Puppycide is the tragically necessary neologism that refers to the ubiquitous phenomenon of police killing household pets that everyone else seems to be able to deal with in a non-violent manner.  “But I was trained that way” was the excuse of the cop who was intent on killing Tiffanie Hupp’s obviously playful, happy canine, until she put herself in between the gun and her pet.  The cop had a badge-induced meltdown, and arrested her.  But just think about that: he appeared more than willing to gun down a family pet, in front of the family, with no hesitation.  What type of person is able to perform such an act?  Would you be comfortable you or your family interacting with someone who is capable of such a thing?

FBI agents who lied about who pulled the trigger now under investigation.  From The Oregonian.  State troopers shot Finicum in the back, not FBI agents, and the video from the article shows that he wasn’t reaching for a weapon when shot.

The State wants you to pick up a gun against them; they’d love nothing more than having an excuse to gun you and your armed coterie of anti-government activists down.  Advancing liberty won’t happen at the point of a gun.  Liberty advances through reading, writing, persuading, organizing, not grabbing your Bushmaster and yelling “charge”!  The State wants activists who are violent or have the appearance of being violent.  Those who can be smeared to the point of being poster children for the growth of government power.  Education and persuasion are our only true weapons, as difficult as they are to wield.

From The Guardian.  Inheriting a country taxed, regulated, inflated, militarized, and planned to death, the Y-generation are now expected to find the jobs necessary to continue to fund the plans of the parasites that got them into this mess.

From ScienceNordic.  Relevant sentences: “A new study into how groups of people reach decisions, suggests that frustrated employees can actually be a good thing. It turns out it helps to push employees to work more effectively and introduce innovative initiatives, when compared with their more content colleagues.”

Government can’t force Apple to break iPhone encryption under the All Writs Act.  From Tech Dirt.

Officer said he was trained to shoot and kill and any dog that approached him, aggressive or not.  Video here.

No need to bring them back by force, just eliminate the taxes that made them move and they’ll return.

Yikes.

With her simple-minded “Just Say No” campaign.  What followed was a deluge of militarization, incarceration, drug potency, and crime.

A country you forgot we were intervening in.