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No more. [More]
Only traitors and/or suicidal fools give aid and comfort to the enemy.
[Via Michael G]
China triggers growing fears for US military [More]
and
Harvey Milk: US Navy launches ship named for gay rights leader [More]
Interesting juxtaposition of military priorities...
Who says the cult died at Jonestown? I'm interested in learning more about when Harvey "indulge[d] in outing — to advance his political career."
Germany: Syrian Migrant Stabs Several Passengers on High-Speed Train - The Syrian immigrant “reportedly arrived in Germany in 2014 and had been granted a refugee status.” [More]
I'm torn between calling on Tommy Lee or the ETrade Baby, or wondering if authorities were rigorous...
[Via Michael G]
Gov. DeSantis Slams Biden Admin Over Illegal “Dumped” In Florida And Alleged To Commit Murder - These flights are ‘secret and stealth’ and the state of Florida has no warning that they (illegal immigrants) are being resettled here, because private non-profit, sometimes religious agencies, are being utilized—and are paid in grants funded by the federal government—to take the immigrants and resettle them throughout the state of Florida... [More]
Is the church you attend and donate to selling you and your family out?
[Via Michael G]
A U.S. federal appeals court issued a stay Saturday freezing the Biden administration's efforts to require workers at U.S. companies with at least 100 employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested weekly, citing "grave statutory and constitutional" issues with the rule. [More]
It's telling, how many "news reports" find it necessary to emphasize "Republican-appointed judges."
Will there be any crossover principles applicable to those fighting military discharges? They seem to be the right age...
Gun control legislation isn’t going to happen. Here’s what Biden’s doing instead. [More]
Spending a ton of your money on crap that won't work...
I wouldn't be so quick to declare disarmament dead in the water. It's not hard to envision all kinds of exploited scenarios that would spook a critical mass of Republican "staunch supporters"...
[Via Jess]
New Protests Start in Cuba Nov 15th [More]
Child shot following argument at Seffner gas station ... Deputies say Monroe is an eight-time convicted felon. He faces multiple charges, including aggravated battery, attempted murder in the first-degree, discharge firearm from a vehicle, shooting into a vehicle, and felon in possession of a firearm. [More]
Let's all hear it for the effectiveness of "prohibited person" laws!
And to think some racist right-wing extremist domestic terrorist nazis say it's not the guns! I can't tell you how many times I've shot somebody's kid because a parent p!$$ed me off...
[Via Remarks]
Covid-19 Vaccines and Myocarditis Link Probed by Researchers - Several theories are under investigation seeking to explain heart-inflammation conditions among small numbers of vaccinated [More]
And it gets worse "within seven days of the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines"?
"Researchers aren’t certain" means they don't know. They also don't know if that number will still be "small" a year from now, or two, or five...
People under 30, eh? Like most of these?
Camilla 'hasn't stopped talking about' hearing the President 'break wind' during chat at Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow [More]
The Embarrassment in Chief shares his carbon footprint...
First Vatipants and now this.
The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans who own firearms ultimately ends up in the federal government's hands, according to internal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. [More]
That's a lot of boating accidents...
I wonder how many are these guys...?
[Via Mack H]
Can Public Health Tools Really Help Prevent Gun Violence? [Watch]
Posted for those of you who have an extra four minutes to once more corroborate that the idiots in charge and the idiots "reporting" don't have a clue as to real causes, which they're a part of, and real solutions, which they're not...
For those who just want to cut to the chase, no, of course not. They're wringing their hands like they deeply care, angling for more tax plunder, and once more trying to shift the blame.
[Via Jess]
At Long Last, The Right Has Joined The Culture War [More]
Truly informed culturists have been in the thick of it for years.
We'll see how many of the newcomers end up being more than ankle-deep.
[Via Mack H]
Boy Scouts Announce New Critical Race Theory Requirement [More]
I'm envisioning the new merit badge graphic...
