The shooting happened shortly after 9 a.m. Feb. 14 at the Faith City Mission, a faith-based outreach organization. Police said Joshua Len Jones, 35, of Amarillo, barged into a church building at Faith City Mission, pulled out a gun and was holding about 100 congregants and church staff hostage.

In the time between when police were dispatched and when officers arrived, a handful of churchgoers wrestled Jones to the ground. One of the congregants was able to grab Jones' gun.

Officers entered the building and saw the churchgoer holding the gun and opened fire, according to the Amarillo Police Department. The churchgoer was hospitalized in stable condition.

More guns would have prevented this.

Next I will get exclusive reaction to the Adam Schiff memo from Carter Page #Hannity

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) February 27, 2018

Someone get Trump to the next school shooting in time to test this:

At the meeting, Mr. Trump slammed reports that deputies who were on the scene of the shooting did not enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

"I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon," the president said.

Reading this story about a guy who found a federal govt spycam on his land (then removed it, kept it and when they demand it back refused and sued them for being dicks), I found a mention of something called the "Border Exception" to the 4th Amendment. That's a loophole that Customs and Border Protection agency claims is real and which they claim lets them essentially ignore the 4th amendment if they're within 100 miles of the US border. That 100 mile strip would include 2/3s of all Americans - 80% if you consider international airports to be "borders". And, despite being slapped back several times by the court, the CPB hasn't stopped. They're still illegally stopping, searching and seizing and claiming that they're allowed to.

Google just got rid of the extremely useful View Image button in their Google Image Search. And they did for exactly the reason that made it so useful: the button made it too easy to copy images from other sites without permission.

Oh well.

Is a scumbag.

(in case you hadn't figured it out yet)

Roland has a whole line of synth-accordions.

What a magical world we live in.

U.S. stocks plunged on Monday, marking a second day of trading that generated steep declines, amid fears of rising inflation and potential rate increases by the Federal Reserve.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1,175.21 points, or 4.6 percent, closing at 24,345.75 on Monday. Earlier in the afternoon, the index declined more than 1,500 points before recovering slightly. Even though it marks the biggest point drop ever, the market's decline is far from the largest on a percentage basis. The largest historic percentage drop was on Oct. 19, 1987, when the market plunged more than 22 percent.

The two-day losing streak was sparked by a pickup in wages, which could usher in higher inflation. Average hourly earnings, which had been rising at a modest 2.5 percent in the recovery, increased by 2.9 percent from the year before, the Labor Department said on Friday.

They're betting against you.

Last week, the beginning of an explosive corruption trial involving eight members of Baltimore's elite Gun Trace Task Force revealed that a handful of Baltimore cops allegedly kept fake guns in their patrol cars to plant on innocent people — a failsafe they could use if they happened to shoot an unarmed suspect, the Baltimore Sun reports.

Detective Maurice Ward, who's already pleaded guilty to corruption charges, testified that he and his partners were told to carry the replicas and BB guns "in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them." The directive allegedly came from the team's sergeant, Wayne Jenkins, the Washington Post reports. Though Ward didn't say whether or not the tactic was ever used, Detective Marcus Taylor—another cop swept up in the scandal—was carrying a fake gun almost identical to his service weapon when he was arrested last year, according to the Sun.