Tab clearing, starting with the Commissar running Austin PD

After the shooting in Austin last week, our dear police chief has come up with a plan to curb future shootings, namely … tell the cops about your friends or family members who love guns.  Especially if they ‘hate’ anyone. Uh, okay.
I've heard Austin described as Moscow, TX.  Apparently this slimy clown likes the KGB model of policing.
Ah, the new shoulder patch for Austin PD:

A: Comrade Mayor demonstrating how much he cares, but not doing a damn thing about any of the idiot laws behind the problems.
B: the attitude of the CoP as to how the commoners should behave:
At the same press conference, meanwhile, de Blasio's "agent of change," Bratton, insisted New York City residents "correct their behavior" when being approached by cops, explaining that that's what democracy was.
Really?  Hearing "Know your place, peasants!" from a shit-brained official is democracy?


Reporter needs to calm down around guns; maybe take lessons from the 10-year-old she's interviewing.

Oh, and to gun bigot Barrett, your they don’t have the physical strength and necessarily the coordination to handle very, very powerful weapons statement is obviously crap.  As demonstrated by the 10-year-old.  Go get your hysteria under control.


Yeah, it doesn't give much trust in your 'Gang rape in the fraternity!!!' story when we find out this:
Erdely admits she set out to find a sexual-assault story at an elite school like UVA. She looked at lots of other colleges first, but “none of those schools felt quite right” in the words of a Washington Post profile of Erdely. But UVA, which Erdely describes in Rolling Stone as a school without a thriving “radical feminist culture seeking to upend the patriarchy,” was just right. As Worth magazine editor Richard Bradley noted last week, the whole thing seems like an adventure in confirmation bias.


And on lighter note,

From the MHI files, some of them elves are nasty buggers

"If you teabagger racist gun-nuts didn't insist that that 2nd Amendment actually means something,

then the cops would all become Officer Friendly again!  So this is all YOUR fault!"

Makes you wonder what color the sky is in his world.


Mr Williamson deals with that idiotic factually-challenged editorial in the Tallahassee Democrat.

Harshly.  Beginning with
It would help if you actually understood what you were talking about before opening your ignorant yap.


Yes, that idiot bill in Washington is as bad as feared.
So, now you have it. All those proponents of I-594 said we were alarmist and crazy for saying things like this would require a background check. Now we have word from the State of Washington that says, in essence, “You gun nuts were right about I-594 and the anti-gun people lied to get it passed.” But that is to be expected. Anti-Second Amendment people have long had a culture of deception.


Apparently being unaware that it requires a full modern factory to make guns and ammo and such, this guy makes a .577/.450 cartridge case from scratch.  And the projectile, too.
Primer and powder?  Videos and articles and books on making those, too, just look around.


Blowback's a bitch, isn't it?

The Fish & Wildlife Service made it official:

They wanted a place on the 'Agencies that are not to be trusted' list, right up there with the IRS and ATF and such:
A pro-hunting group is up in arms after obtaining emails that it says indicate that a federal official withheld critical data on lead blood levels in the California condor until after gun control advocates in the California state legislature used the iconic bird’s plight to help push through a law last year to ban lead ammunition.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation obtained the emails as part of a Freedom of Information Act request showing that John McCamman, California condor recovery coordinator for the Fish and Wildlife Service, did not make the report public until the bill was on its way to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown. Mr. Brown signed the measure in October 2013.
We're back to my question: we're supposed to trust ANY of these people about ANYTHING why, again?

Mr. McCamman could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but Fish and Wildlife spokesman Scott Flaherty said that while the 18-page report, entitled “California Condor Recovery Program, Project Update and 2011 and 2012 Lead Exposure Report,” had been held back, “I’m pretty sure it was not delayed simply to withhold it from the debate.”
Such a denial!  Such a defense!  Such bullshit!


Speaking of bovine feces, Thirdpower found a fine example of the bigoted, lying, allergic-to-facts clowns we're supposed to 'compromise' with over a basic enumerated right.


Speaking of walking bovine feces, more from Josh Sugarmann
While the NRA portrays itself as protecting the ‘freedom’ of individual gun owners, it’s actually working to protect the freedom of the gun industry to manufacture and sell virtually any weapon or accessory.
...
I find it very telling that ‘freedom’ is in quotes.

