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Minnesota National Guard have deployed to Brooklyn Center following mass race rioting and looting by BLM
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-Land of the Free
Ban on On-Line Ammo Sales?
[via Bongino] Many consumers have taken to regularly shopping from their computers and mobile devices instead, and while many websites are also selling out as fast as inventory is posted, the days of online ammo sales could be coming to an end.

It could also spell the end of private sales of ammunition.

House Resolution (H.R.) 1207 — Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2021 — was introduced earlier this year by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.). It would require a fare-to-face purchase of ammunition, require licensing of "ammunition dealers" and require reporting of bulk purchases of ammunition.
As the popular meme asks "If they treat us this bad when we're armed, how will they treat us when they've disarmed us?"
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/14/2021 10:04 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other news...

FDA removal of restrictions on telemedicine abortions prompts celebration, safety concerns
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2021 13:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I assume this also covers powder, primers, bullets and brass or do we all become home loaders now?
Posted by: Warthog || 04/14/2021 15:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Right now, unless you sell online or manufacture, you do not need an FFL to sell ammo. Think bait shop or hardware store.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/14/2021 15:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Lefties always see a ratchet. Life is a pendulum. Wait until Eric Trump is president and ammo is sold in gumball machines.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/14/2021 15:26 Comments || Top||

#5  If this had a serious chance of passage, I suspect it would have some serious repercussions that Biden shouldn't want. (Maybe he is just that stupid though)
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/14/2021 21:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Any predictions as to when our era's Lexington & Concord will occur?
Posted by: Kofi Lumumba5373 || 04/14/2021 21:42 Comments || Top||

#7  It happened in California...as I recall. (I'm stocked up and have been for quite some time now.)

Posted by: crazyhorse || 04/14/2021 21:45 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ You saw it coming, or the potential of it coming. Insurance, just call it insurance.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2021 21:48 Comments || Top||

#9  No, but apparently this doesn't have much chance at the moment. Given the Dem's plan on adding 4 more SC justices, we'll see.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/14/2021 21:55 Comments || Top||


Economy
U.S consumer prices surge in March, CPI finds, pushing inflation to 2 1/2-year high
[MARKETWATCH] Consumer prices rose in March for the fourth month in a row and the pace of inflation hit the highest level in two and a half years, underscoring new pressures emerging on the economy as the U.S. recovers from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.The consumer price index jumped 0.6% last month, the government said Tuesday, spearheaded by the rising cost of oil. Economists polled by Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal had forecast a 0.5% increase in the CPI.

The rate of inflation over the past year shot up to 2.6% from 1.7% in the prior month, marking the highest level since the fall of 2018.
If there's a total of $1.2 trillion in circulation, and the govt prints another $1.9 trillion, you kinda expect a bit of inflation, don't you?
Logic is racist, Fred. We can’t be having that kind of thing when precious feelings are involved.


Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Federal Reserve found that its benchmark price for "a basket of items" that nobody actually buys remained steady...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/14/2021 3:56 Comments || Top||

#2  The inflation rate would be a whole lot higher if they included wood building materials ...
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/14/2021 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3 

Wally World and other stores
Bacon now at $4.39 to $4.99 a pound.
But Pork Loin $2.58 a Pound?


Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/14/2021 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Possible pork shortage could strike during summer months
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Scary. 0.76% inflation last month is annualized to 12.8% yearly inflation. While it is unlikely to continue that high, energy price increases have yet to ripple through the production chain. Combined with with dumping 2X normal Federal spending dollars into the economy and inflation can easily reach 5-6%.

If interest rates match inflation, a 5% interest on $26 billion (near $30 trillion end of 2021) will cost 30% of federal tax revenue just to pay interest in the next few years.

Combine this with the bulk of baby boomers retiring, increasing the demand on the Federal budget and Americans will be hit with a vicious cycle unseen since the founding of the republic.
Posted by: Phavimp Smith9261 || 04/14/2021 9:04 Comments || Top||

#6  You talk about pork. Did Democrats think they could keep printing money for all the pork they want without any consequences?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/14/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Lots of supply chain disruptions right now are prolly partly to blame for the spike. But only partly.
Posted by: Woozle Grumble5275 || 04/14/2021 13:03 Comments || Top||

#8  With a (D) government the statistics will be massaged appropriately
Posted by: magpie || 04/14/2021 13:14 Comments || Top||

#9  this is not being driven by labor cost inflation as the average wage is not increasing that much (although it is up a bit from Jan to Mar)

unfortunately producers are having trouble increasing supply (in some sectors, e.g., energy), the govt is the trouble
Posted by: Lord Garth || 04/14/2021 16:44 Comments || Top||

#10  In about 18 months Venezualens will be begging to be deported back to home.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 04/14/2021 17:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
'Our focus was to get Trump out of office': CNN technical director makes candid admission to undercover Project Veritas reporter he thought he was on date with after listing his employer on TINDER
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester was caught on hidden camera video

  • Project Veritas released the clips on Tuesday showing Chester on several 'dates'

  • Conservative group found Chester through Tinder, where he listed his employer

  • Video shows Chester boasting of 'propaganda' tactics used by the network

  • 'We would always show shots of him jogging' Chester said of Biden

  • Chester has no editorial input at CNN, but would witness daily decisions there


The article has Project Veritas’s teaser, with key quotes. From PJ Media, the full video:
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2021 07:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So CNN should be charged with 'in kind' campaign contributions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||

#2 
So CNN Mgt. Just admitted they were a politcal propaganda arm and not acting as the free press protected under the 1st amendment.

