[Daily Caller] President Barack Obama announced two pardons and 95 commutations Friday afternoon, with the vast majority of his clemency going to dealers of crack cocaine.
The grant of clemency, timed to coincide with the Christmas holiday, is the largest such grant of Obama's presidency, and takes the total number of sentences he's commuted up to 184. The grant comes on the heels of 46 commutations Obama issued last July.
More than 40 of the commutations are for life sentences, and most of the beneficiaries will be released in April.
Despite the large number of commutations, a look at the list of beneficiaries reveal there is very little variety in the crimes they committed. For 72 of them, one of their offenses was trafficking in cocaine, and of these, all but a handful were specifically convicted of trafficking in crack cocaine (often described as "cocaine base" in criminal law).
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And... objectively pro-crack dealer. It's as if he loves seeing the inner cities awash in blood.
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Although the numbers are relatively small, the urban base sees his actions, and by extension, the democratic party, as quite positive. Democratic migration to Trump is a threat. Champ and his 'free stuff' party will do anything to keep folks on the plantation.
[WRCBTV] A woman in Shelbyville is facing her 17th DUI charge after being nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! over the weekend. "[Hic!] Yersh, offisher?"
Police responded to a crash on North Main Street on Dec. 11. They said they found alcohol containers in a grocery bag inside one of the cars. According to the arrest report, the driver had slurred speech and smelled of alcohol. "Je-e-zus, Flanigan! Put that out! We'll all go up with her!"
Kaye Hanson, 59, reportedly told police she drank two alcohol beverages and that her license was suspended. "Only two? How big were they?"
"The firsht was 64 ounces. I don... don... don't remember the shecond... Mebbe it wuzh only one..."
Hanson has 16 prior DUI convictions from 1985 to present. She has also been convicted of driving on a revoked license 15 times.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] I can remember when three used to be a crowd.
I guess someone's child will demonstrate all the new things we think we know about how various genes affect the expression of various other genes, and how all the other knowns/unknowns play out as well.
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[NYPOST] Gastronomically correct students at an ultra-liberal Ohio college are in an uproar because the cafeteria food isn't ethnically accurate enough.
Students at Oberlin College are so angered by the "insensitive" and "culturally appropriative" offerings at their Dascomb Dining Hall that they are filling screeds of protest in the school newspaper and even demanded a meeting with Campus Dining Service officials and the college president.
At issue are foods such as General Tso's chicken being served with steamed chicken instead of fried -- which is not authentically Chinese, and simply "weird," one student bellyached.
Others were up in arms over Banh Mi Vietnamese sandwiches served with coleslaw instead of pickled vegetables on ciabatta bread -- rather than traditional French baguette. Yeah, and the duck eggs were barely fermented. You could actually stand the stench. Perhaps this could be solved if only the Board of Trustees raised tuition by another $10,000...
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Well, at least these protests have a reason---though, what the f*ck do you expect from cafeteria food?
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These idiots need to get on the same page with each other. It was just last month offering Mexican food was derided as 'cultural appropriation'. Expel all of these assclowns.
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"Gen. Tso's chicken" is about as Chinese a dish as chop suey is. The US Naval Academy culturally appropriated Gen. Tso's chicken and now serves "Admiral Tso's chicken" now & then.
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Where frosh noshed on pizzas gigantic,
Today their posh palates are frantic:
"Our bellies are bitchen.
Let's boycott this kitchen
That serves us cuisine inauthentique!"
You'll note that .223 Remington/5.56mm ammunition prices have risen dramatically in the wake of the San Bernadino massacre by $0.04 each.
Average prices for used AR pattern rifles have declined since last year by $6. The highest average price since last year is $16 higher while the lowest average price has declined -- dramatically -- by $50. The median price from last year has risen by almost $6.
The average number of used AR rifles in the five state markets this column follows actually declined since last year from 268 to 218. All five markets show declines in the average number of rifles available for private sale. Declines are as follows (in order of magnitude): Virginia: 42 percent; Pennsylvania: 20.6 percent; Florida: 14.9 percent; Texas: 11 percent; California: 7 percent.
Now for a different report, a range report (at 200 yards):
600 rounds fired
0 Misfires
2 jams
Rounds hitting the paper: 30
Rounds hitting the target: 10
Rounds hitting the bulls eye: 0
The jams were casings that became stuck in the firing chamber. In the AK they are impossible to dig out; you must remove the muzzle brake and tap the spent cartridge out from the muzzle end.
