In the place where Great Britain used to be,

Prosecutors told a Telford grooming victim's father they couldn't prosecute the alleged abuser because the 13-year-old had consented to have sex with the man, according to uncovered documents.
Yeah, that's why.  I mean, why else wou- oh, yeah.
In early March, it was revealed a pair of whistle-blowers, who raised fears over the Telford child sex abuse scandal which affected up to 1,000 girls, were both punished and silenced.

According to the Mirror, police chaplain Keith Osmund-Smith was suspended after he passed papers to the newspaper and a report commissioned by the council revealed social workers knew of the sex crimes before the turn of the millennium.

Meanwhile, a woman who was hired by sex abuse charity Axis Counselling, based in Shrewsbury, was forced to leave her role after she tried to speak up.

...

It is alleged that social workers first knew of abuse in the 1990s, but police took a decade before launching a probe.

Previously unseen files apparently showed that council staff viewed abused and trafficked children as 'prostitutes', not victims, and that the authorities had failed to keep details of abusers from Asian communities for fear of 'racism'.

Ah, the truth outs: they were too PC-at-any-cost, and too chickenshit, to actually deal with this.

Makes you wonder how many places this has actually happened in, and where it's still going on.

How about giving the headmaster a flogging?

"My daughter was so massively bullied in her school in Frankfurt am Main by Muslim girls that we had to take her out of school for protection," the mother told the German newspaper Bild.

The mother said her daughter was harassed for a few reasons. "She had blond hair, no headscarf, has a German-Hebrew name — and we are Christians!" the mother said.

"My daughter broke down nervously in fifth grade," she continued. "She had bruises and massive fear of going to school."

The headmaster's response? "Your daughter does not have to say she is German. Besides, you can give her a headscarf!"
Ever notice that these assholes scream constantly about the threat of bullying, but when it's committed by a protected species, they're silent?

And while all those Democrats and journalists are yelling about guns

and kissing Hogg's ass, they're not having to talk about this.
Every one of the 44 House Democrats who hired Pakistan-born IT aides who later allegedly made “unauthorized access” to congressional data appears to have chosen to exempt them from background checks, according to congressional documents.

Among the red flags in Abid’s background were a $1.1 million bankruptcy; six lawsuits against him or a company he owned; and at least three misdemeanor convictions including for DUI and driving on a suspended license, according to Virginia court records. Public court records show that Imran and Abid operated a car dealership referred to as CIA that took $100,000 from an Iraqi government official who is a fugitive from U.S. authorities. Numerous members of the family were tied to cryptic LLCs such as New Dawn 2001, operated out of Imran’s residence, Virginia corporation records show. Imran was the subject of repeated calls to police by multiple women and had multiple misdemeanor convictions for driving offenses, according to court records.
Isn't that just interesting as hell?

Among the 44 employers, the primary advocate for the suspects has been Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who introduced a bill Monday that would require background checks on Americans purchasing ammunition. “Without bullets a gun is just a hunk of useless metal,” she said, calling ammunition the “loophole” in gun control policy.

Wasserman Schultz was also chair of the Democratic National Committee when Wikileaks published its emails. (The Wikileaks emails show that DNC aides called Imran when they needed the password to her device.) Since then, she and other Democrats have described cyber breaches in the strongest possible terms, such as “an act of war” and “an assault on our democracy.”

But there is no indication Democrats put those concerns into practice when they entrusted the Pakistani dual citizens with their data, nor when suspicious activity was detected. Police banned the suspects from the network after the IG report, but Wasserman Schultz kept Imran on staff anyway. He was in the building and in possession of a laptop with the username RepDWS months later, according to an April 6, 2017 police report.
Someone was paying off or blackmailing someone, and a whole bunch of Democrats are right in the middle of it.  Yet when was the last time most media talked about this?

I know, silly damned question, but I have to ask.

"Why do liberals dislike poor blacks

and want them helpless?"
Because it's much harder to command people who don't depend on you to try to protect them.  And because so many leftists have such a low opinion of blacks.

