The Prozac Presidency? Obama reported to be suffering from "deep depression."

"Nobody worships me anymore."

Antidepressant Medications

The kind of depression that will most likely benefit from treatment with medications is more than just "the blues." It's a condition that's prolonged, lasting 2 weeks or more, and interferes with a person's ability to carry on daily tasks and to enjoy activities that previously brought pleasure.

"I can't even make the sea level fall."

The depressed person will seem sad, or "down," or may show a lack of interest in his surroundings. He may have trouble eating and lose weight (although some people eat more and gain weight when depressed). He may sleep too much or too little, have difficulty going to sleep, sleep restlessly, or awaken very early in the morning. He may speak of feeling guilty, worthless, or hopeless. He may complain that his thinking is slowed down. He may lack energy, feeling "everything's too much," or he might be agitated and jumpy.

"I just feel so insignificant. I need a hug."

A person who is depressed may cry. He may think and talk about killing himself and may even make a suicide attempt. Some people who are depressed have psychotic symptoms, such as delusions (false ideas) that are related to their depression. For instance, a psychotically depressed person might imagine that he is already dead, or "in hell," being punished.



Not everyone who is depressed has all these symptoms, but everyone who is depressed has at least some of them. A depression can range in intensity from mild to severe.

Antidepressants are used most widely for serious depressions, but they can also be helpful for some milder depressions. Antidepressants, although they are not "uppers" or stimulants, take away or reduce the symptoms of depression and help the depressed person feel the way he did before he became depressed.

Antidepressants are also used for disorders characterized principally by anxiety. They can block the symptoms of panic, including rapid heartbeat, terror, dizziness, chest pains, nausea, and breathing problems. They can also be used to treat some phobias. -- PsychologyInfo.com

"President Obama is emotionally shutting down. He is a terribly depressed man."


Bush, thinking to himself: ("What a wimp.")

Militia Discount Sale Update #2

First shipments went out Friday by USPS. Some of you will not be getting your stuff for at least two weeks longer because my bank puts a hold on some checks and money orders for ten business days. Yeah, I know its a rip-off. Remember, this isn't my stuff. To repeat what I said in the first post:

"These are items that private individuals who buy surplus for their own use have picked up that is in excess of their needs. That is, they do not run a business, but don't want to give their excess stuff away. Perfectly understandable. So, I offered to post the various items on this website and provide a means by which they can recover some of their costs while at the same time allowing y'all to pick up some items that I think are pretty good deals. All conditions are good, serviceable to excellent or even new. Sipsey Street will make nothing on the exchange, so think of it as a needed public service. Orders should be directed to P.O. Box 926, Pinson, AL 35126. Make the check or postal money order (preferred) out to me, Mike Vanderboegh, adding what is a reasonable amount for shipping for those items. I will pass the money on to them and be responsible for shipping the items back to you."

Another wrinkle: in order to avoid the two-week delay, if the checks or money orders were drawn on a bank with a local branch such as Wells Fargo, I simply presented them for cashing. Problem: Wells Fargo charged me, as a non-customer, $10.00 per to cash them. I did that for the first two, but will simply deposit any others and wait the two weeks. You'll still get your stuff, just later. Again, USPS money orders are preferred.

Those whose orders are awaiting payment have been pulled and are sitting in a secure warehouse, boxed and ready to go. When I have cash in hand, they will ship.

Remember too that I am doing this so that I can pick up stuff for newbies for cheap (much as I do now with materiel I pick up at thrift stores, etc). So, if you missed the chance to order before and see something in the list below that you need, order it. You will find a couple of changes from the earlier list, Some items have been sold out, and one, the three-color desert assault packs have gone up in price to $15.00. This happened because the original item was mis-priced and was actually advertised for their cost. This was reflected in the large number of orders that I received. However, this is still a great deal and there is about half of a large Gaylord box left, so order away.

That said, here are the items still available.


Assault Pack, Large, SDS #4095, Three-Color Desert. Used. $15.00 each.


ALICE Pack, OD or Woodland. Used. Without frame, $15.00. With frame, $30.00.


Pack MOLLE II NSN 8465-01-524-5285 with straps and shoulder frame, ACU, Extra Large pack. Used. $75.00

MOLLE II Sustainment Pouch, Woodland. NSN 8465-01-465-2152. Used. $5.00

MOLLE II M16/M4 Bandoleer, Woodland, with strap. $7.00.


