The failure to ban assault weapons in California hasn’t slowed down Progressives in their wish to destroy the 2nd Amendment.

In new legislation called the “Safety for All Act of 2016″ they plan to ban the possession of magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds. It also mandates that every gun owner in the state get a “firearms purchaser certificate” in order to buy ammunition, which will not only cost up to $50.00 and take two months to get.

And a magazine ban and “firearms purchaser certificate” is only the beginning.

It will require that all ammunition purchases be reported electronically at the moment of purchase to the State, who will record it in a database which will be available to law enforcement. This will likely quadruple the handling time associated with the purchase of ammunition, causing prices to skyrocket.

The new law also forces all dealers to get an “ammunition vendors license” in order to sell ammunition. It will also force all employees of any licensed vendor to get a State issued “Certificate of Eligibility” in order to work with ammunition, as well as ban the private transfer of ammunition as well as the private importation of ammunition.

Finally, there’s also the fact that should the “Safety for All Act of 2016″ be passed, and progressives misuse the 14th Amendment, all state legislators need to do to make it federal law is take it to the Supreme Court. Then we can kiss the U.S. Constitution good-bye.

It seems like more and more children’s sports awards are nothing more than participation ribbons, so  kids self-esteem doesn’t get hurt when they lose. Despite that trend, what one California school system is doing in the classroom is still a shock to many.

The Cotati-Rohnert Park School District in Sonoma County has changed its grading scale, basically making it hard for a student to get a failing grade. For example, to get an F, a student has to score below 20 percent.

Part of the new system is a blanket policy that students get a grade of 50 percent even if they don’t hand in any homework or take a test. This creates a situation where a student who skips a test — a kid who doesn’t even try — can score better overall than a student who takes it and does poorly.

School administrators say the new system reflects a national movement that encourage students to try, but doesn’t making them feel bad when they get bad grades. The new system’s called the equal interval scale.

When effort’s rewarded and not achievement – everybody loses.

Stop focusing on what you don’t want to happen.
Focus on what you do want to happen.
Positive thinking is at the forefront of every great success story.
If you awake every morning with the thought that something wonderful will happen in your life today, and you pay close attention, you’ll often find that you’re right.

Since 2013 and most recently as July 2015, President Obama has repeatedly vowed that there would be no “boots on the ground” in Syria. Now however he’s directing the Pentagon to send Special Forces into Syria to advise the Syrian opposition in its fight against ISIS, claiming they are their as advisors.

Remarks before meeting with Baltic State leaders, August 30, 2013

“In no event are we considering any kind of military action that would involve boots on the ground, that would involve a long-term campaign. But we are looking at the possibility of a limited, narrow act that would help make sure that not only Syria, but others around the world, understand that the international community cares about maintaining this chemical weapons ban and norm. So again, I repeat, we’re not considering any open-ended commitment. We’re not considering any boots-on-the-ground approach.”

Remarks in the Rose Garden, August 31, 2013

“After careful deliberation, I have decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets. This would not be an open-ended intervention. We would not put boots on the ground. Instead, our action would be designed to be limited in duration and scope.”

Statement before meeting with congressional leaders, September 3, 2013

“So the key point that I want to emphasize to the American people: The military plan that has been developed by our Joint Chiefs — and that I believe is appropriate — is proportional. It is limited. It does not involve boots on the ground. This is not Iraq, and this is not Afghanistan.”

News conference in Stockholm, Sweden, September. 4, 2013

“I think America recognizes that, as difficult as it is to take any military action — even one as limited as we’re talking about, even one without boots on the ground — that’s a sober decision.”

News conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, September. 6, 2013

“The question for the American people is, is that responsibility that we’ll be willing to bear? And I believe that when you have a limited, proportional strike like this — not Iraq, not putting boots on the ground; not some long, drawn-out affair; not without any risks, but with manageable risks — that we should be willing to bear that responsibility.”

Weekly radio address, September. 7, 2013

“What we’re not talking about is an open-ended intervention. This would not be another Iraq or Afghanistan. There would be no American boots on the ground. Any action we take would be limited, both in time and scope, designed to deter the Syrian Government from gassing its own people again and degrade its ability to do so.”

Interview with the PBS Newshour, September 9, 2013

“Tomorrow I’ll speak to the American people. I’ll explain this is not Iraq; this is not Afghanistan; this is not even Libya. We’re not talking about — not boots on the ground. We’re not talking about sustained airstrikes. We’re talking about a very specific set of strikes to degrade his chemical weapons capabilities in terms of delivery.”

