Notes from the Resistance...
The Federal Trade Commission sued to break up Facebook on Wednesday, asking a federal court to force the sell-off of assets such as Instagram and WhatsApp as independent businesses. [More]
I'm intuitively against such government overreach. That said, VLLA SELLA, mother******s.
[Via Michael G]
This post will be updated as new, non-repetitive links are received. They're being offered in good faith as claims that should be looked at, but as always, deciding how credible these are is up to each of us to decide based on how they track with what can be proven.
Mexico’s COVID-19 Crisis Continues to Spill Across the Border [More]
That no one demanding that we shut down is also demanding to shut this down should tell us much.
And of course treatment facilities will make no distinction for who they assign limited beds to, and if the vaccine proves to reliably work for a substantial portion of the population, for who gets to partake of the limited supply in time to make a difference...
Courtesy of OUR pathway to citizenship/cheap labor über alles "representatives"...
Michigan Democratic State Rep. Cynthia Johnson threatened @realDonaldTrump supporters in a Facebook live video Tuesday, saying it is a warning message to those who support the president.
— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) December 9, 2020
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A divided three-judge panel of the Illinois 2nd District Appeals Court on Friday lifted permanent injunctions issued last year by a Lake County judge that had forbidden village officials from enforcing any part of the assault weapons ban ordinance trustees passed unanimously in April 2018. [More]
Meet the presumed arbiters of your rights. I see their crowing is getting "thumbs up."
They and the robed apparatchiks can come up with excuses for any act of tyranny. That's why, ultimately, it's not really up to them, is it?
“B*tch! Kill yourself! I’m a [bleeping] teacher, I work at the school!” the teacher screamed from her car in a video while flipping her middle finger at the anti-lockdown protesters. “F***! F*** you, I am a teacher! I teach the students! My students’ families are dying!” [More]
PHILADELPHIA REISSUES CARRY PERMITS AFTER GOA LEGAL VICTORY [More]So the GPU "Only Ones" can buy beer and cigarettes from some minimum wage gas station clerk at the end of their shifts but couldn't mask up and do their jobs?
Black man shot by deputy held a sandwich, not a gun [More]They ought to rename it the "Community Hero."
“Raised for the King in 1776 among loyalist Americans by famed French & Indian War leader Major Robert Rogers, the Queen's Rangers used every one of Britain's cutting-edge tools,” John documents. “Major Patrick Ferguson’s company using his new breechloading rifle was assigned to the Rangers to test his tactics and rifle in combat.” [More]
So much for the gun-grabber argument that the people of that time were stuck with muskets and could not conceive of advancements in weaponry.
“Any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine, medicine or food (such as previous history of anaphylactoid reaction or those who have been advised to carry an adrenaline autoinjector) should not receive the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine. [More]
Well, I guess that leaves me out.
UPDATE: WarOnGuns Correspondent Laocoön sent some expert testimony from Canada asserting "This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public."
Reminds me of a saying I occasionally repeat around here...Joe Biden plans to move quickly against guns, adding the issue to his list of first executive orders, according to his top policy aide. [More]
Because who needs checks and balances when you can wield dictatorial power with fawning media approval?
Now that our "pro-gun president" has clearly shown the way (with a special assist from our "gun rights leaders"!) does anybody still not understand the issue and still maintain the "bump stock ban" is just about "a stupid piece of plastic"?
[Via Len Savage]
Rhodes Scholarship Degenerates Into Farce [More]
Hell, it did that decades ago.
When are they going to remove the Rhodes name, so students don't have to suffer the degrading indignity of choosing between accepting the award or refusing it on principle because it is inextricably intertwined with overt violent racism?
[Via Michael G]
A gunman who shot and wounded another man during an attempted robbery in the Goose Island neighborhood Sunday morning was himself shot and killed moments later, Chicago police said ... It remains unclear who shot the suspected gunman. [More]
Judging from the "Safety and Crime" map that so stands out in terms of incidents from the city that surrounds it, could there be a "vigilante" who sees the utter inability of the government to deal with things and is not about to let his AO be overrun and turned into a sh**hole by scumbag predators?
The Goose Island Guardian...?
[Via Wynn A]
Where's The Hitler? [More]
Curious, that the main people looking for him all seem to embrace national socialism...
[Via bondmen]
Gun owners in Dublin will soon be required to store their firearms inside a locked container or keep it disabled with a trigger lock while inside their home after the City Council unanimously approved the new ordinance at its meeting last week. [More]
So a potential home invader there could be pretty confident the people who passed the law would set an example by obeying it themselves?
[Via bondmen]
Democrat Proposes Tying $1,500 Stimulus Checks To COVID Vaccinations [More]
Not to give them any ideas, but I'm waiting for one to make it conditional on surrendering your "assault weapon." They're probably a step ahead of me and making getting the shot conditional on that, with the additional condition that if you don't get it, good luck getting a job or going to the grocery store.
