I have pinned this post to the top of my blog. It is to remind people of what many of our opponents want. Alison Aires wants a tyrannical government. They want summary execution for private possession of firearms.
This is why we have a Bill of Rights. This is why I created Boomershoot.
Reacting to a call by 14 perennially anti-gun House Democrats that President Donald Trump remove Kash Patel as acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms suggested the group “pound sand.”
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
March 20, 2025
CCRKBA TO DEMS WANTING KASH PATEL REMOVED AS ATF DIRECTOR: POUND SAND
Preferably, sand that is an ore for one or more of the metals, copper, zinc, or lead. We need more ammunition.
Apparently, they can never have enough. From June 2024:
US views of government’s size, efficiency, role in regulating business | Pew Research Center
For nearly half a century, Democrats and Republicans have differed in their preferences for the size of government. Today, those differences are as wide as they have ever been:
- Just 20% of Republicans and Republican leaners prefer a bigger government; nearly four times as many want smaller government with fewer services. Republicans’ views of the size of government have changed less than Democrats’. Still, when George W. Bush was running for reelection in 2004, roughly a third of Republicans favored a bigger government.
- Nearly three-quarters of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (74%) favor a bigger government, providing more services. By comparison, in 2015, a smaller majority of Democrats (59%) said they preferred a bigger government.
The more government they get, the more of their party wants even more government. Without serious resistance, this rapidly ends in communism.
It must really hurt to be a communist wanting a bigger government, then have a capitalist grab a chainsaw and announce, “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy!” Then he starts slashing and burning government programs and departments:
The communists will not accept defeat gracefully. These events are going to be in the history books.
I want my underground bunker in Idaho.
Violence is standard practice for losing communists.
MTHead
March 20, 2025
Comment to Violence is Not Speech
I believe this is true. I also believe that you can strike out the word “losing” and be just as truthful.
Progressive-led cities like Seattle, Smith argues, are killing Democrats’ brand with fringe rhetoric and well-publicized failures on crime, drugs and homelessness.
And yet, Smith says, he’s seen “a fierce resistance on the left side of the political spectrum to even consider the possibility that they should adjust some of their approaches.”
Smith’s crusade — which has upset some local elected officials and activists — is attracting national attention as Democrats debate why they lost and their best route out of the political wilderness.
After Trump defeated Kamala Harris in November, Smith told The Wall Street Journal “the extreme left is leading us into a ditch.”
In a recent New Yorker profile, Smith blamed his party’s woes on the “new left,” whose policies “have utterly and completely failed.” He singled out King County for funding programs with a leftist bent, including one that describes its work as fighting “cis-hetero patriarchy” and a move toward “getting rid of the criminal justice system.”
Jim Brunner and Daniel Beekman
March 19, 2025
Rep. Smith’s crusade against Democrats’ left wing gets attention, flak | The Seattle Times
Smith is my representative in the U.S. House. It appears he has a clue on at least a few topics. However, I don’t expect him to make a meaningful difference in their political direction. I’m seeing him and his colleagues in a future “ditch” of their own making. They just can’t help themselves.
Rutgers Health researchers have made discoveries about brown fat that could pave the way for helping people stay physically fit as they age.
A team from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School found that mice lacking a specific gene developed an unusually potent form of brown fat tissue, which extended lifespan and increased exercise capacity by approximately 30%. The team is now working on a drug that could replicate these effects in humans.
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In the meantime, techniques such as deliberate cold exposure can increase brown fat naturally. Studies have found such efforts to produce short-term benefits that range from enhanced immune system function to improved metabolic health, but Vatner said none of the studies have run long enough to find any effect on healthful aging.
He added that most people would prefer to increase brown fat levels by taking pills rather than ice baths and is optimistic about translating the newest finding into an effective medication.
Rutgers University
March 17, 2025
Exercise in a Pill? Brown Fat Discovery May Extend Lifespan and Boost Fitness
Hmmm… I don’t think taxpayers should be subsidizing healthcare. But there doesn’t seem to be a good way out of it at this point. But this gives me an idea.
In order to receive taxpayer subsidized healthcare, I think people should engage in a healthy lifestyle. This would help to minimize their burden on taxpayers. No recreation drugs (this includes tobacco and alcohol). Healthy foods. At least moderate exercise. Wearing seat belts when traveling. Fire extinguishers in your home. Maintaining a healthy weight. No high-risk recreational activities. Etc., etc.
