Nice to be one of the Praetorian Guard, Updated

isn't it?
The FBI agent who accidentally shot someone while dancing at a Colorado nightclub in June can carry his gun again, both on and off duty, a judge ruled Tuesday.
...
Bishop was recorded doing a back flip on the dance floor when his gun fell out of its holster. The FBI agent went to pick it up, and while doing so, he unintentionally shot a bystander, 24-year-old Thomas Reddington.

The agent was then seen placing the gun back into his holster before walking off the dance floor.
Plain old citizen did this, he'd already be either in jail or fined to death, or both.  Especially when you add in this:
The agent will still not be allowed to drink or use drugs while his case is pending.
Really?  So had he been drinking when this happened?  Again, plain old citizen caught drinking while carrying would be on his way to jail pretty damn quick in most places.  Hell, most places you cannot carry into a bar even if you're only having a soft drink.

But then, they aren't a Very Special Federal Agent.

Update:  was advised he was charged and pleaded to third-degree assault.  And this says he's no longer with the EffingBI.
Ever read any of the Joe Leaphorn novels?  In one he's reflecting on working with the feds and he'd decided that one of the only things that would get you in real trouble with the Bureau was doing something that brought even slight bad publicity to the sacred Bureau.  I'd guess this covers it.

I might as well get this on the verdict out of the way, from a law professor,

and he's not the only one:
"I think, as I said before, that this case was legally unfounded. When they were reading those guilty verdicts, the one thing that we didn't know is really what he was found guilty of. Because if you remember, the judge allowed the jury to find guilt on any one of the three secondary crimes," Turley said. That meant the jury didn't have to determine exactly what crime was committed.

"We weren't told whether the jury found any one of those crimes, whether they found all three of those crimes. I'm not too sure we will know that. That's one of the many issues that I think presents reversible problems in this case," Turley assessed.   (bold mine)
Which is a polite way of saying  "This is such bullshit, it's amazing."

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/05/30/jonathan-turley-reaction-trump-verdict-n2639762

If his #3 was involved in all this, the chance of his knowing nothing

is just about zero.  People probably are going to jail for this, and the lawsuits and retrials are going to cost the taxpayers a fortune.  
Unlike many alleged felons in Los Angeles County, the Diana Teran scandal has the potential to topple the county's power structure, or to put a severe dent in it.

That potential exists because of the sheer volume of personnel and criminal cases Teran was involved with that might now be challenged in court, and because her actions at issue in the criminal case allegedly involve coordination with high-ranking county officials, such as Inspector General Max Huntsman, District Attorney George Gascón, and current and former members of the county Board of Supervisors.
People are going to demand their case be retried, fired officers are going to demand to be cleared and receive damages, and a bunch of corrupt politicians are going to be willing to do just about anything to stay out of jail.

Well, the voters elected the bastard and his minions, so.  

What happens when enough people lose all trust in the cops and the system?

Insty and some others have pointed out that the cops are there in large part to protect the bad guys from the good guys, so there will be a trial instead of the victims and neighbors taking care of business themselves.

What happens when the .gov and cops trash that deal?
Haiti, for one.

And we've got a lot of politicians who seem to be pushing for this.  Stupid and determined as some of them are, they may actually be pushing for this so they can act against those who do something and hail themselves as saving 'our democracy from those who take the law into their own hands."

I promise you, we really, really don't want people pushed to that point.

Why there should be a gallows in the town square

Except that in the craphole that is Seattle/King County, they'd probably use them on the victim.  For causing anguish to the felon or something.
Except in King County they'd probably use them on the victim for causing anguish to the felon.

Illegal alien, I'm betting(chickenshit paper doesn't say) rapes woman.  What followed:

A: However, Jane was upset to find that the King County Prosecutor’s Office charged Carranza-Ramirez with rape in the third degree. According to Washington state law, third-degree rape is a class C felony that encompasses date rape, but not violent rape.

“I was very angry and upset when I found out what the initial charge was, and I immediately wrote a letter … disputing [it] and saying why that wasn’t good enough,” Jane said.

