Notes from the Resistance...
In a clearly audible voice, Senator Saslaw said to his companion: "I see we're debating a gun bill today. Half of the cast of Deliverance is in town." [More]So, Senator, just out of curiosity, what would you be prepared to do if someone with malevolent intent said "you got a purdy mouth..."?
"D.C. statute states anything that you use in a prohibited manner can be considered a prohibited weapon," he said. "Even a writing pen could be considered prohibited under certain circumstances."Yes, exactly. That's what an assault weapons is.
Once again Faux News is silently sabotaging the Ron Paul campaign through omission.
I guess if you can pick your standard, as opposed to how the candidates have actually performed to date, you can justify Rudy being there as a "leading candidate" but Paul not being one...
That they felt they needed to qualify their presentation shows they know exactly what they're doing. They should have and could have posted all the candidates without qualifiers. It's obvious they just don't want their viewers to see the name "Ron Paul," so they are intentionally suppressing it. And by letting everyone who might notice know he's not "leading," why, there's a bit of discouragement tainting as well.
That's some "news" organization, manipulating the electorate under the guise of reporting facts.
"Fair and balanced" my left knee..."You Decide"-- based on what we choose to tell you.
Even if you're not for Ron Paul, I'd think having the information gatekeepers pull this crap should be enough to make you wonder what the establishment is so afraid of. It should certainly tell you why I have devoted a category on this blog warning about the dangers of "Authorized Journalists."
A man accidentally shot and killed himself at a West Dallas party early Saturday after showing off his pistol to friends...A group of friends had been drinking...when Andreous Robinson, 20, went outside around 1 a.m. and shot a few rounds into the air. Police said Mr. Robinson then came back inside and thought that he'd discharged all of the rounds, so he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger...His death came less than a day after a man was fatally shot in a similar incident...four men were drinking vodka and using crack cocaine Friday afternoon when one of them accidentally shot another to death.See, if only they'd disarm you and me, this kind of stuff would never happen.
A federal judge said Friday that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration did not commit a crime when it sent undercover investigators into gun shops to attempt illegal weapons purchases as it prepared to sue the dealers.Then if no "straw purchases" were made, that must mean the dealers did not commit any crimes in selling the guns.
As you already know, Tuesday, January 29, there is a presidential primary. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. I am a registered Republican, and I will be voting for Senator John McCain. Governor Charlie Crist has also endorsed Senator McCain.
Bill Bunting spoke personally with Senator John McCain, Governor Mitt Romney, and Governor Mike Huckabee over the weekend. As most of you know, Bill is chairman of the Republican Party of Pasco.
Senator McCain will sign on to a national right-to-carry bill if Congress brings it to his desk. As far as he is concerned, the gun show loophole is a moot point, and he will appoint judges who follow the Constitution.
Lou Oliver, Chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, said Governor Huckabee would make a great vice president. I recently appeared on the Kathy Fountain Show (Fox News Network) in a half hour live show on presidential politics with Bill in Tampa with live call-ins. Bill is our strongest supporter when it comes to the Second Amendment whether at a gun show, on television, or in the newspapers.
I spoke to Senator McCain on his cell phone on Saturday night. He will be "humbly gratified" if we support him.
Victor
Yes, I'm sure Senator McCain is very, very sorry, he's learned his lesson and he'll never, ever even consider betraying gun owners again... at least not until his warm, close gun-grabbing, Bill-of-Rights-hating friends Joe Lieberman, Russ Feingold and Ted Kennedy ask him to.I guess Luke wasn't thirsty and has had it with gun rights compromisers who are full of...beans.
John McCain has a long history of working against both the Second and First Amendments, against conservative values and against our sovereignty and border security. I wouldn't vote for McCain, Romney, Giuliani or Huckabee if Satan himself were the Democratic nominee.
When Senators take their oath of office, they don't swear to keep us safe, they don't swear to work for this lobby or that special interest. They swear before God and man to preserve, protect and defend the CONSTITUTION! John McCain has demonstrated that he sees the Bill or Rights as a list of helpful suggestions, and nothing more. The Bible says that those who cannot be faithful in small things will not be faithful in large things. If we couldn't trust John McCain to uphold his oath as a Senator, we can't trust him to do it as a President.
