Category Archives: Obituaries

How Officer Unfriendly gets away with murder

Posted on November 30, 2014 | 7 comments

In many states, including Texas, the law specifies that if a cop wants to arrest you and you run away, you are poised on the ragged edge of your death.

Because the law specifies that if the cop has a reasonable suspicion that you have committed a felony, s/he is authorized by the power of the state to kill you in cold blood.

One more law that needs changing. Flight should not be grounds for official murder.

UPDATE:  And, whatever you do, don’t point a banana at one of them. You could be jailed for “felony menacing.” They’ve got a law for everything.

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Watergate: No myth like an old myth

Posted on October 23, 2014 | 1 comment

The “heroic journalist” narrative is nowhere as long-lasting or as duplicitous as the idea that the Democrat house-organ WaPo’s Watergate reporting brought down Republican President Nixon.

It focused attention on it, sure enough, as the newspaper would never have done to a Democrat president (think its dereliction with Wormtongue and the ongoing IRS scandal), but Nixon brought himself down when his audio-tapes were forcibly exposed, as historian W. Joseph Campbell makes plain.

Indeed, if Woodward and Bernstein had brought a similar story about Jimmy Carter or, heaven forfend, the immaculate-Yankee-Democrat JFK, their newly deceased editor Ben Bradlee would have immediately assigned both of them to writing wedding anouncements.

Via Instapundit.

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The sorriest Texas football team evah

Posted on September 6, 2014 | Comments Off on The sorriest Texas football team evah

Crushed, for the second year in a row by unranked BYU, 41-7. Worse, in fact, than last year when they at least put up 20 points. Backup QB Tyrone Swoopes didn’t make any terrible mistakes but he didn’t do anything terribly good, either.

And the Texas defense, well, they gave up 41 points—28 of them in the third quarter. Ranked UCLA will probably walk all over the Longhorns next week. At least they can beat Kansas (the doormat of the Big 12) the following week. Probably. Maybe.

But I doubt if anyone sane will bet on it.

UPDATE:  Not that it matters but it’s amusing that new coach Charlie Strong has a tendency to lapse into nonstandard English when he’s under pressure.

“They don’t have nothing to do with the way we played tonight,” Strong said of the two starters and one benchwarmer he suspended for rules violations before the game. Well, he is from Arkansas.

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Second verse, same as the first

Posted on June 1, 2014 | 3 comments

“By repeating — and defending — the now-debunked claim that the video was to blame for the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, [soon-to-be Democrat Presidential candidate Shillary] Clinton risks a renewed focus on the shameful manner in which she and President Obama handled the Benghazi disaster.”

Ambassador Christopher Stevens was not available for comment.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE: The “bloody shirt” is an old American political ploy and Shillary is trying to hang it on the GOP.

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In Remembrance

Posted on May 26, 2014 | 1 comment

These seven men of 60th Company, OC 504-68, were killed in Viet Nam.

We graduates of that 1968 class at Infantry Officers Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, commemorate the seven each Memorial Day.

One graduate:  1LT Jacob Lee Kinser, a Huey helicopter pilot.

Two Tactical Officers:  CPT Reese Michael Patrick and 1LT Daniel Lynn Neiswender, both infantry commanders.

Four class drop-outs:  SP4 Robert Chase,  SP4 Reese Currenti Elia Jr., CPL Sherry Joe Hadley, and PFC Jeffrey Sanders Tigner, all infantry riflemen.

Rest in peace.

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The coming end to transgender bathrooms

Posted on May 25, 2014 | 2 comments

I don’t think transgender bathrooms are going to work so well. In Houston or anywhere else. Maybe in theory, but not in practice.

Men aren’t likely to complain about the women-pretending-to-be-men who show up, but women are very likely to complain about the men-to-women creatures, especially those who haven’t yet received all of their equipment.

And the women are likely to rule on this as they do in so much else these days.

No, this new aspect of the modern American circus could be folding its tent before you know it.

Via Mouth of The Brazos.

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Illusion versus physics

Posted on February 25, 2014 | 5 comments

A tragedy in Tennessee Monday reminds me how close I came to being crippled or killed back in 2006 when I took on gravity and my 3,000 pound Jeep. Guess who won.

I  interposed myself between the Jeep and a Suburban it was slowly rolling towards to save myself (and my insurance record) some extra expense. I was pushing really hard on the Jeep but it wasn’t stopping. Either I thought I was Superman or I was conditioned by the ordinary illusion of effortlessly handling a heavy machine in everyday use. Physics wasn’t impressed.

Instead of being crippled with a crushed leg, I was saved by a passerby who opened the driver’s door, reached in and set the parking brake. I was doubly fortunate in having forgotten to lock the door. That part of my stupidity worked out really well.

I only hobbled around for a few weeks. I still wonder what I was thinking to even try it, and I thank G-d for my good fortune. This poor woman died in her vain attempt to stop her rolling Toyota.

Via Instapundit.

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