Glenn Reynolds: “A decentralized offense requires a decentralized defense. And the only people who are always available to respond are the people who are already there.”
Cold, Carson Hands
Newest Shooting Triggers Media Party Playbook
This past evening, in Lafayette, Louisiana, a murderer has reportedly killed at least one person and injured many more.
Media Party journolists [sic] the world over have just opened to Page 1 of their playbook for such circumstances. Here’s the checklist:
- Is the shooter a Muslim? If so, hold off on mentioning his name or religion for the longest amount of time possible.
- If he’s white then dig far and wide to find out even the slightest connection to the GOP, the Tea Party, any other conservative connections, Christianity, and the NRA.
- Find out if any of the victims were non-white. If so, then immediately start using phrases like “Hate Crimes”, “Racism”, and “Black Lives Matter”.
- Retrieve the long list of regular guests who will espouse the usual talking points about gun violence in America.
- Being that Louisiana has a Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, find out his stance on gun control and blame him for the entire event. The fact that Jindal is a presidential candidate provides an added bonus to the media as they can now destroy his campaign as well.
- Mock anyone who points out that the Grand Theatre, where this occurred, is a gun-free zone.
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Update: At least two people have been confirmed murdered and the shooter is reported to be a 58 year old white man.
You’ll get those emails from our cold dead hands.
Oh look, another 6400 Lois Lerner emails the IRS ‘found’. Geez, just ask the Chinese already.
Can’t somebody start laying obstruction charges yet? Does this have to be a political game, timed just perfectly? Sickening.
Well. That’s odd.
Someone stole Tariq Aziz’s body from Baghdad’s international airport.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Did you know that… “Since dismantling the Long Gun Registry, the Harper government has four times delayed rules that would assign serial numbers to guns.” ?
Sorry Quebec
You don’t have the right to that data.
Pollspotting
With safety in scare quotes: Do you agree guns are important for ‘safety’ in rural homes?
Not anytime soon.
This article is wrong…for now.
The keyboard/mouse tool-set is a powerful interface for the computer, more adaptable than clunky fingers. I don’t have a tablet (beyond phone) for the simple reason that my main purpose to use a computer is data entry. I don’t mean just entering data into a database, but all data. Writing here, coding, modifying a shell script somewhere, it’s data entry. I would hazard a guess that a large percentage of MS users share similar traits.
What’s the default “virtual” interface for data entry into a tablet? An error prone and clunky screen keyboard.
Just go to Amazon pick a tablet, any tablet. Look at the “frequently bought” lines. If it doesn’t have a keyboard, it’ll have a Bluetooth interface that supports a keyboard. And people buy them.
If the tablet manufacturers want their products to go beyond the ‘check email and surf web’ use then they need a better interface than two thumbs and an index finger. For now, the keyboard is the best of the bunch.
The Al Gore Effect
“Climate Change is the defining issue of our time.” Comment Period: 45 days: submissions may be made between February 12, 2015 and March 29, 2015.
The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change is engaging the people, businesses and communities of Ontario in a dialogue on climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fostering strong economic growth.
That feedback will help inform a strategy and action plan to be announced later this year.
Although, forgive me if I think any ‘public feedback’ will convince Wynne and her cabal of changing course on anything.
Cold, Canuck Hands
h/t Joseph
Cold, Canuck Hands
Mr. Mulcair’s twisted logic drew a quick response from a very interesting source: the federal NDP. Charlie Angus, NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay, put a press release up on his website with the rather blunt headline, “NDP NOT BRINGING BACK THE GUN REGISTRY — PERIOD.” (Yes, it was all in capital letters.) Mr. Angus then told reporters that Mr. Mulcair’s comments made him “[bang] my head on the table.” The NDP, Mr. Angus said, would work on cracking down on black market guns and on making sure firearms are classified appropriately. But no, repeat no, registry.
“This ain’t the movies.”
Michael Yon: If the officer is pointing his pistol at someone, he is one click away from going lethal. There is no in between.
The Tolerant Left
Comet scientist offers tearful apology after the Internet is offended by his shirt.
The “Come Shoot Me” Sign
Report: 92% Of Mass Shootings Since January 2009 Occurred In Gun-Free Zones
Do no harm.
Well, I guess this is one way to reduce gun crime.
The number of mentally ill people who have been killed through euthanasia in the Netherlands has trebled in a single year, according to new figures.
Cold, Wet Hands
Say what?
Lessons of Prohibition
Like all bureaucracies the response is over the top.
Cold, Kroger Hands
An MSNBC poll goes horribly wrong.
Related!
Nice poll you’ve got there; it’d be a shame if something happened to it.
Panera Bread has asked customers not to carry their concealed guns inside. CNBC has a poll.