Lives in a Shoe

Shatter

Shatter is a form of marijuana wax, derived from butane hash oil, which has been made for centuries. But some forms of shatter reportedly have as much as 90 percent THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. That is about five times the potency of unrefined smoked cannabis and more powerful than standard hash oil. It is produced as a thin, hard translucent layer similar to glass, which can shatter if dropped, and it is typically heated and inhaled through a vaporizer rather than smoked.

 

For Harmen

Diversity Chip?

Asking the Important Question

Breakfast -- No Mimosas

Wow.  The Frenchies rear back and say Non.

Lunch between the French and Iranian leaders is CANCELLED after President Hollande refused to take wine off the menu for his meeting with Muslim counterpart Rouhani

Iran's President Rouhani was due to dine with President Francois Hollande But France refused to take wine off the menu and suggested a breakfast instead

There are fears it could spark a diplomatic row between the two countries  Protesters want Hollande to take Rouhani to task on human rights abuses

 

Your City Too, Probably

CAN WE BUY THIS AND SEARCH FOR POLITICIANS’ AND JUDGES’ MOVEMENTS? THAT’LL GET IT FIXED FAST. A private company has captured 2.2 billion photos of license plates in cities throughout America. It stores them in a database, tagged with the location where they were taken. And it is selling that data.

Last line o the article:  "Spread the word."

Probably Offended By Women's Uncovered Hair Too

In his own country, okay.  But when in Rome...

This makes me sick. Italy covers up naked statues so as not to offend Iranian president.  Asking why put the museum on the itinerary anyway if part of it would offend the 8th century sensibilities of the old prude. 

Rouhani is in Italy to spend $18 billion - part of his European shopping spree resulting from the sudden gush of cash he's getting because of the lifting of sanctions. So I guess we see now the price Italy is willing to pay in order to get their hands on some of that sanctions money - prove to Rouhani that they can toss their heritage under the bus just like any other supplicant.

If the naked men and women in the sculptures would have offended Rouhani, he should never have agreed to go to the museum in the first place. Give him a tour of the Coliseum or the baths. That's more his speed anyway.

 

Fired From Job at Health Club for Being Too Intense

"Our gym is about fun and fitness and his overall personality wasn't bringing out the fun."

Religion of Peace in Wisconsin.  Weapons but not terrorism charges.

"We are Muslims, defending Muslim religion, we are on our own, my dear, we have organized our own group..."

Hamzeh, 23, has been charged with possessing a machine gun and a silencer. Despite indications of an attempted act of terrorism, Hamzeh is not charged with any terrorism counts. 

A terrorist-style plot intended to kill dozens of people with automatic weapons at a Masonic center in Milwaukee was foiled this week by FBI agents, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Samy Mohamed Hamzeh discussed his plan to attack the center with two others, detailing how they would quickly and quietly kill the first people they saw and then methodically move through the building, "eliminating everyone" they encountered, according to a federal criminal complaint. Hamzeh, 23, has been charged with possessing a machine gun and a silencer. Despite indications of an attempted act of terrorism, Hamzeh is not charged with any terrorism counts.... "Thirty is excellent. If I got out, after killing thirty people, I will be happy 100% ... 100% happy, because these 30 will terrify the world."

Bernie

Why Trump?

Headline, Breitbart: National Review Goes Full Snob, Attacks Trump Voters as Ignorant Bigots.

On Facebook someone asked with that undertone of Pauline Kael theatrical confusion -- like those who comment "smh" and "I can't even" as a kind of in-group virtue signaling -- if there are Trump votersOwho could explain to her Why Oh Why they like him.  Some of the comments were side-splitting, by the way.  One took issue with another who had mentioned that her Trumpian neighbors and relatives, are good people all. "But do they read anything?  Understand the issues?  Watch the news except for Faux?" (Not realizing, apparently, how 2014 that Fox News reference is.)  I'd offer to take time from chewing tobaccy and boilin' up a mess of possum stew to join the discussion -- but... No way I believe the question wasn't a setup, a fat slow pitch there as a lead-in to head-shaking and pearl-clutching.  Look at all the harrumphing after The Donald said he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and wouldn't go lower in the polls.  "He's making light of violence...terrifying" was one of the less stupid comments I saw.  

I have not made up my mind and leave open the possibility of change, but in the rock-scissors-paper game that is the Republican nominating process Cruz beats Trump but Trump beats everybody else. Everybody else. In a heartbeat.  And I am a news junkie.  Do I give a crap when the establishment worthies with an R after their names helpfully point out that Trump has changed his position many times, when they moan that he is not actually a conservative on the issues?  No.  I do not care.

Democrats' principal appeal isn't to philosophical coherence: They tell their coalition that they'll take care of their own - the gays, the blacks, the feminists, the transitioning, the environmentalists, the Hispanics, the educators... This time round, a big chunk of the Republican base has figured it'd like someone who's looking out for them, too. 

We knew Jeb was going to be pushed. We could feel the political elites' careless contempt for us and our concerns and I wonder that they could not feel our simmering discontent especially after the Tea Party.  One school of thought has it that they knew but did not give a damn. Steyn: "All the Chumpy McDonorpants had to do was sit on their hands and not give 100 million bucks to another hereditary-class rich-boy stiff with no flair for retail politics who thinks that illegal immigration is "an act of love". But they couldn't help themselves. The Donor Class decided it would take its contempt for the rubes to the next level ...and now they're surprised that the rubes have decided to take it to the next level, too. They don't care when the insiders say that Trump isn't a "real Republican". To them, that's not a bug, it's a feature. 

If the present polls hold up through Iowa and New Hampshire, it'd be the reconfiguration of Mr and Mrs Main Street America as just another interest group. So a philosophical commitment to free trade means less to them than the degeneration of mill and factory towns into wastelands of fast-food service jobs and heroin addiction. An abstract respect for religious pluralism means less to them than reducing the number of crazies running around whose last words before opening fire are "Allahu akbar!" A theoretical belief in private-sector health are means less to them than not getting stiffed by crappy five-figure health "insurance" that can be yanked out from under you at any moment under Byzantine rules and regulations that change 30 times a day. And bipartisan myth-making about "a nation of immigrants" means a whole lot less than another decade of Press One For English, flatlined wages, sanctuary cities and remorseless cultural transformation...

I want somebody who can talk without using mushy correct obfuscating terminology.  I want a president who will find a way to secure our borders and not just talk about enforcing our laws, somebody who doesn't wilt at the first accusation of "racism" and sell our workers out for the benefit of Chamber of Commerce types who want that cheap labor.  (If it weren't for Trump we most likely wouldn't even be talking about it now.) I want a president who can treat all people with respect. I want a president who can go eyeball to eyeball with an ayatollah and not look like an idiot in front of the whole world, a president who understands business and finance, and one who can get a grip on our debt.  I want an alpha male president who would not dream of bowing to a foreign leader, someone who will take to heart his first duty which is to keep us secure to the best of his ability.  

I want a president who loves the United States of America.

list from some guy in virginia

http://www.varight.com/opinion/trump-doesnt-have-to-be-conservative-humble-or-polite-to-fix-america/