Hey, if gangbangers can sport ballcaps, why not the Pope?

Of course its white. What other color would it be?

Restore the Constitution Rallies: North Carolina and New Mexico, 14 August 2010. Help spread the word.

I will be speaking at the NC rally. Hope to see you there.



From the NC RTC rally official website

RTC Eastern Rally -- 14 August -- Greensboro, NC

Details:

Time: August 14, 2010 from 1pm to 4pm
Location: Guilford Courthouse Battleground Park
Street: 2331 New Garden Rd
City/Town: Greensboro, NC

Speakers at this rally include:

1. Mike Vanderboegh (Alleged leader of a merry band of Three Percenters)

2. Daniel Almond (Organizer of the Original Restore The Constitution rally)

3. Dr. Ida Fisher(National Spokeswoman for the Conservative Republican Party)

4. Taylor Ruble (from NC Rangers)

5. John Ainsworth (Civil War and Constitutional historian)

6. Ron Woodard (NC Listen)

7. David DeGerolamo (Founder of NC Freedom)

8. Bubba from the blog “What Bubba Knows”

9. Laura Long from “Triangle Conservative Unite”

10. Dr Dan (from the mountains in NC and has his owm TV show)

11. Dr BJ Lawson (running for Congress)

12. Rick Smith (Former Marine and running for NC State Senate)

13. Bill Randall (running for Congress)

14. June Griffin (running for Governor of Tennessee)

RSVP for RTC 8-14 North Carolina on Facebook

Official flyer for NC RTC rally.

RandysRight, blog site of one of the key organizers of the NC RTC rally.



NM RTC rally official website

RTC blog site with various "Restore the Constitution/ Restore the Rule of Law" related updates.

Daniel Almond's recent interview on Freedomizer radio talking about RTC rallies.

Barney Frank throws hissy fit on ferry dock -- over his inability to qualify for a dollar discount.

Grumpy Barney.

The New York Post reports:

Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island's popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday. Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn't have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID.



A witness reports, "Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation." Frank made news last year when he was spotted looking uncomfortable around a bevy of topless, well-built men at the Pines Annual Ascension Beach Party. Frank's spokesperson confirmed to Page Six that his partner, James Ready, asked the ticket office for a regular ticket for himself and a senior ticket for Frank, "but was turned down because Frank didn't have a resident ID."

Fire Island Tourist Poster.

Left-collectivist vandalism. Why is no one like Rachel Madcow hyperventilating about this?

Activists disable some London BP petrol stations. Say, where does the ATF buy its gas?

Extraterrestrial Window War? Man hit by six meteorites is being 'targeted by aliens'

You know, if you put this in a novel it would be rejected as too preposterous.

And since we were talking about gangs . . .

"Rep Yo Set: The 10 Most Gang-Affiliated Hats in Sports."

Knowledge of OPFOR is always a goodness thing.

Raids are increasing on farms and private food-supply clubs.

Also courtesy of John Robb, Tips for surviving a food co-op raid.

This reflects a growing trend and does not seem to be related to actual food safety issues as much as licensing and control beefs by the PTB. You know, one day the food nazis might just end up getting shot over somebody's right to produce small amounts of goat cheese. It would serve them right.

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty Fed!"

The Tribal Rules of the Latin Kings Gang

Courtesy of John Robb at Global Guerrillas: Bible details gang rules.

Praxis: Snub-nose ballistics.

Charter Arms .38 Special

There was a time in my life when I carried a snub-nose revolver in an ankle holster on my right leg. I started out with a .38 and then went to a gunsmithed Charter Arms Bulldog in .44 Special with 2 inch barrel and bobbed hammer. I practiced a lot, so I got pretty good with it.

Charter Arms Bulldog in .44 Special.

The .44 was a handful, but I appreciated the extra terminal ballistics. I never had to discharge it, although its quick display got me out of a few situations.

Later in life, after I moved to Alabama, I met a retired Birmingham cop and former BPD armorer named Harry Deal. Harry was the best gunsmith in town and operated out of Plaza Gun Works on U.S. 11. (Sadly, Harry passed away some years ago. A great loss.)

Anyway, one day I was in Harry's shop and we were talking about terminal ballistics of .38 versus .45 and he offered me this little anecdote from his days in the trenches. With the advent of the drug epidemic, the cops who were patrolling Birmingham's projects discovered that their .38 revolvers firing non-jacketed lead bullets just wouldn't stop the new variety of hopped-up assailants they were encountering. Yet the Department refused to move off the .38 Special standard. If you were caught carrying anything bigger, you could be fired.

