Tuesday, February 23, 2016

We're the Only Ones Secret Enough

Virginia Senate passes bill to keep police officers’ names secret [More]
We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you. After all, if it's a "law," authoritah can use an up-to-lethal escalation of force to make sure it's obeyed.

Brought to you by John Cosgrove, Jr., a "law and order Republican."

Plus he's endorsed!

How did the slogan go?  Oh, yeah:
Vote freedom first!
[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Not Only Enough

"I'm one of the good guys," Hughes said. "Now they're trying to make me one of the people I protect society from." [More]
Please.  You have it to protect yourself and your own.

You're entitled to no more exemptions in this regard than I am, meaning, interestingly enough, that you're entitled to all of them. But enough with the self-serving BS.

If you can do it, I can do it. But that's not the claim I'm hearing.

[Via William T]

Leaving Money on the Table

I continue getting emails from state gun groups with announcements that can't be repro'd in full here.  We've talked about this before.

I cannot emphasize strongly enough how lack of a shareable link means your signal never makes it farther than the inbox with those of us who use blogs and social media instead of mailing lists to spread the word.

Speaking of Blind and Stupid

With his bodyguard in jail, now would be a good time to wall this jackass up in Al Capone's vault... [More]

Haunted by His Past

Donald Trump in 2000: “I Support the Ban on Assault Weapons” [More]
Yeah, we know.

What's the point of emphasizing it now? Especially by a guy who puts Think Progress first among his Twitter profile links?

The first time I voted for president, I chose McGovern. If you'd asked me back in the 80s, I'd have endorsed licensing and registration.

We grow. We learn. We change.

Have you never evolved on a position?

Sure, we can by default presume the guy is a phony and that he's just telling the rubes what they want to hear. If you do that without proof, I sure hope you never find your fate in the hands of jurors doing the same.

By all means, watch Trump -- and all the other candidates -- like a hawk for inconsistencies and fresh sellouts. Just understand that collectivist writers on collectivist websites are counting on being able to scream "String him up!" and watching the mob go for the rope.

[Via @pamnsc]

Burden of Proof

The hearing was over the temporary restraining order (TRO) and preliminary injunction (PI) being sought by the League of Women Voters and a host of other leftist groups to stop the recent decision of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to allow Kansas, Georgia, Alabama, and Arizona to enforce their proof-of-citizenship voter-registration requirement. [More]
So just make 'em all citizens and problem solved!

Right, Hillary? Right, establishment Republicans?

Question: If you don't have to prove citizenship to be eligible to vote, why should you have to prove age?

[Via Michael G]

At the Zoo

A zoo official testified in December that it operates a preschool on site, runs other education programs for children and meets the state definition of an amusement park, noting that Missouri law allows banning weapons in such places. The zoo said its preschool uses “the entire 90-acre campus of the St. Louis Zoo as a classroom.” [More]
Sounds like the same BS excuse Universal Orlando is using.

Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo.

[Via bondmen]

It's Almost Like There are Two Sets of Standards

Paul is being accused of making “terroristic” threats. [More]
Curious. This guy isn't.

We're the Only Ones Blameless Enough

Bradley said the department did a thorough internal investigation and found no one in particular is to blame for releasing Frustaci’s gun for destruction. [More]
I don't suppose anyone is responsible for proving it was actually destroyed, either.

Following secured stores procedures just ain't that difficult, people. If you want to follow them. Which is why my first thought isn't "negligence" or "honest mistake."

[Via cydl]

Setting the Tone

Santilli’s case has attracted the support of groups as disparate as the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon and the Oath Keepers, a citizen militia.  [More]
Well, thanks for linking to my piece, WaPo, but its not a militia.

You guys kind'a specialize in calling things what they're not, don't you?

Economics 101

$15/hr. meets reality.

I remember when I was a young foreman back in the late 70s and the union went on strike.  Within two weeks, we had office workers trained well enough in the floor jobs to where our production and scrap rates were comparable to what those who operated the machinery for a living produced. And this was a highly regulated industry, using state of the art (for the time) equipment and processes to make medical plastics, tubing and compounds. The lesson that taught was that if anyone can do what you do with that minimal level of time in training, how much effort have you put into yourself? What value are you offering to make doing business with you worth it?

Most of us have worked crap minimum wage jobs, often while going to school. They're not intended to be the end all.  And in terms of people having kids and needing more money, everybody who doesn't know how babies are made or that choices have consequences, raise your hand. You shouldn't get to make those choices and then use the up-to-lethal force of government to make those who made better choices pay for them.