John Delaney...John Delaney... isn't he that bring-in-more-voting-foreigners gun-grabber...?
[Via bondmen]
We must listen to the scientists, for example, who tell us that 2+2 = white supremacy. We must listen to the scientists who tell us that biology no longer determines sex. And we absolutely must listen to the scientists who tell us to cower in fear in our homes because of a virus. [More]
And don't forget to listen to the gunquacks!
[Via bondmen]
New Yorkers May Have to Pay Package Delivery Surcharge to Help Fund MTA [More]
That's why some are leaving.
[Via Steve T]
Michigan AG says her son was "devastated" after a store employee said "Merry Christmas" to him. [More]
I remember seeing a similar reaction in a movie once...
[Via Michael G]
School Board member Simeon Dickerson, a former teacher, asked Nyron Harrison, Ku'Mauri's father, to think of how his teacher felt seeing a gun on her computer screen. "I know what a BB gun looks like. And you know what it resembles? A real gun. OK? It resembles a real gun," Dickerson said. [More]
[Via Michael G]
The idea of twinkling, colorful lights are [sic] a reminder of divisions that continue to run through our society, a reminder of systemic biases against our neighbors who don’t celebrate Christmas or who can’t afford to put up lights of their own. [More]
Left unsaid: We know who you are, we know where you live, and if you don't take them down we will escalate. Be afraid.
Naturally, the cowardly POS psychopath did not sign it.
[Via Michael G]
Dictionary.com changes its definition of ‘court packing’ to fit the Left’s current narrative [More]
I don't suppose Mr. Orwell would care to weigh in?
[Via Michael G]
Judge Releases Satan-Worshipping Murder Suspect, With Predictable Result [More]
As with previous entries, assume all entries require a personal evaluation against the prevailing "baseless" meme. New (non-repetitive) links will be added throughout the day.
Red Flag GCOs Removed from Defense Bill [More]
No cops: Woman carjacked in West Loop waits over an hour for police response [More]
When seconds count...
[Via Wynn A]
Drugs Declare Victory in War on Drugs [More]
I wouldn't count the guys with the power to seize assets and prohibit gun ownership out just yet. Besides, since when has winning lucrative, power-expanding wars been the goal?
[Via bondmen]
City of Memphis passes 300 homicides in record-breaking year [More]
And naturally, it's a Bloomberg city!
[Via bondmen]
Trump tweets video of Chinese professor claiming that Beijing can swing US policy because it has 'people at the top of America's core inner circle of power' ... [More]
What, the people trying to do something about our human rights violations?
And yeah, we know.
[Via bondmen]
14-year-old Florida boy charged with attempted murder of 3 deputies [More]
But "journalistic standards" don't allow them to tell us who this menace to society is, and if he's not being charged as an adult, he'll be ready to pick up where he left off with a sealed record when he comes of age?
[Via bondmen]
Everyone here should know how this works by now. I add links throughout the day, you weigh the claims to see what makes sense.
"This fall, the Governor decided there wasn't going to be a ‘holiday tree’, or as most call it a Christmas tree, in the Capitol rotunda..." [More]
In fairness, Democrat Tony's not completely irreligious.
[Via Jess]
Maya Harris aided effort to boost husband's attorney general bid [More]
Well, yeah. Kamala wants to make sure she's surrounded by loyalists in her administration.
[Via Jess]
Woke Corps Lobby D.C. to Keep Their Slaves [More]
That way they can expand their plantations.
If you see a fellow gun owner wearing Nike gear, let him know he enabled donations to the Biden campaign.
[Via Michael G]
The University of Michigan engineering department promoted an article arguing that the idea that safe spaces are unnecessary is a "myth." [More]
Sounds like somebody can't find a pocket protector to fit a flannel shirt...
[Via Michael G]
New Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, seeking to revamp the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office with progressive policies, said Monday after taking office that cash bail will be ended for many offenses and sentences in thousands of cases will be reevaluated. Gascón, in remarks after taking his oath of office, took aim at his predecessors in recent decades — calling Los Angeles “a poster child for the failed tough-on-crime approach.” [More]
So going soft on crime is the "successful" approach? Genius!
Any bets on the mean number of "catch and release" arrests and convictions on the affected rap sheets?
[Via Geordan]
‘BLM’ Registers As Political Party With Mystery Backing [More]
Any bets some of that "backing" isn't black...sorry, Black...?
Or British...?
[Via Roger J]
Court approves Everytown’s bid to buy inventory of Jimenez firearms [More]
I can't wait for someone to find them violating a "commonsense gun safety law" in the process. Be ironic if they lost some and got sued over the resulting "gun violence"...
