Pfleger Gun Turn-In Raises Legality and Safety Questions

His involvement of St. Sabina Catholic Church in advocating for anti-gun legislation (and even involving himself in partisan politics) have earned him rebukes from the Church and even a suspension, but they’ve been afraid to replace him, fearing too many parishioners who place a collectivist “social justice” agenda over religion would follow him out the door. And so far, he’s managed to skate by without official scrutiny of his church’s tax exempt status. [More]

Snuffy is still going full Pfleger. Never go full Pfleger.

We're the Only Ones Cutting Short Enough

The Louisiana law enforcement officer found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy with autism has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. [More]

He "feared" the guy was going to back up?  It didn't actually happen?

[Via Bluesgal]

Too Many Chiefs

Navajo Nation considers implementing gun registration [More]

Shotguns and rifles? And if there were "automatic guns," wouldn't the CLEO have already signed off on them?

Just which criminals are tribal elders hoping to control?

[Via Bluesgal]

Inspired by His Passion

Muslim Teen Accepted to Stanford After Writing #BlackLivesMatter 100 Times on Application [More]

Assuming the date of his "tweet" has no significance, I haven't been this inspired since Ahmed the Clock Boy.

If that's what it takes to "win," maybe an art contestant can write #ShallNotBeInfringed 100 times on his submission...?

[Via Michael G]

A Taxing Proposition

FAIR Files Formal Exhaustive Complaint with the IRS: SPLC Violated Its Tax Exempt Status Repeatedly in the Last Election Cycle Alleges FAIR [More]

VLLA SELLA 'n all that...

[Via several of you]

More than 'Reputation' is at 'Risk'

But one thing is clear: Those who prize America’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, or who simply appreciate the many benefits of owning firearms, are no longer welcomed within the group’s ranks. [More]

Like I said last time we talked about this:

Keep being stupid, fellas.

[Via Michael G]

'The Founders Could Have Never Imagined'

But it is not true that repeating arms, which can fire multiple times without reloading, were unimagined in 1791. To the contrary, repeating arms long predate the 1606 founding of the first English colony in America. As of 1791, repeating arms were available but expensive. [More]

You have to wonder how many who claim the contrary are actually clueless vs. how many know they're liars out to gin up ignorant indignation.

But they keep bringing it up anyway.

[Via Mack H]

Attention Arizonans

Please contact Governor Ducey and urge him to sign SB 1344. [More]

Come on. We're talking a few seconds here...

Rule of Thumb

I guess Amy ruined the old system for them.

Looks like guns aren't the only things she -- and her apologists -- are delusional about.

Fancy That

During the attack, the couple said the woman said she was "sick of fancy white people." [More]

Leave it to our good friends the "Authorized Journalists" to refer to this as a "possible hate crime."

[Via Florida Guy]   

Enquiring Minds Want to Know

It's worth asking why the "mommies" and the NC Sheriff's Association are so interested in maintaining the Jim Crow-era pistol purchase permitting system... [More]

I guess -- as long as you don't expect an honest answer out of them.

You Can But You Can't

The new law goes into effect immediately, BUT DO NOT CARRY outside your vehicle in Georgia until the Georgia Attorney General shows Virginia permits as being honored on his website.  (The Georgia Attorney General is similar to our own Attorney General when it comes to guns and reciprocity. And, like our Attorney General, the Georgia General Assembly has just put him in his place.) [More]

What, you mean the guy who was chief of staff for this "staunch defender of the Second Amendment" and appointed as AG by this " steadfast support[er] of the Second Amendment" is against the right of the people to bear arms...?

So I guess the "shall not be infringed" part is also off the table with him?

What the hell did he actually promise to do when he took that oath?

[Via Keith B]

Congressional Art Contest Chance for ‘Young Guns’ to Honor Second Amendment

Why not encourage young people who have been raised to value the importance of the Second Amendment to enter the contest, potentially educate some of their peers, and show that a counter exists to indoctrinated “snowflakes”? Why not urge students to submit art promoting the right of the people to keep and bear arms? [More]

Have you raised any high school students who understand the relationship between the right to keep and bear arms and their freedom after you're gone, and who are willing to help counter the control-enabling propaganda of their indoctrinated peers?

