Here in Oklahoma, here it comes

Rep. Mike Shelton says he planned to host an interim legislative study on Tuesday to look at both the state's open carry law, which allows licensed adults to openly display a handgun, and the "Stand Your Ground" law that allows the use of deadly force.

But he says some local gun rights groups that he spoke with "simply stopped returning our calls."

Don Spencer with the Oklahoma Second Amendment Association and a well-known gun rights advocate at the Capitol, says he wasn't invited to participate in the study.

Shelton says he still plans to introduce "gun safety" legislation next session.
Interestingly, I only found this story on the linked site and at Daily Kos(short version: "Oklahoma gun owners are racists and want to kill people for entertainment").

Did a bit more searching, and- SURPRISE!- the Martin/Zimmerman case is involved.

The outcry over the controversial not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman case has lawmakers in Oklahoma taking a closer look at the "Stand Your Ground" law.

"Is there a clear line on Stand Your Ground?," asked Oklahoma Representative Mike Shelton, (D) Oklahoma City, who is now calling for a legislative study into the law.

"It's my hope to take this opportunity to give people a voice whether they are for or against it," said Rep. Shelton.
And here we go: "I'm a gun owner, BUT-"
Rep. Shelton is a registered gun owner who has been opposed to "Stand Your Ground" and "Make My Day" laws.
And he wonders why civil rights groups don't want to play with him.
From the SFGate article:
Shelton says he still plans to introduce "gun safety" legislation next session.
Three guesses what he considers 'gun safety'.  And yes, the quotes are in the original.

Specifically for 'law enforcement officers' who forget that oath,

and think that badge means "I can do whatever the hell I want", I'm of the opinion we should bring back the whipping post in the town square.

At the least.
The ACLU is representing a New Mexico woman in her fifties who was subjected by federal agents to a two-handed (!) vaginal and anal examination, an involuntary X-ray and CAT scan, and was forced to defecate in front of strangers. The woman was suspected of being in possession of drugs, on the basis of a drug-dog alert at the Juarez/El Paso border-crossing. No drugs were found. The federal agents -- it's not clear what agency they were with -- did not obtain a warrant. The doctors at University Medical Center in El Paso performed the procedures without the victim's consent, including the CT scan, which subjects people to a high dose of potentially harmful radiation.
"We're Feds, we don't need no stinking warrant!"


Piece of history, Why Registration Is A Bad Idea, #Ican'tevenremember:
...The government gullibly neglected to consider that only law-abiding citizens would register, while political extremists and criminals would not. However, it did warn that the gun-registration records must be carefully stored so they would not fall into the hands of extremists.

The ultimate extremist group, led by Adolf Hitler, seized power just a year later, in 1933. The Nazis immediately used the firearms-registration records to identify, disarm and attack “enemies of the state,” a euphemism for Social Democrats and other political opponents of all types. Police conducted search-and-seizure operations for guns and “subversive” literature in Jewish communities and working-class neighborhoods.
...By fall of 1938, the Nazis were ratcheting up measures to expropriate the assets of Jews. To ensure that they had no means of resistance, the Jews were ordered to surrender their firearms.

Flatow walked into a Berlin police station to comply with the command and was arrested on the spot, as were other Jews standing in line. The arrest report confirmed that his pistols were duly registered, which was obviously how the police knew he had them. While no law prohibited a Jew from owning guns, the report recited the Nazi mantra: “Jews in possession of weapons are a danger to the German people.” Despite his compliance, Flatow was turned over to the Gestapo.
And we know how far downhill it went from there.

I know I'm late, but Happy Birthday, Marines

And Mr. Rowe says it very well.

Robb Allen put it And on the 8th day, God created the Marines   And the devil ran in fear.


On the dishonorable side of life, screwing people who helped us:
A growing number of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside American troops are being denied U.S. visas allotted by Congress because the State Department says there is no serious threat against their lives.
This is one of those pieces of absolute bullshit that President Lightworker could clear up with a phone call or memo; but he's to effing busy getting in another round of golf and then denying he's responsible for his pile of crap in the floor.  And ignoring a fairly significant bit of history.


What happens when being PC and 'diverse' is more important than getting the job done.

Yes, I'm still alive

Just tired enough my eyes are about to cross, so bloggage won't return for a day or two yet.

In the meantime, the next installment of data from The Experiment

A quick post before the day really starts

Florida House committee has an attack of brains: attempt to trash SYG law stopped cold.

Please note the bastards didn't just want to get rid of SYG:
One particularly awkward part of the testimony involved the revelation that the proposed bill would have the effect not only of repealing Stand-Your-Ground out in public but also the Castle Doctrine in one’s home.  The bill sponsor Rep. Williams acknowledged this to be the case, but suggested it was a “glitch” that could be fixed later.  Even more awkward was when Rep. Williams was questioned on various aspects of Florida’s self-defense law (section 776), and clearly had no idea what the law was.

Finally, and perhaps most telling, Williams closing arguments of the night focused not on Stand-Your-Ground at all, but on the self-defense immunity provisions of the law. The anti-self-defense crowd really, REALLY hates self-defense immunity.


Why don't most journalists report on crap in communist/socialist countries?


"I'm a lying bastard, and I'm going to keep lying."


"I'm shocked- SHOCKED!- that these illegal aliens and activists are such dirtbags!"


