It's not a long trip, but it's the first Updated

I've taken on this bike, and I found out a few things.
Speed-wise, at 75 this bike(VFR800) is turning a grand total of 5000rpm, and feels like it's just loafing along. Considering it doesn't redline till almost 12k, I guess it is.
I've been getting around 40mpg, in town and some highway; on the trip down I got just over 48; steady highway speeds make a difference(I'll add the mileage for the trip back when I tank up)(update: trip home, 56mpg; a horrendous crosswind/sort-of-quartering-in-places wind instead of a headwind made a helluva difference).
That Throttle Rocker works. Bad thing: you can't take your hand completely off the throttle to rest it. Good thing: you can just add or reduce pressure with your wrist to adjust speed. For longer trips(say 200 miles or more) I think I'd like a throttle lock, but this does work quite well.
This was a 'wind sweeping down the plain' day; I can't remember ever spending that much time in a constant lean before. Not in one day.
The weather weenies called this: right about the time I passed out of the 'high wind warning' area, it really did ease off.
I'll add a bit later; right now I think the bike has cooled off, so I'm going to wash the bugs off it.

So this is the 'elite' SWAT team that murdered Jose Guerena

First, Mr. Guerena’s weapon, contrary to initial accounts by the SWAT team, was never taken off of safety. The team took no shots from him. Second, the team mills around for a while before breaching the home. Third, they don’t form into a stack. Fourth, absurdly, they knock and allow only four seconds for a response. Fifth, one of the members falls in the doorway. Sixth, upon shots being fired (by the SWAT team), more than one team member begins backing away from the incident. Seventh, one of the team members who initially backed away moves forward to fire shots over the heads of other team members who are in the home (it’s a wonder that SWAT team members didn’t get shot by their own team). All the while, several team members are standing aimlessly outside the home, doing nothing. Then to top it all off, even though medical responders arrived within minutes, they weren’t allowed into the home for one hour and fourteen minutes.

The Sheriff may as well have sent the Keystone Cops to raid the home. These clowns shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near weapons.
Further commentary at Captain's Journal; be sure to read Update #2.

Due to circumstances within my control

I'm busy; go play with yours- ah, go do something else for a day or two. I may or may not post anything

The question is, did Obama know what Biden was going to say?

Or did Biden just have another episode?
“We have a leader with a backbone like a ramrod and now – now – the real Barack Obama, the president who inherited the most god-awful circumstance any president has inherited, is coming into sharp focus.”
Yes, he really did say this. Among other things. I'm just going to point you to Correia; he's dealt with this very well.

I think Sen. Grassley is a mite peeved

at the Justice Department:
A Grassley aide told FoxNews.com on Wednesday that three Justice nominees recently sent to the floor could be the first to get caught up in the dispute.

They are Donald Verrilli, nominee for solicitor general; Virginia Seitz, nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel; and Lisa Monaco, nominee to head the National Security Division.

"Those would be possibilities," Grassley spokeswoman Beth Levine said, adding that her boss could put a hold on virtually anybody in line for a job at Justice over his concerns. The three nominees she named just happened to be voted recently out of committee.

"He's reserving the right to hold up nominees," Levine said.

'Chap Hop'?

New to me, too

You see, it's not a conflict of interest if

A: "Everybody knew about it", and
B: you're a Democrat named Frank.
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank admitted he helped his ex-lover land a lucrative post with Fannie Mae in the early 1990s while the Newton Democrat was on a committee that regulated the lending giant — but he called questions of a potential ethical conflict “nonsense.”

“If it is (a conflict of interest), then much of Washington is involved (in conflicts),” Frank told the Herald last night. “It is a common thing in Washington for members of Congress to have spouses work for the federal government. There is no rule against it at all.”
Frank, it may be a surprise to you but claiming 'everybody does it' doesn't make it any less crooked.

In an interview Tuesday on WBUR’s “Fresh Air,” Morgensen said Frank “was very aggressive and really tough on those who were testifying in Congress about reining in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac” during hearings after Moses was hired. She said Fannie Mae “rolled out the red carpet” for Moses as part of a strategy to curry favor with Frank and other members of the Financial Services Committee.

Morgensen also noted that members of the committee raked in tens of thousands in campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie execs, including Frank, who received $42,000 in contributions from 1989 through 2008.
Morgensen being a NYEffin'Times reporter, I doubt he can call her a right-wing homophobe, but I'm sure he'll come up with something.

You want to see a scary map?

that shows why so many people are upset about ninja-suited cops kicking in doors?
Map with all the details here.

Every time I hear something about the murder of Jose Guereña

I get more pissed. Especially when another lie from the SWAT team is pointed out. Like
Dupnik’s SWAT team initially claimed that Guereña fired at them while they were serving a warrant — as he slept. They claimed that his bullets hit the bulletproof shield that the entry team hid behind, and that the barrage of bullets they fired back was in self-defense.
What I heard earlier was they claimed they saw muzzle flash; now I find out they told this lie?

Worse and worse:
Call records from Drexel Heights Fire rescue say an ambulance was on the way at 9:43am. It arrived just two minutes later. But the ambulance crew was told to wait outside.

Law enforcement usually holds back medical crews to be sure they're not walking into danger.

The Drexel Heights crew waited until 10:59, then heard Code 900. The radio call that means they were no longer needed. The man was dead.

They had waited an hour and fourteen minutes.
God damn. Right now, the only think I can think of is the SWAT team wanted him dead; maybe because it's kind of hard for a corpse to testify against them?
And even more worse:
Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona is a Pima Sheriffs deputy. He helped develop medical training for Pima SWAT deputies that's become a national model.

Dr. Carmona can't comment on this specific case but says all Pima SWAT officers have military style first aid training and SWAT teams have unarmed, trained paramedics or EMTs who would be available to help anyone at the scene.
Has anyone heard ONE WORD where the SWAT team says they gave first-aid to this man? If so, please point me to it; otherwise I have to see it as this sorry bunch of 'lawmen' deliberately letting Guereña die.

Here's another case of either "I don't know the law"

or "I don't care about the law":
...Kemp refused to let them in, saying (correctly) that they needed a warrant. Together Lawyer and Firko kicked in the door, and Lawyer shot Kemp in the chest at close range. Later he claimed that "Kemp lifted and extended his arm upward as if he was pointing a gun at him," but no weapon was found anywhere near his body.
Over a POSSIBLE public drunk or DUI.

Hey, Indiana SC: does 'Your family can sue the officers who illegally entered your home and killed you' count as plenty of opportunities to protest the illegal entry through the court system ?

Oleg Volk pointed to a site

with some nice shirts. And some hats.


Added: speaking of shirts,

Lessons learned

On my part, anyway.
Specifically, 'get out of the way' prep in the event of, oh, some of those twirly windstorms that are dancing* around today and tonight.

