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“We’re stopping money,” said community activist Michael Hassell. “If that means we got to walk around a Cardinals game so no one can get in, that’s what we’re going to do.” [More]
I'd rather watch that than a ball game any day.
The "progressives" whose policies make societal breakdown and police state abuses inevitable are intent on expanding and spreading the discontent everywhere. Lyda "forgot" to mention "vote Democrat."
This is a case where the NY Times Editorial author James Bennet claimed to be so ignorant, so uninterested in doing any research, and so oblivious to his surroundings, that his ignorance turned into legal bliss. [More]
And of course he had an agenda. Still, that a judge ruled The New York Times' fake news is due to incompetence is something to continually remind people of whenever we see it recur.
Cajun Navy and Oath Keepers – Rescues by Boat in Texas and Louisiana... They did come under fire during attempted robberies. There are currently over 300 boats in the water. They are also working Lafayette, LA. [More]
John Comeau tries to determine the concealed carry position of a "progressive" candidate for sheriff in "May Issue" California, and among other things is told "Most people do not need" permits and that his politics as expressed on social media would be a disqualifier. [More]
I've seen a disparaging comment from the "Always Say Something Negative" crowd about that being the platform to access. He didn't say who his ISP is or who made his device and operating system, but I'll assume he purchased everything from a solid 2A concern while only dealing with patriots in all matters economic.
He claimed he was stabbed for looking like a “neo-Nazi.” Now police say he bought the knife himself. Joshua Witt faces a fine of up to $2,650 and up to one year in jail for filing a false report [More]
Finding political common ground aside (NRA has a substantial Law Enforcement Division), the two groups have plenty of differences, and FOP has had a mixed record on citizen disarmament going back at least to the Handgun Control, Inc. days. They’ll also on occasion share interests, as when FOP joined ATF in opposing the release of trace data. Using Ranta’s “logic,” ATF must not be anti-gun enough, which kind of gives you an idea of infringements she’d like to see. [More]
Even confiscation isn't good enough for those who demand their delusions be reality. Nothing is. Nothing can be.
A coalition of 21 state attorneys general filed a brief on Friday urging the Supreme Court to hear a case against Maryland's assault weapons ban. [More]
"Senate Bill 219 ... would make it unlawful, except as specified, for any long-term care facility to take specified actions wholly or partially on the basis of a person’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status, including, among others, willfully and repeatedly failing to use a resident’s preferred name or pronouns after being clearly informed of the preferred name or pronouns” [More]
Stating reality will be a crime. How very "progressive."
So what if someone's "preferred name" is "hateful" and they insist on being called that?
Well look what stopped it. I thought that never happens...? [More]
Per the video report, authorities couldn't take the dogs into custody without owner consent because they're property? Funny, because if the owner had been the one attacking, they sure could have taken him in.
A bill that would allow Alabama residents to carry concealed weapons without a permit is headed again to the Alabama Legislature, and the bill’s sponsor says the pressure will be on lawmakers who oppose it. [More]
Will it be?
How many gun owners are in Alabama?
How many have contacted their representatives about this and actually applied some pressure? How many have ever contacted them, or know how to, or even know who their representatives are?
If the number of social media followers the state gun groups have is any indication of membership and advocacy involvement, there's more apathy than there is pressure.
Breaking from a 34-year-old tradition, the historic Orpheum Theatre in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, announced Friday that it will not show Gone With the Wind in its future summer movie series because of the film’s “insensitive” racial content. [More]
An ill wind is picking up force. And frankly, my dear, it'll be what you do give a damn about that it blows away next.
You see, in their zeal to eradicate AR-15 features their state, law-abiding Californians who want the rifles are finding creative ways to get around the law. [More]
Outfoxing and leaving the tyrants sputtering, are they? That creativity doesn't "get around" the core infringements though, does it?
As longtime friend and colleague Brian Puckett once noted:
I sometimes wonder whether the socialists will issue an edict requiring all firearms to have a pink ribbon tied to the barrel, just to get a belly laugh as the panicked descendants of once-proud American patriots scurry to comply.
Don't look for the "gun rights leaders" to ever admit how such widespread and focused contempt for a supposedly fundamental right is legislatively and judicially imposed in California. It's not part of that "single issue."
"Winning" will not be possible as long as that deliberate indifference takes precedence -- at least by the methods such groups employ.