'Militia Terrorism'

Creates crime of militia terrorism. Punishes by maximum of five years’ imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. [More]

Firearms Policy Coalition explains.

Those proposing this certainly seem confident their enforcers can make it work. But it sure doesn't make it attractive for those facing such charges to just give up.

I was getting ready to post this and saw a tangentially-related email from WarOnGuns Correspondent Mack H on how some in the conservative mainstream have declared we're in a civil war.

I've been referring to it as a "cold civil war" for years. Looks like the Prozis are bent on heating it up.

If they succeed, I'm not sure they'll be as personally unaffected as they appear to believe.  There are people who have reached the Kennedy conclusion and aren't inclined to just roll over for in-their-faces ultimatums.

Sign of the Times

[More]

That's pretty funny. They ought to auction it.

Incidentally, Leo Carrillo was an interesting guy. I'm catching up with old Cisco Kid episodes on Hulu before I fall asleep, so I thought I'd look him up. I also hadn't realized Duncan Renaldo was a soul brother.

[Via Steve T] 

Not So Young Turk -- But the Ambition is the Same

“Do you represent the NRA?” asked Representative Gerald Connelly, a Virginia Democrat, his voice rising. “Or do you represent the American people at the ATF? Turk began to answer, but Connelly cut him off. “I represent victims from Virginia Tech,” Connelly said, referencing a 2007 mass shooting at the university. “We buried 6 young people. And I couldn’t explain to them why an ATF … representative might think that legalizing silencers might be a good idea.” [More]

And suppressors had exactly what to do with that, moron?

Aside from the fact that Connelly is a phonily self-righteous career stool sample whose idiotic subversion of 2A all but guarantees future Virginia Techs, I find two other points of interest here:

• Turk showed up this time.
• I can't quite figure if he's teaming up with AD Brandon to wag tails and lick the new master's hand, or if he's playing this solo, and if offering concessions is calculated to either propel him from Number Two to Number One -- or to keep him from being caught up in a purge.

UPDATE: Oops.

Not Exactly in Sync with Sun Tzu

All this has become something of a preoccupation for the 53-year-old Mr. Haidt. A longtime liberal—he ran a gun-control group as an undergraduate at Yale—he admits he “had never encountered conservative ideas” until his mid-40s.  [More]

Those who would tear down that on which they're completely ignorant are basically mindless vandals, which pretty much tracks with conclusions by those who have made efforts to understand the enemy.

At least when I engaged in directed destruction of knowledge, I had the basic awareness to know what I was doing, and to rue my role.

[Via Mack H]

Trying to Please the New Master

ATF vows to help Jeff Sessions reduce gun crimes [More]

You can start, "Acting Director" Brandon, by spilling everything you know and giving up names on Gunwalker.

If you're still out of jail, we can discuss how you're going to atone for abetting stonewalling.

In Strawman Use at the Time

Bear arms, eh? OK, now try selling it without observing any regulations, professional liars.

You'd think with all that AstroTurf money, a high-powered ad agency and plenty of free media publicity this piece of crap would have received more than 7,000 views over the past week:

So much for "grassroots" demand. Take advantage of "thumbs down" and commenting before they decide the overwhelming sentiment necessitates removal.

"A native of Germany," eh? Looks like he's got a bit of an industry reputation and then some...

Kiss THAT Job Goodbye

New Orleans police say an Uber driver has shot and wounded one of two men he told authorities had tried to carjack him. [More]

Who's the boss here, anyway? Doesn't this insubordinate realize his "employers" would prefer to see him murdered than armed?

Silver Lining

Holbert and several others including Amy Stephens, the former Republican legislator who led opposition to the bill in 2010 — said the state should not be able to know if people are buying from sites that could raise eyebrows, such as gun-sales websites or sites for cross-dressers. [More]

The again, maybe this bill failing and the law going into effect will wake some people up about those Democrats they have enabled.

