[Jewish Press] Many spiritually inclined people write daily gratitude lists, giving thanks for the seemingly most mundane things.
There's an old Jewish custom to put out seeds or popcorn for the birds on the morning of Shabbat B'shalach, in a show of gratitude for the way they rescued Moses' reputation more than 3,000 years ago. Needless to say, one must heed the laws of Shabbat when keeping this custom, and if your neighborhood does not have an eruv [technical boundary that allows Jews to carry in public areas on Shabbat], you shouldn't do it.
The latest at the standoff in Oregon is that the occupiers are not budging, refusing to leave until specific conditions are met, namely the return of federal lands to their private owners/users.
Left unaddressed or even as a beef against the government is the fate of the two jailed ranchers, who now serve a draconian sentence for arson. The protest now centers around the part of the Constitution that restricts land use by the government to a very small parcel. Land fees grazing fees and the Bureau of Land management are all unconstitutional manifestations.
My main beef is with the occupiers. Their problems with the government are settled and now they can venture forth in an area that has 40 percent of families with some kind of income from either working for the federal government or from pensions? Harney County is a government town, for all intents and purposes, and the protesters had nothing better to do than to challenge an area where the gravy train is run by the planet's largest single entity?
If you can come away with any lesson in "common sense gun laws", you should know that whatever gets passed is just part of what is wanted, and the fascists who passed those laws will be back for more.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly steady, while prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
After three straight weeks of consistent price increases, prices for .223 Remington 55 Grain cartridges collapsed to .23 per round. The same pattern was present last year when prices spiked, apparently due to fear of banning of certain types of 5.56x45mm ammunition.
It is so hard to quantify the reasons. If the current president shoots his mouth off again (pun intended) about violating 2nd Amendment right, and prices do spike again, we can consider the price spikes due to fear of future sportiness by the government.
Then again, all this took place directly after Christmas, so maybe millions more considered ammunition as the gift that keeps on giving, and now they're out, and not wiling to buy again.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher, while prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads, .25 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Freedom Ammunition, Store brand, FMJFP, Brass, Reloads, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Natchez Shooters Supplies, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .18 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .17 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: -.07 Each (!!)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .24 per round (From Last Week: -.03 Each)
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Vizards Guns and Ammo, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .40 per round (From Last Week: +.06 Each (!!) After Unchanged (6 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 After Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: TrueCaliber.com, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (10 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds (10 Box Limit): Ammo2U, CCI, RNL .08 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Ammo2U, CCI, RNL, .07 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (8 Weeks))
#1
Thank you for keeping us up to date on these stories, badanov. I found myself in a discussion about the occupiers the other day, and the conversation segued from there to the reasons for owning a multiplicity of guns -- and I neither own any guns nor have any intention of doing so (the broad sides of barns are provably safe from my efforts to hit them with projectiles).
As for the occupiers, I don't see how they can win this thing. It's going to have to be fought in the state legislatures and the federal courts.
#2
The occupiers are already winning. The government, for all the upgunned SWAT teams, no fly zones and drones they have in the area, is being watched like a hawk, hopefully mindful of what could happen elsewhere if it is decided to turn this into another bloodbath. One of the most severest critics of the occupiers, Oathkeepers have issued a warning to the government not to do anything violent.
As I have said before, and it bears repeating, there is a lot to criticize Oathkeepers about, but this ain't one of them.
All the occupiers have to do is to stay to keep pressure on the legislatures and courts. They are a hopelessly ugly reminder of how wrong the government is in this.
Unfortunately, given the background of some of the occupiers, they are wrong, and I think they should go home, but for the power of their presence.
#5
Perhaps someday we'll have a Rantapalooza (we haven't had one in a few years) which will include an afternoon of shooting. TW can be introduced to the joy and merits of the .410-gauge shotgun, and I'll see if there's any reason for me as an old man to be handling a 9mm pistol.
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Thank you for the synopsis badanov.
Daughter had some BB gun time before winter; was making nice groups at 10 yards. Project Appleseed is on our list.
