What we're dealing with

Again, consider the profound ignorance and irresponsibility of Thomases having not even read the Second Amendment, and then, after being chided into doing so, presuming to be an instant authority on founding era intent. Then consider this was someone with national reach and access to the highest levels of government and the press, whose opinions were widely amplified by "legitimate media" and exploited by opportunistic office holders.
This is political malpractice on all levels, and outrageously, it’s the norm, and represents the totality of what many Americans are exposed to of the so-called “gun debate.”
“Oops,” indeed.


Bureaucracy in action; and remember that these are the assholes the left wants in total control of health care.

Note: few years back son was home on leave and needed to renew his drivers license.  Except now it was no longer good enough show YOUR ORDERS from the military, etc.; oh no, you need either a birth certificate or passport.  And if it's the passport, you can't use that at the tag agency, you have to go to the freaking DPS main office.

For our own good and safety, of course.


Even for New York Effing City, this is amazing:

Initially Mr. Broadnax was arrested on misdemeanor charges of menacing, drug possession and resisting arrest. But the Manhattan district attorney’s office persuaded a grand jury to charge Mr. Broadnax with assault, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years. Specifically, the nine-count indictment unsealed on Wednesday said Mr. Broadnax “recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death.”

“The defendant is the one that created the situation that injured innocent bystanders,” said an assistant district attorney, Shannon Lucey.

And just how were they injured?  By two NYPD cops who shot at him and missed.  So HE'S guilty of assault...

Speaking of NYPD shooting,
...Overall the NYPD usually requires about 331 rounds to hit 54 targets, of which 14 will be innocent bystanders, 24 will be dogs, and 16 will be people the NYPD was actually aiming at. Statistically, if you aren't a dog, it is slightly more dangerous to be the person the NYPD was shooting at than a bystander (16 people out of 331 shots for intended targets for a 4.8% hit rate vs. 14 people out of 331 shots for bystanders, a 4.2% hit rate.) NYPD has a better success rate for other weapons, and certain factors, like shooting unarmed people in the back, tend to increase hit rates.


In the current "OH GOD IT'S A WINTER STORM!!" mess, here's what we're looking at here:

And it has begun

Security Staff(Sr.) was curled up in a doghouse full of straw saying "Screw running 'round in that."
And within five minutes it was snowing about twice as hard and bigger flakes; going to get interesting.


And we're supposed to trust the dirtbags putting the 'no-fly list' together why?


Bloomberg, MAIG and corruption; they just go together, don't they?

Obvious training problem:

they didn't cover "KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE !)#*& TRIGGER!" well enough.
He can now reflect on this with the knowledge that he's just as professional as that DEA agent.


I'm going to get some outside stuff taken care of before that frozen stuff starts falling, so you'll have to entertain yourselves for a while.

Some other people have responses to Bateman,

including the very succinct If you think that gun ownership is limited to hunting, you have no f*cking reason to be participating in this debate, Bobbie.


From Codrea:
The problem is, his arguments don’t live up to that expectation, and rather quickly fall apart with just a superficial analysis.
I won't excerpt, just go read it.


For some reason I can't get the comments to Bateman's call to trash part of the Constitution he swore to uphold; according to Michael Williamson(in comments at the first link)  
There are an awful lot of field grade Army officers whose pussies leak at the thought of guns. How does that happen?
He’s also taken to denigrating other vets in comments, and making racist and homophobic statements.

This is interesting: rather than try to shut the militias down,

they want to incorporate and arm them.  Makes me wonder if there was a conversation along the lines of "We can't protect them, and if we tell them to surrender their weapons and stop... well, do you relish the headlines from sending the army in to kill some of them and imprison many others?  For trying to protect their homes, families and neighbors?"

Tula primers

A year or so ago, when components were in very short supply, I had a chance to buy a case(5000) of Tula small pistol primers.  I'd used some before, and they'd worked fine, so I grabbed it.

Either this is from a problematic lot, or I was lucky on the first thousand.  I've had a bunch of failures to fire; most will fire if given a second strike, but some won't.  I'd guess the FTF rate is 5-10 per hundred(didn't keep exact count, I forgot one of the rules)

with the complete failure rate(those that won't fire with a second strike) being about 20%.

Put this in context: out of the God-knows-how-many thousands of rounds I've loaded over the years, I've had one primer of American manufacture fail to fire(CCI); that's from small and large pistol and small and large rifle.  So this rate is abysmal.  The 'fires on a second strike' could be from the cups being really hard, but the 'won't fire at all' is something truly wrong.

They work for practice, but I'd never trust them for hunting or defense ammo.

I have to note that I've also used some large pistol and large rifle(boxer and berdan) Tula primers, not a single failure with them.  Which makes me think this is from a bad manufacturing lot.

It apparently surprises control-freak politicians that people A:

are willing to say 'Screw you', and B: have learned from history:
Connecticut may want to look close to home for even lower compliance figures. In New Jersey, reported The New York Times in 1991, after the legislature passed a law banning “assault weapons,” 947 people registered their rifles as sporting guns for target shooting, 888 rendered them inoperable, and four surrendered them to the police. That’s out of an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 firearms affected by the law.

Over the years, officials in New York City and California used registration records to confiscate guns, in violation of their own promises. That's a lesson that firearms owners have taken to heart in this country (and elsewhere), probably permanently dooming the enforceability of such laws.


From Thomas Sowell:
What do low-income whites in England and ghetto blacks in the United States have in common? It cannot be simply low incomes, because children from other groups in the same low-income brackets outperform whites in England and outperform blacks in America. 

What low-income whites in England and ghetto blacks in the United States have in common is a generations-long indoctrination in victimhood. The political left in both countries has, for more than half a century, maintained a steady and loud drumbeat of claims that the deck is stacked against those at the bottom. 

The American left uses race and the British left uses class, but the British left has been at it longer. In both countries, immigrants who have not been in the country as long have not been so distracted by such ideology into a blind resentment and lashing out at other people. 

In both countries, immigrants enter a supposedly closed society that refuses to let anyone rise -- and they nevertheless rise, while the native-born at the bottom remain at the bottom.


