Kansas City Shooting: At Least One Of Shooters Was Barred From Owning A Firearm

By William Teach October 8, 2019 – 6:54 am

But, hey, we should take guns away from law abiding citizens, right, Beto?

Universal background checks wouldn’t solve this, because he’s already barred. Taking away people’s “assault weapons” wouldn’t matter, as he didn’t use one.

(Fox 6) One of the two men accused of opening fire inside a Kansas bar early Sunday, killing four people and wounding five others, was arrested Sunday afternoon while the other remained at large, police said.

Javier Alatorre, 23, and Hugo Villanueva-Morales, 29, were each charged with four counts of first-degree murder, police in Kansas City, Kansas, said in an early Monday release. Alatorre was arrested late Sunday afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri, but police were still looking for Villanueva-Morales, who is considered “armed and dangerous.” Bail for each was set at $1 million.

The two men, both with criminal records, apparently had a disagreement with people inside Tequila KC bar, left, and then returned with handguns a couple hours later, police spokesman Officer Thomas Tomasic. The shooting was captured on surveillance video, which police weren’t releasing. (snip)

Villanueva-Morales had a pending third-degree assault charge in Missouri. Alatorre, meanwhile, had past convictions for fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement in Kansas and for driving while intoxicated in Missouri. He also had pending charges in Missouri for tampering with a motor vehicle, possession of a controlled substance and resisting or interfering with arrest, detention or stop. And in 2017, an order of protection had been ordered, barring him from abusing, stalking and possessing a firearm.

It gets even more fun with Alatorre

(KC Star) Last month, Alatorre sought to get his bond reduced so that he could get out of jail. The prosecutor objected to his request, saying that Alatorre was a flight risk and danger to the community.

“The defendant has repeatedly shown this Court that if released there is no guarantee that he will appear for his next scheduled hearing,” the prosecutor argued in a court filing.

“Specifically, the defendant’s bond has been revoked on two separate occasions for failing to appear at scheduled Court hearings.”

Prosecutors said Alatorre has committed new crimes while out on bond and that pending cases and bond conditions had no effect on the defendant’s actions.

Despite the objections, a judge granted Alatorre’s request and set his bond at $3,500 — without paying anything at all.

Then the judge released Alatorre on his on own recognizance.

In July, the Missouri Supreme Court ordered new rules regarding bond, requiring judges to first consider non-monetary conditions of release and require money only if necessary.

This is the kind of thing that Democrats like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker are pushing, no-bond releases. How’d that work out?

The only thing missing is being in illegal alien status. I doubt we’ll find that with Alatorre, too many articles without, but, we do not have that much on the other perp.

But, anyway, you need to turn in your firearms over this, you big passing a background check and having no criminal history person, you.

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Extinction Rebellion: Not Really About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach October 7, 2019 – 4:40 pm

The UK Guardian, certainly one of the most sympathetic major papers in the world, is running an interesting photo essay on the XR nutters arrested

From the link

People joining Extinction Rebellion (XR) are trained in how to conduct themselves peacefully when participating in direct action.

According to Hallam, direct action has several aims and objectives. One is to cause disruption and financial costs to the state to build pressure for political change. Another is for individuals to show their commitment – that they are willing to sacrifice their liberty for the cause. Increased disruption and more people arrested creates a bigger impact.

The training explains the possible legal implications of getting arrested. Once people have been informed about this, it is up to them to decide if they are willing to get arrested or not. If they sign up, they become part of the growing list of arrestables.

If they’re peaceful, then why are they putting themselves in a position to be arrested? They may not be assaulting anyone, but, they are causing all sorts of problems for other people.

“I am very happy to be able to use my privilege as a white elderly woman this way and I will be back in London in October.”

No, no, this is non-partisan, definitely not a Leftist thing. And here we go

Phil Kingston, 83, retired probation officer and lecturer in social work at Bristol University

Kingston was arrested for his part in a protest disrupting the DLR at Canary Wharf in April.

“It’s really very hard for many elders to break the law, because of the culture we have been brought up in – unlike younger people now,” he says. “The things I do, I do for my grandchildren and other lifeforms and future generations. Whatever the future situation, I hope we will learn to live a very different way of life to what we have learned under capitalism.”

See, Phil got his (off the back of the government teet), but now wants others to not get theirs. You look at this photo (go to the link a midway down for full size)

and you realize how many are wearing clothes and using smartphones made via capitalism, shipped from around the world via capitalism. And how many trees are they killing with their signs? Alos

I know that Blacks only account for a bit over 3% in the UK, but, XR is very, very white. Just 2 blacks represented in that photo. No Asians.

