Friday, August 12, 2016
Let us hope they remember the rule:
"If you find an ancient book(or text, or scroll) of magic, DON'T READ IT OUT LOUD!"
Wonder if some journalist will ask Clinton
just how much of her estate is shielded from that tax?*
Pushing class warfare, government confiscation and redistribution of wealth in a speech Thursday, Clinton argued that Trump’s proposed elimination of the federal estate tax is unfair to the “99.8% percent of Americans” who are not millionaires and billionaires.
“If you believe that he’s as wealthy as he says, that alone would save the Trump family $4 billion,” Clinton said. “So they get a $4 billion tax cut and 99.8 percent of Americans would get nothing.”
It's 'unfair' not to loot someone's estate after their death. I will let Mr. Sowell respond:
*Stop laughing. I know, if any of these journalists were actual reporters, it might happen.
Pushing class warfare, government confiscation and redistribution of wealth in a speech Thursday, Clinton argued that Trump’s proposed elimination of the federal estate tax is unfair to the “99.8% percent of Americans” who are not millionaires and billionaires.
“If you believe that he’s as wealthy as he says, that alone would save the Trump family $4 billion,” Clinton said. “So they get a $4 billion tax cut and 99.8 percent of Americans would get nothing.”
It's 'unfair' not to loot someone's estate after their death. I will let Mr. Sowell respond:
*Stop laughing. I know, if any of these journalists were actual reporters, it might happen.
Hmm. So three different FBI field offices wanted to investigate,
and the Dept. of 'Justice' said no.
After banks alerted the field offices to suspicious activity involving the Clinton family charity, the FBI wanted to investigate conflicts of interest stemming from foreign donations during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, CNN reported.
Wonderful.
That meeting with Bill Clinton at the airport? Just coincidental, too. Nothing to it.
'Department of Justice' my ass, it's the "Department of Special Justice for Special People"
After banks alerted the field offices to suspicious activity involving the Clinton family charity, the FBI wanted to investigate conflicts of interest stemming from foreign donations during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, CNN reported.
Wonderful.
That meeting with Bill Clinton at the airport? Just coincidental, too. Nothing to it.
'Department of Justice' my ass, it's the "Department of Special Justice for Special People"
Looking for less punishing loads
for that .45-70, did some digging around and came up with something:
This is a .45 caliber 255-grain semi-wadcutter intended for the .45 Colt.*
This is that bullet with a paper patch that wraps it three times
This is that bullet loaded over 10.0 grains of Unique
Overall length is 2.54".
The patch goes on wet. Once it's dry you take that patched bullet, wipe the outside lightly with lube, and push it through a sizing die(in this case .459"). That takes a bullet that mikes .452" and makes it useable- for light loads- in a .457 bore. Shoots pretty well out to 50 yards(longest tried, ought to give it a shot at 100 just to see), recoil is light, so it works out pretty well. Less lead, less powder, and less recoil makes a nice plinking load.
*Yes, that bullet's not good, I grabbed it from the 'melt' bag for the picture
This is a .45 caliber 255-grain semi-wadcutter intended for the .45 Colt.*
This is that bullet with a paper patch that wraps it three times
This is that bullet loaded over 10.0 grains of Unique
The patch goes on wet. Once it's dry you take that patched bullet, wipe the outside lightly with lube, and push it through a sizing die(in this case .459"). That takes a bullet that mikes .452" and makes it useable- for light loads- in a .457 bore. Shoots pretty well out to 50 yards(longest tried, ought to give it a shot at 100 just to see), recoil is light, so it works out pretty well. Less lead, less powder, and less recoil makes a nice plinking load.
*Yes, that bullet's not good, I grabbed it from the 'melt' bag for the picture
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Good, this is what should happen to corrupt prosecutors
Prosecutors who intentionally withhold or falsify evidence could be charged with a felony under a new bill winding through the state
Legislature.
The proposal by Assemblywoman Patty Lopez, D-San Fernando, comes as prosecutors in Orange County face accusations that they’ve routinely misused jailhouse informants and withheld information from defense attorneys.
Lots of butthurt is being heard from who you'd expect
Opposing the measure is the 500-member union representing Orange County lawyers, including deputy district attorneys, public defenders and county counsel. The group’s board on Tuesday voted 8-3 to oppose the bill.
...
“There are already safeguards in place to deal with the things the bill is trying to address,” Guirguis said. “There’s no evidence there’s an explosion of intentional violations.”
Yeah? Really? How're those safeguards working?
But the problem of prosecutorial misconduct predates Orange County’s snitch controversy. A 2010 study by Santa Clara University School of Law looked at misconduct statewide, concluding: “Courts fail to report prosecutorial misconduct (despite having a statutory obligation to do so), prosecutors deny that it occurred, and the California State Bar almost never disciplines it...The problem is critical.”
Sounds like your 'safeguards' aren't working, jackass. Of course, the same thing will be a problem with this: judges who don't want to actually whack another lawyer with real penalties, and prosecutors who don't want to be held to the law they're supposed to uphold.
The proposal by Assemblywoman Patty Lopez, D-San Fernando, comes as prosecutors in Orange County face accusations that they’ve routinely misused jailhouse informants and withheld information from defense attorneys.
Lots of butthurt is being heard from who you'd expect
Opposing the measure is the 500-member union representing Orange County lawyers, including deputy district attorneys, public defenders and county counsel. The group’s board on Tuesday voted 8-3 to oppose the bill.
...
“There are already safeguards in place to deal with the things the bill is trying to address,” Guirguis said. “There’s no evidence there’s an explosion of intentional violations.”
Yeah? Really? How're those safeguards working?
But the problem of prosecutorial misconduct predates Orange County’s snitch controversy. A 2010 study by Santa Clara University School of Law looked at misconduct statewide, concluding: “Courts fail to report prosecutorial misconduct (despite having a statutory obligation to do so), prosecutors deny that it occurred, and the California State Bar almost never disciplines it...The problem is critical.”
Sounds like your 'safeguards' aren't working, jackass. Of course, the same thing will be a problem with this: judges who don't want to actually whack another lawyer with real penalties, and prosecutors who don't want to be held to the law they're supposed to uphold.
History and science are messy, it's when people try to make them
nice and uniform that things get nasty. For instance,
Numerous thinkers, black, white, and other, have successfully, repeatedly, debunked the legacy of slavery argument. Without regurgitating their arguments, though, I’d prefer instead to consider a conveniently neglected part of the history of slavery in the New World, that part of the past that involves white slaves. After all, if the enslavement and oppression of their ancestors explains the high rate of criminality among blacks today, then, presumably, it’s true as a general principle that slavery and oppression ultimately lead to criminality. But if this is true, then the enslavement and oppression of whites of yesteryear should’ve led to marked criminality among today’s whites.
No such criminality is to be found.
Yet before there were black slaves in the Western hemisphere, there were white slaves.
You can make SJW type just about foam at the mouth with this. Why? Because idiots have had the teaching of them for decades:
I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students - I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention… How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that’s what they think of their own country – that America invented slavery? That’s all they know.
And when you bring up contradictory information- hard, provable facts- either it doesn't matter(and you get called a racist), or "That's different, not the same thing at all!"