The CSGV once again shows its bigotry:
The company claimed to have spoken to one officer who had practiced on targets he had made from enlargements of photos of his own children.

Admittedly, the comparison between the Oleg Volk photo and the targets sold to "Only Ones" who fear that their humanity might interfere with them killing children, pregnant women and the elderly only goes so far. Volk's photo, after all, was not of an actual target marketed with the intention of making it easier to kill TSA officers--but that's the one that draws CSGV's ire.

And actually, that's not so surprising, either. CSGV, after all, is not really opposed to "gun violence," at least not when committed by agents of the government. What offends CSGV is "gun violence" against would-be tyrants and their enforcers. That's to be expected from a group that not only advocates a "government monopoly on violence," but wants the government to make extensive use of it, as well.


Yeah, I'd really be in a hurry to hand all my personal data over to this bunch of idiots.


But she's Hillary Clinton, so it doesn't matter; she'll get her ass kissed no matter who she screws and how.
(METAPHORICALLY, dammit; the reality would be too much to contemplate)

The Dutchman takes notice of LTC Bateman

and it ain't pretty: full post below for those who can't go to Sipsey:

Reacting to this story, "Hoover police charge woman, 28, with murder in shooting at Iron Bowl party," a current-serving United States Army Lieutenant Colonel has come unglued in the blog pages of Esquire on the subject of firearms confiscation: "It's Time to Talk About Guns and the Supreme Court."

Here is LTC Bateman's proposed program for you and me:

1. The only guns permitted will be the following:

a. Smoothbore or Rifled muzzle-loading blackpowder muskets. No 7-11 in history has ever been held up with one of these.

b. Double-barrel breech-loading shotguns. Hunting with these is valid.

c. Bolt-action rifles with a magazine capacity no greater than five rounds. Like I said, hunting is valid. But if you cannot bring down a defenseless deer in under five rounds, then you have no fking reason to be holding a killing tool in the first place.

2. We will pry your gun from your cold, dead, fingers. That is because I am willing to wait until you die, hopefully of natural causes. Guns, except for the three approved categories, cannot be inherited. When you die your weapons must be turned into the local police department, which will then destroy them. (Weapons of historical significance will be de-milled, but may be preserved.)

3. Police departments are no longer allowed to sell or auction weapons used in crimes after the cases have been closed. (That will piss off some cops, since they really need this money. But you know what they need more? Less violence and death. By continuing the process of weapon recirculation, they are only making their jobs -- or the jobs of some other cops -- harder.)

4. We will submit a new tax on ammunition. In the first two years it will be 400 percent of the current retail cost of that type of ammunition. (Exemptions for the ammo used by the approved weapons.) Thereafter it will increase by 20 percent per year.

5. We will initiate a nationwide "buy-back" program, effective immediately, with the payouts coming from the DoD budget. This buy-back program will start purchasing weapons at 200 percent of their face value the first year, 150 percent the second year, 100 percent the third year. Thereafter there will be a 10 year pause, at which point the guns can be sold to the government at 10 percent of their value for the next 50 years.

6. The major gun manufactures of the United States, less those who create weapons for the federal government and the armed forces, will be bought out by the United States of America, for our own damned good.

Now LTC Bateman is a current-serving officer and has taught at Georgetown University, George Mason University, and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Here is his Small Wars Journal bio.

Bateman wrote in SWJ in 2010:

I have departed the Office of Net Assessment, OSD, and for the next four years, at least, I will serve the United States by serving with or among other nation's military forces. This means that, among other things, I can write again. I arrived at the NATO Defense College recently. Not exactly a hardship tour, to be sure. I am in Rome, Italy, for six months. At the end of this gig, so I hear, the odds are not bad that I will go downrange for a while, working as a Strategist for somebody. We will see. Following that...the European Rapid Reaction Corps, Lille, France, where I will be one of about six Americans.

Old Winnie once noted, "It is better to jaw jaw than to war war."

Now, leaving aside the absolute fact that Bateman's own "jaw-jaw" will certainly lead to civil "war-war,"  for a military-educated "strategist" Bateman seems woefully ignorant of at least three topics:

1. The Constitution of the United States, especially the history of the Second Amendment.

2. The Law of Unintended Consequences.

3. Fourth Generation Warfare as it may be applied in an American context in the event of just such a tyranny as the LTC proposes.

Bateman also wrote this in SWJ:

Now I am not a big one for the whole "emotional" thingeemabob. In most debates I want footnotes, documentation, and fracking proof for everything. People who know my history know this about me. But there are limits, and Jim's simple statement hit the mark. Sometimes, some very rare times, you don't need proof. You don't need evidence. You need only know how to feel, and be human.

Presumably Bateman is extrapolating not only from his own ignorance but from an evidence-free "feeling" in his reaction to the story he claims to have motivated this citizen-disarmament jeremiad. Somehow, though, I doubt the sincerity of his narrative on this point. I rather suspect that this tax-feeding oath breaker has long been an advocate of a government monopoly of violence and is merely using the Iron Bowl insanity as a convenient excuse springboard to curry favor with a regime that he knows covets citizen disarmament above all things. Perhaps, his Army career having reached a frustrating end-game, he is angling for the new post of Deputy Secretary of Defense in Charge of Citizen Disarmament.

Surely someone so allegedly intelligent would not unintentionally objectify the cause of the tragic murder of one woman by another over the results of a football game making it the fault of the firearm rather than the murderess? Surely it is no accident that he would then conflate that objectification into a call for wholesale citizen disarmament?

No, I rather think that this solicitation of bloody civil war is something Bateman has been pondering for some time and he has decided that the prevailing political winds won't threaten his career or his pension if he licks the arses of the political Mandarins of the same regime that gave us the Fast and Furious scandal.

I would ask Bateman, were he in front of me at the moment, how many millions of his fellow citizens (who he is nominally supposed to protect) is he willing to see dead in order to accomplish his bloody tyranny?

One million? Three? Ten?

At what point in this proposed stack of bodies would Bateman's thirst for the murder-by-government of his fellow citizens be overcome by the reality of his "You don't need evidence - You need only know how to feel, and be human" alleged benevolence?

