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How to improve policing

Posted on August 29, 2015 | Comments Off on How to improve policing

Want to stop all the police killings and (apparently) retaliatory killings of police? The Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds has a solution. Even if it’s unlikely to be taken.

“(1) abolish official immunity; (2) require insurance for all police; (3) give people a choice of who polices their neighborhoods. That won’t happen, though, because it’s bad for public employee unions and it doesn’t make for appealing slogans designed to drive black [Democrat] voter turnout in November of 2016.”

Repealing the drug war or, at least, decriminalizing marijuana, would help. Also getting rid of SWAT teams. But both are entrenched now and few pols are brave enough to be take them on. They might lose their chance to keep on stealing.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  The Harris County (Houston) deputy slain (at first link above) was killed by a black man who has now been arrested. As Instapundit says: HOW MANY MORE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF OBAMA’S RACIALLY CHARGED RHETORIC? First the black Virginia killer. Now this Texas one.

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Racist nuts with a cause

Posted on August 28, 2015 | Comments Off on Racist nuts with a cause

Flanagan and Roof. Two racist screwballs with too much time on their hands. One black, one white. Same motive, same m.o. Same quixotic aim: start a race war.

As usual, the Democrats and their half-wit president are blaming guns. So much easier than being a real leader, eh Barry? When it would be smarter to blame the fact that the welfare state pretty much ignores the mentally crazed.

“The patently crazy,” notes blogger John Hinderaker at the link above, “roam the streets unless and until they finally explode in violent acts. This is why the largest mental hospitals in the U.S. are in prisons.”

Um, there was one other apparent difference between Vester Lee and Dylan besides their skin color. V.L. was gay. But, for all we know, Dylan was, too.

UPDATE:  Vester was a poster boy for the Left’s “microaggression” bullshit.

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Our feckless federal security

Posted on August 26, 2015 | Comments Off on Our feckless federal security

“American soldiers in the Middle East have been receiving emails that sound something like this: ‘Good morning. We thought you would like to know that we are carefully watching your daughter Rosie, the one who lives in Wichita at 1234 State Street. This is to inform you that if your tank moves 100 meters north, she will not live to see the sun rise tomorrow.’”

Just one example of how foreign hackers could bring a whole new meaning to asymmetrical warfare if our federal computer security can’t get its act together.

Via Michael Ledeen.

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Fearing Trump

Posted on August 25, 2015 | Comments Off on Fearing Trump

“Consider whether Trump is revealing something that has long been true about the American presidency, that he is not such a great outlier. And I’m not just talking about Obama. I’m thinking about all the Presidents I remember in my lifetime. It’s a trajectory, and if you plot it out, you’d see that Trump is next. Trump is next, we are idiots, and we are screwed.”

Oh, I don’t know. Other than the fact that he’s a probable ringer for (as Ace calls her) Grandmonster Hillary, how could he (or even Socialist Bernie) possibly be any worse than our perpetually-lying adolescent, affirmative-action hire Barry Hussein?

Via Althouse.

UPDATE:  Trump booted Univision’s pro-illegals “journalist” from his presser. Then allowed him back and more or less said he didn’t mind illegals, only the criminal ones: “I want the [good ones] to come back.” But legally. What a concept! And the other Ann (Coulter) likes him.

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The French train staff hid

Posted on August 24, 2015 | 2 comments

Those three four Americans who disarmed a would-be Islamist terrorist on a French train? Somehow our snooze media missed the details recounted by Paris Match: the train staff hid while the Americans were saving their fellow passengers.

Sheltering in place, apparently, the federal advice on what to do in terrorist attacks. Fight back? Perish the thought. Now we get to find out if the Americans (one Army, one Air Force, and two civilians, despite being called Marines in some reports) will be prosecuted for a hate crime. Ya think?

Via Ace & Gay Patriot

UPDATE:  The French government, at least, is pleased with them. And: Fear is contagious; so is courage.

MORE:  There was also a French-American college professor in on assaulting the jidhadi. The prof was shot. Just how incompetent is the snooze media these days in tracking down the details?

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“I hope everyone gets well”

Posted on August 22, 2015 | 1 comment

So said a chirpy fellow, ostensibly from Nacogdoches, on the shuttle bus Thursday from the Best Western to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s main building. Underscoring that cancer patients are all over the place.

We’re back home again and not looking to return until the 31st. All that’s waiting now, apparently, is the busy MDA pathologists’ analysis of Mrs. C.’s tests, including a tissue biopsy of one of her cancer-loaded lymph nodes. Oh, and her doctor’s vacation. As she says, never get cancer in August because everyone is gone.

She’s still running a fever, knocked back by continuous doses of Tylenol and in constant pain which pain pills every six hours still are helping. But her right leg is swollen up to twice the left one’s size, so much she doesn’t like to be seen and walking is difficult. Treatment can’t start too soon for us.

Mr. B., meanwhile, had convinced himself, through faulty math, that treatment would be for nought. Our Israeli pal Mr. Goon, who has a degree in physics, explained where he went wrong. For once he was happy to be mistaken.

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Back in the Puckerbrush

Posted on August 19, 2015 | Comments Off on Back in the Puckerbrush

Andy’s off his Central Texas vacation and back gate-guarding again in Webb County (which includes the streets of Laredo), in the far South Texas Puckerbrush:

“It has been 100+ every day since we [him and Tuco the dog] got here and the weatherman is just sayin’ more more MORE!  It is what it is I reckon.”

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