Blog Heap o'Links
Just random links galore
filed under the
Blog Heading
of
Blog Heap o'Links filed under the Blog Heading of

Human Right

Displaying 1 - 30 of 312
Crying emoji
Steve Inman @SteveInmanUIC, Twitter • Fri 2020 Sep 11, 8:09pm

Steve Inman: UICCheerleader puts down the pom poms to handle a bully.

Twitter video, a brutal 0:45.
Joe Biden
Tristan Justice, The Federalist • Sun 2020 Aug 30, 9:58pm

…According to researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the United Kingdom in a paper released Thursday examining several metrics of social distancing, being outside presents almost no risk of contracting the novel Wuhan coronavirus on its own.…

But how else will the Demoncrats suppress smiles?
donkey's ass
Awr Hawkins, Breitbart • Sun 2020 Aug 30, 9:53pm

Over the weekend Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) suggested militia service is the litmus test for gun ownership and noted that “having small genitals is not sufficient reason to own a gun.”…

Projection, thy name is Democrat
Deranged Smiley
Jessica Chasmar | The Washington Times • Fri 2018 Nov 30, 4:01pm

Faculty and students at Oakland University in Michigan have started arming themselves with hockey pucks for self-defense against active shooters.

Jeff Sanders | PJ Media • Sun 2018 Nov 4, 12:18pm

Four Things You Can Do Right Now to Harden Your Place of Worship Against a Shooter… Form a security team… Harden the building… Monitor the perimeter… Train your leadership in active shooter response…
There Have Been 1,705 Deadly Force Attacks on Churches Since 1999…

Cannabis leaf
Dana Hertneky | News9 • Wed 2018 Oct 17, 8:56pm

An Oklahoma woman has been charged with marijuana possession, despite having a valid medical marijuana license.… pulled over for a broken rear brake light.… 49-year-old single mom of three boys has had four back surgeries and says she lives in constant pain. So, when medical marijuana became legal, she went out got her medical marijuana license.… “The officer asked if I had anything on me and I said I have a little bit of weed but I have my ID. He just didn’t care. He said I just couldn’t possess it…” officer told her since there are no dispensaries open yet, the weed is illegal. But in a motion to dismiss the charges, Gist's attorney argued [the law] says, "a license holder can legally possess up to three ounces of marijuana."

“Nowhere does it say you have to get it from the dispensary…"

Oklahoma Flag
David Dishman, Examiner-Enterprise • Sat 2018 Jun 30, 11:20am

Voters in all of Oklahoma’s remaining “dry” counties voted to go wet Tuesday, or did they?

Beaver County is one of 14 counties to include a proposition allowing for sale of liquor by the drink in Tuesday’s election. All 14 counties approved the proposition based on unofficial results, Beaver County passing the measure by seven total votes — 718 to 711.

But 10 provisional ballots remain uncounted.…

Just in time for the struggle over pot.
Oklahoma Flag
US News / AP • Sat 2018 Jun 30, 11:05am

Federal officials say Oklahoma residents with medical marijuana cards will be prohibited from obtaining gun permits after voters recently approved the medical use of the drug.…

Licensing and registration - it's always a trap
War News Updates • Wed 2018 May 16, 6:10pm

…Venezuela’s state-run oil firm PDVSA has bought nearly $440 million worth of foreign crude and shipped it directly to Cuba on friendly credit terms - and often at a loss…

HempDog
The Week • Tue 2018 May 15, 2:52pm

Illinois police claim if marijuana is legalized, they'll have to kill their police dogs

Richard Hartley-Parkinson, Metro (UK) • Sat 2018 Apr 28, 1:24pm

Man who attacked mosque with bacon sandwiches is found dead in prison

Six months into a one-year sentence. ATTACKED with BACON, imprisoned and killed for it.
Scott Kelnhofer, Conservative Tribune • Mon 2018 Apr 16, 2:20pm

A photo of a young woman wearing a T-shirt supporting President Donald Trump and displaying a concealed weapon is wrong in so many ways to many on the left.… WTVC, the ABC News affiliate in Chattanooga, contacted the Chattanooga Police Department about the legality of Spencer’s picture, but didn't receive a reply to their request for a comment.…

Talk about activist "journalism"!!
Eugene Volokh, Reason • Fri 2018 Apr 13, 1:06pm

The American Federation of Teachers is demanding that Wells Fargo drop its relationship with gun manufacturers (and with the NRA). To its credit, Wells Fargo isn't budging.…

Bookworm
Bookworm • Tue 2018 Mar 27, 5:29pm

More than a month after the Parkland shooting, the Left’s effort to destroy the Second Amendment is ramping up, not dying down — so here are more posters!…

Dianny, Patriot Retort • Tue 2018 Mar 27, 2:56pm

…Already, #RepealTheSecondAmendment is trending on Twitter. And loudmouth cranks with the brain wattage of a keychain flashlight are going all-in for it.

