January 10, 2013

School Tragedy Averted As Teacher Draws Her Gun on Crazed Gunman
— Ace

Another story that the media isn't interested in for transparently obvious reasons.

“He pulled out his gun and started pointing it at people,” Thacker said.

Cowan trained a .380-caliber semi-automatic pistol at RidenÂ’s face, said Sullivan County Sheriff Wayne Anderson. Carolyn Gudger, the school resource officer, drew her gun, then shielded the principalÂ’s body with her own.

Thacker remembers Cowan shouting something – possibly including the words “10 years” – but she isn’t sure. She turned and ran out the set of public doors to the mulch pile in the front of the school, and hid behind bushes.

“He might shoot someone,” Thacker remembered thinking. “I just wanted to get out of there.”

Riden fled and Gudger inched back into the school, leading Cowan through the scattered pastel chairs in the empty cafeteria. It was a tactical move, meant to lure the gunman into a more contained place, Anderson said.

Gudger, the school resource officer (I called her a "teacher" in the headline just because I do not know what a "resource officer" is and I figure that most people don't either) held the gunman in a standoff for two minutes, until police arrived. After they did, the cops again demanded Cowen drop his gun. He didn't. Shooting broke out (I don't know who shot first, thus the passive voice) and Cowen was killed.

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1 In 2010. But a good story, nevertheless.

Posted by: Popcorn at January 10, 2013 08:59 AM (uIpSF)

2 Everyone knows a SRO is an on-duty cop at a school.  No confusion about it.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 08:59 AM (GQ8sn)

3 Shooting broke out (I don't know who shot first, thus the passive voice) and Cowen was killed.

Another version says he pointed his gun at the police and they dropped him.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 09:00 AM (GQ8sn)

4 Not trying to snark and piss you off ace.  Please don't ban me.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 09:00 AM (GQ8sn)

5 Stupid MFM.  Nice find.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2013 09:00 AM (BAS5M)

6 A resource officer in our county (northern VA) is a deputy stationed at the school.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 10, 2013 09:02 AM (WWeoI)

7 The first link doesn't work

Posted by: L, elle at January 10, 2013 09:03 AM (0PiQ4)

8 Fits the typical profile: when seconds counted, the cops were minutes away. Fortunately there was an armed citizen on the scene.

Posted by: Andy at January 10, 2013 09:03 AM (C/NnJ)

9 "and Cowen was killed"

Best part of the story. Unlike the Colorado theater shooter...

Posted by: Pyrocles at January 10, 2013 09:03 AM (cv5Iw)

10 I suspect that in the end, guns save more lives than crazy people take using a gun.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 09:04 AM (9Bj8R)

11 Ditto what barbarausa said, I live in the county  just south of Sullivan County, and my kids' schools resource officers are uniformed LEOs.

Posted by: ThomasD at January 10, 2013 09:04 AM (sPW8y)

12 A very inconvenient truth.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 10, 2013 09:04 AM (n8LUb)

13 Every school in our county has an officer stationed there for the entire school day. There are over 150,000 kids in the schools.

Posted by: NCKate at January 10, 2013 09:04 AM (IYde+)

14 It is the damndest thing....it seems "strangely" that the victims having a gun of their own alters the psychological dynamic of a violent narcissists' decision making.....

"whoda thought it?"

well except anyone who has read any history or grew up poor?

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:05 AM (LRFds)

15 Fits the typical profile: when seconds counted, the cops were minutes away. Fortunately there was an armed citizen on the scene. Posted by: Andy at January 10, 2013 01:03 PM (C/NnJ) Cops can't be everywhere all the time. That is why a well armed and trained " Militia" or citizenry is not a bad idea

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 09:05 AM (9Bj8R)

16 Posted this earlier For those of us fighting for our traditional rights, the US 2nd Amendment is a rare light in an ever darkening room. Governments will use the excuse of trying to protect the people from maniacs and crime, but are in reality, it is the bureaucrats protecting their power and position. In all cases where guns are banned, gun crime continues and often increases. As for maniacs, be it nuts with cars (NYC, Chapel Hill NC), swords (Japan), knives (China) or home made bombs (everywhere), insane people strike. They throw acid (Pakistan, UK), they throw fire bombs (France), they attack. What is worse, is, that the best way to stop a maniac is not psychology or jail or “talking to them”, it is a bullet in the head, that is why they are a maniac, because they are incapable of living in reality or stopping themselves. The above quote? From Pravda

Posted by: Thunderb at January 10, 2013 09:05 AM (Dnbau)

17 I thought they were librarians - armed librarians.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 10, 2013 09:05 AM (n8LUb)

18 It doesn't count because it wasn't a mass shooting.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at January 10, 2013 09:05 AM (+lsX1)

19 6 A resource officer in our county (northern VA) is a deputy stationed at the school.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 10, 2013 01:02 PM (WWeoI)

Same in the Boulder Valley School District.
They are very popular, and useful.  Part of the city/county law enforcement budget.

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at January 10, 2013 09:05 AM (Qxe/p)

20 OK, I guess if the "resource officer" is really a cop, then that doesn't really work as constructed. But, still, the principle's the same. To stop this kind of stuff, there has to be an armed person on the scene right when it's going down.

Posted by: Andy at January 10, 2013 09:05 AM (C/NnJ)

21 I remember when Ed the janitor kept a shotgun in the boiler room of the High School. Did I mention nobody ever messed with Ed the Janitor ? WTF you never wanted to talk or look directly in his eye's.

Posted by: Clemenza at January 10, 2013 09:06 AM (Q8Pu5)

22 16 ThunderB,

if they'd control their fucking totalitarian bent and let free people migrate in Russia could be a boomtown.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:07 AM (LRFds)

23

Shooting broke out (I don't know who shot first, thus the passive voice) and Cowen was killed.

God I love a happy ending.

Posted by: Armando at January 10, 2013 09:07 AM (5iuEW)

24 NO WAY this happened. Ginned up by gun nuts.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:07 AM (fWAjv)

25 The above quote?

From Pravda

Wow. Pravda is more rational and unbiased than the U.S. media.  How times have changed, and not for the better.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 10, 2013 09:07 AM (QKKT0)

26 All our schools have 'resource officers' including the elementary schools now. $60k a year to have your kids guarded by an armed officer, priceless.

Posted by: SmileyNH at January 10, 2013 09:07 AM (hlZx/)

27 Fox just played Cuomo ranting like a loon about guns.  "Who needs an assault weapon to go hunting?!!!1111??111!!!!!!!"


Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:08 AM (UOM48)

28 DEVELOPING: At least two people were shot at a high school in Taft, Calif., Thursday morning and the shooter was taken into custody, local reports say. Taft is a city west of Bakersfield. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/10/2-shot-at-california-high-school/#ixzz2Hb63Z56E

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 09:08 AM (9Bj8R)

29 26 SmileyNH,

"We'll just mint a few more coins."

//Ogabe

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:08 AM (LRFds)

30 I thought they were librarians - armed librarians.

Go on...

Posted by: Some Pervert Moron at January 10, 2013 09:08 AM (QKKT0)

31 20 OK, I guess if the "resource officer" is really a cop, then that doesn't really work as constructed.

But, still, the principle's the same. To stop this kind of stuff, there has to be an armed person on the scene right when it's going down.

Posted by: Andy at January 10, 2013 01:05 PM (C/NnJ)

I suspect that the uniform adds a "visual pause" to whatever is going on in the perp's alleged brain.

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at January 10, 2013 09:09 AM (Qxe/p)

32 A school shooting in the 90s, in MS, was stopped by the vice principal and his gun. When police came, the vp had the shooter, Luke Woodham, on the ground, the vice principal's boot on Woodham's chest. If I ran the internetz, the term 'Luke Woodham' would now be slang for 'sniveling bastard got completely defeated and humiliated'. "Did you see that fight? Tony got completely Luke Woodhamed by that one guy." Having that story---where the loner tries to take revenge and still gets pwned by the person they hate---would put a stop to these stupid fantasies that some of the shooters (the VA Tech and Columbine shooters come to mind) hold. The VA Tech guy hated "jocks" so it would've been beautiful if one of them, the dumber and more jock-like the better, had been able to put a stop to him, and the story been told.

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at January 10, 2013 09:09 AM (b+8h9)

33 A "resource officer" is a way of making sure the teacher's union and the so-called education of our children isn't infiltrated by "The Other".

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2013 09:09 AM (FcR7P)

34 We didn't report it because there were not the requisite 4+ deaths by the hand of the original gunman. Therefore the resource officer having a gun is irrelevant and this is a non-story. ---Your Betters in the MSM

Posted by: DangerGirl - feeling empty at January 10, 2013 09:09 AM (yDr5/)

35 @28 Home of the meth and the HAMC

Posted by: Clemenza at January 10, 2013 09:09 AM (Q8Pu5)

36 6 --- "A resource officer in our county (northern VA) is a deputy stationed at the school." No, no, no! That's a crazy NRA whacko idea! Maybe the knuckle-draggers in the mountains would have armed guards but they would never, ever do that in the civilized suburbs of the holy city!

Posted by: MFM at January 10, 2013 09:10 AM (C8mVl)

37 Also from that Pravda article:

These days, there are few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bear arms and use deadly force to defend one's self and possessions.


(emphasis mine)

Guess they recognize TFG for what he is.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:10 AM (UOM48)

38 resource officer is a cop that the town assigns to the school. My school had one, part time. They're mostly there to tell the kids not to party or drive drunk or whatnot during health class.

Posted by: Timin203 at January 10, 2013 09:10 AM (5WxMt)

39

According to Politico the NRA has 100,000 new members since the Sandy Hook murders.

