I am doing my morning reading of the blogosphere, land over McThag’s and rather than finding out about how the car projects are coming up or why is he still fixated in the obsolete 1911, he shares this without warning:
Import AR 15s? Between you and me and the wall, who would import AR 15s for sale with the amazing amount of companies producing from 80% receivers to fully assembled rifles in all price ranges.
Angus properly mentions that Bush the Elder already did the ban, and if memory serves right, the only one or one of the few foreign AR makers was Daewoo and they did not have a stellar reputation at all, in fact I think the term “loose maraca after a Rio de Janeiro Mardi Gras” may have been used in reference to the quality.
Good news: you can now update thousands of jokes by substituting the word “blonde” and inserting “AOC” or “Kamala Harris.” I am sure new models will be available soon from the Democrat Candidates’ Clown Bus.
J. Kb. beat me to the video and if anything, I go back to being disgusted but not being surprised at the action of predators and low life people.
But there is a question nagging me: How come the pusher, Cadesha Michelle Bishop was not arrested the day of the attack? (IANAL) Setting the death aside, the push was what? Aggravated assault? In Florida it would get an automatic felony arrest just for the pushing and enhancement of penalty for the death. I checked Nevada’s code and it does not seem to have the same Draconian laws, but I may have found them.
Now the question is: Why was not the woman arrested and charged with the initial crime? Even if it was a misdemeanor, she should have ended in cuffs and the obligatory mugshot when the crime happened back in March. In my opinion, the answer was simply racial politics and you can see it in the video: people who had been bearing the verbal abuse of a black woman saw what happened and still refused even to yell ate her for the push. They remained cowardly silent lest be accused of racism is what I believe.
A white woman pushes anybody of any color in that manner and you would have at least one or two people screaming at the attacker, getting on the phones and making sure the local constable gets to give a ride downtown to the violator. But in the current successful climate of racial shield against law and order, some blacks believe that they can ignore the law because the use of the race card will be enough to protect them and this case proves it: It took the death to be classified as a murder and supported with video so law enforcement could procure an arrest.
We cannot allow this to continue. There cannot try to maintain an unbalance like this or we risk everybody deciding to also avail themselves to ignoring the law and become predators themselves to have an even killing field.
And suddenly, both the race card and the victim card are no longer accepted in the new society and your privilege is now a nice refrigerated compartment in the local morgue.
Police in Las Vegas have released security video they say shows a woman shoving a 74-year-old man off a public bus after witnesses say he asked her to be nice to other passengers.
The video shows Serge Fournier landing face-first on a sidewalk east of downtown on March 21. He died April 23.
The Clark County coroner ruled Fournier’s death a homicide resulting from his injuries
The video, which did not include sound, showed Fournier speaking to Bishop, then getting behind him and — as the bus stopped and the exit door opened — allegedly shoving him with both hands off the bus. Fournier, who was holding a foldable shopping cart, landed face-first on the pavement and hit his head, according to the warrant.
Fournier “was pushed with enough force that he never touched any of the steps,” the arrest warrant stated. “[He] went directly from the bus aisle platform to the concrete sidewalk. His head landed approximately eight feet from the bus doorway.”
Even though this case did not involve a punch, what we see here is the same as what we’ve seen in so many other cases. The victim hits his head on the concrete during a fall caused by an assault and dies days or weeks later from a traumatic brain injury.
The perpetrator, in this case, is a black woman. Showing that under the right circumstances, it does not take an overwhelming amount of strength to kill. Simply shoving someone off a slightly elevated platform is enough to cause death.
Real life is not like the movies. You don’t bump your head then wake up just fine a few minutes or hours later and go on about your day. You bump your head and your brain swells inside your skull and you die in the hospital a week or month later.
It is time the law reflects the reality of the dangers of bare-handed physical assault.
I used to like Tucker Carlson. It seems that he is going down the path of Glenn Beck, sliding into populist insanity.
A few days ago he did a bit backing Bernie and AOC in an “anti-loan shark bill” which would cap interest rates at 15%.
I get it. Predatory loans are awful. I watched what payday loans and title loans did to the poor in South Dakota. Those people are on the same level as Pawn Brokers for scum sucking garbage humans who make their living ripping off the poor.
But……
The basics of baking are this:
Banks lend money. They charge interest for the money they lend. That is how banks make money. Some of that money is then given to the people who have invested in the back or put money in the bank, which is where the banks get their money to begin with.
When banks lend money, there is always the risk it won’t get paid back.
The riskier the loan, the more the bank charges in interest, so they can make as much money off the loan as they can in as short a period of time. Also, as a risk pool, the high interest it gets from the people who pay back their loans is a hedge against the percent of loans that default.
For personal finances, a person’s credit score is the metric used to gauge the ability of the borrower to pay back a loan over an extended period of time. The higher the credit score, the less risky the loan, the lower the interest rate, as the bank will make its money over the long term length of the loan.
Poor people are the riskiest borrowers so have the highest interest rates. That sucks, but that’s how it works.
So what happens when interest rates get capped at 15%?