 

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 7, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are plants that will soon die from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on tanning salons trying to kill gay people with cancer or something.

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Shooting In KC Causes Gun Grabbers To Blame The Gun

By William Teach October 7, 2019 – 10:30 am

We wouldn’t want to blame the perpetrators committing murder and attempted murder (they’re illegal, right?) when this mostly occurs in Democrat run cities, right?

“Not again”: Beto O’Rourke mourns gun violence in Kansas City and calls for end to shooting epidemic

Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, a former congressman from Texas, tweeted “not again” when he learned about a shooting in Kansas City, Kansas that left four people dead and five others injured.

“Not again,” O’Rourke tweeted on Sunday morning. “I visited Kansas City in August—and everyone I met was warm, generous, and welcoming. My heart is with all who are impacted by this tragedy. Together, communities like ours, which have been victims of gun violence, will lead the way in ending this epidemic.”

The shooting discussed by O’Rourke occurred at the Tequila KC bar in Kansas City on Saturday night, according to CNN. The incident left four people dead including a man in his late 50s, a man in his mid-30s and two other men in their mid-20s, all of whom were Hispanic. Five others were injured at the shooting, with two having been released from the hospital as of Sunday morning.

Police spokesman Thomas Tomasic said investigators believe “possibly two suspects that entered” the bar and began shooting. They also said that, when it comes to the motivation behind the incident, they “do not feel it’s racially motivated” and “don’t feel that these suspects are going to go out and do this again.”

They used handguns. Does Beto want to confiscate those now? But, see, no one knows the motivation

(NY Times) One week after he had angrily barged into a small neighborhood bar, seething and belligerent, the man returned, cursing and shouting about gangs. He threw a plastic cup at a bartender who refused to serve him, witnesses said, and fought with a customer before he was escorted out, just as he had been the week before.

But two hours later, in the pre-dawn darkness of Sunday morning, he and another man stormed back in and opened fire on the crowd, the authorities and witnesses said, killing four people, wounding five others and shattering the sense of safety this tight-knit Latino community felt inside Tequila KC, a bar that for many served as an extension of their living rooms.

Both gunmen left the scene before the police arrived, and no arrests were made Sunday in connection with the attack, which occurred shortly before 1:30 a.m. and sent dozens of panicked patrons into the street.

“This is a community bar,” said Jose Valdez, 39, who was working as a bartender when the shots began. “Here, everybody knows everybody.”

An armed guard is typically stationed at the front entrance, Mr. Valdez said, but he was not there on Saturday night.

I’d say the motivation is that the guy was pissed off, and, like a lot of shootings, it was about disrespect.

Sunday’s killings were the latest in a series of mass shootings that have unfolded across the country with numbing frequency. Through August, at least 38 shootings with three or more fatalities had been recorded in the United States, data shows. Each deadly episode has brought cries for stricter gun-control laws.

Who wants to bet the guy didn’t purchase it legally? But, hey, let’s punish law abiding people who have firearms for protection….hey, wait, what was that part about armed security usually being at the door of the bar? It says something about the area and the people that they need that at a bar.

In a statement Sunday, Governor Laura Kelly of Kansas, a Democrat, said she continued to be “frustrated” at how often mass shootings occur. “Our nation has an obligation to address this ongoing public health crisis,” she said.

See, it’s the fault of the gun.

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Bummer: Four Young Girls Among Those Arrested During An Australian Extinction Rebellion “Protest”

By William Teach October 7, 2019 – 8:09 am

Is it really a protest when they aren’t really being peaceable and causing lots of other people issues? Further, since the UK Guardian is Very Concerned of the arrest of the young girls, did no one think to ask “where are their parents?”

Climate change protests: four teenage girls among 30 arrested in Sydney

Four teenage girls are among dozens of protesters demanding government action on climate change to be arrested in Sydney on Monday.

The Extinction Rebellion climate protests movement has planned a “spring rebellion” from Monday to Sunday, including marches aimed at blocking traffic.

The protesters in Sydney were arrested and bundled into a mobile “custody unit” on Monday afternoon after they allegedly failed to move on when asked to do so by police.

Some 30 people were arrested, including four girls aged under 16, organisers say.

“Alleged offences committed range from obstructing traffic to disobeying reasonable direction,” New South Wales police said in a statement.

The assistant commissioner Mick Willing said police respected the right of groups and individuals to protest, but “we have a responsibility to the community and local businesses to ensure they can go about their normal activities without being impacted on or put at risk”.

