Down for the Count

 

What are people still doing coming here? And no, I don't see the majority coming from links at the new site.

Go HERE.

Success of Sorts

It's not pretty. It's not sophisticated. There's plenty of room for improvement and helpful features.

But by God, after several days of inventing new cuss words and letting my inner ADD make me no fun to be around, I threw out the "new improved" block Word Press, installed the Classic template and I have myself a new online journal independent of the censorship that drove me from this place, where I've been since 2005.

Barring any disasters that make me come running back here with my tail between my legs, future posts will happen at the new digs: HERE.

'I Find Myself to be Exorbitantly Superannuated for This Feculence'

Trying to set up the new site has been an exercise in pure frustration. It sure adds a whole new dimension to "A man's gotta know his limitations."

Nothing about it is intuitive.  You'd think if you pressed an "Edit" icon you'd be able to edit, or if you tried to delete something it would delete.

I want the simplest site in the world-- a home page, an about page with info and contact, both of which will remain static, and a blog that lets me do regular updates like I do here. They've got so many different things to choose from, none of which explain what they're talking about or define terms they just assume you know. And my personal favorite -- tutorials that tell you to select options that appear nowhere on the page I've accessed. 

Word Press has discarded the classic interface and replaced it with a block thingy they say is simpler and has me ready to scream-- I have a few times already.  Forget trying to chat or call "tech support"-- they only do tech stuff and I miss half of what they're saying just through accents alone. I think I'm going to need to hire a local to come in for a day to set me up -- I know some of you have kindly offered to advise but that's something I can't do long distance because there's too much I just don't get.

Blog Update Sitrep

I'm workin' on it. I should be able to do a test post at the new place by the end of the week.

It's been nice having less hectic days at the keyboard, especially with Spring yard work demands, but I do miss posting on a whim. For instance, did everybody catch Hillary flashing a racist hand sign at the Met Gala?

‘Be a Victim’ is No Way to Run the Republic

No doubt, there are reasons why citizens should think twice about confronting those committing criminal acts, but prominent among those is that the same “law” that fails to “secure the Blessings of Liberty” will turn on them should they try.  [More]

Citizens using armed force to protect what is theirs have more than the perps to fear.

Silence from Black Leaders on Biden ATF Nomination is Deafening

You’d think with all their talk about “equity,” more angrily outspoken members of the Congressional  Black Caucus, representatives like Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee, would be demanding full firearms enfranchisement for their constituents. Ditto for Black Lives Matter. [More]

Trying to start a little internecine squabble here... 

Armed American Radio Redux

David Codrea explores Ukraine disarming citizens for weapons storage? WAT? [Listen]

Thursday's Hour 2 program, where we discussed the (thus far unreported by anyone else) Ukraine gun storage order...

Donald Trump Jr’s 2A Task Force Needs Closer Scrutiny by Gun Owners

Fleshing out the details of the “group,” its organization and specific efforts it intends to make is important because getting visitors to register and donate seems to be the purpose of the 2A Task Force home page. [More]

Money well spent or something else...?

I'll Be On Hour 2

 TODAY on #AAR Hour 1, 4-5p ET (1-2p PT)

@HT_GunWriter

Lee Williams, Hour 2, 5-6p ET, (2-3p PT)

@dcodrea

. Good hard-hitting talk radio! Make sure to tune in or watch live at https://armedamericanradio.org/watch-live/ Remember, we don't talk TO the other side, we talk ABOUT the other side!

EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian Territorial Defense Ordered to Turn in Arms 'for Storage' Purposes

The disarming of citizen soldier volunteers (especially when a war is still in full swing) is a good indicator that if and when the situation in Ukraine “normalizes,” the plan is to return to restrictive gun laws Firearms News was decrying before the Russian invasion when it urged President Zelnskyy to “Open up Ukrainian gun ownership.”  [More]

For a while there it looked like they had learned a valuable lesson that the whole world could observe and learn from -- one which they now seemed bound and determined to forget.

Gun Owners Should Object More to Upton’s ‘Element’ than Greene’s

By inviting Republicans like Upton on to the show, NBC News can pretend its coverage is unbiased. That feeds the created perception that those to the right of (acceptable) “moderates” are “extremists.” Come time for manipulating the electorate, the moderates are then presented as “uncompromising,” and “right-wing.” And the goalposts move again. [More]

With Republicans like Upton, who needs Democrats?

