Anyone who reads this blog knows I am opposed to the death penalty- not in theory, but because too many in our court system are willing to lie, cheat, and right the system to get convictions whether or not the accused is innocent.
This animal pled guilty, claiming he panicked after accidently hitting her with his FEDEX work van. Video showed otherwise, and audio captured after he covered the camera caught the rape and murder.
The family’s life has been torn apart. Kill him. There is no way to make him well again, but there is a way to make sure he never kills again. Society failed that little girl. Let’s no fail another.
By the autumn of 1919, the United States was already the largest industrial economy on Earth. It was industry being carried out on a scale never before seen: oil wells, refineries, factories, railroads, material flows, conversion capacity. The US had woven industrial capacity and manufacturing into every fiber of its economy. The entire nation was a huge factory.
In 1901, Ransom Olds, owner of Oldsmobile, had invented the assembly line. In 1913, Henry Ford had improved upon it by using a conveyor belt to bring the work to the worker, instead of moving workers around the factory. Before this innovation, it took 12.5 hours to build a Model T, but afterwards it only took 2 hours.
A few years later, Ford went on to invent the 40 hour workweek, and the US workforce was still the most productive in the world.
The entire rise of the USA to being the world economic leader was created in the first quarter of the 20th century.
When a young Isoroku Yamamoto (later Admiral of the Japanese navy) was a graduate student at Harvard, one of the things he marveled at was the US manufacturing capacity. He told the leaders of Japan that any war with the US would need to be won in 6 months or less, or the US would manufacture things faster than they could be destroyed.
He was right. The US at the height of wartime production was allowing a shipyard to complete a fleet aircraft carrier in just 16 months, and an escort carrier in two months. In all, 170 aircraft carriers were produced between 1942 and 1945.On top of that, the US built 350 destroyers, 48 cruisers, 10 battleships, 230 submarines, with the a total of more than 9,000 combat ships and 3,600 cargo ships.
There were over 96,000 aircraft produced in 1944 alone. A B-24 rolled off the assembly line in 2 days from start to finish, one bomber every hour.
Every month, 2000 M4 Sherman tanks rolled off the assembly line.
Now compare that to today. 750 Patriot, 90 Tomahawks, and 100 SM3 missiles per year. In any real conflict, the US will be outproduced by China, just as the Axis was in WW2. Now we struggle to built 10 ships a year, and we struggle to maintain a fleet of 300 ships. In fact, the only thing our Navy is producing in large numbers is Admirals- we have as many of them as we do ships. OK, maybe paperwork is produced in larger numbers.
The only good news here is I don’t think China will need to fight the US. Instead, they will continue what they have been doing: destabilize the nation by supporting the left while using honeypots to compromise our lawmakers. Our nation will eventually collapse under the weight of bureaucrats and useless breeders who collect government benefits to make more useless breeders. We don’t even create the currency that we use to pay them any longer- it exists mostly in digital form now.
We got up early and had breakfast. The hotel where we were staying provides breakfast as part of the price of renting a room. They had a European style buffet with plenty of ham, fish, cheese, fruit, and some baked goods. They also served omelets to order. This place made the fluffiest ham, cheese and onion omelets I’ve ever had. Once breakfast was done, we headed out to see the sights.
Whenever I visit a town I’ve never been to before, I try to find the double decker busses. They usually charge you a fee for the day, which allows you ride those open topped, double decker busses without restriction. They usually have a circular route around the tourist areas, where they play a narration in several languages, and are a cost effective way to see the sights.
As you can see, the weather wasn’t great for sightseeing.
There were at least two squads of troops patrolling the immediate vicinity of the Eiffel Tower. Note that they have magazines inserted, but also have chamber flags in place. You can see the chamber flags if you zoom into the picture. We would periodically see armed patrols throughout the city, mostly centered around tourist areas. These aren’t parade troops- they appear to be (to my non-soldier Navy eye) regular troops- rifles with the bluing worn off in places, that sort of thing. The beret colors varied- we saw black, dark green, maroon, blue, and black.