The American Spectraitor

If white Republicans want white Europeans to dominate the American landscape once again, then they better start reproducing themselves. If they’re not making babies (they’ve sent their kids to liberal universities where they are systematically brainwashed), then they will be out-voted by Latino voters. [More]
So the solution is to empower the guy who wants amnesty?

This guy has verifiable evidence that'll reverse polarity on that 70% Democrat/anti-gun advantage?  Because every time the Repubs cave, betray their core and give the collectivists what they want, all our ships rise?

And it ain't a matter of "white Europeans."  Those who know the score would also oppose a mass influx of Swedes and Brits.

This is ideological, not racial.

The Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shore

The administration has decided to let immigrants with three sexually transmitted diseases known for causing sores or lesions on genitalia to enter the United States, an expansion of a previous decision to let in those with HIV. [More]
I see the Opposite Day "progressives" running the Department of Health and Human Services have focused their agenda on those they're chartered to keep healthy and to serve...

Monday, February 22, 2016

Obama’s Kalamazoo Blood Dance Reveals End Game Disarmament Goal

“Clearly we’re going to need to do more if we’re going to keep innocent Americans safe,” Obama proclaimed at a White House meeting with governors. “[We need] to partner and think about what we can do in a common-sense way, in a bipartisan way, without some of the ideological rhetoric that so often surrounds that issue.”
Like what?  Notice he doesn’t get all that specific? [More]
You can’t “fundamentally transform America” until you first enact some “common sense ruling class safety laws.”

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

"Serious misconduct"! [More]

Well, there go my UK political ambitions.

Funny -- Boris seems to be getting away with it.

I guess if you do it in the context of an authorized monopoly of violence supporter...?

[Via Jeet]

Haters Gonna Hate

And when the SPLC hates, government listens. [More]

I'm jealous. They mention Oath Keepers numerous times. Ditto Vanderboegh.

Who do I gotta hate to get on the damn list?

[Via Michael G]


We're the Only Ones Penetrating Enough

2 Los Angeles police officers charged with raping women on duty [More]
If you think about it, it's a natural extension of all that indoctrination, training and reinforcement that it's their function to bend us over and dominate us any time they command it, and our portion to submit.

[Via Florida Guy]   

We're the Only Ones Ratted Out Enough

USPS Police Officer Opens Fire After Rat Spooks Him, Sources Say [More]
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men. Gang aft agley...

[Via Steve T

Well It's a Marvelous Night for a Blooddance

Never one to let a crisis go to waste,Obama breaks into that same old song. [More]

What? The facts aren't even in yet? And they seem to be trickling in pretty slowly, all things considered? And social media accounts have been pulled down so that we're dependent on "official" sources and their mainstream flacks?

Dance, puppets, dance!

[Via @pamnsc]

We're the Only Ones Expensive Enough

Steve Stenger says that there is a better, more cost effective, solution. [More]
Yeah, but I don't think a Bloomberg City is gonna go for that...

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones in Deep Doo-Doo Enough

A former Chesterfield police officer admits he's guilty of recording men going to the bathroom and posting it to his porn site. [More]
Sounds like it's past time to flush this piece of ...

[Via bondmen]

After the Fall

This SHTF Intelligence course is a two-day course that prepares students to gather intelligence information for post-SHTF community security. [More]
In Montana and then in Washington...

There's plenty of time to make plans.

What Do You Want to Bet...

...that if Marjorie Esman, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, were left to the tender mercy of the heathens she's so defensive of, that she'd end up calling out the name of God...? [More]

I thought the business about the dumbbell presses was pretty funny.

And yeah, I get the Gremlins are the creation of "Only Ones"-employing government and its public/private partnership with "community leaders."

[Via Dave Licht]

Daddy's Little Girl in Vogue

Mommy, a "progressive" who picked "prison reform" as her contribution to "social justice" fell for a lying bad boy killer.  So naturally the daughter needs to make the world safe for Daddy. It's the in-Vogue thing to do. [More]

We've talked about this weirdly-motivated gun-grabbess before, and how her dark past explains much about her present.

Herschel tells us she evidently has a secret identity as a Bloomberg apparat-chick.

[Via Dave Licht]

We're the Only Ones Carrying On a Tradition Enough

San Francisco police are searching for the gun of a federal agent who lost the weapon after he left it on top of his car and drove off. [More]
And there have been others? See, if all these professionals with training can do this, imagine the disaster if we trusted you with a gun!

Two items of note: If someone found it, they evidently haven't turned it in. And we again don't know the dumb @$$'s name, do we? It takes a special kind of negligence, arrogance and entitlement to do something that spectacularly irresponsible.

Watch your rights get blamed if the gun ends up being used in something blood dance-worthy.