MOLLE II R.A.C.K. AN/PRC-126 Radio Pocket, Woodland. $5.00.


MOLLE Canteen Cover, Woodland. $5.00.


Cover (no canteen), 2 Quart, with strap, tan desert. Used. $2.00.


Cover, (no canteen), 1 Quart, ALICE with clips, OD. $2.00.

Pistol Belt, with extender, Size Large. New. $5.00.


Pistol Belt Extender, new. $1.00.

Pads, Elbow and Knee, Woodland, ACU (Coyote Brown out of stock). Set, elbow and knee: $15.00. Knee only: $10.00. Elbow only: $10.00.

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Utility belt with buckle, Size 44. $1.00

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USGI Sleeping Mats, Self Inflating. $15.00 each or 10 for $100.00.


USGI Poncho, Woodland. With liner: $25.00. Poncho Only: $20.00.


Poncho Liner (only): $20.00.


USGI Clothing Bag, Waterproof, OD. (SOME BRAND NEW IN WRAPPER, THESE SHIP FIRST) $5.00.


USGI, Sleeping Bag Compression Sack, Black. Used. $5.00.


E-Tool Carrier, MOLLE, Nylon, Three-Color Desert. Used. $5.00.


E-Tool Carrier, ALICE, Plastic. $1.00.

Praxis: Target PDFs

A tip of the boonie hat to Irregular Stan for sending this link for free target pdf's.

A message that Eric Holder understands perfectly well: No more free William Colbys.

William Colby when he was CIA station chief in Saigon.

"But I'm a superstitious man. And if some unlucky accident should befall him - If he should get shot in the head by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell - or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning, them I'm going to blame some of the people in this room, and that I do not forgive." -- Don Vito Corleone to the other dons of the Five Families, The Godfather.

In a comment to a previous post on "Zorro" I indicated that there would be "No more free William Colbys" either. I see from my email that this requires some explication.

In an article on the controversy about the Waco FLIR tape and the evidence that FBI or Delta shooters were killing Davidians as they fled the fire out the back of Mt. Carmel (See Mike McNulty's two documentaries on Waco -- Waco: The Rules of Engagement and Waco: A New Revelation), Texas-based lefty journalist Dick Reavis discusses Gordon Novel and how the Davidian defense counsel received the assistance of William Colby, former director of the CIA.

Shortly after Novel claims a team sent by Colby helped him with the FLIR tape analysis, his body washed up on the banks of Maryland's Wicomico River after he had been missing for nine days. The Baltimore, MD medical examiner's office in Baltimore concluded that the seventy-six-year-old Colby had fallen out of his canoe as the result of a heart attack or stroke, suffered hypothermia, and drowned.

Colby had a summer home in Rock Point, Maryland on the banks of the Wicomico River, a tributary of the Potomac. April 27, 1996 was a cold, blustery night, an odd time for Colby, who was 76, to go canoeing for the winds were gusting up to 25 miles per hour.

Colby's canoe was spotted the next day on a sand bar -- without Colby.

A US Coast Guard investigator who searched Colby's home said that Colby had left his radio and computer on when he went canoeing, saying "There were dinner items on the table." The house was unlocked.

Colby was alone in the house that night, for his wife was visiting her mother in Texas. There are differing press accounts of what Bill Colby told his wife in a phone call earlier in the evening:

The Associated Press reported that Colby told her he didn't feel well but was going canoeing anyway--The Guardian reported that he phoned his wife to say he was going to eat dinner, take a hot shower, and hit the sack. A third newspaper account stated Colby told his wife he wasn't feeling well and yet went canoeing nonetheless, but the article didn't state whether or not Colby conveyed to wife that he was going canoeing.

The day Colby's canoe was found Coast Guard crews started to search the Wicomico for his body. The Coast Guard ultimately scoured the river for eight days with divers, sonar equipment, and drag-lines, and dogs rummaged the river's banks--Colby's body was never recovered. Then on May 6, Colby's body washed ashore close to where his canoe had originally been spotted--it's odd that Colby's body materialized so close to the canoe even though the Coast Guard had scoured the vicinity with divers, sonar, and drag lines.

The Associated Press reported that Colby's body was clad in khaki pants, a blue and white shirt, and a red windbreaker, but he wasn't wearing shoes. So if the Associated Press' account of Colby's canoeing apparel was accurate, and the Maryland medical examiner's account was accurate, Colby went canoeing on a cold, blustery night without shoes--it was cold enough for him to wear a windbreaker and yet he opted not to wear shoes.