The prosecutor’s office told her that they use a conservative filing policy to file lower charges, in the hopes that suspects will plead guilty quicker.
"What, you want us to actually do our jobs?  It's easier this way."

B: While he was sentenced to 12 months in jail, King County Superior Court Judge Nicole Gaines Phelps released him for the nearly nine months already served, on the conditions that he would return to Mexico, have no contact with Jane, and register as a sex offender. The court served him with a Sexual Assault Protection Order and ordered him to get on a plane to California on Monday, and then cross the border to Mexico by land.
He raped her twice, with her kid there, and GOT OUT ON NINE MONTHS SERVED... Because Nicole Phelps is a fucking idiot who probably considered him a poor victim of something, and didn't give a rats ass about the actual victims.

And they just turned the bastard loose to return to Mexico.  Even though
According to court documents, Carranza-Ramirez stated that murdering Jane would “set him free.”
they just TURNED THE BASTARD LOOSE...

C: Just as Jane dreaded, she says he found her and violently attacked her just three days after his release. He allegedly hit her in the face with a long, stick-like object, knocked her out of her wheelchair, and choked her as her son cried nearby.

The judge needs to be flogged at the least, and hanging would probably be appropriate.  The other morons involved, who did nothing to protect the victims, oh, let's go with the flogging.  And disbarment for the lawyers.  At least for a start.

So now they want to get rid of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because "It encourages doubt

when someone says they've been raped!"  Wonderful.

There SHOULD be doubt; our whole system is built on 'innocent until PROVEN guilty beyond reasonable doubt'.  But these idiots want to tear that down in the name of "Believe the victim no matter what!"
At least some victims.
This is why Lee elevated righteous scepticism: she was addressing a culture in which instant belief had replaced fairness. As it has again today. This is not to say modern-day feminists are racist. Of course they aren’t. But there is a thread that ties the old racist hysteria about black male rapists and today’s supposedly progressive panic about “rape culture”: an astoundingly dismissive attitude towards due process and the rigorous establishment of guilt. What both these moments share in common is an insistence that we believe the victims. No questions, no scepticism, no interrogation — just belief. But belief in cases like this has caused untold damage throughout history. Black men were hanged because of a cult of belief. In the Satanic Ritual Abuse and paedophile panics of the 1980s and 90s, families were torn apart as a consequence of a cult of belief. What damage is being done now by the elevation of almost-religious belief over cool, just scepticism? Our cry should not be “I believe you”; it should be, “I respect you and I want to believe you. But I need proof. Strong proof. Because I prefer civilisation to barbarism.”
Very damned much so.

From Ayoob:

3 Post-Court Myths Dispelled
Short version: it can be a good shoot, and you can still be screwed by the system.


Some people don't show the expected symptoms of a heart attack.  And it'll kill you.
Few years back a friend of a friend got married to a retired military guy.  In great shape, worked out, all that good stuff.  He was mowing the front yard, wife went in to get him some tea, came back out and he was dead on the ground.  Massive heart attack.  Sometimes, there's no warning.


Restored WWII PT boat back on the water.  Man, that'd be a ride.


Fuck the union.  
Fuck the bastards who couldn't make themselves talk to evil Republicans.
Fuck the union that's trying to get rid of the people who actually TRIED TO DO SOMETHING.
And fuck the Democrats who 'couldn't do anything'.  With a splintery shovel handle.  Followed by a crotch fire.

The craps table is NOT where you leave the dog

while you gamble.  I stand corrected.

So, who's Jill Stein actually working for?
Jill Stein didn’t get the recount she wanted in Michigan, but she did get the state to take vote-integrity issues seriously. Meeting in its lame-duck session, the state House of Representatives passed a tough voter-ID bill that includes $3 million for funding of free state identification and birth certificates after over 18,000 voters cast ballots without identification in the presidential election:


I once read a piece by a lawyer who said he didn't understand why more people didn't demand another opinion on evidence by a independent lab, because there were so many times that he did that and their opinion indicated the testimony was either incorrect or plain crap.  This indicates he was REALLY right.