Batemen is evidently unworried that he will one day be called to account by this egregious violation of the Law of Unintended Consequences -- should he get his way -- for the intellectual support he gives to his proposed American tyranny, this sought-after massacre of you and me, of our families, of all our friends.

I would suggest to the Lieutenant Colonel that he re-evaluate his bloody proposal in the light of  Bill Clinton's rules of engagement for the Serbian political and media elite in 1999 as well as the Chinese caution, "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it."

Thanks to Sean for pointing to this

Woman wrote a piece called Moms can't be dads, too

at that hole called the Good Men Project, and they shitcanned it: The content that formerly appeared here did not reflect The Good Men Project’s views or position and rest assured that we will work to ensure that a mistake like this won’t happen again.
Chickenshits.

It's available here, and found this in comments:
At the GMP, they added “In my view,” in front of “Sometimes a so-so father can be better than no father” to qualify that statement. And didn’t clear it with me first.
So first they changed things, then they dumped the whole piece.  About what I'd expect from them.


Another Democrat wants to tax you by the mile.  Which will require having a device on your vehicle to keep track of your miles.  And if you think they won't also be getting location and date/time information, you're an idiot.

And the by-the-mile isn't enough for them, either: ... proposed it along with a shorter-term plan to nearly double the gas tax, from 18.4 cents to 33.4 cents per gallon.
Yeah, that'll really give the economy a kick in the head, won't it?


Prize winner: "Don't worry if it'll break your budget, it's for the good of the collective!"
Wonder if this idiot has every had to actually worry about paying bills?  Or if she thinks the .gov should take care of that for her?
Dammit, Popehat says it better:
In any event, on watching the Grand-Prize winning video by Ms. McDonald, I was struck by its message. Don't think of yourself, your family, or the family you'd like to have some day, if you can get out of your parents' house to afford such a thing. Think of the government! Think of the state! Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
Don't worry about the price tag! MARRY! REPRODUCE! OBEY!



Because some pigs are more equal and privileged than the peasants they help rule.


AP displays unwillingness to find out what the hell they're writing about(again);  I mean really, guys, '3300 warheads', 'a machine to make missiles and bullets.'?  Really?


MSNBC fires one of the talking heads; apparently saying Sarah Palin should be forced to have someone shit in her mouth stirred up so much trouble even those clowns realized they had to do something.
On that subject,
The Virus had gotten him.
 
It just doesn’t make any sense. Alec Baldwin, Martin Bashir, and Richard Cohen are liberals. They are the very scientists who discovered the faux-outrage gene in the laboratory and introduced it into the media mainstream. They are the ones who gave us Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas, Media Matters, the MSNBC firing of Pat Buchanan, the targeting of Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers over Sandra Fluke, the prosecution of George Zimmerman. They are the ones who created The Virus. And now The Virus has turned back on them.

Which means The Virus now has a life of its own. And liberals are standing directly in its path.


The White House Youth... I was wondering if they'd get to wear spiffy little armbands to show their devotion to the Dear Leader, then somebody beat me to it:
Just spoke to someone in the White House. Apparently #WHYouth was a typo. It’s actually supposed to be #WHJugend


"Comrades!  You must identify yourselves so that your offspring can be properly indoctrinated!  Common Core demands it!"


By the way, whatever farging moron who changed the software so that I can't 'open in new tab' and 'copy' as used to, you suck. 

So a military officer named Bateman doesn't know what 'well-regulated' actually means,

doesn't know that the National Guard is NOT the militia, doesn't seem to understand the Heller decision, and doesn't seem to know- or care- that ALL NINE JUSTICES agreed that the 2nd Amendment speaks of a pre-existing individual right, thinks us disgusting commoners should only be allowed arms that he approves of us having.

And he's willing to kill us if we don't bow down:
2. We will pry your gun from your cold, dead, fingers. That is because I am willing to wait until you die, hopefully of natural causes.
Take careful note of that hopefully; from oathbreaking bastards like this it really means something.

Don't know if it's something on my end or if they closed comments to prevent anyone calling him on this- and other points- but I can't get them to display.

Found thanks to Sean on bookface; I'm hoping he'll go after this on the blog soon.

"The number of gun owners is shrinking! So you gun nuts

need to shut up and go away!"
In your dreams, jackass.
With obligatory Gunny commercial:


Private launch to orbit.  Another step taken.


Few days back the Pope made another 'evil capitalism' statement.  Response here.
Ever notice that crap like this almost always has a reference to 'unfettered capitalism'?  You ever want to say "Please show me where this 'unfettered' thing exists in the civilized world?"


Oh, c'mon, why would The Lightbringer and John Effing Kerry let a US citizen being wrongly imprisoned get in the way of claiming a wonderful deal?


And now if you'll excuse me, I have some shopping to do before the icky weather comes in.  They're currently guesstimating somewhere from 2-6" of sleet & snow, or more or less, around here.

Once told daughter "Castro took an island full of people

not afraid to work, with year-round growing season, surrounded by an ocean full of fish, and made everyone except the Party Faithful hungry; and that takes work."
As does turning a city like Havana into one big slum with a Potemkin Area for tourists.


Speaking of socialist/fascists screwing things up, we have President "The law is what I say it is" Obama planning to buy off some of his industry suckups using other peoples' money.  Again.


On LE being perverted for political reasons, is the EffingBI playing games on the IRS investigation?  Yes.


Is the PROM screwing with gun owners  and potential owners by breaking the law?  Yes.  Do the clowns in charge care about the law?  No.
A previous request by GOAL to Attorney General Martha Coakley for an investigation into the delays has gone unanswered.

When contacted, Coakley’s office asked for questions to be submitted by email. The Washington Free Beacon asked the attorney general for comment on the delays of nearly 1,000 Massachusetts residents’ licenses within the time frame of the state’s law and asked if she planned to investigate the matter.

“We are going to decline to comment,” Coakley’s office said.
Meaning "Go away, peasants, you're troubling me."


This is what islamists consider grounds to commit murder:
Meanwhile, Muslim residents of a village in southern Minya province attacked Christian homes, burning 10 houses and wounding 15 Christians, including a 15 year-old girl thrown from the third floor of a building, according to Ezzat Ibrahim, an activist who monitors minority rights.