[Via cydl]

Rights-Free Zones

"Concealed carry reciprocity is an attack on local law enforcement, and an attack on local laws ... The same laws that apply to rural areas should not apply to urban areas with millions of people and thousands of police." [More]

Absolutely! It's not like there's a "supreme Law of the Land" or anything. Besides, what did Dear Leader say about Chicago and Cheyenne?

So out with free speech. And being secure in your person and effects. And how can you self-incriminate if you're not doing anything wrong?

Ditto with "cruel and unusual punishment." And equal protection. And due process...

Oh, and while we're tightening the iron grip on OUR home, we're also coming after yours. You didn't think protestations over "home rule" meant anything besides ruling all homes, did you?

Vance and "Der" Feuer. Figures.

[Via Bluesgal]

When Life Hands You Don Lemons

Bite the hand! [More]

Couldn't happen to a more deserving "progressive" bunch.

We're the Only Ones Disarmed Enough

Harold Jordan, a senior policy advocate for the ACLU of Pennsylvania, penned an op-ed for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Thursday, which was reposted on the ACLU’s main website Friday, that said cops stationed at Pittsburgh city schools should be forced to continue working without sidearms. [More]

True, Harold Jordan is a special kind of subversive idiot, but my main concern is with such restrictions applying to me. Still, all you "us vs. themmers," what have I been telling you about Polyphemus all these years?

[Via Michael G]

Gunning More than Engines

Authorities from Dinwiddie and Petersburg confirm that a shooting happened at the Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie County during the 2nd Annual Spring Fest event... [More]

Can't they read?

Damn racist redneck racing fans, with their Lil Boosie music...

[Via Keith B]

Coming Soon, to a Reichstag Near You

Germany's Cabinet on Wednesday approved a new bill that punishes social networking sites if they fail to swiftly remove illegal content such as hate speech or defamatory fake news. [More]

And seeing as how and by whom those smears are determined and leveled, they can basically shut down the dissemination of all unapproved thought  -- just like the good old days.

And the domestic National Socialists call us the Nazis...

Exclusive: Supreme Irony

Whether their instincts will better serve their followers this time is something we’ll need to wait and see. It’s probably safe to assume Gorsuch will prove head and shoulders above anyone Hillary Clinton would have sponsored, and in that sense, his nomination already gives gun owners a victory of sorts. His confirmation, and by the time you read this, he will have been confirmed (barring something astoundingly unforeseeable), will prove whether faith placed in him was informed or merely desperate. And noting appointments are for a lifetime we should have many opportunities to either rejoice in or curse his placement on the bench. [More]

My latest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column notes some ironies on both sides, and expresses a mix of hopes and fears.

Their Own Petard is Waiting

Orwellian algorithms of Google and Facebook put us on 'slippery slope of censorship' [More]

And it's not just the algorithms.

Well, "progressives" are the ones who gave us antitrust, collusion and restraint of trade laws...

@_boyafraid_

One follower @_boyafraid_ wrote, “So you have lost a follower, and worst, an admirer”... [More]

Talk about an aptonym.

And note he didn't say "customer."

Ridge Affiliation Warrants Heightened Skepticism over Gun Detection System

That would be “Oathbreak Ridge.” He voted to ban semi-autos demonized as “assault weapons.”  He opposed arming pilots after 9/11.  And he thumbed his nose at those who asked about the Second Amendment by essentially saying he could do whatever he wanted because “Those people aren’t registered. Nor do they vote.” [More]

Disarmament enablers should be known by the company they keep.

And the Winner Is...

[More]

I'm Thinking of Setting Up a Sackcloth and Ashes Concession

via GIPHY

Registration cost for the conference ranges from $230 for students to $400 for individuals for the full session, and $100 to $175 for single days. [More]

That's OK, you privileged white "progressives" can afford it.

Tell me black people will be comped.

[Via bondmen]

Rendering unto Caesar

If a New York nonprofit wants to speak about political issues, it faces intrusive and dangerous disclosure requirements. [More]

Don't worry though. AstroTurf groups don't exactly have "members" the way, say, NRA does.