Missing from the account was his life jacket. He wasn't wearing one, despite the fact that his wife insisted that he never went out on the water without one, the result of his experiences in the OSS during World War II.

Now Gordon Novel is not the most veracious of witnesses. Yet Mike McNulty verified that Novel did have help of some kind with the FLIR analysis, and it is certain (I have been told by someone who is familiar with both the men and the case) that Gordon Novel and the CIA of the William Colby era were, as he claimed, "a mutual admiration society."

Certainly Novel had acted as a cut-out in the CIA's secret war with the FBI for years, and he both despised and was despised in turn by agents of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

I have personally confirmed that Colby and Novel knew each other. Certainly Bill Colby had been involved in a lot of controversies -- both seen and unseen -- over his career and thus had made a lot of enemies. So if he was killed -- as seems likely to me -- then the list of suspects is a long one.

But his list of friends was long as well, and it happens that I have known a couple of them over the years and neither of them believed that Bill Colby died in a canoe accident.

But even if the list of enemies is long, and you're working your search for suspects backward from the date of Colby's death, the first thing you notice is that last people that Bill Colby both pissed off and frightened -- a bad combination -- were the Clintonistas responsible for the Waco massacre and its cover-up.

I do know this: the man I received information about Andreas Carl Strassmeier from -- the Virginia driver's license and Social Security number provided him by Vincent Petruskie, a CIA employee -- the information that pulled me into the private investigation of the OKC bombing, was a friend of Bill Colby's and he was perfectly happy to embarrass the Clintonistas and the FBI through the cut-out of an Alabama militia leader.

And it wasn't just the Waco tape that placed Colby on the White House mortal enemies' list. At the time of his death, Bill Colby was still a world-traveler and consultant to many corporations. He had recently became an editor of a financial newsletter, Strategic Investment, which covered the Vince Foster "suicide" in detail.

Its editors hired three renowned handwriting experts to investigate Foster's suicide note, which hadn't been found when his briefcase was first searched, but later materialized, torn into pieces, with no fingerprints on any of the pieces. Upon comparing this document with others of Foster's writings, these experts declared it was a forgery, and a not very good one at that.

So, the Clintonistas had good reason to want him dead.

I tell you all of this to get to this point:

When we become concerned that the Clintonista cover-up artists of the 90s (one of whom is now the nation's "top cop", Eric Holder) might take retaliatory actions against the several ATF whistleblowers who are now threatening to make that agency's many scandals an item of public discussion, it is important to remind them that we are in a new day.

Just as there will be no more free Katrinas and no more free Wacos, just as there will be no more free Oklahoma Citys and no free stolen elections, there will be no more free Bill Colbys.

They understand exactly what I'm talking about, even if some of you, gentle readers, do not.

So if the Holder crowd -- the Obamanoid Clintonista Cabal -- is tempted to fall back on old habits and make the "Zorros" and the "Waldos" who threaten the exposure of their wrongdoing go away in a traffic "accident" or while canoeing they had best understand one thing up front -- There will be no more FREE William Colbys either.

Unfortunately these are the kinds of unpleasant topics which must be discussed when the "cops" are in fact criminals themselves. If the rule of law no longer protects the people, it no longer protects criminals operating under color of law either.

So, if you are an "official" scofflaw, it is still safer to mend your ways and to stick to the rule of law, even if you and your administration are both embarrassed by it. Better to be embarrassed than terminally embarrassed.

Mike
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"When the oath was given, his heart said, 'destroy, dissolve, and leave defenseless the Constitution of the United States, so help me Me.'"

From Vanderleun by way of Pete at WRSA:

Obama after the GOP sweep.

This man hates the culture that produced him and with reason. Far from reining him in, the coming destruction of the Democrats only frees him to get his hate on in a more direct and unrestrained manner.

Elected under the cloak of being a "uniter," this is a man whose one central wish is to disassemble the Constitution and the United States at the same time. When the oath was given, his heart said, "destroy, dissolve, and leave defenseless the Constitution of the United States, so help me Me."

He doesn't need the congress to go on. He's the commander in chief without an anchor or a center. He can do quite enough all by himself.

Depend upon it.

"Man up or get out of the way." Womenfolk sneer at male Threepers.

In the spirit of "Mad Anne" Bailey.

From Pete at WRSA.

