[PJ] Out here on the Left Coast, it is beginning to dawn on people that when you release criminals from custody in the name of "prison reform," it is only the prisons themselves that are reformed. The criminals, those who are ushered out the prison gates into an unwary society, remain as un-reformed as ever.
For proof of this, I present as Exhibit A one Michael C. Mejia, age 26, who stands accused of murdering two people in Southern California, one of them a police officer. Police allege that on Monday morning Mejia killed his cousin, Roy Torres, in East Los Angeles and stole his car. Later, while driving the stolen car in Whittier, a suburb about 12 miles southeast of downtown L.A., Mejia rear-ended another car. When police responded to the report of a minor traffic accident, Mejia opened fire on them, killing Officer Keith Boyer and wounding Officer Patrick Hazell. Mejia was himself wounded in the gun battle but is expected to survive.
In recent years, California has enacted a series of reforms to its criminal justice system, the net effect of which has been the lowering of the state’s prison population. In 2011, the state legislature passed Assembly Bill 109, which brought about a so-called "realignment" in penal responsibilities, shifting some of them from the state to the counties. Since AB 109’s enactment, some felons who would have served time in state prisons are now housed in county jails. Also, some parolees who would have been under the supervision of state parole officers are now monitored by county probation departments. Mejia, about whom more later, was one such parolee.
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Well, just the fact that the example killed a cop and wounded another says to me that the only reform he should have is transitioning from walking erect to becoming vertical plant/worm food.
#4
Everyone involved in the Criminal Law system knew this would be the result. Californians just want to believe the happy talk from Brown. More will die unnecessarily in the future. These are dangerous felons!
#6
Everyone involved in the Criminal Law system knew this would be the result.
I have a State of Californicate corrections officer who lives down the street from me that comes by for a chat once in awhile and is really great guy. He said while they were debating this thing in Sacramento that this was going to be the net result...said I needed to buy a large caliber handgun and practice.
[TheGuardian] It was July 2014, Nashville Tennessee. I was walking into a gas station for a bottle of water when the man behind me stepped up to open the door for me. With that act of kindness, something inside me snapped and I flew into a blind rage. I began screaming at him at the top of my lungs.
“No, you can not open this door for me! You wouldn’t have opened it two years ago, so you damn sure can’t open it now!” I scowled and stormed away, completely enraged.
It was the third time that week that a man had done something polite for me. First a man had bought me a drink at a concert, and then there was the nice man who had helped me scoop up my groceries after I dropped my bag, and now this man with the door.
Thinner, smoother, better: in the era of retouching, that’s what girls have to be. And a psychopath.
I know all this might leave you wondering if I had had a rough week, or a fight with my boyfriend or was in a terrible mood that had prompted me to lose my temper like that. The truth is more complicated. She's trying to spin her version.
Two years before this, in July 2012, I weighed 365lb, which roughly translates into 26 stone. I was enormous, and had been my entire life. I grew up an obese kid, was an obese teenager, an obese young adult, and by my mid-40s I had ballooned into a hugely obese adult.
But that summer I started a massive journey to lose 220lb, or almost 16 stone, over the course of four and a half years. As I sit here today, I’m literally a third of the body mass I used to be. I am an average-sized woman who wears a size medium pretty much across the board. And, I am happy to report, I am also a fairly happy, confident person. And a psychopath.
But that day I had just begun experimenting with regular-sized clothes, and I was not confident. I was uncomfortable. I was uncomfortable with the attention my new body was receiving, I was uncomfortable about new social circles, and I was uncomfortable with the unexpected boost to my career. There's always Haagen Dazs...
I was uncomfortable but I didn’t know why. Everything seemed to be going so well. I should have been happy, but I wasn’t. And it wasn’t until I saw that man’s hand reach for the handle of that door that I knew why – and it pissed me off.
The idea that the size of my trousers had had anything to do with simple politeness was heartbreaking to me.
I had been disregarded, overlooked and ignored because of my size for so long that I didn’t even realise it until people started being nice to me – until, in other words, I was “normal sized”. No one had ever done those things for me before.
