Haiti is falling apart. Again. Actually, of course, it never was together. Been a mess since independence. Unlike most places that emerged from colonial domination, Haiti immediately massacred the entire colonial ruling class. So, the founders of the nation really had no clue how to go about it. All else seems to stem from that. You totally understand why they rebelled and why they hated their white overlords…but they also sabotaged themselves.
Not sure what can be done – colonial overlordship is the obvious solution, but who would take on the job? The Haitians would start taking shots at you even if you were trying to improve things. There also just isn’t much to work with. No significant natural resources. Population is badly educated. They do have the island climate and beautiful beaches so tourism is an obvious thing but there are also other places with just as nice beaches that don’t periodically descend into savagery. Just really bad and really sad. Naturally, we’ve pledged more than $100 million in additional funding…for just what, I can’t say. There is no government in the country.
Speaking of descent into savagery, all of Oakland’s Taco Bell’s are converting to cashless operations only via drive through. The reason is the incessant robberies. This might only be a band aid. We’ve already seen plenty of other businesses go under in the Bay Area simply because crime is out of control. OTOH, San Francisco just enacted via referendum two “law and order” measures…not much (drug tests for welfare bums, restoring some powers to the police) but at least a step…and an indication that even in the Progressive citadels, there’s a limit. As I’ve said, civilization is a veneer – and a very thin one, at that. You only keep it by firmly upholding it. You can’t really let people do whatever they want; there have to be rules, strictly enforced.
The Pittsburg Police will not have any officers in police stations between 3 and 7 am and only have limited numbers of officers on patrol. The reason? Well, they only get 8 percent of their calls during that time.
Until now.
Just watch: they’ve opened up a Window O’ Crime…the crooks will know when it will be easiest to get away and that’s when they’ll strike. Watch, especially, for home invasions to increase.
Dungeons and Dragons was a game played by nerds when I was a kid. I tried it a few times but I thought the premise ridiculous and never got into it. But a lot of people loved it. Naturally, the Woke have taken it over and are determined to turn it into something that nobody will like. Not sure how they’ll ruin it, but they will. After all, the game is fantasy and everyone is allowed to insert their own desires into their character (because, you know, they’re made up) but I’m guessing there will be some rules about the gender and race make up of characters or some insistence that certain types of characters be of certain genders, orientations and skin colors. Because the whole point of the game isn’t to go on an adventure but to make sure all boxes are checked off…
Team Trump is now fully in control of the RNC – with Trump’s daughter as co-chair. Oddly, this is probably the means whereby the RNC is saved. Donations have been plummeting as the GOP Base has tended to see the RNC as a tool of the GOP Establishment. And there is much truth in that assumption…the strategy and spending of the RNC is so incompetent that you do wonder if it was deliberate sabotage. We won the 2022 Ohio Senate election by more than 250,000 votes – the GOP poured money into this race while starving the Arizona gubernatorial and Nevada Senate races of funds; races which were lost by 17,000 and 8,000 votes, respectively. Don’t tell me the money and number-crunch guys didn’t see this coming. Or, if they didn’t, then they are so incompetent that it doesn’t matter if it wasn’t treason as it might as well be.
Look to the new RNC leadership to clean house and then for Team Trump and the RNC to go on a fundraising blitz…which will probably rake in money as the Trumpsters will open up for the RNC now that it is in loyal hands.
UPDATE: Checking in on the Left, this is from a HuffPo editor.
They are such sad people – but it shows they really believe the drivel.
