[American Thinker] On Aprll 13, 2011, a viewer sent the following to Bill O’Reilly. He addressed it during the email segment of his show:
John Knox: Arlington, VA: What about Obama having a Connecticut social security number. He never lived there.
Bill O’Reilly: But his father lived in Connecticut for several years, John. Babies sometimes get numbers based on addresses provided by their parents.
Why did O’Reilly mislead, and what is the lie?
Two years before O’Reilly’s declaration, I uncovered the phony number. At the request of a client, who turned to me as a licensed private investigator, I found that Barack Obama was using the Connecticut social security number 042-68-4425, which was issued on March 28, 1977 to someone born in the year 1890.
If it seems implausible that someone would acquire their SSN at the age of 87, I can explain why it is not. As I researched Obama’s number, I found the file of a woman who was issued her number on the same day in March. A letter revealed she had been using her husband’s SSN and needed one of her own, more than likely for government assistance.
My theory is that the person actually assigned the number that Obama uses was in a similar circumstance. On March 28, 1977 Barack Obama was fifteen years old and living in Hawaii.
Although the Obama administration changed issuance of SSNs to randomly assigned in 2011,
Why?
until then they were assigned by where a person lived when they filled out their application. And on and on it goes.
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My theory is that the person actually assigned the number that Obama uses was in a similar circumstance. On March 28, 1977 Barack Obama was fifteen years old and living in Hawaii.
This story has been going around for years and involves Soetoro's granny who had access to SSN numbers through her employment as I recall. My money is on Soetoro as a US/Indonesian 'duel citizen' and foreign student. I hope it will all eventually come out, as this is the only way this phony will be silenced. Not jailed, but publicly embarrassed and silenced.
An interesting topic came up at the AK Operator's Union in Facebook. (Sorry, no link.) Someone ran Russian made 7N6 ammunition (5.45x39mm 53 Grain) through a radar gun, finding that the velocities of the rounds fired were consistent within 17.37 FPS Standard Deviation from round to round. The same test was applied to Wolf brand (made by Barnaul, 60 Grain) 5.45x39mm ammunition to find the standard deviation from round to round was much higher at 39.27 FPS. There was no indication of the size of the sampling. One reader commented that such a difference could explain pooch loads, where the projectile failed to exit the barrel.
No, it wouldn't. But those differences do explain problems with targeting, especially at the extreme range for iron sights, about 400 meters for the AK-74. If you fire over open sights with a hot round like the Barnaul ammunition, you tend to expect similar, not better, but similar performance as compared to 5.56x45 AR ammunition, its closest rival. The problem for AK-74 shooters such as myself is that if Barnaul makes such crappy ammunition and the Russian surplus ammo is so good, the only option left is Hornady's offering. Hornady's costs about double the Silver Bear 60 grain ammunition I use.
Some of the problems in target shooting the AK-74 can be explained because the 60 grain bullet is the next lightest bullet size available, and is a much heavier bullet than the 7N6. The AK-74 was made to fire the 53 grain bullet. You can adjust your aim past 100 yards only so much before you start to get into unfamiliar territory. The news of inconsistent powder charges, if that is the cause, makes it much more difficult to settle on a round that will hit consistently out to 400 yards.
Pistol ammunition prices were steady. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
Texas: 9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic): Taurus PT1911: $199
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Silver Bear, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: J&G Sales, Hot Shot, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Mart, Buffalo Cartridge, RSFP, Brass Casing, Factory Seconds .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary, RSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Bite the Bullet, Own Brand, RN, Factory Seconds, Brass Casing, .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 1017))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, CCI Blazer, LRN, Aluminum Casing .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 rounds: Western Arms AND Ammo, Own Brand, TMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammomen, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week -.01 Each))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
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 (2 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
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 (10 Weeks))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Red River Reloading, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .86 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Target Sports, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .88 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Federal Eagle, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Federal American Eagle, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.13 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammomen, Aguila, RNL, .05 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 400 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Aguila, RNL, .05 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $462 Last Week Avg: $485(-) ($616 (2Q, 2015), $465 (2 Weeks))
Arizona (141, 137): DPMS: $525 ($600 (15 Weeks), $450 (8 Weeks))
Texas (360, 348): American Tactical Imports Omni: $450 ($700 (1Q, 2015), $350 (2Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (212, 202): DPMS: $425 ($700 (2Q, 2015), $300 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (229, 219): Mixed Build: $460 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $415 (20 Weeks))
Florida (509, 521): Smith & Wesson M & P 15 Sport 2: $450 ($650 (2Q, 2015), $380 (1Q, 2015))
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Going back in time, an interesting 1838 repeating rifle. Called a chain gun.
