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Monday, April 18, 2016
Champions of the Little Guy
Just 22 People Have Combined To Give $43 Million to Pro-Clinton Super PACs [More]It's a big club and you ain't in it.
Hitting the Ground Running
Matthew Vanderboegh emerges from the SSI starting gate looking strong:
- Rules for Comments: Stay on point, don't be a jackass, and don't link to haters/disinfo sites. It's a shame that trolls are trying to surface there -- every so often one of the anonymous cowards tries to hate Mike here. To send such messages to his son is beneath contemptible.
- Defensive Operations in Urban Areas: Five fundamental lessons learned...
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Fast and Furious Document Release Highlights Continued Arrogant Stonewalling
It’s pretty representative of how “progressives” in power view an armed citizenry. And it’s a good indication that their priorities don’t include justice for Brian Terry and other s killed by “official” criminal acts, let alone living up to a prime directive for having this government in the first place, “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” [More]If you don’t want the government to stonewall answers for Fast and Furious, the solution is simple: Stop asking them questions. Right?
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Friday, April 15, 2016
A Deaf Ear
We're the Only Ones Coming Up Empty Enough
Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise
Take a look at the guns you can legally buy in the UK [More]Then take a look at guns you can illegally buy.
[Via Jess]
Not the Only Ones
Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed to Strike Down Gun Control Exemptions for Retired Law Enforcement Officers [More]Good. Although that can't be making NRA too happy.
Curious, though. It relies heavily on Silveira and is backed by Calguns. They were the ones who kicked me off their forum for rebutting a prominent Calguns member attacking me, among other reasons, for supporting Silveira. That would be the same Silveira the establishment did its best to kill (and incidentally, NRO then reneged on a promised rebuttal).
It's also curious that a primary reason Silveira failed was due to an earlier case that the"establishment" gun groups backed with this result:
After conducting a full analysis of the amendment, its history, and its purpose, we reaffirm our conclusion in Hickman v. Block, 81 F.3d 98 (9th Cir.1996), that it is this collective rights model which provides the best interpretation of the Second Amendment.Silveira also resulted in an outstanding dissent.
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You?
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Jackwagon Gets a Flat
It's not like Bloomberg isn't pushing full speed against out-funded grassroots activists for what "Gunny" handed him. And "enforce the laws on the books"? How is that different from someone in the pre-War of the Rebellion era advocating to enforce existing Intolerable Acts?
Judge for Yourself
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Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis said that a 2005 federal law protecting gun-makers from lawsuits does not prevent lawyers for the victims' families from arguing that the semi-automatic rifle is a military weapon and should not have been sold to civilians. [More]They can argue all they want. Someone else shouldn't be forced to listen. Or put at risk to pay for someone else's evil.
This is the kind of crap ruling that ought to get a judge removed, but that presents a dilemma for CT Democrats in power -- see, Bellis was appointed by a Republican, albeit a twice-convicted felon/prohibited person Republican who betrayed his NRA endorsement (surprise!) to push for "ballistic fingerprinting" with Richard Blumenthal). So even though the Dems might prefer one of their own behind the bench, why change out a reliable player with insider access to the other camp?
Until such time as it is understood that "in common use at the time" refers to true military grade weaponry, and that any "official" deviation from that interpretation will not be tolerated, subversives like Bellis will continue to undermine liberty.
UPDATE: Standing Liberty advises "Bellis has been featured guest at Plaintiff's law firm."
It's a big club and you ain't in it.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
NRA Annual Meeting Headlining Obama Supporter Toby Keith
Even more curiously, Keith has admitted voting for Bill Clinton twice, meaning he voted for him after the 1994 “assault weapon” ban. And while some may say his subsequent votes for George Bush indicated a change of heart, it hardly explains his political actions after that. Because five years after Keith wowed NRA members in Orlando, he declared himself a supporter of the man NRA’s Wayne LaPierre called “the most anti-gun president ever to occupy the Oval Office.” Keith praised Barack Obama, calling him “the best Democratic candidate we’ve had since Bill Clinton. And that’s coming from a Democrat.” And Keith went on to honor Obama by performing at his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. [More]It’s not unreasonable to ask – with all the entertainers out there – why Toby Keith? That and can people carry at the concert? Yes or no?
'Prowler Chase'
While finishing a romantic dinner, a couple hears noises outside. The husband goes out to investigate and is ambushed by a prowler−the scuffle turns to chaos. [More]This week on "Stop the Threat"...
Will Some Pro-gun Reps. Try to Kill Constitutional Concealed Carry?
