THE CRAZY YEARS

A federal judge ruled that a landlord had to pay graffiti taggers $6.7 million for the crime of painting his building and blotting out their graffiti. There is, evidently, a law that makes it a crime to vandalize vandals. Only in America...

This art, on the other hand, can just go fuc# itself according to the law of vandals.

AWFUL OVERWHELMING COMPULSION

Yep, the democrats in Congress are going to yield to the base impulse that motivates them the most and they are going to shut down the government of the people, by the people, for the people because democrats think illegal aliens are way way way more important than mere subjects of their particular realm.

You can see the same idiocy in California where local governments are deciding to divert millions of taxpayer $ to hire legal defense teams for the illegal aliens trying and fighting to stay in our country. That's right little Suzy and Bobbie, the libraries in your towns will close so smug lawyers can be paid $300.00/hour to defend the indefensible. Those potholes in municipal roads and homeless shelters will have to be put on hold because democrats demand all your $ go to the so-called dreamers.

Let's see how it goes.

Judge to smug illegal alien and smug lawyers, "... entered the country illegally without proper immigration papers and documentation and failed to leave, how do you plead?"

Smug, "Not Guilty!"

Judge, "Documented felon here in the country illegally, no proof of legal residence, no meaningful birth certificate. Guilty and out you go."

That's not how it plays out in court but the meat of the matter is laid bare here on these web pages and there really isn't much more that can be said other than the ritualistic artful dodging performed by any performer who gets the people's representatives to pay $300.00/hour for theater of the absurd. A good liar can draw it out for hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars. California is stuffed with good liars.

I'm not altogether sure the democrats know what dreams are. They are content with the dreams of rape and pillage that seem to motivate so many criminals who entered our country illegally and they sure don't know anything about Martin Luther King's dreams but that probably would be asking too much of them. I see that 55% of people who vote democrat are illiterate and therefor unfamiliar with the truth and blinded by the propaganda put out by the various ministries of truth dominated by the liberal progressives in the media, PBS, NPR and blue state governments.

Too bad about your libraries kids but remember when the dreamers come after you? Dial 911.

I took this picture at the Del Mar library

A TOUCH OF OUCH

Saw this at instapundit and it's too good to not post here. If you read the story you'll see that the most senior members of the FBI took it on themselves to send Martin Luther King, Jr, a letter telling him that he should kill himself. If that sounds a little more humane than the FBI we've come to know, it's only because the Supreme Court and the rest of the judicial system now allows anyone with a badge to just shoot anyone without a badge. Things were a little different in the 1960s so the FBI resorted to its famous 'soft power' approach to dealing with uppity citizens.

James Comey posted in his usual sanctimonious style and was thoroughly owned:

GOOGLE'S FASCIST FACE

Found at MoonBattery. It strikes me as perfectly on target and an accurate depiction. Where in the world did we get all these damned fascists who insist that only they have the right to speak in America? Yes, I know, they got it from their socialist and communist professors at schools all over the country. Maybe it is time to end all public support for all non-science higher education. OTOH, they think global warming is science so there's still way too much wriggle room for the kind of people that think Che was a really nice guy who followed Stalin's advice on how to make omelettes in Cuba.

CRAZY MAD NEW YORKERS

When it comes to 50 shades of reality New Yorkers can always be trusted to come up with a couple of hundred new shades. They have topped a long list of arrant and vicious stupidity by declaring war on Big Oil. 

The Chief Blowhard of New York City described NY NY's war plan thusly:

Blasio focused on the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, calling it “a tragedy wrought by the actions of the fossil fuel companies.” He detailed the 44 people who died in New York as a result of Sandy, as well as the estimated $19 billion in damage it caused. “That is the face of climate change,” de Blasio said. “That is what it means in human and real terms.” 

The moron has gone on record declaring that all hurricanes and even tropical depressions are caused by oil companies and have been ever since daybreak on planet earth 3 billion years ago.

De Blasio claimed fossil fuel companies were complicit in worsening climate change, because they knew of the problem decades ago but continued to sell a product to Americans that contributed to only more greenhouse-gas emissions. 

