This Day in History: August 26

Some of the Companies have only a partial supply of Ammunition.

A deficiency of Commissioned & Noncommissioned Officers.

A Deficiency in the Music, & the necessary articles for repairing Drums much wanted.

No mode for repairing the Arms.

Wanting a Brigade Major—Brigade Qr Master—and a Forage Master.

Waggons for moveing the Tents & the Officers light Baggage. [More]

Reaction to student's fantasy dinosaur-shooting shows zero tolerance insanity

This is nothing short of child abuse under color of authority. [More]

I'm reminded of a line by one of The Keepers on Star Trek: "Wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded."

Last Night, on Armed American Radio

Live from the MN State Fair. AAR Regular Contributor and founder of the Second Amendment Foundation Alan Gottlieb, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, NY Times best selling author, founder Crime Prevention Research Center and Fox News Contributor John Lott, trainer Rob Pincus, author Michael Martin, regular contributors David Codrea, George “The Mad Ogre” Hill and special guest co-host Managing Editor of Concealed Carry Magazine Kevin Michalowski.

• AAR 8-24-2014 Hour 3
• AAR 8-24-2014 Hour 2
• AAR 8-24-2014 Hour 1

The Cool Part of Living in a Diverse Community

I'm still waiting to hear it. [More]

What about the diversity of people who like bacon?

Prozis. Opposite Day.

These diseased people, like Mayor Frenchie, are a pathogen. We need a public health model.

We need a vaccine.

This right there tells me I'd never eat at Sneakers, just for being miserable cowards who don't have the guts to tell fanatics who aren't even customers to go to Jahannam.

Get Ready

Excellent advice. [More]

The Way Things Are

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I just sent the following reply to a reader who told me his comments weren't being posted on Examiner: 

I have written numerous trouble tickets to Examiner and they blame Disqus. I don't know if it is because people have put urls in their comments to trigger an auto-moderation or what, but I have seen obvious spam comments allowed through while timely, thoughtful and informative ones have been delayed until weeks after anyone is even bothering to revisit the story. I've also speculated it might be comments flagged by trolls and even blogged about it.

Between that and driving readers away with obnoxious pop-ups and autoplay videos, I lose subscribers almost as quickly as I gain them, plus take no small amount of heat for something I have no control over. 

I have no solution for you. I wish I had an economic option to post somewhere else, but I have not been successful in making that happen. 

I've talked before about the need to use the AdBlock Plus add-on to keep the intrusive ads from taking over, and believe it is everyone's responsibility to learn  how, do it and practice "safe surfing" instead of complaining to me about something within their control. Still, that makes sharing my links problematic for many.

I also have to put each article through a "Facebook Debugger" after it publishes, or else either the wrong thumbnail will appear or an "Uh-oh Examiner" message will post instead. That screen capture included in this post is hardly unique.

Then I get the people who complain that gun magazines suck because all they do is whore for manufacturers, so my stuff there is off-limits for them, and others who have chewed me out for doing stuff over at The Shooter's Log because that makes me a sell-out to Cheaper Than Dirt, and I can't wait to see how the fallout over JPFO will make me persona non grata to some. And it's not like NRA or its loyalists want anything to do with the views I often express.

It is what it is. I'm doing what I can.  If it isn't enough, I'll have to make a decision about what other options are open to me.

A man's gotta eat.  I've figured out how to do that before, and will again.

And no, I don't expect anybody to do anything about this. It's mine to figure out.

Correlation?

I dunno. Seems a bit early to be drawing conclusions, before significant real-world examples have been set. [More]

Meanwhile, Over in Post-Racial America...

The Finest Election Money Can Buy

Who needs grassroots when you have super-wealthy "progressives" laying down AstroTurf by the hectare? [More]

He does it all over, because he knows best.

Don't worry about it. You're not sophisticated enough to understand.

My Kind of Party

If only they would disarm you and me. [More]

I can't tell you how many times this happens at events I host.

"All Clear"

Isn't that what the Eloi said after the Morlocks had captured enough of them in the Sphinx, turned off the sirens and closed the big metal door? [More]

UPDATE: Look like it was Xanax, Warrior Princess...

We're the Only Ones Dated Enough

Court documents show that Fairfield Police Officers Stephen Ruiz and Jacob Glashoff used company time and equipment to search for women on internet dating sites. The documents also show that two used the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System – a statewide police database – to screen the women they liked. [More]

If the women weren't doing anything wrong, what have they got to hide?