And more wonders of modern 'law enforcement'.

Busy few days,

so little blogging for a while.

No, I do NOT need to bring the Roger 'toon back out.  Repairs on a carport for one thing, which I will hopefully accomplish without further loss of blood or movement.

By the way, for future reference: those Skele-Toes shoes I like?  On a shingle roof they have approximately the same traction as leather soles on a newly-waxed floor(dammit, I said no new injuries, shut up).

Also, the store-brand chain lube from Cycle Gear works wonderfully on the joints of a folding ladder.

The irony is interesting, is it not?


Ayoob asked for comments on people reporting a friend/relative/someone at school who may be a threat, and this in the comments is dead-on:
...The drug war has driven a wedge between law enforcement and the general public. The war mentality has bleed over from drug enforcement to taint other forms of policing.
There are now law enforcement officers who claim that American cops face the same dangers on patrol as our soldiers do in Afghanistan. [1] 

There was recently a SWAT style raid of an animal clinic. [2] When asked why the raid was conducted in that style, a supervisor explained that they just go ahead and kick in doors in drugs cases, so why should they do anything differently here.*

Given this militarization of police forces, I think that some people are afraid to reach out to law enforcement when a loved one is having mental issues due to a fear that the first response to such an issue will be violent.
Exactly.  There's a big difference between thinking "If I call the police/sheriff, someone'll come talk to him and look into things" and "Well shit, if I call the cops they're likely to kick the doors in and kill somebody." 


Film taken during WWII shows a Spitfire making a forced-landing; the pilot gets to see it in 2005.






*and I don't doubt the idiots in question were all butthurt when the populace announced "We think you're heavy-handed assholes" for doing it.

It's a brave man who writes a campus paper and states

"There IS no 'rape culture'!"
The expected and usual 'feminist' outrage follows.

A while back a lady wrote this fine piece, and caught eight levels of hell for 'blaming the victims', 'excusing men of guilt', etc. ad Bullshit.  Personally I thought it was good advice to tell a girl heading off to college "It's not a good idea to get fall-on-your-ass drunk at parties.  ANY parties.  Especially to do it regularly", and said so on Bookface.

Guess what?

I know it classes me(to the 'enlightened') as a knuckle-dragging misogynist rape-culture apologist, but I'll say it again: you have a friend/relative who's heading off to college?  TELL THEM THAT.  Female and male both.

One of the things that pisses me off about this: If you announced you told that piece of advice to every young male you knew, before they headed to college, a lot/most of the same people screaming 'VICTIM BLAMING!' about this would probably congratulate you(the others would accuse you of 'trying to keep them from enjoying the College Experience', which proves they're friggin' idiots and to be ignored).  And if a guy got drunk as hell and got in some kind of trouble, and you pointed that out to others as a fine bad example, they'd either agree, no cries of VB would be heard.  Some would even announce he deserved the trouble for being stupid.

But give girls the same advice?

Also proving I don't have the proper-for-modern-life mindset, I think that '20 percent of college women are sexually assaulted' figure is bullshit.  Unless you include in that number females waking up and realizing "I slept with HIM?" or deciding later "We were both drunk, and I climbed on him, but that doesn't change that HE ASSAULTED ME!" and other such crap(I've said that, too; more of the same 'You don't care about women/rape/why don't you teach your sons not to rape!' garbage in return).


Guns & Ammo cans Metcalf.


More on that "People who should never have been allowed to carry a badge" story the other day:
Eckert was sent a $6,000 bill for the medical procedures he involuntarily underwent, his lawyer says.
At the end of the story:
Kennedy filed a motion for summary judgment Oct. 24, asking the court to rule on the facts of the case, which she says are not disputed. She says defendants responded by expressing interest in resolving the case outside of court.
Yeah, I'll bet they'd LOVE to keep this from getting in front of a jury.


A: Yes, Obamacare will screw with employer-provided insurance, too.
B: Remember, this was said by the same asshole now insisting that, for instance, men should have to pay for maternity coverage on themselves:
In 2009, Mr. Obama explained to NPR, "I'm on record as saying that taxing 'Cadillac' plans that don't make people healthier, but just take more money out of their pockets because they're paying more for insurance than they need to, that's actually a good idea and that helps bend the cost curve. That helps to reduce the cost of health care over the long term. I think that's a smart thing to do."


Ah, but THESE polls don't count.  Or something.


Florida Democrats A: Don't want to hear from you(or you to speak at all, it seems), and
B: want to trash protections for self-defenders.

Turns out the bastards have done this TWICE

That we know of.
KOB-TV 4 is now reporting a second incident where New Mexico cops did the same thing to a random driver who committed a minor traffic violation.

In October of last year, Timothy Young was pulled over for failing to signal a turn. After a drug-sniffing dog indicated that Young might be carrying drugs, police obtained a warrant and took him to Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City. There, doctors administered anal exams, including enemas, X-rays and a colonoscopy.

Young suffered through a similar ordeal as David Eckert, who was pulled over by police in January and taken to Gila Regional against his will using an expired, invalid warrant. (RELATED: Horror: Police force man to undergo invasive anal operation)

And get this:
There is no indication that the same officers were involved in both cases. What is clear, however, is that the same drug-sniffing dog was used both times.

