The Bureau of Land Management is planning a truly boneheaded move, angering some conservationists over the affects to herd populations and migration routes. From Field & Stream.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently released a draft plan outlining potential solar energy development in the West. The proposal is an update of the BLM’s 2012 Western Solar Plan. It adds five new states—Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming—to a list of 11 western states already earmarked…… [read more]
Step 3) Show that scary NFA items aren’t inherently more dangerous and their deregulation doesn’t increase crime
Step 4) Remove SBRs from NFA
Step 5) Repeat step 3
Step 6) Allow new registration of post-86 MGs under NFA
Step 7) Repeat step 3
Step 8) Remove MGs from NFA, repeal NFA
Yep. That’s what I’ve been trying to say. It has to be done in stages, boys and girls. Be patient, but diligent. Keep pressing, never give up. Grass roots activism is our friend. Inch by inch, step by step.
Travis prints only a little bit with his appendix carry, and I admit that he makes a very good case for the superior tactical advantage of appendix over 3:00 carry.
But I also have to say that I cannot get comfortable with appendix carry. My carry is more like 2:00 – 2:30. I just can’t move it around any more and be comfortable.
There were multiple email dumps to Wikileaks, in at least two broad categories, first the DNC email cache and then the Podesta email cache (not all released at the same time). It’s easy to conflate the two, and that may be some of the recent confusion over who really leaked the emails to Wikileaks.
So let’s start with William Binney. It has been speculated that the NSA or someone in the intelligence community leaked the DNC emails to Wikileaks, and that they have all of them. I say speculated because I believe that Binney is fairly far removed from current activity within the intelligence community. Nonetheless, he’s probably right about the NSA having all of the emails. Here we are talking about the emails appurtenant to the DNC.
More recently, Judge Andrew Napolitano claimed that members of the “American intelligence community” (whatever that is) leaked the emails to Wikileaks.
The CIA and FBI examined the exact same data that was produced for them by the NSA. The CIA analysts said the Russians are behind this. The FBI analysts said there is no evidence that the Russians are behind this. We do know this was leaking. This was not hacking. Leaking is the unauthorized exposure of something to a person to whom it wasn’t intended. Hacking is th altering of an operational system… You can’t affect the outcome of the election if you hack Clinton and the DNC. You can affect the outcome of an election if you affect those who register the voters or count the voters.
There is NO EVIDENCE that this was done by the Russians. But there is evidence for this. Who was harmed by Mrs. Clinton’s extremely careless use of state secrets? Whose agents’ lives were jeopardized by her failure to keep these state secrets? The American intelligence community. It is more likely than not that members of the American intelligence community leaked this to Julian Assange than that the Russians did… The suggestion comes from members of the intelligence community.
Well of course the Russians didn’t do it. But the question for the Judge is this – are you being trolled by someone inside the NSA/CIA/FBI/DIA?
There is also this from someone who should be a very reliable source.
A Wikileaks envoy today claims he personally received Clinton campaign emails in Washington D.C. after they were leaked by ‘disgusted’ whisteblowers – and not hacked by Russia.
Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, told Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off with one of the email sources in September.
‘Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,’ said Murray in an interview with Dailymail.com on Tuesday. ‘The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.’
His account contradicts directly the version of how thousands of Democratic emails were published before the election being advanced by U.S. intelligence.
But Murray insisted that the DNC and Podesta emails published by Wikileaks did not come from the Russians, and were given to the whistleblowing group by Americans who had authorized access to the information.
‘Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,’ Murray said. ‘The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.’
He said the leakers were motivated by ‘disgust at the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders.’
Murray said he retrieved the package from a source during a clandestine meeting in a wooded area near American University, in northwest D.C. He said the individual he met with was not the original person who obtained the information, but an intermediary.
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‘I don’t understand why the CIA would say the information came from Russian hackers when they must know that isn’t true,’ he said. ‘Regardless of whether the Russians hacked into the DNC, the documents Wikileaks published did not come from that.’
Because the CIA is comprised of professional liars. Concerning this last report, among the citizen researchers it is taken as an article of faith that Seth Rich is the source of the email leak, and he was killed for it. But there is a wrinkle in the fabric. It is this email from John Podesta.
From:ntanden@americanprogress.org
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2015-03-08 19:48 Subject: Re: Tweet from @JoeNBC
Holy Moses.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 8, 2015, at 5:23 PM, John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> wrote:>
> Eric Braverman
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> JP> –Sent from my iPad–> john.podesta@gmail.com> For scheduling: eryn.sepp@gmail.com> >> On Mar 8, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Neera Tanden <ntanden@americanprogress.org> wrote:
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>> @JoeNBC: A source close to the Clintons tell @ron_fournier to “follow the money” and find the real HRC scandal. http://t.co/lPTQY0L0o4
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>> I’m hoping someone is keeping tabs on Doug Band. Quote in here is from someone who worked in Clinton Foundation.
