Archive for December 13th, 2011

The Pack is back, baby.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Apropos to the comment in this week’s TMQ Watch, “Huts Spencer”, one of our awesome readers, sent us a link to local news coverage of this year’s Packers shareholders meeting.

Thank you, sir!

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TMQ watch: December 13, 2011.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Before we start in on this week’s TMQ, we wanted to throw up a link to this fine article on the University of Alaska Fairbanks rifle team. Shall Not Be Questioned linked this yesterday, but we didn’t get around to reading the article until we started prepping this week’s TMQ Watch. Now that we have, we commend it to your attention.

And now the jump…

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Grind that axe, NYT.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Stipulated: the death of a police officer doing the right thing is tragic.

But there’s some odd stuff going on in the NYT coverage. For example,

His death at the barrel of a semi-automatic Ruger pistol, the same kind of gun used in the 1993 shootings on the Long Island Rail Road and the sort of firearm that continues to vex the city,

“the sort of firearm that continues to vex the city”? Are there a lot of folks getting shot with semi-automatic Ruger pistols? Would it somehow have been better if the officer had been shot with a Smith and Wesson revolver? And doesn’t NYC have strict gun control laws?

One of them is believed to have stashed his revolver — an unloaded black Smith and Wesson that was jammed — in a dirty microwave oven in the kitchen, where officers found it later.

I realize I’m probably expecting a little much from the NYT, but I’d like more details on how this unloaded revolver was “jammed”.

And:

The police identified the gunman as Lamont Pride, 27, a felon who served a prison term in North Carolina and was wanted by the authorities there for a shooting in August. He was arrested on a drug charge in Brooklyn in November but released.

Isn’t that interesting? I expect we’ll be hearing more about it in the next few days.

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How politics works.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

We have previously noted the attempt to revoke the city charter of Vernon, a notoriously corrupt city in California.

The most recent attempt, sadly, failed.

Why did it fail? One reason might be that the city agreed to some governmental reforms in lieu of disincorporation.

Another reason might be that a state senator asked Vernon to give $60 million dollars to fund “community projects” in the cities around Vernon. Vernon agreed, the senator and one of the cities that would get the money reversed their position on disincorporation, and low and behold, the legislation got defeated.

The punchline? Now Vernon has to come up with $60 million, and doesn’t know where they’re going to get it.

Heh. Heh. Heh.

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We are amused…

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

…by this NYT article about Indian tribes in California that are disenrolling “inauthentic” members of the tribe. After all, the more people you throw out, the less of a split you have for that lovely casino money. ($15,000 a month?!)

I found this quote particularly striking:

“The tribe has historically had the ability to remove people,” said Kevin Bearquiver, the bureau’s deputy director for the Pacific region. “Tolerance is a European thing brought to the country. We never tolerated things. We turned our back on people.”

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