Epenetus A. Bennett and Frederick P. Havilland were both from Waterville, Maine and both trained to some degree as gunsmiths. Their device, dubbed the “underhammer” because of its under the gun cocking apparatus, used comprised of a series of rectangular blocks hinged together along a chain. These blocks were hollowed out to accept a powder and ball, the theory being the block would advance around the chain mechanism, lining up into the breech, and loading the weapon; the weapon fed incrementally left to right with a full stop in the breech position, fired and moved rearward toward the butt stock on the chain for the next shot.
The under hammer released the chain and was hand cocked with each shot until all 12 rounds were rotated into place, each fired courtesy of a side hammer for ignition and a conventional trigger.
The problem (and the problem really with all long rifles featuring revolving mechanisms) was the fore-end grip caught breech blowback from the cylinder meaning the shooter’s hand inevitably took abuse. Of more concern, if a chain fire did occur (which was not unheard of) the rifleman would end up, at the least, with a badly burnt wrist and fingers, at the worst, the loss of his or her life as the rifle could potentially fire backwards, forwards and to either side.
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I was always of the uninformed, untested opinion that the steel shell of Wolf did not deform (or as much) to the chamber contours during ignition impulse, whereas brass did.
I further assumed arbitrary combustion gas pulse wave cancellation occurred due to energy reflections from the now deformed shell wall volume and the base of the bullet, which also may be seated some random manufacturing error distance down the shell neck and not secured by the chamber head.
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I've heard tell the steel in steel casings is actually softer than brass casings, so that would explain deformation in the chamber.
As you say, we can only surmise.
A lot of possibilities that would explain the lack of consistency in the Wolf brand ammo. Could be an error in bullet being oversized, or the cartridge neck is too tight. Could be the powder charge.
My experience with Barnaul ammunition is that it is good ammunition for the price, but from time to time you get a cartridge that is slightly out of tolerance, which gets stuck in the chamber in the spent casing ejection phase of the firing cycle. Not every round and not even one from every box. Last fall I had two stuck casings from the same box, something that has never happened before and has not happened since, something I attribute to an out of tolerance cartridge casing.
Thanks for the expositions and the links, Joluter Snavitch6674 and Skid.
[SultanKnish] The Atlantic’s May cover features Alec Baldwin covered in orange makeup holding up a Trump wig. The cover asks, “Can Satire Save the Republic?” What is satire saving the Republic from? Republicans. While making America safe for Socialism.
After Bush won, Democrats fought back by doubling down on the ridicule. Before long they were getting their news from Jon Stewart’s smirk. Stewart spawned a whole range of imitators. Today you can find numberless clones of the Daily Show across cable and even on CBS and, soon, on NBC.
The left is devoutly convinced that this snickering can save America. That it’s better than the news.
The Peabody awards celebrated the Daily Show as “a trusted source of news for citizens united in their disappointment and disgust with politics and cable news”. But the media was the first in line to anoint the politics of contempt, ridicule and disgust as the future of journalism. Now the future is here.
The Washington Post, once a paper of record, swarms with snarky Stewartesque headlines like, “Jeff Sessions doesn’t think a judge in Hawaii — a.k.a. ‘an island in the Pacific’ — should overrule Trump”. Journalism is dead. And replacing it with snarky lefty spin hasn’t saved the Republic. Or anything else.
But the left’s faith in the power of its contempt has nothing to do with its tactical effectiveness.
The left remains convinced that Jon Stewart brought down Bush and Tina Fey brought down Palin because ridiculing the right isn’t just an ugly tactic. Instead it carries an almost religious meaning. Mocking Republicans can save us. Every ideology expresses its superiority through its own triumphalism. Sneering is the left’s own invocation of its own superiority. These are the grown up politics of kids who were convinced that they were better than everyone else because they looked down on them.
