US Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Covid mandates, citing ‘threats ... Curiously, Garland’s letter didn’t actually specify any credible threats. [More]
Maybe that's what makes "the biggest terror threat" so dangerous: They could do anything.
That they haven't is beside the point. There are people to intimidate and initiatives to abort.
[Via Michael G]
Tribe Hot Dogs - @TribeHotDogs - Thank you, @Indians fans! See you next year! [More]
What are you going to be, the Guard Dogs?
The thought strikes that if any of these mascot actors ever hits the big time, masses of adoring social media followers will hang on to their every political pronouncement.
West Side Market, run by City of Cleveland, blocks Kate's Fish on Twitter after vendor's calls for change [More]
Here's a political hopeful who says things will be different when he rules the world (looks like "same old same old" to me).
If WSM is a city operation and if an administration has the power to decide whose speech to restrict, how is that not an unconstitutional First Amendment violation? Remember this?
Trump Can’t Block Critics From His Twitter Account, Appeals Court Rules - The decision may have broader implications for how the First Amendment applies to officials’ accounts in the social-media era.
As you can see by the number of posts today, I really got loaded up over the weekend. I don't have time for anything else today, because I've got an article to write and meatspace tasks to do.
If you still want more, I suggest heading on over to The Gun Feed, which, come to think of it, ought to be a daily stop without me saying anything.
NRA board re-elects Wayne LaPierre as CEO and executive vice president -- “The proceedings in Charlotte were an amazing celebration of NRA fellowship and freedom. Under the direction of Wayne LaPierre, the NRA is strong and secure – well-positioned to chart its course for the future.” [More]
At least for those trusted few they informed about it. I've been a Life Member for 30 years and by the time I found out, their limited tickets were long gone.
These guys sound delusional.
NBC reporter attempts desperate damage control as crowd chants “F Joe Biden” [More]
And yeah, you can search for it, it's real. Which explains some of the Democrat apparatchik replies trying to convince people it's edited.
I will be introducing a bill ... that requires all inseminators to undergo #vasectomies within 6 weeks of having their third child or 40th birthday, whichever comes first... [More]
"That he is aware of"...?
You gotta wonder about whoever would vote for this lunatic.
[Via Michael G]
Enforcement priorities for apprehension and removal remain focused on noncitizens who are a threat to our national security, public safety, and border security ... [More]
So giving 20+M illegals the ability to vote for a communist takeover isn't a threat?
Former ICE Director Tom Homan elaborates.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
[Via Jess]
"Denver took the prize for most violent abortion supporters as a posse of them shoved 5-6 Students for Life members to the ground. One of them, Brei Brooke, is eight months pregnant. The abortion supporters laughed as they did it." [More]
They were just exercising a woman's right to choose violence...
[Via Michael G]
FBI Admits They Don't Keep Track of Antifa Violence [More]
How would that advance the narrative?
[Via bondmen]
Women want one thing—keep your mind out of the gutter. It’s guns. They want lots of guns. This isn’t anything new. For the Left, this might be a massive revelation, but the truth is this trend has been ongoing for years. Women lining up for concealed carry permits is booming. Women-only firearm courses are booming. Gun sales among women are booming. And if there’s one thing we should know about politics and elections, it’s that it’s probably not the best idea to be against something that a lot of women support, especially white middle-class women. [More]
Just keep in mind that's the same demographic for the majority of Demanding Moms, and women, in general, voted for Biden by a 57% to 42% landslide.
[Via bondmen]
Reps. Richard Hudson (R-NC), Stephanie Bice (R-OK), and 161 other lawmakers sent a September 29, 2021, letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committees urging the removal of the red flag provision from the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). [More]
But wait a sec: Gaetz and Crenshaw say that's a non-issue because everybody knows it's coming out...
[Via bondmen]
David Hogg's Anti-Gun Campaign 'Fades Into Darkness' As Millennials Embrace Second Amendment [More]
Yeah, well, the other thing they embrace will undo that.
