My opinion of the appeals court decision on the Maryland assault weapons ban is that it will be overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States. I have zero faith that courts at any level will adhere to the Constitution when it comes to firearms.
Matters in Malhuer, Oregon continue. Last week, the Pacific Patriots Network issued a call for their members to go to Burns to hold an unarmed protest. They demanded that the FBI leave Oregon, escorted by the PPN. That was last weekend, and thus far no word has emerged on what is really going on.
I wanted to talk to the PPN, but alas they only allow contact by email, which is understandable. They were made to look like total fools when several of their members spoke with heavily armed FBI agents on camera the week before the ambush on Highway 395, and then reported back that the FBI acted professionally, just as the PPN did. It turned out that none of their concerns about BLM activity were addressed. They were totally played by the government.
The government and their allies are already preparing the next battlefield. Consider this article in which the author uses spoon fed statistics to bolster the claim that right wing terrorists are a bigger threat to America than ISIS. Using anecdotal stories then connecting them to groups, some of which are likely riddled with government informants, the writer paints a picture of anti government types as violent right wing extremists.
But wait a second. Let us say for a moment that armed men occupied a piece of land scores of miles away from any federal official to protest the actions of those officials, though they knew the federal tendency would be to use its great power to seize their property, their freedom, and even take their lives.
The occupiers were armed, but they disclaimed violence unless it was visited on them first. They knew the government would be gunning for them. And when the government did make contact, one of them died violently, even though he had no gun in his hand. And no government official, state or federal so much as suffered a broken fingernail, and not a single shot was fired by any of the protesters who were detained, which would have normally precipitated return fire. And the government agents who committed the shooting are commanded by a government which had already painted them as violent despite their constant protestations they did not want a confrontation. They are the ones that set this chain of events in motion by inflating a protest into threats against them personally.
Just who are the violent extremists here? The men and women who are imprisoned for threats they couldn't carry out, or those who attacked them under the color of law?
Lest any reader think that the protesters are on the side of the angels, Virginia based tactical trainer Max Velocity has criticisms for the whole mess that he heaps on anyone and everyone, like crappy prison slop onto steel trays the protesters are choking down as you read this. Stand in line, folks, everyone but the loudmouths who approved of the death of Lavoy Finicum get a heaping helping.
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Prices for used pistols and used rifles were both mixed.
New Lows:
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.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel, .26 per round
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.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: AmmoMart, Store brand, FSFP, Brass, Reloads, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .16 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .16 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Freedom Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .26 per round
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Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .37 per round
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7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Wolf WPA, steel case, .22 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (9 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2015)
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Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Selway Armory, Aguila, RNL, .08 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
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I have zero faith that courts at any level will adhere to the Constitution when it comes to firearms.
I agree Chris. I'm ticked off about a neighboring state, Virginia not recognizing concealed carry permits from 25 other states (including ours) that they previously had reciprocity agreements with. The AG (a Democrat) of VA made a unilateral decision and thus basically disenfranchised the voters of Virginia as well as neutered the Constitution.
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McAuliffe cut a deal to cancel that and save face
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Thanks badanov, the Max Velocity link is excellent, and seems to agree that ABBA (super trouper) awards go all around.
If any of these groups want to be taken seriously, they need to get their PR shit in order. The government needs to realize that stomping on toes will bring a foot into action.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Videos and photographs have circulated online of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Nayef's visit to Al-Ahsaa region in the Eastern Province following the terrorist attack on Imam Rida mosque last week. He even appeared in a selfie with one of the injured victims. His meetings and dialogue with people there were distinguished by goodwill.
When he met the brave young man who attacked the second jacket wallah before he could blow himself up, bin Nayef confirmed that the kingdom will triumph over terrorism. Society has become a partner with the state in fighting extremism, but without getting involved in the state's role. This is the whole point. The state's role will always be paramount, as the prince has said before.
People's help, unity and attentiveness is important, but it is unacceptable that some enthusiastic citizens in several areas want to form what resembles popular mobilization forces in mosques. The roles of the community and individuals end when they interfere with that of the state.
Everyone was happy with the young man's deterrence of the terrorist in the mosque, and with youths' efforts in general to limit terrorist activities around mosques. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... all this falls within the context of complementing, not interfering with, the state's role. Society must detect terrorists, limit their activity and report them. Security forces will handle the rest. May God protect His worshippers from all evil.
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Josh Stanton at One Free Korea puts into words what we've been saying at the Burg for a while about how the lack of a proper response to North Korea has led to a dangerous situation. American weakness, Obama's fecklessness, Hillary's criminality, and the foolishness of our front-runners today tend to suggest to the South Koreans that we wouldn't regard a nuclear attack on Seoul with the resoluteness they've been expecting over the years. Ditto Japan, which eyes both a crazy North Korea and the avarice of China.
What do you do then? Why, you nuke up, of course. Stanton lays out what the South Koreans, Japanese and Taiwanese are saying. And what they might do.
Fun for a Saturday.
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[Wash Times] In the many decades I have had the pleasure of covering the Clintons I have developed several themes about them that have over the years been validated by fact. One theme is that there is a Clinton Curse.
It afflicts many who come into contact with the fabulous couple. In the early days, the Curse brought down the McDougals, Webb Hubbell, Vince Foster and former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, all of them by now figures known only to history. More recently it was Jeffrey Epstein, the child molester and Bill's pal and fellow epicurean. Now quite possibly, Josh Earnest, press secretary to President Obama, will be added to the list along with Hillary's aides, Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, Bryan Pagliano and Jake Sullivan. Possibly even David Brock will suffer the Clinton Curse. The Clintons are a couple to be avoided. Even the Democratic Party might not be spared come Election Day 2016.