Blogs For Victory 
Ronna Romney McDaniel was a bigger disaster than I had thought. It’s obvious now that she did not want Trump to win in 2020 and did everything in her power to keep him from running again. And I think this has been one of the GOP’s biggest obstacles the last few election cycles. We were being sabotaged from within. And it wasn’t just Ronna, we can include McConnell in the Senate and many State level GOP officials including Jeff DeWitt, the AZ GOP chair who tried to bribe Kari Lake. My hope is the new RNC leadership continues to clean house and go on the offense … day 1 was a good start
Lara Trump, recently elected co-chair of the Republican National Committee, said the GOP must use “legal ballot harvesting” to stay competitive against Democrats ahead of November. “We’ve been playing checkers, and the Democrats have been playing chess,” Trump, daughter-in-law to former President Trump, said in a recent interview with the Washington Examiner. “Unfortunately, we don’t have one day of voting, we don’t have paper ballots, we don’t have voter ID everywhere. So we have to play the hand that we’re dealt.”
She emphasized the importance of early voting and mail-in voting where possible.
“That way, we have votes banked as we head into Election Day, and we’re not playing catchup on Nov. 5 with the Democrats,” she said.
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“We need to be doing legal ballot harvesting – something that has never been done by the RNC, but I can promise you will be a huge part of what we’re planning to do,” Lara Trump told the Examiner. “And then come Election Day, and you’ll see that, I think, it’s not just about having poll watchers. It’s about having trained poll watchers and lawyers at locations around the country as necessary. And these are people who will be trained and able to physically count how many ballots are coming in. And how many ballots are going out.”
… it’s not just about having poll watchers. It’s about having trained poll watchers and lawyers at locations around the country as necessary. And these are people who will be trained and able to physically count how many ballots are coming in. And how many ballots are going out.”
FINALLY! Now I want to hear about surveillance of drop boxes, and rules on when they are open, etc.
I would prefer with noted exceptions (military, out of country, and those house bound) that there is a single day of voting in-person and even make it a paid day off for those that are working. Those excepted would have to ask for a ballot and it would have a chain of custody. Of course it would require a valid ID and transportation could be provided.
None of this mail in BS in part because most states can’t or won’t keep their voter rolls in order. Then again I have another pair of fantasies being one item per bill with an up or down vote on the record and since I am thinking of going RV full time how I can meet all of the requirements being a US citizen without having to pledge my loyalty to an individual state.
Totally with you on the one-day in-person voting, with valid reasons for requesting absentee ballots and, as you say, chain of custody.
I’ve been pushing for single-issue bills for years, and I would add to your qualifications that they be limited in length, written by their sponsors, and that no one who has not read the bill can vote on it.
You point out an interesting conundrum, regarding your intended nomadic state. I guess, though, that you have to declare a home state if you are going to file tax returns and have a bank account, so that could be your “home state” (with personal reservations, if necessary, regarding “loyalty”) and apply for absentee ballots. Surely every four years you could figure out a way to be in a certain place to either vote or pick up a ballot.
Just as an update I have learned a lot about residence and domicile. It appears to all of the “wanders” there are three preferred options to record domicile. Texas (have friends there), Florida (have friends and family there) and South Dakota (Sturgis, but don’t really remember much-kinda fuzzy).
Well, none of those three have a state income tax, which might be nice, but if Sturgis is kinda fuzzy you might want to skip SoDak in case your picture is on a post office wall. I’d go with Texas because you can get there on your way from one place to another, whereas for most of Florida that’s where you intend to go and then you have to turn around and go back.
John Barnett, a whistleblower who had been involved in a lawsuit against Boeing, died of an apparent suicide, according to officials in South Carolina.
I wonder if his gunshot wound to the head was to the back of the head, and if the gun is mysteriously missing. You gotta admit, this looks fishy. He was due to testify against Boeing later in the day.
After all, he had already gone public, he’d already burned his Boeing bridges behind him. It seems like an odd time to just check out.
…embraced the theory that quality is overhead and non-value-added.
That is DEI in action right there.