[Via bondmen]
JPMorgan Chase & Co. says it’s being shut out of underwriting municipal-bond deals in Texas after the state enacted a law banning government work with banks that limit business with the firearms industry. [More]
It's not like they're against guns per se. They were happy to be ATF's banker and offer a sweetheart deal to a Gunwalker plotter.
Funny, no one ever followed up on the ethics of that.
[Via Jess]
The impression, then, is that one who acts in fidelity to the original, appears to act against the very system of governance to which they are patriotic. [More]
Hence smearing those who uphold founding principles as "anti-government extremists" and "insurrectionists."
The first victim was beaten to death while they were sleeping in their bed, Judd said. The second victim was beaten significantly and died Saturday evening. Earlier in the day, Judd said the victim was not expected to survive due to the “horrible nature of his injuries.” A third victim was found dead on the front porch of the home, according to the sheriff. The fourth victim was chased into the street and was hit by Runyon with the baseball bat in the shoulder and back area... [More]
Tell me it wasn't an untraceable ghost/assault bat with no legitimate sporting purpose...
[Via Remarks]
What if Trigger Warnings Don’t Work? [More]
They do if you use them judiciously and when appropriate.
Case in point:
[Via Christopher P]
Tangentially-Related UPDATE:After 25 Years In The Dark, The CDC Wants To Study The True Toll Of Guns In America [More]
No, they don't. Where's the acknowledgment of DGUs and lives saved?
Besides, the darkness was self-imposed. The mandate was that "none of the public funds appropriated to the CDC may be used to advocate or promote gun control."
With the restraints off, they've gone old school and are doing what they can to see guns "dirty, deadly and banned."
[Via DDS]
When embedded in military guns, RFID tags can trim hours off time-intensive tasks, such as weapon counts and distribution. Outside the armory, however, the same silent, invisible signals that help automate inventory checks could become an unwanted tracking beacon. [More]
Unwanted by whom?
I'm sure plenty of domestic enemies would salivate at the prospect of enacting a "commonsense gun safety" mandate. And why stop there when remote shutoff switches could help the "Only Ones" make sure the "law-abiding" stay that way come confiscation time?
And why stop there?
[Via DDS]
Each of the notes claimed to be written by a white man who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and threatened to kill the residents and burn down their homes ... The suspect ultimately identified by investigators was 30-year-old Terresha Lucas, a Black woman... [More]
Now there's a shocker.
If there wasn't systemic racism she wouldn't have felt compelled to do it, right?
UPDATE:
'White Supremacist' Who Scrawled Racist Graffiti on Walls in Missouri High Schools Turns Out to Be Black Student [More]
And the idiot superintendent praised everybody who fell for it for being "proactive."
[Via Michael G]
Biden hasn’t ordered dishonorable discharges for vaccine refusers in military, as viral post claimed [More]
True. And only an idiot (or a plant trolling for suckers) would make such a claim. That doesn't invalidate the FACT that the danger exists for those fighting back and losing. But it sure makes it look that way.
Case in point (via Michael G):
Veteran of Afghanistan war with heart conditions faces possible dishonorable discharge for refusing COVID vaccine
Here's another tactical Politifact deception:
The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine contains an “undisclosed ingredient. … How is informed consent possible?”
That calculated dismissal presumes that's the only informed consent issue presented and ignores the FACT that Andy Nguyen has zero medical qualifications and has no idea what other dangers, especially long-term ones, will manifest.
But don't take my word for how agenda-driven Politifact always has been.
You could go down the line with ratings these narrative amplifiers post and see how many fit right in with Mr. Pynchon's truism:
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”
[More]
He's one of the members from the denied intervenor lawsuit.
I post this here for information. As long-time regulars know, I only endorse board members who correctly complete my questionnaire. I'll look into doing that.
