- From the “Timing is Everything” Department – The Justice Department has published an indictment against the men who are accused of murdering Border Patrol agent Bryan Terry. Terry’s death has been at the center of the “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal. I’m sure there’s no political reason for unsealing the indictment at this exact moment, a few months before an election, and with the Attorney General in the midst of a contempt of Congress fight. No, this is just the DOJ doing its duty to get miscreants it armed off our streets.
- From the “Bravo!” Department – The mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, has decided that if the city council does not want to raise the money needed to keep things going, he will cut spending to do it. His novel approach is to put everyone in city government, including himself, on minimum wage. While this is more of a “Oh yeah? Well watch this!” move that he is doing because the city council didn’t raise taxes as requested, maybe it’ll force both sides to take a look at the budget and be honest about what must be kept and what can be lived without.
- From the “Don’t The Door Hit You In The Ass” Department – Denise Rich, ex-wife of a billionaire who was given a last minute pardon by President Clinton, has decided to give up her citizenship and move to Austria. Let’s see, a woman who is believed to have influenced a sitting president to get a pardon for a fugitive from justice wants to take her ball and go to the land of Sachertorte, at least long enough to get out of paying taxes? Hey, no problem. Let her be the Euro-trash’s problem for a while. I’d rather be out the money.
- From the “Sounds Fishy” Department – A young woman in Detroit died over the weekend when the gun of the off-duty police officer she was hugging went off, striking and killing her. Our prayers, of course, go out to her and her family, but this doesn’t sound right. If the gun was properly holstered, meaning the trigger was covered by the holster, what modern pistol will fire due to pressure on any other part of the gun? Also, the article states that she was struck in the heart and lung, so either it was in an oddly angled shoulder rig, it was upside down on his belt, or it was upside down in a pocket. None of those make sense either. I hate to be macabre about the death of a young woman, but I want more details, and look forward to seeing them. First of all, if a modern gun actually fired while properly holstered, I want to know how and I want to know the model and manufacturer of both the gun and holster. That way I can be sure to never own one or one like it. Second, I want to know the method of carry so that I know of a previously unknown risk with that method. My gut tells me this was a gun outside of a holster, in a shoddy holster, or improperly put into a holster, but that’s totally speculation on my part. Details will clear up the situation and hopefully lead to better understanding.
- Update – It looks like it was a soft-material IWB holster. The article also hints that it was an Smith and Wesson M&P. Curiouser and curiouser.
- From the “Chutzpah” Department – President Obama is calling on his opponent, Mitt Romney, to open up his financial books so that the American people can learn who he really is. If the breaker to your brain just tripped, I’ll wait for you to go downstairs and turn it back on. Here we have a president, who has not released much at all about his own past, calling on his adversary to be an open book. Ladies and gentlemen, we now have a winner in the “Please define ‘hypocrite’ in 50 words or less” contest.
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Posted by daddybear71 on July 9, 2012
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/ July 11, 2012I read up on that shooting and news media reports are conflicting. About the only thing that’s certain is that a young woman is dead and was killed with a Detroit cop’s gun. The cop says it was an accidental shooting and that he didn’t pull the trigger. Moreover, the cop and the victim didn’t know each other – the cop was having a fish fry over at his own home, and she showed up. Another thing is that the cop wasn’t tested for alcohol.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven, but it’s very likely the truth will never be known.
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