God, I wish I could write like this...

*One quick note for all you whiny No-Labels types. I’m going to use the word LIBERAL to describe liberals acting like liberals. You’ll live. Obviously, not all liberals are in favor of squashing dissenting opinions or disallowing someone from holding personal religious beliefs, but everybody trying to squash dissenting beliefs about today’s topic is either a liberal, statist, communist, socialist, or just being a dick. So yes I know that YOU personally are a special snowflake different from said stereotype, but I’m too lazy to keep typing that out, and to use some helpful stereotypes to explain, I’m a greedy, right-wing capitalist 1%er who needs to get back to work writing more bestselling novels that promote violence against the differently-living. Save the hate mail. It gets really repetitive.  And when I use the term “caring liberal” it is for the special ones who keep threatening to murder me, because irony amuses me.

For those who can't go there, a post from the Dutchman

'The Bielskis would spit in their faces'

"Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second." - Aron Bielski

"My father sent my mother a revolver as a gift, which for her was the symbol of what any young girl wants in a marriage, this was for her the means to stay alive, to kill herself or to die fighting." -- Assaela Bielski

Kurt Hofmann comments on the latest kerfluffle between the ADL and other professional citizen disarmament advocates and NRA board member Scott Bach. Bach is being pilloried "for expressing surprise in a phone interview on NRA News that Mayor Fulop could be so rabidly anti-gun, given the fact that his grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Predictably, the 'progressives' cannot contain themselves, and are in full-throated anguished bleating meltdown mode."

I have never understood this willful denial of reality on the part of what according to polls is an overwhelming majority of America's Jews. Did they learn nothing from the Holocaust? Nothing from the Warsaw Ghetto? Nothing from the Bielski Brothers? Nothing from "Arbeit Macht Frei"? Nothing? As I quoted back in 2008 in a praxis post on strippers clips and ammunition packaging:

"I, myself, remained on the balcony and fired at the confused and embarrassed Germans with my Mauser. From my balcony, I could see them in all their helplessness and their loss of control. The air was full of wails and shouts. Many of them tried to run to the walls of the houses for cover but everything was barred and beyond that, death was pursuing them. In the noise, the fluster, and the cries of the wounded, we heard the astonished outcry of one of the Germans: 'Juden haben waffen! Juden haben waffen!' ('The Jews have arms!') . . .

The battle lasted for about a half an hour. The Germans withdrew and there were many corpses and wounded in the street." -- Recollection of the opening engagement on 19 April 1943 of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Haim Frymer, Jewish Fighting Organization, quoted in Resistance by Israel Gutman, New York, 1994, pp. 206-207.

The central fact of the Holocaust (and every other government-monopoly-of-force exercise leading to genocide in the 20th Century) is the disarmament of the intended victims. Aaron Zelman of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership once said to me: "If every Jewish and anti-Nazi family in Germany had possessed a Mauser rifle, twenty rounds AND THE WILL TO USE IT, Adolf Hitler would be a footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic."

Kurt concludes:

Bach, of course, never compared American "gun control" to the Holocaust. The fact remains, though, no matter how shrilly the gun ban zealots deny it, that genocidal tyranny is vastly more difficult--not to mention risky--against a people who are heavily armed and prepared to use those arms in their defense.

That's why those bent on genocidal tyranny insist on a "government monopoly on force." Is it not fair to ask, then, why the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Congressman Congressman Jerrold Nadler demand the same thing?

If anyone is "trivializing the Holocaust," it is those who wish to silence any who raise the alarm about policies that will make the next Holocaust more difficult to thwart.

Exactly. As I wrote back in 1999:

If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and take you someplace you do not want to go because of who you are or what you think -- kill him. If you can, kill the politician who sent him. You will likely die anyway, and you will be saving someone else the same fate. For it is a universal truth that the intended victims always far outnumber the tyrant's executioners. Any nation which practices this lesson will quickly run out of executioners and tyrants, or they will run out of it.

