This feller's got my vote!

Oh, HELL yeah!

Historian Niall Ferguson on "The Metrics of Doom."

Long audio, but worth it.

We're screwed.

There's going to be a fight.

Let's win.

Alan Korwin reports State Department interference with Civilian Marksmanship Program imports. Really? What a laugh.

Alan Korwin reports in his email newsletter, The Uninvited Ombudsman:

I've just learned from a highly placed and reliable personal source that, in a quiet move to restrict gun ownership, the Obama White House has directly instructed the State Department to do what's necessary to prevent predominantly WWII American firearms from being imported back into the United States.

Most imports are not under the jurisdiction of the State Dept., and are controlled by statute and regulations that require very public actions to change. This is another clandestine anti-gun-rights move being taken by the Obama administration, along with a series of treaties and U.N. plans to severely limit or ban American gun ownership.

The main effect of this move is, without fanfare or public attention, to stop the flow of fine M1 Garand and M1 carbine rifles into the hands of American citizens. The M1 is an affordable, accurate, dependable, and exceptionally well-made general-purpose American rifle. Made in .30 caliber, it was the first auto-loading rifle generally issued to the infantry of any nation.

I have not been able to determine the exact quantity of such rifles being held overseas, but the number is believed to be in the millions.

The Obama team in the White House has stunned observers with its eerie silence on so-called "gun control," or efforts to disarm the public. On taking office there was wide anticipation of major action is this area, to reflect the unmitigated anti-gun-rights records of Obama and his coterie. The gun-rights lobby has been hard pressed to explain the lull, pointing to a mere few slips of the tongue by the president, his attorney general or a few other top-level staffers. The Brady Campaign for the Promotion of Gun Violence has given the administration a rating of "F" on gun control, reflecting a virtually complete lack of publicly visible activity.

The most likely explanation probably includes the uproar over the federal health-care takeover, where no army of protesters had even existed or were poised for action, yet rose with tremendous fury in astonishing numbers. This group coalesced into the core of the now ubiquitous Tea Party.

Administration officials and Obama himself likely recognize that the backlash they would face if they publicly came after Americans' guns would make the health-care hurricane look like a mild summer breeze.

Obama though has announced plans to go after "criminal gun smuggling" with two international treaties that would bypass the U.S. Congress. Both treaties would introduce draconian levels of gun control and confiscation on Americans, despite administration promises otherwise. The CIFTA treaty terms are known and already analyzed. Under CIFTA, changing any feature on a firearm, like adding a sling or changing a sight without an undefined government "manufacturing" license, would subject a person to arrest. Reloading ammo would be similarly banned.

The U.N. treaty, being drafted in secret with cooperation from Hillary Clinton, can only be guessed at based on previous U.N. public-disarmament attempts. An international group, IAPCAR, has been formed under the leadership of Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, to monitor and resist planned rights denials. The Uninvited Ombudsman report will feature those activities in the near future.

Now, I will be interested to read some verification of this move on the supply of CMP weapons. If true, it is -- in the grand scheme of things -- both laughable and welcome.

It is laughable because, as I blurted out when I read this early this morning, "Is that all they've got?" Such a move provokes much more negative reaction than it is worth in terms of of their overall desire for citizen disarmament. It is welcome because such a move strikes at the most cherished assumptions of the Elmer Fudd NRA pragmatists. "Wait," they will say, "these aren't evil black rifles or Communist bloc military weapons. These are politically correct firearms."

Insofar as the "impending doom" of the treaties, I continue laughing and still welcome them. Think about it. A regime that chokes at the domestic political cost of legislative citizen disarmament is going to take the ultimate discredit of surrendering its own sovereignty as an excuse to do what they are too cowardly to do directly? They are seriously expected to say, "Give us your guns, but don't blame us, blame the United Nations?" I mean, really? What a hoot.

I can see the bumper sticker now: "The State Department is coming for your guns!" Really? The STATE Department?!? Substitute the "United Nations" and it is still a thigh-slapper.

And even if they do, I welcome it because I can think of no single move more calculated to unite the armed citizenry. What are they going to do? Bring in foreign troops to enforce it? Oh, please. I pray to the Lord that they would be so stupid.

