This, the third scoop ignored by “Authorized Journalist” media in less than a week by the Pinson, Ala., blogger, places one more circumstantial piece of an incomplete picture puzzle on the desk in the Oval Office. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes some pieces coming together. It also includes links to last night's "Armed American Radio" program, where we had a chance to explore things in depth while having a great time doing it.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Blogger Vanderboegh reports ‘Gunwalker’ link to Obama’s ‘tough guy’ advisor
Pulling the Plug on Vanderboegh
He's going in to the doctor to have a plug pulled--I think for drainage or some such, I didn't press. Anyway, he's going to be away from blogging for a while and asked me to mention it.
Disgusting
If Brian Terry had been black and if John Ashcroft were still AG, these same racist sons of bitches would be howling for his head. [Read]
We're the Only Ones Getting Better Enough
Y'know, if this were a less politically correct group, say, NRA members who were confessing to these dark, destructive urges, do you think the gungrabbers would be jumping all over lawmakers to demand some kind of credentialed and standardized psychiatric "all clear" before they should ever be allowed to get anywhere near a gun? Do you think they'd be fine with us saying we've self-diagnosed, come to terms with our inner demons (which were all caused by others!!!), and we've decided we're OK--we can now walk among you openly armed and you're safer because of it...?
[Via Kevin Starrett]
DC Event Disenfranchised Minorities
This brings us to Michelle Obama's recent book signing in Washington, DC. In spite of elaborate security, customers were required to submit their Social Security number and a photo ID. [More]Damn racists...
Punishable Rights
He faced three misdemeanor charges for brandishing a weapon, resisting and obstructing police, and disturbing the peace — each punishable by up to 93 days in jail. [More]If they can't get you one way, they'll get you another. By hook or by crook.
Were I his attorney: I would demand the arresting officers and their department produce documentation of training they have received on Michigan open carry laws.
This is something I've talked about before and will no doubt resurrect again: It would be so simple for each state's attorney general to require that all sworn officers receive training on concealed and open carry laws--he could do that with a memo to all police chiefs, sheriffs and Highway Patrol commanders or equivalents--and then require all personnel to sign an acknowledgment that goes into their personnel files, the same as papers they're required to sign saying they understand the sexual harassment policy, or some other bit of "human resources"-mandated folderol.
[Via Doug Rink]
Someone to Watch Over Me
[S]he had no one to protect her the night she was murdered, Hammond said. [More]And the stupid, evil "laws" this tool demands imposed on all of us made damn sure she would not be allowed to protect herself.
Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...
Bizarrely, the local authority instead suggested playing a recording of a starting pistol on an iPod before agreeing to let Mr Bell start the races by sounding a klaxon. [More]Why not just use one of these...?
[Via Jake S]
#justablogger
Now, let's take a look at just a few of the stories the "just bloggers" have broken:Thank you, Katie Pavlich.
-Operation Fast and Furious was first exposed by bloggers Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea [More]
And thank you, Michelle Malkin.
As noted:
The game has changed. Welcome to the dawn of the age of the Unauthorized Journalist. That’s an as-yet unrecognized, but huge story in all of this, and it scares the hell out of establishment media and the powers that be who rely on them.
We're the Only Ones Giving Up Enough
A Clifton, N.J., police officer surrendered to authorities just before midnight Sunday after barricading himself in his estranged wife’s Doylestown Township house, sporadically shooting at police and injuring one officer, authorities said. [More]Oh, and look: It was in an "ultra-safe neighborhood."
Dang. You mean bad "Why do you need a gun there?" stuff can happen anywhere? And that we can't rely on a "monopoly of violence"?
[Via William T]
Stand Your Promised Land
Israeli driver kills 2 Palestinians, wounds 1 [More]Naturally, interested collectivist hatred beneficiaries are branding the defender a criminal.
I can't wait to see the sympathy-evoking childhood portraits of the dead assailants.
How's the joke go? They blow up so fast these days...
A Rousing Success
"Authorized Journalist" Richard Dymond looks so cute in his cheerleader uniform. [Read]
Pathetic.
