And one was extra magic. Not only did a brand new 9mm pistol fall from a "case" and go off by itself, but it did so without having been loaded. The empty, self-discharging weapon propelled a projectile though the apartment floor and into the fellow who lives one floor down.
The other gun, also brand new, magically disappeared in the few hours after leaving the gun store and before cops came to arrest the 19-year-old son for reckless use a a firearm and shooting in the city limits.
His mother (of the year) said she bought the two guns for about $1000. She draws $300 weekly unemployment pay. The cops said her little boy had "several thousand dollars" in his pocket when he was arrested. My crack instincts suggest another mystery here.
(Edited to delete factual error.)
Jan 29, 2012
Jan 27, 2012
The adulation of Ron Paul
...and while I'm on the subject, let me tip my hat to our grumpy hermit out in the western desert.
"Surely there must be some golden mean, in which a person can be credulous enough to still have faith in the political process, without going completely moonbat in the veneration of an individual."
That's Joel's reaction -- spot on, if you ask me -- to some nincompoop's screed linking Ron Paul to the Second Coming.
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"Surely there must be some golden mean, in which a person can be credulous enough to still have faith in the political process, without going completely moonbat in the veneration of an individual."
That's Joel's reaction -- spot on, if you ask me -- to some nincompoop's screed linking Ron Paul to the Second Coming.
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The Space-Out Coast
Down in Florida last night the best line of the cage fight was nonchalantly delivered by Ron Paul. "...that debate doesn't interest me very much."
He was addressing the unzipped front-runners, two-handedly swinging their members at one another about whose investments were least horrible.
Paul's contribution was his usual, that is, consistent view that (a) presidential debates ought to be about policy and (b) no policy will work well until Washington learns arithmetic and weans itself from ever-flowing tit of fiat money. That actually got a passing reaction from Mitt and Newt, essentially, "Good point in a way, (pause) but my balls really are brazenbigger than Mitt's (or Newt's.)"
Welcome to the great national dialog as it is understood by most of the GOP and all -- every one -- of the famous heads who agree that the morning-after headline must proclaim that Mitt added three inches.
He was addressing the unzipped front-runners, two-handedly swinging their members at one another about whose investments were least horrible.
Paul's contribution was his usual, that is, consistent view that (a) presidential debates ought to be about policy and (b) no policy will work well until Washington learns arithmetic and weans itself from ever-flowing tit of fiat money. That actually got a passing reaction from Mitt and Newt, essentially, "Good point in a way, (pause) but my balls really are brazenbigger than Mitt's (or Newt's.)"
Welcome to the great national dialog as it is understood by most of the GOP and all -- every one -- of the famous heads who agree that the morning-after headline must proclaim that Mitt added three inches.
Jan 26, 2012
Traffic-cam extortion
The story lead is a warm fuzzy for the libertarian soul.
"The classic democratic tension between liberty and security was tested once again Wednesday in a debate on legislation to ban traffic-enforcement cameras on Iowa roads..."
Even better, liberty won the first of the warmup bouts, 3-0, in subcommittee.
The report doesn't mention any great debate about raping the Constitution.* Irritated citizens sat on one side of the table and the usual authoritarians -- cops, city taxing authorities, etc. -- on the other. "It's for your own good, your safety," blatted the former. The citizens carried the day with a highly accurate response: "Boooll sheet, you greedy creeps."
It's early in the sausage-making process, but at least it's a hopeful development.
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*Amendments Five and Fourteen are clear enough in telling government it can not screw around with your "life, liberty, or property" without "due process of law." It seems damned doubtful the Founders would have deemed a dun from a company of IT geeks in Snottsdale to constitute due process of law. Even if they are part of that sacred public/private partnership congregation.
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(Does this argument get us thinking about the general concept of "administrative forfeiture?" Ought to.)
"The classic democratic tension between liberty and security was tested once again Wednesday in a debate on legislation to ban traffic-enforcement cameras on Iowa roads..."
Even better, liberty won the first of the warmup bouts, 3-0, in subcommittee.
The report doesn't mention any great debate about raping the Constitution.* Irritated citizens sat on one side of the table and the usual authoritarians -- cops, city taxing authorities, etc. -- on the other. "It's for your own good, your safety," blatted the former. The citizens carried the day with a highly accurate response: "Boooll sheet, you greedy creeps."
It's early in the sausage-making process, but at least it's a hopeful development.
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*Amendments Five and Fourteen are clear enough in telling government it can not screw around with your "life, liberty, or property" without "due process of law." It seems damned doubtful the Founders would have deemed a dun from a company of IT geeks in Snottsdale to constitute due process of law. Even if they are part of that sacred public/private partnership congregation.
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(Does this argument get us thinking about the general concept of "administrative forfeiture?" Ought to.)
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