These guys were just standing on the banks of the river Seine.
There was a giant shopping mall, two buildings- one for the women that was five stories tall, then you cross a pedestrian bridge over the street to the men’s building, and it was three stories tall. Even the building looked like artwork:
I really like the little cafes that are everywhere. Less of the franchise slop that you find in the US, more of little privately owned places.
The buildings and architecture make me realize just how talented craftsmen used to be. Even in the US, we don’t make stuff like this anymore.
Despite the fact that we rode a bus most of the way, we still managed to walk nearly ten miles, according to my smart watch. After a day like that, it was time to get some dinner and head back to the hotel.
Antigun democrat former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who called gun rights activists extremists after they handed out standard capacity magazines at the Virginia State Capitol Building, has killed his wife and himself with a gun in front of their teenage children.
He pushed for “red flag laws” and a ban on “high capacity magazines.”
Leftists aren’t against guns. They are against guns for everyone but them. They fear gun violence because that is what they will do with them- it’s projection.
A pretty good discussion on the difficulties of SEAD in Iran. I trust this channel because the guy who runs it, MOOCH, was assigned to the same ship I was on during the Gulf War. Meaning, I met him in a previous life, and therefore know he isn’t some Asian fake account.
There are the people (mostly women, and disproportionally black) who think arguing with the cops while demanding to speak with a supervisor will get them out of legal trouble.
Then there are the dumbasses who have taken the “don’t fight on the road, fight in court” advice to heart, and do some studying on the Internet. They don’t understand legal terminology, so they attempt to fake it by spouting a bunch of big words arranged into nonsensical phrases, using them as if they were the magic words in a spell that will make the bad consequences of their actions go away. Some of them even comment on this blog.
It’s tiresome and I can’t imagine how much restraint some of those in the courthouse have to put up with. Heck, I have problems dealing with it on this very blog. Let me illustrate:
Look, I make no bones about being more than disappointed with how our government does business. However, the things some of these outright morons come up with are simply incorrect and won’t work. They haven’t worked. No, you can’t get out of paying income taxes by casting a magic spell using vague Latin sounding phrases in court. Wesley Snipes tried using the 861 argument, and he went to prison for four years. He tried making the argument that he isn’t obligated to pay taxes. He has an outstanding $23 million tax bill. They have been fighting this in court since 2006. The IRS offered to settle it for $9.5 million, but Snipes refused.
This argument has been ruled frivolous in DOZENS of appellate cases. It just isn’t a thing. Proving that everything that comes up on this blog has been discussed already, I posted on this back in 2008. As I said then:
I agree that progressive income taxes are [morally and ethically] wrong. I agree that taking my money to give to someone else in a socialistic redistribution of wealth is the equivalent of armed robbery. I disagree that the tax code has such ludicrous loopholes.
I will not entertain any argument to the contrary in the comments to this post, unless that comment comes with a valid citation to an appellate case verifying your position. I am not going to turn this blog into a Sovereign citizen sounding board.
However, in the interest of fairness, anyone who wishes to set up their own blog to espouse those theories is perfectly welcome to do so. Just contact me, and I can set you up on this very server for the low, low price of $15 per month. The only rule I have for server space here is no porn. It takes up too much bandwidth and invites accusations of child porn and all of the scrutiny that comes with it.
We woke up at our hotel in Barcelona and headed to the train station. Because we didn’t know what to expect, we arrived at the train station 45 minutes early. There wasn’t much of a waiting area, I guess Spaniards don’t arrive early very often. Still, the train station was clean and there was no graffiti. You did have to pass through airport style security, complete with X-rayed luggage. Then they had all of the passengers for the entire train line up cattle style, then pushed all of us into the train at once.
We soon boarded the train and it headed off to France. The train was nice, and since we paid for first class tickets, we got comfortable seats and were seated on the upper deck, surrounded by large windows.
It was a beautiful ride, and the GPS in my phone said we were moving along at 120 miles per hour for most of the trip. It seems like there was a castle about every half a mile or so.
