Saturday, July 28, 2012

If Bush had put these kinds of restrictions and demands on the media

they'd have collectively shit their pants in indignation; Obama does it, they bend over and grease their butts for it. 'Unbiased' my ass.


Of course, they're kind of picky about what civil rights for who they care about reporting on, or getting upset about, too.
Our major media: not just biased, they're on the enemy side.


Yeah, we really need to copy this from the Brit NHS.


Either the security sucks, or somebody helped them get in; in either case, heads need to roll for this.

ATT isn't dead, the Administration cowards just wanted

to delay it.
UPDATE: According to Colum Lynch, UN reporter for the Washington Post and Turtle Bay blogger for Foreign Policy Magazine, the US isn't actually refusing to sign the ATT. They and the Russians are putting out a joint statement saying that they need more to study the proposed treaty. From his Tweet on the subject, "UN diplomat said Washington wants to put off action on a new arms trade treaty, after the US election."

From his blog
:
The United States upended a major international treaty negotiation, telling foreign delegates at the final session today that they needed more time to consider the pact. Some diplomats said that Washington is seeking another six months, pushing off any decision on the politically sensitive treaty until after the U.S. election. Russia, Indonesia, and India also asked for more time.

Thomas Countryman, U.S. deputy secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, informed representatives of the U.N.'s 193 member states that the United States still needed time to consider the text.
He continues:
The United States told delegates that it did not have "core" objections to the draft treaty under consideration, but that it needed more time, saying that while the U.N. negotiations have been playing out since July 2, they only received the final text in the past 24 hours.
In my opinion this is something for great concern. That the US doesn't have "core" objections and wants to wait until after the election spells trouble for gun rights. I say this because they have no real objections to a treaty that, despite their denials, has negative implications for the Second Amendment. Moreover, putting it off until after the election means a treaty could be approved by a lame duck US Senate. This may seem paranoid but I don't trust either Obama or his State Department on this issue.

I'd figured the 'won't sign' crap was because of heat on the upcoming election; I was right.

'The best reporting on guns' my ass;

that commenter is right, looks like they took a list from the Brady and CSGV groups of "What we want people to see" and published it. Including that Fortune piece on Gunwalker that's been eviscerated by a number of people.
Which is probably what they did.


Volokh opinion
on the ATT collapsing:
...Likewise, there are a significant number of NGOs which have a strong commitment to global gun control, and to using international law and the UN to solve what they consider to be the problem of excessive gun ownership in the United States. The NGOs and their UN allies have successfully used the 2001 PoA to sharply restrict gun ownership in some parts of the world, and they would have used the ATT for the same purpose. That they did not succeed in creating an ATT may be very disappointing to them; they are not going to go away, or relent in the pursuit of their objectives.

But in their pursuit, they are not going to have the new weapon of an ATT. This is good news for human rights worldwide, especially for the fundamental human right of self-defense against violent criminals, and against violent criminal tyrannical governments
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A clown named David Hirst wrote about coming to America; and was very much full of crap when he did.


Oh my; no wonder the IOC doesn't want to have a moment of silence for dead Jews.
Recently, new information about the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games was released by German police as a result of pressure from German investigative reporters. It was reported that the “Black September” terrorists were helped by a Nazi group in Germany to get fake IDs, weapons and access to the Olympic Village.

This was not too shocking, as the head of the IOC in 1972 was Avery Brundage, a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite. His protege, Juan Samaranch, eventually served the second longest IOC term as president, but his support of Nazis and the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was kept a dirty secret. Most IOC members knew the truth but stayed silent because he organized a regal lifestyle for them -- with money diverted from sport.
...
Gilady informed us that a moment of silence was not possible because if the IOC had a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes, they would also have to do the same for the Palestinians who died at the Olympics in 1972.

My mother said, "But no Palestinian athletes died."

Gilady responded, "Well, there were Palestinians who died at the 1972 Olympics."

