Horrible, unpleasant stuff
This is becoming an all-too-familiar event: an old rocker of enormous talent goes off to jam with Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck (both of whom knew him, and would undoubtedly welcome him into their band with open arms).
R.I.P. Dave Mason — one of the absolute best.
Thanks (once again) to The Divine Sarah at Insty’s, we have this brilliant analysis of how government can totally fuck up the market — any market — by ignoring the effects of pricing, deficits and surpluses.
Now, I know it’s about Britishland, and I know that just this is going to cause some of my Murkin Readers to roll their eyes, mutter something about “foreign entanglements”, and go off to wank over Megyn Kelly’s latest nutjob rant or whatever..
Don’t.
As I have said countless times before, I always look over The Pond to see what the Euros and Brits are doing, because they provide at worst an object lesson on what not to do, and at best a warning that we should never allow our own Gummint to repeat their mistakes Over Here.
And I also don’t want to hear bullshit like “Oh, this could never happen here” because not only can it happen, it’s already happening at the state level (cf. California, New York, Illinois and most recently, Virginia). All it takes is one general election which sweeps the Socialists into power, controlling House, Senate and the White House, and everything bad that is happening in Yurp and Britishland will absolutely happen here, just on a national scale.
So follow the above link, read it, learn from it, and let’s make damn sure that such fecklessness and idiocy can never happen here.
Maryland’s House of Representatives followed the state Senate’s lead and passed a ban on Glocks — far be it for me to agree with anything that the Maryland legislature does, but...
#ButtUglyGuns
Widow sues after husband was killed when he wore 20-lb chain in hospital room where she was having MRI scan — Charles Darwin, call your office.
A question to one of the agony aunts in the newspaper:
Am I being prissy if I say no to having a threesome? — Yes you are, and that’s not a Bad Thing.
Suspect in $11 Million Minnesota Fraud Scheme Disappears — “Abdirashid Ismail Said avoided being ordered to surrender his passport by paying the unconditional bond amount of $150,000. The conditional bond, which would have required him to surrender his passport, was set at $50,000. Investigators had voiced concerns that Said had a wife and child living in Nairobi, Kenya, and it was possible he could flee, hide, or prevent officials from executing the warrant.”
You have to ask yourself this question. The scrote is charged with embezzling $11 million, and is hit with a chump change bail amount. He has family still living in Kenya… and people are shocked — shocked! — when he disappears? Whoever set his bail should have to spend an amount of time in jail equal to what Said would have served, no bail, no early release, just for being either a moron or a co-conspirator.
FFS. What time does the range open, again?
…why I never walk out of my house without carrying a gun:
A knife-wielding maniac was shot and injured by cops after he started terrorizing a New York City grocery store overnight, the NYPD said Monday.
The suspect was shot outside the City Fresh Market near 120th Street in Harlem just after 1:30 a.m. when he repeatedly refused to drop the 13-inch kitchen blade, according to cops.
The man had been thrown out of the grocery store some time earlier after getting into an argument with someone inside. He later showed up brandishing the knife, police said. Surveillance video obtained by Pix11 captured the man lingering outside the sliding doors and waving the weapon as workers huddled inside.
When police arrived on the scene, the man allegedly kept pointing the knife in their direction before an officer fired. The knifeman took a bullet to his abdomen, was taken to a hospital for surgery and remains in a critical condition.
Sorry, but faced with a similar situation, I’m not going to wait around for the cops to show up. Wave a knife at me, especially one like that, and whatever happens after that is on you.
I’m not boasting or whatever; I’m stating the obvious. Gawd know I don’t want to shoot someone. But I really don’t want to be stabbed just because I happen to be at the supermarket.
I usually use the “https://archive.is/” link to get through to the silly paywalled newspaper articles at the Daily Mail, but the site appears to have been hacked by Russians or Serbians or others of the Cyrillic persuasion.
Does anyone have an alternate that does the same thing?
Even for the execrable Daily Mail, this is a bad one. See if you can understand why I say this, from this pic:
(sorry about the small type)