"Yes, we've been lying, but don't consider it a lie,

consider it just not precise enough to cover your getting screwed."


When he heard about the IRS abusing authority and breaking laws, he was shocked, SHOCKED! about it(doesn't look much like Renault, does he?)

Now his excuse for just about everything:*

The problem for the President is that this has become his administration's standard M.O. for virtually every bit of unpleasant news. The IRS is targeting conservatives?  The President didn't know. The DOJ is spying on reporters?  The President didn't know. The Obamacare website is a train wreck? The President didn't know. The U.S. is running guns to Mexican drug lords? The President didn't know. The NSA is tapping the German Chancellor's phone? We are SHOCKED to learn this!

In fact, he seems to learn of virtually everything "the same way most people do" - by watching the news.

Frankly, this just isn't cutting it anymore. By claiming that he's in the dark in his own White House, Obama has basically told us one of two things.
Either:
  A: He's lying, he knows exactly what's going on, and he both authorizes it and supports it.
Or
  B: He's an absentee President who's abdicated his responsibilities to such a degree that he's presiding over a completely lawless administration.


Speaking of the IRS, "Give us more money, or else this'll screw up even worse than it's already going to."
I said a long time ago, "If the IRS thinks it's hated now, wait till they start acting as Obamacare enforcers." 


Harry Reid(Slimy Bastard D-NV) can call you a terrorist, a hostage-taker and anything else that comes to mind, but don't you dare reciprocate!  Then you're using childish language and damaging the comity of the Senate.


Any idea what this shell is?  I'm thinking some kind of HE.

*Gimme a break, I don't have photoshop and couldn't find his face in a Renault uniform

When you start training cops to act like Easy Company

in occupied territory, this is what you get.  Especially when you throw in the political bullshit.
Increasingly, the US government’s many police forces (often state and local ones as well) operate militarily and are trained to treat ordinary citizens as enemies. At the same time, the people from whom the government personnel take their cues routinely describe those who differ from them socially and politically as illegitimate, criminal, even terrorists. Though these developments have separate roots, the post-9/11 state of no-win war against anonymous enemies has given them momentum. The longer it goes on, the more they converge and set in motion a spiral of civil strife all too well known in history, a spiral ever more difficult to stop short of civil war. Even now ordinary Americans are liable to being disadvantaged, hurt or even killed by their government as never before.

Speaking of, from Dave Codrea on bookface:

Apparently beating up old ladies in New Orleans is just the warmup for the CHP.


I'm all out of sympathy: the proper response to her is "You were warned, dumbass."

When Obama or one of his minions(controllers, whatever) mentions 'our federal family'

or some such, anyone else feel a need to check their ammo supply?

Now that it's a Approved Media News Source reporting it,

will the left stop calling names at people who point out Obama, Clinton and Rice are liars?
60 Minutes had an absolutely devastating report on the Obama administration’s failure to protect Ambassador Chris Stevens and other Americans in Benghazi.

I’ll post the video when available (update – available and added), but the heart of the report is that there were clear and unequivocal warnings which were ignored, and the Obama administration lied about these warnings after the attack.

Hillary and Obama blamed a video and stood by the caskets perpetuating that lie.

And remember how almost all of the media obsessed with Mitt Romney’s statement over Benghazi, and colluded to ask Romney gotcha questions while downplaying and obfuscating what really happened.

60 Minutes said its investigation took almost a year.


"How dare you step off the reservation and tell the truth!"
 And who's right in the middle of it?
The New York Times Magazine commissioned, then canceled, a piece from Jimenez in 2004. (The editor claims it wasn’t any good.) But ABC’s “20/20” ran with a story Jimenez produced, which won two major broadcasting awards. Yet the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog recently accused Jimenez of serving as a lapdog of “right-wing pundits, radio hosts and bloggers.”


Speaking of telling the truth, does this mean NBC is now a 'discredited right-wing news source', or will they just be ignored(after getting threats from the White House)?
None of this should come as a shock to the Obama administration. The law states that policies in effect as of March 23, 2010 will be “grandfathered,” meaning consumers can keep those policies even though they don’t meet requirements of the new health care law. But the Department of Health and Human Services then wrote regulations that narrowed that provision, by saying that if any part of a policy was significantly changed since that date -- the deductible, co-pay, or benefits, for example -- the policy would not be grandfathered.

Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, “the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range.”  

That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.
Which means, again, Obama lied.  Over and over and over.


Talked to a Soldier a while back who told me about various amounts of bullshit in the unit he'd been transferred to, and "The colonel keeps asking why their reenlistment rate sucks."  Today ran across this:
Learned Helplessness in the Military, Part 1 and Part 2.
Makes you wonder how many good people the Army has lost because they hit the point of being unable to tolerate any more of of this shit.

The proper response to 'Do you forgive him?'

is 'Screw Rubio; he betrayed us once, he'll do it again, just like a minime McCain.'


Ran across this the other day; some people were all butthurt that Mike Rowe would actually go on Beck's show, and Rowe has a response:
If you want a detailed answer to your question, please take a moment to read my earlier reply to Bob Reidel, another crestfallen soul who couldn’t reconcile my association with a TV host that he personally despised. As you read it (out loud, if possible, and in a public place), kindly replace the words “Bob Reidel” with “Shannon K. Walsh,” and “Bill Maher” with “Glenn Beck.” But prepare yourself – you might be forced to conclude that my true objective here has little to do with winning or losing your approval.
More goodness in the story.