It's always a treat to see any idiot this divorced from reality. I'm sure what he meant to say was that the oil companies should have aggressively pushed the nation into 100% nuclear power back in the 50's so we didn't suffer such devastating global warming. As I recall, they tried that but morons and kleptocrats like Blasio killed atomic energy with every erg of political power they could activate.

“The city of New York is taking on these five giants because they are the central actors, they are the first ones responsible for this crisis and they should not get away with it anymore,” he said, adding: “We’re going after those who have profited. And what a horrible, disgusting way to profit — the way it puts so many people’s lives in danger.”

As usual, it comes as a horrible shock to folks like Blasio that the people who profited from oil sales are the share holders who reaped dividends and sold increasingly valuable stocks year after year since Rockefeller created Standard Oil in 1870.

If there was any justice, the oil companies being defamed by New York should either cut off all sales in New York City and cut all supplies to power stations that provide power to New York City. They should also shut down fuel deliveries to JFK and LaGuardia. If that seems unreasonable they should all tack on a $20/gallon climate defense fund surcharge to every gallon of fuel sold in New York City or to New York City.

Why do idiots always think they're sticking it to the man when they elect boobs who think they can tax corporations into paying "their fair share" and then get all pissed off when the corporations simply turn the costs around and jack up prices to the consumers who have to buy their products? Look at cigarettes. Not 15 years ago they cost a $1/pack. Now they cost $7.50/pack because the states won the law suit blaming Big Tobacco for all the harm that cigarettes do. They didn't ban them and forbid their sale or use, they just tacked truly onerous taxes on each pack sold which the tobacco companies all turned into higher and higher prices charged to the consumer.

What is New York City's plan for dealing with power outages on the scale Puerto Rico is currently enjoying? If the courts find that oil is responsible then the only responsible course of action is to shut off the supply of oil to New York City and possibly the state. Nobody wants to compound a felony.

In other news, I heard on THE PEOPLE'S RADIO that European insurance companies were now refusing to insure coal companies in Europe. They seem to think that with law subject to retroactive and punitive damages every time the political winds in Europe blow green that the potential costs for paying off global warming damages in Europe alone are incalculable and unpayable and they have decided to go all serpentine in an effort to dodge the inevitable government hammer.

CITY OF HATE - - SEATTLE

Why do cities enjoying total democratic party control always opt to grind the poor into the dirt?

I get that big city democrats are the stupidest people in America but why do they always aim their control measures and their taxes at the poorest among us? Every time they try to enact their social justice cause they ignore the effect which other cities endured as a result of passing the same stupid regressive laws and taxes and yet they do it anyway.

In a real world they would be met by voters armed with Cluebat 2018™

Cluebat 2018™

ROSENSTEIN HAS TO GO

Read the letter and ask yourself why it took the threat of jail to get the Justice Department to simply do what the law requires and furnish to Congress materials subpoenaed by Congress? There was no hint of any claim of Executive Privilege and there is no shred of credibility for any claim that the materials involve national security since the FBI went out of the way and dodged truth to claim, unambiguously, that there was no hint of any violation of national laws on espionage when Hillary set up her own private email server and ran Top Secret and above email through it and had her Chief of Staff Mills and her bodygirl Huma send Top Secret information over that unclassified network that Hillary created and then had destroyed in the very teeth of Congressional subpoenas and a DOJ/FBI investigation.

Rosenstein at DOJ and every other peer and subordinate of his need to be fired, jailed or reassigned to the Alaska office in Nome. They should be joined by the top echelons of the disgraced FBI who covered themselves and their office with filth and squatted in the ruins of a proud institution apparently for the sole purpose of continuing to provide cover fire for Hillary, Lynch and the rest of the apparatchiks of the Obama administration.

ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA

Things have improved a little in the Navy since Joe Fyffe's day. All The Ships At Sea was in my father's library when I was young and I read the stories and the rest of William Lederer's books by the time I was 12. The story below was memorable because that's pretty much the Navy I joined.