The dog’s name is Leo, and according to KOB-TV 4, he is no longer licensed by the state of New Mexico to assist police in drug searches. Drug-sniffing dogs must be re-certified each year; Leo’s license expired in April of 2012, months before the Young and Eckert incidents.
Gee, I wonder why they might be using an uncertified dog for this work, hmmm?

Hang the bastards. The cops, the deputies, the doctors (link fixed)

and the judge who signed the warrant.
If we can't hang them, then sue for everything they have or ever will have.

Eckert's attorney, Shannon Kennedy, said in an interview with KOB that after law enforcement asked him to step out of the vehicle, he appeared to be clenching his buttocks.  Law enforcement thought that was probable cause to suspect that Eckert was hiding narcotics in his anal cavity.  While officers detained Eckert, they secured a search warrant from a judge that allowed for an anal cavity search.
And it gets worse every step of the way.

The level of disgusting... this doesn't even aspire to 'fail', it would have to improve by multiple levels to reach that.

November E-Postal match is up

Over here.


In Colorado, the leftists trying to keep Hudak in office are getting both more violent and downright slanderous.
At another site however, the Brownies were noticeably more proactive, jumping out into traffic, shouting into peoples windows, and getting in the faces of those attempting to sign a petition. The police were called and the harassment ended. Why are anti-gun people so violent?

Saw one of the door hangers distributed by the Hudak people. Very professionally written and printed, the sort of thing the government might put out to warn the citizens of the presence of a rampaging rabid werewolf. Petition circulators were described as either identity thieves or sex offenders. Shades of the land shark skit from SNL. I'll try to get one to put up here in the next day or two.


Mr. Huffman ran across a fine example of a politically-correct bigot and general "I don't care about that rule of law or individual rights shit" dirtbag going by The Coquette who writes an advice column, and he engaged her on the matter.  She proceeded to prove exactly what she is.

Then some of her sympathizers went over to Joe's to lecture on what nasty people we are, putting individual rights and freedom above what they consider 'the greater good'.

Downright disgusting.

Among the most idiotic defenses I've heard of Obamacare:

Along similar lines, “Spandan C” argued on a progressive blog that it was good to force men to pay for maternity benefits that they would never need, because “they are the ones that get women pregnant, and therefore should have to pay part of the cost.”
..........
Just digest that for a minute.  Think about the level of stupid involved.  I'm asking you to, because this is making my head hurt.


Once more, let it be noted that being caught lying isn't enough; Obama's running around lying about having lied.

And if he did, it's all for our own good, of course.  Assuming your own good involves being subsumed into a zombie of the State.


And the reason he didn't give this speech is he's never in his life had the balls or integrity to do so.

If you have a spider problem,

check your bananas.
Consi Taylor, 29, of London, told The Sun that she saw “funny looking spots” on her banana that she first thought was only mold.

“[B]ut when I had a closer look I saw some funny looking spots…and was horrified to see they were spiders. They were hatching out on the table, scurrying around on my carpet,” she said.

To make matters worse, she would later discover that the dozens of spiders were Brazilian wandering spiders, or banana spiders — and they are highly venomous.
Couple of years back they found an adult in some bananas in a store in Germany, and in 2009 they found one in Tulsa; I can think of visitors from Brazil I'd much rather see

So showing ID to vote is a horrible imposition, but Schumer & Co. want you to have to show ID to buy a phone...
Schumer disagreed, saying the identity of prepaid cell purchasers would be kept private by phone companies in the same way the identities of regular cell and landline phone owners are protected."

Excuse me, but I had to laugh hysterically; yeah, just like the NSA won't listen to our calls or read our e-mail... And the standard excuse for screwing with privacy just a little bit more: "We are living in a time when unfortunately our public safety rquires small gives by everyone," Verizon spokesman Jeffrey Nelson said.
Screw you, Nelson.


So, BATFEIEIO suffers from
low morale,
bad leadership,
abuse of agents,
abuse of authority,
a culture of violations of law,
illegal attacks on whistleblowers,
supervisors engaging in illegal activities(Gunwalker, perjury, etc.),
And the answer to raising morale?
.
.
.
Put a friggin' store with ATF trinkets in the DC headquarters...


Oh, Obama is now trying to cover lying(repeated, deliberately, with malice) with another lie: ...what we said was you can keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law passed.
That is such a flat, open, public, deliberate lie I'm kind of surprised that even Obama can look anyone in the eye and speak it.


Because that black guy was obviously some kind of racist; he's a Republican, after all.


Speaking of bigotry, Orson Scott Card is against homosexual marriage, and doesn't approve of homosexuality; therefore
And note the goal post shifting going on here - not supporting gay marriage == homophobia == hating gays == racism (?) == advocating violence against gays == being a monster in human form.


Guy named Dick Metcalf writes at Guns & Ammo magazine; and is using the gun bigots understanding of 'well-regulated'.  Among other things.

I don't think this is going to help their sales.


Well, according to this the Obama team is worried about what happens if they actually get the website working and lots more people find out how badly they're going to get screwed by Obamacare.  The fun just keeps coming, doesn't it?

Speaking of which, I wonder what the people always whining about Stupid Party and crony capitalism will think of the bailouts for insurance companies in Dear Leader's plan?