[Via several of you]


We're the Only Ones Homogenized Enough

Now Palmer is facing more than half a dozen complaints - some from law enforcement agencies - about his actions during the standoff. Palmer is outspoken about gun rights and is sympathetic to anti-government protesters. [More]
There's no "i" in "team." Troublemakers will be decertified. You will get with the program. You will play along.

Dr. McCoy illustrates what happens to those who don't:

Trump and the Great Pershing Pig's Blood 'Hoax'

And if anyone knows pigs,
it's the Daily News.
The Alinsky Rule 5 ridicule is strong in those who wish to point and laugh at presidential candidate Donald Trump for repeating an "urban legend" about Gen. "Black Jack" Pershing quelling the Moro uprising by shooting some with bullets dipped in pig's blood.  [More]

The stories all point to Snopes dismissing it as a "legend," which is a different degree of standard than a hoax or a myth, which so many seem to be calling it as they point and laugh. The thing is, among those citing it as real were "Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham (D-Fla.)." Snopes presents further anecdotal evidence of Pershing "merely threatening to do as described," and also cites the 1938 book "Jungle Patrol," that seems to indicate credit for such tactics is a misattribution.

Here's the other thing for all those gleeful at seeing someone embarrassed by passing on an email hoax -- something many of us are guilty of, by the way. Per WikiLeaks, Dr. Larry Forness repeated the story in a document for his students that "was subsequently circulated within the US military."

Forness is "a professor at the American Military University who has "nine degrees, including three doctorates and two law degrees, with over half the degrees obtained via distance education. He completed his undergraduate training at Notre Dame and his advanced degree and training from prestigious universities such as Duke University and UCLA. He also earned two Law degrees (JD and LL.M.). A former Marine, Dr. Forness provides classified consulting to U.S. Military Special Operations units. Specialties include unconventional warfare and intelligence."

Now it could very well be that Prof. Forness is wrong-- he concludes by inviting readers to "verify it by any means you wish." It would be appropriate if he either sourced his information or admitted he never did.

That said, seeing it repeated by a professor at AMU and the Democrat Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee adds a bit more "gravitas" to this than just repeating an unsourced email from a pal. That none of those participating in the pile-on chose to acknowledge mitigating circumstances (assuming they even did the minimal checking to know about them) tells us much about the media and agendas.

As an aside, if I had Trump's money, I'd be tempted to buy the Daily News at fire sale prices, ax all the subversives, and turn it into an American newspaper.

What's Wrong with this Picture?


Aside from everything...? [More]

Friday, February 19, 2016

Universal Orlando’s Discrimination against Gun Owners Made Possible by Indifference

Will Universal or Disney accept responsibility to protect employees they require to be disarmed? What financial liability do they accept if an employee obeys their policy and is hurt or killed? None? [More]
What does it tell you about a business that will make you disarm, but won’t then guarantee your safety?

National Socialists Predict Victory

Thing is, they may be right. [More]

'Thank God for Guns in America'

One question: Will they discuss and actually do anything about the single biggest long-term threat facing 2A, or continue ignoring it? [More]

Because our enemies aren't.

Roger That

[More]
Why?

Care to address one thing in the article you're commenting under that's not true?

The Trust and Safety Council

And what's the #1 observable fact about "progressives"...? [More]

Aside from making Swedes happy...?

Firearms Friday

I'll be joining Michael Dukes at 10:45 Eastern to talk about the developing Constitutional crisis on the Supreme Court. [Listen]

@Pontifex Tear Down This Wall!

Pope Francis Rips Capitalism, American Immigration Policy at Mexican Border [More]
How many "undocumented migrants" and refugees is the Vatican City-state taking in?  Because groups like Catholic Charities/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sure are working overtime spreading 'em around everywhere else.

And while the Swiss Guard is holding on to their military arms, this is the predominant view for the rest of us...

UPDATE: Guess who the walls were built to keep out...

If You See Something, Say Something

Virtually... [More]

Unless it's something where we find it more useful to publicly shame you as a bigot for saying anything...

Countercurrents

Police Call Department of Homeland Security To Investigate Anti-Trump Graffiti As Domestic Terrorism [More]
Seems like overkill, doesn't it?  Has the First Amendment been eroded this much. so that, appropriate vandalism charges aside, there's no room for offensive political disagreement?

If so, that's important to know about, and important to alert others to. That's how I found out about this  -- from a post on a Facebook activism page that had the effect of getting all kinds of people stirred up and angry, including some good people I know who are generally fairly critical about what they accept as real.

Funny thing, though -- you go looking for the story itself and you find it happened last December, and while it did make the news, no one else is reporting a domestic terror/DHS connection. Could it be they all missed the most significant part of the story and Counter Current News scooped them all?