Sugarmann has no respect for, and perhaps does not even recognize the existence of, individual freedom. If he did then he would recognize that the freedom of individual gun owners is dependent upon there being a free market offering for sale the types of firearms the individual wants.
I think he recognizes that freedom as being undesirable in his beliefs, therefore it must be destroyed.

One of those "The Only Ones who should be allowed to carry guns", at least in Cleveland

The level of idiocy here ought to cost some people everything.
A police officer who shot a 12-year-old dead in a Cleveland park late last month had been judged unfit for police service two years earlier by a small suburban force where he worked for six months, according to records released on Wednesday.

Officer Timothy Loehmann, who killed Tamir Rice on 22 November, was specifically faulted for breaking down emotionally while handling a live gun. During a training episode at a firing range, Loehmann was reported to be "distracted and weepy" and incommunicative. "His handgun performance was dismal," deputy chief Jim Polak of the Independence, Ohio, police department wrote in an internal memo.
Bad.  REAL bad.  And gets worse:
I'll refer you to the article for information about that. As I read the Cleveland police department's replies, I see them being evasive about whether they knew about Loehmann's poor performance at the gun range and firing. They say crap like "We had no instruction" about that, or "I have not received the file" rather than straight-up denying they had any such information.

That to me is pretty much an admission that they knew.

So why did this guy get hired?
That is a real damned good question.  Since the answer is worth someones life.

No crap? Fake reports of violent crime are bad?

But Flanagan also expressed fear about what would happen if the Rolling Stone story, which has done so much to raise awareness about rape within fraternity culture, unraveled. “[I]f this turns out to be a hoax, it is going to turn the clock back on their thinking 30 years,” she said.

More broadly, Flanagan said that if the story isn't true, “it is going to cause so much trouble in the area of reforming fraternity sexual assault, I can’t even tell you.”

Well, no shit.  Journalists pushing fake stories and false reports tend to do that.  Especially with rape, when we've got SJWs calling anything they disapprove of rape.

Also, about that 'awareness of rape within fraternity culture' noise, yeah, if this story is fake it'll definitely cause a lot of 'Rape culture in fraternities?  Bullshit.' blowback.
Warning, autoplay video on the link.


Sounds like some people at the Salvation Army need introduction to a cluebat.  Or spending a few nights in a car in freezing weather with someone telling them "It's YOUR fault!"
A family in Johnson City, TN, found this out recently when, on a freezing cold night, they asked the organization for shelter. But because their family of five contained a 15-year-old boy, they were turned down. 
...
Lejeune says his wife, their 15 year-old son, 16 year-old daughter and five year-old son, all down on their luck, have been living in their car for the last several weeks.

So instead the family headed to their car. The temperature: 18 degrees.
Some people who actually gave a damn helped out.  A lot.  And then?  Oh yeah, it turned out freaking GREAT.
And after that, the Salvation Army did take the family in—minus the teen boy.

He's not sleeping on the streets. He's now in a mental health facility. He had a breakdown, his dad says, because he thought it was his fault the family was turned away from shelter.
Did I say cluebat?  Howzabout a bullwhip, liberal application thereof?


Next time some Democrat or leftist(is there a difference anymore?) whines about 'no money for important things!' throw this at them:
$75 per individual per day, for four months.

According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, that’s how much the federal government is paying for the housing, food and needs of thousands of illegal aliens who crossed into the United States this summer, at just two military bases. The documents show that the federal government’s Department of Health and Human Services has paid an eye-popping $186,129,786 to the Baptist Children and Family Services for four months of care for thousands of illegal aliens, at a time when Democrats complain of government “austerity.”


Some advice on dealing with mob attacks on your vehicle when you're inside.

Voluntarily joining the .gov list is a bad idea

Especially in Mexico.
So civilians got ticked off at being collateral damage in the open warfare that Mexico has among Drug Cartels, managed to scramble some weapons and actually made a bit of difference . The Government came along and said “Hey, you can’t do that but I am here to help you if you register with us and be an “official member” of the Rural Police!” 

Apparently the love fest is over. May it be the Government or the Drug Cartels, the members of the Self Defense groups are being targeted.


Oath Keepers have been helping people guard their businesses.  Which for some reason ticked off the cops.  So the cops are claiming "You can't do security business without a license."
Uh, guys, they're volunteers helping people.  Which the authorities haven't been doing in too many cases.

