Tag: Government

The Right Stuff

Law and Order

Here’s an interesting situation:


...gives a whole new meaning to the term “jury duty”, dunnit?  Oh, wait:  “only open to law enforcement officers”?

…and for the curious:

The state has purchased five Daniel Defense DD5-P rifles chambered in .308 Winchester, fitted with scopes, suppressors and bipods, at a cost of more than $24,000.

Bipods and scopes… at 10 yards?  WTF?  I mean:

Seems like an awfully-complicated and expensive way just to whack a convicted murdering scumbag, but that’s Gummint all over, right?  I’m more of a traditionalist, in that I think the old “single bullet in the back of the neck” method would be just as effective, not to say much cheaper.

But no doubt someone’s going to have a problem with this.

Okay, all jokes aside:  I happen to be a supporter of the death penalty and execution of the worst of scumbags, as any Reader of this website will know full well.  The method of execution is irrelevant.

We’ve tried making it a kinder, gentler way of seeing off a scumbag by using the oh-so gentle lethal injection — following all sorts of issues with hanging, decapitation, electrocution and the gas chamber (itself an attempt to make killing someone less brutal).

Well, the injection thing has been cocked up so many times, and is so beset with difficulties in terms of lethal drug supply and so on, that Idaho has decided to go with what is surely the most effective method of execution:  gunfire.

Let’s not get squeamish about all this.  If you’re going to execute someone, it’s best to make it quick, simple and effective — something that the murderers probably didn’t afford their victims, by the way — and death by three .308 bullets to the heart is about as effective as any, short of another old way of using gunfire as punishment:

Effective, but loud and very messy (“Cleanup in lane 2!”).

Yeah, this is all very ghoulish and brutal and stuff, but just remember who’s on the chopping block here, being the worst of the worst:  child murderers, people who killed someone for a few dollars at a 7-11, men who raped and tortured women before murdering them, etc. etc.

These people do not deserve to live, so fuck ’em.  A .308 bullet to the heart is all they deserve.

Just A Point, Here

Military

Talking about making America’s military great again (MAMGA?), this was said:

“The White House is seeking expanded manufacturing commitments from defense contractors, [and] is pressing automakers to convert spare production capacity to defense.”

Ummm the way I see it, the only “spare production capacity” that U.S. automakers have right now — because they sure as hell ain’t gonna quit making SUVs and pickup trucks — is in EV.  And I’m not so sure that the Dept. of War is looking for EV stuff unless it’s drones.

As always with Salamander, it’s a fine article.

Petty Tyrants

Bureaucracy

We’ve all seen stories about homeowners’ associations (HOAs) setting themselves up as mini-fiefdoms, and holding people accountable for stuff like “maintaining community standards” and “keeping property values healthy”.  The stories are legion, and I can bear witness to some of them myself — the best one being that when we were encouraged by the Plano authorities to start collecting rainwater in large storage barrels (a Good Thing, in semi-desert north Texas), we went off and bought from the city one of said barrels — i.e. the thing was city-approved.

So I installed the blessed thing at the side of the house and attached a drip hose system so that the lawn at the side of the house could get watered.  Two weeks later some dickless wonder knocked on my door and said that the barrel was “unsightly” and we had two days to remove it, or face “consequences”.  When I asked if any of my neighbors had complained (they hadn’t), he said that their “inspection team” had made the determination.

My response should not be repeated in polite company, but it did contain the words “fuck” and “off”, as well as a few choice words of a personal nature and a warning that any attempt to force “consequences” on me would be met with, shall we say, strong opposition.  He left, never to be seen again, and the barrel stayed (it’s still there, some twelve years later).

One could only imagine my response, then, if I lived in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and was faced with an HOA ruling that forbade carrying of guns.

And the local cops feel about the same way as I would:

Breitbart News reported on the HOA’s gun ban May 18, 2026, noting that the St. Lucie Police Department made clear they would not enforce it.

AG Uthmeier contacted the HOA and gave them a deadline to cease enforcement or face legal action.

In a post to X, Uthmeier wrote: “Enforcement of its discriminatory policy against anyone for exercising the constitutional right to keep and bear arms will be met with legal action by my office.”

Needless to say, the HOA has backed down.

And these little gauleiters  thought they could get away with this bullshit… in Florida?

Then & Now

Drive Time, Gummint

It’s not just humans who have been getting Fat & Bloated in recent times:

I know, I know:  the Kraut Minis are bloated because of all the Gummint-mandated safety regs — just another reason to get among them with machetes (the regulations, I mean, not the Gummint bureaucrats perish the thought).

More Gubernatorial Ass-Kicking

Legal Stuff, Resistance, Rights

I really like this trend (if it is indeed a trend):

The Kansas State Legislature overrode Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill named in honor of assassinated political commentator Charlie Kirk that strengthens free speech protections on college campuses.

House Bill 2333 received two-thirds support in both chambers this month, overruling the governor’s objection. 

Part of the bill, known as the Kansas Intellectual Rights and Knowledge Act or KIRK Act, protects “expressive activities.” It deems outdoor areas “public forums for the campus community.”

“Any individual who wishes to engage in non-commercial expressive activity on campus shall be permitted to do so freely, so long as the individual’s conduct is lawful and does not materially and substantially disrupt the functioning of the postsecondary educational institution,” the act states. 

Here’s the reason for the veto:

Gov. Kelly argued the bill was unnecessary as free speech is already protected.

Yeah, just like the right to own guns is “already” protected by the Second Amendment — except where it isn’t, in states like California, New York, Illinois and other Blue shitholes.

I hate the fact that we need additional laws to underline the freedoms already supposedly guaranteed by the Constitution (like this KIRK law and the USSC’s Gruen decision);  but these are the times we live in, sadly.

And it’s safe to say that it should be so unlikely that the KIRK law should be necessary on, of all places, college campuses — except that it’s in these very institutions where free speech is most threatened, whether at the hands of radical Left students’ “counter-protests” or at the hands of radical Left college administrations.

Let’s have more KIRK laws, then, and more veto overrides of this nature.

Never Mind The Waves, Stop The Wind

Eco-Crap, Good Stuff

…and use the money for gas.  There’s an elegant solution to end the eco-nonsense boondoggle known as “wind power”, and this seems to fit the bill:

The Trump administration is pulling nearly $1 billion out of offshore wind projects off the East Coast and forcing that money into U.S. oil, natural gas, and LNG production, replacing planned wind development with active oil and gas production.

TotalEnergies paid about $133 million for a lease in the Carolina Long Bay area and roughly $795 million for another in the New York Bight in 2022, locking nearly a billion dollars into projects that are now being shut down. The company is only reimbursed if it first invests that same money in domestic energy production, including LNG infrastructure, upstream oil, and natural gas development in the United States.

Sounds good.  Now read what IntSec Burgum said, and it gets even better:

“Offshore wind is one of the most expensive, unreliable, environmentally disruptive, and subsidy-dependent schemes ever forced on American ratepayers and taxpayers.”

Hell, that’s so searing a statement, I could have said it.  Only with a lot more Bad Words and death threats.

Pour yourself a cuppa joe, settle back and read the whole article.  If you’re not giggling like a little girl by the end of it, we can’t be friends.

As for the Greens, the reaction is typical:

More like the above, please.