Zimmerman found not guilty;

Race warlord poverty pimps, racists and bigoted journalists hardest hit.

Top of the page at Drudge right now:
ZIMMERMAN: FREE...
Sheriff appeals for calm...
Police surround community where Martin shot...
Demonstrators in cities across country...
CA protesters break windows, start fires...
Teen threatens 'mass homicide' on TWITTER...
NY Giants Star: 'Zimmerman Doesn't Last a Year Before the Hood Catches Up to Him'...
Beyonce holds moment of silence at concert...
Celebs React...
AP REPORTER: 'SO WE CAN ALL KILL TEENAGERS NOW?'
Sharpton: 'Slap in the Face'...
NAACP calls on Obama admin to pursue civil rights charges...
PAPER: State never proved case...
Zimmerman attorney: 'Disgraceful'...
Will jury remain anonymous?
TIMELINE: Media's prosecution of Zimmerman...

Now Zimmerman needs to file with the state bar for the disbarment of the prosecutors who violated ethics and law.  And see about prosecution for the lawbreaking.

More wonders of the Rule of The Lightbringer Obama:

Last year a study by the NYU School of Law and Stanford Law School detailed the U.S. use of the double tap, providing first-hand accounts of its devastating effect on rescuers and humanitarian workers. 

Last June the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns said he considers secondary strikes to be "war crimes."
But, but, you gave him a peace prize!


More stupid from the idiots running our schools, including
Courageous Chicago fifth-grade teacher Lisa Putnam wrote a scathing critique of the almost comical misery her students endured during a massive February 28 event kicking off Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Active Schools campaign. There was a three-hour wait — in straight lines — in the morning, Putnam explained. “Then imagine after one hour of ‘fun’ that they have to sit around and wait for three more hours that bus to pick them up. Oh, did I mention that are not allowed to have a morsel of food the entire time?” On the bright side, Obama’s crack staff gave the 10-year-olds free “XL men’s t-shirts.”


Attorney's General who are friggin' idiots.
On behalf of the undersigned Attorneys General, we request that Urban Outfitters immediately cease sales of your “Prescription Line” of glasses, coasters, mugs, drink holders and related products that mimic prescription pill bottles and prescription pads.


Q: How many Progressives does it take to get indignant?
A: That's not funny!


And Reason #37 the Zimmerman prosecution team should be disbarred and prosecuted:

State Attorney Angela Corey fired her office’s information technology director Friday after he testified last month about being concerned prosecutors did not turn over information to George Zimmerman’s defense team in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
On the same day attorneys finished their closing arguments in that nationally watched trial, a state attorney investigator went to Ben Kruidbos’ home about 7:30 a.m. to hand-deliver a letter stating Kruidbos “can never again be trusted to step foot in this office.”

Can you say 'whistleblower lawsuit'?
I knew you could.

Fascism = 'Gays should arm themselves for self-defense'

At least in the minds of these idiots.
The NRA is garbage. It’s members are fascist liars.They rape, destroy and distort the US Constitution.
...
The NRA is a Lobbying Organization whose main objective is to allow the free flow of arms traffic and sales to take place in the SA. They are shitting on the US Constitution and allowing countless Americans to needlessly die every day of every year.
Etc., etc.


As a mind-cleanser after that mess,

There's a 'personality' named Nancy Grace,

who appears to be an arrogant, bigoted and ignorant fool.
Hey, if Al Sharpton can have one, why can't a jackass like her?


My first thought is "What's about to blow up that Napolitano doesn't want to have to deal with?"


So we've got a contest between Chicago and Detroit to see which one goes all the way into the sewer line first. How's this for a list of police chiefs?

1. Ella Bully-Cummings. 2003-2009. Notorious for putting baubles for corrupt Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his family on the Department budget, resigned hastily in 2008 as Kilpatrick lost a photo finish with a criminal court (the first of many; he’s now awaiting sentencing on 24 more charges). 
2. James Barren, PhD. 2008-2009. Fired abruptly in July, 2009 after a feral teen arrested for shooting seven other yout’s, killing four, walked because police bungled evidence collection.
3. Warren C. Evans. 2009-2010. Resigned when it came out he was banging a female Detroit cop, and his cops conducted a raid for a reality TV show that went awry when a cop fired one shot. Hitting a child of 7 in the head and killing her stone dead. Best fact: the ethics-challenged Bully-Cummings was Evans’s ex-wife.

And that's just the first three.

In LE news, I'm flat sick of reading about crap

like this.
Border Patrol agents shattered a driver’s window at a checkpoint in Pine Valley, Calif., when he apparently refused to cooperate with law enforcement officials or consent to a warrantless search of his vehicle. The driver was then removed from his car and put in handcuffs.
And- of course-
Border Patrol in Pine Valley, Calif., has yet to reply to messages left by TheBlaze.
Why should they answer questions?  They're the effing BP and have to run their internal checkpoints.

Seems like we fought a war once over shit like this.


Also sick of this kind of crap:
Across the country, both state laws and departmental policies seem to let police officers use deadly force as a first resort against family pets that often present little or no threat. In one infamous 2010 case from Missouri, an officer shot and killed a dog that had been subdued and held on a catch-pole. In another, an officer shot D.C. resident Marietta Robinson’s 13-year-old dog, Wrinkles, after Robinson had confined the dog to her bathroom.
You'll note that the standard response from the LE agencies is (in chorus now) "We were following procedure."  Apparently they don't give a damn if it makes sense or not, so long as they follow it.


Some graphics on the Chicago environs, including this on where people were hit

and the results(yellow=kills, white=survived)


Dallas News still bringing up Gunwalker, so at least we're not the only ones still pissed about it.
In Mexico, they have known for some time. Officials there have attributed more than 200 deaths to Fast and Furious weapons. A Justice Department document made public this month by the Los Angeles Times’ Richard A. Serrano reveals what may be the most recent: Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, police chief in the town of Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen opened fire on his patrol car. One bodyguard was killed and the chief’s wife and a second bodyguard wounded.

