Monthly Archives: June 2011

‘Sovereign Citizen’ Killed After Trying To Steal Cop’s Taser In Altercation

Here’s the story. A “sovereign citizen”, aka traitor, goes for a cop’s taser and gets shot dead.

Once again: someone who doesn’t believe in the United States government and wants to make up his own rules tries to take a weapon away from a badged officer who is tasked and entrusted to uphold the same laws this guy refuses to accept protects and restrains him.

Cop shoots traitor.

So take your time, read the story, and then plunge into the babble of the comments. There’s a Zogby poll I take whenever they send them. In the political leaning list I usually pick liberal. Granted, like everyone, I pick and choose philosophies. Like, I don’t mind every home having a firearm – probably a shotgun – for safety. IF they want one. But I think handguns are dangerous and folks who have them and don’t train on them are idiots out to hurt themselves. Statistics prove this.

That’s just one example.

Point is, I never pick the “progressive” option. Want to know why? Folks who call themselves progressive are the only in the comments on this story concerned about three things. One, is the poor dead traitor mentally unbalanced? I don’t know, but I kind of imagine he might have been to have rejected the reality of his existence so soundly.

Two, were there other eyewitness accounts that contradicted the cop? Turns out, there might have been, but my immediate reaction was not to think the officer was lying. I don’t even like law enforcement that much. I had some individual officers pull some dirty crap on me and my friends when younger. But I don’t hate and distrust cops immediately. I treat them like snakes. They’ve got a job to do. If you stay out of their way, hopefully they won’t randomly bite you.;

Three, aside from feeling sorry for the guy GRABBING FOR AN OFFICER’S GEAR BELT and blaming the cop for that happening, I also don’t want to condemn anyone who think it is a good thing that these sovereign traitors get a look at what happens when they pull their “I’m my own nation” crap and try to steal a weapon our taxes paid for.

So yeah, I’m not into backstabbing and knee-jerk distrusting law enforcement. In fact, isn’t that EXACTLY what the sovereigns would do?

Milk dud: Schools rule out chocolate

Personally, I agree with this concept. Yes, I let Gabriel drink chocolate milk, but he does it according to whether or not his mom and I let him.

If he got to choose, he would drink it all the time. So a little policing of his diet is not only a good thing, but also something I would expect of any school system I would send him to.

What really pissed me off though was the idiot parent at the end of the segment who apparently does ZERO positive food modeling with her kid. News flash: kids watch what YOU eat and follow accordingly. Which is why I’m so glad Gabriel chows on veggies and eats a pretty balanced diet all on his own.

For more on LA’s plan and some future food in the crosshairs, check out this story.

Weekly Address: Celebrating Father’s Day

What most of his detractors forget when they are calling the President some kind of Muslim, Kenyan, socialist destroyer of America is that he’s got kids.

He’s a father, and apparently a good one. And a much better man than those who yell epithets and cheer for someone to kill him solely because of the color of his skin.

Happy Father’s Day Mr. President and to all you other fathers trying to raise your kids to be good people.

Zero Degrees of Separation – Cooks Illustrated

Christopher Kimball is not only a food genius, he’s also keen on remembering the important things we insist on removing from modern life. Here he is lamenting that most of us know nothing of the sights, smells, and tastes of food on the vine and in the field.

Granted, I may not have as much nostalgia as he does for the smell of pig poop, but, yes, it is important to know how hard – and how beautiful – it is to get your food from the source. It might make folks appreciate and re-evaluate the difference between good food and the usual crap that is often served to us indifferently.