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Even wild horses like to stay cool.  The wild ponies of Assateague  enjoy a splash just as much as the rest of us do.

I have mixed feelings about the pony round-up.  I suppose that thinning the herd humanely is good.  However, taking any living thing out of the wild is always sad.

Stay tuned for sweltering weather–definitely hazy, hot and humid days are ahead of us.

17 Thoughts to “Open Thread…………………………….July, 2016”

  1. Ed

    I see the Dallas shootings are a mirror image of the Black Lives Matter moment..

    Every comment made by BLM about respect, how police are cowards by shooting unarmed or unthreatening black people, how all police are complicit because of the blue wall of silence, and how perfect and brave each of the victims were is now being recycled for Blue Lives Matter. In the middle of this is the implicit argument that anyone can pre-emptively shoot someone because of fear that they intend to use a gun to harm others especially of one’s affinity group. (i.e. blue or black people.)

    Noted with glee: the good guy with a gun turned out to be deficient and had to be replaced with a robot with a bomb. Replace “arms” with robots in the 2A!

    The bottom line is that the 2A does not work in modern times. The right to self defense should be just that: the right to protect oneself but not the right to intentionally kill someone else in the name of self defense. Firearms as protective devices are antiquated and work best for protection against wild animals in low density rural areas. Cellphones, cameras and cars are better and safer protection against violent crime than handguns. Every use of a firearm against another human should be a crime. We can continue to let people collect guns as antiques and go to the range to shoot or to hunt, but legally and structurally restrict the ability for someone to quickly use a gun to kill especially in public areas where multiple people can be harmed.

  2. Dump Trump

    Trumpteer Corey Stewart (hey, that name sounds familiar!) posted this on Facebook last night, blaming Hilary Clinton for the shootings in Dallas:

    “Liberal politicians who label police as racists—specifically Hillary Clinton and Virginia Lt. Governor Ralph Northam—are to blame for essentially encouraging the murder of these police officers tonight,” Mr. Stewart wrote.

    http://www.nytimes.com/live/news-dallas-shooting-protest/trump-campaign-official-blames-hillary-clinton-for-shootings/

  3. Starryflighta

    Stewaet is a pig.

    We lost five good guys with guns this week. Chief Brown spoke for many of us who believe this divisiveness must end.

  4. punchak

    Good, ole Hennety is with Corey Stewart.
    Hi tirade about Obama, Hillary and the Left was “awsome”.
    Invited guests were barely allowed to speak.
    Din’t mention Ralph Northam, tough. 🙂

  5. Big Dog

    Speaking recently to the Canadian Parliament,
    President Obama was given sixteen standing ovations
    and, when he finished, a long chant of “Four More Years!”.

    Of course, real estate folks there might not agree.
    Property values north of the border have shot up
    due to what they call the “Trump Bump” as
    Americans bid up prices.

    1. Dump Trump

      @Big Dog

      Personally, I recommend moving south to Mexico. The weather is nicer, and I hear the Mexican government is going to pay for a wall to protect them from Trump.

  6. Big Dog

    “Rev. F.M. Bristol delivered an invocation for the
    Republican Convention praying “may the coming political
    campaign be conducted with that decency, inteiiigence,
    patriotism and dignity of temper which becomes a free and
    Intelligent people.”
    1884 Cleveland-Blaine

    Alas, Henry Adams noted “the public was too angry and abusive
    In 1884 – they were all swearing at each other like demons”.

    Appears 2016 will be no better.

    1. Scout

      @Big Dog

      We are always improved by a reference to Henry Adams. Thank you.

  7. ed

    “Hands up don’t shoot” … blacks with their hands up get shot anyway. For those who declared this a lie, we now have video of it happening in North Miami. Charles Kinsey is lying on the ground with his hands in the air and police send 3 bullets his way. The police then allegedly leave him to bleed out. The best protection from a bad cop with a gun is many witnesses with cellphone cameras.

    1. That’s probably true….re: bad cop
      It’s easier to document with cell phones, for sure.

  8. I understand that a local blogger was seen outside of the restaurant where the Manassas City Democrats had their kick off campaign, videoing who went in and out of the function.

    I am curious. Why would he do that? Why would anyone even care? Had I gone, I would have considered that a violation of my privacy.

    That’s just creepy.

    1. @MoonHowler

      Why? More than likely for content for his BLOG. Catching an individual’s face with an unbecoming angle is what they do. Then let the jokes flow from there.

      1. I don’t know. I don’t even know if it really happened. Unconfirmed sighting, I guess I would say.

        I know some of them threatened to film people going in and out of KK’s when it first opened up in Old Town.

  9. Big Dog

    Virginia U.S.Senator Tim Kaine is selected!
    A great choice for V.P.
    To meet him is to like him.

    Once again – Time to Raise Kaine!

  10. Lyssa

    Catching up with the local blogs….my, my, it looks like the Sheriff is rapidly melting down. And in a very ugly manner. I’d suggest an intervention but it may be in everyone’s best interest to watch it go.

    All that anger and negativity isn’t healthy. Not to mention the pressure a “tangled web” imposes.

    1. Yes, Lyssa. Lots of melt down—fairly mean melt down.

      It’s really a shame that an elected official is so closely linked to that blog.

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