The National Rifle Association has gained more than 100,000 new members in the last 18 days, the organization told POLITICOÂ’s Playbook on Thursday.

The number of paid new members jumped from 4.1 million to 4.2 million in that time frame.

Link in my name.

Posted by: Jay at January 10, 2013 09:11 AM (3LaGb)

40 Chalk another one up for the good guys.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 10, 2013 09:11 AM (l86i3)

41 Bakersfield, Calif. school shooting: Two shot at Taft High School January 10, 2013 - 12:48 pm http://tinyurl.com/a3kb96o Someone here just said "the presz is speaking at 1:30, he's banning guns" Is this true or liberal hyperbole?

Posted by: Caustic at January 10, 2013 09:11 AM (/b8+5)

42 41 Caustic,

Yes.....


Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:12 AM (LRFds)

43 right up the street from me. Really like 35 minutes away.

Posted by: gigg at January 10, 2013 09:12 AM (41VCE)

44 Because "school resource officer" sounds so much more friendly than "armed guard".

Posted by: Vic at January 10, 2013 09:12 AM (53z96)

45 Someone here just said "the presz is speaking at 1:30, he's banning guns" Is this true or liberal hyperbole? Posted by: Caustic at January 10, 2013 01:11 PM (/b8+5) ??? have not heard that, but it would not shock me. obama loves to hear his own voice

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 09:12 AM (9Bj8R)

46 Someone here just said "the presz is speaking at 1:30, he's banning guns" Is this true or liberal hyperbole? Posted by: Caustic at January 10, 2013 01:11 PM (/b8+5) There's a shitstorm on the horizon if this is true.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 10, 2013 09:13 AM (l86i3)

47

There are literally thousands of "little" stories like this every year - SRO's, off-duty cops, CCW holders, and scared-out-of-their-mind regular folks that use a firearm to save lives in the face of criminal acts.  With few exceptions, they are ignored because they don't fit the established media template.  It drives me insane.

 

There is nothing bad enough that can happen to the evil  POS producers and  blow-dried  talking heads  that distort  reality 24/7 like this.

Posted by: Jaws at January 10, 2013 09:14 AM (4I3Uo)

48 Not a "mass shootings" so it doesn't count.  Sorry try again Wing-Nutz.

Posted by: Typical Libs at January 10, 2013 09:14 AM (ULkyQ)

49 The number of paid new members jumped from 4.1 million to 4.2 million in that time frame. Link in my name. Posted by: Jay at January 10, 2013 01:11 PM (3LaGb) I love how the antis think of the NRA as some huge and evil being. Hey numbnuts, they are powerful because we the people make them powerful.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:14 AM (fWAjv)

50 No victim corpses for us to drag about, so it never happened.

Posted by: MFM at January 10, 2013 09:15 AM (v9Cj5)

51 the resource officers at my kids' schools are phx police officers that are assigned to the school

Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 10, 2013 09:15 AM (GVxQo)

52 A Georgia pastor selected to deliver the benediction during President Obama's inauguration has pulled out of the ceremony after comments surfaced in which he described homosexuality as a "sin." ??? But hagel's anti-gay statements are just dandy?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 09:15 AM (9Bj8R)

53 We obviously live in the age of media-enabled liberal demagoguery. People should think hard about whether their liberty--even just the ability to effectively voice their opinion, or just voice it, period--is long secure in such a scheme..

Posted by: T. at January 10, 2013 09:15 AM (qFVoe)

54 I don't really understand the excerpt. Why is she shielding other people with her body and leading the nut through a cafeteria instead of just popping the asshole if she has a gun?

Posted by: Entropy at January 10, 2013 09:16 AM (TULs6)

55 He will unveil the coin and an EO on gun confiscation at the same presser.

Posted by: Jean at January 10, 2013 09:16 AM (hjRtO)

56 @Entropy,

My guess? She didn't want to take a shot outside on fear it would go wild. (also the story reports a person/potential victim out there, may have messed up the shot.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 09:17 AM (ULkyQ)

57 45 Someone here just said "the presz is speaking at 1:30, he's banning guns"



Who here is willing to "take one for the team" and listen to the fuckwit windbag?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:17 AM (UOM48)

58 "School Resource Officer" = Cop Posted in School

Posted by: CJ at January 10, 2013 09:17 AM (9KqcB)

59 >>>Who here is willing to "take one for the team" and listen to the fuckwit windbag?

Not it.

Posted by: Vizzini [/i] at January 10, 2013 09:18 AM (O7Q1u)

60 Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 01:17 PM (UOM4

I'm at work and my boss (for some odd reason) hasn't assigned me a new task, so I can.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 09:18 AM (ULkyQ)

61 Lots of reasons not to shoot, the guy wasn't an active shooter - she was trying to end it without bloodshed.

Posted by: Jean at January 10, 2013 09:19 AM (hjRtO)

62 Why is she shielding other people with her body and leading the nut through a cafeteria instead of just popping the asshole if she has a gun?

That was my question too, but then I remembered that news accounts of things like this are usually at least 99 percent wrong.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at January 10, 2013 09:19 AM (+lsX1)

63 175+ schools in my county. Each with at least one police officer. NOT a security guard.

Posted by: NCKate at January 10, 2013 09:19 AM (IYde+)

64 Carney: “Deficit Reduction Is Not A Worthy Goal”… Our $16 trillion deficit begs to differ. Yeah and you said that before the election? I think not you lying piece of shit

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 09:19 AM (9Bj8R)

65

God I love a happy ending.

 

Me too. *sniff* That was beautiful, man.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 10, 2013 09:19 AM (yiIja)

66 Someone here just said "the presz is speaking at 1:30, he's banning guns" As the Secret Service raises an eyebrow. Oh, here come his personal grants of exemption...

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2013 09:19 AM (FcR7P)

67 54 I don't really understand the excerpt. Why is she shielding other people with her body and leading the nut through a cafeteria instead of just popping the asshole if she has a gun? She wanted to lure him to an area that would be safer to "engage" him in, was my impression from the story. In other words she might have been concerned about starting a firefight where she was because of others being too close or something along those lines. It seems a little odd to me as well, but I am sure when MSNBC get a correspondent down there we will get the whole story.

Posted by: gigg at January 10, 2013 09:19 AM (41VCE)

68 They arrested an employee at NC State last week for having a pistol in his locker.  Someone ratted him out. He was not a threat.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 09:19 AM (S1INM)

69 60 Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 01:17 PM (UOM4

I'm at work and my boss (for some odd reason) hasn't assigned me a new task, so I can.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 01:18 PM (ULkyQ)




You're a brave soul.  I've already had to put $60 in our TFG penalty jar here at home for slipping up and saying TFG's name.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:20 AM (UOM48)

70 If he is scheduled for 1:30, then you have time to grab a sandwich.

Posted by: Jean at January 10, 2013 09:20 AM (hjRtO)

71 Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 01:17 PM (UOM4

But, I'm not seeing any reports of a presser on the big 3 news sites.  (Biden's supposed to present his "report" next week.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 09:20 AM (ULkyQ)

72 BTW, what's taking so long on the "investigation" on Sandy Hook. The perp's dead. No trial so pre-trial publicity is not a problem. What's the hold-up? Same with the Oregon mall killings. What's the hold-up?

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at January 10, 2013 09:20 AM (qwK3S)

73 So, a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, High Priest of the Gods of the Copybook Headings at January 10, 2013 09:21 AM (GBXon)

74 He's scheduled at 1:30?  Ha.  He'll run at least 15 minutes late.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:21 AM (UOM48)

75

Who here is willing to "take one for the team" and listen to the fuckwit windbag?

 

Certainly not  me.  The only possible thing of value he could say would be, "I hereby resign."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 10, 2013 09:21 AM (yiIja)

76 Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 01:20 PM (ULkyQ) One of the people in the office said it, she's the one with the BO shrine at her desk. So I assumed she'd know.

Posted by: Caustic at January 10, 2013 09:22 AM (/b8+5)

77 Carney: “Deficit Reduction Is Not A Worthy Goal”…

Our $16 trillion deficit begs to differ.

Yeah and you said that before the election? I think not you lying piece of shit

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 01:19 PM (9Bj8R)


eh, the good ole days when Obama was going line by line through the debt and going to cut it in half.


Left concern about debt-BS

Left concern about constitution-BS

Left concern about wars- BS

Left concern about overreach of govt-BS

Left saying won't try to take guns- BS


anything they haven't lied about ?


Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 09:22 AM (nqBYe)

78 ...a pistol in his locker. Someone ratted him out. He was not a threat. We beg to differ.

Posted by: The Media's Thirst For Mass Murder at January 10, 2013 09:23 AM (FcR7P)

79 I posted this in the other thread but I wanna shout it from the rooftops. So the platinum coin idea was first proposed by David Dukes running mate Bo Gritz in 1992. That's right monetary advice from David Dukes running mate. http://www.cal-neva.com/money/debate07.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Gritz

Posted by: Exasperated Expat at January 10, 2013 09:23 AM (gkfSV)

80 The only possible thing of value he could say would be, "I hereby resign."

He won't do that until after all the big parties.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 10, 2013 09:23 AM (ZKzrr)

81 Certainly not me. The only possible thing of value he could say would be, "I hereby resign."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 10, 2013 01:21 PM (yiIja)


I was thinking more like "goodbye cruel world"

Posted by: model_1066 at January 10, 2013 09:23 AM (7xPCu)

82

"366 --- "A resource officer in our county (northern VA) is a deputy stationed at the school."

No, no, no! That's a crazy NRA whacko idea! Maybe the knuckle-draggers in the mountains would have armed guards but they would never, ever do that in the civilized suburbs of the holy city!"

 

lol, MFM, NORTHERN Virginia, suburb of DC, home to the "suburban sprawl" growth wars, defense contracting beltway bandits, dual income yaddayadda.

