RIFLEMAN'S JOURNAL - DECEMBER 2010
Srsly tho, the roller ¢oa$ter is making my hair gray. I need a effin' JOB. That I don't have to drive 50 miles a day at $3 a gallon for.
The World Sucks
"It does no good to obey...." (ref.)
"[T]he landlord’s building swerved in front of the poor government truck driver!" Your tax dollars at work.
Speaking of tax dollars, someone please please nuke the everlasting crap out of Portland, Oregon, at your earliest convenience. I will pop smoke to indicate target.
"[I]t's mind boggling how detached certain parts of society are." "[T]he depths of stupid they are capable of reaching." Minds. Don't. Work. Right.
It's not about safety. It's about armed-robbery-in-uniform. They put on their badge in the morning, adjust their mirror shades, twirl their tax-funded Glock, look in the mirror, and think, "Yeah, I'm'a go wreck some innocent peasant's life today because I can." That's the kind of people they are.
The kind of people they are.
The kind of people they are. I've said many times, there are no good cops. Some will say, "Butbutbut I never do any of those things." BUT YOU KNOW WHO DOES. You have beers with them at the end of your shift. You call them 'buddy'. 'Partner'. 'Brother in blue'. And you always take their side. You deserve to swing from the very next streetlight.
It's never been about "safety". It's always been about control.
"When government fails to perform its most basic function, who needs it?"
Evidently, people lining up to be a hot lunch, that's who.
In Lighter News
SMLE Fan is SMLE. In a good way.
The kind of people they are: "[T]his merely scratches the surface." Dial 911 and get brutally tortured for the crime you're the victim of. Threaten to murder people who object to drunken cops urinating on their property - and the police union files a grievance. Adultery and murder and no charges. From comments: "I do not trust a single cop, and my son is one of them." And they all stand up for each other. Like it's our fault they're all perverted homicidal sadists. I would rather live in a society without cops. They're far worse than what you're supposed to be calling them for. I'm saying it out loud: The only good cop is a dead cop.
"Bets on how long before the first dead TSA agent is found?" Also.
Again and again and again with "mental" "health" as a tool of oppression. Are we so criminally ignorant of history? (Coincidentally that's one of the plot devices in Bujold's Cryoburn.)
Meanwhile in Wyoming.
So I'm at the library Tuedsay and on the shelf I find Napoleon Dynamite, which was supposed to be this big comedy phenomenon. It reminded me of that part in Atlas Shrugged where the Superior Intellectual Elite Mindlessly Praised the Utter Dreck at the Totally Fashionable Theatre Which All You Lowly Peasants are Not Capable of Understanding. People spend money on this garbage?
The most blatant and outrageous of lies - and how to counter them.
It's about control. And not just of guns. Relevant quote: "These days, the government needs to take over entire industries to get anyone to notice."
Cops are useless at best. Usually they're wrecking something and/or someone instead. And sometimes they're both at the same time!
Remember Cory Maye? This right here, I suppose, is supposed to be good news - but I can't help thinking that the resulting change in "official department protocol" will be a lot like this. Remember, anything coming through your door without your permission is there to murder you. Kill them first. Kill as many as you can. You're dead already and you have nothing to lose.
And you door-kicking, back-shooting cops who take some perverted pretzel-logic offense at the notion that us peasants have the right to defend ourselves against you? If you don't want to get killed, find another line of work. We're better shots.
Meanwhile in the government-media complex....
Meanwhile in the government-government complex. "There is no advantage in cooperating...."
For the umpteenth time I say, It's all connected. Visual aid.
Yeah, well, I'm boycotting Amtrak too.
This is how we should be doing it. Get out of the way!
Snark o' the Day: Any time I hear the word “scholar”, I want to reach for my Sig. (-I do note there is a variant of the P220 in .45 with a Browning-type safety instead of the decocker. But I reach for the real thing, thanks.)
St. Louis GRE Hoffman keeps an eye on the pols who, as usual, hate us and want us to die.
I stopped reading Fort Smith GRE Steve Jones some moons ago when I caught a whiff of the same badge-worshiping and permission-begging we saw recently from Seattle GRE Dave Workman, but now his blindfold may be slipping. -Well, being cynical and embittered as I am, what comes to mind instead is this.
Remember the Madison Five? Via G&C, The police department then issued a press release stating: "Chief [Noble] Wray wants to make clear: It is the department's wish that concerned citizens call 911 when they see armed subjects." Interesting word choice. Chief Noble Wray's utter, venomous contempt and hatred for the Constitution he swore to uphold and defend, and the citizens he swore to protect and serve, is made incontrovertibly clear by his own words and publicly-documented official policy. Alas, the definition of treason is very specific, but I'm sure we can find another valid reason to give him what they were handing out at Nuremberg.
And they're all like that. Any who aren't are driven out and destroyed.
Because that's the kind of people they are. And they think they're the good guys.
Remember Hugo Chavez' communist Venezuela? Hey look, they also hate Jews. -Do click through for Huffman's test, which I've linked before and cannot be overstated.
Speaking of.... Srsly I get cash first then go shopping.
Well. When I have cash. Which ain't too bloody often now.
(How long 'til some control freak tax-parasite introduces legislation to outlaw cash? "In the name of Secuuuurity" and "For the chiiiillldren"?)
That darn pesky First Amendment thingy. The knee-jerk patriotic reaction is that WikiLeaks is committing, or at least facilitating, acts of treason, as specifically defined above. The second and third and umpteenth reactions are very similar. But one has to wonder... who won the Cold War?
Finished Cryoburn, bit of sad ending. The saga could end cleanly on that note but doesn't have to. -Eyeing my copy of the CD I wonder if I've missed a couple volumes. Returning to Young Flandry.
Again with the XM25 and, I quote, "radio-controlled smart bullets". As I linked a few days ago, Someone Has Not Thought This Through. They're setting off IEDs with cell phones, they're stealing live video from our own drones, and now we're gonna have a soldier packing a whole pouchful of radio-controlled grenades. (Don't stand / Don't stand so / Don't stand so close to me....) -Ya know the Reich still thought Enigma was secure right up to the end of the war....
