Category: News

Good point

This is a good point from a man, who has been through a good deal:

“He’s not crazy one bit,” Tom Teves told reporters Wednesday. His son Alex, 24, was among those killed.

“He’s very, very cold. He’s very, very calculated,” Teves said of Holmes. “He has a brain set that no one here can understand, and we want to call him crazy because we want to make that feel better in our society.

“But we have to accept the fact there is evil people in our society that enjoy killing any type of living thing. That doesn’t make him crazy,” Teves said.

via ‘He intended to kill them all,’ prosecutor in theater shooting says – CNN.com.

He does have a good point; the guy was not crazy, he knew what he was doing. Hopefully, he gets the book thrown at him. 😡

 

White House considering executive action on guns

I knew this was coming, it was just a matter of time; and unlike this idiot here, who believes that the following headline was overdone. I happen to believe it to be very true:

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From the Weekly Standard:

Vice President Joe Biden revealed that President Barack Obama might use an executive order to deal with guns. 

“The president is going to act,” said Biden, giving some comments to the press before a meeting with victims of gun violence. “There are executives orders, there’s executive action that can be taken. We haven’t decided what that is yet. But we’re compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required.”

Biden said that this is a moral issue and that “it’s critically important that we act.”

Biden talked also about taking responsible action. “As the president said, if you’re actions result in only saving one life, they’re worth taking. But I’m convinced we can affect the well-being of millions of americans and take thousands of people out of harm’s way if we act responsibly.”

Biden, as he himself noted, helped write the Brady bill.

Eric Holder was scheduled to be at the meeting that’s currently take place at the White House. 

Ah yes, this ought to be very interesting to see what these Marxist gun grabbers come up with; as the Godfather of Chicago said, never let a crisis go to waste. As for what the idiot above that I linked to said about Drudge’s headline, I give you the words of Lew Rockwell:

In my experience, gun controllers are violent people, and private gun-owners are not. That is, gun controllers support mass murder; they just want it to be a monopoly of soldiers, police, etc. They would be glad to see Alex and the rest of us shot. Gun owners tend to abhor personal violence, and would only use it in defense of their family, themselves, and their property. And this is not a left-right issue. Non-commissar leftists like the late Alexander Cockburn are anti-gun control; neocons like Bill Kristol or the Randites are pro-gun control. Here is something that all good people across the spectrum can agree on: the state should be disarmed; the people should be packing.

It will be an amazing thing to see just whom on the right caves to the Marxist’s demands of gun surrender, or “control” as they like to call it. I just wonder which one of the Neoconservatives will fall first and say, :”Well, we have to have some sort of control!” I expect that Podhoretz or Kristol will be the first ones to falter to the demands of this administration.

Again, I do not know if having Alex Jones coming out as the circus act for the far right was a good idea, it may have just given the White House the ammo (sorry…) it needed to get what it wanted to carry out. Needless to say, there is going to be political fallout from something like this and it is not going to be good for the Democrats. I just hope that the GOP is ready to stage a comeback in 2014 or 2016. But from the looks of things at the moment, the GOP has some serious image issues, especially when it comes to the middle class.

Your big government at work

This ought to cause anyone, of any political stripe to be a bit concerned:

The federal government will continue to access Americans’ emails without a warrant, after the U.S. Senate dropped a key amendment to legislation now headed to the White House for approval.

Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an amendment attached to the Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act (which deals with publishing users’ Netflix information on Facebook pages) that would have required federal law enforcement to obtain a warrant before monitoring email or other data stored remotely (i.e., the cloud).

The Senate was set to approve the video privacy bill along with the email amendment, which would have applied to a different law, the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. But then senators decided for reasons unknown to drop the amendment.

via Top Stories – Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email – AllGov – News.

You have to know why this happened; President Obama told the Democrats and the Republicans to drop the amendment. As the Government, is the name of peace and security, is basically violating constitutional rights.

Now to be clear; I am not using this blog posting to just bash President Obama. President George W. Bush and the neoconservative Republicans were doing the same thing during the Bush Presidency. So, if we are  to bemoan Obama for this, we should be fair and inform people that Bush was doing the same thing.

When Bush was doing it, the neoconservatives and their defenders in the blogosphere were wetting themselves with glee about it. Now that Obama is in the white house, and is continuing with the polices of Bush, the Neoconservatives are all but silent about it and some are complaining.

