So why is it that any time a white person or white cop shoots, beats, runs over, or in any other way damages a black person, the claim is that that person’s actions, be they premeditated, reaction to a situation, or even accidental, MUST be racially motivated….but when we have an incident where we have VIDEO of black teens are making racially charged remarks while committing a crime against a white person the first statement by the authorities and the press is that “There is no evidence that this was racially motivated” and “There is no reason to believe that race played a part”…

And please note that “There is no connection to Black Lives Matter” in these incidences….but thre is always a link to white hate groups when the races are reversed….which is why we MUSTget rid og every Confederate memorial and the Confederate flag.

The double standard is……strong.

And it is beginning to irritate me. Strongly.

At least the kids were FINALLY charged with more than just kidnapping.

(please note that all other links denying the connection to race have been scrubbed, apparently, from the internet. Odd, that. )


ETA: They are, apparently, just poorly raised

So me and Ed went to the range on 1/1/17.  He called and said that he was gonna see if he had the new night sights on his 1911 aligned….and did I wanna go with him?

I allowed as I had time. So to the range we went. We were the first two folks to sign into the range this year.

50 rounds of Blazer Brass out of the Sig 1911 at 50 feet later, it was happy…there were 50 holes in the paper. Not a great target, but they were all in a 12×12 paper….. I gotta lighten up the trigger jut a bit.

‘Twas a good way to start the New Year.

To each and every one of you.

There is a different set of rules at the TSA “checkpoint” in every airport.

Inconsistent.

For many years, the rules were that you HAD TO pull your laptop out of the bag because “we can’t see through it otherwise”. ..Which, while I found to be doubtful, (scanning technology being what it is and all) was, at least, consistent.

Friday, I travelled through Midway, and they yelled at all of us that were taking our laptops out of our bags to put in a separate bin.

“No need” they said. “Stop wasting time”….And they were RUDE about it. Plus, “shoes stay on”. Even boots.

Same scanner, same personnel, just a different rule for a different day. So were they being safer at MDW before, or just lazy last Friday? And no “Perv-O-Scanner” either….. Just the magnetometer.

Now Dallas Love today?? Yerah, they had it cranked up to 11. But the dude that was telling folks what to do had such a strong “Island” accent that no one could understand what he was saying. Which led to a LOT of frustrations. There, I had to take my Laptop out and Place It In a Separate Bin…”Because we can’t see through it in your bag”. At least at DAL, they were pleasant. And, for TSA, efficient.

Of course, on Friday, the TSA at MDW decided to confiscate MC’s Tactical Pen, because, even though it is okayed under TSA rules, it was shiny or something. They’ve let her fly with it 8 times that I know of previously, but on Friday, it was verboten. She even pointed out that it was ok under TSA rules, but was informed that the folks in the field can override rules. I thought she was gonna get arrested, (actually, I thought she was gonna wipe the smirk of of the TSA supervisor’s face) and I pulled her away.

If Trump pulls funding for the TSA, I will support him 100%. Hell, I’d support raising the requirements to speaking good english and having to be able to read and write and speak on an 8th grade level. Did you know that having a High School diploma or GED is NOT a requirement for TSA personnel?

I couldn’t do this.

Not for a minute.

I’d clench so tightly that I’d never poop again:

Should bow their heads and have a moment of silence:

The inventor of the red solo cup, Robert Leo Hulseman, has died at the age of 84

Without his invention, hundreds of thousands of women may not have gotten pregnant. and men of all ages would have been much more lonely.

RIP Mr Hulseman.

“Whisper in your ear” the next possible opportunity.

Cops can shoot dogs during execution of a warrant, Sixth Circuit Federal Court says.

If they are my dogs, and you shoot ’em, then your life is in danger.

And the Judge goes on the list too, if and when.

I can do it from up close, or from a fair distance away.  And no, I’m not bragging.

My pets are like family.

Cops can kill’em, but not without consequences.

HT: Freeholder

Has passed on to wherever old actresses go when they die.

Of course, I still think this was the best part she ever played:

From all accounts she “drove it like she stole it” for a large part of her life.

I hope she finds peace wherever she is.