Firearm fail

The Rogak P-18. If you see this on a table at a gun show, just keep moving.

One does grow weary of enduring papal ignorance of not only distant history but current events

"Pope Leo Claims Fear of Islam in Europe is Bigotry and Says Lebanon is a Model for Europe".

Fortunately, these are merely pastoral, as opposed to dogmatic, statements, and, as such, do not represent any binding obligations on Catholics with respect to belief. I have noticed - and this may be divine providence - that even the most politically and socially naive of popes typically do not attempt to mess with dogma.

Sunday funnies

 

Op-Ed: What’s The Use Of Having A 2nd Amendment If I’m Not Allowed To Drive Around The Neighborhood Gunning Down Christmas Inflatables?

Why editing is so important.

Finessing your lunch order.

Going to the store just isn't the same as it used to be.

Liquor store burglary suspect caught.

Types of naps (I have experienced them all).

When random Jews meet. 

Honesty is (usually) the best policy.

Suspect arrested; hilarity ensues.

From Power Line's The Week in Pictures.

The J6 bomber

This story appears to be quite the rabbit hole.

It's like a United Nations of Weird

When diversity = perversity.

H/T: Thompson Blog

I think the day may come when this carrot-topped idiot winds up working as a cashier at a 7-11

If he can figure out how to operate a cash register: "Prince Harry Snipes at Donald Trump in Cringey Colbert Appearance".

This sad clown had everything: a royal title, a guaranteed annual income, and the opportunity to not only live an extraordinarily comfortable life, but a useful one - and he threw it all away with both hands (with a huge assist from his greedy wife, of course).

Might be time for the Trump administration to revisit the idea of deportation.

UK continues its march into the nightmare of Orwellian statism

"Frankly, a Very Authoritarian Government’: Labour-Led Britain Suspends Elections, Announces Rollout of China-Style Facial Recognition Cameras".

…today’s the day we learn that there will be surveillance cameras not just in our big cities, but literally in every single village. The surveillance state is getting very, very close indeed.

And that, of course, in the same week that we learn the 800-year-right to trial-by-jury is to be abolished in the majority of cases… and of course despite not being in the manifesto, the government want to introduce digital I.D., leaving literally every single one of us in this country open to hackers.

And it is, frankly, a very authoritarian government. It doesn’t really believe in liberty, it doesn’t believe in individual freedom, and we learn it doesn’t really believe in democracy either.

It is horrifying, yet somehow mesmerizing, watching the UK turn into the kind of society that it fought against in WWII. The situation appears increasingly hopeless, but I cannot bring myself to accept that it is inevitable. Time will tell - and soon.