For those who are not familiar with Vanderboegh, he was one of the two bloggers, the other being David Cordrea to uncover the Fast and Furious government sponsored gun running operation, which sold firearms to drug cartels, and then did not track them. At least one of the guns sold to the cartels (mostly the Sinaloa Cartel) was used to kill a US government agent.
It's good to be a US government agent, to conceive of operations that kill another US citizen, yet you and all who conspired get to walk away scot free. Had you or I run guns to "El Chapo", we would be spending time in federal prison. Sonsabitches will probably get an award for Fast and Furious.
The only redeeming news regarding Vanderboegh is that his son has taken over Vanderboegh's Sipsey Street Irregulars (SSI), and has a Facebook page.
Her statement presumes that gun control passes Congress, at the moment a long shot, that the law will be universally obeyed, and that any further laws passed by Congress will be obeyed. Laws, in my view, must have at their base consent of the governed, and firearms laws in their entirety do not. Even the Australians, who were beaten into accepting gun seizures, only gave up about 20 percent of their firearms. The law was a massive failure, being virtually ignored by the owners of the other 80 percent.
Connecticut, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, with the political will to register AR semiautomatic guns, could not get more than 18 percent of firearms registered. The law was a massive failure. That failure should have been an embarrassment to the political leadership, but it is not. The last I heard, Connecticut government officials are still trying to figure out how to begin seizing unregistered firearms in the state.
As I have written elsewhere, there is a yawning gap between passing laws that 80 percent plus will ignore, and "gun control."
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were steady. Prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were lower across the board while used rifles were mostly higher.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Reloads, .24 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .16 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2015))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Hot Shot, FMJ, steel casing, .21 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: +.03 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, steel casing, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: AmmoFast, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (7 weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammomen, Aguila, RNL .07 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds (2 Cases Max): US Armorment, Federal Automatch, RNL, .07 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
[Bus Insider] Eight years ago, two US Marines from two different walks of life who had literally just met were told to stand guard in front of their outpost's entry-control point.
Minutes later, they were staring down a big blue truck packed with explosives. With this particular shred of hell bearing down on them, they stood their ground.
Heck, they even leaned in.
I had heard the story many times, personally. But until today, I had never heard then Marine Lt. Gen. John Kelly's telling of it to a packed house in 2010. Just four days following the death of his own son in combat, Kelly eulogized two other sons in an unforgettable manner.
[Daily Beast] Our bodies weren’t meant for this world we’ve built. That’s why your back hurts. The things you think are normal are not. The world around you is an alien landscape, a science fiction movie set.
This is not the matrix. This is our everyday, modern life. But if you'll take a step back with me, you might find that there is hardly anything ordinary about the world we've built. The very built-ness of our world is precisely what makes it so foreign to our bodies. In some ways the banal conveniences we seek out and enjoy are actually killing us by a thousand tiny cuts over decades and decades.
Of course, a thousand cuts over the course of a lifetime is a much better way to go than say, one big wound from a sabre tooth tiger taking a bite out of your head. Or finding yourself exposed with no shelter on a freezing tundra. We have eliminated some of the worst things that humans have experienced for most of our history on this planet. That’s quite the accomplishment. But we've traded these dangers for the perils of inactivity: heart disease, type II diabetes, some forms of cancer, back pain, joint pain, and possibly a smorgasbord of mental health issues.
Consider the kitchen counter. As you rinse your dishes, blend your smoothie, and grate your cheese, everything is within arms reach. At most you'll take a few steps to the fridge, bending or squatting for a few seconds to put the bologna back in the crisper. (You fool! Bologna doesn't go in the crisper!)
Contrast that with activities of daily life in say, rural Uganda. In Pajule, a small town where I spent a couple summers, it was typical for (mostly) women to get up before dawn to work in their fields planting, weeding or harvesting. They'd carry water for the day's chores and gather wood for the cook fire. The tasks of daily living were primarily performed on the ground--laundry, dishwashing, cooking dinner, or boiling water for tea. Children, adults, and the elderly moved throughout the day, squatting, carrying, walking, reaching, and bending at the hips.
These folks face plenty of hardships, but one thing they do not lack is movement. Those of us lucky enough to live in richer countries have managed to build and engineer movement out of our environment. That may make us comfortable in the short term, but this has serious consequences for our bodies.
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But we've traded these dangers for the perils of inactivity: heart disease, type II diabetes, some forms of cancer, back pain, joint pain, and possibly a smorgasbord of mental health issues.
If you don't survive beyond 45 most of that will not pop up and bother you. So what the man has identified as a problem is the extended life expectancy that has been achieved in the last hundred years. Give up all those advances in medicine and health care that got you past 45 and the problems disappear. [Why do I get a sense this is the rationalization for where the failed Obamacare program is headed?]