He opened that door for me because I wasn’t physically offensive to him, and I knew. And it was in that moment that I realised how terrible we are as a society to people, based solely on their appearance. This realisation broke me. It broke me in a way that I’ve never been broken before. He certainly didn’t deserve my outburst, but in that moment I couldn’t help myself. That's what a psychopath would do.
The idea that the size of my trousers had had anything to do with simple politeness was heartbreaking to me. Never mind men actually asking me on dates, career advances, better opportunities and much cheaper clothes (big girls get done over by the fashion world).
In every pair of trousers I have ever owned, I have been the exact same person; with the same thoughts, abilities, talents, intellect and heart. I didn’t just magically become smart, funny, talented and pretty when I could buy smaller jeans. I’ve been in here the whole time. But very few took the time to see me. Maybe coz they suspected you were a psychopath before you lost all that weight.
More at the link Later in the article, she admires her smaller ass. I'm not kidding...
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So, what she's saying is that men will do nice things for women they find attractive? Well blow me down, this is a shocking state of affairs.
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People are my business, and I’ve learned a lot about them over the years. I’ve learned that I’ve never met one that wasn’t stunning. No matter what they looked like or what they weighed. I’ve never seen a face or body that I couldn’t find beauty in or a person who didn’t possess compassion, humour and love.
Except, of course, for the poor schmuck you howled at for being polite. Maybe he was stunning enough to have opened the door when you weighed 465 pounds.
I don't open doors for females anymore, unless I get there first - same as for males. My favorite female (Mrs. Bobby) is fine with that.
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02/25/2017 8:39 Comments ||
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Older ladies (without Secret Service servants escorts) and women with children.
#6
Well, two years ago, it wouldn't have mattered if someone had opened the door for her, she couldn't have gotten through until the doorway or she was greased up.
8-o
#11
These various men are not mind readers and they cannot anticipate your hang ups. They were just being nice. A thank you will do fine. There is still a vestige of politeness and civility in the South. Write Miss Manners next time before flying off at the handle.
The US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed Maryland's draconian ban on ARs to stand using the standard that ARs are weapons of war. Similar firearms laws in New York and Connecticut enacted in the wake of the 2013 Sandy Hook massacre have since been upheld. I have read a lot of silly commentary on Facebook, where those who disagree with the court's decision hope that Trump's Supreme Court nominee will be approved in time to overturn those decisions.
My reaction is: Do I need to remind you of just how many Supreme Court nominees have ruled against their Republican nominators, going back to the 1930s?
And I am reminded of the saying in Patriot blogs: You can't vote your way out of these problems.
In the early days of this column, as the laws in New York and Maryland were taking effect, I noticed that prices for firearms there were not terribly out of line with those in free market states. But as time went on, prices reflected a distortion taking place. I saw firearms being peddled for a fraction of their value, the ads likely posted by law enforcement agents.
The reason I quit monitoring California was because of price/value distortions caused by laws passed in presumption of individual rights.
The 4th Circuit decision will not affect markets in free states. The Gun Control Act of 1968 has seen to that. The sole exception could be in states that have free markets but are directly adjacent to states with severely restrictive firearms laws.
A video has been circulating about firearms headspace. I have discussed headspacing for the AK-74 before in the context of extraction failures. The data presented may be a bit much for most gun owners, but may be helpful to those who live in restrictive firearms markets to get used or homemade firearms back into working condition.
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly steady. Prices for rifle ammunition were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were lower across the board. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
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Pennsylvania: 9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic): Taurus Millenium: $150
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, TMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .23 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Own Brand, Brass Casing, Reloads, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, TPMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel casing, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammunition Depot, HSM Cowboy Action, RNFP, Brass Casing, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 rounds: Hyperion Munitions, Own Brand, RN, Brass casing, Reloads .25 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Alamo Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .31 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo King, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .65 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .53 per round (From Last week: -.03 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Vizards Guns and Ammo, Remington, Brass Case, SP, .93 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Hornady Whitetail, Brass Case, SP, 1.04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Federal, Brass Case, JSP, 2.30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Target Sports USA, Prvi Partizan, Brass Case, FMJ, 2.40 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Natchez Shooters Supply, Federal, RNL, .05 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Ammo2U, Federal Champion, RNL, .05 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks))
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Article 1 - The Legislative Branch
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
Congress shall have the power...
