BOYS IN HATS WITH DOGS

 

Yes please!  I'll take both or either.

BOYS IN HATS

 The eyes have it!

CASTLE DOCTRINE APPLIES TO COPS TOO

Unbelievable! The federal judge in the Louisville Metro PD murder of Breonna Taylor has decided it was her boyfriend's fault that she got killed because he opened fire on the cops.

Of course, that ignores the fact that the cops kicked in the door....THE WRONG DOOR....without announcing themselves and may actually have opened fire first. Which, given the level of abject incompetence and stupidity by the LMPD, I would not ever be so bold as to say "no way Jose!" And in case you've forgotten -- the LMPD cops involved did this after lying on the original no knock warrant application before they murdered Breonna.

But this is Kentucky and a Reagan appointed judge who's old and been sitting on his lifetime sinecure for what?.....36 years now, at least? So there's that.

I have a no trespassing no proselytizing sign in plain view on my front and back doors. At the bottom of the sign in larger font and in red it says ARMED RESPONSE BY HOMEOWNER.

It's been there ever since the LMPD murdered Breonna after lying on their warrant and then going to the wrong apartment. Let me write that again....THE COPS LIED ON THEIR WARRANT (A CRIME!) AND THEN WENT TO THE WRONG APARTMENT.

And then they lied on their post shooting sworn statements (also a crime!) to try to cover up their idiotic fuckery and criminality. And yet this judge blames Breonna's boyfriend for her death....a death that the sole cause of which was the criminality of the cops when they lied on the original warrant!

Po-lice or no po-lice....you kick in my front door without announcing yourself and you're gonna get a little Sig Sauer sumpthin' sumpthin' from me in response for your trouble.

FROM A PIG TO A HOG

Part of the program for becoming a United States Marine Scout Sniper was "The Stalk."  It's just one of a number of phases of the Scout Sniper program that a candidate needed to pass in order to become a Marine Scout Sniper.

If you failed the Stalk you failed the entire 13 week course.

Below is the official breakdown for what needed to happen in the Stalk, how it was scored, and how many times a Scout Sniper candidate (known as a PIG -- for Professionally Instructed Gunman) had to complete the Stalk before he could become a Marine Scout Sniper, or HOG (Hunter of Gunmen).

After graduating from USMC Scout Sniper School a newly minted HOG gets awarded a HOG's Tooth to wear. It's a 7.62mm bullet on a necklace.  The idea behind it is that there's a bullet for everyone. The most elite snipers will wear a HOG's Tooth taken from the rifle of the enemy sniper he killed who was trying to kill him.  

A Marine HOG and his HOG's Tooth

                 An instructor searches for a shooter 1,200 yards down the stalk lane.

Signaling movement instructions to a walker from the OP.

• Stalking involves moving from a distance between 1200 and 800 yards to within 200 yards of an observation post (OP) undetected. After doing this, the student must set up a Final Firing Position (FFP) and fire two shots without being found by the OP within a time period of 3–4 hours.
  • After the first shot is fired, a walker (a neutral instructor who does not help students or the instructors in the OP) will get close to the sniper's position to make sure he can positively ID the OP. Positive ID is established by the observers holding up cards with 2-3 letters on them above their binoculars. The sniper must then correctly tell the walker what is written on them. After positive ID has been confirmed, the walker will move within 10 yards of the shooter and inform the OP that he is within 10. The OP will then attempt to walk the walker onto the sniper's position by way of movement commands. The OP must get the walker within 1 foot of the shooter. If the shooter cannot be found, the walker will tell the shooter to fire a second shot on his command. After the second shot has been fired, the OP will look for blast from the rifle or movement from the shooter. If the OP cannot find the shooter, then the walker will indicate the shooters position to the OP and check to make sure the shooter had the correct windage and elevation settings, along with correct position and stable shooting platform.
• Grading is as follows for stalking:
  • 0: Being out of bounds on the stalk lane, not freezing on the command freeze (when the OP believes they know the position of a student, they call freeze and all students on the stalk lane have to immediately freeze in whatever position they are in), poor FFP.
  • 40: Caught out of range or fired out of range (not within 200 yards).
  • 50: Caught within range.
  • 60: 1 shot fired but, no positive ID, incorrect windage or elevation, unstable shooting platform.
  • 70: 1 shot fired and positive ID, correct windage, elevation, shooting platform but OP walked onto shooter after first shot.
  • 80: 2 shots fired and positive ID, correct windage, elevation, shooting platform but OP saw blast from shooter's position after second shot.
  • 100: 2 shots fired and positive ID, correct windage, elevation, shooting platform and shooter was never found.
• Students must obtain an overall average of 70% out of 10 stalks, with a minimum of two 100s and no more than a single zero in order to pass stalking.

BOYS IN HATS

 

LIFE BEFORE THE INTERNET

by Damien

I remember it well, being (literally) carried into my first gay club by my best friends – Nicole and Phillip – in June of 1990. I was screaming. I did NOT want to go in. I was terrified that “being gay” was everything that I had been told was horrible.

Then I was in the club.

Everyone looked normal. Even the drag queens. And people were welcoming. They were engaging. They were friendly. There weren’t creepy. They weren’t trying to rape each other. They were just…. being. And that first night opened a door to a community that had my back. Always.

Now – I am not so sure. 

The internet is a phenomenal tool of knowledge and information. But it is also, sadly, a despicable cesspool of misinformation and hate. As a Jew I have experienced the hate first hand – both professionally and personally. I was reading a Facebook post by a friend recently that had the title “Gays were nice before the internet.” And I had to agree. I do not know how I would cope coming out now. There is a ferocity to the online gay community that I have not known before. When we had no choice but to gather together in person, we accepted the notion that we were all we had at that time. And so, we just made the most of it. Were there bitchy queens? Absolutely. But I knew that even They would be there if I truly needed them. If my safety was at risk, they would step up – in 6-inch heels.

But I see the discourse online. The hateful comments (mostly younger) gays send to each other now.

“You’re old and fat, no one wants you.”

“You’re a fossil. Go back to the park.”

“Don’t be creepy. You’re horrid and foul.”

“Why didn’t you die? How did AIDS miss you?”

These aren’t comments I have faced. But these ARE comments others I know have faced. On Facebook. NOT in dating apps. But in the usual course of online conversations. This is dreadful. We – the whole of our community – should be better than this. There were people when I came out that weren’t entirely kosher, and I knew that. Some had agendas – trying to get in the pretty blonde ballet dancers’ pants. But I knew that. And I was able to manage that. But to have people these days – and by people - I mean the under 40 set – tell you that they wished AIDS had got you? I have no response.

With so many people out there genuinely wishing us dead, how do the younger generations justify what they say? And this is not a “get off my lawn” post. This is a “how are you able to justify this hate against your own” post. I have no answers. I have no explanation or hypothesis. I just am unable to reconcile the hate WITHIN the male gay community. Or, maybe I should say, gay male non-community. Because it seems our common unity is no longer something that we treasure or feel comfort from.

I don’t know what to say. I do not have answers. And I am increasingly horrified by how we treat each other.

Damien.

THIS IS NOT THE ONION

There really is going to be a gala party at Jabba the Fecal Cyst's golf club celebrating and raising money for the traitorous scum of January 6.

These people really have no bottom.