Attack of Batman's troll.

Holy troll, Batman!

Lefty with a Gun

Where's the Batman adult supervision? Robin's a troll, certainly.

What if Pearl Harbor just happened and nobody noticed?

For the rest of us, the lesson is that we should probably think twice before entrusting the federal government with our own information. Because if the feds can't protect their own sensitive data, on behalf of people who work for the federal government, how good a job are they likely to do on behalf of the rest of us mere citizens?

Look out military vehicle collectors, FOX News is coming for your half-track.

I found myself screaming at the television screen this morning while watching a segment focusing on the availability of military vehicles to the civilian market. They featured (and POV criticized) the offering of an M75 APC on eBay. Statements were made by the "reporter" (whose name I didn't catch and I cannot find the segment posted on FOX's website yet) and agreed to with approval and tongue-clucking by talking head Steve Doocy that "civilians have no need to own military vehicles." I get a real allergic reaction to statements that begin, "civilians have no need to own . . ." (Insert collectivist appetite of the day, semi-automatic rifles, "assault magazines," 3-D printers, etc.) I would be interested to have a statement from the Military Vehicle Preservation Association (MVPA) about their position on this outrageous segment, and have emailed them for their reaction.

LATER: For those of you who Facebook, you might want to let Doocy understand the depth of his stupidity: https://www.facebook.com/SteveDoocy

Still Later: Here's the link -- Shocking items available on eBay

Americans say, "We Like Living In Neighborhoods With Guns, Thank You."

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters would feel safer living in a neighborhood where nobody was allowed to own a gun over one where they could have a gun for their own protection. Sixty-eight percent (68%) would feel safer in a neighborhood where guns are allowed, while 10% are not sure.

"Merging ATF into FBI is a formula for disaster."

"Son, you can't fix anything until you figure out why it broke." I concur.

MBV: Again, if John Dodson has worked for the FBI instead of ATF, his remains would have been found months later in the Arizona desert and no one would have ever heard of Fast and Furious.

You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History

"Prosecutors are able to apply the law broadly because they do not have to show that the person deleting evidence knew there was an investigation underway. "

Five Hundred

The mismatch did not exist back when America was a country content to be run by its citizens; that didn’t aspire to be run by elites who were nothing but media creations. The earlier America didn’t need an experienced thug for president. It could rely on its freedom to be a superior, productive society as a trump. For it was the country — not the elites — that beat its rivals. When you let America be itself it simply overwhelmed the opposition. All the cleverness of Hitler or Stalin did them no good. They still lost the Second and Cold Wars to an America of ordinary free people.

Marines, corpsman refuse to testify against sergeant at retrial in Iraqi killing

"Despite offers of immunity from prosecution, four ex-Marines and a former Navy corpsman have refused to testify against Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins in his retrial in the 2006 killing of an Iraqi."

Police Officer Negligent Discharges

This is rich. In spite of the silly article that Bob Owens wrote on the Glock and the silly accusations in this article, the truth does come out. . . Thus they have trained officers to keep their fingers on the trigger of their handguns when they deploy their firearms. They say so. Think about that and let it wash over you again. When a cop pulls his handgun and points it your direction, according to the training he has received, he most likely has his finger on the trigger of the weapon. And thus do we reach the root cause of the problems – not Glocks, or M&Ps, or any other ridiculous culprits. It’s a shame that Bob couldn’t have pointed out the truth rather than blame the gun. Blaming the gun is what gun controllers do, and why the collectivists wanted the so-called smart gun.

Taking the rest of this Lord's day off.

I'm going to be spending some of it in prayerful reflection of what this coming week will bring and request God's guidance for how I should best face it. Understand that this is the most dangerous armed civil disobedience action that has yet been taken in any state. If the authorities miscalculate out of ignorance or arrogance, people could very easily end up dead. And it wouldn't end there. Keep us in your prayers.

And we Southern folks would like to thank all you northern collectivists from the bottom of our hearts.

But, but, the ChiComs are our friends, right?

Officials: Second Hack Exposed Military and Intel Data

See also: Backed By China, a Massive Narco-Army Angles for More Power in Myanmar.

"Guns in Your Face." Well, we won the open carry fight in Texas at long last, and Gail Collins of the New York Times wets her panties over it.

Finally, after armed civil disobedience rallies at places all over Texas (proud to say I've spoken at three myself) we now have have open carry in Texas: At Shooting Range, Abbott Signs "Open Carry" Bill

But Gail Collins of the New York Times wails, "We’ve moved from the right to bear arms to the right to flaunt arms."

In Texas, where open carry had been banned since the post-Civil War era, protesters staged demonstrations all around the state, toting their guns to family restaurants and storming the State Capitol, where they confronted one unsympathetic lawmaker in his office. In response, the Legislature enabled House members to install panic buttons in their offices, and then legalized open carry for Texans with gun permits.

Get used to it, lady. In the process, she also admits the racist roots of gun control:

Some commentators have attributed the whole open-carry phenomenon to white American men trying to work out their insecurities. . . . Still, you can’t help but notice that there’s a certain demographic consistency to the people who are making a scene over their right to display arms. It wasn’t always that way. California passed its first ban on open carry in the 1960s in response to the Black Panther Party.

“The Legislature was debating an open-carry law when 30 Black Panthers showed up at the Statehouse with their guns,” said Adam Winkler, a professor of law at U.C.L.A. and the author of “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.”

“The same day Gov. Ronald Reagan made a speech, saying there’s no reason why a law-abiding person should be carrying a gun on the street.”

Maybe the way to turn this debate around would bring new recruits into the gun rights movement. “If open-carry advocates today were Marxist-leaning black radicals,” said Winkler, “we might have a very different situation.”