[Via Michael G]

Never Forget

Homeowners might want to remember Anitere Flores [More]

So might gun owners.

[Via Mack H]

And They Say there are No Stupid Questions...

Editorial: How many guns do you need? [More]

That's funny. I don't see a "comments" section to provide answers.

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Celebratory Enough

Police shot and killed an off-duty sheriff’s deputy celebrating his birthday with friends after the man drew his gun, became agitated and refused commands to drop the weapon, authorities said Wednesday. [More]

It sounds like he was a credit to his profession.

It also sounds like he'd made it home at the end of his shift.

[Via Florida Guy]   

'Progressive' Justice

After a lengthy court fight, a Clovis family forced the return of 500 firearms seized by the California Department of Justice in 2015. [More]

It does make you wonder how someone without the resources to take them on would fare.

[Via Rough and Ready]

Shirkers of the World, Unite!

After all, you're entitled. [More]

[Via Michael G]

Inventing 'Gun Violence'

Tennessee teen tries to steal handgun from gun show, promptly stopped by good Samaritans [More]

OK, so attendees took it away from him and held him for police. As good customers might have done had they witnessed him stealing something else.

So leave it to those with an agenda to include the incident in their "gun violence" archive.

Padding statistics... where have I heard that before?

Funny -- their "About" page really doesn't tell us much about the people behind this. Neither does a "Who Is" look-up.

It's almost like they want people to think they're grassroots instead of AstroTurf laid down by hidden hands or something...

That's despite assurances that "GVA in an independent data collection and research group with no affiliation with any advocacy organization."  That must be why the "In the News" sources and "Related Websites" listings on their home page are so empirical and objective, with such impartial arbiters as Media Matters, Everytown and the Bradys, right?

[Via Steve T] 

And He Causeth All, Both Small and Great

What the hell are we s'posed to think? [More]

Maybe we should ask Tommy.

And This has Not been Screaming Headline News Everywhere Because...?

[More]

It looks like not that many "news" outlets are interested in following up on NBC's report, and neither are they.

Why might that be?

Twofer

Three American citizens were taking an Uber Thursday night from a nightclub to their rented apartment in Rosarito, Mexico, when their Uber driver was shot and killed... [More]

Uber and Mexico, eh?

You get the feeling something isn't working...?

New York ‘May Issue’ Arrogance Forces Gang Target to Sue

Noting many of the members have served their time and have been released from prison, McCarthy applied for a concealed carry permit, which is “may issue” in New York. In this case, officials chose “may not.” [More]

Why should New York "Only Ones" care if you can't carry a gun because they won't let you? They've got theirs, plus if anything happens to you, they can't be held personally or professionally accountable.

Not All that Far from the Tree

“What these three boys did was stupid," said Leroy Schumacher. [More]

I see where one of them got it from.

I don't see grief excusing this. He sure makes feeling sympathy problematic.

Let's see three adult-sized intruders break into his home and watch him scoff at the thought that anyone would legitimately be concerned about defending their life.

Not that a resident has time -- or a need -- to take inventory of weapons home invaders are carrying. That they're in the house is enough.

Operation First Defenders

Stand and Defend Free Speech at Berkeley Patriots Rally, April 15, 2017 [More]

Once more unto the breach...

Calling All Door Mats

Legislators who killed Constitutional Carry in 2017 in Tennessee [More]

I'm not clear from this if it reflects a majority of the committee (and who the Republiquislings are), or if it was unanimous and they're all oath-breakers. In any case, the only real way to deal with this is to turn out the turncoats.

Anything less tells them cheating is something gutless cucksituents will go into denial and self-delusion over -- again and again. Why would anyone respect that?

[Via Ron W]

We're the Only Ones Who Can't be Bothered Enough

Body cam video released by police in Sanford, Fla., after a man allegedly went on a shooting spree last week that killed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, shows cops scoffing at the woman's "false accusations" and telling her to "stop calling 911" ... [More]

Can't she see we're busy?

[Via Geordan]

The (Good) Will of Allah

DHS said he is a Saudi Arabian national ... Bilal is listed in the student directory at Ball State University, but school officials say he is no longer a student. [More]

Rigorous!