Interview with CBS Evening News, September 9, 2013

“What I’m going to try to propose is that we have a very specific objective, a very narrow military option, and one that will not lead into some large-scale invasion of Syria or involvement or boots on the ground; nothing like that. This isn’t like Iraq. It’s not like Afghanistan. It’s not even like Libya. Then hopefully people will recognize why I think this is so important.”

Address to the Nation, September 10, 2013

“Many of you have asked, won’t this put us on a slippery slope to another war? One man wrote to me that we are ‘still recovering from our involvement in Iraq.’ A veteran put it more bluntly: ‘This nation is sick and tired of war.’ My answer is simple: I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria. I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan. I will not pursue a prolonged air campaign like Libya or Kosovo. This would be a targeted strike to achieve a clear objective: deterring the use of chemical weapons and degrading Assad’s capabilities.”

Interview on Bloomberg View, February 27, 2014

“We are doing everything we can to see how we can do that and how we can resource it. But I’ve looked at a whole lot of game plans, a whole lot of war plans, a whole bunch of scenarios, and nobody has been able to persuade me that us taking large-scale military action even absent boots on the ground, would actually solve the problem.”

News conference in Newport, Wales, September 5, 2014

“With respect to the situation on the ground in Syria, we will not be placing U.S. ground troops to try to control the areas that are part of the conflict inside of Syria. I don’t think that’s necessary for us to accomplish our goal. We are going to have to find effective partners on the ground to push back against ISIL.”

Interview with Meet the Press, September 7, 2014

“(You) cannot, over the long term or even the medium term, deal with this problem by having the United States serially occupy various countries all around the Middle East. We don’t have the resources. It puts enormous strains on our military. And at some point, we leave. And then things blow up again. So we’ve got to have a more sustainable strategy, which means the boots on the ground have to be Iraqi. And and in Syria, the boots on the ground have to be Syrian. … I will reserve the right to always protect the American people and go after folks who are trying to hurt us wherever they are. But in terms of controlling territory, we’re going to have to develop a moderate Sunni opposition that can control territory and that we can work with. The notion that the United States should be putting boots on the ground, I think would be a profound mistake. And I want to be very clear and very explicit about that.”

Address to the Nation on Syria, September 10, 2014

“I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil. This counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out ISIL wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground.”

News conference in Brisbane, Australia, November 16, 2014

“Yes, there are always circumstances in which the United States might need to deploy U.S. ground troops. If we discovered that ISIL had gotten possession of a nuclear weapon, and we had to run an operation to get it out of their hands, then, yes, you can anticipate that not only would Chairman Dempsey recommend me sending U.S. ground troops to get that weapon out of their hands, but I would order it. So the question just ends up being, what are those circumstances? I’m not going speculate on those. Right now we’re moving forward in conjunction with outstanding allies like Australia in training Iraqi security forces to do their job on the ground.”

Remarks at the White House, February 11, 2015

“The resolution we’ve submitted today does not call for the deployment of U.S. ground combat forces to Iraq or Syria. It is not the authorization of another ground war, like Afghanistan or Iraq. … As I’ve said before, I’m convinced that the United States should not get dragged back into another prolonged ground war in the Middle East. That’s not in our national security interest, and it’s not necessary for us to defeat ISIL. Local forces on the ground who know their countries best are best positioned to take the ground fight to ISIL, and that’s what they’re doing.”

Remarks at the Pentagon, July 6, 2015

“There are no current plans to do so. That’s not something that we currently discussed. I’ve always said that I’m going to do what’s necessary to protect the homeland. One of the principles that we all agree on, though, and I pressed folks pretty hard because in these conversations with my military advisers I want to make sure I’m getting blunt and unadulterated, uncensored advice. But in every one of the conversations that we’ve had, the strong consensus is that in order for us to succeed long-term in this fight against ISIL, we have to develop local security forces that can sustain progress. It is not enough for us to simply send in American troops to temporarily set back organizations like ISIL, but to then, as soon as we leave, see that void filled once again with extremists.”

As I’ve noted before — every time Obama says he isn’t or is going to do something, know that it’s a lie.

This is a good lesson for ‘mug-wumps,’ or rather ‘Moderates,’ sitting on the fence. Most Moderates (and Independents, too) pick and chose what they like from wherever they find it and that makes their actions another form of Progressivism.

