[TruthAboutGuns] A person with knowledge of the situation tells us that, more than just "considering" the move, Winchester, which operates the US Army’s Lake City ammunition plant, has been informed that it may no longer sell M855 and SS109 ammunition produced in excess of the military’s needs on the civilian market.
How would that affect the civilian supply of .223 and 5.56 ammunition? We understand that as much as 30% of the commercial market’s sales volume of .223/5.56 is produced by Lake City.
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M855 and SS109 are military grade. There are other sources for .223 and 5.56. M855 has a longer range than civilian .223. At the moment I don't see this as a big deal except it will deny civilian access to military grade ammo. The M855 comes in stripper clips in olive drab boxes of 30 rounds.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
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So rather than letting the public subsidize excess capacity in the production plant they want to idle that capacity. Smart. Sheer Genius, even! It's not that wars suddenly occur...
[HOT AIR] "The video doesn’t do it justice. It was really bad," someone who was there told Axios’s Jonathan Swan.
Is this game over for the Senate gun bill, which was already encountering "serious doubts"?
Maybe not. For one thing, US Senator John Cornyn must have known what was coming when he decided to show up to a Texas Republican event in the middle of a gun-control negotiation. In fact, he’s apparently used to being booed at the convention. If boos were likely to change his mind, he would have quit the negotiations yesterday and arrived today as the uncompromising hero of gun owners everywhere.
He tried to reason with the crowd, explaining what is and isn’t in the bill:
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When you believe your peer group is more important than your constituents. You know, just like CEOs who believe their peer group is more important than the stockholders.
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Getting that from the people whose votes you need is a wakeup call.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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As many reasons as there are to dislike / distrust McConnell, he's played this masterfully again. Summer recess in a couple weeks and then nothing happens before the midterms. Then the message sent by the midterms blows it off the table completely.
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[Your News, h.t. Epoch Times Premium] Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was unable to commit to stop federal funding from going to Chinese scientific research, despite the U.S. intelligence community assessing the regime as America’s top adversary.
Fauci, laid up at home with the disease he tried to stop, made the remarks while appearing virtually at the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee hearing on June 16, during an exchange with Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas).
"The NIH is still funding research in China, at least $8 million since 2020. In the Intelligence Community’s 2022 Annual Threat Assessment, the Chinese Communist Party is presented as one of the top threats to the United States, along with Russia, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. To my knowledge, only China is receiving U.S. research dollars," said the senator during the hearing. "When will you as director of NIAID stop funding research in China?"
Since 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a total of $8.3 million in grants to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and its division National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, along with five top public universities in mainland China and Hong Kong, according to the NIH website.
Although this amount doesn’t capture dollars later funneled to a Chinese institution through a U.S.-based organization, such as New York-based EcoHealth Alliance, which had partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to perform coronavirus-related experiments that some experts said fit the definition of gain-of-function research, that is, experiments that increase the pathogenicity or transmissibility of a virus.
Fauci, in response to Marshall’s question, said that the U.S. federal agencies "had very productive peer-reviewed highly regarded research projects with our Chinese colleagues that have led to some major advances in biomedical research."
"So I don’t think I’d be able to tell you that we are going to stop funding Chinese," Fauci said.
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I hate it when my fat fingers get two capital letters together.
However, this one may have been a Freudian slip.
Posted by: Bobby ||
06/18/2022 7:12 Comments ||
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was unable to commit to stop federal funding from going to Chinese scientific research, despite the U.S. intelligence community assessing the regime as America’s top adversary.
What better method of intelligence collection on your "top adversary" than to fund and closely monitor their activities ?
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I think we are doing the funding part. Not sure about closely monitoring. Do you think we are closely monitoring our cash and money pouring into Ukraine? Monitoring would leave a paper trail. They don’t want records.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/18/2022 12:26 Comments ||
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Fauci, laid up at home with the disease he invented,
I kinda like that better.
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06/18/2022 12:47 Comments ||
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Fauci, in response to Marshall’s question, said that the U.S. federal agencies "had very productive peer-reviewed highly regarded research projects with our Chinese colleagues that have led to some major advances in biomedical research."
Yeah, like covid-19.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/18/2022 12:49 Comments ||
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Nothing to see here. It's not like he was choking on a pretzel or tripped on a stairway leading to an aircraft (oh, wait) It's certainly not like he can't pronounce the word nuclear.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/18/2022 12:29 Comments ||
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I did the same thing once when I was 8. Then I learned how to remove my foot from the pedal straps.