But most police are “pro-gun,” some argue. No doubt many are. But that’s very different from being “pro-rights.”[More]
This should start some fights.
One of the links in today's "Stop the Steal" post takes you to a video about $400M paid to Dominion by China that contained a bit of information that was like a blast from the past for me.
In bed with the Chicoms is the "private equity firm" The Carlyle Group, "access capitalists" trading on government connections to buy out businesses and strip their carcasses and line their pockets in the process. We're talking guys like co-founder/co-executive chair David Rubenstein, who among other things is chairman of the CFR.
I saw firsthand the effects of their practices when I was working for Magnavox Electronic Systems Company's California holding producing policies, procedures, and operations media for administrative, engineering, production, and quality departments in its defense contracting and commercial business segments. The whole shebang was owned by the Dutch (Philips North American). Carlyle came in and bought the place out and sold it two years later for over twice what they paid for it.
By the time new owner Hughes sold it to Raytheon (for the technology, not the people), I was one of the last 14 people closing the place down -- a location that had consisted of over 3,000 employees and a four-building campus when I first started working there in 1981 (I told the story of my sad task of disposing of the technical library several years back:
I had no choice but to throw much out. And because I did not even understand much of what I was destroying, I felt guilty, deeply ashamed, like a stupid Eloi allowing the knowledge of the ages to crumble into dust, or worse, one of the torchers at Alexandria...
That was nothing compared to the lives disrupted, people who had worked there for decades and who were attached in so many ways besides economic. And in fairness, I also have to mention that management was largely comprised of short-sighted dolts (with a few notable exceptions). These guys were ground floor GPS and they blew it.
This, of course, doesn't mean I'm suddenly going all weepy Luddite and socialist, just that when we're talking insiders with this degree of connection with those in domestic and international politics, we're hardly talking pure capitalism, but something more along the lines of economic fascism. This leads to the heart of The Swamp, and here we find their country be damned as long as the Chicoms make it profitable.
I went looking through some of my old boxes to see if I still had a graphic I manually put together, back in the days before Photoshop, to the amusement of some of my colleagues, that would have certainly gotten me fired had one of the humorless higher-ups seen it.
Prosecutors say those quick actions by the parents and dispatchers helped officers arrest Derosett [Watch]
Kudos to the callers. And how about those "quick actions" by the teacher releasing the hounds, and those quick actions by the "man doing repair work" who chased the reptile down and detained him?
Sounds like our "community heroes" had the easy part...
House passes ‘Tiger King’ bill to ban private ownership of big cats [More]
It's nice to finally see them legislating at the federal level the way the Founders intended.
'Nope': Boy reduced to tears after anti-gun Santa turns down request for toy Nerf gun [More]
My first reaction would have been to loudly tell everyone within earshot this wasn't the real Santa but a fake.
[Via Mack H]
The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a motion with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking an injunction against a section of California’s penal code that prohibits young adults, ages 18-20 from purchasing or acquiring firearms... [More]
It argues extensively for the militia.
What I don't get is why it then goes out of its way to legitimize infringements outside of outright prohibition (p. 26):
These types of state militia regulations might conceivably provide historical support for general firearm safety regulations—such as California’s requirements, not challenged here, that all firearm owners or purchasers (including those aged 18-to-20) obtain a Firearms Safety Certificate or purchase safety devices such as trigger locks or guns safes, CAL. PENAL CODE §§ 23635, 26840, 31615.If "not challenged here" why volunteer that? What do "we" get in return? It's not necessary to add in order to seal the argument, it cedes incremental disarmament steps to the gun-grabbers and it misses a wider point.
I've had this out before with some legal types ostensibly on "our" side who, like the state, maintain militia requirements do not preclude registration. None of them take into account that there is a world of difference between enforcing disciplines with a mustered militia under orders and acting as a cohesive unit and imposing restrictions on citizens outside of that duty. It's the militia that is "well regulated."
Even I understand what "shall not be infringed" means, and I'm not a "Second Amendment attorney."
Change my mind.
Michigan Trump Supporter’s Home Firebombed [More]
That's what the white supremacist gets for being the greatest terror threat.
Right?
Police describe the subject as approximately 6′ tall and between 17-25 years old. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and jeans at the time of the attempted robbery. [More]
Well, that's helpful.
What's that tell us, when not wanting to "offend" self-serving loudmouths trumps public safety?
In “Staggering” Conspiracy, Former Police Chief, Prosecutor, and Police Officers Sentenced for Framing an Innocent Man with a Crime [More]
Kind'a explains why they don't want you armed over there...
An Ohio Sheriff's Deputy Fatally Shot A 23-Year-Old Black Man Outside His Home [More]
Back when he was AG, I tried telling Dewine such things were bound to happen and he didn't want to hear it. I wonder if they'll release camera footage this time...
