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It’s not delivery, it’s a death wish

A Domino’s delivery driver was robbed twice.  It was originally reported that the driver had to pay back the money that was stolen from him, but that turned out to be incorrect.

It is true that Domino’s has a policy that drivers carry less than $20 on them.  They even put it on their advertisements.  Domino’s figures that people out there won’t bother to rob driver for only $20.

I don’t think Domino’s really thought that one through.  A quick search for “pizza delivery robbery” shows that this is not an uncommon occurrence.  Robbers seem to usually take the pizza, because “when you’re hungry, you’re hungry.”  If the robbers manage to get a couple of bucks and a cell phone in addition, it’s what they were after.  Ambushing and robbing a pizza guy is not exactly an Ocean’s Eleven type caper.

Given the number of pizza delivery drivers that have been shot, the argument could be made that being a pizza delivery driver is one of the most dangerous jobs in America.

It’s a good thing then that Domino’s has a strict no guns by drivers policy because “if an altercation [were to] occur, it would put the company in a position of looking poor.”

That’s what will make Domino’s look bad, a driver defending himself from an ambush.  The driver having his brains splattered all over the place, well… that’s just the cost of doing business.

I have never delivered pizzas.  Hopefully, I’ll never have to.  But whenever I go somewhere new in the dark, I’m packing.  It’s not the $20 in my wallet I’m protecting, or even my old Samsung.  I’m armed because I don’t want to die or spend the rest of my life being fed through a tube because of some punk.

Maybe if a few drivers did deliver some hot lead instead of a hot pepperoni, they won’t seem like such easy marks and will stop getting robbed.

 

 

HRC NYT and Guns

The New York Times polled its readers to pick three questions to ask Trump and Hillary.  These were the questions they asked:

  1. It is widely accepted scientific fact that climate change is real and potentially catastrophic. What specific action will you take in the next four years?
  2. What would you do to reduce the extreme income inequality in this country?
  3. What would your administration do to reduce gun violence and mass shootings?

Each candidate’s campaign responded.  The Clinton Campaign’s response on guns was horrifying.

So here’s what I think we need to do. First, we need to expand background checks to include more gun sales, like those at gun shows and over the Internet. There’s no reason a domestic abuser should be able to go online and buy a gun with no questions asked. And we need to close other loopholes, like the so-called “Charleston Loophole” that allows dangerous people to buy guns without a background check if that check isn’t completed within three days.

Second, we need to hold the gun industry accountable, and end laws that shield them from liability when they break the law. We saw that just this month, when one of those laws was used to block the families of the Sandy Hook shooting from having their day in court.

Finally, we need to keep military-style weapons off our streets. They are a danger to law enforcement and to our communities.

By taking these common sense steps, we can keep our children safe and respect the Second Amendment. The vast majority of Americans support measures like these. So our challenge isn’t finding common ground. It’s getting politicians to listen to their constituents rather than the gun lobby.

 I know these are not Hillary’s words, herself, BUT they are directly from her official campaign.  The points laid out here, if passed, would be the greatest assault on the Second Amendment since, and including, the passage of the Brady Bill.

She wants to end the “Charleston Loophole” which doesn’t exist.  The reason Dylan Roof passed the NICS check had everything to do with an FBI error and not an default proceed.

She wants to repeal The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which prevents anti gun activists from suing gun companies out of existence.  Remember, a judge upheld the PLCAA and just dismissed the case against Remington, because Remington bought Bushmaster which made the rifle that Adam Lanza stole from his mother after murdering her to shoot up Sandy Hook.  According to Hillary’s campaign, Sandy Hook was Remington’s fault because of how they advertised their product.

Lastly, she is calling for a new AWB, which didn’t do anything to reduce crime last time.

Hillary Clinton can say that she’s “not here to take away your guns,” but like every other lie that comes out of that lying liar’s lying lie hole, that’s a lie.

Give her campaign a couple of sentences of accidental honesty in a newspaper they don’t think Republicans will read and we find out the truth.

She is here to take away your guns.

Jenga 2016

Zbigniew Brzezinski was a counselor to LBJ and was Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser and has been a key power behind the throne for the Democrats for nearly 50 years.  His son Mark Brzezinski was part of President Clinton’s National Security Counsel and later was Obama’s pick for Ambassador to Sweden.

Mika Brzezinski is the co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe.  We are taking about a woman from a family that is staunchly Democrat, co-hosting a show on the most liberal leaning of the mainstream cable news networks.

So imagine my surprise when I saw this:

My first thought was “did Mika hit her head on something?”