I was just reading this story and it’s reminiscent of Seth Rich. Another whistle blower who just happened to turn up dead
Maybe we should check to see if the Clintons hold a lot of Boeing stock 😉
So there was a big conservative win yesterday that’s going unnoticed. Deadspin, the leftist media outlet, is no longer. Bought out and the entire staff was fired. You might remember it was Deadspin that called the little Kansas City Chief fan a racist for wearing an Indian headdress and painted face to cheer on his team. Turns out the little boy was just a football fan and not part of some larger MAGA racist conspiracy. Weird right? Well, that attempt by Deadspin to malign the young boys character has now cost all of them their careers. And this wasn’t Deadspin’s first foray into maligning young children … remember Nicolas Sandmann? They attacked him too … but now they are no more, happy Tuesday
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/deadspin-s-entire-staff-has-been-laid-off-after-the-sports-site-was-sold-to-a-startup/ar-BB1jIe16
Speaking of being sabotaged within … Liz Cheney needs to be prosecuted
Fani Willis Conspired with Liz Cheney’s Faux J6 Committee – J6 Committee Shared Video Recordings with Fani Willis But Then Deleted the Video to Prevent Republican Lawmakers from Gaining Access To It
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/new-report-fani-willis-conspired-liz-cheneys-faux/
If it’s against the law to lie to the committee (and I don’t know if it is, unless under oath) then it should be against the law for the committee to lie.
Congress is protected on that – nothing said in Congress can be questioned elsewhere. Only the houses, themselves, can discipline a member of Congress for things said in Congress. I don’t know if this has been tested on lying during a committee hearing but if it hasn’t, I’ll bet the Courts rule that it counts as the floor of Congress.
But you wonder: could there be a mechanism for civil penalties once a person leaves Congress?
Sauce for goose/sauce for gander rule: If there is no immunity for actions taken by a president in the execution of his office, there is no immunity for actions taken by a member of Congress in the execution of Congressional business.
See what I did there? A Dem would still be trying to figure it out……….
Yep; and they will eventually figure it out.
Jesse Kelly has one thing very right: the Democrats are fighting Nazis. We’re fighting Liberals. It is why we lose: they see us as evil to be destroyed, we see them as people who just need to hear a better argument.
I know all of us hoped that Trump had learned some valuable lessons about who to trust. Looks like he’s not quite there yet.
Sometimes you just wanna shake him till his pants fray………
Trump needs to listen Rand Paul more often
Everybody needs to listen to Rand Paul more often
Bidenomics is working …. the Democrat identity based coalition is fracturing and the economy and foreign policy are disasters, there is just no way they can win unless they cheat again.
Consumer prices rose 0.4% in February and 3.2% from a year ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/cpi-inflation-report-february-2024-.html
Unemployment is also back up to 3.9% and I’d bet going higher with all the Fortune 500 layoffs that have been announced. Hopefully it’ll crater right before the election.
Something I hope will be publicized and emphasized during the campaign is that so many of the “new jobs” touted by the Left are government jobs. If you can create a job and essentially bribe someone with it to get votes that’s a pretty sweet scam, and no one is reporting on it.
And the vast majority of the ones that are NOT government jobs are part-time. Full-time private sector jobs have dropped dramatically since last June.
re: part-time jobs. Sometimes when you start peeling the onion to get to the core of the problem you find yourself looking at a different problem. Take part-time workers for example. Businesses don’t want full time people because they are then saddled with so many requirements for benefits that it is counter-productive. If they can hire three part-timers to do what two full-timers would do, and not have to pay for insurance, for example, it makes sense to do things that way.
One thing that we could do (getting back to that ‘finding a different issue’ thing) is change our insurance laws and thinking, and disassociating health insurance from employers. Open insurance so policies can be sold nationwide, thereby expanding risk pools and decreasing risk/costs, and promote the concept of buying health insurance when very young, when it is cheap, and keeping it throughout different occupations and residences. This would eliminate nearly all of the pre-existing conditions problems, as most conditions affecting insurance eligibility develop over time and if the person has had a policy already in place it’s not something that would make it hard to be insured.
