you knew this was gonna happen..
Face it, the guy had balls….and he’s getting the shaft.
Chances are, he’ll have an actionable claim against the government. But we taxpayers will end up footing the bill for his damages. Should be the management at ATF who pays the bill.
So are these “mobs” of “teenagers” in the larger (and, coincidentally, run by liberals) cities a new thing? Sure seems so. Perhaps we are just hearing about it more than we used to. It is now a daily occurrence in Chicago and Philly and such….But they are happening in ever smaller towns….I mean, they’re even playing Peoria!
The press seems to be working mightily to never describe them as black, or African American…but every once in a while the truth seems to slip out..
The incidents of “wilding” were, as far as we knew, isolated incidents and in parks after dark and such…. and few and far between….These “mobs”, however, appear to be something else. Broad daylight, public…and in affluent neighborhoods…..
If there are, as it seems, an ever increasing number of these “mob” attacks by “teens”, and they are happening in more and more cities….One would wonder:
Is there a coordinator? Someone who is encouraging these attacks? Perhaps describing how to use the available social media or technology in order to coordinate things? Perhaps to teach how to avoid the Po-Po and to know when (and how) to disperse… ?
’cause most of these folks involved don’t seem smart enough (or forward thinking enough) to figure things like this out on their own.
Yeah, yeah, I am a racist. But the truth is what it is.
that you had been with me and Midwest Chick as we hosted Brigid for the weekend.
And had you been there, you’d have spent an afternoon with Og and fambly too.
And likely your blood pressure would be down 25 points and your spirit would be much more settled.
It were a great weekend. Food shooting, wine, beach walks…. beer, breakfasts…
Life like that could make me live longer…..
Sadly, we all had to go back to work today.
Who can take charge of their destiny, and who cannot.
Summer storms have been exceptionally violent and windy this year. My area had HUGE straight line winds. Chicago has had some severe thunderstorm (maybe tornadoes, the Weather Service hasn’t decided for sure yet).
But the point I am trying to make here is that when these storms happen some folks lose power. The power company employees work long and hard to restore as man folks as possible, as quickly as possible. They actually do a great job, most of the time.
But many of their customers cannot handle a day or two without power. Cannot deal with even one night without electric lights, nor have any idea how to keep their food in their assorted cold boxes from spoiling if their electrical supply should fail for even 10 hours. Rural, cities, it really doesn’t seem to matter any more. (perhaps it is all the city folk moving out here, I dunno) But folks can’t seem to muster any willingness to take their fate into their own hands.
If your life is somewhat dependent on electricity (and lets face it, ours way of life does depend on a steady supply of electrons to our homes) then you should be able to acknowledge the fact that it will be interrupted occasionally, and have plans in place to deal with that interruption. Inverter/batteries, genset, whatever…But have a plan of some kind. Planning on taking your stuff to your neighbor is NOT a good plan.
A decent 5kw generator can be had for less than $800.00 for Ahura-Mazda’s sake! And that same genset will run not only your fridge and deep freeze (which in our home generally contains MORE than $800 bux worth of assorted dead cow flesh and/or ice cream). One use of the genset for a few hours can more than pay for the loss….And provide you with lights/cell phones/tv (and, for our lady readers, even run your blow dryer/curling iron)…..And might run your AC too. (if not, buy a gennie big enough to do so). And will run yer heater in the winter when that big ice storm hits every 7 years or so.
Many of the rural folks need a generator in order to have water…… Not so much for showers, although they get ripe after day 3 or four, but in order for them to be able to flush toilets….’cause no one can conserve, or use the big outdoors for a potty for a day or so….
But do most people, city or rural think about things like this? Nope….They just bitch about the fact that they have no electricity.
It really isn’t that hard to have a genset and 10 gallons of gas for emergencies like storms or ice in the winter. Of course, this assumes that they would not be too lazy to rotate out their fuel every 6 moths or so….or make sure that they had oil and such…or even bother to have the thing serviced after each use…
In the cities, you can accept that most apartment dwellers are screwed. No place to put a genset or store fuel. But homeowners have no excuse except laziness or stupidity.
