which starts below
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Civil rights victory,
also a big slap at "We don't have to go through Congress to make law":
Today another federal court rejected President Joe Biden’s war on guns, ruling against his effort to require 3 million to 7 million owners of AR-style pistols to register and pay a $200 tax on their firearms or face prison.
In the latest blow to liberal gun control politicians and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the government’s plan, claiming it was likely to get tossed by the Supreme Court.
For now, the millions of users of guns equipped with “pistol braces” can keep them without fear of being fined or jailed.
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The court said the ATF rule was poorly written and vague and gave the agency too much leeway to go after owners of the popular firearms.
“The final rule, as a whole, is arbitrary and capricious because it allows the ATF to arrive at whatever conclusion it wishes without ‘adequately explain[ing] the standard on which its decision is based,’” said the court.
“This is much like shooting the side of a barn, drawing the target around the bullet holes, and then proclaiming, ‘Bullseye!”’ added a footnote in the decision that sent the case back to the District Court.
The ATF ruling was also rapped for putting the burden on gun owners to prove why their guns would be allowed. The court said that was wrong and it is up to ATF to better provide guidelines. “The ATF’s burden-inverting argument makes as much sense as shouldering a rifle by the barrel,” mocked the court.
Which also tells Biden, Harris & Co.- again- that they can't just do whatever they want.
Today another federal court rejected President Joe Biden’s war on guns, ruling against his effort to require 3 million to 7 million owners of AR-style pistols to register and pay a $200 tax on their firearms or face prison.
In the latest blow to liberal gun control politicians and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the government’s plan, claiming it was likely to get tossed by the Supreme Court.
For now, the millions of users of guns equipped with “pistol braces” can keep them without fear of being fined or jailed.
...
The court said the ATF rule was poorly written and vague and gave the agency too much leeway to go after owners of the popular firearms.
“The final rule, as a whole, is arbitrary and capricious because it allows the ATF to arrive at whatever conclusion it wishes without ‘adequately explain[ing] the standard on which its decision is based,’” said the court.
“This is much like shooting the side of a barn, drawing the target around the bullet holes, and then proclaiming, ‘Bullseye!”’ added a footnote in the decision that sent the case back to the District Court.
The ATF ruling was also rapped for putting the burden on gun owners to prove why their guns would be allowed. The court said that was wrong and it is up to ATF to better provide guidelines. “The ATF’s burden-inverting argument makes as much sense as shouldering a rifle by the barrel,” mocked the court.
Which also tells Biden, Harris & Co.- again- that they can't just do whatever they want.
Be it noted that Google has screwed things again,
the "You're signed in, but you must sign in again to load pictures, but we won't let you" crap. Happily the workaround works.
Friday, August 09, 2024
There is only one proper response to this kind of crap
If you want the video, here
As to the responsibility of asshats like him in this mess,
Here’s the thing: This is all entirely the government’s fault.
After a 17-year-old suspect was arrested for the Southport stabbing attack, the police refused to publicly identify him. Given the pattern around such incidents in England, this led a lot of people to assume that the attacker must be a Muslim immigrant, and so some of the rioters targeted mosques or facilities for so-called “asylum seekers.”
Eventually, the situation was such that officials finally identified the attacker as Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, the son of immigrants from Rwanda. Rudakubana was reportedly born in Cardiff, Wales and, whatever his motive — other than Crazy People Are Dangerous — there is no apparent connection to Islamic radicalism. Therefore, the claim is being made, “misinformation” was to blame for the riots.