Oh... that's not the issue...? 

Because we're all being screened in the interests of somebody... 

Murphy's Law

Democratic State Representative and candidate for U.S. representative Pat Murphy said Tuesday that if the underage migrants who have come to the U.S. from Central America aren’t given a “pathway for citizenship” they could become terrorists....Murphy, who has called himself “a liberal’s liberal,” was endorsed by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee...[More] 

And that right there is all you really need to know.

He sounds more like an extortionist's extortionist, and a domestic enemy's domestic enemy... 

Oh, look: He's also a gungrabber's gungrabber!

Gomer?

The Top 10

Well, yeah.  The misery and terror are, for the most part, happening in other communities ... housing those people ... [More] 

Moneyed "progressives" -- is it any wonder that we love them so?

The Art of the Possible

Fouchier complained, “People are acting like I am some mad scientist” after he and his team “mutated the hell out of H5N1”. He explained “I wanted to see what was possible” [More]

I used this general topic last month as an intro for a JPFO piece.  What I reads here is evil and insane, and wholly unsurprising.

"Politics is the art of the possible"...? Anyone think a bill or hearings would rein this in and hold the people responsible accountable?

Anyone...?

Bueller...?

[Via Kid Sister]

This Day in History: August 25

Five companies of light-infantry have been assigned at a time to do duty on the lines—the corps of light-infantry now consists of five battalions... [More]

Tonight on Armed American Radio

From host Mark Walters:

This weekend's show has shaped up to be a great one! Concealed Carry Magazine managing editor Kevin Michalowski will be co-hosting with me for the full show. Since I will be traveling tomorrow and the live show is being done from a remote location on Sunday, at the Minnesota State Fair: 

HOUR 1
8p-830p ET (5-530p PT) 
Alan Gottlieb
830-900p ET 
Sheriff David Clarke 

HOUR 2
9p-930p ET
John Lott
930-1000p ET (830p-900p CT) 
Michael Martin 

HOUR 3
10p-11p ET 
Rob Pincus 
David Codrea 
George Hill 

Visit the AAR website to find a station near you or to listen via live streaming.  

Yesterday

I just sent the following to a friend in response to something else, and decided what the hell, I may as well share it here:

I was so busy, I didn't even have time to give feral sons Uday and Qusay their daily beating.

Spent a needed day with wifey. Went to the outdoor farmer's market yesterday morning in the heart of Hudson. Took our goodies home after making fast friends with a happy poodle pup we met along the way, and then went to the art fair -- we always get our Christmas cards from a local artist who does home-towny Thomas Kincaid-type stuff we're suckers for.

Then went to visit my Mom. She got out of the hospital a week ago after having her knee replaced.  Visited, went grocery shopping for her, then found out she forgot her cell phone charge cord at the recovery hospital-- they couldn't find it so we had to buy a new one.

After that it was time to grill bacon cheeseburgers in time to leave by 7, when we went to Blossom --every year I get her Cleveland Symphony Orchestra summer season tickets, and we take out lawn chairs and listen under the stars, last night to Bach and Liszt, followed by the main event, Carmina Burana, which I just then realized is where Milius got some of the music for his Conan the Barbarian movie.

We got home in time for me to light a cigar on the back porch, pour a couple fingers of the good stuff, and continue my appreciation for the arts and culture by watching horror host Svengoolie present "Abbot and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

I hope with all the negative crap we feel compelled to devote so much of ourselves to dealing with, you find time for soul restoration and just plain enjoyment for its own sake.

Deep divisions continue on JPFO acquisition

I don't presume to be smart enough or influential enough to play peacemaker in this. What I'm interested in doing is helping, and seeing that positive efforts toward liberty are promoted and supported. So all I can do is that which I've said from the start, from before the JPFO news became public knowledge: I will continue my efforts for the organization until such time as someone tells me they don't want me to, or until I come to see that my faith has been misplaced. [More]

Beats me what's going to shake out from this. All I can do is share the reasons I've come to the interim conclusions I have. Your mileage may vary.

Announced takeover of Jewish gun group provokes controversy

The inescapable conclusion is, had gun owners stepped up and supported a group struggling after the passing of its founder, its rescue would have been unneeded. [More]

I got SAF's Alan Gottlieb to comment on the pending JPFO acquisition. I've seen the emotions this one has raised, so did my best to keep this a straight news story with links that people can follow to help decide for themselves.