Why I see it, those who institute unconstitutional policies, should not complain when the other party continues with those polices.

(H/T Reddit)

3 charged with murder in connection with Indianapolis home explosion

I have following the story for a very long time, and I finally am blogging about it:

A man and woman who lived in an Indianapolis house that exploded in November killing two neighbors and damaging scores of homes, have been charged with felony murder and multiple counts of arson for allegedly blowing up the home, prosecutors said.

Monserrate Shirley and Mark Leonard, who lived in the home that exploded, and Leonard’s brother, Bob Leonard Jr., were charged on Thursday in connection with the explosion and arrested on Friday, authorities said.

The personal property insurance on the home had been raised recently to $304,000 and photographs and personal financial records removed before the explosion, prosecutors allege.

The three face murder charges in the deaths of neighbors Jennifer and John Longworth and multiple other charges for the injuries to 12 other area residents in the blast and for the 33 neighborhood homes that had to be demolished, Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry told a news conference.

This was a “thoroughly senseless act” that cost the lives of two young people, Curry said.

Investigators believe a programmable microwave that exploded from the inside out was the source of ignition and valves that regulate natural gas into the home and to a fireplace were removed, allowing gas to build up over hours, Curry said.

Authorities are still working to determine whether others were involved.

The three suspects are expected to appear in court Monday morning.

via Indianapolis home explosion: 3 charged with murder – chicagotribune.com.

When this originally happened, I had said that money was behind it all and I was correct. This was a tragic event and is what happens when greed gets the best of people. I believe, however, that they might not have thought that this much damage would be done, and that maybe a small explosion would happen and the house would just have burned. However, I also tend to believe that some sort of high-power explosive was used as well, and not just natural gas. I could be wrong about that though.

Either way, it is a sad situation, that people were only thinking of collecting an insurance policy and not thinking about the fact that other people in the neighborhood could have been, and were, ultimately killed. It just shows you where our society has gone nowadays. Unlike some, I will not use this tragic event to put a “Christian” shine or spin on this. But rather, I will simply say that I hope that the people who pulled this little morbid stunt, get the justice that they, and the families who were affected by it do truly deserve.

 

How not to settle an argument

Dang! I thought I was a grumpy mofo:

Lester Davis — Disagree with him and he’ll shoot your butt!

WENTZVILLE • A barbershop patron accused of firing three times at another customer discussing the Connecticut school shooting has been charged with three felonies.

Lester Davis, 57, of the 400 block of Highland Meadows Place, is facing charges of first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a weapon.

According to police, Davis was at the All Cuts Barber Shop, 102 West Pearce Boulevard, about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday with five other people.

One of the patrons was discussing last week’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown and commented that the incident “makes me want to murder the suspect,” police said.

For unknown reasons, Davis took the comment as a threat and asked, “You want to murder me?” Davis then walked out to his Volkswagen sedan, retrieved a loaded Smith & Wesson 9 mm pistol and fired three times in the customer’s direction, police said.

Davis said, “I’ll let you slide,” walked out of the barbershop and drove off in his car, police said.

He later turned himself in to police.

via Barber shop conversation in Wentzville about Connecticut shootings ends with shots fired : Stltoday.

I will admit it, I have been a disagreeable sort in my day; but I never shot anybody or at anybody in the process! 😯  The really funny thing is, this didn’t happen on the east side of Detroit or anything, this happened in Missouri. But yet, we always how horrible the inner city of Detroit really is and such.

And yes, like Jeff said, Shall we ban barber shops now or maybe even angry black people? 😯 Just saying y’all, just saying… 😀

 

Another perfect example of what is wrong with “The Right”

As all of you know, who actually read this blog, ever since Governor Snyder decided to stab disillusioned former Democratic Party voters, like myself, in the back with his so-called “right to work” bill; I have been highly critical of the so-called “right.”

Already so far, I have pointed that Christians, like David Brody at Pat Robertson’s CBN have been morbidly using this tragic event in Newtown, CT for evangelistic tools. Well, now it seems that well-known members of the so-called “right” are now cashing in on the event as well.

First up, someone who the NYT very accurately calls the token negro:

(CNN) – Republican Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the new appointee to replace Sen. Jim DeMint, indicated Wednesday he may oppose any gun control legislation in the Senate next Congress, saying instead the larger issue is one of “moral decay.”