WHY COPS ARE STANDING DOWN IN BERKELEY AND BEYOND [More]
Because it serves their masters' purposes.
The most unpredictable thing about the next Reichstag fire will be the form that it takes. The most predictable will be the assumption of more control.
You won't find the "author" on Google or Facebook or Twitter. That's because the purpose of this and pieces like it is to wave a red flag and provoke anti-Semitic comments from useful idiots in order to smear us all as "Nazis."
Don't take the bait. Or if you do, regurgitate it somewhere else.
“In performing its duties, the Commission, through its Board or designated employees or agents, may: Enter ... any lands, waters, and premises adjacent to the WMATA Rail System ... for the purpose of making inspections, investigations, examinations, and testing as the Commission may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this MSC Compact, and such entry shall not be deemed a trespass.” [More]
So is this a grave new threat to liberty or much ado about nothing over standard easements?
Aside from this being a non-issue for anyone except opportunistic communists and their useful "progressive" idiots, the "news" is mostly using "representative" photos of previous marches. [More]
I'm interested not only in numbers but also in the diversity. [Via Florida Guy]
Gun accidentally fired ... A gun accidentally was fired... A gun accidentally was fired ... “There was minimal damage to the wall from the accidental discharge.” [More]
Except the idiot mother intentionally pulled the trigger to see if the gun was real.
Trump prepares to lift limits on military gear for police [More]
I pretty much outlined my militarization concerns reflecting on how it would complicate a Battle of Athens rematch.
Anybody see any bills for all those "stauch defenders of the Second Amendment" we keep getting suckered into voting for on carrying out their "organizing, arming, and disciplining" the Militia mandate, and by that I'm talking about including (b)(2)...?
I agree with not being overly picky about fighting back using any chair at hand. That's why I've recommended stuff like RICO actions and "knew or should have known" civil suits against those financing subversives, among numerous other suggestions I doubt I'll ever see happen. I've actually been an advocate of using "the left's" laws against them for a long time and I'm sure I could come up with a dozen examples if I didn't have other stuff to do right now.
In terms of a broader and more detailed plan, lacking a crystal ball and, importantly, unified leadership with resources, I'm pretty much stuck in the same place as everyone else and must make do with hoping my preparations, alliances and reactive adaptations get me and mine through as far as they can against whatever "wicked this way comes."
[Via SamAdams1776] * The Internet Archive Wayback Machine site is having connection difficulties at present -- nothing I can do about it. The link goes to an insightful old Examiner.com piece by Kurt Hofmann comparing the "botched gun sting" excuse for Fast and Furious to South Park's Undepants Gnome business model.
All three Custer County commissioners could end up out of a job [More]
Per George Gramlich via email:
Colorado Politics/Statesman is read by every state wide politician in Colorado. Hopefully a wake up call and rally cry to other patriots to stand up to lying, dishonest politicians.
A school in Woodstock, Georgia, is facing fierce criticism online after photos emerged of young students handling guns at a firing range during a school-sanctioned trip. [More]
PSH and the obligatory noises from the state notwithstanding, some of those photos merit a closer look, fingerwise and hammerwise:
If you're going to teach them, teach them right.
I can't tell if the "NRA... gun control" line is a mistake or an appropriate use of the term -- in more ways than one, if you think about it.
“Promotions such as those mentioned above constitute civil rights violations under the California Unruh Civil Rights Act and entitle the individual subject to discrimination to statutory damages in the amount of $4,000.00 per violation, in addition to costs and attorneys’ fees should litigation be commenced,” the letter’s author, Gregory Rolando, wrote. [More]
Looks like Gregory's feelin' the earned love on Yelp and Ripoff Report. I'm wondering if anyone's gonna make a SoCal janitorial service/INS presumption...
He could have just told the range he identifies as a woman...
A quick head count of the Senate shows that bill essentially dead on arrival. In addition to most or all Democrats lining up against the legislation, several Republicans are also balking at it, including members of the 2013 “Gang of Eight,” such as John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. [More]
And the "compromise" will be to put the age group most favorable to collectivism on that "pathway to citizenship"?
Good thing none of this has anything to do with that "single issue."
A Florida sheriff has fired a decorated deputy who was recorded taunting an autistic student at the middle school where he provided security and guidance. [More]
Why? It sounds like they were on equal intellectual footing.
