Now I’m Really Scratching My Head

This is beyond belief. So its OK to have a rocket launcher? There is no law on the books for this infraction. I spent a year in jail for touching a police officer, but it OK to have a rocket launcher. I am dumb founded. In Texas where you can go to prison for anything except having a Rocket launcher.

Well at least “softball” is acknowledging that there are terrorists. Which puts him in a higher plane of awareness than Napolitano. Not that this is saying much. I wonder if this administration could have surrounded itself with more incompetent people had it tried to do so? Then again maybe it did.

And what about the guy in Philadelphia who’s on the run after leaving behind him some kind of made-man bomb ala cocktail molotov, jihadist writings and his notebook in a public garage near the Homeland security building in Philadelphia three days ago?

Nothing there, move along…

Even the fbi is not this incompetent. The only way they’d let this guy walk is that he’s an asset of some kind.  At least that’s my take.

Jack Bauer would go after him and get the truth out of him.  Heh.

if there is no law on the books against a surplus, unarmed, unusable rocket launcher probably bought at a gun show that the police can enforce, then what can they do? Maybe he was put on an FBI watch list, though, or not…

Wouldn’t this be a federal matter? I think a lot of people “collect” war weapons, but they need permits from the ATF for them. At least I thought they did.

Also, aren’t they supposed to be made non-operable even to collect? Drilled and pinned st that they can’t fire?

Doesn’t it depend on what state you’re in, what is allowed? Several years ago I called and wrote to my state rep about automatic weapons being sold 2nd hand in the local newspaper. His response was to send me about 20 pages of stuff from the NRA saying that we had a constitutional right to any and all weaspons. That is not my understanding of it. I am not against people having hunting weapons and/or guns to protect their households-if they so choose-, but combat type weapons, especially sold wily-nily without registration, are way beyond that.

I don’t get this at all unless as mentioned up thread this Nabilaye I. Yansane is some sort of asset that authorities are trying to protect.  Otherwise, we’ve really lost our minds.  What do we need?  “I am the enemy” tatooed across the guy’s forehead?

The world is making less and less sense.

As for Matthews, perhaps he’s suffering from koolaid withdrawal.  He hasn’t made sense for some time, but a comment like this is asinine, something a ten-year old might blurt out.  King-fu?  Time for a vacation, Chris.

That picture of Yansane looks like he’s in a church or gym with that weapon…Goody, goody, show and tell.

I guess the “rocket launcher” could have been the spent tube part of a disposable shoulder fired rocket. Without the rocket it is as deadly as a piece of pvc pipe.  But, the story doesn’t say that.

You bring up a great point about the NRA.  Does the NRA’s demand for the right to bear arms extend to Islamic extremists who have rocket launchers in their homes?  I cannot imagine a single NRA member who’d be in favor of that scenario, so where does the NRA draw the line?

One day Matthews head will crack open and a prize will pop out. =-O

The leadership does defend gun owners with Islamic sounding names in the name of civil libertaian concerns that people on a secret FBI terroist watch list are not neccecarily terrorists. But average members ? Ban ‘em all from acquiring more weapons.

Blurting out is what Matthews is good at…the only thing.
He has the emotional maturity of a 9 year old kid.  That about fits with the professionalism found on MSNBC,  Olbermann purses his tight little lips, squints his eyes with glee at trashing conservatives or anyone out of his favor.  Maddow has grown an irreversible smirk of the smug variety when she ridicules conservatives.  They are a grammer school crew if ever there was one.  Sad thing is they are supposedly reporting on stuff which can affect our country, our world.

“One day Matthews head will crack open and a prize will pop out”

That would mean there is actually SOMETHING in his head and I seriously doubt there is anything of substance there. If there is, maybe… inert gases? 

Maybe the NRA would rather not state where the line is. That might lead to some kind of slippery slope…

well the houston chronicle has had at least one article about “model planes launching too close to planes from bush intercontinental airport”. it was one of those hmmmmm things.

also one muslim school was closed due to “funding to terrorists”. one in dallas too as i recall. there was another article just recently about the christmas eve wanna be terrorist coming to a muslim school in houston. in the blog for the chronicle, all the posters want these schools closed.

sorry i meant to add that matthews seems to be going backward on the maturity scale instead of moving forward. i have to wonder about that guy. maybe he is just desperate and knows the clock is ticking on his career. comcast bought msnbc and i don’t see them as a “left wing” corporate group, though they’ll play games with the govies like the rest for their benefit. i hope he and all the rest of the obama cabal are gone from the airwaves sooner rather than later.

another problem houston has had with sanctuary bill as the departing mayor in houston is popularly known. bill white is a businessman who had a posistion in clinton’s administration and was welcomed by many in thge business community when he first became mayor. however he has been more than a disappointment. some compare him to elmer fudd. he has forbidden the houston police to inquire if those picked up if they are illegal aliens. and this has caused quite a bit of distrubance when criminal acts including murder have taken place by illegal aliens. even the hispanice community has been upset with his policies.

sorry about the typing. i got a phone call and it is clear i’d better stick to one or the other in the future.