The Gestapo at its peak "employed only about 40,000 individuals, including office personnel and the plain-clothes agents." Get that? 40 THOUSAND controlled a nation of 80 MILLION.

How? Because enough of the 80 million lacked the means of resistance and the will to use those means until it was too late. How Foxman of the ADL and others who make such a business of exploiting their sanitized version of the memory of the Holocaust expect anybody else who can read a history book to believe their citizen disarmament tripe is beyond me. The Bielskis would spit in their faces -- all the while keeping firm grips on their rifles.

Modern crossbow & bolt vs. ballistic armor

The armor ain't happy

'Future crime' my ass,

this has WAY too much potential for abuse, and I hope it goes to a higher court.


If he can show evidence/proof of this bullcrap, sue the ass off the school and her.


Hadn't seen this before: Tam points to a list of ways to spot possibly bad products, including

1.      If they want to sell you their expert help and the company website features a picture of a craptastic holster with a man’s finger on the trigger while the muzzle is still inside his holster, you should think very, very carefully before you rely on that company’s  expertise.

2.      If their ads show ridiculously fake ginormous explosions erupting behind camo clad warriors with their faces hidden by mirror-goggled helmets, and the ad copy says their product is the best because military and law enforcement use it, ask yourself whether you will be using it inside a military or law enforcement context – or, if you are a military or law enforcement buyer, ask yourself whether your team’s mission would be enhanced by making them jump like a half-tamed lions through a fake-explosion hula hoop on your training days. The product might be a good fit for your needs, but before you buy it, you should look for a more meaningful reason why you should.

Comment to a friend who was talking about the time it hit 68 below in Alaska: "68 below zero is not a temperature; it's hell with a frosting."


'Islamophobia!' my ass.


My, I'll bet this wasn't what he was expecting to get in the report:
The National Security Agency should be banned from attempting to undermine the security of the internet and stripped of its power to collect telephone records in bulk, a White House review panel recommended on Wednesday.
Not as far as this should go, but it's a start.


Proving again that 'gun control' is about control, nothing more. 
And harassment, and trying to create criminals.

Sue someone who falsely accuses you of rape?

Since most prosecutors won't prosecute them, yes.  And make their name just as widely known as that of the man they accused.



God save us from the bedwetter Left. As I learned during my battles in Canada, when it comes to free speech principled lefties are thin on the ground. But this shouldn’t be that difficult for Mr Drum. A victory for Dr Mann would be a significant blow against the First Amendment — and, if that prospect does no more than make you feel “a little uneasy,” you might as well just prostrate yourself before the commissars from the Bureau of Conformity Enforcement.

Needed to keep the hand alive

until could reattach: stuck it on his ankle.  Friggin' amazing.


My first thought is "If you can't control a 70-year-old woman without doing that, you've got no business wearing a badge.

Second thought is for the "It's not illegal but I want you to stop recording this!" clown: Screw you.  If you're that bothered by it being recorded, maybe you shouldn't be doing this.


Let's see, no law proposed that 'Child service workers who ignore reports of abuse while children die will be hanged, drawn and quartered', oh no; instead 'ALL parents should be considered guilty until proven otherwise; and WE decide if you're not guilty.'

Ohio, have you no tar & feathers in that state?


During a White House meeting called to brief America's largest tech companies today about government overreach in electronic surveillance, President Barack Obama changed the subject – angering some meeting participants by shifting gears to address the failed launch of healthcare.gov.

'That wasn't what we came for,' a vice-president of a company whose CEO attended told MailOnline. 'We really didn't care for a PR pitch about how the administration is trying to salvage its internal health care tech nightmare.'
Can you smell desperation?
I knew you could.

One step closer to the Slammers

Also to battlefield aviation being all drones, because aircraft won't survive for long.

Because if you can shoot down rockets, missiles and mortar shells, you can hit an aircraft.

Sen. Schumer: I find it hard to describe just how much I loathe

and despise this vile bastard.

