- “Mommy, am I going to die?” Cop shoots four-year-old after he showed up to “help” her injured mother. Clearly all in a day’s work for this callous dude. Missed the family dog, though.
- Drone defense on a budget. “I want one,” says MJR, who sent the link.
- White House aide shoots at her cop boyfriend. Much has been made of the fact that this babe is a “special” assistant to Obama, but apparently in WH parlance, “special” is as in “rides the short bus.”
Barfetta Barvetta Singletary. Don’t ever ask that woman out on a date.
- Per Shel in comments, it seems that Attitude is alive and well in Virginia.
- Seems that happy hunter-gatherers never heard of this “you must get eight hours sleep or your brain will rot” rule.
- Ugh. This person sounds like somebody out of the old Soviet Union. She’s apparently fit to teach American students, though.
- Better person: Elderly vet saves 16 kids from knife attack.
- Fedgov eliminates pork from prison menus. Claims it has nothing to do with religion. (Love the comment from the National Pork Producers Council.) UPDATE from MamaLiberty: As quickly as it was imposed, the ban was reversed. Seems that even the fed BoP doesn’t dare mess with a powerful senator from a pork-producing state.
Obama placemats. We bought these at our local supermarket, plastic-coated, plate-sized paper rectangles with an image of his face framed by colors of the flag.
Dare we ask which flag?
I can’t imagine what studies of “hunter gatherers” have to do with modern man and his needs. They lived in a totally different environment and had very different just about everything. How they lived and what they might have done to cope with their environment is interesting indeed, but has little or no relevance to what we face today.
And remember that these extrapolations are brought to you, most likely, by the same sort of “scientist” that touts AGW and all the other environmental clap trap now merrily destroying our lives in so many ways. The same ones who work tirelessly telling us what to eat, drink, etc. – and then changing their minds a week or a month later. Nuts to them.
Sleep when you are tired, get up when you are rested, learn to deal rationally with your stress and your environment here and now. Forget the damned cave men. sigh
Officer Thomas is the reason some people kill cops. Guys like him are one of the reasons I carry. He deserves to receive what he gives out – in spades. Actually, he’s probably suspended with pay pending a whitewash. Disgusting, isn’t it.
The drone gun sounds like a better method than a shotgun, but a) it’s apparently on the market as there is no price nor purchasing information, and b) it says it ‘stops’ the drone’. I’m not clear on what that means. Does it drop it out of the air so you can watch for the owner to come get it and beat the snot out of that person? If it doesn’t do anything to damage the drone (your personal property in my personal space is MINE, dork) then what’s the point? As soon as you turn off your gun, the drone goes home to it’s owner, and will come back again tomorrow.
So we now have evidence that gun control is only for those ‘not connected’, and that the White House is somehow silencing the story – at the very least that the media is NOT covering the story out of fear (they likely call it ‘deference’) of Obama. And yeah, what a crazy person. Is it only me who is scared by the idea that such morons are working in government?
Non-compliance is alive and well in VA, indeed. It’s the essence of our patriotic founders. I wonder if the state will threaten ‘confiscation’. I’ll give it up when they pry it from my cold dead vehicle.
Hunter-gatherers likely didn’t sleep more because they didn’t have to deal with traffic jams, pointless self-aggrandizing bosses, and dropped cell calls. Not stress would mean you would need less sleep to recover.
James Vernon epitomizes the statement that ‘an old snake is no less dangerous’. Good for him. He’s my hero of the day.
Now, if only fedgov would eliminate pork from all their programs, and get all the swine out of management and agency work and the pigs out of Congress too.
Hunters-gatherers probably slept less because they had more stress (fearing wild animals or the tribe over the hill attacking them in their sleep). Further, it’s never been proven that we need 8 – 9 hours sleep, nor has it been proven we wouldn’t sleep in smaller increments of time if given the opportunity to do as we please. We haven’t been “doin’ what comes naturally” (to quote Annie Oakley) for thousands of years, since we started changing our lives to suit our whims, and the whims of tyrants and bullies. The human mind is our best resource–and our worst enemy if we don’t use it properly.
“I’ll give it up when they pry it from my cold dead vehicle.”
Brave words. What VA can do is refuse to issue a driver’s license to you. Whether publicity will stop their punishing the drivers remains to be seen.
BTW, if you want to fly a Confederate flag, do it proudly like a driver was doing that passed me last week. He had a flagpole attached to the bed of his truck, flying a large Confederate flag with an equally large Gadsden flag beneath it. Both flags were well tattered, so he must have had the flags on parade for some time. (This was in Virginia.)
More propaganda for the developing masses. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/17/captain-america-battles-right-wing-conservatives-/
While I can empathize with the grumpy bastards who refuse to turn in their license plates, we shouldn’t forget license plates are badges of slavery.
http://strike-the-root.com/badges-of-our-slavery
And for your amusement:
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2013/tle739-20130929-05.html
Being in nature changes the way the mind operates. It may be that the hunter-gatherers are getting from their environment what the rest of us need to get from sleep.
I have difficulty believing that federal prisoners truly have a “lack of interest” in pork products. Who doesn’t love bacon? Or ham? And pork chops have been a staple of black life (and blacks make up a disproportionate percentage of the prison population) since time immemorial, celebrated in story and song. (See this: https://youtu.be/bVSErDJPxMA.) Clearly there are deeper forces at work here! (Such as cost, probably. How boring.)
I want one of those “drone killers”, too. Unfortunately, although Battelle’s website describes it as “inexpensive” (without giving any actual price), it contains this disclaimer: “This device has not been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. This device is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until authorization is obtained.” So I guess we’re going to have to wait a while for them to become commercially available. Sigh.
About the kid shot by a cop, I posted on FB:
Again: There is no situation so bad it can’t be made *orders of magnitude* worse by inviting a cop to get involved.
“Well, you’re cut and bleeding, but lets see if there are any adrenaline-crazed authority junkies we can get to come shoot you, too!”
Why are people still seeking out these psychos?
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I thought I had read that the anti-drone “guns” were only going to be available for purchase by government goons. That doesn’t mean the good guys can’t back-engineer one, of course. Just gotta get one into the right hands.
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If the old guy who saved the kids had been in possession of a gun (the “bear” part of “keep and bear arms”) he would have had a better chance of preventing the attack without being harmed.
“If the old guy who saved the kids had been in possession of a gun (the “bear” part of “keep and bear arms”) he would have had a better chance of preventing the attack without being harmed.”
But, Kent – then the anti-gunners would be yelling, “Unfair! Never bring a gun to a knife fight.”
The “club fed” joints for VIP incarceration just might actually see real pork roast, but you can bet none of the lower class prisoners ever taste any. They get “mystery meat” in very small amounts, blended with some unidentifiable things that might even qualify as “food” at times. And that, of course, is true in any jail or prison across the country.
Federal Prison Pork Ban Revoked
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/federal-prison-pork-ban/2015/10/16/id/696612/
Just one week after the federal Bureau of Prisons banned pork products from its 122 prisons, pork roast will return to the dinner lines, officials said Friday.
The reversal came just hours after Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who represents the farm-strong state of Iowa, wrote to complain about the decision.
I got nothing. Long day at work. Busy all evening. (Productively busy, about which more, anon.) So, here’s something:
http://wjla.com/news/offbeat/md-police-officer-accused-of-biting-mans-testicle-no-longer-on-force
Might even get started on Faulkner this week.
I wonder if the state will threaten ‘confiscation’.
If the PTB are smart (I know, but one of them might be) they’ll simply let the plates expire and replace them with whatever the SJWs want..