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La Marseillaise

15 Friday Jul 2016

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Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
Contre nous de la tyrannie,
L’étendard sanglant est levé, (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes!

Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons!
Qu’un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons!

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Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny’s
Bloody banner is raised, (repeat)
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They’re coming right into your arms
To cut the throats of your sons, your women!

To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let’s march, let’s march!
Let an impure blood
Soak our fields!

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La Marseillaise (French National Anthem).

Alone: A man sits in silence and clasps his hands while sitting at the head of a body killed in France's third major terrorist attack in 18 months

Daily Mail, UK.

Last night in Nice, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a Mohammedan lowlife from Tunisia and a ferocious soldier of Islam, drove a 25-ton truck down a sidewalk for about a mile. I read that distance last night and thought it must have been a misprint or exaggeration; it was accurate. This ferocious soldier cut the throats of 84 men, women, and children (at least 10 children) and injured scores of others.

This Daily Mail story has rather extensive coverage of the attack, including videos of the truck and of the police killing Mohamed. So far, THIS YEAR, Islamic terrorists have killed more than 11,600 people and injured more than 14,000 with similar attacks across 50 countries. Here’s a list. That’s just 2016! There are a few attacks that didn’t make the list. Most of the attacks happened in traditional Muslim countries. Why anyone would want to import this insanity into the West suggests only homicidal, evil intent.

I watched French President Francois Hollande gibber away like a zombie about “taking caution”. I could only tolerate about 5 minutes. We don’t need anymore caution. We need action. Now!

Hillary Clinton, still giddy over escaping felony charges, says delusionally, “Let’s be clear: Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.” Sure, just like she is a worthy classified records trustee.

Donald Trump, with another statement insuring his election, says he will seek a Congressional Declaration of War against ISIS. He won’t get it and it probably wouldn’t work anyway. He likely means he wants to drop more bombs in Syria and Iraq. A real war against terrorism needs to be fought in the West, against the invaders here and against the traitors who brought them in. Congress isn’t going to vote for a war in which many of its members and many of their friends would be considered the enemy.

France’s director of security, Patrick Calvar, a bit more pragmatic that most of his colleagues, admits his country is “on the brink of civil war.” War is already upon us. Another lop-sided battle was fought last night in Nice. The French (and the West) need to heed their own National Anthem. To arms, citizens. It’s time to soak the fields.

Bastille Day Truck Attack

14 Thursday Jul 2016

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Another baneful cry of ““Allahu Akbar”. Another attack. Another batch of Europeans wiped out. How much is enough?

The body believed to be of a young child. A metaphor – so goes the future of Europe. The Sun.

Seventy-seven people are known dead and perhaps hundreds more are injured after Mohammedan terrorists drove a large truck through a crowd at a street festival.

Read:

HERE;

HERE; and

HERE.

It is alleged two men, armed with firearms and grenades, plowed through people for 100 meters or more. They may have possibly fired into the remaining crowd and/or at police. At least one of them was gunned down; one may be on the run. The victims were celebrating Bastille Day, today, the “Fourth of July” for the French. Now the French are (again) mourning. ISIS is celebrating. People are “shocked”. Some are in denial. The political rats really don’t give a damn.

This incident proves so much. Gun control doesn’t work – with guns or with grenades. Truck bombs don’t even require bombs now. The Guardian reports this scheme has been long proposed by terror groups; it worked smashingly. Mass immigration from the third world does not work. Angry primitives do not belong in a civilized country. So much.

This shit (I do not ask your pardon) has to stop. It’s easier to comment on these attacks, this war when the battlefield is in France or another European country, but the effects are felt throughout the West. As I see it there are but two courses to follow.

France and the West can round up all non-native Europeans, all non-Christians, and deport them once and for all. That’s not enough though. Some won’t willingly go now. They will fight. Those ardent (yet relative) few must be eliminated with extreme prejudice. And, that’s not enough. Once the savages are removed the real work has to start. Those treasonous, murderous politicians, judges, interlopers, and agitators who worked for so long to import this problem must be killed and killed in a way that sends a message. They should be slain with torture – a very slow boat to hell.

The other way this will end up is for all Europeans to die, for the Caliphate to take hold of the continent permanently. And, right now, that is the way we are going.

Judging from history it really has to be one or the other. There is no middle road. The experiment is a failure. The war has begun. It’s time to fight.