I reported to my first ship after graduation, commissioning, 20 weeks of school in Newport and a trip to the far side of the world. I didn't get paid my travel claim for months after I submitted it. When it was paid the Disbursing Officer had a chat with me and told me I was not eligible for per diem the whole time and thus owed the Navy a lot of money and instead of getting a lot of money he was forced to take it out of my pay checks for the next year, he said. I allowed as how he was wrong and told him so.

About 2 months later, still steaming around in the Indian Ocean he and I talked again. He told me that he was mistaken and my order modification canceling Legal School left out the per diem I was authorized and he gave me a huge check and said it would be simpler all around if I just cashed this and let the dead horse continue to deduct pay from my checks for the rest of the year. I was OK with that.

When I went to Department Head School years later the same sort of thing happened. I didn't get paid my travel and per diem for about 5 months of school and travel. I waited several months, patiently, and then went to the disbursing office where a vicious civilian clerk from Hell assured me that she would get around to me when Hell itself froze over. I was left not unmoved by her sneering contempt and asked where I could find the CO's office. She didn't want to tell me so I said just point to his office and she sneered that he was a she.

I went down the hall and around a few corners and found the CO who listened to my complaint, called in the supervisor for the Clerk who Sneers and ordered her to cut me a check for the full amount. About a week later she contacted me to tell me that the holdup had been due to waiting for a receipt for my lodging in Newport and that it turns out that all of those receipts went up in flames when the building they were in burned to the ground.

I ran into something much worse that year I spent in Bahrain as a LCDR on the Staff of NAVCENT. I coudn't get paid. I had to fly back to Moffet Field and flame spray some people to get them to pay me.

Oddly enough, once I moved up one more time in rank I didn't run into any of these little problems ever again. It was weird because one of my skippers, upon his promotion to Commander, handed me his LCDR shoulder boards and pronounced as how Lieutenants, Junior Grade, Lieutenants and Lieutenant Commanders were all  the same, they were just Lieutenants. I sure got treated the same by every pay clerk and office until I reached Commander.

The Navy vs. Joe Fyffe 

Shortly after she steamed slowly into
the Whangpoo River, the Coolidge was met by the pilot
boat. Customs officials, newspapermen, and travel
agency representatives came out at the same time. So did
Ensign Hymie O'Toole, my official welcoming party.
Hymie had arrived in Shanghai a month ahead of me
and was the communications officer in the USS Dale.

None of the passengers could disembark for two
hours; Hymie and I sat in the bar talking over old
times and planning liberties of the future. "You know,"
said Hymie, looking over the luxurious lounge in the
Coolidge, "it's pretty damned marvelous that the Navy
sends you out this way. And all for free. You even get
an allowance for tipping the servants."

"It's nice all right."

Hymie said, "It didn't used to be this way. Formerly,
if you came by commercial, you paid your own way
and then tried to collect later."

"This cost the Navy about six hundred dollars; I
never could have scraped up that much cash."

"Think of the old days, though, said Hymie dream-
ily. Every time an officer had orders, especially if he
had a family, he put out a couple of thousand bucks.
That's why officers were always in debt. A distant rela-
tive of mine, Commodore Joe Fyffe, was the first one to
fight that system. In fact it was through his efforts that
legislation finally got passed."

I said, "Commodore Fyffe a relative of yours?"

"He was my grandfather's third cousin on my fa-
ther's side and he was always fighting with stuffed
shirts/' Hymie's eyes misted with sentiment. He or-
dered a couple of neat whiskeys. "To Commodore Joe
Fyffe" he toasted, "the Paul Bunyan of all the
oceans!"

He called for more drinks. Between the six or eight
toasts which followed, Hymie told me about Commo-
dore Fyffe's fight against the old law which decreed
that officers under orders lay out the money for their
own expenses.

When, in August, 1870, Lieutenant Commander Jo-
seph P. Fyffe, USN, received orders to the Orient via
San Francisco, he was a happy guy. It meant command
of a fine frigate, an independent command.

The only leak in the bilges was that travelling to San
Francisco cost money and Joe Fyffe didn't have any.
He already was in debt and didn't want to borrow any
more.

