The March for Our Lives event on Saturday is going to be huge.

We see these lawmakers representing the NRA, and not their constituents. We see our “leaders” making excuses and refusing to act. On Saturday, they’ll see US. pic.twitter.com/7OGttnRSsz

— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) March 21, 2018

I do not know how they keep doing it, but these kids continue to impress me just about every day.

Usually this is where the media moves on from another senseless shooting to focus on other issues, but these students refuse to let that happen this time, and almost by sheer force of will they are keeping the debate alive.

It's tax day, have you decided where to file your protest yet?

Courtesy of The Hill:

Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend rallies on Saturday that are aimed at pressuring President Trump to release his tax returns. 

The events, which will be held as the tax-filing deadline approaches, are one of a number of protests that have sprung up since Trump’s election, including the women’s march held the day after the inauguration. 

The marches come eight years after Tea Party rallies on President Obama’s first Tax Day in office. 

Trump’s tax returns are a long-running controversy from his presidential campaign. 

In a sharp break with precedent, Trump has refused to release the documents, blaming an audit. But the IRS says that nothing prevents people from releasing their own tax information.

Remember folks our tax dollars are now being used to pay for Trump's extravagant lifestyle, to provide additional security for his Secretary of Education, and to pay for the golf carts used by Trump's Secret Service at Mar-a-Lago.

And all of this is happening for a man who we are not even sure is even paying HIS OWN taxes! #Showyourtaxes

The protests are not just in this country by the way, but will also be taking place in parts of the world as far away as Great Britain and Japan.

The whole world is tired of this orange tinged POS, and we should never stop reminding him of that fact.

Kentucky judge says Trump accountable for inciting violence. Gee, really?

Courtesy of WaPo: 

The courts keep taking Donald Trump both seriously and literally. And the president's word choices are proving to be a real headache. 

A federal judge in Kentucky is the latest to take Trump at his word when he says something controversial. Judge David J. Hale ruled against efforts by Trump's attorneys to throw out a lawsuit accusing him of inciting violence against protesters at a March 2016 campaign rally in Louisville. 

At the rally, Trump repeatedly said “get 'em out of here” before, according to the protesters, they were shoved and punched by his supporters. Trump's attorneys sought to have the case dismissed on free speech grounds, arguing that he didn't intend for his supporters to use force. But Hale noted that speech inciting violence is not protected by the First Amendment and ruled that there is plenty of evidence that the protesters' injuries were a “direct and proximate result” of Trump's words. 

“It is plausible that Trump’s direction to ‘get 'em out of here’ advocated the use of force,” Hale wrote. “It was an order, an instruction, a command.”

Here is a YouTube video of his supporters following Trump's directions and stomping the shit out of protesters.

I bet Trump thought that if he could just get into the White House that all of this would go away.

Joke's on you pussy grabber, that just makes you a bigger target. 

How many lawsuits are currently pending against Trump right now? I keep losing track.

Thousands of scientists to take to the streets and march in the name of science.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

Just hours after the Women's March on Washington ended on Saturday, scientists began to discuss organizing a march of their own. Now that idea has rapidly begun to take shape, with the official Facebook group gathering hundreds of thousands of online adherents in just the past day and the #ScienceMarch hashtag trending on Twitter. 

Prospective attendees and organizers have been coordinating on a closed Facebook group with over 220,000 members, along with conversations happening on Twitter and Reddit. According to a post in the group from Jonathan Berman, a University of Texas Health Science Center postdoctoral fellow, the march had attracted multiple sponsorship offers and nearly 2,500 volunteers. And the initiative already has its T-shirts on sale. 

"Our motivation is pretty straightforward," Dr. Caroline Weinberg, a science writer and public health researcher who is co-chairing the organizing group, said by email. "Scientists worldwide have been alarmed by the clear anti-science actions taken by the Trump administration. It has been less than a week and there have already been funding freezes and efforts to restrict scientists from communicating their findings (from tax-funded research!) with the public."

The date for the march has not yet been decided (Probably in the spring or summer.) however their certainly is no a lack of motivation.

In fact scientists with the EPA just recently learned this:

The Trump administration is requiring that political appointees review all Environmental Protection Agency studies and data prior to public release, according to a report from the Associated Press. The controversial new rules, which will also apply to information displayed on the EPA's website, have sparked outrage from scientists and journalists.