If something seems good to them, they adapt it to their belief system, despite where it might lead too. They are the ones who say “I support the 2nd Amendment,” but in the same breath feel a 30-round banana clip should be regulated or outlawed.

One cannot simple cherry pick what they like or dislike about a particular system – the bad goes with the good. I know what I know.

Edinson Volquez pitched in Game One of the World Series, unaware his father had passed away hours earlier from heart failure in the Dominican Republic. It was only after he left the mound, did he learn the news.

Personally, I’d want to know right away. Death notifications are an important responsibility and all too often I’ve heard and seen them screwed up by some unthinking, uncaring schmuck determined to get the job done and over with and not treat it with honor and as a sacred duty.

In Volquez’s case, his father’s passing was withheld from him on the say so of his wife, which for many somehow makes the decision okay. I disagree whole-heartedly and I said so on a national news site, posting: “…A child does need to know when a parent has passes away. (There are) bigger things in the Universe than winning a baseball game.”

One Florida man was so incensed he fired back, “Tom Darby must have taken his stupid pills this morning.”

My response was less than artful, “Jus’ because I disagree with how it was handled? Obviously, you’re a closet Progressive since you went straight to insults.”

Many of the same people who disagreed with me are also the same people who are calling for the heads of those who made a mess of Benghazi, leaving four Americans dead. Their main cry has been that ‘we are owed the truth.’

Those sentiments are all fine and dandy, until a World Series game is on the line. Evidently, the truth isn’t as important as winning an effing game.

The truth is relevant in all situations – whether a matter of national security or the personal life of a World Series pitcher. Fathers, mothers, parents, and family also matter – and in the end are far more important in our everyday lives.

The Bible reveals the words ‘father,’ ‘mother,’ ‘family’ and ‘parent’ are mentioned 100 times, but ‘Baseball,’ appears not once. I’ve concluded that we are praying to different ‘gods.’

The Kansas City Royals are this years World Series Champions. I know what I know.

Democratic Congressman Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois claims Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is behind a surge of Latino youth voter’s registering: “Donald Trump is spurring youth voter mobilization like I’ve never seen before. Nationally we know that 93-percent of Latinos under the age of 18 are United States citizens.”

“Every thirty seconds a Latino citizen turns 18. That is about a million a year for the next decade or so,” he added. “If they are half as motivated as the young people I’m talking to in Chicago, Donald Trump could have a tremendous impact on the youth vote in the coming election.”

Trump is viewed unfavorably by 72 percent of Hispanics, with six in 10 having a very unfavorable opinion of him, a recent AP-GfK poll finds. Only 11 percent view him favorably.

Meanwhile, Gutiérrez is complaining about a bunch of 18-year-olds who’ll probably register as Democrats and who will more than likely vote for Bernie Sanders. I can’t find the downside in Gutiérrez’s argument when it comes winning a Progressive presidential election.

That’s because there isn’t one – proving Gutiérrez is either grandstanding or a complete moron. I’ll let you decide – but I’m betting on ‘complete moron.’

The eleventh video featuring Planned Parenthood selling baby parts has been released. And it would make German Schutzstaffel officer and physician, Josef Mengele (of Holocaust fame) very proud.

“My aim is usually to get the specimens out pretty intact,” said Dr. Amna Dermish, speaking to actors posing as a fetal tissue procurement company.

In layman’s terms, the procedure Dermish, the abortion doctor for Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas, describes in the quote above is what she does to get undamaged baby organs: an illegal partial birth abortion.

Dermish admits that she will sometimes use ultrasound guidance to convert a 2nd-trimester fetus to a feet-first breech presentation: “Especially the 20-weekers are a lot harder versus the 18-weekers, so at that point I’ll switch to breech.”

She uses a sonogram so she can move the child into a breach (feet first) position, pulls the child out feet first, when she gets to the neck she snips the spinal cord killing the baby. Dermish does not use the chemical digoxin to kill the fetus before 20 weeks, so her feet-first, intact extraction abortions are done on living fetuses.

Dermish admits she was trained by the Senior Director of Medical Services at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, who described a partial-birth abortion technique to harvest fetal organs in the first Planned Parenthood video released July 14.

Also in the video, Dermish quotes a price for baby parts of $50 or $60 per specimen, another illegal act. If these procedures occurred during war, this would be considered a war crime.

Instead, this is acceptable in this progressively enlightened society.