Hostotipaquillo, in Jalisco state in central-western Mexico, is nearly 1,000 miles from the Phoenix suburb where the semiautomatic WASR rifle was sold Feb. 22, 2010. The 26-year-old buyer would plead guilty to conspiracy, making false statements and smuggling goods from the U.S. No one — including the ATF — knows how the weapon traveled so far into the Mexican interior. ATF officials couldn’t say and told the Times they were still compiling an inventory of the lost guns.

No rush, apparently. Perhaps the ATF is waiting for the guns to wash ashore, one by one, after the drug criminals are done with them.
...
Americans, meanwhile, are left to wonder whatever happened with that ATF gun-walking fiasco, reminded only periodically when another Fast and Furious weapon surfaces long enough to leave someone else dead.

Well, with all the scandals, it distracts one from another(which is a pretty nasty indictment itself); which brings up where Lois Lerner got her start screwing with people:
More troubling to some FEC commissioners has been the staff's unsanctioned and growing ties to the Obama Justice Department. In September 2011, Tony Herman was named FEC general counsel. Mr. Herman in early 2012 brought in Dan Petalas, a Justice prosecutor, as head of the agency's enforcement section. FECA is clear that a bipartisan majority of commissioners must vote to report unlawful conduct to law enforcement. Yet FEC staff have increasingly been sending agency content to Justice without informing the commission. 

For instance, when a complaint is filed with the FEC against a political actor, the general counsel is required to write a report for the commissioners on whether there is a "reason to believe" the actor committed a violation. This report is confidential and never made public until a case is closed. Yet FEC staffers have sent these reports to Justice, in one case before the report was considered by the commissioners.

Remember the shovel AK?

The gentleman is back, this time with a homemade Glock lower.

And, just to irritate various people, I'll borrow this:
While Glock has become an iconic firearm, Gaston's skill as an engineer are probably on par with St. JMB's butler. However, his talents to find people to design, market and sell the gun is without a doubt laudible. The only two firearms that every US journalist knows is either an AK or a Glock. Now you can build both ... from the same shovel.

This mess in Florida is... 'disgusting'

is a good word.
What fresh charge is this?
A third degree murder charge can only be had if a homicide occurs in the course of committing another felony.
So what felony was George Zimmerman guilty of committing at the time of the shooting? Is it illegal to have one's head repeatedly battered against the cement?
Nope. He is guilty, per the State's theory, of aggravated child abuse, the child in question being 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
And they try this AFTER THE DEFENSE HAD RESTED.


An Ex-Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee tells CNN he was fired for not arresting Zimmerman. Bill Lee was pressured by city officials who didn’t care if Zimmerman was innocent, the city officials just wanted an arrest. Bill Lee told the officials you can’t arrest without probable cause, and was fired for upholding Zimmerman’s constitutional rights.
And on, and on.
There should be a whole string of disbarrments, and charges, on the clowns on the prosecution team.  And the judge ought to have that black robe taken away.


Because laws are for little people, not Rep. Conyers' minions.
Rep. John Conyers’ office manager, Betty Petrenz, had the pistol in her purse as she entered the building; she told police that she simply forgot she had it in there.

Petrenz faced no prosecution and was given what one prosecutor called "a gift" as a penalty. She received a ticket for having a gun on federal property and got what is called "pretrial diversion," a sentence that involves neither jail time nor a fine. It merely requires the person to be on good behavior for a specified period of time, after which the ticket is dismissed.


The Mayor of Chicago just can't stand the idea of honest citizens being armed; so he'll screw with them.  After all, it's a lot easier than, say, doing something about the bad guys.

And the laws he loves so much work so well, don't they?


There's currently a "Castle Doctrine makes crimes worse!" push by the Usual Suspects™ using this study; as usual, they're full of crap.


"This just in: salt will NOT kill you.  Food nazis and Mayor Bloomberg(but I repeat myself) hardest hit."

A: The tears of gun bigot control freaks

are sweet.

And so is this:
ORDERED, that the Defendants take such action as is necessary to permit Tab Bonidy to use the public parking lot adjacent to the Avon Post Office Building with a firearm authorized by his Concealed Carry Permit secured in his car in a reasonably prescribed manner, and it is

FURTHER ORDERED, that the other claims of unconstitutionality of 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l) made by Plaintiffs are denied.

Ref Chicago and the Rahm Whine, borrowing from Taranto and Insty,
The Trib adds: “While gun owners may have questions about how soon they’ll be able to carry guns in public, other state residents may also have questions about where they can expect to find people armed with deadly weapons.”

That’s an easy one to answer: You can expect to find people armed with deadly weapons in just about any dodgy Chicago neighborhood. . . .

Wait, how could Chicago have all those shootings when it’s illegal to carry a gun? Don’t street criminals have any respect for the law? Oh wait, of course they don’t–which is why Chicago already had “virtually unregulated weapons.” The new law will allow honest citizens, those who do comply with regulations, to defend themselves.

What say you: farging idiots,

just plain assholes, or brainless fools who love anyone who hates America?

They make me want to find a Andrew Jackson mask and carry a sign saying 'Hang the Bastard'

This makes it sound like the prosecution is not only corrupt,

but incompetent.
Another familiar trend was the State’s tendency to ask questions to which they obviously didn’t know the answers, and getting blown up as a result.  For example, Guy sought to have Root state that the likely screamer could have been Trayvon Martin, if Zimmerman were pointing a gun at him.  Putting aside the fact that there is absolutely no evidence to support such a scenario, the question blew up in guy’s face when Root instead indicated that if he were in Trayvon Martin’s position, beating Zimmerman, and he saw Zimmerman’s gun, his most likely move would be to go for the gun–exactly as Zimmerman says Martin actually did.
...
Then on re-cross, State prosecutor Guy simply imploded, as the State has so often.  Guy asked whether it wasn’t true that GZ had other options, besides using his gun. Root answered, “No, given the totality of the circumstances, I don’t believe Zimmerman had any other option.”  It was almost as if the State had never deposed Root before, had simply never met this witness before his testimony in the courtroom.
...
Finally Guy was back on cross, and flailing even worse, if that’s imaginable. He challenged Root that he had never testified on behalf of a criminal defendant. “No, I have, twice, it’s in my CV,” answered Root. He challenged Root that the force continuum described was limited in its application to law enforcement. No, Root observed, it’s a simple conceptual model that’s effectively integrated in Florida’s self-defense statutes. 

