Screw Staples

They decided they didn't want nasty gun  businesses to enter their contest("But please keep spending your money with us"), and when it blew up in their face they now want to play "We'll change the rules for next time; so keep giving us your money."

No.


“I actually think it’s probably a mistake to call for a special counsel – actually what it’s called now – because they’re appointed by Eric Holder and that’s really the fox guarding the hen house,” Cornyn, Senate minority whip, told PJ Media on Capitol Hill.

“No accountability, and just rife with conflicts of interest.”
Well, those are Holder's strong points.
And yeah, either dump the IRS completely, or cut it to a minimum and set flat 'no bullshit, break these and go to jail' rules.


Democrats: "We don't care what he's accused of, just give him the position and we'll worry about those investigations later."
Bad in any case; with someone intended to head the BATFE, that's another NO.


And just because:

Did some dry-fire practice last night,

and it's working nice and slick with the PDB CLP recipe.  I'm going to leave it uncleaned for a while, see how it holds up.

Also going to pick something I shoot whenever can and let it get REALLY dirty, then clean it with this stuff.

Remington Golden Bullets have become a pain.  They(mostly) go bang, but noticed the other day that extracting them from the K-22 was VERY stiff.  And no, wasn't just dirty, as put in some Federals and they popped right out after firing.  Add to that a number of misfires, and that a couple of semi-auto pistols and a rifle I've tried them in don't even like to feed them, and they're a problem.  Supply troubles ease off, I'm going to use these up and replace them with other brands.


Found thanks to Tam, Daddy Bear has opinions on the excuses/defenses for the NSA spying:
The collection is broad in scope because more narrow collection would limit our ability to screen for and identify terrorism related communications. Acquiring this information allows us to make connections related to terrorist activities over time. The FISA Court specifically approved this method of collection as lawful, subject to stringent restrictions. — That’s the point, jackass.  Your ability to collect information on our citizens is supposed to be limited, and it’s not supposed to be easy.  If you believe that someone is a terrorist, then get a warrant specifically for that person, and do your damn job.  And don’t insult me by talking about how you went through FISA on this and they were OK with your methods.  FISA is not much more than a rubber stamp on your efforts.  I’ve seen reports that they reject about 1% of the warrant requests you all make, and if these latest revelations show what they approve of, just how horrendous are the ones they reject?
Read it all.  He's pissed at the politicians involved, and the professionals in the intelligence field going along with it.


"We finally got that briefing the President said we'd already had, but they wouldn't answer some of the questions."


And now I'm going to edge and mow before the temps get nasty.

From the Dark and Fascist State of New Jersey:

The measure would allow cops — without a warrant — to thumb through a cell phone to determine if a driver was talking or texting when an accident occurred. It requires officers to have "reasonable grounds" to believe the law was broken.


Also from the D&FSoNJ, I hope she gets both ears, the tail and the balls of the clowns responsible.

Dear Officer Friendly:

Hell no.
Sincerely, etc.
Gun distributors are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Maryland law states that gun buyers should not have to wait more than seven days to receive a firearm, while Maryland police are requesting as much as 10 weeks to process the background checks.


From James, what a 8mm rifle bullet does to a S&W barrel.


(some bits added to this part)
On the CLP tryout, it did a nice job of cleaning out the barrel & chambers; not the most strenuous test, thanks to modern ammunition most anythings does on .22s.
Speaking of which, if you've never seen one, here's a mostly-disassembled S&W K-frame revolver

Here you see the frame & barrel, sideplate, trigger unit, hammer unit, cylinder latch & thumbpiece, mainspring, trigger rebound slide & spring, hammer block, cylinder crane and cylinder unit.

'Mostly-disassembled' because
Did not remove the firing pin & spring from the frame
Did not remove the ejector rod/extractor assembly from the cylinder
Did not disassemble the trigger and hammer units
Did not remove the cylinder lock from the frame.
The trigger and hammer units, you only fully disassemble if they actually REQUIRE it for work/repair.  The hammer, for instance has
Hammer
Mainspring stirrup and pin
Sear and pin and spring
In this case the firing pin is mounted in the frame; in a lot of them it's pinned into the hammer and properly referred to as the hammer nose.  In any case, that's a number of small parts I leave the hell alone unless they REQUIRE something be done.  Since they're all working, if it was really nasty I'd flush them out with brake cleaner and a brush, then lube.

The trigger group has the trigger and five other parts, including a spring; and I'm not messing with removing them unless actually needed.

The units were cleaned out as needed, and everything wiped clean with the CLP and left overnight*.  Just wiped them down, added a dab of CLP where needed and reassembled.  Feels nice & smooth, as it should.  I'll do some dry-fire practice, and the range next time I can, and see if it stays that way.

This pistol wasn't real dirty, but it was the dirtiest available; I've always been pretty much a 'if you shoot it, clean it' sort, so nothing gets very bad before it gets taken care of.  I need to let something go a while and get seriously dirty, then try this stuff on it.


*because I ran out of time, not due to horrible/nasty/'let it soak' condition

Yeah, all just another mistake, I'm sure

A bipartisan group of 24 senators has sent a letter to the EPA, demanding that the agency explain why it leaked the names and personal information of more than 80,000 farmers and ranchers to left-wing organizations. In April, the EPA admitted the information had leaked in a story broken by FoxNews.com.
Considering the EPA, anybody who claims they don't know why they'd do this is either a liar or a fool.

Which somehow fits in with this: you can't buy the same "I'm stuffed-up" meds you used to, and the ones you can buy you're treated like you just asked for morphine, but
The Obama administration will stop trying to limit sales of emergency contraception pills, making the morning-after pill available to women of all ages without a prescription.


And don't think you can count on doctor-patient confidentiality; that doesn't count anymore.
And note that the police in Illinois don't seem to give a damn about that troublesome 4th Amendment crap, either.


Something I tend to think another effect(NOT a side-effect) of the NSA spying on everybody: cleanupatf.org
For the most part, this website has gone quiet since the beginning of the year. The Grapevine thread which used to be very active has had no posts since March. The Fast and Furious page has had nothing except a cartoon since February, The ATF-EEO violations thread has had nothing since January. 
I'm sure veiled and not so veiled threats have been made to ATF Special Agents that they are to keep their mouths shut if they want to keep their badge. I do realize that correlation isn't causation but I don't think CUATF going quiet is just happenstance. While I do think ATF needs a permanent director, I don't think B. Todd Jones is the person for the job.
And how might they know just who to threaten, I wonder?
On the subject of ATF and Jones being pushed for director,
The Senate Judiciary Committee will soon hold hearings regarding B. Todd Jones, Barrack Obama’s nominee to become the next Director of ATF. By any rational measure, Jones has been a pathetic disgrace and utter failure as ATF's Acting Director. He represents exactly what is wrong with the Bureau; a profound lack of integrity, transparency and competence, shameless cronyism, vicious protection of the ATF management "good `ol boy club", and institutionalized corruption. His confirmation as Director will only ensure that what was once one of the world's greatest law enforcement agencies will contine to decline and fail in its primary mission. If anything, Jones should be summarily fired, if not prosecuted for his breathtaking malfeasance as Acting Director.