Hot-loading the .38s was done, but it wasn't enough. So, as Harry told the story, he went down to an industrial supply store and obtained reels of stranded lead wire.

Lead wire.

He then experimented with the right combinations of strands and swaging pressure until he he came up with a round that would fly true, hold together in flight, and turn into instantly mushrooming lead spaghetti on the other end. His load was a great success, but only lasted until the first defense attorney (and then the department higher-ups) learned about it. Harry said he'd almost been fired over the incident, but he still made handloads of the wire strand .38s and sold them to cops "for their off-duty guns" for years afterward until he decided to get out of the handloading business for legal and insurance reasons.

This trip down memory lane was occasioned by Stan's forwarding of this link on snub-nose ballistics.

Mike
III

Welcome to Zombieland. No, wait, we've been living in it since the Twentieth Century.

It was probably 1970 when I first saw George Romero's 1968 zombie classic, Night of the Living Dead, at a small theater on High Street, off the OSU campus in Columbus, Ohio. I thought it was campy, stupid and not particularly scary. Romero's zombies were folks who had been dead, now arisen to live off the flesh of the living. There had been zombie movies before, but I think this was like one of the first so-called "zombie holocaust" flicks (the first being 1964's The Last Man on Earth), where the disease, if that's what it was, went viral and threaten mankind in totality. Being dead, Romero's zombies shuffled and struck with girlie blows. I guess that was because, being dead, they hadn't been getting much exercise lately. This made them easy to out-run and easy to kill -- all you had to do was wreck their slow moving brain cases with a baseball bat or a well-placed shot.

Such zombies would hardly scare a second grader today. That is why today's film zombies are usually not resurrected dead folks, but infected live ones who have, in the process, lost their humanity if not their souls.

In I Am Legend, the Will Smith 2007 film (which was a remake of Charleton Heston's 1971 The Omega Man, which was itself a remake of The Last Man on Earth, the first film treatment of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend), the zombies were living folks infected by a virus originally crafted to cure cancer. In 28 Days Later (and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later), the virus originates in a lab where monkeys have been infected with "Rage." The monkeys are set loose by animal rights activists, and the zombie apocalypse is on.



In this year's Zombieland, the Zombie Holocaust is mined for comedic effect. My daughter Zoe presented me with this DVD for my birthday and I have to admit it is pretty funny, even if lefty loon Woody Harrelson stars in it. The movie was a critical and commercial success, grossing more than $60.8 million in 17 days, surpassing the Dawn of the Dead remake to become the top-grossing zombie film to date.

"Nut up, or shut up."

There are, I am told, beaucoup zombie video games, and zombies are now a fixed part of American popular culture.

The zombie as political metaphor has also sprung up on both sides of the political divide. The left-collectivists in particular now refer to their opponents (any and all opponents, it would seem) as "zombies." At the Huffington Post, a David Sirota column is headlined "Confirming Right-Wing Zombie Lies: Obama's Budget Freeze." On Alternet,Chauncey DeVega opines on "Zombie Tea Party George Washington, Right Wing Epistemic Closure, and Slavery in America." And at MediaMatters.org, we are treated to "BP writing the cap-and-trade bill: Another right-wing zombie lie in the making?"

Of course we too use the zombie metaphor, with greater justification I think. The Borg of Star Trek is a personification of the collectivist zombie, "resistance is futile, assimilate or die." The classic zombie is, of course already dead, and your assimilation by him IS your death. Zombies in their various iterations, if they have not lost their souls have at least lost virtually everything that makes them human. The divine spark, that creation in the image of God, is gone. And, it is not unimportant to stress, they are about the wholesale conversion of the human to the inhuman.

I thought off Zombieland when very late last night, unable to sleep, I watched The Soviet Story from a link I picked up off Pete's WRSA site. There are those who believe that the left-collectivist virus of the 20th Century is dormant now, and that any suggestion to the contrary is "paranoid." Oliver Stone is happy to tell you differently.

And while most of our present day Eloi are worried about stuff like this, the Borgian zombies are still preparing to assimilate them.