I’ve long delayed a more in-depth piece on this subject, one that draws from past European experience with the same savages and provides much-needed inspiration. Expect it soon. I’m also working on an anti-terrorism guide for average people living in these heinous times, people like the Niçois.

This evening I am almost too angry to type. Damn it! This screams out for vengeance. We need a modern-day Charles Martel and we need him now!

It’s Worse Than I Thought

13 Wednesday Jul 2016

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It’s almost funny, too.

In their quest to do … whatever one does with Pokemon, people are now crashing cars and trespassing on private property.

PHOENIX (AP) — The “Pokemon Go” craze across the U.S. has people wandering into yards, driveways, cemeteries and even an off-limits police parking lot in search of cartoon monsters, prompting warnings that trespassers could get arrested or worse, especially if they cross paths with an armed property owner.

Since the release of the smartphone game last week, police have gotten a flurry of calls from residents about possible burglars or other strangers prowling the neighborhood.

When or if one of these digital zombies runs across that armed property owner (or the cops) we know who Gersh K. will blame.

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Photo: onizzino/freeimages.com.

Funny. Sad. Funny but sad.

Pokemon: Mass Hysterical Stupefaction

13 Wednesday Jul 2016

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I had forgotten about Pokemon – to me it was forgettable. Then, in the past few weeks, I started noticing a resurgence. People on Facebook were talking about the game – some for it, some against – as if it had relevance. I wondered once again if I had slipped-streamed back in time a few decades. It started showing up in the news. I investigated. Pokemon is back.

Pokemon.

It’s back with controversy. The first contention is that the cute little game is being played by many adults now. I remembered it vaguely as something nieces and nephews were into in the 90s. Now, it seems, it is for everyone (except me).

The second controversy comes from the manner in which Pokemon is delivered in the 21st Century – via a free phone app. The app, like most, comes with a long, draconian agreement that no one reads. Hidden in the terms one finds curious language about turning over private information (darn near all of it) to the app and its owners. People seem upset about this. Perhaps “free” really isn’t.

Little about Pokemon is actually known to me. I understand it is some sort of Japanese cartoon cock-fight, maybe mixed with a scavenger hunt. I know children loved it, or love it still, and many adults are completely obsessed. Then I found something…

Back in 1999 I started a book, one of many I never even came close to finishing. It didn’t even have a title. Still doesn’t. It was a “what’s wrong with modern society” kind of book. One of the chapters was “Pokemon”.

I am decades ahead of my time and have been for a while now. My thesis, if I remember rightly, was not that Pokemon is (was) inherently evil. It may be; I’m not sure. However, I am confident that it is one of numerous trivialities with which people obsessively entertain themselves while the world rots around them. I think I wanted to use it, specifically, as a benchmark of the mindless, dumbed-down fantasies people use generally to escape the real world. That was 1999. There’s more rot around now in 2016.

A child’s game is fine for children. If adults enjoy it too, in its place, that’s fine. But, when there is so much else going on, it seems a bit odd that millions spend hours and hours trying to … do whatever it is one does in Poke-land. While they’re searching for the bird or the egg or the rainbow (???) and giving away their identity and location to boot, the economy is collapsing. It’s not just bad numbers anymore – the underpinning themselves are being eviscerated as if by  a massive bombing. Then, there are the real bombings. And the terrorists. The racial strife. The robots. The debt. The attack of the one-worlders. The antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The civilization-resistant “refugees”. Wars. Real world things, many unpleasant. The adults play games.

Given the above turmoil, maybe a little trivial pursuit is in order – a little. I’m pleased today with two things. One, my thoughts are exceedingly constant across time. Two, so consistent also are the silly diversions employed by and against the people.

Notechmagazine.

Play this digital version of Grit and Steel if you like. Just remember: it’s a game; THEY are watching you, and; there’s a big mess sloshing around off-screen.

My thoughts – 17 years in the making.

Invasion of the Super-Bugs

11 Monday Jul 2016

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As from the beginning of a horror/zombie movie, scientists have positively identified a strain of E Coli bacteria which is resistant to the “last line of defense” antibiotics. Please read: A ‘slow catastrophe’ unfolds as the golden age of antibiotics comes to an end, Melissa Healy, LA Times, Science, July 11, 2016.

Ms. Healy and the LA Times did a wonderful job with this story. The Times science section impresses at times (get it….).