Some of the bad guys are both better trained

and more willing to shoot than the cops.  Or most CCW folks.
The first thing that the researchers learned is that our assumptions about criminals not training are wrong.  Nearly 40% of the criminal attackers in this study had received FORMAL firearms training (mostly in the military).  More than 80% of the criminal attackers regularly practiced with their firearms, with an average number of 23 Practice Sessions Per Year!  They conducted these practice sessions in trash dumps, wooded areas, back yards and “street corners in known drug trafficking areas”.  What that means is that the practice sessions were taking place in realistic environments, under conditions similar to those the attackers were likely to face in combat.
Some good information here

That reaction may look outsized in the United States,

but the case touches on a string of issues that strike deeply in India, where the fear of public humiliation resonates strongly and heavy-handed treatment by the police is normally reserved for the poor. For an educated, middle-class woman to face public arrest and a strip search is almost unimaginable , except in the most brutal crimes.
Translation: "How dare you treat one of our noble class as if she were a common American!"

Being diplomatic, I won't speak my first response, which carries the letters 'f' and 'y' in there; I'll just say "Be pissed all you want; here the idea is that NOBODY is above or below the law, so deal with it."

What I do wonder: India is an ally that's at odds with Pakistan and also has problems with muslim terrorists; wonder if this administration decided to screw with them because of that?

Wondering what to think about Brandon Webb?

From what he says here, my answer would be "HELL no."
Especially when you read stuff like this:


When you specifically ask 'What's your stand on 'X'?' and his standard answer is "My accomplishments and expertise blah-blah just wait till I issue my package", there's a real problem with what he actually thinks.  Or he wouldn't be playing that game.

Mitch McConnell is a miserable backstabbing suckass politician

who badly needs to be thrown out of that taxpayer-supplied office.
Corrupt little bastard is talking about using public money to bribe companies; that ought to be prosecutable.

Homemade 1911 frame,

machined in the garage and finished off with a parts kit.  Yeah, it works.

Really, people? Breaking light bulbs sound like gunshots?

Bleep.


Y'know, if they'd let them build another refinery or two(or had allowed that in the past ten years, maybe?) just think what gas prices would be.
With U.S. refineries already choking on more oil than they can process, producers from Exxon to ConocoPhillips are clamoring for repeal of the export restrictions that have outlawed most overseas sales of American crude for four decades.


I can't decide if Juan Williams is really this farging dumb, or if he's so desperate to be back in the good graces of NPR that he'll push ANYTHING they'll like.


They don't want to ban our guns.  Except when they do.  And they'll tell you both things at the same time, and expect you to not take notice of it.


Snork... winter comes to Dallas!

Warnings on the 'Compromise!' they want

Which will take from us, and do nothing but slightly delay their desire.


Question becomes will Gov. Howler & Co. be smart, or will they decide "We give orders, and you will obey!" ?
Writing at Human Events, Raquel Okyay suggests that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing a near revolt over the NY SAFE Act, and that more than 90%  of the Empire State’s gun owners will simply ignore the long gun registration requirement in the law. Perhaps just as shocking (to Cuomo’s legion of statists, anyway) is that law enforcement itself does not want to enforce the law.

New Yorkers gauge registration and confiscation of firearms in the aftermath of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s landmark gun control law, the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act of 2013.
...Low compliance rates will put the governor in an interesting position especially in an election year, said Nojay. “I think registration rates are going to be less than 10 percent.”
County clerks, district attorneys, county sheriffs and local law enforcement do not want to enforce the S.A.F.E. Act which is now the governor’s law, he said. “They regard it as having nothing to do with law enforcement, it will not prevent crime, it will not prevent tragedy, it is a law of pure politics and they don’t want to have anything to do with it.”

Considering Cuomo, I'm expecting some level of "If we screw enough people, the others will fall into line."
And so it matters immensely when we read:

Cuomo is telling people he will enforce the law, he said. “This governor walks into every room looking for a fight and if he can’t find one he’ll start one.”
“This is a constitutional crisis in the making,” he said. “The question is: Will the governor start pounding the table to force them to be the enforcer.”