And god help most folks if there is a CME anytime soon that does serious damage to the grid…In the latest round of outages in my area, people were getting hotel rooms JUST TO SHOWER, ’cause they had no well pump. And others couldn’t live in their house ’cause the bathroom “just got too smelly”.
Me? We have a diesel genset. Should run for thousands of hours with little maintenance. I stock in excess of 250 gallons of fuel at all times. It burns less than 1 gallon an hour even at full (10kw) load…General load (without AC) is more like 3000 watts, so it burns less than 1 quart an hour much of the time that it is running. With AC on in the house I burn a little over 1/2 gallon an hour. I do have to choose between AC and electric dryer, but other than that, we can run for somewhere around 600 hours at normal load without getting fuel delivered. We have more options than most people do…By choice.
But seriously, if you don’t have a genset, then think about getting one. If you think you don’t need one, then find out! Pull your main breaker in your home for 24 short hours. See what works for you and what doesn’t. See if you can deal with just those 24 hours.
If not, then think carefully about your needs. And make sure that you have a backup to the power company.
Become the master of your own fate, don’t depend on someone else. ‘Cause if something serious hapens to the juice supply, yer gonna have more time to react.
TSA unionized under AFL-CIO.
So now we get unprofessionally undermotivated folks who really didn’t care about those they are supposed to serve…..With new added union attitude…
Likely all this will do for us is add in increased delays while they strike for even better union provided benefits and add even more money to the declining union’s coffers.
How can this end up in any way a Good Thing?
I am once again so very glad that I don’t have to fly often.
didja ever notice that unions almost always represent the workforces where a High School diploma isn’t necessary????
No, seriously…What he said.
He’s right. We have been apathetic. It is not that the left has won the battle, but rather that we haven’t bothered to take the field.
So we get what we got because we chose to let it happen.
and their consequences.
And the fact that when bad choices don’t hurt, no one learns the hard lessons, and never has any incentive to change their behaviour.
I have said it before. Seems that others get it too.
Now if we can only get the liberals to understand.
Another day, another search that leads to the death of the searchee.
Tactics that kill. All in the name of good.
“its for the children!”
Or something.
69 years old. Walks with a cane. Likely his response was the same as mine would be at 10 am on a Saturday. door breaks open and men in military(ish) garb rush in? You betcha. Cordite and fire and flying lead.Bad for everyone. On both sides.
And, of course, an unnamed “informant”. Who may or may not exist. Who will likely never be identified or questioned.
Look: I know not the answer to this mans guilt or innocence. But break down the door of a mans home and NOT expect an armed response is foolish.
You want in my home? Have a warrant? KNOCK. For your safety and mine. Wait for a response. I’ll answer the door. maybe with a firearm. Show me a badge and the warrant. I’ll cooperate.
Kick down my door if I don’t respond fast enough for you? Trouble. For both of us. You gotta give me more than 15 seconds to answer the door. Safer for all of us. For gods sake officers: THINK before you act.
I really don’t want to kill a cop. And I really don’t want him to try and kill me.
But cops aren’t invaders. Stormtroopers. And good cops knock and wait until you answer the door. And are polite but firm.
No-Knock raids might be necessary…But this wasn’t a no knock warrant.
Yet they acted like it was, and man is dead because of it.
Read all the links. Think. Get angry.
How many more will we allow? When do we say ENOUGH! ?
“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
– General Douglas MacArthur
Killed the vikings in Greenland. Long before AlGore ever heard of CO2.
Hard to make a living when your growing season keeps getting shorter and shorter. Perhaps we should think about our food supply in the future, and buy (soon to be) farmland in the desert southwest?
Mayhaps Jimmeh C. was right when his folks predicted global cooling…Their predictions actually seemed to predict where we are right now…