Thursday, February 27, 2020

Captain's Log


*  Incidentally, in re speculation that it may have been Fairfax County Police, not according to the news account quoting Alexandria police Lt. Courtney Ballentine. Someone is not being truthful and/or compliant here.

The Increase the Likelihood of Workplace Violence Act of 2020

On Monday, the state Senate voted 25-14 to pass Aird’s bill prohibiting public employers from asking about criminal history during the preliminary stages of a job application. [More]
That way, you won't found out until you've raised expectations and will be sure to bitterly disappoint or even enrage, which may very well may happen now on premises...

[Via Mack H]

Counting Coup

“All three states have multiple counties where voter registration rates exceed 90 percent, in some cases they exceed 100 percent. In the last election in 2018, the nationwide registration rate according to the U.S. Census Bureau was 66.9 percent. That disparity is a clear sign these states aren’t maintaining accurate voter rolls”... [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/group-threatens-lawsuits-over-suspiciously-high-voter-registration-rates-in-swing-states]*
What kind of racist wants to disenfranchise dead Democrats?

* Fox News does not allow link access from Blogger

[Via Wynn A

This is Sparta?

The protests erupted after Athens secretly shipped building material for the facilities despite widespread local opposition, media reports said. An estimated 50,000 migrants are currently camped in the Greek Islands, mainly Samos, Kos, Leros, Lesbos, and Chios. Residents of these islands have witnessed a rise of violence and crime since the migrant inflow began five years ago. Abandoned by their national government and the EU, they have taken to streets in their thousands, demanding “We Want Our Island Back.” [More]
Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.

Too bad the outcome looks to be more along the lines of "Scissor me, Xerxes!" (ABSOLUTELY NSFW and for those who take offense at such things)

[Via Michael G]

The Katana Loophole

The boyfriend has since recovered. [More]
Perhaps physically.

[Via Mack H]


I'd Rather Have the Gun

ATF offers $2,500 reward for info in theft of assault-style rifle from Petersburg patrol car  ... Authorities did not say whether the rifle is capable of fully automatic fire or equipped with a loaded magazine. [More]
I'm reminded of an old joke about a talking frog.

[Via DDS]

And Make Sure You Stamp Your Feet!

Tell your California representatives that you don't stand for this oppression and neither should they! [More]
All the safe district Democrats could use a good laugh.

Anybody know of a California gun group that has admitted how the state changed from Republican to Democrat and done a thing about it besides ignore and/or deny relevancy?

The Real 'Honor Killers'

Western colonialism at fault for gender violence among immigrants [More]
And they're all white nationalists, no doubt.

As for the guy who says what he hears is "only elite white communities should be able to travel," if he wasn't culturally appropriating, he wouldn't be able to.

[Via Michael G]

Kristolmethfest 2020

From political consultants who are no longer consulted to writers who are no longer read, this is the Woodstock for conservatives who never actually conserved anything. [More]
I'm wondering when their masked supporters will finally figure out the useful idiots have become useless eaters and continuing to prop them up so they can be presented as "conservatives" by the DSM just isn't paying off.

A Rare Moment of Truth

“All of the new Democrats that came in, put Nancy Pelosi in charge, and gave the Congress the ability to control this President,” Bloomberg said. “I boug … I got them.” [More]
That he and Bernie are the yin and yang pretty much means their supporters won't join forces. Now if only the Republicans weren't primed to give it all up anyway.

[Via bondmen]

Questionable Expenditures

New Metro security plan leaves big questions [More]
Yeah, like when are people going to realize you trough-feeding frauds don't have a clue?

[Via bondmen]

It's About Time


The leftist group American Oversight on Wednesday sued the Trump Administration for information on Stephen Miller’s role in creating the “public charge” rule ... The public charge rule was created in 1882. [More]
Where they're going, we won't need roads. But not for the reasons we might hope.

[Via Michael G]

If You Weren't Doing Anything Wrong, They Wouldn't Submit Your Case to a Secret Court

Barr reportedly told GOP senators during a lunch Tuesday that they should move to reauthorize the expiring portions of FISA’s surveillance powers as he continues to implement internal reforms. [More]
Heck if we can't trust an AG who "would prefer a limitation on the clip size [and] would recommend the President sign a bill that had the Brady waiting period and the DeConcini assault weapons provisions in it" for Constitutional fidelity, who can we trust?

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Understating Enough

Two D.C. police officers have accused their MPD superiors of rigging crime stats to make them look better. Now, WUSA9 has obtained internal documents the whistleblowers say proves their case. [More]
I've heard of "superiors" padding statistics, so I guess it could work the other way.

[Via Mack H]

Criminalizing Dissent

Based on these fantasies, a judge issued an Abuse and Harassment Prevention Order against Louis, which directed him not to contact her.  [More]
Am I wrong in assuming this is a 258E and not a 209A?

I see I did a search on the false report filer back on the 17th but don't see a corresponding blog post, so for whatever reason, I did not mention this at that time -- must'a just been really busy.

[Via Mack H]

Follow the Money

This reporting makes clear the appearance that Bloomberg Philanthropies was used as a means to recruit elected officials for future endorsements. Presidential campaigns do not simply occur to someone, no matter how wealthy they are, but are the products of many months and often years of deliberate organization and preparation. The chronology detailed by media outlets presents a compelling argument that Mr. Bloomberg’s philanthropy was performed with a political purpose. [More]
And then there's the matter of exploiting special campaign ad rates to exempt himself from PAC limitations...

