10:50 – Like a lot of people, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the shootings in Dallas last night aren’t just the first of many such incidents to come over the summer. Initial reports said there were as many as four shooters, but recent updates say it may have been just one guy who hates whites and particularly white cops. If true, that’s good news, or at least as good as the news can be with 11 cops shot and 5 dead. The implications would have been much worse if there’d been an organized group of shooters involved.
This comes on the heels of news that almost 50 police officers resigned from the Dallas PD in the month of June, which was a record. They’re seeking jobs with small-town police departments, where they won’t be spending their working lives in a war zone. And who can blame them? One wonders how much longer big-city police departments will be able to protect their decent citizens.
When Barbara was watching Blue Bloods the other night, the subject of “broken windows” enforcement was raised, the idea that enforcing laws against minor crimes such as graffiti, illegal gambling, public drunkenness, and so on reduces the amount of major crime. That argument always sounded reasonable to me, but now I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not a bad idea. Perhaps we should leave the inner cities alone as BLM demands. Stop enforcing laws there. If people want to gamble illegally, sell drugs on streets corners, engage in prostitution, and so on, let them. Just make it clear that such activities are confined to ghetto areas, and that any attempt to expand them beyond those areas will be met with overwhelming force. If ghetto residents don’t want the cops hassling them, fine. Let them go to hell in their own way.
I just asked Lori, our USPS carrier, if she’d heard about the Dallas shootings. She had, and is very concerned about where the country is headed. She volunteered that she had lots of canned goods stocked up, but she needed to lay in a good supply of water and bulk staples. I told her I thought that was an excellent idea. Like many people who live in rural mountain areas, she’s by nature a prepper, and it sounds like events are kicking her preps into higher gear. She said she was prepared to defend herself, her land, and her supplies from all comers, and that if anyone bothered her either they’d end up dead or she would. I just replied, “You go, girl.”
“Broken windows” policing is a license to harass and intimidate while leaving dangerous criminals free to carry on victimizing people. The theory might be appealing, but the practice is appalling.
Like the idea that most mooslims are moderates and reject jihad, we keep hearing that most ghetto blacks want more cops and more enforcement (just yesterday on a liberal talk show, for example.) They say they want MORE enforcement– unless it’s cousin Pookie, the felon in possession who is actively selling illegally copied discs, or RayRay — who needs to rob, because ‘how else is he gonna get the money for school?’ Or the aspiring rapper who just sells a little weed on the side, or or or….
The media keeps apologizing, and repeating the big lie, while community leaders (funded by outside interests) keep pushing the opposite narrative, one of divisiveness anger and hate.
We already have the example of Chicago to show what happens when the cops pull back. The country as a whole doesn’t need more of that.
nick
Well, we have multiple reports of how many shooters, who they are, etc., etc. coming outta Dallas now, so the usual hodge-podge of actual facts mixed with speculation and bullshit lying. We know there was at least one shooter, and it looks like more than one, and that five cops are dead and more wounded.
But as Mr. Ray says, no statements on the race/ethnicity of the shooter/s, whereas if the shoe is on the other foot, it is extolled and blazoned on the heavens, worldwide.
The fact remains that the police were deliberately targeted and murdered and they will not blow this off and forget about it anytime soon. This is a historical event now, and I’m sure the brass and political whores are very busy spinning like mad to contain the realities. Nor will the rest of the country blow it off; we’re getting some hard body blows this summer so far; between Orlando, Field Marshal Rodham’s felonies and treason, and now this. And summer is only two weeks old.
I worry about Mrs. OFD, as she has gigs coming up in NC, Denver, Chicago and Austin in the next few weeks. And here I am exhorting people to avoid cities and crowds.
I’ll be out and about today a little bit and see if the flags are at half-staff in this AO, since they put them like that now for everyone who dies. I expect them to be likewise when I go, of course.
On the whole national situation? I figure the powers will try to keep the lid on as best they can now, and would not be surprised to see martial law enacted in specific cities or areas. Between stuff like this, the various urban riots, mass shootings, and the coming election farce, there is a shit-ton of anger out here, on all sides. And ten more weeks of a long hot summer; four months until whatever in November.
Pax vobiscum, fratres.
