Category: Philadelphia

There’s a “Tea Party” protest in Philadelphia tomorrow at Independence Hall.  I am sending Bitter along as the Snowflakes in Hell intrepid on-the-scene reporter.  I will not be able to attend, unfortunately, due to work.

It might not seem like it, but these tea party protests are actually a very good thing for gun rights, even though they have nothing to do with them.  They are apt to worry the Democrats about the 2010 elections if they are seeing organized protests over economic issues this early into the 111th Congress.  That makes them less likely to take on other contentious issues before the midterms.  Make plans to attend if you have time and can get off work.

This seems pretty screwed up if you ask me.  My first question is why is a judge using a police roll call room as an impromptu courtroom?  Shouldn’t a judge have their own courtroom?  Or at least a courtroom shared among several judges?

And if you’re a judge, who has to hold hearings in a police roll call room, isn’t it understandable that the decorum, I don’t know, might more accurately reflect that of a police station rather than a court room, especially one that just lost an officer.

I can understand the desire to create an appearance of impartiality, but when the city apparently has no money for a proper court room, and you have to use a police station, it seems to be you should respect the people who primarily use the room.  It’s not like the person appearing before you won’t understand he’s being arraigned in a police station.

Looks like SEPTA designed a pass for Philadelphia’s Beer Week that featured a nice skyline.  The only problem?  The skyline was New York City.  I’ll remember that as I’m driving to work on the turnpike every day with my tolls paying for this crap.  I guess if you get drunk enough at beer week, the skyline might start to look like Philly’s.

Apparently the Philadelphia Police were in a standoff with an armed suspect earlier today:

So, how did you folks spend your day? We spent it trying to coax a gun-toting piece of garbage out of his car. You know, because we couldn’t have him off himself with his Chinese assault rifle, right? That would have made our lives much easier.

At least he didn’t start firing at anyone else, and surrendered peacefully.  Funny thing is, the Chinese variants of the AK have been banned for a number of years from further importation.  Since 1989, if I recall, yet you often hear about them showing up on the streets.  Which is odd, because they aren’t that common on the range.  I have to wonder if a large shipment of them got diverted to the black market some time ago, and they’ve been circulating on the streets since.

Apparently people find it offensive.

Looks like the Philadelphia Police are getting rid of the 9mm Glocks and going with .40 or .45 caliber Glocks.  The Pennsylvania State Police recently adopted the .45GAP line of Glocks.  Ramsey must be reading my blog :)