I keep a 'get home' pack in the truck, and it also has the emergency stuff(first-aid kit, axe, rope, etc.); but watching the weather situation deteriorate and thinking about if needed to saddle up and go, some things came to mind: the Security Staff.
I knew where the leashes were, but it took a bit to find their collars(if I leave them on when they're in the yard, they pull them off each other and eat them. Literally.) And, just to be on the safe side, added a couple of bottles of water.

Food? Need to either have a large jug I can fill up, or a small bag to leave sealed(in the case of having to bug out on other matters I plan on taking the container with ALL their food).

Couple of other things came to mind, jtbotss, and I got them either loaded or ready to load. Having the lead time we did, I'd have been able to throw the last few in, grab the dogs and go. I'm making a list to do some thinking on. In the case of weather like this I'll either be able to come back later that day or- worst case- find new accomodations while rebuilding; I need a better prepared 'go' plan for the 'can come back later' situations.


*with spike-soled boots

Right now they're saying 7 dead at this point

from the stuff that went through earlier. The big one(so far) started out west and went a bit north of OKC; they're saying the damage track is about a half-mile wide in areas.

Ten years ago, probably would have been worse; twenty, I don't like to think about. The knowledge and equipment has improved so much that people generally get a lot of warning, time to get out or into shelter. Some of the weather weenies around here can be annoying as hell, but when things are actually happening/about to, they're generally pretty good.

Some video here,

Newton County Sheriff, Don Hartman Sr.: you're a disgrace *updated*

to the badge you wear and the oath you swore.
When asked three separate times due to the astounding callousness as it relates to trampling the inherent natural rights of Americans, he emphatically indicated that he would use random house to house checks, adding he felt people will welcome random searches if it means capturing a criminal.
Fuck you, Sheriff Hartman; you swore to uphold and protect the Constitution and now you piss on it. You should be thrown out of that office immediately.

*Update: Hartman is now saying "That's not what I said"; wonder if the reporter has audio/video of the interview? It'll be about the only way to sort this out.

This is interesting

One long-track twister that travelled something close to 100 miles(I think; subject to change when further info received, or I can find the damned map)*; one now going through south OKC/north Moore, one north Norman, and one south of Norman. At least that's the last I can untangle, it's downright nasty in places out there.


*Update: about 70-75 miles by current report(05/26)

I used to have a neighbor originally from New York

who was scared bleepless of the very idea of a tornado; if she were still here she'd be heading east fast. Or asking me to drive. Big tornado about 15 miles west of OKC moving mostly east.

"Where the wind come sweeping down the plain", all right, it's just generally easier to deal with when it's not rotating when it does.

Yeah, there go the sirens

This makes the actions by Tucson SWAT team look even worse

if that's really possible.
As reported by the Arizona Star, Storie insisted that if the Guerena family had permitted the armed intruders into their home, those inside “probably … wouldn’t have been arrested." This is because the "warrant was not directed at any particular person, and Guerena’s home was not mentioned, but it was targeting whoever might be inside the residence...."
What the HELL. And who the hell was the idiot judge who signed off on this? Or, just to cover it, what if the judge wasn't told exactly what was on the papers and he- being rushed- signed it; just what would he think of this?

This article brings up a good point: these people are claiming the deceased had 'part of a police uniform' in his possession: considering what all military gear the police are using, that could mean he had a BDU shirt or pants: "Oooooh, instant Police Uniform and Evidence of Wrongdoing, , so we were right to shoot him!"

I used to wonder about this from Cooper:
I have been criticized by referring to our federal masked men as "ninja,"
when in the view of the critic the traditional role of the ninja in Japan was to fight against oppression and tyranny. Let us note that almost no one ever resorts to force and violence unless he is convinced that his cause is right, but without going into that let us reflect upon the fact that a man who covers his face shows reason to be ashamed of what he is doing. A man who takes it upon himself to shed blood while concealing his identity is a revolting perversion of the warrior ethic.

It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.
I don't have much argument with it anymore. I can see someone who's been working undercover- and will again- who HAS, for some reason, to take part in a raid, wearing a mask, but everyone else? All the damned time? I'm rather tired of people who insist on hiding their faces while supposedly enforcing the law.

Some more over at Reason

He can catch fish, kid,

you're not gonna lose him:


Found at Weerd

Looks like OHP is trying out a new bike

Saw a Highway Patrolman out earlier on a bike I didn't recognize and stopped to talk. They're trying out the BMW 1200RT. Said that they're two weeks into a 8-week trial and he's finished: he wants one.

From what he said, especially on highway it beats the pants off the Harleys they've been using.

Needs some more work,

but it's coming along
Trim & pin the axles, pieces over the trunnions to hold them in place during the fierce recoil, maybe stain the carriage.

Since Obama's making such a big deal

of his Irish roots and talking like he's trying to get into the IRA, do we stop referring to him as the first African-American President?

Remind me not to go to Philadelphia: I don't like places

where the cops say "We don't care what the law is, here's what we'll do."

I'm sure they have the best of intentions, but

when a weather weenie says something is happening in the 'metro area', it ought to be in/very near the city, NOT twenty or thirty miles away and going some other direction.

Just because I like the Vorkosigan novels:

"You can ID Akabane for me. I wouldn't want to stun the wrong fellow, after all."

"You're pretty free with that thing."

"It's all right. I have a license to stun."

"I thought that was supposed to be a license to kill."

Roic grimaced. "That, too. But you would not believe all the forms that have to be filled out, afterward."

Haven't heard any details, but looks like this

was a straightforward ambush: he was carrying the receipts to the bank and instead of demanding the money they simply shot him in the head and took it.

Not much of a chance to 'give them what they want'.

The crying woman told a 911 operator she “shot him as much as I could”

and moments later police found her would-be attacker dead in the back yard of her Gwinnett County home.

As a friend would say about a bug on a windshield, "He won't do that again."

Something people like Peterson and Everitt will never understand

...Roic went through his instructions once more, prudently kneeling behind Mina and keeping a hand hovering to help steady her- she had to hold the thing up in both fists- and the drill was repeated.

Roic stood up, reset the code, and holstered the weapon. "Better?" he asked Jin.

"Yah," said Jin, in some wonder. "It's like a tool. It's just a tool."

"That's right."

from Cryoburn

I think Ben Stein blew it

in this article. Just to argue the points,
1. It seems it's been very well-known in France and the circles he travels in that Kahn is at the least extremely aggressive, at most a flat rapist; he's been protected from facing consequences because of his Socialist Party status, his class and his job.

2. Are you freakin' serious?

3. A: That's what the investigation is for, to find those things out. B: maybe, being here in the US, she knew that if she went to the police she wouldn't be dismissed?

4. As to flight risk, see 'France and Roman Polanski'. Also see 'Ira Einhorn'; given past French activities, yes, he should be considered a flight risk.

5. "Gee, he's a upper-class bigshot, shouldn't he get special considerations in jail? " NO, he shouldn't.

