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Thursday, July 31, 2014
The Imperial Governor Cuomo screws himself. (And Obama and the Clintons are just tickled pink he has.)
U.S. Attorney Warns Cuomo on Moreland Commission Case
Andrew Cuomo’s Watergate?
Normally you would think that Holder would make sure this went nowhere, but Cuomo is no Obama pal and he has made no secret of the fact that he is definitely just waiting for Hillary to stumble so he can run for Prez in 2016, therefore making an enemy of the Clintons as well. What this is is a collectivist intra-gang shiv fight and Cuomo just provided the knife. Couldn't happen to a more deserving anal sphincter. One way or the other, this will also have an impact on the enforcement of the SAFE Act.
Trouble for Malloy in CT? Don't bet on it, but his real trouble will be coming in late October and I intend to deliver it.
Dannel Malloy Holiday Camp for Recalcitrant Connecticut Firearm Owners, opening soon (right after he gets re-elected).
Poll gives Foley 9-point edge over Malloy
Accurate or not, this poll which appeared two days ago was enough to scare Malloy into running onto the set of Morning Joe on MSNBC yesterday for a quick and free campaign commercial from Mika B.
What I hear is that Malloy has issued whispered, oh-so-quiet orders not have any enforcement of the Intolerable Act until after his re-election. After that, however, he will turn KGB Lawlor loose to wreak havoc. Voters in CT should be reminded forcefully that a vote for Malloy is a vote for the arrest and possible death of their friends and neighbors. Lord willing, I intend to go to CT just before the election in the last week of October to make that point. I will be in CO the week before that to do the same thing to Hickenlooper. I was asked while I was out in Colorado why I couldn't reverse the order and do that state after Connecticut. I replied, "because I'm pretty sure I'll survive Colorado but I don't expect to get out of Connecticut unscathed." Lawlor is said to have expressed a heart-felt wish for my demise. I'm going to give him and his bully boys in the Connecticut State Police the chance. The only question is, will Malloy like that image fresh in the voters' minds going into the voting booths? Keep me in your prayers.
Invasion of the Life Snatchers. Murder-bent firearms continue to smuggle themselves into Chicago, take over the minds of innocent youngsters and cause them to kill.
Once again we are treated to the meme "It's all the fault of the guns." "Gun violence rages in Chicago even as thousands of illegal guns are confiscated."This amazing story also includes this particular bit of brilliance:
“Nobody wants to face up to the fact that drugs and guns were deliberately dumped into the African-American community,” charges Stark, speaking on community cable station Can TV. “We don’t grow drugs in rooftop gardens in Chicago. We don’t manufacture guns in the basement. Somebody’s putting them there.”
Ah, of course, it's all the racist crackers' fault. The Klan, no doubt, has seen the inefficiency of their previous ways and -- in a vast mind control experiment reminiscent of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- now manipulate po' black folks to do their dirty work for them. Thus, this moron would have us believe, proving what simple-minded people of color the manipulated are -- just like the Klan has always said. Not only are black folks doing the killing at the white man's hidden direction, but they are also buying into Whitey's theories of racial superiority in the process. One wonders what the Deacons for Defense and Justice -- those who still live and those who have crossed over -- would make of this BS.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Obama: Muslims Built 'The Very Fabric of Our Nation'
"Well, gentlemen, since we all are of one sentiment on this, I suggest we begin with, 'Dear Mr. Obama, although we understand that your knowledge of history is quite fragmentary and therefore skewed, we must ask, are you out of your frigging mind?!?'"
"Allahu Akbar"
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Keep beating that "gun control" drum, you morons -- The closer to the election, the louder, the better.
The Senate is about to hold another hearing on "Protecting Women from Gun Violence."
Gee, I dunno, maybe they could fund giving every woman in the US her own carry pistol? Just thinkin' out loud.
Meanwhile: Everytown ‘gun violence against women' video makes great case for armed defense.
Issa, Grassley: Independent Review Needed of Suspect Gun Database Used in Operation Fast and Furious
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to update a 1996 report by re-examining all current systems and subsystems maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that contain retail firearms purchaser data in order to ensure compliance with legal protections against the government amassing data on law-abiding gun owners.
Letter.
Caught with her phony Second Amendment knickers down around her ankles.
The following link was forwarded to me by a long-time reader -- "The Michelle Nunn memos: 10 key passages." -- with this comment:
The leaked memo of Georgia senate candidate Michelle Nunn shows how her plans on how to solve the largest problems the campaign faces. Appearing anti-gun is one of them, and notice how out of touch the answer is about hunters - this appears to be another John Kerry style duck hunting bit to appeal to the Fudds.The high level campaign strategist also references how the gun owners should have licenses, showing exactly how much knowledge they have about gun ownership in a state like Georgia. How come almost none of these DC and NYC based clowns ever seem to grasp that in most states a "license" is not required to own a gun? It is amazing how such a basic fact escapes them time and time again despite making millions in consulting fees!
