This is what it looks like:

Were that Megan and Harry could learn from this.

That, while it made the local news and (some of) the international news services…..the apparent execution of Bryan Malinowski by the ATF (or perhaps, possibly, it was a criminally bungled raid) is oddly absent in the National Media.

The details are somewhat murky as to shy it had to be a no knock raid at 6 AM though…or why he wasn’t picked up on the way to, or at, work instead of breaking down his door at 6 AM.

Or are they just being lazy and not responding to market conditions of supply?

The U.S. Solar Industry Needs Government Support to Compete With Cheap Imports

Seems to me that the US solar industry just isn’t ramping up to be able to produce the items needed for solar cells….Silicon ingots and wafers, Fabs to make ’em into cells, etc.

Hiding behind tariffs and import restrictions is all well and good, but it also becomes a crutch and an excuse for not becoming competitive. which is what we have here now.

It’s the same thing that led to our Steel industry becoming more or less obsolete. Failing to upgrade and invest in their industry led to them becoming ever more unable to compete with newer, better mills.

Government protectionism is a short term panacea.

For the gun club fund raiser raffle…..And I had sold 2 of the 5 winners. First prize and third prize.

(sorry, OldNFO, you didn’t win)

Still, It’s kinda cool.

So far, with one exception, I have sold at least one winning ticket for the past 10 years. 9 out of 10 isn’t too bad of a percentage. Buy your tickets from me for better chances.

Seems that a dawn raid at a home in Little Rock by the ATF may have gone sideways….

The Little Rock Airport executive was shot by ATF agents  when he apparently shot at the people breaking down his door early in the morning. One ATF agent was injured. Not many other details are available yet….Nor are they likely to ever be if the ATF is involved. No reason for the “no-knock” part either

Bryan Malinowski is not expected to survive his injuries.

Like many ATF raids, one has to wonder why they had to do it at 6 AM. If they were gonna arrest him, why not on his way to work, or at work, or on his way home?

A pre-dawn, no-knock raid would likely get the same response from me….the first man through the broken door would suffer severe lead poisoning….followed by a me getting the same.

But they’d know they’d been kissed. (I’d probably get two before they got me, so there’s that… Plus, when rushed/stressed, I fall back to my first training:  I am a “Mozambique” ^^ type of shooter, so body armor would be of limited use)

Is it in the ATF manual to do shit like this? Or is their institutional culture just ^one of perpetual stupidity. It could have gotten an agent killed as well as Mr. Malinowski….or one of his neighbors.

This is the second pre-dawn raid in the past two weeks…..this one went bad…..Looks like we are all gonna have to be on our toes again, like in the early 90’s when the ATF had a habit of screwing up, making a mess of a simple arrest or  search warrant (often with bad information) and then acting all cowboy until it went sideways and someone got hurt, then getting the US Marshalls involved and getting someone killed….when it didn’t have to be that way. Think Ruby Ridge and Waco for two high profile cases….but there were many more during that period. (Perhaps, they need Big Raids to show they need more funding….. They got their budget cut by 8% last time, so they need some more high profile raids to show they are still relevant…..) I think the agents involved, as well as the director, should explain why a no-knock raid was necessary Explain it to congress, I mean. . It isn’t like one can easily flush evidence of a gun crime down the sewers or something like that…..Much like David Koresh at Waco, this man was not hard to find nor would he have been hard to arrest away from home….peacefully. But I doubt that they wanted to do it easy and smoothly. The ATF seems to like flashy, loud early morning stuff for maximum theater….And they don’t seem to care who gets hurt in the process.

Watch your back, folks, a new generation of ATF fuckups seems to be emerging.

^^ (“2 to the chest, then one to the head …next target”)

“You won’t be able to embrace the person that is arriving in your life if you are clinging to the person that is leaving”

Sarah Entrani

That should, indeed, be the only refuge for pedophiles and child porn traffickers.

(that, or the death penalty, which is, IMO, a real option)..

A wanted sex offender was found living in a stick and tarpaulin shelter deep in a Louisiana swamp and eating rats that he hunted with a makeshift spear.  Brian Schaller, 51, was convicted in 2016 for distribution of child porn and had active warrants for sexual battery and violating the terms of the sex offenders’ registry. 

(Personally, that should be the only sort of place they should be allowed to live even after release from prison)

Always has been ….unless you were already half-dead from other complications.

To try to convince us that they aren’t lying about him anymore.

So Trump, in referring to the economics of EV’s produced in Mexico in Chinese owned factories that were intended to be shipped to the United states, said that he would put a 100% tariff on them to protect the domestic car manufactures.

He also said that if he wasn’t elected that the damage that Biden and his ilk would o regarding that part of the economy would be a “bloodbath”.

The media is suggesting that his ” Bloodbath” comment is something else entirely, taking his words entirely out of context. They are conflating that with the Jan 6th protest

They are LYING.

Even a few publications are saying that. (you can find one here, the AZ Republican via Yahoo News).

If Yahoo is admitting it (however second hand) then you know that even some of the press folks are unhappy with the blatant lies.

Even Newsweek couldn’t stomach the lies.

Why is it that one culture thinks this is OK?

And then they wonder why the rest of us want to be elsewhere when crowds build?  Why merchants don’t want any part of their crowds, why the cops treat them differently?

(Of course, it is because of Racism, but never mind….)