Much as Allahu Akbar denotes the superiority of the Muslim and the inferiority of the non-Muslim, the knowing smirk, the lifted eyebrow and the braying laugh of the audience when the unironic applause sign flashes is the prayer of the progressive to the cruel little god of his own ego. The ritual is tribal. A lefty dons the mock wig of the hated enemy and is ritually humiliated for the entertainment of the tribes of Manhattan, Berkeley and Marin County. The foe is destroyed in effigy. The video of his destruction is virally spread with titles such as, “Saturday Night Live Destroys Trump”. Much more at the link
[Daily Caller] Charles Krauthammer said during a panel discussion on Fox News Monday that the proper course of action for dealing with North Korea could involve a "preemptive strike" launched by the United States.
"I think that if we come to the final point, where they have a nuke on top of an ICBM, I think, yes a preemptive strike."
"That’s a policy that means, if the Chinese have to calculate, it could be a bluff," Krauthammer conceded. "But the Chinese and the North Koreans are going to have to calculate that that is a plausible threat."
Krauthammer further argued that the threat of a preemptive strike could convince China into "imposing a freeze on the program."
"It could be that they won’t be able to get them to dismantle it, but a freeze might be acceptable as a minimum."
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The deification of Pudgy must be kind of like Japanese Shintoism during WWII and the deification of the emperor. If Pudgy were removed, it would seem the leadership of the Norks would fall apart--maybe naïveté on my part.
[Breitbart] Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told Breitbart News that she welcomes President Trump’s executive order aimed at lifting the ban on offshore drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic and Atlantic areas.
Governor Palin said, "Quashing Obama’s anti-American energy plan makes America great again. We’ve been working for years to remind people that our exceptional nation came to be by developing our God-given natural resources and by expecting reward for an unsurpassed work ethic. We capture that again when we drill, baby, drill!"
Trump’s executive order directs the U.S. Department of the Interior to review the Obama-era bans to allow "responsible development of offshore areas that will bring revenue to our treasury and jobs to our workers.
[The Hill] President Trump says he is "disappointed" in the Republican-controlled Congress for how it has handled his major legislative priorities, including a plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
"I’m disappointed," Trump told Fox News in response to a question about whether he was disappointed with how Republicans had handled big issues such as healthcare.
After host Martha MacCallum noted the possibility of a Friday vote on ObamaCare repeal had been raised before GOP leaders decided against it, Trump said: "I'm disappointed that it didn't go a lot quicker."
"I like them a lot," he said of congressional Republicans.
"I have great relationships," he added, reminding MacCallum that he didn't know most of them before this year.
[DAWN] THE perilous state of Pakistain-India relations ought to be a matter of urgent concern for both state and society in the two countries. Anything done to nudge open a door to dialogue or prevent a further deterioration in relations should be welcomed. Yet, a perplexing and disturbing campaign of suspicion and mistrust has been unleashed against the PML-N government following the revelation that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... has met with Indian industrialist Sajjan Jindal, known to be a personal friend and emissary of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Remarkably, the PPP too has added its voice to the chorus of condemnation, the party seemingly willing to cast aside all good sense in a desperate bid to damage the PML-N in any way it can. Some perspective is essential here.
The PML-N has done itself few favours with its inept handling of the backlash in some sections of the media and the public. First daughter Maryam Nawaz’s tweet about the meeting between Prime Minister Sharif and Mr Jindal was patronising and tone deaf. Political ineptness though does not invalidate the likely idea behind the meeting. Every government has come to understand and embrace the benefit of back channels in the Pakistain-India relationship. Former president and army chief Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... used back-channel negotiations to open a dialogue on a possible permanent settlement of the Kashmire dispute. His foreign minister, Khurshid Kasuri, has publicly reiterated the value of back channels in recent days. In the current scenario, the Indian media itself has speculated that Mr Jindal’s visit to Pakistain may be a prelude to a meeting between Mr Sharif and Mr Modi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Kazakhstan in June. Mr Jindal as a trusted emissary of the Indian prime minister and, in Maryam Nawaz’s own telling, a friend of Mr Sharif is well placed to be an interlocutor. Ought not the elected prime minister of the country have the prerogative to arrange a meeting with the Indian prime minister?
