Halt
and I'll Shoot!
 The
original message on the 4th panel of today's
offering was "Reason
NOT to shoot: If the suspect is white."
Yes, I know. In just the past two months
we have seen two different black individuals
murdered
by police while holding toy guns in a non-threatening
manner, but it's pretty clear that the
police will shoot anyone for any reason.
"Death by cop" is second only
to "death
by intimate partner" in
Utah, a state that's 88% white.
If the domestic constabulary is so afraid
that every American might shoot first you'd
kinda think the police unions would be
the first in line to argue for strict gun
control, but it's clearly not their decision
to make. Someone(s) much more powerful
have decided America is better off in the
chaos
of gun ownership rather than the relative
peace of a gun-free populace... as in
every other industralized nation. (A strong
argument that America is every bit the
banana
republic it appears.)
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Some of you may have noticed
("Some" he
says. Hah!) that Raging Pencils web
site has been offline for the past 36 hours.
I wish I could report that it was some
vast, right-wing conspiracy responsible
for
the site's disappearance but the plain,
unvarnished truth is that the server
died and took the RAID
with
it , or so I'm told by my
web host. (I'm not
the sharpest technical knife in the drawer
but I thought RAIDs were specifically designed not to
let such catastrophes ensue. Hmmm.)
In my youth
I might have opened a vein in frustration over such
an event
but I'm much more philosophical nowadays. Besides,
the Cowboys are winning. That helps.
=Lefty=
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