Because faking rape threats is good, if you're a SJW (pic updated)

who was offended by something, and wants to push diversity.

Your weird variety of it, that is.


Your "Judge who should lose that black robe" for the day: New Britain Superior Court judge Stephen Frazzini
...ordered an injunction against the Connecticut Law Tribune barring it from publishing an article based on a public court document:
and
Frazzini's oral ruling is currently sealed, but Klau said he is working to have it unsealed. "I am actually under a restraining order about what I can tell my own client.
This is bullshit.  Utter and decayed bullshit.


Speaking of utter bullshit, lady has a page on Book of face called Communism Kills.  She passed on a limerick that is less than respectful of the deceased thug in Ferguson*, and the SJWs went apeshit.  Death threats, rape threats, arson threats, the works.  Over a friggin' limerick.

Because nothing says 'justice' like hoping for the rape and death of a woman and her mother over a friggin' limerick they didn't even write.
Pic update: we'll see if this one enlarges

*Yes, I know, calling him a thug is supposed to make you a racist too.

You expect most of the media to actually REPORT on stuff like this

that makes various protected persons look bad?
1) The report primarily absolves the IC of failure and wrongdoing, not the State Department, Department of Defense or executive branch

2) There was no intelligence failure, if you consider finding no evidence of a potential attack a success

3) The failures of Benghazi in fact lay squarely at the feet of the State Department, according to the report

4) The report attempts to deny U.S. facilitation of weapons transfers from Libya to Syria via Benghazi, but leaves a significant amount of yet unquestioned wiggle room

5) The report continues to say that President Obama referred to Benghazi as a terrorist attack from the very beginning, on Sept. 12, 2012 in the Rose Garden
That's half of what's in the story.


Directly connected: Why IS Petraeus still being investigated?  Insty thinks to keep him quiet; wouldn't surprise me.


How about a federal civil rights law protecting citizens forced to resort to self-help from interference by local authorities?

For some reason I'm supposed to care what Chris Rock thinks

about, well, anything.  In particular collective-guilt crap like this:
It’s about white people adjusting to a new reality?
Owning their actions. Not even their actions. The actions of your dad. Yeah, it’s unfair that you can get judged by something you didn’t do, but it’s also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn’t work for.
Well, wonder if he's going to donate every penny somewhere when he dies so any kids or family get none of it, since they didn't work for it?

And he can take that collective-guilt crap and shove it; that bullshit is- well, bullshit.

Some of the history we're not supposed to pay attention to

A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before.
...
Most other accounts of slavery along the Barbary coast didn’t try to estimate the number of slaves, or only looked at the number of slaves in particular cities, Davis said. Most previously estimated slave counts have thus tended to be in the thousands, or at most in the tens of thousands. Davis, by contrast, has calculated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Gee, why might this be a surprise?
Davis said the vast scope of slavery in North Africa has been ignored and minimized, in large part because it is on no one’s agenda to discuss what happened.

The enslavement of Europeans doesn’t fit the general theme of European world conquest and colonialism that is central to scholarship on the early modern era, he said. Many of the countries that were victims of slavery, such as France and Spain, would later conquer and colonize the areas of North Africa where their citizens were once held as slaves. Maybe because of this history, Western scholars have thought of the Europeans primarily as “evil colonialists” and not as the victims they sometimes were, Davis said.

The sheriff of Milwaukee County isn't very fond of our noble AG,

or Sharpton, or a lot of those similar clowns.
“To come and exploit that situation, and instead of coming into help and restore calm, poured gas on that fire with some of their inflammatory and irresponsible rhetoric.. [Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and Senator Claire McCaskill, both Democrats] threw law enforcement under the bus for political expediency”…

“I expected that from Governor Nixon. I expected that from Claire McCaskell. Those are nothing but two-bit politicians… but I did not expect that from Eric Holder, who calls himself a law enforcement officer”…

As to Holders' "I am a poor, abused-by-the-cops black man" routine,
“Wait a minute. Mr. Attorney General, if you felt those officers had violated your Fourth Amendment, and you’re a federal prosecutor, and you didn’t say anything at the time? On behalf of everybody in the United States, you could have done something if you felt that. You could have made a complaint–because all of us kind of realize in law enforcement, right, we testify–what do they say in court? If you didn’t write it down, if you didn’t report it, it didn’t happen.”

