On Monday, guest-hosting for Rush on America's Number One radio show, Mark interviewed House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. Congressman Scalise previewed the forthcoming midterm elections, but he also spoke movingly about last year's attempted slaughter of the Republican baseball team, and contrasted the behavior of the police on that occasion with that of the Broward County deputies at the Parkland school shooting. He also talked with Mark about his robust support for the Second Amendment and about being visited in hospital by the President and First Lady (see right).
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A homeowner in the UK heard someone breaking in their back door. He called the police and they said they were sorry but couldn't respond for an hour.
Ten minutes later the home owner called the police again and told them that they had shot the intruder and he was on the floor in the kitchen.
About three minutes later several police cars pulled up to the house, sirens blaring.
The police ran into the house and found the intruder hog tied on the kitchen floor. One policeman exclaimed "I thought you reported that you had shot the intruder." The homeowner replied "I thought you said you couldn't get here for an hour."
Mark,
On Monday, while you were doing the cheap foreign labor guest-hosting for Rush, I was very distracted by your casual dalliances into 70s nudie magazines and reel-type pre-1940 Victorian pornography. it seemed every time you were about to make a salient and somber point about the sad state of affairs re: culture in the West, Mr. Snurdley had to bring it back to vintage pornography. I mean I'm happy to talk about that but I don't think it warrants a book, as Mr. Snurdley suggests. I like you better when you are doom/end of days mongering about mass unfettered immigration.
A homeowner in the UK heard someone breaking in their back door. He called the police and they said they were sorry but couldn't respond for an hour.
Ten minutes later the home owner called the police again and told them that they had shot the intruder and he was on the floor in the kitchen.
About three minutes later several police cars pulled up to the house, sirens blaring.
The police ran into the house and found the intruder hog tied on the kitchen floor. One policeman exclaimed "I thought you reported that you had shot the intruder." The homeowner replied "I thought you said you couldn't get here for an hour."
Mr Steyn I do enjoy when you guest host the Rush Limbaugh show. Such savage wit! I will confess that while I will forever be committed to Rush, you are my illicit Talk Radio host affair and I look forward to our next rendezvous on the airwaves. Keep sharp, young man!
Remember those Trump rallies where folks were chanting "Cut Tax Rates, Cut Tax Rates"?
Yeah, me neither.
Trump was elected on immigration restriction. The GOP has to get behind him on that.
It's surprising to hear how resilient Steve Scalise sounds. I was talking with someone today about Parkland and the cowering deputies. He said, well wasn't it policy to wait for backup? How clear ditching protocol becomes, when you think of the duty and honor that made the choice for Rudolf Rassendyll in "The Prisoner of Zenda".
Andrew Breitbart said, "Walk toward the fire." Why not? Why wait for the fire to come to you, if you can put it out first? That's exactly what Trump does, befuddling his opposition for two-and-a half years. Hopefully it'll spread like wildfire.
Breitbart left us far too soon. I wonder what he would have made out of the Weinstein scandal, which amazingly seems to be fading away already and the Oscars did their best to push it to the background. I saw a column the other day mentioning that Weinstein is living "in exile" and his life is now so difficult compared to what he had. Oh, boo hoo. I suppose since the average person now has the attention span of a gnat, it is not surprising that people have moved on. It's permanent whack-a-mole in the media.
You know, it's not that much of a stretch to ask whether Obama, and particularly Pelosi, visited Rep. Scalise in the hospital. Schumer? Anybody? Schumer?
Throughout the West, aka "Christendom", since the mid nineties the police have evolved from policing the criminals to policing the law abiding. So much easier. If you take umbrage at your police force turning into the State's force for making you conform, they will break you.
If you expect them to arrive in time to save you from the bad guys, don't be surprised to be a statistic, used to justify their existence.
Indeed.
As we say around here, when seconds count, the police are minutes away.