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Call The Cops At Your Own Risk

Posted on November 1, 2012 | Comments Off on Call The Cops At Your Own Risk

Not all the bad news is political. Things have also changed in your very neighborhood. The headline is the title of a good article here, with two revealing videos attached.

The first video is supposed to show how the cops will beat an innocent man bloody. Well, not exactly. To my eyes, we see a very stupid man resisting arrest for which he is beaten, certainly more than is necessary, but, after all, he started it.

The second video is much more impressive. It’s a 48-minute law school lecture, but it isn’t at all dry. Especially not because when the professor finishes he turns the podium over to a police detective who proceeds to underline everything the professor has said.

Which boils down to this: If you are involved in any way in a crime (even as the victim), do not ever talk to the cops. Stand on your Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. Only ask for the chance to contact a lawyer. And, if you have a choice in the matter, don’t summon the cops in the first place. Call the lawyer first, let the lawyer summon them.

The badge gang no longer exists to help you. If they ever did. Sad but true.

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Want more bad economy? You know what to do

Posted on October 31, 2012 | Comments Off on Want more bad economy? You know what to do

“With mischief like these regulations in mind, Mitt Romney said at the second debate, ‘I talk to small business across the country. They say, ‘We feel like we’re under attack from our own government.’ Denying that Obama is hostile to business, Democrats insist that his infamous taunt ‘You didn’t build that’ has to be taken in context. I agree. The context is his presidency.”

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Lots of blame to go around on Benghazigate

Posted on October 28, 2012 | Comments Off on Lots of blame to go around on Benghazigate

“Why did the National Security Council watch passively for seven hours while our ambassador and three other Americans died?”

Why, indeed? The Liar President couldn’t have let them die without help from all concerned, including the “workplace violence” (i.e. Fort Hood jihadi massacre) Pentagon. The Joint Chiefs of Staff  should resign, now!

UPDATE:  Fox News and the Christian Science Monitor are on the case. As Instapundit says: Remember, no one died in Watergate.

MORE: From military writer Bing West in National Review: “Fighter jets could have been at Benghazi in an hour; the commandos inside three hours,” Mr. West wrote.

“If the attackers were a mob, as intelligence reported, then an F-18 [Navy fighter jet] in afterburner, roaring like a lion, would unnerve them. This procedure was applied often in the Iraq and Afghanistan [campaigns]. Conversely, if the attackers were terrorists, then the U.S. commandos would eliminate them. But no forces were dispatched from Sigonella [Italy].”

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The painter postman

Posted on October 23, 2012 | Comments Off on The painter postman

“By this point, Oliver’s work was selling for tens of thousands of dollars. One of his paintings sold for more than $70,000. And all the while, he shows up at the post office in Waco to sort mail.”

A fascinating little tale of a very interesting man just up the road from the rancho.

Via Althouse.

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Nine things the media will rediscover when Romney wins

Posted on October 21, 2012 | Comments Off on Nine things the media will rediscover when Romney wins

Among them, besides the “homeless” and street begging, and, of course, the renewed caterwauling of Democrats from the Clintons and Michael Moore to Code Pink, et al, this is No. 7:

“Some renowned Muslim scholars working for CNN believe that, in the Kufic script of early Arabic, the representation of “Romney” — if cited repeatedly in print — is almost guaranteed to make the moon to explode. And then where will we be?”

Heh. Via The Fat Guy whose struggle with lung cancer has not diminished his sense of humor.

I say “when” Romney wins, not “if,” because, like Roger Kimball at Pajamas Media I just have this hunch that Americans have had enough of Barry and, among other things, his continuous, divisive class warfare.

I think they see the connection between his disingenuous bashing of the rich (where do they think he gets his campaign money?) and the lousy economy (they know that investments by the rich fuel the businesses that hire) and realize that he won’t stop and things won’t get better—until he’s retired and sent home to Chicago.

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Barry, our crass president

Posted on October 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Barry, our crass president

When Peggy Noonan, as sycophantic a political journalist as you are likely to find these days, calls your presidential style “crass” (defined as “without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid”) you can bet that your days as POTUS are numbered.

Hopefully, ninety-two days to be exact, which would be the end of the Obozo presidency. And Queen Michelle’s million-dollar vacations on the taxpayer, which were crass all along, even if Noonan didn’t say so.

MORE:  Fortunately, we no longer have to rely on the Noonans. The so-called “debates,” which couldn’t pass for real debates in a third-rate high school, have been very revealing:

“Americans who have just begun to tune into the election are seeing the president unmediated. They no longer are looking at him through the scrim of fawning press, majestic settings, and roaring crowds. And they are discovering that Obama is not so likable at all. He is actually something of a jerk.”

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Let him make himself clear (again)

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Posted on October 19, 2012 in Obamalot, Obituaries, Scribbles

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