And the sciences are no better, in that this 'settled science' bullshit is horrible:
Zharkova and her team of researchers released a study on sunspot modeling, finding that solar activity could fall to levels not seen since the so-called “Little Ice Age” of the 1600s. Zharkova’s conclusions may have huge implications for global temperature modeling, but her analysis is not accepted by some climate scientists.
“Some of them were welcoming and discussing. But some of them were quite — I would say — pushy,” she told The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) in an interview on her solar study.
In fact, Zharkova said some scientists even tried to have her research suppressed.
“They were trying to actually silence us,” she said. “Some of them contacted the Royal Astronomical Society, demanding, behind our back, that they withdraw our press release.”
Anyone trying to do such to research that doesn't match what they want to hear is not a scientist, they're a religious fanatic. Which brings me to a quote:
History needs to be taught HONESTLY, warts and all, with a bias neither for nor against: FACTS.
And science MUST be taught, and done, honestly, or it's not just worthless, in some cases it's an actual threat.
Numerous thinkers, black, white, and other, have successfully, repeatedly, debunked the legacy of slavery argument. Without regurgitating their arguments, though, I’d prefer instead to consider a conveniently neglected part of the history of slavery in the New World, that part of the past that involves white slaves. After all, if the enslavement and oppression of their ancestors explains the high rate of criminality among blacks today, then, presumably, it’s true as a general principle that slavery and oppression ultimately lead to criminality. But if this is true, then the enslavement and oppression of whites of yesteryear should’ve led to marked criminality among today’s whites.
No such criminality is to be found.
Yet before there were black slaves in the Western hemisphere, there were white slaves.
You can make SJW type just about foam at the mouth with this. Why? Because idiots have had the teaching of them for decades:
I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students - I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention… How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that’s what they think of their own country – that America invented slavery? That’s all they know.
And when you bring up contradictory information- hard, provable facts- either it doesn't matter(and you get called a racist), or "That's different, not the same thing at all!"
And the sciences are no better, in that this 'settled science' bullshit is horrible:
Zharkova and her team of researchers released a study on sunspot modeling, finding that solar activity could fall to levels not seen since the so-called “Little Ice Age” of the 1600s. Zharkova’s conclusions may have huge implications for global temperature modeling, but her analysis is not accepted by some climate scientists.
“Some of them were welcoming and discussing. But some of them were quite — I would say — pushy,” she told The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) in an interview on her solar study.
In fact, Zharkova said some scientists even tried to have her research suppressed.
“They were trying to actually silence us,” she said. “Some of them contacted the Royal Astronomical Society, demanding, behind our back, that they withdraw our press release.”
Anyone trying to do such to research that doesn't match what they want to hear is not a scientist, they're a religious fanatic. Which brings me to a quote:
Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute tells a story about Julian Simon, the late and great economist.He was at some environmental forum, and he said, “How many people here believe that the earth is increasingly polluted and that our natural resources are being exhausted?” Naturally, every hand shot up. He said, “Is there any evidence that could dissuade you?” Nothing. Again: “Is there any evidence I could give you — anything at all — that would lead you to reconsider these assumptions?” Not a stir. Simon then said, “Well, excuse me, I’m not dressed for church.”I love that story, for what it says about the fixity of these beliefs, immune to evidence, reason, or anything else.
History needs to be taught HONESTLY, warts and all, with a bias neither for nor against: FACTS.
And science MUST be taught, and done, honestly, or it's not just worthless, in some cases it's an actual threat.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
What happens when they moved the river?
You find some buried shipwrecks.
One such place was near Parkville, a few miles north east of Kansas City. It was here in 1856 that the Arabia sank after hitting a snag of a sycamore tree, sinking in minutes. As the course of the river was altered decades later, the steamboat became preserved not under the muddy waters of the Missouri, but in a corn field.
It's incredible how well-preserved this stuff is.
One such place was near Parkville, a few miles north east of Kansas City. It was here in 1856 that the Arabia sank after hitting a snag of a sycamore tree, sinking in minutes. As the course of the river was altered decades later, the steamboat became preserved not under the muddy waters of the Missouri, but in a corn field.
It's incredible how well-preserved this stuff is.
I may not post anything else about Clinton's illegal server,
because nobody in a position of power seems to give a crap what she did. And I'm tired of being pissed about this.
Two secret letters the FBI sent to the State Department have revealed for the first time that the bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, and the classified emails sent through it, stemmed from a so-called "Section 811" referral from the Intelligence Community's Inspector General (ICIG). The ICIG determined that classified, national security information in Clinton's emails may have been "compromised" and shared with "a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power."
Section 811 of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1995 "is the statutory authority that governs the coordination of counterespionage investigations between Executive Branch departments or agencies and the FBI." A Section 811 referral is a report to the FBI about any unauthorized information that may have been disclosed to a foreign power.
...
Last month, the FBI turned over to VICE News documents revealing that Clinton exchanged nearly two-dozen top secret emails from her private server in 2011 and 2012 with her deputy chief of staff, Jacob Sullivan, her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Secretary of State William Burns. The State Department said the contents of the 22 emails were so highly classified that not even the subject matter could be disclosed.
The Hillary supporters mostly seem to care only that "She's a Democrat and saying the right socialist things, so I don't care." Never mind that, along with other damage, people are probably dead because of this, she's Hillary!, and it's her turn.
That latter is as disgusting an attitude as you can name; it's nobody's 'turn' to hold an office, you stupid bastards.
Speaking of bastard politicians,
Sanders campaigned against the 1%, promising to bring America closer to his Democratic Socialist ideal and to take corporations and rich people down a peg or two.
But now that his campaign is over, he’s picking up a sweet new pad.
According to Seven Days, a news publication in Vermont, the Democratic Socialist from Vermont shelled out 600 grand for a lake house.
Because it's only bad to be an 1%er if you're someone else. And he disapproves of you.
Last for this morning, barring anything else, this is why I hate the idea of government-controlled health care so much: they shove single-payer down our throats, it'll be just like the VA. People dying trying to get on a damned waiting list, faked records to hide it, and waste like this. And not a one of the bastards responsible will pay any price for it.
An army of 167 interior designers work at the Department of Veterans Affairs, picking window blind colors and buying millions of dollars of art each year, an investigation from The Daily Caller News Foundation has found.
The designers’ salaries are not included in recent findings that the VA has spent $16 million on art during the Obama administration. At least a dozen individual pieces of art cost a quarter million dollars or more each. Nearly $700,000 was spent on two sculptures at a hospital for blind veterans, the Palo Alto Polytrauma and Blind Rehabilitation Center.
Two secret letters the FBI sent to the State Department have revealed for the first time that the bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, and the classified emails sent through it, stemmed from a so-called "Section 811" referral from the Intelligence Community's Inspector General (ICIG). The ICIG determined that classified, national security information in Clinton's emails may have been "compromised" and shared with "a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power."
Section 811 of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1995 "is the statutory authority that governs the coordination of counterespionage investigations between Executive Branch departments or agencies and the FBI." A Section 811 referral is a report to the FBI about any unauthorized information that may have been disclosed to a foreign power.
...
Last month, the FBI turned over to VICE News documents revealing that Clinton exchanged nearly two-dozen top secret emails from her private server in 2011 and 2012 with her deputy chief of staff, Jacob Sullivan, her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Secretary of State William Burns. The State Department said the contents of the 22 emails were so highly classified that not even the subject matter could be disclosed.
