Dirty little secrets

The San Fernando Valley NRA Members' Council ^ | December 30, 2013 | Steve

[Redcloak]

We’ve written before in these pages about the Mainstream News Media’s propensity to keep good news about firearms a closely guarded secret. They haven’t changed. The latest example of their collective tight lips is coverage of this report from The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The group’s report on police fatalities for 2013 found that 111 officers died in the line of duty; down 8% from 2012 and the lowest since 1959. Of those 111 deaths, only 33 were caused by firearms. Most news outlets did little more than reprint the AP wire story on the report. The Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt spent a little more time on the story, but studiously avoided mentioning that the number of firearms deaths was the lowest since 1887.

No, that’s not a typo.

1887.

As in the 19th Century.

As in back when Grover Cleveland was in the White House and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil was at 10 Downing Street.

As in back during the days of the Wild West.

[Redcloak]

Things the Media doesn't want you to know...

[RichInOC]

...dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry

—Don Henley and Danny Kortchmar

[Cyber Liberty]

May have been a good year for cops, but a pretty rough one for citizens and dogs. I am glad they're doing a good job of getting home safe after their shifts....

[lee martell]

That sounds like a Lindsay Lohan type movie. Full title; We know what you did last summer and its still dirty today.

[KeyLargo]

George Zimmerman Gets His Paint On

By Tim McNabb on December 30, 2013

"Color me flabbergasted. George Zimmerman, a man who’s been brutalized by the media, the justice system and his own post-acquittal misjudgments seems to have done a remarkable thing. Rather than demand to see life’s manager or hire engineers to develop a combustible lemon to burn down the house that is his life, he’s taken to the solace of art . . .

As a guy who likes to write and has endured a certain amount of grief (mostly self-imposed) I can appreciate a guy who does something positive despite the heaping pile of rotting lemons that have been handed to him.

Moreover, the painting sold on Ebay for over $100,000.00. With 96 bids, that means a lot of people out there were willing to lay out some serious scrilla for a painting that could probably be had for about ten bucks on sale at Hobby Lobby. While I’m sure the notoriety of the painter had something to do with it, I have to think that a good portion of that figure was a citizen extending some love to a benighted man.

That makes me feel pretty damn good about the people of the gun."

Via: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/12/tim-mcnabb/george-zimmerman-gets-paint/#more-283521

[Cyber Liberty]

So that was a legitimate bid? I heard it got over $100K on Ebay, but I was afraid it was a dirty rotten leftist jacking a bogus bid up so George would get screwed.