Monday, June 22, 2020

Ignore NRA in Massie/McMurtry Race

After more than a month-long delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, Kentuckians finally head to the polls on Tuesday, June 23, to cast their ballots.  [More]
Here's the most important bit of information Kentucky gun owners need to realize: NRA is torpedoing Thomas Massie and giving an unearned "A" to a guy who not only agrees with Hillary about Donald Trump, but is endorsed by a group where a Board member very publicly used his position to call for more citizen disarmament edicts.

Massie explains the punishment grade:
Yep, so much to unpack here. NRA supported Fix NICS (Gun control). When FIX NICS was inserted into the reciprocity bill I blew the whistle by making videos, etc. I began a campaign to separate the two bills. At the suggestion of another member, we called the NRA lobbyist and told them our plan, and got their blessing that they didn’t care if we were able to separate the two bills. They said “we do policy, not process.” I began picking up steam and it looked as though my effort to separate the two bills was going to be successful. That’s when Republican leadership asked NRA to score the procedural vote and they did! So they completely lied even when I tried to work with them. I have witnesses. (see if they dinged Louie Gohmert, Steve King, or Paul Gosar as well). Long story short, they scared enough reps and Fix NICS stayed in the bill. I voted against the bill and issued another warning that the reciprocity wouldn’t pass, but later in the year they would pass Fix NICS, now that almost everyone had their hands dirty, having voted for it as part of reciprocity. Sure enough, they added Fix NICS to the next omnibus. FIX NICS encourages the Veterans Administration to turn over to the NICS database the names of veterans who for instance don’t manage their own finances - a prior law allows them to adjudicate (without a judge or jury!!) those veterans as prohibited from owning a firearm or ammunition.
I remember when Ron Paul was torpedoed, and Sharron Angle...

I remember plenty of "A"-grades that have come back to bite everyone who trusted PVF.

And Trump still owes Massie a yuge apology.

Congressmen Question ATF Brace Restriction Plans


"Even more troubling are reports that these non-public standards are being used to criminally prosecute unsuspecting gun owners. Given ATF’s refusal to explain these standards, it is impossible for the public to comply with ATF’s ever-changing body of secret law,” Gaetz and company note. “To criminally charge an individual or threaten a company based on one ATF employee’s opinion of whether an arm brace shares enough unpublished 'design features' with a shoulder stock is an appalling abuse of power and shows a blatant disregard for due process." [More]
ATF is up to its old tricks. Hey, they've gotten away with them for years, so why change now?

They Want You at Their Mercy

An anti-deportation group affiliated with leftist billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations is one of the groups behind the “defund the police” movement taking place across America. [More]
And once they get the other jaw of the pincer closed, guess where that leaves you.

[Via Jess]

A Right Delayed

600 (Yes, six hundred not a typo) days ago Historic Arms LLC sent a submission sample along with a letter with some very basic regulatory questions. [More]
There Len Savage goes being a bully again...

A Noticeable Change in Tone

Racial justice advocates arm themselves to keep the peace at Robert E. Lee statue [More]
So is there a reason they're not being called "vigilantes" and their guns aren't being decried as "weapons of war"?

[Via Mack H]

If You Have No Intention of Licking 'em, Join 'em

City council members call for immediate removal of Confederate monuments after police intervene when protesters try to pull down J.E.B. Stuart statue [More]
Just make everything the rioters want to do legal and then we have no problems! Brilliant!

As a side note, can you see Hollywood remaking The Santa Fe Trail these days? Funny that Errol Flynn ended up a Castro sympathizer...

[Via Mack H]

Anything's Possible

Pollster Nate Silver: 'A Biden landslide is possible' [More]
Psychological warfare or the shape of things to come?

Mystery to Me

Despite mobs yelling “Allahu Akbar,” the infamous Muslim war cry, local authorities are silent about the nature of the rampage.  [More]
Even Yul is baffled.

[Via Michael G]

Si Quæris Peninsulam Amœnam Circumspice

Crazy Woman Who Banned Her State from Buying Seeds and Punished Barbers Now Wants a Bailout from Trump [More]
I'll let Dr. Evil handle this one.

[Via Michael G]

Same as It Ever Was

A Knock, Then Gone: Venezuela Secretly Detains Hundreds to Silence Critics - “Forced disappearances” are playing a critical role in the Venezuelan government’s efforts to muzzle opponents and instill fear, according to a new report. [More]
It's not a bug of "socialism" -- it's a feature.

I suspect, like all the others who have come before him, Maduro's just not doing it right.

[Via Michael G]

Trouble in Paradise


Bottom line, when seconds count, "Sentinels" are minutes away. [More]

Besides, it's Trump's fault.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Animated Enough

Pat Lynch isn’t a cartoon character, although he does his best to come off that way. As police unions, separate from all other public sector unions, have come under attack as being singularly problematic when it comes to excising the cancer of bad individual cops from the force, Lynch does his best Wile E. Coyote routine by throwing teachers unions, inter alia, under the bus. [More]
I'm glad I'm not the "only one" who sees the cartoonish aspects of Liberty Lynchin' Patrick.

[Via Michael G]

The Hell There Isn't

There is no need to name names. The so-called conservatives who have been coddling mindless calls to destroy public art know who they are. [More]
I disagree. If they're not called out, people who aren't clued in will continue to follow them. How will that not result in more ground being ceded without a fight?

If you know of quislings, deliberately not exposing them -- by name and by their prominent affiliations --  is the same as proactively giving them cover.