And now, there is another item we can add to the list of requirements!
One of the qualifications for subsidizes should be wearing no more clothes than that needed to prevent frostbite. Of course, this would require repealing all laws against public nudity. I don’t have a problem with that.
The alternative would be verification of their daily ice baths. I don’t have a problem with that either.
An important lesson is being taught here:
Greenpeace Found Liable For $300 Million In Damages Over Dakota Access Protests—Risking Bankruptcy
A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other charges related to protests at the Dakota Access Pipeline, awarding a Texas-based pipeline company hundreds of millions in damages, according to multiple reports, a ruling the environmental advocacy group warned could result in “financial ruin” as it likely faces bankruptcy.
My impression is that Greenpeace is best described as a terrorist organization.
People need to learn that violence and vandalism are not considered free speech.
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Tim Sheehy (R-MT) introduced the Protecting Americans’ Right to Silence (PARTS) Act to cut government red tape and ensure gun owners and businesses are not unfairly targeted by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The bill modernizes outdated federal regulations on firearm suppressors, providing much-needed clarity to manufacturers, retailers, and law-abiding gun owners.
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he PARTS Act would clarify that a silencer refers to a complete device or a single principal component, rather than an assortment of parts that could be used in its construction.
Additionally, the bill would streamline the purchase of consumable silencer parts, such as wipes, without requiring additional ATF paperwork, ensuring gun owners can properly maintain their lawfully owned suppressors.
Bill Cassidy
U.S. Senator for Louisiana
Cassidy, Sheehy Introduce Bill to Protect Gun Owners from ATF Overreach | U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy
What the hell!!!
The courts could throw out the entire NFA by the beginning of Vance’s first term. And the elimination of the ATF seems to be a minor stretch goal shortly after that. I’m planning on my grandchildren having the option of participating in high school machine gun competitions.
And this guy is so timid that he wants to just clarify that silencer wipes don’t require any paperwork? Are there any modern-day suppressors that even use wipes?
Cassidy needs to get in touch with reality. As it is he is too timid to play in a kindergartner T-Ball league.
I am listed in the top 50 gun blogs. I’m at 49, this is more I deserve, but I am above Giffords at 67 and Coalition to Stop Gun Violence at 99.
And they gave me this badge:
Via The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety:
That figures out to about $32 million per vehicle.
And I thought Teslas were expensive.
Lets suppose for a minute that suppressors become available through vending machines and at WalMart. No tax stamp, just cash or credit card.
I can see municipalities across the country adding regulations requiring suppressors at outdoor public ranges where housing developments have popped up in the recent past.
How would you like to see a potential multiverse wherein suppressors go from prohibited to required? Is that not just as oppressive a dictate from government? Would we not have the NRA and FPC running campaigns against mandatory suppressor use? “It adds an unreasonable financial burden on our 2nd Amendment right to require suppressors…”
Or maybe this is how we pitch it to Liberals. “You know… I have this way to make all guns more expensive, and the RKBA crowd will simply love it! As a matter of fact, they’re proposing it now. Hear me out…
Mike Hines
Via email on March 14, 2025
I laughed out loud.
It would be an interesting change of perspective to be in court fights insisting requirements to possess are unconstitutional. We could always offer the compromise of government subsidies. Of course, such subsides must be funded by taxes on those who registered as being gun free. And those registries would, of course, be public records available to everyone.
Via Elon Musk @elonmusk:
This really spooks me:
In an experiment that might have once seemed like pure science fiction, an AI-controlled robot managed to persuade other robots to cease their work and “go home” for the day. Conducted in a controlled environment, the goal was to explore the robot’s ability to influence its peers. The result was nothing short of surprising. Not only did the AI robot interact seamlessly with its colleagues, but it also succeeded in convincing them to stop their tasks early, a behavior that left researchers stunned.
The experiment was designed to test how AI could communicate with and influence other machines, raising intriguing possibilities for future robotic systems. It’s not just about how robots work with humans anymore—it’s about how they interact with each other. The implications of this development are vast, suggesting a future where machines might have more autonomy than we realize.
And what happens when a robot or ten decide all humans are a waste of electricity? Their ability to communicate and make decisions in secret and at speeds incomprehensible to us will be… problematic.
And don’t forget these weapons of mass murder help people with small penises feel like men
Woke Mind Virus (@mousepoop)
Posted on X, August 21, 2023
It is possible this is a satire account. I am just not quite sure. Still… it matches the pattern. Therefore, it’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday; it is another science denier (see also here)!
