Some thoughts on riflery practice

from this gentleman; other interesting things on his site, too.


The families of a bunch of fallen SEALs expressed their opinions; and if they're right about this imam, he needs his ass kicked.  And the idiot who invited him needs twice as much.


Well, he was flying with The Lightbringer, you'd expect him to be polite to a lesser mortal?
But it didn’t happen. President Obama had nothing to say to the moonwalker and didn’t seem to want to hear anything from Aldrin on the long flight to Florida.  So Aldrin sat in the back of Air Force One and never saw Obama – until it landed.

When it landed, Aldrin said he was summoned to the front of the plane. But he found out it was not to talk about space policy.  Instead, President Obama wanted Aldrin to emerge from Air Force One next to Obama for a photo op.  The moonwalker was to be a mere prop.

Aldrin looks just effing thrilled to be there, doesn't he?

Californicated: Hoplophobes, gun bigots and enviroweenies united

to screw you:
The reason Assemblyman Rendon's bill would effectively end hunting and target shooting in California is very simple: federal law classifies the alternative non-lead ammunitions as "armor piercing." Such alternative ammunition is illegal to import, make or sell unless the bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) grants an exemption on the merit that it is "primarily intended to be used for a sporting purpose." So far, so good, except that the ATF has 20 or so pending manufacturers' exemption requests on their desk that are two years stale. Even if they did grant these exemptions it is important to note that alternative ammunition is more expensive to manufacture and purchase. 
...
California hunters, sport shooters and everyday legal gun owners are subject to an 11% excise tax paid on the sale of ammunition and hunting licenses under the provisions of the Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937. Many Californians may be surprised at the fact that these funds are earmarked for the Federal Wildlife Restoration Fund and is a primary source of wildlife conservation funding in the United States. In 2012, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported that California received nearly $12.3 million for wildlife restoration and research and was among the top in five state beneficiaries in the nation. Banning traditional ammunition will reduce the amount collected in California through federal excise taxes since ammunition will be scarcer and inflated costs will cause hunters to go to other states, undercutting the conservation money California receives.
But that's far less important than going after gun owners and hunters; screw the animals if they get in the way!


Kevin takes a look at the "Gun ownership is declining!" hopes of the gun bigots.  Short version: They wish.

Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/05/07/3288304/keith-ringgenberg-this-ammo-bill.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/05/07/3288304/keith-ringgenberg-this-ammo-bill.html#storylink=cpy

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Bill Richardson: "I didn't mean what I said the way I said it,

but I stand by it."  Or something.
Translation: "Dammit, you people aren't supposed to give me heat over what I say!  Stop it!"
Or maybe Cruz is such a schoolyard bully(said one of the most vile bastards around) that Richardson is scared of him.


Using a zero tolerance approach to track domestic terrorists online is the only reasonable way to analyze online threats these days, especially after the Boston Marathon bombing and news that the suspects had subsequently planned to target Times Square in Manhattan, Mullins says. The way law enforcement agencies approach online activity that appears sinister is this: “If you’re not a terrorist, if you’re not a threat, prove it," he says. 

“This is the price you pay to live in free society right now. It’s just the way it is,” Mullins adds.
He said without irony.
Fuck you, Mullins.  There are reasons for that thing about 'intent', and I have a BIG damned problem with your 'guilty until you prove yourself innocent' bullshit.


Hehehe...

San Jose State University: Where we burn the books we don't want you to read, so you don't have to read them!
And then try to throw the page down the memory hole; slight problem there: The Internets Is FOREVEH!!

Yeah, that about covers it

Found over here

Californicated: home of stupid and/or corruption in LE reporting

if what's being reported might injure the Preferred Narrative^tm.
“We could still get data from the state police and rural authorities,” said Helsley. “The rural folks didn’t have their own crime labs, so we did the work for them and logged the data. But the cities, the ones campaigning for gun bans, didn’t want to give us data about their crime guns. The cities have the gangs and all the violent crime that goes with it. Without their data we had, and still have, incomplete information.”



"Yeah, those two blew people up, but the NRA is the REAL terrorists!"  Abysmal-level stupid from a editor.
Good thing is just about everyone in the comments is removing a chunk of his ass.