[Via bondmen]

Enquiring Minds Want to Know

Where are all the guns and ammo purchased under Obama? [More]
It's certainly worth a random spot check or two...

[Via bondmen]

It's What They Do

Wikipedia Editors Censor Antifa Involvement in Riots, Past Violence [More]
Suppressing key details seems to be SOP over there.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Doing the Work of Others Enough

The shooting happened on Sunday near 43rd Avenue and Union Hills Drive around 7:45 p.m. after someone called 911 about a man armed with a knife threatening to kill people in the Asiana Market. [More]
In "no permit required" Arizona?  What the hell is wrong with the other customers?

[Via bondmen]

Christina Gonzalez, Girl Reporter

Officials say he was holding a semi-automatic handgun, loaded with 13 illegal high capacity bullets when he tried to run away from them. [More]
She ought to go far.

Red Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter founder admits org's creators are 'trained Marxists'... [More]
What did anyone think they were really about?

[Via Jess]

In the Interest of Creating a More Informed Public...


NPR when virtue-signaling:
NPR is an independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public. 
NPR in practice:
The photo NPR used of ‘right-wing extremists’ ramming protesters actually resulted in the protesters getting arrested, not the driver
All things considered...

[Via Michael G]

My Kind of Town

102 shot, 14 fatally, over Father’s Day weekend in Chicago [More]
What. no protests?

Forget it, Jake. It's Chi-Town.

New York, New York, It's a Wonderful Town!


Report: Shootings “Unexpectedly” Rise As NYC Eliminates Anti-Crime Units - In one day: “At least 19 people were injured in more than a dozen shooting across New York City Saturday morning, the NYPD says” [More]
Yep, this one goes straight to Tommy Lee.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Dressed for Success Enough

“When you see riot gear, it absolutely changes the mood,” said Ron Moten, a longtime community organizer in the nation’s capital who was out demonstrating this weekend. He said it takes away any perception the officers could be empathetic. “If I went up to speak with a police officer and I’m covered in armor and holding a shield and a stick, don’t you think they would regard me as a threat?” [More]
He's got a point.

That said, when you're ...um... rioting, you're doing a bit of mood-changing yourself...

[Via Mack H]

A Debatable Contention

"I know how to take care of myself." [More]
If things went down as reported, I beg to differ. And her inability to zip it will probably prove a greater threat than the shoplifters.

[Via  An Hour of Wolves]

And the Crowd Went Mild

President Donald Trump’s campaign canceled a planned outdoor rally for an “overflow crowd” in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday after low turnout. [More]
Seeing as how most of us just heard the term "social distancing" a few short months ago and now it's all the rage, which campaign geniuses are really surprised?

And what a tone-deaf choice for a rally.

Who watches Watchmen?

Oh, look:  Our elected commies brag about election interferers colluding on a foreign platform.  But why make that the headline when we can be in the Pink (and note she doesn't say when)...?

BTW, the campaign says the hacking claim is BS, but I'm not finding the counter-excuses all that compelling...

Set On a Pedestal

Funny thing about the history erasers.

Some statues will stay up.

What, this one's on "private property"?

I thought property was theft...

[Via MTHead]

Gentle People with Flowers in Their Hair

Protesters in San Francisco on Friday toppled the statue of former President Grant, who led the Union Army during the Civil War, in Golden Gate Park. Also torn down in the park on Friday were the statues of St. Junipero Serra and Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner." [More]
Gee, I wonder if we can coexist with them.

Figures the song  I got this post's title from was written by an incestuous pervert (I'm saying that before it's "normalized" and I get ostracized by society for being a "hater").

And the Tickets are One-Way

One really needs to read Shakespeare to get an understanding of the intrigue that is taking place in the United States. [More]
Whether you want to go or not, the passage is being booked for us to the undiscovered country...

Up the Wall

Arizona Sen. McSally to Firearm Industry: ‘you Want Me on That Wall’ [More]
What wall?

Let's talk long-term.

I'm OK, You're OK

The stranger followed Cafferty and took a picture of him as his arm hung out the window of his company truck ... NBC 7 spoke to the man who originally posted the picture on Twitter. He has since deleted his account ... [More]
No doubt. Talk about someone who deserves real-world exposure.

"Public utility" San Diego Gas & Electric needs to be forced to heel on this.

I also don't care if the truck driver was "Mexican American and says he comes from a diverse family of all races." What is allowing things from one ethnic group while denying it to people of another but "systemic racism"?

And I still don't have an answer...

Let ask Dennis James...

[Via Henry Bowman]

The Quarantine Crawl


Anthony Colandro goes on the road to interview pro-Second Amendment New Jersey small business owners allowed to remain open. [More]

Good idea. I'd suggest he also interview some still ordered closed to give us a feel for the devastation -- economic and otherwise -- being forced upon them.

About That Impartial Justice Scam...

I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position, to which I was appointed by the Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  [More]
In 2018, by the overwhelmingly Democrat-stacked and pre-Trump appointments court (three out of 28), and never by representatives accountable to the people?  Those judges?

Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer and Jerry Nadler are happy to have a national media amplifier to offer evidence-free damning speculation that adds to the pre-November pile-on.

So the biggest obstacle to not firing the guy is those people will say more mean things?

Giving It Your All

Comment under one of my articles in response to the prospect of resisting to the end, with all that the choice entails, rather than surrendering:
YES I WOULD AND IF IT WASN’T SO FAR TO GO I WOULD HAVE ALREADY ASKED FOR PEOPLE TO MEET ME IN WASHINGTON DC TO ELIMINATE THE TYRANNY IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Going from Alabama isn’t affordable for me.