World News Korner

Courtesy of Mediaite:

Speaking about his 20-year-old deceased son, Richard Martinez told the press: “Our son Chris Martinez and six others are dead. Our family has a message for every parent out there: You don’t think it will happen to your child until it does.”

After explaining how beloved his son was, and how hurtful his loss is for the family, Martinez took aim at those he believes should be held responsible for the mass shooting:

"Why did Chris die? Chris died because of craven, irresponsible politicians and the NRA. They talk about gun rights. What about Chris’s right to live? When will this insanity stop? When will enough people say, “Stop this madness!” Too many have died. We should say to ourselves, “Not one more!”

I feel this father's pain, and share his frustration with a political system that seems unwilling to stand up to an organization that is pushing policies that put us ALL at risk.

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Courtesy of Raw Story:

A Florida firefighter is under arrest after an attempt at a drunken hook-up ended with her shooting at a man who was trying to leave her apartment because, as he put it, ” things were getting weird,” according to News10.

Janeen McKenzie, a 46-year-old firefighter employed by Pompano Beach Fire Rescue, was arrested after sheriffs deputies arrived at the scene finding her standing over and pointing a gun at Anthony Santos as he knelt in the street.

According to Santos, he met McKenzie at a bar and agreed to drive her home in her car because she was too intoxicated to drive. Santos arranged for a friend to follow in another car, but changed plans after discovering that McKenzie’s home was within walking distance of his apartment.

After arriving at McKenzie’s home she invited Santos in for a drink, pouring a glass of wine for both of them. Santos said he took a sip of his then set it aside as they went into her bedroom and began kissing.

According to Santos, McKenzie pressed her body against him and took his hands, placing them around her neck, indicating that she found being choked arousing.

Apparently when he tried to leave, because "things were getting weird,'" she pulled out a gun and started waving it around.

The gun went off and then when he tried to make a break for it, she started firing shots at the ground and demanded that he kneel down.

That's when police arrived, at which time the drunken lunatic tried to accuse Santos of choking her, and that she was only defending herself.

Fortunately for the guy, there were no bruises on her and she smelled like a distillery.

Kind of hard to use the "stand your ground" defense when you can barely stand.

And people wonder why I don't date anymore.

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So the folks over at Estately Blog have laid out a sampling of internet searches from each state.

Of course I only care about Alaska's so I thought I would share those here.

Adult Friend Finder: It gets lonely up here. What do you expect?

AR-15: Alaskans LOVE their guns!

Bestiality: Still lonely.

Bird Watching: Yeah this is the wrong blog to explain this one.

Couch Surfing: This must be from the younger crowd, who alternately crash at different friend's houses instead of getting a permanent place of their own, or more recently use it as a way to travel while saving money on hotel stays.

Mail Order Bride: Did I mention how lonely it can be up here?

Pull Tabs: Alaska's substitute for casinos. I have never participated, but it is a big thing up here, especially with the native community.

Sarah Palin: I think that might just be me. Everybody else up here seems completely uninterested.

I an not particularly surprised by these examples, but I have to imagine there were many others like Hawaii (Alaska's favorite vacation destination.), weather (Alaskans are obsessed with this.), and PornHub (Have I ever mentioned how lonely it is up here?)

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I love this: "Folks we had a televised, celebrated, interracial gay kiss during the NFL draft. The culture war is over, and we won!"



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You want to know the problem? It's those guys over there.

Thursday night President Obama spoke at a fundraiser, and this time he did not hold back when calling out the Republican party for their obstructionism.

Here are his words courtesy of Salon:

You’ll hear if you watch the nightly news or you read the newspapers that, well, there’s gridlock, Congress is broken, approval ratings for Congress are terrible. And there’s a tendency to say, a plague on both your houses. But the truth of the matter is that the problem in Congress is very specific. We have a group of folks in the Republican Party who have taken over who are so ideologically rigid, who are so committed to an economic theory that says if folks at the top do very well then everybody else is somehow going to do well; who deny the science of climate change; who don’t think making investments in early childhood education makes sense; who have repeatedly blocked raising a minimum wage so if you work full-time in this country you’re not living in poverty; who scoff at the notion that we might have a problem with women not getting paid for doing the same work that men are doing.

