Reaction to student's fantasy dinosaur-shooting shows zero tolerance insanity

This is nothing short of child abuse under color of authority. [More]

I'm reminded of a line by one of The Keepers on Star Trek: "Wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded."

Last Night, on Armed American Radio

Live from the MN State Fair. AAR Regular Contributor and founder of the Second Amendment Foundation Alan Gottlieb, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, NY Times best selling author, founder Crime Prevention Research Center and Fox News Contributor John Lott, trainer Rob Pincus, author Michael Martin, regular contributors David Codrea, George “The Mad Ogre” Hill and special guest co-host Managing Editor of Concealed Carry Magazine Kevin Michalowski.

• AAR 8-24-2014 Hour 3
• AAR 8-24-2014 Hour 2
• AAR 8-24-2014 Hour 1

The Cool Part of Living in a Diverse Community

I'm still waiting to hear it. [More]

What about the diversity of people who like bacon?

Prozis. Opposite Day.

These diseased people, like Mayor Frenchie, are a pathogen. We need a public health model.

We need a vaccine.

This right there tells me I'd never eat at Sneakers, just for being miserable cowards who don't have the guts to tell fanatics who aren't even customers to go to Jahannam.

Get Ready

Excellent advice. [More]

The Way Things Are

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I just sent the following reply to a reader who told me his comments weren't being posted on Examiner: 

I have written numerous trouble tickets to Examiner and they blame Disqus. I don't know if it is because people have put urls in their comments to trigger an auto-moderation or what, but I have seen obvious spam comments allowed through while timely, thoughtful and informative ones have been delayed until weeks after anyone is even bothering to revisit the story. I've also speculated it might be comments flagged by trolls and even blogged about it.

Between that and driving readers away with obnoxious pop-ups and autoplay videos, I lose subscribers almost as quickly as I gain them, plus take no small amount of heat for something I have no control over. 

I have no solution for you. I wish I had an economic option to post somewhere else, but I have not been successful in making that happen. 

I've talked before about the need to use the AdBlock Plus add-on to keep the intrusive ads from taking over, and believe it is everyone's responsibility to learn  how, do it and practice "safe surfing" instead of complaining to me about something within their control. Still, that makes sharing my links problematic for many.

I also have to put each article through a "Facebook Debugger" after it publishes, or else either the wrong thumbnail will appear or an "Uh-oh Examiner" message will post instead. That screen capture included in this post is hardly unique.

Then I get the people who complain that gun magazines suck because all they do is whore for manufacturers, so my stuff there is off-limits for them, and others who have chewed me out for doing stuff over at The Shooter's Log because that makes me a sell-out to Cheaper Than Dirt, and I can't wait to see how the fallout over JPFO will make me persona non grata to some. And it's not like NRA or its loyalists want anything to do with the views I often express.

It is what it is. I'm doing what I can.  If it isn't enough, I'll have to make a decision about what other options are open to me.

A man's gotta eat.  I've figured out how to do that before, and will again.

And no, I don't expect anybody to do anything about this. It's mine to figure out.

Correlation?

I dunno. Seems a bit early to be drawing conclusions, before significant real-world examples have been set. [More]

Meanwhile, Over in Post-Racial America...

The Finest Election Money Can Buy

Who needs grassroots when you have super-wealthy "progressives" laying down AstroTurf by the hectare? [More]

He does it all over, because he knows best.

Don't worry about it. You're not sophisticated enough to understand.

My Kind of Party

If only they would disarm you and me. [More]

I can't tell you how many times this happens at events I host.

"All Clear"

Isn't that what the Eloi said after the Morlocks had captured enough of them in the Sphinx, turned off the sirens and closed the big metal door? [More]

UPDATE: Look like it was Xanax, Warrior Princess...

We're the Only Ones Dated Enough

Court documents show that Fairfield Police Officers Stephen Ruiz and Jacob Glashoff used company time and equipment to search for women on internet dating sites. The documents also show that two used the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System – a statewide police database – to screen the women they liked. [More]

If the women weren't doing anything wrong, what have they got to hide?

Oh... that's not the issue...? 

Because we're all being screened in the interests of somebody... 

Murphy's Law

Democratic State Representative and candidate for U.S. representative Pat Murphy said Tuesday that if the underage migrants who have come to the U.S. from Central America aren’t given a “pathway for citizenship” they could become terrorists....Murphy, who has called himself “a liberal’s liberal,” was endorsed by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee...[More] 

And that right there is all you really need to know.

