Paving the way for tyranny:

‘WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, altering the law of the land without public notice. The revisions include “truly substantive changes in factual statements and legal reasoning,” said Richard J. Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard and the author of a new study examining the phenomenon…’
Francis Porretto,   ‘The Law And The Lawless’
If a precedent is inconvenient, why then, simply remove or re-word it.

Socialist nonsense:

‘Mass migration one of the world’s ‘grave issues’ says Pope Francis who calls on governments to help them reach Europe and avoid any more tragedies
In a letter to the International Labour Conference, Francis warned that human trafficking is ‘a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity’.
I’d be a damn sight more impressed if he devoted equal energy to pointing out how many lives are taken by abortion, rather than a few boats full of illegal immigrants sinking in the Mediterranean. If he mentioned the fact that the shit-holes these people are leaving are cesspits of corruption largely caused by their own rulers, and until that is fixed nothing will change. The problems and the costs merely get shifted to societies which manage at least some semblance of property rights and law. That shift will drag everybody in the West down, rather than lift third-world standards.
And who the hell does he think is going to foot the economic and social bills for mass migration, Santa Claus? I’ve said little about this Pope, because although I’m not a Catholic I detest the way people are all too ready to jump on the anti-Catholic bandwagon. But this man is a disaster, a socialist populist who seems more concerned with his image than the realities of the modern world.

Very cool

potd-owl_2925216k ‘Ten-month-old Charlotte Jordan with a six-week-old baby barn owl who has fallen in love with his ‘mum’. Raised from a chick, the yet-to-be-named owlet hangs out in the Jordan family’s Australian home. ‘He loves watching TV and he watches us eating our dinner,’ said Charlotte’s mum Crystal.’

leftist media censors reality

‘Widespread Memorial Day Black Violence Ignored by National Media

Black Beach Week used to get all the glory: Every Memorial Day weekend, 300,000 black people gathered in Miami Beach to get their freak on. And also create a tsunami of violence, robbery, shootings, carjackings, vandalism, mayhem, noise and trash.
But this year, many party-goers complained that Black Beach Week — only reporters call it “Urban Beach Week” — just wasn’t as much fun any more: Too many cops, tactical vehicles, helicopters, lights, towers, cameras, suspicion. Not enough chaos…’

Down range

downrange lots of room to play. 16km from the boundary fence to the house. (click on the pic for full size) Looks like Northern Rhodesia.