Last night I posted on Facebook: “So I told the cops, after he said he’d go in the house and fuck my wife, would you rather had me shoot him?”
And now, the rest of the story.
We live on a large corner lot in the city now.
Last night, after finally giving in to Chris, I signed up for Facebook. I then went outside and played with our dog Dot (She’s a Dug) for a few minutes before going back inside and doing the friends thing.
Suddenly I heard a lot of yelling coming from the side of the house. Bart DeDawg (1/2 rottie 1/2boxer) was barking at a yout who was shaking the fence and screaming at Bart. He started screaming at me and my quills started to rise. Pretty soon I was telling him to “get the Fuck out of here you insert expletive” at a high volume.
He finally walked to the corner and started down the main road when he turned, walked back towards the house and made the statement I reported last night. My thoughts were:
Get the shotgun.
But what if he follows me in before I get the gun?
He’s thirty years younger then me, but there’s a stout branch.
Open fence, grab 7’ long 3” diameter branch and decide that it’s too long.
Snap said branch into 3’ long piece.
Walk towards road to end this crap now!
Then five cop cars pull up and a redheaded, female sergeant jumps out and asks me what I was doing with the club.
I answered with the statement I posted last night. Chris was right behind me and, wisely, I let her do the talking. The end was the youth was taken away in cuffs. She said she heard me telling the guy to leave from three blocks away. With her window up.
Apparently Dot the Dug had jumped the fence earlier and ran to the front. Chris heard her and called her inside and apologized to the young man. Seems that wasn't good enough as he walked around the side and started his crap. And that's where I came in.
Silver Springs police took out whacko John Lee shortly before they would have had to endure rush hour traffic.
Meanwhile Think Progress bills this loon as “Purported Eco-Terrorist Angered Over ‘Immigration Pollution And Anchor Baby Filth”. I think Mr. Soros ought to be concerned about where his money is going, it seems like it’s being spent on hallucinogens over at TP.
As some of you might know former Air America editor in chief Beau Friedlander wrote a hit piece at the HuffPo that was even too outre’ for their standards. In this post Friedlander offered $100,000.00 for a sex tape of Beck…or anything else that would “take him down”. Of course this was some sort of incoherant attempt to emulate Brietbart’s offers. The difference being that Brietbart has offered rewards for such things as proving the Tea Party is racist while Friedlander just wants to destroy someone; including that targets family.
Expect more of the same in coming months and particulary if the Republicans take control of one, or both, houses of Congress.
Meanwhile I have reserved Friedlander’s screed for posterity.
These are remarkable statistics. Even though heavy drinking is associated with higher risk for cirrhosis and several types of cancer (particularly cancers in the mouth and esophagus), heavy drinkers are less likely to die than people who have never drunk. One important reason is that alcohol lubricates so many social interactions, and social interactions are vital for maintaining mental and physical health. As I pointed out last year, nondrinkers show greater signs of depression than those who allow themselves to join the party.
Overall an interesting analysis. Short answer: be happy.
But even after controlling for nearly all imaginable variables – socioeconomic status, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on – the researchers (a six-member team led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin) found that over a 20-year period, mortality rates were highest for those who had never been drinkers, second-highest for heavy drinkers and lowest for moderate drinkers.
(CNN)—A motorist fired pepper spray Saturday at a group of demonstrators and counter-protesters outside a funeral for a U.S. Marine in Omaha, Nebraska, police said.
“Initial indications are he was probably targeting the Westboro Baptist Church” protesters, said officer Michael Pecha, a spokesman for Omaha police.
Years of putting up with these shitheads’ antics, and the worst us civilized folk have done is pepperspray them? That speaks volumes.
Like I said, trial by jury, exoneration with prejudice, then sue the bastards.
Officer injured, suspect killed in police shootout
August 27th, 2010 @ 10:06pm
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SALT LAKE CITY —A Salt Lake City police officer shot and killed a man in a busy downtown intersection. New photos show the suspect was in full military gear and armed to the teeth.
