Sometimes the hits just keep coming

Friend of mine, a while back his wife informed him she wanted a divorce.

Few months later, his mother had a massive stroke and died.

Today, his father had a stroke.  No official word, but it looks bad.

And aside from encouragement, not really a damn thing anyone can do.

Plans for the day fell through.

So changed the oil & filter, and air filter, in the truck, checked various fluids and so forth.  Discovering, when I started this, that the little notebook I kept in the glove compartment to record dates on maintenance is gone.  Just what I needed.

While taking a break ran across this: "It's just a hole in my foot, I have duty to stand."

Short version: "How dare anyone pay attention to the stupid things I post!"

Remember this idiot?  Serious butthurt that anyone he doesn't approve of read his crap, and had a problem with it.


You could shorten this to "We're sick of the peasants having powered personal transportation! And this terrorist attack is a good excuse to try to stop that!"


Dammit, all this time I should've been saving up to buy a tank.


What?  ATF agents doing illegal stuff?
Anybody actually surprised?

Second:
What’s even more shocking? The ATF refuses to say who authorized the account, despite the account containing a combination of government funds and private money, something that is completely illegal.
Tell the bastards they can talk, or be charged and prosecuted.  AND THEN CHARGE AND PROSECUTE THEM.  Sick to bloody death of slimeballs like this getting away with it.

DAMMIT, 2016...

Det. Harris and Shepard Book have left the world.

Da-yum.

Go read.

A key bit: While awaiting orders to combat, Stein who was a toolmaker prior to the war and an innovative armorer took it upon themselves to create a weapon they believed better suited them.
That being

One more oathbreaking hack in a black robe

who made certain this is going to the next level.
...This is significant because in the Supreme Court's District of Columbia v. Heller decision, the Washington D.C.'s outright ban on handguns was unconstitutional because such guns are "in common use" for lawful purposes.
...
Covello, agreeing with the plaintiffs, concluded that the weapons and magazines are commonly owned and legally used in Connecticut and elsewhere. But he parted company with the plaintiffs when he wrote that the state's ownership and sales ban is justified when the government's goal of reducing violence is measured against the ban's impingement on Second Amendment rights.


Speaking of hacks, these bastards hiding behind badges don't need 'extra training', they need firing.  And prosecution.


No wonder the gun bigots and hoplophobes don't want Loesch on The View; she won't back down or let them get away with crap.


I've heard of wearing your heart on your sleeve, but your team on your boobs?

What did the Most Interesting Man In The World drink?

Any damn thing he wanted to.
Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question.

Can you think of a more solemn ceremony than posthumously

awarding the Medal of Honor? And the President's wife wears this?