For an awful lot of people it'll be "If the Justice Department and the government

doesn't have to obey the law, why should we?"
There's already a lot of that from crap already happened:  IRS and FBI and ATF clowns breaking federal law, and their own regulation, and paying no price.  Do they think people don't see that, and aren't pissed?*

People- especially those with some connection to security matters- know that some clerk at State, some troop in the military, who did a tenth of what Clinton has would have already been arrested, charged, tried, and in a cell.  If she walks on this, nobody's going to want to hear any lectures about the Rule of Law, because there is none.



*Throw in prosecutors who violate law and ethics, and pay no price.  Cops caught lying on the stand or screwing with evidence and getting away with it.  That crap figures in, too.

Cries of 'Victim blaming!' and such begin in 3, 2, 1...

“[D]on’t drink so damn much,” Marcus wrote as advice from a parent to their daughter leaving for college.

That advice is crucial because, as Marcus wrote, “the line between consensual sex and sexual assault is not always comfortably clear.”

That telling your teenage daughter not to get drunk at parties is condemned...


“A rule not ultimately backed by the threat of violence is merely a suggestion. States rely on laws enforced by men ready to do violence against lawbreakers. Every tax, every code and every licensing requirement demands an escalating progression of penalties that, in the end, must result in the forcible seizure of property or imprisonment by armed men prepared to do violence in the event of resistance or non–compliance. Every time a soccer mom stands up and demands harsher penalties for drunk driving, or selling cigarettes to minors, or owning a pit bull, or not recycling, she is petitioning the state to use force to impose her will. She is no longer asking nicely.”

Connected, from a while back:
I would like politicians and bureaucrats to acknowledge this: Every law, rule, and regulation made by the government ends in puppy killing SWAT Teams. Every dime that is spent in our name was taken at gunpoint. 

I want them to understand that every action they take has this statement as a footnote: “This is important enough that my grandmother should be killed if she does not abide.”


Next time someone starts bitching about about people owning guns causing crime, point them to this piece Tam linked to, which includes
So let’s do the math: We have a gang-affiliated dude who tries to murder four rivals in an effort to advance his fortunes within his gang, who confesses to the crime and his motive, who is caught red handed with the weapon used to commit the crimes, and the added bonus of having endangered a bunch of other innocent people in addition to the ones he did intend to kill…and he’s going to be out on the street again in a year and a half.
The reasoning of Judge Michael Gary is…well…read it for yourself:
“You turned to a gang for family support, for support in your life. And that is where we are failing as a society…You are a nobody in terms of that gang. You are literally an instrument of somebody who has far more power than you…Mr. Benjamin, as I said, is a boy, not a man yet.”

I should point out at this point that Mr. Benjamin is, in fact, 22 years old.
And
Note how some of the most violent places in America, the places the professionally outraged are always citing as evidence of society’s failure to do enough and reasons why we need to have more gun laws, don’t actually make much of an effort to prosecute violations of existing gun laws. Gee whiz, fellas…you think maybe there’s a pattern here? Like maybe the willingness to just not bother prosecuting violations of law that carry serious time behind them, a habit of downgrading charges on serious crimes, and jurists who seem to insist on treating 22 year old gangbangers who shoot up neighborhoods like a misbehaving 7 year old could have some correlation to the level of violence taking place in these areas?


Speaking of such dirtbags, how the hell can you tell someone 'Just do what they say and you'll be fine' when you're dealing with walking crapbags like this?
34% said they killed because the victim challenged the killer’s authority

66% said they killed because the victim insulted them in some way

More on the subject from Anarchangel
That can be good advice to a point (I don't totally agree with it, but OK); but that's where most police officers stop.They never qualify their point. Fortunately, these ones did, by following up with "unless things start to get violent, in which case the only thing you can do is try and stop the threat".