Whether the country needs it or not, I’m afraid that’s exactly what’s going to happen. It’s a vicious circle, with cops more and more defaulting to lethal force, which further enrages the underclass. If it were just the underclass, that’d be okay. But we’re now at the point where many white middle-class people dislike and mistrust the police, and with good reason. I predicted this back when the outcry against “profiling” began. No cop can do his job *without* profiling, from which the obvious conclusion is that cops are increasingly unable to do their jobs. That doesn’t bode well for large cities.
That’s another thing I like about living in a small town. Up here, the cops are part of the community, and therefore much less likely to shoot upstanding citizens.
I really wonder if Trump is going to be assassinated, and if so whether it’ll be HC or the GOPe who initiates it. If Trump does survive and wins the election, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the “protests” that are likely to occur in large cities. I’d expect looting and arson on a large scale.
Your typical inner city riot: I’m mad at whitey, so I’m going to burn down the black part of town. That’ll show them!! Meanwhile “whitey” sits at home in the suburbs watching ithe live coverage on TV while drinking his craft beer.
I worry about Mrs. OFD, as she has gigs coming up in NC, Denver, Chicago and Austin in the next few weeks. And here I am exhorting people to avoid cities and crowds.
MrsAtoz is in NYC right now. For a week. Visiting shitboros. I worry too. We are in the Los Angeles shitburbs a lot these days. I’ve never carried there, maybe it’s time to carry my Glock in my murse. We drive so I probably wouldn’t get a mag emptied in my ass.
Well since my flag is fixed on pole that fits in a bracket attached to house I cannot fly it half staff so the proper etiquette is to use a black ribbon attached to the top of the pole.
So my flag is properly draped in black for the officers in Dallas and it is being flown upside down to signify our country is in distress.
“Your typical inner city riot: I’m mad at whitey, so I’m going to burn down the black part of town. That’ll show them!! Meanwhile “whitey” sits at home in the suburbs watching ithe live coverage on TV while drinking his craft beer.”
We still ain’t anywhere near the level of the riots in the late 1960s, which were all across the country in multiple cities. They burned down their own ‘hoods and when firefighters showed up, they sniped at them. So the Authorities rolled in the cops and the cops found out they couldn’t handle it adequately, so the next step was National Guard and then airborne troops, with tanks and machine guns. Imagine coming back from Tet or Hue and dealing with the NVA and VC and now you gotta do the same gig back in Detroit and Newark. We did, in fact, sit at home in our lily-white eastern MA suburb and watch it all go down on the tee-vee, intermittently with the body-count footage from ‘Nam, where neighbor kids were serving their sentences.
“I’ve never carried there, maybe it’s time to carry my Glock in my murse. We drive so I probably wouldn’t get a mag emptied in my ass.”
Be very careful, MrAtoz; also, be advised that you can get CCW licenses that have reciprocity with up to 30-35 other states; Virginia and Utah come to mind, but you can fuggetaboutit in Kalifornia. You can also transport your firearms via the airlines if you’re gonna travel to a state that will recognized your own state’s, or VA’s or Utah’s CCW. Not a huge hassle; simply declare it and fill out the forms at the terminal gate and have it in a secure container, unloaded, etc., etc. On arrival, pick it up and get heeled, podnuh!
It’s a vicious circle, with cops more and more defaulting to lethal force, which further enrages the underclass.
A journey consists of many steps, each meaningless by itself. Help the blacks, beginning in the 1960s, with well-intentioned affirmative action programs that put people in places where their skills are inadequate – thereby damaging employability for the entire group. Support the unemployable with welfare, thereby damaging their incentive to work. Fire up the WoD, putting millions of young men in jail, and destroying the black family, creating a culture of single moms raising young barbarians.
Having no skills, no education and no respect for authority, young blacks turn to violence and crime, joining their fathers in jail. The police begin to regard every black as an imminent threat, and turn up the brutality. The blacks feels oppressed, because they now are, and become ever more combative when confronted with the police, who in turn are ever more ready to use lethal force.
And there you go. The problems have developed over 2-3 generations, and any possible fix would take just as long. Meanwhile, the most powerful politicians are as corrupt as those in any banana republic. They have absolutely no interest in getting involved in difficult problems where there is no payola to be had.