While it is certainly true that ATF desperately needs a permanent Director, can't we do better than this? In a nation of over 300 million people, can't we find someone who actually has the basic integrity, commitment to justice, and elemental competence to finally put an end to the embarrassing plague of disgusting corruption and managerial stupidity that has paralyzed the Bureau for far too many years?
A list of their problems with Jones follows; it's, ah, 'extensive' is a good word.


After the range the other day, as extraction on some ammo was getting sticky on the K-22, I broke it down to give it a serious cleaning with the PDB home-brew CLP.  I'll put it back together later and see how it feels.

Seems Rubio is a standard-issue lying

politician.  Selling us out for votes(he hopes).


Yes, I went to the range.  Yes, it helped.  No, the hand/wrist are not all the way back up to snuff; that's going to take a while, I fear.
And the range had some Federal .22 AutoMatch ammo in, so got a box.


Snork... And for the record, cops down here only shoot at Yankees that might be armed. At everybody else, they ask what they carry, compare notes and lately share info on where to get ammo at a decent price..

"We can't say who illegally leaked your information

because the law protects them."
Can you say 'Coverup to protect the guilty'?  I knew you could.


"A few low-level agents' my ass" #47:
The heart of the effort to target tea-party and other conservative groups, we are learning, occurred in Washington, and that is likely why five D.C.-based IRS officials who are connected to the targeting have retired, resigned, been replaced, or been put on administrative leave, since news of the scandal broke in mid May. They include Holly Paz, who last week, according to an IRS source, was replaced as director of Rulings and Agreements, the division that oversaw the targeting of conservative groups; Washington lawyer Carter Hull, who is accused of micromanaging the processing of tea-party cases, and who, according to IRS sources, requested his retirement package on March 12; the commissioner of the agency’s Tax Exempt and Government Entities division, Joseph Grant, who retired on June 3; former IRS commissioner Steven Miller, who resigned days after news of the scandal broke; and the director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations division, Lois Lerner, who was placed on administrative leave only after refusing to tender her resignation, according to Iowa’s Chuck Grassley. All five are or were based in the IRS’s headquarters on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.


The President of Chile just owned Obama.
I'll bet that if he'd speak, he'd tell you "I did it to show what I think of him; that I could take his chair and he'd do nothing."


Three felonies a day.  Without trying or knowing.  Add that to the current 'We know what you're doing/where/with who' crap...


What is it with some of these clowns and Jews?  Do the evil nasty Joooooos make them all damp in the panties or something?


The rules of etiquette and public ceremony George Washington tried to live by.

Ever heard of Doggerland?

I hadn't.  Interesting finds on changes at the end of the last ice age.


Another sock-puppet anti-gun page.  And Bruce Holbert is a damned liar.


That's all I've got right now.  I need some range therapy.

Amazing what all can get done when you decide "Screw the interwebs"

for a few days.  Family stuff, and well done.

Little while ago(not this weekend) I made a trip to visit someone in Texas I hadn't seen in far too long.  Afterward I wrote up a short "Here's how it went", so to make up for not bitching and screaming about things the last couple of days, I'll throw it in.


600 miles total.  Almost exactly, in fact, 599.6 by my odometer.   Almost all highway.  Overall mileage 47 mpg.  Be it noted that I spent most of those highway miles between 70-80, NOT including
the tieup in Moore(both ways),
the two tieups in Fort Worth(southbound),
and the rain.
About those tieups:
If there’d been a way to go around Moore, I’d have done it; however, trying to take streets would’ve gone through/right by areas hammered by the tornado where it would’ve been worse.  So I-35 it was.  Which led to remembering something my daughter occasionally says: “Sometimes I hate people.”

Understand that the highway department cleared 35 fast as they could; it IS an interstate highway, plus it was needed for transport into and out of the disaster area.  So all lanes were open, and there were big “No slowing in this area” signs, but.  All the slowdown in the stretch where the storm had crossed, where the damage was visible, was from idiots slowing down to look.  And once one idiot does that and slows the flow, it’s a chain-reaction that screws things up for-bloody-ever.  So it was.

Once south of there(literally ‘just south’; soon as cars passed the damage area they sped up) things went back to normal speed.  So I was able to stay up at normal cruising till just north of Fort Worth- with a stop for gas and water in Ardmore- where two things coincided: it started raining, and a construction area. The rain, no big deal; stopped under an overpass long enough to put on the rainsuit(as Og notes, Frog Toggs are great).  The construction...

Is there something about people in Fort Worth that makes them react to ‘construction’ signs by slowing down no matter what?  Was it the rain? Because the construction was that the shoulders were closed.
That’s it.
No lanes closed, no accidents, traffic reduced to stop & go for more than a mile by closed shoulders.
Bleep.

Got through that and things sped up, until the approach to downtown Fort Worth... if I worked in that area I’d either find different hours to work or some way other than highways to get around, because it was as bad as the construction area without the excuse of construction.  Except this went on for a longer distance.

Second good note: the Michelin Pilot Road 3 tires I put on a few months ago work quite well on wet pavement. Which was a damn good thing for multiple reasons, including reducing some of the stress of being caught in the middle of that mess in rain.

Just before the southern edge of Fort Worth the rain had ended, or passed just north of, or whatever.  And at that point I really needed to get off and stretch a bit, so found a gas station and refueled, took off the suit and sucked down a bottle of water before continuing south.


If you’re not familiar with roads in this region, there’s not a lot of curves to enjoy, it’s plains and low rolling hills, but you can cover a lot of territory on them.  Counting the slowdowns, it only took about 4.5 hours, including stops, to cover 300 miles.  Yeah, that’s speeding a good piece of the way, though it’s less speeding than ‘keeping up with traffic flow’; almost NOBODY was doing the speed limit(and who the hell decided 65 was the max safe speed on long stretches of mostly straight road in good condition, anyway?)  Then, a ways south of FW it changed to 75, which meant 80 did a nice job of keeping up with traffic.  Long as you stay in the outside lane so as to not trouble the people in a hurry.


