One of the reasons the left- Democrats in general and socialists/communists especially are so upset is this

No, I'm not a lawyer.  No, not as simple as sounds(oh, THANK you BATFEIEIO), but the basics are there.  Which is why some Democrats not only want to bring back the transfer tax, but want to increase it, a LOT.  Because they can't stand commoners getting something like this without suitable government permission.

To say I'm sick of this crap from the Stupid Party is understatement

The swamp screamed "Disaster if you won't let us keep illegally spying on people!" when reform of Secton 702 of FISA was brought up.  Because of course it would be a disaster- for them- if they were made to stop.

My Rep. had this to say today: "I agree that critical reforms are needed to ensure that we are protecting the privacy of American citizens. However,"...  Emphasis mine.  Because letting the usual "But there are things I approve of in the NDA, so screw fixing this" happen- again- is so much easier.

Ms. Bice, this doesn't even rise to the level of Stupid Party, this is "Screw the voters, I want this other stuff passed so let's let the criminals keep violating their oaths and the law" garbage.

'Disappointed in you' is a great understatement as well.

A quick "My morning is effed,

so why not spread the joy?

Member of Congress throws a fire alarm to mess up a vote.  But he's a Democrat so the chances of any real punishment are damn low.


The Stupid Party threw the Democrats a lifeline(again) in the budget mess, and my Rep was one of them.  You cannot tell how happy that makes me...


The Marine Corps says it won’t have a full stock of the woodland-pattern camouflage combat utility uniform ― the everyday outfit for most Marines ― until summer or fall 2024. The shortage has prompted the top Marine leader to authorize unit commanders to allow the desert-colored camouflage combat utility uniform or the flame-resistant organizational gear, known as FROGs.
Well, isn't that just effing wonderful?

So, guess what the cretins in DC want to shove through now?

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has marked up the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act, S. 2010. The bill, sponsored by Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) is actually worse than existing law. It explicitly allows the attorney general to use [electronic communications] information collected under Section 702 for domestic crimes that have nothing to do with national security and forbids judicial review of that decision.
This is bullshit.  From a clapped-out bull.  And Burr needs to be voted out of that office for pushing this.  For that matter, every clown who votes for it needs to go.

Every politician pushing this bill ought to be removed from office.

No jokes, no crap, this is horrible.  It includes this:
"No district court of the United States or court of appeals of the United States shall have jurisdiction to consider the lawfulness or constitutionality of this section except pursuant to a petition for review under section."

Yes, this says you cannot question if the Flake Amendment (my name for it), the no-fly-no-buy law is legal. Clearly, it isn't, hence they won't tolerate questions.
There's more.  A lot more, and it's just as bad.
By coincidence, the same Justice Dept. decides if: 1) you meet the criteria for the no-new-guns list, and 2) for the freedom-to-travel-but-not-by-air list, and 3) it's the same Justice Dept. that controls review of the list, and 4) it also controls appeals for reversals if you sue. By law, after your first hearing, no appeals are allowed. Have a nice day:

"(h) EXCLUSIVE REMEDY.—The judicial review under a petition for review filed under subsection (c)* shall be the sole and exclusive remedy for a claim by an individual who challenges a denial under subsection (a)(1).

* "(c) An individual... who seeks to challenge a denial... may file a petition for review and any claims related to that petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit or in the court of appeals of the United States for the judicial circuit in which the individual resides."

And for good measure, in case you want to know why you have been denied:

"(d)(4) No discovery shall be permitted, unless the court shall determine extraordinary circumstances requires discovery in the interests of justice." Read it all for yourself if you have the stomach.

The nasty little bastard who set up Obamacare: "Of course it's blackmail,

that's what we're counting on to make this go through!"
But a second speech, this time in the form of audio, surfaced this morning in which he makes the same claims before the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco at around the same time. In it, Gruber actively acknowledges that should if states revolt en masse, they’d bring down the law. But, he said, that he had enough faith in democracy to believe that even the states that didn’t like Obamacare would eventually succumb to the “ultimate threat” that “if your governor doesn’t set up an exchange, you are losing hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits to be delivered to your citizens.”
Gruber's 'faith in democracy': "If we steal enough of your money, and threaten not to give any of it back unless you do what we want, we can make you bow down and obey."