Depressing…
Meanwhile “whitey” sits at home in the suburbs watching ithe live coverage on TV while drinking his craft beer.
Except “whitey” always get stuck with paying the bills as his taxes are used to rebuild the neighborhoods. There’s also the bigger bill to be payed as the government dumbs down the schools and laws to make it fairer for the poor picked upon minorities.
“Whether the country needs it or not, I’m afraid that’s exactly what’s going to happen. ”
-I don’t disagree, it’s just disappointing. It looks pretty clear we’re headed that way. After all, a new generation of potential looters has come of age, so it’s time for the cycle to repeat.
As I tell my kids when I fix their toys, once you break something, it is never as good as it was, no matter what you do to fix it. That’s been happening on a ~20 year cycle with the US for a while now. Each time it gets a bit worse.
I’ve got a ton of stuff to do today, and first stop is buying more ammo.
nick
I worry about Mrs. OFD, as she has gigs coming up in NC, Denver, Chicago and Austin in the next few weeks. And here I am exhorting people to avoid cities and crowds.
Austin proper or the suburbs?
Fortunately/unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the Austin freak show is confined to a certain radius around the Texas Capitol. She should be fine once beyond the Travis County line.
On a related note — I didn’t stop to think about it at the time, but while waiting in a register line at Cabela’s in Buda, TX yesterday, I noticed the gentleman in front of me purchasing a large quantity of ammo.
“Amazon’s counterfeit problem is getting worse and sellers are enraged”
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazons-counterfeit-problem-getting-worse-133458927.html
Yes, it is. I have gotten some definitely counterfeit stuff from Amazon sellers and it is worthless. And there is no way to tell until you receive the merchandise.
“And there you go. The problems have developed over 2-3 generations, and any possible fix would take just as long.”
This was all done via the leftist regimes that have been in power, one way or another, over the past half-century, either Dem or Repub, makes little to no difference. The latter, at best, simply enabled the others to get it done. Some of us are old enough to have watched the whole deal go down and it’s important to identify the main perpetrators, as, no doubt, they’re writing the history books and teaching the chillun a gigantic pack of lies.
Here it is plain and simple: the international communists, primarily via the old Soviet Union originally, successfully infiltrated our most important cultural and political institutions in the West since the 1920s and 1930s. They won. How do I know this? Because their ideology, in one form or another, is now part of most modern Westerners’ mental fabric, they don’t even question any of it.
And now that they’ve won, they are in the process of opening the floodgates to all manner of Hell for us. We see the results in probably upwards of 20 million immigrants, our de facto abandonment of borders and national sovereignty, and a sick, twisted, demented popular culture that bombards us all with its sewage 7×24. Meanwhile our manufacturing industries are almost gone, the public education systems are a total obscene joke, our industrial prison gulag is crammed with nonviolent slaves, and our permanently aggrieved victim groups have begun assassinating our police officers. Who are not exactly covered in heroic glory themselves.
Boiled down further: the communists and the musloids are in a temporary de facto alliance to destroy the Christian capitalist West, and when they’ve done that, they’ll turn on each other. Gotterdammerung. Apocalypse.
Yes, it is. I have gotten some definitely counterfeit stuff from Amazon sellers and it is worthless. And there is no way to tell until you receive the merchandise.
Plus, Alibaba’s Ma is crowing how Chinese fakes are better than the originals. Patents, copyrights be damned. Bezos should reply with “fuck you, you crooked prick”. Apparently Bezos is a prick too.
As predicted, the usual BLM/SJW scum are screeching how “cops only kill Blacks!” Beyonce overseas stopping her concert and putting up all the names of “Black” peeps killed by police. No mention of WHITEY! death-by-cop peeps. Oh, that’s right, cops don’t kill WHITEY! The Congressional BLM Congress whining the same thing, plus . Matt Damon is Australia “confiscate all guns now, just like in OZ.” Rev Jackwagon blaming tRump for deaths, WTF, again, over? Where’s Sharpless and Fartinacan? Must be too old and asleep at the wheel. There’s a buck to be made!
The best justification I ever heard for not policing someone was that it’s perfectly fine to have naked time with teenage girls back home — Mexico’s age of consent is 12 — so Carlos didn’t know he wasn’t supposed to give a 14-year-old VD.
