It’s extortion, a state-sponsored protection racket, but naturally one with no guarantees. [More]
A state-sponsored protection racket: What could go wrong?
Tuesday, September 07, 2021
There’s a Term for Paying People Not to Victimize Others
Here They Come to Save the Day!
NRA-ILA Files Brief Urging SCOTUS to Hear Bump Stock Ban Challenge [More]
And I note they're still pushing the special infringements Trump took as his green light that whatever he did above and beyond would be costless to him.
We're the Only Ones Dogged Enough
Ex-cop admits to child porn, sexual abuse of dog [More]
You gotta admit, neither you nor I have the professional training for that.
Why do I have a sudden urge to play some vintage Donny Osmond...?
Well, about 30 seconds of it, anyway...
[Via An Hour of Wolves]
Spider & the Fly
Communism: 100 Million Dead and Counting [More]
That's probably because no one has tried it right yet, right?
You gotta wonder how many more hundred million it will take before someone does.
You Know My Suffragette City
66% of women likely to oppose recall of Gov. Newsom [More]
As a voting bloc, we're pretty much talking a supermajority of special needs-grade useful idiots here...
What Goes Up...
When the news broke, the father went outside and fired celebratory shots into the air. The baby's mother reportedly screamed in delight at the news she was having a baby boy. [More]
What's the moron's name?
And what's with the stupid video of bloviating useful idiot hoplophobes?
[Via Mack H]
UPDATE: Looks like I haven't been very tolerant and inclusive of other cultural norms.As the World Turns
Afghan Fallout: Biden Ruins America's Most Important Relationship — India [More]
Nobody seems to remember Washington's warning anymore.
I guess the important thing is to erase his memory.
[Via Michael G]
Racist Shoots Minority!
Antifa Shoots Samoan Protest Leader at “End the Mandate” Rally in Olympia, Washington [More]
Get your shots or get ours?
Those are some "anarchists," enforcing government mandates...
We're the Only Ones Evident Enough
A video recording of an interview with a police officer is yet another piece of evidence that was missing from Overland Park’s release of the investigative file on the John Albers shooting ... more information has been discovered. That includes a lab report with a ballistics analysis and a digital reconstruction of the shooting scene. It also includes hundreds of still photos captured from police dash cams ... In July, an additional 2,000 still images from previously released dash cam recordings were obtained, and a sealed envelope that may contain media files was discovered in the police department’s property room. [More]
But aside from that, it's "complete and thorough"!
[Via bondmen]
Another Way of Saying Their Policies are Not Their Fault
New Zealand authorities imprisoned a man inspired by the Islamic State group for three years after catching him with a hunting knife and extremist videos — but at a certain point, despite grave fears he would attack others, they say they could do nothing more to keep him behind bars. [More]
Do or do not. There is no try.
Nice to see the stupormarkets doing their part and no longer selling knives to New Zealanders.
[Via bondmen]
We're the Only Ones Plotting Enough
In the brief filed late Friday, the defense attorneys also cited a message from Chambers to Dan, apparently directing him to urge another suspect to plot against the governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam. A screenshot of a text message allegedly sent by Chambers to Dan that is included in the new filing reads, “Mission is to kill the governor specifically.” [More]
From the people whose boss says we're the domestic terrorists...
[Via Jess]
Gun Porn
The siren song of guns is full of menace. [More]
WaPo's resident ingrate resists the seduction. No doubt things are much safer in the Ghanian and Nigerian models of Wakandan superiority her parents fled.
She wonders why some women might want to be armed after she publicly declared white women should consider themselves lucky black people aren't calling for revenge on them?
[Via Jess]
A Method to Their Madness
Routt County Republican Chair Pete Wood said he had been getting calls from people concerned about what the map means for the county, as it would connect very rural communities, like Garfield, Moffat and Routt counties, with larger urban centers in Larimer, Weld and Boulder counties. [More]
Is anybody with a loud voice out there warning Colorado gun owners about what this will enable?
[Via cydl]
Speaking of Irrelevance
When the patriots start to lose gun nuts like me, they teeter on the brink of irrelevance. [More]
Right. Listen to the Fudd.
I know a place where he'd fit right in.
[Via Andy M]
Where Have We Heard THAT Before?
Authorities worry new Texas gun law will increase violence [More]
BLOOD IN THE STREETS OVER FENDER BENDERS!!! DODGE CITY!!!
Except that's not what happens, is it?
The question no one in the DSM ever seems to ask: If they're this dishonest and wrong about the basics, why are they authorities?
[Via Jess]
It Depends Upon the Meaning of the Term 'Hugely Succssful'
Israel is planning to administer FOURTH Covid shot which could be adjusted to fight new variants as country battles wave of infections despite hugely successful vaccine roll-out [More]
And here I thought three strikes meant you were out.
And again with lies.
If they don't want conspiracy theories, maybe they shouldn't give people reasons to think they're being conned.
UPDATE: And it looks like our old friend Tommy "Mr. Chips" Thompson is still presuming to be the arbiter of what goes in and on your body.
[Via Michael G]
UPDATE: And Shannon never was one to let a hysterical lie go to waste if she thought it would be useful with her idiot followers...[Via JM]
This is why we can't have nice things. https://t.co/aYNUZMaHRr
— Sharyl Attkisson🕵️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) September 7, 2021
And Ye Shall Be as Gods
Meet Altos Labs, Silicon Valley’s latest wild bet on living forever - Funders of a deep-pocketed new "rejuvenation" startup are said to include Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner. [More]
But first, they have to keep the tumbrels at bay.
Speaking of Community Standards Violations...
Facebook mistakenly labels black men 'primates' [More]
Uh-oh. That lowercase "b" headline is a violation, too!
At least they didn't wish everyone a contemplative Bill of Rights Day...
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