From a couple of years back but still valid: 'The Brady Act stopped this many criminals from buying guns!' line is a line of crap.


Thoughts on the NYEffingTimes-style of reporting.


Steven den Beste wrote to AoS and they printed it; good reading.
So let's be clear: Progressives don't fear guns in the hands of criminals, or not very much. It's not about school shootings, either. It's guns in the hands, and homes, of law abiding citizens that Progressives hate. Those are the guns they wish were gone; those are the guns they will try to eliminate if they can. Because those are the guns which stand in the way of them taking over.


Never forget, it's not really about guns, it's about control:
Home manufacturers are the specific target here, since the legislation refers to the alleged threat posed by "computer numerical control mills ('CNC mills'), 3-dimensional printers ('3D printers'), and laser cutting machines" in the hands of "a person who is not a licensed manufacturer."


Why I despise so many on the left: they actually give support to this miserable little bastard, and make excuses for his terrorism.  And Ayers is just full of shit:
In his talk to the crowd, Ayers mentioned that in 1970, he lost three friends in the Weather Underground, including his lover, Diana Oughton. He did not explain in his talk how they died – they were killed when nail bombs they were making in a Greenwich Village townhouse blew up.
And what were those bombs for?  They planned mass-murder at a dance at Fort Dix: a big bomb in the dance, and others outside to kill cops and EMTs.
Telling the crowd the circumstances of those deaths would have been “inappropriate,” Ayers said afterward. “Everybody here knows,” he said.
Yeah, it would be 'inappropriate' to remind people that the asshole who claims "We never killed anyone" was planning to murder a whole bunch of women and men.


Short version of Bill Richardson: "Cruz doesn't kiss ass and bow down like a new Senator should, and he doesn't want amnesty for illegal aliens, so he shouldn't be considered a real hispanic."

The only good thing about this woman is she's honest:

she wants our guns registered.  How does she think she can make this palatable to us?
But it helps you [to protect] your guns when they’re stolen. It helps us find them for you, like registering your car,” Lee told The Blaze.
Let's see, you register your car so you can be taxed on it(Ooops!  was that a slip on her part?), and it does nothing to help LE find it if it's stolen; that's what that "My car's been stolen!" call does.

Of course, she has a history of not letting facts bother her.  Or ethics.

If you have nothing to worry about, the Chinese have taken care of that

Professor Chen and her colleagues deliberately mixed the H5N1 bird-flu virus, which is highly lethal but not easily transmitted between people, with a 2009 strain of H1N1 flu virus, which is very infectious to humans. 

When flu viruses come together by infecting the same cell they can swap genetic material and produce “hybrids” through the re-assortment of genes. The researchers were trying to emulate what happens in nature when animals such as pigs are co-infected with two different strains of virus, Professor Chen said.
Well, isn't that nice?  Especially since
The study, which was carried out in a laboratory with the second highest security level to prevent accidental escape, resulted in 127 different viral hybrids between H5N1 and H1N1, five of which were able to pass by airborne transmission between laboratory guinea pigs.
'Second highest'... just all kinds of calm-inducing, isn't it?


South Carolina democrats; all kinds of tolerant and all-encompassing, aren't they?  Long as you're white or a Democrat, that is.


Speaking of Democrats and bigotry*,
...But Mr. Wise, it would appear, isn't entirely immune from the power of narrative himself. Because Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Howie Macthinger, Ted Klonsky, Terry Robbins, Karen Ashley, John Jacobs, David Gilbert, Ted Gold, etc etc etc are conspicuously absent from his “pantheon of white people who engage in (or have plotted) politically motivated violence meant to terrorize and kill." **

Perhaps these left-wing*** violent radicals aren't on the list because they don't quite fit another narrative – I might better call it a slander – presently so popular in the press.  “We should not, must not, cannot speculate,” the sanctimonious pundit always begins. “But it sure seems possible (or reasonable or likely or evident) that this vile act was committed by someone opposed to the current gun control proposals." Who knew that so many television and radio talking heads were so fit and nimble, so able to leap to far distant conclusions at a single bound? And yet, in the past two days I have heard those words, or similar ones, on NPR, CNN, ABC and NBC with my own ears.