Directly connected: the IRS complicity(we're supposed to trust these bastards on ANYTHING, why?)
And it was entirely political. Democrats needed those subsidies. The party had assumed that dangling subsidies before the states would induce them to set up exchanges. When dozens instead refused, the White House was faced with the prospect that citizens in 36 states—two-thirds of the country—would be exposed to the full cost of ObamaCare’s overpriced insurance. The backlash would have been horrific, potentially forcing Democrats to reopen the law, or even costing President Obama re-election.
The White House viewed it as imperative, therefore, that IRS bureaucrats ignore the law’s text and come up with a politically helpful rule. The evidence shows that career officials at the IRS did indeed do as Treasury Department and Health and Human Services Department officials told them. This, despite the fact that the IRS is supposed to be insulated from political meddling. 
...
Yet in March 2011, Emily McMahon, the acting assistant secretary for tax policy at the Treasury Department (a political hire), saw a news article that noted a growing legal focus on the meaning of that text. She forwarded it to the working group, which in turn decided to elevate the issue—according to Congress’s report—to “senior IRS and Treasury officials.” The office of the IRS chief counsel—one of two positions appointed by the president—drafted a memo telling the group that it should read the text to mean that everyone, in every exchange, got subsidies. At some point between March 10 and March 15, 2011, the reference to “Exchanges established by the State” disappeared from the draft rule.

Emails viewed by congressional investigators nonetheless showed that Treasury and the IRS remained worried they were breaking the law. An email exchange between Treasury employees in the spring of 2011 expressed concern that they had no statutory authority to deem a federally run exchange the equivalent of a state-run exchange.
But they followed orders anyway.  And, as I recall, they found that the chief counsel was in the loop of 'Screw with the conservatives' actions by the IRS.

Wirecutter has a post from Sara on a proposal to expand a law

over here: short excerpt:
They realized that they bit off more than they could chew. People like their fish tanks. Kids love their hamsters and gerbils and cute little fluffy pets. But snakes? Snakes are an easy way to get your foot in the door. Snakes are scary, and there’s not a large enough group to fight for them. Introduce HR 996. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr996/text This is “To establish an improved regulatory process for injurious wildlife to prevent the introduction and establishment in the United States of nonnative wildlife and wild animal pathogens and parasites that are likely to cause harm.” Shouldn’t get anywhere… It’s the same damn thing! But wait! They DID get to pretty much out of nowhere get burmese pythons, african rocks, and yellow anacondas added to the Lacey Act. Remember all those tv blurbs about how burmese pythons were everywhere? They made it look like you couldn’t step outside your door without being attacked by a “GIANT KILLER SNAKE”! Shock and gasp! Yup, boom. US Fish and Wildlife used bad science and got them added. They lied. (again, shock, right?) The pets that people have had for years are no longer allowed across state lines. Get a job somewhere else and move? If you bring your pet that you have had for 15 years, you are breaking a federal law. You’ve got literally thousands of dollars invested in a breeding project? Too bad.

And now they want to make it even easier to add more.

And, just to stir the pot on this day,

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their substance.
EPA, anyone?

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
DHS and their 'operators' and armored vehicles?

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
UN treaties that violate the Constitution?

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
That FBI dirtbag protected from the consequences of murdering Mrs. Weaver?  The EffingBI pretending to investigate the IRS?
Clapper committing perjury, and getting away with it?

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:

"I'm going to change this law, who needs Congress?"

For suspending our own Legislature, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
See immediately above.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
I tend to see his(under the hand of Holder) encouragement of the New Black Panthers in
voter intimidation, and ignoring fraud, and- the big one- having nothing to say about all the "I'm gonna kill a cracker for Trayvon!" garbage as fitting right in.


Except, of course, the Indians were fighting as they always had; the bigots and racists being encouraged here know better ways; they just figure they can get away with riot, looting and murder.

