Author Archives: Joe

Quote of the day—Brandon Smith

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The fact is, their feelings are irrelevant. They do not matter.  Most rational people don’t care if SJWs are offended, or afraid or disgusted and indignant. Their problems are not our problems.  Our right to free expression and freedom of association is far more important than their personal feelings or misgivings.  We do not owe them a safe space.  If they want a safe space, then they should hide in their hovels or crawl back to the rancid swamps from whence they slithered.

Brandon Smith
August 3, 2016
The Social Justice Cult Should Blame Itself For The Rise Of Trump
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Chas

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The anti’s are even out to ban simple graphic images of guns, in addition to real guns, including muzzleloaders. If it even looks like a gun, they want to ban it. They are, in fact, that extreme.

Chas
August 3, 2016
Comment to Leave the SJWing to the professionals
[This is what they think of the right to keep and bear arms. You shouldn’t be allowed to even see a picture of a gun.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Carrie Severino

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Hillary has basically promised to nominate justices who would gut the First and Second Amendments. She would create the most prolonged period of judicial lawlessness since the Warren era.

Carrie Severino
August 1, 2016
Is SCOTUS a Good Reason to Support Trump? Libertarian and Conservative Legal Experts Weigh In
[Via email from Mike B.—Joe]

I’ve been wondering about this

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I’ve speculated with a few people and asking their opinion about the DNC email on Wikileaks. It would seem to me that the U.S. Intelligence community would have an extremely strong motive to damage Hillary. They have a far better motive than the Russians do. After all, one could make a good case that the Russians know they can buy off Hillary if they want.

Of course I’m not the only one to have thought of this possibility.

Via Tyler Durden:

So if the FBI really wanted them they can go into that database and get them right now,” he said of Clinton’s emails as well as DNC emails.

Asked point blank if he believed the NSA has copies of “all” of Clinton’s emails, including the deleted correspondence, Binney confirmed.

“Yes,” he responded. “That would be my point. They have them all and the FBI can get them right there.”

Binney then went on to speculate about something even more shocking: that the hack of the DNC could have been coordinated by someone inside the U.S. intelligence community angry over Clinton’s compromise of national security data with her email use.

And the other point is that Hillary, according to an article published by the Observer in March of this year, has a problem with NSA because she compromised Gamma material.  Now that is the most sensitive material at NSA. And so there were a number of NSA officials complaining to the press or to the people who wrote the article that she did that. She lifted the material that was in her emails directly out of Gamma reporting. That is a direct compromise of the most sensitive material at the NSA. So she’s got a real problem there. So there are many people who have problems with what she has done in the past. So I don’t necessarily look at the Russians as the only one(s) who got into those emails.

Quote of the day—danyl

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The pro-gun trolls are vicious and ignorant. I’m sure in real life they are pitiful little men who couldn’t get a date with a woman if their life depended on it. It’s easy to sound tough when you’re hiding in your basement.

danyl
07/30/16 05:46 PM
Comment to AG faces sexist, antigay slurs after imposing gun ban
[Via a comment from Weer’d Beard.

This is what they think of you.

Just let them keep thinking that.—Joe]

La Push day 3

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See also day 1 and day 2.

On Sunday (July 24th) we went to Third Beach.

There are lots of pictures below the fold.

Continue reading →

Rounds in the last month

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I was out of town a lot this month so the reloading and match participation suffered. Over the July 4th weekend Barb and I were in Colorado visiting the Rocky Mountain National Park. The 22nd –> 24th we were in La Push for a family reunion. And the 30th and 31st I was in Idaho working on Boomershoot stuff.

Still, by the end of the year I expect to have a lifetime total of over 80,000 rounds.

Lifetime totals:

223.log: 2027 rounds.
3006.log: 467 rounds.
300WIN.log: 1351 rounds.
40SW.log: 51447 rounds.
45.log: 0 rounds.
9MM.log: 21695 rounds.
Total: 76987 rounds.

I reloaded 1000 rounds of .40 S&W this month. 666 of those were Blue Bullets for steel matches. The other 334 rounds were Montana Gold JHPs for practice at indoor ranges.

Markley’s Law Monday bonus

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From the comments to AG faces sexist, antigay slurs after imposing gun ban:

pegnva 07/30/16 05:59 PM

How does AG MH expect gun nuts to feel “manly” if they can’t own assault weapons?

HamsterMom 07/30/16 06:44 PM

And display them and compare their size, especially when a woman stands in their way.

Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.

Via a comment from Weer’d Beard.

Quote of the day—justme‏ @beckychristens4

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you’re a bunch of idiots too obcessed with your penis size to take time to realize American

justme‏ @beckychristens4
Tweeted on January 12, 2016
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!