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[Why do I get a sense this is the rationalization for where the failed Obamacare program is headed?] Posted by Procopius2k
Tax technology, not .22 ammo. The old ways are best. Innovation and creativity are to blame. Those who embrace it must pay. The 'Off-Grid' community demands it.
[FOREIGNPOLICY] After Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... murderous Moslems fired mortars this week at Kurdish military posts in northern Iraq, the Peshmerga fighters complained of nausea, vomiting, and a burning sensation in their eyes. Their symptoms reflected telltale reactions to sulfur mustard gas, a blistering agent that the Islamic State has been employing with increasing and alarming frequency on the battlefield.
The rise in chemical attacks by the Islamic State has prompted the Kurdish regional government to issue an urgent request to Washington and other Western capitals for thousands of gas masks. But Erbil is still waiting for most of the protective masks to arrive.
As America’s most effective ally in the campaign against the Islamic State group, Kurdish officials say privately they are puzzled by the delay, especially given the Kurdish people’s tragic experience as victims of chemical weapons.
On March 16, 1988, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s military targeted the Kurdish town of Halabja near the Iranian border with the deadly nerve agent sarin and mustard gas, killing about 5,000 people and injuring thousands more. It remains the single worst chemical weapons attack on a civilian population in history.
Over the past year, Kurds have become reaquainted with the acrid smell of mustard gas. Hundreds of Kurdish troops and civilians have been injured in chemical attacks by the Islamic State and one 3-year-old child was killed in Taza in March, according to regional authorities.
Kurdish leaders and military officers say they need tens of thousands of gas masks for the 65,000 troops that are deployed in the fight against the Islamic State. So far, the Kurdish forces have 6,000 gas masks, including about 4,000 from the United States for two brigades being trained by American military advisers, said Brig. Gen. Hazhar Ismail of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
But the United States has promised an additional 5,000 masks and it’s not clear when those will be delivered, the general told Foreign Policy in an email.
Kurdish leaders believe the threat is mounting, especially as the U.S.-led coalition and the Iraqi government draws up plans for a crucial offensive this year to recapture the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , where they fear the Islamic State could be prepared to launch larger-scale chemical weapons attacks.
"We are very concerned about ISIS using chemical weapons," Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the representative for the Kurdish Regional Government in Washington, told Foreign Policy.
"They’re using them with increasing frequency, and increasing sophistication," she said. The rising number of attacks represents "a clear warning that they intend to use them in the fight to liberate Mosul."
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Answer to headline question: Obama kissing Erdogan and MB's ass under the instruction of Iranian mole Valerie Jarret.
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Why complicate matters? It has been known for years that Obama is a captive of both the Muslim Brotherhood (thanks to a half-brother who is a high official in an Ikwan organization), and the Iranian Shiites (thanks to Iranophile V. Jarett). His inferiority complex is abetted by a State Department that is top-heavy with anti-Semites. He is himself captive of a questionable birth (the true birth cirtificate will never emerge because the box indicating "father" is left blank), and a mythic Kikuyu parentage that leads him to denegrate Western civilization. Othello was a tragic figure; In contrast, Obama is a modern Emperor Jones.
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How can you call him a traitor when he never was on your side to begin with? Let us be clear, he is the enemy, NFSE.
[Wash Times] Jodie Foster said she’s tired of people oversimplifying the issue of gender equality in Hollywood, declaring that there isn’t some major plot in the industry "to keep women down."
The 53-year-old "Money Monster" director made the comments Wednesday during a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival with fellow director Julie Taymor, Variety reported.
"We were both talking about the woman thing and how we are both a little sick of it," Ms. Foster said.
"But we don’t want to ignore it either," Ms. Taymor added.
Ms. Foster said, "I feel like the issue is way more complicated than saying, ’Why aren’t women making big mainstream franchises?"
"There are so many reasons," she continued. "Some of them are about our psychology, some of them are about the financial world, some of them are about the global economy. There are so many answers to that go back hundreds of years. It would be nice to be able to have a more complex conversation and to be able to look at it more than just a quota or numbers.
"I don’t think there is a big plot to keep women down," she added. "It is neglect really, and a lot of people that weren’t thinking about it, and a lot of female executives who have risen to the top, who have not really made a dent of bringing many women into the mainstream world."
"And that's why I'm going to start voting for and campaigning for conservatives!"
....let me know.
Because she's just going to pull the lever for whomever the Democrats put up in November. So this story really isn't anything important.
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Well, negative comments notwithstanding I was pleasantly surprised/shocked. Yup, there is probably a shelf life here, but it is an indication that not all such are on the lower half of average iq.
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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.
[Bus Insider] Eight years ago, two US Marines from two different walks of life who had literally just met were told to stand guard in front of their outpost's entry-control point.
[Daily Beast] Our bodies weren’t meant for this world we’ve built. That’s why your back hurts. The things you think are normal are not. The world around you is an alien landscape, a science fiction movie set.
[FOREIGNPOLICY] After 