Anybody still shopping at Bealls?
Pathetic.
Anybody still shopping at Bealls?
Amazing Toby
It is a source of amazement and frustration for Toby Hoover, executive director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence. [More]Good. But the goal for her is "wailing and gnashing of teeth."
This Day in History: June 18
On June 18, 2 men warned the militia that a force of 200-300 British dragoons were on their way to the Iron Works. The British arrived undetected and surprised the militiamen when they opened fire on them. The militia thought that these British were the advanced guard of the larger force that they had been warned about. After a brief skirmish, the militia fled. Captain Huck burned Hill’s Ironworks, confiscating 90 slave laborers. [More]
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Happy Father's Day
Happy Father's Day to those of you who are.
Just a reminder: Mike Vanderboegh and I will be joining Mark Walters on Armed American Radio tonight at 9:00 pm Eastern. He's going to break some "Gunwalker" news tonight. Click here to find a station or listen via live streaming.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
R.I.P. Kirby Ferris
A patriot who came among us for a while and shared our trail has left us poorer from his loss and richer from his life. [Read]
OSHA shooting range ruling points to agenda besides worker safety
While workplace safety ought to be a paramount concern for any employer, and while the list of citations provides a blueprint for corrective actions needed to regain compliance, a review of the detail of some of the cited instances, such as picking up a shell casing without gloves, shows that achieving a clean bill of health free of any subjectively-assessed violation may be impossible, and that such audits could be used to effectively close down gun ranges using fines to make their operations unprofitable. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column hates to say I told you so, but I did. Several times. Back in 2009.
Friday, June 15, 2012
The Only Thing Groaning Under Any Weight...
...is my office chair. [Read]
But thanks for the kind sentiment. I think we'd be as welcome at a Romney event as we were at the NRA Convention, where director Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown was forced to give us awards offsite at the SAF reception.
Me, I think Mike deserves a Pulitzer. Holding breath in 3...2...1...
But thanks for the kind sentiment. I think we'd be as welcome at a Romney event as we were at the NRA Convention, where director Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown was forced to give us awards offsite at the SAF reception.
Me, I think Mike deserves a Pulitzer. Holding breath in 3...2...1...
Meanwhile, Over in Furious Mike Paradise
He should have just given them what they wanted. [Watch]
Oh...he did. Nice shoes!
Where is the outrage? Where are the protests?
Oh...he did. Nice shoes!
Where is the outrage? Where are the protests?
Flight of Fancy
It's really amazing how many morons in comments trust a man to pilot them on a commercial airliner, but don't trust him to carry a gun. [Read]
It's like they're religious fanatics, incapable of rational thought in their blind, intolerant hatred of everyone who does not kneel down before their government idol.
It's like they're religious fanatics, incapable of rational thought in their blind, intolerant hatred of everyone who does not kneel down before their government idol.
Armed American Radio to Talk Vanderboegh Bombshells
For Immediate Release
Armed American Radio to report during Sunday 6-17-2012 broadcast on possible high-ranking whistleblowers within the Department of Justice and revelations that a murdered ICE agent was investigating Fast and Furious.
Atlanta GA- June 15th – Award-winning citizen journalist and blogger Mike Vanderboegh along with regular AAR contributor and award-winning journalist David Codrea, join host Mark Walters to blow the lid off of Eric Holder’s and Janet Napolitano’s cover-up of Operation Fast and Furious on nationally syndicated Armed American Radio this weekend. (AAR is nationally syndicated on the Salem Radio Network)
Vanderboegh and Codrea, the two men who originally broke the story now known as Operation Fast and Furious, will discuss claims from “multiple previously highly credible sources” that at least one, and possibly two high-ranking sources from within the Justice Department have “come in from the cold” seeking whistleblower status and “hold the keys to the kingdom”…with knowledge of Eric Holder's actions before and after" the 4 February 2011 DOJ letter denying that the DOJ and its subordinate agencies knew about ‘gunwalking’.”
In a second bombshell revelation, Vanderboegh reports that murdered ICE agent Jaime Zapata was investigating Fast and Furious weapons—despite Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s sworn testimony that there was no connection.