"8. Nunn will tout a group of gun-owning supporters “in September or October”Gun owners are a key constituency for Nunn, but the primary target is positive press. “It will allow the campaign to create messaging about Michelle Nunn’s moderate bona fides at a time when the Republicans are likely to be making her appear like a liberal,” one memo says. “Members of this group must have gun/hunting licenses. Depending on the size of the group and their names, this may become a newspaper advertising program or a tour just before hunting season begins.”
The only question I have now is, will she get the NRA endorsement or not?
New York DHS will pay you $500 to rat out ‘prepper’ neighbors buying legal goods
By way of Herschel Smith there is this: New York’s Division of Homeland Security is posting signs on businesses to encourage people to snitch on fellow citizens who buy such things as MRE’s (Meals Ready to Eat), ammunition, flash lights, match containers, gas masks and other items deemed to be ‘prepper’ in nature.
YouTube link.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Very rough weekend.
I'll have more later, but right now I've overslept and have to get Rosey to work.
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Cautionary Tale: "The mighty combustion of small events."
Governor Malloy of Connecticut and Sen. Harry Reid ought to read both of these articles and contemplate what relevance they have for each of them today. The mighty combustion of small events, and other lessons from the First World War and How Nicky and Willy could have prevented World War I.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Praxis/Logistics: Water
Received this email from a long-time Three Percenter:
Mike, I've owned and used a Simple Pump hand pump for over 6 years. I'll give it a solid thumbs up. http://www.simplepump.com/My well's draw depth is over 120 feet. The hand-stroke is easy, even my wife has no problem using this unit. You can co-locate the pump on your well head with an electric pump and use the same casing if you have a wide enough bore. ( Simple Pump's web site covers all of this in detail.)This is one of the few hand pumps in the world built to pump water from over 300 feet down. I'm constantly amazed at the deer in the headlights look I get from most prep-minded patriots when I ask them if they have a reliable supply of drinking water that is NOT dependent on their city mains or electrical power.Huh ?Yeah, water isn't "tacti-cool" or fun to talk about, but it's a fact that the average person will not last 4 days without water. Ask anyone who has humped a pack how important water is.Semper Fi,Joe
Friday, July 25, 2014
Anniversary: The murders at the Moore's Ford Bridge, 25 July 1946.
Praxis: "You need a lever-action rifle."(?)
I don't own a lever-action rifle, nor do any of my immediate family, although I did reload and put back a crate (300 rounds) of .30-30 for Matt just in case he ever runs into one (or to hand out to the neighborhood good old boys in the event of a zombie apocalypse). D.W. Smith at Bearing Arms says everybody needs one. Here is the case he makes:
Part One.
Part Two.
Part Three.
Welcome your comments.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
More from the perfumed princes of the Mandarin class.
Some senators, including Harry Reid, rarely go home; other senators do it constantly.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., maintains an impressive travel schedule, though one made possible in part by throwing money at the problem: He spent nearly a million tax dollars to have a private plane available in order to make 119 trips in three years. That put Schumer in third place in the Senate travel rankings.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Happy birthday to me.
I'm 62 today, but just right now I feel like 102. Will try to have some original material later.
"A great lesson in civics"?!? Camera-shy border thugs point guns at Boy Scouts.
Nice. Worse is what this boot-licking BSA official said later:
Charles Vonderheid with the Mid-Iowa Council Boy Scouts of America said Troop 11 learned a valuable lesson. “We want to make sure they follow the rules. A Scout is a good citizen. It would be a great lesson in civics for that young man and that troop,” he said.
Despicable Maryland Attorney General’s Office Lies in Support Of Assault Weapon Ban
“Assault weapons” are not a subclass of anything, but are instead a political creation of citizen disarmament advocate Josh Sugarmann which was supposed to confuse citizens about the differences between actual military firearms and normal sporting firearms that share similar appearances. They do not and cannot be readily converted to function as machine guns. Likewise, the phrase “unreasonably dangerous firearms” is a subjective matter of opinion, quite apart from objective fact.
See also: Moms Demand Founder Shannon Watts Is Fine With Gun Violence Threats From Liberals
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Class action suit settlement a setback for Philly anti-gun efforts
Well, call me crazy then.
Armed Mommy writing at Mad World News writes of the Left’s Latest Lunacy: “You Want More Than 10 Rounds to Kill US Soldiers.”
Here is the YouTube link. And here is the Stockholm syndrome poster boy Joe Scarborough's rant in print:
“I’m sorry, what deer hunter needs more than ten bullets in a clip? If you need more than ten in a clip, you need more than ten in a clip for one reason: you think the federal government’s coming to take your crops, y’know, to take your cows, or whatever and you want more than ten because you want to kill U.S. soldiers who come to your door. Why don’t we just say you’re a survivalist and that’s just stupid BS?”