[Via Mack H]
This was crushing news for constitutional conservatives who had fought so hard for the confirmations of Barrett and Kavanaugh against an unhinged progressive onslaught. [More]
Yeah, well, as long as confirmation hearings are treated more like pre-coronation ceremonies and less like job interviews, continue to be crushed and act surprised by it.
I hope my caution on premature chops-licking turns out to be subjective worrying, but I see a lot of unhatched chickens being counted on the Bruen case.
[Via Mack H]
Woke Social Media Companies are Censoring Us. We're Fighting back. [More]
Luis Miguel looks every bit the ideological leader Byron Donald appears to be.
If blocking their signals doesn't work, look for more personally destructive methods to be used.
The City of Boston has settled a federal lawsuit filed by the Second Amendment Foundation and other plaintiffs over delays in accepting and processing licenses to carry a firearm, and has agreed to pay $10,000 to cover attorneys’ fees and costs. [More]
Yeah, I know it's a game of increments, but wake me when a lawsuit overturns permits to exercise a right, and the bastards requiring them are personally held liable for damages.
Joe Biden is all-in for open borders [More]
Gavin Newsom missing: Public has not seen governor for more than 10 days [More]
NASCAR denounces ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ trend saying it wants to stay out of politics [More]
The six-member City Council of Hamtramck will consist of all Muslims starting in January, another historic first for the metro Detroit city known for its sizable immigrant population. [More]
Democrats are counting on that.
Good thing "legal immigration" has nothing to do with that "single issue."
Today, Chinese state media just proved how much of an asset gun control groups/supporters are to their goals of demonizing American masculinity and using that to work towards disarmament. [More]
Well, they picked the right allies:
[A] Cleveland Police lieutenant has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the chief, the safety director and two other police supervisors, saying he was removed as head of the bomb squad for reporting a man offering a bribe... The lawsuit says the chief “has a personal relationship with defendant Montague that can be likened to the two treating each other like family members.” [More]
Father/son? Brothers? Something else?
Figures the only one jailed for paying protection money to badged extortionists wasn't an Only One.
It also figures Action Jackson's double-dipper doesn't want you armed.
It’s not so much good that Youngkin won as that McAuliffe lost, but a repeat performance for other candidates is not guaranteed if party pundits and campaign advisors keep giving gun owners reasons not to get excited. [More]Embracing "moderation" and demoralizing supporters is no way to maintain a winning momentum.
That said, it’s not like Chicago Democrat ward politics are known for anything besides being bastions of privilege and hypocrisy, and that’s especially true when guns are involved. [More]
Johnson, who has to handle firearms in “Red Notice,” says he will only use rubber guns on his sets, and will enforce that rule with any studio he is working with. [More]
It's not like anything about the guy is real.
[Via Mack H]
Rider University in New Jersey has changed the name of its Van Cleve Alumni House to the Alumni House after research into the namesake revealed he owned slaves. [More]
I guess we'll have to go to the archives to find out if school namesake Andrew Jackson Rider was named in honor of a "slave owner [and] ethnic cleanser"...
[Via Michael G]
If Kavanaugh And Barrett Betray Pro-Lifers, We Must Blow Up The Conservative Legal Movement [More]
What about the strange bedfellows?
[Via Michael G]
The high cost of innocence when police seize cash [More]
What an un-American abomination asset forfeiture is.
Can "Sentence first, verdict afterward" tyranny be more blatant and absurd?
[Via Michael G]
BIDEN’S NEW BUDGET PROPOSAL, THE BUILD BACK BETTER ACT, CONTAINS GUN CONTROL [More]
The secret that the Fordham professor and the author of this piece doesn’t understand is that most Americans see the 2A as a covenant, not a source of rights. Most gun owners see their RKBA as given by God, not bestowed by the state. [More]
Rittenhouse Trial Day 3: State’s Own Witnesses Damage Prosecution, Reinforce Self-Defense Narrative - The prosecution’s narrative of guilt looks profoundly weaker, and the defense narrative of self-defense looks profoundly stronger, than was the case yesterday. [More]
I would be optimistic if I believed the goal of the state and the media was justice and that "peers" weren't selected for perceived manipulability.
