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-Land of the Free
This Week in Guns, July 22nd, 2017


By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Housekeeping Note: See below about the new value level of used AR-15s.

A young man, a young patriot from Louisiana posted link to a Fort Piece, Florida bust of a 25 year old with a home build, short barreled AR-15. The lesson should be that the kops are watching Armslist for potential customers for the justice industry.

Also in Florida, a retired firefighter decides he has had enough. He brings out a hand cannon and shoots at two telephone company vehicles. The fella doesn't even look angry and, leaving aside for the moment the stupidity of punctuating your displeasure on unarmed individuals with a firearm, he was a pretty good shot.

The main problem is, of course, he apparently doesn't know there's a new product out, called earplugs.

Loads.

Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:

Pistol ammunition prices were steady. Rifle ammunition prices were steady.

Prices for used pistols were higher. Prices for used rifles were mixed.

For the first time, every AR-15 pattern semiautomatic rifle in every state I follow is listed at or below $450, with three listing below $400. The downward pricing trend of AR-15 continues, this time with a vengeance. The nationwide average price for a used AR-15 semiautomatic rifle plummeted below $400 to $387, for a total of $50 per unit.

None of the states listed were above their 2Q, 2017 high for the numbers of guns available for sale, which would indicate the price declines are more for the value of the platform (which is declining) rather than a reflection of price against demand (which is also declining). It could easily be said that AR-15s are being dumped onto the free private market, except the sellers are disparate individuals, a group not known for price fixing.

Understanding what it takes in terms of parts pricing, I fail to see how much further down the average price will go. But then, I said that three weeks ago at the start of 3Q, 2017.

New Lows:

Arizona: .223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic): Bushmaster: $350
Arizona: 9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic): Taurus PT111: $200

Pistol Ammunition

.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))

.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, RNFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))

9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Fedarm, Own brand, TMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))

.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)

.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, CCI Blazer, RNL, Aluminum Casing, Reloads .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))

Rifle Ammunition

.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammomen, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))

.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))

7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))

.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017))

.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .82 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Winchester, Brass Casing, SP, .82 per round (From Last Week: -.05 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks))

.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Federal Eagle, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Wholesale Hunter, Federal American Eagle, Brass Casing, HP, 2.36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))

.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))

Guns for Private Sale
Rifles


.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $387 Last Week Avg: $438(-) ($616 (2Q, 2015), $387 (CA: $435 (5 Weeks))
Arizona (191, 3Q, 2017)(182, 179): Bushmaster: $350 ($600 (25 Weeks), $350 (CA: $450 (19 Weeks)))
Texas (469, 3Q, 2017)(453, 436): Bushmaster: $350 ($700 (1Q, 2015), $350 (2Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (234, 3Q, 2017)(233, 215): Delton: $385 ($700 (2Q, 2015), $300 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (282, 3Q, 2017)(247, 253): Smith & Wesson: $450 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $400 (6 Weeks))
Florida (679, 3Q, 2017)(621, 593): Smith and Wesson Sport II M&P15: $400 ($650 (2Q, 2015), $380 (1Q, 2015))

.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $815 Last Week Avg: $800(+) ($1,359 (2Q, 2015), $766 (8 Weeks))
Arizona (34, 3Q, 2017)(34, 32): Palmetto State Armory: $1,000 ($2,300 (6 Weeks)), $650 (29 Weeks))
Texas (178, 3Q, 2017)(168, 166): DPMS LR-308: $800 ($1,500 (4Q, 2014), $700 (50 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (54, 3Q, 2017)(52, 49): DPMS: $775 ($1,600 (37 Weeks), $700 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (86, 3Q, 2017)(86, 83): Mixed Build: $800 ($2,750 (1Q, 2016), $750 (22 Weeks))
Florida (124, 3Q, 2017)(116, 117): DPMS: $700 ($1,950 (2Q, 1016), $500 (3Q, 2015))

