Absolved Day.

Sorry, maybe more later. I have to go back to the hospital on Thursday to get my stent removed from my esophagus (and another try at plugging my hole in it). Trying to get as much done before then.

David Codrea: Speculation on Holder replacement puts Deval Patrick on short list

Obama, of course, knows all this. It's why names like these would be foremost in his considerations and reflects that new-found "flexibility" he perceives is his as the restrictions that have always been his goal emerge from "under the radar." He's counting on a supportive media and an establishment Republican leadership that time and again through the years has equated appeasement with pragmatism. He's counting on an attorney general that will help him push whatever he wants through the courts and he's counting on Supreme Court replacements that will let him get away with it.

Praxis: If any of you newbies on a budget don't have a 12 Gauge . . .

Just received this email notification from a long-time reader:

Walmart has posted their Black Friday sale and they included this Savage 12-Gauge at only 169 dollars. Not all stores will carry this. (I checked.)

I expect a back-order sellout.

And yes, I know it's made in the PRC, but then so is my daughter's pre-ban Kalashnikov and my other daughter's SKS. The Zombies won't care where it came from.

Here's a review from American Rifleman.

A shotgun that can do it all at a price that nearly everyone can afford, the Stevens 320 pump-action was designed for versatility and affordability. Available in two base models and eight total configurations, the 320 platform has variants that can fill all traditional shotgun roles, from tactical to hunting. Imported by Savage Arms from China, the Stevens’ design is inspired by the Winchester 1300, ensuring simple, reliable functionality. Priced below the $300 mark, the new offering should appeal to armed citizens and sportsmen alike.

The 320 line is comprised of Security and Field models. All the shotguns in the line are 12-gauge pump-actions with 3-inch chambers and side ejection, differing only in barrel length, stock design and sight configuration. The Security line variations have an 18 1/2-inch barrel and can be equipped with a pistol grip stock. Stevens 320s with the pistol grip are available with ghost-ring sights, bead sights or bead sights with a top rail and heat shield. Security models without the pistol grip feature either ghost-ring, bead or rifle-style sights. Field models use a 28-inch barrel with a ventilated rib and front bead sight. The final version is a Field/Security combo that comes with interchangeable 18 1/2- and 28-inch barrels, both with bead sights, and a standard stock. For our evaluation we tested the Stevens 320 Field model.

Upon initial inspection it is clear that the Stevens 320 was designed for utility; no frills here. The steel barrel and receiver are finished in matte black, and the polymer stock and fore-end are also black. The lines, as stated before, are nearly identical to the Winchester 1300 pump-action, in fact the most obvious design difference is that instead of checkering the grip, the 320 has straight-line grooves molded into the stock for purchase. The brass bead sight was easy to see when looking down the ventilated rib, and the shotgun pointed well and naturally. At the shoulder, this is not the lightest gun, but at 7 pounds, 11 ounces, it is not the heaviest, either. The overall length is just less than 49 inches, and the length of pull was 13 3/4 inches—certainly within the average range, but there is no means for adjustment. The semi-pistol grip stock is of standard specifications with a 1 3/4-inch drop at comb, and a 2 1/2-inch drop at heel. The hard rubber recoil pad, while serviceable, does not encourage long days spent breaking clays.

We found the Stevens 320 to have a surprisingly smooth action and tight lockup, achieved by a four-lug rotary bolt engaging the barrel extension. The pump-action is aided by the dual-bar slide arm assembly. The trigger assembly features an external safety button at the trigger guard’s front and a slide lock release button just to the rear and on the left side. The trigger is not adjustable and required a firm 6-pound, 11-ounce pull. The 3-inch chamber will accept either 2 3/4 or 3 inch 12-gauge shells, and the magazine will hold up to four shells, though a plug is provided in order to limit capacity to two. Disassembly is uncomplicated: Unscrew the magazine cap, allowing the barrel to slide forward and off the slide arm; tap out the single trigger guard pin—located just above the trigger—in order to remove the trigger assembly; and remove the slide arm and bolt assembly.

For evaluation we used Federal Ammunition’s 12-gauge, 2 3/4, 1-ounce Game-Shok with No. 6 shot. Over an RCBS AmmoMaster chronograph at 5 feet, the load yielded an average velocity of 1,312 fps with a standard deviation of 19. For patterning, 10 shots were fired at a target 40 yards distant. The shotgun proved quite capable, averaging a 71 percent hit-ratio within a 30-inch circle and 48 percent in the smaller 21-inch inner ring.