“I think the solutions are not necessarily in new legislation. Perhaps the solution starts with us examining the mental condition of the person and the persons in the past that have had the desire to create the atrocities we have seen recently,” he said on CNN’s “Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien.”

By the way, it is not so much that I really care that he is black and a Republican. Great, wonderful, more power to him. It is that he goes around acting like, “Hey! Look at me, I am black man and a Republican! Yay me!” Big deal dude. Here’s a chicken flavored cookie for ya. It is sort of like identity politics for Conservatives. Something that I find to be very highly annoying. It is not just him; Allen West, Nikki Haley, Most Jewish Republicans, and Michelle Malkin do the same stuff all the time. I like to call them affirmative action conservatives. I mean, really, nobody really gives two flips what you really are; which are corporatist shills to be quite honest with you.

Another stop on the douche-nozzle express train is none other than Newt Gingrich, who’s president campaign was a very well timed joke:

During a local talk radio show early Wednesday morning, former Speaker Newt Gingrich cast his lot with the religious right by blaming last week’s tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on secularism and immoral video games.

Gingrich joined host Brian Thomas of 55KRC in Cincinnati to discuss his latest book, but the conversation quickly pivoted towards gun control and why godlessness in our schools is really to blame:

When you have an anti-religious, secular bureaucracy and secular judiciary seeking to drive God out of public life, something fills the vacuum. And that something, you know, I don’t know that going from communion to playing war games in which you practice killing people is necessarily an improvement.

Like I wrote before:

The truth is the Republican Party and so-called Conservative movement has not been worth a damn since that day on January 3, 1987, when Senator Barry Morris Goldwater decided that he was not going to take any orders from any special interest groups and decided that a life of retirement was in order. When he left, that Party and that movement went to the toilet. It really kicked into high gear on January 20, 1989, when then President Ronald Wilson Reagan waved goodbye to the people at the airport and prayed that he had left the reigns of the Nation in good hands with his successor.

Image? Nah, more like total rottenness from within.

This proves that above which I wrote. The GOP is rotten from within, and has been for years.

 

There is always a reason why they snap

Always:

NEWTOWN, CONN. –  The gunman who slaughtered 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school may have snapped because his mother was planning to commit him to a psychiatric facility, according to a lifelong resident of the area who was familiar with the killer’s family and several of the victims’ families.

Adam Lanza, 20, targeted Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown after killing his mother early Friday because he believed she loved the school “more than she loved him,” said Joshua Flashman, 25, who grew up not far from where the shooting took place. Flashman, a U.S. Marine, is the son of a pastor at an area church where many of the victims’ families worship.

“From what I’ve been told, Adam was aware of her petitioning the court for conservatorship and (her) plans to have him committed,” Flashman told FoxNews.com. “Adam was apparently very upset about this. He thought she just wanted to send him away. From what I understand, he was really, really angry. I think this could have been it, what set him off.”

A senior law enforcement official involved in the investigation confirmed that Lanza’s anger at his mother over plans for “his future mental health treatment” is being looked at as a possible motive for the deadly shooting

via EXCLUSIVE: Fear of being committed may have caused Connecticut gunman to snap | Fox News.

I have always said, when it comes to these sort of shootings; there is always a reason for them. Nobody does these sorts of things for no reason at all. There is always a reason for it. Good on Fox News for bringing this to light.

Others:  The Camp Of The Saints, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, MyFOX8.com, The Other McCain, Hit & Run, Vox Popoli, Fox News Insider and The Daily Caller (Via Memeorandum)

Once again, a gun prevents a tragic event

Second amendment forever baby!

Sheriff’s officials say a man opened fire in a San Antonio movie theater parking lot, wounding one person before an officer shot him inside the theater.

Bexar (bayr) County sheriff’s spokesman Louis Antu says the incident started about 9:30 p.m. Sunday when the man fired shots inside a nearby restaurant. It’s not clear what led to the shooting.

Antu says the man headed toward the theater and shot a male in the lot. The age and condition of the victim wasn’t immediately known, but Antu says his injuries did not appear life-threatening.

The gunman entered the theater. Antu says the man fired a shot but struck no one. An off-duty sheriff’s deputy working security then shot the gunman.

The suspect was taken to a hospital and not immediately charged.

via Gunman shoots 1 in Texas movie theater parking lot.

I wonder what my liberal buddy who wrote this bunch of stupidity would think about this one?