To a reporter who asked when he would use the words “climate change.”:
“The chance of me virtue signaling for people in the media is zero. So, do not count on that. I do not subscribe to your religion.” — Future POTUS Ron DeSantis
The more he speaks, the more I like him.
Reader NYCTrack sent me this obit. We mere mortals can only wish to be so fondly remembered.
Me, I nearly peed my pants laughing. Wish I could have met the guy.
So this mope and his cocksocket decide to indulge in a little undocumented shopping at a city drugstore. An employee stops said socket and takes away the merchandise from her, whereupon the choirboy, enraged at the audacity, pulls a gun.
And gets shot dead by another employee.
Sadly, instead of being given the keys to the city or at least being promoted, Our Hero will most likely be fired because a.) Chicago and b.) Walgreens.
I will be delighted beyond words if I’m proved wrong when this does not happen.
#OddsAgainst100-1
…as you will be when you watch this video.
Basically, when government cannot or will not do its job, ordinary Americans will just step in and do it.
Then of course when government tries to stop them (by threatening arrests and what have you), the ordinary Americans tell them to go pound sand and do the job anyway.
I wish I could go there to help out, but I can’t — I’d just be adding to the problem — so the best I can do is post pieces and links like this.
…except, it seems, in Honolulu.
Three people were killed and two others injured in a shooting at a home stemming from a dispute between neighbors on Saturday night in Waianae, a west Oahu community. The shooter was also fatally shot by a resident…
So far, so good. But
…who was then arrested on a second-degree murder charge, police said.
And the cops’ response?
“In Hawaii, we are a non ‘stand your ground’ state. Even if you have a license to carry, if you’re an individual that discharges a firearm that is involved in injuring another person, … you’re going to be arrested.”
As RedState’s Jim Thompson points out, that’s not what Hawaii’s actual law states. Looks like this asshole cop needs a swift ball-kicking some education on the law. Or maybe he just thinks he’s British.
At least Our Hero has since been released, but there’s no telling what will happen to him next.
Where’s the Imperial Japanese Navy when you really need them?
Longtime Readers will remember that many years ago, I attended Boomershoot with the Son&Heir, and took the 2-day training course delivered by Gene Econ and two kids from the unit he was training, Adam Plumendore and Walter Gaya. As a result of that meeting, we (I plus my Readers) kind of “adopted” Adam and Walt, and when they told me they needed some gear (scopes and rangefinders) for their upcoming deployment, we raised the money and bought them the gear. (As I recall, it took about three days to raise the $25,000-odd, because as I’ve said before, I have the best Readers on the Internet,)
Anyway, the kids went off to Iraq. Two months later we heard that Adam had been killed by an IED, and Walt had been badly wounded in a different engagement.
I told you all that so I could tell you this. Walt and Adam’s CO at the time was Col. Erik Kurilla, a man of incredible bravery and outstanding leadership. He himself was wounded in Iraq (shot three times in the legs when ambushed by some assholes in, I think Mosul).
It will therefore come as no surprise to anyone when I tell you that Colonel Erik Kurilla is now General (4-star) Erik Kurilla. You can learn all about him here. It makes for some interesting reading. Just the other units he’s since commanded makes me quite awestruck, but I bet he left them better than how he found them. He’s that kind of man.
I had a chance to chat with him once, some time after Adam was killed, and when by way of introduction I told him how I’d met Adam and Walt, and about the gear we’d contributed, his immediate response was “Oh, I know all about you, Kim, and your group, and how you helped us.”
He was not then, and I doubt very much whether he would ever be one of those remote, office-bound types who doesn’t take care of his men. With men like him in the Army, there may still be some hope for our future.
I feel extraordinarily privileged to have known him, even as slight as that acquaintance may have been.