Eric Braverman was the CEO Chelsea Clinton hired to “clean up” The Clinton Foundation, and his last tweet was October 12th. He hasn’t been seen or heard from since then.
This last wrinkle makes a mess of the narrative, because it’s possible that Eric Braverman is the source of some of the emails concerning TCF. It has been speculated (and even hinted) that he is in the custody of Federal Marshalls in the witness protection program.
We may never know exactly how this all transpired. But suffice it to say that the narrative that seems most likely is that someone with legal, insider information leaked the emails to Wikileaks. No one who is reputable is suggesting otherwise, and the CIA’s claim that the Russians did it is farcical.
And just to keep you up to date on the recent finds of the citizen researchers at Voat, here is a video of the pedophile rings in France and the depths and breadths to which it extends. It’s sickening listening, but nonetheless necessary if you want to be informed.
What I learned, through the process of becoming a firearms license holder, trying out several types of shooting sports, and—for the sake of comparison—joining the National Rifle Association in the US, is that Canadian gun culture is quieter and far more anal than American gun culture. And most Canadian gun owners seem to be just fine with that.
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The Americans I spoke with generally consider having to get a license an affront to their personal liberty, but on a practical level, unless you have a criminal record or something to hide, I don’t see the issue.
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Not long after, I shot a long-range rifle—a beast of a gun, that I’m told is used by snipers in the military. I hated it. It felt like a literal bomb going off …
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In late May, I headed to Louisville, Kentucky for the NRA convention after signing up to become an NRA member. I had never—and probably never will again—see that many guns (or old white men) in one place. There was an exhibition space the size of two large airplane hangars filled with every type of gun and gun accessory possible, even special bedside holsters. The NRA is an extremely slick operation with a tightly controlled message. Everywhere I looked, there were television screens showing various gun advocates who spoke about protecting the Second Amendment, and protecting themselves against “terrorists” and the other evils of the world. Inside one of the auditoriums, waiting for then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to speak, a gentleman beside me started showing me photos of all his guns on his phone. He assumed I was black and said it was “nice to see an African-American here for a change.” When I asked why he thought there weren’t many black people in the NRA, he replied: “They’ll tell you that they don’t have the money for it. But they have money for rims. They have money for Air Jordans.” With my first racist experience under my belt, I proceeded to watch Trump get the NRA’s official endorsement. Most NRA members I spoke to said Donald Trump was not their ideal choice but that they would still vote for him, because they truly believed that Hillary Clinton would take away their guns. One woman, who runs a gun school for women, asked me how I would react to being attacked if I wasn’t armed. I responded that where I’m from, it’s not really something that I often have to think about it.
To all of my Canadian readers, I’m sure you’re proud of her, as proud as we are about our MSM. Well there you have it. All of the money quotes in one minute. I’m willing to bet that she has never had a real bomb “go off” in her hands. No, I’m sure of it.
It’s nice to hear that there’s no crime in Canada. At all. Ever. Otherwise she might have to thing about things like self defense.
As for Hillary Clinton taking away my guns, I’ve never worried about that in the slightest. All she could have ever done is declare civil war, and the shooting goes both ways when that happens. I’m certain that she wouldn’t think of us as old white men if that happened.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The 85th Legislative Session is just weeks away from beginning and when it comes to gun related bills so far 37 have been filed with most focusing on gun safety.
One of the big bills that passed during the last legislative session concerned concealed carry on college campuses. This year, State Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, has proposed two pieces of legislation that would allow universities to opt out of campus carry just like private universities. The second bill says cities with more than 750,000 people can pass an ordinance prohibiting open carry.
Another bill that appeared last legislative session is coming back for a second try. State Rep. Jonathan Strickland, R-Bedford wants to allow anyone to carry a legally owned firearm without having to obtain a state issued license, take a government mandated safety course, or pay a licensing fee. Strickland calls it constitutional carry because of the Second Amendment. During the 2015 legislative session it never made it to a committee hearing which is the first step in moving a bill forward.
Advocates for gun safety encourage everyone to get involved.
“It always helps to call your members and tell them you care,” said Andrea Brauer, Ex. Dir. Texas Gun Sense. “Members need to hear from their constituents throughout Texas. These issues are often framed as an us against them or an anti-gun verse pro-gun, it doesn’t have to be that way.”
Oh yes it does because that’s the truth of the matter. You see what the progressives are doing, don’t you? Person to person, one on one, grass roots involvement.
We gun owners have no room to complain when we don’t get involved. Of the bills you saw above, they’re all just smoke screens and certainly anti-liberty, except one, i.e., constitutional carry.
You know what to do. Ignore the doomsday, end of the world, panic stricken screams of law enforcement, and force this bill into committee and out of committee to the floor. Light is the best disinfectant. If everyone votes on it, you’ll know who to target in the next primary and election if they are haters of liberty.
True gains will depend on the effectiveness of the caucus. Much of that depends on who its members are, and if gun owners make their continued expectations known. To that end, the following table lists each member along with two important grades they’ve earned: one for gun owner rights as assigned by Gun Owners of America, and the other for their immigration rating by Numbers USA.
