Even Money
Just under 6 hours til midnight.
This morning, Chicago’s death toll was 778.
Anybody bet me that they break 800 before tomorrow morning?
I’m from the government and I’m not here to help
In the beginning of 2016, a handful of ranchers took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon. They held it from January 2, to February 11, when law enforcement ousted them in a raid that resulted in the death of one rancher. The media covered this story in typical fashion, which meant that for all the OpEds by our intellectual betters, the actual root of this issue got swept under the rug.
The whole Oregon Standoff began in a fairly boring way.
The United States Federal Goverment owns half the land west of the Rocky Mountains, and is in control of 52.9% of the state of Oregon. Rangers have some access to this federal land for grazing and other use. The Federal Goverment is supposed to manage it. It does so with the efficiency that it manages most other things in Flyover Country, that is in about a shitty a way as possible.
Two ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, were arrested for burning sagebrush on Federal Land. They claim that what they were doing was fire management. They were burning out underbrush in a controlled way to prevent a bigger fire and make moving cattle easier. They claimed that that the Federal Goverment wasn’t managing the land and so they took matters into their own hands. The thing is, even through the Federal Goverment was derelict in land management, what the ranchers did was a crime that carried a five year minimum sentence.
This outraged other ranchers who felt that the government was going to screw them twice: once when the government failed to properly manage the land, then again when the government arrested them (the ranchers) for maintaining the land themselves. The straw had broke the camel’s back and about two dozen ranchers decided they had enough of being spit roasted (NSFW description) by the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, so they occupied the unmanned Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, as a protest.
Then it all went to hell.
The important takeaway from this was it all started because to ranchers got tired of the government not doing its job and then punishing them when they did the government’s job form them.
Why do I tell this story almost a year later?
Because an illegal immigrant from Mexico was arrested for raping a 13 year old girl on a Greyhound bus in Kansas. Before he raped this girl, he was deported 19 times.
This was not the first story like this from 2016.
Remember the shooting of Kate Steinle in San Francisco? Her shooter was deported five times before he shot Kate.
A man in Louisville killed two women in a DUI, after being deported eight times.
A 10 year old girl in Texas was killed by a man who had been previously deported for a violent crime.
A woman in Michigan was killed by a man deported twice before, including once for trafficking a large amount of drugs.
There are so many of these stories where a previously deported illegal immigrant comes back and ultimately rapes and/or kills someone that I can’t begin to list all of them.
There was a push for Kate’s Law, which would revoke Federal funding from sanctuary cities that protected criminal illegal immigrants. It was ultimately blocked by Senate Democrats. This was one of the many impetuses for the election of Donald Trump.
In the face of Trump, many of the big Blue cities are doubling down on their sanctuary city status.
The expectation is that there is going to be more and more stories like those above as more and more illegal criminals take refuge in these sanctuary cities.
At some point, the straw will break the camel’s back once again. Regular Americans in the areas around these sanctuary cities will get tired of the illegal/Liberal tag team. First screwing when they are the victim of a crime by a previously deported illegal, then screwed again when said criminal is let free in a sanctuary city and the American is lambasted as a racist for wanting something done about it.
The people in the redder suburbs of Minneapolis are not going to tolerate becoming the victims of the criminals that have taken sanctuary in the Twin Cities. When the government fails to do its job for long enough, Americans will pick up the slack. If the Blue sanctuary cities fail to protect Americans from crimes, Americans will protect themselves.
If “illegal deported x-number of times rapes underage girl” becomes a daily story in and around sanctuary cities, soon the headlines will become “illegal deported x-number of times shot to death by bystanders for trying to rape underage girl.”
Top Five Posts of 2016.
Oh heck, why not? They may be your favorites or maybe not. Enjoy!
Number 5: Fear and Loathing in Charlotte.
Number 4: 2016 NRA Annual Meeting: The Crime Report.
Number 3: Obama’s Executive Orders on Gun Control: An embarrassment for the Administration.
Number 2: My child is more important than your gun.
Truth be told, I never saw Number One coming. But then again You can’t ever tell what is gonna be popular short of posting good-looking females wearing almost nothing but good trigger discipline.
A Oral History of The Right Stuff.
There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.
With that narration begins perhaps the best astronaut movie ever made. I am an unabashed fan of The Right Stuff in both movie and book formats. So this long narrative and series of interviews in The Wire are pure gold for a fan like me.
Perhaps the coolest character of the movie is Chuck Yeager played by Sam Sheppard who knew him in real life and had to be prodded into playing him. How cool is the real Yeager? Take a quick peek at his wiki page, it is full of awesome. He is 93 years old and has a very active Twitter presence (@GenChuckYeager).
Anyway, get the movie, the book or both. You won’t be disappointed.
PS: Almost forgot: The initial and final narrations are made by Levon Helm from The Band. I am guessing old farts and young serious rock historians will remember the group.
WTF is wrong with people? Pt. 2
Just when you think that political differences have caused people to hit rock bottom, somebody comes along and does something even worse.
The ever tolerant Left is now openly celebrating being mean to people outside their bubble for meanness sake.
A member of the Left and a BLM supporter has gained notoriety and even fame and accolades among his fellow leftists for leaving a stranded motorist stuck in the snow because the other driver had a Trump bumper sticker.
He Tweeted about his lack of human decency with pride, coining the hashtag #CallYoPresident.
Others have bragged about their heroic acts of acting like complete pieces of shit too, using that hashtag.
Acts such as leaving a crippled old man in the street:
Or refusing to help those in states that voted for Trump in case of natural disaster:
One woman in the DC area who put her spare room up on AirBNB for the inauguration is extolling her desire to only allow Trump supporters to stay with her if she can “gouge” them on the price.
Forget incivility, this is just inhumane, and these people wear that with pride. Shear nastiness is has been elevated to virtue with these people.
This shit needs to stop before it becomes a blood feud.