And the judge is no great shakes, either.

Update on the homebrew CLP

I'm one of those raised on "If you shoot it, you clean it.  Soon."  So leaving something alone for a few range trips, well, it's hard.  But I managed it, total about 100 rounds* of 9mm got it sufficiently dirty for a try.

Used on a cloth the stuff cleaned the frame & slide rails and inside the slide quite well.  Big try was the bore.  I was shooting Berry's plated 115-grain bullets; they work quite well, but ALWAYS seem to leave some hard-to-remove fouling.  Nothing horrible, just requiring the use of a brush to get out.  So tried this procedure:
Push a wet patch through to remove any loose fouling and wet the bore.
Push a second wet patch through.
Let it sit about an hour while doing other things.
Push a dry patch through and examine.

It worked great.  One dry patch and no visible fouling left, no scrubbing required.  Ran a second through just to get any excess CLP out, and that was all that was needed.

So far this stuff is working great as a cleaner.  I'll probably still use grease on the rails, and Eezox for my protectant, but I'm going to keep using this for cleaning, and for places where oil is the right lube to use.

Can't remember if mentioned before, the smell is very mild, not offensive at all.

And for anyone who hasn't seen the link previously, here's the stuff.

Try to tell me Eric Holder wasn't in the middle of this crap

Try.
Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in February 2012.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the DOJ on April 24, 2012. According to the documents JW received, a little-known DOJ unit called the Community Relations Service deployed to Sanford, FL, to organize and manage rallies against Zimmerman.


Also, you might remember that Martin's phone was being examined, which came to this:
The State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman took a wild turn late Tuesday evening, as defense attorney Don West got in a heated conversation with Judge Debra Nelson just before 10:oo p.m. Nelson had just expressed her intent to block testimony and evidence recovered from deleted messages on Trayvon Martin’s cell phone.

A forensic expert discovered more than 600 items on Trayvon’s cell phone, including texts and photos between Trayvon and other people with specific references to criminal activity — particularly fighting, drugs, and firearms.
Now why would a (honest)judge want to block this?

The forensic expert testified that he recovered multiple conversations between Trayvon Martin and specific family members and friends discussing multi-round street fights and schoolyard fights in which Trayvon Martin had participated. Martin’s half-brother, Demetrius Martin, even asked Trayvon when he would teach him how to fight. Trayvon Martin’s family appeared to know Trayvon was a street fighter.

Most troubling, Conner found multiple conversations — between four and six — where Trayvon discussed attempting to buy black-market guns.

The guns Martin discussed acquiring included a Smith & Wesson Sigma pistol and a .38 Special revolver. One conversation showed Martin trying to sell a .22 revolver, suggesting he was already in possession of it.
And don't forget this:
The state hid this evidence until right before the beginning of the trial, when the prosecution’s Wesley White came forward to present testimony that the state was hiding and may have destroyed evidence. The defense has had no time to recover this data and to depose every witness.

Just about everybody on the prosecution side, and probably the judge as well, should be investigated and- from the looks of things- disbarred and prosecuted for their actions in this.

The D'ohJ?  Needs to be cleaned out, top to bottom.

Oh now, this would never be abused,

noooo...
UCSD Lecturer Brett Stallbaum has released an Android app called Gun Geo Marker to allow people to ‘Geolocate Dangerous Guns and Owners.’

The Gun Geo Marker operates very simply, letting parents and community members mark, or geolocate, sites associated with potentially unsafe guns and gun owners.  These locations are typically the homes or businesses of suspected unsafe gun owners, but might also be public lands or other locations where guns are not handled safely, or situations where proper rights to own or use any particular type of firearm may not exist.


It appears the prosecutors in the Zimmerman case are either more effing stupid than thought, or trying desperately to come up with SOMETHING.  After their witnesses overall helped the defense and trashed the prosecution, now this.

More on it here.
Forensic pathologist Vincent Di Maio testified this morning in State of Florida versus George Zimmerman, and as the guy who literally wrote the book on gunshot wounds for his fellow forensic pathologist peers, Di Maio is likely the foremost expert in the world at his specialty. 

Di Maio’s testimony gutted the prosecution’s case. 

He used science to show that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in the exact position as he described, and he testified that the wounds Zimmerman suffered were entirely consistent with the sort of beating he claimed to take. Di Maio also slapped state medical examiner Shiping Bao for not opening up Trayvon Martin’s hands to check for evidence of bruising consistent with the kind of attack Zimmerman reported. Such bruising would not have been evidence on a man killed so soon after issuing such a beating.
There's also a fine example of the kind of dirtbagginess Martin supporters are indulging in

Isn't that just so CUTE?

Sen. Joe Manchin: cheap whore, or does this indicate

he sold for a high price?
I mean, Bloomberg has a lot of money for his legislative hookers, so I guess it's just a question of how much they hold out for.

Statement from Hornady on the shortages

on their website.  Seems their suspending production of some less-in-demand items to concentrate on those with highest demand.


In other news, I have discovered, according to a some idiots on BookFace, that the whole REAL problem with the Martin/Zimmerman case is 'redneck white conservative gun owner assholes defending Zimmerman because he shot a black kid'.
Yes, really.
No, I don't know what color the grass is in their world.

Ran across several "YOU'RE TELLING WOMEN WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR BODIES!"*

over 'anti-abortion' bills in several states, and when I look around I find something like this:
This week, the protest zeroed in on a bill passed last week by the North Carolina state Senate requiring abortion clinics to conform to the same safety standards as ambulatory surgery centers, a regulation currently met by only one of the state's five clinics.
I'm thinking "Considering what they do to your body, wouldn't you WANT them to meet that standard?"  Apparently not.

