Tuesday, October 31, 2017

More Blood on Our Hands, Damn Us

Bloodbath in downtown NYC after driver shoots pedestrians from his truck [More]
Let me guess: A Trump-supporting Republican NRA member with a concealed carry permit?

UPDATE: Back from some chores.Well the story sure has changed in the past couple of hours since this posted. At the start, de Blasio and Shepard Smith were both tripping all over themselves to assure us this was not an act of terrorism. Then we find out the guns weren't real firearms and the assault weapon was a licensed and registered truck, the driver of which was overheard yelling "Allahu Akbar!" Then the mayor, police commissioner and governor gave an "our thoughts and prayers" platitude/bromide-laden "press conference" to assure us all New Yorkers are tough and there is no wider plot, even though ISIS evidently put out a call for Halloween attacks.

Still to be determined at this writing: Whether I can use the word "rigorous."

UPDATE 2: Yes I can!
Sayfullo, we hardly knew ye.

Who Better to Explain than the Uninformed?

America's political fringe groups explained [More]
I dunno, Ms. Adams. Looking at your inclusion and description of Oath Keepers, it seems like you should have added "by SPLC" to that headline.

First off, it's not a militia and it's purposely not political. Surely it's not too much to expect an "experienced" professional investigative journalist with the resources of CBS at her disposal to check the group's website and click on the Bylaws tab and get to know her subject matter...?

Still, I guess it is "fringe" for someone counting on everyone being equally incurious and lazy. I mean, since when does anyone actually need to know what it is they're swearing to uphold, or that sometimes orders are unlawful and just following them hasn't been an accepted legal defense for some time...?

The Nuclear Option

A sociology professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) recently argued in an extensive series of tweets that “the white-nuclear family” perpetuates racism. [More]
Funny, nothing in her bio about successfully having a family of her own. Perhaps that's why she's so qualified to tell the rest of us what we're doing wrong with ours?
What a... oh, C-U-N-Y...

Ohio Action Alert


If you live here, take a minute and do this. [More]

Now You See It, Now You Don't


Just a few days ago, my dissection of a law professor's lies about the Second Amendment was on the Google News feed:


Now it's been removed.

The masses will only be exposed to the lies. The truth will be confined to a niche echo chamber.

This is by design.

We're the Only Ones Discharging Enough

A Metropolitan Police Department officer accidentally discharged his weapon inside the Mandalay Bay gunman’s suite the night of the Oct. 1 mass shooting, the Clark County sheriff confirmed Monday. [More]
WarOnGuns has obtained exclusive footage:



Now He Belongs to the Ages

DC Council Expected to Approve Statue of Former Mayor Marion Barry [More]
Just what "the community" needs.

A Way Out

How Trump can shut down the special counsel probe and leave the Russia investigations to Congress. [More]
But Democrats and the media would go ballistic!

So...?

A Prime Viewing Opportunity



#GIVINGTUESDAY


On this global day of giving Facebook and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are matching up to $2 million of funds raised on Facebook for U.S. nonprofits. Facebook is also waiving all fees for donations made to nonprofits on Facebook this #GivingTuesday. Make sure your nonprofit is set up to take advantage of the matching funds by using Facebook’s charitable giving tools. [More]
Get that info to any 501(c)(3) you are a member of that promotes the Second Amendment and immigration sanity and urge them to put in for a handout. It's on November 28 so they have time.

Even if it's disallowed, that and the excuse would make for a story in itself.

Teenage Wasteland

NJ Family Visiting Baltimore Haunted By Random Teen Attack At Inner Harbor [More]
Teens? Or is CBS Baltimore using a code word?

Being from New Jersey they shouldn't mind too much. You know, going from one "gun free zone" to another...

[Via Neil W]

Not the First Time Andy's Been a Dick

Though the 51-year-old actor denies he groped anyone, he does admit to other inappropriate behavior: "I might have kissed somebody on the cheek to say goodbye and then licked them. That's my thing. [More]
Nothing someone whose "thing" is  a hard elbow to the mouth couldn't fix.

