Year: 2014

Boing Boing

Via Stacy Peralta, and via Boing Boing pal and skating/hiphop/punk photographer Glen E. Friedman, comes sad news today. American skateboarder Jay Adams, one of the original members of the Zephyr (later nicknamed Z-Boys) skateboarding team, is reported to have died. Friends say he suffered a massive heart attack last night, while traveling in Mexico. He was known as “The Original Seed” of skating as a sport, and known as one of the most influential skaters in history. Continue reading “Jay Adams, skating legend and original Zephyr skate team member, 1961-2014”

The Firearm Blog

Not quite – though as this recent article points out, there do appear to be increasing numbers of staplers converted into fairly advanced zip guns being confiscated worldwide. The common double action stapler is highly modular, regularly seen trivially adapted to fire .38 spl, 12 gauge shotgun shells and even 40mm grenades.   Continue reading “A peer reviewed forensic analysis of weaponized stapler engineering developments”

Concealed Nation – by Brandon

You can’t make this stuff up. Around 12:30am a few Sundays ago in Alabama, an armed robber entered a home uninvited and pointed his pistol at the occupants. Little did he know, one of the people he was trying to rob had a firearm of his own.

The armed occupant pointed his pistol at the robber and then things took a different turn. Now fearing for his own life, the robber takes off out the door, but not before doing the following:   Continue reading “LOL Of The Day: Armed Robber Drops His Pistol And Wallet When Confronted By Armed Citizen”

NJ.com – by Rob Spahr

Mario Alejandro was ready for a fight when he was part of the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Where he did not expect a fight was at Six Flags Great Adventure while taking his children there for a birthday party.

But due to the shirt that his family bought him for Father’s Day, a fight is exactly what the 33-year-old veteran from Woodbridge says he encountered while attempting to enter the theme park on Saturday.   Continue reading “N.J. veteran says Six Flags denied him admission over shirt supporting Marines”

Hopefully people aren’t voting because they know it changes nothing.

LA Times – by DAVID ZAHNISER

Alarmed that fewer than one-fourth of voters are showing up for municipal elections, the Los Angeles Ethics Commission voted Thursday to recommend that the City Council look at using cash prizes to lure a greater number of people to the polls.   Continue reading “Panel wants L.A. to look at using prizes to boost voter turnout”

Zero Gov – by Bill Buppert

The days of Mayberry RFD are long over and done with. The police serve and protect the rulers and no one else.

Frequent visitors to my site know that cops are a favorite topic here. No political bad actor can possibly deny the freedom of one human being absent the police enforcement mechanism to do so. Police have been and remain the primary existential threat to human liberty; all on display in the latest clown posse shenanigans in Missouri. The huge statist police occupation of America is Exhibit A of how important that maxim seems to be to the powers that be. The latest mischief by the law enforcers in Ferguson, MO point to some systematic and oft-repeated concerns about police brutality, quickness to violence and secure blanket immunity to ensure that bad cops (is there any other?) evade punishment for crimes that would put the taxpaying proles in the hoosegow.   Continue reading “An Intrusion of Coproaches: Sheriff Andy is Shown the Door”

Police State USA

SAN JOSE, CA — A 19-year-old woman was shot in the street during an erratic episode involving a cordless drill.

At around 10:36 a.m. on August 14th, 2014, five San Jose police officers responded to the 700 block of Blossom Hill Road with a report of a woman threatening her family.   Continue reading “Mentally-ill California woman shot by police while holding cordless drill”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

HOUSTON, Texas—Breitbart Texas has learned that a story released yesterday by the Associated Press (AP), and subsequently picked up by other news outlets across Texas, is not correct. While there are Texas National Guardsmen on the border, they are not part of the Texas controlled deployment of 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard (TNG).

Yesterday, the AP reported that the deployment of TNG forces had begun as part of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s deployment of 1,000 soldiers to a portion of the Rio Grande Sector of the Texas-Mexico Border.  Subsequent to the AP’s report, several media outlets across Texas picked up the story. The outlets quoted TNG Master Sergeant Ken Walker as saying that several dozen soldiers deployed in the Rio Grande Valley are part of the up to 1,000 troops called up by Perry last month.    Continue reading “AP, Most Media Wrong on Texas Guard Border Deployment”

Your typical “Problem-Reaction-Solution” story here:

Yahoo News – by Michael Isikoff

U.S. counterterrorism officials have dramatically ramped up their warnings about the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), concluding that the well-armed group is expanding its ambitions outside the Middle East and may be planning terror attacks against western Europe — and even the U.S. homeland.   Continue reading “ISIL could pose threat to US, Europe, officials say”

Concealed Nation – by Brandon

A few months ago, we asked the question: Should you carry while at home? This recent home invasion is one of many examples that shows us just how quickly your day can change, and helps to answer the question for those who decide to put their firearms away when they get home.

Two lowlifes broke into a home in Pittsburgh that just had a new security system installed which included video cameras. Some of the crime, including the break-in, was caught on the camera.   Continue reading “This Is Why We Recommend Carrying Even While Inside Your Own Home”

Raw Story – by Muriel Kane, Dec 4, 2011

The extreme militarization of American police forces has been brought to public attention by the tactics employed against Occupy protesters, which often appear more appropriate to counter-terrorism operations than to the control of non-violent protest. According to investigative journalist Max Blumenthal, however, the proper term for this ruthless suppression of dissent should be “Israelification.”   Continue reading “Flashback – Report: Israeli model underlies militarization of U.S. police”

Breitbart – by Merrill Hope

DALLAS, Texas — Room 1060 at the Earl Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas was the most compassionate place on earth, Monday, August 11, for minors who were in the various stages of the legal process for “Hearings on Removal Procedures” because they entered the United States through Texas illegally. This was the big rescheduled immigration court date, the result of the August 4 “no-show Monday.”   Continue reading “Illegal Minors Have A Field Day in Dallas Immigration Court”

Breitbart – by Caroline May

In response to an inquiry about unaccompanied minors from one of its school divisions, Virginia’s Department of Education issued a memo this month reminding its 132 divisions about their obligation to educate all children.

“In light of the heightened media coverage of the issue of undocumented immigrant children, VDOE provides the following updated information for your use in responding to community questions or issues,” says the memo distributed to the commonwealth’s 132 school divisions and obtained by Breitbart News.   Continue reading “Immigrant Children to Be Classified as ‘Homeless’ to Avoid School Enrollment Documentation Requirements”