Further data points have been found

And The Experiment continues

Yeah, that's some set of woofers

First, a bit on the Democrat war on women:

Filner’s opponent, a gay Republican who was for abortion, gay marriage and legalizing pot, had enrolled in the war on women by failing to fill out a questionnaire while Filner, who had molested everyone from grandmothers to sexual abuse victims, was an official protector of women because he had checked the right box on an abortion organization’s questionnaire.


And something else found thanks to Kevin:
The Republicans, who for the most part are about as radical as a three-piece suit, are fighting to maintain a consensus in which everyone follows the law and settles their disagreements by hammering out a compromise that keeps the system going. And their opponents disregard the consensus and the system and go on doing what they want while defying anyone to stop them.
You could call it political civil disobedience, the left would certainly like to when dealing with the administration's radical lawbreaking on immigration or gay marriage, but civil disobedience applies to the civil population, not to their government. Government disobedience isn't noble or virtuous. The rebellion of governments against the laws they are obligated to enforce is self-righteous tyranny.  
...
What radicals never understand is that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The process of the consensus exists to safeguard both sides and prevent political battles from spinning out of control. Democrats, under the influence of the radical left, have decided that they can unilaterally transform the country by acting as if the consensus and the process don't bind them. They have not considered what will happen when a Republican Party that has as much resemblance to its present day leaders as Barack Obama does to Hubert Humphrey makes that same decision.


Professionalism On Display!

Found at Guns.com


Snork...
Not far from me is Norris Dam, the very first dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was filled in 1936, less than three years after the Tennessee Valley Authority Act passed Congress. Note that it was not less than three years after construction started, but less than three years after the act creating the agency that built it passed Congress. Norris Dam worked, and it's still there today, more than 70 years later. 

The Obamacare website -- which took longer to create -- doesn't work, and certainly won't be around in 70 years.


Personal news, the shoulder's nowhere near normal, but it's eased up a lot the last couple of days.  I'm thinking tomorrow I'll start working it a bit more and see how that goes.

That has to hurt

You decide to take a Presidential trip to some steel mill to blame somebody for something, but you know you’re going to have to pass  them to get on the plane. They stand straight as a bayonet on the tarmac, their impeccable uniforms standing out in stark relief against the white of the helicopter. The brass on their belts and covers shines like gold, their shoes like black mirrors. Their salute is pure snap-and-pop, the product of years of living a disciplined, purposeful life, a life where every man is expected to give everything he has and then some for the good of the mission and the Corps, where excuses are simply not tolerated, where responsibility, respect, and honor are not quaint, outdated concepts, but a living part of who they are as individuals and as a brotherhood of warriors. (And a sisterhood as well.  I’m talking to you,  Elizabeth Jane Arens, the finest squad leader I knew.)

And you have to salute these men back. And it galls you, to the deepest pit of your soul, because you know that when you salute those Marines standing by that helicopter, you’re actually saluting better men than yourself.  Men that share a tradition of excellence that goes back 238 years, and it’s something that, no matter how many elections you win, or how many bad laws you manage to ram through a dithering and ineffectual Congress, you can never be a part of. They have something you don’t, and never will, have.

They have the title.


Yeah, that's some first-class system eating all your personal data.
Not only did they process an application I did not submit, the letter says they referred my application to a state agency -- a state agency with which I did not authorize them to share any information. (BTW, this particular state agency outsources application processing and claims that state and federal privacy laws don't apply to them.)

Speaking of,
Appearing before Congress on Thursday, the magicians of Obamacare eventually conceded that, on their supposedly HIPAA-compliant database, deep in the “information architectural process” is a teensy-weensy little bit of “source code” that reads, “You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication of any data transmitted or stored on this information system.”

Democrat members of the House committee professed to be bewildered at why anyone would be either surprised or upset to discover that his information can be shared with anyone in the federal government, including a corrupt and diseased IRS that uses what confidential information it can acquire to torment perceived ideological enemies.
A previous endeavor by the company handed that no-bid contract:
CGI is not a creative free spirit from Jersey City with an impressive mastery of Twitter, but a Canadian corporate behemoth. Indeed, CGI is so Canadian their name is French: Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique. Their most famous government project was for the Canadian Firearms Registry. The registry was estimated to cost in total $119 million, which would be offset by $117 million in fees. That’s a net cost of $2 million. Instead, by 2004 the CBC (Canada’s PBS) was reporting costs of some $2 billion — or a thousand times more expensive.


A new helmet for the Army... I just don't know.

I still can't type well, and it may take a while, so

The Story of What Happened.

There's this tree in the back yard(some of you are already shaking your heads and muttering imprecations; shut up), and with all the rain this year a couple of limbs had grown out over the neighbor's power line.  Especially with winter coming, that can't stay.

Was able to get a lot of it from the ground, but a couple of pieces HAD to be done from the tree.  So I got that all cut, set the pruning pole safely out of the way and started down.  Yes, I was testing every step; that branch lied to me, and broke.  Thus my reintroduction to Gravity('It's not just a good idea, it's the law!')

At one point on the trip down I swear to God I had my upside-down feet hooked over a limb and I actually paused for a moment, long enough for "Maybe I can-" to form before one shoe pulled off and I continued my descent.

So, I laid there a moment going through the 'Can I move x, can I move y' checks, with Security Staff(Jr.) on the other side of the fence with that "You there, boss?" look on his face.  X and Y did indeed function, so I put my shoe on, got up and into the house and sat before the post-incident nausea and dizzy hit.  Sat there a bit getting through that, and called the doctor's office, got a nurse.  "What happened?", etc.  "Um, you need to go to the emergency room."  I think it was the "Yes, I can move my arm, but something's not right in my shoulder" that did it.