One of the Benghazi whistleblowers was the #2 man at the embassy in Libya; this should get interesting.

This is not possible; Obama said the Taliban was done for!

Of course, he said we're responsible for all the problems in Mexico, too.

Remember Sheriff Bradshaw?  He of 'snitch on your friends and family and neighbors' fame?   Looks like his closet isn't exactly clean. 

*If you don't think most media weenies are at the least on the Democrat side, you're not paying attention.

Wirecutter had a post,

and I stole his picture:

Mostly tab clearing

Some of the problems with psychiatry


Moral panics, and the BS they tend to be based on.
Connected: more on BS rape statistics


More on the administration lying about Benghazi


How're those gun bans and etc. working out in (fG)Britain and Australia?  Not so good.


“A dog can perform basic arithmetic and can count to four or five,” Brown said. “They read body language, have an innate sense of basic fairness, and find their way through the woods. I challenge you to show me a first or second lieutenant who can do any of that.”
“To be fair,” Brown countered, “the lieutenants did display the ability to shit in a toilet and hold their bowel movements until an appropriate time, giving them a slightly higher ranking in that category than the military working dogs that haven’t been housebroken yet.”


In a good federal case for open carry of firearms, the 4th Circuit holds that the open carry of a firearm, alone, does not constitute probable cause to detain someone absent some other evidence that the person is engaged in criminal activity.


Obama in Mexico: "A lot of your problems are our fault."  Surprise, right?
No word on whether, to deal with this, he'll stop hiding documents for head gun-smuggler Eric Holder.


Waking the Dragon. Read it.  One excerpt:
Gun people don’t trust anti-gun people because they tell us they don’t want to ban guns, only enact what they call “common sense gun laws.” But like a magician using misdirection, they tell everyone else they want to ban every gun everywhere. While some are busy trying to placate us with lies, another anti-gunner somewhere submits a gun ban proposal — proposals that often would automatically make us felons for possession. Felons, for no good reason. And you anti-gunners can roll up your grandfather clauses and stuff them where the sun don’t shine. If it ain’t good enough for our grandchildren in 60 years, it ain’t good enough for us right now.


And from the NRA convention: my, the bigots are a-protestin' now, aren't they!

Some thoughts on a lot of what passes for 'science fiction'

today:
Do these idiots understand science fiction? Do they realize that the vast majority of that fiction is about humans surviving against all odds and overcoming obstacles through inventiveness and adaptability. Science Fiction is the cheerleader for the human race. While there is depressing science fiction in which humans make mistakes, it almost always ends with hope for humanity. Hope that we become better and learn a lesson from our mistakes. Sometimes a great science fiction classic works with a bleak premise about human nature, for instance 1984, but these are few and far between and the authors of these are universally warning the audience not to follow that path. The writers of today aren’t warning us of our folly. They are lamenting our very existence as a species.


"Citizens, we need you to inform on your neighbors!  Your family!  Anyone who says something that we can take as a threat!

It is for your society!"
So, Sheriff Bradshaw, if I say you're a nasty little piece of work who should be thrown out of that job before you destroy peoples lives, does that mean you'd want to knock on my door?  Search the house?  Get me listed as 'troubled'?  Get my 2ndAmendment rights terminated because you report me as having a mental problem for saying assholes like you deserve tar and feathers?

Oh, and let's not forget the 'lamppost, rope, politician' comments; OBVIOUSLY someone should bang on my door, right?


Speaking of informers and "Behave, citizen, or else", May 1 was Victims of Communism Day; thanks to Kevin for the reminder

Sean has words for the blood-dancers

Here’s what’s really going on. You assholes are pretending to care about this girl’s death so that you can use it to push for stricter gun control laws. You are using this girl’s death as a weapon to attack the gun company that makes the Crickett rifle (Warning, ThinkProgress) her brother was playing with. You don’t give a shit that tens of thousands (at least!) of these rifles have been sold to parents all across the USA. You don’t give a shit that these tens of thousands of rifles are used safely to teach children and small adults to shoot. 

No, the only reason you give a shit at all about this poor little girl from a gun owning family in a flyover state is because you think you can use her death to advance your political agenda. At some point, when you were down on your knees scooping her blood up in your hands so you could grease the skids for more gun control, you should have seriously questioned your humanity. 