Codrea examines the December 1960 Guns magazine. I'll have it in my archive in a day or three, depending on bandwidth.
Speaking of crappy movies and why I don't pay to see them anymore.
$tre$$, Chapter MMDCCXXIX.
"NRAWOL" is a meme. But they're not the only group willing to compromise their stated principles, and throw their own customers under the bus, to preserve their own existence.
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT. Among other topics, FREE BRIAN AITKEN. And hang those responsible for his imprisonment.
Interminable $tre$$....
Codrea has the Kafka-esque Outrage o' the Day. We really need to start hanging these fascists.
Whuzzat? Investigation of BATFE? Conveniently-distracting destruction of federal building in 3, 2, 1....
"Domestic extremists". Sign me up.
Guns aren't the only things the government wants to control. They can't stand the idea of anyone doing anything without permission.
But weapons in the hands of private citizens very particularly do make them show their true colors. How are these not terroristic threats against innocent citizens exercising Constitutionally-enumerated rights? How is this not hate speech?
And how is Keokuk Police Chief Tom Crew any different from this? Or this? Or this or this or this or this or....
It's all a game to them. And we're the pieces.
Deep Profundity o' the Day: "Suppressing debate is what the left is all about, because they never come off very well in a real one."
Boycott Walmart?
[thought=random] Ya know those superhero pics where folks get thrown (or blasted or zapped or what-have-you) through walls? Does The Box o' Truth (or, yeah, MythBusters...) have access to cadavers...? I mean, depending on the construction of the wall, wouldn't mere mortals just splatter?
Via The Shooting Wire, a less-venomous-than-expected NYT article on Knife Rights.
SavaShip gets his Wookie on.
Many times I've contemplated the use of a four-column magazine, like in the Spectre machinepistol. Back here it finally happened. G&C has new news, and prices. Not that it's a new idea.
Gettin' uppity in Wisconsin (35kb .PDF). And all the heck over the place.
Random Acts of Patriotism Sipsey Street Irregulars Weapon Blog Transterrestrial Musings
*&^%$#ing $tre$$....
Just yesterday I said: Whuzzat? Investigation of BATFE? Conveniently-distracting destruction of federal building in 3, 2, 1....
And now we have this. Even the establishment is saying it out loud.
And this too: Back here I quoted Pournelle asking if all these "security" procedures weren't just "contributing to the making of another Timothy McVeigh?" (At this point, how many of us aren't thinking of blowing up or burning down certain buildings with certain people inside?) BUT: they really are making the next Timothy McVeigh, with your tax dollars.
And I'm saying, "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." Have YOU been getting rifle practice?
Codrea follows up on the finger-pointing outrage (click through for both GRE columns), and groks the complete definition of Arms we have the fundamental human, and Constitutionally-guaranteed, right to keep and bear, whatever some bigot-with-a-badge might think.
Yyyyeah Boycott Walmart.
They hate us and want us to die, Chapter MMDCCXXXI.
They hate us and want us to die.
No really: Another random battery by a police officer. Cops are not human beings. They're acting like rabid animals, they should be treated as such.
Which also explains why they're terrified of cameras. They have a lot to hide.
What's the "online equivalent" of shooting the dog?
Query ' the Day: "Does she think that if the people open carrying were wearing a uniform and a badge that would make them more law abiding or accountable?" I sure don't.
They can't have no idea how much they're ticking us off.
Not a cure for paralysis, but at least a treatment.
Yes, I know I'm a linker. If I had a effin' job I could afford to go shoot stuff on weekends with Cool Action Photos like I used to, and video too.
My (Used!) Cheap Philippine Clonetm 1911 is working just fine, thanks. Needed a little tweaking, sure, but still way the heck below NIB retail for the Big Names.
Reader sends:
(Iconic eternal intarwebz übermeme ref.)
We can't defend ourselves in bars, but they can. Gosh, I wonder what kind of people lobbied for that exemption....
This kind of people, that's what kind of people. #*^$ing cops. Everything they do these days is child molestation, serial rape, assault & battery, coercion (Lewis said he doesn't trust law enforcement, which is one of the reasons why he keeps several hidden camera devices. "If I didn't have [it] recorded who would believe me," said Lewis), torture, armed robbery in uniform, and MURDER. "Welcome to the new world where police can painfully shock you to death, are almost always held unaccountable, and you are forbidden by law to fight back."
And what happens when people understand they have nothing left to lose? Because there is no justice. Only "law". For which I have the deepest and most venomous contempt. Every cop, everywhere, and all their bosses and DAs and Commissioners and Attorney Generals, is a declared enemy of civilization. Never call the cops. Never trust a cop. Never give them even the slightest measure of support or aid. The cure is worse than the disease.
I am so inexpressibly disgusted with what this nation has become....
Ageism too now. I've said before, I've known 12-year-olds I'd trust behind me with live grenades, and 40-year-olds I wouldn't trust in front of me with a plastic spork. An arbitrary number of orbits is not the answer. In fact there is no answer beyond leaving people the hell alone.
Boycott Walmart, and UPS too.
Meanwhile in government school.
[pointing] Hah-hah! Gawd, Stossel was pulling that gag years ago.
Speaking of paralysis, they are working on an actual cure.
Meanwhile in Florida: "The bill would make it a 3rd degree felony for a lawmaker to knowingly skirt the state statute...." I had to re-read that a couple times to be sure I had it right. 'Cause that kind of thing just don't happen in this country anymore.
Non-government spaceflight is the best kind.
Excessive $tre$$....
I missed this the first time I saw it - another American soldier murdered by American police. The surprising part is, the cop is actually being charged with a crime, for a change. They've come to expect their paid vacation.
Via Oleg, more yet on child-molesters-with-badges.
Armed robbery in uniform. And just plain robbery. We used to HANG thieves.
Dial 911 and Die, Chapter MMDCCXXXIII.
Never trust a cop of ANY kind.
They like to hurt people. That's why they become cops.