The same thing as when the minimum wage gets set to $15/hour.
Poor people get screwed.
Lenders stop lending money to risky borrowers. The poor and low income earners will go from high interest rates loans to no loans. They simply won’t be able to borrow money from legal sources.
Credit limits would be reduced for all but the richest people.
I guarantee the banks will push for reforms to bankruptcy law that makes it harder for people to declare bankruptcy or make bank loans like student loans.
To me, this seems like the Obamacare scam of banking. An idea designed to make banking and credit so much worse than it is now, that it will create an upswell in people calling for nationalizing the banks.
So why is Tucker supporting this?
Then I saw this:
I get it. I don’t want another protracted war in the Middle East. I don’t want 20 years of occupation in Iran. Not to mention the casualties that would result in that war.
That will suck.
But Iran supplies weapons and training to every Islamic terrorist cell in the world at this point. Iran supplied weapons, especially armor piercing ones, to the Iraqi insurgency. They arm Hamas and Hezbollah. They helped the Syrian mass murdering tyrant Assad. They are arming the Islamist groups in Africa and Asia murdering Christians.
The tormented our Navy and commercial shipping vessels in international waters off their coast.
It is the heart of the Axis of Evil.
So why engage in isolationism. This is on par with wanting to ignore the Empire of Japan or Nazi Germany in 1940.
They are clearly attacking our allies and being a thorn in our side.
We got out of our isolationism with the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
What Tucker here seems to want is peace, right up until Iran drops a Nuke on Tel-Aviv or puts one in a ship that goes off in the Port of New York.
If he doesn’t want American boots on the ground, fine. Fighting a ground war against the Iranian Republican Guard will be a hard fight.
Then we better be prepared to deal with Iran in other ways.
Personally, I favor saturating Iran with so much ionizing radiation that the populations’ DNA is no longer capable of replication.
What Tucker wants will only result in an American and/or Israeli city being irradiated, and that is unacceptable.
I can’t believe that Democrats don’t want to go on Fox News, because at this point, the highest rated Fox News host is a Bernie Bro.
Yesterday we conducted weapons sweeps,dealt with a person injured from a van reversing on them, reported a burglary and collected all these from @scope charity shop who diligently didn’t want them to get into the wrong hands & disposed of correctly & safely pic.twitter.com/GNfxZd6iGd
— Regents Park Police (@MPSRegentsPark) May 14, 2019
Scope is a charity that helps disabled people in the UK. They operate shops in the UK, similar to Goodwill, to raise money for the disabled. People donate their old household goods for resale.
Take a look at that picture. One practice fencing foil, one rapier shaped novelty letter opener, three serving forks, two sharpening steels, and a fucking spoon.
A. Spoon.
London just lost a game of Knifey-Spoony.
In an effort to reduce stabbings, London has now banned all law-abiding spooning and forking.
This shit is getting ridiculous.
Freedom is dead on the Island. The sun has finally set on the British.
A few years from now when the Brits will be reduced to buying pre-cut vegetables – meat having been outlawed because of its carbon footprint – they will be reminded that Oceana has always eaten with their fingers and the words silverware and cutlery are now crimethink.
I know the movement is to cut the cord and go Internet only, but we like our DirecTV which being satellite I say is not cord, so there. But here is an example of why it may be the company shooting itself in the corporate foot.
The photo on top was taken in 1,999 after Hurricane Irene visited us and dumped an unholy amount of rain on us. We had recently moved, mom was visiting from Venezuela and got to enjoy (not really) a storm like that for the first time. Please notice where the yellow arrow is pointing, you may able see something squarish just under the surface of the water.
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Now, this second photo was taken minutes ago and the arrow is pointed at the same location.
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That is the Xfinity cable junction/distribution box. Yes, built on the shore of a lake in South Florida. This is the backyard, not the front of the house.
When I wanted to upgrade my High Speed internet, ATT which had been my DSL provider at a very low speed did not have plans soon to upgrade the area. I canceled and went with Xfinity because they provided 20 Mbps at a price that was “cheap” but only for 12 months. After that we were aware that we were to pay more, but that is another ball of yarn.
When the cable guy came to install the internet, he went crazy looking for the box. My brain finally remembered and I took him back and asked him if that could be the box. He looked at me like I was drunk and having sex with an ostrich, but he jumped the fence to check it out: it was the box. He muttered cusses and invocations about who was the moron who came up with such a brilliant location, took pictures for a report swearing up and down that this was going to be moved to a better location, but in the meantime, he would do the installation for my home. If you enlarge, you can see the orange cable still running out and through the fence.
I wanted to quit Xfinity because the service was spotty every time it rained hard (no shit), it was miserably expensive because they charge even for the labels of the frigging modem they rent you and would not stop calling me to upgrade to cable TV phone and Internet. About a year and a half, ATT called (surprise!) and informed me they went fiber optics in my area and could offer me service. It turns out I could get double the speed I was getting for half the price so I changed.
Twenty frigging years and they still have not moved the stupid box from its seasonal underwater location. I’ll stick with DirecTV and Amazon Prime.
