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This is a perfect example of the predicament law enforcement has today because of the left. Discouraging people from using firearms to defend them selves from physical assault.
If a person can get on top of another person and straddle them at the chest level, with knees in the armpits to immobilize the arms, the victim cannot reach the belt area, let alone move to deflect blows to the head. That position is a checkmate position in wrestling.
Police have deadly weapons that are now accessible only to the person assaulting the officer in that position.
Police officers, to protect themselves and the public from an assailant from access to those weapons on his belt must be able to use deadly force against the assailant if the assailant begins an unarmed at the moment, physical assault in hopes of overpowering the officer and getting access to those weapons.
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Poor Edward Strother - killed in his prime while turning his life around
*snort*
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I wonder if he had his skittles and Mt. Dew in his backpack...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/17/2017 6:40 Comments ||
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Edward Strother made a string of bad choices. Make a good choice today; drink a pint and celebrate Happy St. Patrick's Day. Sláinte na bhfear agus go maire na mná go deo!
"Health to the men and may the women live forever."
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#6 ....and the reason you/we didn't read of it back then was because it was a black man shooting another black man? Doesn't fit the narrative for political gotcha?
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Those "five hundred Spaniards" somehow managed to recruit a native army of ca. 100,000 other-than-Aztec men, who may well have objected to their politically assigned future as the main course on Aztec dinner tables. Funny how that worked out.
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This "brutal, two-year 'hazing'" was NOTHING compared to what the Spartiate elite had to endure to become -- the 'elite' of Sparta'. It just took one major military loss that the 'elite' could not recover from, and that was the end of Sparta, for all intents and purposes.
Facing a bread shortage that is spawning massive lines and souring the national mood, the Venezuelan government is responding this week by detaining bakers and seizing establishments.
In a press release, the National Superintendent for the Defense of Socioeconomic Rights said it had charged four people and temporarily seized two bakeries as the socialist administration accused bakers of being part of a broad “economic war” aimed at destabilizing the country. In a statement, the government said the bakers had been selling underweight bread and were using price-regulated flour to illegally make specialty items, like sweet rolls and croissants.
Because sweet rolls aren't permitted in a socialist paradise...
The government said bakeries are only allowed to produce French bread and white loaves, or pan canilla, with government-imported flour. However, in a tweet on Thursday, price control czar William Contreras said only 90 percent of baked goods had to be price-controlled products.
Two bakeries were also seized for 90 days for breaking a number of rules, including selling overpriced bread at a market price.
Juan Crespo, the president of the Industrial Flour Union called Sintra-Harina, which represents 9,000 bakeries nationwide, said the government’s heavy hand isn’t going to solve the problem.
“The government isn’t importing enough wheat,” he said. “If you don’t have wheat, you don’t have flour, and if you don’t have flour, you don’t have bread.”
You're making too much sense and will be arrested shortly...
He said the country needs four, 30-ton boats of wheat every month to cover basic demand.
The notion that bread could become an issue in Venezuela is one more indictment of an economic system gone bust. The country boasts the world’s largest oil reserves but it has to import just about everything else. Facing a cash crunch, the government has dramatically cut back imports, sparking shortages, massive lines and fueling triple-digit inflation.
Earlier this week, President Nicolás Maduro launched “Plan 700” against what he called a “bread war,” ordering officials to do spot checks of bakeries nationwide. In the plan, the government said it would not allow people to stand in line for bread but it’s unclear how it might enforce the order.
“The government is doing everything in its power to end the bread lines,” Crespo said, “but they’re looking at the whole thing backwards.”
Crespo said he’d been in touch with several union members in Caracas and that most said they’d passed the inspection by simply opening their pantries.
“The bakeries are showing the authorities that they have no bread inventory,” he said. “The government has to see the reality.”
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the National Superintendent for the Defense of Socioeconomic Rights
Now there's a job title to warm the cockles of a proggie (aka Democrats, Leftitards, Totalitarian) heart.
You can just hear Bernie Bros and Hill Shills proclaiming it as the savior of the proletariat.
[USA Today] WASHINGTON -- President Trump's proposed budget takes a cleaver to domestic programs, with many agencies taking percentage spending cuts in the double digits.
But for dozens of smaller agencies and programs, the cut is 100%.
Community development block grants. The Weatherization Assistance Program. The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The National Endowment for the Arts. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. All would be axed if Congress adopts Trump's budget.
Also proposed for elimination are lesser-known bureaucracies like the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Program, the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program and the Inter-American Foundation.
Many of those programs have constituencies in states and cities across the country -- and their champions in Congress. "The president's beholden to nobody but the people who elected him, and yes, I understand that every lawmaker over there has pet projects," said Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney. "That's the nature of the beast."
In the who give's a rat's patootie news. The first 15-20 comments are not flattering. So the question arises, Who really liked Obama?
Barack Obama arrived in French Polynesia where he will spend a month at a luxury resort frequented by Hollywood stars, according to local TV channel Tahiti Nui TV.
The former US president landed on the tourist island Tahiti without his family before going to Marlon Brando's privately owned retreat Tetiaroa atoll, which the Oscar-winning actor bought in the 1960s. Obama has checked into the eco-friendly Brando resort, whose villas boast their own plunge pools and cost between 2,000 euros ($2,150) and 12,300 euros per night.
No political meetings have been announced during Obama's stay and it is not clear what he plans to do during the sojourn or whether his family will join him.
But the former leader of the free world and his wife Michelle have signed a bumper book deal with Penguin Random House estimated to be worth as much as $60 million.
French Polynesia, a French territory in the South Pacific, is made of more than 100 islands and is best known for the French nuclear tests carried out there up to the mid-1990s.
She and Mootch apparently aren't with him on this 'vacation'. Probably were annoyed at his incessant ranting that he's still important somehow, so shipped him off to the other side of the world so they can actually get stuff done.
He's always just been the puppet, and there's nothing worse than a self-aware one wanting attention.
Kind of like a talkative 'Chucky' doll.
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Finally. Obama leaves Washington.
British General Cornwallis and his defeated redcoats surrendered Charleston with more honor and humility to George Washington. If Congress is truly patriotic, and if the wiretapping accusations prove damning, the Democrat party leader of Deep State should at least be placed on lifetime probation.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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