Perhaps-- we've seen sins of omission and commission by the media so many times before it's hard to keep track. So who are these guys at CCN?

Unfortunately, they don't tell us and the story itself doesn't give an author byline, so we can't check his/her qualifications, credibility and reliability of past work. They do tell us they're not responsible for inaccuracies, but who exactly "they" are is unknown, as the website is registered via a proxy service.

So we seem to be at an impasse here, with CCN making a shocking claim and the rest of the world seemingly in the dark. What to do...?

Why not contact Atlanta PD and ask?

"Our investigation found that similar graffiti was placed around the country. It was removed immediately," Elizabeth Espy, Director of Public Affairs for the Atlanta Police Department told me. "We did not classify it as domestic terrorism."

We have persons unknown telling us one thing, with no evidence aside from their making unsubstantiated claims. We have someone willing to go on record under her own name,with attendant professional risks if she's proven to be wrong, telling us something altogether different.

If CCN is going to stand by their story, they'd best be prepared to provide some corroborating details, including if they spoke with anyone at Atlanta PD and to whom. They certainly didn't indicate they were dealing with a whistleblower who needed to be protected, so that shouldn't be a factor now. (Then again, perhaps there's something in the video I can't get to load in three different browsers.)

The object lesson here is one that can't be overstressed -- do some due diligence on information before just assuming it's gospel. Otherwise, we end up wasting time and energy on virtual snipe hunts. That not only calls our credibility into question, but keeps us from focusing on stuff that actually is important.

And yeah, I've embarrassed myself before on that, by sharing tip links without checking close enough.

UPDATE: This evidently was the source CCN relied on, so we at least know they were acting in good faith:


It would have helped had the source link been included.

Using that, I've been able to locate the story by NBC's "11 Alive News Staff," and it indeed says "According to Atlanta Police, Homeland Security has been notified."

I'm kicking this one back to Ms. Espy and bringing Channel 11 into the discussion.  We'll see what they have to say.

UPDATE:

Me to Ms. Espy: This is the source others used:
http://buckhead.11alive.com/news/news/1863492-two-donald-trump-swastikas-found-atlanta

"According to Atlanta Police, Homeland Security has been notified."

Is that true?

I've contacted 11 Alive to ask who told them what.

Please advise.

Thank you.

Ms. Espy: Yes we have our own Homeland Security unit with the PD.  Not United States Homeland Security.

It's nice to finally get that out of her, considering what I'd repeatedly pressed her on in earlier email correspondence, including:

  • I'm trying to determine the validity of a report that your department has reported the Trump swastika graffiti you encountered in December to DHS as "domestic terrorism." The only one I can find reporting on this is an alternative political website. Can you confirm or deny the allegations ... and provide any other information/elaboration if it is true?
  • After she replied "Our investigation into the graffiti did not classify this as domestic terrorism," I wrote back "I take it by your response that this was NOT reported to DHS by APD?"
  • Her response: "Our investigation found that similar graffiti was placed around the country.  It was removed immediately.  We did not classify it as domestic terrorism."
It wasn't until I sent her the NBC link this morning that I got back the reply about APD having their own Homeland Security unit, which, by the way, makes a point of including the DHS logo and "If you see something say something" slogan on its handout materials.  I suppose I could ask WHY it was reported to the APD HS unit, but really, what would be the point?

So, OK, Counter Current News, it wasn't literally DHS as you guys reported, but that's kind of beside the point. You mistake wasn't as big as mine, which was to assume somebody was purposely embellishing your story, and for that, I owe you a humble apology.  

As I said earlier in this post, I've embarrassed myself before by not checking.  I believe this is the first time I've done it by checking.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Shallow Principles Seeking Deep Pockets

See, according to Opposite Day "progressives," not infringing = "negligent entrustment." [More]

I may have time in a few days to revisit this with some further observations.  For now, my only other immediate thought is that guy in the photo looks pretty old to be an Eagle Scout...

[Via Keith B]

Government 'Solutions'

Brilliant skewering of "Uncle Stupid." [More]

Looks like when you knock on Tim's door, you can let him know not everything he does is unappreciated.

[Via Michael G]

Uncoupling

Does this mean someone got snookered and that we can never trust the antis? [More]

[Via Mack H]

Best Practices

Yeah, as long as you have the firepower to infringe on unalienable rights without the due process protections of being tried and found guilty by a jury, and as long as we understand that it doesn't stop anyone who is a proven threat to from access to potential victims or to be able to obtain whatever tools and materials he's determined to get, then yeah, I guess you could call these "best practices." [More]
Brought to you by our old pal Mike "Der" Feuer. (Uh-oh, I'm not going to get in Nugent trouble for implying he acts like an the odious little Nazi, am I?  Too late!)