As Armed Mommy points out:
So, if US Soldiers should receive an order to come onto my land and seize my private property, they would be violating that oath as well as my rights that are protected in the Constitution. In the event that the military is no longer working to defend our rights, but is violating them on behalf of a corrupt tyrannical administration, wouldn’t that be one definitive instance in which you would need your 2nd Amendment rights intact? Oh, but according to the logic of people like Mr. Scarborough using the 2nd Amendment to prevent tyranny is crazy talk though, right?
Well, call me crazy then, Joe.
Monday, July 21, 2014
"Local Police Stockpile Weapons Of War."
Remember the Battle of Athens? Looks like the local sheriff in McMinn County is getting ready for another.
McMinn County is located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. It boasts beautiful scenery, but its sheriff’s department can boast something else. The department received more military surplus guns than any other local department in the state last year. “We actually reconfigured the whole armory to accommodate all of this,” said Sheriff Joe Guy. Sheriff Guy oversees 31 officers and investigators, but his department received 161 army rifles and pistols, including 71 M16 rifles and 71 .45-caliber pistols.
Now I'm on record that this is a goodness thing, since it takes military assets and puts them out in the hinterlands where the armed citizenry can get their hands on it if, as and when. So I say, procure away!
The significance of this story which strikes at the root of regime legitimacy is that it appeared in Pravda-on-the-Potomac.
Obama aides were warned of brewing border crisis
Nearly a year before President Obama declared a humanitarian crisis on the border, a team of experts arrived at the Fort Brown patrol station in Brownsville, Tex., and discovered a makeshift transportation depot for a deluge of foreign children.Thirty Border Patrol agents were assigned in August 2013 to drive the children to off-site showers, wash their clothes and make them sandwiches. As soon as those children were placed in temporary shelters, more arrived. An average of 66 were apprehended each day on the border and more than 24,000 cycled through Texas patrol stations in 2013. In a 41-page report to the Department of Homeland Security, the team from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) raised alarms about the federal government’s capacity to manage a situation that was expected to grow worse.The researchers’ observations were among the warning signs conveyed to the Obama administration over the past two years as a surge of Central American minors has crossed into south Texas illegally. More than 57,000 have entered the United States this year, swamping federal resources and catching the government unprepared.The administration did too little to heed those warnings, according to interviews with former government officials, outside experts and immigrant advocates, leading to an inadequate response that contributed to this summer’s escalating crisis.
Later in the story there is this:
The former official said the agencies primarily in charge of border security, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, were “ringing alarm bells” within the administration.Meanwhile, top officials focused much of their attention on political battles, such as Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign and the push to win congressional support for a broad immigration overhaul, that would have been made more difficult with the addition of a high-profile border crisis. . .“Was the White House told there were huge flows of Central Americans coming? Of course they were told. A lot of times,’’ said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. “Was there a general lack of interest and a focus on the legislation? Yes, that’s where the focus was.’’
As if Fast and Furious never happened.
You gotta give collectivist propagandists their due. They sure know how to ignore facts that don't fit the meme. America's Wild-West Gun Laws Are Helping Fuel the Border Crisis
Sunday, July 20, 2014
AK-47s become hot commodity after U.S. sanctions
This link was sent to me by a reader along with this comment:
So just what is the 'surprising effect' the author suggests in the article title? Is it that Americans are keen to add a Russian AK to their collection in spite of Barry Hussein's EO? It shouldn't be. People always want to exercise their freedom in the face of tyranny, particularly Americans. Remember there have been over 100,000,000 NICS checks since the imposter has been POTUS! Also, the last sentence infers the rifles in hot demand and briskly selling now are full automatics. This is of course not true and is misleading to the uninformed and gullible, a typical and common government approved mass media tactic designed to prejudice the jury.
Donkey suicide bomb provides apt analogy for 2014 elections
Coffee spew alert -- Before It's Disinformation has the best "conspiracy" yet.
The Illuminati did it.
And by the way, for all of you Putin apologists, some of whom seem to reside in the Russian embassy in DC, your increasingly vituperative comments about how the Poles really did attack the German radio station (or the present equivalent thereof) will not be shared. You may certainly go to Before It's Disiniformation to post your rantings, but not here. It is important to remember Occam's Razor and that it is silly to attribute to conspiracy what can be more likely explained by venality, stupidity and obvious evil intent. In any case, it still makes my point about no first use of force and no targeting of innocents. And yes, Mark Matis, rage on for this means you as well.
Time and hurry. We can hope, but hope is not a plan, and it is certainly not the way to bet.