7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $490 Last Week Avg: $535(-) ($668 (45 Weeks), $450 (3Q, 2015))
Arizona (28, 3Q, 2017)(26, 25): Unknown Make: $650 ($900 (7 Weeks), $400 (12 Weeks))
Texas (141, 3Q, 2017)(123, 137): RAS-47: $500 ($800 (1Q, 2016), $350 (3Q, 2014))
Pennsylvania (75, 3Q, 2017)(60, 61): Yugo NPAP M70: $400 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $375 (1Q, 2015))
Virginia (72, 3Q, 2017)(59, 57): IO: $450 ($700 (2Q, 2016), $350 (1Q, 2015))
Florida (146, 3Q, 2017)(133, 126): IO: $450 ($700 (1Q, 2016), $300 (4Q, 2014))

30-30 Winchester Lever Action Average Price: $365 Last Week Avg: $365(=) ($495 (41 Weeks), $296 (3Q, 2015))
Arizona (14, 3Q, 2017)(10, 12): Mossberg 464: $400 ($500 (26 Weeks), $200 (11 Weeks))
Texas (32, 3Q, 2017)(25, 26): Winchester Model 94: $325 ($550 (1Q, 2015), $295 (11 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (23, 3Q, 2017)(18, 19): Marlin: $350 ($450 (1Q, 2015), $250 (4Q, 2014))
Virginia (17, 3Q, 2017)(12, 12): Winchester Model 94: $450 ($670 (2Q, 2016), $250 (4Q, 2015))
Florida (34, 3Q, 2017)(26, 27): Marlin: $300 ($500 (1Q, 2015), $250 (2Q, 2015))

Pistols

.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $391 Last Week Avg: $388(+) ($525 (47 Weeks), $350 (4Q, 2015))
Arizona (124, 3Q, 2017)(115, 114): Viking Tactical: $450 ($700 (12 Weeks), $380 (5 Weeks))
Texas (358, 3Q, 2017)(350, 336): Llama: $350 ($600 (4Q, 2014), $300 (33 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (178, 3Q, 2017)(159, 157): American Tactical Imports: $400 ($585 (11 Weeks), $300 (2Q, 2015))
Virginia (197, 3Q, 2017)(192, 197): American Tactical Imports: $350 ($600 (25 Weeks), $250 (4Q, 2014))
Florida (440, 3Q, 2017)(391, 396): Rock Island Armory: $405 ($500 (1Q, 2016), $250 (1Q, 2015))

9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic) Average Price: $227 Last Week Avg: $220(+) ($358 (1Q, 2016), $207 (11 Weeks))
Arizona (238, 3Q, 2017)(223, 227): Taurus PT111: $200 ($400 (17 Weeks), $200 (CA: $240 (12 Weeks))
Texas (575, 3Q, 2017)(575, 532): Hungarian FEG : $260 ($355 (1Q, 2015), $199 (13 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (368, 3Q, 2017)(353, 351): Smith & Wesson SD9VE: $225 ($350 (4Q 2014), $150 (22 Weeks))
Virginia (340, 3Q, 2017)(340, 318): Beretta 92S: $200 ($425 (4Q, 2016), $189 (2Q, 2016))
Florida (827, 3Q, 2017)(751, 750): EAA: $250 ($400 (1Q, 2016), $160 (11 Weeks))

.40 caliber S&W (Glock or other semiautomatic) Average Price: $315 Last Week Avg: $290(+) ($399 (1Q, 2016), $262 (2Q, 2016))
Arizona (75, 3Q, 2017)(60, 60): Walther PPS: $350 ($500 (27 Weeks), $195 (7 Weeks))
Texas (150, 3Q, 2017)(136, 126): Smith & Wesson M&P 40C: $200 ($425 (4Q, 2014), $200 (31 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (108, 3Q, 2017)(93, 102): Kahr CM40: $275 ($450 (2Q, 2016), $200 (47 Weeks))
Virginia (89, 3Q, 2017)(81, 80): Springfield XDS 40: $400 ($450 (2Q, 2015), $275 (1Q, 2015))
Florida (173, 3Q, 2017)(172, 169): Smith & Wesson SD40VE: $350 ($400 (1Q, 2015), $199 (4Q, 2015))

Used Gun of the Week: (Nebraska)
Baikal MP161K chambered in .22 LR
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Crazy low prices.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/22/2017 21:16 Comments || Top||


Economy
Here's a Really Good Sign the Economy Is Rebounding
[Fortune] Residential construction rebounded from a three month decline in June with housing starts increasing to 1.22 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The number of housing projects started last month shows an 8.3% increase from the May figures and a 2.1% increase from June of last year.

