Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Rules o' Engagement, Sez Ye? Har, Sez I

Her shots, part of a deafening volley from her fellow cadets enrolled in the school's first-ever firearms training course, were taking aim at a threat half a world away: the surge of piracy off the Horn of Africa, the continent's easternmost peninsula that juts into the Arabian Sea. [More]
About damn time.

And then I read this:
"If the pirates get onboard, it's all over for the crew," Murphy said, adding that merchant ships are bound by rules of engagement that prevent them from firing upon approaching pirate ships, and are often unarmed to begin with.
"Rules of engagement"? For pirates? Are they nuts?

When are they going to get smart and realize pirates could be treated like a resource, a commodity to be harvested? I guarantee you, if the scurvy sea dogs realized that, a whole lot of them would be looking for a safer line of work.

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones with a Bunch of History Enough

Disciplinary records for a Spokane County Sheriff's sergeant arrested in February show that Pete Bunch has a long history of misusing his authority and even cheating taxpayers on his time sheet. [More]
So naturally:
Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich has to decide if he wants to give bunch another last chance.
I mean, it's not like he's already had any...

I thought when it came to "Only Ones," bad apples came in barrels, not bunches...

[Via Smiley Starfish]

The Eyes Have It

Best wishes and get well soon. [More]

We're the Only Ones Manly Enough

Avon Park police officer James Hilton Parker III remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bond Monday, after being charged Sunday with aggravated child abuse of the 20-month-old baby girl of his live-in girlfriend.

The child, who had multiple bruises over her body and an apparent fractured skull, was on life support Monday at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, according to the sheriff's office. She remained in "very very critical condition"... [More]
Brave guy, eh?

And I love it--the department is short-staffed because two other "Only Ones" have been arrested.

Just a few bad apples, no doubt.

The Supreme Law of the Planet

JUDGES should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.

Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh. [More]

The primary mission of the current crop of traitors in power is to destroy the Republic.

Or am I missing something?

We're the Only Ones with Attitude Enough

The nearly 17-minute video shows the entire incident involving Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats and Dallas police officer Robert Powell. Moats was rushing his wife and two of her family members to a hospital, where his mother-in-law lay dying. She died while Moats and his wife's grandfather waited outside the hospital for the officer to issue a ticket. [More]
You will respect my authoritah!

Some of you sent me this story a few days back and I couldn't get to it. Her's the dashcam video of the stop. No understanding or common sense. It's not like it couldn't be checked out. Or ended immediately once the hospital rep explained the "Code Blue" situation.

"Right now your attitude sucks...I can make your life very difficult...Attitude's everything... Remember attitude?"

Good Lord. And he warns him about "next time"!

People have emergencies. You'd think emergency responders would realize that, and, I don't know, maybe...help...?

[Via John G]

We're the Only Ones Planting Enough

Suit alleges Minneapolis cops planted gun by man they killed

Fong Lee's family claims police had recovered the same gun in a burglary years before. [More]
I'm trying to square that with Sgt. Garcia's (!) "good tactics and excellent officer survival skills," but I don't speak that much "Only One-ese"...

[Via Shy]

We're the Only Ones Taxing Enough

An Internal Revenue Service agent who audits taxpayers in California has agreed to plead guilty to cheating on his own taxes. [More]
I guess this "Only One" proves there really is no honor among thieves.

[Via Avg Joe]

How Do You Say...

..."damned American gun shows" in Bosnian...?

Where else would he have gotten a working anti-tank missile launcher and machine gun? [More]

[Via Brian F]

We're the Only Ones Going to the Dogs Enough

The apparent police vendetta against dogs continues. This time, officers in Buffalo, New York, stormed into a home during the course of a search for drugs, gunned the dogs down in front of the family, and then left without making any arrests. [More]

What does Cesar Millan call "Only One" behavior like this? "Red Zone aggressiveness"?

What will it take to return them to a "calm submissive state"?

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise

'Tempers were running high but the police were saying we have to wait for the fire brigade because of health and safety rules.'

He added: 'When a family is burning to death in front of your eyes, rules should go out of the window - especially when children are involved.' [More]
Now, now...it's for the children that we have all those rules. Remember?

You lot wanted them and now you've got them. And according to Nanny State, you're all children.

[Via Jeffersonian]

A Public/Private Partnership

The new legislation, the "Pay for Performance Act of 2009," would impose government controls on the pay of all employees -- not just top executives -- of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. [More]
Didn't take long for economic fascism to become the centerpiece of the agenda, did it? Folklore says a vampire cannot cross your threshold unless you invite him in. And who is a bigger parasite or sucks more than Barney Frank?

And now some words of wisdom for our Captains of Industry that even a boy with a little wooden head understands... (When elder feral son Uday was little, he called him Pick-a-neek-o--so I still do)...

[Via Tom R]

Stunning Claudia

I am stunned this game should ever have been allowed to have been made. [More]
And that tells me all I want to know about you and your anti-human mindset, Claudia Webbe.

Perhaps some day you will be truly stunned, and for one fleeting instant realize how wrong you've been about... everything.

[Via Jeet]

Bans Won't Stop Violence But Gun Haters Propose Them Anyway

The writer knows what he's proposing would not have stopped the Oakland killings. And he admits the "assault weapon" ban he demands as a direct result will not stop future killings.

He admits it.[More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks what kind of person would demand laws he knows will not work. We here at WarOnGuns know them as "Authorized Journalists."

Also get the most recent commentary from my fellow GREs, a link to the Liberty Belles' thoughts on the nursing home shootings, and my latest Guns Magazine Rights Watch column.

Tell a friend? Of course you will. Why wouldn't you?

This Day in History: March 31

A Captain [Deshields] who escaped from New York on Saturday Evening and who arrived here this Morning informs, that about three thousand Troops (British and Hessian) were embarked from the City and Staten Island when he came away. It was generally said, they had in contemplation an expedition to Chesapeak Bay, and to make a descent on the Eastern Shore. [More]