And this is hardly, pun intended, the first time his Funny Bone has not been appreciated.

I love the way the shark embryos are devouring each other.

You know who's escaped the current crop of headlines so far?  Besides college professors?

Hip hop/rap moguls and "stars." Tell me rape and pressure to give it up aren't an expected way of life.

Tangentially related (and protestations of being a victim of whistleblower retaliation notwithstanding), a Rose by any other name still smells.

And St. Harvey Martyr pray for us.

Latino Victory!




Gee, "Comments are disabled for this video" and the thumbs up/down thingies don't work. 


Looks like they're getting an earful on Facebook.


In the long run it doesn't matter. Any guess what things will look like once they get their numbers up to critical mass?

Good thing none of this has anything to do with that "single issue."

[Via Mack H]

UPDATE: The video doesn't work because the idiots realize they went too far and pulled it-- all the while trying to save face and promisng they'll be back with more.

So How Many Angels CAN Dance on the Head of a Pin, Anyway?

An eternal argument boils down to basics. [More]

All of which, without the will, evokes nothing so much as Pinkley's to-the-point question.

[Via Florida Guy

Enemies Foreign and Domestic

EXCLUSIVE: US left wing groups travelled to Germany for the G20 Summit last July to meet with Al qaeda and ISIS leaders and plot the destruction of President Trump, secret FBI investigation reveals [More]
If true, charge them with treason.

[Via Jeet]

Captain's Log


We're the Only Ones Reserved Enough

Ten times, South Florida police departments rejected George Miyares after he failed psychological, polygraph or background tests ... Despite that dubious record ... he made the cut at the Village of Biscayne Park, which hired him as a reserve police officer. [More]
Hey, what else is he going to do? It's not like he's qualified for anything else...

[Via Jess]

As Opposed to Those Who Merely Lurk

Those of us who are staunch defenders of the First Amendment also tend to be staunch defenders of the Second Amendment. [More]
Not that there are anywhere near as many who qualify for that charactertization as there should be.

[Via Michael G]

What is Reality?


Is This Real? [More]

Perhaps.  Perhaps not.

Of course the entire mad mass embrace of totalitarianism seems unreal to me.

[Via Michael G]

Your Laugh for Today

They were HONKING! I have PTSD! I'm a LEGISLATOR!!! UNH...UNH...UNH...[Watch]
Certifiable.

Naturally a "progressive." Naturally she opposed a gun range. And naturally, she cited "environmental justice" as a prime consideration.

Looks like she shut down her Facebook. My guess is she's sitting in the closet hyperventilating.

Funny commonality people who want to control us seem to disproportionately share...

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Resigned Enough

[R]easons for Maynard’s suspension included failure to show up to several public events, misrepresenting hours worked and not overlapping hours with Moweaqua’s only other full-time officer.  [More]
How dare you expect me to do my job?  That's discrimination! This "hostile work environment [is] to the detriment of [my] health and well-being."

I'm quitting.

And suing.

[Via bondmen]

Bump and Grind

Per monopoly of violence advocate Dick Durbin, the right of the federal government to control rate of fire capabilities of the people shall not be infringed. [More]

[Via bondmen]

Tunnel Vision

Up to 200 killed at North Korea's nuclear test site: report [More]
So what did the Chicoms know and when did they know it?

'Great America,' Opposite Day 'Progressive'-Style

Thieves reportedly armed with Tasers assaulted and robbed patrons at California’s Great America, turning the amusement park’s 10th annual Halloween fest into a real-life fright for thousands of visitors and employees, park security and visitors said. [More]
Well, sure. It's a predator empowerment zone. What else would one expect?

Self-Defense Claim a Transparent Second Attempt to Attack Victims


Wiley claims “he was on the ground, unable to move, and was attempting to give up.” But the gun store owner kept approaching and firing, so he was forced to kill him in self-defense. [More]
Now we get to see how stupid and/or racist  jury members are.

Point/Counterpoint

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