Called daughter.  I figured "I'm  not bleeding, so don't need an ambulance, but if I wind up in the hospital overnight or something, can you check on the dogs?"  That got a pause, followed by "Do you want a ride?  It's quiet at work, I can get off."  Started to say no, then felt that oddness in the shoulder again and considered trying to drive, and said "That might be a good idea."

Things went much faster than my previous visit.  I received some pain meds that actually worked, assurance that nothing was broken, very bad sprain in the shoulder(the other bruises, abrasions, missing bits of tissue messy but not threatening), and directions to followup with my regular doc.

So I  have my left arm in a sling most of the time, meds when necessary(they work so-so), and orders to take it easy.  Which means I can't handload(working the lever pulls on everything upper-body), can't cast, can't ride, cooking is a real problem(bribed daughter with dinner a couple of times when just gave up), and the dogs wonder why I'm  not coming out to play much, and can't type very well(it's taking a long time to put this together).  Had to sneeze a couple of times, and that felt like someone stabbed me through the shoulder blade.

And even with power steering, driving sucks(though at least this time I can use my right arm for steering and shifting).

So that's my status.  I shall now retire from typing for a while, and try to get some reading done, or something, while I figure out what/how for lunch.

Improvised hearing protection

video here.
I did that 'hand and shoulder' method when I was a kid; little did I know I was being Early Tactical!"


Pretty much agree: the War on Drugs has been/is a monumental disaster.
Personal observation: people who want everything from grass up legalized, but demand that tobacco be banned...


Oh, the potential...



Al Sharpton is a bigoted, racist, thieving, slimy fat RWPP.  At the minimum.

Well, Americans for Tax Reform and Ryan Ellis

can kiss my ass.


More on the violation of law by DHS and the Maryland Staasi.  And the Coast Guard is added to the list of agencies that can kiss our ass.
“They tore my office apart more than any other room in my house,” she said, adding agents did not take other potentially non-TSA-related documents from the office.

“I had a box full of [Department of Defense] notes,” she said. “They didn’t touch those.”

Some of the files included notes that she had used to expose how the Federal Air Marshal Service had lied to Congress during the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks about the number of airline flights that the service was actually protecting against another terrorist attack.
Miserable excuses for lawmen acting as enforcers for politicians.  Hope they feel real good about themselves.
“Protecting confidential sources is a part of my honor and hits me at my ethical core,” said Mrs. Hudson. “To have someone steal my source information and know it could impact people’s careers, is disgusting, a massive overreach. This kind of conduct is intimidation clearly aimed at silencing a vigorous press.”
And finding whistleblowers to screw, don't forget that.

I shall now throw something into the cartridge wars

The ones that start with "What cartridge is best for self-defense?"  This is from the second Cerillo book, Tales of the Stakeout Squad, and abbreviated 'cause I can't type the whole thing:
The M1 Carbine was one of our favorite weapons.
...
You know what? The Carbine was one of our best stoppers.  Our gunsmith was real good; he was able to fix those magazines so they reliably fed pointy hollowpoint 110-grain WInchester ammo, an expanding bullet. ...  It was fast to shoot, light recoil, and you had 15 rounds.  It turned out that anybody that was hit with it, even if they weren't hit in the vitals, got dropped.

He'd noted in the first book that he'd seen people do some amazing things after being hit with everything from .38 Special roundnose bullets to 12-gauge slugs and buckshot; so for him to praise this means something.

And with the Speer Gold Dot and Hornady XTP ammo* now available for it as well as older hollow- and softpoint(Winchester, Federal and Remington all make some), I'd say you could do much worse for a home-defense rifle.


*And to any ammo guys out there, I'd be more than happy to try some of these out for you.

Sen. Durbin's latest lie?

He's got company in it.


Seems to be the standard .gov response to suits anymore: "It doesn't matter how this affects you, you don't have standing to file this."


Non-apology apology: Regarding my recent remark on Squawk Box regarding Senator Ted Cruz, I first want to deeply and sincerely apologize if my remarks were insensitive.


So, when was the last time the Army was NOT using standardized stuff for briefings like this?  
McHugh “directed that Army leaders cease all briefings, command presentations or training on the subject of extremist organizations or activities until that program of instruction and training has been created and disseminated,” Army spokesman Col. David Patterson, Jr., tells me.
Why was it happening now?
And guess whose fingerprints are all over this?
But the Army does provide a list of organizations that do list groups like the AFA and FRC as domestic hate groups – specifically the Southern Poverty Law Center. And the SPLC is featured in the military’s Equal Opportunity Advisor Student Guide.


Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) says that there is “no question” that members of Congress who are paid $174,000 a year are entitled to taxpayer-funded subsidies when they purchase health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges.

In response to questions posed by CNSNews.com on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Rangel said that he considers the subsidies part of Congress’ “overall compensation” even though ordinary Americans who earn $174,000 per year would have to have at least nine dependent children to qualify for the same subsidy.
Considering this bastard thinks getting to cheat on taxes is part of his compensation, why wouldn't he think someone else owes him for his insurance?

The government war on reporters and whistleblowers:

DHS/Coast Guard/Maryland Staasi edition.
A search warrant obtained by TheDC indicates that the August raid allowed law enforcement to search for firearms inside her home.

The document notes that her husband, Paul Flanagan, was found guilty in 1986 to resisting arrest in Prince George’s County. The warrant called for police to search the residence they share and seize all weapons and ammunition because he is prohibited under the law from possessing firearms.

But without Hudson’s knowledge, the agents also confiscated a batch of documents that contained information about sources inside the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, she said.
Last I heard, the rules on seizing things during a search are pretty strict; and this sounds WAY outside the law.

