It strikes me (hah, see what I did there) that if we really gave a shit about ending domestic violence that we wouldn’t be the least bit fucking concerned about “shocking” the audience.  

The audience, in my opinion, needs a good fucking shock.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…

“Upon arrival, Fort Bend County deputies found an unidentified male lying in the street, the victim of an apparent fatal gunshot wound.”

The sheriff’s office didn’t name the homeowner or reveal details of the shooting incident.

But the law enforcement source familiar with the investigation said the dead man and one or more companions had approached the homeowner’s house and tried to enter, because one of his children was having a party there.

But the dead man and his companions were told to leave, and initially did so, the law enforcement source said. But then they came back.

“One of them approached the man” who owned the house “and threatened him.”

Both the homeowner and the alleged gang member were armed with handguns, the source said. At least one shot was fired, and the man who tried to crash the party was killed.

…the average sleazebag who will accost you, or kick in your front door, doesn’t spend a lot of time at the range.

I’m sleepy, and I’m hungry, so I’m not quite up to freaking the fuck out over this:

An Oklahoma City police officer wrongly pulled over a man last week and confiscated an anti-President Barack Obama sign the man had on his vehicle.

The officer misinterpreted the sign as threatening, said Capt. Steve McCool, of the Oklahoma City Police Department, and took the sign, which read “Abort Obama, not the unborn.”

On the face of it, the Freakout Factor is pretty fucking high, but if you stop to consider that 3/4 of the popuplation is near-fucking-illiterate, like this moron of an officer, then it’s just another bullshit non-incident.

When the officer asked Harrison if he knew why he had been pulled over, Harrison said he did not.

”They said, ‘It’s because of the sign in your window,’” Harrison said.

”It’s not meant to be a threat, it’s a statement about abortion,” Harrison said.

He said he disagrees with the president’s position on abortion.

”I asked the officer, ‘Do you know what abort means?’” Harrison said. “He said, ‘Yeah, it means to kill.’ I said, ‘No, it means to remove or terminate.’”

Harrison said his sign was to be interpreted as saying something like: Remove Obama from office, not unborn babies from the womb.

Dear Oklahoma City Police Department:  Invest in some fucking dictionaries.  And maybe, oh, pull your heads out of your asses.  

The majority of the populace may be just fine with worshipping The One, and offering up their rights on His altar, but the rest of us are fucking watching, you pricks, with our lawyers’ numbers on fucking speed dial.

You hear about citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights all the time (my primary source of said entertainment is here), but it’s rarely that you get to see them play out in full-color, high-def thanks to a proactive citizen’s investment in home security cameras.

Amazing video of an attempted home invasion in Tucson. Investigators say the victim fought back by shooting at a group of armed men trying to break into his house. This all happened Thursday afternoon near Cardinal and Irvington on the southwest side.

The is video from a surveillance system overlooking the driveway of the victim’s home. It shows the suspects pull up in a car and jump out. One of the would-be home invaders fires a shot as he runs into the garage. Within seconds several more shots ring out. Investigators say those came from the man inside the home.

Let’s see if we can get the video to embed…

All I have to say is “nice grouping.”

Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents

WASHINGTON (AP) — In his final acts of clemency, President George W. Bush on Monday commuted the prison sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration.

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Compean and Ramos, who have served about two years of their sentences, are expected to be released from prison within the next two months.

They were convicted of shooting admitted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks as he fled across the Rio Grande, away from an abandoned van load of marijuana. The border agents argued during their trials that they believed the smuggler was armed and that they shot him in self defense. The prosecutor in the case said there was no evidence linking the smuggler to the van of marijuana. The prosecutor also said the border agents didn’t report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up several spent shell casings.

The agents were fired after their convictions on several charges, including assault with a dangerous weapon and with serious bodily injury, violation of civil rights and obstruction of justice. All their convictions, except obstruction of justice, were upheld on appeal.

MLG says his radio reporters are saying they could be out by tomorrow.  

I say they start their own security company:  Shoot You In The Ass, Inc.  When your government is too much of a fucking pussy, we’ll be there.

This is the only reason I sometimes fret over carrying a Walther PPK as my personal carry piece:

The suspects ran across the street, and police said they found one man hiding behind a dumpster. The man had been shot in the leg but didn’t know it.

But that’s why I plan on shooting the fucker in the FACE instead.

Via Gun Defense Blog

Updated to add:  Sent MLG out on his lunch break to acquire his pleasure in hydrashocks.  Yes, something we should have done already.

I suppose it is naive of me to expect more from someone simply because they wear a uniform, but hellfire and damnation, can someone explain to me what the entire fuck happened to common sense?

Alandis’ gun was a “cap gun,” a toy cowboy six-shooter that his mother bought for him.

“We got it from Wal-Mart for $5.96,” Tosha Ford said, “in the toy section right next to the cowboy hats. That’s what he wanted because it was just like the ones he was studying for the Civil War” in his fifth-grade class at Fairview Elementary School.