Wouldn't make a darn bit of difference to me, but Collins admitting these racist roots of modern gun control is fine by me too. It is on a par with Bloomberg's admission he wants to disarm black folks.

"Green Beret Hero Faces Court Martial"

He Reported on Illegal Ransom Paid for Bowe Bergdahl

Bystanding. My favorite line from The Guns of Navarone.

Mallory: You think you've been getting away with it all this time, standing by. Well, son... your bystanding days are over! You're in it now, up to your neck! They told me that you're a genius with explosives. Start proving it! (Gestures with his pistol.) You've got me in the mood to use this thing, and by God, if you don't think of something, I'll use it on you! I mean it.

Exchange with an unrepentant linker.

Referring to this statement of policy, "Anonymous said...

Respectfully disagree, Dutchman6!

To paraphrase Plucky Duck, "No! Stop! Not my turn to write the blog! Your turn to write the blog! Not my turn to screen the comments! Your turn to screen the comments!"

If I see an article that I think you need to see, I'm gonna post the link in a comment. Period. Because it's the quickest most convenient way for me to get it to your eyes and potentially the eyes of the other SSI readers at my disposal. If you want to dump it, that's your decision. Your blog, your rules. If screening comments is becoming too much of a time eater, and I can see where it could, bring in a screener.

To which I replied:

Then they will keep getting deleted. Period. If you want to get me to look at something, send it in an email. There is no difference to you in time, there is plenty difference to me. And advice to "get a screener" is worse than useless. You think that hasn't occurred to me? But with that position comes keys to the kingdom -- passwords, access, trust that their judgment is as informed as mine and reflects my own intentions. People who meet that standard can be counted on one hand and they are all busy as hell themselves. It's like people who tell me, "you should do this," or, "you should do that," without volunteering to make it happen or contributing anything to their bright idea. I may wish in one hand and shit in the other but my Grandpa Vanderboegh long ago told me which fills up first. Again, if you want to send a link, send it email where I can at least see who it's coming from. Otherwise, it's deleted. Period. And all you're doing otherwise is adding to my workload. Thanks for all the help.

Hope to see you at the Arms Expo in Yakima.

I'll be on the ground in Yakima for the Arms Expo next week, sticking our collective thumb in Bloomberg's eye by staging a background check free gun show. I will be speaking, of course, and I've been giving some thought to holding teach-ins on the following subjects:

1. "Armed civil disobedience, theory and practice."

2. "Hypothetical construction of hypothetical improvised munitions (hypothetically, of course.)"

3. "Fourth Generation Warfare in a 21st Century American Civil War."

WTF? North Korea? "James Boulware: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know."

The 2013 criminal complaint makes interesting reading. This guy obviously has some personal demons in his head.

On April 30th 2013, the complainant (Boulware's mother) had gone into the kitchen to make her something to eat when the suspect (Boulware) began making comments about North and South Korea, and began talking rudely about religion, Jews, and Christians towards the complainant. Witness Robert Gaither (Boulware's uncle) was in the living room and heard the suspect become agitated toward the complainant. The complainant made the comment to the suspect about "going to hell," when the suspect suddenly grabbed the complainant's throat with both of his hands and began squeezing on the complainant's neck.

So after trying to choke his own mother:

Boulware left his mother’s house and went to his brother’s home in Paris, Texas, where he removed several guns, rifles, body armor and several boxes of ammunition and left. His family told police Boulware had recently made comments about “shooting up schools and churches.”

Another collectivist self-appointed psychiatric expert weighs in on our "delusions."

Julius Streicher (before).

"Conservatives are Delusional About Facts on Guns." Well, there are "delusions" and then there are shure 'nuff delusions that can get you killed. Witness this statement:

The good news is there is a compromise available. The word "arms" in the constitution has not been specifically defined, which means it is open to interpretation. Instead of trying to outlaw guns, gun control advocates should simply outlaw the manufacture and sale of bullets. The second amendment would remain intact while gun deaths would fall dramatically. If legislators are uncomfortable with this option, the same thing could be accomplished by increasing the taxes on guns and bullets making them unaffordable for many of the mentally unstable individuals that commit these mass murders. Either way everyone wins.

Who's being delusional now? This guy wants to start a civil war that will probably end with him tried as an enemy of the Constitution, stood against a wall and shot. Hypothetically, of course. My comment is posted below:

"The good news is there is a compromise available. . . gun control advocates should simply outlaw the manufacture and sale of bullets. . . Either way everyone wins."

Talk about delusional. Starting a bloody civil war seems an odd way to "prevent gun violence." Especially when, hypothetically speaking, that civil war would likely end with the author being stood against a wall and shot as a dictatorship propagandist and domestic enemy of the Constitution. I think the line from Silverado applies here: "Son, we're going to give you a fair trial followed by a first class hanging." When, oh Lord, will tyrants and their apologists begin to understand that tyranny has personal consequences for the tyrants themselves? In the author's case, Julius Streicher is the example that springs to mind. Throughout history, when someone is served a warrant under the Law of Unintended Consequences, it usually comes as a distinct surprise to the violator who has delusions of invulnerability. Oops.

-- Mike Vanderboegh

GeorgeMason1776@aol.com

Julius Streicher (after).

Combat Helmets Have Moved Beyond Just Protection

Combat helmets have come a long way from their humble beginnings during World War I.

So just remember, boys and girls, when the bastards kick off our next civil war and you're policing up after the ambush, be sure and get their helmets. Even if you can't use the advanced communications built into them, you're denying the enemy an expensive, useful resource.