From Snowflakes in Hell, quoting Arms and the Law, an example of where it almost did:
[I]nteresting case of an officer who constantly trained at disarming people by hand. Have someone hold a gun on him, and take it away from them, hand it back and repeat. He came face to face with an armed criminal, snatched the gun away from him — and handed it back.
He survived the experience luckily.
h/t Snowflakes in Hell.
Not only are they brainwashed, the “animal rights” dweebies can’t even get their facts straight
Animal rights activists who claimed responsibility for vandalizing a western Pennsylvania business last week to support an Oregon prisoner apparently weren’t aware the business hadn’t sold furs for about 20 years, police said.
Nobody has been charged in the attack on Linda’s Fashions and Fur Salon in Geistown, Pa.
The Animal Liberation Front took credit for the June 14 attack, according to the North American Animal Liberation Press Office Web site, which is linked to the ALF’s site. The group claimed a cinder block was thrown through a front door and the letters “ALF” were spray-painted on the building.
Geistown Police Cpl. Terry McGrath said he’s heard the activists were taking credit for the attack. “I think these people assume they sold furs, which they didn’t, as far as I know, for the last 20 years,” McGrath said. The business now sells only dresses and other fashion accessories, he said.
The animal rights group said on its Web site that the attack was “carried out in solidarity with Earth Liberation Prisoner Jeffrey Luers.”
Luers was sentenced to prison in 2001 for setting fire to three SUVs in Eugene and an attempted arson at an oil company.
Idiots carry out an attack “in solidarity” with another idiot. Never a winning combination.
But hey, it was violent. And in their mind, if you are angry, you are righteous. Anger begets violence, thereby “violent” is the epitome of “righteousness”.
Unless, of course, you get violent with them. Your anger could never be righteous. You just hate nature.
Which is why I am so glad that The Dane has posted these two strips yesterday, to go with this article and with this week’s Quotes of the Day.
 
Go ahead, laugh. they’re funny because they’re true.
The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans.Â
Dr. Reed F. Noss , The Wildlands Project
Unless, of course, Dr. Ross needs to publish a paper saying how bad humans are or needs to speak at an event where he can say that all humans should just die.
It is strange how alike these folks are to the mid-east mad mullahs; Always finding someone more worthy than themselves to sacrifice or kill themselves.
By now you’ve probably seen this report from MSNBC about the number of lame-stream-media members donating to Democrats over Republicans at a rate of 7-to-1.
Yeah, big surprise there. But did you read further into it?
But with polls showing the public losing faith in the ability of journalists to give the news straight up, some major newspapers and TV networks are clamping down. They now prohibit all political activity — aside from voting — no matter whether the journalist covers baseball or proofreads the obituaries. The Times in 2003 banned all donations, with editors scouring the FEC records regularly to watch for in-house donors. In 2005, The Chicago Tribune made its policy absolute. CBS did the same last fall. And The Atlantic Monthly, where a senior editor gave $500 to the Democratic Party in 2004, says it is considering banning all donations. After MSNBC.com contacted Salon.com about donations by a reporter and a former executive editor, this week Salon banned donations for all its staff.
They are getting tired of seeing how easy it is to prove that they as an institution are biased against right leaning candidates and causes, so they are denying their employees the ability to give folks like you and me the rope to hang them with.
Now, Captain Ed asks if these reporters are “allowed to be Americans?” I say that they are and that if they don’t like not being able to contribute to their favorite candidate or party by their employer, they can find work elsewhere.
Just as media employees have the First Amendment right to speak with their political contributions, I have a civil right to arm myself. Yet my employer denies me this right while I’m on their property (a rule that was changed after my employment started with them).
Just as I have the right to not work here (and go somewhere else with the same policy), they have the right to go work somewhere that allows them to contribute to whatever political entity they wish.
Of course, the media wouldn’t consider the two to be similar, but that is why they give big bucks to Democrats.
We’ve been talking a lot about the school system in Washington State the past few days, most of it bad, so I figured that I should probably get to showing you one of the most successful Washington academic projects.
Monroe inmates become graduates
This graduation, like so many others, had its “Pomp and Circumstance,” its massive bouquets of flowers and its nervous graduates in bright blue caps and gowns, playing with the tassels in their eyes.
But when the cake was finished and the proud families and friends made their way out of the windowless room, these graduates were escorted back to the cells where they would live out the rest of their sentences — from a few months to life without parole — in Monroe’s Washington State Reformatory.
Yep, when the system that taxpayers pay into to actually educate the children of Washington State fails said children miserably, as it does in millions of cases per year, there is always this back up one for those children when they turn into adults and realize what they should have been doing in the first place.
Washington State Motto:
If at first you don’t succeed, tax them again and do it over later.
Apparently I don’t, because now that King County passed the “Critical Areas Ordinance” that tells property owners what percentage of their dirt they can cover with things like structures and driveways, the City of Seattle will soon be looking at regulating how much is too much when you build your home.
Sadly, you’re not going to be left with all that much.
If you’ve ever had the sun blotted or your view blocked by a house on steroids, you’d understand the unneighborly feelings that a megahome can engender.
In a city of neighborhoods, that is not a good thing. Seattle City Councilman Richard Conlin is right to propose housing-code changes that would scale back how large a replacement home in a single-family neighborhood could be.
They are calling them “Megahomes” so as to try and imply that these homes are oversized and basically bias the reader. However, if the house of your dreams meets all other City of Seattle requirements for lot size, they are now going to tell you that going up is a no-no.
I mean, who would want to have an entire floor dedicated to a bedroom, with it’s own bathroom and walk-in closets? Or a living room you could actually enjoy living in? Or a garage to house two commuter vehicles and a weekend ride?