[Via Michael G]
When Democrats Say ‘Our Children’ [More]
To a collectivist, they're the property of the state to mold as it sees fit, hence McAuliffe's instinctive presumption. He was no doubt astonished that people made a big deal out of it.
What galls me is when I hear "Republicans" say it.
[Via Michael G]
Progressives are declaring victory ahead of a possible vote Thursday on President Biden’s social spending and climate package, while saying they shouldn’t be blamed for their party losing the governor’s race in Virginia. [More]
That this tyrannical abomination is even up for discussion without its proponents being ridden out on a rail makes it fair to question who is more delusional.
[Via Mack H]
Judge throws out man’s guilty plea after bodycam footage reveals NYPD drug planting [More]
He pled guilty on a resisting charge because it was the least life-threatening option, even though he had every right to resist with lethal force. And what kind of psychopath must the Staten Island DA be?
Every once in a while I come across something that makes me question my instinctive opposition to public crucifixions.
[Via Michael G]
But now, the antis are back doing a full-court press trying to invalidate that decision and revive the “collective right” meme. [More]
We've been de-monetized, blacklisted, ostracized, canceled. That could end up cutting WND's online ad revenue roughly in half, since not only does de-monetization mean the removal of all Google ads from the site, but the removal of ads from alternate advertising services as well, since many of these companies utilize Google Ad Manager to serve their ads. [More]
It's like The Keeper always said...
Dem Bill Gives Special Tax Handout to Media Companies with Up to 1,500 "Local Journalists" [More]
#justabloggers need not apply.
For all the complaining Americans for Tax Reform does about Democrat spending, you'd think their boss would stop trying to import more.
A person who chooses to be taller digitally becomes a more aggressive negotiator in daily life. Someone who dons an inventor’s lab coat online is more creative at real-world meetings. Adopting a character digitally, the researchers found, can essentially change a personality, in a turn that has come to be known as the Proteus Effect. [More]
I remember as a child putting a towel on for a cape and trying to leap into the sky. I affected a different personality, too. That's what children do.
Fortunately, I wasn't immature enough to jump from the roof. The basic distinction between fantasy and reality was still there.
I can' say the same for some of the people who can't distinguish between virtual and reality that this article foresees. Seems like a pretty good way to develop a new strain of psychosis...
Key Steele dossier source indicted on charges of lying to FBI [More]
In my fantasy scenario, people in the hot seat would start singing and giving up the big fish and end with men wheeling out a face-masked Hillary on a dolly...
Yeah, I once hoped for a similar outcome on Gunwalker...
[Via Jess]
ILLEGAL CONDUCT: New Jersey Gubernatorial Election Worker Tells Non-Citizen and Non-Registered Voter She Will Allow Him to ‘Fill Out Completely a Ballot Now’ [More]
That seems different from the way states like mine handle PROVISIONAL ballots, which then go to the Board of Elections for bipartisan resolution. Here, if a precinct election official knows someone can't vote they can issue a challenge, which I always envisioned would include slapping them in the face with a glove.
It's not clear to me if that's what is happening here or not.
I just made another donation to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. If not for them, my Examiner.com work and all the Fast and Furious reports, as well as my Guns & Ammo and most of my Guns Magazine columns would be lost.
That's my reason.
Surely there are reasons why you would benefit from being able to retrieve information that has since been "retired." And that's what it's all about -- not charity, but appreciation for value received.
Audit: Wisconsin Could Have Counted Enough Illegal Votes To Tip The 2020 Election To Biden [More]
So is anybody going to, you know, do anything about it?