[SALON] After vowing to support the country's revolutionaries, the U.S. is now aiding and abetting their violent oppression The view from the trendé left.
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[Rooters] "Unbelievable", "embarrassing" even "dangerous" are some of the words the financial elite gathered at the World Economic Forum conference in the Swiss resort of Davos have been using to describe U.S. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
Although some said they still expected his campaign to founder before his party picks its nominee for the November election many said it was no longer unthinkable that he could be the Republican candidate.
Some noted that whatever the outcome, a heated campaign, which has also seen self-proclaimed Socialist Bernie Sanders provide a tough challenge to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, could alter the U.S. political environment, giving vent to new populist anger on both sides of the political divide.
Trump's nationalist rhetoric, particularly proposals to ban Muslims from entering the United States, tax goods made abroad and build a wall on the Mexican border, were never the sort of thing to appeal to the free trade crowd that typically gathers at events like the annual Davos economic forum.
#4
The New World Order crowd. They also have another event of the year to look forward to, The Bilderberg conference; both are places where the elites play with themselves.
#10
A free press is supposed to counter the elites. Instead we get MSM which is owned, you guessed it, by the elites. Thank God for Rantburg (hat tip to Fred and the mods).
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[Daily Caller] Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says President Barack Obama "has centralized power and operational activities of the government in the White House to a degree that I think is unparalleled."
Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Gates, who served under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, affirmed host Joe Scarborough's claim that Obama has to think that he is the smartest guy in the room.
Scarborough asked Gates, "President Obama has actually been criticized for always thinking he's the smartest guy in the room... Did Barack Obama always think he was the smartest guy in the room?"
"You know, the president is quoted as having said at one point to his staff, 'I can do every one of your jobs better than you can,'" Gates claimed.
#5
Yet I cannot think of a single job that Obama has performed exceptional. Can you?
He performed exceptionally well as a focusing agent for those the media convinced were disenfranchised or should be apologist. He won two(2)TWO national elections.
#3
Beck did not make an individual comaparison as the headline suggests. He dovetailed one his longstanding historical observations with Rush's analysis regarding Trump's politcal success. One can agree or disagree with either one of their opinions but both certainly offer more insight then the political chum that's been constantly troweled out. One thing is for sure...Breitbart is click bait for simpletons.
#5
The problem is that the Publicans have been routinely trouncing the Dems in congressional elections. We've been voting for fiscal conservatives. We've been getting John Boner and Mitch McConnell, mutually scratching backs and revolving dooring.
That's why the top of the Publican heap this time is non-politicians with the exception of Cruz, who's a Tea Party product and intentionally pisses on the establishment leg. The debates have
a.) emptied the field of also rans like Lindsey Graham and Rick Santorum. I think I saw somewhere that Gary Johnson had announced his candidacy. He didn't even make the kids' table with Graham.
b.) gave everybody a close look at the major contenders. Bush isn't going anywhere because even his Mom doesn't want him to run. John Kasich is wedded to his talking point and answers questions with them. Rand Paul ha lots that people like, but nobody likes him.
c.) The winnowing process left us with pick of the litter. Carson's not top of the heap, but most Publicans would vote for him and it would be neither because of nor in spite of his race. Likewise Fiorina would be a good candidate, neither because of nor in spite of the fact that she's a woman. Rubio is smart and scrappy and wears funny shoes. I'd vote for him. My personal favorite is Cruz.
d.) The People's Choice looks like Trump. I don't see any ideology in him, which can be a bad thing or it can be a lack of blinders. He's not trying to be Ronald Reagan (like the late Fred! Thompson) but he reminds me of Reagan because he's pushing his ideas, which in this case involve good management and belief in self and country. If he can hang that on a framework of respect for the Constitution then I'm all for him.
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I'll go with what Fred said for a fair ways. I'm not sure sure who I want yet, but I do know that I'm a "molten lava"* voter: I'll swim through molten lava to vote against Hilarity.
What angers me: in both 2010 and 2014 I voted straight Pub because the GOPe told me, do that and we'll confront Obama. We won't win them all because he's got the veto, but we'll take him to task. I did in both elections, and the GOPe since has wrung its hands and carried on business as usual. They just jammed through an Omnibus bill that Nancy and Harry loved.