“Unfortunately, despite the warnings issued by local police and our colleagues from across the country, this group continue to set out to break the law and put themselves and others at risk,” Willing said in a statement.

I am 100% behind the Rights to protest peaceably and petitioning for redress of grievance, but, once you start physically causing other people problems, you need to cease what you’re doing and do it somewhere else (like not in the streets during rush hour) or be arrested when you won’t move on.

Among those walking were sisters 10-year-old Luka and 12-year-old Maddie Brett-Hall alongside Ember Henninger, also 10, from the Blue Mountains.

The march was their second protest after they attended a flash mob at Echo Point earlier in 2019.

“I feel like we need to make a difference,” Maddie told AAP.

First, where are the parents, and second, what difference? Other than being loud, obnoxious, rude, and causing problems for others, what difference are they making?

Earlier in the day the Victorian activist Miriam Robinson said the group must “get right up in people’s grills” to convince governments to take firm action on climate change.

“We always apologise for causing inconvenience,” the retired public servant told AAP on Monday.

“But this is nothing compared to the inconvenience that is going to start happening when we start to run out of food and water.”

These people. Always with the doom and gloom. But, you know what helps make sure there’s food and water? Reliable energy sources, like fossil fuels.

Extinction Rebellion specifically wants governments to “tell the truth” about climate change by declaring a climate and ecological emergency.

It also wants them to prevent biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025, and let the public drive decisions on climate change through a Citizens’ Assembly.

So much nuttbaggery. The notion, though, of giving all the power over from elected officials, no matter how bad, to an unelected group of pseudo-religionists is insane.

BTW, this kind of thing is happening all over the 1st World. Amsterdam, Britain, Canada, and many other nations/cities are seeing these annoying protests.

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Hot Take: Impeach Trump Repeatedly For Stonewalling

By William Teach October 7, 2019 – 7:54 am

There are several really, really bad Hot Takes out there. There’s this one

Let’s make sure history doesn’t repeat itself: daughter of Holocaust survivors

which is quite possibly the worst article on the whole “caging illegal aliens is like the Nazis and the Holocaust” take you’ll ever read. The you have the NY Times publishing an opinion piece “In The Land Of Self Defeat“, in which Monica Potts takes a trip to Arkansas and someone links the closure of a library to Donald Trump (he’s living rent free) and highlight the utterly condescending, nasty attitudes them thar big city slickers have towards small town folks (yet, the city slickers keep leaving their liberal cities and states for those areas, because they aren’t liberalized with high crime, high taxes, etc).

Then you have Excitable Charles Blow, who’s living in Fantasy Land

Impeach Trump, Repeatedly
A president should not be able to stonewall and run out the clock.

When the Democratic leadership was finally forced to formally back an impeachment inquiry, they faced a choice: focus broadly on all of Donald Trump’s corruption and unfitness, which could drag on for a long time, or focus narrowly on the new revelations about Trump and Ukraine and do so quickly. They chose the latter.

I happen to agree with that strategy, if one assumes that you only have one shot at this. But, I also propose another scenario: Do both. Draw up articles of impeachment on the narrow case of Ukraine, but don’t close the impeachment inquiry. Keep it open and ready to draw up more articles as new corruption is uncovered. Impeach Trump repeatedly if necessary.

There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents a president from being impeached more than once.

Trump and his administration are stonewalling in every way possible, refusing to produce administration officials for testimony and refusing to produce documents.

That, my friends, is hilarious. Was Charles Blow asleep during the Obama administration? To say that Trump is stonewalling is like comparing a Pop Warner football team to an NFL caliber (well, maybe not the Jets and Broncos) one. Sheesh, through 2014, Darrell Issa had submitted 103 subpoenas due to the stonewalling. Have we forgotten, among others, “Fast and Furious scandal, the IRS, ObamaCare, and, most recently, the operations of a political office at the White House (massive Hatch Act violations)”? How about the stonewalling on Benghazi?  Those are just a few of the big examples. His administration was also the most secretive, setting records year after year for refusing Freedom Of Information Act requests, which led to lawsuit after lawsuit.

And let’s not forget the stonewalling from the Obama administration when it came to Hillary Clinton’s server issue, as well as what they were doing with their Iran deal.

But beyond that, there is an apolitical truth: All political corruption, abuses of power, conspiracies, cover-ups and attempts to deceive and mislead the public are wrong. Many Trump loyalists will never accede to this point, but many more Americans, at the core, know this difference between right and wrong.

