Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vs the pompous

Again, Demorats attempting to prove that Trump is in league with Vladimir Putin directly when, in fact Barack Hussein Obama was the true Putin’s Poodle.

Listen to Mike Pompeo grilled by Leftist Demorats in various hearings, whose goals are to catch Trump literally in bed with ol’ Vlad. It’s to the point where apparently Pompeo is now personally responsible for Trump, where he goes, what he says, and must question everything he does including any translator involved with any Russian.

Let’s enjoy the madness, and enjoy Pompeo skewering these Leftist nutters.

First, Senator Tom Udall from New Mexico.

Second, Senator Bob Menendez from New Jersey.

Third, Senator Jeanne Shaheen from New Hampshire.

A little about Mike Pompeo. He attended West Point and was ranked number one in his class. He is an atto-rney. He was a Captain in the US Army. He is a former Director of the CIA and the current Secretary of State. My guess is that he knows something about procedure involving intelligence and the history of Russia.

Just saying.

This is all laughable.

But it won’t be funny if these morons take the House or the Senate in November because, quite frankly, the LDAMM are dangerous as hell and have no concept of money, human nature, facts, history, logic, rationality, proportion or common sense.

  1. Register Republicans!
  2. VOTE IN NOVEMBER!

BZ

 

Church to never call police again

BZ’s summary: fine. Don’t. Just make sure you stick to your policy.

From the LATimes.com:

A California church flirts with an unusual social experiment: to never call police again

by Jaweed Kaleem

Standing on the front steps of First Congregational Church of Oakland late last month, Nichola Torbett issued a declaration.

“We can no longer tolerate the trauma inflicted on our communities by policing,” Torbett, a white church volunteer, said in front of churchgoers who held photos of African Americans shot dead by law enforcement. The church, she promised, would never call the cops again in nearly every circumstance. Dozens of members had agreed to do the same.

“How do police help? They often don’t,” Torbett later said in an interview. “So, especially as white people, why call them?”

Right. White people never need cops. Why call them?

As videos of the aftermath of white Americans dialing 911 on African Americans for taking part in innocent activities have repeatedly gone viral — two black friends meeting at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, a black grad student napping in a Yale dormitory common room, a black family having a barbecue just blocks from the Oakland congregation — members of this small church are taking extreme measures in response.

But wait. Like Leftists everywhere they want what they want when they want it.

“We’re taught to turn to police for so much, even simple disagreements between people,” said church member Sarah Pritchard, who is also white and is setting up trainings such as the July workshop. “Why can’t we resolve issues among ourselves?”

“We need to be there as a community for one another so we can provide safety for our congregation without police,” she said. Pritchard said the ban wouldn’t apply if there was a shooting or other life-threatening violence. But nearly everything else is fair game.

What about the homeless, the transients, the mentally unbalanced? You can talk your way out of these situations, can’t you? Just make sure you don’t call the Oakland Police Department.

The church, which sits on a small hill just north of downtown Oakland, frequently opens its doors to the homeless, mentally ill and those who struggle with drug addictions. It offers a food pantry, transit cards and a place to nap. But it draws the line at hosting people overnight.

The conversation turned to another aspect of policing: deterring and solving crime. Church leaders said they could prevent crime by forming better relationships with neighborhood residents. Their theory, put simply: Friends won’t steal from friends. But if crime still happened, church members prayed they could make peace between victims and perpetrators directly without police or courts.

Just remember, you can always reason with criminals and the insane when you speak calmly and rationally to them. What could go wrong? Hell, nothing.

The department itself indicates it doesn’t mind conserving its resources.

The Police Department has not responded publicly to the church’s stance. A spokeswoman said Chief Anne E. Kirkpatrick was unavailable.

But Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland police union, said he wasn’t bothered by the church.

“If this particular group doesn’t want to call the police, that’s their position, that’s their view,” Donelan said. “But my members are happy to respond to the tremendous need for police services elsewhere. If they take this view, it makes it so more police can be directed to those who ask for them.” He added that he would “never discourage people from calling police” if they changed their minds.

Let’s just see how this grand Leftist Experiment works out.

Oh wait. If it tanks, you won’t hear anything about that.

Will you?

BZ

 

It’s time to file down your knives in the UK

Heard in London recently: “You there! Put down that butter knife!”

Just when you thought Leftists couldn’t become more imbecilic — well, they become more inbecilic.

From the UKTelegraph.com:

Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says

by Joel Adams

A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.

Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.

Latest figures show stabbing deaths among teenagers and young adults have reached the highest level for eight years, and knife crime overall rose 22 per cent in 2017.

In the past two months, he said, there have been 77 knife-related incidents in Bedfordshire, including three killings.

Thank God I wasn’t drinking a carbonated beverage when creating this post. Oh, the humanity!

Judge Madge told the assembled  judges, barristers and court staff: “These offences often seem motiveless – one boy was stabbed because he had an argument a couple of years before at his junior school.”

He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.

One easy remedy is to ban cutlery drawers. Further, cutlery drawers should be eliminated from future homes and homes being built now. That would solve a good portion of the UK’s issue with knife crime.

He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?

“Butchers and fishmongers do, but how often, if at all, does a domestic chef use the point of an eight-inch or ten-inch knife? Rarely, if at all.”

Good point. The UK banned guns. It’s well and truly time to ban knives. Sporks will just have to do.

This could create another new burgeoning industry entirely: food resembling the pablum of infants. Think of the children!

Why cut your food when there’s no need? Simply create food which is mixed in blenders or, at room temperature, can be spread with a spork. The problem with that is that, sooner or later, the UK will have to deal with the pointy edges of a spork. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet.

So, he said: “I would urge all those with any role in relation to knives – manufacturers, shops, the police, local authorities, the government – to consider preventing the sale of long pointed knives, except in rare, defined, circumstances, and replacing such knives with rounded ends.

“It might even be that the police could organise a programme whereby the owners of kitchen knives, which have been properly and lawfully bought for culinary purposes, could be taken somewhere to be modified, with the points being ground down into rounded ends,” he said.

As the British are wont to say: brilliant!

Office for National statistics figures published in February revealed 215 fatal stabbings had been recorded by police in the 12 months to March 2017.

This was on par with the previous year’s 212 stabbing deaths but a marked increase on the 186 in the year to March 2015.

The latest figures show ten 16 or 17 year olds lost their lives in the year to March 2017, as well as 51 people aged between 18 and 24. The combined total is the highest since 2008/9.

In the first 100 days of 2018, 53 people were killed in the capital alone, many of them victims of knife crime.

Of course, we must realize that Islam has absolutely nothing to do with the increase in knife crimes. Absolutely nothing.

  • When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns;
  • When knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives;
  • When baseball bats are outlawed, only outlaws will have baseball bats;
  • When heavy lamps are outlawed, only outlaws will have heavy lamps;

And.  .  .

  • When rocks are outlawed, only outlaws will have rocks.

The UK should take solace in the fact that their crime rate has surpassed that of New York City. Now there’s something of which to be proud.

BZ