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Militia Act of 1792 in summary -
Second Militia Act of 1792
Front page of a newspaper announcing the second Militia Act of 1792.
The second Act, passed May 8, 1792, provided for the organization of the state militias. It conscripted every "free able-bodied white male citizen" between the ages of 18 and 45 into a local militia company. (This was later expanded to all males, regardless of race, between the ages of 18 and 54 in 1862.)
Militia members, referred to as "every citizen, so enrolled and notified", "...shall within six months thereafter, provide himself..." with a musket, bayonet and belt, two spare flints, a cartridge box with 24 bullets, and a knapsack. Men owning rifles were required to provide a powder horn, ¼ pound of gunpowder, 20 rifle balls, a shooting pouch, and a knapsack.[5] Some occupations were exempt, such as congressmen, stagecoach drivers, and ferryboatmen.
The militias were divided into "divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies" as the state legislatures would direct.[6] The provisions of the first Act governing the calling up of the militia by the president in case of invasion or obstruction to law enforcement were continued in the second act.[7] Court martial proceedings were authorized by the statute against militia members who disobeyed orders.[8]
In other words, the same weapon as the standing Army was to carry, aka A Military Grade weapon.
Same Militia today as -
10 U.S. Code § 311 - Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia
If they can not get that through their little prejudicial minds to -
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
then they are totally unqualified to remain in the office they occupy.
So, I can't have a short barreled shotgun, because it has limited military purpose, but I can't have high capacity magazines because they have lots of military purpose. So which is it?
#5
Weren't muskets considered weapons of war when the Second Amendment was enacted?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/25/2017 13:30 Comments ||
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Muskets were the weapon of war for the troops which were normally shot with buck and ball (one round ball that fit the bore and three buckshot) fired in a volley. The Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifle was the snipers rifle.
[Zero] About a month ago, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz decided to 'take a stand' in defiance of Trump's immigration executive order and penned a message to the world vowing, among other things, to hire 10,000 refugees over the next 5 years and "build bridges, not walls, with Mexico". Here are some excerpts from the politically charged message drafted by Schultz with "deep concern and a heavy heart":
Sorry Mr. Schultz. You've taken it a bit too far this time.
#8
"You need to buy our product, you ignorant, bigoted infidel!"
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/25/2017 13:14 Comments ||
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I must confess, even if it is over roasted, I like Starbucks. But coffee is one of the few things McDonalds does right. Coffee and the Egg McMuffin.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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"But coffee is one of the few things McDonalds does right."
Really? I cannot stand McDonald's coffee, it's too %*#$ hot! I have to wait a half hour or longer to get it to cool down enough so I can drink it.
Result, I can never find the time to wait to drink the coffee and still get to work on time, so I never buy it anymore.
Sorry Abu Uluque, I must respectfully disagree with you on this subject.
P.s. I make my own drip coffee at home, it's cheaper and taste better anyway.
#13
Kinda wish I drank coffee so my boycott of Starbucks would have some effect.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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Lots of reasons to avoid Starbucks. Not sure this is one. The 'defiance' thing is stupid, but hiring refugees (presumably ones here legally) is not an odious thing to do.
#15
I read the Starbucks sales are off 50%. If that is true it couldn't happen to a nicer guy and I hope the franchisees sue him for their loss of business.
#16
Seems everyone I've mentioned this Starbucks hiring 15000 refugees thing to has switched to other venues for their brew.
The boycott seems to resonate particularly with folks that don't like paying almost $3 for a large cup of coffee that you can make at home for about $0.25.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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