 

We have them at all middle and high schools, and have for some time.  Not so much to protect from crazed loons, but because some of the older areas of the county (the few enclaves with any affordable housing) have their problems with illegal immigration (MS13 is big here) and other issues, and the newer areas have a lot of kids with plenty of stuff and not much supervision, so there are drug 9and other issues) in both the "rcih" and the "poor" schools.

 

Some discussion post-Newtown of extending resource officers into the elementaries now too, which heretofore have not had a constant presence, but have had for years the D.A.R.E. program, a combi-"say no to drugs"/"the deputy is your friend", where a deputy rotates among several schools teaching the course/program.

 

We have everything from old style Dems, progs, classic repubs, evangelical conservatives, ecofreaks, you name it.

 

And except for the yearly wrangling on every item in the budget, each of which has their diehard constituencies and detractors, by and large we likes us our resource officers--they're the modern neighborhood cop on the beat.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 10, 2013 09:23 AM (WWeoI)

83 If a person points a gun or lifts the muzzle up toward an officer after being told to drop it, the cop is not supposed to wait for the person to fire. Drop him before he hurts someone.

Posted by: SurferDoc at January 10, 2013 09:23 AM (6H6FZ)

84 One of the people in the office said it, she's the one with the BO shrine at her desk. So I assumed she'd know.

Posted by: Caustic at January 10, 2013 01:22 PM (/b8+5)




What's on her "shrine?"  Does she have a JEF collectible plate?  Any chance it might accidentally fall off her desk and be smashed to smithereens?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:23 AM (UOM48)

85 That Pravda article was well written and spot on. Gahhhhhh I never thought I'd write those words in my lifetime!

Posted by: small town girl at January 10, 2013 09:24 AM (i5xnd)

86 "Resource Officers"  started showing up at HS in the South when the thugs from different gangs would start fighting over women and drugs.

Public HS, where in the South, you can meet the nicest felons.  You know what the happiest day in a third graders life is in the South?

LeRoy turns 16 and can get his drivers license.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 09:24 AM (S1INM)

87 Schedule says "personnel announcement."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 10, 2013 09:24 AM (ZKzrr)

88 Who here is willing to "take one for the team" and listen to the fuckwit windbag? Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 01:17 PM (UOM4 I'll try. Last time I didn't make it past 3 minutes though.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:25 AM (fWAjv)

89 Wait there it is, he's nominating Lew.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 09:25 AM (ULkyQ)

90 if they'd control their fucking totalitarian bent and let free people migrate in Russia could be a boomtown.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 01:07 PM (LRFds)

 

 

---------------------------------------------------

 

 

I mean, Siberia really can't be THAT cold,  can it?

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 09:25 AM (gKwHR)

91 I was thinking more like "goodbye cruel world"

That would be something, wouldn't it?

I'd take a week off work to watch the TV coverage.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 10, 2013 09:26 AM (ZKzrr)

92

I mean, Siberia really can't be THAT cold, can it?

 

No palm trees? Count me out.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 10, 2013 09:26 AM (yiIja)

93 Schedule says "personnel announcement."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 10, 2013 01:24 PM (ZKzrr)

 

 

---------------------------------------------

 

 

Yea!!  He's stepping down from the preezyness for the good of the country.  WE'RE SAVED!!

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 09:27 AM (gKwHR)

94 68 --- I know for a fact there are people at VaTech who .... well, not necessarily VaTech..... could be any of several SW Va colleges .... I wouldn't name them .... er, .... maybe they .... Well, the fact is that when you make stupid laws, some otherwise law-abiding people will (reluctantly) break them.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 10, 2013 09:27 AM (C8mVl)

95 91 Soona,

Yes it can, but I like the cold....

The Russians have a HUGE demographic problem because they drank Marxist kool-aid for 70 years they are gonna lose Siberia to the Chinese....

it'd be a pity if someone sold Putin on the idea of a land rush in Siberia.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:27 AM (LRFds)

96

BTW, what's taking so long on the "investigation" on Sandy Hook. The perp's dead. No trial so pre-trial publicity isnot a problem. What's the hold-up?

 

My guess?  The early MFM "reports" fit the desired narrative, though  the error rate is nauseatingly high.  The actual "facts" might trigger an Emily Litella moment during all this gun grabbing rhetoric.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2013 09:28 AM (BAS5M)

97

LeRoy turns 16 and can get his drivers license.

 

He can finally take his sister Lurleen on a real date.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 10, 2013 09:28 AM (yiIja)

98 Man, I'd love to be a connected entrepreneur in Russia. I was looking at a history of mining book a while ago and they have virtually every valuable material you can think of underground over there. And vast swaths of tundra that had never even been surveyed as of 2008.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 09:29 AM (ZshNr)

99 2 Everyone knows a SRO is an on-duty cop at a school. No confusion about it. At least in Leon County, FL that is true. Either TPD or LCSO, depending on the location of the school.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at January 10, 2013 09:30 AM (1hM1d)

100 Russia also has a 13% flat tax. 

*sigh*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:30 AM (UOM48)

101 At least 2 wounded in shooting at California high school, suspect in custody -------- Bullshit. That's a Gun Free Zone.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:30 AM (fWAjv)

102 I suspect that in the end, guns save more lives than crazy people take using a gun. Using the left's playbook, "If it only saves one life!".

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 09:30 AM (GFM2b)

103 99 LincolnTF,

I'm telling you if they could put the "comrades we have to have backwards letters" thing down they could be THE world power in 40 years.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:31 AM (LRFds)

104 Who here is willing to "take one for the team" and listen to the fuckwit windbag? Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 01:17 PM (UOM4 I nominate Bannion. Oh hey how goes the TFG jar? Have you had to make anymore deposits?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 09:31 AM (VtjlW)

105 Why was a cop carrying a .380?  A Bond wannabe?

Posted by: Nate in New Orleans at January 10, 2013 09:31 AM (lhX9P)

106 106 Nate in NOLA,

.380 is a good back up gun or concealed round.

Wild Bill Hickock's .36s were essentially .380 acp in power.

It'll kill plenty fine.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:32 AM (LRFds)

107 He's late. Unprecedented.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:33 AM (fWAjv)

108 Believe it or not AOL (Huffpost) did have that self defense shooting in GA in the headlines for a while.

Posted by: Brad at January 10, 2013 09:33 AM (2GsJg)

109 My guess? The early MFM "reports" fit the desired narrative, though the error rate is nauseatingly high. The actual "facts" might trigger an Emily Litella moment during all this gun grabbing rhetoric.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2013 01:28 PM (BAS5M)

 

 

------------------------------------------------------

 

 

I'm sure  the SCOAMT regime has posted armed FBI agents at the door of the file room at the Newtown police station.  Either that or the FBI director has all of the files in a drawer in his desk.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 09:33 AM (gKwHR)

110 Oh hey how goes the TFG jar? Have you had to make anymore deposits?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 01:31 PM (VtjlW



Sadly, I'm up to $60 ($20 per slip up).  My husband hasn't screwed up once.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:34 AM (UOM48)

111 Man, I'd love to be a connected entrepreneur in Russia. I was looking at a history of mining book a while ago and they have virtually every valuable material you can think of underground over there. And vast swaths of tundra that had never even been surveyed as of 2008. Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 01:29 PM (ZshNr) they end up in prison under Putin

Posted by: Thunderb at January 10, 2013 09:34 AM (Dnbau)

112 He's late. Unprecedented. Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 01:33 PM (fWAjv) You know, as upset as we all were on Election Night, can you imagine poor TOTUS? I'm assuming someone had to talk TOTUS out of hurling itself into a smelter.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 09:35 AM (VtjlW)

113 This is so cool. 

Gun Appreciation day, January 19th, the day before O's swearing in.

AND WHAT ELSE?


Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday and a holiday in most of the South, STILL.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 09:35 AM (tWFaN)

114 Dang.  Barry's late.  The hell?  *snerk*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:35 AM (UOM48)

115 Why was a cop carrying a .380? A Bond wannabe?

I thought Cowen, the perp, was carrying the .380 not the cop?

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 09:35 AM (GQ8sn)

116 quick comment - the CDC - your government - reports that 135,000 guns are carried into school by students each school day. 135,000 per day. Into a "Gun Free Zone" -- Link under name.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at January 10, 2013 09:36 AM (RuUvx)

117 They probably could. If only they could get a decent revolution accomplished first, it would happen sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, the bad guys tend to win those revolutions. If they become more like America than America, I'd have no problem emigrating. Never thought I'd say that.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 09:36 AM (ZshNr)

118 112 ThunderB,

I'm pretty sure they'd be okay as long as Vlad got his cut and they were scrupulous in not getting in his way.

Putin understands the problems Ivan is facing too.

If he could just work with liberty instead of thwarting her he'd be a great man.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:36 AM (LRFds)

119 "Who needs an assault weapon to go hunting?!!!1111??111!!!!!!!" For deer, yeah, I can see that. But for squirrels and tax collectors, they'll do.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at January 10, 2013 09:36 AM (1hM1d)

120

The Russians have a HUGE demographic problem because they drank Marxist kool-aid for 70 years they are gonna lose Siberia to the Chinese....

it'd be a pity if someone sold Putin on the idea of a land rush in Siberia.

 

I recall reading in the mid-90s a Walter Russell Mead column that suggested that we offer to buy Siberia from Russia for $1 trillion.

 

'Course, that was before Putin and before the SCOAMT, but still...

Posted by: Armando at January 10, 2013 09:37 AM (5iuEW)

121 Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 01:29 PM (ZshNr) Putin, like many other govs, know those minerals are more valuable to them in the ground than being mined.