“Really, Mr. Attorney General? You didn’t report it then. You didn’t write it down. But you’re telling us some 10-15 years later for self-serving purposes. I thought, ‘Why did you do that?’ You insulted every law enforcement officer, every man and woman who puts on that badge and uniform everyday, risks their lives in service to their community.”


Yeah, I'd imagine a bunch of these businesses won't rebuild there.  And next year a bunch of the dirtbags involved in running them off will be whining "There's no stores around here anymore!"  And blaming it on racism.


Now reciting some facts that don't fit the Preferred Narrative™ is 'relitigating the death'.  According to a bunch of PC-at-any-cost talking heads.

There was an argument on bookface about "What to do if people make you stop

in a demonstration/riot situation", opinions ranging from 'show restraint and avoid hurting people' to 'drive, if they're too stupid to get out of the way that's their problem'.  Crap like this makes you lean toward the 'DRIVE' option:
Police said Begic was in his vehicle in the 4200 block of Itaska about 1:15 a.m. when several juveniles approached on foot and began damaging it. Begic got out and the juveniles began yelling at him and striking him with hammers. Two male juveniles, 16 and 15, were taken into custody.
No other details, but what do you want to bet one or more was standing in front of the car, and he didn't want to run over them?

And if he had run over one of them, Sharpton and Holder and ever other race-baiting bastard out there would be howling for his blood.

Write a book and make comments on a non-PC subject,

wind up having to sell your Nobel Prize.
James Watson, the world-famous biologist who was shunned by the scientific community after linking intelligence to race, said he is selling his Nobel Prize because he is short of money after being made a pariah.
Mind you, I'd think wanting to buy a painting would be a lesser concern, but at his age might well figure it's one last indulgence.


What?  The EPA is playing games and hiding data?
Anybody surprised?


The great thing about Obama’s TelePrompter is that when he stops reading from it, he slips up and tells the truth.


"You will give us money for a trip and your kids will do this, or we'll label them as 'racists' for the rest of their lives."
Sounds like a very appropriate time for tar and feathers.

Screw the news,

much nicer things to study

You can't fix stupid: it burns down its own house and then

yells 'Racism!'
(yes, it's from a satire site, as I have been reminded a couple of times; just got around to adding it)
We have as our prime example a arsonist, racist and stupid bastard named Tyler Jackson.

According to a report in the Ferguson Post-Gazette, 32-year-old Tyler Jackson threw a Molotov cocktail into a window not realizing he was setting ablaze his own residence. The home, which was empty at the time, subsequently burned to the ground.

“It was dark. I got all turned around. I thought it was a 7-11 or something,” he told the newspaper.

Which, of course, would excuse it: "I thought I was burning down some poor bastards business and putting his employees out of a job, not my own house!"  There, fixed it for you, you dirtbag.

Oh, of COURSE he called for help:

Witnesses describe Jackson shouting expletives after he realized what he had done. He then tried to put out the flames himself with a garden hose, but eventually called 911 and asked the fire department for aid.

“They told me they were too busy with other fires to come help,” he lamented. “I couldn’t believe it. I mean we pay these people’s salaries! What do you mean you’re too busy?

“A black person’s house burns down and suddenly you’re ‘too busy’ to put the fire out? This is what racism in America looks like.”

Let's see... you're
Trying to burn down a business that had not a damn thing to do with what you're 'protesting',
Set fire to your own house,
And because the fire department is tied up fighting all the other fires your dirtbag protester compatriots have set, it's 'racism' that they won't drop everything else to put out the fire YOU SET.
Right.  Sure.

Chances of this admitted arsonist being put in jail: zero.  Chances of him getting welfare and so forth: probably about 1. 

Jackson and Sharpton and Holder and Obama should be happy, this idiot is partly of their making, and they got what they wanted: someone who can burn down his own house and blame it on whitey.

And this is why Earl doesn't get invited to the house much...

"EARL!  STOP THAT!!"

District of Columbia PD: equivalent to a third-world bunch of uniformed clowns

constantly on the take.  Or just plain stealing.

D.C. police have made plans for millions of dollars in anticipated proceeds from future civil seizures of cash and property, even though federal guidelines say “agencies may not commit” to such spending in advance, documents show.

The city’s proposed budget and financial plan for fiscal 2015 includes about $2.7 million for the District police department’s “special purpose fund” through 2018. The fund covers payments for informants and rewards.