If oil stays around $50 a barrel, OPEC leader Saudi Arabia will run out of cash in five years or less. Low oil prices will wipe out an estimated $360 billion from the region this year alone.

This is a far cry form the days of the 1973 oil crisis which began in October 1973 after the members of OPEC proclaimed an oil embargo. The price of oil quadrupled by 1974 to nearly $12 a barrel – a price that seems laughable now.

Not funny were all the new federal regulations the crisis helped create. This included a national maximum speed limit of 55 mph imposed in 1974 through the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, the development of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which began in 1975, followed by the National Energy Act of 1978.

And let’s not forget that in 1977, the Department of Energy was created in response to the continuing crisis. The world price of crude, which had peaked during the 1979 energy crisis, at more than $80 per barrel, decreased during the early 1980s to $38 per barrel, but we were stuck with more and more regulations and greater power grabs by federal agencies like the EPA.

Currently huge budget surpluses are turning to massive deficits as prices crash to around $45 from over $100 last year. The depressed prices have also come at a time when spending has gone up as many Middle Eastern countries grapple with regional violence.

Saudi Arabia is unlikely to raise taxes, but it may cut some forms of spending, though it’s not likely to cut social and military spending programs for fear of a repeat of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising. That’s why, as the world’s largest oil producer, it needs to sell oil at around $106 to balance its budget.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is moving fast to keep its cash. The kingdom not only raised $4 billion by selling bonds earlier this year, but its central bank has pull nearly $70 billion from asset management firms over the past six months to cover costs.

So, after years of huge surpluses, Saudi Arabia’s current account deficit’s projected to soar to 20-percent of gross domestic product this year. And while. Saudi Arabia’s war chest of cash still holds nearly $700 billion, it’s quickly shrinking.

We may yet find that the U.S. oil industry has greater staying power than OPEC, but don’t expect them to take this laying down. There is a real danger though, to the world as a whole, and the U.S. in specific, if the kingdom crumbles.

The University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee’s “Inclusive Excellence Center” wants to raise awareness of (in other words, ban) words and phrases, which it deems “microaggressions.” A Microaggression is the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their.

We used to call this “politically correct’” but now the university says the term ‘politically correct’ is also a microaggression, right along side lame, thug, third world and trash. According to the school’s program, the word ‘thug’ is a microaggression because “it assumes violence is the sole motivating factor in an action, and ignores issues of poverty, education and other institutional barriers…”

Meanwhile, during a discussion about the man next in line for Speaker of the House, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry scolded guest panelist Alfonso Aguilar for describing Congressman Paul Ryan as a “hard worker” because doing so demeans slaves and poor mothers.

The exchange went as follows:

“Let’s be fair. If there’s somebody who’s a hard worker when he goes to Washington, it’s Paul Ryan, who not only works with Republicans but Democrats,” said Aguilar.

“You know very well I work on immigration issues, trying to get Republicans to support immigration reform,” the executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles went on. “Paul Ryan is somebody who has…”

“Alfonso, I feel you,” Harris-Perry interjected. “But I just want to pause on one thing because I don’t disagree with you that I actually think Mr. Ryan is a great choice for this role.”

“I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall because it is a reminder of what hard work looks like. So I feel you he’s a hard worker, I do — but in the context of relative privilege — and I just want to point out that when you talk about work-life balance, being a hard worker, the moms who don’t have healthcare… [Republicans] don’t call them hard workers. [They] call them failures. [They] call them people who are sucking off the system. No, no. Really, ya’ll do!”

Calling Progressives ‘effing crazy,’ is also a microaggression, but then it’s also the truth.

My wife has heard this complaint from me before, “You can’t turn on a sporting event, watch the frigging news or go to the grocery store without some sort of ‘Breast Cancer Awareness,’ crap popping up.”

Yes, learning that the disease exists, that it needs a cure and that over 40-thousand women die annually is important information, but pro-football players wearing pink cleats doesn’t remind me of ‘Breast Cancer Awareness.’  And I’m not alone in this as one breast cancer sufferer considers ‘No Bra Day’ so bogus she decided to speak out about it:

“Breast cancer isn’t sexy. It’s not about saving the boobies. It’s not about no bra day, which is really just an excuse for women to post sexy pics of their nipples pressing through their clothes.”

Then Jenn Alter titled her post: “Here’s your fucking breast cancer awareness.”

She backed it up with this photo:

Yup, this is what ‘Breast Cancer Awareness,’ if it were for real, should be all about. Any questions?