I heard one of the widows say to Gilady, "Are you equating the murder of my husband to the terrorists that killed him?"

Silence
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Well, in his defense, I guess it's hard to speak when you're so full of shit that your remaining brain cells have drowned.

Friday, July 27, 2012

The IOC is a bunch of either bigots or cowards

And why I use that term 'palisimian'

The Arms Trade Treaty may be dead, for now at least Updated

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today applauds the decision by the United States to not sign the proposed International Arms Trade Treaty, and CCRKBA credits grassroots action for the gun rights victory.

CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, who is at the United Nations in New York, said the announcement came Friday morning after a week of intense negotiations.

“I think the grassroots surge by American gun owners against this treaty convinced our government to not sign this document,” Gottlieb said. “The proposed treaty, as written, poses serious problems for our gun rights, and the sovereignty of our Second Amendment.”

CCRKBA has been active in raising public awareness about the proposed treaty, and Gottlieb said he is proud of members and supporters who made “stepped up to the plate” and contacted their U.S. senators
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Local radio news just mentioned this; apparently Russia and someone else said they weren't happy with the 'current draft'. Which probably means it didn't leave them enough holes to sell stuff to Syria and the Norks and whoever else they wish.


While we're at it, Sebastian notes the push for Obama to do something 'non-legislative' about firearms ownership; and I don't doubt he'd love to issue a royal edict. I doubt he has the balls to do much before the election, but after... we'll have to be ready to jump all over the congresscritters to stomp any actions of this sort.

UPDATE: According to Colum Lynch, UN reporter for the Washington Post and Turtle Bay blogger for Foreign Policy Magazine, the US isn't actually refusing to sign the ATT. They and the Russians are putting out a joint statement saying that they need more to study the proposed treaty. From his Tweet on the subject, "UN diplomat said Washington wants to put off action on a new arms trade treaty, after the US election."

From his blog
:
The United States upended a major international treaty negotiation, telling foreign delegates at the final session today that they needed more time to consider the pact. Some diplomats said that Washington is seeking another six months, pushing off any decision on the politically sensitive treaty until after the U.S. election. Russia, Indonesia, and India also asked for more time.

Thomas Countryman, U.S. deputy secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, informed representatives of the U.N.'s 193 member states that the United States still needed time to consider the text.
He continues:
The United States told delegates that it did not have "core" objections to the draft treaty under consideration, but that it needed more time, saying that while the U.N. negotiations have been playing out since July 2, they only received the final text in the past 24 hours.
In my opinion this is something for great concern. That the US doesn't have "core" objections and wants to wait until after the election spells trouble for gun rights. I say this because they have no real objections to a treaty that, despite their denials, has negative implications for the Second Amendment. Moreover, putting it off until after the election means a treaty could be approved by a lame duck US Senate. This may seem paranoid but I don't trust either Obama or his State Department on this issue.

"I hope we see people in handcuffs."

I hope starting with Geithner.

More here: TARP was even worse than you think

I needed a razor strop

Having written about my rendezvous shaving kit a while back, two things occurred: I needed to touch up the razor, and for that I needed a strop. So, being cheap and wanting to see how it’d come out, decided to make one.

Basic form, a razor strop is a strip of leather with some form of abrasive worked into it. Before shaving, you work the razor back & forth on it to polish the edge. I started with a piece of leather that allowed me to cut strip about two inches wide and twenty long. You also need a way to hang it and a handle.

Hanging was by making a piece of light leather to fasten to the top, and bending a piece of suitable steel to make a hook
Three screw posts will hold it in place.

The handle is two pieces of reasonably thick leather cut to shape.
I glued them together, leaving an inch or so at the top open. Cut a bit of a taper to that end of the strap so it’d wedge in nicely, then drilled three holes for screw posts to hold it in place.