I think this is worth noting a again: Parent has a problem with kids' school assignment, contacts teacher about it. And then
After contacting his daughter’s teacher, Barry heard back from the school’s principal. After a discussion, a friend of Barry’s relayed a voicemail she received from another teacher named Cydnee Cohen.

Cohen, who is also the president of the local chapter of the teacher’s union — the East Pembrook Education Association, which is part of the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) — said on the voicemail, “We’re having some problems with a parent in our school district and on his [Facebook] page you are one of his friends … but I would like to know, some of it seems like he is a neo-Nazi.”

Cohen then says, “Maybe he is Jewish, I don’t know.”

After it was confirmed that Barry is, in fact, Jewish, Cohen sent text messages to the mutual friend which read “he went to bishop mcdevitt!!” and “he is tea party right wing!” Bishop McDevitt is a nearby private Catholic high school.
Wonderful sort to be teaching kids, isn't she?

Frogg Toggs makes a good rainsuit; their customer service, however

apparently is nonexistent.

Bought a rainsuit a few months back.  About a month ago pulled it out to use and the zipper slide broke.  Ok, no big deal, write them and see about a replacement, right?

Go to site, use contact form to ask about  how to get a replacement.

No answer as of a week later.

Write again a few days after that.

Never an answer.

Gave up on the clowns, found one about the same size and got it to work.

So if you have a problem with Frogg Toggs, don't count on them reading your message.  Or doing anything about it.

The University of Kentucky training informers;

how very progressive of them.
The University of Kentucky has a website that students can use to rat on fellow students who violate the university’s no tobacco policy because, as the school says, “compliance is everyone’s business.” They can confidentially report the date and time of day a violation occurred and a description of the student. Moreover, the school has “ambassadors”commissars(there, fixed it) who “inform” students, staff, and visitors of the school’s policy.


That "The people losing their policies, those policies were terrible!" argument is just as bullshit as Obama saying "You will be able to keep your policy!"


Never let it be forgotten: Hollywood is part of the enemy.
So start telling your congresscritters to cut the Hollywood tax breaks.

Tab clearing

3.5 million have already lost their insurance.
And yeah, it's pissing them off; anybody surprised?

The Scottsdale Country Day School is run by idiots.
And the principal appears to have delusion of adequacy.

Question an assignment, be accused of being a nazi.  And tea-party 'right wing'.

“New product lets sportsmen know when drones are near,” a recent Outdoor Hub headline proclaimed. “Technology firm DroneShield has created a device that is capable of detecting nearby unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones.”

Daughter was at a steampunk convention this weekend. also at the location:
 "There was a full-blown Toddlers and Tiaras style pageant going on at the hotel during the convention. There were even at least two people who have actually been featured on that show there. 
 It was...disturbing. There was a bikini competition, apparently. For girls under 10. Down to literal toddlers...like barely old enough to walk, in bikinis."
There are parents out there who could do with a serious series of kicks in the ass. Or a really severe beating with a clue bat.

Of course they'll smear a cancer patient;

anyone who causes problems for Dear Leader must be punished.

If you hadn't heard about this, here's the story.
My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.


More on what violations of law the IRS has been up to, and their- and the Justice Department- attempts to ignore it.  Minimize it.  Fail to bring the guilty to justice.
For the IRS to function effectively, it needs both a reasonable budget and to be apolitical. It’s vital that the Department of Justice go after individuals who turn the IRS into a political organization from an apolitical one. Yet the current Administration apparently doesn’t see the urgency in this issue. That’s a huge mistake, and one that will definitely come back to haunt them and all Americans. We need a well functioning IRS…and given what the Administration is doing (and not doing), it’s very likely the budget for the IRS will continue to shrink.
Well, yeah; when they can't be trusted not to abuse their position, why would you want to give them more money to do it with?


Even for Feinstein, this is one of the most idiotic 'excuses/explanations' for serial lying I've ever seen.


As fine an example of "The power to tax is the power to destroy" combined with standard-issue dumbass.  From the same kind of idiots who'll be controlling health care.


Speaking of Feinstein, the M&P is apparently her new talking point.
And JJ MacNab would be advised to find out what the hell she's talking about before she starts typing.  And Forbes would be advised to see that she does so.

Because Stupid and Marx just to together, and Stupid is always with us

I can't quite believe that I've just sat through ten minutes of BBC television in which British journalists Owen Jones and Zoe Williams have defended Karl Marx as the prophet of the End of Capitalism. Unbelievable because I had thought Marxism was over with the fall of the Berlin Wall – when we discovered that socialism was one part bloodshed, one part farce. But unbelievable also because you'd have to be a pretty lacking in moral sensitivity to defend a thinker whose work sent millions of people to an early grave.
But they all died to serve The Collective, so it's all good, right?

His view that all human relations are shaped by economics and that everything we do is measured in purely material terms reduced the individual to a pawn in a historic war between competing classes. You're not a person – you're either an exploiter or an alienated peasant. At least the crowned tyrants who preceded him had some sense of the value of the human soul; at least they saw their power as limited by God, tradition and a passing respect for conscience. After Marx, all these things stood in the way of progress and could be brushed aside with the swish of a signature on a death list. Throw into the mix Karl's belief that the working-class could not lose – historical determinism – and you get the kind of fanatical, anti-human view of life that would end inevitably in gulags. "To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss," said the teenage vanguard of the Cambodian communists. Compelling logic to the intellectually unformed.
Insty keeps pointing out that defenders of and apologists for communism are just as disgusting as defenders of and apologists for the nazis; we need to keep pointing that out to the idiots.


