite the police to search your house for guns? Gee, of course. It's the New American Way:

Police in Beloit are launching a new effort to reduce gun violence in which they're asking city residents to volunteer to have police search their homes for guns.
Police Chief Norm Jacobs said he doesn't expect the phone to be ringing off the hook with requests for police to search their homes. He nevertheless hopes the program will encourage people to think about gun violence as an infectious disease like Ebola, and a home inspection like a vaccine to help build up the city's immune system.

"Gun violence is as serious as the Ebola virus is being represented in the media, and we should fight it using the tools that we've learned from our health providers,” he said.

I wonder how Mom will feel when the cops find an unregistered full auto assault bong in the attic.

The Education that $60,000 Buys At Georgetown University

Student gets mugged at gunpoint: He blames his "privilege", not his assailants.

“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’” asks Friedfeld. “It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”

Yeah, that's one way of looking at it.

He'd make a good slave.

Megyn Kelly or Sheena, Queen of the Jungle

I understand that most of my revered readers are more MSNBC or CBS kinda people, but on the off chance you saw tonight's Fox News with Megyn Kelly, what did you think of her Sheena, Queen of the Jungle leopard print outfit?:

Megyn.

Sheena.

A) Totally Intellectual: Worthy of a Ph.D in Sociology
B) Totally Babacious Empowered Woman Award: Worthy of Sheena, Bare-handed Killer of Mighty Lions
C) Totally Babaciously Intellectual: Worthy of a Republican Vice Presidential Candidate
D) Ummmm...my wife might see my reply. What's your name again? Prank Call! Prank Call!!

It Makes Perfect Sense To Me

After all, if a vivisected, hormonized man is properly considered a woman, why wouldn't a vivisected, hormonized woman be properly considered a man? XX vs XY chromosomes and prior life experiences aside, of course. They don't count in the Liberal Arts, and Liberal Arts trump science any and every day. As we all know, and accept, they should, naturally. Science is just an opinion, while Belief is Truth.

I'm waiting for the President to stand in solidarity with himmer. Anything less would be racist.

Still, I might reconsider allowing my child to attend Wellesley at my expense.

Thirty Days for SpaghettiOs Residue

Sigh:

According to the Gainesville Times, police arrested Ashley Huff, 23, when they found a “suspicious residue” they believed to be meth on a spoon inside the car she was riding in.

Huff was subsequently charged with possession of methamphetamine.

Huff repeatedly told police that there was “no way in hell” that the substance was drug residue, according to Hall County assistant public defender Chris van Rossem.

Huff was unable to afford her bail and spent more than a month in jail while her attorney attempted to arrange a plea bargain.

She was released only after the crime lab finally came back with the results of its substance analysis.

It was spaghetti sauce.

I'm mighty glad I live in a free country. An unfree country would be really scary.

Appalling Spending On Weddings In Hawaii

From today's Honolulu Star-Advertiser:

The cost of a wedding in...Honolulu averages $52,190, with couples spending an average of 72.19 percent of their household income on the big event.

That makes Honolulu weddings the most affordable in Hawaii, according to personal finance site NerdWallet.com.

Anyone who thinks getting married is proper justification for for a $52,000 party isn't grown up enough to get married.

$52,000? Seventy-two percent of household income? On average? This is the mark of a culture without functioning adults. If the parents are spending the lion's share it is even worse: they are old enough to know better. Instead they pass on their values of intergenerational irresponsibility, and wonder why they are impoverished when they retire.

Imagine what a gift of $50,000 to the immature couple, invested for 40 years at 4% would be worth at their retirement. OK, don't imagine, because I used an online compound interest calculator. 245,691.32. Looked at from a different perspective, what does a wedding expense of $50,000 at age 45 cost the parents in lost capital at 65? 110,835.76, and that is for one child's wedding, not two or three such examples of foolishness.

No wonder we have among the highest government debt per capita: We embrace a culture of childishness.

BTW: We spent less than $500 on our wedding, and it was lovely. We are also still happily married.

UN Continues To Degrade It's Credibility

Cheryl K. Chumley in The Washington Times:

The United Nations slammed Israel for possibly committing war crimes in its fight against Hamas — and then backed that accusation by suggesting the Jewish nation ought to be sharing its Iron Dome defensive technology with the very terror group it’s fighting.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said to...the U.N. Human Rights Council that Israel was falling short in its duty to protect citizens in the Gaza Strip from getting killed by its rockets...

The U.N. group listed among its reasons for making that claim that Israel outright refused to share its Iron Dome with the “governing authority” of Gaza — which is Hamas, Breitbart reported. Ms. Pillay also condemned the United States for helping to fund the Iron Dome for Israel, but not granting any such accommodations to those in Gaza.

I guess the US committed a war crime by not sharing the atomic bomb with Japan.

The World Is Spinning Out Of Control Department: Mormon Crips

People who relocate are generally encouraged to get involved with their new community. California Mormons move to Utah:

"This work involves committing robberies and/or assaults on behalf of the enterprise,'' the court documents state....
Yet the criminal profile outlined in court documents, Katoa said, should not define his nephew's life.

