How cool is that, man!

Snow on Pine: Indeed. Here’s Felicia Day burning it down with “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?”

Do you wanna date my avatar?
She’s a star
And she’s hotter than reality by far
Wanna date my avatar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU

According to a gamer friend, the gaming lingo is accurate. The song was part of an online comedy show about gaming.

Are we, for instance talking about restricting violence-filled, especially “one person shooter” video games? Are we talking about, say, a MSM and Internet ban on mentioning the name of or showing the picture of these shooters, or much about such incidents, to deny them the notoriety they crave? Are we talking about drastically reducing the violence of words and images on TV and movies, in books, and in music lyrics, including rap lyrics? Are we talking about reducing the violent rhetoric or images on the Internet?

And who gets to decide what is to be banned? So far such banning all seems to be coming from the Left, and being done with political intent.

**We do not want to let the Left take Rahm Emanuel’s advice to “never let a crisis go to waste,” and piggy back their agenda, to use the urgency and force generated by this “crisis” to fuel their way to victory. **

So, is there anybody or any organization today that we could trust to do a fair, honest, even-handed, and objective job with these restrictions?

I don’t think so.

So, back we go to square one again.

In our society, this function used to be carried out by strong fathers, schools, and organizations like the Boy Scouts, Future Farmers of America, and so forth, and as a last resort, the military. Since all of the former have been eradicated or weakened to the point of irrelevance, perhaps it’s time to reconsider the draft. Believe me, I served in the 70s, and I know how bad the draftee Army was — race riots, widespread drug use, sabotaging and selling equipment — but it’s possible that was due to the sense of unfairness created by the very low participation rate. Maybe it’s time to reconsider a universal draft of some kind. I can’t think of any other way that might work to socialize these Lost Boys.

Most of the Hollywood 10 admitted they were Communists in the Writers’ Guild of America West magazine, Written By about 10 years ago. (I should have kept my copy, but didn’t, sorry.) Some of them admitted to being underground Communists, that is, following Party orders without acknowledging they were members, and some of them admitted to have joined the Party in the 1950s, well after Stalin’s crimes were known!

The worst part about the admissions? There was not one letter to the editor printed subsequently saying, “So Elia Kazan was right, you were Commies all along, you SOBs!” or words to that effect.

And there has certainly been a growing trend to use the legal process to strike at your enemies–see the Russia collusion hoax, or the partner, Ex, or hostile neighbor who calls CPS on you, and they barge into you house, look around, take your inventory and, perhaps, take your children away.

Or, in a deliberate abuse of “process” you are–over and over again–called to testify in court or before Congress, and you rack up bankrupting legal bills.

I could propose that there be extremely drastic penalties for someone abusing “process,” in this case, some sort of Red Flag law, but, of course, we have all seen how some laws or penalties are just not enforced, or at least not enforced against certain favored people and groups.

So, “what is to be done?”

I don’t have the answer, but I do know that the growing tendency, that public pressure, is to want to “do something.”

Oops, already happened, and has gotten people killed.

Don’t worry! be happy! 🙂

https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/05/something-not-going-stop-mass-shooters/

As we’ve witnessed the serial political weaponization of one Federal institution after another during the Obama administration (DoJ, IRS, CIA, FBI, ODNI, NSA, Dept. Of State, and more, no doubt), it’s reasonable to be wary that Red Flag laws in the hands of these same miscreants will see the dropping of meaningful due process protections when the tool becomes useful faster than we can say “Do something!”. All the hedges in the world won’t stop ’em.