"The Navy should pay for my transportation" he
said, and forthwith wrote a statement to the paymaster
at New London requesting that his travel expenses be
paid ahead of time by the Navy. The paymaster en-
dorsed the statement: "Custom and Regulations have
determined that the officer pay his own way and sub-
mit an expense account upon reaching his destination."

So Joe communicated with the Secretary of the Navy
and complained over the financial hardships heaped
upon naval personnel. He requested that the Navy De-
partment either lay out the money, or supply him with
railroad tickets or transportation via naval vessel.

The reply to his letter came, not from the Secretary,
but from the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, a can-
tankerous old admiral.

To: Lieutenant Commander J. P. Fyffe.
In reply to your letter of the i8th. Your request is
contrary to Navy Regulations. Carry out your
orders.

Joe Fyffe cursed. Then he took a magnifying glass
and carefully studied his orders.

ON OR ABOUT 1 8 AUGUST YOU WILL DEPART FROM
THE NAVAL STATION NEW LONDON FOR SAN FRAN-
CISCO X UPON ARRIVING THERE REPORT TO THE
SENIOR OFFICER PRESENT FOR TRANSPORTATION VIA
NAVAL VESSEL TO THE ASIATIC SQUADRON. UPON AR-
RIVAL IN SHANGHAI . . . [and there followed several
paragraphs giving instructions about what to do in the Orient]

The orders terminated with the normal paragraph,

WHILE CARRYING OUT THESE ORDERS YOU WILL KEEP
THE BUREAU OF NAVIGATION INFORMED OF YOUR WHERE-
ABOUTS. There was nothing in his orders that stated
when he was supposed to arrive in San Francisco or by
what means he must travel.

Joe donned his best uniform, put his orders in a
waterproof envelope, and strapped his sword to his
small handbag. At sunrise on the 25th of August, he
walked out of New London and headed westward for
San Francisco.

By sundown he reached East Haddam where he sent
the following telegram to the Navy Department, Wash-
ington, D. C.

25 AUGUST 1870

TO: CHIEF BUREAU NAVIGATION
FROM: LT COMDR J P FYFFE USN
COMPLIANCE ORDERS NUMBER 1998 LT COMDR
FYFFE EN ROUTE NEW LONDON TO SAN FRANCISCO X
ON FOOT X THIS TELEGRAM TO KEEP BUREAU IN-
FORMED MY WHEREABOUTS X MADE GOOD TWENTY
TWO MILES THIS DATE X SPENDING EVENING IN HAY-
LOFT IN MT PARNASSUS X VERY RESPECTFULLY
FYFFE

Every evening for the next few days he sent a tele-
gram.

26 AUGUST 1870

TO: CHIEF BUREAU NAVIGATION
FROM: LT COMDR J P FYFFE USN
COMPLIANCE ORDERS NUMBER 1998 AM EN ROUTE
NEW LONDON TO SAN FRANCISCO X ON FOOT X KEEP-
ING BUREAU POSTED MY WHEREABOUTS X MADE GOOD
THIRTY ONE MILES THIS DATE X BY GRACIOUS CON-
SENT MAYOR OF BRISTOL AM SPENDING NIGHT IN
MAYOR'S STABLES X HAVE NOTICED HE HAS HYBRID
MULES SPECIALLY BRED FOR TROPICS X SUGGEST
NAVY INVESTIGATE X VERY RESPECTFULLY FYFFE

27 AUGUST 1870
TO: CHIEF BUREAU NAVIGATION
FROM: LT COMDR J P FYFFE USN
COMPLIANCE ORDERS 1998 AM EN ROUTE NEW
LONDON TO SAN FRANCISCO X ON FOOT X KEEPING
BUREAU INFORMED MY WHEREABOUTS X MADE GOOD
ONLY FIFTEEN MILES THIS DATE X RAINED ALL DAY X
STAYING OVERNIGHT AT LITCHFIELD WITH MY FA-
THERS FRIEND GENERAL HOLMES X I FIND STANDARD
BOOTS WORN BY NAVAL OFFICERS INADEQUATE FOR
PROLONGED WALKING X SUGGEST SURGEON GENERAL
INESTIGATE X VERY RESPECTFULLY FYFFE