But fear not!  They have a defense!
She said she asked Bosch why they took the files. He responded that they needed to run them by TSA to make sure it was “legitimate” for her to have them.

“‘Legitimate’ for me to have my own notes?” she said incredulously on Wednesday.
So they figure they can violate the law because 'we need to'.  And with Holder & Co. in charge, the chances of anything being done about this?  Right about 'zero'.

And the real reason for this raid?
Asked how many sources she thinks may have been exposed, Hudson said: “A lot. More than one. There were a lot of names in those files.”

“This guy basically came in here and took my anonymous sources and turned them over — took my whistleblowers — and turned it over to the agency they were blowing the whistle on,” Hudson said. “And these guys still work there.”

Tab clearing

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno revealed this week that just two Army brigades are combat-ready, with budget cuts hampering the military's ability to train its own troops.


“I always describe New York as an elephant’s graveyard for ovaries,” he said. “All these unhappy women, and I am talking about 100 percent of my friends waiting too long and regretting it, and I’m not saying that you have to have babies and you have to stay in the kitchen and you can’t have a life. Nobody is saying that. That is a totally unreasonable thing to say. That is a fascist, communist thing to enforce. All I am saying is: Why are you trivializing such a miracle?”


Going 'a little Galt'.


The EPA has joined the drug war; whatever could go wrong with that?


Because saying "Ladies, don't drink too much" is misogynist.  Or some other idiot accusation.

If you're wondering what happened a few days back, I'll let Roger handle that.

I can't type very well right now(probably shouldn't be), so I'll save the full story of this flight of grace for when I can do it justice.  In the meantime,

While back I read Jim Cirillo's Guns, Bullets and Gunfights; good book.  I now have a copy of Tales of the Stakeout Squad; so far, also very good.  More on this(again) when I can type better.

And that was way over budget and didn't work either;

wonder who's paying off who?

Have to write of the assholes with badges that are the DC Police

and the miserable little suckass politician that is their chief, and the attorney general.

Connected politician wants to violate the assault-weapons law?  DC Police/Lanier will help.  Connected gun bigots want to violate it?  Lanier & Co. will help.  Connected journalist has an illegal magazine?  'It wouldn't promote public safety to prosecute.'

Plain citizen whose ex accuses  him of having firearms-related stuff without .gov approval?  You're screwed.

And to the bastards with badges who carried out this raid: screw you.  You've shown yourselves to be part of the bad guys.  Did it make you feel big and strong to scare the shit out of kids?  To break down a door and throw a naked kid on the floor?

One more case where, instead of knocking and acting like human beings, they put on their ninja suits and abused and threatened people and tore hell out of a home.  Because they can.

Tab clearing

Rep. Moran(Douche-VA); much like a MAIG member and crime in his concern about violence against women.


Gun bigots say since confiscation would be for the Public Good, not for public use, it's constitutional.


And yeah, they want to ban everything.


Teacher's union: "Why are you against sex offenders working in school, you bigot?"


They must calculate that it’s better for Obama to be considered unaware to the point of negligence than to say he was aware of the debacle and let it go ahead anyway.

“President Obama’s people can be quite nasty.

They don’t like you to say anything bad about their boss, and they’re not afraid to use whatever means they have at hand to stop you from doing that, including threatening your job.”
Truly, is anybody surprised by this?


“I’m not against a college education. I’m against debt,” he said. “That was the only four letter word in my family…”

What he’s against, Rowe added, is that we started promoting college “at the expense” of the vocational training that, in many cases, is what’s actually needed for the career.

“It’s not about, this is good or this is bad,” Rowe said. “It’s about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we’re still selling education the same way we sold it when you and I were in high school.”


And there in a nutshell is the argument currently raging in America. One side, an armed populace of exactly the kind the Founders envisaged; on the other, a fascist police state in which you’re disarmed for your own good, since the presumption is that you would use a firearm for ill, not good. It’s easy to see why the Left favors the latter, since the end result of so many of their policy prescriptions is enforcement by coercion, and they are incapable of conceiving of a “good” use for a gun in a civilian’s hands. Which is why they’ve been adamantly screaming about the “militia” clause in the Second Amendment from time immemorial.

It's Jennifer's Birthday;

go give her some love.

And see if you can get Weird Al's attention while you're at it.

'Most transparent administration EVER!

Mike Hash, who directs the Office of Health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services, will brief House Democrats Wednesday about implementation of the Affordable Care Act. 

The closed-door session, which will start at 8:50 a.m., marks the first time the administration will have briefed members of Congress on the online enrollment system since its troubled rollout on Oct. 1.


Tom Watson, you're a friggin' idiot.  And a bigot.
And their own argument for privacy is weakened by the pollution of an ideology that uses its few positive civil liberties positions as a predator uses candy with a child.
Coming from someone who supports such lights of corruption and lies as Feinstein and Pelosi, that's really interesting.

For those whose feet still touch the ground, the path to NSA reform so clearly lies inside the Democrats’ big tent – and runs through its liberal wing. And because we are a liberal republic, whose central government is not leaving the landscape anytime soon (the libertarians’ fondest goal), change must also run through an elected Congress.

Democrats? Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Your Cell Phone) took to the pages of USA Today to defend NSA surveillance as recently as yesterday. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Your Email In Box) called Edward Snowden a "traitor" for revealing the NSA's excesses. And President Obama, who is, in fact, a Democrat, loves him some NSA surveillance.
Claiming the 'liberal wing'(is that the non-communists or what?) will save us from the NSA lawbreaking is about as intelligent as expecting integrity from Boehner or McConnell.  Or most any of the other career politicians in either party.  Which demonstrates that you, Mr. Watson, are either- as noted previously- a friggin' moron, or a damned liar.
I'm voting for moron.