Which is interesting; most of the yellers want the .gov running health care, EXCEPT in this...


“I can fight the bugs, I can fight the lack of rain, but when the guy comes with a clipboard what are you going to do?” Bessemer said.


Well, if you wonder why so many people have problems with cops nowadays, this line is a perfect example:
Judge Burke refused to tell KMOV-TV why she would not watch the footage. After all, why record footage in the back of a police van if it will not be viewed as evidence in a court case? Roorda claims those police videos should only be used to protect cops, but internal affairs is trying to use it as a “gotch-head hunter” tool.
Yeah, ONLY to protect cops; if a cop misbehaves, well, THAT'S different, that video should be ignored!
Bleep.


Why do we so often think .gov employees are idiots?
EDA's CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even mice. The destruction only stopped—sparing $3 million of equipment—because the agency had run out of money to pay for destroying the hardware.


The Yankee Vulture Bus Victim List; must be a list borrowed from Bloomberg.  For one,
Dell Peter DiGiovanni: Suspect in a shootout with police as they were investigating drug trafficking and opened fire on the officers. Here is the rub: Dell Peter DiGiovanni hung himself. Must have used bullet rope or something like that.

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A man believed to have been one of three people who got into a shoot out with police in front of a burning home in southwest Miami-Dade Tuesday night was found hanging from a tree.Wednesday afternoon, police confirmed that the body of 50-year old Dell Peter DiGiovanni hung himself on a tree in front of a home at SW 147 Avenue and SW 48 Terrace.

*they mean it in a bad way, of course, not 'Shift your leg over, darlin' '...

Take one pork shoulder

Brine overnight.
In the oven this morning on low heat, then up it after a couple of hours.
When done, shred it up and let it sit in the juices a while.

Just had the first taste... if I'd cooked something that good for someone else, I'd be expecting sex for dessert.


In case anyone's interested, the brine was
four cups water
one cup kosher salt
1/4 cup molasses
two tablespoons peppercorns
one jalapeno
(Forgot this earlier)4 garlic cloves, slightly smashed
A little rosemary

"How old were you when you lost your virginity?"

was the question; the Winner of the Internets was I din't loose it. I know exactly where I put it.

Real moment of "I was out of line" realization,

or "Oh no, those people I called names aren't buying tickets anymore!" ?
Either way Jim Carrey can kiss my ass.

Awww, why would he think that?

High River resident Cam Fleury believes his house, which was not at all flooded or in a flood zone, was targeted by the RCMP.

Upon returning to his home, he found a door kicked in, and it appears a gun safe in his closet was touched, though not opened.

Fleury's neighbours were not so lucky, as their front door was ripped completely off its hinges, and was found lying in the yard.
Just because the Usual Suspects are basically saying "We don't care if their guns were taken, they don't need to have those anyway"?  Saying things like
"I'm pleased that the commissioner is looking into it, but as a federal politician, I don't think I have any business questioning operational decisions of the RCMP. I think I'm going to stay out of that particular issue," he said.
Really, Trudeau?  You have NO OVERSIGHT function at all over law enforcement?  You're a bloody rubber stamp?  I'm sure that's a very comforting thing for people to hear.

And this is just great:
Commissioner Bob Paulson has written to the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP and asked the agency to look into the matter. He says he and a lot of Canadians have questions about the force's actions in the devastated town of High River.
"I am quite concerned by the sharp criticism that has arisen in the media with respect to the gun seizures from evacuated homes," Paulson wrote in a letter to Ian McPhail, the interim chair of the watchdog agency.

"Naturally this is quite troubling to me, and I am sure to you, as indeed it must be to many Canadians who wonder what was going on in High River."
YOU'RE THE BLOODY HEAD OF THE RCMP, and YOU have questions?  Have you considered, say, calling the people in charge of that mess into your office and ASKING THEM what the hell they did?

What about those 'demoted and dismissed' ATF agents?

ITEM: Perjury doesn’t just take place before the Southern District of New York. B. Todd Jones lied to Congress about the consequences of Fast & Furious. He told the Senate that “Gunwalker Bill” Newell, one of the principal architects of the strategy to drive Mexican gun violence higher to justify ATF’s allies’ legislative agenda, was “demoted” to a Headquarters job. Not exactly. Gunwalker Bill is assigned to Washington on paper, but it’s a no-show job. He’s actually living in Salt Lake City, where his family is from, and he’s not only being paid every dollar he ever got before in his misleadership position, he’s also getting a substantial Washington-based housing allowance, not the lower SLC bennie, and the ATF (meaning you chump taxpayers) paid him nearly five figures “moving assistance” to make the move. Other F&F figures like Billy Hoover, Bill McMahon, Bill Newell, Kelvin Crenshaw (the laughingstock behind an ATF seizure of Airsoft toys he insisted were “machine guns” before his F&F failures), Hope McAllister and David Voth have all been “punished” with a lateral or a move up. McMahon was allowed to move to the Philippines and collect a $250k salary from “too big to jail” bank JP Morgan, while still collecting his roughly equivalent ATF salary and benefits, too, for his no-show ATF job! It’s a nice deal, but line agents need not apply. You have to F up to move up to that level.
Which is the kind of thing that causes people, every time that sellout Rubio insists "There will be a law saying 'X'!" on the Amnesty for Illegals bill, to laugh.  Or swear.  Or both.  These bastards broke laws, broke ethics, lied under oath, false documents, the whole damn works; and their 'punishment' is to stay with the agency or somewhere else in the DoJ, still getting paid.
If nobody will ENFORCE the law, then why are we supposed to believe a damn thing Rubio, or Todd, or Schumer or any of these other bastards say?

Naw, nothing suspicious about this at alllll....

The Treasury Department on Wednesday refused to confirm or deny the existence of an inspector general report investigating whether or not former White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee illegally accessed tax information on the Koch brothers.
Subpoena his ass; tell him he's under oath and hand out an indictment if he lies.  And subpoena anyone necessary from Treasury and them them the same.  AND DO IT.