6. You don't think the NYEffin'PD actually investigated? Didn't check records, etc., before arresting him? Once more, are you effing kidding? If you think the investigators weren't aware of the noise that would be stirred up over this...

7. Legally he is innocent until proven guilty. No argument.

8. The price of the room(and other things) doesn't have a thing to do with the accused crime; that's interesting because you've got a rich socialist(should be a contradiction in terms) living high on OPM and screwing around with other peoples' lives.

As to the 'embarrassment', stuff it; he's been- by the legal authorities- treated pretty much like any other accused.

Yes, I'm going to harp some more on the French

Whatever the head of the IMF did or didn't do, the reaction of the French elites is most instructive. "We and the Americans do not belong to the same civilization," sniffed Jean Daniel, editor of Le Nouvel Observateur, insisting that the police should have known that Strauss-Kahn was "not like other men" and wondering why "this chambermaid was regarded as worthy and beyond any suspicion." Bernard-Henri Lévy, the open-shirted, hairy-chested Gallic intellectual who talked Sarkozy into talking Obama into launching the Libyan war, is furious at the lèse-majesté of this impertinent serving girl and the jackanapes of America's "absurd" justice system, not to mention this ghastly "American judge who, by delivering him to the crowd of photo hounds, pretended to take him for a subject of justice like any other."
Well, Froggy Daniel, the idea here is that people accused of crimes SHOULD be treated the same, whether rich or poor; doesn't always work out that way, but damned if we should make exceptions for sexual deviant socialists from France. And Lévy? He wasn't 'delivered to the crowd', he was taken from the court; just like any other suspect. Deal with it.

Notice how much of the upset by these clowns is because a mere maid is actually being taken seriously when she complains of being attacked? Interesting attitude from a bunch of socialist assholes, isn't it?

As is, we've got our own bunch of corrupt officials to worry about:
After Charlie Rangel, chair of the House committee that writes America's tax laws, was "censured" by Congress for multiple infractions of, er, America's tax laws, a Washington Times reporter invited him to imagine what punishment the "average American citizen" would have received had he done what the Congressman did. "Please," Rangel told her. "I don't deal in average American citizens."

Sheriff Dupnik need to be fired

And forbidden from ever wearing a badge again, if this report is correct. If for nothing else, for this:
A report by ABC News affiliate KGUN found that more than an hour had passed before the SWAT team let the paramedics work on Guerena. By then he was dead.
Isn't that just friggin' wonderful?


In a statement, the sheriff's office criticized the media, saying that while questions will inevitably be raised, "It is unacceptable and irresponsible to couch those questions with implications of secrecy and a coverup, not to mention questioning the legality of actions that could not have been taken without the approval of an impartial judge."
Let's see, the judge looks over what YOU give him and signs a search warrant; does that free you from responsibility for apparently effing up and murdering a man?

I shall now point you to Tam:
Assuming, for one moment, that this isn't a big fat stinking lie of a coverup, sheriff Dupnik, I want you to see if you can wrap your tiny mind around a simple piece of fact:

If your people weren't dressing up like masked thugs and kicking doors down and shooting people, then robbers wouldn't be able to impersonate your people by dressing up like masked thugs and kicking doors down and shooting people, in turn necessitating your people dressing up like masked thugs and kicking their doors down and shooting them.
...
The only people skulking in my bushes and forcing my locks in the middle of the night should be soon-to-be-shot bad guys, not cops with Clouseau-like map-reading skills; I shouldn't need a scorecard to tell the masked players apart.

About the IMF rapist, Strauss-Kahn

Can't remember who pointed to this the other day: The French Disease:
The image of Dominique Strauss-Kahn – who was three days ago a leading Presidential contender in France – doing the perp walk in Manhattan is the sort of thing that would set on edge the teeth of almost any of his compatriots, and they are none too happy that he is being held without bail on Rikers island. No public figure in France has in recent times been subject to anything like this. Justice there is reserved for the little people.
...
[Former French Justice Minister] Élisabeth Guigou, said she found the photos of Mr. Strauss-Kahn in cuffs indicative of “a brutality, a violence, of an incredible cruelty, and I’m happy that we don’t have the same judiciary system.”
...
Max Gallo, a prominent historian and commentator, agreed that the two systems were different. “It’s the first time in the history of France that a top-level figure is treated like a common criminal whose guilt is already established,” he said. “But it also manifests an egalitarianism in the American justice system that surprises us in France.”

He said, “People are asking, ‘Was it really necessary to do that?’”
'That' is this clown being treated just like any other accused who presents a flight risk; not only are the French aristocracy upset all to hell that he's being charged at all, but for him not to be given the special treatment a fine, rich, disgusting little socialist deserves? Why, that's terrible. Let me explain this, Mr. Gallo: yes, it was. Oh, and he's not being treated like guilt is already established: as I pointed out above, he's being treated like an accused rapist who is considered a flight risk. Part of the reason for that is you clowns sheltering a child rapist named Polanski for years.

One of the things that pisses me off about this: in the article I linked to the other day it mentioned that this jerk is known as a great 'seducer':
Then there is the French gender double standard — and the cult of what the French call the seducteur, the charmer, the operator. "It's not just that the word of a woman doesn't necessarily have the same weight as that of a man in many situations," says Rokhaya Diallo, president of Les Indivisibles, an association that promotes diversity in France. "It's that there's still this enduring attitude that seduction, conquests, affairs and flings by men is somehow O.K., even sort of admirable, while women who complain of sexual aggression are either making it up, or just having buyer's regret.
Seduction involves words, maybe drinks, conversation, moves, seducing the target; this bastard is, from the MANY other accounts, a violent attacker, a rapist; not nearly the same thing. The guy blows his message with the next bit:
Clear sexual violence is taken seriously and punished, but this wider tolerance of male conquest turns the other aspects of aggression gray in the minds of many people. Flat effing bullshit: this guy wound up in chains at his arraignment BECAUSE his attacks were never punished; they were excused, glossed over.

There are two other parts of the French Disease story, 2 here, 3 here.

One of the things I wonder about: what was his wife getting to make her put up with this crap? Whether she just liked the perks, or she's another socialist more concerned with getting his sorry ass into the Presidency than she is about repeated sexual assaults, I don't know; I guess it's been worth it to her up till now. Wonder if it still is?

I don't work with explosives, so I tend to forget

just how easy some of the stuff is to make.

So IdahoWashington schools are infested with the socialist vermin too

Go take a look.
There's been some talk about it lately and it's been in the news, but it's also been in your home town school for some time. Here is a history paper, handed out in my son's history class, complete with syntax errors, inexplicable asterisks, bad grammar, omitted words, and miss-numbering. The kids were told to memorize it. Keep in mind the title of the piece - "U.S. History" This is all American. Everything below is what made/makes us tick;

When them things don't match the rest of you...

Out yesterday evening, and a lady walked by; long hair, high-heel boots, short skirt, first thought "Oh, yes." Second thought: Legs and arms aren't slim, she's downright skinny. Then she turned around to talk to somebody: Them gazongas were not only HUGE, she was wearing a low-cut top and a push-up bra.