So much for the Fourth Amendment: Our forefathers would be SHOOTING by now.
So much for innocent until proven guilty. The system has no legitimacy.
No, really. No legitimacy.
And no accountability either. "...the union will continue to support [nightstick-happy sadist Des Moines police officer Mersed] Dautovic...." Things will get very bad when Joe Sixpack figures out that there is no justice, only "law".
Ya know I'm even starting to feel some grudging sympathy for the WikiLeaks guy....
Again (and again and again and again and again and again and again) we see what kind of people don't want us to be armed, and why.
That's Timothy Abdullah Mohammed McVeigh. Your Tax Dollars At Work!
Their Minds Don't Work Right, Chapter MMDCCXXXIII. They are a waste of bandwidth.
New GRE, Ft. Myers.
Another spectacular burst-barrel kaboom.
A month or three ago, on the lists, I saw someone commenting that a local cop department wanted to order wider target stands. Like, 24" instead of 18". Because the standard size - the target holder - was getting shot up. At seven yards. “Police departments around the country are finding that the .40 calibers aren’t as effective if an unfortunate incident occurs and they’re forced to have to use their weapons,” Gosh, I dunno, maybe if you tried to *^%$ING AIM THE @#$%ING WEAPON YOU TRIGGER-HAPPY *#^!ING INCOMPETENTS!?!??! You're really not going to like it when we start shooting back.
Of course I'm entirely in favor of "marksmanship" like this. Dude... just a little higher.
While this here is the kind we practice.
Da-dum-KISSHH o' the Day: "...it's not clear whether IMPD pulled him over to write him a ticket or offer him a job...."
Another week $hot to pie¢e$....
They hate your children and want them to die. Chapter MMDCCXXXIV.
They also hate our troops and want them to die. So what you've got here is, people who may be in the greatest need of help, and who have truly earned all the help this nation can give, don't dare seek that help because even making a single phone call can brand them as criminals for life. Kafka couldn't come up with this.
It's not "a few bad apples". It's the nature of the barrel. We don't need cops. Society would be safer, more free, and more productive without these destructive parasites.
Why are they so afraid of having their picture taken?
Yeah we've got a pretty good idea why.
Who here hasn't read John Ross' Unintended Consequences? I particularly remember he had a whole subplot about the FAA. ...Concluded with a Marlin .45-70, IIRC. I gotta get me wunna those, someday....
Vanderboegh contemplates WalmarTSA.
This sums up my view of tobacco use. The nannyism ticked me off so much one time, I bought a canister of Top rolling 'backy for a friend.
That was about the time I stopped watching TV, I think....
"Get government out of education." Remember the Republican Revolution of '94 and the Contract with America? -Yah no one else seems to either.
Brian Aitken update. Speaking of Republican breach-of-contract....
WoGged again. That darn pesky Fourth Amendment thingy is just so inconvenient....
Holy Pooping Poop: Casting ÜberMiniés for a 3" Parrott Rifle. Aw yeah!
...Does Lee Liquid Alox come in gallons? -Srsly, back when I could afford to shoot stuff, I used LLA on the .54 Miniés from a reader-donated mould, with reader-bartered lead, for my Hawken. Still have a bunch made up, hugely more convenient than BoreButter or traditional soft lubes. -Wunna these days I gotta shoot one into a soft backstop for recovery. For Science!
I have owned a Remington 870, two Mossberg 500s, and a Mossberg 590. I once fired an Ithaca 37 and I remember how smooth its action was. Years later I realized it is in fact yet another splendid design by Saint John. A few years ago Ithaca went out of business, but now they're back. -Are they offering a model with a bayonet lug?
Up yours, Atlanta.
Quote o' the Day: "By Heaven, I hope I shall die up to my knees in blood!" -Had to look him up after reading this.
They also hate Santa. Just... arrggh.
It would be funny if it weren't true. I would like to see TSA agents end up like this. That would make me happy.
And creatures like this too. They like to hurt people. Getting paid with their own victims' taxes? Dream job!
And hey, let's throw a few more h. bureaucratis on the fire!
By now all true Gunfolk should know of the unconscionable outrage of injustice that is the persecution of Brian Aitken. Oh look, here's a similar case. And in the state whose motto is "Live Free or Die", no less. I guess the legislature changed the "or" to an "and"...?
Thoughts on competition vs. training. You may note I'm not using an electronic sight on, nor a titanium-and-structural-nylon-with-rare-earth-magnets "holster" with, my IPSC pistol. Hardware counts, but the mind also matters. Doing well in a CMP match doesn't make me a combat infantryman; wearing HatCam!!! to a small IPSC shoot doesn't get me a beret of greenish hue. I understand this. Still, I do approach matches as training; not for tactics or strategy, but in the technical aspects of weapon handling and marksmanship, the use of the tools. Real fighting skills are acquired elsewhere, yes.
Working on open carry in Florida. A long way from perfect - still asking permission - but an incremental improvement. (Yo SMLE Fan! -Oh wait, I see you've already commented there, alrightythen. Carry on. So to speak.)
Joe Huffman has GlassesCam!!! ZOMG I'm'a start a treennnnndd!!!1!!elebenty!11!!
Something you don't see every day - observe this first photo:
So, that's a 586 and a 686, right? Nuh-uh:
How 'bout that?
Couple .58 repro rifle-muskets. Shooting buffalo off one's own front porch, in Wyoming, with a Big Damn Bullet, would be Teh Ultimate Awsumm After Which You Just Die Because Nothing Could Ever Be Awsummer. -One of the vendors related a tale about a Wyomingite photographed, with a stainless-steel arm of some kind, prepared to engage some meat-critter off his back porch, while in his hot tub. I'm not sure exactly how the conversation ended up there but at one point I and - now I can't remember if it was Yuri or Loyal Reader - were wondering how the buffalo got into the hot tub with the guy before he shot it.
You had to be there I guess.
(And then, disturbingly coincidental, there's this.)