Here's the key point. We need to stop taking counsel of our fears and cease worrying about what THEY are going to do to US, and start figuring out what WE are going to do to THEM when they finally, irrevocably, kick off this impending civil war.

Alvie D. Zane's musical take on Sipsey Street.

Folks,

Back when I was a bit beat down and feeling sorry for myself, I received this email from Alvie D. Zane. I have to admit, it made me laugh at a time when I sorely needed it.

Mike,

I know these are the times that try men’s souls. It’s got to be tiring trying to be an the International Man of Mystery, agent for MI-6, Mossad and others. You’re hated on the right for being right and by left for having left. Not to mention trying to heal the foot and just live your life. I thought I’d send you some e-cheer that recalls back an earlier undercover assignment of yours on Public Television.

You may have some people fooled, but I know you were Oscar the grouch on Sesame Street back in the day. Oh sure, it looks like a plain galvanized trash can. But we all know it’s a steel reinforced fighting position with a quick acting hatch and NBC filtration inside. There’s no hiding that green ghillie suit. And did you ever notice how the count always hesitated at. . .brace yourselves . . . Three. (III !) It would have come to me sooner if you’d have had your boonie hat on, but I understand. It was the ‘70s after all you couldn’t be so obvious about such things back then.

(Sung to the Sesame Street tune)

Sunny Day
Sweepin' the “prags” away
On my way to get up off my feet

Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sipsey Street?

Come and play
Praxis are A-OK
Three Percenters there
That’s where we meet

Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Sipsey Street?
How to get to Sipsey Street?

Repeat…

As John Spade says in, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka!, “They’re my theme music. Every hero’s got to have some.” So here’s hoping this theme song totally offends Big Bird, Elmo, Bert and Ernie, The Count, PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting et al. That cookie monster on the other hand is all right by me.

Alvie D. Zane
III

Kagan's Gun-grabbing Fingerprints

No real surprise, but here's the pdf of the actual document.

Praxis: Military Pyrotechnics

"Illumination rounds are fired during Operation Tora Arwa V in the Kandahar province during Operation Enduring Freedom. The illumination rounds were fired from M777 howitzers and are used to help illuminate a certain area the soldiers need to see."

"The art of fire is indeed the supreme art; for fire is at once the universal slave, the universal master." -- Henry B. Faber, Military Pyrotechnics, 1919.

FIAT LUX: LET THERE BE LIGHT.

Effective control of units on the battlefield depends largely on communication. Radio, telephone, voice, messenger, and arm-and-hand signals are communication means that at times are made ineffective by the tactical situation. Pyrotechnic signals are used in such situations to supplement or to take the place of normal communication means. -- FM 23-30 Grenades and Pyrotechnic Signals

The United States military spends billions of dollars every years on night vision and infrared equipment so that its soldiers and marines can "own the night." At the level where "the metal meets the meat," this means a huge consumption of a multitude of batteries. Few of us can afford the cost of the batteries, let alone the night vision devices. We can, however, make do as soldiers did prior to night vision, with military pyrotechnics -- either surplus or improvised.

Pyrotechnics can be used for signaling and illumination, or blinding an enemy, either with light or smoke. Let's talk about light first.

The earliest forms of military pyrotechnics were signal rockets used to communicate across the pre-radio battlefield. They can be, and are, still used for this purpose. At the squad leader's level, the most common means of pyrotechnic communication is the flare pistol.

Flare Pistols



One of my good friends has an example of a German flare pistol from World War One. It uses 26.5mm flares as does the example above (available from Sportsman's Guide).

Useful by day or night, different color flares, or combinations thereof, can be used to issue movement orders or designate targets for general fire. By night they are useful for illuminating small areas where the enemy might be moving through.

Star Clusters

In the U.S. military, flare pistols have been superseded by hand-held star-clusters and parachute flares, primarily because the pistol is was determined to be too limited to fill all needs of illumination.



These are issued in a waterproof shipping tube (Vietnam-era was a metal tube with a sardine can opener, current issue is a plastic tube with resealable cap) inside of which is an expendable launcher,which consists of a launching tube and a firing cap (as illustrated above). These signals produce a cluster of five free-falling pyrotechnic stars. There are green (M125A1), red (M158) and white (M159) star clusters.