[Via Michael G]
Police defunded Minneapolis: Carjackings up 537%, violent crimes exploding as push continues to get rid of cops [More]
It's not the police that need funding.
[Via bondmen]
Donald Trump Jr. at the helm of the NRA? Everytown is frightened at the idea [More]
Me, I'm not all that impressed with his real 2A creds beyond the self-serving -- but I'm willing to be.
[Via bondmen]
Gun Violence Has Killed 23 Times More Chicago Youth Than COVID [More]
Looks like St. Louis is gonna have to try harder.
Somebody needs to tell Zero Hedge using the enemy's terms plays into the enemy's hands.
[Via bondmen]
Former school security guard charged with sodomy and rape dating back to the 90s [More]
Kind'a adds new meaning to "school resource officer"...
[Via bondmen]
“I don’t understand how they’re getting in..." [More]
Good luck "controlling" guns on the outside.
[Via bondmen]
Biden to pick Xavier Becerra for health secretary [Watch]
And guess what he'll claim is a "public health issue."
[Via Jess]
Germany: Muslim Migrant Hailed as ‘Model Refugee’ Murders Handicapped Man [More]
As late TV pitchman, Billy Mays used to say, "But wait. There's more!"
Not that I'm glad I read it...
[Via Michael G]
Chicago weekend gun violence leaves 40 shot, 6 fatally across city [More]
Haven't they snuffed out John R-i-g-g-i-o yet?
Forget it, Jake. It's Chi-Town.
[Via Wynn A]
It was just one of several recent gun safety developments in which the gun industry and NRA rhetoric of "protecting Second Amendment rights" for "law-abiding gun owners" — for "good guys with a gun" to "stop a bad guy with a gun" — is diametrically opposed to the facts of the case. [More]
No, it didn't. The case had nothing to do with a lawful DGU.
His whole premise is a non sequitur.
They would rather see all these people dead than armed, preferably killed with guns so they could have more blood to dance in.
[Via DDS]
I write this as my six-year term as a college head men’s basketball coach comes to a close. Two winning seasons, followed by four losing seasons, mark the end of my tenure at Saint Michael’s College and possibly my complex relationship with a profession that I did not fit into. [More]
Who better to dispense advice than an admitted professional incompetent?
Not only can they p*** fans off, but they can also get slaughtered in the bargain! Now there's a surefire attendance booster combo to pay for all those "scholarships"!
[Via Michael G]
Schumer was asked by a reporter Tuesday: "Joe Biden said that on his first day of office, he will give transgender students access to sports, bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity in federally funded schools. Do you think he has the ability to do this and do you agree with his decision?" Schumer responded, "I agree with the decision and I know he'll check things out thoroughly, legally." [More]
What kind of hater would be against brainwashing, coercing, and bullying minor compulsory "education" hostages into participating?
After interviewing Cruz, ATF agents discovered he was padding honest customer’s 4473s with firearms they didn’t purchase. Then, he would sell those extra guns out the back door to individuals to “protect himself,” according to his statement during the sentencing hearing on Monday. [More]Learned from the "best" but not high enough on the food chain to completely get away with it like they all did -- although it's fair to ask why he's only getting four years when we have seen patriots get their lives destroyed for the "crime" of living like "shall not be infringed" means just that.
Ninth Circuit: LAPD Officer Can Be Sued for Destroying Gun Collection [More]
Funny how that works when the plaintiff is an ex-"Only One," but non-"community heroes are out of luck after being executed in wrong house raids.
I wonder how many guns confiscated by the "former officer" have been destroyed.
[Via Jess]
WTH? Senator Perdue Trashes Trump the Day Before He’s Coming to Campaign for Him in Georgia– Says Biden will be Easy to Work With!!? [More]
Way to demotivate! What is this guy, stupid?
And what kind of return love are we seeing from Loeffler? Are they really falling for the "moderate" line that they need to distance themselves from what the DSM calculatedly calls "false conspiracy theories"?
They ought to co-author a book and call it How to Throw Title Fights, with a foreword by Mitt Romney.
Here are some more related stories that merit our attention, to be added to throughout the day as new, nonrepetitive tips are received. As always, test the claims as best you can:
Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Open DACA to New Applicants [More]
“It could make our campuses less safe by blocking a university’s ability to regulate speech and that could potentially incite violence,” House Rep. Catherine Ingram said in a statement on the Democratic caucus’ blog. [More]
In other words, her constituents will attack you if you don't chant Marxist slogans and fist pump, which helps explain why she doesn't want you to be able to defend yourself.
[Via Michael G]
My father, John Codrea, turned 21 on Pearl Harbor Day. He joined the Marines and served on Guam. Dad died in 2012 and was interred at Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery.