That’s all pretty straightforward; so is getting the abrasive into the leather, but a lot more messy. What I did used a piece of buffing compound and some kerosene. Laid the strap on a suitable surface*, wet it with kerosene and then rubbed the compound all over it. Repeat, on and on, until you’ve got a fair coat of compound evenly over the leather. The kerosene dissolves the grease or wax the abrasive is suspended in and lets it soak into the leather. Do note that the strap should be left out in the air for a few hours, preferably overnight, for the volatiles to evaporate. And it’ll take a couple of days more for the smell of the kerosene to fade out**.

Once it’s done, slap the back on a smooth surface a few times as there will be some compound on the surface that comes off, probably some on the edges as well; rub the edges on something appropriate to clean them of excess. Then assemble.


No, haven’t shaved with the straight razor again as yet, that’s to come. But it also works well to polish the edge of just about any cutting tool.

I'll throw in, son ran across this before his last deployment, the Razor Emporium: safety and straight razors, strops, soaps and other stuff


*'Suitable' as in 'something you don't mind getting really messy'.
**There's probably something better than kerosene for this. However, the oil left behind after the volatiles are gone helps keep the leather from drying out; if you use something else, you'll likely need to add some neatsfoot or something similar to the strap afterward .

An interesting point of view

Tragically the United Kingdom, where Great Britain used to be, has fallen. Though you can tell by little things like the involuntary subjugation of the populace to the EU and the looting of the country by soi-dissant communists, the surest sign of their degradation is that weapons, even down to the kitchen knife, are banned from use by the general public. In the United Kingdom, you can be prosecuted for defending yourself.

Weapons and violence are certainly not gone from England. It still has an army. The police are increasingly heavily armed. And gun violence (along with other violent crime and terrorism) has increased. As in all societies through all time -- forever and ever, all the way back to Cain and Abel -- criminals in and out of
Linkgovernment, both foreign and domestic, do not obey the law.

The United Kingdom has effectively returned to feudalism. The Knights are armed, they exist to protect their privileges and those of their superiors in the government, and the peasants farm -- or rather: are farmed. Like cattle.
...
So let us posit that even if weapons were banned, bad people would do bad things anyway. So what do you do when bad things are done to you? When a bad guy shows up in your movie theater? What is the solution posed by the gun control advocates?

You should use your cell phone to call 911, presumably so that men with *GUNS* could show up and take care of the situation.

See what gun-control advocates did there? They went all feudal on you. The police are "the only ones professional enough" to handle weapons. These Knights can have weapons and privileges to protect you the serf. In return all you have to do is call them "Sir". And pay taxes. And don't get your daughter a nicer dress than their wife is wearing
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Yeah, Bill O'Reilly is an idiot

A shrill, pig-ignorant fool.


"Mr. Carney, what's the capital of Israel?"
"Um, whatever we said before."
"Where was that?"
"Next question!"



Not a surprise to find out that Empty-Hat Salazar has some of the same problems as Holder; including having been held in contempt and not caring.


From Britain, surprisingly, titled Denver shootings: the murder is in the corrupted mind, not in the legal guns:
The Denver Dark Knight shootings: first thing to note – despite the uninformed Irish wails about American gun laws – is that the number of guns per head in America is irrelevant to such a crime. Batman

If ownership of a weapon equalled homicidal intent, the ten most murderous countries in the world would include Switzerland, Finland, and Sweden.

The 15 most murderous would include France, Canada, Austria and Iceland.
...
But, the broader issue: what we have here is a young man from Southern California (now, there’s a clue) who moved away from his family into Colorado, where drugs, drifting, sex websites and violent films simmered away in his brain.

For any reasonable assessment we have to weigh up how much of all of that led him to choose to abandon morality and embrace murder.

It wasn’t just that he had some guns, anymore than the nine stabbings last week at the Swedish House Mafia rock concert in Dublin occurred because every family in Ireland has some knives
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And yes, Schumer & Co. are already at it:
Democratic senators have offered an amendment to the cybersecurity bill that would limit the purchase of high capacity gun magazines for some consumers.
Translation: they want to ban any magazine that scares them. And it's 'common sense to do so', of course...


