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[TheLibertyZone] The parents of an armed robber shot by a Pizza Hut employee are asking "why?"
They're asking why their son was shot by a restaurant worker, rather than law enforcement.
They're asking why the employee had a gun.
They're asking why their son was shot in the head.
The answers are short and sweet:
1) The reason why their son was shot by a restaurant worker rather than law enforcement is because law enforcement wasn't on the scene.
2) The reason why the employee had a gun is because vermin like their spawn exists.
3) The reason he was shot in the head is because he was carrying a handgun during the commission of a crime (edited to add) which was recovered at the scene.
Mommy dearest claims the shooting was personal because Michael Grace, Jr. was shot in the head.
Why does it matter? This scum and two of his friends walked into a restaurant armed and tried to rob the place. Period. It doesn't matter if the shooting was personal or not. Had he not been in there waving around a pistol, the wouldn't have been shot. Not in the leg. Not in the head. Not anywhere.
Mommy dearest claims her spawn wouldn't have hurt anyone. The very fact that he had a gun negates that claim.
She claims he'd fallen on hard times and turned to crime to provide for his child. You know… As a kid, I remember my parents hunting through other people's trash for clothing, furniture, and other necessities. Not once did they grab a gun and try to rob a restaurant! I wonder why that is! Perhaps because despite our financial difficulties, my parents are decent people who would never dream of committing an act of violence against another human being or taking by force what was not theirs?
What did these parents teach their spawn?
That his "rights" included treating others as prey? That he was entitled to assets that did not belong to him? That his need and "desperation" were claim checks to other people's earnings?
Their son died as a predator. He walked into a peaceable establishment and tried to make prey out of the employees there. And unfortunately for him, one of his intended prey decided "Not today, motherfucker."
His "rights" ended with the muzzle of his gun pointed at another human being.
Parents like these are why we can't have nice things.
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Comment from the article: Apparently business establishments capable of being robbed by armed violent criminals should never allow their employees to be armed because it’s too dangerous for the armed violent criminals.
Most (if not all) large chain stores prohibit concealed carry. Many also refuse to allow employees to confront shoplifters. Others refuse to call the police or jot down license numbers.
No bad publicity desired. Consequently, cash paying shoppers pick up the shrinkage tab. If this sounds like Obamacare at the retail level, perhaps it is !
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"Dude, I know all their security and rules, man. We're cool"
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I feel for the parents losing a son, but this is another episode of "Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes". If their little knucklehead had been shot by the cops, at least they would have the comfort of the community rioting, burning and looting on their behalf.
As noted in #1, most stores have a policy against fighting back due to liability concerns over collateral damage. However, the problem for the employees is uncertainty. Is the robber a Willie Sutton type who will grab the money, tip his hat and walk out the door whistling OR is he some low-rent criminal genius who has decided to kill all the witnesses so he can make his getaway unobserved. The victims just don't know and the cost of guessing wrong is extremely high. tl;dr: better to shoot than to die.
As for the shot in the head part, the general rule is aim for the center of mass. Maybe the guy just missed a bit, so to speak.
[Daily Caller] Wall Street investment analyst Charles Ortel called the Clinton Foundation "the largest unprosecuted charity fraud ever attempted" before all the newly-exposed emails from campaign chairman John Podesta’s account were released from WikiLeaks.
The leaks have fortified his findings. The Wall Street investment analyst, who retired at 46 and prides himself on researching complex problems like General Electric and the credit crisis, has been fly-specking
According to the internet, the second definition of fly-specking is: Slang. To examine closely or in minute detail; scrutinize.
the Clinton Foundation since the spring of 2015.
Ortel explains why he believes the Clinton Foundation is a "crooked charity cooking the books" with over $2 billion dollars in revenue, in this exclusive video interview for The Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Clintons, according to Ortel, have figured out how to turn their public service into a business. This charity is "a perfect gathering place and a front" to act as if you are helping others, when in fact they bring powerful people together, concocting deals and making people rich, including the Clintons, Ortel says.
[Vox] "I got groped at a Trump rally" are words I thought would never come out of my mouth, but it's 2016, so I guess it's official evidence nothing matters anymore.
In an attempt to understand the women who continue to support Donald Trump, despite him being accused of sexually harassing or assaulting 17 women and having a history of deep-seated sexism, I attended a rally in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, to hear from the female supporters still standing by him.
"Seven out of 10 women probably have an unfavorable view of a lot of men," one woman told me as I shared Trump's high unfavorable numbers with her. Although she didn't make excuses for his behavior, she said she was more interested in conversations about the candidate's "policies." And as we all know, it's more important that any captain not named Hillary be pure than whether or not he can save the ship from going down in the middle of the Arctic ocean.
The handful of women (and men) I interviewed presented a wide variety of reasons they backed the republican nominee, ranging from the way he's raised powerful assertive daughters to the promotion of women within his businesses. Although they all had different reasons to support him, they all shared a certain nonchalance toward Trump's sexual assault accusations. Given that hostility toward women predicts support for Trump, perhaps it's unsurprising this wasn't an issue big enough to sway these voters away.