The devious little bacterium seems to have developed a new gene, “mcr-1”, which makes it resistant to colistin. Colistin is the “last line” drug given when other antibiotics are not effective. Now, for this particular bug, even that doesn’t work. It seems that the infection at issue in the case study was beaten off with a combination of other treatments. However, doctors and researchers are not overly optimistic about what this portends for the future of medicine. Some are downright pessimistic.

“It’s a slow catastrophe,” said Army Col. Emil Lesho, director of the Defense Department’s Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network.

The problem goes beyond treating infections. As bacterial resistance grows, Lesho said, “we’re all at risk of losing our access” to medical miracles we’ve come to take for granted: elective surgeries, joint replacements, organ transplants, cancer chemotherapies. These treatments give bacteria an opportunity to hitch a ride on a catheter or an unwashed hand and invade an already vulnerable patient.

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“It’s not apocalyptic until it is,” said Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and former associate commissioner of the FDA. “Shame on us if we wait till bodies are in the street.”

Whoa, apocalyptic? Bodies in the street! This story made me think of several things:

First, we’ve been being warned for years now, by experts, about our overuse of antibiotics. Drugs given to patients who don’t need them. Drugs given to our cows, hogs, and chickens. And, so on. Maybe it’s not to late to heed the warnings. I haven’t had an antibiotic since I can’t remember when. Since I lost the weight and started working out, I don’t find myself seeing the doctor much at all.

Second, medical science has a history of outmaneuvering the bugs. The Times story included this chart:

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This isn’t the first time there’s been a gap between drugs. They’ll make a new one.

Third, the Times notes the high FDA regulatory costs of developing these new drugs. The drug companies prefer to concentrate on fields where the patient uses the medication for a lifetime. The return on the R&D (and regulatory compliance) isn’t worth the return for antibiotics. Another case of government getting in the way and potentially getting people killed. The author suggests the government might find some incentives (our taxes) to ease the process. Rather than more corporate welfare, I say get the state out-of-the-way. If the FDA had been around in 1928, we might still be waiting on basic penicillin.

Fourth thought – the government which makes it cost prohibitive to develop new miracle drugs is the very same government which is madly trying to bring as many “refugees”and other non-Westerners as possible into the country. Many of these folks, regardless of their intentions, carry diseases we haven’t had here in years. If they’re not going to curb the flow, maybe they could at the very least implement some better medical screenings.

Fifthly and finally, there is something you can do right now to circumvent the government, the scientists, and the culture. Get in shape. A healthy body does an unbelievably good job fighting off disease. Since I went “health nut” – and, yes, cigars are a component – I haven’t been sick once. It’s simple – drink water, sleep, exercise, and don’t eat as much and not as much junk. You can survive the apocalypse.

Odd little critters. BBC.

I’m not worried about these developments.We’re human beings. We can beat the bugs. We might even beat the government.

The New Iron Lady?

11 Monday Jul 2016

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Meet Theresa May, PM for Maidenhead. On Wednesday, assuming the Queen allows and so decrees, Mrs. May will become England’s second woman Prime Minister. In terms of history, she has big shoes to fill following Margaret Thatcher.

With Nigel Farage. UK Express.

She became leader of the Conservative Party only today; her statement:

11 July 2016

Theresa May made the following statement after confirmation of her selection as leader of the Conservative Party: “I am honoured and humbled to have been chosen by the Conservative Party to become its leader. I would like to pay tribute to the other candidates during the election campaign, and I would like to pay tribute to Andrea Leadsom for the dignity that she has shown today. During this campaign, my case has been based on three things. First, the need for strong, proven leadership to steer us through what will be difficult and uncertain economic and political times. The need of course to negotiate the best deal for Britain in leaving the EU and to forge a new role for ourselves in the world. Brexit means Brexit and we’re going to make a success of it. Second, we need to unite our country. And third, we need a strong, new, and positive vision for the future of our country. A vision of a country that works not for the privileged few but works for every one of us. Because we’re going to give people more control over their lives. That’s how together we will build a better Britain.”

If she’s sincere about working for the people, not the elites, then this may be a positive step for the UK. People need more control of their lives. They need breathing room from London and secession from the EU.

Mr. Farage has recently criticized May in typical Farage fashion, mainly over her failure as Home Secretary to curb immigration into the country from the non-West. He also seems to think her rather cold. The Home Secretary yields some power but cannot operate in a vacuum. I hope, it light of BREXIT and with her new authority, she will make good on previous promises to stem the flow of handout-seekers and criminals.