This guy either had problems, or problems were handed to him. He apparently was just waltzing through town in full combat gear, rifle included, and didn’t attack anyone…but the cops showed up and a shootout followed. Either this guy was looking for “suicide by cop” or the cop just got DAMNED lucky.
Anyhow, at least all the cops here have AR-15s in their patrol cars…none of this “pistols vs. rifles” shit like the North Hollywood bank robbery. Tragic in any case.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 24 (UPI)—Throughout my career I have been known to walk that fine line between good taste and unemployment. I see no reason to change that now.
Consider the following therapeutic.
I have been assigned as a staff officer to a headquarters in Afghanistan for about two months. During that time, I have not done anything productive. Fortunately little of substance is really done here, but that is a task we do well.
We are part of the operational arm of the International Security Assistance Force commanded by U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus. It is composed of military representatives from all the NATO countries, several of which I cannot pronounce.
Officially, IJC was founded in late 2009 to coordinate operations among all the regional commands in Afghanistan. More likely it was founded to provide some general a three-star command. Starting with a small group of dedicated and intelligent officers, IJC has successfully grown into a stove-piped and bloated organization, top-heavy in rank. Around here you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a colonel.
I am intimately familiar with IJC and everything the writer says is true. It is little wonder why we haven’t won the war by now. We are our own worst enemy.
Adams was the first real American Conservative. In this scene from the movie “1776” Adams has just seen his Independence Coalition fall apart over slavery.
While the Continental Congress debates minutia Adams remains a stalwart supporter of Independence. While many in Congress tired of his constant pursuit of it others sought his advice on government structure since it was apparent he had been thinking of Independence for quite some time. To that end he wrote “Thoughts on Government” which became a root source for many of the first State Constitutions that were written.
In the wake of The Cabbie Stabber the Left, once again, tries to make the argument that Right Wing ideology drove these people to violence. Prof. Jacobson relates this fail here:
People who had nothing to do with each other in the real world. In the blogosphere, each of these people was linked by a macabre desire by the left-wing blogosphere to find a crime which fit a narrative of right wing violence inspired by talk radio, Fox News, “wingnut” bloggers, and Tea Partiers.
He lists the various people who committed the crimes and the bloggers who push the eliminationist narrative. He failed to mention the guy who fire bombed Russ Carnahan’s office and the senior citizen who killed a guard at the Holocaust museum. The radicals from ELF who are burning and bombing and so on. There are also fringe right sorta people who have committed crimes.
While there is some speech that is designed to inflame violence, it’s from the usual suspects; kluxers and ELFers and the like. But it is wrong to fall into the trap that this is “Right” or “Left” inspired. The correct answer is: The fuckers are nuts.
UPDATE: I’m actually going to post a few more of these clips of Adams in the musical 1776. Because that’s what America needs today, someone to stand up in Congress and read the riot act. In numbers such as “Piddle, Twiddle and Reslove” and “Sit Down, John” Adams struggle to get the Continental Congress to actually do what they were sent to Philadelphia to do is shown. That’s what we need now.
With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition. If the EPA approves the petition, the result will be a total ban on all ammunition containing lead-core components, including hunting and target-shooting rounds. The EPA must decide to accept or reject this petition by November 1, 2010, the day before the midterm elections.
Somehow I thought protecting wild game was the purview of the Fish and Wildlife Department. This is another example of Obama’s soft tyranny where he uses federal departments to pass regulations that the Congress would never pass.
A new poll shows that only 36% of the people think (T)Hugo is doing a good job as El Supremo. Of course, that 36% is made up of government workers and those whose survival is solely due to government largess. Something about a 30% inflation rate makes everyone who doesn’t survive off the state upset.
Venezuela has rolled out a new paperless voting system which works using a touchscreen and records biometrics. The data is then sent to a central data collection center. What could possibly then go wrong?