"We're taking a look at everything on a case-by-case basis, including the web page and whether climate stuff will be taken down," said Doug Ericksen, the communications director for the EPA transition team, in an interview with the AP. "Obviously with a new administration coming in, the transition time, we'll be taking a look at the web pages and the Facebook pages and everything else involved here at EPA."

And this is on top of the gag order already placed on the EPA.

Let's face it, how do we not expect an administration that disregards and even fears facts, to allow them to sway public opinion against their policy decisions?

Currently we are at war with people who are attacking our very sense of reality.

So we need scientists and educators now more than ever.

March was so hot it shattered a century long record.

Courtesy of The Guardian:  

The global temperature in March has shattered a century-long record and by the greatest margin yet seen for any month. 

February was far above the long-term average globally, driven largely by climate change, and was described by scientists as a “shocker” and signalling “a kind of climate emergency”. But data released by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) shows that March was even hotter. 

Compared with the 20th-century average, March was 1.07C hotter across the globe, according to the JMA figures, while February was 1.04C higher. The JMA measurements go back to 1891 and show that every one of the past 11 months has been the hottest ever recorded for that month. 

But remember according to Sarah Palin Bill Nye is only a "kids' show actor" so clearly nobody should be an "alarmist" is response to this data.

I wonder if when people start to spontaneously combust in the sun if that will be enough to convince these idiots that we have a problem and that man is responsible for it?

Judge awards Dakota Meyer joint custody, demands that Bristol Palin provide breast milk for overnight visits.

Bristol Palin in Hawaii, Courtesy of the Daily Mail.

 Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

In a stunning blow to the explicit wishes of Bristol Palin that she be awarded primary interim physical custody of daughter Sailor Grace and that Dakota Meyer only be allowed 'reasonable' visitation and no overnight visits, an Alaska Superior Court Judge has ruled that the couple must share both legal and physical custody. 

In explosive court papers seen exclusively by Daily Mail Online, Alaska Judge Herman G. Walker Jr. has decided that it is in the best interests of Sailor Grace, born last December, to remain in Alaska for the time being. But Meyer will be able to make the 3,600 mile trip from his home in Kentucky to Alaska twice a month for four consecutive days each.

 'The mother objects to overnight visitation because the child is currently breastfeeding nightly,' said the Judge. 

 'However the court finds it in the best interests of the child that overnight visitation [with the father] occur. Mother is to provide father with an adequate supply of milk or formula for overnight visitation.' 

Meyer's visits with his daughter will begin this month. Overnight visits will begin in May. 

Well this is awkward.

Here Bristol thought that the whole breastfeeding thing would help her to keep her daughter away from Dakota, instead the judge has ordered her to milk herself like a dairy cow in order to accommodate him.

However since we know that Bristol lied about the breastfeeding now she will either have to admit to Dakota that she is full of shit, or Sailor will suddenly be weaned off of breast milk before his first overnight visits in May.

Well I am going to have to say at this point that Dakota must have been convinced by that DNA evidence that he is indeed the father, so now instead of accusing Bristol of lying about the paternity I guess we can simply focus on the fact that she purposefully got herself pregnant in order to trap a Medal of Honor winner into marrying her.

I am not sure that makes her look any better actually.

Update: I think this demonstrates Bristol already trying to fudge facts in order to cover for her lies.

 I think she is going to get found out.

Cross country march to "restore honor" to America put on hold after one organizer shoots the co-founder dead in argument over gun.

Source

Courtesy of Raw Story:

Planning for a cross-country march to “restore America” — which is related to the Oregon nature preserve standoff — appears to have hit a snag when one of its organizers shot the other co-founder Monday afternoon during a drunken argument over a gun. 

Sheriff’s deputies in Grayson County, Texas, have not released details about the fatal shooting, but social media posts by right-wing “patriots” associated with militants occupying an Oregon nature preserve identified the victim and shooter as the organizers of the Paul Revere 2016 Final March To Restore America. 

“Dear friends it’s my dearest regrets to have to share this heart breaking new (sic) with you tonight. That OUR fellow patriot and brother Charles Carter is no longer with us. He gone to be with Jesus. Today killed by a fellow patriot Vincent Smith. Who was suppose (sic) to be his brother in arms and friend,” posted online radio host Keith Williams, who described himself as the victim’s next of kin. 