So, at the least, Moms Demand Action are arguing from a position of high-level ignorance.
Or stupidity, take your pick.


Obama says he's 'really good at killing people'.  Yeah, like "I got bin Laden!"  The troops, the techs, the intel, they're nothing; HE'S it because "It's ALL about ME!"
Especially when you consider, from what we've found out, the chickenshit refused to ok the bin Laden mission, what, twice?, before some adults told Jarrett to shut up and pushed it through. 


On the brass cleaning front, after it dried looked it over, and the stuff didn't strip off every trace of the lube, only about 85-90% of it.  Which is a lot better than soap & water did.  I think using a little more degreaser, or a little more time, would've gotten just about all of it.

Well, that actually worked!

I've been using Lee case lube for resizing*, and the usual process after to remove it has been
Put in bottle with soapy water.
Shake.
Leave a while.
Shake.
Drain, rinse, drain.
Dry.
Tumble to get rid of what that doesn't remove.

Was starting to add water to clean off some cases that've been sitting in the bottle waiting, when what did my wandering eyes did appear but a bottle of the degreaser I use for all kinds of stuff.

Well, why not?

Put in enough water to cover the cases, added- I'd guess- about two ounces, shook it, let it sit a couple of minutes, shook again, drained enough to get a case out to examine.  And it was CLEAN.  So drained the rest and rinsed, and that stuff appears to have stripped every trace of lube off the cases.  I've got them drying now, I think they're only going to need a few minutes tumbling to shine them a bit.

This was a lot faster, and should prevent the tumbler media being crudded up with lube.  And I get the stuff at the dollar store(think Wally World carries it too).


*Can't find the post right now, but someone suggested putting some in a small pump-spray bottle, add alcohol, shake to dissolve, then spray to lube.  It works.

"We should require federal licenses,

insurance, required training, gun OWNERS registered, more taxes on firearms, but none of that counts as infringement!  Oh no, I don't want to infringe on the right to arms!"
If you didn't have to register to comment, I'd think of a polite way to call 'BULLSHIT!', and send her Lawdog's post on 'just like cars'.

I know I shouldn't be surprised,

but I am, by the- well, make your choice: it's either "Don't give a shit" or "Utter ruthlessness in the pursuit of the Collective goal" of the people who want Obamacare to take over.

Short version, got into an argument with some people who either overlooked or refused to see the information about all the people losing their insurance because "Your plan doesn't have Obama's approval."  Pointed that out, and ran into two things:
"It's the insurance companies fault, they're greedy!" or
"They can go on the ACA site and find better!"
NO recognition of, or worse, don't give a shit that lots of these people don't WANT 'better'; they want to keep the policy Obama promised them they could.
"That was a lousy policy, they need better!"
What if they don't think it was lousy, and don't WANT 'better'?
The answer boils down to "It's better for the collective.  So screw anyone who doesn't like it."
Yeah, some people will love it; they'll get OPM to make Obamacare affordable, so screw everyone else.  It's a big step toward total government control of health care, so it's worth all the misery and trouble.

I admit, I had no idea how ruthless these people I know are, so long as it's for 'a good cause'.



By the way, when you point out that if it's the insurance company lobbyists behind it all that means that Obama is bought & paid-for by them, they don't like that either.

'There will be a thorough investigation

which will clear our officers(no matter what they did).'
Why yes, I am rather distrustful of LE in such things; tell me why I shouldn't be.


From the Dutchman, a piece on ATF apologist begging for money, and possible collusion in the past between ATF and the NRA:

I have previously excoriated Dan Freedman as "The Cowardly Liar," and "ATF's favorite press flack." Now comes Freedman shaking the tin cup for more ATF power and money: "ATF poorly armed with funding as duties grow."

It has the usual tripe about Fast and Furious, including this gem:

The misguided Operation Fast and Furious, in which agents in Phoenix were told to stand by while Mexican drug cartel intermediaries bought weapons in local gun stores and smuggled them across the border, largely resulted from management errors within the bureau and the local U.S. attorney's office.

Ah, yes, the "botched operation." You know, the one that Freedman at first studiously ignored and then, when it became embarrassing, minimized. But there is also this interesting factoid:

There are many forces behind the agency's second-class status. One is federal law enforcement competition, where the agency has long struggled with the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and others for dollars.

But a major factor is the political animosity generated by enforcing gun laws. The NRA stands out as the single organization in or out of government most intimately involved in shaping the bureau's mission.

Jim Pasco, an ATF lobbyist on Capitol Hill in the 1980s and '90s, recalls negotiating the agency's budget with his NRA counterpart, Jim Baker.

"I'd say, 'I need 200 more agents, 100 more inspectors,' " said Pasco, who added that he promised the new hires would stick to chasing criminals with guns, not the gun owners and collectors who are the bulwark of the NRA.

After that, he said, Baker "would sign off."

Baker, now the gun group's senior lobbyist, insists that the NRA never had veto power over agency's budgets. "The contention that somehow the NRA is responsible for the amount of money appropriated or not appropriated for ATF is erroneous," he said.

