You fat bastard?
I mean, c’mon, alGore, it is supposed to be -12 F tonight. Normal low is like, 24F…..Plus 24 F, that is.
Luckily I am burning wood in a non-catalytic woodstove and the indoor temp is +73F.
I just hope the outdoor cat, Harold, is OK. He won’t come into the garage to be safe. But he’s like that. He’ll likely show up tomorrow afternoon looking for food.
and:
So Facebook is gonna crack down on “Fake News”
(No, this isn’t “Fake News” Seriously. )
Using, among others, Snopes and ABC News and AP as sources to verify and/or vet the suspect stories.
‘Cause we know the Media always get things right…
Right?
(and notice that the overreaction was….extreme)….3 cop cars? “Hustle the child from the room”? .
Now go “Hug your puppy”.
An Oceanside couple expecting a United Parcel Service delivery of a toy plane instead got a surprise — a package containing an assault rifle.
Joel Berman said he opened the keyboard-sized case Wednesday night in front of his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter, wondering how it could be the Kohl’s toy, meant for the son of a friend.
An Oceanside couple expecting a United Parcel Service delivery of a toy plane instead got a surprise — a package containing an assault rifle.
Joel Berman said he opened the keyboard-sized case Wednesday night in front of his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter, wondering how it could be the Kohl’s toy, meant for the son of a friend.
“Her mouth popped open,” said Berman, 66. “It definitely was not a toy gun. . . . We had to explain to her Santa delivered the wrong thing.”
Cradled in foam was a semi-automatic rifle with a sophisticated scope, a stand, an ammo clip and a copy of an Arizona man’s driver’s license and his concealed-weapons permit, Berman said.
The UPS label, which had Kohl’s in Ohio as the sender, had been pasted over another UPS label from the Arizona resident to a gunsmith in upstate Woodbourne.
“I have a receipt from the UPS driver showing . . . 3.4 pounds as the weight of the package, but it was 51 pounds,” Joel Berman, a trade-magazine publisher, said. “It’s funny, but at the same time, it’s sad.
“This could have been delivered to a home that had either someone with ill intentions who would have loved to have something like this. Or it could have been delivered to a home with kids.”
They shuffled their granddaughter to another room and she immediately hugged her new puppy, Berman said.
The couple called 911 — the operator told him “Oh my God” — and three patrol cars arrived within minutes.
Nassau police said they will get the rifle to the upstate gunsmith.
Read the rest at the link.
Note: I don’t think this was what people think of when we say an “Assault Rifle”…. more likely a “Sniper Rifle”…..looks like a Barrett to me.
I’d a just kept my mouth shut and waited to see if anyone asked…..
So you are sleeping in your home.
Men break down your door.
Then a Flash-Bang goes off. You assume the worst…that someone is breaking in to try to kill you…(valid, actually, read the article)
Turns out they were police officers on a no knock warrant. But you don’t know that at the time.
When you find out it was police, you surrender and cooperate.
They still charge you with attempted murder.
And a jury chooses to decline to find you guilty years later.
Inept “SWAT” boys are what caused this….and good shooting by Mr Rosas.
If I ever meet him I’ll buy him a beer.
I hope I can do half as well in the same circumstances.
Because, of course, it Just Can’t Be that half of America rejected Hillary…..
Here is something to make you think:
“Anonymous allegations that Russian government hackers interfered with the US elections are “evidence-free,” several retired intelligence professionals argued in an open letter. Any hack would have been noticed by the NSA, which has stayed silent, they say. Last Friday, the New York Times and the Washington Post cited anonymous sources claiming the CIA believed Russia was behind hackers who exposed emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta, with the intent of aiding the campaign of Donald Trump. Several Democratic senators have called for a special investigation into the allegations, while Trump dismissed it as a “conspiracy theory.”
“Reading our short memo could save the Senate from endemic partisanship, expense and unnecessary delay,” wrote the former CIA and NSA spies, part of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), adding that “harder evidence of a technical nature points to an inside leak, not hacking– by Russians or anyone else.”
So people who know don’t think
And yet. despite the complaints about “Fake News” (which has been perpetrated by the left ever since the GWB memo(Remember “fake but accurate?)) the meme persists that the “russians” hacked the election….and the left BELIEVES it.
The media is pushing the “Hack the election” meme by filling the airwaves with stories about hacking areas like the military and such (even going back to 2008!) for stories to demonstrate how the “Russians” have been going through our mail (and manipulating public opinion) with impunity…
And they have been influencing our public opinion for nearly as long as I have been alive….certainly since the Vietnam era.
Dylan Roof found guilty on all charges.
They oughta hang him with a bad rope tied poorly so his neck doesn’t break and he kicks and struggles for a while.
(Added for Patrick): IN PUBLIC.
The Constitution (what remains of it, anyway) is 225 years old today.
This may be the most important document anywhere in the world, actually.
It has enabled greater growth and prosperity across the world than nay other set of rules (one could argue Magna Carta, but don’t MMKAY?) as well as making the US the best, most prosperous country on this mudball.
If every relationship or interaction with friends or people ends the same way every time, then the issue likely isn’t the rest of them, but rather you or your behavior.
Isn’t it interesting how the DNC and their sycophants are realizing how much of a mistake all of their twisting of our ways of government……..rules in the House and Senate changed to make it easier to pass “difficult” legislation, removal of oversight committees, etc. Of course, they have to face the fact that those rule changes and removal of committees and such that made it easier for the Democrats to twist the rule or just plain railroad everyone else to get what they wanted…..
Now, of course, that there is a Republican soon to be in the big seat….and not only a Republican, but Donald Trump at that….
Plus of course, a majority of folks with an R after their name in both the House and the Senate…
They are finding out something that a LOT of liberals never seem to learn until late in life, if at all:
Rules are there (generally), for a reason….they have been put in to place to protect someone, or to prevent something from happening….they aren’t arbitrary (usually) and they have a reason that they exist …….
And those rules that prevent you from running roughshod over the other guy? The ones that you changed so you could do whatever you wanted? Yeah, now they won’t keep him from sticking it in your ass this time.
Fools.