C.O.W.L. (Acronym for the Coalition Of Willing Lilliputians). Here's another hint about the identity of Waldo.

The cowl (from the Latin, cuculla meaning "hood and rope") is a hood worn by members of religious orders. It also refers to a long, hooded cloak, with wide sleeves, worn by some Catholic and Orthodox monks when participating in the liturgy. Developed in the Middle Ages, they became the formal garment for those in monastic life. They were worn to give warmth to people who often spent long hours in unheated and drafty churches. . .

They are most commonly bestowed upon the monk at the time of his making solemn, or lifetime, vows. They are generally worn in conformity with the color of the monk's tunic, with the Benedictines wearing black, and other groups which follow the Rule of St. Benedict, e.g., the Camaldolese and Cistercians, wearing some form of white. Carmelites wear a white cowl, although their tunic and scapular are brown. Dominicans also wear black cowls, although over a white tunic and scapular. The cloak, with a hood, is also worn by nuns, in the same manner.

Some orders which are not part of the Benedictine tradition do not make use of this cloak. However, the Franciscans, Carthusians and Dominicans all wear cowls.

Among the Eastern Christians (Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholics) the cowl developed into the koukoulion worn by monks of the Great Schema, the highest degree of monasticism in the Eastern Church. Currently the koukoulion is of two types: one is similar to the hood still worn by some Western monastic orders, the other takes the form of a stiff rounded hat (like a bowler hat without a rim) to which is attached an epanok. -- Wikipedia.

Go figure that one out little Jimmy.

Viva Zorro! (And he made some new friends this week.)

Just confirmed by Waldo. The only question now is, how soon will we see those South Korean Garands?

In memorium SFC Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver

From Pete at WRSA comes some links recalling Studies and Observation Group SFC Jerry Shriver. (Note silenced M-3 submachine gun above.)

"Alice-in-Wonderland defense."

How about we just knock the Red Queen on her ass and bust the Looking Glass?

Dollar falls, commodities (read oil, read metals, read ammunition) will be more expensive.

Oh, joy.

Dollar fall sparks stability warnings

Financial Times
By David Oakley and Peter Garnham in London and Michael Mackenzie in New York

October 14 2010 19:55

The dollar tumbled against most major currencies on Thursday, prompting warnings that the weakness of the world’s reserve currency could destabilise the global economy and push other countries into retaliatory devaluations to underwrite their exports.

Increasing expectations the Federal Reserve will pump more money into the US economy next month under a policy known as quantitative easing sent the dollar to new lows against the Chinese renminbi, Swiss franc and Australian dollar. It dropped to a 15-year low against the yen and an eight-month low against the euro.

The dollar index, which tracks a basket of currencies, reached its lowest level this year.

A senior European policy-maker, who asked not to be named, said a further aggressive round of monetary easing by the US Federal Reserve would be “irresponsible” as it made US exports more competitive at the expense of its rivals.

Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist for BNY Mellon, said: “In narrow terms, the US is winning the currency wars as a weaker dollar will help its economy, but it could damage the other big economic blocs of China, Japan and Europe.”

The dollar’s fall was given fresh impetus after the Monetary Authority of Singapore surprised the market when it tightened policy by widening the trading band for its currency, allowing it to appreciate. The move by the Singapore authorities, responding to fears over inflation, helped push up other Asian currencies.

Russia’s finance minister Alexei Kudrin, in a meeting with European Union officials, blamed the US – and others – for global currency instability.

He said one reason for exchange rate turmoil “is the stimulating monetary policy of some developed countries, above all the United States, which are trying to solve their structural problems in this way”.

Commodities, which are mostly traded in dollars, were boosted by the US currency’s slide. Copper hit a two-year high of $8,490 per tonne at one point, while gold surged to a record of $1,387 per troy ounce. . .

Just stumbled across this video.

Welcome today to all our .mil folks.

Especially, the army.mils at Fort Huachuca, AZ and Petersburg, VA and the Naval Operational Support Center at Virginia Beach, VA. Hope y'all learn something while you're here.

Mike
III

Along the lines of things everybody knows but are usually too afraid to say, the subject of ATF Economic Wacos rears its ugly head.

In a post at Subguns.com on the subject of the vagaries of ATF policies and procedures, a fellow calling himself Iron Horse Tamer offers his technical opinions. It is his last opinion, however, that rings indisputably true.

We can't know for sure how the ATF thinks however, this is what I've been able to put together over the years.