Third good  note: that gelpad I picked up last year is nice, as I don’t have enough of my padding located in the suitable parts of my ass for long distances.


Notables of Waco on this trip: Good visit with someone I hadn’t seen in quite a while. There’s a Mexican restaurant called Ninfa’s with damn good food.  The Waco zoo is small, but nicely done, and I’m told they have land to expand onto and are fairly constantly improving things. Reminds me a lot of the OKC zoo about twenty years ago, and that’s a good thing.  And stopped by to check out a place called the Gun Laundry; a small selection of rifles and pistols for sale, but the primary business is cleaning, using a ultrasonic tank for the bulk of it: prices for types of firearms listed inside.

Then back up to Oklahoma.
Return trip, take out the rain(except for the sprinkle in Waco just as I stopped for gas, causing a certain amount of “Dammit, not again!”) and the bloody-awful mess in Fort Worth and it’s about the same.  Fort Worth was so much better because of it being a Sunday; so a couple of slow spots(slow in this case meaning ‘down to 55’) but otherwise clear; MUCH less stressful than heavy/nasty/awful Friday traffic in rain, too.

Stopped at Cabela’s just north of Fort Worth to look around a bit.  Lots of ammo, long as you’re not looking for .308/7.62, .223/5.56, .45, 9mm, etc.  Just before I left they brought out two just-arrived cases of Remington .22 bulk-pack and one of some new Winchester varmint stuff. Which were disappearing very quickly, as they were the ONLY .22 ammo in the place.  And I finally saw a couple of boxes of the new Speer .30 Carbine with Gold Dot softpoints: 20-round box for $35.  No, I did not get a box to try.  They had an empty space marked as Hornady .30 Carbine with FTX bullet; I’d like to try that stuff, too, though spending $70 for forty rounds of 'try it out' is a bit much for me(hint hint, anybody want me to test the stuff?)  Looking over the reloading gear, anything in the usual calibers was gone, brass and bullets both.  Primers were all marked ‘out of stock’, and powder was ‘Ask one of our associates if in stock’.

Yes, still screwed-up traffic in Moore.  Did notice that, on the northbound side, someone had taken a piece of plywood and put up a ‘house for sale’ sign.  Then home, with the Security Staff announcing “You’re back!  We haven’t been able to check p-mail for DAYS!!  And feed us!” 

An that is your short & simple travelogue.

Tab clearing

just to get this stuff off the screen

'How to spot CCW'.  See what you think

Holder really didn't want to answer that question.

'Learn what you're talking about before you start yapping.'

Idiot journalism professor says either "Please stop beating on me, it's hurting my reputation" or "I have seen the light!"

Thatisall

It's hard to work up much outrage right now,

between, Obama's "This kind of thing should be banned!(unless I'm doing it)" on phone and e-mail and internet snooping, assholes like Lindsey Graham playing "If you have nothing to hide, why are you worried?" bullshit games, and just general tired.

NSA and IRS officials lying to Congress, with little chance of them facing any real penalty.  Asshole Feinstein defending Obama's snooping because "We're not actually reading your stuff(that we'll admit to)."  And on, and on.

Screw it.  You may hear from me, or you may not for a few.

"We're only after terrorists."

Right.
Sure.


The (National Socialist)Democrats really do like them some history-rewriting, don't they?


"We went to the wrong address, but we BELIEVED we were at the right place, so we're good."
Buffalo Police spokesperson Michael DeGeorge says Internal Affairs has launched an investigation into the case, but that police believe they had the proper address.

He also says detectives "don't believe the dog was chained or leashed" when they executed the raid. Adding that if any wrong doing is found in the investigation that officers will face consequences.
'Consequences'.  Such as?  Actual punishment?  Any more, I doubt it.  And don't trust the bastards at all.


The Obama administration’s narrative that the targeting of conservatives by the IRS was the work of “low-level” agents in Cincinnati took another serious blow Thursday when the Wall Street Journal released a new report citing viewed transcripts of interviews with those agents in which they name names of those in Washington who oversaw the action.


Effing Lindsey Graham  needs to be beaten over the head with a copy of the Bill of Rights.  Preferably one printed on stainless steel.  What the hell is wrong with these idiots?

June 6, 1944

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man to man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory!
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!
Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

-- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Picture someone got of the storm

A moment of zen it ain't.

That's... I'm,...

Found at Kevin's.

More tab clearing

since I don't want to type a lot.

New Evidence Puts Man In North America 50,000 Years Ago

IRS refuses to turn over documents on targeting to Senate
Charge 'em with contempt, no warnings.

The Environmental Protection Agency is facing Inspector  General and Congressional probes regarding political targeting of conservative groups.

Did you know that previously illegal immigrants who are legalized–like the 11 million immigrants granted Registered Provisional status by the Schumer-Rubio Gang of 8 bill–not only qualify for the Earned Income Tax credit (EITC) when they go to work (which seems reasonable enough to me) but may also get to apply for retroactive credits for previous years in which they were working illegally?

A sheriff's deputy and sheriff who need their ass kicked to another job:
The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff's deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said. "He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the deputy said] he's going to have to search my house.  Search my house?  I just wanted to know what happened."
No search was performed, and the deputy left Henkelman's home after the father answered questions in a four-page questionnaire issued by the Sheriff's Office.
A: "Set foot in my house without a warrant and I'll have you up on charges and sue you."
B: "Questionnaire?  Before you'll LEAVE MY HOME?  Talk to my lawyer."


Questions for the White House counsel.

Friggin' Massachussetts.


Former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed the name of the Navy SEAL unit that carried out the Osama bin Laden raid and named the unit’s ground commander at a 2011 ceremony attended by “Zero Dark Thirty” filmmaker Mark Boal, according to a draft Pentagon inspector general’s report obtained by a watchdog group.

Panetta also disclosed classified information designated as “top secret” and “secret” during his presentation at the CIA awards ceremony, says the draft IG report published Wednesday by the Project on Government Oversight.

Tab clearning

Officer being tried for a kids' death in a wrong-address raid

Gurkha who took the Taliban head cleared for duty

Cannibal, oh my.

IRS illegally released tax documents

Chris Christie is an asshole


"I am not here as a serf or vassal. I am not begging my lords for mercy." 
Further,  Gerritson also dropped a bombshell on the committee: Her group received an inquiry letter bearing Lois Lerner’s signature. Lerner has claimed that the IRS abuse of groups like Gerritson’s was the work of a couple of “rogue employees.” Lerner has since plead the Fifth Amendment in her refusal to testify on the abuse, and has been placed on administrative leave.