The Hillary supporters mostly seem to care only that "She's a Democrat and saying the right socialist things, so I don't care." Never mind that, along with other damage, people are probably dead because of this, she's Hillary!, and it's her turn.
That latter is as disgusting an attitude as you can name; it's nobody's 'turn' to hold an office, you stupid bastards.
Speaking of bastard politicians,
Sanders campaigned against the 1%, promising to bring America closer to his Democratic Socialist ideal and to take corporations and rich people down a peg or two.
But now that his campaign is over, he’s picking up a sweet new pad.
According to Seven Days, a news publication in Vermont, the Democratic Socialist from Vermont shelled out 600 grand for a lake house.
Because it's only bad to be an 1%er if you're someone else. And he disapproves of you.
Last for this morning, barring anything else, this is why I hate the idea of government-controlled health care so much: they shove single-payer down our throats, it'll be just like the VA. People dying trying to get on a damned waiting list, faked records to hide it, and waste like this. And not a one of the bastards responsible will pay any price for it.
An army of 167 interior designers work at the Department of Veterans Affairs, picking window blind colors and buying millions of dollars of art each year, an investigation from The Daily Caller News Foundation has found.
The designers’ salaries are not included in recent findings that the VA has spent $16 million on art during the Obama administration. At least a dozen individual pieces of art cost a quarter million dollars or more each. Nearly $700,000 was spent on two sculptures at a hospital for blind veterans, the Palo Alto Polytrauma and Blind Rehabilitation Center.
Tuesday, August 09, 2016
Some agencies are worse, but the basic rule is still "Trust ANY of these bastards?
Why?"
Shortly after Hillary Clinton took the reins as U.S. secretary of State in 2009, a longtime confidante with deep ties to the Clinton Foundation pressed her senior aides to give a job to an unidentified male associate.
“Important to take care of” the person, Douglas Band told Clinton aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Nora Toiv in an April 22, 2009, email with the subject line “A favor…”. The name of the aide is redacted.
“We have all had him on our radar,” Abedin responded. “Personnel has been sending him options.”
Dear Anti-Palindrome:
Other people do not have a responsibility to change their attire because you and some other people are friggin' idiots.
Sincerely, etc.
And, to prove it doesn't require a special outfit,
Shortly after Hillary Clinton took the reins as U.S. secretary of State in 2009, a longtime confidante with deep ties to the Clinton Foundation pressed her senior aides to give a job to an unidentified male associate.
“Important to take care of” the person, Douglas Band told Clinton aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Nora Toiv in an April 22, 2009, email with the subject line “A favor…”. The name of the aide is redacted.
“We have all had him on our radar,” Abedin responded. “Personnel has been sending him options.”
Dear Anti-Palindrome:
Other people do not have a responsibility to change their attire because you and some other people are friggin' idiots.
Sincerely, etc.
And, to prove it doesn't require a special outfit,
Californicated passes laws that screw with honest people;
Olympic shooter points out what crap they are and how they mess with her; leftists bitch and whine about her speaking out.
Screw 'em.
Meanwhile, in (formerly Great)Britain,
GROOMING of young girls by gangs of predominantly Kashmiri men is still occurring on an “industrial scale” in Rotherham because authorities are failing to tackle an organised child sex crime racket, an investigation by express.co.uk has uncovered.
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Express.co.uk has pieced together shocking testimony from victims, campaigners and local residents in a large-scale investigation series being revealed throughout this week.
They all told us how police and the local council is still "failing" thousands of vulnerable girls.
It reveals how organised, criminal gangs of paedophiles are still using the town as their own personal fiefdom, peddling underage girls for sex as part of a multi-million pound crime empire.
If indeed true, then a bunch of officials need to be horsewhipped in the town square, then fired and banned from any kind of public job forever.
Screw 'em.
Meanwhile, in (formerly Great)Britain,
GROOMING of young girls by gangs of predominantly Kashmiri men is still occurring on an “industrial scale” in Rotherham because authorities are failing to tackle an organised child sex crime racket, an investigation by express.co.uk has uncovered.
...
Express.co.uk has pieced together shocking testimony from victims, campaigners and local residents in a large-scale investigation series being revealed throughout this week.
They all told us how police and the local council is still "failing" thousands of vulnerable girls.
It reveals how organised, criminal gangs of paedophiles are still using the town as their own personal fiefdom, peddling underage girls for sex as part of a multi-million pound crime empire.
If indeed true, then a bunch of officials need to be horsewhipped in the town square, then fired and banned from any kind of public job forever.
Monday, August 08, 2016
A: This idiot was a US Attorney?
B: The LIBERTARIAN PARTY selected him for VP?
Shit. There's NOBODY in this election I can vote for with a clear conscience.
"The five shot rifle, that is a standard military rifle, the problem is if you attach a clip to it that holds more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon, and those are independent criminal offences. That is when they become, essentially, a weapon of mass destruction. The problem with handguns probably is even worse than the problem of the AR15."
Amrit Singh:
"What can you do to help control this flow of guns, if anything?"
William Weld:
"You shouldn't have anybody who is on the terrorist watch list buy any gun at all."And he's an ignorant fool on top of it all.
Shit. There's NOBODY in this election I can vote for with a clear conscience.
From the sound of it, these guys
have a place in Valhalla. And the bastards who didn't get them the support they needed have places in hell.
Hungry and frequently at the point of exhaustion, they were forced to somehow fend off 360-degree attacks from the Taliban, with little protection beyond a series of low mud walls.
They used up a quarter of all the British Army’s Afghan ammunition for that entire year.
Yet today their heroism remains little known, not least because the Ministry of Defence has never permitted the full story of what happened there ten years ago this month to be told.
It has taken a Channel 4 documentary team to piece together fragments of testimony from survivors who have now left the Army, to reveal in devastating detail how close the 88 officers and men came to being massacred.
They lost three men and saw 12 badly wounded before a ragged ceasefire was brokered by tribal elders, allowing them to evacuate their Helmand hell-hole. As with Rorke’s Drift, the final, devastating assault somehow never came.
'never came' because they'd killed to many of the enemy that the elders didn't want to see the rest taking dirt naps.
The support?
To make matters worse, the village was often too dangerous for helicopter support, and reinforcements – although it is still not entirely clear why – simply never came.
...
Yet while Rorke’s Drift has been immortalised in film and resulted in 11 Victoria Crosses, Musa Qala has been reduced to a controversial footnote in the history of the Afghan conflict. It does not serve
Whitehall well for details of such a poorly resourced mission to be revealed.
And that gets even better:
‘Theirs is a story of extraordinary courage that has never been told in full. These ex-soldiers who fought at Musa Qala have come forward. They want the truth to be heard.’
Serving soldiers have been banned from participating and the Government has refused access to factual information.
Gee, I wonder why.
In February this year the Taliban recaptured the dusty little town from Afghan army forces.
Hungry and frequently at the point of exhaustion, they were forced to somehow fend off 360-degree attacks from the Taliban, with little protection beyond a series of low mud walls.
They used up a quarter of all the British Army’s Afghan ammunition for that entire year.
Yet today their heroism remains little known, not least because the Ministry of Defence has never permitted the full story of what happened there ten years ago this month to be told.