1) Sear host must be in the same family as the intended weapon.

2) The sear host should use the same fire control parts in the same relative telemetry as the original.

3) The new conversion caliber should not radically increase the destructive capacity of the weapon. Changes in caliber that weaken a firearm such as sub-cal conversions are preferred.

4) Concern is raised when new uppers do not use the lower for ammunition feeding as originally designed. Note that in addition to the shrike using the same caliber, also preserves the ability to use mags as originally intended.

5) Open-bolt uppers face a high level of scrutiny as they can usually be made to function in absence of a lower without much effort.

6) New weapons made from existing receivers, side plates or tubes should not require modification of the registered part, such as cutting, welding, or drilling.

7) No party testifying against the ATF will ever get anything approved.

Of course there are minor exceptions to all of these (except perhaps the last one).

#7 is absolutely true. This I know from observed experience.

When Kenneth Melson took over ATF, there was a brief moment when it looked like scientific standards and fair treatment might take over.

Now it seems he's just another corrupt gun cop covering up for the rest, willing to stand by while economic Wacos are perpetrated by his agency on FFL holders and firearms designers and manufacturers in revenge for their political opinions, their truthful testimony in court, or both.

Mike
Coalition of the Willing Lilliputians
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Interesting discussion of the Kalashnikov.

At the risk of starting another interminable, AK vs AR vs 7.62 NATO battle rifle flame war. . .

From Pete at WRSA comes this interview with the author of a new book on the AK-47 series rifle.

Snippets:

One common misperception is that the AK-47 is reliable and effective, therefore it is abundant. This is not really the case. The weapon's superabundance, its near ubiquity, is related less to its performance than to the facts of its manufacture. Once it was designated a standard Eastern Bloc arm, it was assembled and stockpiled in planned economies whether anyone paid for or wanted the rifles or not. This led to an uncountable accumulation of the weapons. And once the weapons existed, they moved. Had the weapon not been hooked up to the unending output of the planned economy, it would have been a much less significant device. If it had been invented in Liechtenstein, you might have never even heard of it.

And one of the reasons it became ubiquitous in American militia units in the 90s was that those planned economy factories continued to crank them out after the fall of Communism because it was the one thing they knew how to produce and they were CHEAP to buy by U.S. standards. Same goes for the SKS. They had been made in the millions, were just sitting there, and could be sold for quick foreign exchange. Ironically, the American militias made up of anti-collectivists were armed largely with weapons built by collectivists for the overthrow of capitalism.

Two other factors merit consideration. First, the Kalashnikov is eminently reliable and incomparably abundant, but it's not a miracle weapon. Nor is it ideal for all uses. It is, for example, stubbornly mediocre in terms of its accuracy at even medium ranges. At the longer ranges common to fighting in arid environments, it's not a good choice. So it might not be the best weapon for the West right now even if the Pentagon somehow wanted to issue them. Second, American arming decisions are tied to NATO and to alliance-wide decisions. Changing rifles is a woefully complicated process. The status quo is a powerful thing.

And although the Kalashnikov continues to be very popular in American constitutional militia units because it is less expensive than most other semi-auto rifles, it is ill-equipped to win the "300 Meter War."

Probably just a shortage of worshipful sycophants for His Royal Narcissist.

Poor Barack.

According to his wife, Michelle Obama, Mr. Obama is not particularly fond of the presidential retreat at Camp David. Mrs. Obama reports that her husband, a longtime resident of Chicago, is more at ease in an urban setting.

An Original Three Percenter: The Saga of "Mad Anne" Bailey, Revolutionary War heroine.

"Mad Ann" Bailey was born Anne Hennis in Liverpool, England, in 1742 and came to America at age 19, probably as an indentured servant. Her first husband, Richard Trotter, was killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant, West Virginia on 10 October 1774. Fought at the confluence of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, the bloody, day-long battle pitted Colonel Andrew Lewis' 1,100 Virginia militiamen against a like number of Indians lead by the Shawnee Chieftain Cornstalk. At times Cornstalk and his braves held the upper hand, but eventually the firepower of the rifles of the backwoodsmen proved superior on the heavily forested battlefield. Ultimately, 230 Indians were killed or wounded and more than 50 Virginians had lost their lives, including Anne Trotter's husband.