There was a temptation to say "Proportion, have you heard of this word? The surgeon should have mentioned it."

So the Secret Service apparently has counterfeiting and

actual terrorist threats and such so under control that they can waste time screwing with a 7th grade kid over a Facebook post. That wasn't a threat. AND do this without the parents around. AND the school doesn't do what it should and then lies to cover its ass.


To borrow from Insty, The Country Is In The Very Best Of Hands.

Found thanks to Weer'd

It's today

The CSGV and Joan Peterson are not only liars and bigots,

they're hypocrites, too.
When the CSGV started 'outing' bloggers, Brady Campaign board member Joan Peterson though it was a wonderful idea and encouraged them to continue.

"Thanks for the name. We need to keep track of these folks."

Then they expanded their efforts up to and including city/state of residence and work places (which resulted in their suspension from Twitter and lots of lying). She retweeted nearly every single one.

Well someone has allegedly threatened to do the same to her and she doesn't like it.

The most ironic statement from her:

What are your intentions with such information? Mere intimidation or do you mean some sort of dangerous action?

Well we asked the same thing of the CSGV when they started and were told we were going to be held 'accountable' for our words.
Being held to your own standards kind of sucks, doesn't it, Joan & Buttmonkeys, Inc.?

A: Jerk is living on OPM*

B: Someone says "Why is he getting away with this?"
C: Jerk threatens to kill himself if OPM is taken away from him.
I'll contribute to the body bag fund.


*Other Peoples Money

Gee, Ted, how's it feel to have your little lefty friends

crap all over you?

It appears Angelina Jolie has her heart in the right place

Thus, when Angelina Jolie, a Hollywood star of the first rank, steps forward and does something patriotic, makes an effort to thank our troops who are defending the West against jihad, well, Seraphic Secret wants you to know about it.

Angelina Jolie made a trip to the Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington, D.C. back on June 26th. No one reported on this until now because she didn’t tell anyone. She spent several hours with wounded soldiers and gave each one a gift bag which included, among other things, a $1000 gift certificate to Best Buy.

...
Angelina Jolie... went to Ramstein Air Force base in Germany four days ago to visit wounded soldiers, but there were no paparazzi pictures and it wasn’t in the press, because she didn’t tell anyone she was doing it.

Busy as the proverbial one-armed paper hanger,

so just links right now; assuming I don't fall over, maybe some pithy(no, that's not written with a lisp) commentary.
Touching Speical Areas once again demonstrates the professionalism we've come to expect of them; at least nobody's dead.


A comet hits the sun during a CME?

Damn.


So Kagan was a LOT more involved in setting up Obamacare than she admitted.


Kind of like the IRS really WANTS to throw away any reason to trust them.


How did the sorry little French rapist get away with this crap so long?
What took so long for Mansouret to back up her daughter and name Strauss-Kahn? She told French TV that she had dissuaded her daughter from filing charges because Strauss-Kahn was en route to greatness — and derailing the ascent of a fellow Socialist Party official would be bad form.
Even if he's tried to rape your daughter. Interesting the priorities of these socialist assholes. And the same thing goes for any member of ANY party that would protect such an asshole.


The lives of two more daughters have ended in honor killings—but this time at the hands of their mothers, not fathers. Two Muslim women in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh helped each other use ropes to choke the life from their daughters after the two young women returned home after marrying Hindu men, said police.


And the President throws Israel under the bus. I'm sure his spiritual adviser Wright is delighted, along with his friends like Calypso Louie.

Apparently BATFE and DOJ are getting real nervous

about what's come out and what may be about to:
CBS News has learned that virtually all the top ATF managers in Phoenix involved in the controversial "Fast and Furious" operation have been reassigned and replaced. The shake-up comes in the wake of the gunwalking scandal in which ATF allegedly allowed more than 2500 weapons to hit the streets or "walk."

Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Bill Newell has been replaced by the former Detroit SAC Tom Brandon. Newell was reassigned to ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. shortly after CBS News interviewed an ATF agent-turned-whistleblower about the alleged gunwalking.
It's transfers as opposed to, oh, firings and such, which probably means they want to get them more out-of-sight; especially with things like this happening:
Within the past few days DEA in Phoenix was survielling what they believed to be a dope load. A traffic stop was executed. The haul was not drugs but instead 50 to 60 AK-47’s, wrapped in cellophane and intended for Mexico that were purchased during Fast and Furious. DEA has the guns and ATF is reportedly scrambling to take possession of the guns from DEA to avoid further bad publicity.

And Grassley has a new letter for Holder; no time to read it now, but Codrea says very specific question are asked.

Napolitano, you lie. AND suck.

PolitiFact Georgia therefore took the TSA figures and did some math. The TSA’s Allen told us that “on an average day, about 2 million people are screened at TSA checkpoints.” Three percent of 2 million is 60,000 people.

That means that over the course of a month, roughly 1.8 million people receive a pat-down. That’s more than four times the population of Atlanta.

That doesn’t sound like “very, very, very” few people to us.
...
According to the agency and many radiation experts, the dose is so low, even for children or cancer patients, that someone would have to pass through the machines more than a thousand times before approaching the annual limit set by radiation safety organizations.

But the letter to the White House science adviser, signed by five professors at University of California, San Francisco, and one at Arizona State University, points out several flaws in the tests. Studies published in scientific journals in the last few months have also cast doubt on the radiation dose and the machines’ ability to find explosives.

A number of scientists, including some who believe the radiation is trivial, say more testing should be done given the government’s plans to put millions of passengers through the machines. And they have been disturbed by the TSA’s reluctance to do so.
...

After her article was published, Smith-Bindman was contacted by a TSA public affairs officer. During the conversation, she suggested that she or other outside scientists be allowed to test the machine. The official was shocked by the suggestion and said such access could tip off people who want to avoid detection, Smith-Bindman said.

One scenario posed by scientists is that of mechanical failure. The backscatter beam moves quickly, thanks to a high-speed rotating wheel that keeps it from sticking on one point of a body, which could create medical problems. Scientists are concerned that machines in operation 24/7/365 could experience malfunction in the wheel. TSA says that they have fail-safe systems and emergency stop buttons to keep passengers safe, but that’s not what Johns Hopkins researchers found:

When Johns Hopkins researchers visited the Rapiscan facility, the automatic termination appeared to work. But the full results of the shutoff tests are redacted.

What’s more, the test system didn’t have an emergency stop button.

History...it can be so

messy.
The Gibsons were hardly alone in their journey from black to white. Hundreds of families of color had gained their freedom in the colonial era because they had English mothers, and within a generation or two, they could claim to be white. Their claims were supported by law, which never drew the color line at "one drop" of African ancestry in the antebellum era. Most Southern states followed a one-quarter or one-eighth rule: anyone with a black grandparent or great-grandparent was legally black, and those with more remote ancestry were legally white. Antebellum South Carolina, though, never had a legal definition of race. "It may be well and proper," a state judge and leading defender of slavery wrote in 1835, "that a man of worth, honesty, industry and respectability, should have the rank of a white man, while a vagabond of the same degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste."