There is a difference between an enforcer, and an oppressor. Frankly, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo doesn’t seem smart enough to know the difference, and therein lies the danger to us all.


Put bluntly, I don't give a rats ass if the EPA approved 15% gasohol; it's an idiot idea that'll destroy lots of engines.  Which, from past performance, is what the effing EPA is actually after.

Have a friend who was a big gasohol booster; right up until it trashed the engine of his car, and the mechanic showed/told him exactly how.  That slapped him with the Reality™ Glove.  And I've known/known of too many people who've had problems because of the stuff.

Plus the most basic thing: If it was worth doing, it wouldn't need all these damned subsidies.


Any respect I had for Cummings went down the toilet when he started saying and doing everything possible to prevent full inquiry into Fast & Furious, and started calling anybody upset by the piles of bodies a racist.  This is just a continuance of "Screw the people dying, screw the breaking of law, I have to protect Obama & Co. no matter what."


The one thing I'll say about the current budget deal: Either Ryan is infected with the 'make a deal, no matter what' idiocy, or he got rolled.  That he then proceeded to insult and belittle anyone calling him on it(in company with Yellowstain Boehner) just tells me he's become a standard DC dirtbag.  Especially with him now playing "Oh, I think the tea party and actual conservatives are important(as long as they shut up and stop causing me problems)."


One more reason to refer to this President as a corrupt, disgusting, worthless bastard:
In an effort to cut defense spending, the Obama Administration plans to cut health benefits for active duty and retired military personnel and their families while not touching the benefits enjoyed by unionized civilian defense workers.

The move, congressional aides suggested, is to force those individuals into Obamacare, Bill Gertz reported at the Washington Beacon.


Speaking of corrupt, disgusting bastards,
We have written mostly about the corruption of Greens in America, where Al Gore has become a standing joke. But the Daily Mail has performed the valuable service of exposing the corruption that is rampant among British environmentalists; specifically, global warming alarmists:

The Mail on Sunday today reveals the extraordinary web of political and financial interests creating dozens of eco-millionaires from green levies on household energy bills.
A three-month investigation shows that some of the most outspoken campaigners who demand that consumers pay the colossal price of shifting to renewable energy are also getting rich from their efforts.

And we're supposed to trust these bastards to be honest and unbiased why, again?


Seems fitting that this shit is happening in the PROM, doesn't it?

I've got a friend who accuses me of cherry-picking horror stories about the NHS

in Britain; y'know, the system the Obamacare weenies said was marvelous and we should copy?  Don't think he can accuse me of that on this:
One investigation revealed that a quarter of new mothers were abandoned by their midwives during labour, with some left to give birth on the floor or in corridors.

The second found that mistakes deemed so serious they should never happen are being made in hospitals five times a week.

And the third survey said thousands of patients have all but given up trying to secure appointments with their family doctor.
And you'll just friggin' LOVE this:
Police have even been called in to probe claims that staff at Colchester Hospital fiddled figures to hide the fact that some patients waited up to six months for cancer treatment.
I wonder, how many dead people does that work out to?
And do they give a damn?

And while Obama's planning his next vacation on OPM*,

some of the people he wanted to take us to war to aid were being unsocial:
Torah scrolls and other Judaica plundered from an ancient Damascus synagogue are being held by an Islamist group inside Syria, which is demanding the release of prisoners captured by the Assad regime in return for the items, The Times of Israel has learned.

Reports on the destruction and looting of the millennia-old Jobar synagogue in Damascus emerged as early as March, but those responsible for the theft have never been clearly identified, as government and opposition forces traded accusations.

The Jobar synagogue — said to be 2,000-years-old — was built on the site where the prophet Elijah is said to have concealed himself from persecution and anointed his successor, Elisha, as a prophet. It was badly damaged in March by mortars reportedly fired by Syrian government forces; some reports say the building was destroyed.