In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
The IRS being used as a partisan political weapon; people gathering to protest and speak their piece being called terrorists and unAmerican.

History rolling 'round again, it seems.

Did some dry-fire practice last night,

and it's working nice and slick with the PDB CLP recipe.  I'm going to leave it uncleaned for a while, see how it holds up.

Also going to pick something I shoot whenever can and let it get REALLY dirty, then clean it with this stuff.

Remington Golden Bullets have become a pain.  They(mostly) go bang, but noticed the other day that extracting them from the K-22 was VERY stiff.  And no, wasn't just dirty, as put in some Federals and they popped right out after firing.  Add to that a number of misfires, and that a couple of semi-auto pistols and a rifle I've tried them in don't even like to feed them, and they're a problem.  Supply troubles ease off, I'm going to use these up and replace them with other brands.


Found thanks to Tam, Daddy Bear has opinions on the excuses/defenses for the NSA spying:
The collection is broad in scope because more narrow collection would limit our ability to screen for and identify terrorism related communications. Acquiring this information allows us to make connections related to terrorist activities over time. The FISA Court specifically approved this method of collection as lawful, subject to stringent restrictions. — That’s the point, jackass.  Your ability to collect information on our citizens is supposed to be limited, and it’s not supposed to be easy.  If you believe that someone is a terrorist, then get a warrant specifically for that person, and do your damn job.  And don’t insult me by talking about how you went through FISA on this and they were OK with your methods.  FISA is not much more than a rubber stamp on your efforts.  I’ve seen reports that they reject about 1% of the warrant requests you all make, and if these latest revelations show what they approve of, just how horrendous are the ones they reject?
Read it all.  He's pissed at the politicians involved, and the professionals in the intelligence field going along with it.


"We finally got that briefing the President said we'd already had, but they wouldn't answer some of the questions."


And now I'm going to edge and mow before the temps get nasty.

Was only a matter of time before Only Ones started feeling the heat

from the gun bigot actions:
A rural Vermont firing range has told the police department in Burlington that its officers are unwelcome to train at the facility because the City Council has advanced a measure to ban semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines in the state's largest city.


That’s particularly rich given that Clinton began his speech instructing his audience neither to “patronize” those who oppose stricter gun-control measures nor to “look down your nose at them.” Hey, you’re pretty for a fat girl!
Translation: "Say whatever you have to say to whichever group you're talking to so you can get their votes."  We'd expect anything else from Mr. "I fell your pain!" ?


Some more wonderful news on CFL bulbs.  Check out the cleanup advice from the EPA.


"40% no background checks" my ass.


This is what comes of people who worry about "shoulder things that go up" writing firearms law.
Yes, it is.


What? Geithner is somewhat less than ethical and honest?  Whoda thunk such a thing...

Here's a flag(or shirt, or sticker) I want

Found here.  Address found here:

And while we're distracted,

some of the dirtbags in Congress are attacking another part of the Constitution.

Once again, I find myself having thoughts like "C'mon, just one little meteor, during the next Joint Session... is that so bad to wish for?"

Also on the douchebag front is Sen. Pat Leahy(NSD Slimeball),

who really thinks he's a protector of personal privacy and such.
A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law.
CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans' e-mail, is scheduled for next week.
Revised bill highlights
✭ Grants warrantless access to Americans' electronic correspondence to over 22 federal agencies. Only a subpoena is required, not a search warrant signed by a judge based on probable cause.
✭ Permits state and local law enforcement to warrantlessly access Americans' correspondence stored on systems not offered "to the public," including university networks.
✭ Authorizes any law enforcement agency to access accounts without a warrant -- or subsequent court review -- if they claim "emergency" situations exist.
✭ Says providers "shall notify" law enforcement in advance of any plans to tell their customers that they've been the target of a warrant, order, or subpoena.
✭ Delays notification of customers whose accounts have been accessed from 3 days to "10 business days." This notification can be postponed by up to 360 days.