...but still, we talk about creating millions of shovel-ready jobs

for a society that doesn't really encourage people to pick up a shovel.


Mike Rowe, testifying about the need for people who can actually DO things. Like make sure the water and food arrives, and the toilets flush.

Maybe the kid can get away with it...

When I was six months pregnant with my third child, my three-year-old came into the room as I was preparing to get into the shower. She said "Mommy, are you getting fat?"

I said "Yes honey, but remember Mommy has a baby growing in her tummy."

"I know,", she replied, "but what's growing in your butt?"

Looks like Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF head,

was a standard socialist: a rich asshole who want to decide how everyone else lives 'for the good of all' and so forth.

So the Philadelphia PD is one of the agencies that needs to do some serious retraining of a bunch of officers. Or maybe fire some of them. And the DAs office needs some work, too; instead of seeing that the officers find out the damned law and act like human beings, it wants to help them screw with people. This is the kind of crap that causes people to point out to Ayoob that there are real problems in LE.


Somehow I missed this on the Indiana SC dirtbags: On Tuesday, the court said police serving a warrant may enter a home without knocking if officers decide circumstances justify it. Prior to that ruling, police serving a warrant would have to obtain a judge's permission to enter without knocking.
These assholes really don't like that 'limits on government' stuff, do they?


Last, haven't had time to go read it all, but when a former warmenist says things like this:
The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s. But the gravy train was too big, with too many jobs, industries, trading profits, political careers, and the possibility of world government and total control riding on the outcome. So rather than admit they were wrong, the governments, and their tame climate scientists, now outrageously maintain the fiction that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant.
it ought to be interesting.

So the choices are: was this deliberately malicious on BATFE's part,

or incompetence?
I saw the word go out on the wire that the ATF had released unredacted emails from the responses they received to their "Shotgun study" (and yes I use the term "study" in the loosest of possible terms).

I downloaded the poorly planned 516 page PDF and immediately searched for a distinct portion of my email address. It was not found. I know I submitted an email to the BATF on this matter, and I also knew that I had received an acknowledgment from the ATF confirming receipt of my email.
Or possibly one of the distractions from Gunwalker they'd like to get going?


Speaking of which, there's a long post at Sipsey Street that's, well, important. Borrowing one part,
It is ironic in the extreme that a report released for the short-term goal of deflecting what in the final analysis was minor criticism from the DOJ's Office of Inspector General will, I believe, prove to be the Gunwalker coverup artists' ultimate downfall. For this report is THE "outline for Gunwalker hearing questions."

Project Gunrunner existed before the Obama administration took power. But the executive summary of this internal report makes plain why and when Gunrunner became Gunwalker.

In response to the increased trafficking of firearms from the United States to Mexico, ATF developed Project Gunrunner, a firearms trafficking and firearms-related border violence strategy designed to deny drug trafficking organizations access to U.S. firearms. Initially implemented in our four primary Southwest border field divisions, Project Gunrunner has evolved into a national strategy as we have seen Mexican cartels reach further into the interior of the United States to acquire firearms in support of their lucrative drug trafficking operations.

It is important to note that this revised strategy does not replace Project Gunrunner. It is intended to complement Project Gunrunner and where appropriate clarify and expand Gunrunner capabilities and tactics. (Emphasis supplied, MBV.)

This document is not intended to provide detailed guidance concerning how to conduct cross border trafficking investigations; but rather is intended to be used by ATF personnel to ensure that investigative activity aligns with ATF strategic goals. Personnel should refer to ATF orders and publications, such as the recently revised Firearms Trafficking Guide, as well as training provided by the Office of Training and Professional Development for specific tactical and investigative guidance.

Since 2006, there has been a significant increase in drug and firearms-related violence in Mexico and increasingly along our Southwest border. Governments on both sides of the border have begun to view the evolution of cartel inspired violence in terms of criminal activity that increasingly threatens the stability of the Mexican state. Impacting this trend along our Southwest border, particularly in the post-9/11 world, requires new energy, vision and creativity. Over the past few years the White House, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security and even the U.S. Northern Command have developed various strategies and policies designed to leverage the full capabilities of the U.S. Government in this effort. It is essential that our efforts support the strategies and policies of the President and the Attorney General and where possible, complement the strategies of other agencies. (Emphasis supplied, MBV.

Read those last three sentences again. "It is essential that our efforts support the strategies and policies of the President and the Attorney General and where possible, complement the strategies of other agencies."

Whatever happened in the Gunwalker scandal, the ATF thought it was dancing to its political master's tune.
From near the end:
Here we have the entire point of the White House policymakers when they envisioned this back in early 2009. Always, always, they have coveted another "Assault Weapons" Ban and a "Gun Show Loophole" law. Their appetite was politically unattainable. The Obamanoids needed a crisis to justify their conspiracy to subvert the Second Amendment. So they set the ATF the task of aggravating a bad situation into a more bloody crisis that could be exploited, and gave them the additional task of documenting the body count as they did so, attempting to make their case that it was American civilian market firearms that were being used to do all the killing.

After all, what could go wrong? The ATF controlled all the statistics coming out of E-Traces from Mexico, right? What could go wrong? Who could upset that plan? Courageous whistleblowers like John Dodson, that's who. Absent the whistleblowers this bloody conspiracy would still be kicking along, bolstering the demands for law-abiding American firearm owners to give up more of their liberty in the "public good."

An archery story somebody sent me

Around age 10 my dad got me one of those little bad-ass compound bow beginner kits. Of course, the first month I went around our land sticking arrows in anything that could get stuck by an arrow. Did you know that a 1955 40 horse Farmall tractor tire will take 6 rounds before it goes down?
Tough sumbich..

That got boring, so being the 10 yr. old Dukes of Hazard fan that I was, I quickly advanced to taking strips of cut up T-shirt doused in chainsaw gas tied around the end and was sending flaming arrows all over the place.

One summer afternoon, I was shooting flaming arrows into a large rotten oak stump in our backyard. I looked over under the carport and see a shiny brand new can of starting fluid (Ether). The light bulb went off in my head...

I grabbed the can and set it on the stump. I thought that it would probably just spray out in a disappointing manner. Let’s face it, to a 10 yr old mouth-breather like myself, (Ether), really doesn't "sound" flammable.

So, I went back into the house and got a 1 pound can of pyrodex (black powder for muzzle loader rifles).

At this point, I set the can of ether on the stump and opened up the can of black powder. My intentions were to sprinkle a little bit around the (Ether) can but it all sorta dumped out on me. No biggie, a 1 lb. pyrodex and 16 oz (Ether) should make a loud pop, kinda like a firecracker you know?

You know what? Screw that I'm going back in the house for the other can.