I understand Epstein's cell is empty...

[Via Mac]

Points of Contention

Top-5 Reasons I Don’t Support the NRA [Watch]
I'm sorry, but I'm three minutes into the goddam thing, I still haven't heard Reason #1 yet, and I'm up to my neck in things. If any of you have 14 minutes to spare, and if you hear anything new, feel free to tell me what he said in "Comments."

More direct and to the point is this blast from the past.

[Via Felix B]

Those Who Can Do

A big victory for the Trump administration as a federal appeals court rules today the Department of Justice (DOJ) can withhold funding from sanctuary cities and states refusing to cooperate with administration’s immigration enforcement. [More]
So will we see immediate action? Or do we need to wait for SCOTUS, and will the threat of riots be used as a pre-election gun to the head?

[Via Wynn A

Welcome to Camp FEMA!

"We are asking the American public to prepare for the expectation that this might be bad." [More]
Define "bad."

And Rosenstein's sister, eh?

I wonder what form emergency orders might take, and what they know that they're not telling us.

I put nothing past "The Swamp."

[Via Wynn A

Hosea 4:6

I try not to enter comment threads under my articles because I've had my say and it's the readers' turn to have theirs. That said, I do see some reactions to my Clint Eastwood story (and under my Facebook post) that I'm going to address.

Some say they don't believe me. As "proof" they offer fake Twitter account posts and memes that have no basis in anything documented that he ever said. The preponderance of people who will swallow falsehoods because they saw something that satisfied their confirmation bias is disturbing. That it comes from "our side," when the ability to sort the wheat from the chaff is available at our fingertips -- with just a bit of curiosity and effort -- is appalling.  It really does speak to how easily people can be swayed by sources they are predisposed to believe, whether there is any real basis for assigning credibility or not, and how easily information that has been researched and validated can be derailed and redirected by introducing straw-men and outright bullshit.

A tangential discussion in one thread actually got into not mistaking Judge Judy, who is a Bloomberg supporter, with Judge Jeanine, who is a Fox News commentator. I bring that up because it provides a perfect example of how what is real can be replaced by what is calculated image. Pirro, if you're not enamored by the trappings of her being a designated "conservative" and care to do some minimal checking, is not what most gun owners encourage themselves to believe she is -- by a long shot.

It's personally frustrating because it can take an effort to dig out the truth but then it just dies in the echo chamber because no one cares enough to spread it, and what propagates instead is the deception. And I'm talking much, much more than silly celebrity stuff.

Back to Eastwood: A longtime trusted industry colleague who saw my piece just sent me a link to Breitbart's article by John Nolte, lest anyone still need more convincing. Or they could just check a news feed. My friend also sent me some insider "intel":
“The best thing we could do is
just get Mike Bloomberg in there.”
Clint Eastwood fooled American patriotic conservatives for decades just like Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and dozens of others. He made a movie of propaganda glorifying murdering communist Nelson Mandela for goodness sakes! However, Eastwood has been a huge gun collector all his life, there is a photo of him at the NSSF show (SHOT Show) in 1962 posing next to the then new Colt AR-15. In the photo attached, he posed for it when he picked up his Weaver Arms Nighthawk (UZI-like) carbine in the early/mid-1980s. (I knew Mr. Weaver and he told me in person about the time when he took this photo of Eastwood in his office in California when he came to pick up the gun *) And a well-known NFA dealer told me years ago about when he sold Eastwood's trust or estate in Idaho a 1921 Thompson submachine gun that Eastwood wanted. Now he backs a communist who wants to ban all guns???? He's another fake from communist Hollywood.

*The current source of this photo states that it was taken in the offices of Combat Arms magazine but this source was also initially confused as to what kind of gun it was (because of the Thompson-style front grip). Bob Weaver publicly, and often, showed this photo, and as recent as 2014 when he was trying to sell the rights and plans to make the Nighthawk carbine.
Or, I guess, you could just go with something that's repeated in comments on the internet, so it must be true.

Order Out of Chaos


While our first objective is to protest open primaries, our second objective is to assist the reelection of the President by extending and exacerbating the division among the Democrats.  [More]
Sounds like an VLLA SELLA kind'a action to me...

[Via @pamnsc]

News You Can Wipe With

They can also bypass background checks if they buy their firearms at a gun show.  [More]
Really, Terry Tang of the Associated Press? There's no further explanation or qualification you'd like to add to that, or has your job been done here?

I like the partisan Democrat who says it shouldn't be partisan.  All we need to do is surrender and vote like him. Every time.

And note the "former Democratic congressional candidate who is black" doesn't seem very eager to talk about who is killing those 15 black people a day but would rather focus on disenfranchising those who aren't.

[Via @pamnsc]

Looks Like I Made the Honor Roll


Lalalalala...I can't HEAR you...
Are you blocked?

I guess this self-made public figure doesn't want some questions asked in public.

I also wonder if she realizes those of us who are "blocked" can see what she's up to by going "incognito."

About the Milwaukee Killings


It's been hours and we still haven't been told who the killer is?  No doubt any social media accounts will be shut down before we do, meaning we will be entirely dependent on "authorities" and "Authorized Journalists" for information and unable to find any dots for connecting on our own.