No, actually, government secrecy was to blame. If the police had merely released the name and mugshot of the suspect, at least the public would have known that he wasn’t named “Mohammed” or “Abdul,” which was a conclusion many people quickly leapt to, based on recent history of such stabbings not only in England, but all across Europe. And just because it appears the attacker was a deranged teenager — apparently motivated by mental illness, rather than radical ideology — does not mean that complaints about immigration policy are irrelevant or misguided. The cultural dislocations involved in relocating Third World migrants to England (or France, Belgium, Canada, America, etc.) often result in situations like this, where the children of immigrants become alienated or hostile. Even if the immigrants themselves are grateful toward their host country, and eager to have their children take advantage of the available opportunities, the younger generation may not share that attitude, and may not be able to handle the pressure to adapt and assimilate.
It’s not “racist” or “anti-immigrant” to mention this phenomenon, which is widely acknowledged by social workers who deal with immigrant populations, and equally known to advocates of immigration. From a conservative perspective, of course, this problem points toward a simple conclusion about immigration: NUMBERS MATTER.
Assimilation is easier when immigrant populations are relatively small, and the larger the immigrant population, the greater the likelihood of violent conflict. If you have a town of 10,000 people, the arrival of one family of immigrants from Guatemala or Ghana is not going to have much impact on the social fabric; whereas the arrival of 500 or 1,000 immigrants is a whole ’nother thing. When you have mass immigration — which is what England has been dealing with for decades — the potential for trouble rises to a near certainty. Government officials don’t want to tell the truth about the results of their policies, and so a culture of secrecy arises, eroding public trust and leading to exactly the kind of situation that produced riots in the wake of the Southport stabbings.
You could honestly say Harris hates Israel
Well, isn't this just joyous?
The FBI allowed Asif Raza Merchant, the Pakistani man charged with plotting with Tehran to assassinate Donald Trump and others, to enter the U.S. in April with special permission known as “significant public benefit parole” even though he was flagged on a terrorism watchlist and recently traveled to Iran, according to government documents reviewed by Just the News.
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed Merchant, fingerprinted him and inspected the contents of his electronic devices when he arrived at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, but then let him leave with the special parole that expired on May 11, the memos state.
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The immigration records from his arrival in Houston on April 13 clearly stated in bright red that he was flagged by the Department of Homeland Security database with the identifier “WATCH LIST” and denoted as a "Lookout Qualified Person of Interest."
Despite direct travel to a country with known terrorist activity, the memo relays that Merchant was “released without incident” into the United States and was “free to travel to desired destination,” which was listed as a family member's home in Texas.
And while this was going on, what's the TSA been up to? Screwing with a former Representative and her husband for who knows what reason. Because, apparently, they're dangerous.
More on the subject of 'threat to the United States',
The Biden-Harris administration is quietly floating a funding cut for a national security initiative that protects America's underwater infrastructure. At the same time, it's asking Congress for millions of dollars for equity and "environmental justice" initiatives, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Because protecting the US is far less important than more money for didn't Earn It and 'justice' programs.
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed Merchant, fingerprinted him and inspected the contents of his electronic devices when he arrived at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, but then let him leave with the special parole that expired on May 11, the memos state.
...
The immigration records from his arrival in Houston on April 13 clearly stated in bright red that he was flagged by the Department of Homeland Security database with the identifier “WATCH LIST” and denoted as a "Lookout Qualified Person of Interest."
Despite direct travel to a country with known terrorist activity, the memo relays that Merchant was “released without incident” into the United States and was “free to travel to desired destination,” which was listed as a family member's home in Texas.
And while this was going on, what's the TSA been up to? Screwing with a former Representative and her husband for who knows what reason. Because, apparently, they're dangerous.
More on the subject of 'threat to the United States',
The Biden-Harris administration is quietly floating a funding cut for a national security initiative that protects America's underwater infrastructure. At the same time, it's asking Congress for millions of dollars for equity and "environmental justice" initiatives, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Because protecting the US is far less important than more money for didn't Earn It and 'justice' programs.
Since Fecesbook is throttling just about anything they decide is not complimentary to Harris
and Tampon Tim in particular, and the left in general, and I want to do my part to make sure some of this gets around,
And when you plan on being the one deciding what 'misinformation is...