When health insurance is untethered from employment it decreases the burden on companies, and makes it easier for them to hire full time employees.
Eliminate income tax and replace it with the consumption tax of the Fair Tax, relieving companies of a lot of their accounting headaches and costs. Get rid of a lot of the social engineering policies that hamper hiring and employment. Basically, get back to the model of “This is the job I have and this is what it entails. Can you do it? Do you want to do it? Great—this is what it pays.” Get business out of the nanny state mentality and stop inserting race and gender issues. Those are personal, and not the business of corporations. And get rid of these insane minimum wage laws, which are costing jobs needed by less-skilled people who are also the ones least able to bear the burden of the resulting higher costs of products and services.
Let me find the link but according to the Bureau of Labor almost all of the “new” jobs Biden champions are or have been to legal immigrants/illegal invaders. Being an old white person now unemployed for almost a year I can attest to what I have faced. I really don’t like it and it makes me grumpy.
I am going back to watch all of the South Park and Simpsons episodes just so can prepare for what is coming.
BTW, I have no issue with legal immigrants as they help us as a country but I really wish one could name a benefit of the illegals.
I think anyone who comes here should be able to answer the simple question: Do you want to be an American?
(Of course that would disqualify most Democrats…)
Looks like Colorado Rep. Ken buck is giving his constituents the finger one last time by resigning in the middle of his term, leaving the GOP with a one-seat majority in the House. Good riddance, though.
Yeah, Ken is making it clear that he’s taking advantage of his last shot at screwing the party and everyone who voted for him, evidently because we dissed his BFF Liz and don’t share his TDS. what a petty little a-hole. Polis has to set a special election to replace him and it can’t be within 90 days of the general so it will be this summer, probably as late as possible to maintain that thin margin.
A U.S. Representative from Florida organizes the rescue of Americans from Haiti. A U.S. Representative from Colorado has a hissy fit because no one pays any attention to his Trump obsession so stomps off in a huff, trying to do as much damage to what he used to claim was his party in the process.
It’s just another example of the differences between Florida and Colorado. (Well, that and snow.) (And quality of governors.)
We really ARE living in the Twilight Zone.
So, he’s a third rate swimmer…can’t even beat the girls! But the trophy must be given to him because Diversity is Our Guy With a Bulge Pretending to be a Woman.
Riley just needs to shave a 100th of a second off her time, and then the point is moot. Sad that it has to be that way.
The thing that surprised me most about Riley’s story was not keeping her off the award stand but the part about the other “trans” swimmer, a woman pretending to be a man so wearing just a Speedo and no covering on the top part of her body. Seriously? If she had breasts, they were just hanging out there?
Just when you think the Left can’t get any dumber, the up and surprise you………….
I do like the amendment to the sexually confused alphabet, though. Instead of “trans” it is now GWAB—Guy With A Bulge.
(And according to some of the real girls on the team, that bulge would often grow as “Lia” watched them undress. Soooo creepy.)
This whole “diversity” theme is ridiculous. We are just supposed to go along with the claim that “Diversity is Good”. Why? Certainly in some contexts it can be beneficial to be exposed to different cultures and ways of thinking, but diversity for diversity’s sake is stupid. What if you have a complex problem to solve and you arbitrarily staff the department assigned to solving it based on “diversity”? So you end up with a few Western Civilization types who function on principles of efficiency, punctuality, attention to detail and meritocracy, some with a cultural background that has never prioritized any of these things even if the individuals might have the right credentials and a couple whose personal backgrounds include conviction that commitment to these principles would mean a violation of their cultural heritage (“acting white”). How, exactly, would “diversity” make this a more productive group or get the problem resolved faster or better?
Drop a large contingent of people with a cultural history of tribalism—-blind allegiance to a certain demographic based on heritage, skin color or any other artifact—into a population tasked with electing the best, most competent and trustworthy leadership. How is the division of votes among those who vote based on understanding and choosing specific governing models and those voting according to tribal loyalties going to lead to better governance?