If you can find the time, watch the documentary below. It is of poor quality, as these things go, but you will never look at the zombie regimes of the 20th Century the same way again. The Nazis and the Soviets were merely rival zombie gangs from different towns. When they begin roving again in a community near you, just remember Zombieland's first two rules:

Rule Number One: "Cardio (fatties get eaten first)."

Rule Number Two: "Double tap."

Praxis: 22 Rimfire Ballistic Tables.

Here. Evaluates the various manufacturer's loads. Interesting.

Intended Consequences.

Whaddaya know? Pass a law and make noises like you're going to enforce it and lawbreakers get out of the way. There is little in the Arizona law that isn't already on the federal books, but the feddies, as have we have all known for several administrations of both parties, never intended to enforce it. Arizona now does, and folks are opting to go home to where they came from, or to someplace else where the law isn't being enforced (New Mexico is popular, with its Dem governor).

You know, if we put big-time employers of illegals in federal prison with hefty sentences and well-publicized perp-walks (a tactic which I prefer), there would be no possibility of using amnesty to steal elections. The illegals, finding no jobs from the white-bread exploiters, would self-deport. Then we might be able to come up with a guest worker program that doesn't involve growing collectivist political power and enhancing the welfare state.

Praxis: He ain't heavy, he's my mousegun. How much does your AR-15 weigh?

A tip of the boonie hat to jpr9 for this link to OnlyGunsandMoney which in turned linked to these weight and balance calculators at the vuurwapenblog.

These look to me to be very useful for the M4gery guys and gals.

Enjoy.

Mike
III

Another fuzzy-thinking country heard from.

A Yankee blogger named Jim O'Leary had this to say yesterday at MindandDestiny. Since my name came up, I thought I would answer him briefly.

Saturday, July 24, 2010
Protecting the People

In the on line version of the Oneonta Star, Robb wrote: “Who protects us from the Government? Oh yea, that is why we have the 2nd Amendment.” This appears to be a subtle suggestion of violence. (MBV emphasis supplied.)

Alabama militiaman and teabagger blogger Mike Vanderboegh called for his followers to smash Democratic offices. He was a featured speaker at a “Restore the Constitution Open-Carry Rally,” on April 19th at Fort Hunter National Park in Virginia. According to rally organizers, that park is the closest location to Washington, D.C. in which they can legally, and openly carry their firearms.

The date of the “show your guns” rally was on April 19th, is symbolic in its timing. April 19th, was the first day of the American Revolution, the Battle of Lexington and Concord, as well as, the day, home grown terrorist Timothy McVeigh chose for his bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. That blast claimed the lives of 168 victims and injured more than 680 innocent people.

The primary goal of those Tea Party Patriots was to intimidate the political process in this country, because they can’t get people to do what they want through the voting process, they’re using guns as a means of intimidating our national politics. The gun theme is becoming a consistent threat.

Tea party protest sign, at different events announced, that: “We came unarmed this time.” People showed up at political events last summer with guns strapped to their side. A man in New Hampshire showed up at an Obama event brandishing a .9 millimeter pistol and carrying a sign saying: “Replenishing the Tree of Liberty with blood.”

George Washington wrote: “The warmest friends and best supporters the Constitution has, do not contend that it is free from imperfections; but they found them unavoidable and are sensible, if evil is likely to arise there from, the remedy must come hereafter; for in the present moment, it is not to be obtained; as there is a Constitutional door open for it, I think the People (for it is with them to Judge) can as they will have the advantage of experience on their Side, decide with as much propriety on the alterations and amendments which are necessary as ourselves. I do not think we are more inspired, have more wisdom, or possess more virtue, than those who will come after us.”

Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution provides and extensive list of the powers of Congress. The list concludes with: “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”

Robb should try writing a thoughtful, persuasive letter to the editor instead suggesting violence, since the ballot has proven to be much more successful than the bullet.

My reply:

Blogger Dutchman6 said...

Why there's nothing subtle about the doctrine of the Three Percent. When it was once demanded of me by an advocate of citizen disarmament to distill down my thoughts on firearm confiscation, I thought for a moment and said, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you." The same goes for other basic, God-given liberties and natural rights.

Telling you that this is the logical consequence (albeit unintended on your part) of your seemingly voracious appetite for our liberty and property is simple good manners. You would perhaps prefer being shot WITHOUT warning?

You must be an historical amnesiac to believe that this country was founded and sustained by anything other than targeted violence against tyranny.

You feel threatened by rocks through the windows of local Democrat party headquarters? You ain't seen nothin' yet.