And yeah: screw Sesame Street,

the friggin' bird brings in enough without looting us for more

And, I'm tempted to say, has done enough damage already

The Navy's possibly biggest threat in the Persian Gulf

has been both missiles and swarming speedboats; some things have been developed that would really help with the boat threat, but
As always, though, money is an issue. Two JLENS systems have been built, but it is not certain that production will go ahead as originally planned. Meanwhile a Senate panel has recommended slowing production of the SDB II as Congress tries to slash the budget.
I said somewhere that if the Navy was gaming this threat, I hoped they were being honest as I really don't want another Battle of Savo Island; if there's a replay of it because Congress was too busy chopping defense because it's easier than doing other things... well, tar & feathers would have to give way to ropes and lampposts.

Well, the Justice Department's been so busy screwing with a baseball player,

maybe they just forgot about that lousy little gun-smuggling thing?
It’s just not every day that an ordinary citizen throws a no-hitter in the courtroom against batters as powerful as the combined might of the Congress and the Department of Justice. The government’s five-years-long pursuit of the great hurler was ended by a jury in just a few hours. The prosecutors, according to the Associated Press, slinked away from the courthouse without comment, and the Justice Department put out a statement claiming, “we respect the judicial process.”
Anybody else want to start giggling at that last?

And let's not forget it was that loathsome bastard Waxman behind starting this and keeping it going; he's one of the worst "I should have a say over your life" pieces of crap out there.

Well, of COURSE Officer Griffin is still on duty; all he did

was go to the wrong address and shoot a dog that barked at him.

“We are not going to second-guess our officer,” Sgt. David Daniels told KSEE-TV. Oh, Deity no, can't do that! After all, he followed procedure, and that excuses anything, right? They're lucky he didn't make it a double and shoot the owner; then they might've had to second-guess the officer.


By the way, there's liable to be a market in "Screw the module" work in the future. And, somehow, it doesn't surprise me Reid and Boxer are pushing this.

Yet one more reason to consider the IRS and a bunch of Congress the enemy

Efforts to pass a bill that would allow the IRS to deny travel rights to U.S. citizens who the feds merely claim owe $50,000 or more in delinquent taxes represents a de facto move to revoke the citizenship of Americans without due process and in complete violation of the Constitution.

Thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a recently passed Senate bill, the suitably Orwellian entitled ‘Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act’, includes a provision that allows the federal government to revoke passports of Americans accused of owing back taxes.
And it would NEVER be abused, oh no...
A: Any politician who votes for this should be taken out of office. Preferably immediately, after suitable application of petroleum and avian products.
B: Any government agent who wants this power should be fired immediately. And barred from ever again working for a .gov agency.
C: ARE there enough lampposts in DC?

Something else Congress is spending time on

to suck up money and votes:
As drafted, the legislation would grant the government and private parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's domain name system (DNS). The government would be able to force ISPs and search engines to redirect or dump users' attempts to reach certain websites' URLs. In response, third parties will woo average users to alternative servers that offer access to the entire Internet (not just the newly censored U.S. version), which will create new computer security vulnerabilities as the reliability and universality of the DNS evaporates.

It gets worse: Under SOPA's provisions, service providers (including hosting services) would be under new pressure to monitor and police their users’ activities. While PROTECT-IP targeted sites “dedicated to infringing activities,” SOPA targets websites that simply don’t do enough to track and police infringement (and it is not at all clear what would be enough). And it creates new powers to shut down folks who provide tools to help users get access to the Internet the rest of the world sees (not just the “U.S. authorized version”).

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has placed a hold on the Senate version of the bill, taking a principled stand against a very dangerous bill. But every Senator and Representative should be opposing the PROTECT IP Act and SOPA. Contact your members of Congress today to speak out!

Starting today with 'Don't pay a fortune

for an AR15'. I wouldn't mind having one, but I'd like to try one in 7.62x39, probably(from listening to son) with a piston upper.


Phelps' opinion of the EPA and enviroweenies wanting to reduce power supplies:
Electricity is civilization. The people who want to limit electrical generation and ban the Edison bulb are enemies of civilization. These people refuse to stop meddling with the most basic of modern necessities — that when you flip the switch in your house, you get light. They want to reach into your living room, and change all the bulbs — and after that, they want to make it so that sometimes it doesn’t even work — so that you can breath .01% better air.