No. By definition, if they try to do that, they are anti-gun. [More]
Those are the ones who should be identified and deluged with reminders that betrayals have consequences. That would make a lot more sense than asking members who live in districts dominated by antis to waste time and effort contacting someone who can safely treat them with contempt.
But some pro-gun congressman are suffering from a type of “Stockholm syndrome,” where prisoners become so oppressed that they begin to think like their captors. There are some pro-gun members of Congress who have allowed anti-gun crazies like Chuck Schumer to convince them that the freedom citizens enjoy in Constitutional Carry states is just too much.OK, who are they?
Those are the ones who should be identified and deluged with reminders that betrayals have consequences. That would make a lot more sense than asking members who live in districts dominated by antis to waste time and effort contacting someone who can safely treat them with contempt.
The Power to Destroy
US territory passes $1000 gun tax after courts smack down gun ban as unconstitutional [More]As long as they're so enthusiastic about embracing "progressive" values, and seeing as how "our diversity is our strength," what objection could there be to resettling some Syrians and Somalis there?
[Via Standing Liberty]
Stun Gun
The 'Stunning Hypocrisy' of Dennis Hastert: Speaker, Coach, Sexual Abuser [More]And then there was the gunning hypocrisy...
[Via Mack H]
Seeing How Well I-594 Hasn't Worked....
...AstroTurfers for Totalitarianism says funding elimination of due process is now the way to go. [More]
Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Obamaphone
FCC kept 'Obamaphone' fraud under wraps until after it expanded program [More]Gosh, and it seemed like such a worthwhile program...
Line Cutter
But she can't be a selfish elitist, since she also intends to give cuts in line to millions of proto-Democrat illegals (for selfish, elitist reasons). [More]
What do you want to bet if the girl had asserted her right and resisted being physically brushed aside, the security detail would have tackled her and frog marched her to booking?
What do you want to bet if the girl had asserted her right and resisted being physically brushed aside, the security detail would have tackled her and frog marched her to booking?
Countering the Lies
Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety and Mom’s Demand Action can’t seem to stop lying about Michigan House Bill 4795. Here are the facts: [More]It's what they do.
[Via Jason G]
Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise
Let the Punishment Fit the 'Crime'
UGA players released on bond, face felony charges for shooting BB gun in dorm [More]I set up a range inside the house for my kids when they first got BB guns. Big damn deal. That's supposed to make these guys "prohibited persons" for life?
And head coach Kirby Smart is OK with that? Rather than being an inspirational leader deserving of loyalty and condemning the whole "legal" reaction as ridiculous and an abominable travesty, he adds to the pile-on?
Our "institutions of higher learning" certainly are working as intended. I can't help but wonder if unforeseen consequences will result.
[Via Keith B]
The Chosen Ones
I Spoke with Mike Vanderboegh Last Night
He called me from the hospital. He'll be coming home today.
We spoke for several minutes. He actually sounded good -- it was one of those periods when he could reach out and engage. That's why the choice to initiate contact should be his.
Our friend is a brave man. He knows that many are concerned and are asking about him. He knows a lot of us are grateful to benefit from his work and some of us are grateful to know him in person. He appreciates that and he appreciates knowing many of us give him special mention in our prayers.
As long as I had him on the phone, I brought up a couple points of "business":
Those of you who wish to make -- or continue making -- gratitude offerings, please do. I'd hesitated bringing it up the last few times because I wasn't sure if Rosey would be able to endorse a check made out to Mike or to access his Paypal account. She'll be able to.
I've received inquiries about "Absolved," particularly if there is a link resource for all the posted chapters. I could update that, but knowing Mike was doing rewrites and how the draft may have value for his family, I didn't want to without checking first. Turns out that was the correct call to make.
More information will be forthcoming.
UPDATE: I had sad information I could not share when making the above post. Mike just called again this morning and cleared me to release it.
The doctors give him about a month.
4/15 UPDATE: Message from Mike...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
‘Gunwalker’ Feint Shows Administration Still Stonewalling
Don’t expect the mainstream media, and even Republican politicians, to relentlessly investigate the truth of any of these claims. With a few notable exceptions, they didn’t do anything but ignore and obfuscate while the iron was hot, and there is no incentive to resurrect “yesterday’s news” now. [More]Meanwhile, most "Authorized Journalist" sources are telling you everything is hunky-dory...
About That 'Single Issue'...