I am not surprised with the AT 4 finding…. Back a few years ago, I was invited to a very large ranch in Texas which was owned by a guy who operated tug boats along the Houston Channel. He drove a jeep around his very large ranch…not a big deal, neither was the 50 Cal Machine Gun mounted on the jeep. ATF can tell you hornor stories about what they find under peoples beds… So whether its a foreign terrorist or one of our own, these weps are out there….

As far as Matthews is concerned, his ego is writing checks his brain can’t even comprehend…..

I’d be worried about getting on an airplane with the likes of Chrissie. whata nutjob. 
didn’t Huston FBI investigate a woman for being rude to an Obama campaign worker during a robocall?  

I always felt secure in Texas. Plus, the schools were darn good there as well. People with guns don’t scare me so much as the people who would take them scare me. We already see how losing some of our rights in the war on terror worked out badly for all of us. Losing more rights doesn’t interest me one bit now.

UNder the Patriot Act yu can be detained on just about suspicion of anythng. Up to and icluding jaywalking. So they just let this guy go? Get real..

This pagination of the comments is irritating me.  I have submitted a ticket to the help desk for the comments software.  It is also bizarre that when one clicks on page 2, one is taken to the big white space below and has to scroll up, up, up to get to the comments that ended up on page 2.  I have also submitted a report on that issue.

Well, do remember that Texas is a state that allows you to carry concealed weapons in church. I am at this very minute in the Memphis airport waiting for a flight to Dallas for a funeral. I have travelled extensively in Texas and it always amused me that in Texas, you can drive down the road with a beer in one hand and a gun in the other and the only way you will get arrested is to toss the beer can out the window. For that you get a year in jail. For the guns, nada. Go figure.

There was some loosening of the rules after the Luby’s cafeteria massacre. Turns out there was a lady in the cafeteria that usually carried a gun with her in her purse. But, she had a professional license and so left it in the glove box while eating with her parents. The carry permit didn’t allow her to take the gun with her in a public place. The gunman shot her parents in front of her and a lot of random other people while she wished she had her gun in her purse and not in the car. That is the brief and shortened version of how the laws there became more loose. I was living in Mesquite at the time and remember it fairly well. Though, it was a while back now.

FYI: I changed the comments settings so that the comment all appear on one page, rather than being paginated, which I found annoying.
 
We are still tweaking the new comments system.  The most urgent problem right now is that Recent Comments in the right column doesn’t work. We probably won’t get that resolved until early next week.

With respect to “charges”, based on what has been observed. That’s a point. I thought the Patriot Act was supposed to fix this…

One can only hope further investigating/informing is being done based on the questions naturally raised under the circumstances.
Sadly, I won’t be taking any bets on whether or not that is being done.

Does the software also not support a Recent Comments function?
The combination of that list not populating and the number of comments per thread displaying randomly (a side effect of the auto-refresh?) is more aggrevating to me than any pagination quirks.

But I’m not complaining — the ramped up speed compensates for most of those inconveniences !

Bronwyn, it is nice to scroll on one page. It takes a bit but I really like what you done with the place.

Agador: Armand, why don’t you let me be in the show? Are you afraid of my Guatemalan-ness?
Armand: Your what?
Agador: My Guatemalan-ness, my natural heat. You’re afraid I’m too primitive to be on the stage with your little estrogen rockettes, right?
Armand: You’re right. I’m afraid of your heat.

I’m totally baffled at Matthews’ logic. The weapons that have been brought on board were meant to bring down the airliner. How does he expect a terrorist who knows Kung Fu to do this bare-handed? Or is there some aspect of Kung Fu that teaches how to punch large holes in an airliner?

I turned off auto-refresh.  A couple days ago.  Because it was causing problems for people who were writing a comment.  We may restore it if the software company can fix the problem with people losing what they’re typing.

And, yes, there’s a disconnect between the Recent Comments widget + the comments.  I have a ticket in to the software company people to see if we can get that fixed.  If we can’t, I will simply remove Recent Comments.  It’s a nice feature, but it’s not life-and-death.  Right?  Feedback welcome.

Heck, maybe I should start a fresh thread on the new software and get everyone’s feedback.

I really appreciate your and Teak’s comments.

(Teak, I never got an e-mail from you.)

His mind is not burdened by logic.  Rather strange given … well, wasn’t he raised in a Catholic school system where logical thinking is emphasized?

Hey, why not somebody who can just meditate and cause the wings to break off? Kung Fu would be nothing against that? =-O

“I‘m waiting for the terrorist who knows kung fu or something . . . ”

How about the terrorist who has been taught to fart cyanide gas?  Or the leg-tingling news show host who naturally belches poison gas from having quaffed so much deadly kool-aid?