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Ain’t summer grand!

This story wreaks of stupidity, adult irresponsibility and incompetence. There is no reason for children to be put through hell like this. One guy walking around a wooded island looking for kids to shoot for 90 minutes, would have been an incredibly easy target to take down. Anyone with minimal rifle training and a scope could have taken this guy out in a matter of a couple of minutes. I can put twenty out of twenty .223 rounds in a three  inch circle at 100 yards without even concentrating. There was a news helicopter filming the shooting. Why weren’t they shooting bullets instead of news reel?

(Reuters) – “Why didn’t you come earlier?,” survivors screamed when Norwegian police arrived after an hour in which Anders Behring Breivik had wandered the wooded island of Utoeya shooting dead 68 people, most of them teenagers.
In a nation united by grief over the worst massacre in its modern history, few except the survivors quoted by media have criticized authorities for not preventing the attacks or for the speed of their response once they had been carried out.

Already reeling from Breivik’s bomb in Oslo, the police response to the island massacre was beset with problems — from a boat so overloaded with officers it took on water, to special forces without a suitable helicopter to fly them there.

Meanwhile the minutes ticked by and Breivik hunted down his victims who hid under beds, climbed trees and hid in bushes or jumped into the lake in desperate attempts to flee.

It was 5.26 p.m. Friday when local police in Nordre Buskerud first received an alert about shootings on the island. Four minutes later they notified Oslo and another eight minutes after that they formally requested back-up.

Fourteen minutes later still, local police arrived at the shore of the mainland, but for a further 17 minutes waited for a boat.

“We asked for help from the SWAT team in Oslo, which is specially trained to deal with armed situations. We did not know about the extent of the situation that was out there,” North Buskerud police chief Sissel Hammer was quoted as saying by the Dagsavisen daily newspaper.

“But this was not about waiting, this was 17 minutes during which we prepared ourselves.”

Meanwhile campers on the lake shore had taken matters into their own hands and set off in boats to pluck survivors from the water, some of them coming under fire from Breivik in the process. One camper alone rescued 40 to 50 terrified people

http://www.reuters.com

Manson and Osama are mass murder alarmists, and Breivik has weighed in as a mass murder denier. They should let him and Manson duke it out to the death.

http://thinkprogress.org/

h/t to Marc Morano

I’ve been riding hills in the heat every day, and it has been on the warm side.

http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,snow

http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/1211.php

http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif

Washington and Oregon both had their coldest June on record this year.

Disclaimers : Washington State is much smaller than either Washington DC or Moscow. Once the missing heat comes back from being AWOL, the oceans will become boiling pits of acid.

Monterey, CA is a wonderful town – one of my favorites. I took my kids there almost every weekend when they were small. It is also a hotbed of global warming alarmism – most notably predictions of an ice-free Arctic by 2013 from the Naval Research Laboratory.

Data collected at the Monterey Bay shows that sea level is not rising and ocean pH is not falling.

Facts however are an unwanted distraction when saving the planet.

http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/1352.php

http://sanctuarymonitoring.org/regional_docs/monitoring_projects/100240_167.pdf

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.”

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

http://www.skylighters.org/quotations/quots6.html

On November 5, 2009  Nidal Malik Hasan shot 42 people in Fort Hood, Texas – while shouting Islamic epithets. Obama was quick to jump in and say “he said he could not rule out the incident as an act of terrorism, evidence does not support that theory.”

He had a different story in Norway : “It’s a reminder that the entire international community has a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring,”

A properly armed citizenry would have prevented this from occurring.

Under the brilliant Norwegian legal system, the last 81 killings were freebies. He could have blown up a few more buildings and robbed some banks for free that day too.

The fact that Norway’s maximum penalty for any crime is 21 years in prison is facing rising criticism in the wake of the twin attacks that killed 93 people, with many deeming the penalty too lax.

Ever since Norwegian media named 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik as the prime suspect, calls have been growing for the maximum penalty under the Norwegian penal code to be extended.

If found guilty, Behring Breivik’s 21 years in prison would equal a penalty of 82 days per killing.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz

The guy wants an audience on television. They should oblige with a live cable broadcast of a firing squad sending him on a rapid trip to hell.