“It kind of reminded me of the [soldiers'] guns that I was studying,” Alandis said, “because I had brought pictures home of the gun and stuff, and that gun that I had reminded me of the revolver” depicted in his textbook.

Tosha said that Wednesday afternoon, after school, “six police officers actually rushed into the door” of their home. “He [Alandis] opened the door because they’re police. And then they just kind of pushed him out of the way, and asked him, ‘Well where’s the gun, where’s the real gun?’ And they called him a liar… they booked him, and they fingerprinted him.”

There’s more, of course, the “terrorist” incidents spanning two days, wherein little 10 year old Whasisname established a climate of fear and domination over the entire neighborhood.  Little girls dressed in bikinis brought him peanut butter sandwiches and icy cold milk, boys gave him their prized Pokemon card collections and their bicycles in tribute, and all the while King Alandis, supreme ruler of Elm Street, waved about his plastic Wal-Mart pistol, telling them they’d all most likely be dead by morning.

Wait…what?  That’s NOT actually what happened?  But…he was arrested!  Printed!  Charged with terroristic acts and threats!  Surely he is a thug, a hoodlum, an evil, manipulative criminal mastermind!!!

No?  Just a 10 year old kid?  Surrounded by other 10 year old kids, all of whom pretty much exist to fuck with each other?

Nah, couldn’t be that.  The little bastard is a terrorist, so let’s make sure we blow the incidient all out of proportion to reality, make national headlines, mouth platitudes designed to cover our asses, and otherwise all look like complete fucking jackasses.  WIN!

This surprises who exactly?

An official says Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been arrested in Chicago on corruption charges stemming from the selection of the successor to President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat.

U.S. Attorney’s office spokesman Randall Samborn says both Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested Tuesday. Authorities aren’t yet releasing details about those charges. However, a federal law enforcement official tells The Associated Press the governor is accused of corruption charges. The official says the charges stem from the selection process of a successor to Obama.

That – along with all the past incidents MLG is relating to me via text message – just makes me giggle like a little girl.  

Go on, Rod, ask Daddy for a pardon.

*Prophetic enough to rate its own tag, I think.

I’m not so hardcore as Rachel, posting that video – THE VIDEO I STILL REFUSE TO WATCH – but I will bust out some LG-stylee hate on this sonofabitch:

A Sheboygan woman has been cited for animal neglect after leaving her overweight dog outdoors in single-digit temperatures, where it froze to a sidewalk but survived.

Shelter workers say 120-pound Jiffy was left in frigid weather last week but the “morbidly obese” border collie was protected by layers of insulating fat.

What in the name of little baby ducks are you doing letting your poor goggie get that far over weight?  Let me guess…the dog’s your eating partner, and every time you have a nibble it makes you feel better about your shitty life if Jiffy – conveniently named for your third favorite snack – has a nibble, too.  

Has it never occurred to you that dragging Jiffy’s fat ass around the block would also benefit your own fat ass?  That your goggie would be much happier if she could actually, maybe, walk on her own?  

Ok, ok, maybe you’re disabled and you can’t walk the goggie.  Here’s a novel idea:  FEED HER LESS. 

I swear it’s like I have to do everything for you.

Extra special bonus pic of Liberty Dog himself, aka. Best Dog Ever:

Don’t ask me what he is – some Lab, some Basset Hound, maybe even some Chow with that tongue.  Great disposition, equally willing to play or curl up in your lap.  At 70lbs, he doesn’t care that he’s rather too large and pointy for that last activity, he’s totally 100% there anyway.

It’s about to be a very busy day here at Liberty House, but while I enjoy my morning cuppa joe, here’s one more reason to wonder why we tolerate the existing state of the public school system:

A white social studies teacher attempted to enliven a seventh-grade discussion of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black girls, prompting outrage from one girl’s mother and the local chapter of the NAACP.

Now why is it you think this stupid fucking cow only bound the hands and feet of the black girls and not EVERYONE’S hands and feet?  Because she’s a sadistic bitch, yes.

If you wanted to deliver a truly effective lesson on slavery, then you tie everyone up…but you’d STILL be a sadistic bitch.  

Honestly, in what kind of echo chamber are these people being trained that she had not one thought, not even the tiniest inkling, that this might be A Bad Idea?  Sure, kids that age are basically higher-functioning animals with abysmal taste, but you just don’t do something like that.  

Speaking of bitches, their Queen here needs to take the fuckin’ hint and maybe actually sew her mouth shut.

 

Natalie Maines, the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, is being sued for defamation for statements she made at a rally in 2007 about the murders of three young boys.

A complaint was filed November 25 by Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of three 8-year old boys murdered in 1993.

His complaint says Maines wrongfully made a “false and reckless claim that [Hobbs] committed the murders of the three boys.”

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Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin were convicted of the murders in 1994.

 

Oops.  I guess you aren’t really all that misunderstood at all, are you.  

Here’s the video slideshow, with bonus not-used-to-speaking-in-public news conference voiceover, for the arrest of that sack of ass rampaging through Plant City yesterday.  I have to say, I’m very disappointed this didn’t end in the discharge of about 250 peace officer sidearms.