Ibrahim said the attack was instigated by rumors of a love affair between a local Christian man and a Muslim woman - a factor that can often spark sectarian clashes.


Back to gunny stuff, I'm trying out a new powder measure; still some work to do, full writeup when done.

What the HELL is wrong with the EffingBI?

You'd think they'd have learned some lessons from having protected Whitey Bulger- and dont' forget Flemmi and Barboza- because 'they were informants'.
Santana Gaona had been in jail less than two months earlier for allegedly raping and beating his estranged wife. He was flagged as an illegal immigrant and scheduled for deportation. Despite a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “detainer” that had been placed on Gaona, requiring him to face a deportation hearing, ICE officials canceled the order and he was released from jail.

At the time, ICE officials told the Dallas Morning News and this reporter that “another law enforcement agency” asked them to remove the detainer.

In 2011, a federal law enforcement officer confirmed to this reporter that Gaona had been an informant for multiple federal agencies, including the FBI, which was responsible for his release. 
Remember the 'raping and beating' in his previous arrest, then read this: The official said Gaona showed no signs of being a violent criminal and there was no reason to believe he would have committed murder.

Benavides, 33, was trying to stop a fight between Gaona and Gaona’s estranged wife when he was shot in front of his 8-year-old son.
And the EffingBI response to this?
The FBI is not talking. FBI spokesman Paul Bresson told TheBlaze that as a matter of longstanding policy, the “FBI does not discuss sources and we wouldn’t comment to any part of this due to possible pending litigation.”
Translation: "Go away, peasants, and stop troubling us.  We don't have to answer to you."

I'm not sure I have words for this

...Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior White House officials, generals, and intelligence officials, the national security adviser met with me. He told me: “The Taliban are not our enemies and we don’t want to fight them.”...

If this is true, then that bastard Obama has been getting troops killed for window dressing; he has no desire to win, just doesn't have the balls to say "I'm calling off all offensive operations."

It would also explain the idiot ROE getting troops killed and crippled; when you're playing games like this you don't want to actually hurt any of the enemy...

I'm actually working on a post of gunny stuff

instead of bitching about the news, but it's not ready.  So for tonight we have more data points in The Experiment:

Bill Ayers states in print that Barack Obama is a liar;

anyone but True Believers actually surprised?
In promoting his new book, "Public Enemy", Ayers' publisher, Beacon Press, has written a blurb on Amazon.com that says Ayers "finally 'confesses' that he did write 'Dreams From My Father.' "


Anti-gun reasoning: "If they put up a sign I disagree with, I'll just steal it."


"The science on global warming/climate change/AGW is SETTLED!" My ass it is.
Global warming has been blamed for every recent catastrophe including wildfires in America even when they have been started by human activity, Hurricane Sandy, and even for the recent rash of cold spells that have descended upon much of the world.

However, even in the midst of their support for the theory, they appear to have acknowledged there are serious issues with claiming that record cold winters are the result of global warming. In the 1990s, they frequently made calls for governments to take steps to issue regulations to curtail “global warming.” However, they now generally do not use the phrase any longer, instead calling on combating “climate change.”

It is unclear exactly how that is supposed to happen since the very definition itself means that if the weather changes from one day to the next that is climate change.

However, scientists are now beginning to rethink their climate change models and are seriously discussing the possibility the earth is entering into a period of global cooling.

I went to the piece Insty linked, and read a bit; then

I skimmed a bit; then I closed it.  There's a limit to how much feminazi/PC/misandrist bullshit I can take at one time.  Very short version, borrowed from Insty: START A PROGRAM TO HELP MEN’S HEALTH, GET BUSHWHACKED BY ANGRY FEMINISTS: “Movember is divisive, gender normative, [and] racist.” How is it racist? “Movember reinforces the ‘othering’ of ‘foreigners’ by the generally clean-shaven, white majority.”


Borrowed from Ace:
Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

  -- Thomas Sowell


Seven of the biggest phony hate crimes.  And yeah, that's RWPP chief Sharpton in the background of that picture.


"We've moved the goalposts far enough that we can now say we've fixed the problems."  Also known as 'lying out their ass'.

From where Great Britain used to be, socialist workers who need to be tarred,

feathered, horsewhipped and thrown out a high window.
Essex social services obtained a High Court order against the woman that allowed her to be forcibly sedated and her child to be taken from her womb. 

The council said it was acting in the best interests of the woman, an Italian who was in Britain on a work trip, because she had suffered a mental breakdown. 

The baby girl, now 15 months old, is still in the care of social services, who are refusing to give her back to the mother, even though she claims to have made a full recovery.
The council needs to be ridden out of town on a rail.  Straight to the nearest coastline and cast into the sea.

Ever see a Brit show called The Vicar of Dibley?  Sometimes funny, but in places a scary-as-hell look into Big Brother Knows Best.  One episode the village council was deciding who would and who would not be allowed to do some things.  Like remodel their own damned kitchen(no).  It was taken for granted that The Council should have the power to control every such thing, and it really pissed me off.  Well, this is the logical continuance of that attitude: "We can knock you out and steal your baby.  It's for your own good.  Shut up and stop causing problems, serf."

More on the child abusing socialist workers.  Especially foreign children.  Is there a proper PC phrase they use for 'Let's steal the kids from these wogs' ?

And yet more.


"I'm poor, my family is suffering, I need your money to pay for my surgery!"
She's completely full of shit.
What's also infuriating is that Linda -- who is panhandling for $100,000 worth of donations on GoFundMe -- wrote this piece, and the comments and rebuttals to it, while masquerading as a "poor person," but has now decided to clean up the mess by copping to her past as a person from a much different background.


Speaking of socialist assholes, "Of COURSE the Obamaca- ah, ACA website is fixed, because we say it is!  Now stop asking questions."


Another faked 'hate crime'.  Another liberal/socialist liar.
Reports of bias incidents at Vassar College that involved hateful messages left on students’ doors were actually elaborate hoaxes — and the perpetrator is none other than the student member of the Bias Incident Response Team, The Daily Caller has learned.
But fear not!  The Team must be continued no matter what!
“The outcome of this most recent investigation in no way diminishes our commitment to working toward a more just, diverse, egalitarian and inclusive campus community,” she wrote.
You might try getting rid of your team of "Let's find bias!" zealots; might be amazing the difference that would make.