Speaking of wind sweeping down, Updated

The massive tornado contained several powerful "subvortices," areas of extremely rapid rotation that swirled within the larger tornadic circulation. These subvortices contained the strongest wind speeds measured within the tornado, greater than 295 miles per hour in several different instances -- well above the 201-mph minimum requirement for a EF5 designation.
And size:
In addition, the width of the tornado has been given a "conservative" estimate of 2.6 miles. This is a new record for the widest tornado in history, beating the previous record of 2.5 miles near Hallam, Neb. on May 22, 2004.

For those of you in metric lands, that's  'greater than 475 kilometers per hour' and 'estimate of 4.2 kilometers wide'.

My house is about 2.5 miles north of I40, daughter's slightly less than a mile.  So when a airborne vacuum this size was reported traveling right along I40, you'll understand it was worrying.

Update: more on the weather, in this case what the rains did.

I can type today;

slowly, but can.
Short version:

Longer: up on ladder pruning tree, pruning pole falls over and comes down blade-first across my right wrist.  Pain and hemorrhage followed.  Followed by swelling and more pain.

Better today, but a long way from normal.  So very short post:
Sean's experience with a bad class.

Leftists hate money in politics.  Unless they're getting it.

Politically correct racism.  Also protecting bad guys.

McDermott is an asshole.  A vile, partisan, bitter little asshole.


I think there is a bigger story here that will in time come out. The biggest scandal of all, the biggest question is what was the president doing in those eight hours. He had a routine meeting at five o’clock. He never after during the eight hours when our guys have their lives in danger, he never called the Secretary of Defense, he never calls the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he never called the CIA Director, Who does he call? But five hours in he calls the Secretary of State. And after the phone call she releases a statement essentially about the video and how we denounce any intolerance. It looks as if the only phone call is to construct a cover story at a time when the last two Americans who died were still alive and fighting for their lives. There’s the scandal and that has to be uncovered.

Thatisall

Little to no blog for you

for a day or two.  Because trying to rant with one hand don't cut it

Mr. Huffman, I think the answer is 'Yes'

Due to circumstances, I saw parts of two Made For SYFY Movies!! (Mega-Something vs. -oid I think)the other night.

‘Parts’ because I was unable to watch the whole. I do mean unable; I like good monster movies, but these didn't qualify, and I think I’d have had a stroke if I’d tried to force myself to watch the whole of either.

Bad? BAD was not even on the rating curve. ‘Execrable’ would be a level of excellence to which these movies would aspire. And fail. I would like to try to describe the parts I saw just for illustration, but I think I can hear brain cells crying for mercy just because I thought about doing so.

Joe Huffman once asked if there’s a rule that these things HAVE to be bad; if there’s not a rule, then some sadist really likes to inflict torment upon those fool enough to turn on the channel, and someone gave him free rein at the SYFY network.

'A few low-level employees in one office' my ass

Former Internal Revenue Service commissioner Douglas H. Shulman, a frequent White House guest during the period when the IRS was targeting conservative nonprofits, is married to the senior program advisor for Public Campaign, an “organization dedicated to sweeping campaign reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics.”
Just coincidence, right? So's this:
Public Campaign’s ninth-floor 1133 19th Street NW office in Washington, D.C. is located on the same floor as the liberal groups Common Cause and Center for Progressive Leadership.


Also,
The Internal Revenue Service has told House GOP investigators they have identified 88 IRS employees who may have documents relevant to the congressional investigation into targeting of conservative groups, according to a congressional source familiar with the investigation.
'A few', right.  And the clowns running the IRS really don't want to answer questions; kind of like they think they're immune or something:
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) declined Friday afternoon to meet a Senate Finance Committee deadline for answering detailed questions about the origins of the IRS scandal. The questions had been submitted jointly nearlytwo weeks ago by Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT).

In a joint statement to Breitbart News, Baucus and Hatch said:
“It’s disappointing that the IRS failed to produce any of the documents requested by the Committee.
Well, try expressing that disappointment with subpoenas.  And charges.

Something on this from Mark Steyn:
Although acting commissioner Steven Miller apologized for the “horrible customer service” conservative taxpayers had gotten, a gentleman by the name of Malik Obama received impeccable, express service when he took the precaution of mailing in his non-profit application from N’giya, Kenya, rather than notoriously slower mail processing centers such as Phoenix and Dallas. Malik, the brother of President Obama, runs the Barack H. Obama Foundation, named for the president’s father. On May 30, 2011, they applied for tax-exempt status, and had their approval signed less than a month later by Lois Lerner herself, and conveniently backdated by Lois to cover the two-and-a-half years the enterprising Malik had already been raking in “tax-deductible” donations from Americans. The Washington address of the Barack H. Obama Foundation appears to be bogus, and it’s not clear whether the funds are being used back in Kenya for anything other than supporting the famously lavish lifestyle of Malik and his twelve wives. Given that the IRS is not shy about asking American conservatives for Facebook posts and lists of who attends their meetings, Ms. Lerner surely would have been within her rights to ask Malik Obama about the “exclusive” photographs currently displayed on the Barack H. Obama Foundation website of a recent meeting in Sudan, one of only four countries the U.S. government designates as a “terrorist state,” and the Foundation’s apparently extensive association with the Sudanese president and blood-soaked genocidal war criminal Omar al-Bashir.



Under the heading that "There's really no vote fraud going on, not enough of it to worry about!",
The chief of staff to freshman Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.) resigned on Friday after he was implicated in a plot to submit hundreds of fraudulent absentee ballots during the congressman’s primary election last year.
...
Jeffrey Garcia declined to comment to the paper, which reported that he also worked for the campaign of Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.), who defeated Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) in 2012.
Rep. Garcia said he was likely to put his communications director, Giancarlo Sopo, on administrative leave after Sopo was served with a search warrant Friday.
If these bastards aren't at least charged, then there needs to be some kind of civil action taken; this garbage has to be stopped, and people going to jail and being fined is probably the only thing that'll do it.

I've mentioned hail before Updated

This is some of what fell west of OKC,

and in parts of southern OKC as well as that tornado went through.

Update: Just got this from a friend around El Reno:

I did not know the President had some German in him

I have a bleg: crank radios

Experience?  Good or stay-away-from?  Daughter's radio flat died the other day(just in time for the storms, yay!), and I want to find one that'll also charge her phone if need be.