Which is no denial of Pasco's contention. "Give us more power and money and we promise we won't target law-abiding firearm owners." Yeah, that's worked out real well over the past couple of decades.

I read this promise that "the new hires would stick to chasing criminals with guns" and immediately had this image form in my head: "Little Jimmy" Vann and the anti-firearm zealots in the Chief Counsel's Office are sitting in a meeting being briefed on next year's budget by Pasco and laughing uproariously. "Little Jimmy" is saying incredulously, "And he BOUGHT that?!? What an idiot!"

More evidence of symbiosis, if any were needed, between the gun cops and the Lairds of Fairfax.

LATER: Freedman also filed this subtle rewriting of history: "How the NRA became ATF's biggest enemy."

There is mention of the anger at the early ATF outrages, but no mention of the "go along get along" NRA leadership that gave the ATF a pass until the movement led by Neal Knox swept them away. No mention of the revanchist coup of the old guard that toppled Knox and led to the regime of Wayne LaPierre and the Lairds of Fairfax. (See The Gun Rights War.) No mention that the struggle for the soul of the NRA continues to this day with a board badly split between principle and appeasement. But then that wouldn't fit Freedman's meme.

As Uncle says, this guy actually looked at the facts and reconsidered his position; he actually THOUGHT about it.  Well done.


The Goldilocks approach to gun control

Which kind of fits with the current defense of Liar Obama, "He had to 'cause you're stupid."

Speaking of stupid, found this linked at Drudge:
FYI last night at the Great Falls Grange debate, Democrat delegate candidate Kathleen Murphy said that since many doctors are not accepting medicaid and medicare patients, she advocates making it a legal requirement for those people to be accepted.
Yeah, that'll work well.

One last thing:

The Illustrated Guide to Gun Control, found thanks to Jennifer. Who, at that link is raising funds for a furry critter with a problem.  Go see.

I tend to go long enough between actual injuries

that I forget how much they take out of you.
Plus, I don't heal as fast as I used to.

I can type normally, but trying to rake, or shovel, or any of that stuff?  Forget it.  What pulls on the good shoulder pulls on the bad shoulder, and I say bad things.  Working a loading press?  Not yet.  And by evening the  accumulated stress of the day makes it ache.  A lot.  Like now.

I will, however, keep at this long enough for the next data set of The(NSFW) Experiment(it takes my mind off things):

So Lois Lerner is indeed a felon;

anybody want to bet this Justice Department and IRS won't do squat about it?
Unless they're pushed REALLY hard, then maybe.


"How dare you mention toy guns on Bookface!  To court with you!"


Something to bring up when Democrats bitch and whine about Republicans 'wanting to harm the country for political purposes!'
Once more, they accuse others of what they actually do.


One more "What happed to my Lightworker, my Savior?" idiot.


Back then the fascist was allowed to speak; today the fascists shut people up on the same campus.


In Idiots With Badges for today, we have Interim Police Chief Ruben Santiago, Columbia PD, South Carolina:

“Maybe u should arrest the people shooting people in 5 points instead of worrying about a stoner that’s not bothering anyone,” he wrote. “It’ll be legal here one day anyway.”

It certainly was a critical and snarky comment by Whitmer, but was it enough “reasonable suspicion” for police to believe he “might be a criminal?” That’s what Santiago claimed in a reply:

“@Brandon whitmer, we have arrested all of the violent offenders in Five Points. Thank you for sharing your views and giving us reasonable suspicion to believe you might be a criminal, we will work on finding you.”

Quickly deleted, then followed by a defense of the threat, then to Popehat:
...Chief was trying to say that he puts would-be-criminals on notice — if you commit a crime or plan to commit one, CPD will work hard to investigate and press charges according to the law.
No, that's NOT what Chief said, dumbass; and I think you know it.  When he threatens to find someone, then later the defense says
Why would someone feel threaten if you are not doing anything wrong?
 Well, then, you won't mind some citizens showing up and searching your office, will you?
You would mind?  Why, are you doing something wrong?  If not, why do you mind?

And work on your spelling while you're thinking of ways to avenge yourself on people who don't kiss your ass.


One of the people advising DHS on important matters says the US is a muslim nation.

Without further comment:

Sen. Warner: a true follower of the taqiyya President

“Optima has informed us it is going to be canceled next year. They gave us ACA compliant options. We are not eligible to for subsidies because I do get offered a ‘family plan’ at work and by ACA rules only the employee portion is factored in when calculating whether the plan is ‘affordable.’ The closest plan is a $3250 individual/$6500 family deductible for $674.39. That is a 325 percent increase in our premiums!” the Virginian wrote. “The worst part is that I wrote Senator Mark Warner and told him about this.”

Records reveal that Warner, who voted for Obamacare, previously vowed to oppose any reform that would cancel Americans’ pre-existing plans.


The God-kinglet made another decree; get ready to get screwed some more on energy.


 Judge Duffey: one more dirtbag in a black robe.


More on that 13-year old shot in California:

He once accidentally shot himself in the leg in 1995 while on duty with the Sheriff’s Office – reportedly while holstering a gun. However, officials said he has not fired upon a suspect in 24 years with the agency, where he serves as a field training officer for new recruits and trains colleagues to shoot at the department’s gun range.