Actually listen to this: (updated)

whole bunch of tv news heads talking about the dangers of 'fake news'

and they're ALL reading the SAME DAMNED SCRIPT...


Update: I skimmed over some of this, and missed something: the company involved WAS using a script, promising not to allow fake news in, and calling out a lot of major media and places like Fecesbook for their crap.  Which has caused a bunch of said media weenies to lose their shit.
Note to self: check everything out better than I sometimes do.

But since most of them aren't being shot, I'm sure someone will explain how their deaths

aren't as bad as someone who was killed with a bullet.  Or something.

Two bits from this: first,
“It comes down to one simple thing, we’ve got to stop young people carrying knives in the first place,” he added.
I would beg to differ, which brings us to the second bit:
The Metropolitan Police commissioner, Cressida Dick, said last year that London’s crimewave was being driven by a “core group of young offenders” repeatedly committing assault and robbery “with relative impunity” and questioned whether tougher prison sentences could deter them.
Note 'core group' and 'with relative impunity'.

See the problem?  The 'anti knife-crime charity' guy is worried about hardware, while the commissioner has a bit of an actual clue.  But: chances of them continuing the 'Turn In Your Knife!' noise, and screwing with people carrying a basic tool for legal reasons, 100%.  Chances of them actually dealing with the real problem, very low.  Because that'd mean dealing with the facts that
The core problem is PEOPLE, not objects, and
Dealing with people means making judgements, and holding them to account, and all that messy stuff.

Lord, what a mess.

Saturday night rolls around,

and yes, it came in

Yes, if they can trash the 2nd

they'll be after the others.  All of them.  Because they stand in the way of the power the progressives crave over our lives.


The Hollyweenies are feeling heat.  Good.


While back I posted a video of a lawyer specifically saying "IF you and your lawyer need to talk to the FBI, record it.  There's no law that you can't, no matter how much they bluster."  Seems that not recording interviews has bitten the EffingBI in the ass:
I wish that the FBI had recorded their interviews with Ms. Salman as there were several significant inconsistencies with the written summaries of her statements.
My, isn't that interesting?  However could those inconsistencies have snuck in...
Insty put it like this: "The FBI’s absurd and self-serving policy of not recording interviews backfires. It used to be that people trusted the FBI so much that any inconsistencies got ignored or resolved in the FBI’s favor. The FBI has forfeited that trust."


About that idiot Stevens' column about getting rid of the 2nd:
A constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment would be simple and would do more to weaken the N.R.A.’s ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun control legislation than any other available option.
He actually thinks it would be simple to do?  Fat effing chance, you stupid bastard.  And, as Huffman notes, he's also forgetting about some previous rulings, including
The right there specified is that of ‘bearing arms for a lawful purpose.’ This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.
Yep.  Which means that, among other things, getting rid of the 2nd- if they could- would not be simple, or easy, if you think the noise from the prohibitionists has caused anger NOW... and it would not change that fact: that the right to arms was not GRANTED by the Amendment, it was recognized as being hugely important to a free people.

And we're not giving it up.

Friday night:

you know the drill

"It's different when one of OUR people does it."

A former staff member for U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty says she was punched, screamed at and threatened with death by the congresswoman’s then chief of staff, who after being fired in 2016 went on to work for Sandy Hook Promise on Esty’s recommendation.

Oh, but wait, there is more to all of this.
A. Esty gave a PERSONAL recommendation for Baker to Sandy Hook promise – one that she COWROTE with him
B. She kept him on for three months even after being provided proof of his abusive behavior
C. Esty is a supporter of women. Uh huh…


Ezra Klein is a first-class asshole.

Apparently a bunch of the 'March to Ban Guns and Register Democrat Voters people

are now carrying posters showing Harry Potter characters and saying things like "Guns are icky, I'd rather have a wand!"

Oh yeah, magic wand would be nice, IF THEY ACTUALLY EXISTED, you twits.