I wonder if we can get any closer to finding out who else is bringing this to us than last time?

Nothing I can find yet on Guidestar and I don't have time right now to spend looking around, especially since these guys always seem to want to cover their tracks. Still I won't be surprised to find a familiar troll lurking under the bridge...

[Via Mack H]

Welcome to the Club

Baseball bats are a public threat and they need to be regulated and banned from public use. [More]
Donald Borsch Jr. gives a recent bat attack the same treatment the antis use whenever they find it advantageous to weigh in after a crime involving a gun.

Except when they do it, they're serious.

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

Sure, Jeb's tweet is pandering and pathetic, but not as pathetic as Jonathan Jones. [More]

[Via Mack H]

Make it Personal

Please IMMEDIATELY send an email to Governor Rick Scott and tell him, to hold SWFWMD accountable for their illegal attack on the Skyway Trap & Skeet Club. [More]
Single white females with weapons of mass destruction?

No, the Bloomberg Moms haven't militarized. But if this government agency gets its way, it can call in the B&D guys who have.

So make it personal and tell Gov. Scott if he doesn't do the right thing, you'll be making sure he's got plenty of time for long walks on the beach.

Cruz Control

I've seen all kinds of arguments pro and con on this. [More]

That's not what I'm trying to stoke here.

I just maintain that unless Sen. Cruz himself takes whatever measures he must to secure his eligibility in light of "natural born" arguments, the Democrats and the media will do everything they can to use it against him. Including in court.

If there's an argument against that happening, educate me, because I think it should be resolved and bulletproof before the GOP nominee is selected.

And yeah, that raises the possibility of an expedited SCOTUS ruling with things potentially being 4 - 4. I don't pretend to have an answer for this.

[Via Andrea Shea King]

Lemonade Out of Lemons?

Reaffirming that all citizens have a right to use gun ranges offering facilities to the public helps reaffirm that all citizens have the right to own and use guns. [More] 

Personally, do I think a business ought to be able to discriminate, and the market would do a superior job of ensuring more welcoming competitors are the ones to thrive?  Yeah, I guess I do.

In addition to boycotts, I can't imagine public-minded suppliers of needed goods and services wanting to involve themselves with such an establishment, along with the disruptive and costly repercussions that could entail.

To illustrate the ineffectiveness of coercive government "solutions," even though keeping me out based on my race would be "illegal," there are plenty of joints in certain areas where I would rightfully fear for my safety just because of genetics and culture. No one conducting themselves peaceably could say the same about the places I do frequent.

[Via Florida Guy]   

A Bureaucratic Workaround

I suppose it's an improvement, but really, 11 pages and 25 policy statements full of weasel words to cover all the ways they intend to skirt around "shall not be infringed"...? [More] 

This practically insists on parody:


[Via Florida Guy]   

If You Can't Lick 'em, Joiner

Joiner said he didn’t have a problem with open carry or gun rights laws in general, but added he thought public buildings should be gun free. “It’s just a very sensitive thing … the public is supposed to be protected,” Joiner said. [More]
By rendering them vulnerable...

It must be Opposite Day in Calhoun County.

Do Bundy Ranch Standoff Indictments Mean More Arrests are Imminent?

There’s “intel,” there’s bad “intel,” and there’s flat-out disinformation put out there by secretive parties with agendas to force an emotion-driven move, and to entrap. [More]
Look before you leap. Especially to conclusions from unknown sources.

The Neighborhood Rotten Apple

Neighbors on Bartlett Avenue near the facility say security guards tail them when they walk their dogs. “You have security guards following you in their cars,” Porter said. [More
That would happen to me a grand total of once.

As for 3 a.m. noise, that's even more easily handled.  Then again, you could just drive to Tim's house and ring the doorbell and complain.

Still, it's pretty understandable why Sunnyvale residents feel personally powerless.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

We're the Only Ones Testing Enough

The scene is designed to be dramatic, and it is. But it is also illegal under Iowa law. [More]
Cue the prosecution in 3...2...1...

No?

The Bystander

A walker-by trips over the ankle of a man sitting on a bench outside a pet shop. Harsh words are exchanged and a fist fight ensues. A bystander witnesses the struggle and calls 911. Feeling that the fight will result in serious injury, the bystander draws his concealed pistol. [More]
This week on "Stop the Threat"...

Something's Missing, But What?

Oh, yeah, any reference to laws requiring "smart guns."... [More]

I'm sure it's just an oversight. After all, if we can't trust Mother Jones on honest gun reporting, who can we trust?

Counter Intelligence

The guy ponders for 20 minutes, musing about the danger of nighttime intruders entering his house from an adjacent golf course, and then buys one. [More]
Right, like that's the only possible way he could ever be in danger, right, smart @$$ Bloomberg lickspittle?

