that I would vote for Mrs. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton in the 2016 POTUS election.  For lots of reasons.  This might be the biggest.  From a recent CNN town hall event.  In the video of the event,

"We cannot let a minority of people... hold a viewpoint that ..."  and it doesn't matter what else she said. 

Think about that for just a sec.  "We cannot let ... people hold a viewpoint ..." 

Chilling.

EDIT to update (6/19 19:02)

It's fun to be caugt up.  LOTS of folks have jumped on this statement after I posted it. Glenn Reynolds even uses the F word:

FASCIST IMPULSES: Hillary Clinton cannot let you hold a viewpoint about guns that is terrorizing the vast majority of Americans. “Not only did Hillary completely turn her back on ‘balanc[ing] competing values’ and ‘more thoughtful conversation,’ she doesn’t want to allow the people on one side of the conversation even to believe what they believe. Those who care about gun rights and reject new gun regulations should be stopped from holding their viewpoint. Now, it isn’t possible to forcibly prevent people from holding a viewpoint. Our beliefs reside inside our head. And in our system of free speech rights, the government cannot censor the expression of a viewpoint. But the question is Hillary Clinton’s fitness for the highest office, and her statement reveals a grandiose and profoundly repressive mindset.”

You can see why her supporters wanted to ban the word “bossy.”

Despite the hype, ‘carbon-free’ energy sources aren’t gaining traction globally

My mom and most of her peer group learned to do it in high school.  Most of the girls I ran around with in high school could as well.  They'd learned it in 4-H.  Or in basic high school classes.  Or from their mother or grandmother.  Family traditions.  What am I talking about?  Feeding a family.

You see, theFLOTUS can't even handle the basic steps of motherhood but thinks she can tell the REST of us how WE should do it!

Michelle Obama: I Couldn't Feed My Kids Right–Even with a Harvard Degree

So here we have a Harvard grad who's too stupid to be able to feed her own kids.  What the hel is the ivy LEague producing???

Note:  it's bad enough to be that stupid, but how stupid do you have to be to ADMIT it?

Stuck in Traffic? Thanks, Obama!: Feds to Regulate Waze, Google Maps, and Other Navigation Apps

Two points:  da gubmint will NEVER include the lost hours spent in traffic that could've been avoided, not the additional pollution and lost fossil feules  lost as a result oftraffic snarls that could've been avoided.

and second, is it any surprise that the auto manufacturers are probably behind this?  Folks quit buying their $1000 in dash systems when they can better for next to nothing on a smart phone.  Corporatism and regulatory capture cotinue to be the orders of  the day

I have a nice long road trip Thursday/Friday so posting will be light.  Here's a bt of a roundup from the last few days:

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: James O’Keefe Endures Death Threats and Filthy Hipsters.

Director of Pro-Abortion Comedy 'Obvious Child' Wants to Punch Fox News Stars

This these'll come back to bite her?  Hillary Clinton: The Bible Is My 'Biggest Influence'

Hillary's Laughing Defense of Child Rapist: Not a Front-Page WashPost Story Like Romney's Alleged Teen Haircut

What the EPS SHOULD have said last week: “My fellow Americans: These proposed rules on power plants would impose net harms on this generation of Americans, and would impose net harms on our kids, in order to confer net benefits on non-Americans. Also, according to computer simulations, it is possible that by hurting ourselves and our kids, these power plant regulations will confer net benefits on Americans who will be born a few decades from now, thereby allowing them to fly around in their hover cars in air that is imperceptibly cooler than it otherwise would be.” 

Yet this formulation doesn’t have quite the same ring as “the sake of our kids’ future,” does it?

DNC Celebrates Flag Day With The Wrong Flag

I read Bloom's book back in the late 80's and have caried his sentiments with me ever since.  I abhor stupidity and ignorance, not because many people ARE stupid or ignorant but becasue those who ARE don't KNOW they are. 

That's why the article WHEN JOURNALISTS THINK THE PHRASE “MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE” IS SOME WEIRD IDEA, RATHER THAN A REFERENCE TO MAX WEBER, blaming the education system is an incomplete response. The truth is, most journalists don’t know much.  Yet they seems to think they can tell us right from wrong.

As Lincoln said, it would be better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot than to open it and remove all doubt.

While acknowledging that racism “isn't limited to Texas,” a Democratic activist from the Lone Star State told guest host Michael Eric Dyson during Thursday's edition of The Ed Show on MSNBC: “We're just more out and proud with it” and “don’t segregate and live apart from each other, like they do in the Northeast.”

Sarah Slamen -- a party official from Fort Bend County -- made the remark while discussing the comments of two-term La Marque City Council member Connie Trube, who is under fire after an audio of her calling for removal of “those blacks off the school board” was leaked to the public.

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The Wall Street Journal editorializes:

The Supreme Court is heading to the final days of its term, and so far the biggest loser is once again the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The famously liberal appellate court has logged more reversals than any other circuit, having lost 10 of 11 cases.

For liberals who want to believe this is merely a case of conservative Justices overruling liberal rulings, look again. In its 11 cases the Ninth Circuit managed to draw a total of only 16 votes from the nine Justices. Eight of the 10 reversals were unanimous, and the decision to overturn the circuit was joined seven times by Justice Stephen Breyer, nine times by Justice Sonia Sotomayor and 10 times by Justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

file under "if Bush/Palin/Romney had done this."

Remember When Republican President FDR Commemorated the 1963 Moon Landing by Declaring ‘Peace In Our Time?’

I haven't had a drive in almost two weeks, and the last FOUR I had were all quite short (under 5 hours.)  But when I do drive I am currently not under much Federal regulation.  Our friends the truckers are.  Keep them, and this, in mind, next time you're sharing that slab of asphalt with one.