David Chipman Laments Biden Admin's 'Failure' to Get Him Confirmed at ATF [More]
Be funny if badmouthing the Big Guy screws his chances at becoming "czar."
Anybody here like to tell him what to tell Gabby...?
[Via Jess]
Australian Authorities Show Up to Woman’s Home and Harass Her Over Social Media Posts: “We Have Instructions Because You Have Been Posting Things” [More]
Once a penal colony, always a penal colony.
[Via An Hour of Wolves]
"Phenomenal": Merck's new COVID therapeutic may be a gamechanger [More]
It'd sure be nice if trust based on experience was the rule.
UPDATE: Speaking of rules, it looks like FDA is just as vindictive and arbitrary with theirs as ATF is.
[Via Michael G]
“Advice For Parents” Protesting School Indoctrination On Dealing With The Media [More]
And not just for that topic, but for anything that goes counter to the narrative agenda...
Understand that they will set you up, distort what you say, and present things out of context to make you look like a hateful fool. Do you think you're being honest and forthright? They're looking for ways to publicly discredit and humiliate you.
I can't tell you how many "gun advocates" I've seen walk into the trap thinking they're going to get publicity and make converts. Best advice: Get someone with experience who presents well and knows how to handle things.
And don't be afraid to tell representatives of enemy propagandists "No."
[Via Michael G]
Three suspects entered store at 5:19 p.m., walking around looking at merchandise and picking up the same items. At 5:38 p.m., Suspects 1 and 2 attempted to walk out of the store. When confronted by store staff, Suspect 2 pulled a handgun, pointing it at a staff member before walking out of the store, followed by Suspect 3. [More]
The only thing surprising about the descriptions is that they gave them.
Here's something else that's no surprise: It's a Simon Property.
Oregon’s anti-rights attorney general has now added Yamhill and Harney Counties to her list of targets. Both counties have Second Amendment Sanctuary Ordinances, and now, as in Columbia County, Oregon’s AG has filed suit against them. [More]
There's a reason they call these psychopathic control freaks totalitarians.
DISTURBING video shows Mexican cartel hitmen lining up 20 rival gangsters in a forest before executing them one by one. It was released as a warning on social media by Los Tlacos, who claimed they were cleaning up the city after the other mob robbed and killed innocent civilians. [More]
The lesson here is, if you have the men and the firepower and the will, you can fight City Hall.
Judge rules DC liable for wrongful arrests under overturned gun ban [More]
File this under Make Jonathan Lowy Cry.
I hope the plaintiffs make them pay through the nose. Too bad the unAmerican persecutors can't be held personally accountable and ruined.
I also hope Cassagnol has grounds to sue the s*** out of the employer that fired him. What a d*** move.
[Via Jess]
“An expansive Second Amendment ruling by the Supreme Court could restrict or prohibit the sensible solutions that have been shown can end gun violence,” said Jonathan Lowy, vice president and chief counsel at the gun violence prevention group Brady. Lowy included state laws requiring a justification to carry a gun as examples of such “sensible solutions.” [More]
I guess if you're a violence monopolist that makes perfect sense.
BREAKING: Blanca, an AZ immigrant youth confronts @SenatorSinema inside her classroom, where she teaches @ ASU. "in 2010 both my grandparents got deported bc of SB1070...my grandfather passed away 2 wks ago & I wasn't able to go to Mexico bc there is no pathway to citizenship." [More]
And the reason this indignant Marxist can't be arrested and deported is...?
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
South Pole posts most severe cold season on record, an anomaly in a warming world [More]
The debate rages on:
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 28, 2021[Tweet via An Hour of Wolves]
We saw Sherrod's response. Here's Rob Portman's:
At least he won't be running again, which opens the door to who will and how far they're willing to commit to proving how "staunch" they are.
[T]he National School Boards Association argued this week that parents are engaged in “domestic terrorism” and asked the White House to use the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security against protesters. It has even asked the White House to consider deploying the USA PATRIOT Act against parents and community leaders who oppose mask mandates and the teaching of critical race theory [More].
