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Clearly we need to do something about these dangerous crazy Democrats. Some sort of registration. They keep flying off the handle. Certainly they should be banned from owning firearms.
I guess I should admit this. At my previous house, my neighbor mowed with the blade set as low to the ground as he could get it. Sometimes it looked like nothing but dirt left, like he had removed the wheels on his mower and dragged it along the ground. Now that might be ok to do up in rainy Seattle, but down here in Texas, that’s what you do when you want a nice desert view out your window. Plant a few cactus and you’re all set, because nothing else is going to grow there for a while.
Anyway, one time he was being nice and mowed my side yard (which was overdue for a mowing) next to his yard. I didn’t mention it to him, just made sure my side yard never got overdue again.
Regulate them, like firearms.
Just kidding.
Ohhhh…he lives in Bowling Green. Now it makes more sense. Hilltoppers are white trash.
I also notice that it wasnt widely reported that this was another act of violence by a BernieBro.
This is a clear advantage to living in Canada – you dont have to mow your lawn in November.
Yet.
Hilarious!
But you do shovel snow.
The area of my sidewalk, is considerably smaller than the area of lawn… So it maybe needed to be done more frequently than mowing (depending on weather) its a much quicker job.
What I haven’t seen commented upon (and assuming the accounts of a Democrat neighbor are true) is how perfect this situation is as a metaphor. Rand Paul would be a horrible neighbor to anyone who believes that they have a right to control any aspect of their neighbor’s life. Rand Paul can only live next door to someone who sees the property line as a fixed barrier within which you exercise complete control.
So we see the fascist/socialistic impulse of the neighbor come to the surface in a physical altercation — where words “trigger” and presuppositions about limited property rights make violence acceptable.
The perp. is a 59-year old retired osteopathic anesthesiologist. Paging @docjay
Agree. We’ve seen this before where someone with the same name is identified incorrectly as the perpetrator in the news. They need to do their homework.
In case you missed the last election, a question that would soon come up (by registered Democrats) would be whether this attack was carried out by a Deplorable, who one can safely assume to be Republicans or conservatives (at least in the eyes of Democrat party loyalists). Like it or not, Mrs. Clinton did put that descriptive out there and succeeded in dividing (and insulting) us further than before.
Looks like the senator’s injuries are more serious than first reported.
One wonders if this raises the potential penalty for something more than minor assault.
http://nypost.com/2017/11/05/rand-paul-suffers-5-broken-ribs-after-neighbor-assaulted-him/
Wow! Now that’s a different story. Very strange the way it was first reported.
Wow! I am stunned – this is new news, and quite serious. Yeah, they need to really throw the book at this jerk.
I’ll try to keep a closer eye on this. Thanks, Brian.
Just imagine for a second the news coverage if Bernie Sanders was assaulted at his home by a Trump supporter…..
Which home?
That’s easy to imagine. President Trump would have to denounce the assault, and the assaulter, at every news conference and interview from now until the universe coalesced into an egg again. If he decided not to denounce, even one time, he would be labeled as pro-violence against all living Democrats and every Democrat who has ever lived. Just like that guy here on Ricochet who thinks Trump likes David Duke because he didn’t denounce him the 47th time he was asked to condemn him.
Does that sound about right?
But much colder.
No one but a dunce could possibly say that about Trump. Or perhaps someone (and there are fewer every day) who actually believes what the MSM say.
I know. But if that fact is unrelated to the assault, why is it in the “news?” Other than to create the insult, not clarify the story.
I’m not disagreeing news is twisted, I just want to call it what it is: bad journalism.
Talk about basket of deplorables…
I would assume so, its currently -18, and I was reading earlier that we’ve already had more snow than we’d normally expect for the entire month.
The advantage of being cold, is that you can dress for it and then have a bowl of Chili when you come inside.
I agree. Regardless of what actually happened (let’s say it was a totally non-politically-motivated property dispute), if the victim was anyone at all on the left, with the exact same facts, it would be front page news, full of speculation, and the perfect example of the Republican climate of hate.
that is very much worth observing.
Paul needs a pair of German Shepherd Dogs.
What a weird story. I was shocked when I read it yesterday. I can understand some stray looney bird, but his own neighbor? No matter how the left tries to characterize conservatives as violent, they prove that the left are truly the violent side of our politics.
Just for the record, I regularly mow an extra yard strip over on my neighbor’s side when I mow. If he mows first, he regularly mows an extra strip in my yard.
We think this is just neighborly.
And he was/is a Bernie supporter…
Interestingly, you think Rand Paul would own a riding mower. Perhaps the RNC can chip in and buy him one now.
The couple across the street from us mow their lawn together. He uses a riding mower and she uses a push mower to do the edges and stuff.
Sounds like The Republican Senate majority is going to be more fragile now. The takeaway is that if Democrats can’t win at the ballot box, they will use use bullets and beatings.
I just heard that Senator Paul was on a riding mower and he broke some ribs. That must have been some tackle!