Lawsuit time anyone?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/14/2021 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  It would be a riot to hear any judge explain how any American citizen doesn't have standing in such a case.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/14/2021 11:23 Comments || Top||



Schumer: Dems Won't Sacrifice 'Bold, Progressive Change' Just to Work with GOP
[BREITBART] Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.35379 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
(D-NY) said Monday on MSNBC’s "All In" that the Democrats would try and work with Republicans but not by "sacrificing the bold, progressive change that America demands."

Schumer said, "The question that everyone’s asking is why is there such a dichotomy between the Republican voters, electorate, and the Republican Senators. For instance, 60% of Republicans think the ARP, the American Rescue Plan, the most comprehensive progressive piece of legislation we passed in decades, is a good thing. How many Republican Senators voted for it? Zero. Why? It’s because Trump still controls them. They’re still afraid of him. He wants nothing to succeed. He’s sort of a — nihilist is too strong a word. He’s an egotistical man who wants to bring everything down because he lost, and so you have this division. It ends up hurting the Republican Party, but it also hurts America. Now we’re not going to let that stop us. We’d always prefer to work with the Republicans when we can, but if with can’t, just as we just showed in the American Rescue Plan, if they’re not with us, we’re going to get it done, and the American people will be on our side."

He added, "We always prefer our Republicans to work with us but only to produce big, bold action. We’re not going to repeat the mistakes of 2009 and 2010, where they dragged things out for a year and a half, and then we got one good thing done but certainly not enough, and they cut that stimulus bill, the original ARA bill, by so much that the recession dragged on for years. We’re not repeating that mistake. If they will join with us, of course, we’ll sit down and talk with them and see if they have this suggestion or that. But not at sacrificing the bold, progressive change that America demands and America needs, and we’re going to get it done."
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When does Scheumy have his "Harry Reid moment" at the gym?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/14/2021 3:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Dear Chuck, its been done before.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2021 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Still Trump's fault?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2021 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Then let the Senate not work then, as it's designed to do. The less 'bold, progressive change' we get shoved up our ass like a pack of Chinese covid butt swabs, the better.
Posted by: Raj || 04/14/2021 9:31 Comments || Top||

#5  So all their calls for "Bipartisanship" is a lie? Silly me...
Posted by: magpie || 04/14/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Go ahead, Chuckie. Buy everything you want. But remember that in 2022 you will own inflation.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/14/2021 12:16 Comments || Top||

#7  AU, It's Vacation Summer and the (D)emocrats ban fun and promote riots
Posted by: magpie || 04/14/2021 16:17 Comments || Top||

#8  "The Triple Lutz Variant."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/14/2021 16:49 Comments || Top||


Democrat Rep Rashida Tlaib Calls for 'No More Policing, Incarceration'
[BREITBART] Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) reacted to the police-involved shooting death of Daunte Wright, calling for an end to "policing, incarceration, and militarization.’"It wasn’t an accident," Tlaib wrote in a tweet regarding the death of Wright that ignited the destruction and looting of several businesses in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, late Sunday night. "Policing in our country is inherently & intentionally racist."

"Daunte Wright was met with aggression & violence," she added. "I am done with those who condone government funded murder."

Tlaib then went one step further with her frustration and called for an end to "policing" in America, claiming the institutions across America "can’t be reformed."

"No more policing, incarceration, and militarization," Tlaib concluded in her tweet. "It can’t be reformed."

Tlaib also retweeted a tweet to her page that mocked the "accidental" death of Wright, which stated, "You spelled murder wrong again."

According to reports, Wright was allegedly taking off in his car after an attempt to arrest him when one officer at the scene shot him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Following Wright’s death, multiple violent mostly peaceful riots and storms of looters erupted into the streets, resulting in loss and damage to several businesses in the area.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ratshita...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/14/2021 5:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Then she is calling for death squads. Remake America into her old home.
Posted by: Ulolump Grumble1426 || 04/14/2021 5:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's start with the Capitol police.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2021 7:12 Comments || Top||


#5  end to "policing, incarceration,

enlightened self-interest
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/14/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Does that mean the National Guard and Capital Police and the fence around Congress can now be removed?
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 04/14/2021 8:52 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm for pulling all police protection, along with all taxpayer funded protection from Congress members, government officials, presidents, etc.

Let them see what it is like.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/14/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Police can be replaced by city corpse collectors since all crimes will now carry the death penalty.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/14/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||

#9  So lets give them what they ask for. They want to abolish police, segregate the white away from them. Lets give it to them. Stop policing black areas, let them figure out the popo aint so bad!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/14/2021 14:37 Comments || Top||

#10  So, if Officer Chauvin gets convicted he shouldn't be incarcerated? Can we quote you on that?
Posted by: Matt || 04/14/2021 15:24 Comments || Top||

#11  OK Genital Rash-ida, you first. Give up your armed security detail.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 || 04/14/2021 21:12 Comments || Top||



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  Minnesota National Guard have deployed to Brooklyn Center following mass race rioting and looting by BLM
Tue 2021-04-13
  Babel's governor ''disappears'' after an arrest warrant issued against him
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  Occupied Portland ICE building set afire by left-wing extremists during Saturday night insurrection
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  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II's husband, dead at 99
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