From the Trump Administration:
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned against committing acts of vandalism or terrorism against Tesla products or other Elon Musk-owned properties.
Bondi said those committing those acts would face the full brunt of federal law enforcement without the possibility of plea agreements.
That thumping noise you hear is that of my heart, having burst right out of my ribcage, doing a
around the house.
When a crime report contains the following, you just know that things turned out righteously:
Initial evidence and investigative information caused detectives to suspect the deceased subject in this case was actively involved in attempted armed assaults on potential victims when he encountered an armed citizen who protected himself.
And:
HPD believes the deceased alleged assaulter was “a suspected multiple offender.”
Not anymore, he ain’t.
From La Bella d’Italia, responding to requests from France and UK to send troops to Ukraine:
“You can go — not with my soldiers.”
Could I love Giorgia Meloni any more?
For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too. Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut.
The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller. Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured. No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.
This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.
All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.
But now we have a chance. It may be our last, because right now, in the paraphrased words of John Adams, we have men worthy of the time: a president who has a burning desire to make the changes necessary, an associate of towering intellect and inherent power who may be able to execute that change, and the subordinates who are just as willing to make those changes with the necessary authority (in the shape of presidential appointees), and others (the twenty-something hackers and geeks) who have the knowledge, skills and the tools to be able to root out the corruption and deadweight of accumulated bureaucracy and perverted, un-American policy.
Chris Muir has recovered from his lurgy and will be back in the saddle tomorrow.
This one made my heart swell with pride (but also with sorrow):
According to Kentucky State Police, troopers were dispatched to the home in Manchester around 4:30 a.m. Saturday for reports of a shooting. When troopers arrived, they found two men with gunshot wounds.
Jeffrey Allen, 51, was pronounced dead at the scene. Roger Smith, 44, was transported to an area hospital but later died.
Police said that the two men had broken into the home with the intention of stealing firearms from a safe. During the break-in, a juvenile living in the home saw the men holding firearms. Acting in self-defense, police said, the child retrieved a handgun and shot both men before escaping through a bedroom window.
Police did not give the exact age of the child who shot the alleged intruders.
Now, why is my heart filled with sorrow? Because as much as I applaud the kid’s actions, I hope like hell that this doesn’t cause him mental anguish.
Folks, it’s no fun taking a human life, even when the taking is both morally and legally justified. And as much as I post these events and make light of them, I truly do not want kids to be involved. It’s bad enough for an adult to deal with; it’s horrible for a young ‘un.
That said, at least this kid wasn’t a victim of these two asshole goblins; now that would have made me really angry.
In passing, the “Emily van der Riet” in the byline is this young lady:
She may even be a Seffrican, with that name — it’s quite a common one back in the Vaderland. As long as she isn’t a liberal…