To operate, you hold the signal in your left hand with the red-knurled band down, holding your little finger in alignment with the red band. Remove the firing cap from the upper end of the signal. Point the ejection end of the signal away from the body and slowly push the firing cap onto the signal until the open end of the cap is aligned with the red band. It is now ready to fire. Grasp the center of the signal firmly with your left hand, holding your elbow tight against the body with the signal at the desired trajectory angle and the firing cap at the bottom. Turn your head down and away from the signal to avoid injuries to your face and eyes from particles ejected by the small rocket. Strike the bottom of the cap a sharp blow with the palm of your right hand, keeping the left arm rigid.



IMPORTANT: Before firing the signal, you MUST must make sure you have overhead clearance. Having a burning, blinding projectile bouncing back in your face from a chance encounter with a tree limb is not the best way to survive in combat.

This is how it works: When the firing cap is struck, the firing pin is forced into the base of the launcher tube at the primer. When the primer is struck, the flash from the primer ignites an initiating charge of black powder at the base of the signal. Gases from the burning initiating charge expel the signal from the launcher tube (rocket barrel) with a slight recoil. As the signal is expelled, four flexible steel fins unfold to stabilize the signal during flight. After the signal rises approximately 6 meters, the rocket motor, which was ignited by the propelling gases, begins to burn fully, forcing the signal to a height of 200 to 215 meters (650 to 700 feet). At that point, a delay element ignites an ejecting charge, which in turn forces the five-star illuminant cluster out of the nose of the signal body. Star clusters burn 6 to 10 seconds. Their rate of descent is 14 meters (45 feet) per second.

Star Parachutes.

Star parachutes are also used for signaling and illuminating. They are issued in an expendable launcher that consists of a launching tube and a firing cap. These signals produce a single parachute suspended illuminant star. The current types of star parachutes include the M126A1, red star parachute; the M127A1, white star parachute; and the M195, green star parachute. They are fired in the same manner as star clusters, and their function is the same.

The M126- and M127-series of star parachutes rise to a height of 200 to 215 meters. The M126 burns for 50 seconds and the M127 burns for 25 seconds. Their average rate of descent is 2.1 meters per second. The signal can be seen for 50 to 58 kilometers (30 to 35 miles) at night.

Obviously the parachute flares are optimal for illumination at night. A couple years ago there were some Czech hand-held flare projectors available at gun shows.



With these, you simply unscrew the cap at the bottom and a pull string deploys (like the fuse assembly on a German potato masher). Pay attention to the safety issues described above of overhead cover and pointing it away from your face, and simply pull the string smartly. I have used these at FTXs and they performed well.

They are not as weather-proof as the USGIs, but will conveniently fit inside an empty current-issue GI hand-kicker shipper tube:



Trip Flares

Another use of illumination on the battlefield at night is the trip flare.



Surface trip flares outwardly resemble antipersonnel mines or hand grenades (see above). Their primary use is to warn of infiltrating troops by illuminating the field. They may also be used as signals or as booby traps. When activated, the flare produces up to 50,000 candlepower of illumination.

M49A1 Trip Flare.

The M49A1 Trip Flare is an early warning signaling device used to warn of infiltrating troops by illuminating the area surrounding the trip flare. The flare consists of an illuminant assembly, cover loading assembly and a mounting bracket assembly. The illuminant assembly is an aluminum case containing an ignition increment and three illuminant increments. The waterproof cover loading assembly contains a percussion primer, intermediate charge and a spring-loaded striker.

The flare is armed by attaching a trip-wire to either the trigger or pull-pin. Once the trip-wire has been hit, either the trigger tongue or pull pin will release the lever, which in turn permits the firing pin to strike the primer. The primer sets off the intermediate charge, and the intermediate charge ignites the first-fire composition on the ignition increment of the flare. The M49A1 trip flare will provide a light intensity exceeding 35,000 candle power for approximately one minute.

A trick an ex-82nd Airborne pathfinder taught me is to use the M49A1 as a means of blinding night vision devices (as well as enemy eyeballs) when breaking contact at night. He carried them (minus the bracket, with the lever taped down as a safety measure) in an ammo pouch and used them as throw-behinds as he ran. IMPORTANT TIP: When you pull the pin on an M49A1 (after first removing the tape), throw the the device behind you without delay, letting the spoon fly off as it leaves your hand. The reason? This is an instantaneously detonating grenade and you will be severely burned if you don't get rid of it in one swift, fluid motion.

