Whatta Maroon

NYC bomb suspect nabbed aboard Dubai-bound plane

NEW YORK – A U.S. citizen who had recently returned from a five-month trip to his native Pakistan, where he had a wife, was arrested at a New York airport on charges that he drove a bomb-laden SUV meant to cause a fireball in Times Square, federal authorities said.
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You know, this dude is a fucking idiot. All the hell he is, is a wanna-be terrorist who couldn't find his asshole with two hands and a funnel.

Fireworks for a primer? Propane and gas tanks for a bomb?

Good gawd. A boy scout could have done a better job of causing trouble. If this idiot would have made it to Dubai, he would have been the laughing stock of the entire sandbox.



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You Go Dude!

Homeowner charged in shooting of 2 men leaving in car

North Las Vegas Police have arrested a man accused of firing at two men outside his home leaving in a vehicle Sunday morning in North Las Vegas, critically injuring both of them.
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Both men were struck by gunfire before crashing into the brick wall less than a block away, police said.

Officers found one shooting victim inside the vehicle. The second man, who also had been shot, was laying near the collision. Both men were taken to University Medical Center's trauma unit in critical condition, police said.
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Yeah, I know. You ain't supposed to shoot someone when your life isn't in immediate danger. But they were trying to steal his truck and he was protecting his property. So fuck the law on this one. I'm glad he did what he did. Maybe other bad guys will think twice before trying to steal other people's shit.



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S.S.N. Scam

Las Vegas federal building shootout leaves 2 dead

LAS VEGAS - Nearly four months after a judge dismissed his lawsuit over Social Security benefits, 66-year-old Johnny Lee Wicks opened fire with a shotgun in a Las Vegas federal building, killing one security guard and wounding a U.S. marshal before being shot to death, authorities said.
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The word is that the government cut his Social Security benefits. He filed a discrimination complaint with the government accusing them of cutting his benefits because he was black. They denied his claim so he got pissed. He set fire to his apartment, then took his shotgun down to the federal court building and opened fire on whoever happened to be available.

Just goes to show, you don't fuck with someone's money. Take the house, the car, the wife, but don't take the money. If you have money, you can get a new house, a new car, and a new wife.


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Score one For The Good Guys And The Constitution!

WOOHOO!!!

Citizens can challenge state, local gun laws

(04-20) 19:10 PDT San Francisco -- A federal appeals court ruled Monday that private citizens can challenge state and local gun laws by invoking the constitutional right to bear arms - the first such ruling in the nation - but upheld a ban on firearms at gun shows at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.
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The decision by the way, was 3-0.

While a few sections of the Bill of Rights apply only to the federal government, amendments that protect fundamental rights - including the Second Amendment - can be enforced against the states, said Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain in the 3-0 decision.

"The right to bear arms is deeply rooted in the history and tradition of the republic," O'Scannlain said, citing selected passages from speeches and writings during the colonial and post-Revolutionary War period and the years leading up to the Civil War. "It is a means to protect the public from tyranny" as well as "to protect the individual from threats to life or limb."

Judge Ronald Gould, in a separate opinion, pictured a gun-wielding citizenry defending 21st century America against invaders or terrorists.

"That we have a lawfully armed populace adds a measure of security for all of us and makes it less likely that a band of terrorists could make headway in an attack on any community before more professional forces arrived," he said.

Hard to fathom that there are actually 3 intelligent people in San Fran, but I'm sure as hell glad there are.

X-post here:


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I Heart Ann Coulter

Go read her latest column. It's basically what I say on a regular basis, only more eloquent:

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It's something in liberals' DNA: They think they can pass a law eliminating guns and nuclear weapons, but teenagers having sex is completely beyond our control.

The demand for more gun control in response to any crime involving a gun is exactly like Obama's response to North Korea's openly belligerent act of launching a long-range missile this week: Obama leapt to action by calling for worldwide nuclear disarmament.

If the SAT test were used to determine how stupid a liberal is, one question would be: "The best defense against lawless rogues who possess _______ is for law-abiding individuals to surrender their own _______________."

Correct answer: Guns. We would also have accepted nuclear weapons.

Obama explained that "the United States has a moral responsibility" to lead disarmament efforts because America is "the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon."
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Pic stolen from The Hermit.

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Justice

UPDATE: Pizza shop owner describes robbery, shooting
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[John] Hayes, 37, was behind the counter Tuesday night when 20-year-old Patrick Finney, wearing an orange ski mask, walked in and pointed a sawed-off shotgun at his head just before 8 p.m.

A customer, an older woman from the neighborhood, was seated at the counter watching the Cavaliers game while waiting for a stromboli.

''He said, 'Give me the [expletive] money. This is an [expletive] robbery,'' Hayes said.

Hayes cooperated, giving the robber a stack of $10 bills. The robber wanted more and pointed the shotgun within inches of Hayes' head, he said.

''As soon as I gave him the money, I pulled my gun out from my hip, pointed it and fired four shots,'' Hayes said.

Finney fell to the floor, then stood back up. Hayes fired three more shots from his Smith & Wesson 9 mm pistol. Finney staggered outside and collapsed across the street. The cash he sought was dropped outside.