Yes, I got a second can of pyrodex and dumped it too. Now we're cookin'.

I stepped back about 15 ft and lit the 2 stroke arrow. I drew the nock to my cheek and took aim. As I released I heard a clunk as the arrow launched from my bow. In a slow motion time frame, I turned to see my dad getting out of the truck... OH S--T! He just got home from work. So help me God it took 10 minutes for that arrow to go from my bow to the can. My dad was walking towards me in slow motion with a WTF look in his eyes. I turned back towards my target just in time to see the arrow pierce the starting fluid can right at the bottom. Right through the main pile of pyrodex and into the can. Oh S--t.

When the shock wave hit it knocked me off my feet. I don't know if it was the actual compression wave that threw me back or just reflex jerk back from 235 fricking decibels of sound. I caught a half a millisecond glimpse of the violence during the initial explosion and I will tell you there was dust, grass, and bugs all hovering 1 ft above the ground as far as I could see. It was like a little low to the ground layer of dust fog full of grasshoppers, spiders, and a worm or two.

The daylight turned purple. Let me repeat this... THE FRICKING DAYLIGHT TURNED PURPLE.

There was a big sweetgum tree out by the gate going into the pasture.
Notice I said "was". That son-of-a-b--ch got up and ran off..

So here I am, on the ground blown completely out of my shoes with my
Thundercats T-Shirt shredded, my dad is on the other side of the carport
having what I can only assume is a Vietnam flashback: ECHO BRAVO CHARLIE YOU'RE BRINGIN' EM IN TOO CLOSE!! CEASE FIRE. DAMN IT CEASE FIRE!!!!!

His hat has blown off and is 30 ft behind him in the driveway. All windows on the north side of the house are blown out and there is a slow rolling mushroom cloud about 2000 ft. over our backyard. There is a Honda 185 3 wheeler parked on the other side of the yard and the fenders are drooped down and are now touching the tires.

I wish I knew what I said to my dad at this moment. I don't know - I know I said something. I couldn't hear. I couldn't hear inside my own head. I don't think he heard me either... not that it would really matter. I don't remember much from this point on. I said something, felt a sharp pain, and then woke up later. I felt a sharp pain, blacked out, woke later....repeat this process for an hour or so and you get the idea. I remember at one point my mom had to give me CPR. and Dad screaming "Bring him back to life so I can kill him again". Thanks Mom.

One thing is for sure... I never had to mow around that stump again, Mom had been bitching about that thing for years and dad never did anything about it. I stepped up to the plate and handled business.

Dad sold his muzzle loader a week or so later. I still have some sort of bone growth abnormality, either from the blast or the beating, or both.


I guess what I'm trying to say is, get your kids into archery. It's good
discipline and will teach them skills they can use later on in life.

Ok, archery, or EOD Trainee or something...

Moving on from the Indiana SC idiocy,

what can happen when a playwright realizes a lot of the leftist stuff he'd always parroted really is crap.
The Secret Knowledge begins with a parricide—a verbal throat-slitting of the leftwing playwright Bertolt Brecht, father to three generations of dramatists, especially those who, like Tony Kushner or Anna Deavere Smith or Christopher Durang, make agitprop the primary purpose of their art. For most of his career Mamet revered Brecht too: It was the thing to do. The reverence came to an end when he finally noticed an incongruity between Brecht’s politics and his life. Although a cold-blooded—indeed bloody-minded—advocate for public ownership of the means of production and state confiscation of private wealth, he always took care to copyright his plays. More, he made sure the royalties were deposited in a Swiss bank account far from the clutches of East Germany, where he was nominally a citizen.

“His protestations [against capitalism] were not borne out by his actions, nor could they be,” Mamet writes. “Why, then, did he profess Communism? Because it sold. .  .  . The public’s endorsement of his plays kept him alive; as Marx was kept alive by the fortune Engels’s family had made selling furniture; as universities, established and funded by the Free Enterprise system .  .  . support and coddle generations of the young in their dissertations on the evils of America.”
and
“My grandmother came to this country and she and her two boys were abandoned by her husband,” he said. “She couldn’t speak English. No education. And during the Great Depression she was able to work hard and save and she put them both through law school.” His voice had a tone of wonder to it, as though still awed by a fresh discovery. “I mean, what a country. That’s a hell of a country.”
Yes, it is.


A serious feminist comes face-to-face with a nasty fact: women DO lie about that. One of the comments: Ironic, isn't it? As a feminist, rape crisis worker and abuse alumni, you helped usher in the very mode of thinking that now threatens your son. I'm sure it seemed all correct and proper, right up until the moment that one of yours took the hit.


What? Some union people do illegal and unethical things? Really?


Geithner, who has already suspended a program that helps state and local government manage their finances, will begin to borrow from retirement funds for federal workers. The measure won’t have an impact on retirees because the Treasury is legally required to reimburse the program.
My first thought was "Reinburse with WHAT? We're broke." Second thought was "Hey, he got away with cheating on his taxes, so why can't he steal from your pension?" I do still think that things like this call for tar and feathers. At the least.


Probably the only revolver you can effectively silence: the Nagant.(thanks to Uncle for the link)


So Obama, in dark of night or something, announces "There should be more drilling for oil." Which means his polls must be looking REALLY bad. Now we'll see; I won't believe the bastard until someone actually starts drilling.


My, what wonderful people the International Monetary Fund has among their upper ranks.


Og's response to the idiot judges mentioned in the title:


And, just in case you haven't heard about this yet, go read.
“And as soon as you fucking little thieving perverts decide whether or not something shiny in my wife’s carry-on is banned all of a sudden or not, I’ll be on my way. Now either get a real cop and charge me with something or go fuck yourself you petty little shit.”

Further proof that somebody with a knife and a bad attitude

is VERY bad news. Whole story at the link; I'm going to link the video here, be warned that it's very nasty indeed


As he says, This was a triumph and failure of mindset.

A little more on Dogs of War

I noted this piece a while back; there's a Part II. And a link to this story:
One night last February a Taliban suicide bomber tried to infiltrate the army barracks where 50 soldiers were sleeping. But the bomber was taken completely by surprise when the three dogs attacked him, holding him back by biting his legs, finally forcing him to detonate the 24lbs of C4 explosives he had strapped to his body. The attacker never made it to the threshold.

However, the blast did damage enough. As one soldier recounts the explosion was big enough that the shrapnel alone caved in a wall. Five soldiers were injured and two of the dogs were seriously wounded. Sasha, the third dog, sustained wounds that were too severe and she had to be put down. The soldiers nursed Rufus and Target back to health.
A semi-personal note: during his first Iraq tour, son mentioned a couple of the dogs that'd been adopted, and one of the things he said was that they very quickly learned "If they're wearing ACUs, they're one of us; if they're not..." A local working on the base saw one of the dogs watching him and threw a rock at it; by the time they dragged the dog off him, it was time for a serious trip to the hospital. So think of what three pissed-off dogs protecting their turf and pack were doing to that bastard.