Considered to be "the first battle of the American Revolution," the Point Pleasant action broke the power of the Shawnee and their allies in the Ohio Valley and prevented a general Indian war on the frontier. More importantly, it prevented an alliance between the British and Indians which could very possibly have caused the Revolution to have a different outcome. This forcible peace enabled western Virginians to return across the Allegheny Mountains to aid Revolutionary forces.

Grief-stricken and hungry for vengeance, Anne left her son William with a neighbor named Mrs. Moses Mann, then joined the militia, took up "male dress," the rifle and the tomahawk, and became a frontier scout, messenger, spy, and Indian fighter. She was the subject of many adventures both true and legendary. She became known as the "White Squaw of the Kanawha", but was more widely known as "Mad Anne". Also called the "Heroine of the Kanawha Valley," she is still considered something of a patron saint in the hills and hollers of West Virginia.

She married her second husband, John Bailey, a frontiersman and ranger, about 1785 and moved with him to Clendenin's Settlement in the Great Kanawha Valley near present-day Charleston, West Virginia.

Her most famous exploit was in 1791 when Fort Lee, near Charleston, was under siege by Indians. When the fort's powder supply ran low, Anne volunteered to go for help. She escaped the fort and the besiegers, rode a hundred miles to Fort Union (present-day Lewisburg, West Virginia), and returned on the third day with powder, thereby saving the men and the fort. This incredible feat was later memorialized in the poem Anne Bailey’s Ride. She remained on duty until 1795 where the Treaty of Greenville ended the Northwest Indian War.

In 1794, John Bailey was murdered near Point Pleasant, Virginia and after that she lived with her son but still traveled and visited friends. A few years after her second husband's death, she traveled to Alabama, apparently to visit her stepson, Abram Bailey. When her son and his family left Virginia for Harrison Township, Gallia County, Ohio in 1818 she went with them. There, even in her old age, she taught school and continued to travel until her death on 22 November 1825.

Her remains were later moved to Point Pleasant, now named Tu-Endie-Wei State Park, the site of her first husband's death.

The first rock of what should turn out to be an avalanche burying the criminals in the ATF Chief Counsel's Office. Will Jeff Sessions redeem himself?

"Officials with the ATF declined to comment to WND."

I'll bet they did.

Here's the question that WND needs to ask -- If they want to know why and how that report was written the way it was, Unruh should ask the rabidly anti-firearm ATF Deputy Assistant Director for Firearms Enforcement Programs and Services (formerly ATF Chief Counsel's Office conspirator and Little Jimmy Vann's old boss lady) Teresa Ficaretta. And if Unruh can't get them to talk, perhaps Jeff "We don't want to talk about that" Sessions can prove he's NOT covering up for ATF command miscreants by sending them a letter asking that and other pointed questions about the cover-up he has hitherto actively declined to notice.

Here's an idea: why don't you, gentle readers, contact your Senators and ask them to look into this scandal? Especially the ones who have already indicated interest by signing the letter to Hillary Clinton protesting the decision. Remember when you make your case, this was APPROVED by the State Department. It was the anti-firearm agenda criminals in the Chief Counsel's Office of the ATF who decided differently and ordered that a report be fabricated supporting their prejudices. A list of these Senators can be found here.

Mike Vanderboegh
The alleged leader of a merry band of Three Percenters and charter member of the Coalition of Willing Lilliputians versus the ATF Gulliver Beast.
III

Be advised that at least one story about the ATF Garand Importation Scandal and Coverup is now working and about to break.

A disparate coalition of the willing Lilliputian freedom fighters versus the ATF Gulliver Beast. That's me standing near the ATF's chin. (I live rent free between his ears.) Waldo is crawling around in his shorts placing tiny C-4 demolition bags.

At least one. Or so CPT R. A. Bear tells me. Here's David Codrea's latest take on the story along with the official ATF document that was invented to justify the ban. And I do mean INVENTED. That's what the scandal is about.

It may one day be entitled, "The Legend of Zorro."

Mike
III

Militia Discount Sale Update

Orders are coming in now to the PO box for the "Militia Discount" sale.

I will be taking what orders I have in hand and going to pick up the gear on Friday morning and begin shipping on Friday afternoon. Still plenty of everything.

Mike
III

LATER WRINKLE: If you send me a personal check (or non-bank money order) or one drawn on a bank that doesn't have a local branch in Birmingham, my S&L (Rosey's actually) will hold the check for ten business days. Nothing I can do about that, unfortunately. Anyone who has not yet sent an order and has the option, please use a Postal Money Order. Thanks.