What?  Don't those peasants know Cruz is a despised extremist wacko bird?


Yeah, and Holder never heard of Gunwalker until 'a couple of weeks ago', too.


His Majesty doesn't like the law, so he declares around it.


Stuff to make the Bradys and Laddites cry:
There are now more than 5 million women participating in the shooting sports, an increase of 46.5 percent since 2001. The number of gun owners in America surpassed 100 million a few years ago, according to the NRA. Reportedly, NRA membership now exceeds 5 million. More gun owners means more ammo being shot.

A recent survey by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association that represents firearms manufacturers and related products, found that the primary motive for recent handgun purchases is concealed carry (32 percent), followed by non-competitive shooting (28 percent) and then home defense (24 percent). Two thirds of handgun owners said they are likely to purchase another handgun within the next year. Also, 30 percent of single handgun owners purchased their first and only handgun within the past year.
...
As the number of gun owners in America has been growing gun stores have been expanding, adding indoor ranges and new training programs. These new consumers are buying more ammo.
...
Randy Potter, Gat Guns’ store manager, says, “Ten years ago we had two women working behind the counter. We now have nine. We have women-only classes taught by a lady who is an International Practical Shooting Confederation shooter. We’ve also opened up our aisles, added more lights, put in granite counter tops and more. We’re catering more and more to suburban moms and dads. We now rent 160 firearm types and have instructors available for anyone who needs them.

“Over the last few decades our consumers have changed and we’ve changed with them,” says Potter. “I just sold an AR-15 to a guy who has hunted all his life but now wants a rifle for home defense. We used to get mostly hunters. Now we also get a lot of women and young men who want to shoot recreationally and to defend themselves.”
You can almost hear the outraged tears hitting the floor.


On a personal side, this post started last night; I'm not typing real well right now.  Followup with regular doc later today.  Details later on, let's just say I'm reminded of why I say I'm allergic to pain.

After a personal reacquaintance with gravity I expected

typing to be right out; but it's not as bad as expected, so I'm going to throw a few things up:
'Let people carry, or let the TSA start feeling everyone up before they enter the mall(and the latter won't work).'


More special privileges for special people.


"But the death panels are a GOOD thing; they make the decisions you're not competent to!"


'The website troubles are just the beginning!'
Anybody surprised?


Obama’s fingerprints all over IRS Tea Party scandal
Again, is anybody actually surprised?

And that's all, folks.

Free ice cream dispenser broken:

So some new Experiment data points for examination

Help ATF smuggle guns and grenades to Mexico, no problem;

buy a gun for someone who can legally own a gun, they lose their shit.   Because you're a threat or something.


Obama picks someone with a nice socialist background- who's raised Obama lots of money- for the new Big Sister at DHS.


Some more on the corrupt Sen. Mitch McConnell(Dirtbag-KY):
In late September, Mitch McConnell used his lofty position in the Republican minority to stand against Senate conservatives like Ted Cruz and fellow Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. He made and underhanded effort to block a House bill which would fund the government and raise the debt ceiling in exchange for defunding ObamaCare. Knowing that the Senate would not have the 60 votes necessary to amend the House bill to fund ObamaCare, he and fellow collaborators voted in favor of a cloture vote which would allow Harry Reid and Senate Democrats to amend the bill with an easily attainable straight majority vote. Then, having cleared the Senate Democrats' path to funding ObamaCare, he cast a show vote against the amended spending bill, which included the funding of ObamaCare, hoping it would absolve him of any blame.


"Making guns requires a HUGE technical base, so if we ban and then confiscate, nobody will have them!"  Etc.

So an African-American writer pens a blog on how it used to be okay to criticize the president without fear of being called a racist. Naturally, the Huffington Post calls me a racist for posting it.

This is a model of how it takes so little for a false accusation of racism to travel half-way around the world, or in the case of the Tea Party, all the way around the world before the truth comes out.
Of course, by the time the truth comes out, the world has moved on, and the lie remains.


John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are so good at folding Obama should hire them as White House valets.

Mr. Hippie, did you fry your brain with recreational pharmaceuticals? Updated

I just got this in comments:
This site is a satire of the current state of Law Enforcement, Fire Fighting and Emergency Medical work. Stories posted here are not real and you should not assume them to have any basis in any real fact.

Either that, or you're just plain damn stupid.
The chief explained how about four years ago right after the grand opening of the Co-Op an officer was confronted about having a gun in the store when he stopped to buy a bottle of water. The officer pointed out he was an on-duty uniformed policemen so their “no weapons” policy sign did not apply to him. The next day a new sign was posted. It stated no Police with out a warrant allowed in the store. The sign detailed how any entry by a police officer would be a violation of the 4th amendment. The chief advised his officers to abide by the sign.

Fast-forward to today. The store calls for an officer when they catch a shoplifter. The manager meets the responding officer at the main entrance. The manager tells the officer he can only enter the store if he disarms himself, all weapons. The manager tells the officer he will need to leave his full duty belt in the squad car, no nightstick, no pepper spray, no TASER, no weapons period.

The officer explained that was a major officer safety issue and also a violation of policy. The officer offered to put on his raincoat to cover the weapons so people in the store would not see them. He also offered to have the manager walk the shoplifter out side and he would take custody of the shoplifter in the parking lot. None of these options were acceptable to the manager so the officer left.
Personally, I'm going with plain damn stupid.