Warp drive.

Maybe workable.

Oh yeah....

And it makes me remember A Wrinkle In Time

Sometimes, when you're looking for one thing,

you find something even better.
But until 2001, there had been no evidence of the city from this classical tale. But when a group led by French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio stumbled upon some relics, it led them to one of the greatest finds of the 21st century, a city underwater. The discovery took place when Goddio had been in search of Napoleon’s warships from the 1798 Battle of the Nile, when he had been defeated by Nelson in these very waters, but to his surprise, he stumbled upon this magnificent discovery. Goddio’s team has since been joined by the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology and the Department of Antiquities of Egypt to produce a wealth of dazzling finds.

Some Navajo Code Talkers from WWII show up at a game.
Wearing Redskins jackets.
And saying things liberals and socialists do NOT want to hear.
Hawthorne, vice president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association, said the group’s trip was paid for by the Redskins. The four men met briefly with team owner Dan Snyder but did not discuss the name, Hawthorne said.

Still, he said he would endorse the name if asked, and the televised appearance in which three of the Indians wore Redskins jackets spoke for itself.

“We didn’t have that in mind but that is undoubtedly what we did do,” Hawthorne said when asked if he was intending to send a statement with the appearance. “My opinion is that’s a name that not only the team should keep, but that’s a name that’s American.”
I don't think their heads 'exploded' so much as 'melted down in rage'.


And from Egypt and people dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood our idiot President wants to pump up,
As the full ramification of the Muslim Brotherhood's year in power continues to be exposed, a new study by Al Azhar's Fatwa Committee dedicated to exploring the fatwas, or Islamic decrees, issued by the Brotherhood and Salafis -- the Islamists -- was recently published.

According to the report, "fatwas issued by both groups [Brotherhood and Salafis] regard women as strange creatures created solely for sex. They considered the voices of women, their looks and presence outside the walls of their homes an 'offence.' Some went as far as to consider women as a whole 'offensive.'"
These people are seriously nuts.
The study similarly revealed that some of these fatwas decreed that women who swim in the sea are committing "adultery" -- even if they wear a hijab: "The reason behind this particular fatwa, from their point of view, is that the sea is masculine [as with many other languages, Arabic nouns are gender specific, and "sea" is masculine], and when the water touches the woman's private parts she becomes an 'adulteress' and should be punished."
Moreover, "Some of these fatwas also forbade women from eating certain vegetables or even touching cucumbers or bananas," due to their phallic imagery, which may tempt women to deviate.

Other fatwas decreed that "it is unacceptable for women to turn the air conditioning on at home during the absence of their husbands as this could be used as a sign to indicate to neighbors that the woman is at home alone and any of them could commit adultery with her."

One fatwa suggested that marriage to ten-year-old girls should be allowed to prevent girls "from deviating from the right path," while another prohibited girls from going to schools located 25 kilometers away from their homes.

Another stated that a marriage is annulled if the husband and wife copulate with no clothes on.

Well, if you've got to have a commercial,

this is how to do it.

Tar. Feathers. Clubs.

and prosecutions.
Ellen Richardson went to Pearson airport on Monday full of joy about flying to New York City and from there going on a 10-day Caribbean cruise for which she’d paid about $6,000.

But a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent with the Department of Homeland Security killed that dream when he denied her entry.

“I was turned away, I was told, because I had a hospitalization in the summer of 2012 for clinical depression,’’ said Richardson, who is a paraplegic and set up her cruise in collaboration with a March of Dimes group of about 12 others.

At the time, Richardson said, she was so shocked and devastated by what was going on, she wasn’t thinking about how U.S. authorities could access her supposedly private medical information.

And the Canadian authorities are playing games with this, too:
U.S. authorities “do not have access to medical or other health records for Ontarians travelling to the U.S.,’’ said health ministry spokeswoman Joanne Woodward Fraser, adding the ministry could not provide any additional information.
Bullshit; they HAD the information, Fraser; stop pretending otherwise.

If you believe that this is coincidence,

there's some seafront property in the OK panhandle you might be interested in.
He went on FOX News where his story was picked up by C. Steven Tucker, a health insurance broker who helped him keep his insurance.

Now suddenly Bill Elliot is being audited for 2009 with an interview only scheduled in April 2014. Assuming he lives that long. That might be a coincidence, but Tucker is being audited back to 2003.
Coming out of this IRS, 'coincidence' isn't really an option.


Did the Bureau of Labor Statistics fake the numbers to help Obama?  Yes.


"I am saying that I have been respectful of teabaggers; why don't you peasants believe me?"


So, does that mean this clown thinks some perfidious Jews helped him make it big for some reason?  Or is he just one more bigoted idiot?


"But we NEED a MRAP to serve warrants!  Really!"  See if you can spot the key word in this:
"It's armored. It's heavy. It's intimidating. And it's free," said Apple."


If you could get this to work in a punch bowl...


On the latest hyperventilating about Zimmerman having an 'arsenal' of five guns and a little over a hundred rounds:
"Jesus! That's enough ammunition for the NYPD to shoot two people!"


And to whoever came up with the 'upgrade' that won't let me copy & paste web addresses the way I could before, choke on a turkey bone, you idiot.

The new anti-gun-ownership tactic: planting fake 'No Firearms' stickers

I was grabbing a to go order so I had already called it in. I was sad as this was going to be my last order as I wasn’t going to support them anymore. I REALLY like their wings. The manager is the one who brought me my order and gave me the customary “come again soon.” Which I replayed “not likely as long as you have that” pointing at the sicker.

She was shocked and asked the hostess if she knew who put that there. She asked me to wait and went to the back. She came back with the chef who is the owner and he said he had no idea how that got there. He removed it and wished me a good day.

In this case, they caught the clown:
Yesterday, I went back and the manager said she looked at the surveillance video and said late one night a customer put the sticker there just before closing on their way out. They confronted them as they are also a frequent customer. She stated that she does that all over town where ever she goes. The manger asked them not to come back anymore.