Armed black demonstrators display egalitarian diversity of right to arms

Honest liberty advocates laud natural and civil rights being exercised, not crimes being committed that take advantage of the trust that must come with freedom. If rights are abused, we condemn the individual abusers, not the right. And skin color has nothing to do with any of that – unless you're a "progressive" and want to have something to cynically exploit. [More]

My latest JPFO Alert notes the folks accused of intolerance are actually the ones being inclusive -- and the ones doing the accusing are actually the narrow-minded bigots. Funny how that works.

What's in a Name?

Now that she's passed her lower-level ideological purity tests, Proziette Alison Thoet has a great future in "Authorized Journalism." [More]

[Via Florida Guy]   

Oversight Committee responds to court-ordered Fast and Furious log release

“What they are counting on is that they can delay the truth coming out until long after they've left office -- or longer,” the source explained, offering a cynical outlook on what those interested in meaningful and timely results can expect. “The court order does not scare such people who are very skilled and exceedingly well-practiced in the cover-up of lies and misdeeds. People looking at this as a potential Shakespearean tragedy where the villain gets his in the end will find that it is merely cheap Kabuki theater.” [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes being a step closer is meaningless on a treadmill.

Sheriff Clarke on AAR This Sunday

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Huge and Troubling JPFO News

Claire Wolfe has resigned over a proposed takeover by SAF. [More]

I've been part of some behind-the-scenes conversations with her and others on this.

For now, I'm simply going to link you over to her piece and suppress my own comments. My columns will continue until I'm told they are no longer wanted or I until have personal reasons compelling me not to go on. I do not foresee, nor would I tolerate, having my writing directed.

My goal is for the group to continue true to Aaron Zelman's vision for its purpose. I will presume that to also be the goal of anyone coming in until I see it proven differently.

This saddens me, and I do understand time has run out to say something before it's a done deal. Claire is an amazing talent and intellect, and JPFO has been a unique, no-compromise effort that is desperately needed. I want to see us all emerge unified and stronger. 

I will say this much: Anyone who opposes the merger but will not personally help with needed operating funds wants something from others for nothing.

A Wake-Up Call?

I dunno -- if most of those people were capable of being alert, this wouldn't even be an issue. [More]

Peeling Off the Mask

The Los Angeles Times has put aside the pretense that it is an objective newspaper. They just hired a major Democrat donor, with NO media experience as the publisher. Prior to this he was an advisor to Mayor Villaraigosa. The Times is to become the MSNBC of the newspaper business. [More]

Not that we didn't know these wretched propagandists to be Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists all along.

I'm told the attacks on the Second Amendment will become even more fraudulent, frequent and hysterical, if that's possible.

It's what Prozis do.

Actions Have Consequences

Unfortunately, the wrong employees are being terminated. [More]

[Via Florida Guy]  

We're the Only Ones Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places Enough

Oklahoma City policeman arrested for raping women while on patrol [More]

So does anyone in law enforcement argue victims would not have a right to use deadly force to defend themselves in these situations?

Besides those who say just give them what they want...?

Had a woman decided to fight, what kind of additional hell do you think she'd have been forced to go through? Assuming she survived...

[Via William T]

The Selective Empath

That's a polite way of calling him a racist. [More]

Oh, but he can't be racist, because he's disenfranchised and has no power.

The Heartbreak of CFS

Fool can't figure out why they keep failing? [More]

Yeah, I know this is from 2012, but it does help illustrate Chronic Fudd Syndrome.

When Prozis Collide

Which Bolshevik would you  want "in charge" of your children's education? [More]

Meanwhile, Over in Big Sky Country

Meet Amanda Curtis. She’s a gun control-supporting vlogger. She’s also the Democratic Senate nominee in Montana. [More]

Thing is, I know of "progressives" from places like the Chicago area and urban California who have moved there, and guess what they bring with them.

And it doesn't help when gun owners are defrauded by people they should be able to trust.

We're the Only Ones Lobbying Enough

Fighting for the standing army since people stopped caring... [More]

I'm sure someone could come up with a better logo...

Time to Ban Assault Hoovers

Welcome to Europe in the Dark Ages, living in filth. Now that's "leaning forward." [More]

In typical Opposite Day fashion, all they've proven is "progressives" suck even more. Let them, and they'll suck up everything in sight.