28 AUGUST 1870
TO: CHIEF BUREAU NAVIGATION
FROM: LT COMDR J P FYFFE USN
COMPLIANCE ORDER 1998 EN ROUTE NEW LONDON
TO SAN FRANCISCO X ON FOOT X KEEPING BUREAU IN-
FORMED MY WHEREABOUTS X SPENDING NIGHT
LAKEVILLE X LOVELY COUNTRY EXPECT BUY HOME
HERE SOON AS GET REIMBURSED TRAVEL VOUCHER
SUBMITTED BY ME TO NAVY THREE YEARS AGO X TO-
MORROW I ENTER NEW YORK STATE X VERY RESPECT-
FULLY FYFFE

29 AUGUST 1870
TO: CHIEF BUREAU NAVIGATION
FROM: LT COMDR J P FYFFE USN
COMPLIANCE ORDERS 1998 AM EN ROUTE NEW
LONDON TO SAN FRANCISCO X ON FOOT X KEEPING
BUREAU INFORMED MY WHEREABOUTS X MADE
TWENTY EIGHT MILES THIS DATE DESPITE BADLY
WORN SHOES X PEOPLE NOT FAMILIAR NAVY UNI-
FORMS THIS AREA X GREAT CROWD WALKED PART
WAY WITH ME X I SANG THEM SEA CHANTIES X POPU-
LACE THINKS IT GREAT SIGN DEMOCRACY FOR COM-
MANDING OFFICER OF SHIP TO WALK THREE THOU-
SAND MILES TO NEW STATION X POLICE CHIEF HUD-
SON NEW YORK HAS GIVEN ME BEST CELL IN JAIL FOR
OVERNIGHT X HE HAS DELOUSING LIQUID VERY EF-
FECTIVE X MAILING QUART SAMPLE WASHINGTON
FOR TRYOUT ONBOARD SHIP X VERY RESPECTFULLY
FYFFE

30 AUGUST 1870
TO: CHIEF BUREAU NAVIGATION
FROM: LT COMDR J P FYFFE USN
COMPLIANCE ORDERS NUMBER 1998 AM EN ROUTE
NEW LONDON TO SAN FRANCISCO X ON FOOT X KEEP-
ING BUREAU POSTED MY WHEREABOUTS X ARRIVED
ALBANY THIS DATE X REQUESTED RECRUITING OFFI-
CER BE AUTHORIZED ISSUE ME NEW SHOES X SHOES
FELL APART NOON TODAY X ENTERED ALBANY BARE-
FOOTED X WILL REMAIN SEWARD HOTEL TWO DAYS
AWAITING ANSWER X COMFORTABLE X EARNING MY
KEEP AS BARTENDER X LOCAL RUM FAR SUPERIOR
THAT SERVED IN NAVY X AM SENDING SAMPLE X VERY
RESPECTFULLY FYFFE

The next evening the recruiting officer sent a messen-
ger to the Seward Hotel requesting Lt. Commander Joe
Fyffe's presence. In full uniform, wearing borrowed
shoes, Joe went to the recruiting station.

"I have a telegram for you sir," said the recruiting
officer. "Here it is."

31 AUGUST 1870
TO: RECRUITING OFFICER ALBANY
FROM: CHIEF BUREAU NAVIGATION
PASS FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO LIEUT COMDR J P
FYFFE USN NOW AT SEWARD HOTEL BAR QUOTE I
STRIKE MY COLOURS X SECRETARY OF NAVY AUTHOR-
IZES RECRUITING OFFICER ALBANY ISSUE YOU SHOES
AND PROVIDE YOU QUICKEST TRANSPORTATION FROM
ALBANY TO SAN FRANCISCO X DELOUSING LIQUID SUC-
CESS X ANTICIPATE MAKING IT STANDARD NAVY ISSUE
X EVEN CHIEF BUREAU NAVIGATION CAN LAUGH
WHEN OUTSMARTED X USS TUSCARORA DEPARTING
SAN FRANCISCO FOR SHANGHAI TWO WEEKS FROM
TODAY X UNQUOTE X RESPECTFULLY BUREAU NAVI-
GATION

Between hiccups Hymie O'Toole concluded, "And
that's how it is that guys like you have their first-class
passage on the Coolidge prepaid by the Navy."

