The Cato Institute’s Walter Olson observed this week how the rising militarization of law enforcement is currently playing out in Ferguson:

Why armored vehicles in a Midwestern inner suburb? Why would cops wear camouflage gear against a terrain patterned by convenience stores and beauty parlors? Why are the authorities in Ferguson, Mo. so given to quasi-martial crowd control methods (such as bans on walking on the street) and, per the reporting of Riverfront Times, the firing of tear gas at people in their own yards? (“‘This my property!’ he shouted, prompting police to fire a tear gas canister directly at his face.”) Why would someone identifying himself as an 82nd Airborne Army veteran, observing the Ferguson police scene, comment that “We rolled lighter than that in an actual warzone”?

FK – Paul can do more good as a Senator than he could as president, if only for the reason he’d be limited to two terms in the now red house.

This was a good week for liberty. 

Why?  Because one of America’s most outspoken, pro-gun sheriffs defeated attempts by an anti-gun liberal Mayor who tried to take him out.

David Clarke, Jr., is the Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He is a true patriot and has run public service ads saying things like:

* “Simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option….  Consider taking a certified safety course in handling of firearms, so you can defend yourself until we get there.  You have a duty to protect yourself and your family.”

* “Wisconsin’s [concealed carry law] now gives you the same advantage that I have.  Now it’s the crook who has to wonder what you might do.  It can be a great equalizer….”

FK – And we need many more for we have a long way to go…

Gun owners correct Obama on Constitution

FK – Their arrogance is going to cost them dearly…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZqlumo-1rE

FK – Find out where they keep it and who has the keys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyt7GHOankA

FK – And we thought the old riot uniforms looked bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGzZXQQWpA4

Black Panthers Take Over Ferguson Fire Department

FK – Anything to keep the fires stoked…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RFZPLpTckk

FK – First I’d seen of this but then I don’t waste much time with mainstream crap. I would like to see all “Liberal”(commie) trash have a hammer and sickle tattooed on each cheek so we would know what to purge, as is so desperately needed since that garbage doesn’t belong in this country and has no right to be here.

What could be wrong, though, with increasing voter participation? First, some would point out that people who are Facebook oriented — people who spend more time on social networks — might be inordinately liberal. Others, such as John Stossel and me, have asserted that encouraging generally apathetic, disengaged citizens who wouldn’t otherwise vote to cast ballots simply increases the number of low-information voters at election time. Yet there is another problem, as Zittrain explains:

Now consider a hypothetical, hotly contested future election. Suppose that Mark Zuckerberg personally favors whichever candidate you don’t like. He arranges for a voting prompt to appear within the newsfeeds of tens of millions of active Facebook users — but unlike in the 2010 experiment, the group that will not receive the message is not chosen at random. Rather, Zuckerberg makes use of the fact that Facebook “likes” can predict political views and party affiliation, even beyond the many users who proudly advertise those affiliations directly. With that knowledge, our hypothetical Zuck chooses not to spice the feeds of users unsympathetic to his views. Such machinations then flip the outcome of our hypothetical election. Should the law constrain this kind of behavior?

Professor Zittrain calls this “digital gerrymandering,” which is when a website disseminates information in a way that promotes its own political agenda. Any site can do this, and it’s quite insidious because Web users will generally be unaware of the manipulation. After all, would you know it if a social network simply didn’t send you a voting graphic that a certain targeted group received (I rarely even view my Facebook page)? Zittrain’s article title says it all: “Facebook Could Decide an Election Without [sic] Anyone Ever Finding Out.”

FK – ‘Friends’ don’t let ‘friends’ use facebook.

Is this a viable alternative? I may sign up and find out just how much reality they can stand. I’m not counting on being on there very long. I was a patriot and militiamen before the ‘tea parties’ were cool and ‘tea partiers’ are generally only a couple notches above your average golf playing Dubya voter.

And the now soon-to-be-famous line at the distinguished Washington D.C. insider’s political publication The Hill, “Clinton hurt 2014 Dems”:

Democrats face potentially catastrophic midterm elections that could leave Republicans and conservatives in control of the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court. Yet while Democrats face a political state of emergency, Hillary Clinton this week launched an aggressive preemptive attack — not against Republicans but against Barack Obama, the Democratic president she served as secretary of State, employing lines of attack eerily reminiscent of attacks against Democrats from former Vice President Dick Cheney. (Emphasis added.)

FK – And so the cycle rolls mindlessly on…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIjo7zS-qWs

FK – How much longer?

FK – Kinda what I was thinkin’…

And on a slightly related front:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qASnZoUbVA

Saudi Arabian man dies trying to have sex with a donkey

FK – In case you think this is an impossible thing:(Warning Adult content and kids discussing adult content in Spanish, allegedly)

FK – Allegedly this has happened in rural areas of America as well lest one might want to pick on third worlders and primitive societies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53XrlnkvYwA

FK – I must disagree with torturing the evil elected public servants or intentionally targeting their families. Doing so makes us no better than what we claim to oppose. There will be plenty of ‘collateral damage’ in the coming war as it is. Unfortunately the beast system doesn’t care who or what it kills here or over seas in the name of preserving itself.