There IS a committed pro-gun candidate in the race- you know damned well who I'm talking about. It's amazing to me that you and your ilk will make excuses for a faithless opportunist and chameleon like McCain and won't even consider supporting the statesman who is gun owners' best friend, the taxpayers' best friend, the Bill of Rights' best friend on Capitol Hill, bar NONE. In light of your craven endorsement of this notorious enemy of the Bill of Rights, I will never set foot in one of your shows again, and I am going to contact the area gun dealers who rent tables at your shows to inform them that as long as they do business with you, they will do without my business as well. And I will encourage every Florida gun owner I know to do the same.
A voice-over from former 007 James Bond actor Sean Connery says: "It is said a total ban on handguns, including .22s, would take away innocent pleasure from thousands of people." The man in the film fires a rapid succession of shots, devastating a human- shaped cardboard target. Connery says: "Is that more or less pleasure than watching your child grow up?" The film closes with the words: "Remember Dunblane. Ban all handguns."You can see him recommend a woman be "shaken, not stirred" here:
I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
We need one person in an influential position to stand up and tell the truth about gun control lobbies... Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have... this is an escalating problem that’s eventually going to lead to, I think, urban warfare...It [2nd Amendment] has to be stopped, and someone really has to go on the line, a certain dauntless political figure, and say, ‘It’s ending, it’s over, all bets are off. It’s not 200 years ago, we don’t need this anymore, and the rest of the world doesn’t have it. Why should we?"And Sly is equally gallant with the ladies:
The talk quickly turned to women, with Sly denying Janice Dickinson's claims he injected her with steroids. "The only thing I injected her with was my fist," he joked.So how 'bout it, Moms? Which of these champions of "common sense gun laws" would you rather have women defenseless against? Which one strikes your...uh...fancy? Who deserves a slice of that pie...?
In England, General John Burgoyne submits a plan to the government designed to isolate New England from the other colonies.
"The only thing I injected her with was my fist," he joked.Ha ha. Great joke, Sly, domestic abuse and beating women! That's the kind of stuff from which "prohibited persons" are made, thanks to the Lautenberg Amendment. But it does kind of explain why you might be against women having any kind of equalizer...
SECTION 4.
(a) All handgun and assault weapon ammunition manufactured or sold in thestate after January 1, 2009, shall be coded by the manufacturer.
(b) No later than January 1, 2011, all non-coded ammunition for the calibers
listed in this act, whether owned by private citizens or retail outlets, shall be disposed.
Tyrant wannabes in the Tennessee legislature are going for an ammo grab, in this case, Memphis Mandarins Reginald Tate and Larry Miller.
Here are the links for SENATE BILL 3395 and its counterpart, HOUSE BILL 3245. You can track status of the bills here.
They want to require etching "identifiers" on "the base of the bullet projectile"--and note it says "all," so .22 ammo sold in blocks is evidently not exempt. Then note requirements for a manufacturer's registry, a vendor's registry, mandates for investigations by the TBI, and staffing and maintaining a database--nothing that will stop one violent criminal from using noncompliant ammunition in a stolen firearm...
Can you imagine a more foolish squandering of financial resources at a time when Tennesseans are struggling to keep their jobs and their houses, or law enforcement resources when they can't prevent crime already without sidelining personnel on this nonsense?
Oh but that's OK, because there's "No fiscal note for the bill!"
That's because the overlords envision an "end user fee":
SECTION 7.
(a) The cost of establishing and maintaining the ACSD shall be funded by an end-user fee. Vendors shall charge an additional one half cent ($.005) per bullet or round of ammunition to the purchaser.
(b) There is established the coded ammunition fund for deposit of the end-user fees described in this section. Moneys in the fund, upon appropriation, shall be available to the TBI for infrastructure, implementation, operational, enforcement, and future development costs of this act.
And, of course, if half a cent is good, why in a few years, a whole cent will be even better! Besides, costs are going up and gun owners are outnumbered and generally despised by our urban constituencies--why not go for even more?
I wonder how many ammunition makers are going to just pull up stakes? And the "All" caveat seems to rule out handloading, or at least I don't see an exemption that states for certain at what threshold of production a self-producer becomes a "manufacturer"...