UPDATE- Perhaps I spoke too soon:
Racine Co. Sheriff refers criminal charges against five elections commissioners
[Via Michael G]
SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is issuing an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to protect unvaccinated employees of large employers (100 or more employees) from the risk of contracting COVID-19 by strongly encouraging vaccination. Covered employers must develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, with an exception for employers that instead adopt a policy requiring employees to either get vaccinated or elect to undergo regular COVID-19 testing and wear a face covering at work in lieu of vaccination. [More]
CNN exit poll: Black voters: 87% for McAuliffe to 13% for Youngkin - Hispanic voters: 68% for McAuliffe to 31% for Youngkin - Asian voters: 66% for McAuliffe to 34% for Youngkin ... At this very moment, money men in the Republican Party are looking at Virginia and saying, "You see? We've got to pass amnesty to win over Latinos!" [More]
He was arraigned in Norfolk General District Court on three counts of second-degree murder, one count of malicious wounding and four counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. [More]
I realize he committed violence against women of color, but won't locking him up be racist?
[Via Steve T]
Laura Ingraham said Democrats have no idea what Americans want after their poor election results. [Watch]
I'd feel better if I could be assured Republicans do...
[Via Jess]
A Boston student is in custody after she attacked her principal and knocked her unconscious, according to the Boston Police Department. Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius said that the assault happened Wednesday afternoon during dismissal at the Upper Campus of the Dr. William W. Henderson K-12 Inclusion School. [More]
It looks like they have nothing left to teach her and she's ready to be released into the wild...
[Via Steve T]
In other words, White Coat's activism, which had long generated bipartisan support and favorable media coverage, now reflects poorly on Dr. Fauci. And as a result, The Washington Post has decided to amass a team of reporters to attack the group — the same one the paper repeatedly praised prior to the COVID pandemic — in order to falsely smear it as a right-wing extremist group motivated not by a genuine concern for the welfare of animals or wasteful government spending, but rather due to a partisan desire, based in MAGA ideology, to attack Fauci. [More]
Looks like their usefulness is over, so we know what happens next.
[Via Michael G]
The NRA had a very good day in the Supreme Court - There appear to be at least five votes to significantly expand the Second Amendment. [More]
Unless "our side" got some Dolly pix I don't trust Roberts, and Barrett looks like she's getting set to show us what she wouldn't tell us in her confirmation hearings.
[Via Jess]
Hey Shannon, what are your thoughts on @WinsomeSears, the next Lt. Governor of Virginia? [More]
Based on past racist rhetoric, my guess would be they're pretty similar to Joe Biden's...
If the NRA does not support Rittenhouse then it is a worthless organization that deserves to be destroyed by the left [More]
Most replies appear to agree.
Guess what a search on their site turns up.
Maybe they're having Weinermobile trouble again or can't find a parking spot...
It's the same thing with the GOP: They don't want to be associated with "those people."
UPDATE-- Fun Facts to Know and Tell:
Did You Know: The lead detective in the Kyle Rittenhouse case is the nephew of the mayor who let Kenosha burn - And the DA prosecuting Kyle is the mayor's first cousin - Meet the Antaramian family
[Via Jim S]
WHEN LAUREN WINDSOR, a Democratic operative working with the Lincoln Project, sent five young people dressed in khakis, white shirts, and sunglasses to hold tiki torches in front of Glenn Youngkin’s campaign bus as it docked in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Friday, she never considered that people might think they were actual white supremacists. [More]
It probably is pretty incredible to her that people actually believe anything they say or do.
Hey, can we start calling the 1/6 protestors "stunt artists"?
[Via Mack H]
"Either way, once he went inside, things got slightly weird," one of the reporters recalled. "The Prius, it seemed, was illegally parked in front of an active garage for a plumbing-supply company. Which quickly became a problem for the trucks attempting to enter said supply company: They were soon backed up all the way down Lafayette Avenue, causing a bona fide pileup while Adams slept inside." [More]
Well, we know where he stands on the people's rights.
He'll fit right in.
QAnon Followers Gather in Dallas for the Arrival of JFK Jr., Who Died in 1999 [More]
Were they carrying tiki torches or did any of this involve a comet?