When 'Progressives' Collide

Looks like the March for Voodoo only wants diverse witch doctors... [More]

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Prophylactic Enough

One deputy reported he thought Kelly grabbed a gun ... Deputies placed her at gunpoint until determining she didn’t have a weapon in her hands. [More]

I can't tell you how many times I've made that very same mistake.

[Via Steve T] 

How Can They be Stopped?

With stuffed animals and candles? [More]

That would be as effective as anything "national educational organization" Violence Policy Center is proposing. Plus it wouldn't eviscerate due process.

[Via bondmen]

Progressive" Diversity and Inclusion

We've had such "public" facilities here for some time, but making sure the "wrong" people are excluded is generally enforced by the locals. [More]

[Via Florida Guy]   

Prescription for Freedom

• Community in Firearms
• Common Sense Tongue Control
• Midnight Rider
• Hospital Terror in Kabul: Coming to Your Country Soon
• Director of Homeland Security
• DRGO Releases Position Paper Supporting Access to Firearms Suppressors
• Understanding Blunt Force Trauma Lethality: An Interview with Dr. Robert Margulies (Part 1)
• Understanding Blunt Force Trauma Lethality: An Interview with Dr. Robert Margulies (Part 2)

We're the Only Ones Turned Off Enough

Why some of the most controversial police shootings aren't on video [More]

Sure, Yul, you can handle this one.

[Via Florida Guy]   

Proving the Point

Remember my piece on how Google and other internet behemoths suppress information that doesn't support the narratives they want to advance?

It's been "disappeared" from the Google News feed.

Also supporting a point my article made:

Facebook’s monopoly-style power extends far beyond people’s internet access. Together with Google, it has cannibalised the online advertising revenue so vital to enabling the investigative journalism that has never been more important in today’s world...

"Progressives" gave us antitrust laws. Be ironic to see them hoist on their own petard for collusion, restraint of trade, etc.

The Problem in a Nutshell

These armed protesters are very bad for the image of our sport. Wow! [More]

Wow.

Escape from New York

People are fleeing New York at an alarming rate [More]

Are they taking their affinity for electing socialists and being disarmed with them?

I hear Montana's a lovely place to move to...

We're the Only Ones Slowing Down Enough

It is unclear why officers are making fewer arrests. Some in law enforcement cite diminished manpower and changes in deployment strategies. Others say officers have lost motivation in the face of increased scrutiny — from the public as well as their supervisors. [More]

Maybe all those "common sense gun safety laws" have resulted in everyone being safer...?

We're the Only Ones Electrifying Enough

‘You wanna ride the lightning?’ [More]

And still taunting as they're walking away.

I guess we know who's in charge.

Robert Redford: 45 Years after Watergate, the Truth is again in Danger

It occurred to me it might make a good film — two hard-working journalists struggling to get to the truth. My first idea was simply to make a movie about two reporters, the importance of journalism and freedom of the press. It was only later that the depth of the Watergate scandal was discovered. [More]

Far be it from me to suggest substituting "Gunwalker"...

STEMming the Flow

“In other words, women are so fragile that a syllabus with ‘unfriendly’ language would be enough to scare them out of pursuing the careers they would otherwise want to pursue. Men can handle taking a course even if a syllabus makes it sound ‘difficult,’ but women cannot because they are weaker and less confident.” [More]

Compare to:

"These fellows slogged through wet sandy beaches under a staggering load and into the face of withering machine gunfire and treacherous mines. Then, exhausted and terrified, they fought their way up heavily defended bluffs from which crack German troops rained down hell upon them.”

So how would poor dears too sensitive to handle the first scenario fare in the second?

You can't have it both ways.

The Big 'Why' Country

Montana Democrats Vote Against Bill Banning Sharia Law, Call It ‘Repugnant’ [More]

Gee, I wonder if this has any influence on politics:

A lot of migrants in Western states move to other Western states, and Montana is a prime example. The population born in California, Washington and Oregon has doubled since 1980.