But hey, you sorta kinda can be there! Cruffler related some Amusing Talestm, some of which, pending editing and permission, you should see soon. Next month I'm'a just set up the Canon A580 and let it run. Me 'n' Cruffler 'n' Loyal Reader could take that act on the road. Yuri, you oughta find a sitter and join in, spend the whole day at the show sometime.
AAAAAAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAAA!!!!!
Guess what!? The universe is crapping on me even more! Chase bank, formerly Washington Mutual, says that starting 5 February, they'll start charging a $10 monthly fee if I don't keep a minimum balance of five hundred dollars! ISN'T THAT HILARIOUS?!
So who's got recommendations for a free checking account in the Portland area? Not, mind you, that I have any idea how I'll raise even one hundred dollars to open a new account.
I have said, It's all connected. And it really is. From my particular viewing angle, the "Help Wanted" sign in the window also says "White Males Need Not Apply".
Obey the law, exercise a Constitutionally-guaranteed and -enumerated human right, and get "ordered to his knees at gunpoint by several police officers." Remember Erik Scott.
They hate us and want us to die. In their own words. And they wonder why we hate them. THERE IS NO JUSTICE. ONLY "LAW".
(Chatrom Elf Specter sez: "Regulations are the enemy of a free society. A regulation is a noose that through time gets slowly tightened around your neck.")
It's like I'm living in a damn occupied territory. Why aren't we shooting back?
Whatever happened to "Neutrality through Marksmanship"? (Ref.) Welcome to the club, Gustav. No, you are not allowed to unsubscribe from the mailing list.
Some moons ago I added Brigid's page to my daily trawl. Poetical. Also some quality photography. Until now I have neglected to add it to my links page.
Onnn second thought those gun show videos show other people's faces and I don't have their permission so I won't post them publicly. But there was some funny stuff there.
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT.
Nearing the end of Poul Anderson's Young Flandry, fifth of at least six Baen omnibus reissues. Damn good. If nothing else comes through I might re-read some Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth/The Menace From Earth. Oh, I have a bunch of ebooks....
WTF Baghdad Bryer? Does he actually expect anyone to genuinely fall for such utter and obvious bigotry? Tom Gresham was running a clip of the last bit on the show yesterday too - go listen and be stellar-fusion-like-enraged at the pure elemental condescension. (Condescensium! Scientific Discovery o' the Age! I should be a Fellow of the Royal Society!!) Naturally Codrea steps up to the plate, as do more gunbloggers than I have the gumption to link.
Again with Mexico, the hundred-year basket-case. Dig the photo - that Barrett 82 (and, I bet, near everything else on the table) likely came out of the Federales' own armory (and was likely paid for, at least in part, by Our Tax Dollars). It sure as hell didn't come from here.
Deep Profundity o' the Day: "...[T]hey want a conviction because the defendant has a case against THEM." No justice. Only "law".
"[Y]our odds of being killed by the police in Venezuela are approximately seventy times greater than in the United States." And folks, that's saying something. -Oh yeah, another serviceman - a Marine this time - tortured and murdered by cops. So that's three of the five armed branches, so far.... Come the Restoration, I know which side I'll be on.
And, "on top of everything else they're f...g liars".
Security Theatre, Chapter MMDCCXXXVI. Boycott all commercial transport. Drive, or find a private pilot going that way and make a deal.
"Remember -- every tool being used against the Muslims today will be used against those who resist the National Surveillance State." This came up in conversation with Yuri over burgers (and between squirrels) Saturday. He's all for hanging Julian Assange for Accessory-to-Treason-and-Mass-Murder(of outed agents), and I don't really have an objection to that... it's the precedents being set that make me itch for more rifle practice. We've seen plenty of examples, in past weeks, of cops and prosecutors and judges making stuff up as they go along - can we expect any better from the current Federal administration?
Remember the other day when I was predicting conveniently-timed federal-building-destruction? It's not much of a stretch - tinfoil hat no longer required - to imagine a "state of emergency" "requiring" "temporary" suspension of damn near every principle on which this nation was founded. That really could be what they mean by "October Surprise". Influence elections? Why bother influencing an election when you can just not have them anymore? Srsly they're already practicing.
I am living in occupied territory. And where the hell else can I go?
February 2011 issue of Guns is archived.
Loyal Reader points me at a very-local community bank with free checking and no minimums. I'll check it out tomorrow-like.
WHAT HE SAID. -That's like people who don't know how to read maps. How can you not read a map!? How can you not know how to handle the most basic and common firearms?
Dang, what's happening in Iowa? -Wait, Building on NRA’s “Constitutional Carry” successes in Alaska and Arizona... um... whose successes? Can ya back up that statement? -Not that I have any evidence to the contrary, I'm just automatically suspicious these days.
Eternal $tre$$....
I really don't go looking for stories about lying thieving murdering cops. They cannot be avoided. Like, I go to the local TV station's website to check a weather forecast and there's a link to a news item, right there in a sidebar on the weather page. I go read Jerry Pournelle's daybook, science-fiction author and former freakin' rocket scientist and Presidential science advisor Dr. Jerry Freakin' Pournelle, and even there I cannot avoid yet another story of what would be called premeditated #$%@ing MURDER if the cold-blooded psychotic murderers weren't wearing their @%$#ing BADGES. Based on the overwhelming amount of clearly- and irrefutably-documented evidence, the only logical conclusion is they're all like that. Any who aren't are converted, expelled, or destroyed.
Creepily-Coincidental Excerpt o' the Day, from Poul Anderson's The Rebel Worlds, 1969: "...[Y]ou can't dream how poisonous horrible 'tis, havin' secret police 'round, never knowin' when you can talk free...." Lemme tell ya the unsecret kind are plenty horrible poisonous all by themselves.
-I am informed, by a lady who knows, that it was not always thus; that the profession used to have honor. That time is past. Every time I see a cop or hear a siren, my hand twitches for a weapon. Because I know, because it's been proven, that they are the single greatest and most immediate danger to public safety in America today. I want to carry a gun to defend myself against cops.
ButWaitThere'sMore! Eerily-Coincidental News Items o' the Day! %@#$ing *@%#ity *@^#!!!!