Which noise inspired a friend to write this:
So, I’m reading that the teen anti-gun movement is inspired by the Harry Potter series.

Am I the only one who finds that ironic? I mean, those kids were armed starting at age 11, practiced concealed carry, and trained in combat. All the teachers were armed, highly dangerous, and prepared to defend their students with their lives.
But apparently whacking someone with a magic wand is far morally superior to shooting them.  Somehow.

Tab clearing

If some plain citizen did what they did, they'd be trying to put said citizen in prison; but (all together now) "It's DIFFERENT when we do it!"


Stevens' dissent on the Heller decision was crap, and his brain hasn't improved any.


Golden West College: a sharia-compliant zone.


When prosecutors and other lying .gov minions need to pass 'fired and disbarred' and go straight to 'hanged in the down square'.


Short version: "Oh shit, with Stevens writing that people are actually paying attention to us!  This is bad!"
Yes, it is, you little shits; you told the truth about what you really want, and don't like the result.

"It's just awful when your brother makes himself a public figure

(loud-mouthed, foul-mouthed, arrogant, and nasty, but still) and someone refuses to kiss his ass!"

This is just so bloody rich...

On top of which, Lauren, you bitch:

Lauren Hogg, the very woman who approached Melania Trump about the horrors of "cyberbullying," attacked Loesch on Twitter earlier this month.

Lauren Hogg responded favorably to a tweet from Cameron Kasky, the founder of the "March for Our Lives," which read: "Somewhere, somebody is comforting their crying child who has only recently awaken from a terrifying dream about [Dana Loesch]."

you're not in a good position to be whining about what other people say.

Next time someone starts yelling "Gun control now!", ask them why they're such a racist asshats

and why do they hate the poor?
Detroit resident General Laney is the founder and prime mover behind a little-publicized organization known as the National Black Sportsman's Association, often referred to as "the black gun lobby." Laney pulls no punches when asked his opinion of gun control: "Gun control is really race control. People who embrace gun control are really racists in nature. All gun laws have been enacted to control certain classes of people, mainly black people, but the same laws used to control blacks are being used to disarm white people as well."
...
Those who argue that the concern about cheap handguns is justified because these guns are used in most crimes should take note of Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America, by sociologists James D. Wright, Peter H. Rossi, and Kathleen Daly. The authors, who undertook an exhaustive, federally funded, critical review of gun issue research, found no conclusive proof that cheap handguns are used in crime more often than expensive handguns. (Interestingly, the makers of quality arms, trying to stifle competition, have sometimes supported bans on cheap handguns and on the importation of cheap military surplus weapons. Kates observes that the Gun Control Act of 1968, which banned mail-order gun sales and the importation of military surplus firearms, "was something domestic manufacturers had been impotently urging for decades.") But the evidence leads one to the conclusion that cheap handguns are considered threatening primarily because minorities and poor whites can afford them.

Had a chance to hit a range this morning (updated)

that allowed a bit longer-distance shooting.  Aside from getting numb fingers*, fun was had; report to follow shortly, as I have things to oil and dry out.

Ok, I've only got one target.  First time I've had the chance to try .45-70 at 200 yards(load was the Lee 500-grain bullet over 35.0 Blackhorn 209).  And of course this is the day of crappy weather.  However, once I got the elevation dialed in,

That trio in the large circle(ignore the two smaller holes) is just under 2 7/8" center to center; the pair in the smaller happened after I changed from a round to a post insert in the front sight.  The uncircled one on the right was shot a couple of minutes later.  I will tell you flatly that I'm delighted with these: solid overcast, it'd started misting enough that it was like trying to shoot in fog at times, so groups like these?  Oh yeah, I'm happy.

I shall now clean firearms and set cases to dry.  And, when time allows, load more of these.





*It's March in Oklahoma: started out cloudy & chilly, got a bit chillier, then the mist/fog/light rain moved through, and after started home the clouds started breaking and it warmed up some.  And is still warming.