You thought gun sales and NRA memberships were off the charts before?

Just wait.…

Caitlin Yilek, Wash. Examiner • Sat 2018 Mar 3, 9:21pm

Numerous companies have announced in recent days they were pulling benefits and other services for National Rifle Association members in the aftermath of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting.

Here’s a list of the companies who have said they have cut ties with the powerful gun-rights lobbying group. This list will be updated to note other announcements.…

Graphical Representation • Sat 2018 Mar 3, 9:11pm

…In 1933, in this very country, a teenager with enough money could literally mail-order a fully-automatic Thompson submachine gun to their very door. This is the very firearm that was used by United States troops during World War II, gangsters and police during the Prohibition, and, yes, average American citizens who wanted them.

Again, delivered to his door.

No paperwork.

No records (aside from whatever logs the retailer kept).

No background check.…

Then what happened?
Olivia Loveridge-Greene, The Sun (UK) • Fri 2018 Feb 23, 1:49pm

FOR North Korean athletes, the prospect of failure on the big stage carries a punishment far worse than a damaged ego.

Having failed to land a single medal in South Korea so far, its Winter Olympic team could suffer the same fate as previous underperforming athletes - imprisonment in one of the country's sick gulags.…

TheLastRefuge, Twitter • Fri 2018 Feb 23, 11:32am

…People don't understand how Broward County School Sheriff Officers operate. I'll explain.…

Washington Times / AP • Sat 2018 Feb 3, 2:52pm

HAVANA — The oldest son of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro killed himself on Thursday after months of treatment for depression, state media reported. He was 68.…

Hmmmm…
Michael J. Totten, City Journal • Sun 2016 Nov 27, 9:34pm

…A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see…
…Cuba was one of the world’s richest countries before Castro destroyed it—and the wealth wasn’t just in the hands of a tiny elite…

Bob Owens, BearingArms • Sun 2016 Nov 6, 11:39am

“Why in the hell did this guy have a gun?” questioned Hairston about the employee who shot her son.…

This Pizza Hut employee respected his own life enough to arm himself, and it proved to be a wise decision. Your son Michael Grace Jr. and his accomplices were committing a violent armed felony when the employee drew his (lawfully) concealed weapon and opened fire to defend not only his life, but the lives of other employees in the store.…

Bill Federer, WND • Sat 2016 Oct 29, 8:51pm

…There are efforts to change the definition of words in the Second Amendment… The ACLU argued that the term “the people” should be redefined to mean “the state militia…” "The ACLU therefore believes that the Second Amendment does not confer an unlimited right upon individuals to own guns.”…

Nickarama, Weasel Zippers • Sat 2016 Oct 8, 11:50am

6 Children, 7 Teachers Die In Floods In North Korea, After Being Ordered To Rescue Portraits Of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung…

Citing Daily Mail
War News Updates • Mon 2016 Sep 26, 8:07pm

…First designed in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War, the Minuteman nuclear weapons are starting to show their age, and replacement parts are difficult to find for the weapons designed in an analog age.

Also aging are their silos, many built in the 1950s and now rusting as water seeps through the decaying concrete.

Over the next 20 years, the U.S. Air Force will switch out the entirety of its Minuteman III fleet with an as-yet-unnamed new missile known only as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD).…

Citing Military.com/AFP
AWR Hawkins, Breitbart • Thu 2016 Sep 15, 10:06pm

On September 14 Missouri’s Republican lawmakers overrode Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) veto of SB 656 and made Missouri the newest “Stand Your Ground” state. …the veto override also abolished permitting requirements for law-abiding citizens who wish to exercise their Second Amendment rights by carrying handguns on their persons for self-defense.…

Fox News / AP • Thu 2016 Sep 8, 7:44pm

…holsters, corsets, camisoles and other clothing designed to be flattering, feminine — and functional — for the pistol-packin' mama crowd. … "I don't want to dress in tactical gear and camo all the time. I love tactical clothing for the range. It's comfortable. I don't want to ruin my everyday clothing," said Marilyn Smolenski, who in 2012 created Nickel and Lace, a company that caters to women who want to carry a firearm concealed but don't want to trade in their femininity. "But I don't want to wear it to the grocery store."…

Mary Chastain, Breitbart • Thu 2016 Sep 8, 6:57pm

In New Zealand, six-year-old Sarah Patel attacked the ax-wielding men who tried to rob her family’s shop.…

CCTV Video
AWR Hawkins, Breitbart • Wed 2016 Sep 7, 4:25pm

In his latest book, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, John R. Lott Jr. points shows that from 1950 to 2010, not one mass public shooting took place in an area where citizens could arm themselves in self-defense.…

Pages