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 09:37 AM (UZQM8)

122 NRA limited time offer: $25 Bass pro shop card with a $25 ($10 off) one-year membership.

link:

http://tinyurl.com/c57ojfh

Essentially free.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 10, 2013 09:37 AM (v9Cj5)

123 Barry's probably looking for a binder full of wimmin.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:37 AM (UOM48)

124 121 Armando,

Yeah back when I thought we were America not Free Shit Armyia

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:38 AM (LRFds)

125 82 --- We in SW Va trash NoVa so often that we really do need reminders (like yours) that what we call the Occupied Zone is not uniformly, irredeemably leftist and crazy!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 10, 2013 09:38 AM (C8mVl)

126 I thought Cowen, the perp, was carrying the .380 not the cop? Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 01:35 PM (GQ8sn) Both had a .380. And Cowen also had a .25.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:38 AM (fWAjv)

127 'Course, that was before Putin and before the SCOAMT, but still... Posted by: Armando at January 10, 2013 01:37 PM (5iuEW) Don't forget about me....

Posted by: 17 Trillion in Debt at January 10, 2013 09:38 AM (UZQM8)

128

Uh, Ace. This goes into the memory hole, and is meaningless. There are records of school shootings where students were killed. Officially, records of school shootings that were stopped by a good guy who had a gun are windexed off the radar screen because they don't fit the narrative. A little sarcasm here, you know all this.

 

If these incidents are brought up by our side, the only significance the incident has whatsoever is that someone who shouldn't have had a gun, did have a gun, thus supporting their position of banning guns.

Posted by: RM at January 10, 2013 09:39 AM (TRsME)

129 122 Cajun Carrot,

eh "maybe" it is a lot like the argument I cry myself to sleep with on US mineral and energy potential being cockblocked by EPA 'but we'll have it when it matters! eleventy!!!!"

thing is we find more all the time and still have antarctica if it gets too bad

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:39 AM (LRFds)

130 Also note that, even though the story is 2010, there were prior mental issues.

From the first link:

In a file at the Kingsport General Sessions courthouse, there is a handwritten note by a police detective:

“This is the fellow we discussed,” it reads. “He needs a mental eval.”

The note was written in 2001, after Cowan was charged with stalking. According to court records, a newspaper carrier said that twice he followed her as she drove her route. When she turned, he turned. When she stopped, he stopped.

“At one point, he followed [her] into a driveway and would not let her pull out,” the affidavit reads. “Both instances put [the carrier] in fear as she does not know the defendant.”

The case was later dismissed because a witness did not show up at court.


Posted by: Flounder at January 10, 2013 09:39 AM (Kkt/i)

131 Both had a .380. And Cowen also had a .25.

So is the .380 a police issue weapon? 

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 09:39 AM (GQ8sn)

132 Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday and a holiday in most of the South, STILL. Just checking. What does it say about a person, if they have Bobby Lee's bday on their phone calendar? Just curious.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 09:39 AM (GFM2b)

133 I was looking at a history of mining book a while ago and they have virtually every valuable material you can think of underground over there. Chinese long term planning makes much more sense when you keep things like that in mind.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, High Priest of the Gods of the Copybook Headings at January 10, 2013 09:39 AM (GBXon)

134 128 17 trillion in debt,


YOU were a LOT smaller then....

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:39 AM (LRFds)

135 They probably could. If only they could get a decent revolution accomplished first, it would happen sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, the bad guys tend to win those revolutions. If they become more like America than America, I'd have no problem emigrating. Never thought I'd say that.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 01:36 PM (ZshNr)

 

 

------------------------------------------------

 

 

I'm old.  And I love this country.  I'll stick with it to the end.

 

Having said that,  if I were younger, I'd consider it only if  the Russians would except a  constitution like ours.  Otherwise, you'd be faced with the same  rule by fiat that we're facing here now.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 09:40 AM (gKwHR)

136 Hit the mute button, not watching the SCOAMT.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:40 AM (UOM48)

137

" If they become more like America than America, I'd have no problem emigrating."

 

The business climate is getting calmer, but for the last 10 years it's been like Deadwood - real wild west action.

 

We're working with a new customer that has one of the world's biggest nickel mines in the Polar Regions.  Pain in the ass to get to, but lots of opportunity. 

Posted by: jwest at January 10, 2013 09:40 AM (ZDsRL)

138 Having said that, if I were younger, I'd consider it only if the Russians would except a constitution like ours give me some of those women from Anna Puma's videos.

FIFY.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 09:41 AM (GQ8sn)

139 @117

I am very suspicious of stats that quote numbers about an illegal activity.

So, how, pray tell do they come up with the number?  Fucking BS statistics.


Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 09:41 AM (tWFaN)

140 136 Soona,

without the Constitution and Bill of Rights this is dirt with my family's bones in it...

we left England and got over the distance from the bones.

Fuck the left.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:42 AM (LRFds)

141 Preisident Infomercial is yapping again. I think he's selling knives.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 10, 2013 09:42 AM (Y4TdB)

142 Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 01:40 PM (UOM4

So far he's just patting his back and lying about all the cool things him and Turbo Tax Timmy have done.
Oh and apparently we're reducing the deficit or something.
Wait..there's a dig at the rich.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 09:42 AM (ULkyQ)

143 Hate.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:42 AM (UOM48)

144 Having said that, if I were younger, I'd consider it only if the Russians would except a constitution like ours. Otherwise, you'd be faced with the same rule by fiat that we're facing here now. ...I'll just give you a minute to think that through.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, High Priest of the Gods of the Copybook Headings at January 10, 2013 09:42 AM (GBXon)

145 142 soothsayer,

You misspelled "banning"

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:42 AM (LRFds)

146 @123

That will run the numbers up.  Too bad I am already a life member.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 09:43 AM (tWFaN)

147 The Cardinal knuckleheaded rule: the exception always conveniently proves to be the rule.

Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at January 10, 2013 09:43 AM (1MM7p)

148 Using the left's playbook, "If it only saves one life!".

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 01:30 PM (GFM2b)


-----


Sweeet.....


Looking forward to Sherrif Joes Mandatory Home Schooling Intiative.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 10, 2013 09:43 AM (nELVU)

149 145 Brother Cavil,

Barack is Stalin's parting gift my friend.

I will die believing that.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:43 AM (LRFds)

150 Can't listen. Fuck him.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:44 AM (fWAjv)

151 I do of course have a bond to the American soil, and it would be the last thing I'd ever want to do, but the principles are the real thing, not the dirt. I'd probably be gunned down or sent to the camps before we ever reached that point. Next few generations might have to really consider it.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 09:44 AM (ZshNr)

152

Most schools implemented School Resource Officers to protect schools from the students. Or in Phila. at least, to keep kids from killing each other. And make drug busts. Assault-on-teacher arrests. etc.

 

The rest was added post-Columbine. I think the vast majority of high schools have SROs. We're adding some to our middle schools this month (was actually in the works before Newtown.)

Posted by: CJ at January 10, 2013 09:44 AM (9KqcB)

153 He's cracking up the MFM! (Sigh)

In other news, "Best President ever!" just declared Turbo Tax Timmy "Best Treasury Sec ever!"

So they'll both go down as miserable.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 09:44 AM (ULkyQ)

154

Not a teacher.

We have School Resource Officers (SRO's) at my kids' schools.  They have priority parking spaces that are usually occupied by police cars.

I found a good definition of SRO here:

http://tinyurl.com/asogob2


 

Posted by: Connertown at January 10, 2013 09:44 AM (+q3dR)

155 obama is saying we have begun to reduce our deficit? Did he flunk math?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 09:44 AM (9Bj8R)

156 President Hudsucker just drew a circle on a pad of paper, held it up, and said, "You know, for the kids!"

Posted by: soothsayer at January 10, 2013 09:44 AM (GcwH1)

157 I don't know how anyone can stand to listen to him.  The droning on and on and on.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:45 AM (UOM48)

158 Barack is Stalin's parting gift my friend. He's a gift to nobody. The Marxists are in for a rude shock if they think otherwise. It's always the true believers that go in the purges...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, High Priest of the Gods of the Copybook Headings at January 10, 2013 09:45 AM (GBXon)

159 156 Nevergiveup,

The poster who had Hugears as Bullwinkle! nailed it....

nothing in my brain...PRESTO!

Hey Rocky....

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:45 AM (LRFds)

160 Lew Loooo, Lew Looooo. OK morons, who walked around screaming for Lew Looooo?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 09:45 AM (9Bj8R)

161 I'm confused. According to this obituary, Thomas Cowan of Kingsport, TN (also with a brother named Rodney) died in 2010?! http://tinyurl.com/bz7x9as Looks like the same guy.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 10, 2013 09:45 AM (9eDbm)

162 Someone take that gun away from Math.  It's going to kill itself.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:46 AM (UOM48)

163 So, how, pray tell do they come up with the number? Fucking BS statistics. --------------- Well, it's the CDC's number, not mine. The NEA came up with it's 5% of students have carried a gun to school within the last 30 days statistic. My point, as such, is that these studies show, paradoxically, that guns are safe. You've got, at the least, a 99.99% safety record - not to mention these are guns carried illegally by teenagers, not a group known for good decision making. _

Posted by: BumperStickerist at January 10, 2013 09:46 AM (RuUvx)

164 159 Brother Cavil,

like you said "reason iot rhough" you know how I feel about Uncle Joe any "gift" from him is evil

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:46 AM (LRFds)

165 Oh nevermind, that's an old article. Doh

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 10, 2013 09:46 AM (9eDbm)

166 My son's high school had a resource officer daily. 6' 6" state trooper, and a no BS guy. My son and his friends liked him personally and were glad he was there. He had  to break up a few fights which, interestingly, were almost always between girls. I was glad he was there too, and glad a couple of HS fights were the worst he had to deal with.

