Update from Mike

He called me twice today so far, once prior to takeoff, and again from Houston, where he informed me he suspected the broccoli cheese soup from a joint in Terminal C of having ill effects on him, and asked me to pass that message on to the 100 Heads Life and Casualty Company in case it does him in.

I told him it reminded me of nothing so much as Fry from Futurama getting parasites from eating an egg salad sandwich he got from a truck stop restroom vending machine.

UPDATE: On the ground in WA.

Play Ball

• Hardball in Illinois
• Dodgeball in Oregon

We're the Only Ones Familial Enough

Cop Who Held Wife & Children at Gunpoint in Hostage Standoff With Police, Gets to Stay a Cop [More]

Gosh, what a dilemma for "progressives" who say guns need to be confiscated from people accused of domestic violence and police are the Only Ones who should be armed.

Funny, how the monopoly of violence cultists never have anything to say about the myriad instances where their blind faith has been refuted. It's almost like they're a bunch of damned liars or something...


[Via Florida Guy]   

Friends with Benefits

Guaranteed to make them put out for Democrats even more! [More]

Loretta's Going Down

I think I remember seeing that at a dorm keg party where the guys had rented a projector...

Oh, sorry, bad assumption on my part. [More]

Who in Their Right Mind?

“Who in their right mind would ask the Congress of the United States — who can’t cobble together a fiscal policy — to assume control of monetary policy?” Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said during an interview with The Hill. [More]

Yeah, best to trust us shadowy, unaccountable plutocrats!  Besides, you don't want to see how the sausage is made.  Or at least we don't want you to.

I don't suppose it occurs to this economic fascist that you could replace "fiscal" and "monetary" with just about any other policy issue, like "defense" or "gun" or...

Not that I'd kneejerk disagree, but somehow I don't think that's what he has in mind...

We're the Only Ones Helpful Enough

“We’re just here to help you — come out with your hands up”... [More]

I'm only surprised they didn't yell "Fooled ya!"

Here's the (very slow-loading, for me) "document dump" on the John Geer case.  I like how they made a point of taking pictures of all of his firearms, just to make the case for how dangerous their victim was.  That oughtta make the due process-free domestic disarmament demanders come in their pants. They reminded me of trophy photos:

I wanted to write this up in greater detail, but there's only one of me, and a plate overflowing with priorities, and I have to content myself to linking you to people who already have a handle on this.

[Via Mack H]

Godspeed, Mike Vanderboegh

Keep him in your prayers. [More]

I'd also be inclined to ease up on the emails and comment submissions until further notice.

We Don't Particularly Like Guns

But we like the money more. [More]

Read another way, the official position of the Boston University Board of Trustees/Executive Committee is that gun companies do not cause unacceptable social risks and harm.

That's useful, so use it.  Start your argument with "No less an authority than..."

[Via Michael G]

Vote Unadulterated "Single Issue"!

Commit suicide the Establishment GOP way! [More]

And keep telling yourself what champions of the Second Amendment these frauds are.

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Resourceful Enough

A Bothell police officer accused of having sex with a girl she met while serving as a school resource officer has been charged with sex crimes. [More]

Is this is the way "progressives" protect the children -- setting armed predators loose among them?

Hey, at least the resourceful "mentor" was a subject matter expert.

At least she was prepared to respond lickety-split...

[Via Michael G]

Captain's Log, Supplemental

• The thin red line
• A good bailout 
• A broken fix
• Notes

Stop Them Before They Kill Again!

Some experts predict that for the first time in decades, firearms will kill more people nationwide this year than motor vehicles. [More]

Somebody who thinks that inanimate objects "kill" is considered an "expert"?

By Opposite Day "progressives," I guess yeah...

No mention of DGUs, naturally, which is another front where they've resurrected an old lie for a new audience of ignoramuses.

And if they're really intent on bringing suicide front and center, perhaps they ought to take a look at the Only Ones they want having guns (for now)...

[Via bondmen]

UPDATE: Correspondent MM advises John Lott has deconstructed the numbers, once more illustrating the truism about lies, damned lies and statistics being used by Monopoly of Violence cultists in order to con the gullible into surrendering their rights.

Stolen Valor

Brian Williams admits that his story of coming under fire while in Iraq was false... [More]

It's not the first time he's been caught in a lie, but that time it was an "approved" one.

Maybe I'm being too harsh with that characterization. After all, he says:

I made a mistake in recalling the events...

That's reminiscent of:

So I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human...

Besides, what difference does it make?

This Day in History: February 5

I am also informed by that General Officer, that there are two obstacles which still greatly oppose & retard the success of collecting your Recruits, viz. the want of Provisions to support and carry them to the place of general Rendezvous; and the want of efficacious means for apprehending Deserters... [More]