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On the Other Hand...
This is the kind of anger-fueled killing that might only be prevented by not having a loaded pistol in your possession. [More]Then again, if the guy who got shot and killed had produced one, the whole thing might have been prevented when the assailant realized his actions would not be risk-free...
Typical stupid argument for no one having guns--ever. Do these people ever listen to themselves, and if so, are they so self-deluded that nothing that conflicts with their pre-programmed routine gets through?
Blogger Vanderboegh reports murdered ICE agent investigating Fast and Furious
While the weapons found at the Zapata murder scene were not from among the Fast and Furious guns, this revelation is profoundly significant, because it directly contradicts sworn testimony by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes there are liars, damned liars, and administration officials.
Four Against One
The disarmament advocates portray themselves as the arbiters of what's "reasonable" as they throw out their tired old lies about "paranoia"--especially considering what referee-with-money-on-the-game Alex Wagner is on record advocating. [Watch]
Nice of a whole panel to gang up on one person. I know the feeling.
And what's with that creepy smirking eyebrow raise Dan Gross does?
Nice of a whole panel to gang up on one person. I know the feeling.
And what's with that creepy smirking eyebrow raise Dan Gross does?
We're the Only Ones Preventing Enough
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy pointed out earlier this week that there were similar mob attacks last summer, and his department was able to get the problem under control. He said he believes they’ll be able to do it again this year, and it’s a matter of making sure his officers are where they’re supposed to be, to prevent these incidents from happening. [More]The things you'd have to believe to buy that line of crap for one second...but then again, consider the source.
Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.
This Day in History: June 15
Whether or not the Americans already suspected Arnold by this point is unclear. It is certain that by June of 1780, the American leadership was intensely suspicious. Tallmadge wrote to the Governor in charge of supplying West Point on June 15, 1780, warning to expect a sudden strike, with insider knowledge. [More]
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Sheriff’s evasion on gun surrender could open door to other charges
Isn’t it a crime to lie to law enforcement investigators? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner offering looks at an anti-gun "Only One" who keeps digging his own hole deeper. Let's hope he buries himself.
Another Great Fast and Furious Video
We talked about CCRKBA's new video offering the other day. This one deserves to go viral, too. It's very powerful, very compelling, and packs a lot of message into one short minute.
Matthew Boyle has more.
Reese Family Update
As a follow-up to yesterday's GRE:
Yesterday was a great day for the family. The attorneys' for the defense of the kids did a GREAT JOB. Out of three motions they only got through (1) which was conspiracy against the government, straw purchasers, money laundering, smuggling etc. The judge was very attentive and very detail- oriented of all the issues brought forward by the government. The attorneys were able to bring up how the government agents lied on federal forms to try to get the kids to make a mistake so the feds could trap them. The judge could see what they were up to and didn't like it. The newspaper reporters were right on top of that story; the article should be out today in the paper. The motion hearing lasted until after 5:00 o'clock . We watched the news last nite, but they were not on last nite. Whenever there is anything on this case the news always picks up the story. So look for it today ,the other two motions for dismissal are reset for July 12th 13th, one of the motions being dismissal of the case.Here's the story from Las Cruces Sun-News, the only other account posted in Google News at the present besides my piece.
Coming Soon, to a Wooded Lot Near You
Study: Cougars again spreading across Midwest [More]I've camped, fished, hiked and ridden horses in cougar country many times. I've never had a problem. But had one arisen, I'd not have had to take it on with outmatched tooth and claw.
Silent Obedience
What a powerful historical context tool this gives Oath Keepers--including one to paint their so-called "liberal" critics as the cheerleaders for tyranny that they are. [Read]
Speaking of Trash...
Yes, the "Authorized Journalists" at Pensacola News Journal, "a Gannett Company" along with USA Today, is actually advocating that expecting candidates to tell you where they stand on issues before entrusting them with power is "McCarthyism." [Read]
Do you think they know they're just cynically appealing to the ignorant and the hive-minded, or do you think the slobbering loon publicly fluffing for tyranny actually swallows what he wrote?