Posted by: RM at January 10, 2013 09:46 AM (TRsME)

167 Why did they have to kill him?  Wouldn't they want to add him to the ranks of the Free Shit Army?

Posted by: Fritz at January 10, 2013 09:46 AM (/ZZCn)

168 So is the .380 a police issue weapon? Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 01:39 PM (GQ8sn) Not the standard issue, that is a .40 Glock. She looks like a small framed woman though.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:46 AM (fWAjv)

169  Hate.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 01:42 PM (UOM4

 

 

--------------------------------------------------------

 

 

Deep, burning hate.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 09:47 AM (gKwHR)

170 169 RWC,

add in that in a school setting overpenetration would be a horror and I can see why she'd ask for it.

A .380 Pony from colt would work very nicely as a concealed carry weapon for an SRO

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:48 AM (LRFds)

171 according to BIL who teaches in Brooklyn, the worst fight are between the girls. Girl gangs are a big problem too. Yay equality!!!

Posted by: Thunderb at January 10, 2013 09:48 AM (Dnbau)

172 I recall reading in the mid-90s a Walter Russell Mead column that suggested that we offer to buy Siberia from Russia for $1 trillion. If we're going to make seventeen coins, anyways, why not an eighteenth?

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2013 09:48 AM (FcR7P)

173 On a positive note, we haven't been subjected to lectures by Mooch Antoinette so far this year.  She's probably busy planning another fabulous vacation.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:48 AM (UOM48)

174 Meh,

So far it's just your standard stump speech with Giethner now busy going down on Barry (not unexpected.)

We'll see if he takes Q&A.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 09:48 AM (ULkyQ)

175 173 t-bird,

trillion dollar coins for EVERYONE!

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:48 AM (LRFds)

176 okay, now President QVC is selling naming rights to stars. You know, for revenue, for the kids!

Posted by: soothsayer at January 10, 2013 09:49 AM (KwX0v)

177 Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 01:39 PM (LRFds) In my head, the way it works is it ain't worth shit if you can't extract it.

Posted by: 17 Trillion in Debt at January 10, 2013 09:49 AM (UZQM8)

178 Lew Loooo, Lew Looooo. Multipass! http://youtu.be/9jWGbvemTag

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 09:49 AM (VtjlW)

179 Wait..there's a dig at the rich.

And after all the champagne galas they threw for him during his campaign.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 10, 2013 09:49 AM (ZKzrr)

180 Mooch, being the first among the Ruling Caste, probably won't bother to acknowledge us any longer. Its beneath her

Posted by: Thunderb at January 10, 2013 09:50 AM (Dnbau)

181 Looking again, she isn't small framed so I don't know why she had a .380.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:50 AM (fWAjv)

182 On a positive note, we haven't been subjected to lectures by Mooch Antoinette so far this year. She's probably busy planning another fabulous vacation. Is she back from her first vacay yet?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 09:50 AM (GFM2b)

183 We didn't have a resource officer, we had gym teachers and Brother Ryan, who lived on campus of my Catholic High School and always talked about hunting so we assumed his rooms were filled with firearms.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 09:50 AM (ZshNr)

184 178 17 trillion in debt,

yeah that's how fucking smart we are we allow unelected enviro nuts to prevent us from extracting it...

it is like weight watchers hiring out a gun wieldling Richard Simmon's as your chef.

YAY America!

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:51 AM (LRFds)

185

59 >>>Who here is willing to "take one for the team" and listen to the fuckwit windbag?

---

- takes one step backwards -

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 10, 2013 09:51 AM (SO2Q8)

186 Gah!  Barky's mug just popped up here on the main page.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:51 AM (UOM48)

187 Posted that Pravda article yesterday. Depressing.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at January 10, 2013 09:51 AM (FsUAO)

188 YAY America! Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 01:51 PM (LRFds) Off damned 17 trillion sock!!!

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 09:52 AM (UZQM8)

189 188 HoboJerky,

No uplifting.

Just sucks for us.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:52 AM (LRFds)

190

 

Economy is headed for the toilet...and we'll have a Secretary Loo, of the Treasury.

 

Yeah, that seems about right.

 

 

[yeah, I know it's spelled 'Lew', but Loo is false but accurate.] 

 

Posted by: wheatie at January 10, 2013 09:52 AM (fH4X9)

191 add in that in a school setting overpenetration would be a horror and I can see why she'd ask for it. Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 01:48 PM (LRFds) Definitely. And also, we are relying on the media to actually get the type of gun right.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:52 AM (fWAjv)

192

155 Not a teacher.

---

I dunno, methinks a lot of students learned quite a lesson that day.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 10, 2013 09:52 AM (SO2Q8)

193 according to BIL who teaches in Brooklyn, the worst fight are between the girls. Girl gangs are a big problem too. Yay equality!!! Posted by: Thunderb at January 10, 2013 01:48 PM (Dnbau) Boys try to beat the crap out of each other. Girls want to kill and if not leave horrific facial scarring. No force on earth as vicious and evil as a pack of 13 yo girls.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 09:52 AM (VtjlW)

194 If he doesn't take Q's this will basically be as expected, 3 guys busy telling each other (and themselves) how AWESOME they are.

FWIW, Lew will be confirmed I'm guessing.

(Oh now Lew is busy gushing over Tip O'Neill.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 09:52 AM (ULkyQ)

195 it is like weight watchers hiring out a gun wieldling Richard Simmon's as your chef. YAY America! Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 01:51 PM (LRFds) More like Paul Prudhomme.

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 09:52 AM (UZQM8)

196 Who here is willing to "take one for the team" and listen to the fuckwit windbag?--- - takes one step backwards - Takes TWO steps backwards, leaving Buzzsaw90 out front. Sorry bro.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 09:53 AM (GFM2b)

197 WTF id going on with Obama's face?! Is he gonna cry?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2013 09:53 AM (piMMO)

198 @123

Just sent you NRA link to a 100 on my email list!  This is a really cool way to say fuck you to the MSM.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 09:53 AM (tWFaN)

199 No force on earth as vicious and evil as a pack of 13 yo girls.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 01:52 PM (VtjlW




This.  I used to drive carpool with two of them.  D'oh Boy just sat quietly, listening, and learning.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:54 AM (UOM48)

200 Boys try to beat the crap out of each other. Girls want to kill and if not leave horrific facial scarring. No force on earth as vicious and evil as a pack of 13 yo girls. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 01:52 PM (VtjlW) True. He said they like to use box cutters on the face.

Posted by: Thunderb at January 10, 2013 09:54 AM (Dnbau)

201 198 WTF id going on with Obama's face?! Is he gonna cry? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2013 01:53 PM (piMMO) Jeebus is TFG on TV again saying how we gotta raise taxes fer teh dead chillren?

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 09:54 AM (UZQM8)

202 We didn't have a resource officer, we had gym teachers and Brother Ryan We had an ex-NFL (scout team, or something minor like that) social studies teacher who would occasionally throw an idiot up against the lockers. It was a very rare occurrence and extremely effective.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2013 09:54 AM (FcR7P)

203 I recall reading in the mid-90s a Walter Russell Mead column that suggested that we offer to buy Siberia from Russia for $1 trillion.


I foresee a new era of imperialism in which the U.S. buys up small countries and territories in exchange for trillion dollar coins.  I mean, what's stopping us?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 10, 2013 09:54 AM (QKKT0)

204 New Russian nuclear sub enters service By Vladimir Isachenkov - The Associated Press Posted : Thursday Jan 10, 2013 9:52:39 EST MOSCOW — The Russian navy on Thursday hoisted its flag on a new nuclear powered submarine intended to form a key part of the country’s future nuclear deterrent. The Yury Dolgoruky, which carries 16 Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles, is the first of a new series of Borei-class submarines that will replace older Soviet-built ships. Another submarine of the same type is undergoing sea trials, and two others are under construction. President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Yuri Dolgoruky’s crew during a conference call Thursday, hailing the ship as a “powerful weapon that will guarantee our security.” “Submarines of that class will become an important element of sea-based strategic forces, a guarantor of global balance and security of Russia and its allies,” Putin said. Commissioning of the new submarines is part of an ambitious arms modernization program that envisages spending more than 20 trillion rubles ($657 billion) on new weapons through 2020. Putin said Thursday that 4 trillion rubles ($132 billion) of that money will be spent on commissioning the new submarines and other navy ships. “Modernization of the navy is one of the most important priorities in our work to strengthen the armed forces,” he said. Putin said the navy will commission the total of eight Borei-class ICBM nuclear submarines and eight nuclear submarines of a different Yasen class intended to hunt for enemy ships. And we continue to gut our Military

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 09:54 AM (9Bj8R)

205 AND the MFM applauds loudly.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 09:55 AM (gKwHR)

206 My  film  "Promised  Land"  did  well  on the  festival  circuit  but  is  being  ignored  by  bitter  clingers!  "Argo"  sucks  by  the  way -  avoid  it.

Posted by: Matt Damon at January 10, 2013 09:55 AM (msPO3)

207 oh, and I'm not listening. I got my box cutter at the ready, so I am not the one!

Posted by: Thunderb at January 10, 2013 09:55 AM (Dnbau)

208 I thank God everyday I only had sons.  Girls now are really without any guidance except the wrong kind.  MTV?  E? 

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 09:55 AM (tWFaN)

209 Is it safe to look at the tee vee again? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 09:55 AM (UOM48)

210 Gudger is part of the Sheriffs department. not merely a citizen. People also forget that in the recent NY shoot out the police missed the majority of their shots. Assuming trained professionals are that bad during a time of crisis, what is expected from the average citizen. But hey Rambo was a really good series. Except First Blood was really about a vet that was treated like shit by the local constabulary and then freaked out. Then there was the one where he befriends the Taliban/Al Qaeda.

