One of the crazier shootings you’re likely to see today

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Jun 212022
 

A Napierville (near Chicago) police officer has pulled over a car for running a stop sign and is talking with the driver when *another* car pulls up and the driver of that car launches himself towards the cop, wielding a hatchet. The cop puts him down *real* fast.

The big question is WTF was Edward Samaan, the weirdo in this tale, thinking.

 

The full dashcam, no meaningful audio:

The full bodycam footage:

 

Bet that civilian driver had one *hell* of a story for his friends and family later that day. I kinda hope he got let off with a warning; the interaction between the driver and the cop was seeming to be cordial and respectful. He blew a stop sign, which ain’t good… but I think watching a maniac get put down might be considered adequate.

One thing I’ll never understand is on display here. The Bad Guy gets shot multiple times in the torso/abdomen. He is *down.* It’s unclear whether he’s conscious; it’s quite clear that he is very, very incapacitated. And yet the cops that gather around keep shouting commands at him to roll over onto his stomach. Dude… he ain’t doin’ nothin’ nohow. He’s *done.*

 Posted by at 12:45 pm

Some people are grade-A stupid

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Jun 182022
 

Bringing fists to a gunfight? Stupid. Squaring off against a guy with a gun and telling him to shoot you? Double-plus stupid.

The first video may be “potentially sensitive,” but it’s worth watching, especially if you want to see how *not* to behave.

A YouTube video of the same incident, same videos.  Explains that this was adjudicated a legal self defense shoot, as well it should be. If you’ve drawn a firearm on someone and they advance on you… that alone is evidence that they not only mean you harm, they’re out of their fricken’ minds.

You can listen to the shooter’s story HERE.

 Posted by at 10:31 pm

The funniest website you’ll read today

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Jun 182022
 

The Babylon Bee is at its best when you read one of their satirical articles and realize that if you didn’t know it was satire, you’d accept that it was a real, if perhaps disturbing and/or insane, article. Well… here’s a website that doesn’t seem to say anywhere that it’s satire, and I can’t tell if it’s satire or complete insanity:

https://iqfy.com/

There are a hundred pages of content, with about ten articles per page. A thousand articles of satire is a hell of a commitment to cause… but then, so is a thousand articles of utter nuttery.  There are articles such as:

We need to talk about “mental hospitals”—or internment camps for the neurodiverse

Body positivity is for women, not lazy white guys with dad bods

Is coffee racist? How drinking coffee perpetuates white supremacy

Mass shootings have a race—and political party

This dog is the new face of online homophobia

Elon bros are killing us with free speech

Encourage women to smell their poop to be more inclusive to Trans women

And so on

The site seems to just take whatever “articles” get written and submitted to it. So it may be a fully serious site (a lot of the articles seem fairly normal) that is either:

1) Being bombarded by articles written by loons

2) Being bombarded by articles written by trolls pretending to be loons

3) Being bombarded by both trolls and loons

 

Either way… I’m all for people paying attention. A bunch of leftwing lunatics who want to tear down civilization? That sort of thing should be noted. Insane trolling proves indistinguishable from honest insanity? That should also be noted.

 Posted by at 4:11 pm

*False*

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Jun 172022
 

Trump had a tenuous relationship with hard facts. When he told the American public things that were untrue, it *tended* to be in the form of “I will make everything awesome.”  Exaggerations, self-promotion and feel-good propaganda, that sort of thing. But Trump was a piker compared to the Biden administration when it came to bald-faced lying directly to the American public. Biden and his lackeys will look you in the face as your house burns down around you and tell you that your house has never been in better shape.

Keep it up, Joe. November can’t get here soon enough.

 Posted by at 2:04 pm

This seems kinda important

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Jun 162022
 

As part of the ongoing “January 6” dog and pony show, Senator Cruz got the opportunity to quiz the FBI on their participation in the events. It would have been *really* easy for the FBI rep to simply say “no” (or “not to my knowledge” or “not in any official capacity”) when asked if the FBI was involved, if the FBI encouraged criminality, if the FBI committed criminality. The actual answers are simultaneously uninformative and say everything.