They, so far, at least, have refused to budge on bipartisan legislation to fix our immigration system, despite the fact that every economist who’s looked at it says it’s going to improve our economy, cut our deficits, help spawn entrepreneurship, and alleviate great pain from millions of families all across the country.

“So the problem…is not that the Democrats are overly ideological — because the truth of the matter is, is that the Democrats in Congress have consistently been willing to compromise and reach out to the other side. There are no radical proposals coming out from the left. When we talk about climate change, we talk about how do we incentivize through the market greater investment in clean energy. When we talk about immigration reform there’s no wild-eyed romanticism. We say we’re going to be tough on the borders, but let’s also make sure that the system works to allow families to stay together…

When we talk about taxes we don’t say we’re going to have rates in the 70 percent or 90 percent when it comes to income like existed here 50, 60 years ago. We say let’s just make sure that those of us who have been incredibly blessed by this country are giving back to kids so that they’re getting a good start in life, so that they get early childhood education…Health care — we didn’t suddenly impose some wild, crazy system. All we said was let’s make sure everybody has insurance. And this made the other side go nuts — the simple idea that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, nobody should go bankrupt because somebody in their family gets sick, working within a private system.

So when you hear a false equivalence that somehow, well, Congress is just broken, it’s not true. What’s broken right now is a Republican Party that repeatedly says no to proven, time-tested strategies to grow the economy, create more jobs, ensure fairness, open up opportunity to all people.

Now THAT was a thing of beuaty!

This is exactly what the President, and the rest of the Democrats, need to keep hammering home.

The government is not broken, but it contains some broken or faulty cogs, and if the American people want it to start running smoothly again they need to replace the parts that are not working.

With Democrats. (Just in case my analogy was not clear enough.)

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Courtesy of the Santa Barbara Independent:

A lone gunman killed six people and injured seven more during a shooting rampage Friday night in Isla Vista that Sheriff Bill Brown called “the work of a madman.” The suspect was killed after firing on responding deputies, but it’s not clear if the fatal wound to his head was self-inflicted or the result of return fire.

The seven injured victims are being treated at Santa Barbara Cottage hospital — some for gunshot wounds, others for trauma sustained when the suspect crashed his car as he was pursued — and one recently underwent surgery for life-threatening injuries.

Initial reports suggested that two suspects were involved in the shooting, but Brown said during a 2:30 a.m. press conference Saturday morning that the gunman acted alone. Brown said the man was armed with a semi-automatic handgun and that investigators are working to determine if other weapons were involved.

The names of the victims and the suspect have not been released. Brown, however, confirmed that written and video material left by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger of Calabasas in the hours and days leading up to the shooting is being reviewed as evidence in the massacre. “It appears to be connected,” he said.

The suspect left a video entitled "Elliot Rodger’s Retribution" (Old video link replaced with new one.) in which he laid out exactly what he was going to do and blamed it on girls not being attracted to him, and stating that he was a virgin that had never even been kissed even though he is the "perfect guy."

The video is incredibly disturbing so watch it at your own risk.

So much for the NSA spying on everything we do. If THIS did not get their attention it is hard to imagine what would.

I assume that the NRA will suggest that the only way to prevent other slaughters such as this one is to arm every sorority girl in America. Because heaven forbid that there is a lunatic out there who CANNOT get their hands on a weapon when they have murder on the mind.

Update: Apparently both his parents and social worker tried to warn police:

A lawyer for Peter Rodger said that his son, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome as a child, had been receiving psychiatric treatment from several mental health professionals.

His parents contacted police after being alarmed by earlier YouTube videos “regarding suicide and the killing of people”, said Alan Shifman, the attorney.

The police interviewed Rodger and found him to be “polite and kind”, though noted that he had trouble making friends, he said.

A social worker, who worked with Rodger, also contacted police about him last week. Police said they were investigating a video in which a man complained of rejection by women and threatened revenge.

Looks like there were people trying to help him, but they simply did not understand the depth of his anger and feelings of isolation.

Personally I think that the minimum that should have been done was to make sure he had no access to weapons. I have worked with a lot of angry, and depressed, young men, and keeping guns away from them is always our top priority.

