Maryland: Another day, another burqa-assisted armed robbery

I blame Bush.

BEL AIR, Md. – A burqa-wearing man pretending to be a woman is in police custody after an armed robbery and dramatic police chase Friday afternoon.

Police say around 3 p.m. Harford County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Third Base Liquors on South Fountain Green Road in Bel Air for a report of a robbery. When officers arrived witnesses told them a man wearing a burqa covering his entire face except for his eyes entered the store and asked the clerk about beer.

Police say the man altered his voice to sound like a woman and chose a case of beer. As the clerk leaned over to pick up the beer the fake lady flashed a gun and announced a hold up.

The clerk gave the burqa-wearing female impersonator an undisclosed amount of cash and the robber left the store and jumped into a white SUV.

Police say an alert passerby noticed something strange, copied down the tag number and reported it to authorities. A short time later police saw the SUV on Rt. 40 at Rt. 755 in Edgewood and attempted to stop it. As the Divine wannabe fled west on Rt. 40, he clipped a car and lost control. The man was critically injured and taken to Shock Trauma for treatment.

The driver has not yet been identified and detectives are investigating if this robbery was connected to an armed robbery that had occurred earlier today in the 2400 block of Churchville Road in Bel Air. Witnesses in that case also reported a white SUV as a suspect vehicle.

Those damn Militant Quakers!


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Old People Just Don't Get the 'Green' Thing [Papa B]

Papa B:

In the queue at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."

He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Papa B adds, "Remember: don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off."


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ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: All 7 Billion Humans on Earth Have a Civil Right to U.S. Citizenship

If there has ever been a more malevolent Attorney General in American history, I'd like to know about it.

Attorney General Eric Holder told MALDEF, the Mexican American Defense and Educational Fund on April 24th, that he believes illegal aliens have a “civil right” to be put on a path to US citizenship.

HOLDER: Creating a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in this country is essential. The way we treat our friends and neighbors who are undocumented – by creating a mechanism for them to earn citizenship and move out of the shadows – transcends the issue of immigration status. This is a matter of civil and human rights. It is about who we are as a nation. And it goes to the core of our treasured American principle of equal opportunity.

It’s also about the law and whether it and our sovereignty mean anything or not. Holder answers in the negative — they don’t. Anyone anywhere in the world can come here by hook or by crook, and crooks like Holder will make them citizens.

Consider the import of an Attorney General refusing to enforce our nation's most important laws: those underpinning equal protection, national sovereignty and national security. We have a government that intentionally ignores its own laws in pursuit of centralizing more power. There's an adjective for governments like this: tyrannical.

Had we statesmen or real leaders running the House of Representatives -- not clownish, cowardly buffoons like John Boehner and Eric Cantor -- Eric Holder would have been impeached long ago.


Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

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Larwyn's Linx: Pigford: NYT Pegs Obama for Vote-Buying Scheme

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Nation

Pigford: NYT Pegs Obama for Vote-Buying Scheme: Breitbart
Pigford Scam: “This is institutionalized corruption of the highest order!”: Scoop
White House in Full Retreat as FAA Sequester Stunt Backfires: Benson

Obama to Largest Abortion Provider: 'God Bless You': WS
Rubio struggles to explain why ICE had no input into Amnesty bill: Breitbart
'Climate of Fear'? Obama's ATF pick facing probe over retaliation claim: Fox

Holder: Amnesty For Illegals a “Civil And Human Right”: Tatler
Republicans In Congress to Push AMMO ACT to Limit DHS Purchases: RWN
California May Be First State To Allow Non-Citizens To Serve On Juries: FNL

Gutsy Call on That Miranda Warning: Evidence of 3rd Bomber: Ace
White House Gets the Private Sector to do its Anti-Gun Dirty Work: RWN
Politico: Obama’s Hubris Problem: WZ

Economy

The Real Risks of Amnesty: Heather Mac Donald
Why ammo is getting so expensive: CDN
Fast-food, retail strikes echo Occupy: ChiBiz

Scandal Central

Obama, Clinton Campaign Officials Convicted of Election Fraud: Tatler
‘Five Jihadists Have Reached Their Targets in the United States Under Barack Obama’: Cry and Howl
Shock and surprise: Diane Feinstein’s husband’s company lands big high-speed rail contract: Toldjah