The Trump supporter who pinched my rump (she also did it to a random stranger and my camera operator) insisted that groping is "all in fun" and unfairly taken seriously when men are the perpetuators. "If I were a man, I would be in jail today," she explained. When I asked if the man she grabbed minded, he said he welcomed more women doing it. "That's my point," she smiled with satisfaction.
So what does justice look like under Trump's America? I guess one version is a country where men and women have an equal right to grope.
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The author is fairly attractive on the exterior, her interior is what's toxic and stupid
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they all shared a certain nonchalance toward Trump's sexual assault accusations.
Sort of like Hillary toward the many women Bill is accused of raping, huh? Oh and Hillary actively attacked said women on Bill's behalf. Haven't heard anything like that about the Donald.
[American Thinker] Watching the events of last week online I’m reminded of Drums Along the Mohawk a story about a couple in New York’s Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. The New York frontier settlers fought off Tories, Indians, the British with a small militia, muskets, and grit until peace was restored and they could return to farming.
A revolutionary war is being fought again in New York and D.C., this time between the administration’s corrupted Department of Justice, the compliant press and the Democratic Party on one hand, and the New York Police Department, the U.S. Attorney Preet Bahara, and the FBI on the other. The issues at stake are not all that different: the right of free people to govern themselves. The weapons are not muskets, but the Internet.
Background: The Wheels Coming Off the Hillary Bus
We’re just 2 days away from the election and having worked at times in bureaucratic organizations I can imagine the turmoil in the vast Clinton machine. The constant releases of hacked emails by Wikileaks in such a top-down operation surely has hamstrung their work. People who work there are either searching frantically for their names in the emails, gossiping among each other about what is found there and worrying about what is to come. The head of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was replaced, only to find the new head Donna Brazile was herself the subject of scandal -- leaking debate questions she learned were going to be asked of Hillary.
It’s not only Wikileaks -- Project Veritas’s exposure of the Creamer-headed vote-rigging and thuggery operation must have put a crimp in its 50-year-long Midwestern vote-stealing scheme. People who worked for him have to be unsure of their next steps and with the Wisconsin attorney general promising an investigation, it must be harder still to operate as usual.
Huma Abedin, Hillary’s right-hand gal of many hats, is on the sidelines as her husband’s computer with its 650 thousand emails is being examined by local cops and the FBI for evidence of child pornography and national security leaks. The Clinton Foundation slush fund is under scrutiny for pay-to-play corruption and tax fraud and their many employees, recipients, and donors must be scouring their records and getting unwelcome law enforcement inquiries. Con't.
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Oh, "Drums Along the Mohawk" was just a movie. "Drums Along the Potomac" is yet to be made--the script is still being written. In the meantime for your watching, there is a Tom Cruise movie to be released in 2017 called "American Made;" otherwise referred to as Mena--something about Barry Seal, cocaine, "Slick" and a little town in Arkansas.
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A book before a movie and a pretty good starter novel. Got your German Flats, General Herkimier, fightin, groping Hessian and a fair amount of history. Highly recommended.
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Pretty comprehensive look at what is being described as a counter coup. Feldman doesn't take it into account, but maybe writer Matt Bracken has that there is a lot going on amongst Patriots who are watching this. Patriots considering doing Patriot stuff. As I have said before, repeatedly, regardless of who wins the White House we are looking at a nationwide sh*t show.
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When Americans go to the polls November 8, The New York Sun urges a vote for Donald Trump and Mike Pence. The Republican nominee, his running mate, and their party offer more promising principles for economic growth -- and full employment -- after the long years of stagnation. The GOP nominees vow to reverse the decline of our defense budget and back a more straightforward, less multilateral approach to foreign affairs. They would embrace the can-do spirit of American free market capitalism just when we need it most.
We understand how mystifying this endorsement is to many of our friends. We have never been among the haters of Hillary Clinton (or her husband, for whom our editor twice voted for president). We thrill to the rise of women. We are among the most liberal voices in respect of immigration. We oppose protection. Among the reasons we picked up the flag of the Sun in the first place is that for nearly two centuries it has stood for abolition, against racism, for equality before the law of constitutional government, and for a common American culture.
Nothing in this campaign convinces us that these principles stand a better chance under Mrs. Clinton and the Democrats than they do under Mr. Trump and the GOP. We deplore Mrs. Clinton’s attempt to make this contest a question not of policy and principle but of personality and fitness. The circumstantial corruption of the Clinton Foundation has shocked the nation and turned the fitness question back on the Democratic nominee. Neither of the Clintons is in a position to lecture Americans on morals.
[NewYorker] Infused with a sense of urgency as Election Day nears, the Trump campaign has enlisted President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, to appear with the Republican nominee in a dizzying array of swing-state rallies over the weekend.
Putin will be the most visible Trump surrogate in the final weekend of the campaign, as he tries to fire up voters in Florida, North Carolina, Colorado, and Nevada.
The Russian President seemed to relish the warm response he got at his first Trump rally, in Tampa, where he led the crowd in a raucous chant of "Lock her up."