Homebuilders still have the rising cost of lumber and a skilled labor shortage to contend with while they're trying to gain momentum. But it's not for nothing that housing starts outperformed economist estimates by about 60,000, or 5%.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So banks are lending money again.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Banks are desperate to push money out the door as long as there is a reposessable asset in play and you can fog a mirror.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2017 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Car sales are down. Light duty PUs have offset the decline in autos which probably means more people are going to work. Car and truck sales over time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||

#4  The nail roll companies that make the nails for the nail guns and screws for the screw guns have not had a good year. That's a far more accurate number than any from a banker or economist.

Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2017 17:41 Comments || Top||


Europe
A New Look at the Death of Europe - Lack of Euro 'Pushback' and why
Excerpt: [American Thinker] - Murray addresses the puzzling question: why there has been so little pushback from Europeans as they have been inundated by millions committed to ideologies anathema to their own? One reason is that the penalties for speaking out are high. Murray writes that those who have shouted fire over the years have been treated as arsonists. They have been "ignored, defamed, prosecuted or killed." The media has been swift to silence those among them who dared to so much as raise the issue.

Murray cites the fate of Erik Mansson, editor-in-chief of the Swedish paper Expressen, who as far back as 1993 published the results of an opinion poll showing 63% of Swedes wanted immigrants to return to their countries of origin. Noting the difference between those in power and public opinion, Mansson said he thought the subject should be discussed. The only result was that the paper’s owners promptly fired Mansson.

When you loose 'Free Speech'... game over.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 08:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In the past, Europeans found ways to push back against oppressive regimes - but it wasn't done with words.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Once you have been taught to hate yourself, it is game over. My motto is: You can hate me, you can hate yourself, but you are incapable of making me hate myself.

It really pisses a lot of people off...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 11:43 Comments || Top||

#3  It occasionally comes up that refugee home fire is a regular, if mostly unreported, item on police blotters. And refugees complain that they are ignored when they complain that the locals are not kind.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  The peelers being relieved that the immigrants are whacking each other is "not kind." Well, OK...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Europeans may eventually rouse themselves. If they do, and if it's not too late, the next holocaust is likely to be a helluva lot worse than the last one.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2017 12:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Look at the 'betas' that move aside as you pass on the sidewalk, and the pseudo 'alphas' that charge ahead regardless of their surroundings. European culture is/was polite, not subjugated to popular cultural intimacy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 15:00 Comments || Top||

#7  for much of Europe, the tipping point is past, and one of the bulwarks against massive land migration, Turkey, is losing any pretense of a secular state as ErdoWon reveals increasing Islamization and a tilt to the east in return for regional power sharing with Iran. Hungary may again be the last best hope of Euripe to avoid decimating colonization by the Religion of Peace.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/22/2017 17:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Making Russia great again
[Wisconsin Public Radio] Leaving federal government service after decades can be, well, liberating.

Just ask James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, the former leader of the Central Intelligence Agency. They unloaded on President Trump and the "baffling" way he's embraced Russia while criticizing his own intelligence apparatus during a session at the Aspen Security Forum Friday.

Asked whether the president is taking the Russia threat seriously, Clapper replied: "Well, it's hard to tell. Sometimes I think he's about making Russia great again."

That remark drew laughter and gasps from an audience of current and former government officials and the business executives who work collude with them. But underlying the humor was a tone of deep concern about the morale of people responsible for protecting the nation's security -- and dismay about where the country may be headed.

"In some respects, we're a nation in crisis right now," Brennan said.

Then, for the next hour, they counted the ways.

The veteran spies expressed surprise that Trump campaign officials including then-chairman Paul Manafort, son Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner would take a meeting in New York last year with a Russian lawyer who promised "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 06:46 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Asked whether the president is taking the Russia threat seriously, Clapper replied: "Well, it's hard to tell. Sometimes I think he's about making Russia great again."

John Brennan's 'Deep State' road tour and canned question from the audience.

Let there be no doubt. These people are well organized, well funded, and totally dedicated to the removal of our elected president. 'Regime Change'.... it's what they do.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 7:10 Comments || Top||


#3  Just plain envy. Putin spies on his citizens and laughs about it. Clappers crowd did it and he has to make excuses, embarrassing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Pompeo was also at the Aspen conference.

That's one way to note who is in the Deep State camp, and what they're saying to whom.