The NRA helped write California’s 1967 ban on openly carrying loaded firearms ... Indeed, these past six years the NRA has been in Federal court arguing to uphold California’s Open Carry bans as well as arguing in support of California’s Gun-Free School Zone Act ... Five years ago, the NRA opposed attempts to overturn the Open Carry bans in Arkansas, Florida, Texas and Oklahoma and when a Federal appellate court in 2012 struck down an Illinois ban on carrying loaded and unloaded firearms, be they carried openly or concealed, the NRA lobbied the Illinois legislature to enact a new ban on openly carried firearms in 2013 and, ironically, lobbied the state to enact an onerous concealed carry permit requirement. [More]I know Charles has gotten a lot of people furious with him in the past, and that SAF and Gura opposed one of his lawsuits. At the time, I was doing that Scottsdale area radio show and tried to get him on the program, and maybe even host a debate with his detractors, but couldn't get it to happen.
For purposes of this post, I'm not all that interested in hearing how he's a gadfly, or any stirring apologia for compromises. What I'm primarily interested in from this is whether or not his statements can be proven.
Don't Be So Coy
See if you can follow along, because I end up lost:
The only way to explain the seemingly illogical paradox is that special people get special "Only Ones" privileges. That and McAwful and his pet regurgitating vomit-lapper are demonstrable liars.
[Via Mack H]
McAuliffe (D) vetoed bills that would have given domestic-violence victims under protective orders the temporary right to carry concealed weapons without applying for permits or getting training.then:
“Governor McAuliffe applies one standard to bills like these,” Coy wrote in an email. “If they make Virginia safer, he signs them. If they do not, he vetoes them.”then:
McAuliffe signed identical House and Senate bills to allow the state’s judges and prosecutors to carry concealed weapons without having to undergo the normal permit-application and training process.Because judges and prosecutors have powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men?
The only way to explain the seemingly illogical paradox is that special people get special "Only Ones" privileges. That and McAwful and his pet regurgitating vomit-lapper are demonstrable liars.
[Via Mack H]
Integrity
What we do when we think no one will find out is what separates those who have it from those who don't. [Watch]
It's instructive, watching the guilty ones get hostile.
[Via Florida Guy]
It's instructive, watching the guilty ones get hostile.
[Via Florida Guy]
'How's Mike?'
I've been asked that a lot since my last update.
I'm in touch with his family. I'm told he went to the hospital yesterday and that he will call me.
If and as he can. Anything else would not be helpful or considerate. He knows we're concerned.
If and when I know something I can share, I will.
The War on Whites
Brought to you by the Republican establishment and its neocon cheerleaders.
Not that Democrats and unions don't share in the blame...
[Via Florida Guy]
#WOLM
You know, White Officials' Lives Matter. [More]
What? The same "courtesy" would not be extended to us mundanes? Hey, it's not like the Founders... oh, wait, never mind...
Yeah, but still, you know how unreasonable some people can be toward BART officials...
[Via Keith B]
What? The same "courtesy" would not be extended to us mundanes? Hey, it's not like the Founders... oh, wait, never mind...
Yeah, but still, you know how unreasonable some people can be toward BART officials...
[Via Keith B]
Dishonorable Discharge
The three-year-old family friend was sitting on Robinson's lap when he allegedly went to move a gun that was in a holster on his waistband because it was uncomfortable. That's when the gun discharged, firing one bullet into both legs of the young victim. [More]All by its own self, apparently.
I can't tell you how many times that's happened to me. Tell me we shouldn't be able to sue the manufacturer!
[Via William T]
Shelter from the Storm
PANICKED ELITE BUYING BOMB-PROOF LUXURY SURVIVAL BUNKERS TO ESCAPE CIVIL UNREST, DISASTERS [More]Which brings us to a persistent question...
Nice digs. We'll keep the trophy wives around for a while...
Must Be On Crack
Harvard professor Robert Rotberg is now citing Cracked as an authoritative source on firearms... [More]If you think about the insanity of citizen disarmament and a monopoly of violence, it only makes sense.
If you have time, further discussion on the calculated Lexington insult is here:
And if you missed it, my Oath Keepers article gives the Cliffs Notes version on what this is about.
Take a Number
Thanks to S.B. 273, Texans may now file complaints about signs posted that illegally prohibit licensed carriers from bringing their guns on government property. So far, nearly 60 complaints have been lodged, and are under investigation by the Texas Attorney General’s Office. [More]The Demanding Moms make their views known...
[Via Standing Liberty]
"Comments are Disabled for this Video"
Brought to you by people who prefer a Queen with the unchallengeable power to command "Off with their heads!"
