- From the “PSH” Department – A college and the area around it in Connecticut were put on lock down when a student committed the cardinal sin of walking across campus to his dorm room dressed as a ninja, complete with plastic sword. Apparently Captain Braincramp spent three days at a party dressed up for Halloween, then walked home in costume, including wearing the mask. Yeah, he’s probably not the sharpest pencil in the box. In response, the campus police locked down the college, telling people to stay inside and away from windows, and to be on the lookout for a man dressed in camouflage and carrying a sword, or maybe a gun, or maybe a dwarven battle-axe with +2 advantage against the undead. The young dumbass was arrested for breaching the peace, so I guess being stupid is indeed against the law in Connecticut.
- Also from the “PSH” Department – A mother in Georgia has been banned from her daughter’s school and threatened with a trespassing citation after the principal was frightened of an image of her concealed carry permit on FaceBook. Apparently being a veteran, owning guns, and going through the training and background check necessary to get a concealed carry permit makes you a dangerous person who shouldn’t be around children. I’d say the same thing applies to those who don’t understand the law, are fearful of digital images of pieces of plastic-encased paper, and are panty-wetting bigots who live in fear. Someone in a position of power over her needs to explain to her who is and who isn’t a danger to her and her students. I’m not the litigious sort, but I hope that by the time is done, McBean Elementary school in Richmond County, Georgia is renamed “The Tanya Mount Veterans Memorial Firearms Safety Training Academy for Little Sprogs”.
- From the “Enforcing Existing Laws” Department – Two men have been sentenced to federal prison after they pled guilty to trying to sell firearms to people they thought were part of a Canadian motorcycle gang. In reality, the buyers were Canadian Mounties and agents of the Department of Homeland Security. One of the men has alleged that he was browbeaten into the deal by what he believed to be criminals, but I don’t buy it. Here’s the deal: If someone tries to coerce you into breaking the law, you go to law enforcement. If it happens that the people trying to make you commit a felony turn out to be cops, no harm, no foul. If not, then you’ve done a service to your community. Either way, you don’t become a felon. And remember kids, the guy who tries to get you to smuggle drugs or guns, harm government officials, or plant IED’s is probably a fed. Act accordingly.
- From the “Never Disarmed” Department – A woman in California proved the adage that you may not always have a gun, but you are never disarmed when she chased a burglar out of her home with a throwing axe. The miscreant was found a short distance away from her home with some of her property and a pair of underwear that he no longer wished to wear. No word yet on whether or not the woman will be sued by the burglar for the psychological harm he realized that his victim was going to try to vivisect him with an axe.
- From the “Close One” Department – A Wisconsin couple, who had gone missing after leaving Yellowstone National Park, were found after a local rancher went looking for them up a closed road. The hero who found them went as far as his truck could go, then went another few miles on his snowmobile, which will tell you just how far up Shit Creek this couple was. Apparently they went up the road at the behest of their GPS’s directions, got stuck, and had very little food for their multi-day adventure in the mountains. This is why I still carry paper maps and have a “go-to-hell” kit in our vehicles. Yeah, they’re a pain to fold up, but doing a sanity check against a map when your GPS tells you to go up Deadman’s Lane, as well as having a few days worth of food, water, and toilet paper, might make the difference between having a pleasant drive in the country and becoming a statistic.
- From the “Own It” Department – President Obama, under fire because people who bought minimum coverage health insurance prior to enactment of his signature health insurance law have started losing that coverage or having their rates jacked up to cover mandatory add-ons, has responded to criticism of his pledge of “If you like your insurance, you can keep it.” His protestations that rates were already on the way up, that bare-bones coverage was a bad deal, and that the new minimum standards are better for consumers seems to miss the point: Americans don’t like being told what to do, don’t like being misled, including being misled through fine print in a Byzantine law or regulation, and don’t like having to pay for things they don’t want or need. Now, I’m not going to argue that it’s not a good idea to have insurance to cover some of the things that Obamacare made mandatory, because I believe that at least some of them are really good ideas. It’s the “mandatory” part that sticks in my craw. If all you want is coverage that makes sure that you don’t lose your house in the event that you get dreadfully ill or badly hurt, that’s your business, not mine, and certainly not President Obama’s. How sad that a political promise that was trumpeted by the President and his minions has come back to bite him in the ass. Here’s a hint to politicians everywhere: That big squishy middle of the political spectrum that you all fight over isn’t stupid, has a long memory, and really hates it when blatant lies hurt them in the pocket-book. Learn from this, and you will go far. Ignore it at your own peril.
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Old NFO
/ November 5, 2013So a black lady (Army vet) has a carry permit and the principal is scared of her??? WTF???
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Ruth
/ November 7, 2013I “like” the part of Obamacare that requires 62yr old women who do not have children and never had children to buy pediatric dental coverage myself…..
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daddybear71
/ November 7, 2013Sweet. For all the baby teeth you have to deal with!
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