...Eisenman learned his juvenile daughter was allegedly sold to a sex-trafficking organization in the Seattle area. Eisenman obtained information his daughter’s boyfriend (the deceased) may have been the one responsible for her sale. Eisenman was able to rescue his daughter and get her back to the Spokane area ... Eisenman learned his daughter’s boyfriend was going to be at a location in Airway Heights, WA. Eisenman waited for the victim and confronted the 19-year-old as he arrived. During that encounter Eisenman abducted the victim, tying him up and placing him in the trunk of a vehicle. Eisenman subsequently assaulted the victim by hitting him in the head with a cinder block and then stabbed him repeatedly, causing his death. [More]
I guess the only question I have is when will they be holding a cinder block buyback?
[Via Mack H]
The turnout and success of the governor's race in Virginia was nothing other than a stalling tactic and anyone who thinks it's anything else isn't paying attention, but that was a needed respite from the drumbeat march of communism, forced injections, woke schools and border madness. [More]
T.L. Davis shares his thoughts on what yesterday's results did and did not mean.
“When we dehumanize others, we position ourselves to justify and accept other forms of violence such as sexual assault and murder,” Martell said. [More]
That's another reason why we murder boner owners refuse to disarm...
[Via Michael G]
Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the United Nation’s independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, delivered his latest report to the U.N. General Assembly last week that should set off alarm bells around the world. [More]
But first, they broke for lunch...
[Via Michael G]
According to one study, “firearm owners who keep their firearms locked or unloaded were at least 60% less likely to die from firearm related suicide than those who store their firearms unlocked and/or loaded.” [More]
According to reality, firearm owners who keep their firearms locked or unloaded were more likely to die from a sudden intruder beating them to the draw than those who store their firearms unlocked and/or loaded.
Left unaddressed is a catalyst for suicides that no Democrat seems to want to talk about. Maybe ease up on the burdens and demands and not as many people on the brink will be driven over it.
[Via Jess]
Two of the officers "carry out a weapon exit, retreat," noted the police report, and fire in the direction of the individual several times. Hit in the chest, the attacker falls on the tracks but gets up and goes back to the platforms. He then rushes at the police, shouting "Allahu akbar", "France is ruled by the Islamic State". [More]
Have they determined a motive...?
[Via Jess]
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), and Jennifer Wexton, (D-Va.) introduced The Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act, H.R. 5764, in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate as S. 3117. The legislation is troublesome because the politicians authoring it pitch it as a means to detect and prevent those who might be planning to commit an atrocity or terror attack. [More]
And guess who they want everyone to think are atrocity-committing terrorists.
[Via An Hour of Wolves]
If the new Supreme Court stymies gun safety laws, what comes next? [More]
This premise as stated makes me wonder why this infringements promoter has been afforded so much respect by some in the armed citizen advocacy community. "He's not as bad as ShannonWatts" just means he doesn't scare as many people away with a lunatic demeanor, making incremental erosions seem non-threatening and reasonable to those who don't know any better.
[Via Jess]
Loudoun County rapist's mother: It was an 'accident' and a real victim wouldn't 'sit there and take it' [More]
So it wasn't "rape-rape"?
Predator-enabling mothers...
Is it any wonder so many are anti-gun?
[Via Mack H]
Most of them acted like a physician I know who, after receiving a stack of studies from a patient regarding the potency and durability of natural immunity (none of which he had read or even heard of) along with a request for a statement attesting to the patient’s recovery from Covid, literally ran out of the room for 15 minutes, only to return with a mealy-mouthed and gaslighting statement that in no way confirmed his charge’s recovery nor the now scientifically undeniable fact of his near total protection from both getting and transmitting the virus. [More]
Soon to be viewed on par with politicians and journalists in public approval polls...
[Via TM]
Why Modern Movies Suck [Watch]
This comparison of old and new Star Treks is actually more of a reflection on modern audiences.
[Via An Hour of Wolves]
EXCLUSIVE: FBI testified in private that there is 2nd version of the surveillance tape in HD that it did not provide the defense, per courtroom member - The defense had requested a copy of the HD tape - The FBI responded the HD tape no longer exists [More]Bull****.
