- A judge knocks the latest Bloombergian nonsense off the Washington state ballot. Our own Comrade X had something to do with this. And the billionaire victim disarmers hoisted themselves on their own petard (i.e. their sheer incompetence).
- Georgia cop tasers an 87-year-old grandma who was cutting dandelions. His department defends him, ’cause you know, an old lady with a knife has a “capacity” for attacking a cop, even if she isn’t.
- He robbed the bank. Sixty years later he returned there for dinner. (H/T MJR)
- A libertarian case for the common good. (Of course community has a place — and a big one — in a society of individual rights.)
- Another one bites the dust. Shopify not only gun-related retailers, but also any lingering commitment to free speech.
- Proving it is no better than any worldly bureaucracy, the Catholic church confronts renewed horror with self-preservationist PR.
- Proving it is far worse than most worldy bureaucracies, the Catholic church had a secret playbook for covering up and perpetuating even the most unthinkable child abuse.
- From Brad at Wendy’s place, a welcome real-life reminder of a James P. Hogan story, “Generation Gap.”
- Useful Latin phrases. Some are the real deal, some not so much. (L.S. inspired me to find this when he headed an email “Ne conjugare nobiscum.” Look it up.)
- Possibly the worst writer rejection story of all time. (True? Dunno. Funny.)
SI NULLUS UMOR FORNICARI EIS
Shopify: I had never heard of it before this. I believe I’ll try to never hear of it again.
Granny-tasering cop: I don’t even know why I follow links like that … but I do. I know what’ll happen. Gut-churning rage that I can’t do anything about. Cowards, bullies, thugs, and sadists, hiding behind badges … oh, sorry, I mean Our First-Responder Heroes, don’t I? Yes, I know there are decent cops. Probably the majority. But a man is known by the company he keeps, and as long as the cops as a group continue to cover for and protect the A-holes like the one in the linked story, well, I guess they’re … what does the law call it? Accessories, that’s what. Just as guilty as the scum with the taser in his hand. And, speaking of tasers: issuing those things to cops may well qualify as the Worst Idea Ever.
The child-buggering priests (of Satan): well, I’ll let Jesus speak directly, as recorded in Matthew 7:15-23:
“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit; nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So, then, you will know them by their fruits. Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ ”
I’m thinking that the Roman Catholic church isn’t the only tree begging to be cut down and cast into the fire; a good many other religious organizations seem to merit that same treatment. I will say, though, that the RCC is quite prominent in this respect. I don’t say it happily, either; I know lots of Catholics who are fine people, and whom I love a lot. But their institution does pretty much look like a den of vipers.
What the heck is a semiautomatic assault weapon????????
Taz gramma.Effin cowards!
Screw shopify,its on my no go list now.
Catholic church,pretty sad.I worked at a hospital,same story if assaulted,you reported it you were fired..
Am I the only one who noticed that (according to the article) the $260,958 (Canadian) stolen in 1958 would be $2,200,000 today?
The writer story: He lost my willing suspension of disbelief at the email: Who so forgets his own email address that he can send a rejection letter to it without recognition? And the bit about the advance isn’t believable. But without those two elements I’d have been in at least a tiny tantalizing bit of doubt about whether the story is true. Funny.
At which point in recent history did law enforcement develop this culture of cowardice? Unions, politics, there’s very little left to respect in todays police forces and one is left fearing them rather than respecting and admiring them.
#CopsAreLosers.
I can’t even imagine being scared of an old woman with a knife. Not only scared, but so pitifully helpless that I couldn’t run (or fast walk) away, but decide to risk killing her.
I seriously can’t even relate to people who continue to justify their support of the “good cops” who are supposedly out there outnumbering these brainless cowards of the Blue Line Gang.
@Joel: The blind submission method could include a generated local e-mail address at the publication, thus obscuring the submitter’s actual address. Internal e-mail sent to that address gets automatically forwarded by the mail system without the reviewer ever seeing the true destination. Craigslist does this.
Hero tazes 87 year old woman. That was really brave. Between the two of them, they did not think they could get a knife away from an 87 year old woman in an unarmed manner, if there was a reason to take it away? Were the police 88 years old each? And since when is carrying a knife illegal?
All that is left is for the final touch of death by the WA state Supremes so that then the Alliance for Gun Responsibility can be put out of it’s misery.
Their complete wasting of around $4 million should also end their reign of terror in WA state, of course there will be a new carrier (vampires have a habit of rising from the dead you know) of the torch of tyranny to defeat next year.
At least we will have time to reload those silver bullets and go to the well for some more holy water.
“so that then the Alliance for Gun Responsibility can be put out of it’s misery.”
Wouldn’t that be a blessing, Comrade X? Can you imagine what Paul Allen, Nick Hanauer, and the other guys in their billionaire enclave must be thinking? We gave these incompetent jackasses how many millions? How many dollars per signature beyond what any other initiative ever garnered? And they can’t print a single document according to law?
Oh, and thank you for your part in this, Comrade X.
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