More zero-tolerance idiocy from the People's Republic of Maryland

Kid(KINDERGARTEN, mind you) shows friend his cap gun.
School officials at Dowell Elementary School in the town of Lusby proceeded to question the five-year-old for over two hours before finally calling his mother, whom The Post also does not name.

The principal eventually called the boy’s mother at 10:50 a.m. By that time, the five-year-old had wet his pants (which the mother called highly unusual).
Major-level stupid, right?  But wait, there's MORE!
The Post explains that the principal — Jennifer L. Young, according to Dowell Elementary’s website — told the kindergartener’s mother that things would have been even worse had the toy gun been loaded with caps. In that case, the school would have regarded the plaything as an explosive and called the police.
Jennifer L. Young, you're a fucking idiot.  And a disgrace to the profession of teaching.  I don't care what the effing regulations say, you could have handled this a LOT better.  Instead, you've terrified a little kid and screwed with his life.  Considering the PROM, probably forever.
The 10-day suspension is officially for possessing a look-alike gun, notes the Post. If the suspension is not lifted, the kindergartener won’t be able to go to school the rest of the year. The suspension will also be part of his permanent academic record.

5.5", according to my rain gauge

from yesterday evening to this morning.  That may not be quite accurate, as at times the rain was largely traveling sideways.

Lots of damage, flooded areas(official total for the OKC area is 7.5"), and Moore definitely did not need this.

To the relief of some, and probably the disappointment of a few,

I'm still here.

Big damn supercell formed out west and headed due east for a while; then, just as it reached the western edge of Oklahoma City, started turning south.  My area got a bleepload of rain and lots of wind, some small hail.

Daughter lives about a mile south of me, no power but otherwise ok.

So far, if I'm remembering correctly, there's been three reported through central OK so far; lots of damage, they're saying a few fatalities.  Very few, all things considered.  And yes, Moore got some of this.
Again.

If you'll now excuse me, I think I'm going to have a taste of something involving ethanol.

Quick addition: Evyl stated Lord, please let my last recorded words not be on Twitter or FaceBook.  What came to my mind?  "You just made me imagine someone saying "Hand me a beer, I'm gonna watch this!"

So, will we EVER find out what actually happened

in that room?  Or will we only get the 'Protect the Holy Bureau at all costs' explanation?
What really confounds me about this account is the part where Todashev allegedly ran at the agent "with a metal pole" that "might have been a broomstick." If he was running with a large object in his hands when killed, how is there any doubt about what the object is? Anyone could just look at the dead guy and see what was in his hands, right? Or examine the stuff in the evidence locker. Pole or broomstick? This source doesn't know. It's also quite a feat to be shot, struck, knocked backward, and charge again toward a gun, especially for a guy who, according to his friends, was in recovery from leg surgery. And, of course, it's odd that this latest story is so different from the previous ones that have leaked out. A knife, a samurai sword, a metal pole, and a broomstick don't seem like objects that would be confused for one another. 

Finally, this account has a police detective who ostensibly sees the table overturned, sees the FBI agent get injured, sees Todashev attacking with a poll, sees the injured agent draw and fire his gun as he tries to get up, sees Todashev knocked back and rushing forward again... but never fires his own weapon. 

Why?  
I'm reminded of a line from a Garrett Files novel, something like "It'd take three wizards to knot this up any worse."
Or the EffingBI.

Is there ANY part of the Constitution this administration will actually stand behind?

Sure doesn't seem like it.
In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation of civil rights.
Same kind of garbage Mark Steyn fought in Canada, and that's strangling (fG)Britain.

Screw that, and screw you, Killian.
Evidently that was a precursor of sorts for an upcoming Tennessee event (“Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society”) that will feature the region’s top DOJ official, who serves as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and an FBI representative. The goal is to increase awareness and understanding that American Muslims are not the terrorists some have made them out to be in social media and other circles, according to a local newspaper report. The June 4 powwow is sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee.
Miserable suckass PC-at-any-cost fools.

And let's not forget this crap from last year*:
President Barack Obama’s top civil rights official repeatedly declined to support religious free speech during a July 27 congressional hearing, despite repeated questioning from Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks, who chairs the House’s constitution subcommittee.

Tom Perez, the progressive who runs the Justice Department’s civil rights office, refused to answer the questions posed by Franks.

“Will you tell us… that this administration’s Department of Justice will never entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes speech against any religion?” Frank asked four times.

Perez refused to answer, saying “it is a hard question, in the sense that when you make threats against someone.” Perez then suggested he would respond to draft legislation from the committee, but again refused to answer Frank’s question about free speech rights.
Besides the 'Screw free speech' attitude, notice the misleading 'when you make threats' garbage; NOBODY mentioned threats, just speech.
Of course, to socialist assholes like this any speech they don't approve of is a threat.

So Christopher Swindell combines "I'm a gun owner, BUT-" with

Sarah Palin insults, NRA threatening, yelling 'Treason!' and all the other stuff.  Including threats of death.

I'm curious, Mr. Professor of Journalism: can you show one place where The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America?  Because if you can't, you've just proven yourself a damned liar.

And if this kind of crap passes for 'journalism', no wonder your profession is rated lower than a syphilitic whore.

Added: he'd fit right in with this jerk.

I can't help it, I laugh and giggle every time I see this

Having taken counsel of CarteachO

and bought one of these lanterns, I'm happy to report
It works as advertised, and
I haven't had to use it for real as yet.

It has a single button control: hit it once it's on bright, twice on low(damn sure can't call it 'dim').  The diffuser does a very good job of giving even, non-glare light, and using LEDs the reports of battery life are very good.  Can't say I'm looking forward to needing it, but it's very comforting to have sources of light like this available.


I've been using PDB's home-mix CLP for my cleaning, and it seems to work quite well.


AG Holder: "We won't spy on you the same way anymore, but don't quote me on that."


It appears I can scratch Staples off the list of places I buy from.

We’re sorry, but your small business entry into the Staples PUSH It Forward Contest has been rejected* for the following reason(s):

Entry contains content that promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing); promotes any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; promotes any particular political agenda or message; is obscene or offensive; or endorses any form of hate or hate group.

Ok, so screw Staples, there's a lot of other places to buy stuff from.

More wonders from Californicated, first on Obamacare:

But the data that Lee released tells a different story: Obamacare, in fact, will increase individual-market premiums in California by as much as 146 percent.

and then on screwing gun owners(this is just ONE of the pieces of crap):

Californians who want to buy ammunition would have to submit personal information and a $50 fee for a background check by the state, under a bill passed by the Senate. The state Department of Justice would determine whether buyers have a criminal record, severe mental illness or a restraining order that would disqualify them from owning guns.
Ammo shops would check the name on buyers' driver's licenses against a state list of qualified purchasers.
The goal of the bill is "to ensure that criminals and other dangerous individuals cannot purchase ammunition in the state of California," said Sen. Kevin De Leon (D-Los Angeles), author of SB 53.
Yeah.  Because criminals NEVER obtain ammo illegally...