Technical evaluation complete, we tested the Stevens against some hand-thrown clay targets and a veritable hodgepodge of 2 3/4-inch, 12-gauge ammunition. Confirming our initial impressions, the 320 swung well and pointed true. It was not picky regarding ammunition, and we experienced no failures to fire in any part of the testing. A few birds were lost, however, due to improper feed or failure to eject. In these cases, the spent hull either was not ejected or, after being ejected the next round did not fully chamber. A little investigation revealed a solution that would remedy those and similar problems encountered with many economy priced pump-actions—elbow grease. This is not a shotgun to be handled lightly, in fact, within the limits of safety; the harder the better. A firm and energetic motion is required to reliably cycle the action and avoid the frustration that comes from watching bright orange saucers land, unbroken, in the field.

There should be no doubt that the Stevens 320 pump-action shotgun is purpose-built and priced to sell. With configurations intended for security and sport, shooters of all kinds will find a place in their safes for this gun. But don’t expect it to stay there long, as a shotgun as rugged as this will be on the frontlines, doing the dirty work where you wouldn’t think of using a prettier gun.

Importer: Stevens, Savage; (413) 568-7001; www.savagearms.com

Action Type: pump-action shotgun

Gauge: 12, 3"

Trigger: single-action; 6-lb. 11-oz. pull

Barrel: 28"; interchangeable choke tubes (modified included)

Sights: ventilated rib with brass front bead

Stock: Polymer; length of pull: 13¾"; drop at comb: 1¾"; drop at heel: 2½"

Magazine: four-round capacity, includes magazine plug

Overall Length: 48¾"

Weight: 7 lbs., 11 ozs

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Accessories: owner’s manual

Suggested Retail Price: $235 to $260 (depending on configuration)

Blaming the messenger while the neo-Nazi and Klan leadership chortles.

White Aryan Resistance leader Dennis Mahon.

Brent J. Budowsky takes Matt Drudge to task, "Dear Matt Drudge: Stop the race stories."

Budowsky is a former Democrat congressional hack/staffer and political opinion writer and blogger for publications including The Hill, the LA Progressive, and The Huffington Post. He writes Drudge:

Am I suggesting you are giving aid and comfort to those who are racist, or those who play the politics of race for partisan gain? Absolutely. You bet. A visit to the Drudge Report at any given time in recent months bears witness to story after story, time and time again, day after day, week after week, month after month, of a laundry list of stories with racial innuendo and suggestion and implication that I would like to believe are below the standards you would set for yourself and your profession.

I guess he's talking about stories like this and especially similar stories that make up Colin Flaherty's book "White Girl Bleed a Lot": The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it.

Presumably Budowsky finds books describing the unapologetic anti-white racist behavior of the Holder "Justice" Department such as Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department by J. Christian Adams objectionable too.

Now, place that into the context of the Democrat triumphalism about how "angry white men" are now going to be permanently disenfranchised by the new coalition of blacks and Latinos -- that 2012 was their last chance to use politics to impose their "racial patriarchy" on all those "people of color" and the LGTB folks.

If the statistics show that there is one heckuva lot more racially motivated attacks by blacks on whites (and they do), and that local, state and federal authorities are reluctant to bring those attackers to justice because it is not politically correct (see current Flaherty WND link above) AND that people like Budowsky are trying to get others to shut up about it -- essentially, to cover it all up -- then you've got a perfect petri dish for ethnic cleansing in this country. Did you think there was some sort of house rule against it? Why it is already happening in Los Angeles, with Latino gangs murdering blacks and driving them out of neighborhoods.

Back in the 90s, I was talking on the telephone to White Aryan Resistance leader Dennis Mahon, who was trying to convince me how easy it would be to start a race war in this country, "We'll just go into white working class neighborhoods in blackface and do drive-bys, then we'll clean it off and go into black neighborhoods and do the same thing." Mahon, who sits today in a federal prison, was convinced his plan would work. I didn't think so back then. Now, after 20 more years of PC and anti-white racism, especially after 4 years of the Holder regime, I think his plan just might work.