A source involved in negotiating for the release of the Judaica items and their extraction from Syria, speaking to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, said the objects were being held inside Syria by a group affiliated with the Al-Nusra Front, an Islamist organization associated with al-Qaeda and defined as a terrorist organization by the US. He said the stolen items include at least three or four Torah scrolls as well as ancient Jewish scrolls and silverware.


*Other Peoples' Money

I give you our Secretary of State, John Effing Kerry:

...And — and I think we — we need to factor that into the urgency of getting China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, all of us, uh, to stay on the same page and to put as much effort into the denuclearization as possible.  To have a nuclear weapon, potentially, in the hands of somebody like Kim Jong In — Jun — just becomes even more unacceptable."
Slight problem with that:
Raddatz did not follow up to ask about North Korea's already existent nuclear capabilities. Last February, North Korea claimed it had successfully completed a third nuclear weapon test, this time underground. According to the State Department, Kerry was briefed about this test.
The brilliance, it's... well, almost nonexistent.



Just ran across this today:
The Saudis deny any role in 9/11, but the CIA in one memo reportedly found “incontrovertible evidence” that Saudi government officials — not just wealthy Saudi hardliners, but high-level diplomats and intelligence officers employed by the kingdom — helped the hijackers both financially and logistically. The intelligence files cited in the report directly implicate the Saudi embassy in Washington and consulate in Los Angeles in the attacks, making 9/11 not just an act of terrorism, but an act of war.

The findings, if confirmed, would back up open-source reporting showing the hijackers had, at a minimum, ties to several Saudi officials and agents while they were preparing for their attacks inside the United States. In fact, they got help from Saudi VIPs from coast to coast:
LOS ANGELES: Saudi consulate official Fahad al-Thumairy allegedly arranged for an advance team to receive two of the Saudi hijackers — Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi — as they arrived at LAX in 2000. One of the advance men, Omar al-Bayoumi, a suspected Saudi intelligence agent, left the LA consulate and met the hijackers at a local restaurant. (Bayoumi left the United States two months before the attacks, while Thumairy was deported back to Saudi Arabia after 9/11.)
True?  I don't know; it wouldn't surprise me.

And if it is, the chances of this administration actually doing anything?  After Obama bowed to the Saudi king?  Just about zero.  Maybe 30% if he gets enough heat over it.

Among the reasons I think unions suck:

In a Dec. 6 court filing, Local 214 argued that right-to-work laws are "a violation of the prohibitions against involuntary servitude" citing Article I, Section 9 of the state constitution: "Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude unless for the punishment of crime, shall ever be tolerated in this state."

"The claim was made in response to a lawsuit filed by four City of Dearborn employees who were going to be charged $150 by the union for any grievance they filed after they left the union when they exercised their rights under state law," according to a blog posting by the conservative Mackinac Center.


So, along with lying about Obamacare they hid all kinds of stuff until after the election; about the kind of morals and ethics we expect from these bastards.

Why might officers like Bateman have a problem with citizens with rifles?

Especially autoloaders?  History:
From http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/longrifle.html

These marksmen were organized into small, independent units and ordered to pick off British officers during the inactivity around Boston after the Bunker Hill fight. Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet said on August 14, 1775: “The express, who was sent by the Congress, is returned here from the Eastward, and says he left the Camp last Saturday; that the riflemen picked off ten men in one day, three of whom were Field-officers, that were reconnoitering ; one of them was killed at a distance of 250 yards, when only half his head was seen.” Such reports caused great indignation when republished in London. The backwoodsmen were called “. .. shirt-tail men, with their cursed twisted (rifled) guns, the most fatal widow- and-orphan-makers in the world”.

Yeah, that might make officers like Bateman nervous about a bunch of commoners with accurate repeating arms.  Kind of like those redcoat officers.  If you've announced 'We will take your guns from your cold dead hands', you wouldn't like to consider doing it to armed, pissed-off citizens.  It might get dangerous.