It seems I missed the CSGV demonstrating just what assholes

they are. And I'm sure they feel very brave, and noble. Or just happy that their vindictive streak is showing. I'll borrow some of the words of Thirdpower:
They have learned my name. They have stripped me of my magical powers to control the blogosphere. Oh woe is me.

In other words, Ladd Everitt has gotten so desperate after having his @ss handed to him over and over and the recognition of their own insignificance in national affairs that he 'outed' me on the CSGV's FB page and Twitter.

CSGV CSGV

For those who've been harassed by gun rights activist "Thirdpower" (@TrailerDays), his real name is Roy Kubicek. http://fb.me/Zu43k9Pj

40 minutes ago

You know. Nevermind that I have my name published here on DOOT so people can order patches and have it publicly linked to my FB page for several years now, I apparently have been 'hiding out'.
Do read the rest; what they consider one of his sinister activities is amazing; I wonder if they soiled their panties over it?

A bit from Linoge, as well:
The CSGV has well and truly become the dedicated troll of the anti-rights organizations, and this new disgraceful "tactic" of theirs will invariably backfire in their bigoted faces. We will not be oppressed, we will not be silenced, and we will not tolerate our rights being denied to us by force of law… no amount of threatening, bullying, stalking, or "outing" will change that.

Oh, and remind me to thank Chris Peck and all of his anti-rights buddies at the Commercial Appeal for assisting cyberstalkers like Ladd Everitt with their privacy invading database of the overwhelmingly law-abiding handgun carry permit holders here in Tennessee. Really appreciate that, guys!

Aren't these gun bigots some truly sorry people?

The idiot Indiana judge Steven H. David and Mitch Daniels

David is a former chief defense counsel for detainees at Guantanamo Bay who praised the majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush with this trite quote: “The most important thing that Boumediene held is something that I always thought was obvious … that in America, there are no law-free zones.” Or maybe he could explain why the official Steven David bio released by his office announced the fact that David is a member of the American Judicature Society, the leading institutional proponent of the Missouri Plan, and beneficiary of more than $1 million in contributions from George Soros’s Open Society Institute since 2000.
...
So, yes, Mr. David, apparently an enemy of the right to resist the minions of the state when they attempt to illegally enter your home, was appointed by Mitch Daniels, a much-rumored Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States in 2012.
...

The single most important judicial issue in Indiana is the ongoing debate over the state’s method for appointing appellate judges. It’s not much of a debate, actually, thanks in part to Daniels. Indiana uses a form of the Missouri Plan, the commission-based method for choosing judges that was designed by Progressive Era lawyers to put “experts” in charge of judicial selection. The “experts,” of course, are lawyers. When the issue was in front of Daniels, he took the worst possible approach. In 2009, overwhelming majorities of the Indiana General Assembly (88-3 in the House, 35-15 in the Senate) approved legislation to kill that method in parts of Indiana. Governor Daniels vetoed it. …

Then, when Indiana had a supreme court vacancy to fill, he failed to say a single word about the state’s flawed judicial-selection process and dutifully appointed a nominee sent to him by the state’s nominating commission.

So, when considering Governor Daniels in your choices for the nomination, ask yourself: Is this the man you want appointing Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States?
I agree: this by itself ought to disqualify Daniels from the Stupid Party even considering him for the White House.

One last thing- this on globular warmering- before bed

Somebody pointed to this piece on a debate between Warmering True Believers and Skeptics. I'm just going to borrow one part:
Concluding the science sessions was one of the most senior figures in the Climate Industry, John Mitchell of the Met Office. Mitchell was review editor of Chapter 5 of the IPCC's most recent report (AR4) but hasn't been able to meet FOIA requests, despite the IPCC's pledge to keep all written expert comments on record for five years. "For my own part, I have not kept any working papers. There is no requirement to do so, given the extensive documentation already available from IPCC," Mitchell has claimed. This, like Climategate, was not mentioned.
...
"People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful," he said. "Our approach is not entirely emprical."
My, my, my... Since when does somebody else having records of THEIR stuff mean a scientist(apparently have to use the word loosely with these people) doesn't need to keep his OWN records of HIS work? And that last part is just, well, let's say 'revealing'. And boils down to "Our models give us the outcome we want, so we don't pay attention to that observing stuff. I mean, that's so old-fashioned, and anyway it didn't show what we wanted to find."

Ref hitting the range today,

besides the usual I(finally) remembered to print out and take along a target from pistol-training.com; in this case, 'dot torture'. First read about this site and this particular drill at Tam's; some good stuff there.

It's an interesting drill. I'd have done better if I'd done that BEFORE all the other shooting; as was, about halfway through my eyes were having trouble shifting focus from target to front sight, and it showed.

The Indiana Supreme Court says "Oh, that Constitution thingie

only counts when we like it."
Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.

In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry.

“We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” David said. “We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”

David said a person arrested following an unlawful entry by police still can be released on bail and has plenty of opportunities to protest the illegal entry through the court system.
To the Indiana Supremes majority: fuck you. And your mother. You miserable little pigs.
“We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” my ass; a police officer illegally entering my home is just like any other lawbreaker, period. These bastards have declared the police to be above the law because 'it's good for public policy'. Only if you like the peasants defenseless and subdued.

From the decision: In the 1920s, legal scholarship began criticizing the right as valuing individual liberty over physical security of the officers. Translation: "We want the police to be able to act in any way they choose without having to worry about that individual liberty or 'a man's home is his castle' thing; it offends us that they can't do this." Got news for you assholes: this country was in large part FOUNDED on that individual liberty idea; and we're not giving it up because some asshole lawyers don't like it.

From a comment at Tam's : Indiana: Less free than Midevel England.

My, my, some things are getting interesting

What with Obama basically saying "War Powers Act? Limit on my waging war? I'll keep us involved in Libya as long as I want to!", and Texas looking to make TSA subject to arrest for some of their molestations.

Richard the Turd Daley, besides the security detail(taxpayer supplied, of course) he's demanding, a $180k pension and he’s expected to earn up to $50,000 for a speech, AND he can cash in his $1.1 million campaign fund.


The City University of New York decided to fly the Palistinian flag at commencement. The excuse:“The City College flies all of the flags that are flown at the United Nations,” the Vice President for Communications Mary Lou Edmondson told me. “It has nothing to do with foreign policy.”
Slight problem with that:
...the United Nations doesn’t fly the Palestinian flag. It only flies the flags of its 192 member states.
So they tried to wiggle out of the hole:Update: CUNY’s City College VP of communications Mary Lou Edmondson emails this response: “I regret that I misspoke about the flags flown at the United Nations. At this time, in this 10th anniversary year of 9/11, we are focused on prominently displaying ten American flags in silent commemoration of the thousands of men and women who lost their lives.”
Translation: "You people are making too much noise for us to get away with this!"


One way to deal with a rapist who's also a loudmouth. Slight problem with damage to the furnishings, though.


