Marco Rubio just lost the youth vote.

Hey, hey, hey who really cares about faster internet anyway?

Courtesy of The Intercept:

In a rare senatorial act, full-time Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio joined with a handful of fellow legislators on Friday in an attempt to block local municipalities from undercutting big telecom companies by providing cheap, fast internet service. 

Rubio, who is raising campaign cash from the telecom industry for his presidential campaign, fired off a letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to allow states to block municipal broadband services. 

The letter was the latest salvo in a long-running effort by the major telecom companies to outlaw municipal broadband programs that have taken off in cities such as Lafayette, Louisiana, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, because they pose a threat to a business model that calls for slow, expensive internet access without competition. 

In Chattanooga, for instance, city officials set up a service known as “The Gig,” a municipal broadband network that provides data transfers at one gigabit per second for less than $70 a month — a rate that is 50 times faster than the average speed American customers have available through private broadband networks.

I would say that is a fairly ridiculous position to take for a Republican who espouses the virtue of capitalism and the free market.

And it is really going to cost him the support of every young gamer, constant internet user, and, let's face it, porn watcher in the country.

By the by my daughter has visited Chattanooga and goes on and on about their high speed internet. And because of that businesses are scrambling over themselves to build there.

Clearly Rubio is big telecom's bitch, and just because he looks young does not mean that he understands what it takes to attract the youth vote. Because this ain't it.

P.S. And if this were not enough Rubio also has a plan to make gay marriage illegal again. 

In wake of Chattanooga shooting gun wielding morons decide to stand around military recruitment offices in the hopes that people will think they look tough.

Courtesy of US News: 

Gun-toting citizens are showing up at military recruiting centers around the country, saying they plan to protect recruiters following last week's killing of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 

The citizens, some of them private militia members, said they're supporting the recruiters, who by military directive are not armed. 

"We're here to serve and protect," Clint Janney said Tuesday, wearing a Taurus 9mm handgun as he stood in a parking lot across from a recruiting center on the west side of Columbus. "What the government won't do, we will do." 

Similar posts have been set up outside recruitment centers in several cities around the country, including Madison, Wisconsin; Hiram, Georgia; Phoenix; and several sites in Tennessee, including Murfreesboro.

You can tell this guy is a bad ass because of the backward cap. That is a sure sign of badassery.

 As it turns out the military's response to these Rambo wannabes is "Thanks, but no thanks."

Courtesy of TPM:  

But the military wasn't embracing all of those volunteers. 

Marine Corps headquarters told Texas-based TV station KLTV that while they appreciate the volunteers' support, they ask that civilians not stand guard outside their facilities. 

And an unidentified official told Savannah, Georgia TV station WSAV that there is “always some concern about safety for our soldiers and civilians when someone is walking around with weapons."

Don't you just hate it when you get all dressed up in your best GI Joe Underoos and spit shine your metal penis extender and nobody appreciates the effort?

Dakota Meyer is sounding more and more like a male version of Sarah Palin every day.

Courtesy of Fox Nation:

Meyer opened up about his fellow Marines who were killed in the terrorist attack at a gun-free military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee on the "Kelly File" Monday night. 

“Terrorism is when people come and instill fear inside of people until they change their way of life," he said. 

The terror attack has inspired a push to change the Dept. of Defense policy that keeps guns off installations. 

“We need to give them the opportunity to carry their own firearms,” Meyer said. 

Meyer called for true resolve in the ongoing battle against radical Islam. 

"When are we going to stop it?" he asked. "When are we going to stand against it instead of changing our way of life?"

"What do all these people who don't want us to carry guns do when they have a problem or they have an issue? They call people with guns."

Okay Jethro, here's the thing, those "people with guns" are called the police, and folks advocating stricter gun control do not have a problem with trained law enforcement officials having weapons.

However the idea that every Tom, Dick, and Dakota with a holster strapped to their thigh is some kind of modern day Matt Dillon is ridiculous.

More guns mean more bullets. More bullets mean more death. Pretty simple of you think about it.

I think Dakota Meyer should be the poster boy for why the United States military needs to raise their standards for enlistment. The guy sounds incredibly ignorant.

And exactly when did Megyn Kelly, who many have suggested is the only true professional at a non-professional news outlet, become such a drama queen?

I mean did you hear her set up for this segment? Hell she sounds like she is channeling that crazy Judge Jeanine Pirro lunatic.

Shooter attacks military members in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Update!

Courtesy of the LA Times

Courtesy of CNN:  

Three people were killed and three were wounded in shootings in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Thursday morning, city spokeswoman Enora Moss said. Of the three wounded, one is in critical condition, one was treated and released, and the third is an officer, Moss said. The officer's condition is unknown. 

The suspected shooter involved in the incident is also dead, Moss said. 

Gunshots were fired at a military recruiting center and a Navy Reserve center in different parts of Chattanooga, Tennessee, late Thursday morning, officials and witnesses said. 

One officer is "down" in connection with the shootings, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke told reporters. He was not specific about the officer's condition. 

Witnesses said a man sprayed bullets at the glass doors of a military recruiting center at a strip mall on Lee Highway, and the U.S. Navy tweeted Thursday that a shooting happened at a separate location -- the Navy Reserve center on Amnicola Highway. The two sites are 7½ miles apart. 

By 1:15 p.m., the "active shooter situation" was over, police tweeted.

Oh man my daughter goes to Chattanooga all of the time.  She's fine but it made my heart skip a beat when I heard the news.

This is still a breaking story so I will update as more details come to light.

It appears right now that the shooter was targeting military members.

They are treating this as an act of domestic terrorism according to the press conference that I am listening to right now.

Update: Now learning that there were four Marines and a police officer shot. Some reports are now putting the number of dead at four.

Update 2: Yep it's reported now as four dead Marines. Responding police officer shot in ankle. No word yet on whether the shooter took his own life or was killed by police.

Update 3: Okay it looks as if two others were wounded besides the police officer.  And for those wondering, the shooter is reported to have been white.

Update 4: MSNBC is reporting the the shooter is a naturalized citizen from the Middle East.

Update 5: Shooter's name was Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.

Update 6: The shooting seems to have caused Palin to go full religious zealot:  

Horrific events unfolding in Chattanooga drive us to our knees in prayer for the Marines and their families, as well as for our nation. Pray that the madness within any ideology driving any murderous spree against the innocent cease, in our Lord's name. 

Well that's poorly written.  And not very practical either.

No calls for beefed up security, increased surveillance of certain groups, or even perhaps better gun control laws. Instead all Palin can think to do is beg for divine intervention.