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Not the first time somebody got a sneaker stuck in the toe clip during the dismount. Would have been funnier if it was both feet and he went over like Artie Johnson on a tricycle and just lay there. Now *that* would be a photo op.
Personally, I give the old grifter credit for still being able to ride a bike.
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Hard to do in the 2020 "election", but the Left was all over Ronald Wilson Reagan and (gulp) John McCain for being too old.
But showing this clown on a bike ride [sic] is no better than Putin catching a big fish for finding an ancient relic while on a diving "expedition". Put Biden in some skates and a hockey uniform, and then I'll reconsider, lol.
[Townhall] Kicking off its public hearings on June 9 with a primetime event that failed to meet expectations, the House's select committee investigating the events of January 6 is trying its best to make former President Donald Trump a political pariah who faces criminal penalties or is at least seen as unelectable by Americans.
But, as a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted after the J6 committee's primetime hearing and during subsequent televised proceedings shows, Americans would still rather have Trump in office than current President Joe Biden.
The survey of more than 1,500 adults conducted June 10 through June 13 puts Joe Biden at the worst polling performance of his presidency — and shows how little the January 6 committee and its mainstream media advocates have been able to sour Americans on President Trump.
Most notably, despite a picture the mainstream media, Democrats, and squishy Republicans have painted of President Trump as the perpetrator of a coup attempt that sought to throw the United States into a constitutional crisis, Americans aren't buying it.
When asked who they'd vote for if a presidential election were held today, 44 percent said they'd vote for Donald Trump while 42 percent said they'd vote for Joe Biden.
Further refuting the claims of the January 6 committee and the breathless mainstream media coverage are Americans' opinions on the next presidential election in 2024. Only 21 percent of Americans think Biden should run for reelection. Among those who voted for Biden in 2020, a full 40 percent say he should not run again.
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One of the things that the committee has accomplished is making money for lawyers. Their subpoena cost Kash Patel hundreds of thousands of dollars. All of the costs for this clown show are bourn by the victims and us taxpayers.
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At this time it isn't known if Schiif for Brains knew about this as it has been reported that some of his staff let them in. However it would not surprise me if he new,
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Put them in solitary and hold them for a year. Well, that the standard procedure isn't it? /rhet question
[NPR] Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will be joining the Biden administration, the White House announced Wednesday, after previously being considered to be President Biden's running mate in the 2020 presidential election. "Our Monkeypox Czar"
Bottoms will serve as the senior adviser for public engagement, "which works at the local, state, and national levels to ensure community leaders, diverse perspectives, and new voices have the opportunity to inform the work of the President in an inclusive, transparent and responsible way," the White House said.
Bottoms was considered for the role of vice president during Biden's 2020 presidential campaign, along with Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and others.
Bottoms, who was the mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022, did not run for reelection and has been a political commentator for CNN.
"Mayor Bottoms understands that democracy is about making government work for working families, for the people who are the backbone of this country," Biden said. "She led the city of Atlanta with strength through the pandemic, through a summer of protests and pain, and through the mass shooting that left Atlanta's Asian American community in fear. Keisha is bright, honorable, tough and has the integrity required to represent our Administration to the American public."
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I think Buttigieg was a better mayor than Bottoms was or maybe he just was in charge of a smaller dumpster fire. Anyway Bottoms is unlikely to make things better and is probably positioned to replace Harris. That would be an upgrade as she can probably utter a coherent statement and laugh at inappropriate stuff. They would have probably taken Abrams instead but she is busy, too smart for the offer or they couldn’t afford the snacks. Anyway Bottoms wasn’t doing anything constructive; she was on CNN.
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"The on-going process by which the world's multiple idiocies become one giant, useless force."
-- Blair's Law
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^Under other circumstances our current White House spokeswoman would be "okay." Not great; but okay. But it would be hard for the greatest spokesman in history to cover for the contradictions inherent in this system as it stands right now.
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.
[HOT AIR] "The video doesn’t do it justice. It was really bad," someone who was there told Axios’s Jonathan Swan.
Fauci, 
But, as a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted after the J6 committee's primetime hearing and during subsequent televised proceedings shows, Americans would still rather have Trump in office than current President Joe Biden.