And isn't it interesting that the people wanting to decide what you can see/read/hear also insist that anything to prevent vote fraud is 'disenfranchising' people?
Meanwhile, in (fG)Britain,
Can you say "I know who the protected species is, and I want to keep my job"?
And isn't it interesting that the people wanting to decide what you can see/read/hear also insist that anything to prevent vote fraud is 'disenfranchising' people?
Meanwhile, in (fG)Britain,
Thursday, August 08, 2024
As to that "The Founders could not have foreseen these rapid-fire weapons!" crap,
I present the Kalthoff repeating flintlock
(formerly Great)Britain is screwed,
and their cops are demonstrating the surrender. When you start an address to the British people with 'Salam Alaikum', you're telling us who you actually consider important. It will be taken by many as your submission. I wonder when the socialist morons they just elected will institute a dhimmi tax?
And it'll be more difficult to say anything about it with the public prosecutors so busy policing what you're allowed to say on the modern soapbox.
Yeah, Britain is so screwed.
And it'll be more difficult to say anything about it with the public prosecutors so busy policing what you're allowed to say on the modern soapbox.
Yeah, Britain is so screwed.
Wednesday, August 07, 2024
Well, along with the crapped economy and Soros and leftist prosecutors and judges turning bad guys loose,
should be a surprise to nobody:
A new study published in the journal Injury Prevention on July 25 shows that protection is the overwhelming reason Americans exercise their Second Amendment rights. Titled, “Firearm ownership for protection in the USA, 2023: results from a nationally representative survey,” the authors from the University of Michigan found, “Of all firearm owners, 78.8%… owned a firearm for protection.”
Now, throw in this,
Gun sales hit a new record in July, the 36th straight month of firearms purchases over 1 million.
In breaking the record, people delivered a strong message to liberal Democrats, who last week passed a ban on buying the nation’s most popular firearm, the modern sporting rifle, and other semi-automatic weapons and parts.
According to industry experts, sales in July topped 1.2 million. That means sales have hit 1 million or more each month for three consecutive years.
Hm. Idiot leftists making it more dangerous out there, and- post-Biden- both Democrats running for Pres. and Veep are gun-grabbing socialists who encouraged rioting and raised bail money for rioters... wonder why so many people are buying guns, it's a mystery...
Not to mention idiots like this Democrat:
A alarming video surfaced Monday appearing to show Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) declaring that Congress will have to disqualify former President Donald Trump on January 6, 2025 if he wins the November election, and predicting a civil war with “rampaging Trump mobs” could erupt as a result.
Raskin made the disturbing comments during a discussion about voter rights with law professor Richard L. Hasen and civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Iffil at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington D.C. on February 17, 2024. The congressman’s remarks were so extreme, some journalists are wondering if the video was manipulated.
"Save us, Raskin, tell us this was faked! Please!" plead the Professional Journalists.
“I think the office of Jamie Raskin has to comment on the veracity of a video that is circulating, said independent journalist Matt Taibbi. “If it’s in any way altered he needs to make a strong statement to that effect.”
That would be nice. But as far as I can find he's said nothing about it. Which is telling.
And another reason some people say either "I need a gun" or "We need more ammo, just in case."
A new study published in the journal Injury Prevention on July 25 shows that protection is the overwhelming reason Americans exercise their Second Amendment rights. Titled, “Firearm ownership for protection in the USA, 2023: results from a nationally representative survey,” the authors from the University of Michigan found, “Of all firearm owners, 78.8%… owned a firearm for protection.”
Now, throw in this,
Gun sales hit a new record in July, the 36th straight month of firearms purchases over 1 million.
In breaking the record, people delivered a strong message to liberal Democrats, who last week passed a ban on buying the nation’s most popular firearm, the modern sporting rifle, and other semi-automatic weapons and parts.
According to industry experts, sales in July topped 1.2 million. That means sales have hit 1 million or more each month for three consecutive years.