It has taken a Channel 4 documentary team to piece together fragments of testimony from survivors who have now left the Army, to reveal in devastating detail how close the 88 officers and men came to being massacred.
They lost three men and saw 12 badly wounded before a ragged ceasefire was brokered by tribal elders, allowing them to evacuate their Helmand hell-hole. As with Rorke’s Drift, the final, devastating assault somehow never came.
'never came' because they'd killed to many of the enemy that the elders didn't want to see the rest taking dirt naps.
The support?
To make matters worse, the village was often too dangerous for helicopter support, and reinforcements – although it is still not entirely clear why – simply never came.
...
Yet while Rorke’s Drift has been immortalised in film and resulted in 11 Victoria Crosses, Musa Qala has been reduced to a controversial footnote in the history of the Afghan conflict. It does not serve
Whitehall well for details of such a poorly resourced mission to be revealed.
And that gets even better:
‘Theirs is a story of extraordinary courage that has never been told in full. These ex-soldiers who fought at Musa Qala have come forward. They want the truth to be heard.’
Serving soldiers have been banned from participating and the Government has refused access to factual information.
Gee, I wonder why.
In February this year the Taliban recaptured the dusty little town from Afghan army forces.
I need to cast some bullets
Which is problematic in summer. So the pot's heating, so I can get this done before I melt.
Speaking of melting,
Current weather is normal; that is, it is well within the range of all previous weather and climate variations. There are no dramatic increases in temperature, precipitation, hurricanes, tornadoes, or any other severe weather. The climate is changing just as it always has and always will and the rate of change is perfectly normal. Of course, that is not what the government, environmentalists, or the media promote and as a result most of the public believe. The misconception is deliberate and central to the exploitation of global warming and climate change as the vehicle for a political agenda.
There are people of the Christian persuasion who think that using violence- especially a weapon- in self-defense is Bad. I think they're idiots just on general principle, this guy has a more in-depth takedown.
Read somewhere that the legislature in the PROM is upset with the AG, primarily because "You're stepping on our turf, bitch!" But the first lawsuit is starting, and that might actually get something done.
While it'd be good to clear this crap up, it'll still be the PROM, and a place you couldn't pay me to live.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm out to see if I can make some projectiles.
Speaking of melting,
Current weather is normal; that is, it is well within the range of all previous weather and climate variations. There are no dramatic increases in temperature, precipitation, hurricanes, tornadoes, or any other severe weather. The climate is changing just as it always has and always will and the rate of change is perfectly normal. Of course, that is not what the government, environmentalists, or the media promote and as a result most of the public believe. The misconception is deliberate and central to the exploitation of global warming and climate change as the vehicle for a political agenda.
There are people of the Christian persuasion who think that using violence- especially a weapon- in self-defense is Bad. I think they're idiots just on general principle, this guy has a more in-depth takedown.
Read somewhere that the legislature in the PROM is upset with the AG, primarily because "You're stepping on our turf, bitch!" But the first lawsuit is starting, and that might actually get something done.
While it'd be good to clear this crap up, it'll still be the PROM, and a place you couldn't pay me to live.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm out to see if I can make some projectiles.
Sunday, August 07, 2016
So a former military clown writes that ISIS and the NRA are much alike
Proving that having served doesn't mean you're not a friggin' idiot.
Let’s get something straight here: ISIS is a FUCKING TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!!! I don’t know how that point can be stressed any harder. ISIS has a history of BURNING PEOPLE ALIVE. ISIS MURDERS CHILDREN including SHOOTING A 2-YEAR OLD and BEHEADING A 4-YEAR OLD. ISIS HAS COMMITTED GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. The NRA as an organization or its members individually have done none of those things. The NRA does not condone the murder of innocents. The NRA does not condone the murder of children. The NRA has committed no acts of terrorism against the United States, its citizenry, or any of its allies. Is this, somehow, not perfectly clear? I think Antonin Scalia was right, Liberals live in a world where “words have no meaning.”
They also lie:
Despite, all of the zombie lies (ones that won’t die) no current government official or candidate has called for repealing the Second Amendment or confiscating all guns.
Really? Not Feinstein, or all the others who have- and still- call for repeal, and bans, and confiscation?
John B. Alexander, you're either ignorant of what you speak, or you're a lying bastard. I'm betting on the latter.
Let’s get something straight here: ISIS is a FUCKING TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!!! I don’t know how that point can be stressed any harder. ISIS has a history of BURNING PEOPLE ALIVE. ISIS MURDERS CHILDREN including SHOOTING A 2-YEAR OLD and BEHEADING A 4-YEAR OLD. ISIS HAS COMMITTED GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. The NRA as an organization or its members individually have done none of those things. The NRA does not condone the murder of innocents. The NRA does not condone the murder of children. The NRA has committed no acts of terrorism against the United States, its citizenry, or any of its allies. Is this, somehow, not perfectly clear? I think Antonin Scalia was right, Liberals live in a world where “words have no meaning.”
They also lie:
Despite, all of the zombie lies (ones that won’t die) no current government official or candidate has called for repealing the Second Amendment or confiscating all guns.
Really? Not Feinstein, or all the others who have- and still- call for repeal, and bans, and confiscation?
John B. Alexander, you're either ignorant of what you speak, or you're a lying bastard. I'm betting on the latter.
'Most transparent administration EVAH!'
5. Finally, there's the ugly matter of Obama belittling anyone who might
question or criticize his cash payola for Iran. That shows an utter
disregard for his own promises of transparency, and gross disrespect for
the American public. It's terrible policy for an American president to
secretly ship $400 million -- or is it by now $1.7 billion? -- worth of
cash to the terror-sponsoring ballistic-missile-testing Islamic Republic
of Iran. It's even worse when the president, caught out by the press, chooses to defend himself by denigrating the reporters, and his fellow citizens generally, as sensation-seeking fools. The best retort by now,
no matter what the presidential mockery, is don't stop following the
money.
Saturday, August 06, 2016
That was interesting
I've got a Surefire 9P light I've been using for... I think about fifteen years. Couple of days ago, in the middle of lighting something, it went off. "Crap, guess the lamp finally went."
No, tried a new lamp and no good. Checked the batteries, and they showed, if anything, a bit above full charge. Which is odd, as they've been in there for months, and it's been used. So put in new batteries, and there is light!
At this point I don't know if one of the batteries went weird and cut flow, or if they all did something, and I really don't know, other than switching one at a time, a way to find out. I may mess with it later.
No, tried a new lamp and no good. Checked the batteries, and they showed, if anything, a bit above full charge. Which is odd, as they've been in there for months, and it's been used. So put in new batteries, and there is light!
At this point I don't know if one of the batteries went weird and cut flow, or if they all did something, and I really don't know, other than switching one at a time, a way to find out. I may mess with it later.
And when exactly what they were warned would happen happens, what do the enviroweenies say?
"The big green groups that got invested in biofuels are tacitly realizing the blunder," said John DeCicco, a research professor at the
University of Michigan Energy Institute who previously focused on
automotive strategies at the Environmental Defense Fund. "It’s really
hard for the people who really -- shall we say -- hate oil viscerally,
to think that this alternative that we’ve been promoting is today worse
than oil."
Surprise!
The Natural Resources Defense Council used a 96-page report in 2004 to proclaim boundless biofuel benefits: slashed global warming emissions, improved air quality and more wildlife habitat.