What most cops won't tell you, because they don't want you "trying to be a hero"; is that once there has been an escalation of violence in the commission of a crime, the chances of somebody not being killed or seriously injured are very poor.

If you're dealing with what cops call an ODC (ordinary decent criminal), then most likely nobody is going to get hurt; but once things tip over that edge (and it can happen at any time, with no warning), you are effectively a dead man already, unless you act to prevent that from happening.

Considering 'innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt'

is how it's supposed to work, I fail to see why this is so shocking.

Except to the SJWs who think "Ah, the people we could destroy if accusation equaled guilt!"

Tab clearing

A sticker to really piss off all the right people.


NYPD once again playing "Screw the law, we do what we want."


A car ad about Ted Kennedy that REALLY set things off.


Hilda Solis, another Obama bigshot who broke the law.


Scientist wrote a book.  Sourced, footnoted, the whole works.  Subject offended the correct-thinking people, so they tried to destroy him.

They're still at it.


Chicago still leading the way.  In homicides and violence.


Rainier has a bigger magma reservoir than they'd thought.


They're finally attacking the IRS problem in a way that'll get their attention: cutting their budget.


Yeah, all those worries about islamists were just racism  and paranoia, right?



I think it was Glenn Reynolds who first remarked that a rerun of Carter might be a best-case scenario for the Obama presidency, and it appears he has understated the depth of the problem. This is what happens when you have a president who decides the U.S. can simply check out of world leadership. The Rand Pauls of the world have a point that the U.S. is overextended in the world, and a rethinking of our commitments and grand strategy is certainly a valid undertaking. I noted here two years ago, after John argued that we should withdraw from Afghanistan, that Winston Churchill might well have agreed.

But Obama is not giving us a thoughtful reconsideration of American grand strategy. He’s just bugging out.


This is friggin' disgusting.  The prosecutor and everyone on that grand jury should be punished for this.

Black Panthers intimidating white voters? No problem.

Obama's campaign playing fast & loose with credit card donations?  No problem.  The IRS violates federal law- and KEEPS doing it?  No problem.  But suddenly
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stated: “As we have long said, this Office and the FBI take a zero tolerance approach to corruption of the electoral process. If, as alleged, the defendant directed others to make contributions to a Senate campaign and reimbursed them, that is a serious violation of federal campaign finance laws.”

FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos stated: “Trying to influence elections through bogus campaign contributions is a serious crime. Today, Mr. D’Souza finds himself on the wrong side of the law. The Federal Election Campaign Act was written to limit the influence of money in elections; the FBI is fiercely committed to enforcing those laws to maintain the integrity of our democratic process.”
And we can trust the EffingBI, can't we?
Stop laughing so hard, dammit, this is serious.


Of COURSE the LGBT community is silent; the lesbians are off the hook and a male is getting screwed.


Wendy Davis(Lying Politician-TX) catches hell for her supporters acting like assholes; suddenly she's all upset about it.

Still stands by the lies, of course.


Democrats gather to whine about income inequality.  At a hotel charging $695/night.
Kind of like fundraisers for equality/caring/etc. that run $10k/plate.


Speaking of that hive of scum and villainy known as San Francisco,
A former high-ranking San Francisco government employee convicted of felony possession of child pornography will continue to receive his government pension because, according to city regulations, evidence of “moral turpitude” is required to revoke a pension yet viewing violent kiddie porn does not qualify as moral turpitude.

As reported here in the Tatler, Larry Brinkin, a prominent San Francisco Human Rights Commissioner and nationally known gay rights advocate, was arrested in 2012 for possessing and possibly distributing videos and images of babies being raped by adult men. Because of Brinkin’s “iconic” stature in the community as the person who pioneered “domestic partnership” laws nationwide, supporters at the time accused the police of framing him with false charges. But the evidence was so overwhelming that, after 18 months of legal wrangling, on Tuesday, January 21, Brinkin pled guilty to felony possession of child pornography, with various other more serious charges dropped as part of the plea bargain. He will serve just six months in jail and thereafter have to register as a sex offender.
Also, note that horrible sentence: SIX MONTHS IN JAIL. For possessing and possibly distributing videos and images of babies being raped by adult men. With other more serious charged dropped(gee, I wonder why... maybe his 'iconic status'?).