Keep it up, morons. Civil War II here we come!
They really ought to listen to some of their more rational thinkers and speakers, who know full well what a civil/race war would end up like. Hell, the late Gil Scott-Heron knew that chit forty years ago.
I kinda agree with RBT on his modest proposal to let them have their petty gang-lord kingdoms, where they can engage in their usual criminal behavior and de facto seal them off, beyond which is verboten to them. With this proviso: Any regular, decent citizens among them who wish to escape that chit finally and GTFO and lead normal, productive lives among the rest of us should be allowed to do so. Conversely, those among us who adore and emulate the underclass scumbag lifestyle and culture should be encouraged to go and do likewise, the other way round. An exchange, if you will. Along with all their media and political enablers and cheerleaders. Buh-bye, mofos!
I’ve told wife we need to order the firewood NOW and I’ll also be building water storage in the cellar this next couple of weeks. Gonna test out them water “bricks,” 3.5 gallons each, to four feet high. That takes care of heat and cooking and wotta; then I need to both consolidate and spread out the various lighting options. And drastically ramp up the food storage, which stands now at about maybe two months for both of us. And like Mr. nick and probably a few million others this past week, MORE AMMO. My priorities in that regard are 5.56, 9mm, and 7.62×39. The most common stuff, as that ammo and those firearms are ALL OVER the place and will be for a very long time to come.
Also looking at black powder options, along with home-based/private maker-type projects, and stuff that comes under the Fed Curio and Relic guidelines/strictures.
Damn, forgot to look at the flag staffs, but IIRC, I didn’t see any at half yet. One wonders what the delay is; perhaps Dear Leader is conferring even now at the WH with gang leaders wearing electronic ankle bracelets, to the latest trippy ditties of Beyonce and Jay Z.
If the rule of law and moral values meant anything Fartacon would be in jail, if not hanging from a tree limb. He should have a lot of company.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/07/08/hours-before-officers-were-gunned-down-in-dallas-louis-farrakhan-posted-this-shocking-message-of-racism-and-violence/
BTW, I just went over some of the old paperwork I signed regarding the handling of No Forn., Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, and above with the Navy and Department of Energy. Nowhere is the word intent or phrase criminal intent present. This talk about intent is all a fabrication of the Obuttwad disAdministration.
Stay vigilant and don’t believe a word you hear from any gooberment employee, from a janitor to the the emperor.
“…The best justification I ever heard for not policing someone was that it’s perfectly fine to have naked time with teenage girls back home…”
Or in the case of Turks and Afghans and other Middle Eastern rutting male beasts, boys, even younger than THAT. In series, and in public.
“This talk about intent is all a fabrication of the Obuttwad disAdministration.”
More specifically, the Feebies themselves, who essentially rewrote the statute to de facto (I love that phrase!) exonerate Lady MacBeth of Little Rock, the Heroine of Benghazi, Tripoli and Microsoft Email Servers.
I dunno what yer bitchin’ about, Mr. DadCooks; they’d happily do the same for you, of course, lol.
And like this guy says, stay away from large cities and crowds but if not, plan a way out:
http://modernsurvivalonline.com/tragedy-in-dallas-five-law-enforcement-officers-killed-in-ambush-style-attacks-and-what-the-preparedness-community-can-learn-from-this-tragedy/?issubscriber=true
Low-intensity civil warfare:
(from email today, Forward Observer’s Samuel Culper:
“What are the current indicators of military, government, political, or social-related instability or violence that leads to widespread domestic conflict?
Dallas & the Cultural Insurgency
We stayed up last night following developments in the Dallas killing and wounding of 11 police officers. It’s a tragic situation, but before the suspect(s) were identified, there were already calls for additional violence, especially on social media. Race relations is a touchy subject, but I’m going to call it as I see it. The number of Twitter accounts calling for more violence against police was astounding; most of those accounts belong to black Americans consumed in the inner city, street culture. Tweets celebrating the deaths of the Dallas police officers stretched from coast to coast. That leads me to believe that ongoing sentiment is certain to result in additional attacks on law enforcement. Like any kind of terrorism, we’ve not seen the last of it.