Those interested in reading some of the rest of the stories in All The Ships At Sea can find an online copy here.

FACEBOOK AND ME

I only signed up for an account to keep a channel open to Texas and the West Coast and one particular little person. Today I found this waiting for me when I did my quarterly check to see what insane gibbering and Trump hatred my friends had come up with over the last 3 months:

I was happy to oblige.

They said they would get back to me after they checked it out and meanwhile they were closing my account for my security.

The warm fuzzy from that exchange is only starting to slowly fade away. Thank God that facebook is there to look out for my security. I mean, if you can't trust facebook, who can you trust?

AS SILENT AS A MARIACHI BAND

Bloomberg wrote this pathetic story about Silent Bob Mueller and it is remarkable how far the famed press has fallen. They can't even see the truth from the pit they now dwell in. Here's the headline:

Mueller's Silence Cuts Through Noise of Trump Russia Inquiries

Through all the controversy, threats and noise surrounding the Trump-Russia investigation, one person has been conspicuously silent: Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The former FBI director hasn’t uttered a single word in public since he was appointed in May to lead the probe into Russian meddling in the U.S. election despite increasingly combative attacks by Republicans and their allies on the FBI, the Justice Department and the integrity of his probe.

There is not a single word about the fact that Mueller's probers are leaking like the Titanic at every opportunity and have, in fact, never missed an opportunity to leak any damaging little thing they turn up so the press always knows what Mueller's up to even if he keeps his own dishonest lips zipped.

It’s an intentional strategy meant to convey the investigation’s credibility and seriousness in an age of 24-hour noise, amplified by cable news shows and Twitter, according to current and former U.S. officials who know Mueller personally or who have followed his work.

Mueller has avoided those pitfalls. He’s provided no ammunition to fuel Trump’s tweets and given no traction to Republicans who are trying to discredit the investigation of Russian interference in last year’s presidential campaign and whether anyone close to Trump colluded in it.

Srsly, Bloomberg has joined the New York Times, Newsweek and Time as a worthless waste of time, money and paper. They claim that Mueller's personal silence conveys the probity and seriousness of the bogus Russian Trump collusion and fail to note that it was the FBI and Democrats who created GPSFusion and it's dossier and brought the whole charade to undead life. It's no longer even worth opening the link to a Bloomberg article on anything. If they can miss the entire story about the insane bias of the team Mueller hand-selected to go after Trump and claim that Mueller is above it all, they can probably fail to notice a 3,000 point drop in the Dow.

FOAD LITTLE MAN

I don't really see law in this particular case.  People bought the property legally, fairly, in an upfront and transparent fashion and I'm not aware of any law that says some bunch of plutocrats can vote in council to just revoke it because their minions fuc'ed up and followed policy and put it up for sale like a boat, or a house, or a car, or an apartment building that the city had seized.

San Francisco Insists that this is theirs!!!

A couple of people buy a road in Baghdad on the Bay that was offered for sale by the city of San Francisco. They paid the money and they got the property almost a year ago. The Illuminati who live on the street are outraged and do what the Illuminati do and told their lickspittles in city hall to "DO SOMETHING! YOU MORONS!@!!!"

I'm not exactly sure how the City/County of Stu[id Fulx can obviate and neuter and transgender a transfer of deed/title, just because of the 'eewwwww it smells' in it.

I enjoy watching the pant suited velociraptors going after the entrepreneur. As you know, in the movies? They mostly win.

I will leave it as an exercise for the student to determine who I mean by "they". Good luck.

STIFLING TRUMP FOR FUN AND PROFIT AT TWITTER

I know there's a perfectly normal reason that the SJWs working at Twitter decided to emphasis their power over the freedom of speech by squelching President Trump's twitter account this evening. Way to go buffoons! If there was no impetus to push Twitter and facebook into forced breakup hearings in the government, this confirmed that bias exists in both twitter and facebook and that it is naturally destructive to democracy.

