Breaking News: Twin Falls URA to Buy Red's Property

The Twin Falls Urban Renewal Agency agreed today to pay $200,000 for downtown property where Red's Trading Post at 215 Shoshone St. S...

The closing is expected around July 15, according to a copy of the contract.

Don't jump to conclusions. While the terms of the settled agreement are still pending public announcement, do not assume this means the business of Red's Trading Post will close.

The plan is for a better and more modern facility, and the downtime will be used to effect the move.

Stay tuned.

Nine Meals from Anarchy

...how Britain is facing a very real food crisis

And when it happens, who do you think is going to eat?

Like Spike

And a comment like 'A guy like that should shut his face' - come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there."

Yeah, he doesn't sound young and rational, like the kind of cool head who would say "Shoot [Charlton Heston] with a .44 bulldog."

And "plantation"? Society rewards you with extraordinary wealth and fame, and all the doors that opens, but you're still a victim of discrimination?

Sometimes, Spike, race has nothing to do with it. Jerks come in all colors.

GUNS Magazine: June 1958

Well, that's not exactly what we've come to regard as safe gun handling being demonstrated on the cover there, is it? We've come a long way in half a century, but most of it has not been in the right direction.

There's plenty in this issue, including a look at "West Point's 'Library' of Guns," "Tommy Gun" marksmanship, Elmer Keith hunting lions, the story of "Pistol Pete" Eaton, and more, including the classic period gun ads.

But here's what really stands out:

No corrupt politician ever worked more cynically, or more successfully, to put over a deal that would perpetuate his power. "He knew, of course," a retired policeman told this writer, "that his own boys would keep on getting gats without papers." But he went about enlisting unthinking "reformers" to bat for his bill through press and pulpit.

"Sullivan Law: This Law Makes Crime Safe," is a must-read, and gives us an invaluable analysis and perspective on the background, effects and implications of this evil, unAmerican edict that provided the model for urban citizen disarmament.

We're the Only Ones Depressurizing Enough

Senior UN ambassadors travelling from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda had to abandon their plane after a security guard accidentally shot a hole in the aircraft, it emerged today.

Boss! De plane! De plane!

Not just "Only Ones," but UN "Only Ones.

And on top of that, they expected free fuel? And they're going to complain they had to pay for it? I guess when you're a career kleptocrat, you're just not equipped to deal with someone you can't force into surrendering their property.

We're the Only Ones Who Can Do It in the City of Chicago

"I said you can't do it in church,'' Keating said. "You can't do it anywhere in the city of Chicago.''

But we can, schmuck! Ha Ha! Any damn where we please!

And even though we observed you were not a threat, you're going to learn the hard way the difference between a mere citizen and "The Only Ones."

Simpatico

The image of the gauche American, wearing a ten gallon hat, sitting on the Champs Elysee, unable to comprehend a thing - is what your organisation represents to many of us.

My goodness--an English/Canadian and the French think poorly of us!

More insufferable snottiness from a subject with a totally unearned sense of sophistication and intelligence.

Thanks, Ian Carruthers, and I mean that--smug, hate-filled nonsense like what you spout is tremendously valuable for unifying often contentious gun owners. As a token of gratitude, I'd like to send you one of these.

[Via ChareltonHest]

The Return of Snuffy

He'll be back.

Funny how saying how he's going to snuff out a fellow human being isn't grounds for suspension, but badmouthing a democrat is. But don't think of it as a punishment, even though I don't know what the hell else you'd call a grown man getting a "time out."

The key statement is in the video, where the woman says 75% of the congregation would follow Snuffy to a new church--which means they're not followers and believers of the religion anyway, but of the man.

Maybe they'll move to Guyana...?

And Snuffy's not-so-cryptic comment about not knowing what the future will bring reinforces just who's telling who to watch their step, and it ain't the intimidated Cardinal George.

[Via Armed and Safe]

We're the Only Ones Scaring Off the Competition Enough

A New York City police officer was arrested on a menacing charge Friday, several hours after he barreled through a security checkpoint at Hofstra University while off duty and pointed his service pistol at a man who had accompanied his former girlfriend to a Manhattan nightclub...

Because he's "The Only One" for her. Gee, I wonder why she left him.

And remember, this is New York--if you lift a finger...

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

George Saxton, New American

But others applauded the initiative. George Saxton of Capitol Hill was pulled over in his black Ford Focus after dropping off his niece near the checkpoint. He said those who are complaining about the initiative probably have something to hide.

Congratulations, George. That's just the response we've been waiting to hear.

You won't mind if we do a cavity search on you and your niece, now, will you? Lotta drugs in the Trinidad area--and now that we know you have nothing "to hide," we're sure you won't be one of "those who are complaining."

[Via Jeffersonian]

To Fight Another Day

The lawyer for Georgia's largest independent gun dealer said this week that his client trusted a New York jury would find that he had done nothing to put guns into the hands of New York City criminals—until the presiding judge announced that the jury would deliver a recommendation, rather than a verdict.

“I like to dub it as the 'fake jury,'” said New York attorney John F. Renzulli, about an advisory jury suggested by the trial judge...

Lawyers for New York City argued this week that by giving up so close to trial, Renzulli and [Jay] Wallace also gave up their right to appeal. Renzulli responded that, “in no uncertain terms, that's not even close to correct.”

It's obscene that such maneuverings and technicalities would even need to be considered in an American court, which like all government, only exists in principle to secure the blessings of liberty. That the courts are used instead as state organs of repression makes things very dangerous, indeed--when you take away official recourse for justice, men will look to other channels.

Then you get Orwellian statements from creatures like Kenneth W. Taber about obeying the law, especially considering the "shall not be infringed" proscription in "the supreme law of the land"...

It's supposed stewards have usurped the law, twisted to their own ends, presumed to be its masters rather than its champions...

Anyway, Jay Wallace still needs help. This truly is a David and Goliath story. If you are appalled by the unfairness he's up against, and think no man should have to face that alone, go here and do something about it.

[Via Chris Horton]

This Day in History: June 9