Hayes then called 911.
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Good for you, Hayes. Serves the fucker right.

Akron police are investigating the shooting, but there is no indication that Hayes, who has been questioned by investigators, acted unlawfully. It was the fourth robbery at the shop since 2007.

As well it should be.


Hat tip to my latest addition to the blogroll, Frenemy.


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Stupendous Stupidity

DA: Criminal charges possible in boy's Uzi death

BOSTON – A prosecutor said Tuesday he is investigating whether criminal charges should be filed after an 8-year-old boy accidentally killed himself while firing an Uzi submachine gun at a gun fair in western Massachusetts.
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I agree. There should be criminal charges filed.
Not against the expo, not against the sportsman's club, not against the gun owner, but against the father. He should have had better judgment than to let his inexperienced kid shoot a gun when he wasn't big enough to handle it. If nothing else, he should have helped the kid hold it. It's his own stupid fucking fault.

Helluva firearms safety lesson there, pops.




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Fat Fucker Finale

Ohio executes inmate who argued was too fat to die

AP - 9 minutes ago

LUCASVILLE, Ohio - Ohio has executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane.
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Well it's about time.

Inhumane indeed. Lard ass definitely deserved what he got after his treatment of these people:

Cooey and a co-defendant were convicted in the sexual assaults and slayings of University of Akron students Dawn McCreery, 20, and Wendy Offredo, 21, in September 1986. His co-defendant was 17 and was sentenced to life in prison because of his age.

Too bad it took 20 fucking years to kill the bastard.



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All You Need To Know

I 'borrowed' this picture from The Hermit:




Too bad some have already forgotten that lesson.



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Spam Subject Of The Day

"Muy Caliente Latina"

Great. Now I'm getting spammed by illegals too?




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What THEE Fuck?

This is scary:

Animal-human embryos need human rights, bishops say

1 hour, 2 minutes ago

LONDON (Reuters) - Hybrid animal-human embryos created for medical research should be viewed as human and permitted to develop into children, Roman Catholic bishops have urged the British parliament.
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No, rather people participating in these experiments should be shot. That is just fucking disgusting.

If people were meant to be cross-bred with animals whether it be in a test tube or in the barnyard, our physiology would have been designed just a bit differently.

This sort of experimentation can only amount to a Pandora's Box of unknown ills ready to release all sorts of unknown mutations or crippling side effects both physical or mental. These morons could quite possibly create more damage to the human race than any cures they could come up with. You just shouldn't fuck with mother nature that way.

Think about it. The Nazis were doing the same shit only a few years back.




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Pooty Poot Putin

Putin says missile test response to U.S. moves
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"Our American partners have left the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) Treaty. We have warned them then that we will come out with a response to maintain the strategic balance in the world," Putin told a news conference.
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Uh, I must have missed something here. I didn't realize we had left the treaty.

Last i knew, Billy-Ray-Joe-Bob was living in a decommissioned missile silo out in the middle of bum-fuck Oklahoma. What happened? Did we kick him out so we could stack a nuke in his living room?



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Spam Subject Of The Day

"I or opposite"

Be or be to not. Question that is.





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Fuckers

3 at Yale accused of burning U.S. flag

Wed Apr 4, 9:01 AM ET

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Three Yale University students, one a U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, were arrested on charges of setting fire to an American flag hanging outside a home.
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Huh? Whuzzat? Areested for burning a flag?
What's that about? I thought it wasn't illegal to burn a flag. Freedom of speech, expression, blah blah blah.

...were arrested early Tuesday on charges ranging from reckless endangerment to arson, police said.

[giggle] Arrest them for reckless endangerment and arson! I love it!

Hey, whatever works.




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Ahhh.., Spring Is In The Air

At least around here.

The flowers are blooming, the trees are getting their leaves, and gas prices are shooting up again akin to the last couple summers.

Yes, we'll be seeing more of the same shit. $3-plus per gallon, the cute little .jpgs with "Arm, Leg, First-born" for the prices on the gas station sign, "It's all Bush's fault" scattered around blogs.

But yet, supply and demand - that's what drives it. People use more gas during the summer taking trips, and as long as oil companies can get that much per gallon of gas they're going to charge it.

It's already up to $2.81 in my little burg, how about you?




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Bah

Al Qaeda suspect admits organizing 9/11

Wed Mar 14, 11:27 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has claimed he organized the September 11 attacks on the United States and a string of others, according to the transcript of a military hearing at the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, released on Wednesday.
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Hard to say. Maybe he had something to do with it, maybe he had everything to do with it. Then again, maybe he had nothing to do with it.
Maybe, just maybe - he swung a deal with all his buddies to confess so they could get set free to do more damage.

But nevertheless, I'm glad we've kept them there this long. Let's keep them around a little longer and see what else we can come up with.




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Another One Bites The Dust

Back in November I wrote about the Stardust going the way of most older casinos here in town.
Well, they blew the fucker all to hell Monday night.

Go here and take a look at the pictures.

Sorta sad. Not only are we losing all the old-school casinos to the new 'mega-resorts', I did a stint as a bus boy there once when I was hard up for a job.





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