More from the Most Transparent Administration EVER!
White House officials vetoed all public airing of a video of President Obama thanking the American Library Association Sunday for helping inform the public about Obamacare.

“We were specifically told by the White House to only show it [the video] once to conference attendees, and [the] White House said we aren’t able to send it out,” Jazzy Wright, Press Officer for ALA’s Washington, D.C. office, told the Washington Examiner.


That credentialed clown Tam ran across the other day?  He says you shouldn't have to have the same insurance on your car in case somebody steals it and commits a crime because
Guns are inherently dangerous, Dan. Cars are not.
Insty has a theme about people who are 'credentialed, not educated'.  I think this idiot fits.
And I love Tam's comment: (Careful picking a fight with the guy; he's got more sheepskins than a condom factory. ;)
Lots of sheepskins, no sense.


Aside from those I've got nuttin'. At all.  And I'm hungry.

So if the Brit NHS is such a wonderful thing, why is Texas so horrible

for wanting to pass a law less-strict in some ways about abortion?
Availability: Under certain conditions
Gestational limit: 24 weeks
Conditions: Abortion is allowed in England, Wales and Scotland to save a woman's life, for health, economic or social reasons. Two registered medical practitioners must certify that the required medical grounds have been met.
The procedure must be carried out, except in emergency, in a National Health Service hospital or in a nursing home, private hospital or other approved place. The consent of the spouse is not a prerequisite of the medical termination.


And yet more of the result desired by the dirtbags running Fast & Furious:
A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF’s Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the hands of violent drug cartels deep inside Mexico.
This is exactly what the bastards wanted to happen, so they could blame gun owners in the US for all the evils of Mexico and demand more laws.

How about a law that 'Any federal official or LE agent who participates in the intentional violation of law shall serve ten years in prison'?


Yes, let's hear it for (fG)Britain, which we're supposed to love the idea of being like!
Duwayne Brooks has expressed concerns over Scotland Yard’s admission that he was secretly recorded as part of an alleged police smear campaign against friends and relatives of Stephen Lawrence, the murdered black teenager.
Yeah, I'd have concerns too.
Mr Grieve said he authorised secret recording of a conversation between his officers, Mr Brooks and his lawyers in May 2000. 

He said he deeply regretted “any distress, dismay or alarm that my decisions may have caused” but insisted the decision was made “within ethical frameworks”.
Which is why they've worked so hard to hide it.


Oh, and that wonderful NHS is going broke.  Or it already is and they're trying to drag it out.


Speaking of Britain, "IT'S HORRIBLE!  It's going to hit 86F FOR THE HIGHS!!"
Son's part of the world has been having what would be considered damn nice weather for this time of year down here: highs in the 70's and 80's, lows 50's & 60's.  According to him it's wonderful; lots of the locals are bitching about the heat.


More from across the pond:
A teenage gap-year student was knifed to death in the street in broad daylight by a "laughing" stranger in Manchester, a jury has heard.

Kieran Crump-Raiswell, 18, was heading to look for a job when Imran Hussain, 27, walked up to him and "without warning" stabbed him four times in the chest, Manchester Crown Court was told.
Get the feeling there's going to be more of this kind of thing?


Yeah, it's a Brit news day.  In this case, it appears that the Blue Wall stands in Britain, too.
The Scotland Yard marksman found by an official inquiry to have unlawfully killed a man he shot six times, was dubbed a "serial killer" by one of his own bosses, the Guardian has learned.
...
The CPS had previously decided E7 should not face criminal charges, following an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which the Rodney family described as flawed. The IPCC failed to uncover crucial evidence discovered by the inquiry undermining E7's account and leading to Holland's devastating report.

The inquiry almost never happened. The authorities said crucial evidence concerning intelligence which led to the police suspecting Rodney and two others, could not be disclosed.
...
Conservative MP David Davis said: "There is also a real question to be raised over why the police sought to have parts of this inquiry held in secret … [It] is extremely difficult to judge whether these claims are to protect real intelligence secrets, or simply to cover up the embarrassment of the organisation concerned."
Three guesses which, Davis.
More on this here and here.


Back over here, how can Kerry damage something he doesn't really have in the first place?


And now, having done some casting earlier, need to do some sorting and QC.

Boy, talk about entering the wayback machine...

1975, to be precise.

The Dept. of Public Safety had started the Cadet Lawman program; one high-school junior from each county got to attend a week-long version of the OHP cadet academy; classroom, driving, shooting, pt, the works.

This is your fearless correspondent on the range.

I cannot remember the name of the gentleman on the right, he was with one of the organizations that sponsored the academy.  And that target tied me for best shooting of the day with handgun.

Yes, it's a bit spread out; I'd had a lot less practice then.  Also, part of the course was straight point-shooting, aligning sights not allowed.  The highlight of that being
Start ten yards from the target.
At the whistle, start walking.
At the second whistle draw and fire six, reload, fire six more.
That, let me specify, was with S&W revolvers and loading from belt loops.

With one exception, it was a fun week.  That exception was the food; it sucked.  To the point that, on a couple of nights, a number of hungry teenagers had some milk for dinner, because the food was so bloody awful.  I remember hearing afterward that Words Were Had with the clowns running the cafeteria, and our last lunch on the final day was steak and baked potatoes(I had three of each; I actually lost six pounds that week).

Ah, the days when my knees actually worked and my biggest concerns included 'Girls: what to do about'.

Even if you ignore the "What IRS investigation?" crap from the EffingBI Director,

you find yourself wondering "WHY am I supposed to trust these clowns?"
Another murderer/extortionist/fill in the blanks being protected by the EffingBI while committing these crimes, over decades, because 'He's an important informant!'

