A Dixie Carpetbagger

I’m sorry, but I have to.  I know it’s wrong… very, very, very bad.  And wrong.  But, I have to do it.

Civil unrest in Thailand.

I… can’t… resist… must… must…

… I’m sorry.

Alcohol can make you do weird things.  Flirt with barflies, wake up in odd places, even try to perform CPR on possums.

Wait, what?  Dear Lord…  Not to mention that said marsupial had been dead… dead long enough that CPR wasn’t gonna help.  Like I said over at Wyatt’s… mead or ‘shine had to be involved.  I refuse to think about someone drinking both in one night.  (Mead is evil.  I don’t know a single beekeeper– me included– who makes mead… and I know some hard-drinking beekeepers.  Mixing mead and ‘shine would be… disastrous.)  (H/T Sebastian)

Armed citizen shoots axe-wielding robber.  Why include this in a post about drunkards, you ask?  Turns out the guy was trying to rob a junkyard.  No, booze totally wasn’t involved…  Oh, and I found a picture of the perpetrator.

Guy ducks a murder charge, then writes the DA a taunting letter:

“Since I have already been indicted on first degree murder and the Va. Supreme Court said that I can’t be charged with capital murder again, I figured I would tell you the rest of what happened on Jan. 29, 1999, to show you how stupid all of y’all … are [...] I guess I forgot to mention these events when I was being questioned. Ha Ha!”

This two legged wolf has now had his date with Virginia’s Old Sparky.  That’s right, he’s ridden the lightning.  Virginia even expedited the process, just for him.  Like Marko says, bet he feels a bit stupid now, doesn’t he?

(H/T Uncle)

Man stabbed with meat thermometer.  In California.  For asking someone to turn off their cell phone.

Allow me to clarify the irony here.  A man was stabbed with a meat thermometer (a piece of safety equipment) in California (home of all things anti-gun) for asking someone to turn off their cell phone.

Wait a second, didn’t Heinlein say something about bad manners and a dying society… ?

Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.  – Robert A. Heinlein

How can you tell which is which?  Usually from the fact that the totalitarian side is violent, while the liberty-minded side… isn’t.  That said, let’s play a little recognition game– violent or not violent?

• A female lobbyist for a domestic violence legislative group.
• A well-off neighbor who dislikes big corporations.
• The couple who believes strongly in global warming.
• Your socialist college professor.
• Your truther friend.
• The armed crowd outside of a Starbucks.

Give up?  Okay, it’s a trick question– only the last one is non-violent.  I guess all the homicidal rage from us gun nuts is rubbing off on normal people now… or something.

(H/T Say Uncle not once, not twice, but three times.)

A white supremacist named Joos.  Oh, and he had scary guns.  Lots of them.  “During the trial, Kelleher repeatedly referred to the 19,000 rounds of ammunition confiscated from Joos’ home. ‘That’s the amount of ammunition Bass Pro might have here in their showroom,’ he said, referring to the outdoor outfitter.”

Just 19,000?  Must be a small Bass Pro, and I think that I have more than that in .22 alone… err, I mean, that’s a lot of ammo– he was up to no good, unh huh! The article also refers to his extensive training with guns at the Air Force Academy.  I hate to break this to the article’s author, but the closest some Academy sophomores have come to a gun is when they passed the gate guard.

(H/T Uncle)

Via Breda, a prayer request.  The short version is that a man killed his wife and mother-in-law, wounded his father-in-law, and the man’s kids were present.

The man making the request quotes from Job, but I find Job as a whole too dark.  So, I will leave you with a quote from the Psalmist.

¹² Arise, O LORD!
O God, lift up Your hand!
Do not forget the humble.

¹³ Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,
“You will not require an account.”

¹⁴ But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief,
To repay it by Your hand.
The helpless commits himself to You;
You are the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man;
Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

New Jersey passes a “one gun a month” law, and says it is “aimed at improving [the] quality of life.“  As a side note,  even the criminals are saying the best way to cut down or crime is to buy a gun.  Whose quality of life will be improved by this law?

The kicker about the new law is a quote from Bryan Miller.  “By limiting individuals to the purchase of no more than one handgun in 30 days, you dramatically reduce the ability of traffickers to make a profit.”

Okay, so limiting law-abiding citizens to one gun a month will reduce the amount of money that illegal arms merchants make?  Or will it have the exact opposite effect, since with lower supply and continued demand, price will increase?  Never let it be said that anti-gun advocates are logical.

(Articles courtesy of Sebastian and Dr. Lott)

Cop pulls over stripper. Cop gets… “happy.” Cop shoots the love gun on stripper. DNA proves that the pearl necklace was a gift from the cop. Cop goes to trial. Slam dunk case, right?

Wrong.

Here’s a quote from his defense attorney: “She got what she wanted, she’s an overtly sexual person.” What’s worse is that this attorney’s name is Stokke. He’s the father of Allison Stokke, the pole vaulter now Internet famous. Mr. Stokke doesn’t like the attention his daughter has been getting. Mr. Stokke, I don’t think that the lady you called a “overtly sexual person” liked the attention she got, either.

(H/T Uncle)

… for laughter.

Funny – Armed robbery in Ontario. (I thought they were civilized up there, eh?)

Funnier – On Halloween.

Priceless – The robber was dressed as the purple Teletubbie.

Remember, truth is stranger than fiction.  (H/T Alphecca)