Wednesday, April 01, 2020
The Incredible Shrinking SEO
I've noted before how the Google algorithm appears to be excluding some of my stuff from appearing on searches. What I have been increasingly noticing is the more I produce, the fewer results show up on both the "News" and "All" feeds. I'm talking significantly like I'm getting less than half of what I was getting a year ago.
Sic 'em!
Building on our success in convincing Wake County to add firearm-related businesses to its list of "essential services" to avoid litigation and a court order for Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker to resume issuing pistol purchase permits, GRNC and GOA today sent a letter to the Durham Mayor Steve Schewel and the Durham City Council advising them of their non-compliance with federal recommendations for critical infrastructure. [More]"Recommendations"?
Yep:
This list is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be considered, a federal directiveor standard.It's either critical or it's not. Once more the administration opts for toothless pandering that somehow has resulted in high fives.
What other civil rights could be ignored by state and local governments without an army of feds coming down to frog march offenders? Kudos to the groups that persist and soldier on in spite of that.
You Never Want a Serious Crisis to Go to Waste
"We need I.C.U. beds, we need ventilators, we need personnel to care for the wave of Covid-19 patients. But gunshot victims are now fighting for space and resources inside America’s overcrowded I.C.U.s." [More]If only we had "assault weapon" bans, "red flag laws" and "universal background checks"!
No?
[Via Michael G]
But the Bureaucrats'll Still Get Paid, Right?
To ensure the safety of customers and staff, the Ben Avery Shooting Facility (BASF) is temporarily limiting shooting sports opportunities effective immediately. [More]What if we're not interested in "sport"?
I guess when you're a public employee, you don't need to worry about being competitive, which is kind of ironic considering the nature of the place.
[Via Matthew L]
UPDATE: Here's what they said the first time when they promised to reopen on Mar. 26. Guess it's taking longer to decide to stagger shooters to every other station or something...
Funny, how essential private businesses have been able to figure it out...
Words to Die By
Seattle Police Chief Tells People To Call 911 If They Hear 'Racist Name-Calling' [More]It's not just a matter of other priorities being more important. This means they'll send men with guns authorized to initiate a full continuum of force up to and including lethal after you.
I can't tell from the photo if she's lying under oath or just saying "Sieg heil!"
[Via Michael G]
Striking Back
Seventeen plaintiffs including the Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit naming an almost equal number of local and county governments and officials within those jurisdictions in Northern California, asking the court for injunctive and declaratory relief in a challenge to gun control measures instituted in relation to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [More]As I'd hoped...
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Securing the Southern Border during a Pandemic [More]Let things heat up down there and who thinks massive northbound walker herds won't cross?
I Have Good News and Bad News
All the bad news comes from capitalist countries. [More]Don't worry -- as soon as we've terraformed the culture completely, it'll be nothing but good news here, too.
[Via Agustin B]
Bedrock Issues
Florida mother shoots burglar who entered home because 'dinosaurs were chasing him' [More]Which brings to mind a little exercise in speculative fantasy we indulged in a while back...
[Via Jess]
Telephone Scam
Tennessee Firearms Association has received reports over the last 24 hours that members of a gun control group funded directly or indirectly by Michael Bloomberg - Moms Demand Action - are currently contacting Gun Clubs, (especially those who have as part of their business model handgun carry permit classes) and various handgun carry permit instructors, seeking comments related to the current proposed permitless carry bills (there are several) that are pending in the Tennessee General Assembly. Based on reports to TFA, it appears that they call giving the impression that the caller is just an interested person seeking information about the bill with respect to how it is counterproductive to safety and the well being of our State. It appears that this is an attempt, while the General Assembly is out of session, to foster opposition to any permitless carry legislation, including the Governor’s proposal. [More]It figures their plan would depend on deception.
Sadly, there are some dumb enough to fall for this.
Outrageously, there are some incentivized to support it.
[Via Ron W]
Every Big Tyrant Starts Out a Small One
HOA Threatens to Foreclose on Residents Conducting Business at Home During Lockdown [More]My first property was a condo in Long Beach, CA. The HOA writing me up because they could see the top of a broom handle on my 2nd-floor balcony prompted me to run for the board and then become HOA president so that I could protect my investment from petty fools. The couple responsible was a gelded moron and his European wife I called "Witless" and Titless," who used to let their 3-year-old daughter run around the complex completely naked.
The stories I could tell...
[Via Michael G]
We're the Only Ones Nonessential Enough
L.A. supervisors remove Sheriff Alex Villanueva as head of emergency operations [More]And it figures they'd put petty revenge for his backing down on gun store closures above everything else.
Jeremy Renner Divorce Complaint Raises Red Flag, Restraining Order Questions
Because he, with other privileged celebrities, came out in full support of the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence/Bloomberg Mayors Against Illegal Guns agenda to “Demand a Plan.” That means he is enabling their efforts to disarm you, including their support for due process-denying, guilty until proven innocent Red Flag Laws. [More]Might there be personal projection reasons this overprivileged stage prop "demands a plan" for you and me?