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Eric Holder: Safe Police Officers Are My Top Priority! Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:28 PM PST If I ever have the chance to write a dictionary, I’ll have a picture of Attorney General Eric Holder right next to the definition of the word “gall”. Holder is easily the most anti-law Attorney General in my lifetime. His Justice Department has repeatedly decided to enforce some laws and not others, to enforce some laws against some people but not against others, and sometimes to ignore the law completely. With Operation Fast and Furious, he crossed a line I don’t know that the Department of Justice has ever crossed. He put guns in the hands of known killers. On purpose. And yes, I know it’s not been proven that he gave the order, but the DoJ is his responsibility and what it does is on him. That’s what being in a position of responsibility is all about. So it makes me see red when he puffed up his chest and put out a statement as blatantly wrong as he did over the holiday break. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund today released preliminary fatality statistics for 2011, which show a 13 percent increase in the number of federal, state and local officers who died in the line of duty, from 153 in 2010 to 173 in 2011.  The data shows that 68 officers lost their lives in firearms-related incidents, 64 officers were killed in traffic-related incidents and 41 deaths were attributed to other causes. "This is a devastating and unacceptable trend.  Each of these deaths is a tragic reminder of the threats that law enforcement officers face each day – and the fact that too many guns have fallen into the hands of those who are not legally permitted to possess them," said Attorney General Eric Holder.  "Departments across the country have mourned the loss of too many dedicated colleagues and friends, but my colleagues and I at the Justice Department are determined to turn back this rising tide.  I want to assure the family members and loved ones who have mourned the loss of these heroes that we are responding to this year's increased violence with renewed vigilance and will do everything within our power – and use every tool at our disposal – to keep our police officers safe." The families of Special Agent Brian Terry and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata would dispute that strongly. Here’s the thing. Holder put this statement out to honor dead police officers. His department is directly responsible for the death of two American police officers and he had the temerity to talk about how bad it is that illegal guns kill cops. If he has a single molecule of dignity left in his body, he’d resign right now, crawl on his hands and knees to those murdered by Operation Fast and Furious guns, and beg their forgiveness. But he won’t because he doesn’t, so Republicans (and any Democrats who still cherish the Rule of Law) have to make sure he pays for the misery caused by his unconscionable actions. Fast and Furious needs to be on the lips of every GOP Presidential candidate, should come up in every single debate (no matter whether the MSM moderators bring it up), and the GOP itself ought to put out a raft of commercials that demand a full accounting. (via Ace)

Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot And Never Brought To…AAAAAAAAAGH! Posted: 05 Jan 2012 05:21 PM PST If you’re like millions of other Americans, you spent New Year’s Eve among family or friends, happily ringing in 2012, wishing each other the very best of a fresh year. Or, you could have been one of the unfortunate folks in Beebe, Arkansas who had to spend the night in fear of getting brained by a crazed dive-bombing starling. No fooling. Blackbirds have fallen dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town for the second New Year’s Eve in a row. KATV showed a radar image that it said showed a large mass over Beebe a few hours before midnight Saturday. The Little Rock television station reported that hundreds of birds had died. Beebe animal control worker Hearst Taylor told KATV the reason for the bird deaths isn’t yet known. Last year’s mass bird suicide was probably caused by fireworks, which rousted the birds form their roots and sent them into panicked flight. They crashed into houses, poles, each other, and goodness knows what else and left the town wondering what happened. This year though, the local authorities put the kibosh on the fireworks show, so no one is exactly sure why the birds flew to their doom. This puts me in mind of the classic song “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve”. You know, that last verse that goes: Kissing at midnight, the moonlight in your eyes. Ducking the rain of winged death from the skies. What are you doing, New Year’s, New Year’s Eve? Good times. Good times. (via the Twitter feed of my lovely friend and killer blogger GaltsGirl) P.S. Yes, I resisted the easy Angry Birds references, even though this story takes place in Arkansas where, I am quite sure, you might find a pig or two. Admire my amazing self-restraint!

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