I notice that Target is one of the sponsors, which seems an odd choice.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 12:26 Comments || Top||

#5  TW, if you shop at Target and have occasion to walk past the 'mens' section, you may see pink safari shirts, flowered pants and pastel neck scarves. Please also remember the 'gender free' rest rooms. Target is in merchandising. They have identified with a voting block.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 15:05 Comments || Top||

#6  SSCI/HPSCI sniveling puke staffers were a bad lot 25-30 years ago. Their bosses were reported to be worse. I never paid much attention to either committee after I retired, then Congressman Mike Rogers came along.

I suspect we'd better keep an eye on Pompeo. Guilt by association is still a relevant concept.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Given the greatest threat to Russia is American frackers and that Trump has left them alone while Hillary threatened to shut'em down, Clapper Inc's own contributions to Making Russia Great Again seems to have hit a road block.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2017 17:06 Comments || Top||


Scaramucci Tames The Media In ‘Smooth' First Press Conference
[Daily Caller] Anthony Scaramucci made a positive impression with the media in his first press conference as White House communications director.

Scaramucci spoke confidently from the podium and made an effort to call on as many reporters as possible, before ending the press conference with an air kiss to the media. Many reporters described Scaramucci’s performance as "smooth," while others praised his comfortable speaking style.

"Anthony Scaramucci is showing here why President Trump picked him," The Boston Globe’s DC bureau chief Matt Viser noted. "Smooth and soft-spoken. Lighthearted and optimistic."

CNN anchor Dana Bash described Scaramucci as "smooth as silk as a talker."

"A very polished performance behind the podium from Scaramucci," observed the Washington Examiner’s chief political correspondent Byron York. "Rare in first 6 months of this [White House]."

US News and World Report senior politics writer David Catanese said, "IF Scaramucci is this calm and smooth six months from now, it’ll serve him, the president and the press very well."

"Anthony Scaramucci is having a very good, very smooth on-camera debut," said Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 00:53 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because he went after the NYT with lawyers swinging sledgehammers. The rest of the scribblers feel like maybe they'll wait and see what happens to the next guy that crosses him. Even a flatworm turns away from pain.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2017 10:08 Comments || Top||

#2  But can he do the fandango?
Posted by: JHH || 07/22/2017 12:06 Comments || Top||

#3  He can buy and sell the entire press corps, and some of their employers besides. He won't give the deep pocket lawyers a chance in hell to come after him.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Tames the media? I dunno. Last night, Levin described this bunch of yapping dogs [the media] as acting like a bunch of "Dogs in heat."
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 16:09 Comments || Top||


Arizona Senate Candidate: McCain Should ‘Step Away as Quickly as Possible'
[Free Beacon] The last Republican to run against Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) called on him to step down "as quickly as possible" following his Wednesday cancer diagnosis.

Dr. Kelli Ward is running against Sen. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) in the 2018 Republican primary and made her comments about McCain on an Indiana talk radio show Thursday, CNN reports. A surgeon and former state senator, Ward argued that advancing the federal government's business and President Donald Trump's agenda gave McCain reason to step aside.

"I hope that Senator McCain is going to look long and hard at this, that his family and his advisers are going to look at this, and they're going to advise him to step away as quickly as possible, so that the business of the country and the business of Arizona being represented at the federal level can move forward," she said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 00:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee! - Khan quoting Melville's Moby Dick. Seems fitting.

BTW, Benedict Arnold was a war hero too, even a prisoner of war, till that little misunderstanding of joining the other side.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2017 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  ... Senator McCain will be literally carried from his post feet first. When Strom Thurmond finally quit he was IIRC 100 and the decision was made more by his family than him.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/22/2017 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  No, Arizona will consider the execrable Jeff Flake to the conservative Senator from Arizona and elect the incomprehensible Kristin Sinema (Enema) to be the loosey goosey frosh left wing Senator. Just watch...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Must be the narcotic effect of power. McCain has been hooked on it for a long, long time and even a malignant brain tumor won't make him quit. I can't say that Arizona deserves better because they kept reelecting him.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2017 12:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
What if We Have Been Invaded by Aliens?
h/t Instapundit
There is a joke about world-building in science fiction. Many writers simply don’t know how to introduce their past history, and therefore have ridiculous lines of dialogue like "As you know, Bob, we were invaded by aliens in 1945."

