The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to maintain its restrictive policy on refugees. [More]Stay tuned. This could be yuuge.
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
A New Hope
You Can't Please Everyone So You've Got to Please Yourself
Part of my reply to a reader concerned with some of the critical comments on my latest AmmoLand piece:
Yeah, waddya gonna do? The one I made a note of and there was another comment objecting based on a false premise.
All I can really do is call attention once in a while and hope some reader will use the argument. I try to stay out of comments because I have my say on the front end and that space is for the readers. Experience tells me if I wade down into it I'll get back all kinds of debate and hostility I don't have time for if I'm to focus on MY work and priorities. I listen to Rick Nelson then move on.
Besides, if I wanted to be agreed with, I'd have picked a different topic.
Yeah, waddya gonna do? The one I made a note of and there was another comment objecting based on a false premise.
All I can really do is call attention once in a while and hope some reader will use the argument. I try to stay out of comments because I have my say on the front end and that space is for the readers. Experience tells me if I wade down into it I'll get back all kinds of debate and hostility I don't have time for if I'm to focus on MY work and priorities. I listen to Rick Nelson then move on.
Besides, if I wanted to be agreed with, I'd have picked a different topic.
Ask the Experts
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says bitcoin is a fraud that will eventually blow up [More]And there's a company that knows a thing or two about fraud.
In re bitcoin, I still can't pretend to say I understand it or blockchains or much beyond surface scratches, but the most eyebrow-raising thing I've seen so far is the New York regulator who established the imposed rules and then quit to become a consultant who "helped" people navigate them.
Burn, Heretics, Burn
Calls to punish skeptics rise with links to climate change, hurricanes [More]"Progressives" sure do like using armed men to force everyone to agree with them on everything.
‘Weakened’ Baltimore Gun Bill Still a Gross Infringement on Right to Bear Arms
Here’s the bottom line: The stuff is already essentially covered by state law, which is hardly shy about establishing all kinds of so-called “gun-free zones” that those causing all the problems in the first place will not obey. That leaves the “law-abiding,” who unless they’re connected, have to jump through all kinds of impossible hoops to “qualify” for a carry “permit” in “may issue” (more likely “may not”) Maryland. [More]What do you expect from those who say owning a gun they don't want you to have is an "act of pre-murder"?
We're the Only Ones Suspending Enough
Beats actually holding them accountable with appropriate disciplinary responses to violations and crimes... [More]
[Via Smitty]
[Via Smitty]
Not Taught in History Classes
Frederick Douglass urged federal action to stop state and local infringement of the right to arms. [More]Yeah, what kind of racist would be against that?
[Via Jeremy H]
He's a Well-Respected Man about Town, Doing the Best Things so Conservatively.
He's a major connected insider player all right... [More]
So naturally he's a gun-grabber.
A takeaway from this reminds me of a yet-unanswered question: What's the deal with Gorelick, Jared and Ivanka?
It's a big club and you ain't in it.
[Via Mack H]
A Tale Told by an Idiot
The operation seized 130 illegal firearms and arrested 446 people, according to a statement from the city’s department. [More]What did it cost in terms of money and man hours? And how many are back on the streets already, or will be soon?
Nice self-back-patting there, Chief. Now explain the rise.
That's some leadership.
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
Care to back that turnip truck up so we can climb back on and fall off properly?
[Via Mack H]
Heroes of the Revolution
His face was covered, as were the faces of many at the rally just north of Crown Center, and he declined to identify himself other than to say he was a partisan from the Kansas City Revolutionary Collective, which describes itself as an “autonomous Marxist-Leninist-Maoist collective.” [More]You know, domestic enemies.
That said, the attorney raises an interesting point about the open carry edict.
[Via Jess]
They Picked the Right Place for It
Dominic is ready to take his street battle into his target’s homes if necessary. [More]Considering they're in the Bay Area, Dom@$$ & Co, are unlikely to run into that many prepared and capable of making blowhard bullies cry.
These moronic droogs are getting to where even "progressives" are embarrassed by them, and that's saying something.
[Via William T]
Project Buttwalker
It’s against the law to combine government and private money, but that’s exactly what the ATF did. [More]And Ken Melson, B. Todd Jones, Thomas Brandon and Eric Holder knew nothing about that, either.
Once states figure out lost tax revenues and see the potential for settlement awards, expect them to care more about this than about hundreds of dead Mexicans from their last illegal operation.
[Via William T]
I Want to Show You Something. It's My Shocked Face.
DACA Fraud Rate at ’40 to 50 Percent’, Says Former Immigration Official [More]Rigorous!
Thank goodness this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
[Via Wynn A]
Opposite Day 'Progressive' Men of God
Days earlier, other clergy members calling for the first-degree murder conviction of former city cop Jason Stockley delivered a warning to the judge in the case: “The blood will be on your hands” if a guilty verdict is not issued. [More]The greater danger would be allowing verdicts to be extorted.
[Via bondmen]
No, Remain Standing
Can anyone cite the portion of the USC where the States delegated any power regarding firearms to the Federal government? If not, then stand down, or do you support only parts of the USC? [More]Wrong question, although the Constitution does delegate power to Congress "To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia." The "federalism=50 tyrannies" crowd never seems to admit States joining the union signed on to acknowledging the Constitution is "the supreme Law of the Land." That law says "shall not be infringed" and they're not free to pick and choose rights to deny.
While I'm no fan of "permits," there's Article. IV. Section. 1.:
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.All that said, if any State doesn't like it, and Mr. Lincoln's war notwithstanding, I believe in the right of the "people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them."
About Those Hot Air Blowhards
Not that noted climatologist (and all-around Opposite Day "progressive") Mark Ruffalo or Gaia-worshipping J-Law will take any of that into consideration in their useful idiot demands for global collectivist wealth redistribution.
Help Me Find My Keys and We Can Drive Out
A woman being booked into an Illinois jail had a loaded handgun hidden in her vagina, according to corrections officers who found the weapon during a strip search of the suspect. [More]There's a Princess Margaret joke in there somewhere...
[Via Jess]
Meet the New Boss
Perez is firmly with the pope, for example, on immigration... [More]He does realize that the resulting overwhelming Democrat majority will mean lots more abortions? Good thing it has nothing to do with that "single issue."
When I think of what he is tasked to enable and what that is going to do to the nation, the old "Half-Nelson, Full-Nelson, Father Nelson" joke comes to mind...
Matchbox U
A generous legal loophole in U.S. immigration laws is allowing thousands of illegal "students" to receive special visas to enter America, according to a new report on the scam. The report found that 42 of the country's worst colleges and universities, some that aren't even accredited, are providing the needed "student" documentation to immigrants to clear immigration requirements of the Department of Homeland Security. [More]Rigorous!
The THING That Wouldn't Leave
Mitt Romney plans Utah Senate run if Orrin Hatch retires [More]So that's what the holding company was really for.