Trying to fire from a crouch position I missed everything, every time. I tried to split the target into quadrants and fired at each quadrant from the crouch position. The only thing I could do (from a sitting position) was hit one quadrant.
It's a lot harder than it sounds, especially with this 60 grain ammo.
From Weapons Man comes this discussion on just how much accuracy do you need:
Time after time I look through the popular gun boards and see users with Larue OBR, PredatARs and Noveske rifles doing rapid fire mag dumps at targets no further away then 50 yards. Most the time it is on man sized targets and they have mounted the popular T-1 or eotech or something there about.
Why do they need a gun that shoots 1/4 MOA to hit a man sized target across the room? Some of them do not even take the gun off of a benchrest and restrict their shooting to 25 yards incredibly. I have even seen some shooting these match rifles using military surplus ball ammo. They do not even bother with the match ammo it takes to achieve the precious level of accuracy they so badly wanted and paid for.
The biggest mind boggler to me is the mag dumps. Sure the rifles can handle it, but that accuracy level of the barrel will only last so long and after a certain number of rounds fired, it will go from 1/4 or 1/2 to 1 MOA or 2 or even larger depending on what goes bad or wears first.
I have been hammering this point for months: the ATF and FBI are illegally sharing information from Form 4473. A law is on the books which forbids the government from having this information. An apparent ATF rule requires FFLs to transcribe information taken from the form to a separate book. Last week I pointed out that the New York state police were the latest beneficiaries of this illegal act by the government. They are being given information that will help the police in later confiscation efforts.
According to this report, information taken from NICS queries are being used to compile a gun registration database.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly lower and prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for .223 Remington 55 grain ammunition jumped once again to .25 cents per round, $0.01 per round higher than the previous week and $0.03 per round higher the week before that.
Also repeating this note from two weeks ago (before prices jumped) (quoting): Note, also that the price for .223 55 grain ammunition is the lowest it has been since last year at $0.21 per round.
Prices for used pistols and for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
Texas: .40 caliber S&W (Glock or other semiautomatic): $250
Pennsylvania: .223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic): $480
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Blok Tactical, Store Brand, TMJ, Reloads, .24 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, -.02 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Sportsman's Outdoor Superstore, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary, FSFP, Brass, Reloads; .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .16 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2015))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Surplus Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Vizards Guns and Ammo, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .25 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: TrueCaliber.com, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Aguila, RNL .08 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds (5 Box Limit): Target Sports USA, Aguila, RNL, .08 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
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It's funny, I go to the range and generally see people with AR's that have big powerful scopes on them, 3x9 in 40mm tubes, etc. They almost always fire from seated positions using bipods.
Even though my carbine is in .308, all I have is iron sights and a eotech holographic though I'm going to send that in for the refund. I doubt mine has the problem but I can find a cheaper one. It doesn't magnify, but it did have the ballistic reticle, so sight in at 200, at 300 yards go up a dot. Anyway, I never see them shoot prone, standing, sitting or kneeling. They also never fire super fast or anything but really controlled rates. I like to practice from several positions if possible. I have a forward grip instead of a bipod. I figure if there's trouble and I really need the thing, a bunch of long range gadgets are only going to get me into legal trouble or I'll take long shots with the .270 Ruger w/Leopold scope.
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Eotech... excellent choice. .308 is another good choice. Iron sights, well...when all the batteries are gone, that's what we'll have left. We'd better know how to use them.
[USNEWS] The head of Rwanda's electoral commission said late Friday partial results show Rwandans have voted to lift term limits in order to allow President Paul Kagame extend his rule. Why not just call the bastards "kings" and be done with it?
More than 98 percent from 21 out of 30 districts, representing 70 percent of registered voters, voted to lift term limits for Kagame, Mbanda Kalisa said. Kagame's supporters celebrated the announcement in the capital, Kigali.
Kagame, 58, is ineligible to run in 2017 because the Rwandan constitution limits a president to two terms. But if Rwandans approve the referendum, Kagame would be able to run for an additional seven-year term and then two-five year terms, which means he could possibly stay in power until 2034.
Kagame became president in 2000 after being Rwanda's de facto leader since the end of the country's genocide in 1994. He is credited with stabilizing the country and promoting economic growth after the mass killings, but critics say he is an authoritarian ruler who does not tolerate opposition and he is accused of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses.
