Proving once again that the wind here not only sweeps down the plain, UPDATE on Perazzi story

sometimes it sucks, the airborn vacuums were out in force last night.  Appears casualties are very low; annoying as a lot of the weather weenies are, they're generally pretty good on short-term severe weather stuff.  Lots of destroyed homes, and people with stunned faces.

At one point KWTV had two chasers in Edmond with one storm, and one of them was about to hyperventilate, and the head ww had to ask twice "Where are you?" to get an exact location; and I swear that for a moment I thought he was going to reply "I'M RIGHT HERE!!"  But they did keep a good eye on the things.

Big ones here last night were two BIG supercells, both firing up here in central OK.  Both producing multiple tornadoes, the one that went through Norman very happily waited until it was east of town before it dropped the first, then produced twisters over and over.

It is a big change: not that long ago it would've been cops out watching the sky and radioing their headquarters that one was coming and the word spreading from there.  Now you can get severe weather alerts on your phone, or watch live radar and spotter coverage, and they generally see the wall clouds before the twister forms.  Tech can be a pain, it can also be very damned useful.


In other news, on the IRS:
In short: the very day after the president of the quite publicly anti-Tea Party labor union — the union for IRS employees — met with President Obama, the manager of the IRS “Determinations Unit Program agreed” to open a “Sensitive Case report on the Tea party cases.” As stated by the IG report.


 Be nice if Scott Pelley cleaned his own damned house before he went out whining about the state of media.


And it's bad enough that some journalists are actually acting a bit like reporters.


Thoughts on nosy doctors and "Are there any guns in the house?  Or you could be rude and use my response of "That would be nobody's damned business."  Which gets varying results.


Homicide rates before guns.  Some interesting data here.  I remember reading years back of someone finding records for London around 1100 or so; made Chicago look like a calm city in comparison.


Europe is on the edge of flat-out disaster, but the EUnichs have time to worry about olive oil jugs on tables.  
In ways that will benefit the people with money to spread around, of course.


No surprise the DC mayor was involved in keeping Gregory from being prosecuted, and his office really doesn't want to have to deal with this.


Idiocy On Parade in Colorado:
“He loaded prototype shotguns into the cab on the way to the Merchandise Mart,” gun rights activist and newly-elected National Rifle Association Director Steve Schreiner, who is attending the event this weekend, told Gun Rights Examiner this morning. “The cab driver notified law enforcement he suspected he had a terrorist in his cab, and they were waiting to intercept him, evidently oblivious to the fact that he was arriving at a highly-publicized area gun show. 

“He has two lawyers, Schreiner continued, “one of whom went to the police station, and convinced the police that the owner of one of the most expensive shotgun companies in the world was not a terrorist.
And, to make the stupidity of this even more amazing,
Perazzi was released a short time later and his prototype shotguns were returned to him, but reports have emerged that he was ordered by law enforcement to leave the state by nightfall, and sources tell Gun Rights Examiner he has gone one step further and left the country. He is expected to be returning soon with an eye toward filing legal action.
I damn well hope so.
Gun Rights Examiner also spoke this morning with one of the two attorneys involved with helping Perazzi straighten matters out to obtain his release. That attorney essentially confirmed the account provided by Schreiner, albeit she characterized the authorities’ position on Perazzi leaving the state more as advice than an ultimatum by the sheriff to get out of town by sundown -- something that would have no readily apparent legal basis. A call has been put in to the Adams County Sheriff’s Department Public Information Officer for comment and clarification on this and other details, but a response has not been received at this writing.
And 'advising' a legitimate businessman to get out of the state HAS a legal basis?  Really?

I tend to think Mr. Perazzi can afford good lawyers; the Denver PD and that cab company better be ready to kiss ass and apologize in a major way.  And/or have their checkbooks handy.
Update: This is getting really weird.  So just what the hell IS going on?