Thursday, February 20, 2014

Flak from Bloomberg flack shows GOA over target on immigration and guns

..Wilkinson lacks both the skill and the wit to come across as anything but eager to savage people he hates, which is more than a little creepy. That’s why, rather than present credible data to counter GOA, he defers to talk of clouds and bunnies, while resorting to nothing more than cumulus fluff himself. Remember, with “progressives,” every day is Opposite Day, and every indictment they level against another is really a reflection on themselves. The guy has nothing but insults to rely on in his vain attempt to deny the demonstrable and he knows it. [More]
Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes the sarcasm would be a lot more biting if the guy dishing it out weren’t such an obvious tool. And the fact they want to discourage us is all the more encouraging.

Laughing at Liberals Live Broadcast

This Friday, February 21st, 7:00 Pacific, Laughing At Liberals will be presenting their 2nd live broadcast event. Join Portland attorney and candidate for Congress James Buchal, as he gives a presentation on the NSA spying and how serious the threat is to our privacy. The event will be at Portland State University, presented by the campus chapter of the College Republicans. If you can't be there in person, tune in to www.youtube.com/LaughingAtLiberals for the live broadcast! [More] 
Also see links to important recent videos.

The Armed Citizen

Bloomberg's idiot Moms Demand Field Corn would rather every one of these people had been killed than armed. [More]

Good News in Iowa

Silencer Bill Passes House Judiciary Committee with Broad Bipartisan Support! [More]

We're the Only Ones Loving Our Peeps Enough

Police in Charlotte say a police officer has been arrested and charged with having inappropriate photos of underage girls. According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, officer Thomas E. Allen was arrested by CMPD detectives and charged with four counts of secretly using a photographic imaging device to view another’s body or undergarments and four counts of possessing photographic images in violation of the peeping statute. [More]
Oui, Monsiuer Chevalier?
Each time I see a leetle gehl
of five or seex or seven
I cahn't rhesist zee joyous urge
to smile and say t'ank Heaven...
[Via Portly Pirate]

Hitting the Fan

On Feb. 27, the Judiciary Committe's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations — chaired by U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) — will hold a hearing. [More]
I understand ATF management is, as we speak, involuntarily extruding plenty of material destined for the spinning blades...

UPDATE: Mike sees a pattern in all this.

William Alsup for Boss of You

The fool already thinks he is. [More]

I wonder if he's thought through the round up.

There's Money in Them Thar Halls

Per VTFSC: "The leading legislator advocate of gun control in the Vermont Legislature is also a paid lobbyist. Rep. Waite-Simpson is the lead sponsor on H.124 and H.125 draconian gun control bills."

So the more the state can strip your rights, the more she personally profits.

Here's how she does it.

Will They? Won't They?

Say they don't.  Or say they do and you don't like what they say. [More]

Who thinks that's the final word?

Love for Sale

It's what whores do. [More]

Billie has a campaign theme song for them.

EMail Alert!

I get 'em all the time, and have to pass on sharing most of them due to one simple reason:

Every advocacy group email alert sent out should have a link where the info resides--if not on the group's website, then on a free document storage site like Scribd, or even as a post on their Facebook page. The reasons are many, including most bloggers and users of social media won't be able to copy and paste an entire email, but would gladly share a link. And often times I get emails but am so wrapped up in other demands I have to let things slip past me -- whereas if I had a link, I could just give readers a one-sentence intro and then hand them off to the group's website for the complete story.

Don't just rely on people forwarding emails. The important thing is to get the message shared by as many as possible.  If the groups don't do this, they are letting an opportunity escape them, and most need all the help spreading the word they can get.

UPDATE: Say Uncle has been down this road before, and has more useful tips on how to help us help you.

We're the Only Ones Gaming Enough

The family attorney representing a 17-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a Euharlee police officer says that the boy was holding a video game controller when he was shot opening his door. [More]
Hey, the important thing is, did the conspicuously unnamed "officer" get home safely?

[Via Dave Licht]

Underwritten by PepsiCo

Crap rots your teeth anyway... [More]

I note the guy got corporate denials, so that means someone is lying.

[Via Brenda G]

Meanwhile, Over in the Green Mountain State

The Reds in Burlington cited the wrong statute in their citizen disarmament "charter change." [More]

"No problem," says the city attorney, and why not?  After all, these are the same insolent scofflaws who have been in-your-face stonewalling lawful records requests since September.

Vermont Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs just sent out this email:
These two radio ads began playing on at 6 AM on WDEV, a station that hits a large broadcast area, including the Burlington and Montpelier areas. And if you think this is just a gun control in Burlington problem and does not impact you in your town you are wrong, dead wrong.

Yesterday the E-mail alert below went out from a national gun control organization to Vermont antis.

"But this isn't just Burlington's fight. Whatever happens to these three proposed changes will help set the stage for reforming Vermont’s gun laws."

This is an attack on the Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights, state law effective since 1988, which protects guns, ammo, reloading, shooting, hunting, fishing and trapping from municipal attack. In 2006 range protection from municipalities political driven whim was added. Burlington is attacking all of your rights.

If Burlington gets their exemption to this law, other municipalities will seek the same.

These "NO" Burlington ballot items are 6, 7, 8. Got friends in Burlington? Tell them to vote "NO"

Protect your Vermont Sportsmen's Bill of Rights. Check it out at www.vtfsc.org
I don't see where they have posted the radio spots on their website. I'll ask and update this with a link if they do. If not, i need to do a workaround, but just don't have time right now.

UPDATE:

An Inconvenient Truth

Mustn't let people know... [More]

Otherwise...

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Who Know the Law Better Than You Do Enough

Besides, Bill here, the one standing, doesn't like oversight from mere mundanes. [Watch]

Raising the Stakes

Two can play that game. [More]

I wonder if those who want to play it here realize that.

The Stenosis Worsens

Yet while enduring and suffering, he still manages to do more than just about anyone, and I know I'm not the only one who owes him a lot. [More]

That's why I get particularly disgusted with the overwhelmingly obvious lack of response to appeals like this. With very rare exception, everyone reading this could afford to send the guy a few bucks right now.

Who Needs an "Assault Weapon"?

A frightened woman with two little kids -- and look what happened. [More]

I can't help but wonder how Mark Glaze or Dan Gross would have fared in a similar situation... 

Or the two Joshes or Laddie, or Colin Whatzisname, who had time to dial 911, or...

Yeah, everybody, listen to the Anti-Gun He-MenThey'll save you.

One Question

Anybody ever point a remote at a TV or garage door and had nothing happen...? [More]

The true goal, of course, as some of us predicted back when this "idea" was still new, has been to give "Authoritah" a shutoff switch.

The thing is, in "progressive" states, this is starting to pose a real-world danger, at least to anyone of principle still living there. In the absence of being able to hold legislators accountable, other chairs need to be picked up and used in this particular bar fight.

As such, gun makers need to adopt the Ronnie Barrett solution, and that expectation needs to be communicated to them from gun customers.

And we can't keep allowing this group to skate, either. Let someone else certify the stormtrooper trainers in states where they deploy them after gun owners to enforce bans.

This Day in History: February 20

The troops are recovering from the smallpox. I apprehend between twenty and thirty have died in the course of inoculation—but a considerable part of them by a putrid fever, supposed to be principally owing to a habit rendered almost putrid by the itch. As soon as the men are generally through, returns of the whole who have had the distemper, and the number who have died, shall be called for and transmitted to your Excellency. [More]