Wednesday, January 03, 2018

New Years Gun Rights Resolutions Help Keep Focus on Ways to Make a Difference


Pick a resolution from the above list.  There’s actually no reason why most of them can’t be fulfilled over the course of a year. Or you may have ideas of your own you can share with the rest of us in “comments.” [More]
The important thing is to do something. Every day.

There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

For the first time in many decades, we can turn our eyes toward the bright sunlit uplands, where liberty reigns, and where each may abide by his vine and fig tree and be not afraid. [More]
Before we get Rex all wound up, aren't you forgetting something?

Sorry, I'm not buyin' it. Once the cultural terraforming's complete and territorial Balkanization is in full swing, all restraints -- and bets -- are off. And don't expect foreign interests to be sitting on their hands as the unpleasantness unfolds. Anyone who thinks we've seen the last of "the pistol and the barbed wire" hasn't been paying attention to history, and particularly the "checks and balances" needed in the one he cites.

His apparent case for "voting our way out of this" is not made stronger by completely ignoring the most profound threat facing us.

[Via Rick Oltman]

The Screaming of the Lambs

IN OUR MIDST ISIS ‘lone wolf’ fanatic takes chilling selfie on a snow-covered New York street as terror group urges a wave of knife attacks at US churches [More]
But...but...but rigorous!

Besides, they wouldn't hurt defenseless "faith communities" against guns that also ooze "progressive" virtue by welcoming "refugees," would they?

Understatement

Congressional investigators find irregularities [collusion] in FBI's handling [clean-up] of Clinton email case [More]
There, I fixed it for ya.

An Idea Whose Time Has Evidently Come


Big Apple Merkel LEGOs... [More]

Wonder who's getting the contract, and what their connections are...

So far I don't see any "Procurement Awards / Solicitations" for search term "bollard" here, but that may just be my unfamiliarity with navigating the site combined with no time to hone that skill. Ditto, I get no results for "Contract Award Hearings."

Feel free to educate.

Must Be Something in the Water

Food-safety expert warns latest bizarre Silicon Valley $60 'raw water' trend could quickly turn deadly [More]
Drink up, guys.

All that activity must work up quite a thirst.

[Via Steve T

Tricks of the Trade

When Sprunger started to lobby for sensible gun legislation... [More]
Including that adjective outside of quotation marks is hardly objective.

Ditto for "Sprunger says Indiana needs these common sense policies."

By filing this story under "News," I'll bet most readers will miss the editorial manipulation entirely.

Well That Ought to Give the Hoplophobes a Major Breakdown

Federal District Court: Simple Involuntary Commitment not a Disqualifier for Second Amendment Rights [More]
A Moms Demand Action spokesperson offered an official group reaction:


Reminder



The Oath Keepers sale and giveaway is still on until the end of the month. [More]

We're the Only Ones Grounded Enough

A Boston police detective is set to be sentenced Thursday for lying to federal officials so he could take his gun on planes during personal trips and allow a friend to avoid airport security. [More]
I'm sure you and I would be offered a probation plea deal as long as we made it clear all we wanted to do was visit our parents.

We're the Only Ones Unwarranted Enough

A Charlottesville-area man was convicted in 2014 of receiving stolen property — the motorcycle, which twice had been used to elude police — after an officer who suspected it was stolen walked onto private property and removed a tarp covering the bike without a search warrant. [More]
And look who has no problem finding a "single issue" tie- in -- when they want to.

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Focused Enough

“Now they’re at a point where we’re identifying the specific people that are involved in those incidents and we’re targeting them. The first part of the year we’ll begin collecting a list, and we’ve got that information already, a list of those who have been participatory in multiple non-fatal shootings or homicides.” [More]
If you have the information to make a participant list, why haven't they been picked up already?

[Via Mike H]

Squabbling Over the Spoils

Murphy, a Democrat, said he has spoken with leadership in New York and California and with legal scholars about doing “whatever it takes” to stop a GOP attempt to rewrite the federal tax code. [More]
I don't suppose confining fedgov to limited, delegated functions and states acknowledging a right to choose which services you want and who you want to buy them from is an option...?

I wonder how many Americans know what the Constitution originally said about taxes. I wonder how many care.

[Via Steve T

About That Benefit to 'Our' Economy

Cash Remittances to Mexico Set $26B Record in 2017, Says Central Bank [More]
So basically we're talking under three years...?