And it’s not even a complete sentence. But it is no surprise that when the best they can come up with is childish insults they have a problem with simple communication.

Via a tweet from QuackHead/PotterHead ‏@Duck_Hunter7.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Daniel Tepfer

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In January 2015, the families of 10 victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings filed suit against the Remington Outdoor Co., which manufactured the Bushmaster rifle used by Adam Lanza to kill his mother and students and teachers at the school. They filed a suit against Camfour Holding LLC, the gun’s distributor and Riverview Sales, the store where Lanza’s mother bought the gun.

They claimed the gunmaker and sellers knew civilians are unfit to operate the assault rifle and yet continue selling it to civilians, disregarding the threat the gun poses.

Daniel Tepfer
July 29, 2016
Gun control spotlight shines in Bridgeport court
[This is what they think of you. You are “unfit to operate ‘the assault rifle’”. If this claim is successfully litigated in court then expect manufacturers of modern sporting rifles to stop selling to private citizens.

Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Sherfinski and Dinan

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Permit holders are exceptionally law-abiding — even compared to the police themselves, who he said are six times as likely to be convicted of misdemeanors or felonies as permit holders are. That’s true even for crimes involving firearms; permit-holders are one-seventh as likely to run into such trouble as the police.

Sherfinski and Dinan
July 26, 2016
Concealed carry permits at all-time high
[Via Say Uncle.—Joe]

Junk science on mass shootings

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Junk science:

The study by Adam Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama, was published in the journal Violence and Victims in January and has been cited by media outlets — including The New Yorker, The Washington Post and Time magazine. But the study, formally published earlier this year after a draft was released in academic circles, has raised questions about what critics consider dubious methodology.

“The Lankford ‘study’ is nothing more than junk science disguised as research, and never should have been published in a responsible scholarly journal,” Florida State University criminology professor Gary Kleck told FoxNews.com.

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Academic peers who have sought to examine the findings say Lankford refuses to share the data and details he used to support his findings.

He refuses to share the data? Why am I not surprised? Oh! That’s right, it happens so frequently when they come up with results which support the anti-gun narrative!

The Hillary Standard

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The NRA brings it! Via their YouTube channel:

Quote of the day—Jonathan S.

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The last time Muslims took to beheading Roman Catholic priests, the Roman Catholics damn near burned the Middle East to the ground.

For as important as the Muslims are to history, they sure don’t study it very much.

Jonathan S.
Posted on Facebook July 26, 2016
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

We are just pawns

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While the U.S. Supreme Court and our freedoms hang in the balance don’t forget that we are all just pawns the political elite play with for their own amusement:

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From a tweet by Ben Shapiro @benshapiro.

Bring it on

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From a NRA tweet:

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This fight is for the Supreme Court. Almost nothing else matters. This is the “hill” gun rights, and freedom, lives or dies on.

Grip safety issue

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GripSafetyNew2GripSafetyOld

The picture on the left is a new STI 2011 grip safety. The one on the right is the one out of my STI DVC Limited.

See a difference?

Yeah. The one on the right is missing some material. I don’t know if it came from the factory that way or it broke and I just now noticed. Part of the edge is very clean and part is ragged. It’s ambiguous from looking at it with the naked eye whether this is as intended or a failure of some sort.

I contacted STI via email and within minutes they said to return the gun and they would fix it.

Quote of the day—Langer Research Associates

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Overall, economic inequality and student loans top this issues list with 21 percent each, followed by protecting gun rights, equal pay for women and preserving access to abortion, at 11 percent apiece. Remaining issues tested – lowering taxes and strengthening the military – are in the single digits.

Langer Research Associates
April 2016
ABC News/Refinery29 Poll: Millennial Women
[The wording of questions is critical in polls so I looked it up for this case:

Apart from big issues like terrorism, the economy, health care and immigration, there are other issues that may come up in the presidential campaign. Of the ones I list, please tell me which one is the most important issue to you: protecting gun rights, economic inequality, equal pay for women, preserving access to abortion, student loan debt, strengthening the military, lowering taxes, or something else?

The question appears to be well worded. The answers were:

3/22/16

Protecting gun rights 11
Economic inequality 21
Equal pay for women 11
Preserving access to abortion 11
Student loan debt 21
Strengthening the military 4
Lowering taxes 8
Other (vol.) 11
No opinion 2

Right there is 11% of the young women who will not be voting for Hillary!

Also note that this was in March of this year. Since then, with all the terrors attacks on defenseless private citizens, I would expect the gun rights category would have increased some. Every terrorist attack between now and November is another few percentage points Hillary loses in the election and women are where many of those are going to come from.—Joe]

More guns, less crime

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To those for whom principles and specific enumerated rights are irrelevant we have this which may make an impression:NRAMoreGunsLessCrimeCoaUWhNWgAAcTRF

Via a tweet from the NRA:

First woman nominated for U.S. president

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Hillary says she is the first woman nominated by a major party for U.S. president. Some news sources leave out some important words and say things which are completely false:

One hundred and nine nominees have been selected by their party to run for the nation’s highest office. And each and every one of them had been a man.

