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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Who's afraid of the big, bad, narrow-assed dictator?

More secret political police follies. Lawmaker accuses FBI official of faulty testimony on how bureau handled al-Awlaki.

"Faulty testimony"? Isn't another word for that perjury?

Money quote:

During testimony earlier this month before Wolf’s appropriations subcommittee, which has oversight of the FBI, the congressman questioned whether a decision by the FBI to let al-Awlaki walk away from a federal arrest warrant in 2002 was evidence the bureau wanted to work on terrorism cases with the cleric as an informant.

Giuliano insisted to the committee that the FBI would have incarcerated the cleric if it had been possible, but the warrant was weak. But Wolf, in his letter, made clear he didn't buy that explanation.

“I would like you to provide for the record whether the FBI or other federal agencies ever approached, cultivated or targeted Aulaqi or Hasan (the alleged Fort Hood shooter) to be potential confidential informants. I believe this additional information would help reconcile Aulaqi’s comments with the bureau’s actions – and perhaps clarify why the FBI was reluctant to take more aggressive investigative actions with regard to Aulaqi.”

What is it about this cop compulsion to kill dogs -- any dogs?

Cop blows away dog 'for no good reason'

FOX Exclusive: Long-awaited 'Furious' report places blame on ATF, Justice.

Now we shall see who rolls.

Charlie Daniels: "America Will Be Brought To Her Knees, In Prayer Or In Ruin."

"This nation is not just divided, it is fragmented and growing worse by the day as Obama pours fuel on the fire by making statements like 'Clinging to God and guns' painting a whole segment of the population as a gaggle of narrow-minded fanatics, providing fodder for the 'intelligencia' to belittle a group of people they neither appreciate nor understand, while those of us who unashamedly do cling to our God and our guns stand defiantly by our beliefs.

Praxis: Miniature killer drones

Army Wants Tiny Suicidal Drone to Kill From 6 Miles Away

Well, well. Gunwalker Conspiracy Criminal Eric Holder Jr. Set to Speak at Old Miss Fall Honors Convocation

"Oh, NOOOO! Vanderboegh's coming!"

“We are delighted that our students will be sitting at the table with a public figure who’s been tested by fire,” Sullivan-González said. “He will surely have thought-provoking insights into the challenges of public service and the reasons for choosing that route and sticking with it.”

I am informed that the University of Mississippi is giving away free tickets at the University Box Office located in the Student Union. If you are in their area, stop by and get your free tickets and pick up an extra two or three for me and my friends who might like to drop by and ask Eric Some questions. I'll even wear my Fast and Furious tee shirt for the occasion. Send the tickets to P.O. Box 926, Pinson, Al 35126.

LATER: A friend just emailed me with this comment -- "Announcing the Mike Vanderboegh bail fund…." Pretty funny.

Obama: ‘I have never been a Muslim’

President’s personal accounts reveal inconsistencies.

Guns for growth in Idaho

Idaho aims for jobs through manufacturing arms.

Tip of the boonie hat to TA for the link via SurvivalBlog.com

NAFBPO Briefing to Congressman Steve Pearce (NM), 18 Aug. 2012

Link.

Nice. How to make a Mosin Nagant rifle crate coffee table. Needs only a sticker that says, "In case of Gestapo raid, break glass."

The frag grenade legs are a nice touch.

Sorry the posts and comments are a bit late today . . .

It's been a bit rough.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Bob Woodward Inadvertently Confirms The Coming Economic Apocalypse.

"Suppose we have an auction and no one shows up?"

More of the gift that keeps on giving.

Mexican weapons cache uncovered may be linked to Fast & Furious.

This just in from the Issa Committee

Tuesday’s Hearing Featuring DOJ Inspector General Rescheduled for Wednesday, September 19

WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today announced that the hearing previously scheduled for tomorrow to examine the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on Operation Fast and Furious has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 19. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has confirmed his attendance for the September 19th hearing where he will discuss his report of the investigation into reckless conduct in Operation Fast and Furious.

Hearing Details

“IG Report: The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General Examines the Failures of Operation Fast and Furious”

Wednesday, September 19th in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building and streaming online at http://oversight.house.gov.

Witness

* Inspector General Michael Horowitz, U.S. Department of Justice

Charles G. Koch: Corporate Cronyism Harms America

I'll go him one better. Corporate cronyism is treason, and ought to be punished as such. The Founders made the same critique of the Crown and the British mercantilists.

Jesse Trentadue on TalkingStickTV: Death, Lies, and Revenge in Federal Custody

Long but well worth the time.

Obama Thugs Rough Up Gallup For Polls They Don’t Like

Casting doubt on the future prospects of Dear Leader will get you a visit from the Justice Department.

In a scene right out of a typical authoritarian regime, Fox News reports that “employees at the venerable Gallup polling firm suggested they felt threatened by Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod when he questioned the methodology of a mid-April poll showing Mitt Romney leading the president – according to internal emails published Thursday.” That poll that sent Axelrod ballistic showed Romney leading Obama 48-43 percent.

Praxis: Item Number One On The Long List Of Things NOT To Do When You're Stoned.

Police: Michael Smeriglio accidentally shoots off his penis and testicle; friend arrested on drug charge.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Anti-Obama Pic #2 Political Documentary: Now Bigger Than 4 of 5 Michael Moore Movies

It’s a heated contest between conservatives vs liberals in the political documentary genre, too. 2016 Obama’s America grossed $26.2M by end of today (give or take some bucks) and passed 4 of Michael Moore’s five political documentaries to become the #2 all-time biggest.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.