Way to go!

TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY'S SURPRISE

Who didn't think this was how Fusion GPS was funded and pointed in the proper direction?

It's exactly like all the out and out fascism going on, it's all being carried out by the militant left who have all agreed that nobody but them have any rights at all and certainly don't deserve any consideration. They're also the ones that tend to find threatening bananas, slippery dangerous looking bits of loose string and other imminent signs of a klan lynching in action. It's the new String Theory of Violent fASScism and its found on just about every liberal progressive college campus in America.

LRAD NOISING OFF IN CUBA

A number of Americans have been evacuated, again, from Cuba. Americans working in our embassy there have been suffering from some sort of acoustic attack directed at both the embassy and specific workers there. The State Department professes profound cluelessness about how their people were deafened or attacked in Cuba.

Here's a clue.

Back when I was working at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego, I went to LRAD's offices and we got a pretty good demo when they first went  public with their system which they proposed as a form of area denial non-lethal weapon. The sound is projected from the dish and while it is not as focused as a laser beam, it is channelled and remarkably loud at enormous ranges. We were looking at using them later for venue security at the Greek Olympics and set up a couple in our offices in Old Town. It's a pretty cool system and I don't see why it wouldn't work above the audible frequencies we can hear and still create considerable damage to the ear and nervous system.

Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) For Police Crowd Control

DIRECTIONALITY, POWER EFFICIENCY & RANGE

1. Highly intelligible communication up to 3,000 meters
2. Safely communicates beyond standoff distances to determine intent
3. Variable beam width for extended coverage
4. Clear, long range, directional communication
5. Establishes instant acoustic standoff perimeter

NEVER THREATEN A MAN WHO HAS A GUN

They came to knock down his house because he built without permission. What happened then was exactly what I would expect if the same sort of bureaucrat came to knock down a citizen's house here. 

I remember reading about this back when it happened. I can't believe that they all just stood around after he pulled a gun and threatened them after they threatened him. You can see the reporters practically snuggle up to him after he pulls out the gun.

Derwentside District Council - abolished in County Durham's local government shake-up two years ago - refused to approve the development in a rural area made up of conventional farms. The council, which was keen to create an environment conducive to tourism, was also worried the bungalow represented a precedent that would unlock the door to other housing on land where it would not normally be permitted. 

Dryden lost his planning appeal to keep the bungalow, although the Government inspector who chaired the hearing said some of the other buildings could stay because of the time they had been there. 

The wrangle dragged on for several months with the council attempting to reach a compromise that would avoid the need to bulldoze the bungalow. The last suggestion was that Dryden modify the building and use it for keeping livestock, but he rejected this. 

Finally, councillors decided there was no option but demolition, and the date was set for Thursday June 20 1991. On the day media gathered with Dryden on the land with his friends and supporters. 

Dryden had a letter from the Planning Inspectorate, which he had fixed to his gate, indicating no action could be taken until an appeal had been heard. The letter had given Dryden the belief the council was breaking the law, even though there were no grounds for an appeal. 

Harry Collinson came to the gate, looked at the letter and told him it contained nothing to prevent the demolition. Dryden replied that 'you might not be around to see the outcome of this disaster'. 

Mr Collinson told Dryden he could have time to move things out of the building and he moved to a point in the fence where the bulldozer was to come through.
Dryden went to his caravan and picked up a First World War revolver, strode back to the fence and drew the weapon on Mr Collinson, whose last words were to the TV crew: 'Can you get a shot of this gun?' 

Dryden then fired at the fleeing crowd, hoping to get the council's solicitor, Mike Dunstan, but instead hitting TV reporter Tony Belmont in the arm and PC Stephen Campbell in the backside. 

Dryden had denied murder but was convicted after a trial and jailed for life at Newcastle Crown Court in 1992. He was denied parole in 2001 after it was felt he showed little evidence of remorse.

