- Geez, they could at least have shouted, “Drop that hose nozzle, m******f*****!!!” before they shot the guy. Dontcha think?
- Abandoning a city. Now, will we see Mad Max in America? Or will the abandoned residents develop their own voluntary institutions? Oh. Wait. We’re talking about Detroit. It’s already Mad Max in America.
- This is pure skulduggery. And it’s brought to you by Dodd-Frank financial “reform.” Like, don’t faint from surprise or anything.
- Privacy alert, courtesy of Bigjack who posted a link about web photo geotags while commenting on my Christmas tree post: Your camera might be revealing your location. Not my camera, fortunately. Mine’s just a plain old dumb machine (though at times I consider that it may be smarter than I). But you guys who have GPS on your oh-so-intelligent cameras, here’s a heads-up, along with tips on disabling the “feature.”
- So tell me: Why is it a-okay to honor John Moses Browning, but horrifyingly wrong to name a Browning design as your state gun? (H/T Jim B.)
- The perfect spokesman against “gun violence.” Uh huh. Riiiiight.
- 2011: The year of the von Mises prophesy?
- No individual mandate? If it stands, that ruling will send Obamacare crashing into a wall. Can’t force the healthy unwilling to pay for everybody else? Boom! Not counting on the ruling holding up, tho’ …
- Finally, some inspiration: The man who said no to Hitler. And the price he paid. Not a fatal price this time, but the kind of price a lot of people pay for prizing their integrity.
Regarding the man who was shot to death, THE POLICE scare the hell outta me. Always have,I don’t even have bad thoughts, because the thought police will get me. Even as a child those do not remove by penalty of law tag, you guessed it the tag police. I guess the guy shouldn’t have been watering the lawn. Lawn enforcement took him out.
Wow. Police decided that being a drunk on a door stoop with a hose nozzle is a capital crime. Interesting they decided to kill him with no warning, negotation teams etc. Problem with many departments is the police are afraid of the citizens they are supposed to serve and have a mentality that they can get away with shooting first and never asking questions.
I have a problem with this quote from the article about the hose nozzle guy:
Police snuck down the corridor and shot him. He was killed in cold blood. He was a drunk sitting on a stoop fumbling with a hose nozzle,” Eden Marie Biele said in an interview with The Associated Press.
My problem is “What corridor?” A stoop is like a small porch on top of stairs, OUTSIDE THE BUILDING! Why would the police need to go down a corridor? Unless they went around to provide a sneak attack?
“Naming a state gun is problematic because a gun is, after all, a killing tool.”
You know, I agree. A mere pistol, even the 1911, just doesn’t even play on the same ball field, as a “killing tool”, with the state itself. That sort of milquetoast commemoration would be like an insult.
F$#%king selfrighteous blowhards.
And, from the purely technical side, anyone even moderately schooled in weaponry knows that a 1911 is a stopping tool in practice, and a poor choice as a “killing tool”. (As the saying goes, you bring a pistol when you’re not expecting trouble. If you’re expecting trouble, you bring a rifle.)
Now, the Ma Deuce—that would be something arguably purpose-driven enough to be a proper “killing tool”, but then we come right back to the first point: even that ain’t got nothin’ on the state–even considering that its primary history has been as a killing tool for the state, merely part of its larger killing purpose.
Did I mention: f$#%king selfrighteous blowhards?
There’s a hobby that amounts to urban spelunking-the name escapes me right now, but people get into old abandoned buildings and take photos(and probably the occassional souvenir)-from what I’m told, Detroit is heaven for these folks. There was a part-time guy where I work from Detroit,and claimed there were “dead zones” well before the economy tanked-where cops, ambulances and pizza delivery people just don’t go.. Any abandoned structure is soon gutted of anything salvageable. Mad Max better not leave his car parked there..
bet the guys family feels pretty well “proected” and “served”…this is a good indicator of the type of third- string incompetent flakes these department have been seeking out the last 20 years or so….it goes on & on…
on a lighter note, generals Guderian and Galland had major blow-ups with Hitler… Galland even threw his decorations at “der fuhrer”…and both survived the war, although relieved, demoted, ect… Know it’s not the same as this fella tho….
ditto on ma duece
Detroit’s been a mess for years, pre economy disasters…..Chicago has some issues as well….both states are (and have been) in financial trouble, it’s not just only the cities…..
When I read about the FEMA camps and other types of “futuristic holding centers” it reminds me of Cabrini Green in Chicago (the failed attempt at housing the poor)….it scares the crap outta me……
Add parts of Ohio to this list of falling to pieces, add any “insert state here” to it, it’s the beginning of a lot of these stories and situations….
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