Climate & Energy

Pardon My English II: Vodkapundit

Media

Why we can't have a "reasonable discussion" on the Second Amendment: Denninger
Fumbling Bureaucratic Incompetence: JPA
Barbara Buono says Chris Matthews made her feel sexually objectified: FAM

Andrew Breitbart vindicated on Pigford after years of attacks from Media Matters and others: LI
Rubio hit hard after inviting comments on immigration bill: Exam
More Dirty Web Tricks: Vodkapundit

World

The First Terrorist War: American Digest
Obama’s Only “Game Changers” Come During Election Season: GayPatriot
Time to confront Obama: Glick

"I am an informant... Talibans are walking freely right here in the soil of America right now, right now": JihadWatch
10 Lessons from Cyprus: American
USDA Flyer: We Don't Check Immigration Status for Food Stamps: Breitbart

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Tor Needs Bridges: Schneier
AT&T launches its internet of things effort and it’s pretty big: GigaOm
'Your infernal cable pipes come up from Hell, Virgin!': Register

Cornucopia

End of Week Buyer’s Remorse Roundup: MOTUS
Planned Parenthood Awards ‘Margaret Sanger’ Award to Short German's Solution to Undesirable Children: Sooper
Off-Duty US Sailor Knocks Out Dubai Rapist With Her American Thighs: Tatler

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QOTD: "Due to American pressure on Israel not to act, and due to the White House’s rejection of clearcut reports about Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, Iran has crossed the threshold. Iran will be a nuclear power unless its uranium enrichment installations and other nuclear sites are destroyed or crippled. Now.

True, the Americans set a different red line for Iran than Israel. They say they will not allow Iran to assemble a nuclear bomb. But to believe that the US has the capacity and the will to prevent Iran from climbing the top rung on the nuclear ladder is to believe in the tooth fairy – (see, for instance, North Korea)." --Caroline Glick

TIME TO BAN 3-D PRINTERS? First printed handgun imminent

I wonder what Bloomberg -- the idiot mayor, not the news service -- thinks of this?

Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, says he is just two weeks away from 3D printing an entire handgun, out of ABS plastic. Once Wilson has printed the gun and ensured that it works, the weapon’s 3D model files will be uploaded to the internet and open sourced — so that you and I can print an almost-undetectable firearm.


Creating a 3D-printed gun, and contributing the model files to the public domain, is the culmination of DefDist’s Wiki Weapon project. The Wiki Weapon project was created in mid-2012 by Cody Wilson, with the lofty but perhaps slightly misguided [sic] goal of fulfilling every American citizen’s Second Amendment right to bear arms. Back in July 2012, DefDist produced a 3D-printed a lower receiver for an AR-15 rifle, in January of this year it 3D-printed a 30-round AR-15 magazine, and then in March DefDist finally received its federal firearms license, which is required to legally make and sell guns. Now, it seems, according to an interview with Mashable, Wilson is almost ready to release an entirely 3D-printed handgun.

Tyranny just got a skōsh harder.

After all, if the people can't be trusted with guns, why should the government?


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

TED CRUZ: Surprise Visit to the Freedomworks Texas Summit

Senator Ted Cruz made a surprise visit to the Freedomworks Texas summit earlier today:

Highlights:

•  We're winning and it's because of what folks like us are doing

•  The Obama people tried to protest the Senator's office in Dallas and Tea Party folks outdrew them 3:1.

• There are few things elected officials like less than getting heat from their constituents.

• "We've had five or six lunches with a bunch of Republican Senators standing up and looking at Rand [Paul] and Mike [Lee] and me and yelling at us at the top of their lungs...I mean really upset...and they say 'look, why did you do this, as a result of what you did, when I go home my constituents are yelling at me that I've gotta stand up on principle!"
• I'm really not making that up.

• Before you did that [threatened to filibuster gun control legislation] the politics were great, the Dems were the bad guys and the Republicans were the good guys; now we just look like a bunch of squishes.
• "Well, there's an alternative, you could just not be a bunch of squishes."

•  Gun control isn't over.

• How do you get something bad passed in Washington?!?
• You do it fast and in the middle of night.

• Success begets success; if we stand up once, we'll do it again.

God Bless Constitutional Conservatives like Ted Cruz. Say a prayer for men and women like him tonight.


Hat tip: Cahnman's Musings.