It’s like that other “conventional wisdom’ canard of “The more people who vote, the better”. It’s simply not supported by fact.
Yep; as with all things, a balance has to be struck. This is difficult and the things to balance can shift over time, but the crucial thing is to not let any one aspect overwhelm all other considerations.
Of course we need voting: the only way to have a government informed of popular desire is to vote. You can’t have a sane government if there is no voting. But, voting can’t be the end in itself. Who votes and what is voted on is crucial. Right now, everyone votes but we’re also strictly limited in what we’re allowed to vote on. This is a bit backwards: who votes should be carefully controlled but what is voted on should be fairly wide open.
Of course we need diversity: trying to obtain a uniformity is impossible and requires far too much coercion. But diversity has been raised to god-like status; as if having a mixed bag is the goal, rather than having a diverse set of backgrounds and interests so we can come up with the best possible solution.
I think true diversity creates itself. Even in a relatively homogenous society—a corporation, a neighborhood, a church—eventually people who don’t quite look or sound like the rest will become part of it, eventually there will be socializing, eventually there will be intermarriage, eventually the better jobs will find qualified applicants from outside the original norm. As long as there are no restrictions on who can join the club or who can rise in the ranks or who can associate with whom, diversity will follow. And this is true diversity, organic diversity not artificially imposed superficial diversity based on quotas and stereotyping.
My rural family is about as white as you can get—-Eastern European and Irish—and nearly all Catholic. Yet within my generation we have had new family members that are black, Mexican and Portuguese, as well as Jewish and Protestant and non-religious. And this from a small and relatively isolated community, and before social media. It just happens, when given the freedom to develop, without artificial restrictions.
As for “the more voters the better” this assumes that sheer numbers will assure a better outcome. Well, if a high percentage of these voters are not involved enough to know the issues at stake, to even understand the core structures of the systems they are voting for, then they are mere fodder, mere human livestock to be harvested for their votes. If people want to vote, if they are motivated enough to get themselves down to a government office to register or even stop by one of the registration outreach kiosks that pop up every election cycle, that’s fine. But if they are handed registration merely because they got a driver’s license and then mailed a ballot even if they never cared enough to request one, why should be consider that vote important?
BUT….if the Left is all about imposing artificial “diversity” I would advocate the opposite—if a lot of people from a certain nation or culture move here they can’t congregate and form little cliques, little sub-nations in which they just live and speak as if they never left their home countries. This has been a downfall of many large cities, including abroad—-look at Paris, look at the Islamic enclaves in England.
So if we are going to take in a lot of people whose cultures clash with ours, they have to be parceled out into the general population, with a kind of reverse quota, so they are forced to live with and mingle with and interact with citizens and our culture and language. So if and when they do become citizens they can’t form ethnic blocs and elect people to Congress or state government who seem them as their true constituents—like Tlaib with her Palestinian flag outside her office in D.C.
Mark Lewis has a great article today, Thomas Jefferson: ‘A True Patriot Will Defend His Country From Its Government’, about the wisdom and writings of Thomas Jefferson, which includes something I really think I might have put on a bumper sticker:
“The course of history shows that as government grows, liberty decreases”
Hopefully this will work but being somewhat off topic but does reflect the kind of government we elect–both sides of the coin in just over 2 minutes.
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1767510473761763725?s=20
IMO, the headline below is ample reason to ban tik tok. Social Media “Influencers” are one of the most destructive forces in modern society. In fact, I honestly can’t think of a single positive thing social media has added to our culture … and this country would be better off without any of it
Outraged American TikTokers hilariously vent their frustration as Senate inches closer to banning the app, with influencers worrying they’ll lose their jobs as creators and be forced to return to dreaded 9-5 jobs
Lots of people find their jobs disappearing. I wonder how much empathy these people have for the petroleum industry people who had their industry ripped out from under them due to radical Leftist politics. People had to close their businesses due to the pandemic panic, and lost everything they had worked to build.