But Hillary is correct, this is a historic milestone. But there are some things left out that make the whole “first woman…” a lot more interesting.

What other women have run for U.S. president? WomensHistory.about.com has the answers (I don’t include all of them, some were publicity stunts and other unserious attempts). I have also included some from Wikipedia:

Victoria Woodhull

Equal Rights Party: 1872
Humanitarian Party: 1892

Belva Lockwood

National Equal Rights Party: 1884, 1888

Laura Clay
Democratic Party, 1920
Like many Southern suffragists she saw women’s suffrage as reinforcing white supremacy and power.
Margaret Chase Smith

Republican Party: 1964
She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination, but not nominated, for president at a major political party’s convention. She received 227,007 votes in the Republican Primary and won 27 delegates at the 1964 Republican Convention losing out to Barry Goldwater.

Fay T. Carpenter Swain
Democratic Party: 1964
7,140 votes in Indiana primary losing out to Lyndon B. Johnson.

Charlene Mitchell

Communist Party: 1968
She was also the first African American woman nominated for president in the United States.

Shirley Chisholm

Democratic Party: 1972
Placed in nomination, but not nominated. One of three women to seek the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1972 along with Mink and Abzug.

Patsy Takemoto Mink

Democratic Party: 1972
She was the first Asian American to seek nomination as president by a major political party and one of three in 1972 along with Chisholm and Abzug.

Bella Abzug

Democratic Party: 1972 

One of three women to seek the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1972 along with Chisholm and Mink.

Linda Osteen Jenness

Socialist Workers Party: 1972

Evelyn Reed

Socialist Workers Party: 1972In states where SWP candidate Linda Jenness was not accepted for the ballot because she was under the Constitutional age for qualifying for the presidency, Evelyn Reed ran in her place.

Ellen McCormack

Democratic Party: 1976; Right to Life Party: 1980

McCormack ran against legalized abortion and won 238,000 votes in 18 primaries in the Democratic campaign, winning 22 delegates in 5 states.

Deidre Griswold

Workers World Party: 1980

Maureen Smith

Peace and Freedom Party: 1980

Sonia Johnson

Citizens Party: 1984

Gavrielle Holmes

Workers World Party: 1984

Isabelle Masters

Looking Back Party, etc.: 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004

Patricia Schroeder

Democratic Party: 1988

Lenora Fulani

American New Alliance Party: 1988, 1992

Willa Kenoyer

Socialist Party: 1988

Gloria E. LaRiva

Workers World Party / Party for Socialism and Liberation: 1992

Helen Halyard

Worker’s League: 1992

Millie Howard

Republican: 1992, 1996; Independent: 2000; Republican: 2004, 2008

Monica Moorehead

Workers World Party: 1996, 2000

Marsha Feinland

Peace and Freedom Party: 1996

Mary Cal Hollis

Socialist Party: 1996

Heather Anne Harder

Democratic Party: 1996

Elvena E. Lloyd-Duffie

Democratic Party: 1996

Georgina H. Doerschuck

Republican Party: 1996

Susan Gail Ducey

Republican Party: 1996

Ann Jennings

Republican Party: 1996

Diane Beall Templin

American Party: 1996

Joanne Jorgensen

Libertarian Party: 1996
She did get the VP nomination, with Harry Browne getting the Presidential nomination of the party.

Elizabeth Dole

Republican Party: 2000

Cathy Gordon Brown

Independent: 2000

Monica Moorehead
Workers World Party: 2000

Carol Moseley Braun

Democratic Party: 2004

Diane Beall Templin
The American Party: 2004

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Democratic Party: 2008

Cynthia McKinney

Green Party: 2008

Gloria La Riva
Party for Socialism and Liberation: 2008

Michele Bachmann

Republican, 2012

Peta Lindsay

Party for Socialism and Liberation, 2012

Jill Stein

Green Party, 2012

Roseanne Barr

Peace and Freedom Party, 2012

Hillary Clinton
Democratic Party: 2012, 2016

One of the things I found interesting was that while there was a white supremacist Democrat in 1920 running for president it was a Republican woman who “was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for president at a major political party’s convention.”

The other thing I found interesting was that so many of the women were/are socialists and communists. Of course these days the Democratic Party has taken essentially all of the Socialist and Communists party platforms so Clinton is just as comfortable as a Democratic as she would have been with so many of the others who ran on other tickets in the past.