Instead, farmers plowed millions of acres of prairie grasses to grow corn for making ethanol, with fertilizer runoff contributing to a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists warned that carbon dioxide emissions associated with corn-based ethanol were higher than expected. And alternatives using switchgrass, algae and other non-edible plant materials have been slow to penetrate the market.
They've been 'slow to penetrate' because they either don't work worth a damn, or are so damned expensive nobody wants to touch them. But keep hoping.
Even the NRDC that once lobbied for the RFS bemoans that "the bulk of today’s conventional corn ethanol carries grave risks to the climate, wildlife, waterways and food security." In NRDC’s "OnEarth" magazine, an essay headlined "Played for a Fuel" argues that corn-based ethanol isn’t sustainable because it requires "huge amounts" of water, fertilizer and land.
Which is EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE TOLD WOULD HAPPEN. And they called the people giving warnings luddites, and Haters of Gaia, and shills for Big Oil, and anything else they could think of.
So: just like warned, when the enviroweenies crawled into bed with the corn lobby, it meant lots more land being plowed, less food corn being grown, lots of resources going into growing this stuff for a fuel that damn few people wanted, and now they're all surprised that it happened.
Geniuses, I tell you. And some of them just can't admit it.
Some biofuel proponents say alternatives are worse.
"In the absence of ethanol, your next barrel of transportation fuel is going to be coming from petroleum from fracking or tar sands or deep-water drilling," Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association, said in a phone interview. "So you sort of have to assess ethanol in the context of what its replacement would be, and quite frankly, by that measurement we are the stone-cold winner."
Only if you count all the money to the corn lobby, and the food riots and so forth as 'winning'.
And the other people claiming this is a victory are just as stupid, or just as/more corrupt:
Jeremy Martin, who leads fuel policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ clean vehicles program, said the RFS has become a scapegoat, unfairly blamed as boosting demand for ethanol that probably would have reached current levels in gasoline even without the program. He casts the climb in ethanol use and the expanding footprint of corn that accompanied it as a "a one-time transition" as the U.S. fuel sector made a big shift, essentially adopting a 10 percent ethanol blend as the default gasoline.
The demand would NEVER have reached this level without you, and the corn lobby, and your paid-for congresscritters shoving it down our throats in the name of 'saving Mother Gaia(and lining our pockets)'. 'Default gasoline' my ass.
Surprise!
The Natural Resources Defense Council used a 96-page report in 2004 to proclaim boundless biofuel benefits: slashed global warming emissions, improved air quality and more wildlife habitat.
Instead, farmers plowed millions of acres of prairie grasses to grow corn for making ethanol, with fertilizer runoff contributing to a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists warned that carbon dioxide emissions associated with corn-based ethanol were higher than expected. And alternatives using switchgrass, algae and other non-edible plant materials have been slow to penetrate the market.
They've been 'slow to penetrate' because they either don't work worth a damn, or are so damned expensive nobody wants to touch them. But keep hoping.
Even the NRDC that once lobbied for the RFS bemoans that "the bulk of today’s conventional corn ethanol carries grave risks to the climate, wildlife, waterways and food security." In NRDC’s "OnEarth" magazine, an essay headlined "Played for a Fuel" argues that corn-based ethanol isn’t sustainable because it requires "huge amounts" of water, fertilizer and land.
Which is EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE TOLD WOULD HAPPEN. And they called the people giving warnings luddites, and Haters of Gaia, and shills for Big Oil, and anything else they could think of.
So: just like warned, when the enviroweenies crawled into bed with the corn lobby, it meant lots more land being plowed, less food corn being grown, lots of resources going into growing this stuff for a fuel that damn few people wanted, and now they're all surprised that it happened.
Geniuses, I tell you. And some of them just can't admit it.
Some biofuel proponents say alternatives are worse.
"In the absence of ethanol, your next barrel of transportation fuel is going to be coming from petroleum from fracking or tar sands or deep-water drilling," Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association, said in a phone interview. "So you sort of have to assess ethanol in the context of what its replacement would be, and quite frankly, by that measurement we are the stone-cold winner."
Only if you count all the money to the corn lobby, and the food riots and so forth as 'winning'.
And the other people claiming this is a victory are just as stupid, or just as/more corrupt:
Jeremy Martin, who leads fuel policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ clean vehicles program, said the RFS has become a scapegoat, unfairly blamed as boosting demand for ethanol that probably would have reached current levels in gasoline even without the program. He casts the climb in ethanol use and the expanding footprint of corn that accompanied it as a "a one-time transition" as the U.S. fuel sector made a big shift, essentially adopting a 10 percent ethanol blend as the default gasoline.
The demand would NEVER have reached this level without you, and the corn lobby, and your paid-for congresscritters shoving it down our throats in the name of 'saving Mother Gaia(and lining our pockets)'. 'Default gasoline' my ass.
Friday, August 05, 2016
Sounds like something the SJWs would try here
A MAN who famously stood up to the Munich shooter after he killed
nine people is facing being charged by a prosecutor for insulting the killer.
...
What will be included in the charges remains to be established, as it whether they will be brought forward.
But Mr Weinzierl, suggested they could include “insults to the detriment of the dead.”
I suggest Mr. Weinzierl is a friggin' idiot, and if he does this should be removed from office.
"The truth is what I say it is!" At this point I don't know if she'd just lying, or if she actually believes herself when she does.
Gun bigot breaks Oregon law he supports, apparently without knowing it(which says something all by itself). Now
"If the pastor is prosecuted, it will demonstrate the idiocy of the law and the people who passed it," [Oregon Firearms Federation Executive Director Kevin] Starrett told The Review on Wednesday. "If the pastor is not prosecuted, it will demonstrate that anti-gun liberals are above the law and it was only intended to hurt the average gun owner, against whom it could be selectively enforced."
And open things up for charges of selective prosecution, and that could become a circus.
Another demonstration of
Why asset forfeiture should be ended unless there's an actual conviction, and
Why some prosecutors should be thrown out of office.
...
What will be included in the charges remains to be established, as it whether they will be brought forward.
But Mr Weinzierl, suggested they could include “insults to the detriment of the dead.”
I suggest Mr. Weinzierl is a friggin' idiot, and if he does this should be removed from office.
"The truth is what I say it is!" At this point I don't know if she'd just lying, or if she actually believes herself when she does.
Gun bigot breaks Oregon law he supports, apparently without knowing it(which says something all by itself). Now
"If the pastor is prosecuted, it will demonstrate the idiocy of the law and the people who passed it," [Oregon Firearms Federation Executive Director Kevin] Starrett told The Review on Wednesday. "If the pastor is not prosecuted, it will demonstrate that anti-gun liberals are above the law and it was only intended to hurt the average gun owner, against whom it could be selectively enforced."
And open things up for charges of selective prosecution, and that could become a circus.
Another demonstration of
Why asset forfeiture should be ended unless there's an actual conviction, and
Why some prosecutors should be thrown out of office.
Thursday, August 04, 2016
Range report, .30-30 light loads
using the 100-grain SWC bullet, sized .311, and 5.0 grains of Green Dot powder. I loaded five each in Federal and Winchester cases, just to see if any difference.