Next time some Evil Party clown demands you 'stop using divisive language!',

tell him to fold Obama, Reid, Chris Matthews and Steve Cohen to eight corners and shove them up his ass.
...we take an oath to support the country against all enemies foreign and domestic, and these are the domestic enemies.
Yep.  You remind the House that they have actual Constitutional authority in the spending mess, you refuse to surrender to what Obama and Reed demand, you're a domestic enemy.

Guess what, Cohen?  You're one more hypocritical little bastard politician, and you can kiss my ass.


In the People's Republic of New York,
“John Doe, an upstanding professional with no outstanding criminal convictions and no history of violent action received a letter from the Pistol Permit Department informing him that his license was immediately revoked upon information that he was seeing a therapist for anxiety and had been prescribed an anxiety drug. He was never suicidal, never violent, and has no criminal history. The New York State Department of Health is apparently conducting a search of medical records to determine who is being treated for anxiety drugs and using this as a basis for handgun license revocation.
...
James Tresmond Esq confirmed in our conversation that the above mentioned case is occurring in Erie County NY, it is his client that has been effected, and as yet unknown sources have seen fit to take it upon themselves to share confidential medical records with NY State Officials without authorization, a massive HIPPA violation.

It seems these supposedly confidential records are then compared against a list of known NY pistol license holders and letters are sent out demanding their Pistol Owner ID Cards be surrendered, as well as any firearms and accessories.

So when does someone in that wonderful major media grab Howler Cuomo and ask when the investigations were started into these violations of HIPPA law?
Yeah, I know, but the question has to be asked.  Preferably of said journalists: "So why DON'T you care about these horrible violations of law?" until someone who actually wants to be a reporter actually demands answers from Cuomo(yeah, like that will happen).


At this point I'm with Denny: you want welfare?  You become unable to have kids.  I'm fine with a temporary sterilization of some kind, but NO KIDS.
Adams blames social services for failing to help her. Social service agencies, however, claim that they were trying to help, and paid for rent, utilities, and even furniture. In addition, Adams admits, community members have been helping with food.

“Somebody,” Adams says, “needs to pay for all my children . . . somebody needs to be held accountable, and they need to pay.” And there’s your underclass snapshot: It’s somebody else’s problem.
'Somebody ELSE needs to be held accountable.  Somebody ELSE needs to pay.'  Bullshit. 


Chief Lanier demonstrates once again that she only wants to enforce gun laws against people she doesn't approve of; connected politicians, journalists and anti-gun activists can break them almost at will.


Snork...
7. “You don’t have any right to carry guns anyway! The Second Amendment is about the National Guard, not personal protection!”
The Bill of Rights was framed shortly after the American Revolution. A “National Guard” in the time of the revolution would have been Tories loyal to King George and duty-bound to crush the American patriots. Do you really think this was what the framers intended to empower and enable?


A poster I'd forgotten I had(amazing what turns up in a cleaning session)

The Al Sharpton school of 'civil rights':

"Screw whites, and minorities get special treatment.  Or you're a racist."


What?  Obama care is actually in REAL trouble?  Whoda thunk it possible?
Shut up, and put your hands down; I know YOU did.

The calculation of subsidies continues to fail tests, and it’s pretty clear that some actual consumers have made actual purchases with bad information, which will become apparent to them when they get their first bills. If the interface problems are addressed and the volume of purchases increases, this calculation problem could become a huge concern.

What happens if tens of thousands of consumers get their first insurance bill and discover they’re paying more than they thought? Or get a notice from the IRS that the subsidy they thought they were getting is incorrect? Imagine: pitchforks, tar, and feathers.
I'd prefer to think of ropes and lampposts, but I'll settle for PT&F.  For now.

Speaking of, I've been thinking about that 'Fill in ALL your personal information before you can actually see the plans' crap. There's been a backhand admission that it was to keep people from backing out from seeing the prices up front, but another thought occurs:
For an administration that wants to run your life as much as possible, this is great; they can get all that information in a single database. And you have to give it to them to even attempt to see the plans.

And there's no way to take it out once they have it.


JPFO thinks there are 7 varieties of gun bigots/hoplophobes: Elitists, Authoritarians top the list.


A: The UN can kiss our ass. Just in general.
B: Seeing as how the official UN position is that there is no fundamental human right to self-defense, being lectured on self-defense laws by these cankers on the ass of humanity is annoying as hell.
C: Did I mention that the UN can kiss my ass?


The EffingBI and DHS are still at it:
A joint bulletin issued in early August by the Department of Homeland Security and FBI warns state and local law enforcement agencies to look out for people in possession of “large amounts” of weapons and ammunition, describing the discovery of “unusual amounts” of weapons as a potential indicator of criminal or terrorist activity.
And how do they define those things?
While the bulletin never clarifies what constitutes a “large” or “unusual” quantity of weapons or ammunition, it does say that such a quantity would “arouse suspicion in a reasonable person.”
Which means "If Japete breaks out in involuntary urination and outrage at your two bricks of .22 and can of 9mm, that's it."

Anybody else reminded of FEMA and DHS saying "You need to have at least three days of supplies in case of disaster" and then DHS saying "Anybody stockpiling food, water and other items should be considered a terrorism suspect"?


Speaking of .gov jerks, morons and dirtbags,
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is even refusing to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a hearing this coming Thursday. HHS claims she has scheduling conflicts, but we hope she isn't in the White House catacomb under interrogation by Valerie Jarrett about her department's incompetence.

The department is also refusing to make available lower-level officials who might detail the source or sources of this debacle. Ducking an investigation with spin is one thing. Responding with a wall of silence to the invitation of a duly elected congressional body probing the use of more than half a billion taxpayer dollars is another. This Obama crowd is something else.

