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Here is a pop quiz, based on a fact I learned yesterday. Your three choices are:a. Bill Clinton
b. Ron Paul
c. Gabrielle Giffords
Which one do you think said this:
I have a Glock 9 millimeter, and I’m a pretty good shot.Yeah, me neither. I heard it last night on Fresh Air; Terry Gross was interviewing a guy who just published a book about Glock. Here's something else you hit when you google "giffords glock":
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/01/gop-in-giffords-district-holds-raffle-for-glock/
Not being familiar with firearms, neither had I heard of "Glock foot," a condition sometimes contracted by law enforcement officials who switch from a Colt service revolver to a Glock and find out the hard way that the Glock's easy trigger action greatly increases the probability that one will shoot oneself when de-holstering the weapon.
Appropos of what, I do not know.
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/28/doj_drops_probe_of_whistleblower_who
ReplyDeleteIn some sense related to a broader, collective self shot to the foot...toes making lazy slow motion arcs trailing parabolic splatters of blood...neighboring "little piggies" falling mangled and akimbo held vestige with minimal integument...and after the shocking deluge, the painnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
Missed this, in part since it was quieter then the dark whispers of an owls wings on the hunt. The whistle blower who defended the constitution about illegal wiretapping has finally been freed from ongoing investigation. Never mind the price he and his family are still paying. At the time what he revealed WAS very likely illegal, and only RETROACTIVELY by way of Congress made legal. (Otherwise the new law was needed why, n'est pas?) If the only way to get a guilty verdict is by way of a time machine...you'd think this would of been dropped sooner. Like Einstein's space-time the political clock on the wall can run slow, fast, and now, even backwards.
Brandise (in an increasingly disinfecting sunlight resistant world)
"I want a new drug..." (la, la, la)
The President's motivations pertaining to civil liberties (e.g., search and seizure, general due process, etc) continue to be obscure to me, to say the least. He's certainly aware that the Bush-era executive enhancements he's reserved for his office, and further enhanced, will be exercised with much more profound disregard for the Constitution than his administration has so far shown.
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