There is nothing worse than petty tyrants. I became familiar with them in school and later, after I bought my first house in a neighborhood with an HOA that could have given the NKVD tips on how to make friends and influence people. They all have this fatal character flaw. They don't ever think that somebody will resist their petty demands and take it to the limit if they think they have to. As I looked at Dryden pull the gun, I knew that he had reached his limit and was going to open fire.

HATRED RUNS DEEP

We have slowly come to accept that some people are really deeply disturbed and top filled with hatred for people they don't even know. I'm not familiar with these people in the main since they were after my time at school and we just didn't seem to have them in the Navy when I was in or in the quiet places I lived afterwards such as Encinitas and MetroParkCentralis. They are a relatively new phenomenon and a most unwelcome one.

I kind of thought we were making progress when the Klan went down and George Wallace got shot. But, suddenly, every white person is a racist and all men are misogynists and people comfortable with their sex and their role in adult society as members of that binary sort are all homophobes. People don't just think it, they scream it and then they leap on one and try to bash your brains out with a bike lock or whatever sharp thing they have to hand.

This vicious beast speaks for every single one of her sort. You know them. They're the haters. They're antifa and black lives matter and the Ku Klux Klan and the actual NAZI scumbags that ran Germany and Austria into the ground back in the '40's. You hear her voice when you tune in any of the mass media or social networks because people like her are everywhere now. Here's what she had to say about the shooting in Las Vegas:

Hayley Geftman-Gold, who served as senior counsel for strategic transactions at CBS, posted to Facebook on Monday, “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing. I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters.”

CBS is finally getting attuned to the new optics of this country's winning electorate. They fired her sick diseased ass instantly. They have, at some level at least, come to understand that if they don't want their audience slashed another 50% they have to take dramatic action to stem the hatred that casually and constantly dribbles from the mouths of the people who work for them because we're sick of it and them.

HE WHO STANDS ALONE PLAYS ALONE

If this report is true it looks like the Oakland Raiders deliberately threw a game by letting the quarterback play alone on the field. I suspect it is true and that nobody will ever mention it again. Just think of all the punters and the over/unders who thought Oakland could win the game going in. Anywhere else it would be a major sports scandal. In this day and age it won't even be investigated.

A new report from The Armstrong and Getty Radio Show has sent shockwaves throughout the sports world after it was claimed that members of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders may have purposefully allowed their star quarterback to get sacked multiple times after he refused to kneel during the National Anthem.

If true, this would essentially mean that an NFL football game was illegally thrown over anger that one of the teams star white players did not believe that kneeling during the nations anthem was the correct way to protest supposed racial injustice in America.

In other words, an epic level scandal.

During the anthem, virtually the entire team was seen kneeling other than the teams coaches and star quarterback Derek Carr. Unfortunately, this may have not set well with the teams offensive line as they were apparently the players who spearheaded the entire idea to kneel as a team in the first.

Somehow you knew it would come to this, didn't you.

TRUMP WALKS ON TYPHOONS OF HATE

I read Surber as a kind of afterthought.

He nails it with his article on Trump. The democrats are on the glide path to doom. The GOP leadership has elected to take the jet powered slope to doom. Jet powered is the way to go. One can only hope that all the McCains crash and burn on this approach to politics. I'm not sure what's wrong with electors in Arizona but they have relentlessly elected FLAKES to high office. Surely we deserve better than Flakes and McCains.

ENOUGH SAID, HE'S CONTEMPTIBLE

Even elected Republicans say they’ve had enough.

“I look forward to going to every place where she appears,” Sen. John McCain of Arizona said sarcastically.

Sleazy MxCain pointed out that he didn’t write a book after losing the 2008 presidential race.

“I respect and admire and am a friend of Hillary’s,” he said. “But with these kind of things that happen in life, you’ve got to move on. You’ve got to quickly move on.”

Then again, Clinton’s first event sold out in hours, and the book vaulted to the top of Amazon's best-seller list weeks before its release, almost certain to set a 2017 record.

SPOT THE FASCIST

This is an easy exercise for civilization. See if you can spot the fascist.