Wahhhh wahhhh wahhhh. Grab a tissue and get over it
According to a recent video I watched regarding Elon Musk’s most recent venture, AI 2.0 – Optimus, which started in 2017 and is projected to make its entrance around May 2024, it was suggested that it a short span of time tens of millions of people will lose their jobs. Those who do not prepare or who are not willing to make adjustments / course corrections in their education & job selections, will find themselves on the sidelines. The effect of this venture is believed by many who are knowledgeable about it, to be more impactful than the tv, the internet, and cell phones… combined. Those are certainly lofty projections but not without reason. The initial scope of this venture combines both a brand-new AI development, far beyond some new computer codes, along with advanced robotics – something along the lines of the movie iRobot. As with any new technological venture, the true impact will likely unfold in ways we haven’t even thought of yet. But make no mistake, many people will lose jobs, many existing industries will fall and new one will rise. Those smart enough to capitalize will become tomorrows millionaires & billionaires. Many others will falter into a financial pit.
Lots of occupations don’t really exist any more. There are very few blacksmiths or saddle makers, for example.
This is such a tragic story, I cried watching it. I’m generally pro-vax and have speculated that it has been the practice of injecting several vaccines at once (to save parents the cost and inconvenience of multiple doctor visits) that has led to the increase in autism. These babies didn’t get multiple shots.
I wonder how they are doing now.
With regard to vaccines;
While in general I understand the value of meds, when the government folded a while back under the threat of big pharma saying they’ll stop making vaccines if they didn’t get near global immunity for most all of their products from lawsuit injuries, then all bets are off. The incentive for closely monitored safety trials went out the door as accountability is whimsical. Just look at the covid jab. I read in a recent article, it caused somewhere around 16 deaths for every person it saved, yet it is still advocated. Not exactly front page news,
These type of headlines are becoming commonplace. What in the hell did Big Pharma and Big Government inject into their citizens?? Thankfully, I’m a pure blood, as they call it
“A 29-year-old pregnant teacher tragically died after collapsing in her classroom just one month before she was due to give birth to her first baby.
Courtney Fannon, a special education teacher at Kendal Central School in upstate New York, was wrapping up her day last Friday.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13199097/Pregnant-upstate-NY-teacher-dies-birth-baby.html
As to being a “pure blood”, unfortunately, shedding – transferring portions of the vaccine components from a vaccinated person to a non-vaccinated person, is believed by many doctors and scientist to be a concern with the covid jab. Non-vaccinated are potentially still at risk.
There are also concerns about blood transfusions for non-vaccinated people. While the powers to be sternly state, “there is NO risk”, you have to dissect what they’re actually saying and NOT saying.
“The vaccines that are available in the U.S. would not pose any risk of infecting either the recipient of the vaccine with the virus that causes COVID-19 or anyone who might receive a blood transfusion from that person, since none of the available vaccines use a live attenuated virus. Rather, they use just a small part of the virus — or provide instructions for cells to make such a fragment — to instruct the immune system on how to recognize it and fight infection.”
So, the claim of safety is predicated on the basis that the vaccine does not use a “live attenuated virus”. But nowhere are the safety concerns about the “small parts of the virus” -OR- all of the many other components like graphene, found in these vaccines, addressed. It’s just a play of words to avoid the appearance of any concerns, while not addressing the whole issue. It is in this way that the covid jab shedding discussions will also be dismissed.
And now on top of worrying about a medical emergency calling for a blood transfusion, those of us who have avoided the jab now have to be aware that it might be in blood given to us, in addition to learning that it might be transferable by merely being around someone who got jabbed.
Boeing’s not having a good month. Now it suddenly can’t provide records of work done on the door that blew off a plane in flight. The video of the work was mysteriously “overwritten” and no one can identify the person who did the work. The whistleblower who was scheduled for more testimony, described by his friends and family as upbeat and looking forward to his testimony, was found dead in his car with a pistol still in his hand.
