Monday, August 10, 2015

Cornyn Mental Health Bill Promises Protection but Raises Concerns

OK, so what’s the trade-off “compromise”? Does that make it worth funding states to submit even more records to the feds? [More]
Maybe instead of enforcing and “improving” existing Intolerable Acts, we ought to be focused on repealing the damned things.

Insult to Injury

Los Angeles moves forward with mandatory gun lock ordinance [More]
They do these in-your-face hate gestures because they can.


[Via Florida Guy]   

The Pathological Liar

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Because New York Daily News Political Columnist Jon Baer has only our best interests at heart.

We're the Only Ones Racketeering Enough

After Mr. Wright became eligible for the return of his firearms, LAPD’s notorious Gun Unit and the City Attorney’s office put Mr. Wright through a five-year odyssey of illegal requirements to “prove” he owned the guns they seized from him in order to purportedly gain their return. While LAPD represented to Mr. Wright that his firearms would eventually be returned if he complied with LAPD’s unlawful requests for proof of ownership, the City Attorney’s office surreptitiously applied for an ex parte order to destroy the collection, and the LAPD then did so without any notice to Mr. Wright. [More]
Police officers need to understand that when their usefulness is over, those they served will turn on them if it serves their purposes. They need to understand and conduct themselves accordingly.

[Via foo dog]

We're from the Government. We're Here to Help

EPA cleanup crew in action
An 80-mile length of mustard-colored water -- laden with arsenic, lead, copper, aluminum and cadmium -- is working its way south toward New Mexico and Utah, following Wednesday's accidental release from the Gold King Mine, near Durango, when an EPA cleanup crew destabilized a dam of loose rock lodged in the mine. [More]
And noting where they get their money from, guess who's going to pay for all this?

Much Ado About Nothing?

After issuing two alerts about Middle Eastern men approaching military families in Colorado and Wyoming and making suspicious statements, like, your husband is a U.S. interrogator; the FBI has decided their warnings contained no credible threats to military personnel or their families. [More]
You mean this was an overreaction? And we can all go back to sleep now?

[Via cydl]

Operation Big Sky

The Pacific Patriot Network, under the leadership of the Oath Keepers, remains operational in the Lincoln, Montana area. We are committed to securing the mine site of George Kornec and Phil Nappo, owners of Intermountain Mining LLC, which was requested due to threats to their mining venture. There is a dispute between the actions taken by the United States Forest Service and the miners. Our goal has been and will continue to be to secure that area from threats until a legal action takes place within the court system. [More]
Jeez, from the "progressive" reaction, you'd think somebody threw holy water on a demon or something. I guess they really aren't about egalitarian power sharing, are they?

Maybe They're Proposing Another Rule Change

You know, reclassify Christmas trees as incendiary devices... [More]

Looks like Brandon is capable of going full B. Todd on his own...

Speaking of which, I guess it's time I updated my Fauxtoshop graphic...

[Via Mike]

Meanwhile, Over at the War on Women Part Three

ISIS executes 19 girls for refusing to have sex with fighters as UN envoy reveals how sex slaves are 'peddled like barrels of petrol' [More]
Hey, anyone against "progressive" values is a hater.

Rose Mary Woods ... Paging Rose Mary Woods...

Cheryl Mills To Destroy Emails About Boss Hillary Clinton [More]
That their behavior exhibits an assumption of immunity shows top-down criminal scum to be the rule rather than the exception.

Meanwhile, Over at the War on Women Redux

100% of female employment gains taken by foreigners since 2007 [More]
So watch the indignant Oprahfied gaggle gush over any FOP ("Feminist" One-Pecenter) throwing out the "glass ceiling" sleight-of-mind buzz term, like they're ever going to get anywhere near it.

Voir Dire

This does not look to be a matter of exercising fully-informed jury rights -- the place for that was in reaching the verdict. [More]

This seems more like a matter of lying to keep from being disqualified as a juror -- assuming gross prosecutorial incompetence is not to blame.  I can't believe -- in order to accept a juror -- the prosecutor didn't ask each one some unequivocal form of: "If a guilty verdict is reached in this capital case, will you be able to vote for the death penalty?"

Was that question asked? If it was, and if the juror answered "Yes," he or she lied under oath.

Donald Trump’s Gun-Free Zones

The three they list as “gun-free zones” are all in Democrat-controlled bastions with histories of extremely restrictive gun laws: Chicago, Hawaii and Los Angeles. [More]
Good luck even getting a "permit" in those last two places.

In terms of his hotels, the real test would be Las Vegas. I can't find any evidence the place is posted. If you know different, edumacate the rest of us.

What it looks like is the guy's continued rise in popularity, despite the best efforts of GOP lackeys at Faux News, is scaring the hell out of Establishment Democrats, too, so they're giving the smear campaign a boost -- kind of like the way Pelosi helps Boehner when the chips are down.

As I've shown many times, I'm no Trumpeter, but I am enjoying the hell out of the way this wild card who ignores their rules has got all the other phonies sputtering. And Erick Ericson, Red State and his Comment Nazi moderator just forfeited all credibility and relevance.

Here's a turnabout's-fair-play question for the other Republican candidates: If Trump is the nominee, will you support him?

Meanwhile, Over at the War on Women

"Progressives" are OK with them being beaten as long as certain rules are followed. [More]

And if you don't think that's fair, you're a hater.

Would You Mind Pulling Forward, Please?

The name of the person was not made available [More] 
We are working to find out whose gun fired. Check back for updates. [More]
Nothing yet. Jeez, why is this order taking so long?

And why am I thinking the delay of public information makes Officer Big Mac a more likely candidate than Hamburglar...?

Message for America

The lunatic used a toy gun?  Then restrict real ones from the sane! [More]

For "our collective prosperity"!

"Professor" Ruth Ben-Ghiat said it, I believe it, that settles it!

[Via several of you]

The Toobin School of Elite Journalism

What do people prefer to be called? [More]
Kind'a makes me wonder  what he would call an assailant ramming a plunger handle up his bloody ... uh ... nose.  Besides "Darling."

The Check is in the Mail

Or I should say the bill.

As of this writing on Monday morning, John Cornyn's bill to feed more mental health info into the federal gun ban system has not been posted by Congress.gov or the Library of Congress THOMAS legislative information site.

Nonetheless, the "thank you sir, may I have another?" masochist (you'd have to be) who works for "viciously mean" gun law flouter David Brock is already out there whining that too many fish will slip through the net.