What a profound moment of clarity.  This is how bad Hillary and the DNC stepped in it.  Even the most in-the-tank journalists are having pains of integrity.

Only people on Hillary’s payroll are still pretending that turd sandwich is still peanut butter on TV.

Then the Daily Mail puts out this article.  It turns out that I and TTL were each half right.  FBI Director James Comey did reopen the investigation, in part, because he was afraid of having to explain his apparent corruption to a Republican Congress after this election.  But he also just couldn’t face the mutiny that was coming from within the FBI who were not paid political hacks.

This next week is going to be fascinating.

The whole Hillary edifice is starting to crumble so badly that even members of her Praetorian Guard are having a difficult time continuing to say “there’s nothing to see here.”

This is history in the making.

I just hope we all survive it.

Halloween Tonight

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Let’s play a game.

Here are the rules:

You get to choose.  

You can either take ONE fun size candy bar, OR, you can risk it all and role the dice.

If you roll an even number, you get that number of fun size bars from my bucket.

If you roll an odd, I get that number of bars from your bag.  

Do you want to play?

 

Orlando Straw Man

Mom’s Demand Action posted this over at their Facebook page.

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A man was caught at Disney World, trying to sneak a gun into the park.  He did not have a CCW permit.  According to the news article:

Police found a loaded Smith and Wesson Bodyguard .380 automatic tied around the suspect’s waist. The gun was fully loaded.

I’ve never met a concealed carrier who has ever tied a gun to themselves instead of using a holster.  This man was quite obviously up to no good.

Disney security stopped him, lives were probably saved, good job everyone.  But what do we see in the MDA post:

THIS is the consequence of the gun lobby’s agenda of guns for anyone, any time, any place.

That is one hell of a Straw Man .  Last time I checked, guns for anyone, any time, any place, is not an NRA position.

In regards to the MDA post, there is only one thing I can say:

THIS is the consequence of the anti-gun lobby’s agenda of lying by anyone, any time, any place.

WE WIN!!!

Arby’s has released a new series of hunting themed commercials.

Yes, this is a fast food company, not an outfitter or sporting goods retailer, telling you to “grab a rifle” and go out into the woods for some meat.

Arby’s has mainstreamed hunting, and by extension, guns and gun rights.

This is an unequivocal victory.

Before Moms Demand Action, Everytown, Brady, and the rest freak out and try to shut this down, the gun community needs to go out and vote with our dollars.

Dinner for the family tonight is coming from Arby’s.

I encourage you do to the same.  Pass this on.

Prediction?

FBI Director James Comey appears to be reopening the investigation against Hillary Clinton regarding her email server.

More than that, he’s broken with DOJ tradition and the will of AG Loretta Lynch, and has informed Congress about the reopened investigation.

The media can’t seem to figure out what is going on.  The Clinton email scandal was a Vast-Right-Wing-Conspiracy-Nothingburger©, according to the echo chamber.  So why is Comey doing this?

Here’s my take:

The whole thing stunk from the very beginning.

There was the tarmac meeting between Lynch and Bill Clinton.

Comey’s original press statement was pretty much “she did it, but we doubt we can find a jury to convict her, so we’re not going to bother pressing charges.”

Next we find out that a State Department official offered someone at the FBI for a “quid pro quo” deal to help Clinton, all at arms length from Hilary.

Then we find out recently that Virginia Governor and Clinton puppet and proxy Terry McAuliffe has a Super PAC which donated nearly half a million dollars to the Senate bid of the wife of an FBI official who was investigating Hillary Clinton.

This is about as much evidence of a conspiracy as you can get without actual video of a confession and a handover of cash.  Now it wreaks of criminality and influence peddling.

Where do we go from here…

Trump can’t build a wall, we know that’s impossible.  There are a lot of populist campaign promises that Trump has made that are unrealistic if not totally illegal or impossible.

Trump, if he gets elected, will have gotten elected on a populist wave, and so will have to do something big for his populist supporters or they will turn on him.

There is one thing that he can totally do… hire a DOJ that is not afraid of or influenced by the Clintons and have a special prosecutor appointed to have her tried and convicted.

If Trump wants to deliver on one campaign promise in a big way to his supporters, a real trial of the Clintons and their machine is within his power as the Chief Executive of this country.

I think Comey thinks that Trump is going to win the Presidency.  Trump is +2 in Florida.  I think Comey is afraid Trump will follow through on his promise to jail Hillary.  Comey wants to get himself out of a position where he can be accused of obstructing justice by whomever Trump puts in charge of the  Clinton investigation.

I’m not an expert in politics, but I believe he is trying to save his career betting on a Trump Presidency.