Airport Gun Thefts Show Government Has No ‘Answers’ Outside of Total Disarmament

For its part, Cleveland Hopkins  has turned to its professional wordsmiths to come up with a statement that pledges a totally noncommittal “commitment,” admits no liability, and without coming right out and saying so, tells travelers they need to make the trip to and from the airport unarmed... [More]

So what do you do when "commonsense gun safety laws" directly encourage and enable "gun violence"? And since when have they ever not...?

Left AND Right Showing Cognitive Dissonance on Ukraine and U.S. Gun Rights

 To conclude because “our side” lies must mean the Russians are telling the truth is more than a logical fallacy, it is suicidal and insane.  [More]

So Democrats are suddenly all for an armed citizenry while Republicans are siding with the people who call them Nazis...

WarOnGuns Situation Report

The Blogspot censorship issue is still unresolved and I still get the "Under Review" message with no way to find out what the "community guidelines" issue is. By going through a process of elimination, my guess would be "Misleading content related to civic and democratic processes." 

Talk about people who live in glass houses... that whole section reads like an excuse to eliminate wrongthink on whatever topic they like, from elections to COVID, with Big Techtators doing the dirty work the First Amendment says their government partners can't get away with -- yet. And in keeping with the way totalitarians roll, that's heavily reliant on cultivating an anonymous snitch culture:

We rely on blog readers to report content that they find inconsistent with Blogger's Community Guidelines. If you encounter a post that you believe violates Community Guidelines, please report it using the 'Report' link located in the navigation of most blogs. If you are unable to find the link on the blog, you can still report suspected violations here.

Clearly, it makes no sense to spend time doing work that enemy trolls can have arbitrarily undone at the push of a button. So until such time as I am set up in a safer harbor, putting in work makes no sense. That's why, until I do that, I'm going to continue to limit posts to pure self-promotion: announcements for my new articles, radio appearances, and the like.

And speaking of that new venue, I tried several different options that for one reason or another didn't strike me as a right fit, but finally identified a new host I'm going to try. The holdup now is getting GoDaddy (another self-appointed arbiter of "acceptable" speech) to release my WarOnGuns.com domain name, and it looks like that process can take anywhere from seven to 10 days. 

That means I'm probably looking at up to two more weeks before the rollout, and I still haven't decided if I'm going to try to migrate this existing blog to the new home. I'm leaning towards "not" since there will be formatting compatibility and search engine issues, I don't want to lose existing comments, technically I'm a child with no interest or time to change, plus the new place may not work out.

So: Keep holding the tips. I'll be back when I can. My own announcements will continue (a new Firearms News piece is out I'll be linking to after they fix a glaring typo I made in the first paragraph that also eluded spell check and Grammarly 😖).

Ask Dettelbach Tough Questions about ‘AFT’ Abuses During Confirmation Hearings

Will Republicans ask him? How about Ranking Member Chuck Grassley? [More]

I'm going to end up sending questions about infringements by "AFT" to Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans to put to the nominee while he's under oath, so feel free to leave your own in the article's "Comments" section.

Shameless Plug: Firearms News

I have two articles in this month's issue, on sale now at discerning newsstands throughout the Republic. [More]

I'm not resuming regular blogging because of the unresolved censorship issue but will continue to promote my work here as I prepare a new landing site.

Radio Redux

Two recent appearances:

• The Michael Dukes Show, April 8.
• Armed American Radio's Daily Defense, April 12.

I'm not resuming regular blogging because of the unresolved censorship issue but will continue to promote my work here as I prepare a new landing site.

Daily Defense

I'll be joining host Mark Walters at 4 pm Eastern to talk Biden and more.  Listen, watch or find a station near you at the Armed American Radio website.

Oz Endorsement Says as Much about PA Republicans as It Does about Trump

Perhaps if he was better at picking them in the first place, he wouldn’t need to end up angrily attacking so many he had nothing but high praise for in the beginning. [More]

What does "winning" mean if you end up losing?

ultimate revenge

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-airs-its-ultimate-revenge-plan-for-america/ar-AAW5HB1