There is, of course, a simple solution. All we wish is to be left alone. Leave us the hell alone and nothing bad will happen. Try to use violence to work your will upon us, and violence is what you will reap.

This is a fact of human existence. It is perhaps time you recognized that. For your own peace of mind, if nothing else.

Mike Vanderboegh
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com

PS: Have a nice day.
3:41 PM

Another collectivist mammalian country heard from.

In response to the Nancy and Harry "lame duck" post below, an anonymous collectivist replied thusly:

Anonymous said...

Dinosaurs, make way for the mammals. Your world is done. Go ahead and spend the last few dollars from your social security disability check on army ammo pouches and the like; knock yourself out. The world is going to move on without you. In five years, no one will even remember that your blog existed. You are fossils.

July 25, 2010 10:29 AM

You know, when I first read this, this particular "dinosaur" thought about the film clip below and of how many tyrannical collectivists will die before me and my kind become extinct.

Harry & Nancy's Last Stand

At WRSA. It's important.

Praxis: "How to choose an AR-15 mag pouch."

Good quick overview.

Praxis: Meet the "Taco"

Over at Military Times, my favorite column is "GearScout." They review all sorts of soldier stuff. For example, see this review of boots for the Afghan AO.

Yesterday they reviewed an interesting new mag pouch from High Speed Gear. Called the "TACO" Modular Single Rifle Magazine Pouch, it is so named because the main body folds around the magazine like a taco. The design allows you to use the pouch with virtually any kind of mag.



Here is the GearScout review. I will have more on the other side.

HSGI (High Speed Gear Inc) released their “Taco” in prototype form last year, and since then it’s become one of the best mag pouches that you’ve never heard of. What does the Taco do that makes it different? Simple, it uses polymer sides, cordura front and back, and shock cord lacing to lock just about any magazine into place. USGI, HK, PMAG, ARC, FAL, AK 30/ 40, LR20 and M14 magazines have all been swallowed and gleefully spit out on demand.

HSGI gives the following information on their website:

“TACO”, Modular single rifle mag pouch. This unique pouch, compared to similar mag pouches in it’s class, will hold more types of mags than just the AR series of mags. Not only will it hold AR type mags including P-MAGS, it will also hold Magazines for the AK, FAL, M14, SR25, M1A1 20 rnds, G3, Saiga 12, and more….. even some types of radios. It will also hold the large Flash bangs and the M-18 Smoke grenades. This mag pouch measure 3″ in width compared to the top selling mag pouch which is wider and disrupts much needed space on the user’s modular platform. Made of Cordura, Kydex and shock-cord, it is silent when stuck against and while extracting the mag. The “TACO” maintains a positive grip on the mag on which is adjustable and does not need any other use of a securing system unless desired upon by user preference. Webbing tabs are sewn in on the top for use of “over the top” bungee retainers if desired (not included). Additional loop velcro is sewn in the inside if the user wishes to use adhesive backed hook velcro on his magazine body for added security.

What we like about the Taco is the ability to switch different weapon platforms while not having to switch over all the ammo pouches. As nice as this is, I’m sure someone will point out that there are a lot of us who setup different carriers and equipment for different taskings, and I’ll agree. The next thing the Taco does is give smooth release on the magazines regardless of whether its wet, dry, hot, cold, muddy or clean. That’s something that can’t be said for all gear. Reloads are quick and easy thanks to the shock cord which laces the body. From inside a vehicle, or from body positions that make a direct upward pull difficult, the Taco has no problems. I’ve found it easy to pull forward (away from my body) and rip the mags free at an angle. This is all possible while still securely retaining the magazines.

Perhaps what has caught my attention most is the ability of the Taco to go from being a magazine pouch of various calibers, to being a grenade or other accessory pouch. While I prefer to have a strap locking my pistol into a holster, the Taco holds my Glock 19 very well, and while my days of throwing HE are largely over, flash bangs, smoke and CS grenades also work quite nicely.

In training, I’ve used this with LE as well as MIL gear, and I’ve loaned it out to others who have all come back with positive things to say. I’ve also used it when teaching younger kids reloads (my friends kids live interesting lives). I found out a long time ago that to see how well something works, give it to someone who has no artificial perceptions of how something should or shouldn’t work. Not only does this pass the test with novices, but with with guys who were crawling in jungles and hills when many of us were kids

HSGI went a step further with their Double Decker Taco. By taking the standard Taco and adding a pistol magazine pouch, they created additional room for secondary equipment. You can see in the below pictures that while one of the pouches is carrying a Glock 17 magazine, another one of the pouches is carrying a multitool. Flashlights are another item which fits nicely inside the pistol mag pouch.