Winchester cases
There's only four because it turned out one bullet enlarged the case neck enough that it didn't want to chamber. For fifty yards and iron sights, not bad.
Federal cases
I can't blame the high and low on uneven charges(I don't think) since I weighed them, so probably my fault.
The Green Dot gave a nice 'crack' when fired, recoil was almost not there. No velocity readings, didn't set up the Chrony because A: it was already getting hot, B: it was windy, C: I was lazy. I am curious about it, though; these gave a higher point of impact than the Bullseye loads, so obviously higher velocity. Going to have to load some more and run them over the Chrony next chance I get.
I think I'm going to take the .308" Lee sizer I've got and polish it out to .309 or .310. If turns out I still need a .308" for some things, these aren't expensive, and I think sizing these bullets to a bit smaller than .311 might work better.
Winchester cases
Federal cases
The Green Dot gave a nice 'crack' when fired, recoil was almost not there. No velocity readings, didn't set up the Chrony because A: it was already getting hot, B: it was windy, C: I was lazy. I am curious about it, though; these gave a higher point of impact than the Bullseye loads, so obviously higher velocity. Going to have to load some more and run them over the Chrony next chance I get.
I think I'm going to take the .308" Lee sizer I've got and polish it out to .309 or .310. If turns out I still need a .308" for some things, these aren't expensive, and I think sizing these bullets to a bit smaller than .311 might work better.
Snork...
When asked whom they would vote for during the 2016 campaign, 78% of
servicemembers picked “other.” Nearly all then chose “military coup”
from a list of options that also included Joe Biden, Ted Cruz, Jill
Stein and “a massive earthquake that wipes out life in North America.”
When retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis was included on the list, he was the most popular write in. However most of those who selected him also called for him to lead the armed rebellion against the United States government.
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson came in a distant 3rd, but still far ahead of Republican candidate Donald Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton, or any other option that didn’t involve the possibility of civil war.
When retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis was included on the list, he was the most popular write in. However most of those who selected him also called for him to lead the armed rebellion against the United States government.
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson came in a distant 3rd, but still far ahead of Republican candidate Donald Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton, or any other option that didn’t involve the possibility of civil war.
And this is why I refer to it as Zero-Tolerance Stupidity
The school district had argued Drescher didn’t need to be aware of the
school policy to be expelled for “willfully” violating it. But the court
disagreed because Drescher had to know the policy existed to violate it
intentionally, based on the definition of “willfully.”
Got that? According to the school district idiots, you can 'willfully' violate a rule YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT...
'Fucking control-freak idiots' about covers it.
Got that? According to the school district idiots, you can 'willfully' violate a rule YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT...
'Fucking control-freak idiots' about covers it.
No, I did not vote for any of these bastards;
neither did anyone else.
Meat should be taxed at the wholesale level to raise the price and deter consumption, says a new report from the UN’s International Research Panel (IRP). This will (supposedly) save the environment and prevent global warming.
“I think it is extremely urgent,” said Professor Maarten Hajer of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, lead author of the report. “All of the harmful effects on the environment and on health needs to be priced into food products.”
Etc. People aren't eating they way they want, so they want more control over what you eat. And all that money that would come from the tax. From the quote at the top of the post:
“Did you vote for these people to tell you how to live? And who will receive the tax and what will they use it for?”
Control. More control. Because you won't think or eat or drink or live correctly unless they tell you to, and how.
Speaking of quotes, from the top of the Washington Post story:
Correction: This story has been significantly revised to address several inaccurate and incomplete statements about meat production's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.
Gee, your writer didn't bother to make sure of her facts? And those layers of professional editors didn't catch them? Wonderful.
Meat should be taxed at the wholesale level to raise the price and deter consumption, says a new report from the UN’s International Research Panel (IRP). This will (supposedly) save the environment and prevent global warming.
“I think it is extremely urgent,” said Professor Maarten Hajer of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, lead author of the report. “All of the harmful effects on the environment and on health needs to be priced into food products.”
Etc. People aren't eating they way they want, so they want more control over what you eat. And all that money that would come from the tax. From the quote at the top of the post:
“Did you vote for these people to tell you how to live? And who will receive the tax and what will they use it for?”
Control. More control. Because you won't think or eat or drink or live correctly unless they tell you to, and how.
Speaking of quotes, from the top of the Washington Post story:
Correction: This story has been significantly revised to address several inaccurate and incomplete statements about meat production's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.
Gee, your writer didn't bother to make sure of her facts? And those layers of professional editors didn't catch them? Wonderful.
Wednesday, August 03, 2016
Oh, this is going to set the EUnuchs off
“I really think that citizens should arm themselves against terrorists. And I honestly admit that I changed my mind, because previously I was against [citizens] having too many weapons. After these attacks, I don’t think so [anymore]”.
The Czech president said he was now in favour of arming the population over “the long term” and said he was convinced that if any of the revellers at the Bataclan music venue in Paris had been carrying a gun in their pocket when it was attacked by Islamist killers, there would have been fewer casualties.
...In his interview President Zeman specifically took aim at the European Union (EU) which is using the recent terror attacks as a pretext to curtail gun ownership.
Rejecting the plan, he said: “It is important that their right [to own and carry firearms] is not hindered as proposed recently by the European Commission. I am glad the Czech Republic is defending against this.”
They must've just about wet their pants when they read this.
The Czech president said he was now in favour of arming the population over “the long term” and said he was convinced that if any of the revellers at the Bataclan music venue in Paris had been carrying a gun in their pocket when it was attacked by Islamist killers, there would have been fewer casualties.
...In his interview President Zeman specifically took aim at the European Union (EU) which is using the recent terror attacks as a pretext to curtail gun ownership.
Rejecting the plan, he said: “It is important that their right [to own and carry firearms] is not hindered as proposed recently by the European Commission. I am glad the Czech Republic is defending against this.”
They must've just about wet their pants when they read this.
A good piece on the Orlando mass-murder,
and the mistakes in stopping it. Couple of bits:
Instead, they allowed the enemy to reload and reposition. That was the critical error that resulted in an additional lose of life. People bled to death while they waited, and then the shooter killed more.
The Orlando Police chief says they didn’t enter and stopped firing because the situation became a “barricaded gunman situation,” and it was no longer an “active shooter situation.”
...
None of that matters. Whether or not it remained an active shooter situation, it certainly remained an active dying situation. While the already outdated and discarded “wait and see” policy was in effect in Orlando, multiple people bled to death.
In the article, former FBI SWAT team member and hostage negotiator Chris Voss states “buying time increases the likelihood of a successful assault” and can often save more lives.” This ignores a painful fact.
Tick Tock, Drip Drop, they are bleeding to death. Lots of them.
Which makes me think of Columbine. SWAT teams all over, and doing nothing because 'We need a full plan before we act.' And a bunch of people bled to death while they were planning.
It's a good piece, but has a very disturbing conclusion, which I'll put here:
Why was this the option, and why did it take three hours to make that decision?
Mr. Voss again sheds some light on that decision making process: “This is not military combat where there are acceptable casualties on both sides. Law enforcement doesn’t have that conversation. No casualties are acceptable.”
The two sides he is speaking of are the shooter and law enforcement. The unacceptable casualty rate is for law enforcement. The conversation that law enforcement doesn’t have is how many law enforcement casualties are acceptable. Who’s missing from that equation? The victims. The dying.