Speaking of criminal, it’s interesting that the UK can find a woman worthy of high office who isn’t now or hasn’t been recently under felony investigation by Scotland Yard or MI5. Cold or not, I hear she keeps a clean email server.

The people having voted to leave the socialists and miscreants in Brussels, the matter now rests with Queen Elizabeth. God save the Queen; God save Britain, and good luck, Mrs. May.

Travel Advisory America

10 Sunday Jul 2016

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Great. Now three countries are warning their citizens to avoid the U.S. or at least exercise caution when visiting us: the Bahamas, the UAE, and Bahrain.

The United States regularly issues travel warnings urging Americans to either avoid or exercise caution in countries marred by violence or political instability.

Now America is the focus of concern by foreign governments in the Middle East and Caribbean as protesters marched in U.S. cities throughout the weekend after police killed black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Is this how they see us? PBS/Twitter.

I wonder if it’s the violence they’re worried about or could it be the political instability. Even if everyone got along swimmingly and the police were as gentle as doves with all, we still have the Hillary/Trump thing working against us. Then again, a civilized, critically thinking, and non-violent people wouldn’t keep dredging up loser after loser for high office.

Hmmmmph….

The Dallas Aftermath: Obama’s Storm-trooper Corps?

09 Saturday Jul 2016

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Hussein Obama’s final term in office is winding down. America lazily awaits the next pathetic resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – likely a Big Club, elite, insider and megalomania or, perhaps, a coughing, psychopathic, unconvicted felon.

All big politicians make grandiose promises. Trump wants to build a wall. Hillary … I’m not sure what she’s promising. Maybe to stay on this side of the prison wall? Anyway, once elected, they all do the exact same thing: more of the same. They continue to grow the size and scope of federal power while raising taxes, and/or massively increasing the debt, keep a few pointless wars going, and make sure the banksters are fat and happy.

Hussein had his list of promises. ObamaCare might be the big one though it really just falls under general government growth and a tax increase. One he hasn’t gotten around to is his previously stated desire for a national security force (vaguely stated) comparable in strength to the regular, standing military. He hasn’t really done much towards that goal – yet.

He’s been a busy man. He had a debt to grow, golf, a nation to fundamentally transform, vacations, wars to pour money and lives into, taxes and higher pay for insurance executives, the Federal Reserve cabal to appease, ISIS to fund, attack, defend, and import into the U.S., more vacations, etc. Very busy. Now, at the end, he may be ready to launch his national whatever force or at least lay the groundwork.

Obama may be a lot of things but he is NOT a Muslim. FoxNews/DailyMail.

Last night, in Poland of all places, Obama said he wanted a nationalized police force. More to the point, he wants uniform, federal standards for state and local police – the federal takeover will come later. “I want to start moving on constructive actions that are actually going to make a difference,” Obama said when asked about how he planned to take advantage of the Dallas police shootings and general civil unrest.

Obama began touting the panel’s recommendations in March 2015. The report, titled “President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Report,” was published in May 2015.

The report urges the federal government to federalize police training and practices, via the use of federal lawsuits, grants and threats to cut federal aid. So far, Obama’s deputies have cajoled and sued more than 30 police jurisdictions to adopt federal rules in a slow-motion creation of a national police system, similar to the slow-motion creation of a federal-run health-sector via Obamacare.

Because ObamaCare worked out so well. Same number of uninsured as before but with higher taxes and higher insurance premiums (for those with insurance) and a dwindling supply of doctors. If you like your sheriff, you can keep your sheriff. I’m not sure how insurance companies and banks will profit from this; rest assured they will, otherwise it wouldn’t be happening.

Here’s the Panel Report, issued by the Department of Justice [SIC] – the people that brought you Waco and an unindicted Hillary Clinton. I don’t recommend actually reading it unless one suffers from near-terminal insomnia.

Ah, another government report on ways to help the people, especially young black people – from an agency that keeps 2 Million young black people behind bars now for selling plants. Hypocrisy at its most psychotic.

Law enforcement standards and procedures from the feds, similar to those used by the FBI and ATF. They have such a stellar record a justice, everything is bound to be just fine – Waco, Ruby Ridge, Wounded Knee, Elian Gonzales, the BLM massacre, out of control false flag manufacturing operations like the Boston Marathon and the Pulse Club, prosecuting Martha Stewart but not Hillary, and on and on. What could go wrong?!