Hm. Idiot leftists making it more dangerous out there, and- post-Biden- both Democrats running for Pres. and Veep are gun-grabbing socialists who encouraged rioting and raised bail money for rioters... wonder why so many people are buying guns, it's a mystery...
Not to mention idiots like this Democrat:
A alarming video surfaced Monday appearing to show Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) declaring that Congress will have to disqualify former President Donald Trump on January 6, 2025 if he wins the November election, and predicting a civil war with “rampaging Trump mobs” could erupt as a result.
Raskin made the disturbing comments during a discussion about voter rights with law professor Richard L. Hasen and civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Iffil at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington D.C. on February 17, 2024. The congressman’s remarks were so extreme, some journalists are wondering if the video was manipulated.
"Save us, Raskin, tell us this was faked! Please!" plead the Professional Journalists.
“I think the office of Jamie Raskin has to comment on the veracity of a video that is circulating, said independent journalist Matt Taibbi. “If it’s in any way altered he needs to make a strong statement to that effect.”
That would be nice. But as far as I can find he's said nothing about it. Which is telling.
And another reason some people say either "I need a gun" or "We need more ammo, just in case."
Snork... hehehehe...
JD Vance after physically walking up to Kamala Harris’ plane to ask why she’s hiding from reporters:
"Hopefully it's going to be my plane in a few months. I also thought you guys may get lonely, because the VP doesn't answer questions from reporters."pic.twitter.com/xmXBC16MSY
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 7, 2024
Can't post the picture because Google has googled-up posting pics again
Tuesday, August 06, 2024
Why would you trust ANYONE connected with the feds about, well, ANYTHING?
At this point, especially prosecutors.
After black-clad demonstrators protested Donald Trump's inauguration in an "Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Fascist Bloc" march on January 20, 2017, federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., charged more than 200 of them with rioting. While 21 defendants pleaded guilty, all of the other cases ended in acquittals, mistrials, or charges dismissed with prejudice. One reason for that fiasco, according to recently filed disciplinary charges, was the discovery that the federal prosecutor who oversaw the cases persistently withheld exculpatory evidence and repeatedly lied about it to judges and defense attorneys.
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According to Fox, Muyskens and Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Detective Greggory Pemberton edited the meeting footage in ways that bolstered the prosecution's case, and Muyskens covered up the extent of those edits. Fox says Muyskens also withheld Project Veritas videos of other DisruptJ20 meetings that would have been helpful to the defense, pretending that they did not exist. And she allegedly concealed the fact that Pemberton, in testimony to a grand jury, had erroneously identified one of the DisruptJ20 defendants as a woman who appears in the video of the planning meeting.
Yes, lots more here.
After black-clad demonstrators protested Donald Trump's inauguration in an "Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Fascist Bloc" march on January 20, 2017, federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., charged more than 200 of them with rioting. While 21 defendants pleaded guilty, all of the other cases ended in acquittals, mistrials, or charges dismissed with prejudice. One reason for that fiasco, according to recently filed disciplinary charges, was the discovery that the federal prosecutor who oversaw the cases persistently withheld exculpatory evidence and repeatedly lied about it to judges and defense attorneys.
...
According to Fox, Muyskens and Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Detective Greggory Pemberton edited the meeting footage in ways that bolstered the prosecution's case, and Muyskens covered up the extent of those edits. Fox says Muyskens also withheld Project Veritas videos of other DisruptJ20 meetings that would have been helpful to the defense, pretending that they did not exist. And she allegedly concealed the fact that Pemberton, in testimony to a grand jury, had erroneously identified one of the DisruptJ20 defendants as a woman who appears in the video of the planning meeting.
Yes, lots more here.
Monday, August 05, 2024
"We don't know who brought the cocaine into the White House"
Bullshit.
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources said.