Since she obviously knows better than the industry, I'd like to video Diana Moon Glampers Marlene Holzner trying to change a bag or belt. 

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

A South Carolina teen's writing assignment ended in an arrest after he says he made a reference to using a gun to kill a dinosaur. [More]

Well, in fairness, they do say he was being disruptive, and what have we said about challenging the masters' proxies?

I wonder how much Prozi sphincter-tightening it would cause if this discussion could be resurrected in online teen social media communities...

[Via several of you]

This Day in History: August 22

As this is the second instance in which Genl Birch has contravened my Intentions in grantg Flaggs to come from the Enemys Lines by other Routes than that of Dobb’s Ferry—you will be pleased to write to that Gentleman on the Subject & inform him, that if any other Flags are granted by any other Way than that of the Established post of Dobb’s Ferry, they will be positively detained as prisoners. [More]

Kroger does not bow to Bloomberg pressure to ban guns in stores

“The safety of our customers and associates is one of our most important company values,” Kroger responded on its website and to online inquiries. “Millions of customers are present in our busy grocery stores every day and we don't want to put our associates in a position of having to confront a customer who is legally carrying a gun. That is why our long - standing policy on this issue is to follow state and local laws and to ask customers to be respectful of others while shopping. We know that our customers are passionate on both sides of this issue and we trust them to be responsible in our stores.” [More]

This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report notes along with a "Right Store, Right Price" slogan, Kroger has given the right answer.

The Obvious Solution

We need more "common sense gun safety laws"! [More]

[Via Florida Guy]   

Right Store, Right Price, Right Response

I asked a question here.

Liston Matthews shares the answer and tells us "thank yous" are in order.

It's certainly worth a moment of my time. (That phone number is theirs--I see no need to give them mine over this.)

Why not make it worth a moment of yours?

UPDATE: And have some fun while you're at it?

The Lesser of Two Evils?

Kapo Konservative David Frum shows exactly why "moderate" establishment Republicans are a false hope for gun owners. [More]

That's What It Will Probably Take

Ominous signs point to ISIS connection at US southern border [More]

Plenty of "gun-free zones" for a Beslan reenactment.

I Think You Are Getting Into Semantics

“For me, that’s an automatic weapon.”

And that's all that matters if you're Don Lemon, Authorized Journalist.

Besides, "no one is saying you should take away anyone's Second Amendment rights."

That's a relief, getting such an assurance from a demonstrable ignoramus and liar.

[Via Michael G]

And Now a Word from the Guy Who Doesn't Want YOU Having "Weapons of War"

Thank you, and Eid-eh Shoma Mobarak.

Captain's Log

• Assessment of Ferguson
• ISIS cowards
• Back to nature
• Notes

The "Gun Control" Jihad

It too is being waged by fanatics, force initiators and losers.  [More]

We're the Only Ones Out of Uniform Enough

Maryland trooper suspended after accused of being naked in bar [More]

Maybe he thought he was being spoken to when somebody ordered a Fuzzy Navel and got carried away...

[Via Herschel]

Mum's the Word

We've already told everyone it was a "botched sting."  What more do they want? [More]

Nothing ever changes.

I believe Gomer would like to have the last word here.

[Via Michael G]

Up in Smoke

Maybe they're so expensive because his go through a secret and exclusive moistening and curing process... [More]

It's Personal

Glad to see that old "nation of laws vs. nation of men" question finally settled... [More]

Anybody who didn't think hatred was a core component of what motivated these psychopaths...?

All Wet

Hey, we did out part. We supported the idea.  Now it's up to you to implement it. [More]

Bay Area Prozis -- is it any wonder that we love them so?

We're the Only Ones Premeditated Enough

A Tulsa police officer was charged Monday with first-degree murder in the off-duty shooting death of his daughter's boyfriend earlier this month. [More]

Hey, what did we just get done saying about listening?

[Via *Gotta go back into Hotmail and find out who sent me this--Later*]

We're the Only Ones the Boss of You Enough

I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me. [More]

Your place in the scheme of things explained ... besides, you don't know what kind of  day he's had.  And he wants to get home at the end of his shift.

I knew there was an explanation for all the accounts posted here and here.

This reminds me of a dark, sexist "joke" I heard years ago:

Q: What do battered women have in common?
A: [Through gritted teeth] They just don't listen.

That in turn reminds me of who is for remedying that situation -- and who is against it.

[Via Kevin Starrett]

UPDATE: From OFF.