Trump praised Putin's talent for politics by noting that he had won the Russian election in 2012 by a landslide. "He got sixty-four per cent of the vote, and no one else even came close," Trump said. "He's terrific." Actually, she manages to maintain a one point lead somehow.
Putin, whose English is rudimentary at best, kept his remarks brief at the Tampa rally, but echoed Melania Trump's recent call for an end to bullying.
A Republican strategist, Harland Dorrinson, called the Trump campaign's use of Putin in crucial battleground states "very, very smart."
"At this point, you really couldn't ask for a more effective surrogate," he said. "You'd much rather see Trump up there with Putin than with, say, Chris Christie."
While some in the media criticized the Trump campaign for allowing Putin to influence the outcome of a U.S. election, the Republican nominee's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, pushed back in an appearance on CNN.
"This is just another case of media bias against Donald Trump," she said. "Jay Z and Beyonce, who have no experience in government at all, are allowed to campaign for Hillary Clinton, but Vladimir Putin, who actually runs an entire country, can't appear with Donald Trump? Come on." This story is true because I found it on the internet.
Way back in the Clinton Administration, I had the opportunity to socialize with Chris Mathews at a small dinner function. It was one of those charity deals where they have some important person give a little speech and chit-chat with the attendees. This was before Mathews had his mental breakdown so he was good fun, despite being a Lefty. People forget that he was not great fan of the Clintons, even though he was always a loyal party man.
This was the mid-90’s and the Drudge Report had just gone up as a website. Americans were flocking to computer stores to buy modems so they could use that AOL disk they got in the mail. I forget what we were discussing, but at some point I got the impression that Mathews simply had no idea the internet existed. I made mention of something about on-line news and Mathews had this puzzled look, then said, “Oh, you mean that internet thing.” He was unaware of the biggest technological event since the steam engine.
It is a story I like to tell as way to illustrate that people in the national media don’t live in America like the rest of us. The old joke in DC was that the big media outfits sent their foreign correspondents to cover stories in Ohio. That’s an exaggeration, but our national media does live in bubble. They can, when they feel like it, do a good job telling the rest of us about the doings in politics, but otherwise they are baffled about what happens out among the Dirt People. You see that in this Megan McArdle column.
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Way back in the Clinton Administration, I had the opportunity(?) to socialize with Chris Mathews at a small dinner function. This was before Mathews had his mental breakdown.
Was there some noticeable line of demarcation between sane and insane with Matthews?
[DAWN] DESPITE efforts by the state to bring peace to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , sectarian killings in the metropolis continue, putting a question mark on official claims. Within a week, over 10 people have been murdered in the Sindh capital in suspected sectarian attacks. On Friday, six people were bumped off in different parts of Karachi. Three men, reportedly workers of the banned Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... , were rubbed out while returning from a rally organised by the outfit. In the other incidents, two members of the relatively apolitical Tableeghi Jamaat, along with a prayer leader, were murdered in separate incidents. The killings come in the wake of the recent attack on a women’s majlis in Nazimabad, in which five people, including three brothers, were murdered. Police say Friday’s violence could be a reaction to the earlier incident. On Saturday, police took into custody former PPP senator Faisal Raza Abidi in connection with the killing of the Tableeghi Jamaat members.
It is hoped these acts of violence do not inspire more tit-for-tat attacks. Community leaders, Learned Elders of Islam and the state must all play their role in ensuring communal harmony. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... it should be reiterated that there is no Shia-Sunni conflict at the communal level in Pakistain as such. This country has thankfully been spared much of the communal frenzy witnessed in certain Middle Eastern states. Here, outfits like Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... (ASWJ’s old name) and its more virulent spin-off Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... have, over the past three decades, played an instrumental role in bringing the culture of takfir (declaring others as being outside the pale of Islam) to the mainstream, along with physically eliminating the sectarian ’others’. This, in response, gave rise to Shia bully boy groups such as Sipah-e-Mohammad. Throughout this period, the state’s response to the growth of sectarian militancy has been dismal, as ’banned’ outfits have operated with relative ease. Hence, to put an end to the recurring cycles of sectarian violence, the state must permanently dismantle the outfits that provide the ideological and material support for violence.
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[DAWN] POLITICAL turmoil is fast becoming a permanent feature of Pakistain’s state of affairs. While political opposition and dissent are generally deemed positive democratic norms, in Pakistain’s context, however, these are increasingly becoming non-events that merely consume the energies of the people, state institutions and policymakers.
Political turmoil also distracts us from other formidable issues. Reviewing highlights from the print and electronic media over the past month reveals that many important issues did not get due attention: tensions with neighbours; unrest in India-held Kashmire; the provinces’ concerns over CPEC routes; terrorist attacks in Quetta and Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , and poor security responses to it; civil-military relations and their implications for internal security and foreign policies, etc.
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[NewYorker] Infused with a sense of urgency as Election Day nears, the Trump campaign has enlisted President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, to appear with the Republican nominee in a dizzying array of swing-state rallies over the weekend.
[DAWN] DESPITE efforts by the state to bring peace to 