Update 2: It's even worse than we thought.

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Courtesy of Radar Online:

Robertson’s controversial beliefs first made waves in December 2013, when he likened homosexuality to bestiality in an interview with GQ magazine. After public outcry and a temporary suspension from A&E, Robertson released a public apology that read in part, “I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity. We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.”

That benevolent attitude was nowhere to be seen, however, during a fiery sermon at Whites Ferry Road Church in his hometown of West Monroe, La., on Easter Sunday, April 20.

“What’s [Jesus] coming back for? …” Robertson asked the congregation. “To bring salvation to those who are waiting for it. Are you waiting on Jesus? Or are you afraid to see that sky busting, you see him coming? You got two lists.”

“I gave some guy one list,” he said, apparently referring to the bombshell GQ interview. “You say, were they mad at you about that list? They were mad at me.” Indeed, A&E briefly suspended him from the hit show.

“You say, why’d they get mad at you?” he continued. “‘Cuz instead of acknowledging their sin, like you had better do, they railed against me for giving them the truth about their sins. Don’t deceive yourselves.”

He shouted, “You want the verse? The news media didn’t even know it was a verse! They thought I was just mouthing off. Is homosexual behavior a sin? The guy asked me. I said, do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived.”

“Neither the sexually immoral, nor the idolators nor adulterers nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders, nor thieves, nor greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God,” Robertson blasted, paraphrasing a verse from Corinthians in the Bible.

The article goes on to point out that Duck Dynasty's ratings have fallen 40% since Robertson's initial rant was published in GQ magazine.

Perhaps after this one the show will disappear altogether.

In fact by August the biggest audience they might attract will be the smattering of folks that show up to see them at the Alaska State Fair.

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Courtesy of Freakout Nation.

Here is a portion of the statement sent to Open Carry members:

Whereas, our mission is to get open carry of handguns passed in Texas, we must once again adjust in a way that shines a positive light on our efforts, our members, and our respective organizations. We have decided the prudent path, to further our goals, is to immediately cease taking long guns into corporate businesses unless invited. Black Powder revolvers have proven to be very effective and align with our goal of legalizing open carry with a handgun. We do understand that not everyone will be able to afford one, but if you can, we are requesting you do so. Almost every leader has gone to Black powder for a reason. It works.

For all further open carry walks with long guns, we are adopting the following unified protocol and general policy to best ensure meeting our respective legislative mission to legalize open carry:

1) Always notify local law enforcement prior to the walk, especially the day of
2) Carry Flags and signs during your walk to increase awareness
3) Carry the long gun on a sling, not held
4) Do not go into corporate businesses without prior permission, preferably not at all
5) If asked to leave, do so quietly and do not make it a problem
6) Do not post pics publicly if you do get permission and are able to OC in a cooperate business
7) Do not go into businesses with TABC signs posted with a long gun (Ever)
8) If at all possible, keep to local small businesses that are 2A friendly.

I mentioned earlier that these idiots were actually helping the gun control advocates, and damaging their cause, with their "Rambo goes to lunch" antics.

Now it looks as if they are finally starting to figure that out as well.

All little slow on the uptake, but they're getting there.

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This is coming to Alaska courtesy of the Alaska Republican Assembly, which bills itself as the conservative wing of the Republican party.

In other words, Teabaggers.

According to the site they have not only Rafael Cruz showing up to spread a little Right Wing insanity, they also have disgraced Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, who tried and failed to take down Harry Reid in 2010, and who now serves as president of something called the National Federation of Assemblies, who refer to themselves as the "Republican wing of the Republican party."

In other words, Teabaggers.

And to round things off there is also former sheriff Richard Mack, who during the Bundy standoff famously suggested that they "should put all of the women up front" in case the federal agents started firing at them.

In other other words, CRAZY Teabagger!

I know what you're thinking.

With this amount of crazy how can Palin NOT be drawn to it like moth to a batshit crazy flame?

Well she is not on the list of speakers, but then neither is Joe Miller, and you just KNOW he is going to be there.

So she may show up, and she may not.

But if she does, she might actually be one of the saner people in attendance. Imagine that!

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