And at least one member of Congress sold off his Boeing stock the day before “it was announced that the DOJ was investigating Boeing“.
I’m a big ivermectin (IVM) proponent, and was thrilled to see it recommended (by some) as a treatment for Covid. I was appalled by the hysterical headlines claiming it would kill people and disgusted by its dismissal as just a “horse medicine” as it’s been used to treat various issues in humans, and was developed for humans. (If it would kill people then I flirted with death literally dozens of times over the years, as using ivermectin paste to deworm horses always results in having a lot of it smeared on your face, hands and arms as horses spit it out, rub it on you, etc. Treating 50 horses in a day resulted in my wearing about four or five full doses of the stuff.)
When I showed some symptoms of Omicron I called a friend who brought me a vial of liquid IVM and a small syringe. I drew up 2 ML of IVM that night and squirted it into my iced tea, did the same thing the next morning with my coffee, and never had another symptom. When a friend and her son both developed fairly strong Covid symptoms I passed on my IVM to her, and within two days both she and her son were completely fine. The horse professional friend who got me the IVM told me recently that she has two uncles who routinely put a couple of ML of IVM in their coffee every morning, and have done so for years. (Not dead yet.)
I was especially excited to learn, recently, that IVM has been used very successfully to treat many kinds of cancer. When I get back to Colorado for the summer I am going to start a daily IVM program, myself. At an age where I don’t even buy green bananas I know that cancer can be lurking on my horizon, so I figure why not try to limit my exposure if at all possible.
So when I read that a recent Tucker Carlson interview with a doctor discussed IVM I made a point of reading it, and it has some really interesting information.
As I wrote this I got curious about when IVM started to be used as an antimalarial drug and discovered this web site, which discusses the successes of IVM in Covid treatment. Better late than never, I guess.
A local radio host described his recent interaction with “health professionals” when he went in with flu like symptoms the other day. They asked if he wanted a Covid test to which he replied, “do I need it?”. There response was … “not really, our treatment is the same if it’s Covid or just the random variety flu”
So there you have it folks, it was all a scam
French Stars And Wealthy Terrorized In Wave Of Violent Home-jackings
Maybe it’s time for the French to start thinking about the benefits of armed home owners.
A “law enforcement official” in Canada held a press conference yesterday to inform the citizens to just leave their car keys by the front door so the criminals won’t have to break into the home. That’s now the liberal solution to crime …
I was not raised this way so I don’t anything but homicidal contempt for people like this
Well, there is also the tactic of taking car theft off the list of felony crimes, so they can brag that car theft is down 90%. If you don’t call it a crime, it isn’t a crime, is it?
I’d be more in favor of leaving my car keys wired to a 220 outlet. Or a wire attached to a shotgun trigger. You know, something EFFECTIVE, since remote controlled ejection seats would be too expensive.
I knew someone who rigged his expensive new pickup with a battery disconnect switch, cleverly hidden so no one would be likely to find it. I don’t think it was a commercial product, but something like that might make someone a few bucks.
This reminds me of a TV show I saw a few times, it might have been called “Bait Car”, where a car would be left in an area known for car thieves. When the lowlifes stole the car, which was equipped with cameras to record them in the car, they then had to deal with a car that was remote controlled so when it was safe to do so the controller (1) slowed it down and then stopped it, and (2) locked the doors.
Now THOSE were some funny videos!
Something similar happened to the bad guys at the end of the movie Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vanessa Williams.
Well, we could skip the train—if we have good DAs. Otherwise, bring it on!
I agree but make sure “the law” is on your side. This may not be the actual story but rather just another example makes no difference. Mine in from my neighborhood growing up in Miami, Fl. An old Army-Navy store that the owner electrified a grate below the AC unit to stop thieves. I believe he was prosecuted for the “unfortunate” death. Guess it could have been worse if it was an illegal immigrant or is it a “new comer” these days?