Something was telling him that he had very little time left. It was a mental itch that came, perhaps, with a nearly imperceptible change in the weather, a slight edge to the chill of the predawn. A sense of foreboding, perhaps, or was it a sense of excitement? A different rhythm in his heart. Whatever it was he sensed it. And he trusted it. . . something in the landscape seemed to speak to him, and today it said: hurry. -- Apacheria, a novel of alternate history, by Jake Page.
"This is the Site of LaGrange College. Chartered in 1830 by Act of the Legislature of Alabama. An Insitution of High Order for Men Attended Chiefly by Students From the Southern States. The College was Burned April 28, 1863 By Federal Cavalry Commanded by Colonel Florence M. Cornyn Under General Granville Dodge."
Yesterday I visited an old friend now confined to a hospital bed in Corinth, Mississippi. John Russell, as many of you know, is a veteran of the United States Army, a true American patriot, an accomplished teacher of various martial arts and maker of what are known by the untutored masses (which includes myself) as samurai swords. John is a brilliant man, a real renaissance kind of guy, a man who could use language as deftly as a katana to fillet an opponent before he even understood he'd been defeated. Yet now, as a result of a pair of severe strokes, his hands which crafted such works of martial beauty no longer fully respond to his will and, worse, his wit -- every bit as present now as when I first met this impressive man in a GP large tent in Texas in 1995 -- is trapped, unable to be expressed by dysphasia. Bob Wright, perhaps John's best friend, had been searching for him for weeks. We knew that something must have happened, but John's two sisters, his only remaining family, are (it is a matter of official record) both substance abusers and each accuse the other (or so I was told by a nurse) of being lying manipulators. As it happens, they are likely both right. In any case, although they knew of John's plight and that Bob was looking for him, it took a call to a county sheriff to tell us where John was. Once I found out that he was in Corinth, I immediately told Rosey that we had a road trip scheduled for Saturday.
Prior to yesterday then, John had little reason to doubt that he had been abandoned by his friends. By one of those odd coincidences that God sometimes presents, while I was there another of John's friends, a former martial arts student, also dropped by, having had to similarly track him down. John's beaming smiles that marked his reaction to two old friends showing up almost simultaneously gladdened our hearts. His case is by no means hopeless, and please keep John in your prayers as he goes through a difficult rehab process.
But even though John could not speak, it was evident that he wanted to know what was happening in the wider world, so I gave him a briefing of the situation as I understood it. There are, I told him, three battlefields where our increasingly sharp cold war with the regime can flash hot at any moment, places where we are entering the end game of where politics still matter just prior to someone getting shot because of official miscalculation.
"Hope is doing what has to be done because it is the right thing to do." -- Apacheria, p. 41.
I told John that the border crisis -- as important as it was to the regime's continuing crisis of legitimacy and despite the wall-to-wall coverage on the cable channels -- was a secondary, or even tertiary, threat. If we are to back down the domestic enemies of the Republic without immediate violence, we needed to achieve success on three battlefields: Colorado, Nevada and Connecticut.
Colorado, I told John, was the easiest fight to win. If the gun rights movement (in the largest sense) can keep the issue of Hickenlooper's folly in front of the voters in November, they will send him and his party on their way. The firearms liberty issue obviously still cut across party lines in Colorado as evidenced by the results of the recalls. A comprehensive defeat in CO to the efforts of Bloomberg and Co. would roll back the threat and reinforce in the bones of the elites of both political parties that the issue is poisonous to their appetites.
The second battlefield, I told John, was Nevada. Harry Reid has promised us that the Bundy standoff "isn't over." I explained the problems inherent with the Bundy embrace of the sociopath Ryan Payne and that defense of the Bundys would have to proceed from other approaches and different directions. The point, as I laid these out, was to give Harry Reid and his gambling titan masters something else to worry about besides the Bundys. As I explained some of the details he began to smile, big time.
The third, most critical, battlefield however, was Connecticut. Here -- although Malloy and his Commissar Lawlor are presently whispering to the state police that they want no incidents before the election -- our best information is that after his re-election, Malloy intends to begin enforcing the law in a big way. This is made more certain by the fact that the corrupt GOP can't get its act together. It will be, I predicted, reelection in November; raids by December; state police overwhelmed like Custer at Little Big Horn mere days after they declare this war on their own people; federal intervention immediately afterward, with universal civil war subsequent to that.
The only possibility to defer that, a slim possibility at that, is to convince CT voters that a vote for Malloy is a vote to kill their firearm-owning neighbors or put them in camps. I then told John some of what I had in mind to get this point across. He frowned, tried to speak, and failed, although I strained to understand. In the end, I told him to get better, as tough as that would be, for we needed every hand, every voice, in what was coming and that included his.