What bunker is Henry Chao hiding in, for instance? He's the HHS official in charge of technology for the Affordable Care Act, and in March he said at an insurance lobby conference that his team had given up trying to create "a world-class user experience." With the clock running, Mr. Chao added that his main goal was merely to "just make sure it's not a third-world experience."


And this is what our 'schools' are producing...
Insty keeps asking "Is sending a kid to public school child abuse?" From the sound of this, yes.
And that's not counting the 'zero-tolerance' idiocy and other crap.

In the spirit of the month,

The Crew:

Target-rich environment:

Yeah, I know, Daphne's redhead, but still:

Or, during an investigation,

Kahr40 did a logo for the NSPS too:

Anybody who thinks this was a 'joke'

and they 'didn't know it would offend anyone' is a fool.
Especially given the ATF background of screwing agents for ANY reason, let alone what's been done to Gunwalker whistleblowers.


What modern feminism has become: "I decided that I'd been made uncomfortable, so someone has to suffer for it!"


Couple of days ago, during the 'shutdown', heard a commercial on radio for the Park Service: 'Our centennial is approaching, and we need more money to properly do the parks!'
Considering their behavior during the downtime, they need a farging budget cut and to fire a bunch of clowns.


"Those right-wing traitors and racists need to stop being so divisive!"

Bob S had an encounter

he wonders about.  Which seems a good time to repost these links on situational awareness:
Threat Indicators and Personal Safety

Pre-Attack Indicators

Managing Contacts
(This guy is has/had a DVD of this that's supposed to be excellent, but I can't find any current links to it)
Added: found this on a seminar he held in the UK

Recognizing Threats

Standing on the X

If you can use some plated bullets,

X-Treme has a sale going on; use the code at checkout and get 15% off

His Majesty does not want you to read blogs

Except the ones that kiss his ass, of course.

And next time somebody starts that 'nasty talk from the right' crap, remind them
I love being scolded by an autocrat who just got done calling anybody who disagrees with him a hostage-taker, and then turns around and says $#!+ like, “We don’t have to suggest that the other side doesn’t love this country.” See, it isn’t incredibly ugly, hyperpartisan rhetoric when he says it.


Bloomberg's connected to this Illinois attack on gun ownership and self-defense; anybody surprised?
As if the current mayor really needed any help on such.


Speaking of Illinois, the State Police(and sometimes that's such an accurate name, isn't it?) are doing their best to screw up the process.


Sparkman High principal Michael Campbell, you're a piece of shit; and I hope you're very happy with what you've helped cause.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office:

They'll smell a bad smell(maybe) and break into your home and kill you.  And then justify the meth raid(no meth or components found) because somebody in the house had some grass.

And an 80-year-old man, awakened by somebody breaking in in the night, is supposed to magically know it's cops.  Of course, he MAY have known and some asshole with a badge might have killed him anyway and excused it with 'he pointed a gun'(see 'magically' above), therefore he deserved it because drugs(see 'no meth or chemicals found' above).

Yes, I posted on this before; this crap should be repeated, over and over, along with the excuses for murdering a man in his home in a SWAT raid instead of knocking on the damned door and saying "Sir, we have a search warrant."

Every American has a little sedition in his soul, and this is a very good time to give it free rein.

There is a finely calibrated bargain at the heart of a republic: Citizens have a duty to obey the lawful and legitimate mandates of the government, including those with which they disagree, and the government has a duty to see to it that its actions are lawful and legitimate. The people have an obligation to be prudent and circumspect about engaging in civil disobedience, and the government has a responsibility to be scrupulous with its powers. That contract has been violated by the White House.

Yep; the 'civil rights movement' now largely means "Equal Rights For All; as long as we can get some groups special treatment."

Interesting way to prevent anyone from getting information: "NOBODY has standing to sue us!"

Haven't had time to get through all of this, but interesting.

The U.S. Constitution was written by individuals who believed in the classical liberal philosophy of individual rights and sought to protect those rights from governmental encroachment. But since the fascist/ collectivist philosophy has been so influential, policy reforms over the past half century have all but abolished many of these rights by simply ignoring many of the provisions in the Constitution that were designed to protect them. As legal scholar Richard Epstein has observed: “[T]he eminent domain . . . and parallel clauses in the Constitution render . . . suspect many of the heralded reforms and institutions of the twentieth century: zoning, rent control, workers’ compensation laws, transfer payments, progressive taxation.”[8] It is important to note that most of these reforms were initially adopted during the ’30s, when the fascist/collectivist philosophy was in its heyday.

Things like this are why a gun is a handy thing to have around:

“Do you know what people are?  They are nothing more than bags of meat with screams inside!”

But a lot of the gun bigots think using a gun to stop beings like this is just as bad or worse than what the being is doing.

More bodies to pile at the feet of Holder, Obama,

and their little minions who ran Gunwalker.
CBS News has learned of a shocking link between a deadly drug cartel shootout with Mexican police last week and a controversial case in the U.S. The link is one of the grenades used in the violent fight, which killed three policemen and four cartel members and was captured on video by residents in the area.

According to a Justice Department "Significant Incident Report" filed Tuesday and obtained by CBS News, evidence connects one of the grenades to Jean Baptiste Kingery, an alleged firearms trafficker U.S. officials allowed to operate for years without arresting despite significant evidence that he was moving massive amounts of grenade parts and ammunition to Mexico's ruthless drug cartels.
Ah, the wonders of the operations of the BATFEIEIO.
Though I shouldn't be even a little light about this; we'll never know how many people are dead in connection with these bastards.