This is just too good. He is an expert on firearms – and he shot himself in the leg. So let’s cover some details on the shooting itself.  Here is the one you really need to know.

Ethan Oliver, who lives across the street from where the shooting occurred, said he heard two gunshots, and while Lopez was on the ground the deputies “went at it again and unloaded like six to seven shots,” KTVU.com reported.

If true...


That picture of the cop sticking a rifle in a guys face?  A bit more background:

Four law-enforcement officers were wounded Friday in a suburb of Sacramento, Calif., during an attempt to take a wanted gang member into custody.
The shooting occurred in Roseville, a suburb about 20 miles northeast of the state capital.
Helicopters circled overhead and armored vehicles and other police cars flocked to the area following an initial report that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent had been shot.
A sporadic gun battle lasted into the night and the commotion snarled traffic for hours. Police responded by setting up a checkpoint and pointing guns at motorists, as this Associated Press photo shows.

Because nothing says Protect and Serve like endangering lives for the offense of having to drive through a checkpoint.


You can't be trusted to carry a gun for self-defense on campus, but they don't even have a duty to WARN you, let alone protect you...

(forgot to post this earlier, so it should've been BEFORE the 'screw it' pictures; oh well)

I can type normally now, but

mowing the yard with one arm is a PITA.
Yes, it needed cutting.  No, nobody handy.  Didn't take long, at least.  The shoulder's much better, but still hurts to sneeze or cough.  And I don't dare try to lift anything heavier than a frying pan(non-cast iron) with the left.

Short time ago on bookface I was informed that
People losing the insurance they wanted to keep was all the fault of the insurance companies.
Because the companies are greedy and really want to piss off their customers.
And Obama has nothing to do with it.
It's because the companies have bought off the politicians and this is so they can sell more-expensive policies.
But even though that would mean Obama is bought & paid for, he's blameless.
And it's all for our own good, anyway, so shut up.

Being sick to death of people who'll make excuses for him for, well, ANYTHING, and people who might(they think) get a subsidy for insurance so "Screw the people losing money to help pay for my policy, I love it!", I shall now just post some stuff to take my mind off it.

That defender of liberty Feinstein

basically wants to rubber-stamp the NSA lying and spying on everyone.
Makes you wonder what she's getting out of it.


Interesting:
I suspect that Obama’s core belief — his key religious value, if you will — is an American form of taqiyya — the Muslim dictate that it is permissible to lie to non-believers for the preservation of Islam. He believes in left-wing taqiyya. (Ironically, taqiyya is largely Shiite and Obama wishes to negotiate with Shiite Iran, masters of the lie.)

Now I do not think for a second that Obama is a Muslim any more than I think he is a Christian. He is a typical postmodern agnostic who only goes to church — and then rarely — for political purposes. But he grew up in the Islamic world in the midst of the psychological climate of taqiyya, with preservation of the group taking precedence over even the hint of democracy. And that climate harmonized completely with his other influences — anti-imperialism augmented by Alinksyite methods, themselves anti-democratic.

He never had a moral basis for honesty. Lying, from the Choom Gang through Reverend Wright and beyond, was his lifestyle. And he had the consolation that he was lying for a better good. No one ever told him otherwise. If that goes on for long enough, you lose contact with truth. It becomes almost a non-existent phenomenon, an irrelevancy.
In a very real way, Obama’s confluence of influences has replaced traditional religion and become a religion — with everything he does based on faith, but not a faith that has anything to do with God.


Some of the ways the food police have been absolutely full of crap.


Three Days in the Shoes of a Gun Activist
Anyway, back to Shannon. Another MDA supporter had repeated my assertion that there wasn't a lot of work with suicide awareness in the campaign, and Mrs. Watts stated that "Few of daily shootings" are the result of mental health issues. 61% of gun deaths are suicides, yet she asserts that "few" of the deaths from guns are a result of mental health issues. I asked for clarification, and she informed me that suicide is not the issue - gun violence is. So, in essence, the founder of Moms Demand Action has clearly stated that they're not concerned about suicides or helping prevent suicides - they're just concerned about guns. Even though suicides make up 61% of the gun deaths in the country.

Probably the most shocking thing is that shortly after this, I was blocked by both individuals I was conversing with. I was told I don't really support their cause, and that I was likely a "250lb bubba" that wishes I was a female. All of this, in spite of the fact I never said anything negative about gun control, never suggested they do less to work towards gun control, and consistently stated that I believe gun control will work in all areas but suicides. Suggesting they do something as simple as starting to also campaign towards suicide awareness, given that it's the leading cause of death by guns, means that I don't support their group and I am counter to their purpose. And I feel I should reiterate, this isn't just some random gun control advocate. This is the founder of Moms Demand Action.


From Thirdpower
Two Universities in nations that adamantly support gun control ask if white US gun owners are racist.
You can guess the result even before looking at the headline.  
Racism, Gun Ownership and Gun Control: Biased Attitudes in US Whites May Influence Policy Decisions
Color me shocked.


I've heard arguments on both sides of this; that Obama is getting rid of officers who don't/won't/might not go along, and that it's just officers caught doing something wrong being pushed out.

What to do after a defensive shooting

3-part article

Trick or friggin' Treat, people! And there's no treat!