Oh yeah, that would be me.
If I own the dirt, and pay the appropriate amount of taxes on said dirt, and abide by all other building codes, why shouldn’t I be able to go up three stories if my wallet allows it?
Because the folks at the Seattle Times, and apparently the Seattle City Council, think I’m just showing off.
The controversy has been brewing for years as more human-scale older homes have been knocked down and replaced by gargantuan structures that sidle up to lot lines and hoist themselves into the sky, as if — look at me! — they are all that counts on a block.
As the Green Lake Community Council’s Ref Lindmark told Seattle Times reporters Sharon Pian Chan and Ashley Bach, “There are a number of 1,000-square-foot houses and then, all of a sudden, along comes a 4,000-square-foot house and it just dominates.”
The controversy has been brewing for years as more human-scale older homes have been knocked down and replaced by gargantuan structures that sidle up to lot lines and hoist themselves into the sky, as if — look at me! — they are all that counts on a block.
As the Green Lake Community Council’s Ref Lindmark told Seattle Times reporters Sharon Pian Chan and Ashley Bach, “There are a number of 1,000-square-foot houses and then, all of a sudden, along comes a 4,000-square-foot house and it just dominates.”
Tough titties, Ref. It is none of your business why that person wanted a 4000sqft house. Maybe they have a dedicated gun room (like I’d love to have) or maybe it’s a dedicated meda room (like the wife wants). Maybe it has both. It doesn’t matter and it is none of your business it my entire ground floor is a garage to house my six vehicles.
But Ref and the rest of the “more human scale” jackasses Must. Have. Conformity.
I’m not a small guy. I need larger accomodations that a 5’5″ asian woman or some 6′ / 140lb bean eater who likes to live in poverty.
Remodeling and rebuilding are not intrinsically bad. They can freshen up a property and even start the turnaround of an entire area. But when an owner cares not enough about the impacts of his buildout on nearby residents, the social infrastructure of the city begins to fray.
Screw your “social infrastructure”. I have to live in it, they don’t. I’m paying for it, they aren’t. So long as I am not harming their land values or damaging their actual property, what business is it of theirs?
Conlin proposes to lower the height limits of houses that replace demolished homes, from the approximately three stories permitted now to two. Homes would be able to occupy 35 percent of a lot; whereas now it is 35 percent or 1,750 square feet, whichever is more. The latter standard allows for a relatively larger structural footprint on lots under 5,000 square feet. Conlin also proposes to ban the practice of consolidating adjoining properties and replacing multiple homes with a single large one.
And I bet that Conlin probably still wonders why the number of families moving into Seattle proper has been declining over the last decade.
This week is suckin’ hard, hope you all haven’t noticed.
Anyway, there is always one guy who can make a shitty week less shitty, and that man is Lemmy Kilmister
So here you go,
and
That the American Eco-Socialist Left will be heading over to China to tell them they need to pollute less, right?
China overtakes US as world’s biggest CO2 emitter
China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show.
The surprising announcement will increase anxiety about China’s growing role in driving man-made global warming and will pile pressure onto world politicians to agree a new global agreement on climate change that includes the booming Chinese economy. China’s emissions had not been expected to overtake those from the US, formerly the world’s biggest polluter, for several years, although some reports predicted it could happen as early as next year.
China has been #1 in atmospheric particulate emmissions, which are more harmful to the environment than CO2, for over a decade. This common knowledge is one of the main reasons why the US Congress refused to pass the Kyoto Accord upwards to Clinton.
It is also the reason that CO2 became the new boogeyman of the eco-socialist left.Â
Now that China has taken the #1 spot in both categories, those who say they care about the environment above all else need to either meander over to China and start demanding they do what they have been demanding of the US or find a new boogeyman they can scare children and adults with the personalities of children with.
The only other option is for them to shut up, and we know they won’t be doing that.
I know scientists who remind me that people are part of nature, but it isn’t true. Somewhere along the line … we quit the contract and became a cancer. We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth…. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.Â
David Graber, Biologist with the National Parks Service
I just wish that this cheery sould would catch said virus before I do. Unless said virus will turn me into a zombie so that I could eat his brain.
Oh, wait. Not much zombie-power in such a shrivelled brain.
More of Graber’s human hating here.
Hopefully the Seattle Public Schools Board will learn a lesson from this
A protest of military recruiting in Seattle Public Schools has shut down tonight’s School Board meeting.
Acting President Darlene Flynn recessed the meeting before she could even take roll because about 30 students marched into the meeting room chanting, “Yo School Board, what’s up? We’re here to say we’ve had enough.”
Some students covered with fake blood collapsed on the floor, then were carried around the room. After the demonstration, the students spoke to the meeting’s attendees in support of a proposed policy they wrote that would require military recruitment to be confined to twice-yearly recruitment fairs.
After more than a half-hour, the board convened with the district’s attorney to discuss its course of action. Board members re-entered the board meeting room, where the students demanded 10 to 15 minutes to address them.
This is what you get when you give students a high point value end of term assignment with no wrong answers like this one
If Adolf Hitler had an iPod, he’d be rocking out to anthems by Queen. Marie Antoinette’s playlist would feature Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”
So say the students in Ballard High School teacher Alicia Hale’s advanced European history classes. For their final project of the year, the tech-savvy teens wove together snippets of those and other contemporary songs with commentaries on how they relate to historical figures.
Though it was the end of term and students may have been tempted to slack off, every student turned in the project, Hale said, and some even made short videos. There were iPod playlists for Phillip II of Spain and Rasputin; music ran the gamut from classic opera to the theme from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
Great googly-moogly! I would have been a 4.0 student if my assignments had been this insipid.
These students should really sue the district for making them idiots.
