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Uvalde Texas
Border Patrol could wait no longer
The Border Patrol agents who killed the school shooter in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday entered the school on their own accord after local law enforcement requested that they hold back, two senior federal law enforcement sources told NBC News on Friday. The agents from BORTAC, Border Patrol’s tactical unit, arrived at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde from a location about 40 miles away, according to the New York Times.
Schrödinger’s serial killers
Excerpted from Jonah Goldberg at The Dispatch:
Let’s accept that there’s a strong causal link between bullying and becoming a mass shooter. There’s still the fact that most people who are bullied in school don’t become mass murderers. …
Making schools more nurturing and supportive is not in conflict with making them physically safer. … I am pretty confident that there are some schools that are incredibly well-designed and heavily guarded that are also quite nurturing. If you see a family home with a state-of-the-art security system there’s no reason to assume it’s less loving and nurturing inside. …
Over the last two decades schools have leapt into the anti-bullying cause. I am sure there is less bullying in my high school today than there was when I attended. … [but] when everything is permitted, when everyone has a “reason” to do something, we act as if that lessens their responsibility for their actions, when it should mean the opposite. The sociological obsession with root causes saps the importance of agency.
This 10 year old survived the slaughter
KENS 5 News in San Antonio spoke with one of the few survivors from the fourth grade class at Robb Elementary, who wanted to share what happened to his classmates. “We have a door in the middle, and he opened it and came in and crouched a little bit and said, ‘It’s time to die,’” the 10-year-old remembered.
“When he shot, it was very loud and it hurt my ear. When I saw the bullets on the floor it was real. And when I heard the shooting through the door, I told my friend to hide under something so he wouldn’t find us. I was hiding hard and I was telling my friend not to talk because he was going to hear us. The cops said [shout] ‘help’ if you need help. And then one of the persons in my class said ‘help,’ and the guy overheard and he came in and shot her. And then the cops barged in into that classroom, and then the guy shot the cops and the cops just started shooting at him. …
[Ms. Irma and Ms. Eva] were nice teachers, and they went in front of my classmates to help and save them. I would like to say for every kid and parent to be safe.”
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos open to arming teachers in schools.
The massacre at Robb elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, 05-24-22 has produced the usual demands to “do something.” We share the impulse and the anger, but what specifically to do? …
So-called red-flag laws that give police the ability to deny guns to people who may pose a risk to the community have been useful in some cases. But they are hard to enforce, as we recently learned in Buffalo. New York state has a red-flag statute, and Payton Gendron was even referred for mental counseling. He still got a gun. — Wall Street Journal.
The statement that the Second Amendment is not absolute is certainly true. There are laws that can be crafted within the confines set out under controlling Supreme Court precedent. … President Biden repeated his claim that certain weapons were prohibited at the time that the Second Amendment was ratified. That is simply untrue. — law professor Jonathan Turley.
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A new sheriff in town?
Anthony Hamilton, a detective with the Dane County Sheriff’s office is running for sheriff as a Republican against incumbent Kalvin Barrett. Any eligible voter in Dane County can sign his nomination paper. Detective Hamilton needs 500 valid signatures by Wednesday, June 1. Public safety is a top priority for voters this years as crime has skyrocketed. Hamilton Nomination Paper.
The committee has at least one witness who’s said Trump was voicing approval of the “Hang Mike Pence” chants. Another key witness was asked about that last week and confirmed that Trump aide Meadows shared that with colleagues. https://t.co/cSr5ZdhPS0
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 25, 2022
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Donald Trump’s political revenge campaign hit a wall in Georgia on Tuesday, as Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger easily defeated Trump-backed challengers. The question now is whether the former President will continue his vendetta by trying to defeat both men in November. — Wall Street Journal.
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It takes courage
Volodymyr Zelensky
People of Ukraine
Finland and Sweden
President Andrzej Duda of Poland
Mike Pence “conservative, but not angry about it.”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp
Bill Maher
Joe Manchin
Liz Cheney
Elon Musk
Poland and the Czechs
Mike Koval
Speaker Robin Vos
Tommy Thompson
Dave Cieslewicz
Boris Johnson
FdL Co. GOP chair Rohn Bishop
Mitch McConnell
Dave Chappelle
Ricky Gervais
Mitt Romney
Kaleem Caire
William Barr
Brett Kavanaugh
Who we missing?
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Blaska Policy Werkes 
Got up a couple hours after I retired, and read a bunch of commentary about The Game. My takeaway? We’ve had enough “kicks at the can” with with Rodgers. He’s a legendary quarterback with flaws, and I’m grateful for the thirty year Favre/Rodgers run despite the lack of success when it really counted.
Given the failure last night when everything was in place, and after all the off-season drama; it’s time to rebuild. We fans need a reason to root hard for our Packers next year.
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Newsflash: nobody cares about overpaid, overrated “athletes” playing in woke sports.
In recent years if you take a little time to observe, in much of Wisconsin more than a few of us have just stopped caring about the Packers, which is remarkable.
Once the NFL went Full Woke that started the decline.
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Yep.
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I had strong suspicions all year that they were not as good as their record. Lot’s of close games and last second wins.
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Defense played great.
Silver lining: if Rams beat Bucs, NFC championship will be at SoFi stadium. We SoFi stockholders like the additional exposure. Always think “What’s in it for me?”.
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can you still get the Rodgers Rate?
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Ha! Been with State Farm for over 30 years.
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Devastating, low-energy loss. Sure, a bit of a bad break w/ the unearned TD on a muffed kick, but talk about a DOA playoff team —The Green & Gold was fuzzy with mold.
Only ONE thing was worse: The Pack unwittingly created the perfect opportunity for Jimmy G. to mouth off like the teenage girl he is…
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You can’t hold him accountable for what he says! He’s just a youngster…
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The nod to the Favre/Rodgers era is worth noting. How fortunate for so long to have been fans of a team so blessed. What if we’d had to root for da Bears?
Given that, time to turn. I’m not especially confident of where the Packers are headed from here, nor do I particularly care, but I’ve finally seen enough of Rodgers as the focal point. Thanks for the memories. Let him pass.
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It was just a sad game to watch. End of an era.
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Da Woke NFL. Commercials about getting paid less because of color, not ability. Their ship has sailed. We do need bread and circuses though for the peons to be distracted once the trap door opens. Wondering when we\ll be seeing commercials of 2 Mommies on the way to the spunk bank in their dependable Subaru.
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And, stop home field advantage crap just so they can get shit faced wearing dumb cheese wiz hats, playing when 10 degrees instead of a covered venue would have made big difference, but then again, I knew Rodgers would choke again, but still get MVP for mo money for 2nd place again this yr.
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To David: text in comment line doesn’t show., email line and name does though, crazy.
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