On Dec. 20, he wrote “I got my 9″ wit (sic) full clips. Mixed with poison hallows, regular hallows and strait meadle (sic) jackets.” When asked by text where he got the weapon, Trinh allegedly texted: “A yistol (sic) shop.” [More]
The fruits of "progressivism"...
And yeah, the "Authorized Journalists" missed a few "(sics)."
But a Los Angeles Times review of records from 20 of the state’s largest police and sheriff’s departments, plus the Alameda County district attorney’s office, found some agencies have been slow to follow or have ignored the law. [More]
Then do what they'd do to us if we were slow to obey a command or tried to ignore it.
Or is the fact that an example hasn't already been made an indication that things go higher up? How much of this surveillance abuse was "allowed" on Kamala's watch?
Genderqueer artist Dean Hutton has spent much of their life seeing the world through a lens. They were chief photographer at the Mail & Guardian and have worked as a photojournalist for over 18 years... [More]
"Their"?
"They"?
How many are in there, anyway? And are we sure they all drowned?
I don't know what's more defective -- this ... thing, or those that embrace and promote its freakshow madness.
They sure do seem to be upset with everything, starting with reality.
An army of anarchists in black clothing and masks routed a small group of right-wing demonstrators who had gathered in a Berkeley park Sunday to rail against the city’s famed progressive politics, driving them out — sometimes violently — while overwhelming a huge contingent of police officers. Hundreds of officers tried ... [More]
Journalists were not spared from violence, as Antifa members attempted to seize phones and cameras by force. Antifa members can be heard yelling “Take his camera! Take his phone!”
Yet the meme being shoved down everyone's throats, and enthusiastically exploited by establishment "Republicans," is Trump was wrong to say the commie side had its share of culpability.
It's pretty clear that conditions are being set up to provoke an armed response, and that "crisis" in turn will be used to justify more controls on guns and on everything.
If you’re not from Oregon, your help is still welcome and needed. [More]
Why should you get involved? If the state can make this stick, it will be coming soon to your AO. Just as soon as the gun-grabbers find the right blood dance opportunity to exploit.
Anyone connected with popular culture can’t help but make the connection between what such a weapon is capable of doing and its similarity to the barbed wire-wrapped “Lucille,” sickeningly used by the totalitarian-minded Negan character on “The Walking Dead.” [More]
Engaged in instances of threatened retaliatory behavior, including telling one woman she better do damage control, and "if you don't side with me, grenades are going to go off, and you'll get hit." [More]
Jeez, if you or I said that to him we'd be lucky if the worst that happened was being prosecuted for a terrorist threat.
"We are convinced, looking at the recent attacks that where a large number of poorly integrated Muslims live, it is [also] a natural base for terrorism,” said Pawel Soloch, the head of Poland’s National Security Bureau (BBN). [More]
Clemson prof: 'All Republicans are racist scum' [More]
He chose to come here.
I don't know what ever happened to "When in Rome," but were I in another country, the last thing I'd be doing is insulting and undermining their values and traditions. If nothing else, it's just plain rude. Taken to his level, it's subversive.
Who benefits from taking in and enabling this kind of foreign garbage?
The Muslim Brotherhood has penetrated every one of our national security agencies, including our intelligence agencies, according to retired Navy admiral James "Ace" Lyons, former commander of the U.S. Pacific fleet. [More]
Quick-- send some provocateurs over to rile up domestic Nazis!
ATF releases 2017 Report on Firearm Commerce in the United States [More]
My chart above seems like an overly generous representation of attendees vs. protestors at NRA Annual Meetings, plus there never seem to be any anti-gun shows to attend throughout the Republic...
Back to the point of the post and report it links to, it can be useful data. I just wish it wasn't the Feds compiling it.
Per the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel's George Gramlich, "Just got word the county clerk has certified all three petitions. The recall is on for November 7."
That's some professional Authorized Jounalizin' you "real reporters" at CNN got going on there. Is a "news" organization taking Alinsky Rule 5 swipes at a populist outsider to benefit a Republican establishment favorite what's meant by "bipartisanship"?
Florida man gets 30 months for stealing over 100 firearms from gun shops [More]
Just the two B&Es are separate felonies under Florida law. Each stolen gun is its own felony.
