We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:32:57 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...of a firearms-related story from the AP. First up - I honor the service of Officer Somohano, who was killed by Labeet, and pray for a speedy recovery of the three other officers wounded in the attack that eventually resulted in Labeet's unlamented death at the hands of other law enforcement personnel. That said, this story is annoying for the unconnected assertions and innacurate information attributed to Federal law enforcers - who have either been edited to idiocy, or are deliberately mis-stating things for effect, or, don't know what they're talking about... Point the first and foremost - Laws already... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:10:28 -0600 JMH, you bastard! I've seen yer regimental coat of arms. It involves canoes, and beavers! Pervert! Pfvbbfthh! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64510 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64510 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:17:40 -0600 Web Reconnaissance for 09/18/2007 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day...so check back often.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64473 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64473 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:57:30 -0600 . but JTG does use veiled speech. "Switch" and "under my bottom" are very suggestive of exotic arcane rituals, inducing varying levels of numbness. Possibly carried out in subterranean locales that are not basements, even in Florida. Explosive revelations may result from "switching" during repetitive nocturnal periods. Deadmen = "empties". Now that was amusing after my rant. thanks, I needed that.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64465 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64465 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:45:32 -0600 Just so it's clear how NAFTA is the problem here, besides cargo not being routinely inspected for fear of "slowing down" commerce in a JIT (Just In Time inventory) economy, the central railroad hub for most of this illicit trade is right here in Kansas City. Which is the reason that violent gang warfare using illegal weapons for fights over territory and drugs is on the rise here. And, while the police are unfunded, the gangs take over more territory, create a serious network for creating and distributing drugs as well as ways to launder the money. And, hey, talk about "offensive" anti-drug commercials, I actually liked the one where the guy was telling the other one that his drug use was supporting terrorism because it is. though, marijuana was a bad choice. Cocaine supports narco-terrorists who kidnap and kill people all over south America. Heroin from opium definitely supports terrorism. But, we couldn't show those videos because it "demonized" drug users who are supposed to be lamented for their "disease". Screw that. Most people take up drugs because THEY WANT TO not because somebody holds them down and forces it on them or even that some "addictive gene" makes it a foregone conclusion. Bring on the "what drugs really do". How about some victims of narco-terrorism or terrorism in general? That is much more offensive than telling some jack leg that doing drugs is bad and possibly hurting their egos. People actually die and that is pretty d__n offensive. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64464 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64464 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:42:39 -0600 ... but JTG does use veiled speech. "Switch" and "under my bottom" are very suggestive of exotic arcane rituals, inducing varying levels of numbness. Possibly carried out in subterranean locales that are not basements, even in Florida. Explosive revelations may result from "switching" during repetitive nocturnal periods. Deadmen = "empties". Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64463 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64463 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:36:56 -0600 Note to CARNIVOREous types - it's true, there are no basements in Southern Florida. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64461 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64461 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:20:27 -0600 P.s. There are no basements in Southern Florida, where I am. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64455 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64455 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:06:38 -0600 y. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64454 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64454 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:01:09 -0600 kat, you sensible woman, you, are you trying to get me to drink more than I already do, which is much, much more than is good for me? Owhell, as I've written many times before, here and elswhere, I want to be numb when they come for me, numb,I tell you! Now that this blog is watched by the Executive Office of the President, I reckon I can no longer express my preference for keeping a couple of tons of cyclonite in the basement of my house, hooked up to a deadman switch under my bottom on the Barcalounger. No worries, I don't know how to acquire Cyclonite, and I think Barcaloungers are sill http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64453 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64453 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:57:56 -0600 Here, in Kansas City, NAFTA is a part of the problem. While I am a supporter of free trade agreements as an important aspect of economic development in third world countries as well as a significant part of our over all security, NAFTA has been a boondoggle for drug and gun smugglers. Kansas City has been the center of this for over a decade. NAFTA allows trains and trucks basically to enter the US or transport trade goods without much in the way of routine inspection. This allows drugs and guns to be smuggled in to criminal gangs from Mexico fairly routinely without much interdiction. Chinese made, fully automatic AK-47s are high on the list of weapons that are smuggled in through these routes though semi-automatic AK-47s that are easily converted to fully automatic with also easily obtained conversion kits. In Kansas City, though not often reported by the press, the use of AK-47s in gang warfare is on the rise. My favorite reports report the use of "assault rifles" in crimes, but also the ones that don't designate the type of "weapon" yet indicate "30 some rounds" fired. These are often in conjunction with pictures showing what are clearly cases from 7.62mm rounds. Couple this with the influx of drugs through these NAFTA routes as well as the rise of meth labs in the area, you have a serious problem. In Kansas City, part of this problem comes from a refusal by government and police to call the situation as it really is: gang warfare. in fact, as the violence escalated, they continued to place the blame on the availability of weapons to "young people" who then apparently, for no good reason, use these weapons to "settle differences violently". Those are almost direct quotes from two years ago when the rising gang wars started to take place and the city officials and police were desperately trying to down play it (wouldn't do to have "gang and drug wars" taking place in a city that is busy trying to re-invigorate downtown commerce). Much like the refusal of some US officials to recognize the nature of the Iraq insurgency until it had escalated beyond control, the local police and government officials have been reluctant to do what is really necessary. No, we're not talking about "gun control". we're talking about putting money into law enforcement such as "gang units" as well as other important economic development causes in low income neighborhoods (such as the now famous "broken windows theory"). You don't stop gang wars from banning guns of any sort or blaming guns or talking about how bad guns are, you take away the territory the gangs control and use to create and sell drugs. You take away the territory where they can intimidate the population and have a "safe haven" from which to operate. You take away their economic incentives and you tell people exactly what drugs do. I don't mean those milquetoast commercials that tell you drugs are bad with some sweet innocent kid talking about why they don't want to do drugs, but show people real drug abusers before and after. Show people the dead from these gang wars. Not in washed out, 2 minute reports. but, show the dead. People will say that this would be too offensive. To me, drug abuse is offensive. The death of people due to drugs, either by the abusers or by gangs that sell it, are offensive. Gun battles on our street corners are offensive. You want the citizens to get behind any law enforcement funding and activities, they need to show the people just how bad it is. But they won't because, if they do, the people will demand that something "more" be done. That something more will take money and that means that money earmarked for certain special interests in this city would be reduced or disappear. That's why city governments like here and Miami Dade (even national government) spend their time talking about and enacting one stupid, low rent, barely enforceable gun law after the other. It makes them look like they are doing something while leaving the larger dollars intact. As far as healthcare or treatment for drug abusers, they don't mind putting that out there. It's hidden in a way. Do you know how much the government is spending on these rehabs? Does anybody ever ask? It is still cheaper than an over all effective war against drugs, gangs and other real causes of escalating murder rates that budget minded government folks want you to ignore. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64450 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64450 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:29:33 -0600 good job. keep it up plz! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64444 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/time_for_a_litt_1.html#comment-64444 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:06:41 -0600