This Day in History: August 21

Will Robinson is the Soldier that your Excellency pardoned when last in Town—he has been guilty of repeat’d Desertions & reinlisting which render him a suitable object for an Example; the Serjt who is a native of France he promises to behave well in future which induces me to sollicit your Excellency to spare his Life in hopes that his future Services will atone for his past Conduct. [More]

No-fly list ruling has implications for current and proposed gun denials

"A citizen will lose his appeal if the Attorney General can prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, not that the individual poses a risk, or that the person is a terrorist, or even that the person is under investigation; rather, the Attorney General must only demonstrate that the person has been placed on a terror watch list,” Titus continued. [More]

International travel isn't the only "necessary aspect of liberties sacred to members of a free society."

We're the Only Ones Discounted Enough

You guys'll eat them last, right? [More]

[Via Jeffersonian]

Unexpected Company

It's late, and it's dark...and you are coming home tired. Suddenly finding your door open and no lights on was not in your plan. Do you draw and go in? Or retreat and wait for police? What would you do? [More]

This week on "Stop the Threat"...

What Did We Just Get Done Saying?

Oh, yeah: Evil is. [More]

This goes in the right direction, just not far enough.  And it presupposes the "opposition" actually is.

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Shocking Enough

"And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free." [More]

[Via Florida Guy]   

Hitting Home

I'm horrified when I run across these kinds of stories, and refuse to watch the videos -- I've seen a few of those before, to my regret, and there is nothing to learn watching such demonic hatred being acted out on the terrified and suffering. I imagine for Herschel, this must have hit him like a white hot knife in the gut. [More]

I imagine for the family, this must... no, I can't imagine and pray I never learn.

Evil is.

UPDATE: Bracken elaborates.

Florida Carry Urgent Action Request

Two current cases are potentially as important for Florida gun owners as Heller and McDonald, and we urgently need your financial help to see them through! [More]

 I need to make time to learn more about this so I can further spread the word with a detailed column. In the mean time, you have enough here to begin that process yourself, and to share with other gun owners.

We're the Only Ones Making a Point Enough

Hey, if you don't like it, go f@#! yourself. [Watch]

[Via Bluesgal]

Clash of the Titans

Not exactly a cage match, but I'll watch. [More]

Unreality Checks

Well alrighty then. [More]

Artists. Is it any wonder we love them so?

Let's hope he was wearing his bu ... uh ... earplugs.

[Via Todd S]

UPDATE: Well looky here. In comments, Danno notes these devoid-of-principle opportunists are playing both ends against the middle.

Sullivan Law City Blues

De Blasio announced last week that he would spend $12.7 million to prevent gun violence by expanding a pilot program using “violence interrupters” — primarily ex-gang members — to intervene in street disputes before they escalate. [More] 

And remember, when seconds count, tax-funded anti-violence activists are minutes awa... oh, wait, here they are!

Common Sense Gun Safety

Hint: A leader of Moms Discern Authenticity shows us it has nothing to do with hysterical demands for enforced avoidance and ignorance. [More]

Looting for Justice

Action.

Excuse.

Yeah, way to "stand up and band together," moron.  Nothing like picking innocent victims and taking what they have worked for and earned to teach those oppressors a lesson.

And remember, with "progressives," every day is Opposite Day.

Well, I Tried

How about you? [More]

This Day in History: August 20

We have only to Inform your Excellency that among the Prisoners arrived at this Place from Mill & Fortune Prisons in England (from whence all the American Marine Prisoners have been sent to America) were about forty belonging to our state who have applied to us for relief [.] Yr. Excellency well knows that no provision has been put into our power for such purposes; which are very frequently occurring, notwithstanding we have frequently urged the Policy and necessity of it. [More]

By Hook or By Crook

“During your State of the Union address, you stated that you want to make 2014 a ‘year of action,'  ” Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, wrote to Mr. Obama in March, in a letter requesting that he issue an executive order banning the import of assault or military weapons. [More]

Squeeze, baby, squeeze. Until our eyeballs bleed.

Pimp My Ride

Your tax dollars at work. [More]

A Great Question

"Why?" indeed. [More]

That's in response to this.

And, as I've speculated, if you're a drug dealer who wants to get rid of the competition, or an Only One who doesn't want to bother obtaining a warrant...