I'm thankful it warmed up a bit out there;

This I'm mixed about:
Colorado state Sen. Evie Hudak (D), who was facing a potential recall election over her vote in favor of stricter gun control laws, will resign Wednesday, Denver television station KDVR reported.

Hudak's decision assured that Democrats would hold onto their one-vote majority in the state Senate, according to the TV station, with a Democratic committee being allowed to pick her replacement.
"Evie, we know you want to stay in that taxpayer-supplied office, but if you lose this recall the Republicans will have a majority!  So resign before you cause more problems.  And this way we'll claim it didn't have anything to do with our anti-gun laws."
Basically, they'll do anything to keep control of the Senate; lots of room under that bus, after all.
(Why no, I don't have anything better to do right at the moment)

Obama & Co. want you to screw with Thanksgiving dinner by arguing for Obamacare; MAIG wants in on that 'piss off the whole family' idea.


"Illegal aliens?  They're among my best voters!"


CDR Salamander on the current "How screwed are we?"  One of them, anyway; this one administration ignorance of how the military works.
Really, you could call a lot of this 'ignorance turned to stupidity', because ignorance is fixable by learning; refusing to deal with that new knowledge, that's stupid.


A virus or control signal using computer speakers and mikes to spread itself with no wireless or hard data connection between the machines.  Damn.


Asia is on the cusp of a full-blown arms race. The escalating clash between China and almost all its neighbours in the Pacific has reached a threshold. All other economic issues at this point are becoming secondary.
...
Besides, Beijing has just watched the US throw its long-time ally Saudi Arabia under a bus over Iran. It has watched Moscow score an alleged victory over Washington in Syria. You and I may think it is an error to infer too much US weakness from these incidents, but that is irrelevant. Beijing seems to be drawing its own conclusions.


If Bush had done this... well, you know the drill.


Former CO Senate leader John Morse: bitter, nasty little bastard, isn't he?


Slate wets its panties again: five guns and a little over 100 rounds = 'arsenal'.
They'd have crapped and wet simultaneously if they'd seen what people brought to Schutenfest.


Finally, a reminder of just how truly screwy the islamists are:
The Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm summarized some of the Al Azhar study's main findings and assertions on November 15 in a article entitled (in translation), "Muslim Brotherhood fatwas: A woman swimming is an 'adulteress' and touching bananas is 'forbidden.'" 

According to the report, "fatwas issued by both groups [Brotherhood and Salafis] regard women as strange creatures created solely for sex. They considered the voices of women, their looks and presence outside the walls of their homes an 'offence.' Some went as far as to consider women as a whole 'offensive.'"

Well, such a challenge cannot be passed up: as my contribution to 'Offend an Islamist', I offer the following a little ways below:

Tab clearing

"I'm leaving now so I can't be fired.  And this way Holder will have an easier time keeping me from being charged for any of this corruption."


Families USA (FUSA) — an organization that describes itself as a “national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans” — was given a $1.1 million grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on October 4, 2013, to gather “success stories” of Americans dealing with Obamacare and distribute them to the media who often refer to them as an “independent” group. This is part of a greater upcoming effort to bolster the perception of the lowly health care law.


At fault is a common electronic device invented nearly a century ago and found in almost every modern household: the domestic television set.

Put simply, our TVs have started spying on us.


My nephew Sean Smith was killed in Benghazi – I’d like to know what happened on Sept. 11, 2012
Us too.


Obamacare!
Charitable hospitals that treat uninsured children will now be fined and receive harsher scrutiny when applying for non-profit, tax-exempt status.


Hot damn!  If you need bullets,
 


Because the IRS hasn't broken the law and ethics enough, apparently.


More of that flexability with Russia: bowing down to kiss Putins' ass.


So according to this idiot the 1st Amendment ONLY covers churches and schools...


And finally, the best Thanksgiving show EVER!

Wow

This video, which aired on the BBC in the late 80′s has had a new birth this week thanks to the internet…and thank GOD it did!

Sir Nicholas Winton who organized the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport.

The video is him meeting a bunch of the kids he saved, all grown up.

Linoge has a collection of gun-bigot idiocy and projection, and includes this

MDA has been very big on lying about things lately.  Including the "Let's put up a picture and say these gun nuts are threatening us!" and "Let's lie about what happened with Staples!"  So not only are a bunch of them flat nuts, they're willing to openly and repeatedly lie to try and shove what they want down our throats.

Also note: if they try to pressure a company to not allow carry in their stores, it's activism; if we protest such, we're 'gun bullies'.

Also from Miguel, MAIG saying "Support is building to pass a law to require something that's already a law!"  So these clowns either don't know what they're talking about, or they're willing to openly lie.  Three guesses which is true.

(hint: it's a trick question)

 

So I was right about why Obamacare demanded all that personal information up front

Since the passage of Obamacare, all fifty state Medicaid agencies have been forced to create a new standalone database that contains nothing besides the contact information of Medicaid applicants who used Healthcare.gov.

Some of these new databases mail out voter registration forms automatically. You cannot refuse them.

No worthwhile verification occurs before the forms are mailed. Apply for Medicaid and the form will be mailed to you, be you a verifiable citizen or Ayman al-Zawahiri on a computer in Pakistan.

Further, these new databases are accessible by groups like Organizing for Action, the reconstituted ACORN, and malevolent figures like Chris Tarango.

And no reasonable purpose exists for creating the databases besides making them available to the aforementioned Democratic activists.

Another 'Because Officer Friendly

would not act like this.'
This is disgusting, on multiple levels.  And I guarantee that at some point- if they haven't already- the "You don't know what it's like, this is NECESSARY" crap will come out.

Look, Chief, you want people to support and assist you?  Stop acting like a light cavalry unit that just took over an enemy city; you'd be amazed what a different it'll make.


Some of the fads of the past.  That had body counts.  Same with some fashions.


It figures Moscow on the Pacific would be doing this, but the fact that other places are following this stupidity is spooky.
You want to take my house and force me into an apartment?  'Say hello to my little friend' comes to mind.