There's an old legend that a vampire can't cross your threshold unless you invite him in. I don't why a gun store wouldn't tell a Bloomberg reporter to get lost. Are they really that oblivious that they think the guy isn't looking to do a hit piece?

And then there's this:
Like many FFL holders, Hopkins would have no objection to universal background checks for all gun transfers. 
Anyone in the business who's not leading in the fight against universal registration, especially now in the time of great need, and actually telling that to a Bloomberg reporter, deserves to have his business go belly-up as far as I'm concerned. And the FFLs who look forward to it as a new business opportunity are no better than damn kapos.

I've told the Nevada folks they ought to have a list of who in the business isn't helping.  I don't see them taking off the gloves though, and that's a shame, because this bar fight calls for swinging chairs and breaking bottles.

[Via Publicola]

We're the Only Ones Undocumented Enough

Sources tell us an investigator with the prosecutor’s office was cleaning his weapon during office hours when it accidentally went off. The incident was never reported to Honolulu police or the state sheriff’s office. [More]
From the same fine folks who would destroy your life if they caught you carrying in "May Not Issue" Hawaii:


What is it about prosecutors and office NDs?

[I can't find who sent me this]

Kosher Questions

If guns are not important and nobody should have a gun to protect himself, why does Bloomberg have 12 bodyguards? Why doesn’t he stand there with 12 rabbis? Why do they have guns? Instead of guns they should have pastrami sandwiches. [More]
It's OK. Jackie Mason said it, not Ted Nugent.

[Via Jeet]

That's How

[More]

And speaking of insider lick jobs:
[T]hat “Eid Dinner” event was put together by an organization called the American Muslim Council that was founded and headed by a man named Abdurahman Alamoudi. Alamoudi, who is now serving a federal prison term for funding terrorism, was a political mover and shaker with ties to not just the Clinton White House, but later to the George W. Bush White House via Republican lobbyist Grover Norquist.
It's a big club and you ain't in it.

There I go being anti-gun and anti-NRA again...

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Collecting Enough

He says seven deputy US Marshals showed up at his home with guns and took him to federal court where he had to sign a payment plan for the 29-year-old school loan. [More]
Old man, sign ze papers!

[Via Keith B]

Armed American Radio Redux

Host Mark Walters and I started off talking Jackie Mason and worked our way over to Antonin Scalia. [More]

My recommendation?  It's in there.

Purity Test

“TZP president: Brad Alpert, Jewish; TZP treasurer, Eric Andreason, Jewish; TZP writer, Nicki Kenyon, born in the Soviet Union to a Jewish refusnik family; TZP writer Y.B. ben Avraham … well, to think he’s not Jewish, you’d have to be so deliberately ignorant there’d be no use talking to you.” [More]
Is that "Jewish" enough for ya?

Tangentially-related, there's a state gun rights group where they're thinking about removing my Nugent piece link from its Facebook page, because some members say it doesn't belong, and others are worried that arguing over it creates divisiveness at a time when unity is needed.

That's another form of purity test I can't and won't be bothered with.

I don't do this so we can all agree. If I did, I'd never challenge an NRA grade, I'd be stumping for Grover Norquist and I'd agree with Wayne that the only ones who should have guns in school are the ... uh ... "Only Ones."

If I see something I believe needs addressing, I'm going to address it.  If that pisses some off, so be it.  If I wanted popular approval for what I write, I'd pick a different subject.  And if you don't like it, chances are your browser has a "back" arrow.

Daesh Hunter

Hey, if Michael Moore calls guys like these cowards, that's good enough for me! Right? [More]

[Via Geordan]

Meanwhile, on the Pathway to Citizenship...

“Give me your tired, your poor, your militants yearning to bring the jihad without paying a fee.” [More]
Coming soon, to a Caliphate near you...

The Question of Our Time

Do you really want Donald Trump choosing the next Supreme Court justice(s)? [More]
Asks the guy working with the immigration-loving Cato Institute, who goes on to tell us "Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is a University of Miami School of Law graduate and has a excellent team of legal advisers..."

No mention of what that "pathway to citizenship" will do to "fundamentally transform America," so it must not be important.

In any case, Mr. Pynchon's observation once more proves its relevance.  Donald Trump can't choose, he can only nominate. What happens then in the Senate depends, in large part, on whether a critical mass of the citizenry is serious about doing more than bitching in internet forums or chasing snipe.

Virtual Snipe Hunt

All you need is someone with an unknown motive and a privately-registered website that masks identity to spread hysterical disinformation, such as:


I see "protocol" is misspelled in the scroll. Next you're going to be telling me "Fox News the FB" isn't actually affiliated in any way with Fox News. Funny -- no notice that it's a satire site.