[Via cydl]

"Progressive" Equivalency

Yeah, I remember all those Bunkerville rioters and looters. [More]

Oldie But Baddie

I just ran across this from March of last year. [More]

Guy sure uses a lot of words to steer everyone away from his personal deficiencies.

And yeah, "fair and accurate."  What is it we prove daily about "progressives"?

My Kind of Furniture

I think stuff like this is cool. [More]

It just made me think back to when we moved back to Ohio in 2007 and had to buy all new stuff, enough to fill a house. That's because the thousands of dollars in business could have gone to the local Value City, but for that "No Guns" sign they posted on their door.

Oligarchs for Financing Unchallengeable Kleptocracy

It's easy to join OFUKS. [More]

All you need to do is be from the "screw everybody else/protect what's mine" wing of the 1%. And if you're at the top of that pyramid, you're eligible to join Plutocrats for Indisputable State Supremacy.

Lickspittle Prozi manipulators in your employ will make sure the mob gets so misdirected they end up demanding to surrender their own claims to any true egalitarian power sharing arrangement.

That's why we call the hoi polloi rabble!

Facebook Policy Change

Not theirs, mine.

Going forward from today, I'm only going to post links on my page and on the GRE page, that is unless I write something for someone else, like GUNS Magazine, Shooter's Log or JPFO, and then I'll also post it on their page, or if I write about someone else, like yesterday's GRE on WAGC, and then I'll share it with that person or group.

I note people have put me in their groups, and I appreciate that, but I just don't have time to post links on all the pages where that's happened, plus I never felt comfortable "link whoring" anyway.  I figure if readers find personal value in a piece, they can pass the link along. If not, the marketplace of ideas will decide if I stay or if I go. It's no secret that page views help keep a roof over my head and that I never ask for donations for myself.

Whether you're on social media or not, if you like my stuff and want it to gain wider notice, and think I deserve to eat once in a while, your help at spreading the word/passing along links will be appreciated.

Customer Relations

I know which approach I prefer. [More]

Escalation of Trauma

[More]

So it's only private preppers who are bad?

Hey, what good's a monopoly of violence if you can't go all the way?

The Company MAIG Keeps

Remember this sterling example?

You should see him when he's sober.

Characters like Gordo bring to mind the Edwin Edwards quote:

The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

In some places, that wouldn't affect voter preference, and may even provide a boost.

Be Careful What You Comment On

Our good friends the hive insects have another rant, one where they think they've got us, but of course, are merely once more demonstrating that tendency from which kapos arise. [More]

Notice how all the comments are fawning and in full approval. Funny thing, the links embedded in each name seem to produce a "Page won't load" message, a free website ad, or route me to my own Facebook page. You might want to see if you get similar results.

You might also want to see if they allow non-fluffing comments to make it through. As one of the fields on the submission form is for a website url, it would be funny if we could basically exploit them to direct traffic to pro-RKBA websites, kind of like using them for free ads.

We briefly touched on what CSGV is ranting about last week, linking to an Oregon Firearms Federation alert.  It probably won't be today, but maybe I can find time tomorrow to get into more details, assuming Kurt doesn't smack them around first.  He's pretty good at that, and I'd hate to spoil his fun.

In the mean time, I noticed a sidebar click-through on the CSGV page that's pretty telling, and not just because Wall of Separation Prozis are invoking the name of God. First of all, it presents a miracle as the only intervention option, and second, what do you do if you're in both a "gun-free zone" and one of those "God-free zones," like a public school...?

Follow it through to the story they're  highlighting, and what we notice is the stopping power of a restraining order, both at protecting the target and at defanging the predator. Seems like there's a maxim in there somewhere.

That in turn beings us back to a question CSGV will never answer:

Yes or no: Would you rather see a woman brutalized and killed than armed with a gun for self-defense?

Try it and see if you can get them to just answer the damn question, instead of deflecting, avoiding, and insulting.

I wish they'd prove me wrong, as the woman in their example was in a public setting, and would have needed to be carrying outside the home.

This Day in History: August 19

On August 19, 1782, nearly seventy Kentuckians died in what some historians have called the “Last Battle of the American Revolution." [More]

Sisters in arms don’t fit overwhelming media preference for Bloomberg Moms

So it’s understandable why “progressive” media favors subsidized weaklings, spooked by propaganda-fed fears, over self-confident women who refuse to be victims. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes it's fine for moms and other women to be demanding, especially when their demand is to leave them in peace and they have the ability to back it up.

