Meanwhile, back in Chicago,

Yet more than twice as many people have been murdered this month in the president’s hometown of Chicago than were killed in the Aurora shooting. They are just statistics for whom there will be no presidential visits or flags flown at half staff.

Many of their deaths were very up close and personal:

Twenty-eight stabbing deaths have been logged this year compared to 27 of these deaths last year, RedEye determined. Stabbings have accounted for about 10 percent of homicides so far this year, compared to about 6 percent last year, RedEye data shows.

From Hoyt:
It occurred to me that our civilization has got lost in the weeds because of mission drift. We’ve gone from “making sure enough people have enough to eat and can raise the next generation and avoid getting killed” to “we want to make sure everyone is happy, has fulfilling life, never ever ever experiences anything even vaguely offensive and unfair, etc.

That is not the job of civilization. I don’t know whose job it might be, except perhaps G-d’s, but it’s not the job of civilization and can’t be done by a mere group of humans.


Well, yeah:
In the unarmed country the man with the illegal weapon rules


'Why look for a tea party connection?' Because they desperately want there to be one, they DEMAND there be one. And if there's not, they'll manufacture one to get the idea out there.


"What? A moment of silence? We can't do that!" I'm not sure, do you think it's mostly not liking Israel, not wanting to remember at all, or not wanting to make the muslim countries unhappy?


So CFLs can damage your skin. While they're working as designed. Wonderful.


The added soundtrack is annoying, but that's a warmup!




Why no, Algore and the gummint did NOT create the internet


On the current push by dirtbags like Lautenberg to start banning things again:
Actually, if the Australian Bureau of Criminology can be believed, Americans would be insane to concern themselves with what non-Americans think about American gun rights.

In 2002 -- five years after enacting its gun ban -- the Australian Bureau of Criminology acknowledged there is no correlation between gun control and the use of firearms in violent crime. In fact, the percent of murders committed with a firearm was the highest it had ever been in 2006 (16.3 percent), says the D.C. Examiner.

Even Australia's Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research acknowledges that the gun ban had no significant impact on the amount of gun-involved crime:

In 2006, assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
Sexual assault -- Australia's equivalent term for rape -- increased 29.9 percent.
Overall, Australia's violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.

Moreover, Australia and the United States -- where no gun-ban exists -- both experienced similar decreases in murder rates:


I call it "Jimmy Carter Syndrome", the disease that progresses with age and causes the mask of affability to fall away, revealing the bitter, petulant, sniping, shrewish character that lurked beneath the surface all along.


I'll note there was a gun show this weekend, one of the Metcalf shows; not many vendors, and they had WIDE aisles to try to disguise it. Most of the shows in the OKC area have gotten pretty sucky. Not a good thing.