From Madam Hoyt on immigration

Of course, if I hadn’t acculturated, it wouldn’t make a great deal of difference. I was one person alone. But when we’re faced with a continuous stream over a virtually unguardable border it does make a difference, because if those immigrants come not to acculturate but to get what America can give, they’re going to change our culture. Further, if those immigrants come possessed with a theory of racial/ethnic superiority and how they “own” half of our country, it’s going to create a  poisonous subculture in our midst.

...

I see the bishops’ biases too. Much was said about charity and welcoming the poor and oppressed, but dear Lord, borders exist for a reason and charity is not a principle of geopolitics. The American people are generous to a fault. Many of us support children in other countries. Many send money to disaster relief around the world. But unless you believe there is some magic to the very soil that makes the U.S. prosperous, we cannot and should not allow in everyone in the world who has a need, because if we do, we will end up with our country becoming like the place they came from. (How many states see that with Californians, without even dealing with foreigners?)

From the geniuses at the EffingBI and the Do'J'

Y'know, the only people to be trusted with guns, that we should trust to protect us.  The same people who blew two chances to stop the school murderer in Florida.
The FBI had a decade-long confidential informant relationship with the father of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, prosecutors admitted Saturday, 12 days into the trial of his wife.
The undercover relationship with the father, Seddique Mateen, continued even though the bureau was tipped off in 2012 that its informant was himself raising money to plan a terrorist attack on the government of Pakistan.
The father’s status also played a role in the FBI’s decision not to seek prosecution of Omar in 2013 after they investigated him for violent threats, attorneys for the shooter’s wife said. If Omar had gone to prison in that case, the infamous Pulse shooting might have been avoided.

Screw these clowns, and screw their claims of being Special Agents and so forth.  If you wrote this crap into a novel half the readers would consider it unbelievable.

It appears a lot of news media are cutting their video off

before he does this; gee, I wonder why...


I Went to the March for Our Lives Protest. Here Are My 7 Takeaways.
Short version: if you think this isn't all about banning guns, and you think the kids are running this, you're delusional.


This is the clown the Democrats are so worried about protecting from the consequences of what he's done.  Well, they are the party of Bill Clinton & Weinstein.

Daryl Fisher wants to be sheriff of Buncombe County North Carolina,

but made the mistake of telling people what he really thinks.
Daryl Fisher: Any weapon that is designed for use by the military I think we should ban. You’ve heard people say you have to pry my gun from my cold dead hands. (shrugs) OK. 

You could say the reaction has been, well, bad.

Now he says "It was a joke!"(Bookface link)  Which also doesn't go over well.  Probably because, among all the other words, are these two lines:
I took this opportunity to relay proposals on what I believe to be sensible gun legislation.
and
Proposing sensible gun legislation is only one of my values and beliefs.
 So, let's consider those.  He thinks 'designed for use by the military' means 'Ban it!'  So, just how many revolvers and semi-auto pistols, and how many single-shot, bolt-action, and semi-auto rifles that would include?  Or would he say "Oh, I don't mean THOSE, only the EBRs the peasants should not have!" ?

And he considers that 'sensible gun legislation'... Buncombe County, you elect this clown and you deserve everything that'll happen to you.

These people are bloody insane

Earlier this year, New England — located just a few hundred miles from the Marcellus Shale, one of the world’s largest natural gas fields — was forced to import a cargo of Russian liquefied natural gas. This was necessary because anti-energy activists have convinced local elected leaders to block new energy infrastructure, including pipelines that could bring American gas to the region. This is making households in the Northeast more dependent on imported energy, and forcing them to pay among the highest energy bills in the country. 

This was no accident. The Conservation Law Foundation, a prominent anti-energy group in Massachusetts, states on its website that importing natural gas from foreign counties is preferable to building new pipelines. The Sierra Club’s Massachusetts chapter has simply declared “No New Pipelines,” while the state’s attorney general thinks Russian LNG is better for the climate than piping in American fuel.