Not a chance I will go to that city and put money in their pocket.  For any reason.  I don't give a rats ass what the 'cultural attractions' are.


Speaking of Californicated and disgusting politicians, in 'honor' of that idiot senator, you too can now have an official Ghost Gun!

It should be noted they still have the Pew lowers for three more days

Along with the PC bullshit and classes that often are bullshit, why else might more guys be saying "No" to college?  Here's some reasons why.

Yes, let's do remember this case

and the way that the media that can't get enough of the Martin/Zimmerman case mostly ignored this one.
It's ugly, there's no question about what happened, but it was committed by five black thugs on a white man and a white woman, so the media that can't get enough of a white Hispanic and a 'black child' didn't want to report it.  Or talk about it.  Or admit it happened.


For those people(effing idiots all) who want to make it easier to convict someone:
A key constituency seeking to roll back stand your ground in the Florida legislature is prosecutors, whose interests just might not be fully congruent with those of the people they prosecute.
Yeah, we REALLY want to give them even more power.
Tell you what, guys: We'll consider that if you give up qualified immunity. How's that for a trade?
Although critics insist that stand your ground leads to racially disparate effects, the Tampa Bay Times, a paper that has been highly critical of the law, concedes its in-depth investigation "found no obvious bias in how black defendants have been treated" under the law. 

It also quoted Alfreda Coward, a black Fort Lauderdale lawyer "whose clients are mostly black men," as saying it had sometimes worked to the advantage of her clients facing charges over altercations. "Let's be clear," Coward told the paper, "this law was not designed for the protection of young black males, but it's benefiting them in certain cases."
It was not 'designed' for young WHITE males, either, Coward; it was designed for THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA(effing moron lawyers; did he think- ah, never mind).

And, what REALLY needs to be done:
If you're looking for things that really went wrong in the Zimmerman case and are part of wider patterns unfavorable toward minorities, try looking at the prosecution's misdeeds.
Oh HELLS yeah.
Of course, they also need to look at a lot of the media who helped whip this into the frothy mess it became, but they don't mention that.

Too good not to borrow:

From comments: Wow, advice on how to carry and use a gun from someone who doesn't. I'll get right on that.
From Michael Z. Williamson on the book of face.
And that would also be 'from someone who doesn't want anyone to.'


This week’s disclosure does reveal that there was, in fact, a dedicated “Tea Party Coordinator” at the IRS, a position that had no analogue on the left.
What’s more, nothing the Democrats have brought forward explain why:
(1) Only 30 percent of groups with the word “progressive” received extra scrutiny — but 100 percent of groups with “tea party,” “patriot” or “9/12” in their name were subjected to invasive questioning.
And on and on.  All distracted from by the Zimmerman trial and anything else Obama & Co. can use to distract from this.


And the vultures make their presence known:
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday used the national fury over the verdict in the Trayvon Martin shooting to push his anti-gun agenda.
...
Obama, meanwhile, declared that honoring Trayvon Martin means pushing his failed gun agenda. Never let a “crisis” go to waste.
Be it noted that the irony of Bloomberg whining about 'laws drafted by someone in another place' is almost choking.  So is that whoremonger Spitzer whining about 'failure of justice'.


How bad was the conduct of the special prosecutor?
MIKE HUCKABEE: You have said that you thought the prosecutor ought to be disbarred, that's a pretty serious type of violation to get a person disbarred. It is that serious to you?