Theft under color of law. Run by thieves pretending to be lawmen.

Had some questions about the Berdan-primed cases and primers,

so here goes:
Quick history: Berdan priming was developed by Col. Berdan of the US Army back in the 1800's, Boxer priming was developed by Col. Boxer of the British Army in the same time frame.  Yet we wound up using Boxer, and the Brits wound up using the Berdan system.

Both have the same basic construction: a metal cup filled with a impact-sensitive compound which, when crushed between the cup and anvil by the firing pin impact, will flash, said flash traveling through the flash hole(s) into the main body of the case to ignite the propellant.

The big difference is the anvil: in Boxer primers(on the right)

the anvil is a piece in the primer cup(cup, compound, anvil), the cartridge case has a single flash hole in the center of the primer pocket, and the legs of the primer contact the floor of the pocket to the sides of that.  Berdan primers have the cup, compound, and a sealant or in this case layer of foil to seal it, and the anvil is part of the cartridge case,

in the center of the primer pocket, with two small flash holes on opposing sides.

With Boxer cases the depriming is simple: the resizing die usually has a depriming rod that, as you resize the case, punches out the fired primer.  Can't do that with Berdan, have to use a separate tool(yes, there are other ways, I'm sticking with this less-messy one).

Here's the RCBS Berdan depriming tool I picked up years ago, just in case:

The piece on the left is a handle, insert into the case so you can hold onto it.  The other has a claw to hold onto the rim, awl to puncture the primer, and handle.  The awl is adjustable in length, more on that later.  The tape is because there's nice non-slip knurling on the handle, and because of my hand/arm I've been using a piece of pipe as an extension; protects the knurling and keeps the pipe from slipping off.

Insert handle into case, hook claw onto the rim,

and set the awl point into the firing pin dimple in the primer.

Add pressure until awl punctures and claw body is flat against the case head.

Lever handle down, and the awl should lever the primer out of the pocket.

Now we come to the adjustable length of the awl: if it's too short, it'll tear through the primer cup instead of levering it out and leave it in the pocket.  If it's too long, you can damage the anvil, anything from a 'Crap' like this

to damaging it badly enough to trash the case(this one's probably useable, but borderline)

After this loading these is just like Boxer cases: resize, prime, and so forth.  You have to remove the depriming rod from the die before resizing; if you don't you WILL damage the rod.

These Berdan large rifle primers are slightly larger in diameter than the Boxer(.215" vs. .210 by my caliper) but work in my Hornady priming tool with no problems, and it seats them nicely.

So that's the process as I'm doing it.  The big problem is finding Berdan primers, especially now since these are Russian-made, and we're a bit at loggerheads with the Russkies right now.  I picked these up at a show from these folks:
J&N Supply
3261 S. 124 Rd.
Flemington, MO  65650
417/253-4200, 417/298-3635
JNSupplyllc@yahoo.com 
So far I've found them to work in Swiss 7.5x55, Yugoslav 7.62x39, and now the SA 7.62x51 cases.

Worth it?  Depends.  I had a lot of those beautiful Swiss cases I hated to dump in the recycle bucket, and it's worth the extra work to be able to use them.  On the 7.62x39 and 7.62x51, I just like knowing that I can reload them if need/want to.


The only other way I know of to deprime these is hydraulically.  Which basically means 'Make a ram that JUST fits into the case mouth, fill the case with water, set it over something that has a hole under the primer, insert ram, whack with mallet'.  Hit hard enough and the hydraulic pressure will shove water through the flash holes and push the primer out, probably while spraying water on you.  Yes, I've tried it; I prefer this method.

One more piece of history: over time there had been a total of seven different sizes of Berdan primers used in different countries.

You would have to pay me to go out today

to anywhere other than a grocery store or restaurant, or desperate need for something.

No, I do not consider "I WANT IT FOR THAT PRICE!" to be desperate enough.


I think the mornings' discussion will center on this brainless PC-at-any-cost fool.  Who has somehow stayed ambulatory and breathing long enough to get into a college.
Senior Oliver Friedfeld and his roommate were held at gunpoint and mugged recently. However, the GU student isn’t upset. In fact he says he “can hardly blame [his muggers].”
“Not once did I consider our attackers to be ‘bad people.’ I trust that they weren’t trying to hurt me. In fact, if they knew me, I bet they’d think I was okay,” 
...
“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’” asks Friedfeld. “It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”
Got that?  Recognizing that armed robbers are, well, ARMED ROBBERS is 'otherization'.  Noting that thugs who use weapons and fear to steal are thugs, well, that makes YOU the bad guy.