On the way home, I drove through countryside that had seen much devastation in the civil war of 1861-1865, places that I knew well from my travels across it years before, doing research on cavalry campaigns, Alabama unionists and United States Colored Troops. The road signs -- Corinth, Iuka, Florence, Tuscumbia, LaGrange, Town Creek -- were all markers along the path of the "Destroying Angels" of Colonel Florence Cornyn's cavalry brigade. I hadn't been this way in over a decade, and the examples of one civil war brought home to me the foreboding, the certainty almost, of another. We are nearly out of time. We must hurry to prevent what can be prevented, or failing that, to save what can be saved. We can hope, but hope is not a plan, and it is certainly not the way to bet.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
If I may be so rude as to point out to all you blood-thirsty bastards who dismiss the importance of the Three Percent refusal to target innocents. . .
Consider this latest example from the Ukraine. "Bodies rained down on Ukraine village after plane disaster." Do any of you think that old Vlad is blessing the day he gave these separatist thugs anti-aircraft missiles?
Friday, July 18, 2014
Trouble where the columbine blooms. "Someone forgot to explain to the Colorado voters how popular gun control laws are!"
The bison is gone from the upland,the deer from the canyon has fled,The home of the wolf is deserted,the antelope moans for his dead,The war whoop re-echoes no longer,the Indian's only a name,And the nymphs of the grove in their loneliness rove,but the columbine blooms just the same. -- Where the Columbines Grow, Colorado state song by A.J. Fynn.
From a faithful reader:
Cook Political Report Upgrades Gov Race from Likely D to Leans D"Hickenlooper's re-election position has now been downgraded from likely to only leaning Dem by the Cook Political Report - only one step above a tossup. And this is against a guy who lost by 17 points in a statewide race in 2006!"Q-PAC POLL TIED: Udall Spends Half His Cash…for Nothing (Because Gardner Is Really Ahead)"Senator Udall is now down two points in this poll released yesterday despite spending seven million dollars on his campaign so far. This race has been moved from leaning Dem to a pure tossup by Cook."Udall Down Four, Down Ticket All Red"And another poll released today has Udall down four. What could possibly be causing this when last year it appeared as if Udall and Hickenlooper would have easy wins? In late April, an extensive poll was done and the CO public opposed the new gun control laws by 17 points:"Poll from April."Someone forgot to explain to the Colorado voters how popular gun control laws are!"
"You're gonna need a bigger bottle of bleach." David Codrea takes on Colmes/Landru.
Unclear on the Concept
What an inflated sense of self-importance. Mike never sent trolls to your site, fella -- or whatever you are, seeing as how you fling your feces from behind a screen.He just pointed out how ridiculous Colmes' "Liberal Land" site is, and some people naturally wandered over to take a look at the freak show.Thing is, your entire premise demonstrates you don't even realize how ignorant you are, even with all the dots that need to be connected staring you right in the face. You seem to get there's a Star Trek reference in Mike's post, but then go on to equate Landru in a robe with "chic" cross-dressing.What is it with you "progressives," supposed champions of tolerance for alternative lifestyles, figuring the way to insult people is to equate them with trannies and tea-bagging homosexuals? I guess since you went there, I can too?
Prayer request
My friend John Russell, former Army Ranger from West Texas and former newsman at IRN Radio in Memphis, TN, is struggling with the effects of several strokes at the Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth, MS. I have known John for almost 20 years now and he is one of the old indomitables from the early constitutional militia movement. His prognosis is said to be poor. Please keep John in your prayers.
Ludicrous, but dangerous.
Maloney Calls for Investigation Into Threats From Pro-Gun Leader Larry Pratt
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., wants Capitol Hill law enforcement officials to investigate a prominent gun rights advocate’s praise for threats on her life, calling them evidence of “just how outrageous the extreme pro-gun movement has become.” In a Rolling Stone article published Monday, Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt is quoted saying that the Second Amendment is for “for restraining tyrannical tendencies in government … especially those in the liberal, tyrannical end of the spectrum.”
I hear Harry Reid did the same thing to me after my speech at the Bundy Ranch on 19 April.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Wanted: 20 7.62x39 Chinese military green tracer rounds
Have a journalist friend who is looking for 20 7.62x39 Chinese military green tracer rounds for forensic test purposes. He will pay top dollar. Must be Chinese military. Please respond to my email: GeorgeMason1776ATaolDOTcom.
Another NRA endorsed candidate goes down in flames.
Gary Palmer swamps Paul DeMarco in 6th District Republican runoff
The NRA endorsed DeMarco, who was widely seen from his time at the State House as a vacillating weenie who kept his own counsel and his finger in the wind. The NRA were by no means the only "smart money" types to get burned on this one, but Palmer now owes them nothing.
Now, an Oath Keepers hit piece.
Meet the Oath Keepers, a fast-growing, right-wing group that's preparing for the apocalypse.
Note the link description: "http://www.vocativ.com/usa/guns/anti-government-patriots-crusaders-armed-nut-jobs/." Nice.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Well, it took him long enough. No more Russian AKs. Obama imposes new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine.
