We're the Only Ones Through with Dating Enough

A Santa Maria police officer was shot and killed Saturday by a fellow officer who was trying to arrest him for suspected sexual misconduct with a minor...[More]

So I guess the answer to the Eternal Question for "Only One"/juvenile courtship etiquette died with him...

Expanding the Lexicon

AP's Yost Ignores Fri. Fast and Furious Doc Dump... [More]

Hell, why not? According to them, the whole damn story hardly qualifies as news.

Maybe Mike and I need to start referring to ourselves as "undocumented journalists"--you know, we're doing the jobs the "Authorized" ones won't do...

And maybe we ought to start using a new word:

yōst: transitive verb
a : to intentionally ignore a story that conflicts with a media outlet's political agenda.

b: to manipulate basic story elements to provoke a conclusion in readers that supports a media outlet's political agenda.

c: to clog a closet bend underneath a toilet. Also see yost (noun)--the material cause of the clog itself, as in "Who wrote this yost?" and in verb/gerund form: "He was straining while yosting and ruptured a blood vessel in his eye."

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Disarmed Enough

One of the robbers managed to wrestle the gun away from the officer. The suspect then allegedly used the officer's gun to steal a getaway car, while another drove away in another vehicle. [More]

So much for "verbal judo."

I suppose the argument would be if they can do this to a "trained professional," we'd better make sure you're disarmed... 


You know what would stop that? Nonexistent "smart gun" technology, initially funded for research specifically to reduce police "takeaway" incidents, and then morphed into a requirement for you and me with an exemption for them...

Sweet, the way that works...


[Via Stephen P. Wenger, who advises: "The member of my mailing list who furnished the links advises that the officer works as a department spokesperson and is known to shoot only once a year, to "qualify."]

It's Interesting when People Die, Give Us Dirty Laundry*

The powerful chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform increased his pressure on the Justice Department on Friday, raising new questions about how the Drug Enforcement Administration conducts its undercover money-laundering investigations and whether those operations cross the line between fighting and facilitating crime. [More] 

You know: Project Buckwalker.

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Stacking the Bench

“Romney did focus on two criteria: their legal experience and whether they would be tough on crime. In other words, the nominee could be a gay activist or a pro-big government, pro-quota, pro-gun control Democrat Party hack who detests every judicial principle treasured by our founding fathers,” Baldwin said. “But if he happens to be tough on crime and have prosecutorial experience, he gets past the Romney filter. Many of Romney’s nominees fit that description.” [More]

Don't say you haven't been warned.

But go ahead and listen to the "pragmatic" wishful thinkers if you like. Just don't be surprised at the results when the inevitable lack of fire in bellies gives us four more years of Obama.

Say, here's an idea: Adopt the tactics of the left and blame SNBIers and "principles freaks."

We're the Only Ones Undermanned Enough

The criticisms against Solomon include allegations of sexual assaults, many committed in the presence of others, repeated affairs with a list of subordinates, and bearing a child out of wedlock fathered by a former lieutenant in the department. [More]

Sounds like Badge Bunny here sniffed more than a holster.  And I'm also delighted to see her claim her elite "Only Ones" privileges, because she's obviously a lot more trustworthy and in control of herself than mere mortals like you and me:

In 2009, Paso Robles Police Chief Lisa Solomon was found to have not properly licensed a gun that allegedly came from the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s office. The lack of registration became public after a man stole Solomon’s loaded semi-automatic gun from her unlocked car.

Even though the gun was not properly licensed, then Atascadero Police Chief Jim Mulhall returned it to Solomon and did not take action against her for the failure to register her privately owned firearm even though he is in the business of gun distributing.

Guess what would have happened to one of us? No wonder some people think they can get away with anything.  Based on long-established patterns, for the most part, they can.

Taking STOCK

Good grief. Sounds to me like most of them should be put in stocks. [Read]

When Subversives Collide

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Rats vs. snakes: The Chicago democrat machine vs their hardliners. Let the whole world see the character of these characters--on both sides of the barricades. Let reality TV-loving middle America sees what the collectivist left is made of and then react with revulsion and horror.  Sounds like a win-win to me.  Hell, I may even sell t-shirts...