Do you think they know they're just cynically appealing to the ignorant and the hive-minded, or do you think the slobbering loon publicly fluffing for tyranny actually swallows what he wrote?
This Day in History: June 14
SCOTCH PLAINS June 14, 1780
"Party of Villains" comes from Staten Island to steal horses. Americans capture three, kill one Tory with no losses. [More]
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Blogger Vanderboegh reports 'game changer' DOJ whistleblowers have come forward
Sources described as "previously highly credible" and "close to the Gunwalker investigation" are claiming "one and perhaps two sources within the Department of Justice headquarters...have approached the Issa Committee seeking whistleblower status," Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars blog is reporting this afternoon in an exclusive story. [More]Today's second Gun Rights Examiner feature notes the keys to the kingdom just may have been found.
Jailed gun dealer family hearing scheduled for this morning
What’s also clear is they are being prosecuted by the same branch of government that won’t comply with subpoenas when its own role in allowing guns to fall into cartel hands is scrutinized. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes there's justice and there's Justice...
On Self-Referential Links
Where would you have had us link to? [Read]
Because we've also had the direct opposite complaint--someone would come into it for the first time and it would be like trying to watch part of a third-season episode of "Lost" and make sense of the storyline and characters. That's too confusing and too much work, so they would just give up and switch channels.
Because we've also had the direct opposite complaint--someone would come into it for the first time and it would be like trying to watch part of a third-season episode of "Lost" and make sense of the storyline and characters. That's too confusing and too much work, so they would just give up and switch channels.
Where to Begin?
“There’s no rational reason to own a gun in the city. Gophers aren’t chewing up our fields, we have no black bears going through our garbage bins and the raccoons aren’t dangerous enough,” said Councillor Adam Vaughan in an interview. “I appreciate that people like them as a sporting hobby. I appreciate that people like their guns and love their activities, but those are emotional arguments. And I’m sorry, the risks that are presented from the stores, the selling and the possession of weapons in this city is presenting too big a problem.” [More]Actually, there's no need to begin anywhere. He's clearly either insane or evil, quite possibly both, and the only rational response would be to repel him if he gets too close.
Welcome to the Party, φιλαράκος
"I have never even considered owning a gun before, but I am seriously worried about what might happen after the election." [More]If you were serious, you wouldn't just be "considering."
Stupid Guns
"Stupid Tree!"These people think and act like children.
Project Gun Wokker
The Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that they had detained 23 suspects here and had broken up an international gun trafficking ring that conspired with a United States soldier to smuggle firearms into China. [More]Doesn't he know that's a human rights violation?
Bealls, For All Your Father's Day Shopping Needs: Not
“Father’s Day is a time when people think about family ... or people that have passed on,” said Bill Webster, director of public and government affairs for Bealls. “It’s a time when people might reflect on the future and participate in the program.” [More]It's also a time when we might reflect on telling Bill Webster and Bealls to go **** themselves, and that there are plenty of other retailers we can patronize who are not helping to subvert public perception of guns in private hands. Those, incidentally, help keep more people from "passing on" than the monopoly of violence thugs and the useful idiot rope-sellers conducting the "buyback" want us to know about.
What do they call a father who has not assumed responsibility to protect his family, to include having the mindset, the training and the tools to do it? Aside from that. A Bealls customer.
Meanwhile, Over in Furious Mike Paradise
Bible-college student’s pocketknife spoils trip to New York City [More]
It wasn't the knife that spoiled it.
By the way, why isn't "the officer's" name relevant if one of the prime objectives of journalism is to be a government watchdog keeping the public fully informed of abuses and abusers?
We're the Only Ones Incomprehensible Enough
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
May I Have the Envelope, Please...