It's a cinch they're not going to be the ones deploying. Still, it's nice to put names and faces on those who demand you obey or be destroyed.
[Via Mack H]
The best option, according to Lt. Lane, in an active shooter situation is to avoid, deny, or defend, otherwise known as run, hide, or fight. [More]
Notice he didn't say with what on that last one. And then there's this:
Officers said calling 911 was another crucial piece in a civilian's response. Once law enforcement arrives on the scene, usually in about three minutes, they don't always know who or where the threat is. So, they said it's crucial that people follow their commands and show their palms.
Good one on that first bs claim. And figures you'd prone us out or kill us after we took care of things.
[Via Mack H]
The influencer has more than 2million followers on TikTok, where he shared videos of himself lip syncing and dancing, and more than 757,000 on Instagram [More]
I give up on even trying to figure it out, but note that it may be advantageous to have softer targets out there when what such a culture is making inevitable finally happens.
Hey, cannibals gotta eat, too.
[Via Steve T]
Senate Confirms Radical Eco-Terrorist as Chief of the Bureau of Land Management [More]
Come on, PJ Media: How does your guy do this report and not tell us who went AWOL?
The Scheller Case is America’s Dreyfus Affair [More]
Except you stand a better chance of getting justice in late-Nineteenth/early Twentieth-Century France.
[Via Michael G]
Chicago to mount bleeding control kits throughout city to help adapt to new ‘environment’ [More]
Doubling down on failure admissions, I see...
I wonder how many kits will be stolen.
[Via bondmen]
“Anyone who’s involved in an organization that’s supporting violence against the people, against the government or racial and ethnic violence — they don’t belong on the NYPD.” [More]
Section 8.02. Restrictions on Membership:
(a) No person who advocates, or has been or is a member, or associated with, any organization, formal or informal, that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or the violation of the Constitution thereof, shall be entitled to be a member or associate member.
(b) No person who advocates, or has been or is a member, or associated with, any organization, formal or informal, that advocates discrimination, violence, or hatred toward any person based upon their race, nationality, creed, or color, shall be entitled to be a member or associate member.
[Via bondmen]
St. Louis has highest murder rate in U.S. in 2020 [More]
Let's give everybody a big hand!
[Via bondmen]
Grand jurors were given options to charge Buchanan with second-degree murder or first-degree involuntary manslaughter, they opted for the more serious offense, Bell said. [More]
But there was a carjacking weapon on the ground near the truck the lifelong societal liability stole?
Far be it from me to be the defender of "Only Ones," but does anyone else smell politics at work?
[Via bondmen]
'This injustice must stop': Protesters block Golden Gate Bridge, demand immigration reform [More]
That's how USA Today, a Gannett Publication couches it.
Here's what they really want:
Immigration protesters block traffic on Golden Gate bridge, demand ‘pathway to citizenship’
And if they don't get what they want they threaten to escalate?
Hey, as long as it's in a Marxist stronghold, burn the place down for all I care.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue." They're hostile to the Militia there, anyway.
Less than four months before the 2016 incident, Allyn D. Gibson posted his frustration over being called racist saying, “if these lazy ***** want to start working then they could earn their own money. That’s what my family does for money… work.” [More]
The race hustlers never give up.
They sure make it sound like he used the "n" word" rather than the "f" word, don't they?
Need a shirt or a hat...?
[Via Sweet Babboo]
More than 75 percent of Venezuelans now living in extreme poverty [More]
I guess they haven't tried it right, either.
Interesting Doodle slideshow the tech billionaires at Google chose to highlight today...
[Via Steve T]
HUGE! Major British News Outlet Question Legitimacy of Biden Election Victory, “Election Was Rigged” [More]
That'll never fly on Facebook.
And it's only "huge" if something is done about it.
[Via Michael G]
This was just one of at least five shootings that Portland police responded to in a 12-hour span. [More]
Settle down. They probably just haven't had time to spend all the money yet...
