“We never question God but this is one we just don’t understand.”

Buddy, you spend your life telling everyone God Loves Guns.

What’s not to understand?

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The Bible says in Romans 8:18, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”

I hope that the Adams take comfort in that verse. I hope they can one day look forward to their reunion with their son.

‘Sunday, just before 6:00 a.m., officers went to a shots-fired call at 218 Locust Drive.’

East Carolina U football players aren’t afraid to get up real early in the morning and get stuff done! Neighbors complained though and the players were arrested.

Two went quietly, while one hid in the house, hoping cops wouldn’t notice.

Their mug shots reveal a complex melange of emotions.

#1: KILL YOU FUCKERS

#2: Shitting my pants

#3: Mom and Dad are on their way to bond me out

‘Shocked and Praying Again, Kentucky Lawmakers have a Long Record of Doing Nothing About Gun Violence’

Great headline in Kentucky Lantern, which goes on to detail that state’s fierce commitment to its flag.

Whoops. I mean

UD’s quest to understand the Resurrection of Epstein continues.

JONATHAN ALTER:

Why is this so important to the MAGA base?

MICHAEL WOLFF:

I’m not sure. It seems contradictory, as Trump is most imperiled. But a mythology grew around Epstein as the epicenter of elites like Bill Clinton, and that’s what some believe Epstein might expose.

Oklahoma Drills, American-Style

“There was about 50 kids on [Panama City] beach when this happened, and they’re doing Oklahoma drills, and that’s where they run at each other and tackle one another. That ended up in an argument and fight which resulted in somebody firing a gun off.”

English as a Second Language, Declension Lesson:

FOOTBALL DRILLS

ARGUMENT

FIGHT

GUNFIRE

And? Compared to FIFA execs…

… he’s clean as a whistle!

It’s right out of a movie!

Gun battle outside of an LA nightclub in front of which many people await admission, or mill around at closing time, or something. A driver involved in the fight is shot, loses consciousness, and drives straight into the crowd! Zillions hurt, some critically. Wow! Can’t wait to see the footage.

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Update: Still a confused story; police are looking for a bald Hispanic gunman… ?

The crowd dragged the guy who rammed them out of his car and beat the shit out of him and the guy already had a gunshot in him which we can’t say much with certainty about this event but it’s clear this person had a very bad Friday night.

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https://www.facebook.com/boogiethaboogiemonstah/videos/1077821250657534

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So now it sounds as though after they dragged the (drunk?) driver out of his car, some passerby shot him.

This sounds very plausible. Very American.

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The increasingly reliable narrative of the event is one so familiar to UD.

The driver, drunk and disorderly, had been thrown out of the club; enraged, he got in his car and rammed it into people in front of the building.

I’ve seen this a lot of times; angry men who’ve been refused admission to venues, or thrown out, return with deadly weapons.

Open Quarry

‘Police reported that a man, acting erratically, used a victim’s firearm to fatally shoot him.

The victim had been exercising his legal right to openly carry the weapon when the suspect, identified as 36-year-old Kyle Capucci, managed to seize it.

Jeff Margetta, an educated gun owner, expressed concerns about open carry practices. “I see people open carry, and they do not watch their surroundings at all,” he said. “And that’s kind of a scary thought, because someone could come up behind them, take their gun, and then they’re liable for what happens.”

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Yeah but this guy’s way past liability concerns.

Deadbeat.

[H]e paid late nearly every month since moving in, missing several months entirely.

‘[Jeffrey Epstein was interested in] cryonics, an unproven science in which people’s bodies are frozen to be brought back to life in the future. Mr. Epstein told [one] person that he wanted his head and penis to be frozen.’

His friend Trump has venous insufficiency. Epstein himself had … call it penous insufficiency. He was unable – or the good Lord didn’t grant him enough time – to eternalize his erection, to unbound his boner, to superannuate his stiffy.

Age/death caught up with both men; yet Epstein now enjoys the immortality he so passionately sought!

UD thought his 2019 suicide was the end of his Kafkan run, but she was very very wrong. He’s the talk of the town, the thing the Dems think will bring the prez down, the thing that will turn Trump’s smile to a frown.

Color UD amazed. Everyone knew Trump was a sexual degenerate when they voted for him. UD doesn’t understand why he needs to care about late-entry evidence. I’m watching the whole thing with bafflement.

Georgetown University sure does know how to pick ’em.

Jonathan Brown, slavery-apologist extraordinaire, is just Part One.

You can still find Georgetown boasting about hoppin’ Shon Hopwood – sentenced just today for his latest, er, outburst – here. Veteran bad guy Shon was enacting one of those personal redemption stories of which we are so fond until his temper did him in again. Tsk.

School staff are so afraid of him, they refuse even ONLINE interactions.

Sure, after you expel the violent psycho with the loaded gun from your high school, you could continue his education virtually… But try finding anyone among your teachers willing to risk his getting to know where they live!