We soon arrived in Paris and took a cab to the hotel. It was rather chilly outside, 46 degrees. There were low clouds that looked a lot like it was about to snow, but I know it was too warm for that. What this did mean for us, was that it would rain every single day we were there.
When we arrived at the hotel, my wife’s true genius at this sort of thing finally made sense. Some of you asked how we managed to turn time share presentations into a free stay, and this is how she did it. We always stay at Hilton hotels. Whenever you do that, you are always approached by someone who offers you 100,000 honors points (Hilton Honors is the company’s loyalty program) or more for listening to their pitch. My wife would say yes, and we would be roped in to a 3 hour time share pitch. Once, she even booked a stay at Myrtle Beach, for which she got even more points. Again, another time share spiel. All told, she earned (we earned) over 2 million points in less than two years.
When she was planning this trip, she found a nice hotel in Paris that was part of the Hilton system and cashed in half a million points for a 5 night stay. When I say this was a nice hotel, I mean when you walk into the lobby, they offer you canapes and champaign while you wait for them to check you in and get your bags to your room. The place was really nice. She was determined to make this trip memorable, because we have been together for twelve years and married for ten.
Once we were in our room, we went to dinner.
Looking at the wine list, I wanted a Riesling, and they wouldn’t only sell non-French wines by the bottle. The wine was 54 Euros for the bottle, and (French) Onion Soup was 15 Euros.
That price was a bit of a shock, but everything, and I do mean everything, in Europe was expensive. Gasoline was 2 Euro per liter, which works out to $8 per gallon. Still, a crock of onion soup costing $20 explains how they afford “free” healthcare, and also explains how Europeans stay so thin.
Dinner was duck confit, followed by a shared crepe for dessert.
In all, dinner was about 180 Euros- yeah. That’s $220 American dollars for dinner, even if you don’t count the wine, the dinner was more than $150.
We walked a block back to the hotel and arrived to find the bed had been turned down, and cans of spring water were left on each bedside table and some jazz was playing in the room. Oddly enough, the song was c’est si bon. Nice touch.
I know I promised no more complaining about taxes, but the Democrats ruined that less than 24 hours later by proposing a new tax credit for people claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). This new credit would allow $5500 per child (up to 3 times) as a bonus for squirting out more crotch fruit than they can afford.
The credit will enable a woman with two kids to receive $16,000 as a tax refund without working or actually earning a dime.
All she would need to do is claim that she was babysitting and is now self reporting the $18000 she made. This amount would also qualify for Medicaid, WIC, $700 and month in food stamps, section 8 housing, a free cell phone, with the total benefits equal to $3,000 a month. Since her self employment tax would be taken out of her refund, she would earn credits to eventually collect social security as well.
No, better than tax free. This is a net income of $52,000 per year, without working a single hour. In order for a working person to earn that much, they would need to work 40 hours per week at more than $30 per hour.
It’s a farm system for making more little Democrats. In 18 years, you will greatly increase the number of little assholes who will vote for you to keep the money rolling in.
— Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism (@beyond_capital) April 15, 2026
They are “othering” the right so they can justify what they are about to do. Look, my wife and I made a quarter million last year. They already took more than a quarter of what I made through taxes, and that isn’t enough. It’s coming, and things are going to get ugly as hell.
I’ve been warning my readers for 6 years that this is a communist takeover in the making. I’ve been telling you to prep. They are coming. Trump was only a speedbump.
People who own AR-15s think they are arming themselves against a possibly tyrannical government, and that’s just plain incorrect and makes them crazy to even think so. For that reason, I think we should send armed government agents to your house to confiscate them.
"The gun industry markets that people need these weapons to defend themselves, and that's crazy.
Anyway, turn over your AR-15, or else the government will show up to your house and seize it by force."
— National Association for Gun Rights (@gunrights) April 14, 2026
Of course, it is foolish to engage in an armed battle with the cops when they show up to your house to confiscate your guns. That’s letting the enemy dictate the time and place of the engagement.
Instead, fight them the way the left fought Charlie Kirk.
You know, with discussion and debate. What else did you think I meant?