Trentadue and the FBI had some interesting days in court, which brought out things like
In a sworn affidavit dated May 21, 2001, Ojeda outlined how the FBI handled information they did not want to see brought up in court:

The FBI also kept “zero files,” which were reports containing information that the FBI would not generally want disclosed to the defense and which were kept separate from a specific case file. These files were kept internally within the Bureau and typically were not turned over to the prosecution or the defense. Files would be assigned numbers bases on the type of offense or investigation involved, for example, a bank robbery would be assigned a particular number. A letter A after that number would mean highest importance. A zero after that number would mean that the report should go into the “zero” file.

which led to
Not only did Judge Waddoups deny the FBI’s Motion for Summary Judgment, Trentadue said, but he gave the Bureau until June 30 to do the following:

1. Confirm that FBI Information Director David Hardy told the truth in declarations he submitted to the court;

2. Describe the S-Drive and why it was not searched;

3. Explain why Evidence Control Units at Oklahoma City Field Office, FBI Headquarters and FBI Crime Lab were not searched; and

4. Describe how burdensome it would be to search OKBOMB case file entries for two weeks after the bombing for missing tapes?

Once Judge Waddoups gets the requested information/answers from the FBI, Trentadue said, he will revisit the motion to order the FBI to conduct additional searches.

So why IS the story of the 'Whack The Terrorist' raid so screwed up? More thoughts on the matter from Mudville.


And I went to the range today. More on that later.

When you can watch the shockwave approach

Possibly NSFW language at the end

Now THERE'S some advice:

Trust No One
Doubt it’s true? Go to any brand-specific forum and look around. Complaints abound. Sure, there are still some who drink the kool-aid, and even some who want to force the kool-aid down other people’s throats. But you’ll hear about broken rails and springs at Glock Talk, improperly assembled guns or poor finishes at SIGForum, or mag drops and feeding problems at MP-pistol.com. Not every day, but read about the problems people have experienced over the past few months and you’ll see that no brand is immune to mistakes.

Remember that sign at gun shows,

“I asked my broker what to invest in; he said ammo and canned goods.” ?

Remember when we actually thought it was a joke?


Found at Uncle

Sen. Reid is so full of crap

he should be standing in fields to fertilize the crops. "The founders wanted the government to tell business what state they have to go to!" my ass.

Oh, Mr. Omar bin Laden:

fuck you. In a civilized culture your father being a mass-murdering terrorist would shame your family; I suggest you consider that.

If the ninja-suiters don't have more self-control

and trigger discipline than this...
The Pima County Regional SWAT team fired 71 shots in seven seconds at a Tucson man they say pointed a gun at officers serving a search warrant at his home.
Being a standard-issue citizen with some slight familiarity with firearms, that sounds pretty bad; then it gets worse:
Jose Guerena, 26, a former Marine who served in Iraq twice, was holding an AR-15 rifle when he was killed, but he never fired a shot, the Sheriff's Department said Monday after initially saying he had fired on officers during last week's raid.
...
Three other homes within a quarter of a mile from Guerena's house, were served search warrants related to the investigation that morning. The addresses and the names of people who live in the other homes have not been made public.
I don't know about you, but that combination of things causes several suspicions to pop into mind.

Vanessa Guerena says she heard noise outside their home about 9 a.m. Thursday and woke her husband who had just gone to bed after working a 12-hour shift at the Asarco Mine, she said. There were no sirens or shouts of "police," she said.

Guerena told his wife and son to hide inside a closet and he grabbed the AR-15 rifle, his wife said.

The department says SWAT members were clear when identifying themselves while entering the home.

"Tucson is notorious for home invasions and we didn't want to look like that," said Lt. Michael O'Connor of the Pima County Sheriff's Department. "We went lights and sirens and we absolutely did not do a 'no-knock' warrant."
So they say. They also claimed he fired first. Maybe just confusion, maybe a no-knock they don't have the integrity to own up to. I'll let you read the whole thing, but I will point to this:
The family's 5-year-old son was at school that morning and deputies say they thought Guerena's wife and his other child would also be gone when they entered the home.
The thought. Ok, say you thought he'd be home alone; what were you after that demanded putting on the ninja suits and kicking in doors?


I realize as I type this that my attitude toward a lot of LE has really gone downhill; it wasn't that long ago that I'd have figured they made the raid this way for good reason, but I don't have much confidence in that anymore, I've read of too many wrong-address raids, too many that should not have been a 'dynamic entry' action in the first place.

Couple of weeks back Ayoob had that post on the possibility of a Mumbai-type attack in the US, and some people got a bit heated in the comments whacking on LE; his responses here and here. I do think he either misses or glosses over a couple of things:
1. I think few have a real problem with LE having a rifle in the car; they have a problem with average patrol officers in some places having a select-fire weapon. Especially when they lecture us that the commoners can't be trusted to own such.
2. Most agencies have indeed had a 'military-type' organization with sergeants and such; that isn't the gripe, it's LE acting like military units in their normal activities, arming up and acting like troops instead of LE officers.
3. Yeah, good cops do indeed have a problem with bad ones. But the bad ones generally couldn't get away with being bad as long as they do if so many of the good(at least better) ones didn't either turn a blind eye or actively protect them. It's been a big problem for many years.

He mentions the miserable excuse for a lawman in Chicago caught on tape beating on a female bartender. That guy had a past record that should have gotten him thrown off the force long before that incident, and even with that crap on tape it took a lot to get him canned. And I read far too many "She wasn't hurt that bad, he shouldn't have faced that serious a charge"-type crap from cops. Doesn't matter how badly she was hurt, or that she had whatever in her background: what he did was inexcusable and yet an awful lot of people with badges were making excuses for him. That kind of thing really screws with being able to trust the police.

I'll pass along something: one day at my old job I wound up riding to lunch in a LE unit with four officers, none of whom had less than 15 years on the job, I think all but one 20 or more; when you sit and listen to a group like that talking about the bad attitude the new officers have, it makes an impression.

4. This touches on the kick-in-the-doors actions: how many cases have been found of them not bothering to make sure they had the right address? Where they shoot the family yorkie or something for barking at them? Where the public is then informed- if you put it bluntly- "Yes, they fucked up, but they were following department guidelines so screw you; we're not going to punish them for fucking up." That does NOT cause people to look on you as Officer Friendly. Especially when it turns out the mess was over something that would've been much better handled by somebody watching the back while somebody in a proper PD uniform knocks on the door and says "We have a warrant to search."

Some of the comments Ayoob got were downright nasty, some were pointing out something like what I've noted above; dismissing them all equally doesn't help the case.


Speaking of shame and disgusting bastards, combined with either idiot politicians or politicians demonstrating their contempt for LE officers, what level of either one is required to invite this jerk to the White House during the same week that lawmen from across the nation, including Jones, make their annual trek to Washington to honor their fallen comrades at the National Law Enforcement Memorial. ?