His parents (did they give him the gun?) have filed an angry indignant lawsuit; they cannot believe that just because their little one

was found with a loaded handgun near campus on Oct. 28, triggering an increased police presence that day as well as on Oct. 29, when a false report of an active shooter sent the school into a lockdown… Raleigh police detained J.S. and two other students behind Peace Street Market, which is just across from [the school]. They had left campus without permission on Oct. 28 around 10:30 a.m.. According to police, J.S. was in possession of [a] loaded firearm. He tried to run from policeExtra police were at Broughton for two days. Student attendance dropped as some parents kept their children home… In November, a district administrative panel recommended a long-term suspension of 365 days and expulsion. Wake County Superintendent Robert Taylor backed the recommendation... In April, a school board appeal panel upheld the 365-day suspension and expulsion... The student had “a pretty recent history of physically aggressive behaviors on campus” that … was increasing in severity.

… just because of the fights he routinely picked at school, his force backed up by a loaded pistol… just because of these teeny weeny infractions… the school, plus an appeals board, threw his wittle ass out totally! He’s just a child! A child with a loaded gun! Big deal!

Not the best source, but this tabloid…

… has names, photos, and details of prior threats and assaults against Przemek Jeziorski, the Berkeley professor shot to death on the streets of Athens by his ex-wife and her boyfriend (the bf has confessed; she has not).

The professor had sought a restraining order in San Francisco against his ex-wife in May, saying he feared for his life, before he was killed, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. 

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A much better source, with photos of the killers being led out of court. They include a sixteen year old.

The NYT has a Greek correspondent following the story in Athens. Przemek Jeziorski’s death – after two weeks – is getting the coverage it deserves.

Keep in mind the complexity here. As Jeziorski’s brother writes, “Przemek’s estate is in the U.S., his children are in Greece, and our family is in Poland.” He plans to adopt the children, but this too might be another expensive fight. The mother’s Greek family might think it should hold on to the kids until their father’s murderer gets out of prison.

One, two, three, four… but where’s wifey-poo?

[Photo: Reuters TV/Reuters]

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‘Jeziorski had a win in court hours before the murder.’

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Here she is! Does not look happy.

Prone on the Range

Out here in nowhere OK, which is all about guns booze divorce no broadband and no people, suicide is all the rage; and when you’re ready for your Beretta to the brain, more and more folks are realizing that nothing beats a gun range — your one-stop-shop for pop pop pop. Or just pop.

They’ll hand you a gun, man, and while fellow shooters might be put out by your suddenly bleeding all over the place, that’s a whole sight better’n leaving a mess at home for your roommate. Here it’s a bunch of strangers who’ll call 911 right away no muss no fuss.

Which is why gun range suicides are a thing; they are a growing subset of gun suicides not yet exploited by the gun ranges, but I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t start advertising as venues. As OK State Sen Nathan Dahm (who personally made sure OK don’t have NO red flag laws) says, “Everyone dies. That’s life.” I mean SHARUGGG. SHRUUUUG. WTF. BFD. We’re cowboys out here.

You charge more cuz there’s more cleanup — not just a crew to sweep up spent casings, but a special contingent ready to try out a bit of CPR before handing the body off to EMTs and then sopping up the blood/brain.

‘[The book’s author] is concerned that the book might read like an apology for the Sharīʿa’s allowance of slavery and he is right to have this concern. As we shall see, there are sections of the book that unabashedly seek to explain away and perhaps excuse the ubiquitous role that slavery and slave trading have played in Islamic political, economic and legal history.’

And in the Islamic present, this reviewer notes, citing “ISIS’s and Boko Haram’s recent revival of medieval de jure enslavement practices.” That’s a nice wordy way of saying this.

And who can be surprised that an American professor/defender of slavery was the star of the show the other day, as a congressional committee wondered why Georgetown University rewarded this dude (who also called for Iranian airstrikes on American bases) with the chairmanship of a department? Does Georgetown like lecturers who shut down audience… er… misgivings about slavery with comments like “I don’t think it’s morally evil to own somebody, because we own lots of people all around us and were owned by people, and this obsession about thinking of slavery as property… [Muhammad] had slaves, there is no denying that. Are you more morally mature than the prophet of God? No, you’re not.”

Talk about a scold! Groveling apologies, Professor Brown! Never again will I arrogantly go against the will of the prophet and question slavery!

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Vey, vey. Here are UD‘s uncensored thoughts about slavery-apologists like Georgetown’s own.

UD‘s got nothing against the tens of millions of Americans – and other people around the world – who fantasize about sexually and in other ways enslaving others. Enslavement fantasies always fall somewhere in the top ten sexual fantasies, and fine. But JEEZ. Georgetown is a Jesuit school. You’d think it would be particularly sensitive to the possibility of hiring and promoting people who remonstrate in public against people who don’t think giving in to slavery fantasies is a good idea.

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