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Right, it is. She submitted an affidavit that was, if not perjurious, completely misleading. She violated all kinds of rules of the profession, and her conduct bordered on criminal conduct. She, by the way, has a horrible reputation in Florida. She's known for overcharging, she's known for being highly political. And in this case, of course she overcharged. Halfway through the trial she realized she wasn't going to get a second degree murder verdict, so she asked for a compromised verdict, for manslaughter. And then, she went even further and said that she was going to charge him with child abuse and felony murder. That was such a stretch that it goes beyond anything professionally responsible. She was among the most irresponsible prosecutors I've seen in 50 years of litigating cases, and believe me, I've seen good prosecutors, bad prosecutors, but rarely have I seen one as bad as this prosecutor, [Angela] Cory.


From Steyn:
English law is its distribution of power between prosecutor, judge, and jury. This delicate balance has been utterly corrupted in the United States to the point where today at the federal level there is a conviction rate of over 90 percent — which would impress Mubarak and the House of Saud, if not quite, yet, Kim Jong Un. American prosecutors have an unhealthy and disreputable addiction to what I called, at the conclusion of the trial of my old boss Conrad Black six years ago, “countless counts.”


Obamacare isn't the only thing being rolled back.

Try to tell me Eric Holder wasn't in the middle of this crap

Try.
Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in February 2012.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the DOJ on April 24, 2012. According to the documents JW received, a little-known DOJ unit called the Community Relations Service deployed to Sanford, FL, to organize and manage rallies against Zimmerman.


Also, you might remember that Martin's phone was being examined, which came to this:
The State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman took a wild turn late Tuesday evening, as defense attorney Don West got in a heated conversation with Judge Debra Nelson just before 10:oo p.m. Nelson had just expressed her intent to block testimony and evidence recovered from deleted messages on Trayvon Martin’s cell phone.

A forensic expert discovered more than 600 items on Trayvon’s cell phone, including texts and photos between Trayvon and other people with specific references to criminal activity — particularly fighting, drugs, and firearms.
Now why would a (honest)judge want to block this?

The forensic expert testified that he recovered multiple conversations between Trayvon Martin and specific family members and friends discussing multi-round street fights and schoolyard fights in which Trayvon Martin had participated. Martin’s half-brother, Demetrius Martin, even asked Trayvon when he would teach him how to fight. Trayvon Martin’s family appeared to know Trayvon was a street fighter.

Most troubling, Conner found multiple conversations — between four and six — where Trayvon discussed attempting to buy black-market guns.

The guns Martin discussed acquiring included a Smith & Wesson Sigma pistol and a .38 Special revolver. One conversation showed Martin trying to sell a .22 revolver, suggesting he was already in possession of it.
And don't forget this:
The state hid this evidence until right before the beginning of the trial, when the prosecution’s Wesley White came forward to present testimony that the state was hiding and may have destroyed evidence. The defense has had no time to recover this data and to depose every witness.

Just about everybody on the prosecution side, and probably the judge as well, should be investigated and- from the looks of things- disbarred and prosecuted for their actions in this.

The D'ohJ?  Needs to be cleaned out, top to bottom.

Oh now, this would never be abused,

noooo...
UCSD Lecturer Brett Stallbaum has released an Android app called Gun Geo Marker to allow people to ‘Geolocate Dangerous Guns and Owners.’

The Gun Geo Marker operates very simply, letting parents and community members mark, or geolocate, sites associated with potentially unsafe guns and gun owners.  These locations are typically the homes or businesses of suspected unsafe gun owners, but might also be public lands or other locations where guns are not handled safely, or situations where proper rights to own or use any particular type of firearm may not exist.


It appears the prosecutors in the Zimmerman case are either more effing stupid than thought, or trying desperately to come up with SOMETHING.  After their witnesses overall helped the defense and trashed the prosecution, now this.

More on it here.
Forensic pathologist Vincent Di Maio testified this morning in State of Florida versus George Zimmerman, and as the guy who literally wrote the book on gunshot wounds for his fellow forensic pathologist peers, Di Maio is likely the foremost expert in the world at his specialty. 

Di Maio’s testimony gutted the prosecution’s case. 

