Breaking Up is Hard to Do

For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media. [More]

Of course, the Russkis may want to look at their own house first, but still, in The Lightworker's own words:

[W]hat works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne.

And that doesn't just apply to guns.

[Via Cigar Rollers]

How Do I Rate?

Internet sites could be given cinema-style age ratings as part of a Government crackdown on offensive and harmful online activity to be launched in the New Year, the Culture Secretary says. [More]

And lest you think it's just for the subjects across the pond in Sarah Brady paradise...

He is planning to negotiate with Barack Obama’s incoming American administration to draw up new international rules for English language websites.

Well that falls right in line with AG nominee Eric Holder's sentiments...

What did our friends the Talosians say?

Wrong thinking is punishable.

Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded.

[Via Illspirit and An Hour of Wolves]

Cause and Effect

The number of police officers killed by gunfire in 2008 dropped to its lowest level in more than 50 years...[More]

Who thinks it's because of "gun control" edicts?

Who thinks making it even harder for you and me to buy a gun, or to further restrict what we're "allowed" to own or where and how we're "permitted" to bear arms will reduce these numbers even more?

What do I have to do to get some anti in here? Put out a welcome mat?

[Via Avg Joe and DaKid]

This Day in History: December 29

The disgraceful circumstance, to the Colony, of seizing the Printer's materials and servants, in Norfolk; the captivating our friends at Kemp's Landing, and the cowardly behaviour of a party of Militia in that neighbourhood, afterwards, proceeded from the defenceless state of that part of the country, and our inability, for sometime, to send them protection, for want of arms and ammunition. [More]

What Better Way to Dishonor Their Memory?

Relatives of those who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 want the Bush Administration to seize the land needed for a memorial where the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pa., in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Yeah, what better memorial could someone want to celebrate freedom, courage and sacrifice than one obtained through coercion and theft?

I never will get why some feel their grief entitles them to make claims on others, but we see it with mothers of "gun victims" all the time.

If it was my land, I'd break off negotiations immediately over this.

Way to turn sympathy into absolute opposition.

We're the Only Ones BS-ing You Enough

Sheriff's Deputy Gregory Anderson tags a gun after rendering it safe during the "Gifts for Guns" exchange at Lennox Middle School. [More]

Gosh, is that all it takes to render a gun safe enough to have at a middle school, so that we don't all go stampeding in hysteria...?

A piece of removable plastic and a uniform...?

It must be that powerful "Only Ones" juju at work again. Thank goodness, I can swallow my cud again in contentment and oblivion...

Speaking of which, check out some of the quotes from the herd.

Peter Jacob's wife Carol insists on his castration, and like a good steer he complies. What he'll be prepared to do should he and she encounter a bull is something we dare not contemplate.

And the unidentified retiree is evidently secure enough in his location, prowess and prescience to know he no longer "needs" the means of self defense.

Sounds like more bulls... to me...

Speaking of which, funding for this came from the Sheriff's Department. Remember that next time Lee Baca tells you he doesn't have enough, and needs to raise sales taxes.

Talk about bs...

We're the Only Ones "No Questions Asked" Enough

He said as of Tuesday night, people turning in illegal guns would not be given gift cards or get their guns back.

"If they hand us an illegal handgun and we have no money, we can't give back the gun," he said. [More]

Suck...errrs...

And "no questions asked"--just show us some ID...

Hysterical. And while I don't normally believe in blaming victims, you got just what you had coming, Mark DeAngelis.

Gosh, if you can't trust "Only Ones," who can you trust...?

What if You Held a "Buyback" and Nobody Came...?

The Rev. Reginald Holmes, a minister at the church, said about 40 people with a total of 120 guns showed up but were turned off to the idea of just donating their guns. [More]

But wait a second...Alvertis Simmons led us to believe the Tre Crips were primarily interested in ending the violence...I don't see from this story where any of them followed through...

World's Stupidest Violent Crime Solutions

With Chicago's homicide total for 2008 already past 500, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., is calling for stronger gun laws in order to help to stem urban violence. [More]

Brilliant. Let's make guns even more "illegal" in Chicago. And let's expand Chicago's success story everywhere!

I guess my favorite nonsensical statement has to be:

Regulate the trafficking of illegal guns

Forget it, Jake, it's Chi-Town.

Open Carry Arrest in Vancouver, WA

Interesting thread. It appears he could win, but he needs to fight it with a lawyer, not in forums. [More]

[Via Jeffersonian]

Meanwhile, South of the Border in Sarah Brady Paradise...

A gang of about 20 men armed with assault rifles robbed a train in the western Mexican state of Michoacan and carted off some of its freight, the state prosecutor's office said Saturday...

