Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Saint Jimmy

Increasingly unfunny funny man, Jimmy Kimmel, apparently has appointed himself as America's leading leftist shill national conscience. First, he began making emotional pleas in favor of Obama Care, crediting it with helping save his son's life (yes, that's right: this celebrity, who has a net worth of around $35 million, wants to preserve a failing health insurance system subsidized by people who, in many cases, can't afford the premiums or can't find coverage even if they could afford them).

Now, he's wallowing in the horror and shock that has followed the massacre in Las Vegas, blaming Republicans and the absence of "common sense" gun control laws. Yet, the giant massacre-on-the-installment plan taking place in Chicago phases St. Jimmy not at all (probably because he can't blame Republicans for it).

Elsewhere, Mark Steyn discusses the massacre without St. Jimmy's hysterics.

10 comments:

bruce said...

Your humble commenter, me, is a direct descendant of Australia's worst mass murderer. He 'only' killed Aborigines, at first because they massacred his family. So his revenge was seen as justified at first. But he kept killing, finally a woman on the street who seemed to be wearing his mother's dress was shot on the spot. And then he was apparently told to stop.

Anything from dozens to a couple of hundred people were killed, when he assembled a posse. My grandmother's grandfather. Married and took the girl back to the farmstead with blood still on the walls. Had 14 children including my father's grandmother, lived long.

I actually wrote to a fellow whose ancestor escaped my ancestor's rampage. He was polite and helpful. This is him, 'The most ruthless avenger':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet_Bank_massacre#William_Fraser

Blood lust? It's weird, there is still a darkness in the family.

bruce said...

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50036406

RebeccaH said...

Steyn's facts are a little outdated, but his point remains the same, that we are in a war and we don't even know it. That Paddock guy had a lot of money and seemed very restless, owning houses in multiple states that he constantly moved in and out of, living in swank hotels the rest of the time. He was mean to his girlfriend, and yet gave her lots of money. He gambled like crazy, and yet was able to hold down a string of responsible jobs.

I believe he was just one angry guy. He may have hidden it from his family and people who knew him, but I believe he was just bottled up rage walking around. He had a family history (a psychopathic bank robber father), so maybe that was it, but I know from experience that some people are just born angry. They're fortunately rare, but there are people who are angry from the day they are born, and often they try to get rid of that anger by going on rampages. It doesn't work, though, which is why so many of them kill themselves before they have to pay for what they've done.

RebeccaH said...

Also, Jimmy Kimmel is a smug, self-righteous SOB.

bruce said...

One thing, he probably hated 'white women'.

bruce said...

Lot of anger in my family RebeccaH. Anger-gene? Scottish highlanders and borderers had to be tough, and anger was useful before systematic weapons tech made brains more important. We are throwbacks. The beast needs to be tamed by beauty too. We need the love of a good woman to keep us sane.

Paco said...

Fascinating family history, Bruce.

Er, there ain't no paper out on you, is there?

rinardman said...

C'mon, Paco, bruce is obviously a great guy! Who would say anything bad about him, that might, you know, get him mad or something. Not that he would react in a bad way to that and seek revenge, or something, but you know what I'm saying.

Ummm, BTW Paco, do you have concealed carry in Virginia?

bruce said...

Don't worry I hold loyalty to friends as the highest virtue. Part of the anger we feel here must be the powerlessness though. If we could train with weapons as you do, we would not feel so helpless.

Paco said...

Well, now, that's God's honest truth. Nothing soothes me like sending a hundred rounds or so down range, and breathing in some of that invigorating cordite.