Jesus wept.  These people really are fucking insane.


Speaking of insanity,
When it comes to Department of Defense doctrine on military treatment of detained persons, “unlawful enemy combatants” are a thing of the past. That term has been retired and replaced by “unprivileged enemy belligerents” in a new revision of Joint Publication 3-13 on Detainee Operations, dated November 13, 2014.
Because word games are more important than, say, ROE more concerned with winning than with making the enemy happy.

And now back to data more to my taste

Short data burst for the ladies

below the fold

Let them get away with blocking roads and tunnels,

and this is what you get.
Anarchists plotted on Wednesday to disrupt the Thanksgiving Day Parade — feeling emboldened after cops allowed them to run free on major roadways like the FDR Drive and the West Side Highway, The Post has learned.

“The police aren’t going to arrest us and they are not going to shoot us,” an organizer who calls himself “Magiq” boasted to a group of two dozen rabble-rousers at a Union Square planning session Wednesday night.
Why?  Because Comrade Mayor de Blasio thinks blocking major roads and screwing other people lives around = 'free speech'.
But de Blasio is on the record saying free speech trumps keeping thoroughfares moving.

“I think the First Amendment is a little more important than traffic,” he told the New York Observer in September after the People’s Climate March.
Sooner or later this special treatment is going to wind up blocking fire trucks and/or ambulances, and somebody's going to wind up dead because of it.  And they should go after Comrade Mayor for it; if he's too stupid to see the danger of allowing protesters to block roadways, he's too stupid to be in that office.

'disengage from the interview', which actually means

"Shit, I let the truth out, I need to get out!"
“Yeah, we support the violent protesters,” the individual responded, contending the rioting was a form of “communal self-defense.”

After Joseph asked whether the man supported those burning down Ferguson businesses, the individual abruptly chose to “disengage” from the interview.

Things to be thankful for...

right now I'll go with redheads

I know what the 'A' in ATF is supposed to stand for, but

I think the actual word is 'Assholes'.  Jeez.
Badly run operation, apparently no care for losses, or security, damage the building, don't pay the rent, and then
...When he tried to collect, they didn't pay up. In fact, an ATF lawyer warned him that if he kept asking for the money, it could be seen as harassing federal agents.
Security?  What's that?
One item that was just left lying around in the store after the robbery for anybody to pick up and read-- it was there when reporter John Diedrich walked through-- was a secret ATF document listing the names of undercover agents, their undercover vehicles from several law enforcement agencies in Milwaukee.

And it's not the only place they did this crap.  But they're Dedicated Federal Agents and if we don't support them no matter what, the terrorists and somebody unsavory will win.  Or something.

Yes, it's Thanksgiving, but I wanted to get this up anyway.

And have a happy Turkey Day

Just because

No thank you, the little bastards are annoying enough now

Yeah, I like the good stuff too

Tab clearing

If this is true, both Obama and the governor need their ass kicked.


If you thought meat and fat were better for you than man-made fats and carbohydrates, looks like you're (again) proven right.


Yeah, the stepdad is a real piece of work.  And other bullshit being pushed/you're not being told about Ferguson.


So what else are they playing games with in this inquiry?
But a controversial Committee report asserts the CIA did not make “unauthorized” arms shipments to the Syrian rebels,...
My, doesn't that make questions spring to mind?


Damn.  If true, makes the mess even uglier.


Translation: "This mess is REAL unpopular, I need to put some space between it and myself!"


The Lightbringer admits he violated the Constitution.  This better be in every court case and every Congressional action.

An experiment was made

Few years back, before the price went through the roof, I picked up a couple of battle packs of South African .308 ammo.  Good stuff, though Berdan primed.

Got to wondering if those Berdan primers I'd picked up would fit, so deprimed and resized some brass I'd saved, and tried them; fit perfectly.

Loaded up twenty rounds with my standard cast-bullet practice load for such cartridges, and tried them this morning.  Worked perfectly.

That makes 7.5x55 Swiss, Yugo 7.62x39, and now that .308 that will work with them.  Makes me glad I saved that stuff.