[Via Wynn A]

Suddenly It All Makes Sense

People are raising Cain on social media about a law in Oregon making it legal for citizens to pump their own gas. [More]
The headline is BS, because nothing is being "banned," although considering who's passing laws there, I see how that presumption was made. Still, no wonder the cud-chewers demand a nanny state to "take care" of them and not trust them with adult things like guns.

How do they fill their lawnmowers?

Oh.

I didn't realize "Motorists in New Jersey ... face stiff penalties for touching pumps – fines range between $50 and $250 for the first offense and up to $500 for subsequent offenses."

So I incriminated myself with the personal anecdote I shared in this piece?

[Via Steve T

Bureaucracy is Like a Box of Chocolates

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have predicted that cacao plants are likely to go extinct as early as 2050 due to climate change. [More]
Oh no!  How are we going to pay the Oompa Loompas?

And why are "we" paying "progressive" junk "scientists" to come up with new scare tactics to swindle us?

[Via Florida Guy]   

The Pilgrim's Progress

In other words, the man who referred to his little sojourn as a “pilgrimage,” who made videos for the Haqqanis, who had no problem breeding in terrorist captivity, who received mail in “captivity,” and who had enough privacy in captivity to actually carry on a physical relationship with his wife, is now arrested for activities which are pretty common in fundamentalist Islamist marriages and relationships – assault, sexual assault, unlawful confinement, and death threats.[More]
And what a "progressive" pilgrim he's turned out to be.

[Via Michael G]

Is a Puzzlement

Domestic abusers and guns? Missouri weighs what to do [More]
Yul is no help.

I hate to break it to 'em, but...

[Via bondmen]

Arms Race

More Chicago gangs arming themselves with rifles as alliances spread conflict [More]
If this isn't a wake-up call to disarm you and me, I don't know what is.

Either that or it's new noise-making for an old narrative.

Forget it Jake. It's Chi-Town.

[Via bondmen]

More Blood on NRA's Hands

Booker was playing with his loaded .45 caliber handgun by racking the slide back and forth with his finger on the trigger. After emptying the magazine from the gun, Booker pulled the trigger as the gun was pointed toward the victim. The gun fired and Clark was struck. [More]
Keep your Booker hook off the bang switch?

[Via bondmen]

So Fire Them

KCK firefighters were paid nearly $1 million for shifts they didn’t work [More]
Our "community heroes"!

[Via bondmen]

More Like Impotent Assymetries

I uncover two important asymmetries among partisans. First, Republicans tend to increase support for VID upon learning of even a miniscule amount of in-person voter fraud, but appear relatively insensitive to strategic considerations. Second, Democrats’ support for VID depends significantly upon which party stands to benefit from the laws, but Democrats do not appear sensitive to information about fraud. [More]
I'd like to see the questions, but not badly enough to pay for it. Because while I have no trouble believing Democrats are dicks, that theoretical Republican support sure doesn't appear to prompt much in the way of platform sea change when the GOP candidate is a Groverian cheap labor whore on immigration.

In other words, they talk a good game but don't insist on fidelity.

Hence we get trial balloons to reimpose establishment lumps like My Man Mitthead while the neocons do everthing in their power to sabotage anyone espousing the beliefs that put the man he tried to torpedo in the White House. With a few notable exceptions (Dave Brat comes to mind), the part of the herd that bothers to vote generally goes with party and name recognition über alles.

[Via Michael G]

'A Workplace Violence Incident'

The shooting was reported around 2:25 p.m. Friday, when Mendoza opened fire on his coworkers at the Perona, Langer, Beck, Serbin, Mendoza and Harrison law firm in the 300 block of San Antonio Drive. [More]
Looks like they removed MendozaAnd recently.

As a matter of routine, I typically look for background information just to see if it can provide further insights not included in media accounts -- was the perp politically active and how, that kind of stuff. I didn't really find anything relevant here but do note one area of practice the firm engaged in was helping illegal aliens sue employers.

[Via Jake S]

SWATting ‘Prank’ Illustrates Lethal Consequences of Automatically Believing Accusations


Ostensibly people sign up to be peace officers to serve and protect, and swear an oath to the Constitution obliging them to protect the Bill of Rights as much as anything else. The rest of us want to make it home at the end of their shift, too. [More]
Have we seen instances where bodycam recordings leave reasonable people room to dispute the report of hands going to waistbands? Does the name LaVoy Finicum ring a bell?