Speaking of armed-robbery-in-uniform, I... don't even know how to snark this. Something about double-dipping? The cops are suing the taxpayers because the taxpayers didn't need cops? The Obamacare Method of Law EnFORCEment? "We're going to 'protect' you whether you like it or not"? W... T... Facepalm.
There is no justice.
Only "law".
The Quote o' the Day is the quoter's quote: "Sadly, the majority never remember how their legs got broken in the first place."
FREE BRIAN AITKEN.
Yesterday I discovered the new element Condescensium. Today it's pure concentrated Hypocrisium. I'd be emailing someone about where to deliver my Nobel Prize for Physics if Gore and Hussein and several other oxygen-thieves of the last few decades hadn't also made that a $*@!ing joke.
It's All Related: Robb Allen asks, "Should I die because I’m law abiding?" Evidently the answer is Yes.
"When private parties act using the force of the state, they become, IMO, legitimate military targets." Also see. The time to uncase the rifles was back in, like, 1934, not 1942. You see what I'm getting at? You see where we're headed?
GYAAAARRRGGHHH #@$%ing AAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH o' the Day: "And someday you'll be given a rifle by a government that thinks you're too stupid to be trusted with a twinkie." And we'll be making great progress on the Malabar Front!
Aaaand GOP breach of contract, Chapter MMDCCXXXVIII.
But despite all this unending worldsuckage: Humanity remains *&@#in' awesome.
Once in a very great while there is a tiny little bit of justice. (But even so: "It was reported that a couple of police officers were in the gym at Glacier Gateway Elementary, where the meeting was held. Why? Did they expect the good citizens of Montana to be as irrational as the Zero Tolerance philosophy they came to challenge?")
I have not put my URL, or a watermark, on this one. I cast it into the electronic sea, to drift on the currents of modern-day sedition and wash ashore in the most infuriating places possible. (That means it's public domain. Please do splatter it all over the intarwebz. Tack a few up in your local post office mebbe.)
Oh, and speaking of public domain, remember a while back how the Federal Bureau of Incineration was trying to get people to stop using the Official Feeb Seal? Hey HomeSec: Up yours. Hard.
Heeeeyyyy, I'm on a roll! Dig your daily dose of lèse majesté!
Fusion Rockets and Powered Exoskeletons. Working on 'em.
Yyyyep I started a trend. Me! I did! ;)
-Dang, Firefox is doing it too. Must be Cricket being teh suxxors. Can't find a relevant setting anywhere, and I don't recall this happening when I first got it - I've had Cricket near two years now. This... thing... started a few months ago I think.
Read the Bill of RightsAnd pay particular attention to the Preamble.
TJIC also weighs in on the latest first-degree-murder-with-a-badge.
To quote the Comedian, "It's all a ^#%$in' joke."
Speaking of #@$!in' jokes, meanwhile in the drug war.
Aaaannd meanwhile in government school.
"That's exactly the kind of abuse of power our Constitution was written to forbid." One may think the news of ObamaCare being ruled unConstitutional belongs in Lighter News... but the fact that they not only conceived of it, drafted it, lobbied for it, but actually passed it into "law", without getting strung up en masse from the nearest lamppost, illustrates just how far this nation has fallen.
My point is further, and more succinctly, illustrated here.
Permits are infringement. The law is wrong. All who demand a citizen ask permission to defend his own life, all who enforce "laws" requiring that permission, are accessories to murder.
When they're not committing aforementioned murder their very own selves.
However, viewed from another angle, one can call it evolution in action. (With apologies to a couple of my favorite authors who have expressed regret for coining the phrase but it is such an awesome one.) I sure don't want the members of that school board polluting my gene pool.
As for the shooter: Yeah that's not surprising. Who's violent? Who's projecting?
You know what this news item reminds me of? It reminds me that in the summer of '41, trainloads of raw materials - ore, lumber, etc. - were still going west, while the Wehrmacht was marching east. I'm trying to think of a meme, like NRAWOL - how about NSSFAIL? -Dang, I'm'a go post that in comments. -Yah Kurt Hoffman's comment meshes seamlessly.
...Yeah we know who's racist. Chapter MMDCCXXXIX.
I did this. Have you?
Food for thought.
I watched The Patriot again the other night. Now I feel like watching Johnny Tremain again.
Dang, I wish I could afford some rifle practice....
Endless cursed $tre$$....
Remember Badger Guns? (Remember Red's Trading Post?) Making it up as they go along, Chapter MMDCCXL.
No, really. Utter fabrication.
I repeat, There Is No Justice.
There's not even "law".
But there sure is a lot of utterly unfathomable stupidity. Surely someone has added Stupidium to the Periodic Table by now? Or do I get a third shot at the Physics Nobel?
Clear and present danger to public safety.
Proof? Random assault and battery, and more yet on random unprovoked murder. Cops are more dangerous than what they claim to be protecting us from.
Meanwhile in government school. That's your children "lining up to be a hot lunch", under orders from your own tax-paid employees.
I'm not sure which side of the line to put this on: "You know, a North Korean nuke mounted on an Iranian missile launched from a Venezuelan freighter might not be such a bad thing." Since a Giant Flaming Meteor Incinerating the National Cesspit is astronomically unlikely, I'll take what I can get....
But yeah, it belongs in the suckage, because while we're eyeing the horizon for the Venezuelan Missile Crisis, the Commander in Freakin' Chief of the Primary Target is chumming it up with that very same mass-murderous dictator.
And I still ain't got no cursed job.
Pants-Soiling-Hysterics in 3, 2, 1....
"I don’t think I can adequately express what a big deal this is." ...Though, some underpaid tech-support dude in the cubefarm, hearing a voice in the headset saying "I am da law", is likely to cough up yer personals without due process anyway....
No, the other Warsaw Uprising. This was worth the bandwidth.
...Though the Cricket image-quality-reduction thing is also affecting videos through Firefox' DownloadHelper. Dammit.
