“[Y]ou still have to reconcile not only keeping the managers responsible for this on your payroll, but promot[ing] them,” he continued. “You have been aware of the perjury, false statements ... gross mismanagement and waste, fraud and abuse by members of your executive staff and field managers and have done nothing. In fact you went to heroic measures to defend them. [More]This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report notes bad habits are hard to break when there's no personal downside and plenty of incentives to keep them.
Monday, October 06, 2014
ATF settles termination case with whistleblowing agent Cefalu
Ghost Waltz
And there are always ghosts of evil ideas thought long dead. But then we, too, possess our own ghosts -- those of the Founders and of every American who fought and died to preserve their vision of ordered liberty. [More]You might want to have this playing in the background while you read Mike's latest...
DHS once more relying on SPLC-inspired conflation in domestic threat report
Deeming eight incidents since 2010 as representing a trend of sorts from which unsubstantiated extrapolations of an "increased threat" can be made, the report presents a timeline graphic in a weak attempt to make its case. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a Big Lie in the making, one that just may result in finding ourselves labeled criminal domestic enemies. At least that's the outcome some are hoping for.
A Matter of Liability
They ought to just put all their little proto-inmates in padded cells. [More]
I never saw anyone get more air jumping off those things than elder feral son Uday. Myself included, and I used to do pretty good when I was a kid.
I never saw anyone get more air jumping off those things than elder feral son Uday. Myself included, and I used to do pretty good when I was a kid.
It Sure Would Be Nice if Everyone Offering Advice...
Something maybe the guy could pay a bill with...
Decision, Decisions...
UPDATE: I guess I need to explain that the last panel is one of my "Fauxtoshops" intended to express my contempt for shallow fundraising tactics by cynical fundraisers.
Last Night on Armed American Radio
Big Updates. Alan Gottlieb on WA State initiatives I594 and I591, the NRA’s Catherine Mortenson updates races across the nation and lays out the NRA strategy, sent to prison for “illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of hollow point bullets”, Brain Aitken tells his story in harrowing detail, David Codrea, and the Executive Director of the Gun Owners of America, Larry Pratt.
We're the Only Ones BeKnighted Enough
Two sources who have seen the recordings say the videos depict Williams’ young daughter dressed in what appear to be articles of a police uniform and dancing to an anthem of the Ku Klux Klan. The refrain of the song repeats the words, “Stand up and be counted, show the world that you’re a man. Stand up and be counted, go with the Ku Klux Klan.” [More]How dare an Only One belong to a race, color, ethnicity or creed-based group.
I mean really.
That ought to outrage us all.
No?
[Via Florida Guy]
Reese Family Update
Tea Party Patriots of Luna County weighs in on the prosecution response and the appeal. [More]
Whiteboarding
Personally, I'd rather be waterboarded. [More]
I talked about this comic book denial of reality a while back.
[Via Michael G]
I talked about this comic book denial of reality a while back.
[Via Michael G]
A Top-Tier Felony
For years, the FBI has filed animal abuse under the label "other" along with a variety of lesser crimes, making cruelty hard to find, hard to count and hard to track. The bureau announced this month that it would make animal cruelty a Group A felony with its own category - the same way crimes like homicide, arson and assault are listed. [More]You guys have exemptions, right...?
[Via Florida Guy]
Mom Demands Factions
Mother took her son, 17, out on a drive-by shooting so that he could attack rival gang members at a convenience store [More]And it's not the first time she's been in the running for Demanding Mom of the Year.
If only we had more common sense gun laws...
[Via William T]
Another Senseless Gun Violence Death
Didn't this ammosexual vigilante know a gun in the home makes it 473 times more likely you're a penis-compensating, anti-government, slack-jawed hater? [More]
Besides, Shannon says this kind of stuff never happens. And she and her billionaire benefactor would rather the family had been killed than armed.
[Via several of you]
Besides, Shannon says this kind of stuff never happens. And she and her billionaire benefactor would rather the family had been killed than armed.
[Via several of you]
Project Roundwalker
In its campaign across northern Syria and Iraq, the jihadist group Islamic State has been using ammunition from the United States and other countries that have been supporting the regional security forces fighting the group, according to new field data gathered by a private arms-tracking organization. [More]Tell me again why the Reese Family is being relentlessly persecuted...
[Via Jess]
Still Putting the "Eh" in "Boner"
Boehner rakes in cash for openly gay Republican candidate [More]
They don't even appear on his home page "Issues" tab-- you have to pick "Other Issues" from a drop-down menu.
Carl DeMaio supports the Second Amendment. The President and the Congress must act now to forge a consensus to improve enforcement for background checks and to keep weapons out of the hands of those with serious mental health issues and criminal history.F*** this DeMao guy. Not literally.
Carl DeMaio supports sensible immigration reform that secures our borders, protects taxpayers, keeps families together, treats immigrants fairly and with respect, provides an accountable, timely, and transparent process for individuals who follow the rules and comply with our laws to achieve their citizenship.
And f**** Old Yellowstain.
This Day in History: October 6
I have just discover’d two large boats full of men, [under the east Shore] just as I was maning out a boat to Send to know Who they were. I was inform’d by a pass from Major Oliver that he had fird with small Arms (as they pased Dobbs Ferry) to bring them to they paying no attention to it— I suppos’d them to be the enemy and as Colo. Smith had just Set off from my Quarters thought they might [ore] take him. I fir’d an Alarm for his Security and Sent a boat to See who they were. found them to be a Company of our Light Troops under the Command of Capt. Webb Who had been down and landed Just above our Guard boat. and it being Something foggy in this murning, they could not discover them as they came up. [More]