Here are two simple graphs:
And for those who can’t follow, here’s the story. Interesting situation, if true.
Tag: Evil Bastards
Neighborhood Reindeer Games
Several people have sent me accounts (like this one) of the latest BLM “protest” which happened in Plano (!!!) last week.
Several thoughts come to mind, especially as I’ve had some dealings with the Plano PD over the past couple weeks, as every fule kno, and I came away very impressed with their attitude.
What I also learned, in chatting with our local guy while CIS was dusting for prints etc. was that the attitude of people all over (not just in Plano, but all over north Texas) has been changing for the worse, in that people getting involved with the police are being a lot more aggressive — and not just with the police, either.
Back in June last year, there was a traffic accident at a corner not three hundred yards from my old house. I know the corner well (Legacy and Independence), and as it happened, when the accident occurred there was a Plano uniformed cop filling up at the gas station on that very corner. So the cop walked over — no need to drive, it’s twenty yards away — only to see that the female driver of the one car was leaning into the other driver’s window, and punching her out. So he grabbed her to restrain her, whereupon he made the unfortunate discovery that she wasn’t punching the other woman, but stabbing her. And when he tried to restrain this bitch, she stabbed him four times. Luckily, three of the blows were deflected by his vest, but the fourth got him a good one in the upper left arm, and he started to bleed like a stuck pig.
The situation did not end there.
The stabbist then ran around the front of the car and wrenched the passenger-side door open, so as to continue with the stabbing.
Fortunately, the officer was not massively incapacitated from his stab wound — apparently, he would faint a little later from blood loss while waiting for the paramedics — but he was still able to pull his gun and shoot the bitch four times, whereupon she lost all interest in the proceedings, assumed the proper position on the ground, and very shortly thereafter achieved room temperature.
[pause to let the cheering and hollering die down]
Just in passing, both the cop and the stabbee survived the fun and games. He was a twenty-five-year veteran of the Plano PD and was something like six months from retirement. (Here’s the official report of the incident. There’s a telling detail that I didn’t mention; see if you can spot it.)
The cop who told me this story said that this change in attitude began during the Obama administration, and had only got worse and worse since. (I note too that the Plano PD Chief has been spotted marching in an earlier BLM protest, and that is an issue to be addressed on another day.)
After Election Day 2020 I took the AK out of the car, figuring that now that the nation’s scum had got their wish and had Communists, wokists and BLM supporters in positions of power, they’d simmer down. Clearly, this is not the case.
So tomorrow I’ll be off to Doc Russia’s to pick up the AK and return it to its proper position in the car. I should have done it after dinner with him last week, but that was a couple days before the BLM incident on Plano’s east side, and who knew? But times change, and I guess we have to change with them.
Let me say right now that I will not start anything should I personally encounter a situation like last Friday’s. I won’t even get out of my car. Unless things get really out of control — the video of the event shows that at least one BLM supporter had a handgun out and pointed at the “counter-protester” — in which case things might get a little more interesting. I certainly don’t take kindly to people pointing guns at me, no matter how much they believe they are “justified” in so doing; and any attempt to bring violence on me will meet with some resistance.
And that’s a promise.
Good grief. If shit like this can happen in Plano, it can happen anywhere in the United States. Be on your guard and stay safe. Or at least get a good group.
Juxtaposition
Very interesting piece by Max Morton at American Greatness. One passage caught my attention in particular:
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what country you come from, what god you worship, or what political ideology you believe in. When a man has no options, when no hope remains, when for him there is no tomorrow . . . he will fight with ferocity and fury not of this world. It is worth considering this fact—written in history from Thermopylae to the Alamo and to the Warsaw ghetto—when attempting to impose one’s will on another.
He’s talking about Afghanistan and the timeless futility of trying to achieve anything in that shithole. But read on through to the end, when he brings it home:
If we listen to the words of the politicians and their bureaucrat handlers in Washington, we can hear the language of the imperative, “Submit,” with no post-capture options. And, if we look at the current zero-sum game of political warfare, cancel culture, and the weaponization of the Justice Department, federal law enforcement, and intelligence agencies, we can see deliberate preparations to answer traditional Americans’ “or what?” response.
But:
In reality, [our current ruling elites] are not strong enough—or smart enough—to wield the command “Submit.” So, having picked up the sword, they will watch it be taken from their hands and then used against them by their very enemy—traditional Americans, who understand there will be no tomorrow, and in whose eyes there is a fierceness, a fury, that is beyond their world. It will be a fatal miscalculation that will bring about the downfall of a cursed and failed American ruling elite.
We can only hope.
Safer?
Oh yeah, this will work out well. From the Museum of Absolute Fucking Lunacy (California Hall) comes this fine example:
California is set to release at least 63,000 inmates convicted of violent crimes in an effort to create “safer prisons.”
Safer prisons, unsafer cities. Here’s the reasoning (if you can even call it that):
The goal is to increase incentives for the incarcerated population to practice good behavior and follow the rules while serving their time and participate in rehabilitative and educational programs, which will lead to safer prisons,” Dana Simas, a state Office of Administrative Law spokeswoman, said in a statement about the mass release of prisoners in the Golden State. “Additionally, these changes would help to reduce the prison population by allowing incarcerated persons to earn their way home sooner,” she added.
So who are the lucky releasees? All non-violent people in jail for forgery, tax fraud or embezzlement? Right… not:
Of those who are set to be released, nearly 20,000 are serving life sentences.
Not everyone is happy about this news:
A number of Republican lawmakers in the state have opposed the move and criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom for acting “on his own authority, instead of the will of the people.”
I didn’t know California had any “Republican lawmakers” left — I thought they were 100% Socialist over there in the Golden Shower State.
I foresee murders. Unfortunately, those murders won’t be of the people who are behind this foolishness.
Copycats
Sheesh… I do a piece on Romanian gymnast Nadia Comeneci — and now everybody’s got to get in on the act.
To be fair, though: Tom Leonard’s article is more far substantial than mine (which was just an excuse to leer at her grownup tatas).
And it reminds us that Commies are unspeakable bastards.
Prescient
Here’s an interesting one:
And to think that I suggested that very thing over ten years ago, as an unrealistic (at the time) plot device in Prime Target.