Alex Jones of Infowars, among others, declared it as the start of a US race war, as the New York Post front page announced ‘Civil War’. Nearly every time a police officer is murdered, we hear of the ‘war on police’. After Dallas, I think it’s safe to say that we’ve entered ‘war on police’ territory, especially if it encourages more attacks. And even as we see more attacks, we’ve been looking at an insurgency all along.
Last year, I wrote about the current “cultural insurgency”, which is not new. The violent riots of the late 60s that grew out of the Civil Rights Movement have morphed into a 21st century model, fueled by “economic inequality” and shootings of black teenagers, and enabled by cell phones and social media. Riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, Anaheim, Oakland, New York, and other cases of civil unrest occur when participants feel that their voices aren’t heard. Certainly there are opportunists, but this type of sociopolitical violence typically occurs as a last resort.
Regardless of how we feel about law enforcement or inner city riots, there’s a critical gap between civil society and the riot society that’s not being bridged. The riot society has been unable to achieve their objectives, which is the arrest and conviction of police officers involved in shootings. If the government is unable to solve their issues — either legitimate or illegitimate issues — then their last alternative is violence. We’re moving in that same direction within the Constitutionalist/Liberty movement as government is continually unable to right its wrongs.
Let’s investigate some requirements for an armed insurgent movement. When we’re identifying precursors to an insurgency or political violence, we’re looking for three things:
Shared ethnic, religious, cultural, or ideological persecution
Popular support for the cause
Perceived or actual poor governance (i.e., inability to solve problems)
Once one or more of those requirements are met, we should begin looking for active organization. Black Lives Matter and the other various pro-black causes are certainly the beginning of that organization. This is what we’d call a politicized social base. The next step in determining whether or not an insurgency will come to fruition is identifying whether or not a politicized social base is preparing for violent opposition.
To varying degrees, we’ve hit all but one of those check marks. The remaining indicator is active preparation for violent opposition. I think there’s enough evidence right now to say that we’re in a very limited conflict, and it’s likely to escalate with additional high-profile events, and as problems go unsolved and needs unmet.
Going into the future, the more political power (i.e., power “within the system”) this politicized social base wields, the less reason they have to resort to violence. The more respected leaders call for calm and civility, the less potential there is for more violence. As far as indicators go, we’re looking for a decrease in perceived power or authority; i.e., a decrease in political and community power and influence, and representation in society. As Obama prepares to leave office and is replaced with a white man or woman who is not perceived as willing to solve their problems, then we could move further into the low-intensity insurgency territory. We certainly expect Obama to become more directly involved once he leaves office. It’s a situation that we’ll continue to monitor.”
_SurviRal_ by Ken Benton
https://www.amazon.com/SurviRal-Ken-Benton/dp/1505626005/
A standalone apocalyptic book, no prequel, no sequel. My copy is POD (print on demand). I have not yet decided to buy the other apocalyptic book written by the author.
The premise of the book is quite depressing. An H5N1 experimental flu is accidentally released to the world from a government lab in Rotterdam (a real place!). The H5N1 flu has a mortality rate of 80% and spreads rapidly across the world. At one point, there are 80 million people in the USA infected with it.
Due to the virility of the man made flu, nobody is going to work. No trucks are running to the grocery stores and no mail is being delivered. The result is a quick shutdown of order in the USA and in the world.
I do have a couple of problems with the book. First, no flu that I know of has more than a 4% mortality rate. 80% mortality seems very high. Second, the married couple at the forefront of the disaster seem very naive. They do not store anything but they have a bug out cabin in the “woods”. And they wait to leave for the bug out cabin until things are so bad that they cannot get enough gasoline to drive there. I would have left almost immediately, especially when the guy got laid off.
My rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (110 reviews)
OTOH, who needs apocalyptic or PA novels anymore? Reality is wilder than fiction this past several weeks. With ten more weeks of summer to come!!!
Once again we have to rely on the UK Press:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dallas-police-shooting-black-power-8378177
For those of you who are unaware, the military is now full of racist black gangs. Most are easy to spot as they are all black squads, who live, eat, and work together. No non-blacks allowed. These groups are as insidious and bad as the gangs in prison, in fact many of them have prison time. There was a time that many of these cretins would not have been allowed in the military. Their motto “Fuck Whitey”.
