From this guy (via Insty):
“There is Chief Justice Roberts, the institutionalist, who strategically guides the Supreme Court by not deciding more than is necessary to decide. Then there is Chief Justice Roberts, the institutionalist, who strategically guides the Supreme Court by deciding more than is necessary to decide. Which Roberts do we get in each case?”
Going by past decisions, we get the Roberts which is most likely to piss off conservatives in that particular case.
Whenever I’m talking about some scrote getting shot in the act of burgling someone’s house and threatening the homeowner, some bleeding heart always asks the question: “So you think that your TV is more valuable than someone’s life?”
The answer, of course, is that it’s not whether I think that; in fact, it’s the burglar who thinks that the TV is worth more than my life. So as we’ve established that someone thinks that a life is worth less than a TV, it might as well be me who ends the philosophical discussion.
I was reminded of this when reading this happy little tale:
A man who reportedly became angry after being denied alcohol entered a Riverton, Utah, convenience store Friday with a shotgun and was shot dead by a bystander.
Okay, that’s worth some applause all by itself.
However, when the full story is revealed:
KUTV reported the man entered the convenience store and was denied an alcohol sale because he did not have identification. He allegedly responded by confronting the clerk and was then coaxed out of the store by other customers.
KSL noted the man had become “argumentative” and “belligerent” before having to leave the store. He then got into his vehicle and drove around, only to circle back to the store and enter carrying a shotgun, according to the report.
The Gephardt Daily pointed out that an armed bystander engaged the man when he re-entered the store, fatally shooting him.
But wait! There’s MOAR!
One report indicated that two armed bystanders may have fired at the man.
Now go back to my original thesis. Think about it: This asswipe put the value of a bottle of hooch above the cashier’s life. (I know, I know: maybe he just wanted to scare the poor schlub into selling him a bottle of Old Rotgut 2-year-old; but maybe he was that angry and frustrated that he intended to blast the guy into Kingdom Come — we’ll never know.)
So Our Hero (or Heroes? O be still my beating heart) was quite within his rights to see him off; and Anger Boy found out, too late, that the booze wasn’t really worth it.
Scratch one more asshole off the list of Them Wot Needs Killin’.
From Insty, with my response:
I once had a chance to pick up one of these from a private collection, but the owner never turned his back on me, the cad.
I just took a random sampling of yesterday’s Daily Mail totties for this one.
Carmen Electra
Christine McGuinness
Diana Vickers
Emily Atack
Eva Longoria
Heidi Klum
Lizzo
Maura Higgins
Maya Jama
Ola Jordan
I note that a goodly number of the above are in their fifties…
“Modern feminism can’t agree on what a woman is. It’s defended violent male predators in women’s prisons and stayed silent on UK rape gangs to avoid being called racist.” — SOTI.
There are all sorts of social couplings [sic] that anyone with a brain could see would lead to trouble. (Note the “with a brain” stipulation; this will be important later.) Allow me to list but a few.
My point is that common sense would dictate that all the above should be recognized as being potentially troublesome, because everyday experience (not to mention history) can provide endless examples thereof. (Here’s one example of the last in the above list.)
And yet all the above silliness is not only allowed, but encouraged — and then when the S Hits The F, everyone is surprised? (Well, I’m not surprised, and nor is anyone with some vestige of common sense.)
Frankly, I’m done with all of it. Let the social experimenters continue with their endless, foolish experiments, I don’t care a fig.
If girls get raped by men in their high school- or college toilets and locker rooms, I don’t care.
If boys come back from their Scout camps with a shiny new Fellatio Badge: hang the offending Scout leaders and fine / flog / imprison the parents for their negligence; I don’t care.
If every female sailor gets pregnant and has to go on some kind of lifetime G.I. benefits, and ships sink because of a shortage of sailors; so be it.
If the incidence of rape by male warders skyrockets in women’s prisons; whatever.
If female warders get pregnant by their convict boyfriends or help said boyfriends get access to drugs, booze or guns; tell someone who cares.
I’m not interested in getting excited about foolishness and its many consequences.
Because if I do get excited about all the above, then I’m the intolerant one, the male chauvinist, the right-winger, the whatever.
I don’t care about that, either. FOAD, the lot of you.
…or, Flock Off, Part 2:
A Wisconsin woman was pulled over at gunpoint twice in one week after Milwaukee Police Department staff failed to remove a vehicle alert from the Flock license plate camera system.
Fox 6 Milwaukee reports that on Thursday, police in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield, Wisconsin, conducted a high-risk traffic stop on Interstate 94 after a Flock camera flagged a vehicle in connection with a Milwaukee homicide investigation. Video footage from the incident shows multiple officers with weapons drawn and a passenger extending their hands out the car window in compliance with police commands.
The vehicle’s driver, Amber Newell, and her passengers were detained during the stop. However, when Brookfield Police contacted the Milwaukee Police Department to coordinate the arrest, MPD informed them they no longer needed the vehicle or its occupants. The officers immediately released Newell and the other individuals.
And if anyone in this party of “desperadoes” had been accidentally shot, it would have resulted in an “Oops, my bad” response from the cops, no doubt.
Remember: “If you’ve done nothing wrong, there’s nothing to worry about.”
Uh huh.
Grex delenda est.