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Lion’s tooth in French is dent de lion. It’s also the name of a plant with coarsely tooth leaves. Say dent de lion fast. Now guess the English name for the plant.
What nation is closest to the United States where there is no land border? Betcha guessed wrong. It’s Russia. The distance between Big Diomede and Little Diomede islands in the Bering Strait is but 2.2 miles.
Murt Quits Ammo Tax Bill — The neo-feudalists who want to be our kings and queens are using the pandemic to try to sneak in a new law to make it harder for sane, law-abiding adults to defend themselves.
The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee received, March 10, House Bill 2344 which would require a “permit to purchase” for ammunition, and tax all ammo purchases.
The prime sponsor was Thomas Murt, a Republican who represents the 152 District, which consist of parts of Philadelphia and Montgomery counties.
Murt has withdrawn his name from the bill. That’s a good thing but the bill remains with 10 other solons backing it.
This bill is counter-productive to the problem it presumes to solve namely mass shootings and random acts of violence. What must be recognized and what its supporters deny is that it is good for sane, law abiding adults to have guns and ammunition, while it is bad for the insane and criminal to do so.
The bill is aimed solely at the sane and law-abiding. Hey sponsors, if you need a clue as to how to solve the problem consider that the United States had 450,000 more mental hospital beds in the 1950s that it does today with about half of the population.
If you want another clue, consider that mass school shootings in the United States didn’t start happening until those who rule us declared the start of life to be just a matter of opinion.
If you still need a clue, consider that murders in Philadelphia plummeted when the state overruled the city to give the residents the right to carry.
The bill is not likely to go anywhere.
“This unconstitutional legislation is an affront to every law-abiding gun owner in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” House Judiciary Committee, Chairman Rob Kauffman (R-89) said. “HB 2344 goes on the list of anti-Second Amendment legislation that will never see the light of day as long as I’m Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in Pennsylvania.”
Wanna buy an empire? On this date, March 28, in 193, the Roman Empire was auctioned for 6,250 drachmas to Didius Julianus, a senator.
The sellers were the Praetorian guards who just had Emperor Pertinax assassinated.
Didius kept his new toy for 66 months before he himself was killed by those who objected to his means of obtaining it.
A drachma is about the daily wage of one worker.
Murder Most Foul, We Are All Conspiracy Theorists Now — Guess we are all conspiracy theorists now. Nobel laureate Bob Dylan released his first song in eight years two days ago (March 26). Murder Most Foul is about 17 minutes long and is his best since the 1970s. It’s subject is the murder of John F. Kennedy and how things really haven’t been right since.
You will not take it as a defense of the Lone Gunman Theory.
We are including images of the lyrics. Here is the song:
As of 2016, 93,200 switchboard operators were employed in the United States.
Joan Crawford was cited as an icon of the 1920s by no less than F. Scott Fitzgerald when she was a pretty young thing breaking through and remains acclaimed today for her Oscar-winning performance in Mildred Pierce while middle-aged. She ended her storied career with Trog, a low-budget British horror flick from 1970.
DiFi Makes Manchurian Candidate Real — We were way ahead of the curve concerning the Biden family scandals involving Ukraine and China, but now we are going to give props to The Federalist for its withering report Monday concerning powerful California Senator Dianne Feinstein.
The Federalist reveals that Democrat DiFi and her husband Richard Blum have gotten hundreds of millions of dollars from investments in the state-controlled economy of the People’s Republic of China.
There may be strings.
Feinstein is an outspoken defender of the PRC. She has compared the state-orchestrated Tiananmen Square massacre n which about 3,000 died according to reliable non-PRC sources with the Kent State protests which saw four students shot by National Guard troops acting on their own.
The Dem darling fought the sale of arms to Taiwan.
She fought legislation that would have named street in front of the Chinese Embassy for Chinese anti-Communist writer and human rights activist Liu Xiabao. The legislation eventually passed but was vetoed by Barack Obama.
Did the virtue-signaling senator really not know her driver of 20 years was a communist spy? She’d have to be pretty dumb and nobody ever called her stupid.
We always suspected she was a phony but we never could imagine she might be an out-and-out traitor.
Treason doth never prosper: what ’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason
The Russian Navy submarine salvage ship Kommuna was launched in 1913 and remains in service. It is the oldest navy ship in active service.