Posted by: Mike Hunt at January 10, 2013 09:55 AM (G6kli)

211 *Jaw Drop*

Wow, Obama just offered to mint 300 million of the coins!
(nah he made a joke about Lew's signature "debasing the currency")

Well that was a waste.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at January 10, 2013 09:55 AM (ULkyQ)

212 The media also ignored the fact that an armed Israeli security person neutralized a terrorist on school property in 2002 and no children were harmed. Israel placed armed civilians at public schools in the '70's because of terrorist interest in targeting Israeli children. The 2002 incident was the only incident since the program began.

Posted by: William Stout at January 10, 2013 09:55 AM (U64F9)

213 204 Cicero,

Hey you...yeah you venezuela.....

we'll give you this dime er "barack" and you let us get your resources....


yeah I am not in love with that but I could see it....I call it the Soviet Empire.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:56 AM (LRFds)

214 - takes one step backwards -

Takes TWO steps backwards, leaving Buzzsaw90 out front.
Sorry bro. ---   We hates it forever for it's evil genius!!!

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 10, 2013 09:56 AM (SO2Q8)

215 Is it safe to look at the tee vee again? Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 01:55 PM (UOM4 Yes

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 09:56 AM (9Bj8R)

216 This. I used to drive carpool with two of them. D'oh Boy just sat quietly, listening, and learning. Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 01:54 PM (UOM4 Just tell him their eye sight is based on movement and shiny objects and he should be good

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 09:57 AM (UZQM8)

217 205 NeverGiveUp,

yup....by design....Soros is not leaving our losing to chance.


Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:57 AM (LRFds)

218 T-bird, that reminds me that we also had Mr. Tony Woods, football coach, history teacher, ex-Duke lineman, conservative. Great teacher who once gave a kid a "blue dot" that lasted weeks. RIP.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 09:57 AM (ZshNr)

219 210 It is never safe to look at the TV. Spartacus has prop wieners liberally mixed in amongst the graphic sex and violence. Fuck who wants to see a big swinging dick during the middle of a particularly brutal stabbing?

Posted by: Mike Hunt at January 10, 2013 09:57 AM (G6kli)

220 211 My Obama,

Funny it just tells me that the cops need more range time.

You do go on though cupcake.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:58 AM (LRFds)

221 Modernization of the navy is one of the most important priorities in our work to strengthen the armed forces, What they really need are nuclear-powered icebreakers.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2013 09:58 AM (FcR7P)

222 Then there was the one where he befriends the Taliban/Al Qaeda. Once upon a time in college, I wrote a film critique of that movie for a class. Got a 'B' on the paper. Never actually saw the movie. God, I'm in the wrong line of work.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, High Priest of the Gods of the Copybook Headings at January 10, 2013 09:59 AM (GBXon)

223 yeah I am not in love with that but I could see it....I call it the Soviet Empire. I call dibs on the xbox 360 & playstation gaming rights!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 09:59 AM (GFM2b)

224 219 Was that blue dot centered in the brown asterisk? Sure it's funny until some old fuck is hosing kids in the shower.

Posted by: Mike Hunt at January 10, 2013 09:59 AM (G6kli)

225 Ace,

Someone probably already said this, but in NY at least, a "School Resource Officer" is a police officer assigned to the school.  In city's with problem schools there is usually a police officer assigned to work at the school during the school day.  So, it is unlikely this person was a teacher - they were probably a police officer.

Posted by: Monkeytoe at January 10, 2013 09:59 AM (sOx93)

226 222 T-Bird,

Have you seen the MV ManBearbig!???


//Al Albert J Algore jr

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 09:59 AM (LRFds)

227 My guess is that "Pravda" quote is Stuff Jefferson Said.

Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at January 10, 2013 09:59 AM (ZMzpb)

228 Regarding Gudger's .380. Well, I think the reporter gone and done F'ed up again. This surely doesn't look like a .380 (Cowen's does though, so they got 50 percent correct.) http://tinyurl.com/acg78n7

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 09:59 AM (fWAjv)

229 Well I think the JEF has been very successful. We are no longer a world diplomatic power, we will cease to be the world currency, we will no longer e the world's sole military power, and we will stop being the sole super power. Mission accomplished! He wanted to take us down a notch or three, and he has!

Posted by: Thunderb at January 10, 2013 10:00 AM (Dnbau)

230 224 rickb 223,

exceept we are at that point the Soviets....

I've seen this movie before.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:00 AM (LRFds)

231 that reminds me that we also had Mr. Tony Woods, You can tell that we're old. That stuff would never fly today. Ever get paddled? I did. Once. Oddly, I never felt the urge to push the limits in German class again.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2013 10:01 AM (FcR7P)

232 It's a 9mm or a .40 probably a Glock by the look.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:01 AM (LRFds)

233 The blue dot was a corporal punishment that I always admired. Teacher grabs tip of the miscreants schnozz between thumb and finger and squeezes. If done properly, the kid has a highly embarrassing "mark of ignominy" that can't be hidden.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 10:02 AM (ZshNr)

234 30 I thought they were librarians - armed librarians. Go on... With stilettos... And garters... And uh... Never mind. What were we talking about?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 10, 2013 10:03 AM (n8LUb)

235 What they really need are nuclear-powered icebreakers.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2013 01:58 PM (FcR7P)

 

 

------------------------------------------

 

 

Is that snark?  'Cause I think they already have them.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 10:04 AM (gKwHR)

236 Is it safe to look at the tee vee again? Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 01:55 PM (UOM4 The key is to have a dvr full of Ancient Aliens. Thus, there's always something on!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 10:04 AM (VtjlW)

237 don't forget the eyeglasses...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 10, 2013 10:04 AM (SO2Q8)

238 I've been wondering about the definition of Public servant lately. Since the prez used it at least twice i'm wondering what his definition is since they are all making great money, have set for life pensions, live in a real estate market that didn't miss a beat and have no job worries. Recently has one of those public servants walk into a party with three bottles of champagne, on sale, over a hundred bucks each, and think nothing of the expense. They are starting to remind me of the WS crowd, only their houses have gone down and they haven't had raises or bonuses since this mess began and aren't throwing money around at all.

Posted by: Caustic at January 10, 2013 10:04 AM (/b8+5)

239

We had Mr. L.  Used to be a kicker of some type for the Packers.  He picked up extra work in the summers doing some type of loading / unloading.  With him you did not fuck.

 

His  daughter was a pretty cheerleader in our class.  With her you did not date.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2013 10:04 AM (BAS5M)

240 The toughest they ever got with me was a grabbed arm or a poke in the chest. They never caught me doing anything bad enough to warrant a call to Phys Ed.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 10:05 AM (ZshNr)

241 Assuming trained professionals are that bad during a time of crisis, what is expected from the average citizen. Posted by: Mike Hunt at January 10, 2013 01:55 PM (G6kli) BWAAAAAZHAAAAAHAAAA 'Trained Professionals!'

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 10:05 AM (fWAjv)

242 We need an Air Marshall type program for schools. We are okay with armed people on airplanes protecting adults, but somehow we have a problem with someone protecting children at school?

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:05 AM (r2PLg)

243 OT: Snake on a Plane http://tinyurl.com/agweuwd

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 10, 2013 10:05 AM (5FHfg)

244 Regarding Gudger's .380.


Well, I think the reporter gone and done F'ed up again.


This surely doesn't look like a .380 (Cowen's does though, so they got 50 percent correct.)


http://tinyurl.com/acg78n7

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 01:59 PM (fWAjv)


Why is the time stamp showing 2010?

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 10:06 AM (GQ8sn)

245 We are okay with armed people on airplanes protecting adults, but somehow we have a problem with someone protecting children at school? Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 02:05 PM (r2PLg) Because gun grab... and racist, and shut up.

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 10:06 AM (UZQM8)

246 You can tell that we're old. That stuff would never fly today. Ever get paddled? I did. Once. Oddly, I never felt the urge to push the limits in German class again.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2013 02:01 PM (FcR7P)

 

 

----------------------------------------------

 

 

It was a monthly exercise with me.   My  parents and teachers were constantly  whispering about military school for me.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 10:06 AM (gKwHR)

247 I wonder if Pravda is actually criticising Russian politics under the guise of criticising US politics. Brilliant.

Posted by: ElKomandante at January 10, 2013 10:06 AM (mM141)

248 233 It's a 9mm or a .40 probably a Glock by the look. Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 02:01 PM (LRFds) Noted above is that the .40 Glock is their standard issue. Love having to fact check journalists. sigh..

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 10:06 AM (fWAjv)

249 Is that snark? 'Cause I think they already have them. Yeah, it was, and I know. A Navy just seems silly for an almost-landlocked nation. Unless they want to absolutely dominate the Caspian.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2013 10:07 AM (FcR7P)

250 I like to do bath salts and then talk about logic............

Posted by: Mike at January 10, 2013 10:07 AM (/YJYi)

251 Both times I've seen question marks about it being 2010. The time frame doesn't matter, what's important here is you didn't hear about it because shit got regulation by an armed on site officer. Had she not been there we'd all know how this would play out.

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 10:07 AM (UZQM8)

252 Why is the time stamp showing 2010? Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 02:06 PM (GQ8sn) shhhh... Don't tell ace the story is 2 years old.

Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2013 10:08 AM (fWAjv)

253 Speaking of librarians . . . . http://bit.ly/OQlrN4

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 10:08 AM (VtjlW)

254 Re: the new Russian boomers...

What's funny is that Hollywood could not re-boot "The Hunt For Red October".  Think about it.  What was Marko Ramius' motivation?  Would that happen now?
TROLOLOLOL!!!