Click graphic to enlarge. Links contained in original:
- http://www.rtdna.org/pages/media_items/2012-national-edward-r.-murrow-award-winners2089.php
- http://vimeo.com/album/1834393
Weapons Laws of the Russian Federation
Wow, what an undertaking to translate this--suggest bookmarking it as a resource. [Read]
TV panel discusses Mexican hunting dangers and inhumane Humane Society practices
Two topics were selected for discussion, the first being hunting in Mexico, often under armed guards due to cartel terror (with a segue into Fast and Furious), and the second being the blackmail-style pressure the Humane Society of the United States brings to bear on conservation charities to not accept contributions from hunters. Their ruthlessness is shocking, and it actually works against their advertised mission and creates a devastating and wholly unjustifiable extinction threat to endangered species. This is a story that’s been underreported and is probably news to even most hunters. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column reports on the second in what will hopefully turn out to be a long series of appearances, and includes the embedded video.
THIS WEEK, beginning June 12th, on ATSN TV, Season 2
15th Annual SW Regional ICORE Championship
Hogue Action Pistol Range, San Luis Obispo, CA
Molly Smith, ATSN Field Correspondent, takes us to the 15th Annual SW Regional ICORE Championship at the Hogue Action Pistol Range in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Molly competes in the match and describes the challenging stages. She has a chance to talk to top shooters Rich Wolfe, John Bagakis as well as the founder of the match, Rich Richards.
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Stand Your Ground is RACIST!
That's the new meme and they're sticking to it. [Read]
Even if they're demonstrably full of sh...:
Even if they're demonstrably full of sh...:
I go on to point out ways in which a robust right of self-defense has historically proved to protect the interests of victims of domestic violence and racial minorities. (On the latter, see, for example, cases from Ossian Sweet’s in the 1920s to the present day; more here and here, and from my Cato colleague Jonathan Blanks here.)
A Legal Right
Student’s legal right to possess weapon not entirely clear [More]Sure it is. It's the recognition of it that's being intentionally blurred.
[Via Darrel]
A Note About Yesterday's Post
This one, about CBS...
It has been suggested on one forum by someone with no dog in the fight, and who has not invested thousands of hours of their life with the attendant exertion and financial/emotional strain, that "credit" doesn't matter as long as the story gets out.
That's my point: The whole story is NOT getting out when the mainstream press is what controls the megaphone, and as I pointed out, even Wikipedia deletes all references to we who forced people to pay attention and who continue to expose new facets. Sharyl's done great work, but there is plenty she and Fox and all the other reporters and bloggers have not touched on that is only available on mine and Mike's sites. As I wrote recently, there are also stories I have had to spike recently because we're just not big enough fish to be able to do anything about it if retaliation is the government response, so my sources, with Republican squishiness being among other factors, asked me not to post my finished drafts. As their protection is my priority, I of course complied.
On top of that, there's information Mike and I have that we've not yet disclosed--in some cases big stuff that eats at us, that we're itching to get out, and that we just can't yet, and who knows when we'll be able to? As our best defense--because we are small fry--has always been to make noise, believe me when I say that situation makes me feel very vulnerable, because as long as it resides only with us, it is containable. And we're dealing with people who would engineer guns being walked to Mexican criminals here...
Another person suggested we write a book, but that requires an interested publisher, and an advance so that we can eat in the mean time. Speaking of which, that's the reason I keep asking regulars--you who evidently get value from the work because you keep returning--to share the GRE links, and the reason why getting them out to a larger readership is important--at least to me...
Oh, and there's one other great reason why we should just not sit back and say let CBS be the final word on Guwalker. This one. Moonves could pull the plug at any time.
It has been suggested on one forum by someone with no dog in the fight, and who has not invested thousands of hours of their life with the attendant exertion and financial/emotional strain, that "credit" doesn't matter as long as the story gets out.
That's my point: The whole story is NOT getting out when the mainstream press is what controls the megaphone, and as I pointed out, even Wikipedia deletes all references to we who forced people to pay attention and who continue to expose new facets. Sharyl's done great work, but there is plenty she and Fox and all the other reporters and bloggers have not touched on that is only available on mine and Mike's sites. As I wrote recently, there are also stories I have had to spike recently because we're just not big enough fish to be able to do anything about it if retaliation is the government response, so my sources, with Republican squishiness being among other factors, asked me not to post my finished drafts. As their protection is my priority, I of course complied.
