The rounds hit past the suspect, the driveway about 20 feet from him and the roof’s edge again at that same distance. I wonder how many missed altogether and went over the house to parts unknown.

“Do you have gun firearms training like the police do?”
“No. My standards are much higher.”

And please do not think that the Armed Teachers Bill count: It is fugazzi. Just like in Florida, if the local School head do not allow it, no teachers will be allowed to carry.

School boards are already announcing they will put a foot down and quash any request.

Pretty much nothing good got passed and I may have not been looking in the right places, but I did not see anybody in our side even making an effort to work the legislators or keep people informed. I fear we have no Gun Right organization in the state.

Not BBQ, or any foods. Not NASCAR or College sports.

Yard sales.

I just went out to the dump convenience center; made a wrong turn on a street I don’t usually go through and there was that one sign…

I came home with this:

Old homemade lead-melting ladle because I like the look. Eastwing tac hammer, Stanley Yankee screwdriver because I cannot pass up tools in good shape.

And the sword because… it is a frigging sword.

How much for all? Less than a cheeseburger, fries and medium soda at any fast-food franchise today and will last me longer.

And it is a frigging sword, didn’t I say that already?

More than 400 current and former Olympic, professional and collegiate athletes signed a letter to the NCAA urging them to not ban so-called “transgender” athletes from women’s sports.

Separate letters from over 300 academics and about 100 advocacy groups were also sent to the NCAA. Among the signatories were left-wing activist athletes like Meghan Rapinoe and Sue Bird.

Hundreds of Athletes Urge the NCAA to Allow Men to Compete Against Women (townhall.com)

It will destroy women’s college sports and hopefully, it will make women demand participation in men’s sports including the dumbing down and easing the physical guidelines so they can play on equal footing. Maybe College Football gong to Flag Football rules without physical contact? Baseball played with softball pitches or even pickle balls?

And, of course, trans cheerleaders in those tight shortie skirts flipping all over the place and showing the thing that is there but does not make them males.

Yes, I want to see it all burn.

Once police arrived at 9:21 that evening, the suspicion that Rose was drunk was high.

Rose remembers a female officer observing that she smelled alcohol in the car.

“Post Covid world,” Rose said, “I put on some hand sanitizer.”

The narrative on the police report shows when Rose stepped out to show an officer the damage, he was swaying for balance.
…

Dash-camera video shows Rose stumbling badly during the field sobriety test.

That, too, Rose could explain.

“I kind of stumbled a little when I got out. I struggled, have been bow legged most of my life, so I struggle with balance a lot of the time,” Rose said.

But the smell of alcohol, and the poor performance during the field sobriety test, sealed his fate.

Sober drivers charged with DUI find lives ruined waiting for proof of innocence (wsmv.com)

I don’t think you have not watched a video where a cop utters the “I smell alcohol” or “I smell marijuana” and the proceeds to “test” and arrest somebody on suspicion of DUI plus it gives them a legal excuse to search your vehicle and belongings.

The problem with the gentleman above is he was stone-cold sober as the very late results from the lab proved. It took 6 months to be cleared of charges, but by then the damage to his reputation and life was done.  The article goes on with other cases and the horrible backlog of lab testing at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations’ lab.

I carry alcohol-based hand sanitizer in my vehicle because of my job. I did not know your average cop could not distinguish between the smell of Purell and Mad Dog, but there is something worse: Pot.

I cannot tell you how many times I have been parked somewhere or even waiting for the light to change at an intersection, when my vehicle is suddenly invaded by the smoke of some asshole smoking a doobie nearby. This is not the aromatic weed of my wasted youth, but some seriously rank stuff that makes me wonder if they used skunk DNA to enhance the THC percentage. And it is a bitch to air out, achieved only by doing over 55 MPH and spraying industrial disinfectant at the same time. And the bad news is that I actually saw a video where a cop explained that smelling disinfectant/deodorizer gives them pause and cause to think you are trying to hide the smell of pot and that could be reason enough to detain you and search your vehicle. Does it legally hold water? probably not, but hell if I want to become Defendant Zero and test that in court.

Basically, I may get legally screwed because somebody thinks it is cool light up anywhere anytime and fuck the consequences.

One more of the many reasons I no longer believe in Legalization or even Normalization.

PS: Weed Developers, you should consider doing your genetics shit into developing pot without smell. You would make BILLIONS.

Part of the Pro-Palestine protests at UT,
Why did the DPS use violence on a Reporter in Austin Texas? pic.twitter.com/ooYHfxtThE

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) April 25, 2024

Because he lunged and hit a cop from behind which is bad manners and piss-poor strategy?

Was it on purpose or accidental? No idea. But shit happens in a mob situation and none of it is good.

And no, I do not believe that a journalist is immediately assumed to be neutral when they have now for decades kissed the asses of the political pundits they adore. They sure as hell do not mind about my life and I shall return the favor.