Speed-Dating Jury Selection Is Over in Rittenhouse Trial as Poll Shows 2/3 of Possible Jurors Think He's Guilty as Hell
95% of VA Counties are 2A Sanctuaries. 93% Voted for Youngkin. Coincidence? [More]
I guess the others just didn't have enough fire in their bellies.
The usual suspects are exploiting his "win" not as a repudiation of control freak Democrat incompetence and arrogance, but of the principles that got Trump elected -- so expect to see more "moderate" Republicans try to reconstitute that formula.
As for Democrats, the Old Guard wants to blame the Young Radicals for scaring people. For their part, the new kids are emboldened by their weakness.
And no surprise here:
"But in substance, Democrats see an extremist with softer packaging."
Youngkin didn't want to speak out for us when he needed us. Before celebrating too hard, why not see what he'll do now that he doesn't.
New Gun Control Group, Denver Accord, Has Unsurprising ‘Trace’ [More]"May issue" permits to purchase means "May not." Is anyone surprised the principal agitator behind this has ties that "trace" to Bloomberg?
She had to shut down the conversation, and the questioner was promptly the target of the government control agents. [More]
It prompted me to start using the term "Authorized Journalists," then Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists and the DSM, and we've seen how we can count on them.
"If the gun is linked to a crime, detectives will then take over and investigate." [More]
Did they advertise "No questions asked"?
Kavanaugh theorized that a left-leaning state could offer a $1 million bounty against those who sell an assault rifle, like an AR-15, then claim it wasn’t using state power because only private parties could bring the suits. “There’s a loophole that’s been exploited here or used here,” Kavanaugh said. “It could be free speech rights. It could be free-exercise-of-religion rights. It could be Second Amendment rights.” [More]
My questioning FPC wasn't about what they were doing, but why they weren't doing it with more.
Group of highly respected experts fear medical world is rife with research fraud ... One in five of the two million studies published annually could involve fake data [More]
I didn't even need to call on the ETrade Baby for that one...
[Via Michael G]
The University of Washington is expanding the scope of its mental health and wellness program to “interrupt racism” and “combat microaggressions,” a concept that UW defines in part as “assuming that others are like you”. [More]
So when Biden said "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black," he was being racist and microaggressive?
[Via Michael G]
"If they’re going to push this on the kids … I can guarantee you one thing: Town halls and schools will be f—ing burned to the ground”... [More]
Looks like people are starting to wake up to assymetrical potentials...
Let's hope they also wake up to potentials for provocateurs picking low-hanging fruit.
[Via Michael G]
Illinois Governor declares “public health crisis” on guns [More]
Perhaps someone should compare violent crime stats from heavily-armed ISRA members with urban Democrat core constituent progeny. I have a feeling the "crisis" may not be originating with the guns.
I like the way this guy thinks and speaks. [Watch]
His public stance on guns is promising.
And it looks like he gets it on cultural terraforming.
The GOP could do worse when it comes to looking at presidentual nominees (and consistently has). From what I'm seeing, he'd be outstanding in the debates.
CORNELL PROFESSOR THREATENS TO FAIL ‘HOOKED NOSE’ STUDENT FOR NOT WEARING MASK IN CLASS [More]
Monger hates...?
[Via Michael G]
“We in MASC are all very happy that NSBA has reached out to the FBI and, based on local coverage, has been identified as a key agent for generating federal support,” said MASC director Glenn Koocher. “We are looking forward to collaborating on a possible regional effort and, certainly, doing something significant here in Massachusetts to generate public awareness of the need for Washington to have our backs on protecting our members and students as well.” [More]
Why am I suddenly recalling the French term "épuration légale" ...
[Via Michael G]
PREPARED TO DEFEND. [More]
Against what?
If they're going to say violence-minded men with real guns, I propose a test.
I guess it may be better than nothing and to each his own. The chances of ever having to use it may be so remote that the long-term peace of mind may outweigh the astonishment that comes from suddenly realizing you've been kidding yourself and you're in for it now...
[Via Steve T]
