Guns, Cars, and Tech

Category: Scorecards

  • Name! That! Party!

    So three guys were arrested in a prostitution sting last week here in Nashville. One of them was a Metro Councilman.

    Check out the stories from local media:
    WSMV
    WTVF
    WRKN
    The Tennessean (incidentally, they endorsed Banks in the last election, but try finding that information in any of their stories)

    When the story first broke, reporters went out of their way to point out he was a board member of the Governor’s Books from Birth program. No mentions of his employment by Democrat Mayor Karl Dean. That changed over the weekend, but it’s still odd that they make sure you know that one of the other people arrested was “a tea party founder” without giving any clues to the political affiliation of a POLITICIAN.

    And just in case you had any doubt about which party he is in, check out this gushing editorial by noted idiot Gail Kerr, who gets bonus points for pointing out in the same article that Newt Gingrich had an affair.

    Remember the rule: If a Democrat gets caught doing something bad, well the law is probably wrong or he just made a mistake. If a Republican gets caught doing the same thing, it’s proof the entire party is filled with hypocrites.

  • Sign that we’re winning

    A couple days ago, I was listening to NPR on the way into work and heard them run the promo for that days “Fresh Air.” Oddly enough, it was going to be a discussion with the author of Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun.  Sadly, I wasn’t able to catch either airings of it and I haven’t listened to the recording on NPR’s website (I plan to this afternoon), but the write up makes it sound like an objective look.

  • Like you and me, only better

    If YOU get caught selling counterfeit goods, expect to get raided, your stuff to get confiscated, and spend some time in prison.

    If a Detective gets caught selling counterfeit goods, expect them to keep their jobs while authorities decide whether or not to demote them. Jailtime is for those other people.

    Please update your scorecards.

  • Update your scorecards: Business Edition

    Refusing to make a cake for someone because they’re gay: You’re a bigot

    Calling on other people to boycott a bakery because of their religious beliefs: Totally okay!

    Maybe she should have told them she’s a Muslim. That would make it okay, I think.

    A pox on all of them, but be consistent, dammit!

  • Update your scorecards: Protest Violence

    If the right has a protest movement, the potential for violence must be trumpeted on every evening newscast for weeks.

    If the left has a protest movement, the actual violence must be downplayed, dismissed, obfuscated, or blamed on agent provocateurs.

    Please update your scorecards.

  • Yeah, that’s fair

    When officers repeatedly electrocute suspects until the suspects die, it’s not the officers’ fault: It’s “Excited Delirium”

    If a suspect struggles with an officer and then later that officer has a fatal reaction to painkillers prescribed by a licensed physician, compounded by emphysema and obesity, it’s “reckless homicide”

    Because, you know, the suspect should have known that the doctor was going to kill the officer.

  • A tale of two executions

    Two men were executed on the same night earlier this week. One was in Texas, the other was in Georgia.

    Both men did not know their victims. Both men admit to being involved in the initial altercation that ultimately led to death of the victim. Both men claim to not have been the person to actually commit the murders they were accused of.

    One man became a cause celebre, and a reason to examine why we have a death penalty in the first place.

    The other man became a reason to examine why we are so nice to people we execute.

    I’m not sure what to make of it.

    FTR, I think both men were guilty as sin and should’ve been shot on scene.

  • Just curious

    If Hurricane Irene hits Boston and floods the Big Dig, or hits NYC and floods Manhattan, will it be Obama’s fault?

    Katrina was all Bush’s fault, and he told everyone to GTFO.