I'm not outlining or plotting any of this stuff - well mostly not. I have several scrap files hotkeyed, set before, during or after the current segment, and old stuff I wrote a decade and more ago, set centuries further back, for historical background - a passing reference in the Supplemental Material becomes a full-fledged world and culture, often as not not the one I had in mind when I first typed it.
Anyway I am not, at least not yet, a productive- or disciplined-enough writer to have any realistic hope of making any money off it. "It's not art 'til it sells" - and what I have here is, at present, incomplete and unsalable.
...But, oh, the images in my head....
From the lists, Eerie Prescience o' the Day: "Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society." - Aristotle
One thing I like about the film Braveheart is, when they loose the volleys of arrows, they don't say "fire". Because that would be WRONG. I hate it when books or movies do that.
Dinner with friends tonight, got back late.
AAAAAAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAAHAAAHH!!! Rent INCREASE! Because THAT'S HOW MY WORLD WORKS!
And then before I even post that a member of the morally-superior gun culture makes another shockingly-large donation.
(That, as usual, is from PayPal, which, politics aside, is working. I also have another donation inbound (from the 11th) through GPal - my second ever with that service. The first one worked as well as PayPal ever has, but that was months before the current talk of GPal's questionability. GPal's site says they sent it to the bank but the bank isn't showing it yet. Maybe it'll percolate through over the weekend....)
The servants have forgotten their place. Again. They're going to have to be put back into it.
It would be simpler, and vastly less expensive, to just fire the parasites and not *!#%ing have them anymore....
Back here I warned against a "state of emergency" "requiring" "temporary" suspension of damn near every principle on which this nation was founded. And now we have this. *thunk-thunk* IS THIS THING ON?! Private sales. Pay cash. Don't ask. Don't tell.
(Or this would work too. For example.)
All TSA agents should be set on fire. Watch them dance. Hear them sing.
(And don't stop with the blue gloved perverts. Work your way up, too.)
Us vs. Them. And Us didn't start it.
It's not about "safety".
I'm not the only gunblogger who reads Jerry Pournelle. Meaning either his books or his 'blog. "Apparently his first notification that the police were present was to be shot dead." How is this different from living in occupied territory under the capricious rule of foreign invaders? Only in degree, not in kind. Any citizen, anywhere, anytime, innocently going about their private business, even in a private home, can be randomly assaulted, robbed, and/or murdered by the very people supposedly sworn to "protect and serve" them. And more often than not, the thieves and murderers get medals and promotions.
Yeah we know who's racist. Chapter MMDCCXLII.
Fellow travelers of the ones who hate us and want us to die, that's who.
No one will save you but you.
Dead White Guy o' the Day. Smart guys those Founders.
Unarmed parents are bad parents.
Yesterday was the anniversary of Kitty Hawk. -Which reminds me, again, of the FAA subplot in Unintended Consequences. Every real instance of human progress has been made without government permission, and if that permission were required, the progress would not have happened. -What's that you say? [sneer] "What about the Apollo program?" [encore l'sneer] I got three words: Robert. #$@!ing. Goddard. In his own ^*#$ing back yard.
Speaking of space, searching for habitable exoplanets? Working on it.
You may have noticed that this site, and SMLE Fan's, both of which are subdomains of Yuri's, were all down for a while. SMLE Fan sez someone smeared peanut butter on the intertubes and the squirrelz eated it; in email Yuri said it would be back up soon, and it was.
Codrea has more on the capricious rule of foreign invaders arbitrary violation of human rights by BATFE.
Thieves with badges. Chapter MMDCCLXIII.
Finished Young Flandry, will be getting the next volume in time. Meanwhile, starting 1933 by Philip Metcalfe, an historical work - I don't think it can be called a novel, quite - of the early days of National Socialism. -Like I said the other day, the time to uncase the rifles is in 1934, not 1942. Pay attention dammit.
Always-rising $tre$$....
It's all a game. And we're the pieces.
Australia sucks. And so does no-longer-great Britain.
It's never been about "safety".
And it's not just about guns.
Bandwidth aside, I don't have the stomach to watch videos of jack-booted psychopathic thugs murdering innocent citizens.
Nor videos of quota-hired incompetents committing negligent near-homicide, neither.
And I'm getting damn tired of reading about random unprovoked murder of beloved family pets, too. They like to inflict suffering. That's why they become cops.
And then come news items like this. All cops, everywhere, are immediate dangers to your life, limb and liberty. If you can't avoid them, be prepared to take as many of them with you as possible. They're going to murder you anyway. You have nothing left to lose.
Quote o' the Day: "[T]he magic fairy dust of government authority".
I could make a checklist: Steps on the road to pyramids of skulls.
Back here I warned against the precedents being set. Look! In the road ahead! Is that... a pyramid? Made of skulls?
Why yes! Yes it is!
The time to uncase the rifles is now, before we get to cattle cars and ovens and Holocaust Museums. But no one has ever done it. Every time, when the prerequisites to genocide are introduced, "it seemed like a good idea at the time."
Every time.
Nuh-uh.
Oh wait! Breaking news!
I'm also cocking eyebrows at the typos in the official statement....
$tre$$....
The GPal thing has not come through.
Unarmed parents are bad parents. (Bearing in mind the definition of "armed".) And some people want all parents to be bad parents. Why don't they want you to be able to defend your children?
Other end of the stick - just yesterday I was talking about things that seemed like a good idea at the time. Beware unintended consequences. All power corrupts. All "laws" will be abused, however pure the intentions.
Speaking of good intentions - aw heck we know it's not about the environment, it's about power. Now your own government is telling you that your own SUV is more of a danger to public safety than the maniacs who delcare in so many words that they hate you and want you to die. And using that as an excuse to serially molest your aforementioned children. The bizarre, it defies the snark.
Speaking of the environment, this reminds me that in the novel Fallen Angels (which is available in its entirety free online, cowritten by Eee-vil Heretical Denier Jerry Pournelle whom I read every single day and so should you), the Greens rammed their Gaia-worshipping into law ("law") and caused a frickin' ice age.
Speaking of bizarre, meanwhile in government school. Words. Fail.