 Posted by at 4:48 pm

New Knockout Game Champion

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Jun 142022
 

Welcome to New York.

Chilling video shows knockout punch that killed man, 61, in Brooklyn

A single sucker punch killed a man. Took him five days to die.

What do you want to bet: they find the murderers (second guy might not have hit the victim, but he joined in the post-assault thievery, which to me sounds like Felony Murder), and the DA either finds a way to not charge them or to charge them minimally.

I have a suggestion for those wanting New And Improved gun laws: let’s institute a 90-90-90-90 rule first. Before a new criminal law is permitted to be enacted, 90% of violent crimes must result in an arrest, 90% of those arrested must be charged, 90% of those charged and convicted must be sentenced to 90% or more of the maximum. If you as a DA are not wiling to do even that much, then what’s the point of adding more laws to the books that you’re not going to fully prosecute?

 Posted by at 11:34 pm

Red Flag Laws

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Jun 142022
 

“Red Flag Laws” are *supposed* to be a way to temporarily disarm people who are a danger to themselves or others. Who could argue against them? Well… anyone who has ever noticed that they are not based on due process. They are not based on sober judgement of people who understand the gravity of depriving a person of their Constitutional and human rights. They are, sadly, based on the whims of people who have, and like to exercise, power. Witness:

Remember, Eric Swalwell is the Representative who not only bedded a Chinese Communist spy and did untold damage to the US (with no repercussions as far as I can tell), he’s also the guy who thought it would be a good idea to threat American citizens who do not wish to give up their rights. Threatening to use *nuclear* *weapons* on these citizens. Do you think it would be a good idea to turn over the power to deprive a citizen of their rights to a man with judgement like that?

 Posted by at 9:19 pm

Aaaaaaand it’s gone

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Jun 142022
 

Notice how some things are running short due to “supply chain issues?’ Get ready for the supply chains to freakin’ vanish:

Get ready for the catastrophic DEF shortage

DEF is Diesel Exhaust Fluid, a mixture of urea and water  that has been for more than a decade legally mandated to be fitted to large diesel trucks. It is injected into the exhaust to make it less environmentally nasty, which is fine. But if the DEF system on the truck isn’t working, because, say, there’s no DEF, the engine won’t run at all.

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE: we’re running out of urea. Guess what: we’re reliant upon Chinese exports of the stuff, and they’ve been clamping down. But what’s weirder are all the conspira-lines that can be drawn:

  • CF Industries is the overwhelmingly dominant maker of urea in the United States. Urea is the key component of DEF. 
  • CF Industries’ two largest shareholders are Vanguard and BlackRock. 
  • Flying J sells almost a third of all the DEF sold to truckers in the country. It obtains 70 percent of that DEF from shipment by Union Pacific railroad.
  • Union Pacific has mandated that Flying J reduce its shipments of DEF by 50 percent, or else they would be embargoed, which would effectively bankrupt Flying J. 
  • Union Pacific’s two largest shareholders are Vanguard and BlackRock. 
  • BlackRock is the largest shareholder of Vanguard and by contract with BlackRock’s investors, BlackRock proxy votes on their behalf on all matters concerning Vanguard. 

Annnnddd…

  • The Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute is Tom Donilon, President Obama’s former National Security Advisor. 
  • Tom Donilon’s brother, Mike Donilon is a Senior Advisor to Joe Biden. 
  • Tom Donilon’s wife, Catherine Russell, is the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. 
  • Tom Donilon’s daughter, Sarah Donilon, graduated from college in 2019 and now works on the White House National Security Council.

Neat.

Two ways to solve this:

  1. Get more DEF supplies.
  2. Hack the sensors so the trucks will run without the DEF.

Number 2 makes all kinds of sense. But the problem here is that if things are so bad – either due to malfeasance on the part of Our Betters, or due to their incompetence – that something vital like DEF is allowed to run out, chances are good that diesel fuel itself will go to a hundred bucks a gallon.

 Posted by at 6:32 pm
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