Coming Soon to a Caliphate Near You

A staggering 31,725 illegal immigrants from countries that aid and abet terrorist organizations received deportation orders from U.S. immigration courts from 2003 through 2015, but what became of them is anyone’s guess, finds a report by a former immigration judge at the behest of the Center for Immigration Studies. [More]

Rigorous!

A Question of Incentive

Become a subscriber today to support editorial writing like this. [More]

Why, when I can get delusional hypocrisy for free from Nancy Pelosi and Antifa?

Anybody sense a media narrative being propagated here?

Short Memory

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Saturday criticized President Trump while discussing the administration's potential ties to Russia, saying she hadn't heard of a U.S. president called a "liar" as often as Trump. [More]

Why? Has he committed perjury, too?

Or did he lie to get a fraudulent Social Security card?

Maxine sure does project.

Comic Actress Shoots Surgeon After Liposuction 'Trainwreck'

"She kept screaming about how her cousin was a senator and was going to have their badges," a neighbor who witnessed the arrest told News at 10. "She was just so self-entitled and obnoxious about it, several of us actually clapped and cheered when they cuffed her and put her in the back of the patrol car." [More] 

That's about the only performance of hers I'd pay to see.

EU Threat to Break up U.S. Merits Appropriate Reminder

That such arrogance reflects imperious rejection of the right to self-determination for Europeans, and that Constitutionalists in the U.S. may not welcome foreign globalist subversion, are hardly considerations that sway the type of mentality that believes his place is to dictate and yours is to obey. Either that or the old Eurorummy is drunk again. [More]

Which part of Europe is he from again...?

Tennessee News Flashes

• Haslam's a lying subversive!
• So's Rogero!

[Via Ron W]

Unauthorized Journalist

Can't have that in a society where the Constitution is "the supreme Law of the Land" ... [More]

Being told to put a sock in it under force of law is not as fun as it appears.

[Via Bluesgal]

Shortfall

Who could have anticipated that sheeple don't buy guns? [More]

[Via Jeet]

Speaking of Antifa

That's a fun idea to "appropriate" the name like that. [More]

The John Brown Toy Gun Club

Members Of An Antifa “Gun Club” Are Fishing For Death With This Fake Gun Stunt [More]

Yes, and thumbs up for WOG comment poster Earl Flanigan, who I first heard this from.

[Via Keith B]

We're the Only Ones Just Doing Our Job Enough

“I just want to say I’m terribly sorry that your dog was put down. That wasn’t my intention when I walked up to you folks to ask you to move your things. I was just doing my job, and I’m terribly sorry that you lost that dog. My condolences to you, Miss Ramos, and your child, and to the boyfriend. I’m terribly sorry what happened.” [More]

"...was put down ... what happened..."

Anybody see any acceptance of personal responsibility in there? Maybe that's why we know Ramos' name but the "Authorized Journalists" are protecting his.

Aloha ʻOe...

Just Like It's a Person or Something...

Doctors Perform Heart Surgery On Baby Still Inside Womb To Remove Tumor [More]

I thought such "tissue" was a tumor...

It's not a toomah!

'Russian' Hackers

Nyet? [More]

The Few, the Proud...

[More]

Not so fast...

Turns out it's not so new, either.

[Via Neil W]

What's the Deal?

Deal vetoed a similar bill last year but senators involved in the last-minute negotiations say they are "confident" that the bill will get signed into law this time. Deal's office didn't immediately comment. [More]

You can afford to treat people who supported you like that when you no longer need them.

"I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

Sporting Purposes

The new law gained national attention after Greg Sankey, commissioner of the Southeastern Conference -- the top-tier collegiate sports league in which the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Razorbacks compete -- released a statement earlier this week. In it, he opposed the law and said it could affect scheduling and other aspects of the athletic program if guns were allowed into sporting events. Then Razorbacks head football Coach Bret Bielema and players weighed in with their own concerns ... [More]

Since when do these handlers and their gaggle of young meatheads have any say in your and my unalienable rights?

I guess when "we" value their diversionary bread and circuses more than "we" do those rights. And don'tcha just love the A+ rater assuring those mandated disarmed that "sniper teams" will protect them? Talk about a meathead.