Pretty slick production values there. The finest AstroTurf money can buy.
The Primary Flaw
The primary flaw in the entire Directive is the lack of punishment for any government official(s) who break the law or do not follow the Directive. [More]No, that's not "the primary flaw." But things are so screwed up that you're reduced to calling clarification of infringements "a step in the right direction," you're dependent on an advocacy model rendered effectively impotent by a tyranny of the majority, and that model will brook no competition from the "I will not comply" new paradigm. Which means the wheels will keep spinning and the Intolerable Acts will continue.
We're the Only Ones Reaching Out and Touching Someone Enough
Lexington Resolution Redux
AmmoLand reposted my Oath Keepers piece on the old commie trying to empty his Depends on John Parker's grave. [More]
Authorized Fact Checkers
The number of crime guns in New York from Vermont is so small that it could even be attributed to one or two bad actors. Using the per capita measure of trafficked guns originating from Vermont is as pointless as counting guns trafficked per 100,000 head of cattle. [More]Welcome to the party, pals. What took you so long?
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Politifact Gun Suicide ‘Truth-O-Meter’ Needs Independent Calibration
So much for the impartiality and credibility of the people Politifact is relying on to coax its Truth-O-Meter to register in the green. Which means, in the absence of expert analysis from researchers without a long history of self-interest-advancing citizen disarmament advocacy, those of us who are not statisticians must rely on that thing Mark and Gabby claim to represent, “common sense.” [More]When it comes to guns, if you can’t believe the Politifact Truth-O-Meter, the Brady Campaign, Mark and Gabby, and a gaggle of anti-gun academics and researchers, who can you believe?
[Via Mack H]
Moms Against Legal Recourse
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The Social Network
A new study suggests there is a growing market in the illegal trade of guns and weapons in Libya via social media sites, in particular Facebook. [More]I must be doing something wrong-- I haven't gotten a single offer...
[Via Florida Guy]
A New Code Term
True Believers
Any Knife in a Smackdown
“Even being punched five times before does not justify the use of deadly force,” Upchurch said. “He did not have a weapon.” [More]In fact, he did. Which makes vlla sella more than justifiable. Provided what happened was truly defensive.
This Megan Upchurch character sounds like she could benefit from a few life lessons. The question then would be if she's honest enough to apply them.
Topically semi-related: Elder feral son Udayand I find this stupidly entertaining.
[Via William T]
We're the Only Ones Young at Heart Enough
Child porn-collecting FBI partner on track to dodge jail [More]I don't know what everybody's so upset about -- give it a few years, and we'll find a way to destroy some more Christian bakers for being intolerant...
Besides, haven't we already established that -- at least for amorous-minded Only Ones -- the quality of mercy is not strained?
[Via Jess]
The New Inquisition
Burn, heretics!!! [More]
How that will factor into the carbon emissions equation is a matter for greater minds than ours. Hey, if anyone knows climate science, it's a political science professor.
I wonder if he could help me with this vibration rattle I hear when accelerating my car. That and give me expert advice on how to safely store my guns...
Here's the muscle the good poli-sci prof lacks. And WarOnGuns Correspondent Laocoön shows how it all ties back to something else some would rather we stopped harping on:
Good thing "Republicans" are in the majority in congress and will not aggravate this ... for now. Bad enough without congress piling on. With the NRA having passive-aggressively collaborated for the confirmation of Sotomayor & Kagan, Scalia gone, and wussy RINOs already ovulating for Comrade Hussein's nominee, if the AGs get verdicts they may be upheld.
That's the current situation. Soon, within 20 years, thanks to the NRA's passive-aggressive collaboration with Norquist-Bloomberg crowd's takeover and cultural terraforming of the USA through overimmigration, invasion-occupation, and the related anchor-Democrat, anchor-Sharia breeding programs, the Ds will have permanent supermajority control of all branches of the federal government and of a supermajority of the states.
Given the unassimilable deluge, 3rd-world immigrants, invaders, and anchor babies will continue to lean overwhelmingly Democrat and anti-gun - as they have since Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act Trojan Horse and Reagan's amnesty - despite any NRA reacharound, appeasement, and preemptive surrender efforts. All the NRA can do is try to mitigate and slow the destruction wrought by the subversion of its own Norquisling board and staff. The "good" news is that the coming Kabuki battles will enable the beltway vampires who control the NRA to con more members out of vast sums of money, adding to the nearly $400 million a year already squandered in outrageous salaries, sweetheart contracts, and donations to anti-gun, squish, and "cheap labor" RINO candidates.