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China accused the United States of a serious military provocation following the flight of an American B-52 strategic bomber over disputed territory in the South China Sea. China's Defense Ministry statement said the U.S. is deliberately increasing tensions in the area. It said, ""The actions by the U.S. side constitute a serious military provocation and are rendering more complex and even militarizing conditions in the South China Sea."
Pentagon officials said they are investigating the flight path of the B-52. The military jet flew close to Cuarteron Reef in the Spratly Islands. A senior U.S. defense official said that bad weather may have contributed to the pilot flying off course and into area China claims.
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Sources say that President Obama will drop his new gun control executive orders after he rests up in Hawaii over the holidays.
Senior congressional aides and sources in the gun-control community expect the White House to use its executive powers to tighten federal gun laws shortly after President Barack Obama returns from a Hawaiian vacation in early January.
White House mouthpiece Josh Earnest says legal review of the proposal will continue on during the holidays.
Obama has been unable to pass gun control legislation through Congress (like the Constitution requires), so he is going forward and will make his own laws. Republicans have blocked Democrat efforts to pass anti-Second Amendment legislation and Democrats have blocked GOP efforts that focus on mental health issues and gun violence.
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We had a 15 year-old kid, a well-liked football player, killed the other night in Knoxville. He was trying to shield three girls from the fire fight. Nice kid. He caught a slug in gang violence. The shooter was a 20 year-old gang member with a felony record and by definition, as a felon, he had an illegal firearm. I'd suggest that Obama concentrate on the gang violence and illegal firearms. The majority of firearms owners are law-abiding citizens--this kind of stuff just pisses everyone off--it is moronic.
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You are under the mistaken assumption that Bumbles wants to actually solve the problem. If he did that they would no longer be able to exploit it.
On the contrary - he wants to make it much worse so he can call for even more gun control. Disarming legal owners will do that.
The fact that it will also make it easier for his buddies in ISIS is a bonus!
[DAWN] The Sharjah Police on Friday incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a five-member Pak gang for alleged burglaries and theft in commercial outlets in Sharjah, read a report published on Khaleej Times.
The group comprising five Paks allegedly carried out thefts in a number of shops and outlets in various areas in the Gulf state, local police said.
The police claimed that the gang members resisted the arrest while one of them had a knife, but police managed to arrest him.
A Criminal Investigation Department (CID) official said they received a number of complaints at various cop shoppes that "some thieves had broken into their shops" and stole cash, goods and various valuable items.
The police managed to locate their apartment and identified the suspects through surveillance cameras before arresting them, as part of their ongoing investigation in response to the complaints.
All suspects have been referred to public prosecution.
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A fisherman out of Nantucket
Washed up with his butt in a bucket.
"I docked and made ready,
But the head was unsteady,
And fast to my bottom I stuck it."
[Debbie Schlussell] Incredible but true. The FBI worked with the crazy, inbred, anti-Semitic, anti-gay, anti-American Westboro Baptist Church cult in order to train to engage community activists. . . or something. How completely, totally insane is this? On the other hand, it's right in line with the FBI's Islamo-pandering to the equally hateful, extremist Muslim community.
The F.B.I. said that members of an anti-gay church took part in training of police officers and agents, a move the F.B.I. says it will take steps to remedy. The church, Westboro Baptist of Topeka, Kan., contends God is punishing the military for tolerance of homosexuality and has protested at military funerals. An F.B.I. spokesman said the group was invited "to establish open dialogue in an academic setting to train law enforcement on how to more effectively engage with the activist community."
Now you know why I call 'em, Famous But Incompetent. The name fits.
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.
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $530 Last Week Avg: $586 (-) ($626 (37 Weeks), $450 (24 Weeks)) 
China accused the United States of a serious military provocation following the flight of an American B-52 strategic bomber over disputed territory in the South China Sea. China's Defense Ministry statement said the U.S. is deliberately increasing tensions in the area. It said, ""The actions by the U.S. side constitute a serious military provocation and are rendering more complex and even militarizing conditions in the South China Sea."
[DAWN] The Sharjah Police on Friday 
[Debbie Schlussell] Incredible but true. The FBI worked with the crazy, inbred, anti-Semitic, anti-gay, anti-American Westboro Baptist Church cult in order to train to engage community activists. . . or something. How completely, totally insane is this? On the other hand, it's right in line with the FBI's Islamo-pandering to the equally hateful, extremist Muslim community.