"Yeah, it's expensive and a lot of degrees are worthless, but

you've GOT to go to college!"

I notice no note is taken of how you'll pay off those horrendous student loans while slowly working toward a place where that degree might actually pay off.

Also,
As a result, the demand for well-educated workers in the United States seems to have peaked around 2000 and fallen since. But the supply of well-educated workers has continued to grow.
Considering a lot of graduates aren't capable of actually DOING anything, just how 'well-educated' should they be considered?  Especially if the degree is in '(fill in the blank) Studies'?

Gee, how about knocking off the 'You're only well-educated from a college degree' and acknowledge there are a LOT of vital and well-paying jobs that require an education in actually DOING SOMETHING(welder, electrician, carpenter, just keep adding to the list) as opposed to spending five years in a college building up debt and getting the proper leftist agenda?*

Of course, these are jobs that clowns like this generally look down on because you get dirty and sweaty doing them.  Which, actually, is another point in their favor.



*Yes, I know engineering and medicine and such require higher-level training; that's not the classes I'm talking about and you know it.

If this shit doesn't count as 'with malice', what does?

“The Times “had no qualms whatsoever about publishing almost all the information needed for Officer Darren Wilson’s enemies to track him and his wife down at home,” John Nolte writes at Big Journalism, noting that “This malicious move by the New York Times has not gone unnoticed by Ferguson’s protesters,” as the International Business Times reports:

But printing his street name in the nation’s most influential newspaper on the day the grand jury is expected to hand up a decision on the indictment could reignite interest in — and awareness of — the location, and some critics worry that it could result in protesters descending on his home. Slate even went a step further than the Times, publishing an article featuring a photo of the modest, red-brick house on Monday.

Yes, the bastards are evil.  They damn well knew what this would lead to, which means they WANT it to happen.

'Journalists'.  Fucking dirtbags.

A: So the Obama Administration is worse than that of Nixon,

B: I don't know if anything other than a lot of IRS clowns in prison can ever make anyone trust the bastards again.
In a shocking revelation, the Treasury Inspector General has identified some 2,500 documents that “potentially” show taxpayer information held by the Internal Revenue Service being shared with President Obama’s White House.
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The disclosure follows the agency’s recovery of 30,000 “lost” emails from former IRS executive Lois Lerner, the central figure in the IRS-Tea Party scandal.

Cause of Action said the latest finding renews their “concerns about the decaying professionalism of, and apparent slip into partisanship by, IRS's senior leadership.”

Ya think MAYBE?

Cross the greenies in any way

and they'll go after you.

And chickenshit politicians will bend over for them.
...A number of environmental campaign groups, led by Greenpeace, wrote to the new EU Commission President Jean-Claude -Juncker urging that Professor Glover be sacked because of her ‘one-sided, partial opinions on the use of genetically modified organisms in agriculture, repeatedly claiming that there was a scientific consensus about their safety’.
'scientific consensus', where have we heard that before...

Of course they want licensing and bans and metal exams;

it's what they do.
For the second time this year, a self-identified Navy veteran yesterday proposed strict gun control measures including licensing, 80 hours of training for a concealed carry permit and an ammunition tax of ten cents per cartridge to pay for all of that, plus mental health screenings for gun owners every five years when their licenses are renewed.
And part of his reason for registration:
But VanDiver argues, “Before you tell me how I am violating your rights by proposing a record of gun owners, note that the constitution does not say that you have the right to bear arms and not tell anyone.”
"If it's not explicitly allowed, it is forbidden!  And the government must know what you have and what you do!"  Yeah, sounds like a socialist.  Say, the East German kind.

And from Connecticut:
Unsurprisingly, a report released Friday by the Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate prioritizes placing the blame for the “Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School” on ownership of firearms, with particular emphasis on the semi-automatic kind that can accept standard capacity magazines.


Verdict came in in Missouri, officer not charged; usual suspects hardest hit.
Well, hardest except for the people whose businesses have been looted and/or burned, and the people unemployed because of it, and the people beaten.

Yeah, you stupid bastards, this is doing a LOT of good.


Speaking of stupid bastards, one of the reasons I seriously worry for American troops in Iraq and A'stan.  Again.  Because you know damn good and well that they'll be stuck with ROE just as stupid as this.  Because better dead/crippled/wounded US troops than someone have their outrage sparked.