The "single issue" cannot exist in a vacuum.
How that will factor into the carbon emissions equation is a matter for greater minds than ours. Hey, if anyone knows climate science, it's a political science professor.
I wonder if he could help me with this vibration rattle I hear when accelerating my car. That and give me expert advice on how to safely store my guns...
Here's the muscle the good poli-sci prof lacks. And WarOnGuns Correspondent Laocoön shows how it all ties back to something else some would rather we stopped harping on:
Good thing "Republicans" are in the majority in congress and will not aggravate this ... for now. Bad enough without congress piling on. With the NRA having passive-aggressively collaborated for the confirmation of Sotomayor & Kagan, Scalia gone, and wussy RINOs already ovulating for Comrade Hussein's nominee, if the AGs get verdicts they may be upheld.
That's the current situation. Soon, within 20 years, thanks to the NRA's passive-aggressive collaboration with Norquist-Bloomberg crowd's takeover and cultural terraforming of the USA through overimmigration, invasion-occupation, and the related anchor-Democrat, anchor-Sharia breeding programs, the Ds will have permanent supermajority control of all branches of the federal government and of a supermajority of the states.
Given the unassimilable deluge, 3rd-world immigrants, invaders, and anchor babies will continue to lean overwhelmingly Democrat and anti-gun - as they have since Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act Trojan Horse and Reagan's amnesty - despite any NRA reacharound, appeasement, and preemptive surrender efforts. All the NRA can do is try to mitigate and slow the destruction wrought by the subversion of its own Norquisling board and staff. The "good" news is that the coming Kabuki battles will enable the beltway vampires who control the NRA to con more members out of vast sums of money, adding to the nearly $400 million a year already squandered in outrageous salaries, sweetheart contracts, and donations to anti-gun, squish, and "cheap labor" RINO candidates.
The "single issue" cannot exist in a vacuum.
'Our Principles'
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Yeah, that pretty much says it all.
On the other hand, Team Trump acting all surprised makes me wonder if they were blindsided because they actually didn't understand how the varied state party delegate processes work, which calls the performance of his advisers into question. As for those suggesting a third party or write-in run should the convention go as it is being manipulated -- I'd like to see someone flesh out what electoral votes outside of the Repubs and Dems would look like -- the likely scenario.
One thing that surprises me is seeing complaints from people who in other circumstances would be reminding us that we're not a democracy but a republic. Another thing is how few seem to know that.
I wish my crystal ball was working, but the damn thing is on the fritz again. Assuming Hillary doesn't get prosecuted, I saw a poll report the other day that makes me believe most of the electorate will deserve whatever fate befalls them, and then some. Unfortunately, guess who gets dragged down with them...
Monday, April 11, 2016
Lock N Load
I'll be joining host Bill Frady this evening at 7 Eastern to talk about whatever he wants to throw at me. Those so inclined can listen and chat at the program site.
Lexington Resolution on Militia-Suitable Firearms Looks like a Calculated Insult
The prohibition enthusiast responsible is “town resident Robert Rotberg, the founding director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation.” Rotberg is a career globalist (and failed candidate for selectman himself), evidently intent on proving the truism that for “progressives” every day is Opposite Day – how else would one explain someone from Lexington who thinks it’s a peace-promoting idea for government to disarm citizens in a town that prides itself on a statue of Captain John Parker? [More]It's a similar compulsion to desecrating a shrine...
Too Little Too Late
NRA Reaches Out to Pro-Gun Latinos With National Video Ad Campaign [More]Right. And how much of a fraction of a percentage point can they authoritatively project this will sway that "Nearly 80 percent of Latinos - the fastest-growing demographic in the country - [who] favor gun control over gun rights"...?
Ah well, at least it will give the headline surfers and "single issue" excuse makers something to further muddy the waters with...
Besides -- add this to Grover's vapers and Uber drivers, and I think Alfred stated it best:
Oath Breaker of the Year Award
As long as gun owners continue rewarding "Republicans" like de la Portilla, the party will have no incentive to offer someone who actually merits support.
Better to give the seat to a damn Dem for a cycle. And yeah, the guy has a lock on the Cuban vote, but if gun voters everywhere had been doing that all along instead of confirming impotence with the "lesser of two evils" excuse, the party would make 2A fidelity a requirement.
[Via Mike M]
UPDATE: See, when they don't have to, they don't care:
You Mean "Second Responders"?
Tennesseans Petition to Allow First Responders to Carry [More]You mean the folks who arrive after the first responders have responded?
And what's this "allow"...?