So Obama signed the EO on Friday?

Where?

And how come if I do an image search, this is the primary return, and it's got the same file name as the doctored "Fox News the FB" image?


I bring this up because I see 826 comments under the article so far. That's 826 people distracted from doing something productive and effective, and apparently most are gullible enough to swallow whatever false meme some liar of unknown identity and intent wishes to plant, and then leap to conclusions and spread the disinformation further.

That would be the 19.5K "shares"...

Meanwhile, I see real stories of importance, brought to us by people who work laboriously and painstakingly to expose vital truths, ignored by the media and unnoticed by reactionary snipe hunters who are oblivious to real threats.

And there's another danger, that some misinformed dupe is going to take action.

Yeah, I know, the first image is the real one, the second is what they want you to believe, and I'm the disinfo spreader.

Weird.  I just imagined I heard the devil laughing.

My Sartorial Shame

The author believes himself to be a Hemingway style author with the photo he has at the bottom of this article…Come on, your pro 2A, not like a south Florida Mojito drinker..Plant your butt in some Levis and put a shottie over your shoulder broken open at the range…! [More]
I guess you can't please everybody.  Somebody else once criticized the summer sandals.

But Levis?  Jeez, Jack, if you were better informed on preserving the unalienable right to keep and bear arms, and less obsessed with dressing other men like RINOs trying to con Fudds into voting for them, you’d know better than to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

Looks like Russn8r has some insights into a potential motivator...

We're the Only Ones Out of 'Formation' Enough

Arnold said when he first heard the shots, he wondered if they were inspired by the Super Bowl halftime show. When asked to clarify that comment, he added, “You know, Beyonce’s video.” [More]
I was going to say "Don't quit your day job," but...

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Jewish Gun Rights Group Welcomes Ted Nugent as Newest Member

Wanting to understand what he was thinking and how he managed to make himself a media target for charges of anti-Semitism, Nicki Kenyon of The Zelman Partisans spoke with Nugent, and found her group was alone in asking him what happened. Additionally, Nugent took TZP up on an offer it made a week earlier and ended up joining the group. [More]
This isn't about Ted Nugent. This is about not letting the enemies of the right to keep and bear arms tar us all with the bigotry brush when it's not deserved.

Daily Defense

I'll be joining Mark Walters on Armed American Radio today at 4 Eastern to talk about Antonin Scalia and whatever else he wants to bring up.  Click here to listen via live streaming or find a broadcast station near you.

Exactly

Eagles of Death Metal frontman: 'Everybody has to have guns' [More]
A-yup.

Bloomberg Hiding under GunLobbyWatch.com Troll Bridge

We have to wonder who GLW is, who funds it and why. [More]
Which is a routine tactics of trolls who hide in the shadows, thinking they're immune to repercussions and accountability.  Note how their "About" section doesn't tell you a thing about who is behind it. And their website is registered by proxy through Panama.

No Guidestar hits, either. They really don't want people finding out who they are. Again, seeing as how trolls are cowards, who would that surprise?

And what else do we know about trolls?  Oh yes-- they're sadists and psychopaths.  And infiltrators/disruptors.

I wouldn't worry overmuch, though. The AstroTurf peels right up if you want to look under it. For instance: 481 Facebook page "likes"? 580 Twitter followers?Their only YouTube video has 18 views, one of them being mine when I clicked on the link just to see how successful they are at propagating their message?

You know what else peels up?

The curtain, to see the "man" behind it.

Dave Workman noted Gun Lobby Watch was announced last July by the "Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility."

Here's their nonprofit corporate filing with the Secretary of State. See the agent's name is Philip Lloyd? He was also Director for the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund for I-594.

Did someone say "Follow the money"?

Yes, Gomer. You can say it now.

This is a Bloomberg operation.  He's the twisted sadist/psychopath hiding behind all the layers and under the bridge, and enabling all the troll attacks.

Building the Wall

A wall memorializing victims of gun violence would stretch 2½ miles [More]
OK, so at 2.5M DGUs/year, how long would that wall stretch?

Speier was the fascista who went to Jonestown and almost got killed by thugs working for "progressive" Harvey Milk's pal Jim Jones.

It's not that she didn't learn anything from the experience. She's got that cult fanatic leadership thing down pretty good.

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

Laser pointers should be classed as "offensive weapons", the British Airline Pilots Association has said. [More]
Basically, they're saying the subjects of the Crown can't be trusted with light.

Perhaps, noting they're still subjects of a Crown, that's a correct assumption.