FIAT FUMUS: LET THERE BE SMOKE.

The other important use of pyrotechnics on the battlefield is smoke, both for daylight signaling and for blinding the enemy so that you can maneuver across a danger space.



The US military uses the M18 Smoke Grenade as a ground-to-ground or ground-to-air signaling device, a target or landing zone marking device, or a screening device for unit movements. It has a sheet steel cylinder body with four emission holes at the top and one at the bottom to allow smoke release when the grenade is ignited. Weighing 19 ounces, it comes in white, red, green, yellow, and violet smoke varieties. It can be thrown about 35 meters by the average soldier. The grenade produces a cloud of colored smoke for 50 to 90 seconds. It is painted olive drab on the grenade body with the top indicating the smoke color.

Here is a video of how to use M18 smoke grenades to shield the removal of a casualty. (I rather wish they had replaced the cheesy music with instructional narrative.)

FIAT INFLATUS: LET THERE BE INSPIRATION.

Improvisation

You may say, "That's all very well, Vanderboegh, but we don't have a government arsenal to dip into." True, however, you often see these in onesey-twoseys at gun show and flea markets, so it is not a bad idea to be able to recognize them for what they are. Second, you never can tell what may be laying around on the road after the excrement hits the rotary oscillator. And third, there is no reason why these can't be improvised.

There are a number of interesting pyrotechnic manuals on the web. One of my favorites that I took the trouble to print out is Military and Civilian Pyrotechnics by Dr. Herbert Ellern.

Another useful book is Military Pyrotechnics: The Manufacture of Military Pyrotechnics by Henry B. Faber, U.S. Army Ordnance School, 1919.

A website that has links to these and other useful texts is Freepyinfom.com.

Among them are these two on improvised black powder production:

FIELD EXPEDIENT PREPARATION OF BLACK POWDERS.

And,

The Do-it-yourself Gunpowder Cookbook by Don McClean.

In any case, whether military-grade or improvised, pyrotechnics can provide an edge on the modern battlefield to those who know how to use them.

Mike
III

Cultural Insanity and Inability to say the "I" word.

What's a little "ritual nick" after all?

What a loser. Pity poor Paul Helmke . . .

His entire media plan for citizen disarmament now seems to hinge on trying to steal publicity bread crumbs from his opposition's table. How pathetic.

The second debt storm.

Who will bail out the countries that bailed out the world's corporations?

The bum's rush on amnesty.

Sounds like somebody's planning on influencing (stealing) elections. Tell me again about the wonders of open borders absent the rule of law.

Amnesty? Bureaucrats already drawing up plan to implement.

$1 billion, 30-week processing program revealed in leaked 14-page Homeland Security memo

Posted: May 14, 2010

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, already has drafted a plan for processing 13 million illegal alien applicants for amnesty in a 30-week period at an estimated cost of $1 billion, WND has learned.

The plan, a copy of which was obtained by WND, anticipates the approval of so-called "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" legislation pending in Congress and assumes a nine-month ramp-up period for processing of applications.

The undated draft report anticipates the possibility of the legislation requiring public benefits to amnesty applicants.

"If the statute requires interim benefits while application pending, issue discrete variant of status document (shorter term duration that [sic] if issued after prospective immigrant status granted)," the 14-page memo states.

Under the plan, applicants 14 through 79 years old would be required to submit themselves for photographs, a full set of fingerprints and a signature. A photo and single print would be required for others.

Only one outside contractor is discussed in the memo – Northrop Grumman – and the plan suggests negotiating a contract now, even before the legislation is approved. It also calls for volunteer help at local service centers and field offices.

The last time Washington attempted a push for amnesty under the guise of "Comprehensive Immigration Reform," under President George W. Bush in 2007, the project triggered an outcry from talk radio and the public. It failed as a result. However, the political makeup of the Congress has changed since then, becoming even more Democratic.

