Reason 1,254,988

Friday 28 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Schools having kids arrested for a doodling of a glove on fire.

When a 16-year-old New Jersey boy doodled in his notebook on Tuesday, December 18, he probably didn’t expect to be arrested by the end of the day. However, when school officials saw the sketches, which they state appeared to be of weapons, and the boy “demonstrated behavior that caused them to be concerned,” the police were called.

The boy was arrested after the cops searched his home and found some electronic parts. But here’s the kicker:

School district superintendent Steve Ciccariello stated that he would not expect violent behavior from the student. Further, Galloway Township Police Chief Pat Moran recognized that “There was no indication he was making a bomb, or using a bomb or detonating a bomb.” Despite all this, the boy was arrested — all because he doodled in his notebook.

America is in full blown pants shitting mode. Every finger pointed is a potential gun. Every reference to a blow job is a potential bombing.

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Intentions

Friday 28 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Not intending hard enough is the meaning of “ineffective” to those who value only intentions.

As 2012 comes to a close, the 112th Congress is set to go down in American history as the most unproductive session since the 1940s.

According to a Huffington Post review of all the bills that hit President Barack Obama’s desk this session, Obama has signed 219 bills passed by the 112th Congress into law. With less than a week to go in the year, there are currently another 20 bills pending presidential action. In comparison, the last Congress passed 383 bills, while the one before it passed 460.

Quantifying the effectiveness of Congress by the number of bills it passes without regard to the actual results of said bills is depraved. Congress just passed a renewal of FISA without a single change despite very vocal opposition to the warrantless wiretapping provision which denies the American people any semblance of oversight on government spy programs. To the perverse minds that think the sheer number of bills passed is what defines the effectiveness of congress, this bill is a win. Fuck them.

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Reason 1,254,987

Friday 28 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Schools having children arrested, charged, and suspended for making the shape of a gun. With his hand.

State police investigated a report of a 13-year-old Tamaqua Middle School seventh grade student who made a gesture with his fingers in reference to a gun while pointing at fellow students.

It’s been less than a week since the shooting of 28 people, including 20 first and second grade children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and authorities aren’t hesitating to take action.

Police said the boy will be charged with disorderly conduct and will be suspended from school.

I’d argue that the school is the one engaging in “disorderly conduct.”

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If You’re Serious

Friday 21 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

If you’re serious about curbing gun violence, there is something for which you can advocate. No, it isn’t more stringent gun control laws, or “assault weapon” bans, or more mental health screening, or posting armed cops in every school, or censoring violence in the media, or any of the other knee jerk nonsense spouted by both liberal gun control, rights abridging statists or conservative, first amendment bashing statists.

The answer is to end the drug war. Government prohibition is the problem, not guns.

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I Love Twitter

Wednesday 19 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Miguel Bloombito:

Uno Ringo to que rule todos all,
Uno Ringo to que findo them,
Uno Ringo to bringo todos all
Y en el darko stop y frisko them

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Minimizing Mass Murders

Tuesday 18 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Get rid of the media, not guns. The Telegraph:

But in general, when we think of US firearm violence, we don’t think of domestic shootings or robberies-gone-wrong, even though they make up far, far more of the steady background crackle of gunfire in the States. We think of the high-profile but low-incidence cases of a lone, disturbed man or teenage boy walking into a school or college or place of work and opening fire on strangers.

The reason we think of that is the psychological shortcut called the “availability heuristic”, which I’ve written about before. When asked how likely something is to happen, we don’t answer with our knowledge of statistics: instead, we substitute the answer to a much easier question, “How easily can I think of an example?”. With school shootings, or terror attacks, we can of course think very easily of examples, because they are awful and thus memorable, and because, of course, they are saturated across the news. Just as with terror attacks, the social response to mass killings – metal detectors in school doorways, class in-the-event-of-a-shooting drills, like fire drills, for children – is disproportionate to the actual risk, and in a sick way represents a victory for the murderers.

It’s probably a good idea to rid ourselves of the legacy media as a general principle anyways.

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The Numbers

Sunday 16 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

We need to look at objective reality by the numbers, not what we want to believe.

Even before Portland and Newtown, we saw a former student kill seven people at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif. We saw gunmen in Seattle and Minneapolis each kill five people and then themselves. We saw the midnight premiere of ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises’’ at a theater in Aurora, Colo., devolve into a bloodbath, as 12 people died and 58 were wounded; 24-year-old James Holmes was arrested outside.

And yet those who study mass shootings say they are not becoming more common.

‘‘There is no pattern, there is no increase,’’ says criminologist James Allen Fox of Boston’s Northeastern University, who has been studying the subject since the 1980s, spurred by a rash of mass shootings in post offices.

[. . .]

Grant Duwe, a criminologist with the Minnesota Department of Corrections who has written a history of mass murders in America, said that while mass shootings rose between the 1960s and the 1990s, they actually dropped in the 2000s. And mass killings actually reached their peak in 1929, according to his data. He estimates that there were 32 in the 1980s, 42 in the 1990s and 26 in the first decade of the century.

Chances of being killed in a mass shooting, he says, are probably no greater than being struck by lightning.

Something tells me that the “reality based” party of “science” will completely disregard objective reality, however, in their zeal to curtail the rights of others so that they might feel like they’ve Done Something.

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A Peek

Saturday 15 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

A peek under the mask of Women’s Health™:

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), whose name is often mentioned as a potential 2016 presidential candidate, penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that calls for contraception to be made available over-the-counter.

If women could buy birth control without a prescription, he argues, employers would not have to pay for it against their moral objections, and Democrats could no longer accuse Republicans of being anti-birth control.

[. . .]

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently came to the same conclusion: that birth control is safe enough that it should not require a prescription. However, making contraception available over the counter would require women to pay for it out of pocket, whereas the Affordable Care Act currently requires that it be covered under most insurance plans with no co-pay.

The feminist horde cares not about having safe, easy, red-tape-less, cheap access to birth control pills available at every pharmacy and grocery store in the country without also having to incur the cost of a doctor: they want others to pay for their lifestyle choices.

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Race and Politics

Friday 14 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

I wasn’t aware that not subscribing to thought pre-approved for you was a sign that you couldn’t be black (enough). Robert Parker on RGIII:

I’ve talked to some people in Washington, D.C. Some people in [Griffin’s] press conferences. Some people I’ve known for a long time. My question, which is just a straight, honest question, is … is he a ‘brother,’ or is he a cornball ‘brother?’ He’s not really … he’s black, but he’s not really down with the cause. He’s not one of us. He’s kind of black, but he’s not really like the guy you’d want to hang out with. I just want to find out about him. I don’t know, because I keep hearing these things. He has a white fiancé, people talking about that he’s a Republican … there’s no information at all. I’m just trying to dig deeper into why he has an issue.

Oh, wait. Yes I am.

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Consensus

Friday 7 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

How do you form a global consensus? Forcibly evict all who disagree.

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