On top of that, there's information Mike and I have that we've not yet disclosed--in some cases big stuff that eats at us, that we're itching to get out, and that we just can't yet, and who knows when we'll be able to? As our best defense--because we are small fry--has always been to make noise, believe me when I say that situation makes me feel very vulnerable, because as long as it resides only with us, it is containable. And we're dealing with people who would engineer guns being walked to Mexican criminals here...
Another person suggested we write a book, but that requires an interested publisher, and an advance so that we can eat in the mean time. Speaking of which, that's the reason I keep asking regulars--you who evidently get value from the work because you keep returning--to share the GRE links, and the reason why getting them out to a larger readership is important--at least to me...
Oh, and there's one other great reason why we should just not sit back and say let CBS be the final word on Guwalker. This one. Moonves could pull the plug at any time.
Shipley Hearing Today
On record reconstruction... [Read]
Why would they have to do that?
Oh.
Copies of the defense attorney's objection to producing what should be privileged work papers/documents and an update memo from DOJ on the US Attorney assigned to the case are also posted.
If you're unfamiliar with the Shipley case, check these out:
You who are still part of a machine that hasn't turned on you (yet) might want to keep that in mind.
Why would they have to do that?
Oh.
Copies of the defense attorney's objection to producing what should be privileged work papers/documents and an update memo from DOJ on the US Attorney assigned to the case are also posted.
If you're unfamiliar with the Shipley case, check these out:
- Is FBI agent Mexican 'crime gun' source?
- Is FBI agent in Mexican gun case being persecuted?
- Is FBI agent charged with illegal gun dealing just a collector?
- Jury finds FBI's Shipley guilty on gun charges
- Family of FBI agent convicted on gun charges: 'Battle lost, war still on'
You who are still part of a machine that hasn't turned on you (yet) might want to keep that in mind.
To OURSELVES and OUR Posterity
Justified
A series on justifiable homicides from MLive.com, where they go from the defenders' points of view, deal with aftermaths, etc...[Read]
I had time to read the editorial intro and it looks interesting. I'll have to somehow find more to check out their follow-through.
I had time to read the editorial intro and it looks interesting. I'll have to somehow find more to check out their follow-through.
Sounds Like She Gets It--And HE Doesn't
Hazmat shares the response he got on Gunwalker from Rep. Cynthis Lummis. [Read]
She sure did a lot better than the equivocating, say-nothing weasel words I got from my ever-useless RINO Rep. Steve LaTourettesyndrome:
He will keep my position in mind. How nice of him.
Ditto.
She sure did a lot better than the equivocating, say-nothing weasel words I got from my ever-useless RINO Rep. Steve LaTourettesyndrome:
He will keep my position in mind. How nice of him.
Ditto.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Sunday's Armed American Radio Program
I haven't had time to listen to the podcast but I have the nagging feeling that I slipped up when I meant to refer to Atticus Finch when talking about shooting a mad dog and may have called his last name Stevens. I don't know why I would have made that mistake, but I am getting old. Maybe I didn't. Who cares?
Listen at your leisure/play in the background while you surf and share with your friends:
CBS scoops contempt vote, claims credit for nationally breaking Fast and Furious
Regardless, here's the exhaustively-documented truth: This story, that now reaches into the highest levels of government, was exposed nationally for the first time by new media, not old. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes acknowledgement involves a lot more more than simply proper attribution.
Registration-Bound
These are absolute, bald-faced lies. ATF has been copying FFL Bound Books for years – with or without FFL permission. During annual compliance inspections in other states, FFL dealers have reported that ATF industry operations investigators (IOI) brought in digital cameras and photographed the entire dealer “Bound Book” without permission of the FFL holder. Other dealers reported investigators brought in digital scanners and scanned portions of the Bound Book – line by line. Of course, the Bound Book contains the dealer’s full record of lawful firearm sales transaction records. [More]If it's not isolated and discontinued, as we've been led to believe, who can help amass documentation to see how widespread and long of a practice this has been/is?