Fourth Amendment repealed, Film Indoctrination at 11. Why are we not hanging these people?
And the First Amendment too. How long until I'm ordered to remove this as "hate speech"?
Speaking of the magic fairy dust of government permission.
"[T]wo weeks after you brought the product to market, it’d be illegal." "Protect and Serve" who?
Codrea has two columns on Brian Aitken being freed from New Jersey's Kafka-esque totalitarianism and getting ready to sue the bastards homeless. Further reactions and analysis from all around the 'blogo-sphere. -What needs to be done here, and I didn't invent this idea, is not to sue the department, or the city, or the state, meaning the taxpayers who get robbed-at-badgepoint-even-more to make up the loss, but the individual officers and their bosses and maybe the sponsors of the legislation under which Aitken was wrongly robbed and abducted - PERSONALLY.
But there is no justice, only "law"....
More Guns, Less Crime, Chapter MMDCCXLV. -Now if we could only get Workman past his silly hangup of groveling for the magic fairy dust of government authority....
Speaking of fairy dust - so to speak - I'm not getting too excited about DADT being repealed; I'm sure it will sort itself out, by Darwin's method if no other way. And there is a lighter side.
The other day I was contemplating writing methods. $uccessful author Larry Correia is bookmarkworthy.
Emailed GPal through their support page. Got screenshots of the transaction details. According to them, it's been sent to my bank.
"When your country's air travel compares unfavorably to the USSR, it just may be a cause for concern." Ya think? Remember, folks: Stalin killed more Soviets than Hitler. [reaching through intertubes, grabbing 308.7 million Americans by their collars, shaking vigorously] CAN'T YOU SEE WHERE WE'RE HEADED!??!!?
It's all connected. This is not the start of an American Holodomor, but anyone who's ever read a history book should be able to see it from here.
Not that we'll be allowed to talk about it: WoG regular and RJ reader Michael G sends more on Net Neutrality. Also see Michelle Malkin.
They hate us and want us to die, Chapter MMDCCtoodamnmany.
I'm not religious. But this ticks me off.
What else can you call this but brainwashing?
Who's a threat to public safety? The very same people who can't stand the idea of you being able to defend yourself.
...Makes me wonder what the Philly Strangler does for a day job....
As if we didn't have enough internal threats....
Yes, the TRGG domains are down-ish again. It'll sort in time. (Loyal Reader suggests it might be the squirrel he's been hunting in his attic for the past few months....)
More on Brian Aitken.
What do I want for Christmas? A Constitutional republic. -And a winning lottery ticket, that would be lovely. But a jetpack with Gatlings would be just fine thankyewverramuch.
The Authorized Journalists just can't give up on the guns-to-Mexico lie. Or any of their other exposed-for-decades lies.
Pournelle dissects government schools. I thought they were bad when I dropped out thirty years ago.
But every day, they're getting even worse. We're going to need more rope.
Speaking of official government child abuse....
So much for that "due process" thingy. Do you understand?
It's All Connected, Chapter MMDCCXLVII. It's not about "safety". Related Quote o' the Day: "Stupid people hate it when you point out that they’re stupid." And there are so very many stupid people in positions of power....
Meanwhile on campus. Blood on whose hands?
More on Net Neutrality. It's sure not about our freedom of speech or access to information.
SMLE Fan (thanks for the bleg!) provides links to something I heard about on the radio the other day. If I was a millionaire I'd be getting the eff out of Oregon as fast as my shiny new SUV could carry me.
Or heck, if I was even a thousandaire in a beat-up old Toyota.
When was the last time I had a whole thousand dollars all at the same time...?
Something has always bothered me about the lack of a disconnect between military and police. It's been said, "the phrase 'militarization of police' is an insult to the military". Why do so many oath keepers think the only thing they can do with their lives after the military is to be come oath breakers?
Never trust a cop of any kind. They're all like that. And that's why they hate having their picture taken.
Re: the intermittent TRGG outages, Yuri sends this test site, while SMLE Fan comments: It's Christmas week and all the kids are home, playing on Teh Intarw3bz. Since this has never happened before, the various and sundry ISP's were taken by surprise. This is why hanging is better than firing squads: the rope can be reused after we get done with Congress.
In the Brian Aitken case, the judge has been fired. Not from a cannon, alas....
Speaking of DADT, once in a while I read a history book, often grabbed randomly off the library shelf 'cause it's about a period I feel I should know more about. In this reading it has become clear to me that of all the branches of the United States military, the Marine Corps has always been first to pull the republic's fat out of the fire, first to adopt and usually invent new and superior methods for accomplishing their mission, first to clean their own house, and first to understand and find realistic solutions to new problems.
Meanwhile in BATFE. Why even bother with the "legal" process anymore?
"We cross a line when the federal government starts keeping tabs on citizens who are exercising their Constitutional rights in a completely legal manner." Never mind nitpicking about when the line was crossed - all the way back to the Whiskey Rebellion - it has been crossed.
There is no Christmas Truce in the war against liberty. What are we going to do about it?
So much for the administration being "open and transparent": "I'm surprised they didn't at least kill his dog." Suppressed video available here.
Hey now, my videos don't break the Four Rules.
Star Wars Holiday Special! :D
My holiday depression isn't caused by the holidays, or some chemical imbalance. It's caused by the realization that this once-great nation is in rapid decline and no one cares:
It's just a game....
Radio news: "Obama condemns terrorist attack in Pakistan." -Does he know we didn't do it?
*#$! MSM and #%^! Mexico. Nuke the Border.
(...Yeah that's a new sticker.)
No, really. *#@! MSM. ^%$# 'em and set 'em on fire. (Via Michael G.)
The government thinks I'm a terrorist. Then I guess I will be. (And that's another new sticker.) (The really enraging part is, that "freedom of speech thingy" can literally get you killed these days.)
"For the economics of Obamacare to work, old people have to die". I grow weary of repetition: government "health" "care" is not about "health" or "care". All the way back to Caveman Ug declaring himself chief and taking an antelope femur to the head of anyone who didn't bow and scrape to him, government has never been about anything but government.