Of course, the Clintons often turn to their favor circumstances that might spell doom to others. Consider the present imbroglio involving Hillary, her mysterious personal server, the FBI, and the aforementioned Clintonistas: Ms. Abedin, Ms. Mills, Mr. Pagliano and Mr. Sullivan. Many people whom I talk to tell me the FBI's interest in that personal server is ominous for Hillary, a matter I wrote about in this column three weeks ago. Yet this imbroglio when viewed from the Clintons' perspective might actually be helping them in their quest for the presidency.
The FBI's investigation is finding so much additional evidence of wrongdoing by the Clintons and their Clintonistas that the copious evidence is actually impeding the bureau from recommending indictments. No sooner does the bureau think it has wrapped up one set of indictments than it trips across another category of malfeasance. For instance, it seems that the FBI has now found the Clintons to have co-mingled their foundation's interests with Hillary's State Department work, and then there is her campaign fundraising, Bill's exorbitant lecture fees, and -- who knows -- the needs of the Clinton Library. If Hillary and Bill are lucky, the FBI investigations will be mired in new evidence for months to come.
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It's not so much a curse as a strategy.
The Clintons don't have friends and associates as such, rather, they surround themselves with "bullet sponges", in the hopes that if somebody takes a shot at one of them, you'll soak it up for them.
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So far, I doubt the existence of "Clinton Curse." Let me know when there are indictments and I might change my mind; otherwise it lawlessness and getting away with it as usual.
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As the article points out, the mud is so deep and toxic that any attempt to actually get an indictment will get stuck forever. "Don't throw me in that briar patch" could be the Clinton's motto.
The infinite volume of mud is much better than a stonewall for stopping the incoming rounds.
[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] As Fidel came to power in 1959, how many Americans slid onto rafts to get into Cuba? Or took the last ship to Havana? I’ll need actual names.
Attention to all you college kids out there so starry-eyed for Bernie – are you serious?
But you’re young. Far and wide you’ve been educated by Liberal pro-BDS professors, so you’re not expected to know too much except that the two most reliable beacons of tolerance and liberty, the United States and Israel, are on the wrong side of history.
Pure brainwashing, but you will grow up. There is no excuse however for people already grown up who still cheer for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
You really think socialism is okay?
Let’s be clear. There is no difference between socialists, liberals and progressives. They are all Communists, or shades of the same mentality.
Either way, it’s about taking from the rich and giving it to the poor in order to make everybody equal, meaning equally miserable. It’s also about a one-man show. No checks. No balances. Like Obama visiting a Baltimore mosque to offer Muslims his love and concern.
But Obama visited no synagogue to share Jewish grief for loved ones being slain in Israel, most recently the 19-year-old woman of valor Hadar Cohen.
Nor has Mr. Obama ever shared concern for Jews being tormented on campus.
One man, one rule, can be so arbitrary.
Communism sucks. Ask the people who lived there. Call it by its more pleasant and more acceptable name, socialism; same answer. Unbearable.
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I saw some of the starry-eyed Hildebeest acolytes the other day--mostly young women. One said she was supporting Hillary because she felt like Hillary was the only one supporting womyn's rights (I guess these are different than men's rights. sarc.) There is a new crop of young useless idiots who vote and don't have the benefit of history (or they don't care about history). Remember, if Hillary wasn't good enough for Bill, she's not good enough for the rest of us. Bernie is out in the ozone somewhere with his cockamamie notions--IMO he's not fit for office either.
There is a set of givens in the diplomatic process that have been constant since the April 2014 breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations brokered by US Secretary of State John Kerry.
One is that Washington, while officially still reassessing the process, will "stay engaged." Another is that the Palestinians will push forward with efforts against Israel at international forums. Yet another is that Israel will continuously call for the Palestinians to reenter negotiations without preconditions or diktats.
And, finally, it is a given that there will always be some kind of "French initiative" in the background.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Last week, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said his party was not obstructing Leb's presidential or municipal elections, and called on those concerned to attend parliamentary sessions to elect his presidential candidate, Christian MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... How democratic and respectful of parliament and democracy! Nasrallah told MPs to either elect Aoun or continue to have no president - in other words, an ultimatum to parliament and the Lebanese people.
He said Hezbollah would emerge victorious over its rivals regarding regional developments, but then contradicted himself by saying: "Don't count on outside [powers] and let's [work together] to find an internal solution."
Shirking responsibilities
Hezbollah and the Future Movement, led by Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. , have been holding meetings, so if the intent to hold dialogue and meet half way is still there, why do they not agree on an internal solution regarding the presidency instead of defying one another via media outlets?
Why do Hezbollah MPs not go to parliament to elect their candidate while respecting democratic foundations? Whoever gets the majority of votes will win. Even if MPs are affiliated with political parties, it is their duty to elect a president. Boycotting elections of a president seriously harms the constitution and the political system. Obstructing constitutional deadlines is a violation of regulations. Attempts to impose a certain candidate resemble foreign interference - we in Leb have a bitter history of this.
Today, there is foreign tutelage hiding behind a Lebanese mask, and it is trying to seize control of the state and turn it into an Iranian proxy.
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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.
Michel Aoun