BTW, the protest route was not publicised beforehand. So there is inside involvement because the positioning of the snipers could not have been a last minute plan.
It is also interesting that the one scum ball dirt bag was finished off by an explosive device delivered by a police robot. Cool, the first Terminator.
It is also interesting that the one scum ball dirt bag was finished off by an explosive device delivered by a police robot. Cool, the first Terminator.
“Are Police Allowed to Robot-Bomb Suspects?”
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-08/are-police-allowed-to-robot-bomb-suspects
“Experts say yes, and that Dallas is just the beginning.”
I agree, probably the first of many terminators. Remember that when you are hiding out from SkyNet, you were here for the first one.
Perhaps we should leave the inner cities alone as BLM demands. Stop enforcing laws there. If people want to gamble illegally, sell drugs on streets corners, engage in prostitution, and so on, let them. Just make it clear that such activities are confined to ghetto areas, and that any attempt to expand them beyond those areas will be met with overwhelming force. If ghetto residents don’t want the cops hassling them, fine. Let them go to hell in their own way.
Who defines the lines ?
What about the good people in those areas who cannot afford to leave ?
I saw “Escape From New York” and “Escape From LA”. That did not look very successful and were a blight on the country.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/
_SurviRal_ by Ken Benton
https://www.amazon.com/SurviRal-Ken-Benton/dp/1505626005/
I forgot one aspect of the book that was extremely worrisome. The National Guard soldiers were going around the countryside and seizing “excess” food from the remote area homes for feeding the cities. The amount of excess was determined by the soldiers on a case by case basis. So, people who noticeably over prepped had their preps taken away forcibly.
Heinlein references “Abandoned Areas”. The best nightclubs around, but you don’t go in there without bodyguards. Is that what we’re headed towards? These certainly fit the description of “Crazy Years”.
“What about the good people in those areas who cannot afford to leave ?”
I tried to cover that in my earlier post. Let ’em out and exchange them with our jerks who dig the underclass lifestyle and extol its wonderfulness constantly.
“For those of you who are unaware, the military is now full of racist black gangs. Most are easy to spot as they are all black squads, who live, eat, and work together. No non-blacks allowed.”
The alpha and beta versions of this were going on when I was working for Uncle back in 1970-1980, and they regularly got away with uniform and grooming violations that got us Article 15s. Also alternating times to play whatever ditties on the NCO club jukeboxes; old white lifer mofos wanted hardcore old-skool C&W while they guzzled hard booze and cases and kegs of beer; the brothers had to have Motown and funk. Couple of bros were doing the dap thing, with the red, black and green armbands, at the entrance to the chow hall on base one time over in SEA, holding up the line. Me and a couple of my boys were just in from nasty off-base bomb dump patrols and pretty grungy and nasty ourselves, with short fuses, and hungry. I just waltzed up to the doorway and knocked them out of the way with my M60, mission accomplished.
Now ratchet that little scene up a couple of million notches and that’s what we’ll end up having in this country soon enough.
It is also interesting that the one scum ball dirt bag was finished off by an explosive device delivered by a police robot. Cool, the first Terminator.
The job of police is to arrest criminals, so that they can stand trial. They don’t get to play judge-jury-and-executioner. The guy was apparently cornered, had no hostages, and was not currently a significant danger to anyone. The police had numerous options, ranging from tear gas to a waiting game.
Was this just police out of control and out for revenge? Or was it something more sinister, i.e., they really did not want the sniper to have a chance to make a public statement?
Oh, and Salon online, the Maoist rag, is predictably all over it, with “…The vicious dialectic of violence and retaliation: A plea for dialogue and peace after Dallas…”
Whenever you hear the word “dialectic” you know you’re listening to yet another commie asshole. And they want “dialogue and peace” now, after their nasty and violent rhetoric has been fanning the flames for decades. Fuck them. Let it rip.
Re: flu mortality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1
Up to 60%
“Was this just police out of control and out for revenge? Or was it something more sinister, i.e., they really did not want the sniper to have a chance to make a public statement?”
Who knows? And were there OTHER snipers, presumably still out there, be-bopping around???
