Donald Trump cancels a secret meeting with the Taliban. Ahead of 9-11. Oops. A Swedish scientist has a not-so-insane way to end the climate “crisis.” Pierce Brosnon, a former James Bond, says it might be time for a female James Bond. And the gun control debate is still going hot and heavy. Let’s talk about “red flag” laws and the idiotic terms like “weapons of war” and “assault weapons.”
Baseball season is coming to a close and football season starts up. Love this time of year!
Trump and the Taliban
Donald Trump might have stepped in it last week. He was planning to hold a summit at Camp David. Who was he going to try to make peace with? Negotiators from the Taliban. That’s right. The same Taliban that ran a fascist regime in Afghanistan, participated in the planning of the 9-11 terror attacks and hid the mastermind of the attacks, Osama Bin Laden.
The meeting was meant to be secret, probably because it was not going to be a very popular meeting. Unlike North Korea, China and Russia, the Taliban has been directly involved in terrorism that has killed Americans and are guilty of massive human rights violations. It was announced yesterday that the talks were cancelled because of a bombing in Afghanistan that the Taliban took credit for. That bombing killed an American soldier. Here is Trump making that announcement:
Well, I guess Trump was able to bring us together in his way. Trump was condemned by the left and left wing media but his judgement was also questioned by the right wing media. The below stories are from one left wing publication (USA Today) and the other from the New York Post (traditionally right wing).
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/09/what-is-camp-david-presidential-retreat-maryland-donald-trump/2266203001/
https://nypost.com/2019/09/09/in-walking-away-from-taliban-deal-trump-showed-wisdom-obama-never-had/
The stories are similar. And they should be. There were sixteen soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year. The Taliban was responsible for all of them. They are our true enemy. They are still ruling parts of Afghanistan with an iron fist, committing all sorts of atrocities. The other problem is that the meeting and any agreement would give the terrorist organization validity, not unlike what Obama did with Iran. This could cause the legitimate government, led by Ashraf Ghani, problems in the future.
Listen, I know why Trump was trying to do this. I get why he treats China, North Korea and Russia with respect (that is until they don’t do what he wants). But this is a group of barbaric thugs that should be wiped off the face of the earth. Everything they do is for power and they will lie to get it.
Does Everything Have to Be Political?
The Huffington Post reports that Pierce Brosnon said, “I think we’ve watched the guys do it for the last 40 years, get out of the way, guys, and put a woman up there…I think it would be exhilarating, it would be exciting.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pierce-brosnan-female-james-bond-007_n_5d764d62e4b0fde50c2a47ec
I don’t know why we can’t just leave our cultural icons alone. Why do we need a gay couple in a Disney cartoon? They have been doing cartoons for decades and no one cared before. Why do we need a gay couple in one of the Star Wars films? Sexuality has never been an issue in the Star Wars films before. Why do Captain America and Ghostbusters have to be remade with an all female cast? Why do DC and Marvel feel the need to add gay characters? Isn’t the asexuality of super heroes is what gives them their invulnerability to time and flaws of humanity as described by Umberto Eco in his article, “The Myth of Superman?”
Why can’t they just make offshoots of these films with new, female characters? Why does anyone need to be gay or trans?
San Francisco Just Blew It for Red Flag Laws
With the onset of several mass shootings over the past year, there has been a real push for some sort of gun control laws that limit those who may have mental problems cannot get a hold of a gun or would have guns already owned by a mentally unstable individual taken away until an evaluation is done on this individual. Even Donald Trump, who is a strong supporter for the Second Amendment, is open to some out-of-the-box solutions for monitoring those with mental health problems. This is a voluntary program and would using existing technology to monitor these people. You can read about the proposal below.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/51566/prevent-mass-shootings-trump-looks-controversial-james-barrett
This proposal goes a little short of the “red flag” laws that the left has been pushing over the past few months. In case you’re wondering, red flag laws would allow people to report people who may be acting erratically. It is then that the authorities can confiscate guns or prevent the purchase of guns by these individuals.
This has had a luke warm response from pro Second Amendment folks. And after what the San Francisco city council did, any warmth for the idea got a lot colder. The San Francisco city council voted to declare the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist group and is requesting that the federal government do the same.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nra-sues-san-francisco-declared-terrorist-organization_n_5d7708aae4b06451357367ac
Yeah, suddenly I’m going to be real supportive of red flag laws. looking at the aggression of the city of San Francisco, I’m sure they will not abuse the red flag laws and take away guns from law abiding citizens.
The reality is we need to stop attacking the tools of the mentally ill but focus on the mentally ill themselves. I’ve talked about this in a past podcast. But there is no way to implement gun control and there is no way taking guns away from law abiding citizens is going to end mass shootings. All it is going to do is take away their ability to protect themselves.
Maybe They Should Worry More About This
The “leaders” of California are really running this state into the ground and they seem to be doing nothing about it. We have banned straws, banned plastic bags, call manholes “peopleholes,” call felons “justice involved individuals,” have gas prices that are $2 higher than any other state to protect us from climate change and have declared the NRA a terror group.
But we seem to ignore the homeless problem, the drug problem and the diseases that come from it. We already have had bouts of typhus and hepatitis to deal with. Well, we now might have a new problem, leprosy. That’s right, a disease that is only in the worst countries and has been all but eliminated for over a hundred years in the modern world.
According to Dr. Drew Pinsky, we are very close to a bubonic plague outbreak if it has not already out there. Listen to Drew Pinsky:
So, good job California. Keep up the good work.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/51555/nyu-doctor-warns-los-angeles-you-may-be-hit-hank-berrien
One of the More Insane Stories of the Week
I had to actually look this story up to verify it wasn’t a joke. And it’s not. It’s just another example of a radical professor and social justice warrior being absolutely insane.
The professor is Magnus Soderlund, an economics professor from the Stockholm School of Economics. He said in a conference last week that there is one way that we could combat climate change: cannibalism. Yep, no kidding. Now, he didn’t mean we should actually go out and kill people. Not that…not yet anyway. He meant we should eat the dead.
He said “conservative” taboos against cannibalism can change over time if people simply tried eating human flesh. Then we could just kill all the cows and their farts will not pollute the air. OK, I made that up because the article did not exactly say why eating dead people would save the earth.
When asked if he would eat human flesh he said, “I feel somewhat hesitant but to not appear overly conservative … I’d have to say … I’d be open to at least tasting it.”
Well, if I had any liberal in me before it’s all gone at the thought I am closed off because I won’t eat a dead person. I won’t eat dog either.
But one can tell that this is an economics professor and not a medical doctor. Apparently there is a protein in human flesh that can kill you. A tribe in Papua New Guinea actually stopped being cannibals because of a disease called Kuru, also known as Laughing Death.
Maybe Prof. SJW should talk to the really educated before he comes up with something insane like that again.
https://nypost.com/2019/09/09/scientist-suggests-eating-human-flesh-to-fight-climate-change/