At least one Uniformed Division officer was initially assigned to investigate the cocaine incident. But after he told his supervisors, including Cheatle and Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe, who was deputy director at the time, that he wanted to follow a certain crime-scene investigative protocol, he was taken off the case, according to a source within the Secret Service community familiar with the circumstances of his removal.
Their paid liar Anthony Guglielmi insists "It's all a lie!" But, since he's been lying about the shooting, and the effed-up security, and who knows what all else, I don't think I trust him. And yes, it's from 'three sources', but such sources have been pretty accurate about a lot of things the last few years.
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources said.
At least one Uniformed Division officer was initially assigned to investigate the cocaine incident. But after he told his supervisors, including Cheatle and Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe, who was deputy director at the time, that he wanted to follow a certain crime-scene investigative protocol, he was taken off the case, according to a source within the Secret Service community familiar with the circumstances of his removal.
Their paid liar Anthony Guglielmi insists "It's all a lie!" But, since he's been lying about the shooting, and the effed-up security, and who knows what all else, I don't think I trust him. And yes, it's from 'three sources', but such sources have been pretty accurate about a lot of things the last few years.
If this guy was worth a damn he'd resign over his part in the cluster,
and say "We need an outside group to do a full investigation of this."
Fat Damn Chance.
And most of our Professional Journalists don't want to touch it, it seems.
Here are just a few inexplicable things he revealed:
the Secret Service had no radio communications not only with the local police but also with the snipers
most of the vital communications were made using texts over an overloaded cell phone network
There are no recordings of the Secret Service communications, although there are of the locals
Rowe's assertions about the responsibilities of the local snipers didn't actually come from the local snipers--it was just made up by the Secret Service (we would know much less were it not for the locals)
the Secret Service command center was not co-located with the local police
The investigators have YET to talk to the local police who were assisting the SS, including the snipers (after three weeks!)
Butler was the VERY FIRST TIME that the Secret Service provided snipers for a Trump rally this election cycle
hmm, on that last one...
And, oh yes, there's more.
Fat Damn Chance.
And most of our Professional Journalists don't want to touch it, it seems.
Here are just a few inexplicable things he revealed:
the Secret Service had no radio communications not only with the local police but also with the snipers
most of the vital communications were made using texts over an overloaded cell phone network
There are no recordings of the Secret Service communications, although there are of the locals
Rowe's assertions about the responsibilities of the local snipers didn't actually come from the local snipers--it was just made up by the Secret Service (we would know much less were it not for the locals)
the Secret Service command center was not co-located with the local police
The investigators have YET to talk to the local police who were assisting the SS, including the snipers (after three weeks!)
Butler was the VERY FIRST TIME that the Secret Service provided snipers for a Trump rally this election cycle
hmm, on that last one...
And, oh yes, there's more.
Connections, connections...
The newspaper noted that Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, was a partner at DLA Piper whose “lobbying clients” had included the governments of Afghanistan and Bahrain, as well as the Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera Network and the Palestine Monetary Authority.
DLA Piper was good to the Emhoff-Harris family with the family taking home $2.7 million in 2019 and $1.2 million in 2020. “To aspire to create wealth is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. If that is what one chooses. I, on the other hand, have chosen to live a life of public service,’ Kamala had claimed. But the “life of public service” led to her husband’s role at DLA Piper.
And two DLA Piper clients are connected to a flashpoint in Kamala’s foreign policy.
Ever notice how often a 'life of public service' involves collection power and lots of money?
DLA Piper was good to the Emhoff-Harris family with the family taking home $2.7 million in 2019 and $1.2 million in 2020. “To aspire to create wealth is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. If that is what one chooses. I, on the other hand, have chosen to live a life of public service,’ Kamala had claimed. But the “life of public service” led to her husband’s role at DLA Piper.
And two DLA Piper clients are connected to a flashpoint in Kamala’s foreign policy.
Ever notice how often a 'life of public service' involves collection power and lots of money?
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