Those are the “acceptable” casualties.
You are on your own.
Brings up a new line: When seconds count, the police may be spending hours planning what to do.
Instead, they allowed the enemy to reload and reposition. That was the critical error that resulted in an additional lose of life. People bled to death while they waited, and then the shooter killed more.
The Orlando Police chief says they didn’t enter and stopped firing because the situation became a “barricaded gunman situation,” and it was no longer an “active shooter situation.”
...
None of that matters. Whether or not it remained an active shooter situation, it certainly remained an active dying situation. While the already outdated and discarded “wait and see” policy was in effect in Orlando, multiple people bled to death.
In the article, former FBI SWAT team member and hostage negotiator Chris Voss states “buying time increases the likelihood of a successful assault” and can often save more lives.” This ignores a painful fact.
Tick Tock, Drip Drop, they are bleeding to death. Lots of them.
Which makes me think of Columbine. SWAT teams all over, and doing nothing because 'We need a full plan before we act.' And a bunch of people bled to death while they were planning.
It's a good piece, but has a very disturbing conclusion, which I'll put here:
Why was this the option, and why did it take three hours to make that decision?
Mr. Voss again sheds some light on that decision making process: “This is not military combat where there are acceptable casualties on both sides. Law enforcement doesn’t have that conversation. No casualties are acceptable.”
The two sides he is speaking of are the shooter and law enforcement. The unacceptable casualty rate is for law enforcement. The conversation that law enforcement doesn’t have is how many law enforcement casualties are acceptable. Who’s missing from that equation? The victims. The dying.
Those are the “acceptable” casualties.
You are on your own.
Brings up a new line: When seconds count, the police may be spending hours planning what to do.
This is one of the more stupid things I've read in a while, because
the people he's demanding stop, are the ones who've helped her get away with this crap for so long.
Her dishonesty could push an unknown number of independent and undecided voters into Trump’s camp or toward a non-major-party candidate. If too many swing voters walk away from Clinton because she destroyed her credibility or because they don’t want to condone her behavior, the nuclear codes go to Trump.
That is why Clinton’s advisers, senior Democrats, and members of the liberal media need to stop covering for Clinton. Stop repeating her spin. Stop spreading her lies. Stop enabling her worse angels. It’s too late for Clinton to come clean, but honorable Democrats should at least insist that she stop muddying the water.
Yeah. The media is going to start calling her on lies. Her advisers are going to grow spines. Senior Democrats(Feinstein, Reid, Rangel anyone?) are going to tell her to knock it off.
What've you been smoking, Fournier?
Her dishonesty could push an unknown number of independent and undecided voters into Trump’s camp or toward a non-major-party candidate. If too many swing voters walk away from Clinton because she destroyed her credibility or because they don’t want to condone her behavior, the nuclear codes go to Trump.
That is why Clinton’s advisers, senior Democrats, and members of the liberal media need to stop covering for Clinton. Stop repeating her spin. Stop spreading her lies. Stop enabling her worse angels. It’s too late for Clinton to come clean, but honorable Democrats should at least insist that she stop muddying the water.
Yeah. The media is going to start calling her on lies. Her advisers are going to grow spines. Senior Democrats(Feinstein, Reid, Rangel anyone?) are going to tell her to knock it off.
What've you been smoking, Fournier?
ATF can't be trusted with the information they have NOW,
and they want to be given more?
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the go-to federal oversight agency, conducted an audit of ATF and found it does not remove certain identifiable information, despite the law explicitly mandating it do so. GAO conducted reviews for four data systems, and concluded at least two of ATF’s systems violated official protocols.
And anyone who's surprised either hasn't been paying attention, or is a fool.
You might remember that the head of BATFE announced a few days ago
What he would really like, however, is a computerized database of all gun purchases made by every buyer and seller in the country:
Accumulating and centralizing such data can become harder to maintain as time goes on. GAO recommends that ATF eliminate or at minimum obfuscate the unnecessary data to comply with federal law and to ensure that unnecessary information isn’t vulnerable to breaches or internal infractions.
ATF can't- or won't- obey the law on what they've got now; the list the ATF head wants would multiply the data by God-knows-how-many times, and we're supposed to believe they'd obey those laws then? This would wind up like the NFA database, which is incomplete and can't be trusted to be accurate, yet there are recordings of supervisors telling agents that if asked, in court and under oath, they should testify that it's complete and accurate.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the go-to federal oversight agency, conducted an audit of ATF and found it does not remove certain identifiable information, despite the law explicitly mandating it do so. GAO conducted reviews for four data systems, and concluded at least two of ATF’s systems violated official protocols.
And anyone who's surprised either hasn't been paying attention, or is a fool.
You might remember that the head of BATFE announced a few days ago
What he would really like, however, is a computerized database of all gun purchases made by every buyer and seller in the country:
There’s a lot of things that don’t make
sense.… Would [having such a database at the ATF] be efficient and
effective? Absolutely. Would the taxpayers benefit with [improved]
public safety? Absolutely. Are we allowed to do it? No.
What he doesn't mention is that they're forbidden to (legally) do so because the agency has proven it cannot be trusted to obey the law, and not abuse such information. Now read this from the GAO post:Accumulating and centralizing such data can become harder to maintain as time goes on. GAO recommends that ATF eliminate or at minimum obfuscate the unnecessary data to comply with federal law and to ensure that unnecessary information isn’t vulnerable to breaches or internal infractions.
ATF can't- or won't- obey the law on what they've got now; the list the ATF head wants would multiply the data by God-knows-how-many times, and we're supposed to believe they'd obey those laws then? This would wind up like the NFA database, which is incomplete and can't be trusted to be accurate, yet there are recordings of supervisors telling agents that if asked, in court and under oath, they should testify that it's complete and accurate.
"But- Germany has those CSGV- and Mommies Want-approved gun laws,
how could this be?
Germany has some of the strictest firearms laws in Europe, although there are four illegal guns on the streets for every properly registered weapon.
According to data from the German Firearms Register, there are almost 5.5 million guns in private ownership belonging to 1.4 million people.
But research by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in January estimated there are up to 20 million illegal firearms in Germany.
And if Obama and Clinton & Co. got what they want, this would be the situation here: multiple illegal guns for every registered one.
Of course, they wouldn't actually care; they'd have they control over honest citizens they want, and that's all that really matters.
Added: borrowed from Kevin, That's because the countries around Germany don't have strict enough laws!! (That's Chicago's excuse. And New York's. And D.C.'s. And....)
Germany has some of the strictest firearms laws in Europe, although there are four illegal guns on the streets for every properly registered weapon.
According to data from the German Firearms Register, there are almost 5.5 million guns in private ownership belonging to 1.4 million people.
But research by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in January estimated there are up to 20 million illegal firearms in Germany.
And if Obama and Clinton & Co. got what they want, this would be the situation here: multiple illegal guns for every registered one.
Of course, they wouldn't actually care; they'd have they control over honest citizens they want, and that's all that really matters.
Added: borrowed from Kevin, That's because the countries around Germany don't have strict enough laws!! (That's Chicago's excuse. And New York's. And D.C.'s. And....)
Tuesday, August 02, 2016
Made it to the range today,
and had some interesting results. I'll write them up when I'm not so damn tired(being out in this heat and humidity that long takes it out of me anymore).