...the thieves may have been after drums of pseudoephedrine, a chemical used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamines... [More]

Via Ed, who writes:

Gee, I thought that when my purchase of Pseudophed at my local drugstore was restricted that the drug trade in methampetamines would disappear. See any parallels?

Maybe if we just got rid of those damned American gun shows...?

What's "Legit" About This?

Lawyer claims Plaxico Burress's seized guns are legit [More]

Via Mack H, who asks:

What in the world is the Probable Cause for the search warrant?

Why did it take 3 hours??

Why was a NY prosecutor there inside a NJ home???

What the FREAK is going on here?

How an incident like this can trigger an investigation in another state is a mystery to me. All I can think of is, he must have opened his mouth in interrogation, and what he spilled got passed on to his home state.

This Day in History: December 28

The Continental Congress resolves that troops raised in Virginia be enlisted on the same terms and pay as the forces at Cambridge. [More]

Gun Rights Examiner

This is going to change in the very near future.

Coming in early January, the "Cleveland" is going away.

The column has done well both regionally and in the "Politics" category. So the powers that be have decided they'll be better served if it goes national--meaning it will now show up on the national page as well as be accessible from 59 separate city pages.

That's the reason I've pushed it every day, and asked WarOnGuns regulars to read the columns and share them with your friends.

I outlined my plan from Day One, and it's actually unfolding much more quickly than I'd hoped.

This represents not just a local opportunity, but if it's successful, they'll surely be receptive to expanding the topic to other markets.

I'll be capitalizing on this receptivity on an ongoing basis.

As such, I've already lined up a proven columnist for Cleveland (no, I'm not going to say who--it will be his announcement to make and my place to support that with publicity) and I'm working with my channel manager to help establish a presence in other cities.

I hope it's clear that this is an opportunity for getting our message outside the "gun blogosphere" and into a much wider market. So I also hope you understand why I've been harping and nagging on this every day and asking for your help to promote the column. And why I won't apologize for continuing to do so.

Consider it my requested donation from those who get value from WarOnGuns. I ask you every day to click on (and read) the Gun Rights Examiner column and share the link with your friends.

Because as exciting as this new opportunity is, I--and "we"--could do much better based on the stats I'm seeing.

Please help me continue to grow this opportunity.

And thank you to those who do.

"Valkyrie"

Mike Vanderboegh gives a review of both the movie and the history. [More]

He also expresses a faith in our military that I pray he's right in having. I want to believe with the same confidence he does that the critical mass shares the same values as my family and friends who have served.

What I see from some commentators I respect makes it difficult for me to just dismiss their concerns as mere "posturing" and "imagination."

By all means, befriend servicepeople you encounter. But understand there are always those with power who have risen to top ranks and who are beholden to others.

The Founders rightly distrusted a standing army, even with the example set by Washington.

We're the Only Ones Unsealed Enough

Metropolitan cops are no longer required to seal off their gun muzzles unless directed otherwise by police district chiefs, National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Director Leopoldo Bataoil said Friday.

In a press conference at Camp Crame, Bataoil said it is now time for the police to show that they can be trusted in not using their guns in celebration of the New Year. [More]

See?

"Only Ones" are more trustworthy than the rest of us...

Good grief.

We're the Only Ones Retired Enough

The Wisconsin Department of Justice has issued 15 concealed-weapons permits to retired agents, the only former state police officers to receive the privilege. [More]

Oooh...Oooh!! Can we have one too...?

Sorry.

You're not "Only Ones."

And ultra-super-trustworthy Wisconsin Only Ones at that...

Gosh--the Gauleiters won't give their permission to us rabble.

Whatever shall we do...?

Desperately Seeking Attention

“It should be obvious to anyone that a civilian bringing an openly-carried, loaded semiautomatic weapon to a child’s soccer game poses a grave risk to the community,” said Daniel R. Vice, Senior Attorney at the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project. [More]

Because we all know only the "Only Ones" can be trusted.

And don't let the "openly-carried, loaded semi-automatic weapon" rhetoric throw you. They get just as hissy against concealed carry. And revolvers.

They just don't want us to have guns.

Don't they sound ridiculous? Like the loser kids from school who snitched on their classmates to win the teacher's approval...?

[Via Mack H]

When Blood Starts Running

"We no longer have a civilian-led government."

This ominous conclusion comes to us from Thomas A. Schweich, who held the title of deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement affairs in the Bush Regime... [More]

William N. Grigg brings another ominous analysis.

General Patton's riot "laws" are of particular interest, and boil down to this:

"When blood starts running, the law stops."

[Via Ron W]

This Day in History: December 27

I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. Conscious of this, she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her. [More]