I also don't see any provisions for out-of-state "sportsmen" bringing tourist dollars in to hunt and shoot. I suppose setting up traps for them can also be a good source of revenue...
Question for all you "law abiding" Tennessee gun owners, the only people this bill will affect (that is, the ones not responsible for the problems): When they order you to surrender your non compliant ammo a little under three years from now, are you going to give it to them?
I don't know the chances this abomination has of passing--but I do know Tennessee is the state that inflicted Al Gore on the rest of us, and the urban representation seems just as unabashedly Marxist as anywhere else. Were I a Tennessean, I'd be on the horn to my representative at opening of business tomorrow morning, and I'd follow that up with a letter and an email.
[Via Stewart Rhodes]
An off-duty police officer who was shot to death in downtown White Plains early Friday evening appears to have been a victim of friendly fire...I just can't figure out why "The Only Ones" would have assumed this particular man out of uniform to automatically be a threat...
Ridley was not in uniform...
In fact, the general prosperity of the United States, lasting more than half a century, has coincided with the destruction of traditional moral values, the breakdown of the family, a weakening of community, the degradation of intellectual culture, the fraud of our public schools, and the splintering of American culture. The most basic political questions are no longer asked or answered by politicians. Since the country became a shopping mall regime, politics has been about the redistribution of income with the assumption of ongoing prosperity. In other words, we have sacrificed our children’s future, our national security and our common sense to the shopping mall gods – to hedonism and a destructive series of assaults on authority (i.e., patriarchy). As a nation, Americans have turned to hedonism, solipsism and narcissism.Good synopsis of the way things are, the way "we" have allowed them to become in "our" quest for expediency and the easy way out. No wonder people of the character described here do not see the need for soberly assuming the responsibilities of free men.
Dr. Paul would rely on the advice of the JCS to develop and implement a withdrawal plan. Far be it for him to micromanage such an operation.
Upon the final departure of the British from Boston, Washington decides to send a brigade under General Sullivan to New York.
How ironic it is that the fictional John Rambo is so much smarter than the real-life Sylvester Stallone...
We talked about the film's release yesterday.
Now the pistolero tells us Sly got a ton of free publicity for his latest foray into pornographic bloodletting from "conservative champion" Rush Limbaugh--you know, the guy out there hawking Mitt Romney, the "weapons of unusual lethality" candidate...
Everybody's got the neocon fraud the establishment media feeds us as "conservative thought" figured out, right?
Box office figures for yesterday aren't up yet--here's hoping the twenty-something male demographic this atrocity is aimed at has better things to spend money on...guns and liberty would be nice...
A gun ownership rights advocate says if the Bush administration has its way, any court in the country would be able to overrule the U.S. Constitution and ban guns for law-abiding citizens to use for self defense or even hunting.Just in case all the "sportsmen" lining up in a gun store to grin like dolts and shake hands with John Edwards think their hunting guns are safe...
Madison officials have fired the police supervisor of the midnight shift after officers under his watch were accused of inappropriate relations while on duty.Because, you know, "The Only Ones" are so superior to you and me in terms of character, judgment, trustworthiness, morality..all that stuff.
A hearing ended at about noon for Sgt. Tim Heiden, who police have accused of failing to monitor officers during their shifts. The officers have been accused of theft, stalking and meeting with prostitutes and felons.
Three more New York City police officers have been suspended without pay and stripped of their guns and badges in a widening police corruption investigation that involves paying confidential informants with drugs, officials said on Wednesday...
Because of problems arising from the scandal, prosecutors have moved to dismiss 80 criminal cases because the officers caught up in alleged wrongdoing were considered critical to successful prosecutions, law enforcement officials said. A hundred more potentially tainted cases are being analyzed, officials said.
Read the whole thing. It's just disgusting.
Only New York "Only Ones," Bloomberg's enforcers, keeping and bearing arms... And remember, don't you dare lift a finger...
Be warned. The biggest street gang will brook no competition.
Where the hell are the feds in this, and why don't they maybe do a no-knock dynamic entry, and seize the Brooklyn South Narcotics bureau building under asset forfeiture...?
[Via Declan]