So remind me: why vote Pub in the next election?
* It's like being a "broken glass" voter, but a tad more committed...
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From Western Rifle Shooters Association:
If there were a generic one-word expression for ‘one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory’, it would be ‘Republican’.
#9
#5 - Fred, nicely said. I have FB Friends and groups that are already starting to destroy longterm friendships. I don't trust Trump, but he's likely to win IF things continue. I DO LIKE his tweaking of issues (note that vetting Syrian Refugees BEFORE bringing them in is no longer off the table or polite discussion - Fuck yeah), he also points out the hazard of ILLEGAL Immigration, which I like...
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He's demanding that terrs be tried in Pak civilian courts. This, despite the fact that judges, prosecutors, even defense lawyers are vulnerable to intimidation and revenge attacks. All of them have families, which are levers to move them. Witnesses, to include police officials, have "recanted" their testimony, "forgotten" facts, or similarly shown evidence of intimidation. Tossing the bad guys into the "closed" military courts system is a logical step. So's the death penalty. Even if you're against it (and I'm not, despite having seen someone railroaded by the U.S. federal court system), Pakistain's got the same record of "jailbreaks" as most other heavily Moslem countries. Except on TV, I've never seen anybody broken out of the boneyard.
[DAWN] THE list of shocking and grotesque acts of violence by Lions of Islam in Pakistain is a desperately long one, but few acts stand out like the Safoora Goth carnage last May.
Similarly, among the many attempts to silence civil society and those working for a progressive, tolerant Pakistain, the murder of Sabeen Mahmud was a particularly disturbing act.
[DAWN] THE latest terrorist attack at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda is one more bloody event in a seemingly unending campaign against innocent young Paks. I've reached the point where I'm convinced that no one in Pakistain really cares about a few corpses anymore, if they ever did. If they gave a crap they'd start hanging all the holy men within twenty miles of every stupid outrage like Charsadda, regardless of sect.
I imagine that after a million or so died during the Hindu-Moslem population exchange when Pakistan broke off from India in 1947, a few, or a few dozen, or even a few hundred bodies just don't make an impact.
But we have seen so many of these horrifying assaults by crazed holy warriors that they now merge into a single blur of pure evil. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... every once in a while, a particular incident remains stuck in the memory, not necessarily for the numbers slaughtered, but for the sheer horror it provokes.
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[DAWN] What can you say to the loved ones of those who dedicated their lives to educating and bringing enlightenment to others but were asked to place their own frail bodies between their students and the brainwashed terrorists' bullets? What can you say to anyone at all for all that it counts?
Neither the students nor the teachers were soldiers and neither had opted to live by the sword. Pens and books in hand they embarked on a knowledge quest but in under an hour were forced to become 'deaders'; hailed as heroes and heroines. They had no choice in the matter.
As in the APS tragedy, the heroes of Charsadda didn't have a choice either. The state failed them too and miserably so. One heard on TV of the chemistry teacher who tried to defend his students and fired at the bandidosbully boyz with a small handgun but was felled by a hail of bullets.
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[Jpost] Since last September when the Paleostinians began their current terrorist onslaught, killers like Adais have been characterized as lone wolves.
'I'm proud of him." That's what the father of Dafna Meir's murderer said when the Paleostinian media asked him what he thinks of his cold-blooded son Murad Adais. On Sunday afternoon, Adais butchered Meir in her home, in front of her children. Whether Adais Sr. is really happy that his son will rot in prison is less important than the fact that he said what he said to his home crowd.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Rooters] "Unbelievable", "embarrassing" even "dangerous" are some of the words the financial elite gathered at the World Economic Forum conference in the Swiss resort of Davos have been using to describe U.S. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
[DAWN] What can you say to the loved ones of those who dedicated their lives to educating and bringing enlightenment to others but were asked to place their own frail bodies between their students and the brainwashed terrorists' bullets? What can you say to anyone at all for all that it counts?
