- From the “Chocolate City” Department – Ray Nagin, former mayor of New Orleans and lifetime achievement award winner from the Politicians For The Evacuation Of Politicians society, has been convicted on multiple counts of corruption. It appears, ironically, that Mr. Nagin was as dirty as a Louisiana politician. My suggestion to Mr. Nagin is to read Peter Grant’s memoir of his time working in a Louisiana prison. Some of the things in there might come in handy.
- From the “Snidely Whiplash” Department – A National Guard exercise in Ohio last year apparently had people like me as the villain. The exercise, designed by the West Virginia National Guard and conducted by the Ohio National Guard, had a janitor and chemistry teacher decide to gas their school as part of the underlying scenario. In order to make things more realistic for the soldiers, pro-Second Amendment literature and graffiti was placed in the training area. Because, as we are all aware, no-one in the United States is more likely to be a mass-murderer and terrorist than someone who believes in civil rights. Why, we can all fondly remember those “Chemical Warfare and the Gun Owner” classes the NRA put on at the annual meeting in Pittsburgh. You know, the next time I go for training down at Fort Knox, I’m going to suggest they put up some quotes from the leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center in the torture chamber or the bomb factory. Fair is fair.
- From the “Get A Rope” Department – Several children were recently rescued from an abusive home recently when one of them emailed a teacher asking for help. It is alleged that their family tied them to beds for days on end, beat them, and the girls were raped by their step-father. I know I show distrust of government agents at times, but there is a place for them to step in. This would be a prime example of the narrow set of circumstances where I believe it is fit and proper for the authorities to take action.
- From the “Get A Rope” Department – A man in Pennsylvania has been charged with multiple counts stemming from the shooting death of a horse. The horse in question was being used by an Amish family to pull their buggy when it was shot. The jackass in question is currently in jail on charges that include reckless endangerment and cruelty to animals. I would have thrown in attempted murder as well. That horse was the primary mode of transportation for that family, and it’s desperately cold out this winter. If the horse had dropped right there, that family would have been left out in the elements. If he’s convicted, I suggest he be broken to a bridle and forced to pull a buggy around the countryside for a few years. A diet of oats and salad will be good for him.
- From the “Dumbass of the Week” Department – A woman in Germany is in trouble after she mistook her friend’s can of pepper spray for deodorant. She then maced herself, causing the club she was in to be evacuated, with two people having damage to their eyes from the fumes. I would imagine that one of the two women who were harmed was the sprayer herself. Things like this are the reason I don’t care for the holsters that look like a wallet, or the stun guns that look like cell phones.
- From the “Potassium and Lead” Department – A man in Texas was cited for standing on the side of a road and waving around an AK-variant rifle to promote a nearby gun store. Interestingly enough, the store in question was owned by the man who made a bit of a splash recently when he was stopped in a mall as he tried to walk to his gun store with a rifle on his back. Apparently, it’s a bad thing to use an actual rifle to point the direction to a store that sells rifles.
- From the “This Land is Your Land, or Not” Department – A couple in Colorado has had some of their property condemned and are fighting an eminent domain action to have it seized by their county government. It appears that the county doesn’t like that the couple is using an ATV to get from their property on lower slopes to get to their property on upper slopes via an old mining road. It’s not clear from the story whether or not the road they were using is on their property. The county says it is doing this to keep lands open and wild, and had offered to buy the acreage, but was refused. I guess the horror of property owners accessing their property along an established road in a manner that works for them is too much for local officials to handle.
- From the “PSH” Department – Florida lawmakers are proposing legislation that would allow them to more closely regulate backyard target practice by homeowners. Reasons for this are that they are worried about people shooting their neighbors, causing damage to property, and being responsible while exercising their rights. Next up – people who do automotive repairs and welding in their garage. Heaven knows what all that acetylene and gasoline could do if someone were careless.
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Posted by daddybear71 on February 18, 2014
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/ February 18, 2014That second “Get a Rope” really angers me. We have a lot of Amish and Mennonite families surrounding town, and horses and buggies are a very common sight on our streets. They clip-clop through our neighborhood at least once a week when the weather warms up. A horse is a noble beast, even if it serves more for function than for recreation, and fatally shooting one for no reason is horrible. I agree with you about the addition of attempted murder charges. It’s been darn cold, and being stuck on one of the back roads around here, with no way to get help? Yeah, recipe for disaster.
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