Yet, Obama and his team did it constantly. But, hey, since Charles says all political corruption and abuses of power are bad, he’s up for investigating, officially, what Vice President Joe Biden did to help his son Hunter, in regards to China and Ukraine, right? Charles will tell the bosses at the NY Times to investigate the hell out of this, right?

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Bummer: Electric/Hybrid Vehicle Owners To See $75 Extra Fee

By William Teach October 6, 2019 – 3:30 pm

They thought everything would be free for them. Nope

HYBRID AND ELECTRIC CAR OWNERS SEE $75 FEE IN CAR-TAB BILLS

Beginning this month, hybrid-vehicle owners in Washington state will start paying an annual $75 car-tab fee to finance electric-car charging stations they’ll never use.

The little-known increase is labeled “Hybrid Vehicle Transportation Electrification” on bills from the state Department of Licensing (DOL).

“I was totally baffled,” said Brian Cook, of Shelton, Mason County, who received a vehicle-registration renewal notice last week to get his October 2020 tabs for his 2010 Toyota Prius. “It’s just another add-on, especially if you’re retired. You are on a budget, and if $75 is taken out of your budget, you have to work around it.”

The hybrid fee was part of House Bill 2042, intended to promote electric vehicles and reduce carbon emissions. Owners of plug-in electric cars like the Nissan Leaf, who already pay $150 into the state roads fund in lieu of gasoline taxes, will also pay the $75 electrification fee, for a total $225.

The fees are on top of car-tab taxes that help fund Sound Transit expansion as well as state and local transportation projects.

Why?

The new fee will pay for several electric-car incentives. Proponents intend to fill gaps in the statewide charging networks, to help overcome so-called “range anxiety” with an e-fueling station every 40 to 70 miles on major highways.

Well, since almost no private parties are stepping up, the state should charge the users for these to be built.

Amendments by state Sen. Rebecca Saldaña, D-Seattle, added hybrid owners to those paying the $75. In a Senate Transportation Committee hearing this year, Saldaña said she hopes to afford a used electric car, and that middle and lower-income people won’t feel comfortable buying them until charging stations are more available.

Um, the vast majority of Prius’ are hybrids, so they do not need to plug in to charge. That’s the beauty of them. And they’re getting punished for this. Hilariously, a goodly chunk of the people who drive them are causing elected Warmists to do this. So, hoist/petard.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 6, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are pumpkins which will soon be wiped out from climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Brass Pills, with a post on sex dolls programmed to require consent.

It’s Fall week!

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Pinup Part 2

By William Teach October 6, 2019 – 10:40 am

Let’s see if I can finish this in a separate post

Crossing fingers.

Strange. I’ve never had a problem like this before. It just won’t let me post the full list, stops at Animal Magnetism. But, it’s not those links, because I can’t add just one more on.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Patriotic Pinup

By William Teach October 6, 2019 – 10:23 am

Patriotic Pinup Earl Moran

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. Fall is in the air, pumpkin spice fashion is showing up, and the baseball playoffs are in full swing. This pinup is by Earl Moran, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogoshere? The Fine 15

  1. Ice Age Now covers Dutch farmers protesting against climate fascism
  2. Independent Sentinel discusses PC madness in regards to the Islamist stabbing cops to death in Paris
  3. Weasel Zippers has video of the impeachment push failure
  4. The Right Scoop covers a report that seems to be saying Trump is throwing Rick Perry under the bus for the Ukraine call
  5. The Lid features a crazy woman attacking Hobby Lobby over humorous gun signs
  6. The Last Tradition discusses AOC’s latest nutty ideas to spend your money
  7. Raised On Hoecakes covers the latest in porch pirates
  8. Powerline notes Ilhan standing by her sham
  9. Patterico’s Pontifications covers how the Woke manage scandals
  10. Pacific Pundit notes the anti-Kavanaugh book failing miserably
  11. Neo-neocon discusses Trump not being allowed to be president
  12. Moonbattery covers the migrants destroying Italy
  13. Legal Insurrection notes that Queen Pelosi may have her own Ukraine problem
  14. Jihad Watch discusses Dems not standing up to their Jew haters, but will call Trump an anti-Semite
  15. And last, but not least, hogewash features great shots from space, in this case, Thor’s Helmet

Trying to publish this thing. Having trouble adding on the normal lists of rule 5 and linkfests and stuff. Maybe a little at a time?

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

The rest are in the next post. WordPress just won’t let me go further. Strange (Update: the TMP folder was full, causing the inability to post beyond 680 or so words, and couldn’t update plugins. Now let’s see if I remember to strip this extra stuff out next week )

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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