[Via 1Gat]
If you thought moving 100,000 Somalians into Minnesota posed challenges to assimilation, that will be a pleasant dream compared to the multitudes of Haitians Biden is letting into the country right now. [More]
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
[Via Andy M]
Communism needs a healthy host to infect. It does no good to infect a dead body and try to revive it. [More]
That's when the real cannibalism begins.
An 18-year-old mother is brain dead after she was shot by a school resource officer, family says ... “The officer took it upon himself to whip out his gun and start shooting at a moving vehicle”... [More]
Crime no longer in progress? Don’t call 911, APD says; use 311 instead [More]
I'm not sure what this really changes -- if a victim is bleeding out and the perp has left, the crime is no longer "in progress," is it?
Not that it matters if it is...
Austin, eh?
Big "progressive" Texas Bloomberg town...?
They still got the manpower resources for "No Refusal Weekends"...?
Yellen lends support for effort to remove the debt ceiling altogether [More]
Besides, these things pay for themselves.
Woman Charged With Felonious Grits Attack [More]
Looks like I need to expand the weapons list again...
Reminds me of another story...
Columbus police officers charged with crimes related to distributing at least 7 kilograms of fentanyl [More]
Every once in a while I rethink my position on crucifixion as a deterrent.
Meanwhile, their unqualified boss has her own security detail while ginning up the gun-grabber mob.
Someone actually thought it was a good idea to bring in a "problem-solver" from Detroit...?
And how would the editorialists, who presume to instruct the rest of us on what we should be allowed to have and to do, fare if the maniac had chosen their workplace? [More]
Sherrod Brown was automatically included with my Republican senator and representative the last time GOA asked me to respond to one of their alerts, once again proving my longstanding contention that gun groups shouldn't waste our time asking us to write to the enemy:
‘FBI REPORT SAYS ARMED CITIZENS KILLED MORE CRIMINALS THAN POLICE’ – CCRKBA [More]
Notice how the left wants to disarm the one and defund the other and wonder why?
The march called for November 20 sets a dangerous precedent for scheduled parades, distorts that date and dilutes the spirit of those protests through an intellectual-left-social-democratic turn. The Cuban must take the streets, not beg for routes. And it has to do so not under the umbrella of dialogue and the complicity that emanates from these collaborations, but under the conviction of not recognizing the authority from which permission is being asked today. [More]
Sounds like the whole thing is a setup by regime supporters to put a kinder, gentler face on tyrants.
[Via Agustin B]
Donald Trump will be on Flashpoint tonight, Thursday, September 30, at 5 p.m. PST/ 6 p.m. MST / 7 p.m. CST / 8 p.m. EST, on the Victory Channel [More]I understand you can get this on other platforms as well:
CDC Implements Study on “True Toll of Guns in America” to Help “Identify Trends and Craft Swift Interventions” [More]
Yep, old school.
[Via bondmen]
The Army is investigating after three service members died by suicide in a two-day period at Fort Drum in upstate New York. [More]
Is it wrong to wonder if command imposing "progressive" agenda-driven directives points to a tendency to do so across the board?
[Via bondmen]
Former Alorton officer admits to stealing $60K by lying about workhours [More]
Only eight officers to watch and we're supposed to give his management a pass?
[Via bondmen]
“He crawled like a baby, like the coward he is,” Leeper said. [More]
Met officer used Covid laws to handcuff and 'arrest' Sarah Everard before murdering her ... The police officer who murdered Sarah Everard used Covid laws to handcuff and falsely arrest her before raping her, strangling her and burning her body, a court heard today. [More]
If she'd pulled a gun on him he could have arrested her.
[Via bondmen]
If We're Rome, Who Are the Barbarians That Will End Us? [More]
Keep your shirt on, they're coming.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
[Via bondmen]
Behar calls them ‘enemies of democracy.’ [More]
Move over, Republicans. We've got some "literally Hitler" Democrats coming your way...