The response to Rep. Waters displaying her whining idiocy(again):
You have no clout. You gave it away. I mean, what are you gonna do? Call him a racist for ignoring you?

Tam also notes
When touring the shuttered factories and idled industrial plants of the heartland to bring hope and change to people whom you would like to vote for you, you shouldn't do it in a foreign-made RV. I cannot believe that this gaffe slipped right by all the 20lb brains on Barry's PR staff.
I can; they think they're the Great Shining Ones who work for The Lightworker and thus can do no wrong.



Tolkien’s Hobbits fought to resist power. Career politicians wallow in it. Too much power makes politicians hollow and disconnected. Lacking anything else, they cling to power until they drop dead. A defeatist mentality of emptiness. If you’re wealthy enough to retire but hold elected office until you die in old age; power has destroyed you.

Conservative Strom Thurmond and liberal Edward Kennedy are egregious examples. One died in office at age 100 after 47 years in office. The other at age 77 after 46 years in office. Virtual opposites in politics; yet they both clung to power until their dying breath.


Some thoughts from Malcolm on the mess in (fG)Britain:
The most amazing thing about the reaction of English MPs to last week’s terrible violence was how surprised they were. For a country whose criminal law is invariably sympathetic to offenders, nearly always harsh on their victims, and unwilling to pay for adequate policing the surprise is that they were surprised.

Two stories hitting English papers during June and July provide a glimpse of current British law in action.

On June 23 around midnight a masked gang broke down the back door of a home in Salford, in northwestern England. The householder, 59, his son and the son’s girl friend called the police and tried to defend the home and themselves. They managed to stab one of the gang who died of his wounds. When the police arrived they arrested the householder, his son and the son’s girlfriend on suspicion of attempted murder.

On July 11, a headline in The Sun read “Shopkeeper, 72, nicked after `stabbing to death robber.’” Mr. Coley’s Manchester flower shop was closed and he was playing dominoes with a friend when two masked men armed with guns broke in. In the struggle that followed, Mr. Coley’s friend was injured but Coley managed to stab one robber, who later died, while the other fled wounded. The Manchester police are holding Mr. Coley for attempted murder.


What cartridge for vampire? From the looks of him I think anything from 9mm to .45 will do just fine.


"You will use ethanol-contaminated fuel, AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!", basically.
Officials at the Renewable Fuels Association, representing the ethanol industry, said ethanol fuels can be safely used in old cars if owners adapt the fuel systems with new parts.

Association spokesman Matt Hartwig said the cost would "be minor in comparison to what (owners) would be willing to spend on the exterior of the car, for example."
Mr. Hatwig: fuck you, and your miserable little leech-on-the-taxpayer association. Never mind your 'adapt your older car' bullshit, what about the small engines this 15% mix will destroy? Or doesn't that matter to you so long as you can keep your subsidies going?


To Principal Dumbass and the local cops: I'll repeat her question, why the hell was this little bastard still running around loose?



The BATFEIEIO* is denying that Newell, McMahon and Voth were promoted; evidence to the contrary.



Yeah, VEEP Biden DID compare tea party people and conservatives to terrorists.
After hearing from the first source, the two POLITICO reporters on the story, Jonathan Allen and John Bresnahan, quickly confirmed Biden’s words with three other sources who were in the same room. They also contacted a fifth source, who confirmed the basic reporting. The original tip came in at about 1 p.m. Aug. 1, and POLITICO spent the next few hours in contact with the vice president’s office, which was aware of what the story was going to say and had been given several hours to respond by the time the story posted at 4 p.m.

“We sought a response from the vice president’s office and after our interaction with Biden’s office, we were confident our story was accurate,” Allen said.


Last, over at Seraphic Secret, two things: first, a bit on Judaism and self-defense.
Second, if you've not seen it before, his experiences during the '92 LA riots, which ended with
“After this is all over,” I vow, “I’m going to buy a pistol.”

Karen says: “How about a shotgun?”


*Thank you, Tam; you have no idea how much enjoyment that has given a lot of people