And doing things the EffingBI didn't want to dirty its' hands with.
In return for his assistance to the Feds, Scarpa collected in spades, using his influence with the FBI to avoid prosecution on three separate indictments by organized crime strike forces over the years. Not only did he beat a 1974 indictment for stealing $520,000 in securities and conspiring to counterfeit, transport, and sell $4 million in IBM stock, but when Secret Service agents arrested him in 1986 for credit card fraud, on charges that could have led to seven years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the FBI intervened and helped him get his sentence reduced to probation and a $10,000 fine.


A breakdown of how the Zimmerman trial is going, and how it got to this point in the first place.
I've said before: a bunch of the prosecution team needs to worry less about sucking up to RWPP jerks and more about being disbarred for the crap they've done.


One more celebritute opens the mouth, and
Happy Independence Day! Just think, if we hadn’t won that war, today wouldn’t be a holiday AND we’d have health care.


A couple of examples of what Obama's smart diplomacy has gotten us:

The EPA wants the utilities to be able to turn your refrigerator and freezer off; whatever could go wrong?

The People's Republic of Massachussetts, Part 37

Make a blog post some gutless, ball-less chickenshits don't like, and they run to the Stasi, who violate the law and seize your property.

Part II here.  More information in the comments.
Including some of the Stasi wanting to shake hands and say 'no hard feelings'.
Fat effing bloody hell there's not, you order-following SS wannabes.

Why yes, this does piss me of considerably.

You COULD NOT pay me enough to live in that hellhole.

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.

Does the Las Vegas area attract asswipes in the guise of cops,

or what?
Henderson police arrested a family for refusing to let officers use their homes as lookouts for a domestic violence investigation of their neighbors, the family claims in court.
This is one of those 'Sue them for everything they have or ever will have.  And try to have their qualified immunity stripped, so it all comes out of THEIR OWN POCKETS.

And since the PD didn't do anything about it...'

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. — The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

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

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

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:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free system of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

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

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

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

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.

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.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

John Hancock

Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
Geo. Walton

Wm. Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
Edward Rutledge
Thos. Heyward, Junr.
Thomas Lynch, Junr.
Arthur Middleton

Samuel Chase
Wm. Paca
Thos. Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Th. Jefferson
Benja. Harrison
Thos. Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Robt. Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benja. Franklin
John Morton
Geo. Clymer
Jas. Smith
Geo. Taylor
James Wilson
Geo. Ross
Caesar Rodney
Geo. Read
Tho. Mckean

Wm. Floyd
Phil. Livingston
Frans. Lewis
Lewis Morris
Richd. Stockton
Jno. Witherspoon
Fras. Hopkinson
John Hart
Abra. Clark

Josiah Bartlett
Wm. Whipple
Saml. Adams
John Adams
Robt. Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Step. Hopkins
William Ellery
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
Wm. Williams
Oliver Wolcott
Matthew Thornton

Test 2.0 on the brass catcher

And the plated bullets, let's not forget them.

Start with the bullets:  Good stuff.  Loaded in full standard-ball loads, no sign of nasty copper fouling.  In fact, the bore looks very bright and clean; notably cleaner than after cast bullets, even with a gas check.  Accuracy seemed identical to ball, at least from what I can tell at this range.  All in all I'd recommend them.

Now to the brass catcher:
The improved version works better than Version 1, and is a lot more stable; that stiffer wire makes a big difference.

Here's another shot of it in place

Here's the whole unit off the rifle
 
What goes over the ends to hold them in place and protect the stock is a strip of 2" wide velcro.  The two straps that hold it in place are 6" long pieces of 1" velcro; the two sides are overlapped about 2", which leaves plenty of length to go around and strap it down.

Here's what it looks like with the wire(mostly) bare.

The netting is the plastic that came over a turkey breast; very light, and has no problem stopping the cases.

I'm thinking that you could make it a bit more rigid with a longer piece of wire: have both ends extend from the bend all the way to the start of the open box.  Be that as it may, the thing stayed in place during firing, from a rest and from standing offhand position.


Due to the ejection angles mentioned in the original test, it doesn't actually catch many of them; most hit the net and bounce back, falling to the ground near your feet.  Which is fine for me; long as they don't go flying downrange where I can't get to them(or find them as the case may be).  I did lose two cases that managed to skim just past the front edge and continue forward; I could see them, but with other people on the range no way to get to them.  That's a LOT better than the usual loss number.

I'm wondering if some kind of nylon or light cloth mesh that only attaches to the front and top would work better; it would be looser, and might better trap the cases and let them fall down.  And it wouldn't be a bag, so it'd be easier to make and put on.  Easy enough to try, so that'll be done in the future.

Don't know, but I doubt such a setup would work well on a Garand: much heavier case ejecting with much more energy.  With a heavier frame it might; may have to try that one of these days.

Let's have some old-fashioned equal justice under the law:

prosecute Clapper for lying to Congress.


Every time I hear something about those horrible, nasty pro-life woman-haters, I think of crap like this.
They’ve received Facebook messages and e-mails saying, “I hope you’re raped” and “I hope your daughter’s raped,” Oliver tells me. “Lots of language — ‘You’re an effin’ blank,’ ‘You are a traitor to women’ — those kind of things,” Oliver says. “I wouldn’t say anything’s necessarily a direct threat, but they’re the kind of e-mails that make you a little nervous, especially when you start talking about family members: ‘I hope your family members are raped.’”


If this is true, then it's going to get REAL nasty dealing with the NSA mess.
“If anyone thinks that what’s going on right now with all of this surveillance of American citizens is to fight some sort of foreign enemy, they’re delusional. If people think that this ‘scandal’ can’t get any worse, it will, hour by hour, day by day. This has the ability to bring down our national leadership, the administration and other senior elected officials working in collusion with this administration, both Republican and Democrats. People within the NSA, the Department of Justice, and others, they know who they are, need to come forth with the documentation of ‘policy and practice’ in their possession, disclose what they know, fight what’s going on, and just do their job. I have never seen anything like this, ever. The present administration is going after leakers, media sources, anyone and everyone who is even suspected of ‘betrayal.’ That’s what they call it, ‘betrayal.’ Can you believe the size of their cahones? This administration considers anyone telling the truth about Benghazi, the IRS, hell, you name the issue, ‘betrayal,’” he said.