...the youngster who accompanied him on fishing outings, stayed nights at his home, was "very obedient with his aunties and uncles, and always respected his elders.''

Even as Angilau and a brother, Vilisoni (now charged in a 2013 murder of a TCG rival), began "making choices beyond our control'' during their mid-teens with the gang, Katoa said they maintained close ties with the family....

"I was investigating a drive-by firebombing and when we got the guy, we found the Book of Mormon in his hip pocket,'' Stallworth said. "He was studying for his mission while he was out there tossing Molotov cocktails.''

Stallworth also describes how investigators sometimes located TCG suspects by staking out their churches.

UPDATE: This story has provoked some back and forth when I inquired of a family member in Utah if he would introduce us to the Crips if we moved there. He replied "Sure, but you first have to prove you can make a serviceable molotov cocktail." A slight reworking of my response:

Not to sweat: Miss Hassenpfeffer, my kindergarten teacher, taught us that Home Ec stuff: gasoline siphoned from a car in the Staff parking lot ("Don't drink it, boys and girls. Yuk!"), some liquid soap from the Girls Room ("Save some for clean up!"), a few pieces of Fritzy Harnischfeger's t-shirt ("Saving America from godless communism requires sacrifices, Fritz. You are opposed to godless communism, aren't you?"), a case of Miss Hassenpfeffer's empty gin bottles ("Extra energy after a day with you wonderful children!"), a Zippo lighter ("Just like real soldiers use, boys and girls!"), and we had the best recess ever at Dunwoodie School. Even the 5th Graders were jealous.

Especially when they realized that the Soviet tank we took out had been the Principal's car. ("Call me erratic, will you?")

The 1950s: Back when America was still a free country, Charles Addams drew cartoons for the New Yorker, and children could still be children.

The Good Old Days.

Sigh.

Rather Like The Saudi Religous Police...

...who forced girls back into a burning school because they weren't wearing veils.

Except this was Minnesota.

Others have commented "Tar and Feathers." Works for me.

Americans used to be known world wide for disobeying the rules. What happened? What happened to turn us into zombie drones?

TSA aside, of course.

The adult zombie drones were too inflexible to consider modifying the plan in the face of contact with the enemy: -5 degrees, -25 wind chill, a student in a wet swim suit.

Obeying the plan was more important than saving the children. Which was the purpose of the plan.

That's an adult Zombie. A whole pack of them screaming down the street with rotting flesh hanging from their teeth. Or standing in the parking lot with a soaking wet 14 year old in -25 wind chill, chanting "Obey the rules! Obey the rules! Obey! Obey! Obey!"

The war against totalitarian Islamists may have come just in time. A lot of young Americans have learned that while discipline is important, it is independent thinking, initiative, and aggressiveness which get the job done when you make contact with the enemy. I'll bet a teacher who had served a couple tours in Iraq or Afghanistan would have gotten that kid inside.

Train Station Knife Attack Kills 27, Injures 109 In China

I don't suppose that China allows just anyone to carry a pistol for self-protection:

BEIJING — China’s official Xinhua News Agency says at least 27 people are dead and 109 injured after a group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China...

...The motive behind the attack was not immediately clear, but China has seen a number of mass stabbings and other attacks carried out by people bearing grudges against society.

It isn't in southwestern China at all: Kunming, Yunnan, is solidly south central China, just north of Laos. So maybe it wasn't members of the Religion of Peace Or I'll Kill You. There are such currently rather the worse for wear in Burma, which isn't all that far away though, so who knows? This might have been the collectively oriented engaging in ethno-religious retaliation against innocent people. Or not.

Q: When is China going to crack down on unlicensed knife dealers?

A little more here.

UPDATE: It does seem to have been members of the Religion of Peace:

The Chinese authorities have blamed the attack on militants from the remote far western region of Xinjiang, which is home to tensions between the government and Muslim separatists.

The state news agency Xinhua, quoting local government sources, said: 'Evidence at the crime scene showed that the Kunming Railway Station terrorist attack was carried out by Xinjiang separatist forces.'

The Xinjiang region borders Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and the Chinese government has blamed several attacks on militants there.

The region is home to a large Muslim Uighur minority who are angry at the treatment of their beliefs by the authorities.

More here.It's one thing for people with legitimate complaints against the state to attack the state, another to randomly slaughter people who cannot affect state behavior. More of the collectivist mentality at work.

"No Guns" Stickers Protect Illinois Schools

Illinois schools are putting up "No Guns" signs to ward off evil. If only we had known sooner how easy it is to keep homicidal nuts with guns out of schools:

The image can be frightening, Byrne said, “but if it keeps the world safer, that’s OK. The No. 1 thing we do for kids in general is keep their school safe...If it’s reasonable to tell people this is a safe, no-gun zone, then we’ll do it.”

What a shame that Sandy Hook and Columbine didn't have these stickers in place before nuts with guns killed people.

Guns are also banned at parades and festivals, so expect to see these talismans protecting such venues as well. Apparently churches too, whether they want to be gun free or gun protected: The legislature has decreed.

