Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Breaking: ATF reportedly relieves Fast and Furious managers prior to OIG report

Left unsaid is why these three have been singled out prior to the OIG report being submitted, particularly since their sharing findings with the Department of Justice and ATF subjects of their investigation would violate all principles of independence from influence. If that did not happen, a fair conclusion to assume would be that the process of the investigation itself led those answering questions and providing documentation to an inevitable conclusion. [More]
This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report looks at some reported personnel changes with a purpose.

Executioner's Song

Eventually, Martin kicked in the door and charged at her with a knife, but McKinley fired before he could injure her. [More]
What is it Colin Goddard calls people like her?

Oh, yeah: "Executioners."

We're the Only Ones Disordered Enough

After adjustments were made for age, sex and other variables, having a sleep disorder raised the odds of heart disease by 45 percent, for example, and the odds of depression by 120 percent. It also raised the odds of being injured on the job by 22 percent and falling asleep while driving by 51 percent. Nationwide, from 2009 to 2010, more than a third of officers who died in the line of duty were killed in motor vehicle crashes, a problem that is widely overlooked. [More]
And they're not only letting such walking zombies out amongst us armed, they prefer it that way?

It's like a bad dream...a nightmare...

For the record, plenty of us have worked long hours and overnight shifts and had fractured sleep.

[Via Mama Liberty]

Ups and Downs

Jobless rate up, but crime down: What gives? [More]
What gives is not everybody is an excuse-making animal.

Some of us learned our moral lessons by example from those who went through true poverty in the Great Depression. They did not resort to victimizing others or living like filthy pigs because they were moral people with standards.

What an insult the "What gives?" assumption is to everyone who struggles to make ends meet--but does so with dignity.

[Via Louis F]

A Whole New Season

AWARD-WINNING ATSN TRIGGER SPORTS TELEVISION ON TARGET TO BEGIN AIRING SEASON 2 ON THE PURSUIT CHANNEL [More]
You know--these guys.

We're the Only Ones Long Overdue Enough

Charlton Library Sends Police To Collect Overdue Books From 5-Year-Old [More]
Hey, at that age, she's lucky she wasn't cuffed and booked.

[Via Steve T]

The Lump in Toby's...uh...Stocking

Toby Hoover, executive director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, lamented the incongruity between rampant gun purchases and his sense of the holiday spirit: "I'm bothered by, especially at the holiday time, how many people think that these things ought to be holiday gifts, Christmas gifts for their families and their children. We're seeing more of that, which means it's becoming sort of an accepted thing. Firearms and weapons don't seem to go with holiday and peacefulness to me. I think we have a problem." [More]
Yeah, Sarah. Stop upsetting Toby.  What kind of creature would get her kid a gun as a gift, anyway?

[Via Geordan]

ICE Follies

When compared with various public statements by the agency, however, TRAC's analysis of this limited case-by-case information provided found vast discrepancies. Among them: ICE statements claimed almost five times more individual apprehensions than revealed in the data, as well as 24 times more individuals deported and 34 times more detentions.  [Read]
Hey, what's a little numbers-fudging among friends with benefits?

[Via Michael G]

Attorney General Holder to Testify Feb. 2 on Fast and Furious

Gun Rights Examiner just received the following press release from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.  It is reproduced below in total because, at the time of this writing, it has not yet been posted on the committee website. [Read]
Hot off the wires...

New York Times offers most stupid anti-gun argument yet

What?  Seriously?  That's their argument? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at how far a Gray Lady has to stretch these days in order to retain supremacy as the hysteria-monger of record.

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