How nice to know Wayne Fincher got six-and-a-half years and wasn't granted supervised furlough for his wife's funeral for the grave crime of believing the Second Amendment means what it says.
I guess the rulers fear challenges to their authority more than cultured excuses to maintain and increase it.
The Trump speech in Phoenix was “an astounding chain of lies tied together by lunatic aside by a man who obviously is mentally unstable,” Republican strategist Rick Wilson told CNN. [More]
So does that concession make him an Antifa moderate?
Like his namesake, he seems to have an inflated ego. And is it any wonder he's the darling of "progressives" that can trot him out as a useful "Republican"?
He was doing everything he could to make sure Hillary won. So naturally he's pals with the Bush dynasty, Rubio, et al, none of whom have seen an advantage in distancing themselves from his promulgating the Antifa "Nazi" meme or his continued use of vulgar seventh grade slams as a distracting substitute for reason.
This is the enemy within and an enabler of Republican betrayal. Any candidate who uses his "services" in the future will have demonstrated who he gives aid and comfort to.
Fake news, lies and smears are what the public hears about Oath Keepers from the media. And limited means of correcting the record are increasingly and intentionally being blocked. [More]
Mr. Butler that his transcribers had had difficulty rendering Mr. Schwarzenegger's remarks because of his accent and said the only way to resolve the discrepancy was to listen to the tapes, which are in Mr. Schwarznegger's possession. [More]
Instead of just disputing and denying, why wouldn't a committed anti-Nazi want to unequivocally clear that up by producing those tapes?
" ... the officer admitted he knew nothing about any allegations of wrongdoing or any emergency and didn’t know who asked for the ‘welfare check.’” [More]
“We are not a fan of armed protests and highly discourage that,” said Alan Gottlieb, the founder and executive vice president of the SAF. “Firearms serve a purpose, and the purpose is not a mouthpiece. It’s to defend yourself. If you are carrying it to make a political point, we are not going to support that.” [More]
It's not the first time I've seen such distancing for anything outside his paradigm fed to the media. I'm not sure what he thinks giving them this concession will accomplish, and if that will outweigh the perceptions of some who are now feeling... uh, "alienated" is putting it politely.
It cost the city $270,000 to put ShotSpotters on the city's crime-ridden east and west sides, but police Chief William McManus said the program's results don't match up with its hefty price tag. [More]
All it takes is effort,dedication and love of country and our Constitution. Think local patriots. Local is doable. Get off the internet and get your neighbors and friends in gear. Engage. Take the offensive.
This should serve as an example for patriots everywhere. Start your local efforts now. There is no shame in trying and losing, but there is shame in not trying.
As an aside, how unsurprising that the subjects of the recall are choosing avoidance rather than engagement.
All of which raises a question: Does Trump really want to make Charles E. Schumer the Senate majority leader? Why would a Republican president attack one of his party’s most vulnerable incumbents at time when the GOP holds such a narrow majority that it cannot pass legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare — or much of anything else for that matter? [More]
The pat-down, done over her clothes, explored her breasts, crotch and buttocks. “I did not imagine that she would ask me a few times to spread my legs wider and in fact touch my vagina four times with the side of her hand,” MacFarlane later wrote in a complaint to the TSA. [More]
I can't figure out if they're talking about bestiality or digging a hole in the ground and doing pushups. Regardless, it sounds like a good way to get chiggers.
On the plus side, figuring out which bathroom to use is not an issue.
“It’s entirely counterproductive for the president to be picking fights with Republican senators who he will need for important agenda items that they both agree on,” said Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.). “Does he think that Democratic senators will be more cooperative than John McCain and Jeff Flake and Susan Collins? It doesn’t seem to make any sense.” [More]
Spoken like a true "moderate" swamp thing. Plus it's a false alternative, a lie. Trump would prefer a Republican who's not a backstabbing establishment poltroon undermining what he was elected to do. They freaked out over Brat unseating Cantor and are now out there badmouthing Kelli Ward.
And back when it looked like Hillary would win, Dent thought it productive to go before the media and declare Trump "a never-ending shipwreck."
Might there be a reason Dent's OK with foot-dragging on the wall?
Scott said big cities like Los Angeles, where he served as a deputy chief, have long responded to these types of protests by having officers keep opposing sides apart. The tactics, in the end, aren’t complicated. [More]