"Just a Victim of Circumstances"

A funeral was held Saturday for Willie Posey. Posey was the bodyguard and friend of Chicago Bear Tank Johnson.

Many relatives attending the funeral spoke out against guns and violence...

"As a great man, a great father figure. I looked up to him growing up. It's just, you know, wrong place at the wrong time. That's how I feel. Just a victim of circumstances, basically," said Jerry Sanders, Posey's cousin.

Yeah, blame guns and circumstances. It's not like we have any control over choices we make in life or people we associate with.

We're the Only Ones Sobbing Enough

A policewoman's gun and badge were stolen from her New York City home as she slept -- and the bandit apparently also made off with her car...

"My son and I were asleep upstairs," she said. "I thought I was safe in my own home because of the work I do," she said later.

Neighbors said the 10-year veteran officer sobbed as she spoke about the break-in, The New York Post reported.

OK, I'll give up my guns and trust this hysterical wreck of an hormonal "Only One"-- who can't even protect herself and her own family-- to protect me and mine.

And watch any misuse of that stolen gun exploited by Bloomberg & Company as further reason to disarm us all.

Apocalypto

Saw it yesterday. Loved it.

I was initially not interested, wondering how Gibson could possibly have us empathize with people so culturally remote from us. Not a problem. There were times we were laughing so hard along with the characters on screen I was gasping, and, of course, times for other intense emotions.

Yes, it's not for the visually squeamish, and yes, I took the kids, 12 and 15, who have been raised properly and know how to view such things in proper context. They thought it was great.

Love, hate, individualism, courage, family, good, evil, blinding societal hubris, and especially allegory--they're all here. Two M1 thumbs up.

We're the Only Ones Audited Enough

Tuxedo Park has hired a forensic accounting firm to sniff out any "possible village monies or property allegedly stolen by former employees" of the police department, according to a resolution passed by village trustees last week.

But I thought they were "The Only Ones" who could be trusted with...

[Via Declan]

Dial "B" for BATFU

By now you've probably heard of suggestions by Wayne LaPierre and others to call the BATFU hotline and report Michael Bloomberg's self-proclaimed "straw purchases."

Tommy Sherman tried it, and here are the results:

David,

I called the ATF 800 # hotline to complain about Bloomingberg's obvious violations of the laws in his straw purchase scam. The call was answered in DC by a booger picking dweeb that wasn't the least bit interested in taking any calls about any illegialities. I was transferred to another dweeb in DC that referred & transferred me to the NY ATF office. No one answered at NY, obviously too busy out investigating minor infractions.

Tommy Sherman

Nah, I'm sure they're just all hot on the trail of Mark Wahlberg...

"Shooter"

Well,
well,
well...
Pokey-Poke with another gun...

Yeah, those "props" sure look fake...I'm sure there'd be no way to talk to the production people and determine if they were.

I mean, it's not like he's Wayne Fincher, and they have a newspaper photo of him or anything...


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This Day in History: December 24

On this day in 1745, patriot, physician and social reformer Benjamin Rush is born in Byberry Township, Pennsylvania. The two great "Benjamins" of the revolutionary generation, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, shared status as Renaissance men and Philadelphians. Despite Franklin's greater fame, Dr. Rush was actually the better-educated, more widely traveled and more broadly experienced of the two.