My question is ‐ how do we know we haven’t been?

No, I’m serious, look around you.

Those of us who read history can see this perhaps more clearly than others. When a culture is invaded and occupied, the first thing the occupiers do is take over the education of children (sometimes by force), the means of disseminating news (there is a reason we joke about invaders taking radio and TV stations first), the cultural life of the country including entertainment.

All of these mechanisms are turned to giving the children of the occupied land the idea that their occupiers are in fact redeemers, and that the old culture was not only weaker but objectively worse than that of the occupiers.

...Look around you ‐ if we in the West and we humans, in general, had been invaded by aliens, what would be different?

Our schools in America teach that the system under which America lives, from constitutional protections to (relatively...very relatively) free markets are evil and the cause of all evils in the world.

Our schools further teach that all the problems in the world at large are the fault of "Imperialists" to include not just America, but the West which is America’s mother culture. They ignore the sins of other nations, many of which, still today, commit female mutilation and slavery, to concentrate ONLY on the West and the sins of the West, thereby obviating any possible pride the students might have in their own culture.

Further, the schools, under the guise of environmentalism, promote the view that humanity is the worst plague on the planet. Without pointing out that any species can drive others to extinction, or that humans are the only species capable of self-regulating their impact on the environment, they concentrate on those extinctions humans have caused and fantasize that without humans the world would be a paradise.
Without pointing out the difficulty of global censuses or that in fact we don’t and can’t know how large the world population is, our learning institutions, our cultural institutions, even our entertainment continually scare us with the idea of overpopulation. Without taking into account that there are more trees now in North America than when the colonists arrived, they picture humanity as creating deserts. Schools push middle schoolers to sign agreements never to reproduce.

As if this weren't enough, feminists picture women ‐ in Western, well off, more or less equalitarian (at least before the law as it existed before feminist tampering made it take sides with women most of the time) systems ‐ as perpetual victims, stoke a sense of outrage and anger at any and all males, and encourage women to consider normal intercourse "rape" and marriage a prison.

As if this weren’t enough, the insanity has descended to preaching that there is no such thing as biological sex, and that one’s gender is a sort of "mood" which can be determined before a child is even fully developed. Parents giving hormones to children, to change their sex before the age of reason (let alone physical or emotional maturity) and effectively encouraging castration/neutering and precluding future generations aren’t considered deranged abusers. In fact, educational and medical establishments will encourage parents to thus destroy their progeny and will take the children away if the parents don’t do it, on the flimsiest of pretexts based on stereotypes, such as a boy who disdains male toys, or a girl who doesn’t like dolls. The rich panoply of human expression is ignored in a ‐ dare we say it ‐ alien attempt to make individual people fit stereotypes.

Three generations into this, our leading lights in intellectual life, be it fiction, non-fiction, academia or even research, get plaudits and advancement ONLY from conclusions and policies that objectively hurt humans and prevent humans from reproducing. A subset of this is hate of the West, the most successful culture in the world, ever, in terms of extending life, preventing early death, preventing or curing disease and preventing and curing famine. Another and even more vociferous subset is the hatred of America, which took all of Western virtues and made them more so.

If aliens, hostile to the very idea of humanity and wanting to prevent us from prospering, let alone going into space (another cause that all so called "progressives" hate with a burning passion and try to prevent by all means possible, from telling us that there is still need on Earth so we shouldn’t spend money on going to space, to telling us that we must first learn to "take care of this planet" to just sustained screaming that the human plague shouldn’t propagate) had managed to take control of our culture, what would they do differently?

The sad thing is that it’s not even aliens ‐ at least, Marx was probably not an alien, though his hair could, after all, be a tentacle creature from Alpha Centauri ‐ doing this to us, but our own people.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 13:21 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Once again, Ancient Alien theorists say "Yes!"
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#2  If Youtube is any indicator, there seems to be a lot of people who think aliens are living in Antarctica.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/22/2017 14:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Many are hoping for validation of the Alien so they can no longer be blamed for consequences of their (lack of?) actions.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 14:56 Comments || Top||

#4  The movie "Men In Black" and part II 'splained it all to us. AKA Dennis Rodman.
Posted by: texhooey || 07/22/2017 23:28 Comments || Top||



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