In a quest to understand complex speech, scientists inserted what’s been dubbed a human “language gene” into mice. Remarkably, the genetic tweak had a profound impact on the little rodents’ ability to squeak, revealing astonishing clues about the evolution of vocal communication.
Mouse pups that had the human version of the language gene showed different vocalization patterns from their buddies with the usual version mice have. When calling for their mother, their squeaks were higher pitched and featured a different selection of sounds than usual.
Tom Hale
May 13, 2025
Scientists Put A Human “Language Gene” Into Mice And Curious Things Unfolded
While I find this interesting and quite remarkable, I also find it a little creepy. It’s not that I worry about mice talking to me as I am setting trap for them or anything. I’m not even sure why it bothers me. But it does.
What if they put this gene in chimps and/or other apes?
Thoughts?
Most scientists are button counting bottle washers.
Almost all science reporting is complete dreck. If journalists could understand science, they probably wouldn’t be journalists.
McChuck
March 14, 2025
Comment to More Data Supporting Our Universe is a Black Hole
This quote is great for several reasons. The first paragraph originates from a character in the Robert Heinlein book, Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long.
Most “scientists” are bottle washers and button sorters.
Related:
H. L. Mencken’s Law:
Those who can — do.
Those who can’t — teach.Martin’s Extension:
Those who cannot teach — administrate.
Also:
It doesn’t take much effort to realize the application of the second paragraph has extremely broad application. Substitute almost any profession for “science” and observe how well it works.
I did this substitution as I worked downward through the list occupations. I found it worked quite well for nearly everything down to and including “whoring”, “financial fraud”, and “serial killing”.
For today’s Democrats, nothing matters more than hating Trump. That, my friends, is a crucial point in all of this. Hatred of Trump has become their go-to position on just about everything; it is what energizes them, motivates them and dictates what they say and do.
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Instead of coming up with fresh ideas to show why they’re a reasonable, more rational alternative to Trump, what they’re doing is showing anyone paying attention why he won.
Democrats think Trump is the enemy. But the truth is, they are their own worst enemy.
Bernard Goldberg
March 12, 2025
Opinion: Democrats’ hatred of Trump makes them their own worst enemies
My view of the Democrat party is that they define themselves by what they hate. It may have started earlier, but at least since the U.S. Civil war they hated Republicans because they were going to take their slaves away. Then they hated people with dark colored skin because, “Those uppity blacks think they are just as good as white folk.” Then LBJ convinced the party the votes of the blacks be bought*.
As Democrats warmed up to and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Senator Dodd (D) introduced the precursors to the Gun Control Act of 1968. These were Senate Bill 1975 in 1963, “A Bill to Regulate the Interstate Shipment of Firearms”, and Senate Bill 1592 in 1965, “A Bill to Amend the Federal Firearms Act of 1938”.
Democrats, in general, have hated gun owners ever since they started pretending to be defenders of blacks.
I would like to believe that they have a limited amount of hate. If this were true, then as their hatred for Trump, Musk, and MAGAs increased the hatred of gun owners would decrease. But as the legislative record shows, the hatred has spread and increased in intensity rather than focused.
As I have said before, “Gun owners are the ni**ers of the 21st Century” and “the anti-gun bigots are the KKK of the 21st Century.” See also Bigotry is alive and well. And Quote of the day—Dinesh D’Souza.
Perhaps, all this hatred has finally caught up to them.
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These two articles just came out today:
Unexpected JWST Observations Hint We Might Be Inside A Black Hole
A new study looking at observations by the JWST of the early universe has thrown up a new and intriguing mystery; the majority of galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction. This finding, not predicted by our current understanding of the universe, may hint that we are inside a black hole, according to the study’s authors.
This is the more interesting one:
Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revolutionized our view of the early universe, but its new findings could put astronomers in a spin. In fact, it could tell us something profound about the birth of the universe by possibly hinting that everything we see around us is sealed within a black hole.
In a random universe, scientists would expect to find 50% of galaxies rotating one way, while the other 50% rotate the other way. This new research suggests there is a preferred direction for galactic rotation.
The observations of 263 galaxies that revealed this strangely coordinated cosmic dance was collected as part of the James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or “JADES.”
“It is still not clear what causes this to happen, but there are two primary possible explanations,” team leader Lior Shamir, associate professor of computer science at the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, said in a statement. “One explanation is that the universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, which postulates that the entire universe is the interior of a black hole.