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 10:08 AM (GQ8sn)

255

Siberia would have been a bitch to defend, but I just wonder how many of us would have happily moved over there, far from the feddle gubmint's reach, as the first colonists of American Siberia. The Siberian tigers probably would have been annoying, but nothing an AR-15 couldn't handle.

Incidentally, I didn't find the WRM article itself, but I did find a copy of a Boston Globe columnist's reaction to it (pretty supportive, believe it or not)

http://tinyurl.com/aq525zh

Posted by: Armando at January 10, 2013 10:08 AM (5iuEW)

256 Someone please flush this (G6kli) turd.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 10, 2013 10:08 AM (Fely/)

257 regulation = regulated... this congress is fucking up my faux OG slang.

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 10:08 AM (UZQM8)

258

It was a monthly exercise with me. My parents and teachers were constantly whispering about military school for me.

 

I attended military school where I mostly majored in...

 

wait for it...

 

getting paddled.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 10, 2013 10:08 AM (yiIja)

259 Why is the time stamp showing 2010?

Look at the date on the article, this happened in 2010.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at January 10, 2013 10:09 AM (+lsX1)

260 Posted by: JDP at January 10, 2013 02:06 PM (60GaT) The other day I listened to Beck, haven't listened since, but he said his sources have told him something about the Republican party that, when you hear it, you will know it's true. He seemed to think this would end the party. Does anyone listen to him every day? Has he mentioned this again?

Posted by: Caustic at January 10, 2013 10:09 AM (/b8+5)

261 Jeebus is TFG on TV again saying how we gotta raise taxes fer teh dead chillren? **** He was pretty near tears (or pretending to be) at the sight of Geitner stepping down.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2013 10:09 AM (piMMO)

262 @250

I agree, but according to George Snapppous, it was probably a 36.


It sure as hell isn't a 380.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 10:09 AM (S1INM)

263 I got paddled so  many times at school the paddle and my ass were on a first name basis. Hard to believe, I know......

Posted by: maddogg at January 10, 2013 10:10 AM (OlN4e)

264
He was pretty near tears (or pretending to be) at the sight of Geitner stepping down.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2013 02:09 PM (piMMO




He is one weird dude.  Probably never shed a tear when his commie granny died.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 10:11 AM (UOM48)

265 Jeebus is TFG on TV again saying how we gotta raise taxes fer teh dead chillren? Gotta actually pay for all that stuff you guys in Congress bought.

Posted by: Barry O'Choom at January 10, 2013 10:11 AM (FcR7P)

266 Whiff of ammonia in the room?

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 10:11 AM (ZshNr)

267 A Navy just seems silly for an almost-landlocked nation. Unless they want to absolutely dominate the Caspian.

Black Sea?  Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at January 10, 2013 10:11 AM (QKKT0)

268 He is one weird dude. Probably never shed a tear when his commie granny died.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 02:11 PM (UOM4


Why would he, she was white.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 10:11 AM (tWFaN)

269 Caustic, you don't happen to live in NYC and have a lot of cats, do you?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 10:12 AM (UOM48)

270 Look at the date on the article, this happened in 2010.

I don't get it.  This story happened in 2010, but was updated Dec 24 2012?  WTF is going on?

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 10:12 AM (GQ8sn)

271 I just took a trillion dollar dump. It was like a sunset.

Posted by: The Mega Independent[/i] at January 10, 2013 10:12 AM (NY+Pf)

272 In the high schools where I taught the SRO's were local cops who were on campus to deal with basic mischief. A courtyard fight would be handled by him, and he could choose whether to charge with assault or use school discipline. He oversaw mediation between kids (and sometimes gangs) with long-standing disputes, trained us in gang graffiti (so we could report gang activity if we saw it on notebooks, desks, etc.). Seeing a kid arrested in front of you is a decent deterrent if you're a borderline miscreant. If we'd had to wait an hour for the patrol car, it would have lost some of its efficacy.

Posted by: Cameron at January 10, 2013 10:12 AM (C+k3p)

273 271 A Navy just seems silly for an almost-landlocked nation. Unless they want to absolutely dominate the Caspian. Black Sea? Never heard of it. Posted by: Charles Gibson at January 10, 2013 02:11 PM (QKKT0) I'll take arms trafficking for $500.

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 10:12 AM (UZQM8)

274 my dad threatened me with military school .. I was worried, until I found out what it cost. ... Once I did I told him "fine, but I want to be in the cavalry unit ($6,000 per year) and the artillery brigade ($3,200) as well. That it'd be good for me. - That's a paddlin'

Posted by: BumperStickerist at January 10, 2013 10:13 AM (RuUvx)

275 Librarians...baring arms?

Posted by: Nate in New Orleans at January 10, 2013 10:13 AM (lhX9P)

276 He is one weird dude. Probably never shed a tear when his commie granny died.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 02:11 PM (UOM4

 

The only tears he cries are crocodile tears.   If the man's ever felt a shred of genuine human emotion I'd be shocked.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:13 AM (4df7R)

277 OK just saw the report that NRA members soared 100,000, only 100,000? What the hell man, I guess I need to start giving memberships as fucking gifts, if any of you gun guys has not joined yet, well this is the only organization I have seen that has been steadfast in defending the constitution.

Posted by: gigg at January 10, 2013 10:13 AM (41VCE)

278 I attended military school where I mostly majored in... wait for it... getting paddled. Well, you have 3/4 of them beat. At least you majored in something!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 10:13 AM (GFM2b)

279

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 02:12 PM (UOM4

 

Was wondering the same.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 10:14 AM (wbeNt)

280 The only tears he cries are crocodile tears. If the man's ever felt a shred of genuine human emotion I'd be shocked. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 10, 2013 02:13 PM (4df7R) It would probably kill him

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 10:14 AM (UZQM8)

281

I got paddled so many times at school the paddle and my ass were on a first name basis. Hard to believe, I know......

 

I had a straight "A" average.

 

And calluses. Go figure.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 10, 2013 10:14 AM (yiIja)

282 I don't get it. This story happened in 2010, but was updated Dec 24 2012? WTF is going on?

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 02:12 PM (GQ8sn)

 

My guess is it was updated after Sandy Hook since it was an example of a potential school shooting that was averted by an armed school employee.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:14 AM (4df7R)

283 In my county, police assign school resource officers to Junior High schools and to High schools, not to elementary schools. Traditionally, their purpose has been to assist school officials in deling with internal school disciplinary problems. The school in this case was a High school. If Elementary schools and Kindergartens are going to be targeted by nut jobs, police departments may find it necessary to man elementary schools as well. In any case, this is not a situation where an armed citizen prevented a shooting. It was a cop.

Posted by: Leeotis at January 10, 2013 10:14 AM (gznAu)

284 The only tears he cries are crocodile tears. If the man's ever felt a shred of genuine human emotion I'd be shocked. **** The way he had his face twisted up at the pc a few minutes ago was pretty... Hell. I don't even know the word for it. Comical? Asinine? Absurd?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2013 10:14 AM (piMMO)

285 Rush playing Cuomo speech Jane mentioned earlier.

Sounds like campaign trail, "We can do it!".

All that's missing is the YEEEEHAAAAAA!

Posted by: ontherocks at January 10, 2013 10:14 AM (aZ6ew)

286 OT: Regarding story in the sidebar about Lohan. I'm sorry but Lindsay Lohan is not god's gift to acting -- not even close. Nobody I know goes to a movie just to see her perform. Nor do they go to see her naked. Frankly, she's not that great looking without her clothes. I also don't understand why she can't live within her means beyond the fact that she chooses not to. Anybody who hires her or lends her money are fools.

Posted by: Walkers! at January 10, 2013 10:15 AM (ymJbM)

287 It would probably kill him

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 02:14 PM (UZQM

 

He'd melt like the Wicked Witch.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:15 AM (4df7R)

288 I wondered what he meant when he was talking about the new treasury secy's signature. It's on drudge, it looks like a coil, it's weird.

Posted by: Caustic at January 10, 2013 10:16 AM (/b8+5)

289 The other day I listened to Beck, haven't listened since, but he said his sources have told him something about the Republican party that, when you hear it, you will know it's true. He seemed to think this would end the party.

Does anyone listen to him every day? Has he mentioned this again?

Posted by: Caustic at January 10, 2013 02:09 PM (/b8+5)

 

 

------------------------------------------------

 

 

I forget when he said he'd be talking about it, but he will.  Don't underestimate Beck.  He does have connections.  Good ones.

 

I also like his plan for The Blaze.  I hope he can carry it off.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 10:16 AM (gKwHR)

290 Anyone want to see a movie about how fracking is going to set your town on fire?  Anyone? Anyone? 

Hello! Is this thing on?

Posted by: MATT DAMON!!!! at January 10, 2013 10:16 AM (QKKT0)

291 Cuomo is a scum bag.   Doesn't he have his mistress living in the Governor's mansion.


Yeah, he's a good Catholic boy.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 10:17 AM (tWFaN)

292 Comical? Asinine? Absurd?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2013 02:14 PM (piMMO)

 

Why limit yourself?   Use all three!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:17 AM (4df7R)

293 Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive takes Cuomo down a peg or twelve:

http://tinyurl.com/axthbqm

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 10:17 AM (UOM48)

294 Here in Jax we have full-on police substations in some schools. They service not only the schools, but the communities as well. Kind of like precincts. The schools without substations have resource officers and I believe they are in elementary schools as well. BC might be able to verify that.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2013 10:17 AM (piMMO)

295 Neighbor said: "He believed the government used electro-magnetic waves to make his dog bark. He only used disposable cell phones because he believed the government was listening in on his conversations", she said. Then she added, "“He didn’t seem to be crazy." Le facepalm.