Now think about what kind of people WANT that kind of work.
American civics quiz. Via GR4U. I got 90.91%, missing three of the economics questions.
OMG PR0N. (Via)
Moar $tre$$....
Beware the government-media complex.
Their minds don't work right. They really, really don't.
It is long past time to privatize spaceflight.
Outrages o' the Day:
Meanwhile in the service (click through): "Our defeats are less a product of what our enemy does to us than of what we do to ourselves."
Speaking of what we do to ourselves, black-market lightbulbs.
And who will come to "save" us?
Random Awesome o' the Day: View this comic. Then go read this book. -And this movie didn't suck neither.
I think... yes. That is actually drool. On my keyboard.
Endless $tre$$.... GPal still hasn't come through, or even responded.
Why does anyone pay attention anymore to anything MSM says? They've been debunked so many times it's astounding how they keep coming up with more -bunk to de-.
Speaking of debunking, microstamping again.
More analysis on the Aitken case and Christie's motivations. Can't trust none of 'em.
The rule of law is dead. Dead and buried. And that sword is double-edged.
"Killing ourselves from within". Yes, you can probably expect fascism at shopping malls soon.
Prohibition always fails. No matter what's being prohibited.
The two-party system explained.
Aaron Zelman, champion of liberty: Rest in Peace.
New feature, a redirect link which will take you directly to the latest entry. Bookmark this URL for convenience. (The way this site is structured I have to update that .HTML file at the beginning of every month.)
Metcalfe's 1933... ain't John Ringo. Nor David Hackett Fischer neither. Not sucking, but the library coughed up Sarah Hoyt's Darkship Thieves, recently favorably reviewed by a couple-few gunbloggers including Correia, so that's what I'll be reading now.
Often I have comtemplated that nuking DC into fiery oblivion would be a great and good thing for the health of the nation. SMLE Fan objects, citing the loss of the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian and so on. Today I helped a Vietnam veteran friend move, during which we conversed on many topics, and this evening he emailed: "If you want to prune the government without destroying the buildings, use neutron bombs." D'oh!
Hate... cities... so... much....
More blatant lies from MSM.
They hate the Constitution and want it to die.
Meanwhile at BATFE.
Meanwhile in the religion of peace. Got "tolerance"?
Related: "Danish secret police arrested a group planning a Mumbai style attack on a Danish newspaper office to avenge the five year old insult of publishing cartoons of Muhammad. Perhaps the Danes can retaliate by strip searching everyone in Copenhagen including little girls and grandmothers." See also, above that, his warning about Weimar-style inflation. And we know what that led to.
Meanwhile on the border, a tale of two cities.
The new edition of the Newspeak Dictionary is in the works. Don't? You? See? Where? We're? Headed?
Us vs. Them, Chapter MMDCCLIV. I swear, if I saw a cop on fire I would walk to the corner market for a bag of marshmallows. Because that's the kind of people they are.
Meanwhile in New York: Your Tax Dollars At Work.
Yyyeah boycott Walmart.
More on Aaron Zelman's passing from all around the web, such as WND, JJH, WRSA.
SMLE Fan fisk-snarks the Ruger Scout Rifle.
Yuri reports a tiny bit of justice. (-Though I'm frankly surprised the citizen wasn't beaten, robbed, and/or murdered in retaliation. ...Better to just shoot on sight, I think. Like they do to us. One doesn't try to reason with rabid dogs....)
The new Wisconsin Gun Owners newsletter, featuring art by Scott Bieser, is available for download. I subscribed to WGO's email list a couple moons ago, on principle. They are also working on Constitutional carry, or a real-world facsimile thereof.
Alan Gura is busy in Maryland.
Baby steps in Ohio.
With Codrea on well-deserved holiday break, WoG regular Michael G. sends, from 2nd-generation champion of liberty Jeff Knox, re: holiday or any other time of travel: "Anything that makes it impossible or difficult to exercise a right is a violation of that right." The law is wrong. Those who enforce such laws are the real criminals.
Not that I'm going anywhere or doing anything for New Year's. With news reports of "increased enforcement" and "additional patrols", it's not safe out there.
By which I mean: Yesterday Yuri posted video of a citizen risking life, limb and liberty to actually challenge a criminal-with-a-badge. More data in comments here, where others also consider the clear-and-present deadly danger Those People pose to innocent citizens.
Because that's the kind of people they are.
Meanwhile in the Warmist Cult. "...[I]ncreasing petulance among the Believers." And it's cold at the hovel too. Where the roof is the only part of the place that doesn't leak.
Speaking of tolerance....
Also speaking of tolerance, on my bumper sticker page I keep a particular one on top. Victor Davis Hanson gets out his carving knives for an ivory-tower pacifist.
Sgt. Schlock asks The Eternal Question.
This post reminds me to post a comment from an Ohio reader about what I referred to yesterday as baby steps:
We first got CCW in 2004. Several cities tried to hose it up and we got rid of some of the worst stuff in the law AND got preemption as a bonus as the Senators and Representatives got tired of the cities "pissing in he swimming pool and acting like nothing was happening".
That is the same one that they over-rode and packed up Gov. Boob Shaft's (Robert Taft, who is NOT going to ride the Ohio governor's job into the White House like some of his distant relatives did) ass in about 8 days, after he vetoed it. True concealed carry in vehicles, preemption to knock cities back from trying to enforce tighter laws and a couple of other changes.
This knocks back ALL of the "home rule" stuff by knocking back the biggest and supposedly most powerful of the cities. Took just over four years from being passed to cities taking umbrage at it, filing suits and it working up the chain to the Ohio Supremes.
BTW, there was still some shyster or maybe publicity flack that was yelling "We are going to appeal" after the ruling was announced. Never mind that they have gone as far as they can, since it is matter of state law, it is NOT subject to jurisdiction of the US Supremes. So, where are they going to go, to the World Court like Dailey tried in Chicago? Even Cleveland (AKA "The Mistake on the Lake") knows better than that.
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