Bill Williamson, another right-wing “patriot” associated with the Oregon militants, said in a Facebook post that Smith shot Carter in a drunken dispute over a gun. 

Williamson, an organizer of the failed 2 Million Bikers 2 DC rally, said he had been communicating with Carter through Facebook messages minutes before his friend attacked Smith. 

He said Carter was intoxicated and pulled Smith’s gun from its holster, but Smith drew a “spare gun” and shot his friend in the head.

I am trying very hard to feel badly about this.

I will let you know if I make any progress.

American police have killed more people just in March than British police have since 1900.

Courtesy of Alternet:  

A total of 111 people were killed by police in the United States in March of 2015. Since 1900, in the entire United Kingdom, 52 people have been killed by police.Yeah. 

Those numbers are real. A total of 111 people were killed by police in the United States in March of 2015. Since 1900, in the entire United Kingdom, 52 people have been killed by police. 

Don't bother adjusting for population differences, or poverty, or mental illness, or anything else. The sheer fact that American police kill TWICE as many people per month as police have killed in the modern history of the United Kingdom is sick, preposterous, and alarming.

I would not actually lay the blame for this so much on a barbaric American police force, as I would that they are firearm carrying public servants in a country where virtually EVERYBODY has access to an arsenal of deadly weaponry.

A police officer in England responding to a robbery or domestic violence call can have some assurance he will not have to face a barrage of bullets, but an American cop knows full well that at any time he might come face to face with an armed assailant and is constantly on high alert with his hand on his gun.

That is the price we pay for our precious 2nd Amendment.

A fantasy of personal defense.

A reality of unnecessary death. 

Radio host tries to organize a group to march on Washington with rifles strapped to their chests. Can't see how this could go wrong, can you?

Take heart men, no matter how small your penis is you know it is more impressive than whatever is barely dangling between the legs of these guys!

Courtesy of Salon:

Libertarian activist and radio host Adam Kokesh is hoping to get 1,000 people to march on Washington on July 4 — armed with loaded rifles. The plan, launched with a Facebook group today, is to gather on the Virginia side of the Potomac, where gun laws are lax, and then march across the bridge with loaded rifles slung over their shoulders into the District, where openly carrying weapons is generally prohibited. 

“This will be a non-violent event,” the Facebook group warns, “unless the government chooses to make it violent.” Already, over 200 people have said they’ll attend the march. Here’s the message: 

"On the morning of July 4, 2013, Independence Day, we will muster at the National Cemetery & at noon we will step off to march across the Memorial Bridge, down Independence Avenue, around the Capitol, the Supreme Court, & the White House, then peacefully return to Virginia across the Memorial Bridge. This is an act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny. We are marching to mark the high water mark of government & to turn the tide. This will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent. Should we meet physical resistance, we will peacefully turn back, having shown that free people are not welcome in Washington, & returning with the resolve that the politicians, bureaucrats, & enforcers of the federal government will not be welcome in the land of the free."

Kokesh is a former Marine who was discharged in 2007 after violating the military’s code against engaging in political activity while in uniform. Kokesh was highly active in the antiwar movement after serving in Iraq, participating in numerous protests and getting arrested on occasion. 

He started an anti-government radio show as the Tea Party picked up steam and was eventually picked up by RT, the news channel funded by the Russian government that is often critical of U.S. policy, where he promoted both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street in a worldview that some sociologists describe as “fusion paranoia,” a visceral anti-governmentalism that isn’t limited to typical left-right divides.

Yeah this guy is some piece of work, and has apparently not learned the Schaeffer Cox lesson.

When the government comes to take your guns, you can shoot government agents, or submit to slavery.
— Adam Kokesh (@adamkokesh) May 3, 2013

People are always so muy macho on Twitter aren't they?

Kind of makes me wish that I could be there to watch this bunch of dipshits stumbling down the road, all winded and out of breath, while their assault rifles drag along the ground behind them. I seriously doubt that most of the half dozen or so guys who will actually show up to this thing have walked a distance like this since before they got their personal mobility devices from the Scooter Store.

By the time they reach the White House most of them will be begging the police to handcuff them for civil disobedience just so they can get a lift back to their cars.