No one believes Barack Obama about anything anymore. Why should they? The new Iran deal is Obamacare II, only worse, a thousand megatons worse.
Obama wanted a deal.  ANY deal.  He already wanted to accommodate Iran- no matter what- and now he really wanted SOMETHING to distract from the pile of crap that is Obamacare: "Hey, I made a deal with Iran!  I truly am wonderful!"

Couple of weeks back there was a report that, not trusting Obama(and he bowed to the kind and everything!), the Saudis bought nukes from Pakistan; kept in Pakistan but ready to be transported on short notice.  Yeah, that's really going to help matters.
Know what?  I don't blame them; appears that the only real ally they have in this is Israel, and ain't that an interesting change?

M1 Carbine in 9mm

that eats from Beretta mags.  This could be interesting.

One more "You wanted this, dumbass;

so why aren't you happy?"
Old monthly premium: $578 for a family of four (non-smoking, helmet-wearing, and paternally snipped). New premium: $1,123. A 94% increase.
...
The website allowed me to find a plan that looked reasonable. Premera Blue Cross had a Preferred Bronze 5500 for $889 a month. Okay. Not so bad. Downside: $3,600 more in annual premiums. Upside: Free eyeglasses for the boy!
...
That only got him so far. At a certain point in the conversation, the accountant/lawyer had to get off the phone. “I have to stop answering your questions,” he told Peter. “I can’t ethically advise you, because honestly I don’t know the right thing to do. Nobody does. There are no answers. Right now it’s a complete clusterfuck.”
You were warned; so enjoy.


Ever notice that the balance of nature seems to consist of Ma deciding "I'll throw a rock in this side this time"?  Or "They want greenhouse gases, I'll give them that and some new land in the bargain!"


Another choirboy sadly cut down: "Just because he's an armed robber and had a gun to somebody's head and pointed it at someone else, there was no need to shoot him!"  Etc.


Because the real reason behind this 'smart-gun' crap is to make it as expensive as possible for the commoners to have arms; just like the bullshit in DC is to make it as difficult and expensive as possible.


Natchez Shooters Supply has a special on the next few days:




They do it because screwing with people trying to get from one place to another a long way from the border is much easier and safer than actually trying to catch bad guys at/near the border.


First the crap at Duke University, now this; what the hell is going on in Durham?


A good Democrat:
The name Levar Stoney may not ring a bell to many in Wisconsin, but the new Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia and former Deputy Campaign Manager for Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe has some scandalous history in Wisconsin.

In 2004, Levar Stoney was involved in covering up and lying for five Democratic campaign operatives who slashed the tires of 25 vans rented by the Republican Party for get out the vote efforts.


He's an academic, so this kind of racism and self-hate(except he's a GOOD one, so he's exempt I'm sure) is considered just fine.


And what feminism has become to far too many:
Back to the subject of the piece, women used to demand equality. Many who call themselves feminists have now become a toxic force in our society, quashing free speech, deeming rational thought a form of discrimination, and institutionalizing discrimination against men...all in the name of "equality."

First reaction probably "THEN WHY'D YOU PICK IT UP

AND BRING IT HERE?!?"


Entitled-feeling assholes, only description I can think of:
Taxpayers in Will County, Ill. have offered its public employees a hefty pay raise and are willing to pick up 90 percent of the cost for their health insurance, but that’s not good enough for members of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 1028.

Its 1,300 members went on strike Monday, decrying a “paltry” offer from the county that would have given workers a 14.5 percent pay hike and have taxpayers pay for the overwhelming majority of their health insurance costs.
Fire every damn one of them and hire people who don't have their head so far up their ass their brains have died.

ANY pay raise in this economy should've been greeted with cheers, but oh no, "We're in the Union and WE WANT MORE."  Screw you, go away and starve.


Speaking of racist bullshit, we have the knockout game.  And LE so afraid of being called RACIST!! for pointing out inconvenient facts that they talk around it so much they're tying themselves in knots.
Some experts insist the game is a “myth” that attempts to correlate unrelated attacks into a pattern with racial overtones. Parents of teens have referred to the attacks as “pranks” that spiral out of control. Police have also been reluctant to make too big of a deal about the attacks, concerned about creating the atmosphere for copy cat crimes.
Yeah, the dead people and those in hospitals are all imaginary, right.  That it keeps being black thugs doing it is imaginary.  Sure.
And to any parent out there: calling an attempt to put someone in the hospital or morgue a 'prank' is so effing stupid you should be in a cell for saying it.


How screwed is (fG)Britain?  This screwed:
Knives with a folding blade of 3 inches or less are permitted but one has to be very careful about using them in public, particularly not in any way that could be interpreted as being in a ‘racially threatening’ manner – I kid you not, if a white in the UK is accused of racism in any form, whether there is any substantiating evidence or not, the accusation is always sufficient to generate a prosecution. (We have even had one guy convicted of revving his car in a racially threatening manner. And no, I am not making this up.)
I include a link below to a good short synopsis of the law as it stands but if you do read it bear in mind that the full penalty for ‘carrying an illegal weapon’ is rarely if ever applied if the offender is non-white (which the vast majority are) but God help you if you are a white native – you can just kiss your ass goodbye.
https://www.gov.uk/find-out-if-i-can-buy-or-carry-a-knife
From the comments in this post at Wirecutter's place.


Of course the 'fix' is illegal; that's supposed to trouble these bastards?


Moms Demand Action is run by liars.  Big surprise, right?


Lab techs who screw with the evidence SHOULD wind up in jail.  Innocent people went to jail and guilty people are getting out because of her.


Führe- ah, Chairman Phil Mendelson has decreed that you must reregister your guns, and give fingerprints and pictures and pay a tax to be allowed to continue to own your arms.
Because this whole mess has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with both control and making the ownership of arms as expensive and difficult as possible.