Readers may recall this post from May: Why even the most isolationist and unconcerned Fudd should care about the Ukraine.
Now we finally have this: Obama imposes new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine.
In addition, the new sanctions freeze any U.S. assets and prohibit American business contacts for eight Russian arms companies that make weapons, including small arms, mortars and surface-to-air missiles. Also covered is the Kalashnikov Concern, maker of the AK-47 and other arms.
The text of the Treasury Department sanctions is here.
Imposition of Sanctions on Eight Firms Pursuant to E.O. 13661 for Operating in the Arms or Related Materiel Sector in the Russian FederationTreasury today has also designated and blocked the assets of Almaz-Antey, Federal State Unitary Enterprise State Research and Production Enterprise Bazalt, JSC Concern Sozvezdie, JSC MIC NPO Mashinostroyenia, Kalashnikov Concern, KBP Instrument Design Bureau, Radio-Electronic Technologies, and Uralvagonzavod pursuant to E.O. 13661 for operating in the arms or related materiel sector in the Russian Federation. The designated firms are responsible for the production of a range of materiel, from small arms to mortar shells to tanks. As a result of today’s action under E.O. 13661, any assets of the entities designated that are within U.S. jurisdiction must be frozen. In addition, transactions by U.S. persons or within the United States involving the entities designated today under E.O. 13661 are generally prohibited.Almaz-Antey manufactures surface-to-air missile systems currently used by the Russian military.Federal State Unitary Enterprise State Research and Production Enterprise Bazalt (“Bazalt”) is involved in the design and construction of air launched ordnance, rocket propelled grenades, and armored fighting vehicle ammunition. Bazalt’s manufacturing interests include aerial bombs, mortar shells, grenades, anti-tank and anti-saboteur grenade launchers, and projectiles of all types and calibers.JSC Concern Sozvezdie develops and produces high-tech control and communication systems, radio electronic warfare and special equipment for military forces. JSC Concern Sozvezdie focuses on three primary lines of production: military-oriented production, dual-purpose products, and dual-purpose products and professional communication and control systems. JSC Concern Sozvezdie’s main activities include producing and developing materiel including automated control systems and communication systems for the tactical sector, automated control systems and communication systems for anti-missile defense and air defense systems, and automated communication systems and electronic warfare tools. The company produces systems and devices related to electronic warfare, such as small manpack and portable jammers. The products are designed to disrupt enemy army operations, to reduce staff and equipment loss, and to improve the operation of armed forces by radio jamming of enemy weapon control systems based on radio frequencies.JSC MIC NPO Mashinostroyenia is a leading Russian rocketry company responsible for defense programs involving cruise missile complexes capable of surface, underwater, and ground platform-based launches. JSC MIC NPO Mashinostroyenia’s involvement in Russia’s strategic nuclear forces includes the manufacture of intercontinental ballistic rockets and the development of space systems, spacecraft, and automatic and manned orbital stations in support of Russia’s Ministry of Defense.Kalashnikov Concern produces a number of military weapons, including multiple grades and versions of assault rifles, grenade launchers, sniper rifles, military shotguns, and aircraft cannons. Kalashnikov Concern is the largest firearms producer in Russia and is a subsidiary of Russia’s State Corporation of Russian Technologies (Rostec).KBP Instrument Design Bureau is a research and production center that creates precision-guided weapons. KBP Instrument Design Bureau develops antitank missile systems and assault armaments, weapon systems for main battle tanks and lightly armored vehicles, guided artillery projectiles and guided missile systems, short-range air defense systems, gun armament and associated ammunition, combat small arms, and hunting/sporting guns.Radio-Electronic Technologies designs and produces electronic warfare equipment including weapons-control systems, friend-or-foe identification (IFF) systems, avionics, operational and tactical systems, electronic warfare and intelligence equipment, special measuring instrumentation, and plugs, electric connectors, and cable products.Uralvagonzavod is a Russian government-owned company that builds a variety of military equipment, including tanks.
I'm surprised that TulAmmo does not appear to be on the list. It is a privately-owned company.
Gee whiz. Didn't I hear somebody else saying the same thing?
A tip of the boonie hat to David Codrea for forwarding me this: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people.
Rolling Stone hit piece on Larry Pratt, wherein Dudley Brown ducks & Robert Farago is treated as if he really knows the difference between excrement & shinola.
The Zealot: Larry Pratt Is the Gun Lobby's Secret Weapon
In membership and resources, GOA lags behind not just the NRA, but also newcomers to the hardline scene like Dudley Brown's National Association of Gun Rights. NAGR claims to offer activists the "best bang for your pro-gun buck." But few in the gun-rights movement agree with this claim. "If you take a look at what NAGR actually does with its money, there isn't a whole lot," says Alan Gottlieb. "I don't see NAGR ever turning bodies out or being anywhere, basically. In all the states we're involved in, if we bump into them one out of every 20 times, I'd say that's a lot. GOA is in more places than NAGR is with less resources." (Brown declined to comment for this story.)