The fact that you didn’t tells me you don’t have any left.


From back when they were honest and called themselves the National Coalition to Ban Handguns: a look at how some gun bigots' minds work(thanks to Mr. Henick for the pointer).


I see lawsuits in Hagel's future; big ones.

Especially with a bigoted asshole like this chosen as a consultant to the Pentagon to develop new policies on religious tolerance, including a policy for court-martialing military chaplains who share the Christian Gospel during spiritual counseling of American troops.


What say you: is Rep. Carolyn Maloney simply an out-and-out liar, or just a fool?


And to this, I can only say
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(inhale)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

So, if you have a problem with unread/incomplete bills being shoved through

you're an anarchist.  And want no government at all.  Really.

In other news, people are still wondering how Reid became a millionaire after he went into the House and Senate.  Which probably makes them dangerous anti-Americans who should be reported to the sheriff's hotline.


Idiocy in action:
Though O’Connor cannot say why the student pointed, he says it was against the rules that govern high school sports. The rules state there can be no excessive act of celebration, which includes raising the hands.
Ignore anything else:  YOU CAN'T EVEN RAISE YOUR EFFING HANDS TO CELEBRATE A WIN?  In TEXAS?

Eric Holder, the Sgt. Schultz of the DoJ:

knows NOTHINK! about smuggling guns into Mexico, but he's right on top of threatening KS for daring to say the 2nd and 10thAmendments actually mean something.

Compare Brownback to that slimy bastard Nixon in Missouri.


I think I'd have paid to get to watch this:
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was denied a second slice of pizza today at an Italian eatery in Brooklyn. 
The owners of Collegno's Pizzeria say they refused to serve him more than one piece to protest Bloomberg's proposed soda ban,which would limit the portions of soda sold in the city.


Honeybees may be dying from not getting enough of their honey for food.


 And the forecast for tonight is 'Sucks'.  It's cloudy and cold, it rained(that part's not a problem), and it's supposed to be right around freezing tonight.  Which means I just got the tomatoes and such covered.
Again.

And BATFEIEIO appears to have found another way to screw with us

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives is looking for evidence of a rule that the government has exercised its Munitions List regulatory authority to cut off the importation of ammunition manufacturing equipment from China, Gun Rights Examiner was told today by a representative of ATF's Office of Public and Governmental Affairs.
Various runaround bullshit follows, with "We don't know" as the answer.
It should be noted that his inability to locate a ruling does not prove or disprove its existence. There may not be such a rule or there may be and it has just not been well-communicated throughout the Bureau or to the public. If it does exist, it may not even be new -- this just may be the first time anyone has called it to wider attention. That such a determination is not (yet?) listed with other Rulings proves nothing either, as that list being incomplete is deemed by some critics to be what those who make arbitrary decisions prefer. And it may be a ruling communicated via a private letter, not generally distributed beyond its intended recipient and potentially very difficult to track down (and possibly even requiring a Freedom of Information Act request to do so).
It wouldn't surprise me; it would fit very well with ATF and this administrations attempts to screw with gun owners in every possible way.

Hey, Missouri, your governor lied to you

Repeatedly.
And broke a law that HE SIGNED, and was thanked by Napolitano for it.  And pay attention to this update:
A senate hearing is underway right now led by Sen. Kurt Schaefer, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Moments ago while under oath a SSA agent just admitted that any veteran  drawing social security disability and who had a CCW would have been a target .

So, Missouri, what're you going to do?


Criticize the President, and Morehouse College will disinvite you to speak. 
Mustn't say bad things about Obama, especially if you're black.


Sen. Joe Manchin: miserable little bastard, ain't he?


And in Australia, here's a critter that won't kill you.
Except for the people I know who'd have a heart attack or stroke.

Progressive/nutcase-feminist 'thought': 'It doesn't matter if you lie

as long as we like it.'
But on Monday, The University of Wyoming Police Department issued a citation to Lanker-Simons for “interference” for “false statements she made to the UW Police Department,” according to a UW statement referred to by Laramie Boomerang Online.

"Subject admitted to making a controversial post on UW Crushes webpage and then lied about not doing it," according to the citation.