Now all the homicidal maniacs will look at these talismans and go elsewhere, because they know that the last place they want to shoot up is a place where they know that no one else will be armed.

All this time...so easy. If only we had known.

So Much For Good, Clean, Fun

Australian cops used olive oil to help get a naked guy out of a washing machine. Apparently he had been playing hide and seek with his partner (identified elsewhere as his girlfriend) and got stuck.

But...but...if it was Australia, couldn't they just open the door and he would fall out?

If A Man Is Beaten and Stabbed With A Ceramic Squirrel...

...has he forgotten to bring home the beer?

The gentleman should be glad that he wasn't sent out for a case of Scotch.

If he was a prepper, he would not have run out of beer on Christmas Eve. But if he had been so unprepared, he could have at least protected himself from such a squirrelous attack.

Technosexuals, Robosexuals, & iDollators

The Atlantic Magazine has an interesting iInterview:

they don't possess any of the unpleasant qualities that organic, flesh and blood humans have. A synthetic will never lie to you, cheat on you, criticize you, or be otherwise disagreeable.

Robosexuals, iDollators, technosexuals...The world is spinning out of control. As always.

I'm not keen on taking emotional chances.

I kinda guessed that might be the case.

I thought it would be nice to get a silicone companion for Sidore, so she isn't lonely or bored whenever I'm away from home. As they're both bisexual, they get to enjoy each other on multiple levels. If anything, adding Elena to our partnership has only improved it, as we all appreciate what each other has to offer.

I...uh...yeah. Of course. Totally.

Having a synthetic in your life means that you can interact with them whenever you want to, and when you want to do something that requires solitude, you can have that as well, without being made to feel guilty about it.

Synthetic relationships: Just darn practical.

I've seen things I would never have seen were I not an iDollator.

I'll bet.

I've been...asked to speak in front of a room full of psychology students about the benefits of synthetic partners.

Not surprised. Not surprised at all.

They whole thing is here in The Atlantic.

The DC Insanity About Guns

The people who enact and maintain DC gun laws strike me as mentally ill, anti-Constitution fascists.

We are beset with traitors and the mentally ill all around us, yet almost no one is willing to even say so.

Witness this law in Washington, DC, making it a crime to have either empty (fired) cartridge cases or expended (used) bullets on one or within one's reach in a car.

Washington police are operating under orders to arrest tourists and other non-residents traveling with spent bullet or shotgun casings, a crime that carries a $1,000 fine, a year in jail and a criminal record

Washington Times reporter Emily Miller says

Under the law, live or empty brass and plastic casings must be carried in a special container and unavailable to drivers. Having one, for example, in a cup holder or ash tray is illegal.

She told Secrets that the police are "under orders to arrest tourists or other legal gun owners from out of state who wouldn't think to empty brass and plastic from their cars or pockets.

This is insanity, pure and simple. Or treason. Take your pick.

California Schools' Transgendered Showers and Bathrooms

If I had known in junior high and high school that all I had to do to hang out nekkid with all the nekkid girls in the girls locker room and shower was declare myself transgendered, I might just have done so. I'm sure that I was a lesbian, trapped in a man's body. At least until graduation.

What an opportunity lost. Sigh.

Governor Moonbeam, where were you when I needed you most?

Sacrilegious Ferrari

A Ferrari with four seats? Immoral. Obscene. Self-contradictory.

Although, if it had a sunroof, one could install a pintle mount on the trailing edge and be prepared for speed traps.

Still, what's next? a Ferrari station wagon?

Bill Clinton Poses with Porn Stars

He always was a classy guy.

I debated labeling this The World Is Spinning Out of Control, and finally decided it seemed to fit. Would Franklin Roosevelt have posed with porn stars? Abe Lincoln? JFK might have, but not publicly. LBJ...might have hired them, but quietly.

Tacky, Bill, so tacky.

The World Is Spinning Out of Control

Hot from the Huffington Post:

Naked Man Ties Himself To Tree, Hoping For Random Sex

...Posted on May 23rd 2012.
Man ties himself to tree, puts on a blindfold, exposes genitals and waits for some anonymous sex.

What does a guy have to do to get some anonymous sex these days?

Last week, Ramsey, Minn. police say, Alan Petrusson tied himself to a tree, put a blindfold on, exposed his genitals and waited for anonymous sex near a public park, according to CBS Minnesota.

The story doesn't say whether he was successful or not. Maybe he should get a high grade for optimism, if nothing else.

UPDATE: CBS has more:

Two officers of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources were looking for fishing violations Thursday evening when they say they stumbled upon Alan Petrusson in Dayton Port Roadside Park in Ramsey. They described him as sitting on a sling, blindfolded, with wrists and ankles tied to two trees, and genitals exposed.

So, what was he charged with? Trolling without a license?

Tuxedoed Sashimi Fan Assaults Newt Gingrich

Speaker Newt has been bitten by a tuxedo clad sashimi eater. The world continues to spin out control.

Can't the opposition confine their activities to criticizing policy?

So much for the New Civility.