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Shoot straight

Posted on August 31, 2014 | Comments Off on Shoot straight

Speaking of bullets and refused arms… Also just plain honesty, a notable Wormtongue deficiency.

I like Andy’s proposed replacement for the tiresome “Have a nice day.” It’s “Shoot straight.”

Via MyOldRV.

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ISIS in El Paso

Posted on August 30, 2014 | 1 comment

Well, across the border in Ciudad Juarez, apparently, but that’s as close to El Paso as nevermind. Recalls to mind the old Kinky tune “I’m just another asshole from El Paso.”

So there’s this secret federal alert according to Judicial Watch: “…government sources reveal that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is confirmed to now be operating in Juarez, a famously crime-infested narcotics hotbed situated across from El Paso, Texas. Violent crimes are so rampant in Juarez that the U.S. State Department has issued a number of travel warnings for anyone planning to go there. The last one was issued just a few days ago.” (The sources-say alert is denied, of course, by Obamalot.)

Texas state law enforcement, while not seconding Judicial Watch’s claim, nevertheless has alerted its troopers to the potential threat from ISIS.

Advice to ISIS: Don’t cross the border in your menacing black outfits, complete with masks and green Islamic headbands. You will be shot on sight, as likely as not by civilians who are usually armed and will now be anticipating clowns in funny clothes that call to mind the uproars in the Middle East.

Carrying AK-47s are a dead (so to speak) giveaway, too. No finesse, no future. Just sayin’

Via Clash Daily.

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The latest from our robed rulers

Posted on August 29, 2014 | 1 comment

A federal district judge has thrown out a key provision of the state’s new law regulating abortion clinics. It seems that health & safety isn’t important where killing the unborn is concerned.

“The law would require abortion facilities in Texas to meet hospital-level operating standards, which supporters say will protect women’s health. Clinics called it a backdoor effort to outlaw abortions…”

The state, of course, will appeal the decision. A previous reversal was overturned and that part of the law upheld. It’s a pity that states have to jump through these legal hoops. But that’s the situation we have: These unelected robed rulers of ours call the shots. And they call this democracy? Very funny.

Meanwhile, the country’s birth and fertility rates (the latter said to be more accurate) have fallen below replacement. The birth measure is below even Russia’s, which is also below replacement, and the declining American fertility measure is now converging with the low Russian one.

And, yes, those rates take into account the illegal Hispanics coming here.

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Punch back twice as hard

Posted on August 16, 2014 | 6 comments

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“I will explore every legal avenue to expedite this matter and bring it to a swift conclusion,” Rick said Saturday in a statement. “I am confident we will ultimately prevail, that this farce of a prosecution will be revealed for what it is, and that those responsible will be held to account.”

Meet one of the responsible.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE: The Texas Chainsaw Prosecution: “…the D.A.’s office is trying to criminalize the normal process of constitutional government.”

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Why space will be Chinese

Posted on August 16, 2014 | Comments Off on Why space will be Chinese

The first lunar base, the first Martian colony, first mining of the asteroids… And not just because many scifi writers already are predicting it. But because the American political class will keep American companies grounded.

“Here’s the deal: SpaceX, as you may know, is making good on its promise to make access to space cheaper and more reliable. Their Falcon 9 rocket is putting payloads into orbit for less money than the big government contractors charge.

“As one might expect, [politicians] who have such contractors in their own districts and states are unhappy with this. And apparently some are willing to smear SpaceX as retribution.”

The Greens? Not yet. These are Republicans—the supposed champions of market capitalism. So, about that supposedly coming SpaceX spaceport near Brownsville in South Texas? It may never launch anything but red tape.

Via Instapundit.

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Democrat prosecutors get Rick

Posted on August 15, 2014 | 15 comments

Figures, and by our (Austin’s) longtime Democrat prosecutors office. No, no conflict there.

“The Texas Democrat… Party called on Perry to resign after the indictment [for “coercion”] was announced, calling the situation ‘unbecoming’ of a Texas governor.” No, no conflict here.

It’s a funny story, if you like tales about alcoholic Democrat prosecutors who throw fits when arrested for drunk driving, and therefore serve 45 days in jail, which is where this began. But not so funny now that they’ve got Rick facing prison time if his defenders lose the case to a (very highly probable) all-Democrat jury.

It’s all too obvious what they’re doing: prepping the battlespace for the Queen of Benghazi. Can’t be having her lizardness facing anyone too strong in 2016. She and Slick Willie might lose. Oh, the horror.

Via FoxNews.

UPDATE: Conservatives, predictably, are not amused. But I bet the drunk-driving district attorney whose grand jury indicted Rick is having a belly laugh. Now. Then, she threw a hissy fit.

MORE:  Law professor Eugene Volokh, of the Volokh Conspiracy, seems to be saying he thinks the indictment can’t be legally sustained, though he admits he’s no expert on Texas law.

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Idiot pleads youth

Posted on August 8, 2014 | 2 comments

“I’m scared. Very scared,” [Jacob] Lavoro said. “I’m 19 years old and still have a whole life ahead of me. Take that into account.”

Uh-huh. Not to mention the stupidity of making marijuana brownies and selling them for $25. Each? Doesn’t say. Surely this youthful idiot in Georgetown, just up the road from the rancho, is not a native Texan.

Must be a recent arrival, though unless he’s from Colorado or Washington, he ought to have considered the likelihood of maximum jail time looming for drug dealers in America’s unjust but longstanding drug war.

To the extent 19 year olds consider anything but their hairstyle (notice the photo at the link of his pre-trial hipster demeanor, considerably cleaned up for his courtroom appearances). I foresee a goodly portion of your “whole life ahead” being spent in Huntsville, Jacob. You won’t be skating out of this one.

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