Speaking of ammo, I have bullets to size & lube if I can get the other stuff out of the way today.  Catch you later.

It's been upgraded to a F5 (note: couple of posts got lost as drafts,

so they're getting done now)
though according to KTOK they're saying it didn't get as wide as originally believed.  Only something over a mile.

Only.

That's not a hugely comforting change, is it?


Little earlier heard a lady call in to a local radio station, she'd gone to several stores to try to buy water and other things to donate.  She was too late.  It was all already gone.


So liberals and socialists don't just dance in the blood of crime victims, they'll use storm victims, too:
California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer blamed the tornado that devastated Oklahoma on global warming during a Senate floor speech Tuesday, using the opportunity to push her own plan to tax carbon dioxide emissions.
Slight problem: she's either a fool or a liar.

Yes, I know, considering it's Boxer it's likely both.

Of course, we already knew that globular warmenists lie.


Well, isn't this interesting?
A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the 5th Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. 

Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening — or why she didn’t disclose it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
I especially like this part:
Since Lerner won’t answer questions, Taylor asked that she be excused from appearing, saying that would “have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her.”
Oh, I'm sure she's been VERY concerned about not 'embarrassing or burdening' other people, right?


Is the IRS scandal the worst political scandal in American history? I say “yes.”

Because all the other crap in the world doesn't stop,

I'm still looking at other news.  One thing first:  NWS is saying that at one point, between Newcastle and Moore, this mother was 2.25 miles wide on the ground...

Some of the usual suspects are claiming Lois Lerner, the IRS clown in charge of the Exempt Organizations Division, is 'apolitical'.  Nazzo fast, Guido:
Since admitting the IRS harassed hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups for over two years, Lerner has been criticized for a number of untruths—including the revelation that she apparently lied about planting a question at an American Bar Association conference where she first publicly acknowledged IRS misconduct.
...
The trouble with this defense is that, prior to joining the IRS, Lerner's tenure as head of the Enforcement Office at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was marked by what appears to be politically motivated harassment of conservative groups.


Anybody else as sick as I am of
A: These 'Gang of X' groups trying to make legislation in the darkness, and
B: The idiots and/or turncoats working with the enemy?
A hot microphone caught Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) coordinating which way members of the “Gang of Eight” who serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee would vote on immigration bill amendments, Breitbart News has learned. 

“Do our Republicans have a pass on this one if they want?” the microphone caught Schumer saying.


More whistleblowers on Benghazi:
Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.
Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”
and
Regarding General Ham, military contacts of the diplomats tell them that AFRICOM had Special Ops “assets in place that could have come to the aid of the Benghazi consulate immediately (not in six hours).”
Ham was told by the White House not to send the aid to the trapped men, but Ham decided to disobey and did so anyway, whereupon the White House “called his deputy and had the deputy threaten to relieve Ham of his command.”
They note that they don't have confirmation of these things as yet; we'll see.


Confirmed dirt- more- on Fast & Furious:
The former U.S. Attorney for Arizona could be disbarred, after an investigation found he lied to the Justice Department about his role in trying to discredit the federal whistle-blower who exposed the botched gun-running scheme known as Fast and Furious.

An Office of Inspector General report showed that Dennis Burke -- the former chief of staff for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed as U.S. Attorney for Arizona by President Obama in September 2009 -- lied when asked if he leaked sensitive documents to the press meant to undermine the credibility of ATF whistle-blower John Dodson.

The IG report also said Burke likely leaked the memo in retaliation for Dodson's whistle-blowing, and challenged the credibility of statements he made to congressional investigators. Dodson first went to Congress in 2010 after his own agency and the Justice Department refused to investigate his complaints that Operation Fast and Furious, an anti-gun-trafficking effort, was out of control.


Fire them.  And take qualified immunity away from ANY LE officer involved in crap like this:
But Montanez says it was a Hays County SWAT truck that rammed his car head-on. As they collided, another police vehicle pinned him from behind, he says.
He heard a shot.

“I saw my windshield crack, and I ducked down as low as possible,” Montanez said. “I really thought I was going to die.”

Seconds later, he says, three deputies were pointing assault rifles at him. “That’s when I heard one of the officers say, ‘Oh, (expletive), we got the wrong guy,’ ” Montanez said.
...Even after officers realized that he was not the suspect, he said, they kept him in handcuffs for half an hour while they questioned him and ran a warrant check that came up with nothing. Then they let him go.
First, when the HELL did ramming a car become the approved SWAT-Operator Car-Stopping Method?
Second, THEY FIRED SHOTS?
Third, “Due to the urgency of these warrants and the hazards to neighbors and bystanders, tactics were employed in order to maximize safety to community and swift apprehension of the suspect,” the report states.  BY RAMMING THE CAR?

This is one of those 'Horsewhips followed by hot tar and feathers' things

The Department of Defense confirms to NBC 5 Investigates that accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan has now been paid more than $278,000 since the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting that left 13 dead and 32 injured. The Army said under the Military Code of Justice, Hasan’s salary cannot be suspended unless he is proven guilty.
...
Meanwhile, more than three years later soldiers wounded in the mass shooting are fighting to receive the same pay and medical benefits given to those wounded in combat.
Because the chickenshits in the White House(those who aren't flirting with outright treason) won't label the attack what it was, oh no, it's just 'workplace violence'.

a bit of backed-up 'What the hell?'

Why are the Brit authorities soft-peddling who murdered a soldier on a public street, but hammering anyone who says non-pc things on bloody facebook?
Because it's safer to screw with people who say impolite things than the actual enemy, and
because they're using the enemy for votes.  And screw the future consequences.


I'm wondering, did Romney return that knife Christie stuck in his back?


This information's been out for a while, but the warmenists can't bloody stand it, so most media hasn't talked about it.

Stolen from Correia:

                                  "We're here to off the wizard"

Yes, Sen. Turban really IS a dick.



'Creeping sense of personal remorse' actually means "I got caught!"


More "I'm a gun owner BUT-" sockpuppets.