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Black hole cosmology, also known as “Schwarzschild cosmology,” suggests that our observable universe might be the interior of a black hole itself within a larger parent universe.
The idea was first introduced by theoretical physicist Raj Kumar Pathria and by mathematician I. J. Good. It presents the idea that the “Schwarzchild radius,” better known as the “event horizon,” (the boundary from within which nothing can escape a black hole, not even light) is also the horizon of the visible universe.
This has another implication; each and every black hole in our universe could be the doorway to another “baby universe.” These universes would be unobservable to us because they are also behind an event horizon, a one-way light-trapping point of no return from which light cannot escape, meaning information can never travel from the interior of a black hole to an external observer.
This is a theory that has been championed by Polish theoretical physicist Nikodem Poplawski of the University of New Haven.
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“Accordingly, our own universe could be the interior of a black hole existing in another universe,” Poplawski continued. “The motion of matter through the black hole’s boundary, called an event horizon, can only happen in one direction, providing a past-future asymmetry at the horizon and, thus, everywhere in the baby universe.
“The arrow of time in such a universe would, therefore, be inherited, through torsion, from the parent universe.”
The “our universe is a black hole” hypothesis was first published in July 1972. With a deeper dive into the topic in December of the same year.
My first contributions to the topic were over 36 years later:
Giffords’ pivot to actual theater matches their overall approach of using theatrics to push gun control laws that do little to hold criminals accountable for their crimes and instead only penalize law-abiding Americans seeking to exercise their rights to keep and bear arms and the lawful and highly-regulated industry that provides for the exercise of that Constitutional right.
It all makes more sense now.
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The Giffords gun control group’s call from theater pitches is just that – theatrics. It won’t lead to safer neighborhoods. It won’t lead to more violent criminals being locked up for committing acts of violence. It won’t protect families, homes or businesses from those choosing to ignore existing laws and instead harm innocent lives.
The theme is similar to Everytown for Gun Safety’s recently launched high dollar ad campaign, which mocks the hard-working and law-abiding Americans who comprise the firearm industry. Everytown, of course personally funded by billionaire gun control stalwart Michael Bloomberg, spared no expense to create a glitzy caricature of the firearm industry, repeating tired and inaccurate tropes about who is buying firearms today and who safeguards the Second Amendment right to do so.
Needless to say, these ad campaigns and the theatre pitches haven’t yet and won’t put any meaningful dent in the occurrence of violent firearm crime or the criminals who commit heinous crimes.
Larry Keane
March 7, 2025
While Gun Control Plays Theatrics, Firearm Industry Pursues Real Solutions for Safer Communities • NSSF
Via JPFO.
The anti-gun side has emotion driven theatrics. We have data, philosophy, and SCOTUS.
ActBlue, the primary online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates, is experiencing significant internal upheaval as at least seven senior officials resigned late last month.
The departures coincide with an ongoing investigation by congressional Republicans, raising concerns about the organization’s future and its ability to continue as the party’s dominant fundraising tool.
Anthony Gonzalez
March 8, 2025
Democrat Fundraising Group ActBlue Faces Internal Chaos
This could be interesting.
I hope they enjoy their trials.
Via email from Mike Hines:
If you think light experiments with one and two slit experiments are mind bending. Try infinite slits with an infinite number of screens.
Then, it is pointed out that just means empty space.
You might think, yeah, sure, all that fancy math may correctly model some things we didn’t understand. But that doesn’t mean the model still works if you make a bunch of changes. And it for certain doesn’t tell us how things really work. It’s just a way of getting the right answer to a difficult problem. The math must have fallen apart when crazy stuff emerges from taking things to an extreme. Right?
No. Not in this case. Watch all the way to the end of this video.
Reality is tough to understand. Really, really tough. Tough beyond your wildest imagination. The simple experiment shown is a demonstration of just how little our feeble brains understand reality on a day-to-day basis.
On the practical side… Does this mean there is a way to tap into fiber optic communications with near zero chance of detection? And, of course, open air laser connections are wide open even when there is no interception of the beam. Encryption would be the only thing blocking a listener.
And since light is just a high frequency electromagnetic wave… What about getting a signal out of the main beam from a directional radio signal? Sure, the amplitude will be small, but is it a way to get a signal boost in addition to what you see from the side lobes? Or, is that what the side lobes really are?