While I have yet to see anything similar to the Taco, this idea is too versatile for people not to rip off, which is a shame, HSGI deserves solid credit for this creation, its a good one. The modular ability to hold multiple caliber magazines, as well as equipment make this an easy item for me to recommend. Even if you only have one or two on your rig, you’ll find they come in more than a little useful.

The video is from the HSGI website, it shows the Taco in use quite nicely.

Now at $28.00 a pop, these pouches are pricey to say the least. Here is the aforementioned video. Please watch and then see my comments below.



OK.

Number One: I'm sorry, but I would not use this guy as a factory rep demo-ing any military gear. This guy is a Taco Bell Grande.

Number Two: The boy's size merely accentuates the principal problem with front load chest rigs. You cannot get close to the ground, and if you throw yourself down on this array, you'll break your sternum and every rib you own and still be the most obvious target in the grass. (The popularity of chest rigs comes principally from the fact that you can get in and out of a vehicle easier than with other systems. This was -mostly - fine for Iraq missions. The troops in Afghanistan where the Taliban must be sought out and defeated on foot in a variety of rough terrain? Not so much.) But let's assume that the Taco, like any other mag pouch, can be arranged to the side and thus still be useful, which I'm sure it can.

Number Three: The value of a mag "pouch" which is versatile in terms of supporting any change of rifle mag or similar-sized piece of equipment or ordnance such as a radio or smoke grenade is to be appreciated. The value of a mag "pouch" which is a pouch that does not protect what it holds from the environment that it will be exposed to (mud, ice, sand, etc.) is less than fascinating in my opinion.

Number Four: As slick as it seems to be as a mag carrier for a "range rig," it is still overpriced by a considerable margin.

Interesting idea, though. I can see one or two of them being added to a rig for mission-specific items which change frequently, but to hold ALL the rifle mags that are your life insurance policy on the two-way range of life?

No way.

Your opinions?

Mike
III

Praxis: Situational Awareness.

An excellent post at Rawles' Survival Blog.

The farce was with him.

You can't make this stuff up. Nor, I dare say, would anyone else other than the Daily Mail come up with such cheesy captions for the photos. The camo pants were a nice touch, though. Can Janet Napolitano be far behind in blaming this on "domestic terrorists"? And wouldn't a light saber have been scarier?

"Counting the cost: The Chase Bank in Setauket, New York, remains closed as staff count the tills to see how much the bandit made off with."

The London Daily Mail features a bank robbery with the purely awful headline "The Empire Strikes Bank: Armed robber dressed as Darth Vader demands cash in daring raid."


"Using excessive Force: New York police have released CCTV images of a man dressed as Darth Vader robbing a Long Island bank as customers cower."

When a six-foot man strode into a Long Island bank yesterday dressed as sci-fi super villain Darth Vader, customers and staff thought it was a joke.

But they soon realised how serious the man was when he produced a handgun and demanded cash.

Police in New York are now trying to trace the phantom menace, who stuffed cash into a bag and disappeared.

The man entered the Chase Bank in East Setauket around 11:30am, wearing the distinctive Darth Vader mask, a long black cloak and - slightly out of character - camouflage combat trousers.

One customer thought the outfit was so funny that he started joking with the dark lord as he tried to pull off his heist.

Suffolk County Police Detective Sergeant William Lamb said: 'The customer thought it might have been a joke, and not a serious attempt at a robbery.'

But staff and customers were left in no doubt when the man then produced a handgun from a bag and screamed, 'This is not a joke' to cashiers.

Police have released CCTV images of the man stuffing the money into a drawstring bag featuring a New York Yankees logo.

As he left the robber punched another customer who tried to stop him.

The bank was still checking its drawers last night to figure out how large his take was, Detective Lamb said.

It was the second recent off-the-wall bank robbery. On Wednesday, the NYPD arrested a man dubbed the 'Bouquet Bandit', who acquired his unusual nickname after bringing flowers and potted plants into the banks he robbed.

"Darth Raider: Staff and customers thought it was a practical joke when the man, dressed in distinctive Star Wars helmet and cape, first entered the bank."