Opposite Day in Nevada
I Know You Are, But What Am I?
So what does that make you, Chris Murphy, a neo-totalitarian? [More]
And yes, you are on a different planet.
And yes, you are on a different planet.
More Terror Down Under
New rapid-fire shotguns, that can fire eight rounds in eight seconds, have sparked fear among gun control experts. [More]One-thousand one, one-thousand two, one-thousand three, one-thousand four, one-thousand five, one-thousand six, one-thousand seven, one-thousand eight...
That's what it takes to scare their "experts"? Really?
Better not tell 'em about single-actions:
[Via Florida Guy]
Focused on the Wrong Thing
DRGO Updates
You can eliminate the middleman (that would be me in this instance) and get all the information firsthand simply by doing this.
The Terror Down Under
Sometimes, All You Have Left is Sarcasm
WarOnGuns Correspondent Carlos Perdue provides the only response possible to a bad case of confirmation bias. [More]
To Name But a Few
Bob Iger, Rupert Murdock, Michael Bloomberg and Bill Marriott... [More]Thanks goodness this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
Catch and Release
Border Patrol ordered to release illegals ‘still soaking wet’ from Rio Grande, union says [More]What kind of xenophobic racist could possibly object?
Brought to You By the Letter "I"
Sesame Street unveiled a fresh face Thursday: a hijab-wearing Afghani Muppet named Zari who will teach kids about “girl empowerment, social and emotional wellbeing.” [More]Who better to learn it from?
As long as we're on that subject:
It's a big club and you ain't in it.
Elder Statesman
And I confess, maybe it's just a sign of old age... [More]Then again, maybe it's a sign of a realization.
You Kiss Your Mother with That Mouth?
Evidently so. [More]
True, it's in Piers Morgan Paradise, but it'll be here soon enough.
Let the marriages and successful lawsuits against Christian bakers commence. That is, until the coming Caliphate the Prozis demand tolerance for starts setting things... uh ...straight.
True, it's in Piers Morgan Paradise, but it'll be here soon enough.
Let the marriages and successful lawsuits against Christian bakers commence. That is, until the coming Caliphate the Prozis demand tolerance for starts setting things... uh ...straight.
As Long as We Have No Say in the Matter...
You don't, you know, and "progressives" like that just fine... [More]
‘There’s Classified, And Then There’s Classified’
You know, it depends upon what the meaning of the word "is" is... [More]
Think that would work for you and me?
Think that would work for you and me?
Capture the Flag
Forget whether you agree with his chosen candidate or not. Consider the principle. [More]
Doesn't Everyone?
Why The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam [More]What information does he have that we don't?
Great Wall of Separation
Horror as China tears down THOUSANDS of crucifixes in crude bid to eradicate Christianity [More]Gosh, they're just like L.A. "progressives"...
In more ways than one.
Yeah, What I Just Said
Republican Party insiders in the state will select 27 delegates to the national convention on Saturday, and Trump is assured to be nearly shut out of support, according to interviews with a dozen party leaders and officials involved in the delegate selection process. [More]I have a bad feeling about this.
First Impressions Matter
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The Colorado Republican Party's decision last summer to jettison a presidential poll at its caucus on Tuesday looks worse with every passing day. [More]It's not hard to imagine the Denver Post editorial staff high-fiving as the GOP "leadership" self-destructs.
It doesn't matter if there are esoteric inside baseball rationales or if varied arcane Democrat caucus rules do their share of deck-stacking the media is happy to overlook. All that matters is what the average, frustrated, Republican-leaning voter walks away thinking, that everything is being changed without his influence and against his will -- to the benefit of those who know how to pull the right strings and push the right buttons -- and that he has been rendered voiceless.
Donald Trump is wrong about riots from his supporters, at least in the "traditional" sense of opportunistic masses running wild in the streets with TVs and toilet paper. I don't see the type of people concerned with the issues he's taken the lead on being that type, certainly not to loot and burn, no matter how much they're conflated with violent "extremists" and painted as bigger domestic threats than Islamists bent on forcing submission.
That said, a quote from a Democrat icon comes to mind.
Congratulations, Dead Elephant Party. You are more to blame than overt domestic enemies, because you snookered the desperate into having a hope you never intended to fulfill.
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Sure, Democrats Have Blacks and Hispanics, But We Have a Shot at Uber Drivers and Vapers!
Grover Norquist proves how delusional and deceptive his arguments are. [More]
Whether this imaginary "coalition" proves resentful enough to make a difference in November or not isn't even the point -- the "pathway to citizenship" he and Bloomberg and the cheap labor über alles Republicans are paving and adding speed lanes to will more than take care of elections after that.