Over in Tolerance & Respect Land,

Seven Dutch teenagers and an adult man accused of kicking a football linesman to death at a junior league match have gone on trial in the Netherlands.
Well, that sounds bad.
Seven teenagers and one father, identified only as “El Hasan D”, appeared in court in the Dutch town of Lelystad, where they faced charges of manslaughter, public violence and brutality. Mr Nieuwenhuizen’s widow and one of his sons arrived at the court but declined to speak to journalists.
Uh-oh, better watch what you say about them!  But don't worry, the Court is on the watch:
“After a long time, your trial is finally beginning,” judge Anja van Holten told the accused. Most had been in detention since the attack. “These will be difficult days for you. We will try to take that into account,” she added.
Awww, isn't that nice?


Completely unrelated to the above, I was looking at the Hodgdon/Winchester loading data site, and noticed they have some load data for .50BMG; how does 225 to 260 grains of powder sound?
Hey, with the lighter load you can get 31 rounds from a pound of powder!


About the FBI shooting that suspect in Florida?  Curiouser and curiouser...
Thanks to Shermlock for that second link.
Have to borrow a quote from the Ace post:
I don't know if that happened here. The guy could have lunged for the sword, and the FBI agent could have just been a little too quick on the draw. (Or perhaps just in time on the draw. Who knows.)
But whereas before I'd provisionally assume the FBI was telling the truth, I gotta tell you: My working assumption is now that they are lying.
Because that's what they do.
Which is exactly why, if the IRS and EffingBI and other agencies actually give a damn about the law and right and wrong, they'd stomp the crap out of the agents abusing power/lying/etc.: because if they don't they're feeding the feeling people have gained that they don't give a damn about anything but their power, and the use of it.


Speaking of abusers of power, we know Holder's lied under oath before, so him lying to a judge wouldn't be a surprise. 
Lying to the press about his intentions, either.


You may have noticed that Oklahoma had another visit from the airborne vacuums; this is the back end of one of the supercells traversing the land today

It was south and a bit east of where I was standing; having seen such on a direct approach before, I like this angle better.

Also, this little camera is great.  When I get the right damn settings, and since it has so many that's sometimes problematic.

 Good grief;  I just checked and, as of September, I will have been doing this for nine years.


Og is a bastard.  thatisall.


One way or another, Ma Nature is always trying to kill you.  And eventually succeeding.

Everybody who wants a mammoth

just got a boost:
Russian scientists discovered a fully-grown female mammoth with blood and well-preserved muscle tissue trapped in ice in Siberia. The findings come amid debates on whether the extinct species should be resurrected using DNA.
Unlike, say, a velociraptor or something, cloning a mammoth would leave you with something like an elephant, which we do have experience dealing with.  So there's one more problem down.


As it should be: no special rights because you have a government job.
In Texas, the House defeated a measure on Sunday that would have given prosecuting attorneys and lawmakers permission to carry gunsanywhere they wanted to in the state. Just 38 lawmakers voted for it, while 103 voted against.


More destruction of history by Religion of Peace proponents in the mid-east.


More misconduct by the prosecutors in the Zimmerman case; so when does the bar association start disbarring these clowns, and will they be charged for their various crimes?


Ok, so exactly what the hell happened, then?
A Chechen man who was fatally shot by an FBI agent last week during an interview about one of the Boston bombing suspects was unarmed, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

An air of mystery has surrounded the FBI shooting of Ibragim Todashev, 27, since it occurred in Todashev’s apartment early on the morning of May 22. The FBI said in a news release that day that Todashev, a former Boston resident who knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed during an interview with several law enforcement officers.

So our Fearless IRS Official had a record of abuse

of power and position BEFORE she even got to the IRS.  And Obama wants her in charge of Obamacare. 



Gut-check time for the press: If they’re truly offended by the DOJ’s secret snooping on James Rosen and the AP, they won’t agree to attend Holder’s gladhanding session unless/until he agrees to make it on the record, right? Press freedom and government transparency are either important or they’re not. If they’re not, then yeah, an off-the-record session in which the powers that be privately assure a guild that they’re on their side will do just fine. Happens all the time in the Obama White House. 

Which is it?
For a lot of these sorry excuses for reporters, it'll be both: "Oh, Mr. AG Holder, you're so wonderful to be concerned about what you did!" is their default.  So they'll kiss his ass and claim this meeting makes it all better. Because supporting Obama and Holder is far more important to them than, say, reporting.

From the PROM, more zero-tolerance stupidity

I’ll give Palmer this much: The toy that caused the uproar on the school bus Friday looks like a tiny assault rifle. It’s from a G.I. Joe action figure. It’s less than 2 inches long, and the boy is 6.

“I think they overreacted totally. I totally do,” the boy’s mom, Mieke Crane, told WGGB-TV. Her boy had to write a letter of apology to the bus driver, though after she met with school officials yesterday, they agreed to drop the detention he had been sentenced to serve.

I still hear insistence that voter fraud isn't a problem,

so the only reason for voter ID laws is racism, etc.  Right.
To keep that silly narrative alive, it’s important not to read the Sunday edition of the Columbus Dispatch, in which readers were informed that “more than one out of every five registered Ohio voters is probably ineligible to vote.”

Furthermore, “in two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting age population: Northwestern Ohio’s Wood County shows 109 registered voters for every 100 eligible, while in Lawrence County along the Ohio River it’s a mere 104 registered per 100 eligible.”


More on the piece-of-crap immigration bill Rubio wishes to trash his standing for.
The final length of the bill remained a mystery during its drafting process. Some estimates from media outlets, including from the Washington Post's David Nakamura, placed the bill length at the time at longer than 1,500 pages. Breitbart News also reported that estimate, as did many other media outlets. 

When the bill came out at introduction just under a thousand pages, Gang of Eight members tried to attack the reputations of the media outlets that reported those initial numbers. Marco Rubio attacked those who reported on the estimates of the bill’s length in a press release. 
...
The new bill towers over previous versions in length, clocking in at 1,076 pages. It was introduced on Tuesday afternoon.
A: Rubio expects us to buy this garbage just because he insists it's a good deal?
B: Just how much shit is hidden in that more-than-thousand pages of gobbledygook?
C: Next time someone announces a 'Gang of (X)' for anything, both the announcer and every member should be dragged into the town square and flogged.


I'll bet some people at IRS just about crapped their pants when this order came in.  And the investigators better be looking for evidence of screwing with files before it came down.


On personal stuff, in this case the 'life calling' over the previous few days involved not work, but a chance to travel a bit.  I'll have that story later.  Right now there's shopping to do and other everyday stuff to take care of.

Memorial Day

On in Army now, and I remember two great-uncles who served in WWII; one in the Pacific, one in Europe.

I'm going to try to watch some of Band of Brothers later; if nothing else the Why we fight episode.