“We know all this already,” I stated. He looked at me, giving me a look like I’ve never seen, and actually pushed his finger into my chest. “You don’t know jack,” he said, “this is bigger than you can imagine, bigger than anyone can imagine. This administration is collecting names of sources, whistle blowers and their families, names of media sources and everybody they talk to and have talked to, and they already have a huge list. If you’re not working for MSNBC or CNN, you’re probably on that list. If you are a website owner with a brisk readership and a conservative bent, you’re on that list. It’s a political dissident list, not an enemy threat list,” he stated.


These guys think the IRS actions are Obama's response to Citizens United being struck down: "If I can't use the FCC to shut people up, I'll use the IRS."  Wouldn't surprise me.

How screwed is the situation in Colorado?

The Colorado Bureau of investigation “advises local law enforcement to ignore and violate new Colorado gun laws,” Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith disclosed yesterday on a Facebook post. Furthermore, both law enforcement and gun owners who have had guns with standard capacity magazines stolen will be committing criminal acts if the gun is recovered and returned, Smith wrote in another post this morning.

“[Governor John] Hickenlooper's new laws require that every time a gun is transferred for more than 72 hours, a state background check must be conducted by an FFL dealer,” Smith advised in yesterday’s post. “When my staff inquired how law enforcement agencies were supposed to comply with that provision as they return firearms to lawful owners, the CBI representative told them law enforcement agencies were not supposed to use the system mandated by Colorado's new laws, but instead they were to conduct their own, limited (non-compliant) background check of the recipient. 

“This is in direct conflict with Governor Hickenlooper's own law,” Smith asserted.
More of the unintended(probably) consequences of this Bloomberg-written piece of crap.


Oh yeah, we can trust the BATFEIEIO with this.


And, just in time to save Democrats from the 2014 elections,
I suppose my question, a little bit later, would be "From where does he derive the right to unilaterally change his misbegotten law without Congressional action? Just because his law is so horribly screwed up he thinks he has the unilateral power to alter it?"
The answer would be 'From nowhere; he does not have that authority.  But unless Congress nails him on this, he'll get away with it.

Again.


Yes, it's the Daily Kos.  Yes, the article is Why liberals should love the Second Amendment. 
And it's a pretty good article.
The comments, however, quickly become a cesspool of 'conservatives and white militia are after the blacks', which is unfortunate(I guess all the Democrats who founded the Klan and did everything possible to crap on blacks are all counted as 'conservatives', thus absolving the D party of any responsibility for anything).

Seems some of them would start with depopulation

But this is precisely what at least some Greens object to. What they want, as they frankly admit, is decarbonisation, deindustrialisation and depopulation. They regard the various advances we've made since the old stone age – the coffee, the computers, the cathedrals – with regret. What society needs, they tell us, is not green consumerism, but less consumerism. Which is, of course, precisely what most Western countries have had since 2008. The crash brought about all the things that eco-warriors had been demanding: lower GDP, less consumption, a decline in international trade. Yet, oddly, when it happened, they didn't seem at all satisfied. There's no pleasing some people.

Which directly connects with this:
Ofgem warned there could be energy shortages in the middle of this decade as the UK has failed to build enough new wind farms and nuclear powers stations to replace old fossil fuel plants. 

 It also believes demand for energy may not fall as much as originally expected, as fewer households are insulating their lofts and switching to green appliances than predicted. 

Ministers are so concerned that factories and large businesses may be asked to switch off their power during energy emergencies in return for compensation from bill-payers. 
"We aren't making sure there's enough capacity, so if companies have to shut down we'll rob the average consumer and use that money to pay them off."
The supply crunch is the result of Britain forcing old coal and oil plants to switch off in favour of new green wind farms and nuclear plants.
"We need more bird cuisinarts!"
Ministers are trying to encourage companies to spend more than £100 billion on new green energy infrastructure by offering huge subsidies.
There's that 'steal someone else's money to use for bribes' again.

And here's where you get to the real Green agenda:
If Britain substantially reduced its energy demand, in line with new National Grid forecasts, then the risk of blackouts could remain close to Ofgem's previous estimates at around one-in-12.
There is NO FREAKING WAY they can 'substantially reduce energy demand' to the level they want and have a strong economy.  Or prevent people freezing in the dark.
And at least some of them damn well know it.

The gun bigots are back to 'ban armor-piercing bullets'

with the aim- again- appearing to be 'ban all ammunition possible'.


The Governor of IL(really should have another L, shouldn't it?) can't stop CCW so he wants to make it as difficult and restricted as possible.

The July e-postal match is up

at Billl's place.

Why do I so despise racial grievance-mongers and leftists?

"The whole point of the Trayvon Martin case," according to Slate's Justin Peters, was supposed to be to serve as "a referendum on how comfort and privilege deal with the unfamiliar."
Got that?  Zimmerman isn't supposed to be on trial for 2nd Degree Murder, oh no, it's supposed to be a REFERENDUM for Peters' cause.  A 'referendum' that can put a man in prison for the rest of his life, of course.

Add in the dirtbag Martin family lawyer NOW claiming "Oh noes, this was never about race or profiling!"  After, of course, it's blown up in their(fittingly) collective face.

A new look at Gettysburg

Very cool: what could the commanders actually see?
Which is why J.E.B. Stuart caught a lot of crap in this: his job was to help Lee see what was going on, the ground, the units.  And he didn't do it.

This was the day that battle began.

Found thanks to OGAM

There's only one thing I can say to this:

Screw you, you miserable little fascist bastard.
The president gave short shrift to these more traditional health concerns during his visit to the continent.  Instead, Obama implied several times that the U.S. would only encourage growth in Africa should it be grounded in “clean energy strategies” and not in “corrupting” energy economies that gave rise to unprecedented levels of health and prosperity among Western nations.
"You peasants cannot be allowed to grow out of your picturesque villages until we of superior minds decide you can do it in the right way."