Last Night on Armed American Radio

Lee “The Gun Writer” Williams of the Sarasota Herald Tribune, pro-2A attorney and activist John Monroe, “Talk of the Town” radio host Doug Allen, David Codrea, Seanto and more!

• AAR 8-17-2014 Hour 3
• AAR 8-17-2014 Hour 2
• AAR 8-17-2014 Hour 1

Mark Potok's Deadly Sock Puppet

"These reports are definitely being written to justify a course of action already decided..." [More]

Citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh provides the analysis the "real reporters" can't/won't.

It's all part of a grand plan that DHS Secretary Johnson is carrying out to do his part to "fundamentally transform America."

You can't do that without a good supply of domestic enemies/traitors in government and in their Prozi disinformation machine.

Wer'e the Only Ones Learning Enough

Knoxville Police Cadet Gunned Down Family Members – Rifle Stops Him! [More]

So what's going to happen to the "vigilante"?

After all, it's easy to see how the trainee assumed he was just following established department protocol...

Facebook Friends

Snuffy's.

And not so much.

Hey, I wonder if he's going to incite the mob to "Snuff out Darren W-I-L-S-O-N" and "drag him out like a rat"...?  Just to be consistent?

More, from the WOG Snuffy Files.

[Via Jake S]

I Believe this is an Authorized Journalist

Yep. He just confirmed it.

I was going to bet if we approached this right, someone could convince him these were special riot rounds, but then the thought struck "real reporters" probably have firsthand experience...

Whack 'em & Stack 'em

Remember The Sierra Times? [More]

The Bastardy of Martial Law

Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr. shares his insights. [More]

Two from Workman

• Ferguson store owners take up arms, says report
• Ferguson protests and Chicago bloodletting continue

Going Full B. Todd

Proof that the ATF intentionally deceived a Federal Magistrate Judge [More]

I guess old habits die hard.

And so much for things changing, now that they have that full-time director everyone said was the reason things were so screwed up.

[Via everrest]

Captain's Log

• SWATting lies
• Fencing lessons
• Notes

Right Store, Right Price

Will they continue doing the right thing? [More]

[Via cydl]

We're the Only Ones Terminating Enough

When will we do something about the shameful fact that America has more police gun deaths than any other country in the industrialized world? [More]

Hey, if the monopoly of violence cultists can use that line against us...

[Via several of you]

It's Time We Disarmed All Pregnant Women!

Prof. Boris seeks clemency for her colleague, stating, “she was at the stage of a pregnancy when one is not fully one’s self fully, so the image of a severed fetus appeared threatening.” [More]

Well if they're "not fully one's self fully [Jeez, where does Badenov work, the Department of Redundancy Department?]," and that's an excuse to attack people, what the hell are we doing letting expectant mothers wander freely among us outside of custodial care?  And if that's a stage of pregnancy -- and who would know better than a professor? -- shouldn't we be enacting some sort of commons sense gun ban for sufferers?

Are we sure it's not because Miller-Young is an immature, self-entitled collectivist bitch who is unable to control her emotions and lashes out violently when she gets frustrated -- which is every time someone dares to disagree with her?

Prozis: Always blaming everything except the individual responsible for the offense.  Unless it's someone they don't like.

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

At least no firearm was used. [More]

This is why we need common sense bun laws.

Reignition

Breaking: What Mike Huckabee Just Did Could Reignite the Tea Party [More]

Please don't miss the point of this post and view it as an invitation to restate Huckabee's flaws.

The point is, Joe Miller needs help and he needs help now, before tomorrow, and for reasons that are in the vital interests of every activist gun owner  -- to involve themselves, at a minimum, by spreading the word.

That is not happening.

And we all know why.

I guess we can always fight our way back to freedom, right?

Finally, a Rational Approach?

You mean they've accepted that someone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian? And that letting a proven dangerous person move freely about the general population makes as much sense as letting a man-eating lion out of its cage after its time is up? And that making sure the potential victim pool is defenseless is insane, and anyone trying to impose otherwise needs to be taken in for observation and treatment -- with full due process, of course? [More]

That kind of rational approach?

[Via Dave Licht]

This Day in History: August 18

On the 18th in the morning, one of my Party that was watching the Road came in and told me the Enemy was within a mile of us, upon which I drew up to fight them — at ½ past seven they advanced in three Divisions in good order, they had spied some of us and it was the very place they expected to overtake us. [More]