Those sorts of decisions don’t come from the street guys or enlisted-ranks-level SWAT people. Someone among the brass sent in the robot with political civvie approval, just as with that old MOVE caper in Philadelphia ages ago, when the cops dropped a friggin’ BOMB on the place and blew it to Hell.
Interesting, though, the times we live in, eh?
Re: flu mortality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1
Up to 60%
Ugh, I did not know that ! H5N1 is nasty !
My son was on a USMC SWAT team equivalent in Iraq for a couple of months. He stopped counting at entering 60 houses. He usually would apply 1/4 lb of C4 to the front door and blow it. Then his platoon would rush in and clear the house with their M16s (pre M4 days). He says there is nothing like the rush of being single file with another guy’s gun barrel poking you in the back, hearing the door blow, and running in the house at full speed. He never wants to do it again.
I’ll bet those officers in Dallas are the same way. If they have the option of sending in a robot to do the dirty work, more power to the bot.
Woulda been nice, though, once the guy was cornered with no way out, to get him alive and sweat him for intel. Somebody decided to waste him instead. Gee, MAYBE he coulda told us if there were OTHER GUYS out there. Or what FUTURE plans might be.
Look for more copycat stuff; already some other traffic cop has been shot in another state. Here we go.
“H5N1 is nasty”
One of the reasons an oxygen concentrator is on my to-get list. Nick, if you come across a decent used one, please let me know if it’s surplus to your needs.
WRT H5N1 mortality: I personally wouldn’t trust any published mortality rates. They are probably extrapolating from the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic.
Back during my Pet Shop Career (1960s) I worked with a fellow who had worked for one of the big drug companies (sorry the detail of the company name escapes me, but it was around Chicago). He had a PhD in some biological science something or other. He worked in the virus creation lab. They created viruses then tested them on dogs (Beagles specifically), Woolly monkeys, and pigs. He finally got fed up with what they were doing and became an advocate for lab animals. He talked of flu stains that they developed with almost 100% mortality, but they had a “key” in the DNA/RNA that turned off the virus after a certain number of generations.
Later during my Nuclear Career (1979-1999+) I had association with what was called the “Animal Farm” that the DOE ran in the 300 Area of the Hanford Reservation. I cannot tell you any more details, just the general point that what I was told back in the 1960s was confirmed and more. The dead animals were handled and disposed of more carefully than the most dangerous radioactive waste. The facility has been “decontaminated” and decommissioned, but its “products” are kept in a place I cannot tell you (closer than you would want to know).
Yes folks, reality is worse than fiction and we are one malcontent from a pandemic to end all pandemics. Be very afraid of who has the keys.
If some of you want to dismiss me as an old man slowly losing my mind fine. My mind may be becoming cloudy and losing details, but I do not make things up or see things that are not there. Discussions here turn on switches in my memory, prompting my posts. A mind is a terrible thing to lose.
Finally, keep an eye on the other hand.
kept in a place I cannot tell you
Yes you can. Hillary got away with violating rules, surely the FBI would give you the same consideration.
“H5N1 is nasty”
One of the reasons an oxygen concentrator is on my to-get list. Nick, if you come across a decent used one, please let me know if it’s surplus to your needs.
http://www.inogen.com/product/inogen-at-home-oxygen-concentrator/
Only $1,495 !
“*Concentrator images may vary. Inogen Systems require a qualifying RX prior to shipment. ”
Really ?
New ones typically cost $400+. Medicare until recently bought them for people who needed them, so there should be lots available cheap at estate sales.
lol! Cankles on TeeVee calling Comey a fukstik for “speculating” that she and aids were extremely careless. It’s not enough she got off with nuttin’ but now has to crow about how great she is. How dumb can Boobus Americanus be to vote for the POS?
And, Ruth Bader AlmostDeadBitch: “Everything up for grabs if tRump wins…” How da fuk can she say something like that after King Obola and his EOs completely trashing the Constitution (bird cage liner)?
Game over, man, game over.
“Discussions here turn on switches in my memory, prompting my posts.”
Well there ya go, then; we have seen how this works with combat vets and PTSD and repressed memory stuff. But it works with regular peeps, too. And even wackier chit with Alzheimer’s patients like my parents; typically crystal-clear recollections from 70 or 80 years ago but not three seconds ago and logic takes a distant back seat.