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/05/us/merchant-is-held-in-burglar-s-death.html
You’re right. I’ve been told that these kinds of things are “booby traps” and illegal. Too bad. When I was spending a lot of time in Fort Worth and getting my spare tires stolen from my pickup I wanted to wire the rim into my alternator, looking forward to finding strips of caramelized skin hanging off my abandoned spare tire in the morning, and was told it would be illegal. Gratifying, but illegal. (On various business trips to Fort Worth over a two or three year span, just a week or two at a time there, I lost five spare tires, got the truck broken into twice and the whole truck stolen once.)
Does remind me of one of my “ideas” over the years. I had (and might see if I can find another) 66 Chevy Van where you rode over the front tires. I was thinking of painting it bright daisy yellow with dark tinted glass and configuring it so that if anyone broke into it they would be “fried” like the old no-pest strips. I was advised against following my idea even though I offered to pay the cost of clean up to the fine people of of garbage collection who had no issues with it.
I’d be fine with it. Of course I’ve also reached the point of thinking that if one of those people trying to extort me by taking over my computer were to walk into my office I would be quite happy to just shoot him, drag his body out to the Dumpster and get back to work.
My brother used to have a liquor store in a sketchy part of town, which had been robbed a couple of times, and we used to have fun thinking of ways to deal with robbers. He had a practical approach of a concrete counter that was wide, and on the clerk side sloped sharply inward, so a clerk could drop to the floor and roll under it and no one could just lean over and shoot down at him. This would be accompanied by a wall of bullet-proof glass with a window for transactions. My contribution was to frame that window, on the clerk’s side, with a carpet tack strip, so anyone grasping the edges of the window to pull himself through would shred his fingers, and the surprise and pain would give the clerk time to pull the shotgun off the undercounter mount and get ready for Stage 2. Stage 2 had a couple of options: Get into the secure safe room, or make a lot of noise, if you get my drift.
Stage 3 was strongly influenced by the creative element of adult beverages, as it included a reinforced safe room so (if there were no other customers in the store) the doors could be locked and the lights turned off. From here we got into all sorts of fun things to do to Bad Guys trapped in the room: Strobe lights, foul smelling gas pumped in, a recording of a dog growling and the sound of dog toenails on tile, etc. My fallback torture device is always—–opera. Full volume soprano arias.
I think one inspiration for some of this was a video of a guy who broke into a garden-level bank through a street-level window and found that no, they hadn’t just left a lot of money in teller drawers, but who then found out he couldn’t get back out. His escalating panic was really funny, as he ended up weeping and begging to be rescued. There have been a few videos of wannabe robbers trapped in buildings or airlock doors, and they are always a hoot.
Back to your van—-don’t wire it to shock or electrocute, but to shoot at high velocity a mixture of some version of the Israeli stink gas and bank bag permanent dye right at the miscreant’s face. Yes, there would be bodily fluids to clean up, but advance planning including rubber flooring would take care of that. Again, back to the adult beverage aid to creativity, include an automatic locking mechanism. And cameras.
That would be fun. But it wouldn’t have to stop there. After the DA released said miscreant, you could print up a hundred or so posters of the best (funniest) shot of his face while on camera and, armed with some of that unremovable adhesive Traffic Control uses to glue warning stickers onto windshields, post them in said miscreant’s neighborhood with a quiz.
How many times did (insert name here) cry for his mommy while stuck in the car?
(1) ten
(2) a hundred
(3) he’s still doing it
How many times did (insert name here) wet his pants while stuck in the car?
(1) ten
(2) a hundred
(3) he’s still doing it
And so on. The Left really really hates “shaming” but it has its advantages, which might have to include rough justice
Finally, a short phrase to describe those who spend an inordinate amount of time on social media:
Funny.