A Citizens Arrest

A San Diego City Council candidate was arrested Thursday afternoon after he was seen urinating in a cup and masturbating in public...

Police Chief William Lansdowne said Hartley's arrest was a citizens arrest, and that a sex crimes officer interviewed him.

Wait a minute...I thought even writing about conducting a citizens arrest was illegal and could land you in the slammer big time. You're telling me citizens can actually perform them?

Oh, wait, the guy wasn't in power yet. Different set of rules. Never mind.

Interesting platform he's running on, though--abusing himself instead of the taxpayers. Maybe that qualifies him as the lesser of two evils, and it certainly does sound like anyone voting for him would have to hold their nose...

Sounds like the pragmatic, time-honored and recommended course. I'm convinced.

More Power!

The Treasury Department will propose on Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad new authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of the industry or any institution that might pose a risk to the overall system.

Yeah, that's the solution. Thanks, "Vote Freedom First President"!

We're the Only Ones Losing It Enough

How do Drug Enforcement Administration special agents lose their guns?

I dunno...maybe some of the "thieves, crooks and dopers" are sampling the evidence?

Faster than ever, according to a new report from the Department of Justice inspector general. From 2002 to 2007, DEA lost 91 weapons, the audit found. The DEA isn't always reporting the losses of weapons or laptop computers to the proper authorities, and when it does, it often comes weeks -- even years -- after the fact.

And the fedgov is worried about Ryan Horsley? They have resources to spend monitoring what I or Aaron Zelman write about?

But don't worry. The American public isn't likely to wake up any time soon, especially with the fascist partnership between media and Masters. I've seen some disturbing commercials for a new "reality show" (talk about an oxymoron!) on Spike TV titled "DEA":

Ride shotgun during dangerous drug busts with the brave officers of the Detroit DEA.

Yeah, sit there in your armchairs letting the boob tube render you even more fat and brainwashed, useless heirs of liberty. Spike seems particularly and insidiously geared to produce intellectual impotence among American males, promoting contentment to settle for a vicarious, voyeuristic, short-attentioned life of senseless, noisy action performed by electrons on a screen (talk about a drug!)

Give us more "DEA," more "COPS," more police state conditioning...

It'll keep our minds off those intent on rendering us completely dependent.

Oh well. Those guys might as well be "The Only Ones." Our wives won't let us have a gun anyway because of the kids.

Between a Painted Rock and a Painted Hard Place

Damned if you do:

Guns are not toys. Making them look like playthings by painting them red or yellow or some other bright, cheery color is a bad idea....there's no good reason to abide deadly weapons painted to look like squirt guns.

And damned if you don't:

Effective January 1 of this year, in order for such toys to be compliant with state law, "the coloration of the entire exterior surface of the device [must be] bright orange or bright green, either singly or in combination."

No fair, you say? I'm mixing apples and oranges by comparing the banning of painted real guns to the banning of unpainted toy ones?

You don't think the miserable anti-freedom wretches behind each of these efforts aren't doing their utmost to ban both?

TSA Nipping Flight Threats in the Bud

Oh, wait a minute...wrong Drudge headline...


Anyway, I'm glad to see our wonderful protectors are keeping abreast of security matters. The last thing we need are some boobs endangering us all.

And its nice to see some in "Authorized Journalismdom" are waking up to the fact that some boobs are indeed endangering us all.

Online Job Application

The following is an exercise in pure chutzpa and self-aggrandizement. Since presuming to write is an act of egotism anyway, what the heck. It's not like wearing tight sweaters and hanging around in Hollywood drug stores has been working out for me.

The publications tracked by Blogrunner are chosen by New York Times editors.

Interesting, Times editors--you also saw fit to use me as a source for your Virgina Tech gun rights analysis (although you omitted my main points). So--how about a job?

It's not like the same old "Authorized Journalism" is working any more, so why not try something new? Surely you're not so far into urban liberal elitism that you don't recognize alienation of a significant public demographic is bad for business?

You know that few issues are more "hot button" than gun rights. You know that every time the subject is broached, the letters pour in. That means high readership. And reader response is always passionate.

Now think of one columnist for a major newspaper focused exclusively on promoting the right to keep and bear arms. You’ll find none. Yet there are over 80 MILLION estimated gun owners in this country. This rich subject area is largely untapped.

You know I can do it--you have access to my work, and somebody with authority made the decision to reference me twice now in the past year.

So why not give it a try? 750 words, once a week? I work cheap and can give you something you've never had before.

Or do you get applications like this all the time?

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We now return to our regularly scheduled obscurity.

This Day in History: March 29

Sentiments of humanity as well as sound policy constrain us to add, that, in a plentiful country, it is cruel not to provide well for those men that step forth to defend the rights of their country. Our common enemies, the Tories, take the advantage of it, and secretly retard the recruiting companies filling, which, for that and other reasons, goes on slowly...

We would beg leave to add that rum is an article very much wanting for the fatigue parties. If a supply of that could immediately be sent up, it would have a very good effect. In case a sufficiency cannot be provided, if we have orders, a plenty of cider and beer can be had, which would answer perhaps as well.