[Via Michael G]
Every Republican Is 'Literally Hitler,' So Stop Caring What Libs Say [More]
As we just (once more) demonstrated...
[Via Michael G]
Obama urges gun reform amid spike in gun violence: 'Chicago alone can't solve the gun problem' [More]
So I guess he was being disingenuous about Cheyenne?
But what we can do is potentially give young people the sense that there's another way for them to empower themselves, other than wielding a gun," Obama said.
Give them books and vegetables?
Reps. Tlaib and Nadler expressed support for minting a $1 trillion platinum coin to pay off US debt [More]
Don't you need to own a trillion dollars worth of platinum? Does the government have it lying around or is this just saying that's what it's worth? At the current market price of $945 an ounce, how much would the damn thing weigh?
And the money question: How much less will that make the currency worth? Is it time to invest in wheelbarrows?
Forgive my questions-- I did lousy in Economics and defer to my communist superiors.
[Via Steve T]
I currently have dozens of email tips in a larger queue that go to videos. It would literally take me over two hours to watch just what's in the lineup now, and I do need to watch them -- to make sure they're not duplicating something I've already covered, to see if I agree with the presenter's conclusions, to see if I can find a more informative and authoritative source, and just to understand what I'm being asked to pass along to others. That's time I just don't have. It's afternoon already and I'm still just getting to opening stuff that came in yesterday.
Add to that, as long as I'm venting, many of them take forever to get to the point, plus I'm a big believer in driving traffic to the original source when I can, as opposed to someone riffing off of someone else's work. And the sad reality is, not all of us have effective telepresence. Sorry, but I don't do videos for a reason.
Links to tangentially relevant stories I can handle. Most of those I can absorb, process, and react to in the time it takes me to watch a video.
Please understand if I can't get to something you sent me. It doesn't mean I'm an unappreciative bastard.
A Deaf Man Who Couldn't Hear Police Commands Was Tased And Spent 4 Months In Jail [More]
And look who else the "community hero" protected us from!
Looks like they fired him before he could rough up a "Make a Wish" kid for the "Only Ones" Trifecta.
[Via Remarks]
NRA’s Double-Super-Secret ‘Rescheduled’ Annual Meeting [More]
Jeff Knox exposes intolerable conduct, and once more, the go-along Board shares a huge part of the blame.
I'm wondering what it would take for a member coalition to get an injunction to stop this transparency sneak-around.
Russia threatens ban on YouTube after web giant suppresses COVID reports [More]
The Russkis have become champions of free speech against the West?
The worst may still be coming. Mouynes said there are as many as 60,000 migrants — mostly Haitian — poised to make their way north to the U.S.-Mexico border. [More]
Two congressional Republicans say they have learned from a whistleblower that the Biden administration is warning Border Patrol agents they will be fired unless they receive the COVID vaccination by November — even as illegal immigrants crossing into the US don’t have to get the shot. But the people who are against embedded political domestic enemies destroying the system established by the Founders are "anti-government extremists."
In a letter sent Wednesday, National School Boards Association President Viola Garcia and Interim Executive Director and CEO Chip Slaven appeal directly to President Joe Biden, asking him to step in amid rising threats to school officials due to the right-wing furor surrounding mask mandates and critical race theory. “As these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes,” the letter says. [More]
You "greatest domestic terror threats," you...
"But wait, there's more!" as the Sham-Wow commercials used to say:
Leaked Membership List Shows Top Republicans in Shadowy Group With Extremists
Yeah, what kind of violent and hateful thugs would believe "male and female created he them," be against reenacting the Braveheart execution scene with fully-developed pre-borns or caution against open borders for ISIS?
With Daily Beast neoBolshviks being the ones to define "extremists," you can even bring tepid swamp lumps like Rancid Prepuce into the fold, and we know how that lets them characterize those of us even less "moderate."