He sounds more like an extortionist's extortionist, and a domestic enemy's domestic enemy... 

Oh, look: He's also a gungrabber's gungrabber!

Gomer?

The Top 10

Well, yeah.  The misery and terror are, for the most part, happening in other communities ... housing those people ... [More] 

Moneyed "progressives" -- is it any wonder that we love them so?

The Art of the Possible

Fouchier complained, “People are acting like I am some mad scientist” after he and his team “mutated the hell out of H5N1”. He explained “I wanted to see what was possible” [More]

I used this general topic last month as an intro for a JPFO piece.  What I reads here is evil and insane, and wholly unsurprising.

"Politics is the art of the possible"...? Anyone think a bill or hearings would rein this in and hold the people responsible accountable?

Anyone...?

Bueller...?

[Via Kid Sister]

This Day in History: August 25

Five companies of light-infantry have been assigned at a time to do duty on the lines—the corps of light-infantry now consists of five battalions... [More]

Tonight on Armed American Radio

From host Mark Walters:

This weekend's show has shaped up to be a great one! Concealed Carry Magazine managing editor Kevin Michalowski will be co-hosting with me for the full show. Since I will be traveling tomorrow and the live show is being done from a remote location on Sunday, at the Minnesota State Fair: 

HOUR 1
8p-830p ET (5-530p PT) 
Alan Gottlieb
830-900p ET 
Sheriff David Clarke 

HOUR 2
9p-930p ET
John Lott
930-1000p ET (830p-900p CT) 
Michael Martin 

HOUR 3
10p-11p ET 
Rob Pincus 
David Codrea 
George Hill 

Visit the AAR website to find a station near you or to listen via live streaming.  

Yesterday

I just sent the following to a friend in response to something else, and decided what the hell, I may as well share it here:

I was so busy, I didn't even have time to give feral sons Uday and Qusay their daily beating.

Spent a needed day with wifey. Went to the outdoor farmer's market yesterday morning in the heart of Hudson. Took our goodies home after making fast friends with a happy poodle pup we met along the way, and then went to the art fair -- we always get our Christmas cards from a local artist who does home-towny Thomas Kincaid-type stuff we're suckers for.

Then went to visit my Mom. She got out of the hospital a week ago after having her knee replaced.  Visited, went grocery shopping for her, then found out she forgot her cell phone charge cord at the recovery hospital-- they couldn't find it so we had to buy a new one.

After that it was time to grill bacon cheeseburgers in time to leave by 7, when we went to Blossom --every year I get her Cleveland Symphony Orchestra summer season tickets, and we take out lawn chairs and listen under the stars, last night to Bach and Liszt, followed by the main event, Carmina Burana, which I just then realized is where Milius got some of the music for his Conan the Barbarian movie.

We got home in time for me to light a cigar on the back porch, pour a couple fingers of the good stuff, and continue my appreciation for the arts and culture by watching horror host Svengoolie present "Abbot and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

I hope with all the negative crap we feel compelled to devote so much of ourselves to dealing with, you find time for soul restoration and just plain enjoyment for its own sake.

Deep divisions continue on JPFO acquisition

I don't presume to be smart enough or influential enough to play peacemaker in this. What I'm interested in doing is helping, and seeing that positive efforts toward liberty are promoted and supported. So all I can do is that which I've said from the start, from before the JPFO news became public knowledge: I will continue my efforts for the organization until such time as someone tells me they don't want me to, or until I come to see that my faith has been misplaced. [More]

Beats me what's going to shake out from this. All I can do is share the reasons I've come to the interim conclusions I have. Your mileage may vary.

Announced takeover of Jewish gun group provokes controversy

The inescapable conclusion is, had gun owners stepped up and supported a group struggling after the passing of its founder, its rescue would have been unneeded. [More]

I got SAF's Alan Gottlieb to comment on the pending JPFO acquisition. I've seen the emotions this one has raised, so did my best to keep this a straight news story with links that people can follow to help decide for themselves.

Armed black demonstrators display egalitarian diversity of right to arms

Honest liberty advocates laud natural and civil rights being exercised, not crimes being committed that take advantage of the trust that must come with freedom. If rights are abused, we condemn the individual abusers, not the right. And skin color has nothing to do with any of that – unless you're a "progressive" and want to have something to cynically exploit. [More]

My latest JPFO Alert notes the folks accused of intolerance are actually the ones being inclusive -- and the ones doing the accusing are actually the narrow-minded bigots. Funny how that works.