Section 1251 of the Affordable Care Act contains what’s called a “grandfather” provision that, in theory, allows people to keep their existing plans if they like them. But subsequent regulations from the Obama administration interpreted that provision so narrowly as to prevent most plans from gaining this protection.

“The Departments’ mid-range estimate is that 66 percent of small employer plans and 45 percent of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfather status by the end of 2013,” wrote the administration on page 34,552 of the Register. All in all, more than half of employer-sponsored plans will lose their “grandfather status” and become illegal. According to the Congressional Budget Office, 156 million Americans—more than half the population—was covered by employer-sponsored insurance in 2013.

Another 25 million people, according to the CBO, have “nongroup and other” forms of insurance; that is to say, they participate in the market for individually-purchased insurance. In this market, the administration projected that “40 to 67 percent” of individually-purchased plans would lose their Obamacare-sanctioned “grandfather status” and become illegal, solely due to the fact that there is a high turnover of participants and insurance arrangements in this market. (Plans purchased after March 23, 2010 do not benefit from the “grandfather” clause.) The real turnover rate would be higher, because plans can lose their grandfather status for a number of other reasons.


And the bastards are now claiming their lies weren't really lies, and even if they were it's for your own good, so shut up  and be a good, obedient peasant bowing to the lord.
Now, supporters of the law are offering a different argument. “We didn’t really mean it when we said you could keep your plan,” they say, “but it doesn’t matter, because the coverage you’re going to get under Obamacare will be better than the coverage you had before.”
But that’s not true. Obamacare forces insurers to offer services that most Americans don’t need, don’t want, and won’t use, for a higher price. Bob Laszewski, in a revealing blog post, wrote about the cancellation of his own health coverage. “Right now,” he wrote, “I have ‘Cadillac’ health insurance. I can access every provider in the national Blue Cross network—about every doc and hospital in America—without a referral and without higher deductibles and co-pays.”
But his plan is being canceled. His new, Obamacare-compatible plan has a $500 higher deductible, and a narrower physician and hospital network that restricts out-of-town providers. And yet it costs 66 percent more than his current plan. “Mr. President,” he writes, “I really like my health plan and I would like to keep it. Can you help me out here?”

Yeah, Obama lied.

Deliberately, repeatedly and with malice.

I know you're not surprised, but some people are flat amazed.
Or lying to cover up that they knew, but wanted it to happen anyway; I wonder which?

Oh, and if you're stuck in Obamacare and move to another state, you're REALLY screwed.

Over at Ace, another "It enrolled me in Medicaid even though I'm not eligible and NOBODY can help me with this shit."


Prosecutor didn't like being referred to as 'the government'; the response.


They tracked down a IRS employee who broke the law; now they have to get the Justice Department and IRS to give a rats ass and do something about it.

That's an interesting piece of engineering on the K-31

to put the scope right over the bore:

I'd say the answer

is 'Yes'.
Hey, we're talking about people who think having a brick of .22s means you should have a arsenal license; I wouldn't put much of anything past them.


Carter II really would've been an improvement; this President makes Nixon look like a Boy Scout.


In a pigs ass it is...
An internal government memo obtained by The Associated Press shows administration officials were concerned that a lack of testing posed a "high" security risk for President Barack Obama's new health insurance website.
The Sept. 27 memo to Medicare chief Marylin Tavenner said a website contractor wasn't able to test all the security controls in one complete version of the system.
Insufficient testing "exposed a level of uncertainty that can be deemed as a high risk," the memo said.
The memo recommended setting up a security team to address risks, conduct daily tests, and a full security test within two to three months of going live.
At a congressional hearing, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the site's security certification is temporary, but asserted consumers' personal information is secure.


This piece of shit also enrolls you in programs without your knowledge.  Or ability to change.


Because some judge will always know what treatments are in your best interest.

So why did John Effing Kerry sign a treaty he knew was dead

in the Senate?  This is why:
Justice Department attorneys are advancing an argument at the Supreme Court that could allow the government to invoke international treaties as a legal basis for policies such as gun control that conflict with the U.S. Constitution, according to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

Their argument is that a law implementing an international treaty signed by the U.S. allows the federal government to prosecute a criminal case that would normally be handled by state or local authorities.
All that "Hey, the Senate won't pass it so what're you worried about?" noise?  Show this to the people saying it.

And yeah, it would be in direct conflict with the Constitution; anyone think that'll bother this administration?  This Justice Department?

Don't negotiate with gun bigots and control freaks like Emanuel;

they'll do anything they can to screw as many people as possible out of their 2nd Amendment rights.


Boiled down: "We knew if we told the truth you wouldn't like it, so we lied(still are).  So shut up; your old insurance wasn't really insurance since it didn't have all the crap we want it to, so you're not actually losing your old police you're being herde- ah, transitioned to Obamacare(whether you want it or not)."


Oh yeah, I know most of those:
21 Things that only people who carry concealed would understand


Oh, crp.  Badly-sprained shoulder + sneeze = pain.


Saw some article about the death watch for Sebelius: 'When will she be fired, is Obama too loyal(snerk... what moron wrote that after all the people under the bus?) to fire her, will she be pressured out', etc.  Ever heard the song Joe the Georgian?  Second verse:
He steered us through the shadows, upon an angry tide,
And cast us one by one over the side.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?