- “Acing the background check.” Bazillions for “security,” entourages, cavalcades, vast theaters of protective deception … and they stick Obama 18 inches away from a crazy accused murderer. (If you’re thinking what I think some of you may be thinking, please don’t say it out loud. It wouldn’t have helped a bit.)
- Tax people for working. Subsidize them for not working. And anybody less “brilliant” than Obama (or any typical congressthing) understands that you turn working poor into non-working poor.
- Forgive me for not remembering who deserves the hat tip for this, but it’s one of those stories a dog lover must read: Injured dog saves even more badly injured human after they’re both hit by a car.
- While on the subject of dogs (and I suspect this dog may not be in the world any more), this is a beautifully written expression of love: “Regarding my 1000-year-old dog.” (H/T MLS, a champion for canines and other critters, herself.)
- I usually don’t post anything by Charles Krauthammer. I think he’s an elitist, anti-gun suck who represents the worst of alleged “conservatism.” But he hits the nail bang on in his assessment of “Obama the Oblivious.”
- Kevin D. Williamson is becoming quite a freedomista voice for a mainstreamer. His latest is about the NSA (etc.) vs us: “Spooks off the leash.”
- Finally old friend Jim Bovard asks, “Where’s the body count from shootings by the police?”
Other things the crazy guy was accused of: “has also faced rape (1994), theft (1995), housebreaking (1997), malicious damage to property (1998), murder, attempted murder and kidnapping (2003) charges.”
I suspect the SS is overruled on keeping presidents away from people with records like this–after all, doing so would make it impossible for him to meet with other politicians or police.
Ooooohh, Ken. Gooooood one ….
In addition to the police shooting numbers, it would be very revealing to see a daily public listing of injury and death caused by people with any object, or bare hands. The idea that only guns are significant in this, most of the time, is a crystal clear signal that the government/police and media focus is not on how many people are injured or killed, but on eliminating the very best tool for survival the rest of us can have. Sort of obvious, then, that our survival is of little or no importance to them.
And reading about the fake sign language translator was truly amazing… and I immediately thought of how completely terrified all those VIPs must actually be all the time. What a horrible way to live. They are afraid of “us,” and it is sad that they are too stupid/evil to realize they would have little to fear if they just minded their own business and left everyone else alone to do the same.
There are at least a couple things this reminds me of.
My buddy, Jeffro, has an interesting take on that SS blunder. (Well, maybe they didn’t blunder, and just got overruled?)
And Kevin has a nice cartoon by Mike Ramirez.
And, as long as we’re talking about cats, here are some photos of cats from before the internet. (Some dogs in there too)
Another article on the SA hand job. Good for amusement only. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25345627
Re the injured dog saves human story, I remembered having been told that a military K-9 had dragged his wounded handler five miles to safety then died. I tried briefly to find a link to it with no luck, but did happen across some touching tales http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/13/dog-trash-heap-miley_n_4441863.html?ref=topbar http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread598016/pg1
The 1000-year old dog saga reminds me, as do other things from time to time, how Kipling understood all of this so very perfectly http://www.mans-best-friend.org.uk/dog-poems-poetry-power-dog.htm
Small addendum to Jim B’s excellent article: Horiuchi was at Waco, too.
Misc. Amazon items of possible interest to the commentariat:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=thunder%20jacket%20for%20dogs&sprefix=thunder+j%2Caps%2C287&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Athunder%20jacket%20for%20dogs
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mutt+muffs&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Amutt+muffs
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ultimate+man%27s+survival+guide&sprefix=ultimate+man%27s%2Caps%2C186&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aultimate+man%27s+survival+guide
Hobbitry: http://pinstripepulpit.com/tolkiens-kentucky-hobbits/
Yep, that Jim B. story was excellent…sure wish we the taxsufferers, could do something about it! Oh, wait, I think we can: not get shot by police! Too bad we don’t have much say in the matter.
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