Democratic leaders recognize their control of both houses is in jeopardy in the November elections and are determined to pass the amnesty program – though they abhor that word.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has enlisted evangelical leaders to promote the plan. Democrats are determined to get at least some Republican support for the measure so the party is not held to account for amnesty like it is for another unpopular piece of legislation following the health-care debate that already threatens many Democrat seats.

Even Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., formerly vociferous proponents of the plan during the Bush administration, have distanced themselves from efforts in the Senate to revive it.

"You can play a vital role," Schumer told religious leaders including Richard Land of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and Mathew of Liberty Counsel, saying Republicans have great respect for them. "So please, if you could, help us get some Republicans just to sit in a room and talk to us."

Great and interesting stuff.

At the Cliffs of Insanity.

And at WRSA here,

and here,

and here at Restore the Constitution.

Well, here's a big surprise.

Ya think?

Praxis: Emergency protein supplements. "Huajiang dog is better for you than ginseng."

Huajiang puppy paws for lunch.

Notice: In the event of civilization collapse, remember that Chinese astronauts eat dog meat, and find it quite tasty.

(There is a Great Dane running loose in my neighborhood that would feed a family of five for a week or more. And I just happen to have some Korean recipes tucked back somewhere around here.)

Now, don't you wish to put back some more rations now lest you find yourself later looking at Ole Blue with a watering mouth and growling belly?

Sure you do.

Mike
III

OK, back to the fight. "Once more into the breach!" A sitrep plus some random thoughts on journalistas and militia training.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' --Henry the Fifth, William Shakespeare.

First, thanks for all your prayers, folks. They worked.

Second, a sitrep:

It is hard to over-estimate how behind I am at this moment. I have over 1,300 emails in my in-box (and that doesn't count the ones already easily deleted by subject line/sender). For those of you readers who have been thinking I just deleted yours without seeing it, that is not the case. They're just stacked up there, waiting for the mythical time when "things slow down." You have my sincere apologies for the failure, but there it is.

Were the blog the only thing I am doing at this point, it would be easy to catch up with the email flow, but it is not. The final product of Absolved continues to be difficult and I am spending 90% of my available time on that. I am learning that manuscripts are EASY, but the editing back-and-forth is HARD. Especially when things must flow. There are gaps in story line, "continuity issues" that must be hammered out, etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Should be done with that after this weekend. I may pull out a previously-secret chapter and post it here just to satisfy you ravening wolves. I DO understand your frustration.

There also is the very real cold war of maneuver, intelligence gathering and deception that must be played with various rogue agencies of a rogue regime. Just because you haven't read lately of Little Jimmy Vann and the thugs of the ATF's Chief Counsel's Office doesn't mean that CPT R.A. Bear, CPT Jonathan Tuttle and ATF deep-cover mole "Waldo" aren't out there doing their best to flip on light switches where the cockroaches and the rats congregate.

The case of Len Savage and "the arrested upper" continues to languish, awaiting a federal judge's decision on whether to go to trial. You have not heard much about that because that is how Len wants it. He is not a publicity hound, just a firearm designer and manufacturer who is trying to get along making a living without the ATF continuing the retaliatory "economic Waco" they have inflicted upon him as punishment for testifying as an expert witness against the agency in various other federal cases such as Olofson and Freisen. I suspect that the judge may be waiting for the SCOTUS decision in the Chicago case.

If the black robes rule that firearm ownership is a civil right, that could have huge implications. For one thing (and I don't believe they'll leave this hair unsplit or unencumbered by statist "emanations and penumbras" -- witness the Heller decision), if firearms ownership IS a civil right, civil rights cannot be taxed. Thus, the entire panoply of federal schemes of gun control -- NFA '34, GCA '68 and all the little lovely add-on tyrannies -- go flying out the window. Don't hold your breath, but it IS a slim possibility. Cheap automatic weapons for the law-abiding without federal restriction -- what a concept.

David Olofson has transitioned to a half-way house from the FCI he has been languishing in. Hopes are that we will soon be released, having lived through the experience of being railroaded by the ATF for a malfunctioning semi-auto rifle. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT FERAL AGENTS SUCH AS JODY KEEKU HAVE DECIDED TO LEAVE HIM BE. They would be well-advised to, but then there's no accounting for the agenda-driven morons of the Chief Counsel's Office, whose chapped lips bear a remarkable resemblance in size and shape to a chafed spot on Charlie Schumer's ass.