Posted by: Sarahw at January 10, 2013 10:17 AM (LYwCh)

296 291OT: Regarding story in the sidebar about Lohan. I'm sorry but Lindsay Lohan is not god's gift to acting -- not even close. Nobody I know goes to a movie just to see her perform. Nor do they go to see her naked. Frankly, she's not that great looking without her clothes. I also don't understand why she can't live within her means beyond the fact that she chooses not to. Anybody who hires her or lends her money are fools.

Posted by: Walkers! at January 10, 2013 02:15 PM (ymJbM)

 

 

 

 

My theory: She's a dumb shit.

Posted by: maddogg at January 10, 2013 10:17 AM (OlN4e)

297 Hell-- I got whacked by nuns.

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:17 AM (r2PLg)

298 In any case, this is not a situation where an armed citizen prevented a shooting. It was a cop.

Posted by: Leeotis at January 10, 2013 02:14 PM (gznAu)

 

Nt all Resource Officers are armed.  It was a case where an armed member of the school staff prevented a potential tragedy.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:18 AM (4df7R)

299

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 10, 2013 02:13 PM (4df7R)

 

My guess is that he cried *a lot* as a little kid (and with decent reason) and one day decided not to cry again. If he weren't destroying the country I love I'd feel sorry for him because he's pretty much exactly what you'd expect, in terms of completely messed-up, given the horrible way he was raised.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 10:18 AM (wbeNt)

300

 The Siberian tigers probably would have been annoying, but nothing an AR-15 couldn't handle.

 

 

Would you like to be buried or cremated after i finished off the tiger with my .454?

Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 10, 2013 10:18 AM (ma1sf)

301 290 Rush playing Cuomo speech Jane mentioned earlier. Sounds like campaign trail, "We can do it!". All that's missing is the YEEEEHAAAAAA! Posted by: ontherocks at January 10, 2013 02:14 PM (aZ6ew) ________________ Oh gawd--the Democrat primary is going to be like some- whacko opera.

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:20 AM (r2PLg)

302 @305

Hitting a tiger from more that 20 ft with an AR would be a real problem and yes you would have to hit him many times to kill him.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 10:21 AM (tWFaN)

303

T-bird, that reminds me that we also had Mr. Tony Woods, football coach, history teacher, ex-Duke lineman, conservative. Great teacher who once gave a kid a "blue dot" that lasted weeks. RIP.

 

Lincolntf, this is totally a shot in the dark, but would that be this guy?

 

http://tinyurl.com/a49gyet

Posted by: Armando at January 10, 2013 10:21 AM (5iuEW)

304 Oh gawd--the Democrat primary is going to be like some-

whacko opera.

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 02:20 PM (r2PLg)

 

 

---------------------------------------------------

 

 

And half the nation will  joyessly eat that shit up.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 10:23 AM (gKwHR)

305

My guess is that he cried *a lot* as a little kid (and with decent reason) and one day decided not to cry again. If he weren't destroying the country I love I'd feel sorry for him because he's pretty much exactly what you'd expect, in terms of completely messed-up, given the horrible way he was raised.

 

Even little kids  have a good sense of right and wrong. They seek out an adult who can verify this for them. Failing that influence, they must wait until adolescence. If the proper adult still fails to appear, they must wait until adulthood to have that instinct verfied.

 

In TFG's case,  how he was raised was  so bad, he just gave up and is now taking out his childhood frustrations on the entire country. I'll wager that if he were given an  emotional   maturity test, he'd score as an 8-year-old.  This  is pathetic in a grown man.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at January 10, 2013 10:27 AM (yiIja)

306 And half the nation will joyessly eat that shit up. Yes I expect a disgusting spectacle of epic proportions.

Posted by: gigg at January 10, 2013 10:27 AM (41VCE)

307 310 Backwards boy,

Trelane the lone squire of gothos

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (LRFds)

308 307 @305 Hitting a tiger from more that 20 ft with an AR would be a real problem and yes you would have to hit him many times to kill him. Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at January 10, 2013 02:21 PM (tWFaN) I think a bag of temptations would have more effect than a .556

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 10:34 AM (UZQM8)

309 Yes, Armando, that's him. I'm pleased to say that I was one of his favorite classroom conservatives/wise-asses.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 10, 2013 10:49 AM (ZshNr)

310 There's a tape of that Georgia shooting. The guy is yelling at his wife to shoot him and shoot him again. lol! Originally, I didn't think the burglar knew they were home but it appears he did and chased the boy before they hid themselves.

Posted by: Waldo Truth at January 10, 2013 10:53 AM (O8DFT)

311 Mine too. I had him for Honors World History.

Posted by: Armando at January 10, 2013 10:55 AM (5iuEW)

312 Crap! Another economic destroyer! Think of all the work ruined for grief councilors, for candle makers. All the economic dislocation for reporters, for Dem speech writers.

Posted by: Jehu at January 10, 2013 10:56 AM (cSD32)

313

"12682 --- We in SW Va trash NoVa so often that we really do need reminders (like yours) that what we call the Occupied Zone is not uniformly, irredeemably leftist and crazy!"

 

Thank you.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 10, 2013 10:56 AM (WWeoI)

314 any one hear of the CA school  shooting ? last I read  2 dead

Posted by: occam at January 10, 2013 11:00 AM (nXFLL)

315 Just want to pop in here to point out that this Pravda is a russian tabloid with a rightish slant and a propensity for conspiracy theories, whereas the other Pravda (that I think people are thinking of) is the russian commie party newspaper.

Posted by: Harlequin (lurkin) at January 10, 2013 11:09 AM (vaEUT)

316 Class of 89

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 11:10 AM (ZshNr)

317 This doesn't fit the narrative so it needs to go down the memoryhole with that 2nd A thingy...

Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2013 11:24 AM (MFsWP)

318

That school should have been designated a "Gun Free Zone".... then this wouldn't have happened and the perp would have been able to pull his weapon on a Stop and Rob instead.

Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2013 11:28 AM (MFsWP)

319 So SCOAMF said 'This guy is the one that did it' saying Lew balanced Clintern's budgets. Yeah, Newt dragging the newest Father of the Year had nothing to do with those budgets.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at January 10, 2013 12:06 PM (UU0OF)

320

Just by doing a search on the net you will get all kinds of stories like this from schools, churches, and individuals protecting themselves.  Funny that.  Our complicit propagandist never seem to be able to report them unless it is too big of a story which can not be ignored.

Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2013 12:30 PM (G+Wff)

321 Did somebody miss the tiny type at the top of the article saying

Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:00 am | Updated: 11:36 am, Mon Dec 24, 2012.

So, this is 2 1/2 years ago?

Posted by: Ken Mitchell at January 10, 2013 02:32 PM (BlKYn)

322 "A School Resource Officer (SRO) is a law enforcement officer who is assigned to either an elementary, middle, or high school. The main goal of the SRO is to prevent juvenile delinquency by promoting positive relations between youth and law enforcement." From Citrus County Sheriff's Office web site. So she's not a teacher or a civilian. More like what NRA has proposed, the one liberals dismissed as extreme and impractical.

Posted by: Socratease at January 10, 2013 02:57 PM (3V4IJ)

323 I've thought that what schools ought to have is biathlon teams. Even down here in Albuquerque. At least one of the middle schools promotes golden glove boxing (which horrifies the district, and they may have gotten it stopped) because it is such a motivator for the hispanic students. How much of a motivation would it be if you passed your classes and kept your nose clean and you got to get shooting lessons... even if you had to learn to ski at the same time? Start a competition with a "sister school" in Montana or Minnesota. When I was in sixth grade the American Legion offered gun safety classes and we shot 22s. Demystify weapons and promote responsibility. Make firearms something that the squeaky-clean fellows do instead of a glamorous gangster thing.

Posted by: Synova at January 10, 2013 06:06 PM (7/PU+)

324 I find it interesting when I watched this story on national news, they mentioned the resource officer "talked" the guy out of leaving, no mention that the resource officer had a weapon. I taught weapon safety at Boy Scout camp as a young scoutmaster, what I learned shore came in handy in boot camp.

Posted by: navy1946 at January 10, 2013 07:20 PM (1trjg)

325 No Ace. What you described in your example for #1 is called the Abilene Paradox, which you both failed to break because of "social niceties."

And btw, fun fact for the day: did y'all know the word "nice" means you don't know anything? It means you're ignorant, literally. Back in French to Latin it means you know nothing, that you just agree with what everyone says because you don't have any information of your own because you are too ignorant and/or foolish. Look it up in Webster's. And remember that context the next time someone tells you to "just be nice" or "just don't say anything and be nice," or whatever, and think about the motivation of who is saying it. The goal is usually to silence you and shut down the conversation. It is a guilt trip because if you are not "nice" then what are you? You're "mean if you say those things" you're being hurtful, hateful, whatever. I was guilty of it myself. I would tell my kids to "be nice" all the time. I stopped. Now I use words more directed at the behavior I am seeking, like "be friendly" or "be courteous" "be polite" "be respectful."

Posted by: halodoc at January 10, 2013 08:08 PM (Fzbp3)

326 Watched the video of that standoff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEDEi8ZZ--E).  The deputies may have been on-scene in 120 seconds, but they were apparently dithering around figuring out where they wanted to enter the building (you can hear the person who called 911 from the office talking to the dispatcher about it).  More than 10 minutes after the gun is drawn and the 911 call is initiated, the YouTube video ends with NO DEPUTIES IN SIGHT yet.  The poor Resource Officer has been in a Mexican Standoff (can I still say that?) with this guy the whole time!

Posted by: Formerly known as Skeptic at January 11, 2013 08:03 AM (91XRk)

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