As I said, Obama is about out of time to fully implement this scheme. Herr Hillary has expressed interest in the same though that may be from a personal desire to control the police in an effort to stay out of jail herself. Anyway, the ball is rolling now and state balls only ever grow, gathering mass and speed as they careen towards the people.

Let’s just assume you like in a town with a draconian police force. They’re out to get everyone, corrupt, and they’re really, really bad. They need to be stopped but do you really think the feds are the ones to do it? To me, going to the feds to complain about the local police is much like Br’er Rabbit running to Br’er Bear to report on Br’er Fox. The problems won’t be solved – just shifted and worsened.

Troubles from laws and law enforcement are not solved by more laws and law enforcement. Nevermind that the federal government has no authority whatsoever to do any of this – they are, in fact, prohibited. The Constitution being dead, the law really doesn’t matter anymore. They will get what they want. You and I will get the shaft. More laws, less justice.

What is Wrong? Random Facts, Figures, and Opinions on Race, Violence, Government, and Some Other Stuff

08 Friday Jul 2016

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Historically, I experience a summer slow-down in blog views. It’s that time of year again. I’m also tired of late and working on other things. Yesterday, I took a great little mini vacation. I had a great time.

This morning, recovering, I looked at the news; it seems like the whole world is coming unglued. It isn’t, any more than usual, but it looks very bad. I don’t know if my following list provides perspective or not, but here it is.

Neither of these men needed to be or deserved to be gunned down.

There is no war on the police, per se, though there easily could be.

“Blowback” is a real thing.

There are 14 other occupations in America more lethally dangerous than being a police officer. Some are many times more dangerous. Logging is a dangerous job.

The cops are not out to murder blacks, per se, though it certainly seems like it.

The cops kill more whites every year than blacks. It’s the percentages and perceptions that drive BLM. You really can’t blame them, though…

Statistically speaking in terms of homicides, black people represent the largest danger to other black people.

A glance and a search around the internet will reveal more than a few whites being beaten, tazed, harassed, and killed by the cops – for nothing.

Still, white people are most dangerous to other white people.

There are criminals out there but most “crime” in America shouldn’t honestly be classified as such.

There are many bad apples in the barrel but many police officers are just plain people doing a job the best they can.

Too many people, of all colors, professions, etc., are killed all the time for essentially nothing. This should really end.

A murderer is a murderer, even if he wears a special costume and a badge.

It’s wrong to murder anyone, even if they’re wearing a badge.

America is a safer place now than it has been in decades. One wouldn’t think that given all the news of murders, hatred, and terrorism. It’s the speed of the reporting and all the camera phone.

The instant and constant reporting is new to human history.Maybe it’s a good thing, maybe it will help stamp out the last vestiges of violence and stupidity.

Different peoples are different. That’s why they’re different peoples.

Most people, despite being different, are really almost all the same on a day-to-day and individual to individual level. Most get along pretty well together.

Most individuals are, all in all, fairly decent.

Groups of people start having problems.

Many (maybe even a majority of) Americans, regardless of age, sex, race, income, geographical location, etc., have a really hard time properly operating a motor vehicle.

Those groups of individuals who, as groups, start to have problems, resort to government as a solution to their problems.

Government never has any solutions.

Government, once it takes hold, gains a life of its own, a life of dominance and control.

If the government can’t find a problem to not solve, it will create one. Or a hundred.

Certain little elite numbers of people and institutions traditionally seize on government power to further their own interests.

These elites are highly effective in plotting different people (or even similar people) against each other. This creates an atmosphere of fear and chaos which greatly assists the perception that more law may be the answer. It’s a self-sustaining machine, very expensive and very dangerous.

Many turn a blind eye to all of the above (unless it directly affects them) not because they are stupid, but because they would rather concentrate on the more pleasant, even trivial aspects of life. Understandable. Some are just stupid. Others are lazy. Again, the cameras and phones may help clarify or cure some of this.

“On the street” blacks and whites tend to look and behave mostly the same to me.

Many blacks and whites “on the street” irritate the hell out of me (if I let them).

I have a lot of friends, white and black. I’m rather fond of them.

There are other colors than black and white. The same rules generally apply to them as well.

