Never coulda seen this coming!

Sheriff Arpaio forced to return military weapons

PHOENIX -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is preparing to send back hundreds of weapons received under the US Government's controversial 1033 program, which sends military surplus equipment to local agencies.
Arpaio says the MCSO lost or misplaced 9 guns over 20 years, and is now being forced to return all items received.

So he's not only an asshole, he's also dangerously incompetent? Who knew?

You know, some of those "lost" or "misplaced" guns could easily have ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. So I will expect Darrell Issa to launch a full investigation any moment now.


Is it only 6? Seems like a lot more.

More than 100 agencies are "suspended" from the program for similar reasons, but Arpaio says to his knowledge, the MCSO is the only agency to be terminated.

Oh, Jeezus. Ya know, maybe giving military-grade weaponry to every local yokel  county sheriff who ever made Paul Newman spend a night in the box might not have been such a great idea.

"We'd like to find them.  We don't know where they're at.  We keep auditing to try to find them, but way back then we didn't have the high tech computer system [to track them]," Arpaio explained.

 

Really?

You really need a "high tech computer system" to keep track of where you put the ASSAULT RIFLES?

You seriously need a computer for that? 'Cause I'm pretty sure this guy could handle that task:

 How high-tech a system do you need? I'm thinking this system should be plenty high-tech enough:

 

Does your department not have one of these?

You put the guns in. You lock the door. You don't, and I can't stress this enough, you DON'T give every Tom Dick and Harry the combination. Then when Al Queda comes storming into Arizona, you unlock the safe and your assault rifles are ready to defend whatever it is you have in Arizona that you think is worth defending.  It's not that complicated. And actually, it should really be even easier because you can lock the safe and lose the combination because you will NEVER EVER NEED MILITARY-GRADE ASSAULT WEAPONS TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT!!!

"It really doesn't mean anything. Look at the handguns.  They probably don't work anyway.   We have plenty of our own," Arpaio said Tuesday.

Oh, yeah. . . I totally don't even care. I wasn't even like using those anyway.  I totally forgot we even had them. Yeah, I got like, a ton of other guns okay? I don't even need your stupid guns anyway.

Colorful News

Street gangs tone down use of colors, tattoos

 

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Nearly gone are the gang days of the 1980s and '90s, when the Bloods wore head-to-toe red

the Crips wore blue and Latin Kings wore black and gold.

 

 Gangs from coast to coast have toned down their use of colors and are even removing or altering tattoos.
Today, the most you might see is part of a red handkerchief hanging out of a back pocket or a gold and black baseball cap, said Johnmichael O'Hare, a Hartford police sergeant who monitors gangs.



         






















One such neighborhood gang in Hartford, Money Green/Bedroc, often wore the kind of athletic jerseys popular among kids nationwide,








In Los Angeles, court injunctions allow police to enforce nighttime curfews and arrest people for hanging out in public and wearing gang colors."So we don't see so much wearing of the colors. We don't see so much of the tattooing,"

Karl Rove is still shameless.

Holy fuck, this prick doesn't even make a pretense of anything approaching honesty.

This is what that piece of shit had to say on some garbage FOX show:

The president is suffering because of the policies of his administration, squandered the peace, and have led to the circumstances we find ourselves in today

The peace.

He squandered "the peace."

The two wars he inherited apparently qualify as "the peace."

Un fucking believable.

I love a parade Vol. III

Just a few more pictures from the Dragon*Con Parade.


These are Gumbys
The person on the far right wins my award for cleverest costume - Gumby dressed as a Gumby..

 

 This would appear to be tiny Spiderman hanging out with Gotham City villains.

 

Not cool, tiny Spidey, not cool.

Probably the less said about this next group the better: 

 

More Box Heroes, an Atlanta institution:

 

→ ←

 

 

 No idea.

Um, a robot?

 

I have no clue.

Wait, now I do:

Putting the Dragon in Dragon*Con

Admiral Akbar busting ghosts?

This has to be from Star Wars, right?

Oh my God, I actually know this one!
Back to the Future!

 

 

Ooh, two in a row -- Indy!

Scary sword guy?

On the right, Powerpuff Girls. On the left? Maybe porn characters?

The Periodic Table of Elements

And as we all know, the most terrifying element is Sodium:

The Ice King

Some guy. Looks like a jerk.

Avatars:

Wreck-it Ralph, Disney princesses and some walking eclairs.

 

And, to reward you for your patience, I will close with a little beefcake:

Georgia Republicans Say Things Out Loud

If you ever wonder why we rarely venture outside of Atlanta. . .

Georgia State Senator Complains That Voting Is Too Convenient For Black People (Updated)

by Josh Israel Posted on September 9, 2014 at 12:31 pm

Now, granted, he said this to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, so he had a fairly good chance no one would ever see it.

 

But holy shit! You're supposed to pretend that your voting restrictions are preventing "voter fraud." You're not supposed to admit that you don't really want them coloreds votin'.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Tuesday that Georgia state Senator Fran Millar (R) penned an angry response to DeKalb County’s announcement that early voting will be available on Sunday, October 26, and that an early-voting location will be opened at The Gallery at South DeKalb Mall. Millar represents part of the county and is Senior Deputy Whip for the Georgia Senate Republicans.

Millar wrote:
Now we are to have Sunday voting at South DeKalb Mall just prior to the election. Per Jim Galloway of the AJC, this location is dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches such as New Birth Missionary Baptist. Galloway also points out the Democratic Party thinks this is a wonderful idea – what a surprise. I’m sure Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter are delighted with this blatantly partisan move in DeKalb.

  

(Pictured: Michelle Nunn being delighted)

 Hmm, if only there were a way to make it worse. . .

On his Facebook page Tuesday, Millar stood by his comments, writing: “I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters. If you don’t believe this is an efort [SIC] to maximize Democratic votes pure and simple, then you are not a realist. This is a partisan stunt and I hope it can be stopped.”

 Wow! Well, played, sir!
(yes, I said "sir." Despite having an old lady name, Fran Millar is actually a man.)

State Sen. Fran Millar (R-GA)

 Any other Georgia Republicans want to step tp the plate and say something out loud that you shouldn't?
Next up, Congressman Jack Kingston:

 

I swear, this was the most flattering picture I could find.

A lot of people would like to stay on the sideline and say, ‘Just bomb the place and tell us about it later.’ It’s an election year. A lot of Democrats don’t know how it would play in their party, and Republicans don’t want to change anything. We like the path we’re on now. We can denounce it if it goes bad, and praise it if it goes well and ask what took him so long.

Oh my Gawd!
That's the sort of thing that Stephen Colbert says when he's parodying you people!
Do you have any idea how this sounds to a normal, sane person?

 You're talking about a horrible situation in which people are being beheaded, buried alive, crucified, etc. And you're seeing this through the prism of a pr victory for your party? That's what you're focused on? The incredibly difficult decision that leaders in Washington and in other countries are facing about whether to intervene at the possible cost of even more lives, you see this as an electoral win-win?
And you actually admit out loud that your strategy is to wait until the President does something, anything, and then figure out how to criticize whatever it is he did or didn't do? You're actually admitting that. I mean, we've all pretty much figured out that that's what you folks have been doing since 2009, but holy fuck, man. You're not supposed to say it out loud!