Technical Difficulties

UPDATE: Thanks all. No need for any more feedback on this. Except, perhaps from the guy who merely said "Scribd sucks" and had no superior alternative to suggest.

Do me and Mike a favor?

Go here and see if you can get the Scribd document to appear.

Then see if you can get it to appear as embedded at the end of Mike's post.

Hopefully the issues are worked out and it will display in Firefox and IE. As for other browsers, I don't have 'em so I can't test for that.

Armed American Radio: 11/27

Laryngitis precluded my participation in last night's program, so host Mark Walters kindly handled the Gunwalker segment solo as the last segment of Hour 1.  Here's the whole show--listen at your leisure.

• Hour 1: "News, commentary, emails, more commentary, great subject matter…I don’t want to give it away here…go listen!  Enjoy!"
• Hour 2: "American hero, combat medic and author, Patrick Thibeault…Gotta love the hero’s!  Later in this hour, noted women’s firearm expert and trainer, Kathy Jackson."
• Hour 3: "The Roundtable.  Kathy Jackson sticks around and grabs a seat with firearm expert George Hill, the Mad Ogre, Mark and Sean.  Topics all over the map, emails, current events, etc!  A fun one. Enjoy!"

And tell your friends about this show, every Sunday night from 8:00 to 11:00 pm Eastern/ 5:00 to 8:00 pm Pacific. It brings essential information you won't get anywhere else, and the thought just struck, it could be especially useful for gun owners who don't read blogs.

Hot in Cleveland

Went out on the back porch with the Missus for my daily Scrabble butt-whomping, turned on the TV to have something to do while waiting for her to come up with her next totally-attributable-to-girl-luck seven-letter layout on a triple word score, i.e., her MO, and Bonanza was on, the episode where Hoss befriends a couple of nuns who get their hospital fund money stolen by robbers.

Anyway, the promotional overlay in the bottom left corner struck me as pretty funny.  It was either find something to laugh about or cry at the 100+ point difference in scores...

All the Web ID I Need

As much as some would like to change that--using the tired, old "crime prevention" con to perpetrate their control scam.

Radioactive 302s & Black Bag Jobs.

UPDATE: The temporarily deactivated post is now back up.

The latest PATCON exclusive from Sipsey Street Irregulars... [Read]

Obama Calls on Attorney General to Step Down!

Just wow.

How did Sen. Feinstein get ATF gun trace data in violation of Tiahrt Amendment?

Persons within the Department of Justice whose identities are not yet publicly known apparently broke the law by leaking firearms trace data to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, which she introduced in the Senate Judiciary Committee record in the hearing on Department of Justice oversight earlier this month. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner asks a question with only two possible answers: Was this leading anti-gunner abetting a violation of law by DOJ, or was she their dupe?

The only way we'll get an answer to these is if you help bang pots and pans to demand them so loudly it cannot be ignored.  Share the link?

Note to the Thai Royals

Y'all are really asking for the Streisand Effect with this one...[Read]

After seeing this, I'm not so much interested in insulting them as expressing solidarity with any freedom-minded Thais who would like to alter and abolish those destructive to the ends of freedom.

Lese-majesty my...foot.

Uniform National Standards

Let me guess: "Shall not be infringed" isn't in the running? [Read]

News Flash!

RINOs are gutless and have no principles! [Read]

This Day in History: November 28

Your Excellency's letter on the discriminations which have been heretofore made, between the troops raised within this state, and considered as part of our quota, and those not so considered, was delivered me four days ago. I immediately laid it before the Assembly, who thereupon came to the resolution I now do myself the honor of enclosing you. [More]

Another WND Report

This one slipped by me until I saw it linked to on Sipsey Street, no doubt because I haven't done anything with it lately and the reporter was quoting an old article of mine. [Read]

Which appears here, by the way.

And here's more.

Volume Seven Update

New stuff added since last Sunday. [Read]

Gun Rights Examiner earns Sunday headlines in Arizona Republic and WorldNetDaily

“Project Gunwalker” was front page headline news in today’s edition of The Arizona Republic...In another development, WorldNetDaily, the very highly-trafficked news website, is featuring a report on Gun Rights Examiners Chore Boy/silencer story as its main headline this morning. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column does a little crowing. Maybe that's why I've got laryngitis, and Mark Walters will need to do tonight's Gunwalker update on Armed American Radio without me.

Something to Consider

With all those out there (some very well heeled) quick to use Gunwalker in their fundraising appeals (even though they have done practically nothing in terms of original work on the story, and the most prosperous ones have even discouraged recognition of those who have), isn't it refreshing to see someone who has been working around the clock to break new ground and pushing himself to mortal limits--someone of modest means who often can't say how the next bill will be paid--asking his supporters to stop sending money?

What better testament to character?

For the DC trip, OK--but in general principle, those who receive regular value should return it.  Some time ago I proposed a very doable monthly voluntary subscription to SSI--a buck a month. If just a fraction of Mike's readers did that, he'd be compensated along the lines of, say, a bus boy.

Hopefully, no one of conscience thinks that's asking too much.

This Day in History: November 27

In a letter to Maj. Taylor, then commanding the Johnstown Fort, dated November 27 (1779), Col. Fisher states that he is under the necessity of convening a court martial on the following day, and that he, the Major, should attend, bringing with him another officer, also to act as a member. [More]

Conaway gun case tells much about hypocrisy, elitism and bigotry

Which nonetheless leads to the fair question of why Conaway had a handgun and a permit in the first place. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary looks at the character of some elites who find it personally advantageous to keep the rest of us disarmed.

This Day in History: November 26

On November 26, 1779 while serving at Wyoming Pa., he wrote a letter to the War Council and in part writes the following: "I am a Hessian Born, by Inclination, as well as duty bound an American I have the Honour to be a Captn in the Continental Army...[More]

3,000?

Bob Owens posts on a theory I've heard before, that Fast and Furious was less about "gun control" and more about playing sides with the cartels as part of a greater strategy. [Read]

It's not that I'm hostile to that line of thought--I'm interested in the truth. It's just--as I have told proponents of it--that none of my sources have offered this explanation, so I can't endorse it until I get something more directly credible than a defendant offering a desperate defense.

I guess I'll need to see what documents result from this to test against the hypothesis.

But to be clear: the initial "padding statistics" charge on Gunwalker came not from any "right wing bloggers."  It was first made on CleanUpATF by one of the posters whom ATF's Chief Counsel's Office and Ken Melson had discussed applying standards of conduct disciplinary action against. Make sure you click on the sidebar graphic there to see the emails for yourself.

Bottom line: If a definitive US government/cartel cooperative effort is established, it would add a new dimension to--but not negate--the "more gun control" theory.

Vanderboegh: What Newsweek and the FBI don’t want you to know about PATCON

Vanderboegh's latest exclusive includes “items expunged from the story,” and his conclusion is nothing less than knock-your-wind-out startling... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column points to an exclusive report that is literally explosive.  Hugely so.