“…Yes folks, reality is worse than fiction…”
Indeed. Which is why I don’t bother with sci-fi or horror stuff among my reading and generally stick to nonfiction, esp. history. A handful of Netflix dramas and the occasional mindless spy or detective book Mrs. OFD reads on planes and that’s it. The stuff going on now in this country and elsewhere is WAY more interesting. And informative.
Now we’ve seen how one to four or five shooters triangulating LEOs from above for a few minutes can shut a big major city down. Or two screwball musloid cretins with a couple of pressure cookers. Or one total asshole nutjob with a rifle inside a nightclub. Now picture a dozen teams of three or four clever bastards, all at once, in a dozen cities at once. Can you say “martial law?”
There may be a lot of suicide by cop this weekend. I sure hope not.
More likely will be copycat murders of police; I nominate Chicago, Detroit, LA and NY as likely sites for this sorta thing. Maybe Houston, Miami, get the drift??? All large messy and unruly cities with large underclass pops.
There has been three more officers shot or shot at today, already:
http://fox2now.com/2016/07/08/police-say-officers-have-been-targeted-in-missouri-georgia-and-tennessee/
And then there’s this:
http://zerogov.com/?p=4786
“If you haven’t figured it out yet, there is an insurgency brewing.”
Swell.
And this is real swell, too, but very probable:
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/07/08/you-are-a-problem-to-be-policed/
“Law Enforcement and the government ultimately do not control the people. Control is an illusion, such as the illusion that the mahout controls the elephant. When the elephant loses his mind, the mahout gets flattened. Happens every time.”
The Murkan elephant is on the verge of losing its mind. The mahouts will end up flattened, but not until after a long and terrible struggle.
Oh boy, the lone gunman thing again, plus he was a returned Afghan war vet and his place was full of rifles and bad books and instructions, etc. He certainly looks like the usual pissed-off and sullen type we’ve seen so much of over the years.
So I see we now have the Accepted Narrative and the appropriate utterings from the AG and Field Marshal Rodham. Nothing else to see here, folks, move along now…
just getting back online. Was doing work stuff, and then kid bedtime stuff, and then my internet was out for several hours….
” Nick, if you come across a decent used one, please let me know if it’s surplus to your needs.”
I don’t know decent from POS. Something I should look more closely at for sure. I was coming across them at almost every sale for a while, but lately I haven’t seen any. Lots of CPAP machines now. I was looking because there are some cool micro-torch projects that use a concentrator instead of an O2 bottle with the fuel gas. It’s very strange how some things come in waves.
I did get an O2 setup and spare bottle. I’m looking for an AED, but they usually come up in big lots at the surplus auctions. Stryker gurneys appear to hold their value very well… I’d like to see a list of gear that one might like to have in an outbuilding with a stainless steel workbench, good lighting, and a tile floor. A couple of patient monitors, pulse ox, respirations, etc would probably be a start. On the science-y side I’m guessing hot and cold plates, good optical microscope, centrifuge, table top oven, pressure cooker, some glassware….
nick
zerohedge is reporting:
4 Shot, 1 Killed After Black Gunman Fires At Passing Cars On Tennessee Highway, Targeting Police, Whites
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-08/one-dead-after-black-gunman-shoots-passing-cars-tennessee-highway-targeting-police-w
That seems to be in addition to the officer shot in the neck outside St Louis…
n
And Daily Mail:
Police officer and suspect shot in Georgia after man ‘called 911 to report break-in before ambushing cop’
Stephen Paul Beck, 22, allegedly shot police officer Randall Hancock
Beck is accused of calling 911 to report a break-in before ambushing cop
Hancock was shot multiple times but returned fire, taking down suspect
Beck is in a serious condition but Hancock is stable and will recover
Shootings came after gunman killed five police officers in Dallas Thursday
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3680931/Man-exchanges-gunfire-Georgia-police-officer.html
With any luck and hope at all, maybe this chit will pass now, once the initial copycat novelty wears off and they see what happens to perps. I doubt very many of our home-grown assholes are as suicidal as the musloid scum. But perhaps we’ve exhausted our supply of hope and luck by now….