Has a congressman just been lied to? Anyone willing to come forward and help prove it, or is the specter of retaliation enough to keep this discussion confined to "gun blogs," the only ones with the incentive to press forward on a story like this, that is, with principled interest?
Community Hero
Meet Alan Rosenfeld. [Read]
No wonder government and public sector unions want to raise taxes so you pay your "fair share." And if you don't like it, you're a teabagger, you teabagger.
No wonder government and public sector unions want to raise taxes so you pay your "fair share." And if you don't like it, you're a teabagger, you teabagger.
The Root of the Problem
Each year, across the country, about 7,000 African Americans are murdered, more than nine times out of 10 by other African Americans. [More]Dang.
You know what would fix that?
Marching on gun shops!
We're the Only Ones Who Know What's Good Enough
“(Russellville Police Chief Tom McMillen) stated that having one in your car’s probably good enough and you could get to it if you have to”... [More]Y'know, I can conjure up a thought experiment where ol' elitist Chiefie here can show us by example how that wold work. Without going into further detail, it includes force initiators screaming "IS THIS GOOD ENOUGH???"
Oh, look: His mission is all about "securing a feeling of security and safety." No wonder bleaters who make that their priority would trust it to this authoritarian meathead.
Two Approaches, One Solution
He taught them responsibility. [More]As opposed to the shrieking avoidance and blue-nosed, self-righteous prohibition, which is the purview of the antis.
Securing the Blessings of Liberty: Environmentalcase Bureaucrat-Style
Who Decides?
"The Latino community in Colorado can ultimately determine who ends up being the next president of the United States," he told KBNO's listeners. [More]And the usual suspects, Democrats, SEIU, et al, are exploiting that for all it's worth.
I don't suppose circulating these would be an option...?
Let me know if relying on Google Translate was a mistake--I can do a quick turnaround text change if need be.
This Day in History: June 11
The enemy, by attempting to hold conquests so remote, must dissipate their force, and of course afford opportunities of striking one or the other extremity. [More]
Sunday, June 10, 2012
ATF whistleblower site members not buying Holder’s ‘Fast and Furious’ testimony
“This man needs to be impeached, prosecuted here in the states then handed over to the sovereign nation of Mexico for terrorist crimes against the Mexican people who died because of his failed attempt to push more gun control,” he concluded. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes more dissension in the ranks.
Saturday, June 09, 2012
TV panel analyzes home defense incident and anti-gun hypocrisy
Two topics were selected for discussion, the first being a case of armed home defense and the second being the hypocrisy of anti-gun politicians and other elites who nonetheless enjoy armed protection themselves. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column hopes you can find 20 minutes to sit back and enjoy the show.
Friday, June 08, 2012
Holder testimony belies early and continued citizen journalist reports
In order to buy into that, one must also believe that the head of the United States Department of Justice, with the virtually unlimited resources of the federal apparatus at his disposal, knew less than two relatively obscure, home-based bloggers in Alabama and Ohio, who had uncovered and amassed quite a bit of documentation, and obtained significantly wider recognition of those efforts by the time Holder claims, under oath, he got his first inkling. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes contradictions can be identified if one knows where to look--and wants to. At this point, they've been dared to do something about it. If investigators don't press forward with consequences it will be because they don't want to.
A Durham Democrat
Sen. Floyd McKissick, a Durham Democrat, had a similar concern. “We keep going down a path and I don’t know where it ends,” he said. “We continue to allow guns in more and more places.” [More]In other words he's just another race cardshark who thinks photo IDs discriminate against black voters but evidently not against black gun owners? And he thinks his function is to "allow"?
Feel free to let this freedom-hating gasbag know your concerns.
"The Gun Went Off"
"He wasn't driving down the road in a passenger vehicle. He wasn't on a road at all. He was in their yard when the tractor rolled over on him and killed him," the lawyer said. [More]All by its own self. "Acute ethanol intoxication" had nothing to do with it.
Which reminds me of a joke.
Bloody Good Ideas
The Swiss Army Survival Tampon — 10 Survival Uses [More]I don't think I'd better type what I'm thinking.