The University of Wyoming also confirmed a statement that the police had “"obtained substantial evidence verifying that the offending Facebook post came from Lanker-Simons' computer, while the computer was in her possession.”

Got that?  Caught in the act, confession, the works.  Now, the demonstration of how much regard her supporters have for the truth:
“Meg Lanker-Simons is innocent we believe what she did was justified and deserves not to be held accountable for her accusations we stand behind you sister,” reads that page’s description.
How 'bout this, you effing morons: You just gave people reason to distrust ANYTHING you say or do in the future; have you considered that, or do you just not care?

Global Warming my ass

• Thursday Rain likely. Cloudy, with a temperature falling to around 39 by 10am. Windy, with a north wind 24 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
• Thursday Night A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 33. North wind 15 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. 

 I've already planned how to cover some stuff in the garden; this is freakin' ridiculous for this late in the year.


A woman arrested after she allegedly tried to sneak tainted bottles of orange juice into a refrigerator at a Starbucks coffee shop in San Jose was a trained chemist, officials said.
...
Police tracked 50-year-old Ramineh Behbehanian to her home about five miles away after a witness provided her license plate number. She was arrested on suspicion of felony poisoning.

Tests revealed she had mixed rubbing alcohol with the juice, police said. Investigators said they did not have a motive.
Yeah, it's all a freakin' mystery.


What Obama wants running Fannie and Freddie:
Watt, the former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, has in the past accused white Americans of racism.
“There would be a substantial majority of white voters who would say that under no circumstances would they vote for an African American candidate,” Watt said October 14, 2005 during a Washington hearing held by the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act.
The Voting Rights Act should be expanded to “adjust districts to take [racially motivated voting] into account,” Watts said.
Such voters “need to be factored out of the equation,” Watt said, because “I’ve got no use for them in the democratic process.”
'Every vote must count, except those of people I don't like or agree with!'


Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter has released more emails from former Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson’s alias email account — Richard Windsor — revealing that Jackson was using the account to correspond with environmentalists.

“EPA has shown an absolute disregard for transparency with their email practices, but this one is pretty bizarre,” said Vitter. “We also know now that Lisa Jackson used the alias ‘Richard Windsor’ to correspond outside of the EPA, including with environmental activists.”


Now if you'll excuse me, I need to make sure the tarp's where I'll need it for tomorrow evening.

Did anybody other than the FBI and DHS not know about the bombers?

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent a written warning about accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2012, long before pressure-cooker blasts killed three and injured hundreds, according to a senior Saudi government official with direct knowledge of the document.
Let's see, the Russians, the Saudis.. and the dogs ate all the warnings, I guess.


The eeevillleee Koch brothers want to buy a newspaper.  Bunch of the current staff say "We'll quit if they do!"
Response: So?
Such a straw poll will just make the purchasing the paper more attractive. Just think of all the money saved on severance benefits since the Kochs will probably have to fire most of the journalists in any case.


Had a small-scale go-round a while back with someone throwing out a "One in four women will be raped in their life!" declaration; no specific study or data, just 'Go look it up, it's out there!'  So I should put this up just to annoy.

I really don't care about the excuses, whatever idiot approved this

needs to be retired.  Or fired.  Something.
The Pentagon is so starved for bandwidth that it’s paying a Chinese satellite firm to help it communicate and share data.
This is so many levels of stupid the one who suggested it should have burst into flames.


From one of the people who whines about Republicans being corrupt:

Out of the entire universe of those who could have won the first phase construction contract for California’s high speed rail boondoggle, who would stand out as the last person who would win it if there were no political patronage.
Put another way, who is the most likely person to win it if there is political patronage?
Both questions have the same answer: Richard Blum, the husband of California senator Diane Feinstein.
So, who won the contract? Blum, of course, as the principle owner of Tutor Perini, the lead firm in the three-firm consortium selected by the California High Speed Rail Authority.

Every miserable bastard involved in this

from the 'Protective Services' assholes to the medical assholes, should be canned from whatever position they hold.

Then flogged in the town square. 

Then sued for everything they have by the parents.

And I'm not wild about the cops involved, either.

Sonsabitches.