WarOnGuns correspondent Carlos Perdue has posted two highly relevant comments so far -- and since I can't seem to make individual comment links work, I'm going to copy and paste them here:
Carlos Perdue
4/9/2016 8:14 PM EDT
Groveler al Nor'Qu'ist's Saudi pals are the ones directly responsible for the destruction of all those jobs in America's oil shale drilling patch.
and
Carlos Perdue
4/9/2016 7:13 PM EDT [Edited]
OMG. More delusional, deceptive nonsense from Bloomberg collaborator and islamophile quisling, Grover al Nor'Qu'ist (proper Arabic spelling of Norquist; please be sensitive).
Bloomberg and his gun-grabbing billionaire pals don't spend hundreds of millions of dollars for amnesty and open immigration to ensure "cheap labor" for Bloomberg's news operation. He's doing it to lock down his long-term gun ban strategy: The permanent cultural and political terraforming of the USA.
Grover al Nor'Qu'ist openly collaborates with Bloomberg's strategy to overrun our country and overwhelm the relatively conservative native-born citizenry's voting control with fast-breeding legal and illegal immigrants and their offspring, who will continue to lean overwhelmingly Democrat and anti-gun as they have increasingly since "Republicans" went along with Kennedy's 1965 Trojan Horse Immigration Act, since Reagan's and subsequent de facto and de jure amnesties, and since the gross dereliction and subversion by every president after Eisenhower of our most critical national defenses -- our own borders and immigration controls.
Unless the invasion-occupation-takeover of the USA is halted and reversed, anchor baby citizenship for the children of non-citizens abolished, and legal immigration slashed back to the kind of pleasant, beneficial, non-suicidal trickle we enjoyed from the 1920s under Coolidge through the 1950s under Eisenhower, then within 20 years thanks to the immigration Nor'Qu'islings, the Democrats will have permanent supermajority control of all branches of both the federal government and a supermajority of the states.
The vast majority of U.S. population growth since 1965 is due to government-sponsored over-immigration and invasion-occupation. The interest groups al Nor'Qu'ist cites are not in the same order of magnitude and will not even vaguely make up for the damage done by al Nor'Qu'ist's subversive immigration policies.
Whether this imaginary "coalition" proves resentful enough to make a difference in November or not isn't even the point -- the "pathway to citizenship" he and Bloomberg and the cheap labor über alles Republicans are paving and adding speed lanes to will more than take care of elections after that.
WarOnGuns correspondent Carlos Perdue has posted two highly relevant comments so far -- and since I can't seem to make individual comment links work, I'm going to copy and paste them here:
Carlos Perdue
4/9/2016 8:14 PM EDT
Groveler al Nor'Qu'ist's Saudi pals are the ones directly responsible for the destruction of all those jobs in America's oil shale drilling patch.
and
Carlos Perdue
4/9/2016 7:13 PM EDT [Edited]
OMG. More delusional, deceptive nonsense from Bloomberg collaborator and islamophile quisling, Grover al Nor'Qu'ist (proper Arabic spelling of Norquist; please be sensitive).
Bloomberg and his gun-grabbing billionaire pals don't spend hundreds of millions of dollars for amnesty and open immigration to ensure "cheap labor" for Bloomberg's news operation. He's doing it to lock down his long-term gun ban strategy: The permanent cultural and political terraforming of the USA.
Grover al Nor'Qu'ist openly collaborates with Bloomberg's strategy to overrun our country and overwhelm the relatively conservative native-born citizenry's voting control with fast-breeding legal and illegal immigrants and their offspring, who will continue to lean overwhelmingly Democrat and anti-gun as they have increasingly since "Republicans" went along with Kennedy's 1965 Trojan Horse Immigration Act, since Reagan's and subsequent de facto and de jure amnesties, and since the gross dereliction and subversion by every president after Eisenhower of our most critical national defenses -- our own borders and immigration controls.
Unless the invasion-occupation-takeover of the USA is halted and reversed, anchor baby citizenship for the children of non-citizens abolished, and legal immigration slashed back to the kind of pleasant, beneficial, non-suicidal trickle we enjoyed from the 1920s under Coolidge through the 1950s under Eisenhower, then within 20 years thanks to the immigration Nor'Qu'islings, the Democrats will have permanent supermajority control of all branches of both the federal government and a supermajority of the states.
