This Day in History: May 16

It appears to me, from the above mentioned Papers, that the said ship Flora is not a good Prize, the same belonging to the Subjects of a Neutral Nation: But that the Cargo is really the property of the Subjects of the King of England tho' attempted to be masqu'd as neutral. [More]

A Splendid Time Is Guaranteed for All

Our Guest Speaker will be David Codrea...[More]

Oh, gosh, I LOVE that guy!

Who Knew?

Who knew? For nearly 28 years 50,000 machine guns have been silently among us. [More] 

Ummm...this guy?

A reliable source who tells me he’s spoken to former employees and the former owner of the company in question estimates “Approximately 50,000 were manufactured prior to the cut-off.”

We're talking the same 50,000 guns, right...?

Issa invites questions while staffers ignore them

In any case, the individual staffers and their Committee have all benefited from reliable information, introductions and leads shared by Gun Rights Examiner and Mike Vanderboegh at Sipsey Street Irregulars. So it should be unnecessary at this point to have to go back to publicly decrying lack of Congressional responsiveness, but if that’s the only path left open for “Unauthorized Journalists” to get action, at least it’s a tried and true one. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report tries to pry some information out of those who should know better than to withhold it. Be interesting to see if it works...

If People Were Inclined

The efficiency of motor vehicles as terrorist instruments would have written a tragic record long ago if people were inclined to terrorism.  [More]

A-yup.

And his observations about gasoline are dead on.

[Via W³]

We're the Only Ones with Exclusive Access Enough

Only troopers have access to the locker room area...[More]

If we can't trust Garden State Only Ones, how can we trust anyone?

[Via Kevin Starrett]

We're the Only Ones Inked Enough

I hesitated to make this an "Only Ones' post, because, aside from carrying guns in Los Angeles, what they're doing isn't really all that exclusive. If the "monopoly of violence" get their way, we could all be sporting tattoos! [Read]

Right, it could never happen here. They're just a few bad apfels...

[Via Kevin Starrett]

Takes One to Know One

Did you ever notice how often those who promulgate national socialist policies call other people Nazis?   [Read]

Pirates of Texas

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Unintended Consequences

"I want to thank Ted Celeste and Tracy Maxwell Heard for helping to make this fundraiser such a huge success." [More]

That's pretty funny, and helps highlight the trademark incompetence of these two boobs.

Scare Tactics

In place of real terrorists carrying out easy plots, we have “terrorist” plots dreamed up by FBI and CIA agents, who then recruit some hapless or demented dupes, bribing them with money and heroic images of themselves, and supplying them with the plot and fake explosives. These are called “sting operations,” but they are not. They are orchestrations by our own security agencies that produce fake terrorist plots that are then “foiled” by the security agencies that hatched the plots. Washington’s announcement is always: “The public was never in danger.” Some terrorist plot! We have never been endangered by one, but the airports have been on orange alert for 11.5 years. [More]

Like that bridge too far.

Think about it--if you or I wanted to carry out destructive, disruptive and even murderous acts, how hard would it really be? Is it really fear of getting caught that stops us, or just the simple truth that basically good people don't do monstrously evil things? 


And if we could do it, what's stopping the motivated "pros"?

[Via Ron W]

We're the Fauxnly Ones Pulling for You Enough

Someone who may be posing as a police officer is pulling cars over on Mississippi highways and then shooting drivers dead, authorities said. [More]

The Fauxnly Ones...they're not as unheard of as some may think.

Bust Time for Bimbo

New Jersey state police spokesman Lt. Stephen Jones said New Jersey requires security guards to undergo training under the Security Officer Registration Act and be fingerprinted. The fingerprints are run through the state police criminal history database before a guard is certified. [More]

Well then, as long as their illegal alien unsolved murder victim impersonators have all been New Jersey-certified...

Blood on Their Hands

When this all shakes out in the end Holder and company won't be the only ones with blood on their hands. How about a criminally silent media? [More]

And how about those who could make a difference but...?

This Day in History: May 15

The English Powers, really consist more in the fears of their Ennemies than any thing else. [More]

You Say It's Your Birthday

It's my birthday too, yeah.

The big six-o.

That hardly seems right. I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

Anyway, I'm not going to do any more posting today--being the one here who's done it before, I get to make my special birthday dinner,  Bouef Bourginonon, which is a multi-stage process that takes hours--right now, the main course is in the oven and I'm taking a quick break while elder feral son Uday tends a semi-watchful eye toward the Oignons Glacés À Brun and sole responsibility for not screwing up the Champignons Sautés Au Beurre.

It ain't really that high-falutin', and it's really pretty inexpensive when you consider I'm making a big mess of it that will feed the entire family, but it is very time-consuming.  While I have my differences with the French over lots of stuff, enjoying much of their cookifying has never been one of them.

Seven minutes and I take the simmering onions off, which will free up a burner for parboiling the red taters.  The shrooms ought to be just about ready to join them, then it's off to see my poor Dad in hospice care who is not doing well at all and has taken a turn for the worse.  It really does make so simple a thing as cooking a family meal with my son a very special way to spend some time.

I won't be doing a Gun Rights Examiner column today, nor will I be back here releasing comments or reading emails until tomorrow. I have family matters to attend, and a new batch of special cigars to choose from later.

If you think I've earned a birthday present, give me one in page view compensation  by going over and reading some of the GRE stuff, and by sharing links/telling your friends about it.  If you don't, what in the world are you doing still reading all the way down here?

We're the Fauxnly Ones Helpful Enough

ATF paid for the motel room where the woman was sexually abused, according to police records obtained by The Seattle Times. Only months before the assault, the records show, a concerned Seattle police officer spoke to an ATF agent on the phone after Jackson had reportedly flashed a badge during the "help the officer" incident. The agent vouched for Jackson. [More]

Hey, what's a little Ike Turner-ing among colleagues?

[Via Kevin Starrett]

The Smartest Man in the World

In all 57 states. [Read]

That's the Daumest thing I've ever read.

Sure be nice if we had his college transcripts so we could see for ourselves.

Unperceived Bad Guys

In the real world there is no menacing music to tell us the villain has entered the scene. [More]

Perception is not always reality.

This Day in History: May 14

TOMS RIVER May 14, 1780
Armed Refugees at Toms River surprise Maj. John VanEmburg (Am.) with eight or nine others. [More]