the Greenwood Police Department don’t know who ordered the Glock machine pistols. The guns can fire 33 bullets in seconds with a single trigger pull. Police Chief Rick McQueary says they’re too dangerous to use for officers who must carefully consider every shot.
McQueary is refusing to pay for the guns because it’s not clear why they were shipped to the department in the first place. The department has no record of the purchase, and the company that shipped them refuses to take them back because they can’t legally be sold to anyone outside a police agency.
There’s a certain irony here methinks. And I do wonder why they haven’t called in The Feds to help?
There’s a sad artsy-fartsy sorta liberal wind blowing through the country. As Spiro Agnew noted the effete intellectual snobs have been around for a while. Referring to the anti-war crowd (AKA: a type of hippie) . He actually said:
“Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as ‘The Generation Gap.’ A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete core of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”
Now there’s a move afoot by some of that ilk to do to beer what they’ve done elsewhere.
I don’t drink Budweiser and never have. I’ve tasted it three times (a total of about 3 ounces), first while at the University of Maryland, once again in Myrtle Beach, SC, in 1984, and then again in Seattle, in 2005, at the urging of their distributor’s rep, who – correctly – observed that tasting a thing 21 years ago wasn’t giving it a fair shake. It tasted exactly the same: like a wet piece of the cardboard that comes in new dress shirts – and that’s not an original observation. I first read it on the website of the world’s foremost beer critic, Britain’s Michael Jackson. He had almost nothing positive to say about Bud. I don’t either.
Beer is NOT wine! I don’t drink beer to savor the nuance of the flavor blends. It doesn’t need to age to gain character.
It is for those hot days when something icy cold and fizzy brings comfort. ‘Shine is similar; although I have some peach flavored moonshine that is kinda nice.
Isn’t there something mildly effeminate about discussing the prissy details about yer favorite quaff? I’m a belch and sigh kinda man myself.
Was just out brush-hogging and drinking beer. I don’t do it every day, but I do it with my MP3 player on random. The Zen aspect is concatenating the sights, sounds, and smells. I could add getting slapped in the face by various trees, etc. But I enjoy it.
Idahoans have a very real problem. The Spokesman-Review reported on Friday: “A grizzly bear killed a hunter before being fatally shot Friday near the Boundary County, Idaho, limits, the latest in a series of deadly grizzly bear attacks in the Northwest. Three men from Nevada were hunting bears in a remote area of Buckhorn Mountain near the Montana border when the grizzly attacked one of them and was shot and killed by a group member, authorities say. The fatal grizzly attack comes as Idaho’s congressional delegation has proposed to amend the Endangered Species Act to reiterate that it’s OK to shoot a grizzly bear in self-defense or in defense of another person after a North Idaho man who shot and killed a grizzly cub on his property paid was charged. It’s also one of at least three fatal encounters in three months between people and grizzly bears in the region.”
GPS determined the shooting was in Montana.
My question: Will the unnamed group member who shot and killed the grizzly bear be fined?
Just need to add for immediate clarity that those folks were licensed to hunt BLACK bear.
Some of Ron Paul’s most avid (some say “rabid”) supporters are not friends of America. The Marxist group “Code Pink” are frequent and vociferous supporters of the good congressman, as are “Iraq Veterans against the War,” a Soros-funded group that is sometimes violently opposed to any American intervention overseas, no matter how justified it may be.
Code Pink, headed up by Medea Benjamin, shows up at any anti-American gathering that happens to have media (no pun intended) coverage scheduled. That organization is frequently joined by IVAW in its pursuit of America-bashing.
Now, Rep. Paul cannot be held totally responsible for who attends his rallies and who organizes his Iowa Straw Poll effort, but the public should not be kept in the dark about who it is that has become so close to the congressman.
Rurik is referring to some of the comments there as the ‘fire’. Larry’s seen much worse so I doubt he’s much moved, but it might be fun to join in if so inclined.
Coupla caveats: Larry is a friend (as is Rurik) and I’m proud to say that I’m one of the dozen or so who helped pull off GoE-1, so I’ve seen much of what Larry describes. Secondly, much of what Larry discusses in his article is NOT news to regular TAH readers.
The current mail system of the United States is “no longer financially sustainable,” and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is looking for billions of dollars in cuts to its services.
The postal service announced Thursday it was considering closing nearly 250 processing facilities, cutting equipment by 50 percent and slowing mail delivery in an extreme cost-cutting effort. It is looking for $3 billion in annual savings.
Wouldn’t be my first choice, but I’m hoping the noise will begin to include others.
I doubt it, the USPS seems to be the only agency which has been so exposed?
Been drinking beer and driving in circles mowing. I will NOT apologize, but Jonn can delete…
ETA: Not really an update, but somehow a paragraph didn’t make the post yesterday and I missed it until just now. I musta screwed it up when trying to get the video link to post. The imperative here is that I was NOT talking about Johnny Cash, but myself.
Soooo…. it went something like: This is one of my favorite Cash songs, it’s on my MP3 player and I was listening while mowing. Although it doesn’t describe MY Vietnam war it does capture a set of emotions that THIS geezer is reminded of everyday.