The vast majority of U.S. population growth since 1965 is due to government-sponsored over-immigration and invasion-occupation. The interest groups al Nor'Qu'ist cites are not in the same order of magnitude and will not even vaguely make up for the damage done by al Nor'Qu'ist's subversive immigration policies.
Friday, April 08, 2016
City of Angels
A federal judge in California has ruled that including a small Christian cross on the official seal of Los Angeles County is unconstitutional, siding with civil liberties advocates. [More]My, how very Opposite Day "progressive" of the Bill Clinton appointee.
Me, I object to calling the place "The Angels." That discriminates against those of us who call them spirit guides or Valkyries or Houris, or even those who call them demons...
Matter of fact, the example of the Taliban/Buddhist statue "flap," as adopted by those intent on going after Confederate monuments, makes it clear the entire mission system is emblematic of white privilege, patriarchy, religious bigotry, oppression and genocide, and it offends the hell out of people who live to have the hell offended out of them. If they're not going to be destroyed outright, we at least need to convert some to give equal shrift to Baal and Cthulu, as well as apportion a few as "bathhouses"...
The Devil's Invention
Meaning, I guess this Brit want them reserved for the devil's minions, and I suspect he'll get his wish-- at least over there. [More]
Faux News Health
Because nothing says "gun safety" like a bunch of antis haranguing you to turn it into a club! [More]
"Lead author Dr. Katherine Freundlich," eh? I don't suppose she'd like to fill out a form explaining her qualifications and what she's prepared to do about it should her advice not work out...?
"Lead author Dr. Katherine Freundlich," eh? I don't suppose she'd like to fill out a form explaining her qualifications and what she's prepared to do about it should her advice not work out...?
White House Still Claiming Second Amendment a ‘Given’ Right
This isn’t subject to interpretation and spin, which means the evil b******s are demonstrable liars, defrauding Americans out of their rights and usurping powers they have no claim to. Plainly, because there’s no other way to put this and remain faithful to the truth, that makes them tyrants and domestic enemies, and if you think about it, presumptuous blasphemers. [More]The One from whom all blessings flow…? The guy sure has a high opinion of himself.
Voyage to See What's on the Bottom
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Feral sons Uday and Qusay think it's a hoot that we had shows like that taking place in the "future" years of 1970s and 80s. "Voyage" actually had some thoughtful episodes, especially in the black and white era before much of it devolved into cheesy special effects and hokey monsters, like much of the -- face it -- dreck Irwin Allen produced.
Long story short, I found a Richard Basehart commemorative site that has posted another fond memory, back from the days when I was a Mad Magazine regular, their "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom" parody. You'll probably either think it's childishly stupid or funny. If you're like me, you'll think it's both, and enjoy it all the more because of that.
I don't know what "netiquette" is for a link that appears to go to a directory instead of a content page, so I'm not going to make this link hot. If you want to see more, copy and paste it into your address bar.
http://www.richardbasehart.com/images/vttbots/mad/
"Storefront Stick-up"
A victim of opportunity, this store owner has his hands full when he is confronted by an armed robber as he is unlocking the door. The robber demands "Give me the bag!" What happens next is the subject of this weeks' episode. [More]Tonight on "Stop the Threat"...
Mass Hysteria
Newtown schools chief: Teachers will never carry guns in town schools [More]Or I should say, Conn. hysteria, which is pretty much the same thing.
I note teacher Jason Adams didn't actually do anything threatening, so this appears to be pure hoplophobia gone viral. I suspect he's probably been doing it for a while and got careless with concealment. Another teacher saw it and reported him. And an armed "Only One" reminded him of why they're called that.
The guy is screwed. Good luck with a 2A defense. That presupposes courts exist to secure the Blessings of Liberty. Just like the other branches of government, right?
I have some feelers out to learn more -- if you have something to add, feel free to comment.
Item last -- I've seen a "friendly fire" tendency to pile on the guy, and will only ask this -- has anyone ever felt compelled to carry when and where the "law" said you couldn't?
[Via Sweet Baboo]
We're the Only Ones All TOR Up Enough
[W]hen Seattle police showed up at David Robinson's home shortly after 6 a.m. last Wednesday, he figured he had little choice but to let them in and hand over all his computer passwords. [More]There's always a choice. But some are more costly than others.
And there's always a weakest link.
Anybody think you're safe out there...?
[Via Michael G]
It's Firearms Friday!
I'll be joining Michael Dukes again at 11:20 or so Eastern to talk gun sales, Hillary and Bernie, and whatever else we can get to. [Listen]
For the Children
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