For my own trivial pursuits, I like football. It’s getting really difficult to watch the average game; I keep waiting and waiting (usually until the end of the fourth quarter) for the football to break out of the otherwise ridiculous circus side-show.

A small group of bankers long ago discovered how to completely control government. Government long ago discovered how to completely control the people. Both groups have done a remarkably good job for themselves. Kudos to them (and damn them). All of this is mostly done in the open. Oddly, the people still haven’t figured it out. Shame on them (and hopes they will yet wake up).

Mencken wrote about imaginary hobgoblins. They still don’t exist for the most part. Some, however, have actually come to life. ISIS comes to mind.

Banning guns won’t help blacks, most cops, or anyone else. These things are just tools. It makes as little sense as banning chain saws to “help” loggers.

Gun bans don’t work. Neither to wars. That is unless by “work” one means “help the government become even stronger and more dangerous”. Then, they work great.

People like James Pearce and Gersh Kuntzman denounce and blame ordinary persons for committing imaginary crimes and for being “nuts” in the criminally, nutty manner possible. This isn’t a case of the pot calling the kettle black. This is a case of psychopathic lunatics trying to project their own illnesses onto the general population. What happened to the asylums?

This rant went on a little longer than I intended. I’ll stop it now.

Rise of the Machines: The Self-Crashing Car

06 Wednesday Jul 2016

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Another week, another Tesla auto-pilot crash.

I’ve ranted before about just how bad American drivers are – they, the most of them, are horrible. Most of the nation’s roads have come under my own personal review. I drive extensively in the eastern and southeastern U.S. With the exception of the open expanses of the west and a few rural segments back east (and those usually at night) it is very bad out there and no fun anymore.

There’re different kinds of bad wherever one motors. In most big cities (LA, Atlanta, NYC, Miami, D.C., etc.) there’s fast and bad. Well, fast until a wreck completely stops traffic. In South Carolina, the whole state, it’s sloooooow and bad. Everywhere else it’s inattentive, careless, and bad. Sometimes a little malice is thrown in. Mindless zombies, who would quickly call for gun control, don’t mind at all careening around in the equivalent of a cruise missile while texting, eating, sleeping, vaping, talking, singing, rapping, screaming, grooming, and just about everything else imaginable (except driving).

My proposed solution is very, very simple. Most people, I’d like to think, are capable of properly operating a vehicle. All they have to do is DO it! Simple. Those who just can’t, and it’s a LARGE number, should not drive. Period. The auto industry, the insurance industry, and the malevolent forces of the state have another solution – self-driving cars.

Some day the technology will be proficient. Then, but not now, the systems will actually work. Of course, then they will be mandatory; no one, no matter how good behind the wheel, will not have the option to self drive. There won’t even be steering wheels anymore. That will afford the government incredible control over who goes where, when they go, how fast they go, and if they can go. That nightmare is still ten, twenty years down the road.

For now, more and more manufacturers are installing auto-drive systems, usually marketed under the ever-popular, yet ever-deceptive “safety” label. Take any of these systems and read about them in the manufacturer’s owner’s manual. To a one they all suggest the system is not a substitute for a competent driver, it may not work (at all, sometimes), and it is not fool-proof.

The fools don’t care. Safety.

More expensive models, like Tesla, come with a variety of auto-pilot features. They too have disclaimers no one reads. The idea is that they can pilot the car well unless something unexpected comes up. Unexpected, you know, like a semi or a guard rail, or something one would almost never see out on the road…

A Southfield art gallery owner told police his 2016 Tesla Model X was in Autopilot mode when it crashed and rolled over on the Pennsylvania Turnpike last week. The crash came just one day after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a report on a fatal crash in May involving a Tesla that was in self-driving mode.

 – Detroit Free Press.

The Tesla owner (not “driver” anymore) will still be cited by the police for the crash. How about that? You pay $100,000 for a government-subsidized robot car and it still crashes AND you get a ticket. I’ll bet the owner whines about this. I bet he sues Tesla or at least tries to raise them as a defense in traffic court. He bought for “safety” not for responsibility.

I don’t buy any of it. I now add robot cars to the list of those who just shouldn’t be on the roads at all. Until that day (ha!) I’m in the market for a new vehicle myself, something that will allow me to survive the increasingly dangerous roads of America and the stupid, incompetent drivers, something like this:

Google.