I'm going to stop now; I'm about to melt my keyboard and offend some people through Language Practice.

"This does not mean

what you thought it would."
...Clearly, once the CDC produced the hard evidence that the US was a violent nation of wild-west shootouts, the American people would be eager to approve and fund future research while embracing strict gun control legislation.

At least that was the plan. The study, which was compiled by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council under the CDC’s direction, was recently completed and released. The anti-gun crowd has been awfully quiet about it. Could it be that it didn’t support their bogus hypothesis?

In a word, Yes. The CDC’s numbers basically back every pro-gun rights argument made over the course of the last year.


Would anybody be at all surprised if this is true?
Senators are questioning whether the National Security Agency collected bulk data on more than just Americans’ phone records, such as firearm and book purchases.

A bipartisan group of 26 senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to detail the scope and limits of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities in a letter released Friday.
...
The NSA’s surveillance program has come under intense scrutiny following a leak revealing the agency harvested the phone metadata of millions of American citizens.
The senators noted that the federal government’s authority under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is broad and rife with potential for abuse. Among the senators’ concerns was whether the NSA’s bulk data harvesting program could be used to construct a gun registry or violate other privacy laws.


Speaking of,
The United States taps half a billion phone calls, emails and text messages in Germany in a typical month and has classed its biggest European ally as a target similar to China, according to secret U.S. documents quoted by a German newsmagazine.


Lots of Canadians are seriously torqued at the RCMP.  Rightly so.  And the longer people are kept out of their property, and the more the RCMP changes and tweaks their excuses, the worse it will get.

BATFEIEIO is in desperate need of something, but it's not a permanent director;

it's an enema.  To start flushing the brain area out.
The ATF leader who oversaw a botched undercover operation in Milwaukee will now be in charge of the agency's embattled Phoenix office, where agents allowed more than 2,000 guns to walk into the hands of suspected criminals through the infamous "Operation Fast and Furious."

Bernard "B.J." Zapor will be reunited in Phoenix with Fred Milanowski, another key figure in Milwaukee's "Operation Fearless," where a Journal Sentinel investigation found agents lost government guns, had their storefront ripped off and arrested at least four of the wrong people.
Got that?  Screw up ENORMOUSLY, and get- well,  
Zapor was in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' St. Paul Field Division, which covers Wisconsin and three other states. In November, shortly after the Milwaukee sting was abruptly shut down, he was promoted to a position in Washington, D.C., supervising eight field divisions.

Officials from the ATF and the U.S. Department of Justice told congressional staffers in April that disciplinary action was under way against Zapor because of the Milwaukee operation. They won't say if Zapor's assignment to Phoenix is punishment.
'Punishment'. Right.
Zapor has roots in Arizona. He started his career as an agent in Phoenix in 1989 and has family members living in that part of the country. Zapor will be able to retire when he turns 50, in two years. With its proximity to the Mexican border and population, Phoenix is a higher profile field division than St. Paul.

Screw up enormously, get to go HOME to work, in a 'higher profile field division', that's punishment if you work at BATFE.

I've been working in the wrong places all these years; if I screwed up, I actually got in TROUBLE for it.

I tend to think Sergeant Preston would be ashamed

of these clowns.
High River citizens right to be suspicious as RCMP changes story over removal of guns
Gee, ya think maybe?
Gone were the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s prior references to firearms having been “seized.” Now it was all about Mounties “taking possession” of firearms.

Also absent were all the earlier allusions to the RCMP having taken guns that had been “unsafely stored.” Now it was all about finding firearms that were “in plain view” and the force had “no way of assuring [would] remain secure.”
Well, why would that kind of think make anybody suspicious...
Cpl. Turnbill reported many firearms were left scattered about where their owners dropped them as they fled the sudden rise in water levels.
Really?

This stinks pretty badly, and I'm glad people aren't taking it lying down.

That piece I linked to the other day?

The Rifle on the Wall.  Finished it.  Overall a pretty good piece, though I have disagreements with a few of this thoughts.

Not on the importance of the 2nd Amendment, but of his seeing all problems as being due to the 'capitalist state'.  Seems to totally overlook or avoid the fact that an awful lot of the crap we're dealing with has been influenced by/set up by/profited by the 'liberals' and socialists and communists he seems to think are capable of saving us.
Yet all liberal gun-control schemes remain blithely indifferent, when not aggressively dismissive, of these concerns. Somehow, a lot of people have come to imagine that depreciating versus valuing citizens’ gun rights is a left-right dichotomy   Only in the ridiculous political discourse of the United States, where Barack Obama is a “marxist" (or any kind of “leftist” at all) can citizens' right to gun ownership be considered a purely right-wing demand. The notion that an armed populace should have a measure of power of resistance to the heavily armed power of the state is, if anything, a populist principle, and has always been part of the revolutionary democratic traditions of the left. The notion that disarming the people in a capitalist state – and one in severe socio-economic crisis, at that – would be some kind of victory for progressive, democratic forces, something that might help move us toward an emancipatory transformation of society, derives from no position on the political left.
To me, anyone who can think that Obama isn't a leftist... big hole in the thinking there.  He really is a redistributionist/all power to the state/socialist, from what I can see; so maybe the writer doesn't see him as a REAL leftist?

Anyway, the fact is, as he notes with great upset, the vast majority of "We need to get rid of THESE guns(until we can ban all of them)" people are on the left.  And they want us disarmed precisely for the reasons he says they should not: because it holds the promise of people being able to carry out serious "If you won't listen to our words, then you'll listen to this" action.  The Soviets wanted the citizen disarmed for the exact same reason(I wonder if they count as bad socialists for that reason?), along with the subject races Hitler spoke of.

Blaming all this on capitalism is dumb; and it creates a set of ideological blinders that can cause real problems.

Sorry, lost my train of thought for a moment; had a "Waitaminnit, here's something I can make!" flash.  back to the subject, the piece is well worth reading; see what you think.