Slowing Down for Christmas

I'm kicking things into low gear.  This potentially expanding list is going to have to suffice until I rev things up again. In the mean time, sorry for those of you giving me tips via email and social media -- Thanks, but I just can't get to 'em. The part of my office that's behind me as I type reminds me it's time to focus on other things.

• From Mike: The ease with which civil wars can start. Uncomfortable musings on Christmas Eve, 2014.
• From Workman: Tomorrow, a day for reflection about troubling times and what’s ahead
• From Kurt: Secretive "Gun Control" Cabal Threatens Liberty by its Agenda, and by its Methods

Order in Dobyns case highlights government motion that even confuses judge

Noting it’s not even clear if a notice of appeal relates to a Federal Circuit Court order or to prior Federal Claims Court orders, Judge Allegra ordered the government “on or before January 5, 2015 [to] file [an explanatory] memorandum (not to exceed 30 pages)." [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes... uh ... I'm not sure what it notes.  If the judge doesn't understand what the government is talking about, how the hell are the rest of us supposed to figure things out?

Christmas Cheer

If you have a favorite gun rights group or individual, now's the time to send them a donation or voluntary subscription to help them help you.

No, I'm not talking me. I'm talking someone who takes money. All I ever ask from those who get value here is to share my article links so I don't have to decide between feeding the children or having another cigar.

Just What We Need

Another Bush in the White House. [More]

No, I'm not talkin' that.  What I mean is, in her words, what difference does it make?

Captain's (Yule) Log

Herschel is getting ready for  Christmas and so am I, so instead of taking time listing and formatting individual blog post links, I'm just including one for his site, and letting you know there are new posts on the pistol stabilizer brace nonsense, an idiot "progressive" gun dealer dispensing medical advice who thinks they just go off, Mexico getting ready to implode under the corruption and incompetence of its "leaders" (coming soon to a Republic near you), and "Notes." [More]

Opting Out

Refusal as a weapon... [More]

It's the next phase.

We're the Only Ones Unsharing Enough

The purpose of this presentation is to make you better aware of the numerous improvised weapons and ingenious hiding places that have been created and are in use by today’s criminals. [More]

All kinds of stuff besides information they don't want us to have. Us mundanes who pay for everything have no need to know.

FYI, for whatever reason, this document does not load in some browsers for me. If you can't get it in yours, try another.


[Via Florida Guy]   

We're the Only Ones Committing Enough

This is nuts. [More]

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Entrusted Enough

Channeling Kurt's latest about who should be "entrusted" with a Bushmaster, WarOnGuns Correspondent Mack H asks if you would entrust these guys.

A Prescription for Disaster

From the Farragut malpractitioners... [More]

What If?

As long as people are not threatening others, there cannot be edicts prohibiting it. The power to do that would be more dangerous than the gatherings being hypothesized. [More]

And if the right is abused, deal with the abusers.

The real question might be who in government thought it would be a good idea to diversify this way, and why?  Measures to verify foreigners entering the country/coming to live here are not hostile hardly seem hateful or even controversial.

Tangentially related:

• From JPFO
• From KABA

We're the Only Ones Clipping Wings Enough

The scary thing is how many agree with this. [More]

A Special Bond

British actor Idris Elba could be the first black James Bond, according to more leaked e-mails from Sony Pictures. [More]

I wonder if this is going to cause any problems.

Don't worry. The "progressives" aren't done with fundamental transformations.

Not that I give a damn.

This Day in History: December 23

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DeWine reverses decision to ignore improved law enforcement training

It is admittedly unknown if such training, had it been seriously adopted and conducted, would have mattered in the Crawford and Rice cases, or if the specific circumstances leading to their shootings would have shown Ohio law regarding openly carrying arms to be irrelevant. Would it have made a difference if DeWine (and Cordray and Rogers before him) had acted on the documented warnings? That is a question for attorneys for family survivors to pursue, and if they do, it will be up to courts to decide. [More]

Today's Gun Rights examiner report notes another reversal from a guy who seems to specialize in them whenever they're the political thing to do. Noting the truism about "progressives" and Opposite Day, is it any wonder the Brady Campaign praised this fraud as a "principled statesman" -- until he figured out which side the votes were on?

Sorry, No

The plan was to repeat the failed "Operation Wide Receiver" under Bush that had actual real tracking devices installed in the weapons, and was shut down when the bad guys discovered them and removed them. But obama and holder conspired to do the same WITHOUT tracking devices to lay the blame on the American gun owners as being a bunch of illegal gun runners to Mexico and use that as an excuse for more restrictive gun laws or outright registration and confiscation. That is why obama claimed EP to hide the truth that he ordered holder to run the gun running scheme. They are still hiding the truth and we may never get the "smoking gun" (pun intended) that would convict the both of them. [More]

I don't know where you're getting your information from, but much of it simply ain’t so. I have written many times about Wide Receiver and Mike Detty, the CI who was at the heart of the operation, which a search will bear out. Direct quotes from Mike: “While there were a couple times during Wide Receiver that tracking devices were placed on cars there was not a single weapon that was outfitted with any kind of tracking instrument.” [AND] “It had nothing to do with Bush or even DOJ...”

I wish I knew how this stuff got started, and why the truth is so hard to get out there -- no doubt because "legitimate news media" has no interest in using their megaphone to do so on certain topics.

And the Winner Is...

Oh, it's AP. [More]

That explains a lot.

The Daily Collapse Report

Documenting the collapse into chaos... [More]

Two from Heritage on ATT

• Entering Into Force
• Resisting Precedents

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Looks good on the surface. [More]

I'd feel better if I knew who was doing the requiring, and why:

Will I ever get an answer?

Look, I'm not accusing these people of anything--they may be the greatest thing since sliced bread. But why so hidden? And why wouldn't I prefer to deal with someone who is not?

Because there are a lot of people out there hitching their fortunes to the work and the worries of others -- why not make sure those diverting resources that could be effectively applied elsewhere are actually using them to advance the interests they imply?