[Via Florida Guy]   

We're the Only Ones Nonexempt Enough

A local sheriff's deputy escorting a group of fifth-grade students on a field trip to the Fox Theater said he was told to stand outside because he was carrying his service weapon. [More]
Fortunately, it was all a big mistake and the ban is only meant to apply to the unexceptional patrons!

I'm sure any wannabe mass shooters in the area have noticed.

Enjoy the show, kids!

There Are None So Blind

Unless he behaves in a way that actively endangers others or hurts someone through negligence, keeping and bearing shouldn't be an issue.  [More]

If he injures or kills someone, the impairment shouldn't be an excuse.

Whores for Whillary

Seems about right for an Opposite Day "progressive" feminist champion, especially noting the stable assets are employed to fulfill all the expectations of the pimp... [More]

I wonder if Bill gets freebies.

I wonder if Hillary does.

Spitzer Swallows

This sleazy @$$hole just can't stay out of trouble, can he? [More

No wonder he's always been obsessed with controlling those who can.

Blowing Away the Smokescreen

As to “attack on the organization and structure of your NRA board” again it reveals the knowing guilt and fear of Norquist’s collaborators on and off the NRA board. [More]
Comment poster Russn8r  decimates the moronic and offensive diversionary lie that the recall is motivated by anti-NRA anti-gunners. Plus it ain't a "loophole," it's a feature.

It suddenly reminded me that I've run across one of the names in the Norquist über alles collaborator cabal before: Bender!

Actually, I've run across several. For instance, Lautenberg gun ban (and Kohl school radius gun ban) supporter Bob Barr shouldn't surprise longtime WOGgers. What should surprise us is why he was never recalled from the NRA Board, and that anyone would think the backing of a documented gun-grabber would work in Grover's favor.

And don't even get me started on Alan Gottlieb's (inexplicable?) deliberate indifference to what Russn8r correctly identifies as "THE long-term gun rights issue."

Yet again, Russn8r hits on a tried and true Fairfax tactic that allows them to rake in millions while tricking members into supporting establishment squishes with undeserved "A" grades and endorsements:
Is Tred Law a simpleton, or does he just think you’re one?
That and he's counting on a critical mass of ignorance.

Monday, February 15, 2016

Captain's Log


We Need it NOW!

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Any other questions, Alan?

Finicum Shooter Protection Bill Points to Wider Issue of Government Distrust

We know that the powers that be are desperately trying to bolster a false, government-started narrative that “rightwing extremists are a greater threat than ISIS.” And if you want to see violent death wishes leveled with promiscuous abandon, just look at comments on ”progressive” websites ginning up the mob against the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupiers. Plus, let’s not forget the only killing so far was committed by an agent of the state. [More]
Protecting the identity of the officer who shot LaVoy Finicum is evidently more of a priority to Oregon State Police and politicians than ensuring unfettered public scrutiny.

We're the Only Ones Triaging Enough

During an altercation, two off-duty Houston police officers, moonlighting as security guards, had shocked Mr. Pean with a Taser, fired a bullet into his chest, then handcuffed him. [More]
"Clear!"

Botched Statistics Padding

A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling that kept a lid on a handful of documents related to a lawsuit from Congress over the Obama administration’s botched “Fast and Furious” operation. [More]
Not that it will end up mattering anywhere near as much as the continued ubiquitous "botched" misdirection...

Funny-- the word "botched" doesn't appear in the OIG report.

#blackfetusesdon'tmatter?

That's what Rev. Anthony Thompson appears to be saying by supporting a candidate who in turn supports an organization founded by a eugenicist which results in more black babies being aborted than born.

From a strictly self-interested perspective, considering who has higher abortion rates, racists and non-"progressives" would appear to stand the most to gain politically and socially by encouraging the practice, and literally nipping future conflict sources in the bud.

Note I'm not arguing the abortion issue here, which is a separate discussion. I'm merely observing what is. If Rev. Thompson professes to be a Christian, it's up to him to reconcile support for Hillary with his faith.

The bottom line is, political choices have real world consequences. Enabling a politicians means those who do share in culpability for resulting actions. It's serious business requiring informed consent, and doesn't end with putting an "I Voted" sticker on your lapel.

You choose your side, you own your consequences.

Drowning in a Flood

That’s because of guns. Have we got guns. [More]
Which makes denying them to non-predators all the more criminal.

GRNC Backing Cruz

Paul Valone explains why. [More]

Me, I still have concerns.

And even though I'm well aware of his flaws and reversals, right now I'm having fun watching Trump give the RNC fits.

Another Crazy Conspiracy Theory

Pillow over head.

Conflicting reports.

Autopsy not necessary.

Fate of Republic and incredibly powerful political interests at stake.

Nothing to see here. Move along.