What's Spanish for 'kulak'?
Venezuela said private and public companies will be obliged to let their workers be reassigned to grow crops, in a dramatic move in the middle
of the country’s crippling economic crisis. The Labor Ministry announced
the measure as part of the economic emergency already in effect; it
will require all employers in Venezuela to let the state have their
workers ‘to strengthen production’ of food.
...
For the Soviets, the big targets were the kulaks, prosperous free-holding farmers, who were viewed as dangerously independent and had to be replaced by collective farms. For Venezuela, it was the supermarkets and shop-owners who were targeted as exploiters and enemies of the regime. The result is the same: a chronic shortage of food that has people scavenging in dumpsters and raiding zoos to slaughter animals for their meat.
Yes, Dear Leader is attacking firearms ownership in any way he can. Which includes going after people who work on them.
Speaking of dirtbags who don't like the commoners owning guns, especially ones he doesn't have a list of,
Deputy Director Thomas Brandon (shown on right), head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) appeared on CBS’s Sunday Morning television show, complaining that his agency is “a small agency with a big job” and that he really needs more agents and more money to do that job.
What he would really like, however, is a computerized database of all gun purchases made by every buyer and seller in the country:
For public safety. No other reason, honest; he's the head of BATFEIEIO, you can trust him!
There's information on just what a cluster this same kind of idea turned into in Canada, followed by this:
Brandon doesn't need a gun registration computer program to do his job. And, in fact, so much of his agency’s “mission” is outside the constitutional powers granted to the executive branch that Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) is correct when he said, “I think we ought to get rid of the ATF,” and giving it additional funds to pay for a searchable database of every gun, and gun owner, in the country amounts to “de facto gun registration.”
Which is exactly what they actually want.
...
For the Soviets, the big targets were the kulaks, prosperous free-holding farmers, who were viewed as dangerously independent and had to be replaced by collective farms. For Venezuela, it was the supermarkets and shop-owners who were targeted as exploiters and enemies of the regime. The result is the same: a chronic shortage of food that has people scavenging in dumpsters and raiding zoos to slaughter animals for their meat.
Yes, Dear Leader is attacking firearms ownership in any way he can. Which includes going after people who work on them.
Speaking of dirtbags who don't like the commoners owning guns, especially ones he doesn't have a list of,
Deputy Director Thomas Brandon (shown on right), head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) appeared on CBS’s Sunday Morning television show, complaining that his agency is “a small agency with a big job” and that he really needs more agents and more money to do that job.
What he would really like, however, is a computerized database of all gun purchases made by every buyer and seller in the country:
For public safety. No other reason, honest; he's the head of BATFEIEIO, you can trust him!
There's information on just what a cluster this same kind of idea turned into in Canada, followed by this:
Brandon doesn't need a gun registration computer program to do his job. And, in fact, so much of his agency’s “mission” is outside the constitutional powers granted to the executive branch that Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) is correct when he said, “I think we ought to get rid of the ATF,” and giving it additional funds to pay for a searchable database of every gun, and gun owner, in the country amounts to “de facto gun registration.”
Which is exactly what they actually want.
Monday, August 01, 2016
When schools are more concerned with PC-approved 'history', and
'self-esteem', than facts, this is the kind of stupid that spreads:
I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students - I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention… How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that’s what they think of their own country – that America invented slavery? That’s all they know.
That miserable little communist Howard Zinn is laughing in hell at the damage he's done.
I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students - I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention… How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that’s what they think of their own country – that America invented slavery? That’s all they know.
That miserable little communist Howard Zinn is laughing in hell at the damage he's done.
Two choices: either Hillary Clinton told Democrats what she thought they wanted to hear,
with little intention of actually doing anything, or she's playing the Bill Clinton "go over every word to try to figure out what she actually means" game.
I'm just going to focus on what she said when Chris Wallace confronted her with something she said last year, "The Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment."
And on. And on.
I'm just going to focus on what she said when Chris Wallace confronted her with something she said last year, "The Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment."
WALLACE: Now, in the 2008 Heller case, the court said there's a constitutional individual right to bear arms. What's wrong with that?She responded and — forgive me — I've got to parse this pretty closely:
CLINTON: Well, I think what the court said about there being an individual right is in line with constitutional thinking.Is the "constitutional thinking" she's referring to there wrong, in her view? She doesn't say. She repeats the majority's interpretation and essentially says that was an interpretation that existed out there in the legal literature.
And on. And on.
I’m not looking to take people's guns away...That's just a policy — a policy the government could enact even if there were no individual right to bear arms. So we're very far from the original topic now.
... but I am looking for more support for the reasonable efforts that need to be undertaken to keep guns out of the wrong hands.So you are for the policy of taking some people's guns away. The wrong people. (And speaking of wrong, was the Supreme Court wrong on the Second Amendment, in your current opinion? I still don't know.)Even if it stopped there, who all does she consider the 'wrong hands'? That phrase give you any comfort? It doesn't me.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
And it's literally the People's Republic of MA now; the law is
what Comrade AG says it is.
“This isn’t a panacea,” Roy-Gonzalez said. “This isn’t going to solve the issue of gun violence. There’s a lot more that needs to be done. There’s been a law on the books since 1998. It’s up to us to enforce the law. The point is these guns are illegal and 10,000 of them were sold last year alone.
And the most basic question: if they're illegal, why did you allow them to be sold? Or, for that matter, brought into the state at all?
Answer: because they were legal under MA law, and you decided you didn't like it, and changed the law. Because you're a nasty little tyrant at heart.
When a bureaucrat or politician can change what the law means, at will, NOBODY is safe in anything.
As for this being about public safety,
Cyndi Roy-Gonzalez, spokeswoman for Healey, said the office did not consider how many shootings in Massachusetts have been carried out with assault-style rifles, but insisted the ban is an effective anti-violence measure.
According to FBI statistics, rifles of any variety were used in just two of the Bay State’s 779 murders in the past five years, which were mainly carried out with handguns. In that same period, hands and feet were cited as the murder weapon 35 times.
Two. That's their excuse for playing Stalin games. Revealing the always-there real reason: it's about control. Not crime, not safety, control.
“This isn’t a panacea,” Roy-Gonzalez said. “This isn’t going to solve the issue of gun violence. There’s a lot more that needs to be done. There’s been a law on the books since 1998. It’s up to us to enforce the law. The point is these guns are illegal and 10,000 of them were sold last year alone.
And the most basic question: if they're illegal, why did you allow them to be sold? Or, for that matter, brought into the state at all?
Answer: because they were legal under MA law, and you decided you didn't like it, and changed the law. Because you're a nasty little tyrant at heart.
When a bureaucrat or politician can change what the law means, at will, NOBODY is safe in anything.
As for this being about public safety,
Cyndi Roy-Gonzalez, spokeswoman for Healey, said the office did not consider how many shootings in Massachusetts have been carried out with assault-style rifles, but insisted the ban is an effective anti-violence measure.
According to FBI statistics, rifles of any variety were used in just two of the Bay State’s 779 murders in the past five years, which were mainly carried out with handguns. In that same period, hands and feet were cited as the murder weapon 35 times.
Two. That's their excuse for playing Stalin games. Revealing the always-there real reason: it's about control. Not crime, not safety, control.
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