He used science to show that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in the exact position as he described, and he testified that the wounds Zimmerman suffered were entirely consistent with the sort of beating he claimed to take. Di Maio also slapped state medical examiner Shiping Bao for not opening up Trayvon Martin’s hands to check for evidence of bruising consistent with the kind of attack Zimmerman reported. Such bruising would not have been evidence on a man killed so soon after issuing such a beating.
There's also a fine example of the kind of dirtbagginess Martin supporters are indulging in

Isn't that just so CUTE?

Even if you ignore the "What IRS investigation?" crap from the EffingBI Director,

you find yourself wondering "WHY am I supposed to trust these clowns?"
Another murderer/extortionist/fill in the blanks being protected by the EffingBI while committing these crimes, over decades, because 'He's an important informant!'

And doing things the EffingBI didn't want to dirty its' hands with.
In return for his assistance to the Feds, Scarpa collected in spades, using his influence with the FBI to avoid prosecution on three separate indictments by organized crime strike forces over the years. Not only did he beat a 1974 indictment for stealing $520,000 in securities and conspiring to counterfeit, transport, and sell $4 million in IBM stock, but when Secret Service agents arrested him in 1986 for credit card fraud, on charges that could have led to seven years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the FBI intervened and helped him get his sentence reduced to probation and a $10,000 fine.


A breakdown of how the Zimmerman trial is going, and how it got to this point in the first place.
I've said before: a bunch of the prosecution team needs to worry less about sucking up to RWPP jerks and more about being disbarred for the crap they've done.


One more celebritute opens the mouth, and
Happy Independence Day! Just think, if we hadn’t won that war, today wouldn’t be a holiday AND we’d have health care.


A couple of examples of what Obama's smart diplomacy has gotten us:

The EPA wants the utilities to be able to turn your refrigerator and freezer off; whatever could go wrong?

Well, Bloomberg thinks the law only applies to him

and his causes when he wishes it to, so no big surprise he'd use city facilities/people/money for his own purposes.
And note that, much like Gunwalker, this was brought up by a blogger.


I think a lot of clowns in DC consider this a good thing: combine nobody being able to live without breaking SOME law they don't even know about with the NSA and EffingBI nosing through everyones' e-mails and phone calls, they can always find something to charge ANYONE with.


Kind of a joke with daughter a few years back: "It can't be harmful, it's natural!"
"So is cyanide."
A pretty good piece taking that much more in-depth on the subject of "Oh, the horrors, manmade additives!" and such.


Some information on stopping power.  Short version: all handgun rounds pretty much suck, and rifles and shotguns aren't always that great, either.


There was some outrage a few days back that some prosecution 'experts' weren't allowed to testify in the Zimmerman trial about the yelling on the recordings.  If you've followed this mess, you know why; if you haven't, well, it's because said experts are full of shit.


What, you expect politicians and bureaucrats to cut actual fat and waste when they can screw people over in the name of playing their power games?

Ok, what think you of this?

A man has been jailed for watching cartoon videos of elves, pixies and other fantasy creatures having sex. 

Ronald Clark downloaded the Japanese anime cartoons three years ago, setting in train events that would see him in court in Auckland and jailed for three months for possessing objectionable material, and sparking debate as to what harm is caused by digitally created pornography. 

Clark has previous convictions for indecently assaulting a teenage boy and has been through rehabilitation programmes, but the video nasties he was watching in this case were all cartoons and drawings.
The guy may be a first-class dirtbag, but I have a problem with jailing him because of a friggin'(literally in this case) cartoon.  Especially with this to justify it:
Anti-child pornography group ECPAT Child Alert director Alan Bell said the images were illegal because they encouraged people "to migrate from there to the real thing". 

"The distribution of it is damaging. You have to ask what impact does it have even if it's not harming [an individual child]."
The number of camel noses this sticks in the tent is kind of awesome to behold, and scary as hell.


Meanwhile, in Brady/CSGV paradise,
There have been 441 shootings and 100 homicides in the city of Chicago so far this year, according to a blog that tracks crime in Chicago.

That works out to 3.8 shootings per day or approximately one shooting every 6.3 hours.