[Via Russ H]
What We MEANT to Say
We're the Only Ones Pompous and Circumstantial Enough
Seventeen-year-old Tiarra Brown was focused on her future, but the excitement about graduation turned to fear when police came to her school and arrested her.I imagine an honor roll student could learn a valuable lesson from this educational opportunity.
Prosecutors said they dropped the case after realizing she was not involved in a crime. It appears to be a horrific case of mistaken identity... [More]
[Via William T]
We're the Only Ones "It's Not Easy Being Green" Enough
A Utah police officer fired for dropping his pants and flaunting a green Speedo during a "Princess and the Frog" birthday skit at a school function wants his job back. [More]Maybe if he'd said "Ribbit, ribbit" instead of "Rub it, rub it"...
[Via Bad Cyborg]
Things Going Swimmingly Down Under
Diamond in the Rough
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
...sue. [Read]
Lot'ta leftist snouts in that trough...
Don't they realize what could happen if a southern bluefin tuna or a Spix's macaw swallowed one of these...? And let's not even get into the environmental impact of producing these things, from tapping trees and exploiting indigenous labor in Brazil or Southeast Asia, to creating molds and manufacturing equipment, to production operations (say, have you seen some of the stuff that requires, like sulfur and ammonia and "PAN bad actor" chemicals like zinc oxide they use for vulcanizing agents?) all the way to clogging sewer systems after disposal...
Besides, if they're going to pass out promotional swag, I'd much rather have a Center for Biological Diversity gorilla hand ashtray for those cigars I get that are probably rolled from tobacco grown on slashed and burned rainforest land...
Lot'ta leftist snouts in that trough...
Don't they realize what could happen if a southern bluefin tuna or a Spix's macaw swallowed one of these...? And let's not even get into the environmental impact of producing these things, from tapping trees and exploiting indigenous labor in Brazil or Southeast Asia, to creating molds and manufacturing equipment, to production operations (say, have you seen some of the stuff that requires, like sulfur and ammonia and "PAN bad actor" chemicals like zinc oxide they use for vulcanizing agents?) all the way to clogging sewer systems after disposal...
Besides, if they're going to pass out promotional swag, I'd much rather have a Center for Biological Diversity gorilla hand ashtray for those cigars I get that are probably rolled from tobacco grown on slashed and burned rainforest land...
Gadgetwise, Pound Foolish
[More]
Who? Oh, you mean the guy who was already on the phone with the dispatcher?
I hope this guy is just being sarcastic.
[Via ParaLarry]
This Day in History: June 8
Union Square on Elizabeth Avenue is best known for being the site of the Continental Outpost of the battle of June 8, 1780. Five thousand British Regulars arrived in Port Elizabeth and marched down Elizabeth Avenue-known as one of the oldest streets in North America-to attack General Washington and the Continental Army. [More]
Thursday, June 07, 2012
510,000 people, 126,654 guns
Heavens! Why isn't that ratio reversed? [Read]
I guess it's a more sensationalistic headline to help bring about those "tougher restrictions" Roland Browne is stamping his feet for than the more honest "Gun Registration an Utter Failure at Reducing Violent Crime."
I guess it's a more sensationalistic headline to help bring about those "tougher restrictions" Roland Browne is stamping his feet for than the more honest "Gun Registration an Utter Failure at Reducing Violent Crime."
'Stand your ground' needs to go
Yeah, well, f-you, Lloyd Constantine. You need to go. [More]
I see you were an adviser to Spitzer-Swallows. Did you tell him what socks to wear?
I see you were an adviser to Spitzer-Swallows. Did you tell him what socks to wear?
Mexican attorney prepares civil lawsuit on Fast and Furious
"I'm risking my life, my things, my family, everything, but it's something that someone has to do,” González Saldaña told Proceso, saying she is proceeding because “everyone is afraid” and “because nobody has had the pants to do so. I cannot believe no one has come up with this idea.” [More]Today's second Gun Rights Examiner report introduces us to a lady whose courageous example should shame our so-called "leaders."
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