The Kingery case was overseen by the same Arizona U.S. Attorney and ATF office that let suspects traffic thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels in the operation dubbed Fast and Furious.

ATF says it has no information about this(that they'll admit to); and Holder's DoJ... probably trying to find anything else they can hide up Obama's ass under executive privilege.

Busy, so for now just a short "Screw the GOP"

They didn't just cave, surrender, and give Obama and Reid everything they wanted, the sold out.  McConnell got this; no cheap whore he, only for premium call-girl prices does he sell out!

Which makes you wonder what a bunch of these other clowns sold themselves for, doesn't it?

Oh YEAH!

Isn't Jarvis cute, with his little collar insignia on his green uniform?

“We are content-neutral on First Amendment and on the National Mall,” Mr. Jarvis responded.

“That wasn’t my question,” Mr. Gowdy fired back. “Do you consider it to be an exercise of your First Amendment rights to walk to a monument that you helped build?”

Mr. Jarvis then insinuated that individuals could visit the memorials if they “declare” they are there to exercise their First Amendment rights.

“Who were they to declare it to?” Mr. Gowdy angrily interrupted. “A barricade? … I want the record to reflect that no statute or code of the federal regulation was cited to justify the erection of barricades.”

Look at the way he hesitates and thinks real hard about how to answer "Did you talk to anybody at the White House about this?"
Miserable little fascist bastard.
Also a lying little bastard.
Explaining the decisions to close off memorials, including open-air sites like the World War II Memorial, he said the agency took "prudent and practical steps." He said the agency has worked "diligently" to ensure "honor flights" of WWII veterans were not turned away from the memorials despite the restrictions -- allowing them access on the basis of their First Amendment rights.
Which apparently means "I didn't order them arrested when they move the barricades I used to block their access to the memorial."

And do note they had to subpoena the bastard.

The director's full testimony to Congress can be found here, but it can be summed up as a non-apology blaming the inability of a furloughed workforce to meet the safety and security concerns of a "post-9/11 world" for the National Park Service's actions despite the fact that law enforcement officers, firefighters, border protections, and surveillance programs were maintained throughout the furloughs.
And I suppose the 'post-9/11 world' is why elderly people at Yellowstone were kept in their rooms by armed guards(so if there were no security people due to furlough, where'd these clowns come from?).

The Democrats, of course, insist it's all the Republicans fault.  Anything, no matter what or where.



 Not only should it not be necessary to tell people "You don't have to let these clowns come into your home", but Mills should have his ass kicked for thinking a warrantless 'visit' was in any way tolerable.


Short(very) version: "How dare you actually own and use firearms I disapprove of civilians having?!?"
Short answer: 'Screw you, bozo.'

Amazing work (possibly NSFW)

by Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz with milk,shutter speed and lighting

More shots at the link

States need to follow the Florida lead on gun laws:

Pass a law that's in violation of state preemption, the people involved are personally liable.  Vermont could use that right now.
But the key admission came from Terri Hallenbeck of the Burlington Free Press.
“So, this is a way to inch things forward on the gun control issue,” she observed. “You go to one of Vermont's most liberal municipalities and you get a tiny bit, then maybe you inch forward."
In violation of law, but they'll pay no price for doing it, so they don't care.


Once again: “Loophole” = “People Doing Legal $#!t I Don’t Like”.  In this case Ladd Everitt striking again, changing his mind with- well, the speed of a gun bigot who needs a new stand.


Sean does good work:
It was GRNC who emailed all their members in Wake and Durham counties asking them to show up at an unknown (at the time) location with about 24 hours notice. We didn’t know where we were going to set up until 10 hours before the event where it was even going to be! Their secrecy was deliberate, because they didn’t want us to show up. Sadly (for them!) they failed. From my blog wrapup of that event…

Luckily, the media told us what was happening. We heard several variations, but the basics were that they would shoot sporting clays, have a round table discussion with gun owners, and meet with their supporters. The general consensus was that their round table discussion with gun owners would happen at “The Pit Authentic Barbecue” in downtown Raleigh at around 11AM. Paul Valone of Grass Roots North Carolina couldn’t make it, so he put me in charge and asked me to make it happen. With less than 10 hours notice, we wrangled a crowd of about 25-30 people.
(Read the whole thing for photos and even some news video coverage.)

And now, months later, NBC is citing us and one of a number of reasons that the Astroturf anti-gun movement is failing.


Obamacare reality strikes; dedicated Kossacks can make excuses for ANYTHING.


Speaking of reality, while the TSA is molesting people and stealing their stuff, this is going on.
And when something does happen, the bastards will say that this proves they need the authority to strip-search us.

Speaking of order-following jerks in uniforms,

“Who is going to want to buy an old stupid gun

rather than a smart gun?” Teret asked.
Yeah, who would want their old stupid iron that goes 'Bang' every time instead of a buggy, overcomplicated piece of crap that can't be trusted?

And you'll notice Bloomberg money behind this, along with the company involved being
...Armatix, which works enthusiastically to curry favor from Geneva’s Small Arms Survey and the notoriously anti-gun International Action Network on Small Arms...

And this is in the Dark and Fascist State of New Jersey.  Which has a law that means, even if this is a piece of unreliable crap,  “The law … requires the state’s gun dealers to exclusively sell smart guns within three years after the first one hits the market.”(except for cops, of course, they're exempt); so it doesn't have to be worth crap as long as it's on the market and Bloomberg & Co. can say "No more old-style guns sold within three years."

Oh yeah, it's a threat.  And you think that bastard Christie will have any problem with it?