As well he might. The other day in Colorado I heard Dudley described as "the Morris Dees of the gun rights movement" -- that is, someone who is simply interested in pimping off a cause for money.
"I would say, yes, Pratt's conservatism will hinder him," says Robert Farago, publisher of TheTruthAboutGuns.com.
Speaking, no doubt, from his long experience in the automotive rights movement, er, ah, I mean the gun rights movement. No doubt that if Eastern European pancakes experience a resurgence in popularity, we can expect a new blog entitled, "The Truth About Blintzes."
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Channeling Landru.
"You are not of the body, Vanderboegh."
David Codrea draws our attention to the comments here: ‘Three Percenter’ Mike Vanderboegh: Enforce Laws And Somebody Is Going To Get Shot
David Codrea on "Eric's Insomnia"
Open Carry at the polls in Alabama -- and, wonder of wonders, no one was shot.
Open carry at the polls was no problem in Northport today for president of gun rights organization
Pelham voter openly wearing pistol casts ballot; cops called on group
Hey, who's that old guy?
Not everyone was successful: Alabaster man disarms to vote at church after encounter with sheriff's deputies
Bloomberg Rolling Stone gun comment shows continued ‘sexual blind spot’
Collectivists are never ones to miss a propaganda trick.
Did Archie also invent a cure for global warming before taking a bullet?
All of the hot topics of today are involved in the storyline: the death takes place in a future where Archie, Betty, Veronica, and everyone else are all adults, and Kevin Keller, the first openly gay character in the comics, is now a US Senator fighting for gun control.
Alan Colmes as Landru. Sentient, and non-sentient, observers. In retrospect, the whole Colmes interview left me profoundly depressed. . .
"You are not of the body!"
. . . especially when he brought in his callers. I was reminded of Mark 8:18: "Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?" I was also reminded of this passage from one of my insomniac readings recently:
Between 1837 and 1841, it became clear to sentient observers that an apocalyptic battle was looming between North and South; or, more accurately between Union and Slavery -- a struggle that would dwarf the acrimonious debates over economic policy that had dominated the previous decade. . . The storm was still two decades off, but its headwinds were already blowing fiercely. -- Ted Widmer, Martin Van Buren, page 15.
"Sentient observers." The word sentient is defined by Websters as "able to feel, see, hear, smell, or taste." Last night brought home to me once more something that I already knew from my experiences during my Benedict Arnold period: that we are really dealing with people who are truly, willfully and irretrievably NON-sentient. We inhabit differing world views, different realities, which is why they fall back on calling us names such as "paranoid" and "gun nuts" and "insane." We are, as David Codrea has pointed out, "not of the body" as collectivists see it. (See this video snippet.)
I'm done with being treated like a cartoon character and someone else's strawman. It was evident last night that the other side doesn't even view us as human, because if they did they would have to reconcile that with their own collectivist vision and the two are, in their world view, fundamentally incompatible.
We are not of their body, and we might as well forget arguing about it. The only thing to do when Landru sends his minions for you is to militarily defeat them. That will be my last Colmes Collectivist Cluster Coitus.
Monday, July 14, 2014
About to be on the Colmes Collectivist Communication Coital Cluster
He thinks he's going to ambush me. Should be fun.
LATER: Well, that was a bit more shouting than I was hoping for. However, he originally intended to ambush me in ten minutes and be done with me. He kept me over for the entire hour. I'll leave it to you to evaluate whether or not I represented our side as best I could.
Collectivist "journalist" Travis Gettys apparently gets all his story ideas from Sipsey Street.
"Suspicion has one thing in common with the usual virtues: it is only effective on condition that it allows of no exceptions." -- Robert Merle, Malevil.
Border militia plot evaporates into ‘cluster coitus’ as doubts arise over ‘commander’
I have been roundly criticized for my caution regarding the "Hey, let's run to the border and point rifles in the faces of children" plan of “Commander” Chris “Threepercenter” Davis. Davis apparently continues to disappoint in many quarters, including this carpet-chewing Internet broadcaster.
Obscenity warning:
It is also apparent that collectivist "journalist" Travis Gettys gets all his story ideas from Sipsey Street.
Feeling better. Might actually get to some original posts today.
Crapped out again last night and slept most of the night. I am painfully aware of how behind I am on my original posts and have a half-dozen in varying stages of completion. Will try to get some of them out today after the morning rush to take Rosey to work, etc.
Regime tries to get ahead of the Benghazi hearings with selective leaks.
When you read this, ask yourself the old Marine counterintelligence officer's questions: "Why is this SOB telling me this? And why is this SOB telling me this NOW?"