Which does lead me to the one other thing I want to say today:
Britain is a shining example of losing everything fought and bled for.
Media timidity in the face of these obvious declarations is matched by equally feeble responses from the political classes. Richard Barrett, a former United Nations co-ordinator for the al-Qaida and Taliban monitoring team, offered this insight following yesterday’s brutality: “The idea that this may be terrorism inspired by some sort of religious extremist belief is quite plausible.”

Quite plausible, old chap? Quite plausible, you say? Well, let’s not jump to any conclusions simply because some Koran-quoting maniac carrying two bloody knives has just cut off a man’s head. Maybe he had trouble at home.
Open attacks and murders by muslims, who insist on saying that's exactly why they're doing this, and the Brit media and politicians, overall, don't have the balls to say something about exactly that.  Oh no, excuses and weasel-words abound.  

And we've got a bumper crop of the same level idiots here, and they're just as much in a rush to hand over everything to the enemy in the name of 'tolerance' and 'being sensitive to the beliefs of others'.

I'm sure some clown will run across this and trumpet it as "SEE, THEY HATE MUSLIMS!", so- assuming such will bother to read this far- no, all muslims are not the enemy; SOME are, and they number in the millions.  And they want us dead, converted or dhimmi.  And ignoring that, ignoring the religious reasons behind their actions, is stupid.  And downright suicidal.

Just how screwed is (fG)Britain?

This screwed:
If you mean laws against carving up innocent people on the street with knives, well, the Brits have a problem. But if you complain about such an outrage on Facebook or Twitter, you’re going to be crushed by the full majesty of the law. (Via InstaPundit):

A 22-year-old man has been charged on suspicion of making malicious comments on Facebook following the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby. Benjamin Flatters, from Lincoln, was arrested last night after complaints were made to Lincolnshire Police about comments made on Facebook, which were allegedly of a racist or anti-religious nature.

Murder and beheading of a British soldier ON A STREET IN FRIGGIN' LONDON, with cops standing by helplessly waiting for a cop with a gun to show up...  then this.  "Don't you dare say anything hurtful about muslims, just because a couple did this(on top of all else, but don't mention that either)!  You'll be nicked if you do!"

The window's closing; and if they act before it does, I'm afraid it'll be as Tam thinks.  In large part because, when you let things reach that point, that's about all the reaction that's left to stop it.


Yes, still tied up; had a minute to look around and saw this crap, and it demanded some speechifying before my head blew up.

Yes, I'm still here.

Yes, another round of storms came through; heavy rains, lightning, some hail, etc.  Flood warnings, including the area with people trying to salvage what they can, others trying to minimize further damage to houses still there, and cleanup crews trying to get some improvements done, on streets if nothing else.

Security Staff(Jr.) has never really liked storms, but I've never seen him as scared as he's been the last few days.

This from daughter:
(Friend) and I were talking last night and came to a conclusion: Oklahoma is the Australia of the United States. 
Let’s see: all the poisonous snakes. All the poisonous spiders. Scorpions. Alligators. Mountain lions. Bears. Fire ants. Tornados. Winds. Floods. Droughts. Wild fires. Earthquakes. Landslides. Blizzards. Ice storms. Severe storms. The most consecutive days over 100 degrees in recorded history for all of the United States. We even managed to have a hurricane once. And I’m sure I’m missing something.


About the riots in Sweden, from Marja in the land next door:
No hint in Finnish newspapers either about who the rioters are. But no need - most of the comments are about that. Even the lefty types aren't trying to deny, they are just inventing reasons why everything is the fault of the ethnic Swedes who haven't done enough to help the immigrants to get jobs and feel at home there. Poor immigrants are being suppressed or something (so no miracle they are acting out...).

At least those comments are shown. With most papers you have to be a bit careful about how you phrase things (although sometimes you also see very, shall we say, questionable comments too - I do know of some complaints how their facts only comments disappeared while the racist rant stayed), but if done so most comments seem to go through. Although more and more papers are requiring registration, and often, after that happens, you start seeing more comments which fit the preferred narrative and less opposing views. I don't much like the idea of registration, I guess most people who think like me don't. I guess most of us are a bit paranoid. Perhaps stupid, perhaps not.
No, I think the proper term for that is 'realistic'.
And later
Hm. I may have been a bit hasty with the previous comment. Now there is news that one of the main suspects in the Swedish riots is a Finnish citizen. One paper I've been checking has been getting a lots of comments on that, mostly full of, well, glee over the fact. Except some which mention that the names of the suspects would be available on some Swedish sites. The first name of the Finnish citizen would be, according to those, Ahmed. The last name isn't anything like Lahtinen either. Points for family roots a bit further south.

And for some reason those comments keep getting deleted, all of them, after a very short while. Funny, that.
Isn't it, though?


Nanny Bloomberg really doesn't like it when he doesn't get his way:
“I saw Bloomberg and his security there in the club, so I went over and said, ‘Tell me what is going on with the Taxi of Tomorrow?’ ” Freidman, 42, said yesterday.
“He turns to me, and said, ‘Come January 1st, when I am out of office, I am going to destroy your f–king industry.’

“I said, ‘Whoa, Mr. Mayor, calm down! Why can’t I sit down with you and figure out something that works?’ He got back in my face and said, ‘After January, I am going to destroy all you f–king guys,’ ” said Freidman, whose company operates a fleet of 925 yellow cabs.
Nasty little tyrant, isn't he?


My line keeps dropping again, every time another effing storm comes through the area.  And still busy, so don't look for more for a couple of days.  

Life is calling; next few days to a week

will have light bloggage.  No, not WA; though this would probably be a good time to see St. Helens.

A roundup of stuff on the IRS law & ethics abuse.


Add up all the recent scandals and the message is clear: the Obama administration is showing that it cannot be trusted with the basic functions of government: law enforcement (surveillance of reporters), taxation (IRS scandals), and national security (Benghazi).


"Money out of politics(unless it's coming to us)!"


 Why I don't give to the Red Cross: "So what if you gave money for this disaster?  We'll use it as we see fit."


Gov. Howler really doesn't like the commoners speaking out, does he?


Ah, those nasty Methodists, they just can't control themselves(you expect Sweden to call the rioters what they are?)...


Ed Markey is a slimy bastard.
So why is ANYBODY voting for him, even in the PROM?

And, just to make the situation even more fun

To Sen. Whitehouse, the miserable global-warming skank:

1975 : Tornado Outbreaks Blamed On Global Cooling

If you'd been around then, you'd have been screaming about this, too.