I continue to get requests for interview, etc. Some I grant, others I refuse. One thing is certain: all the journalistas in the world (and some who merely pretend to be journalistically inclined), are looking for militia units who are willing to be photographed/interviewed while training. Here is what I told one of them, who was disappointed about one unit's refusal and was seeking the approval of another:

Yer barkin' up the wrong tree with (REDACTED), too. That well was poisoned long ago by unscrupulous reporters and editors in the 90s. No one, and I mean no one who is smart and serious about this sort of thing, is going to let you cover their training. It is not that they are doing anything illegal or immoral (less so than the average political party caucus, I can assure you) but simply the use to which such images have been put in the past.

For the same reason, there are few large, public units these days. Everyone (again, everyone smart and serious) is organizing on a small scale to prevent having to deal with:

a. agents provocateur.
b. snitches.
c. loons.

Often marksmanship training takes place in civilian clothes at public ranges and all other classes which can be done indoors in private or outdoors in civilian clothes is done that way: first aid, map and compass, etc. Only fire and maneuver instruction takes place in full kit and outdoors and then almost always on posted private property or in very obscure portions of the national park system. You may thank the Southern Preposterous Lie Center and the "Narrative of 1995" for that.

"Fool me once, shame on you," as they say.

There are others, especially recently-separated veterans, who have no intention of compromising their personal and unit security by training in front of the press. More so than inexperienced armed citizens, they are obsessively zealous about OPSEC, operational security. I suppose because they have seen first-hand what happens to guerrillas in the sandbox who aren't.

Remember, whoever lets you see their training are not the most serious and committed of the current bunch of constitutional militia. Keep that fact firmly in mind.

Of course there are necessary places for both public units (who can interface with local peace officers in search and rescue ops, etc.) and small, non-public neighborhood defense organizations made up of family, friends and trustworthy neighbors. But ALL of us should be mindful that the "press" is almost universally NOT our friend. SPLC has been known to use "reporters" like kleenex to provide details capable of being twisted into their lying, conflationary tales. The staff of SPLC is rife with "reporters" who burned their "unbiased" journalistic bridges in return for SPLC's larger paychecks.

Anyone who thinks that they have a "friendly" reporter in the bag is almost always fooling themselves -- and ONLY themselves.

And with that said, "once more into the breach."

Mike
III

"Drink Water, Drive On."

"An Attitude is Born." Cartoon and caption by MacLeod.

Folks,

I thank you all for your kind words and prayers. I've had another rough day physically, but my pity-party is over. To use two phrases I learned from my wiser-than-me son, I shall "embrace the suck" and "drink water and drive on."

That's all I have left in me at the moment. See you tomorrow.

Mike
III

I am sick and tired of all the blogosphere BS . . .

and that's after I'm already sick and tired of trying to save my feet.

I'm sick and tired of people trying to justify war crimes in advance from the safety of their computer keyboards.

I sick and tired of people trying to justify self-discrediting writ writing and common-senseless "common law" bullshit.

I'm sick and tired of people thinking that being a Three Percenter means anything other than committing themselves to this fight -- and it IS a FIGHT -- a hundred and ten percent.

The only thing that matters now is clear thinking, clear vision and decisive actions. That and preparedness, training and commitment. If in the end I have just 300 folks who are willing to go the route of the fighting Founders, it will be enough. I am certain of that.

That said, I have been unhappy with my own ability to produce quality posts while undergoing the HBO treatments, so maybe it is time to pull the plug on this blog, at least until I am done with them.

I'll mull it over tonight and give y'all my decision in the morning.

Mike
III

Cassandra, et. al.

To conflate a historical world wide conflict of monstrous attrition warfare with a targeted Sun Tzu campaign of 4GW in a civil war context is merely to seek excuses for war crimes in advance. I refuse to do so. End of story.

"The Age of the Big Blow Up."

"Things go wrong, and sometimes the smartest people in the world have no idea how to stop that."

Indeed. Sometimes they don't even want to because they think they will benefit.

Bastards.

Stupid Firearm Trick # 2746

Scratching your nose. Figures it was a cop.

“We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.” -- Kagan's Second Amendment fingerprints.

Here.