If a meeting does take place in June, what remains to be seen is if the leaders can find a way to not only re-establish dialogue but to put it on a sustainable path. The flurry of high-level diplomacy in late 2015, with the two prime ministers meeting during the Gay Paree climate summit and Mr Sharif hosting Mr Modi in his Raiwind home during a surprise stopover by the Indian prime minister, produced a decision to restart talks, rebranded as full-spectrum dialogue. But the Pathankot attack derailed the process. The so-called terror proofing of dialogue ought to be one of the main planks of any fresh effort to restart talks; a difficult task, but one that is clearly necessary. The two prime ministers must explain to their respective nations why dialogue is the only option
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The so-called terror proofing of dialogue ought to be one of the main planks of any fresh effort to restart talks; a difficult task, but one that is clearly necessary.
i.e.: Let the ISI puppets commit atrocities in India and Kashmir at will, but don't let it break down our "dialogue"
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[DAWN] THE mental state of men ready and poised to kill has long fascinated scientists. The Nobel Prize winning ethologist, Konrad Lorenz, says such persons experience the ’Holy Shiver’ (called heiliger Schauer in German) just moments before performing the deed. In his famous book On Aggression, Lorenz describes it as a tingling of the spine prior to performing a heroic act in defence of their communities.
This feeling, he says, is akin to the pre-human reflex that raises hair on an animal’s back as it zeroes in for the kill. He writes: "A shiver runs down the back and along the outside of both arms. All obstacles become unimportant ... instinctive inhibitions against hurting or killing disappear ... Men enjoy the feeling of absolute righteousness even as they commit atrocities."
While they stripped naked and beat their colleague Mashal Khan with sticks and bricks, the 20-25 students of the Mardan university enjoyed precisely this feeling of righteousness. They said Khan had posted content disrespectful of Islam on his Facebook page and so they took it upon themselves to punish him. Finally, one student took out his pistol and shot him dead. Hundreds of others watched approvingly and, with their smartphone cameras, video-recorded the killing for distribution on their Facebook pages. A meeting of this self-congratulatory group resolved to hide the identity of the shooter.
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[TheOtherMcCain] America is a free country because America is a Christian country, and anyone who thinks they can attack Christianity and still preserve "the blessings of liberty" is either evil or a fool, or perhaps an evil fool. I'll neither champion nor condemn the lifestyle, but those of implied persuasion should be thinking very seriously about how their world will look under Sharia.
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"how much Third World savagery are you willing to endure for the sake of your liberal principles?"
"If you want to preserve your life and liberty, you may need to reconsider your politics, because modern liberals are never going to summon the courage necessary to stand up to the Islamic menace."
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Seems like the take away is as stated in the article: "What have we learned from this story?...if you’re gay, don’t ever go to Dubai — or anywhere else in the Islamic world. Buy yourself an atlas and draw a big red “X” on every Muslim country on the map."
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Oops!. Must be moderating my posts. Sorry for double post. Certain sensitive words I suppose. The liberal police state. They seem to be actively attacking opposing thought.
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Since Shaza Ismail's family is strict muslim what do you want to bet that she had FGM performed?
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She grew up abroad, Titus Johnson2333, which reduces the probability, but in Egypt her liklihood is 95%. From Wikipedia:
Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population has banned all forms of female genital mutilation since 2007.[37] The ministry's order declared it is 'prohibited for any doctors, nurses, or any other person to carry out any cut of, flattening or modification of any natural part of the female reproductive system'. Islamic authorities in the nation also stressed that Islam opposes female genital mutilation. The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, said that it is "Prohibited, prohibited, prohibited."[74] Egypt passed a law banning FGM.[75] The June 2007 Ministry ban eliminated a loophole that allowed girls to undergo the procedure for health reasons.[76] There had previously been provisions under the Penal Code involving "wounding" and "intentional infliction of harm leading to death", as well as a ministerial decree prohibiting FGM. In December 1997, the Court of Cassation (Egypt's highest appeals court) upheld a government banning of the practice providing that those who did not comply would be subjected to criminal and administrative punishments. According to a survey in the year 2000, a study found that 97% of the country's population still practiced FGM; a 2005 study found that over 95% of Egyptian women have undergone some form of FGM.[77] In Egypt's first trial for committing female genital mutilation, two men were acquitted in November 2014; the doctor was ordered to pay the girl's mother compensation.[78] However, in 2015 after an appeal the doctor was sentenced to more than two years in prison and the father was given a three-month suspended sentence.[79]
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.
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