Category Archives: 2014 updates

Here’s how “disruptive innovation” works in nature: a killing-machine fish has colonized reefs from Venezuela to Rhode Island

Fish don’t get fat in their natural habitat. For one thing, surviving involves a lot more cardio exercise, since their prey know to avoid them. And while chasing down dinner, lionfish also have to dodge their own natural predators, mainly groupers and moray eels (oh—and themselves; when food is scare they’ll eat their young).

But the Atlantic Ocean’s “market participants” have never before faced this disruptive new competitor. The lionfish’s new prey aren’t evolutionarily primed to flee from them, and no bigger predators have adapted a taste for them, says Carl Safina, founder of the Blue Ocean Institute.

This is why, in five weeks, a single lionfish can wipe out four-fifths of a reef’s small fish. Worse, they’re also prolific breeders; they hit sexual maturity within a year and start cranking out 40,000 eggs every few days after that.

FK – One wonders what the PETA freaks think of this… Oh yeah, it was wrong to imprison the fish in an aquarium in the first place. Can we train them to eat “Liberal”(commie) trash?

Study Finds Cops Less Hesitant to Use Guns Against Whites Than Blacks

Participants in an innovative Washington State University study of deadly force were more likely to feel threatened in scenarios involving black people. But when it came time to shoot, participants were biased in favor of black suspects, taking longer to pull the trigger against them than against armed white or Hispanic suspects.

The findings, published in the recent Journal of Experimental Criminology, grow out of dozens of simulations aimed at explaining the disproportionate number of ethnic and racial minorities shot by police. The studies use the most advanced technology available, as participants with laser-equipped guns react to potentially threatening scenarios displayed in full-size, high-definition video.

FK – With visions of lawsuits and riots dancing in their heads… The commie propaganda has its affect after all, which is what they want. Going along with it, worrying about ‘racism’ or ‘antisemitism’ or calling the evil creatures by the cute names they tagged themselves with to  conceal their war against Human Liberty is playing into their hands. Don’t play into their hands, cut them off.

Border Patrol Says No to Militias, Yes to Surveillance Blimps

Picking up the federal government’s slack, various militia groups have assembled along the banks of the Rio Bravo River in deep south Texas in an effort to supplement border security.

Prompted to action by reports that illegals are overrunning the country, and by fears that the influx in its current form will further destroy the country’s infrastructure and, indeed, aid in the dismantling of national sovereignty, militia groups ultimately desire people entering the country illegally to follow the proper channels to gain citizenship.

To this end, they have lent their assistance, free of charge, to federal and state agencies that evidently have their hands full.

But those supposedly in charge of securing the border say militia members, who lack the traditional law enforcement attire, are confusing police officers and border agents.

FK – What a bullshit excuse. Most militiamen have some kind of uniform. How can they tell one set of Nazis from another anyway at a distance?

“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.” – George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788

Tie-Dyed Tyranny

FK – This stuff has been going on for a long time. Why do we tolerate it?

From the mouths of the beasts:

“I think if we don’t overthrow capitalism, we don’t have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecological society under socialism. I don’t think it’s possible under capitalism.” – Judi Barri of Earth First! Quoted by Walter Williams, columnist with Heritage Features Syndicate, State Journal Register, June 25 1992.   

“I think all private property should be in the public domain. We should get it all. Be unreasonable. You can do it. Yesterday’s heresy is today’s common wisdom. So, I say, let’s take it all back.”  – Brock Evans, VP, National Audubon Society

“We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects… We must reclaim the roads, and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers, and return to wilderness, millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.”  —  Dave Foreman, Earth First!

“We reject the idea of private property.”  — Peter Berle, (former) president, National Audubon Society, Board member, Sierra Club

 

Never Forget: The Left Hates Your Guts

Over the years, I have reached out to many folks on the left and have tried to discuss our ideological differences. In doing so, I would put forth an apology of sorts on what I believe (and why) regarding a wide variety of events and subjects and inquire as to their point of view.

I have been successful in contacting some well known figures on the left and many not so well known (but never the less, influential). Other than a prominent author of Esquire Magazine, the usual responses I received back have either been dismissive, ugly, mean or vitriolic.

Very recently, I wrote an article for TPNN about the “Truthy” project at Indiana University. I followed up by reaching out to all the Principle Investigators, Research Team & Alumni associated with the project. The bios of the folks associated with the project along with the sources they used in their publications show clear evidence of their progressive, liberal political leanings. I simply wanted to communicate and explain why a conservative taxpayer (who is therefore helping pay for this project) would have a hard time trusting “Truthy” since it is headed and run mostly (if not completely) by progressive liberals.

The sole response I received back was from Karissa McKelvey, who is part of the research team. Her response? Two words: “Go Away”. It should be noted that it states in her bio that she is a “people person”. I am not making this up. Her response has been tame compared to many I have received in the past. Many professors from well regarded universities have spewed vile profanities at me. Others, (a high level well-known spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center comes to mind) have been extremely uncivil to me in their responses. Many more have gone so far as to wish me and my family bodily harm or death.

FK – After a few months, nearly 20 years ago, of trying to ‘be nice’ to the “Liberal”(commie) trash I began to figure out what they really are and how evil and dangerous they are. There’s truly no such thing as casual friends.

Bastard Nation: America’s Welfare State Comes of Age

You knew this, but it’s nice to be reminded. We get what we pay for. Conservatives 60 years ago said this would happen. It happened. It will keep happening. There is no turning back until the welfare state runs out of other people’s money.

You want an explanation for America’s growing inequality? Start here. The federal government, of course, never starts here. State and local governments never start here. Liberal media never start here. But we should.

When a society defines a family as a married couple, the following does not happen. When it defines a family as an unmarried mother, children, and a welfare check, this is the result.

FK – Those who created the welfare state knew full well what the results would be, future constituents.

It’s past time to require three things to vote: Proof of citizenship, proof of literacy in English and passing a test that shows the would-be voter knows this country’s history and the form of govt. we’re supposed to have here: small and very limited.

SAF: Huge Victory For Gun Rights

The Second Amendment Foundation continues their impressive streak of court victories with another. This victory came in one of the most anti-gun states in the entire country, California.

SAF won a significant court victory in California in which the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled that the Golden State’s 10-day waiting period violates the Second Amendment “as applied to those individuals who successfully pass” the state’s background check prior to the ten days, and who are in lawful possession of an additional firearm.

This ruling clearly addressed the issue we put before the court. We are naturally delighted with the outcome.

These victories have been made possible by hundreds of thousands of concerned Americans who have financially supported SAF’s efforts over the years. Please continue to support SAF and help continue the streak of impressive victories.

FK – And we still have a long way to go