Thank You, I'll Be Here All Week

And what's the deal with airline food?  [More]

At least we know whose approval this clown values.

Setting New Records!

Total Immigrant Population Hits Record High of 43.7 Million in 2016 [More]

And they've all earned the right to be citizens!

Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue"!

Right?

[Via Wynn A]

There's a Difference Between Cubs and Kids

Ames was less than four months away from transitioning from the Cub Scouts to the Boy Scouts, his mother said. [More]

Well shoot, he should fit right in.

First of all, this is fake news because he has not been expelled from the organization, even though the way this is worded will cause casual readers to infer that. And I question that he spontaneously came up with a detailed anti-gun questionnaire all by his own self.

If I had to guess, I'd say the adults in the den have probably had it with the mother.

She has the professional ad agency experience to know how to mass disseminate, and it appears she's getting plenty of free media publicity.

Remind you of anyone?

She worked with Saatchi? Forgive me for not putting a lot of faith in ad agency authenticity when it comes to guns.

I wonder why "official news" doesn't seem to think that's relevant information to share. Probably because the ones who know don't want you to, and the rest just exist to unquestioningly parrot talking points.

A Pretty Good Political Indicator

This is what one of my senators, anti-gun Democrat Sherrod Brown, thinks worth calling to his constituents' attention in his latest keeping-us-updated email.

What he doesn't think worth bringing up tells me a lot.

We're the Only Ones 'Fourth Time's a Charm' Enough

A white former Oklahoma police officer was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the off-duty fatal shooting of his daughter's black boyfriend after jurors in three previous trials couldn't decide whether to find him guilty of murder. [More]

See, it only says "twice."

[Via bondmen]

Time for Common Sense Knife Safety Laws

“The FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for 2016 shows more than four times as many people were stabbed to death than were killed with rifles of any kind.” [More]

Time to regulate bump handles...

[Via bondmen]

Musical.ly Inclined

A federal employee is facing prison time for allegedly chatting with young girls on the internet and asking them to send him nude photos Richard Barnett, 39, used the musical.ly app to talk to teenage girls. When they wouldn’t send him what he wanted to see, he threatened to show up at their homes to rape and kill them. [More]

My first thought is to wonder not how anyone could be this perverted, but this stupid.  My second is to wonder "This guy is a GS-what?"

[Via bondmen]

Self-Defense is Racist!

“The reason I call it murder insurance is because if you look at the way this is marketed, it’s really sold in the context of ‘There’s a threat around every corner, dear mostly-white NRA member,’ and that threat is either a black man or a brown man or some other kind of person of color,” said Guns Down director Igor Volsky. [More]

And good or bad have nothing to do with it, right, Igor?

UPDATE: This may be an opportunity to make lemonade out of lemons:

Were I GZ, I'd be looking into the feasibility of a libel complaint. Not only do AstroTurfers have deep pockets, I know I'd get a kick out of seeing a court-ordered retraction and apology (and an even bigger kick out of a refusal).

The Exception to Cooper's Rule

But when detectives questioned Watts after his arrest, he admitted he didn't know for sure whether the gun was empty when he pulled the trigger. He acknowledged there still could have been one live round in the gun. [More]

Life imitates art:

Yeah, I know, RTD is another paywall-after-so-many-views site. What I do when I get blocked and want to know more is see if the preview suffices or else do a search on words gleaned from the url.

[Via Mack H]

Check...

ATF signals it won't issue new 'bump stocks' regulation after Las Vegas [More]

So the Vulcan chess master, whose genius three-dimensional moves a rustic like me is incapable of grasping, just got outmaneuvered?

So what's the logical next move after NRA preemptively surrender-signalled it "believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations"? 

And what will the response by "good, honest, law-abiding" gun owners be?

[Via William T]

If At First You Don't Succeed

The state Supreme Court will hear arguments on Nov. 14 in the closely watched case involving the families of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre who are suing the gun manufacturer that makes the weapon used in the shootings. [More]

What motivates a person to become your enemy is not as important as the fact that he has chosen to be your enemy and presumes to take what is yours by force. And it's a cinch he has no sympathy for you.

They are the ones forcing us to harden our hearts. It's not like ending "gun-free zones" and embracing that which is "necessary to the security of a free State" wasn't an option.

With Malloy enjoying the majority of appointments, I guess we'll see how activist these black-robed Nazgûl are.

[Via William T]

One Question will Suffice

They had me at "Should we have been there?" [More]

That said, the "Is Niger President Trump's Benghazi?" lead-off presumption is just more of Hillary-enabler Ben Shapiro's unceasing and obsessive ankle-biting.

[Via Jess]

The People Have Spoken

Obama’s name to replace Jefferson Davis on Jackson elementary school [More]

Hey, what's wrong with it reflecting the values of the community?

[Via Florida Guy]  

Still Threatening Whistleblowers, I See...

Although the informant helped the FBI successfully prosecute three people involved in the kickback scheme, the Justice Department reportedly has threatened the informant with incarceration if he speaks to Congress about what he knows. [More]

Sessions certainly has revealed himself to be a tool.

Naked Truth

The thought strikes with all the Weinsteinian charges surfacing, that pressuring "starlets" (a sexist term if ever there was one) into actual sex isn't the only form of abuse by those in power.  How many know their careers will go nowhere if they also don't submit to full frontal nudity and graphic sex scenes as a condition of employment in shows like "Game of Thrones," Westworld" and others...?

Yeah, I know, narcissitic exhibitonists willing to "sleep" their way into the in-crowd are basically whores anyway, but the point here is to monkeywrench a cultural enemy and watch the shark embryos have at it.

Now that the astoundingly hypocritical Lisa Bloom has distanced herself from Harvey, maybe there's a new cause pseudocélèbre for victimettes she can champion.

Either That of It's Time for the Glue Factory

Sen. John McCain — ya gotta quit. [More]

But...but...but...