In today's edition of 'Racial Grievance-Mongers'

we have these idiots in graduate school at the University of Californicated:
Student demonstrators alleged that there is a “toxic” racial climate in the graduate school, including in Rust’s classroom. Organizers told the Daily Bruin last week that they decided to host the demonstration after a recent report examining racial discrimination among the university’s faculty stated that UCLA’s policies and procedures do not sufficiently address racially motivated instances of discrimination.
Considering Californicated, you might be wondering just how this horrible discrimination against minorities could happens, seeing as how that state is RUN by the terminally PC.  Well, wonder no longer:
[UDPATED at 1 a.m.: In a letter sent to colleagues in the department after the sit-in, Rust said students in the demonstration described grammar and spelling corrections he made on their dissertation proposals as a form of "micro-aggression." "I have attempted to be rather thorough on the papers and am particularly concerned that they do a good job with their bibliographies and citations, and these students apparently don't feel that is appropriate," Rust said in the letter.
I really don't want to try to type what's going through my head when I re-read this bullshit, so I'll put it this way:
Twinkies, if you're such delicate flowers that IN GRADUATE SCHOOL you can't handle GRAMMERGRAMMAR* AND SPELLING CORRECTIONS without screaming RACISM!!!, you are too farging stupid to be there. Go away. Die. Do something but SHUT THE HELL UP.

God... if the Big One strikes soon it might clean a little of this crap out.


*I am advised I misspelled 'grammar'; corrected.
See, dumbasses?  Someone points out a spelling error you correct it; isn't that simpler than making false accusations?

Sometimes the damndest things show up on Antiques Roadshow

Just saw a bit, lady had her great-grandfather's sword.  In the scabbard backwards, and thus about three inches of blade showing.  About halfway down the scabbard a bit of engraving ending with Lookout Mountain.  She also has the letter he sent back with it three days after the battle: 'A ball struck it, and I cannot get the sword out of the scabbard, so I'm sending it to you.'  Turn the thing over and there's a massive dent in the other side that looks like a straight-on impact; good chance it saved his leg.

Guy went over all this, and told her what it was probably worth due to the letter telling what happened, and she then asked "Can it be fixed?"  He looked dumbfounded a moment before saying "Fixed... that'd be like spray-painting the Mona Lisa!"

Now THAT is a gift list!

Not that fond of the Gerber knives, but everything else?  Yowza; I'd like a lot of that stuff myself.


If you need some milsurp 8mm, here's something for you; if I had the spare cash right now, I'd get a can.

That drink can stove I posted on updated

the other day?  Found a can and tried it; it works.

Hardest part: getting the top cut out without destroying the can.  I've got some 91% isopropyl alcohol and tried it with that; had a hard time getting it to light, but once lit it took right off.  Put a small pot with 1.5-2 cups of water on top, and it took roughly 3 minutes to have it to a boil, and used very little alcohol.

No pictures, as the flash washed out the flames and I'm too lazy tonight to screw around with it; I'll try for a decent shot tomorrow.


Update: from Scott in comments, this is too good not to add on:
Did that as a kid - while sitting in a deer stand....folgers coffee can with a roll of toilet paper soaked in alcohol....take the lid off - light - and I had a nice smokeless hand warming heater....works like a champ..

Tab clearing

"You Jews should know your place!"


"If your children do not show up as ordered, we'll label them as racists."


A: Stupid idea to start with.
B: Who's involved, again?


Yes, Sebelius should be fired.  And prosecuted.  And so should the others involved.


Another Obamacare success.


Bird cuisinarts in action.


"Holder and DoJ is a disgrace."  And what was your first clue?


"Hey, the IRS is getting away with it, why not us?"

Because when your God-King's ratings are in the sewer line

it's so much easier to yell "Racism!" or "Sexist!" than to deal with it.  And the idiocy that's behind it.
Michael Dyson and Zerlina Maxwell, our current prime examples.
And guys?  It's not working well anymore; everyone except your devoted followers is so sick of hearing this crap that they either ignore it, or wonder "What're they trying to hide with this bullshit?".


A bit of Kennedy history I'd not heard before.


" 'My administration will be transparent' means 'You get to see what I want you to, when I want you to'."


Nothing says "We're screwed if they see the price tags!" like "Delay this(illegally, but so what) till after the election!"


A post-antibiotic world... I can't find the quote, but years ago read a bit about someone asking (I think) Florence Nightingale about the idea of antibiotics, and she said she loved the idea but 'feared that doctors and nurses would become dependent on them, and stop proper practices of cleaning and hygiene, and thus wind up with more problems.'
While looking for that quote, I ran across this(among others) on the subject of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Have some friends who are nurses who're dealing with this crap all the time; it's not going to be fun in the future.


Franken is one of the panicked who was pleading with Obama to do something to stop the medical device tax when they realized what damage it would do in their states; now it's Franken has so far been relatively quiet about potential changes to the health-care law, but he now joins a growing group of Senate Democrats in seats that could be targeted by the GOP in 2014 who are speaking up on the issue.


Unrelated to any of the above, all the screaming about the lady whacking a lion caused me to try to find a show I saw several years ago on African lions; haven't found it, but did find these two, both from the BBC.

I think I have an image for next year

This is the simplest drink-can stove I've ever seen

going to have to try this.

On the most recent "ZIMMERMAN ARRESTED AGAIN!" noise,

Not even considering it might be true until this crap shakes out.  Our 'news' media is so often full of crap it's amazing; add to that that they seem to follow him around looking for something to scream about, and I don't trust them.


First, this is downright weird.  Second, considering some of the garbage DHS has been involved in, I can't really dismiss it, either.  Especially with this:
The investigations ultimately resulted in the federal government raiding her desert home with a Blackhawk helicopter and about two dozen armed federal agents — all to investigate an unfounded claim that Davis and her husband had committed marriage fraud years earlier. (She and her husband were later found factually innocent of this charge.) Davis and her husband were surveilled extensively before the execution of the warrant, including with a single engine plane. I have seen video from the deposition of the ICE agent admitting this. But the Blackhawk helicopter raid takes the cake. Black helicopters are such a staple of anti-government conspiracy theory that you might be reaching for the tinfoil hats — except that the raid was filmed by Davis’s neighbor, and you can watch it on her documentary. The young man who filmed the raid soon died under circumstances that have never been explained. That’s one dead body.


Speaking of people I don't trust, of COURSE they lied; first, they were scared to death that people would see the costs of Obamacare and yell "NO!" before entering all that personal data;
and they really, really wanted all that personal data on a network they controlled.