My sources say that the folks who are most tickled pink about the re-election of Obama are not Democrats but the intellectual leadership of the neo-Nazi and Klan organizations. They believe that four more years of Obama should give them the right conditions to enact ethnic cleansing.

If there is a confluence of a rising tide of racial violence from blacks and Latinos against white folks, and a deliberate refusal of the "legal authorities" to deal with it combined with a very real sense of complete political disenfranchisement, then some white folks -- prodded by the Klan and neo-Nazis -- may decide to settle the next election by driving out that part of the electorate beforehand. It has happened before in this country.

(See, among others, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War or Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America by Elliot Jaspin.)

My own history of fighting against the Klan and neo-Nazis as part of the Constitutional militia movement is a matter of record. (See also To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face: Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement by Professor Robert H. Churchill.)

But the titanic forces that the racists of all colors want to unleash and that politically-correct Democrat party hacks like Budowsky want to cover up despite the plain reality that everyone understands will sweep all the best intentions away as everyone begins to believe that people of a different color who are trying to kill them must themselves be killed in "preemptive self-defense."

And, somewhere, Dennis Mahon will be laughing.

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters On Petraeus

"Timing Is Just Too Perfect"

Kurt Hofmann's latest.

Post-election guns and ammo panic buying spree has begun: There is a better way

Governor Christie is pissed at the media for his own mistake of pissing away his 2016 ambitions.

Gov. Christie Lashes Out At Media

Allen West Seeks Recount Amid Growing Vote Count Scandal

On election night incumbent Republican Allen West had maintained a district-wide lead of nearly 2000 votes until St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker inexplicably “recounted” thousands of early ballots, resulting in 4,400 vote shift to the challenger. Observers on the scene say the process is biased and the election results are fatally compromised. Mr. West is asking a court to impound the ballots and order a recount.

David Codrea: Stolen gun report a sign of things to come from Obama’s second term

A report released yesterday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in Washington claims “About 1.4 million firearms were stolen during household burglaries and other property crimes over the six-year period from 2005 through 2010.

Praxis: Military Bike Bags

ALICE Packs as bike panniers.

Easier to quit over a failure to keep your dick in your pants than it is to admit criminal complicity in the Benghazi affair.

David Petraeus resigns as CIA director. I haven't had much for him since he sold his soul to Obama.

Pat Buchanan asks, Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard?

Where GOP politicians are grown.

I hope so. But shouldn't it read "boneless yard"? They don't have a spine among them.

David Codrea: Feinstein rumored to be pushing semi-auto ban if Obama reelected

I love it. This ought to ensure massive resistance.

David reports Feinstein plans on:

- - No pistol grip allowed

- - No HC Mags

- - No grandfathering

- - No sale permissible if in possession

Go for it, collectivist bitch.

David Codrea: Obama victory diminishes chances to determine whole Fast and Furious truth

Well, we bought two years delay with it, anyway. I hope y'all used it wisely.

Oh my aching ass.

Having blocked voter ID laws and successfully covered up the Fast and Furious scandal, Holder mulls whether to continue second term in Obama administration.

But don't celebrate yet, because another F&F co-conspirator is slated for the post: Napolitano floated for attorney general.

Another Absolved day.

Sorry. May have some posts later tonight.

This tells you all you need to know about trusting the federal government to take care of your ass in a disaster.

That didn't take long, either. Old Yellowstain folds on higher taxes.

Boehner Extends Olive Branch on 'Fiscal Cliff'

From John Richardson: It Begins.

It looks like the Obama Administration with their new found "mandate" isn't going to wait until the second term actually begins to start work on more gun control.

U.N. delegates and gun control activists have complained that negotiations collapsed in July largely because Obama feared attacks from Republican rival Mitt Romney if his administration was seen as supporting the pact, a charge the United States denies.

One thing should be clear to everybody, if it wasn't before.

If you are a Christian, an observant Jew, a "conservative," a libertarian, a firearm owner, a veteran, a businessman -- you are all now officially a despised -- if not yet hunted -- minority in your own country. The lawbreakers, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, et. al., now define what is "legal" and can no longer be restrained by politics. (What are all you Prags going to do with your great Heller "victory" when Obama has two or three more Supremes?)

More tomorrow. But for now, stock up on ammunition. You're likely going to need it to defend your lives and liberty and it will only get more expensive from here on.