Sunday, July 13, 2014
‘Dirty Harry’ Reid’s increasing eccentricity. "Eccentricity"? That's one way to put it.
"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it." -- Paul-Muad'Dib Atreides, in Dune.
Harry Reid is channeling Emperor Shaddam and will continue to do so, right up to the point when his real masters tire of his inability to deliver the spice.
Senate majority leader practices politics of personal destruction
Pruden skewers Reid, but the fact of the matter is that Reid is a creature of the corrupt machine of casino owners in Vegas. When they tire of him, he'll be gone. The only question is, will the Koch brothers themselves tire of him and his attacks and use THEIR money to fund investigative journalism that will rip the mask off the gambling plutocrats who have created Harry and shielded him and the entire rotten structure that extends all the way down to the bumbling assassins who murdered Erik Scott four years ago? It strikes me that the Vegas criminal enterprise has two principal weaknesses. One is water and the public relations related to same. (One wonders what would happen if anti-Reid machine guerrillas started messing with the Vegas water supply in non-fatal but very creative ways? Will they, like the Guild Navigators in Dune, decide they've had enough of Emperor Shaddam?) The second is their allergic reaction to the antiseptic qualities of light. Like cockroaches, they only are happy operating in the dark. So far they have managed to do that. What happens to Harry if and when he makes enough powerful enemies that atrocities such as the Scott murder and the corrupt way it was covered up become the subject of real press attention? The Koch brothers have the money to do that. And there are certainly enough victims of the Vegas Machine who are willing to enlist in such a cause and aid it with leaks of what they know. Film at eleven, as they say.
Yesterday wiped me out as far as posts go.
Sorry, but I got home only to crap out on you. It is evident that doing the show and everything else that is required of me day-to-day on top of that was a bridge too far this close to my return from the CO trip. Getting old sucks. I have to be at the show again this morning but don't know whether I'll be there much past noon. For those of you who are there this morning, I'm at table B-46. Sorry. The spirit is willing but the flesh is still weak. For those of you who I met for the first time yesterday, I can't tell you how much I appreciated talking with you. You raised my spirits greatly.
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Got some sleep yesterday and will be at the Birmingham AGCA gun show today working a table. Also, I'll be on Alan Collectivist Colmes radio show on Monday again.
Feeling a bit better after crapping out all evening yesterday. In any case, I have to work a table at the Birmingham gun show this weekend to help replenish the coffers from the CO trip. That means that I will be there both days, Lord willing. I'll be wearing the usual suspenders with my "Got Guns?" black hat. I will also take my computer and work on my Erik Scott post, as well as a response to the SPLC hit piece and other topics generated by my CO trip. So, I'll have more later.
Also, Mary Rydzeski, the Colmes radio show producer, called yesterday afternoon to ask if I would be on Mr. Collectivist's show Monday night at 6PM CDT. I expect they want to ask me about the SPLC calling me an "aging government-hating propagandist." Should be fun. Of course I am known to have a curious sense of fun.
Throwing away that Mandate of Heaven thing with both hands and kicking it down the street.
Obama Goes Rogue: Is He Having His ‘Katrina Moment’?
I was asked in Colorado why this whole self-delegitimization is important. I explained: you cannot pull off a Reichstag Fire unless the people believe the propaganda minister. You cannot persuade a skeptical people to surrender their sovereignty. Every self-inflicted blow to this wannabe tyrant's credibility makes it less likely that he will be believed in a crisis and more likely that he will be resisted.
See also: America's Self-Made Immigration Disaster
But by not thinking through the incentives the current immigration mess creates—or at least not thinking about more than domestic political considerations—we now have two crises on our hands. The first involves the children. The second is a crisis of legitimacy as we have ceded our immigration policy to conditions abroad beyond our control.
LATER: See also this description of the running sore of the IRS scandal: More Than a Smidgen
Trying not to get run over while investigating Michael Bloomberg's claims of backwards, roadless Colorado.
Road Investigation.
LATER: From Michelle Malkin -- Hey, Snotty Bloomberg: Mind Your Own Crumbling City
Go home, Nanny Bloomberg. Keep your high-and-mighty nose out of our business, your hands off our guns and your money out of our state.
Horrified collectivist gets around to reporting my speech in Big Spring, Texas.
Open-carry advocate: When our arguments fail, we must vote with our guns. The comments are priceless. Examples:
"When the civil war to end all civil wars is over the first thing we do is get rid of the Second Amendment."
"I wouldn't even want to be close enough to have to breath the toxic air this creep breathed out."
"I wonder if that jerk knows what comes from his septic mouth borders on incitement of sedition. Sedition, if convicted of it, can put you away for a long time."
"These fuckwits need to have secret service agents stepping on their heels 24/7."
Part One link.
Part Two link.
Friday, July 11, 2014
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