Popcorn...?

We're the Only Ones "Blessed Are the Peacemakers" Enough

From the front bumper of the menacing vehicle, another sign taunts: "Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?" [More]

Interesting question...

This Day in History: January 30

ELIZABETHTOWN January 30, 1780
Party of 300 infantry and about 60 Dragoons under Lt. Col. Abraham Van Buskirk cross from Staten Island and burn Presbyterian meeting and Court House. [More]

‘Progressive’ icon's view refutes modern 'monopoly of violence' advocates

"It is not good for us that we should ever lose the fighting quality, the stamina, and the courage to battle for what we want when we are convinced that we are entitled to it, and other means fail. There is something better than peace, and that is peace that is won by struggle. We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the State denies us the right to resort to force in defense of a just cause." [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column acknowledges a progressive idea we should all support.

Friday F&F document dump could mean more trouble for Holder

Workman weighs in. [Read]

Documents say DOJ knew of Fast and Furious connection day after Terry murder

Of particular interest from the Dec. 15, 2010 email from Holder aide Monty Wilkinson to then-US Attorney Dennis Burke:

"I’ve alerted the AG…" [More]

This midnight Gun Rights Examiner report asks if the latest bombshell revelation has engulfed  Eric Holder.

We're the Only Ones "Until Death Do Us Part" Enough

A former California Highway Patrol officer was convicted Monday of first-degree murder for shooting her husband, collapsing in the courtroom when the verdict was read. [More]

And then there's this bit of responsibility acceptance:

When I grabbed it tight, it fired.

Who am I to argue? She's obviously more highly-trained than me. Except, when she's scared and needs it the most, she just doesn't think about "tactics from work."

Don't Think of it as a Tightening of the Vise

Think of it as a "multi-agency tactical exercise." [Read]

Besides, "similar exercises have been seen in Miami and Boston."

Wonder what they're expecting...?

Only One Day Left to Be Ignored

I already did.

Apparently, I ask too much:

It's not what I really wanted to ask him anyway.

The Magic Christian* Redux

Reality is stranger than fiction. And be warned in advance--this links to something really gross. [Read]

This isn't overcoming fear--there is no test of courage here.  This debases the concept of true courage, of truly overcoming fear to do what one must, and of paying an ultimate price if one fails.

Who wants fame and prizes that badly? What the hell is wrong with the people who would think up this degradation, the people who would produce it and the people who would do it?  What "contestant" with any sense of dignity wouldn't tell whoever expects him to go through with this to go to hell?

What kind of degenerates would squander freedom paid for with blood, powder, lead and steel on such disgusting and perverted exhibitionism, and can a "culture" that embraces this truly expect to survive?


From the network "family" that promotes "progressivism," naturally, and one that hasn't told it's viewers a damned thing about Gunwalker. 

As an aside, it's telling how the feds will use health concerns over its consumption as an excuse to send armed raiding parties to keep small raw milk producers from selling to willing neighbors.

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"Liberty and Prosperity"

That's some state motto they've got for themselves there in New Jersey, considering:

Common hunting, target, and self-defense ammunition would be subject to ban under A588, along with BB’s, airgun pellets, and plastic airsoft pellets!

Additional legislation being considered (A1013) could land gun owners in jail for refinished or damaged firearms that might be deemed “defaced” [More]

I wish Sandy and Diane well, but I don't want to set foot there.

A Furious Headache?

Goody. [Read]

Although I'd have probably sent Furious Mike a remedy more appropriate to what ails him.

SF Sheriff Mirkarimi caught in gun control net he helped cast

And while I don’t pretend to give a damn one way or another about what happens to this Mirkarimi character, who as far as I’m concerned is hoist on his own petard and not likely to have an epiphany on individual liberty even if he manages to beat the…uh…rap, his predicament points to a disconnect between crime and punishment driven more by the political correctness he and his kind have demanded, enabled and enforced, than by public safety. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a rat caught in a trap of its own making.