Appearing on Monday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, Time magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin confessed a broad media consensus to curtail gun rights: "If you walk the halls of most major news organizations or of the OEOB at the White House or West Wing, I think you'd find overwhelming sentiment that there should be stricter gun control laws in the United States."
And these bastards control much of the 'news' most people hear.


Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some leather that needs shaping

Crap, YES I want one!

Wouldn't you?

Obama apparently decided he'd forgotten to zip up again,

and is now saying- through his spokesrat- that 'he won't push new gun-control measures, but is still in favor of banning assault weapons.' Which means the crapstorm that fell after his statements the other day was rather more upsetting than he'd expected, therefore another "I didn't exactly mean what I said. So stop paying attention to what I said" moment.

Also not exactly comforting, since he'd consider a Enfield or Springfield musket a assault weapon that must immediately be banned For The Childrentm.

Speaking of John Browning(pbuh) smiling,

they've dropped the 'lightweight .50 MG' project, and are making sure all the M2 guns in inventory get the upgrades.

Borrowing from Tam, Someday the U.S. Army will have a hovertank with a frickin' laser beam for a main gun, and it will still have an M2HB on a pintle mount above the commander's hatch.

Isn't it interesting that Emanuel, Godfather of Chicago,

can't stand Chick-fil-a for having non-PC views, but has no problem with a Jew-hating, America-hating, gay-hating Farrakahn offering help...

Ah, well, fits right in with why slimeball Corzine appears to be safe from our noble AG and the DoJ:
Those wondering why the Department of Justice has refused to go after Jon Corzine for the vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client funds need look no further than the documents uncovered by the Government Accountability Institute that reveal that the now-defunct MF Global was a client of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer’s former law firm, Covington & Burling.

There’s more.

Records also reveal that MF Global’s trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy retained as its general bankruptcy counsel Morrison & Foerester--the very law firm from which Associate Attorney General Tony West came to DOJ.

And more.

As Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer explains in the Washington Times Thursday, the trustee overseeing MF Global’s bankruptcy is former FBI Director Louis Freeh. At Holder’s Senate confirmation hearing Freeh served as a character witness for Holder and revealed that Holder had previously worked for Freeh. “As general counsel,” Freeh said, “I could have engaged any lawyer in America to represent our bank. I chose Eric.”

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

There is a nutcase named Marcotte

who occasionally dribbles venom about the place; she did it again:
I'm not going to say anything, it's already been said:
Where to begin? The modern civil right movement dates from the 1950s. The Second Amendment is a part of the Bill of Rights from 1789. How is it a response to something that came about a century-and-a-half later?

And what about the white NRA members who ran firearm training classes for blacks who wanted to protect themselves from the Klan in the ’50s and ’60s? I guess they don’t fit the narrative
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More at the link; I found it here

And John Browning smiles...

For the first time in several decades, the U.S. military is buying new batches of the Colt .45 sidearm that it used during both World Wars and for much of the 20th century.

Colt Defense LLC said Friday it has been awarded a $22.5 million, five-year contract to provide theU.S. Marine Corpswith the latest .45 caliber pistols that were originally provided to the military in 1911
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Oh, can you imagine when the soundtrack

first snapped on?
In addition to the shutdown of uranium enrichment equipment and computers, the virus also blasted the song "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC from several computers at full volume.

So the dirtbag didn't have armor

after all:
Chief Executive Officer Chad Weinman said despite its name, the urban assault vest is not bulletproof, but is simply a vest made for carrying accessories.
So all he had was a load-bearing vest.

So, even if it has no value, the IRS

can screw you on it.

Speaking of spiders and snakes,

The TSA: screwing with old people with health problems

and that bastard Pistole will assure us it's necessary.
”When I tried to walk towards him they surrounded me and told me I couldn’t touch him and I said I need..I told them like five times I needed to plug him in so that he didn’t lose his battery life.” Tonya Gahagan said, and they adamantly said I could not.”