It won't affect me one bit because even without a ban, I have better things to do and places to be.

Call in the Kryptonite Disposal Squad

Red mercury is reportedly a substance used to create nuclear bombs, but its existence has not been documented. [More]

I understand the suspect escaped on a unicorn.

[Via Florida Guy]   

One Question:

How do they actually know? [More]

[Via Keith B]

Good Question

Why Does Trump Let Judges Push Him Around? [More]

And why is he attacking his natural supporters and siding with those who want him out?

If he keeps this up, it'll be the people he let down screaming the loudest for his head.

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Interactive Enough

Senate passes bill requiring schools to teach teens about interacting with police [More]

They'll learn such commands as "GET ON THE GROUND! NOW!!!" and many more...

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Plundering Enough

DEA Seized $4 Billion From People Since 2007. Most Were Never Charged with a Crime -- A new government watchdog report finds the DEA grabs cash just for the sake of grabbing cash, raising civil liberties concerns. [More]

How is this not armed robbery, meriting an appropriate defensive response?

[Via Michael G]

They'd Rather See You Dead Than Armed

Want proof? [More]

Sign of the Times

It makes as much sense as the other kind. Except Opposite Day "progressives" would howl in self-righteous rage and call you a "hater" if you posted one of these.

[Via Bluesgal]

Groping Cyberlina

We tested bots like Siri and Alexa to see who would stand up to sexual harassment [More]

I like the "female" voice I get from Google Maps on my Android because it comes across much clearer for me in ambient car and traffic noise than a lower-pitched "male" voice would. It would have never occured to me that such devices were chauvinistic until some overprivileged "progressives" with a sick compulsion to find discrimination in everything started bitching about it.

Still, if you'd prefer your fembot to be more MILMlike, I understand they're working on that.

[Via Steve T] 

Five Common Piles

And how to avoid stepping in them... [More]

In re "the Golden Horde," I don't see vast herds coming my way, but I can envision opportunistic dangerous bands, which is why I view where I have placed myself as the most suppliable, defensible and amenable to mutually advantageous networking. To get there you have to go off the beaten path and through countless similar areas, plus there are neighbors who are (to my personal knowledge about several of them) equipped and inclined to act morally and rationally. So unless something that turns all that on its head comes along and all bets are off, no "bug out" for me.

Not that capricious fate -- or Mr. Murphy -- care about my preparations, and as Mr. Burns observed:

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men  Gang aft agley...

Still, you gotta work the odds (as long as odds have meaning) and there are much easier and more accessible places for scavengers to forage for cannibal food.

What Happens in Vegas...

... is used as a pretext to put everyone at risk. [More]

Leading Role

[More]

No Foolin'

[More]

Not Exactly a Candidate for an 'It's a Wonderful Life' Reboot

"I won't take responsibility for the murders..." [More]

"Murders."

21 and three kids -- increasingly, a norm in many places.

No civilization can bear such a burden forever.

[Via Florida Guy]   

Anybody Claim Responsibility Yet?

It was not immediately clear what was burning under the bridge or how the fire started. [More]

Now imagine this "happening" along another key route, and in other major cities.

And hey, just in time for the convention!

[Via Florida Guy]   

The Question is What Comes Next

And how ready are you for when it gets up close and personal? [More]

[Via Florida Guy]   

We're the Only Ones Droning On Enough

The bill would ban the use of weaponized drones, but exempt police. [More]

Of course it would. You know, just like Malloy's other "assault weapon" ban.

Besides, it just wants to make it back to the hangar at the end of its shift, and if you're not doing anything wrong you've got nothing to worry about...

I mean, it's not like remote control devices can be hacked or anything.

Another Voice to Suppress

And seeing where it's happening, the legal inability to present an effective deterrent all but guarantees violence. [More] 

That is, unless the administration caves and calls it off.

I'd say this is what we can expect if and when the Bolsheviks gain power, but by then, "conservative" voices will either be behind the wire or stilled. Which is why I'd prefer to keep them from gaining that power.