David’s done a very good job of outlining their views on two issues that will most affect the work on the second amendment. Go read his table for the context to the money quote.
Bottom line, it looks like a pretty good team (although team leader Massie could use some work on immigration). The task now is for them to actually do something so they continue earning those high marks. Let’s hope we don’t see preemptive true due-process surrenders on “mental health” and “no fly/no buy.” Let’s hope we see “Enforce existing gun laws” replaced with “Repeal existing gun laws.”
He took the words right out of my mouth. We need not words, but action. We’ve already outlined what it will take for starters: (1) national carry, (2) suppressors taken off of the NFA items list, (3) SBRs taken off of the NFA items list. That’s just for starters.
As for grass roots advocacy, I’ll leave that to you. While it may not seem like it, blogging like this – finding the interesting issue that doesn’t overlap with what everyone else is talking about, creating good analysis to assist the reader in understanding the context, advocating world view and framework of understanding, pushing the number of visits by pimping your articles to contacts – is all very exhausting and sometimes even embarrassing. Not all of your contacts want to be bothered by the constant pimping of your content.
There are good men to work with. I’ve known about Jeff Duncan and Dave Brat for a while now. They will listen to you. Get busy. If you do nothing else, you can send the URL of this article to them and recommend that the read and implement the ideas.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A 73-year-old man with dementia fatally shot by police had a crucifix – not a gun – as officers were led to believe, Bakersfield police said Wednesday.
A coroner found the plastic crucifix on Francisco Serna well after an officer fatally shot him near his home just after midnight Monday, Sgt. Gary Carruesco said.
It’s still unclear if a 911 caller who had reported a man with a gun may have mistaken the crucifix for a weapon, as Serna’s family speculated.
Officer Reagan Selman fired at Serna seven times after the grandfather refused repeated commands to take his hand out of his pocket and stop walking toward police, incoming Bakersfield police Chief Lyle Martin said at a news conference Tuesday.
In addition to the 911 caller, Martin said two people who had encountered Serna hours before the shooting thought he was armed.
Meanwhile Serna’s family is calling his death murder. They say they want an independent investigation into the shooting and for the U.S. Justice Department to look into whether police violated Serna’s civil rights.
“It’s difficult to accept that our dad’s life ended so brutally, abruptly and with such excessive violence,” according to a family statement. “Our dad was treated like a criminal, and we feel like he was left to die alone without his family by his side.”
Officer Selman, who had been on the force about 16 months, was placed on routine administrative leave, as were the other officers at the scene.
Martin said it was an extremely difficult set of circumstances for an officer fearing a man with a gun and a terrible situation for everyone involved. “This is a very tragic incident for their family, for this community as a whole and for the police department,” he said.
Martin could not say how many of the seven shots hit Serna.
The shooting came about 20 to 30 seconds after a woman who had encountered Serna pointed him out to police as he walked out of his house across the street and toward them, Martin said.
Earlier on Sunday afternoon, Martin said another neighbor encountered Serna, saying his hand was in his jacket pocket as though he had a gun. Serna tried to force his way into the house of the neighbor, who called his behavior bizarre, Martin said.
Serna left, and the neighbor, who had recognized him, did not immediately report the incident.
Then about eight hours later, the woman who lives across the street from Serna was getting out of a car in her driveway when he came up behind her and asked her to get back into the car. The woman also saw Serna’s hand in his jacket pocket and thought he had a gun, Martin said.
The woman and a friend she was with ran into the house, and her boyfriend called police and said a man in the driveway had a revolver and was brandishing it at the women, Martin said.
So our suspicion was correct and there was no gun. The officer reacted prematurely, and as for the caller, this sounds like the story you tell in a circle when you’re teenagers whispering mouth to ear, mouth to ear, and by the time it gets to the last person the message is so garbled it doesn’t even resemble what was said to begin with. You’ve played that little game in church youth group, yes?
Except in this case someone died. And I consider this no different than Swatting, which is a crime. The caller filed a false police report giving information he didn’t really know.
So will the caller be held responsible? Will the police officer be held responsible?
In order to ensure that you know exactly who the CIA is protecting, exactly who the democratic party wanted to elect, exactly who half of the country voted for, and to whom most large countries of the world gave millions of dollars, watch this.
An unarmed 73-year-old with dementia who was shot and killed by police early Monday was struck nine times, the man’s son said in a video posted to Facebook. However, police say the son is “misinformed.”
The officer was answering a report of a man brandishing a handgun around 12:30 a.m. in Bakersfield, Calif. When a witness pointed to Francisco Serna, who was standing in a neighbor’s driveway, one officer fired and killed him, Bakersfield police spokesman Sgt. Gary Carruesco told CBS Bakersfield affiliate KBAK-TV.
No gun was turned up in a search of the scene, Carruesco said.
So where is the gun? If he was armed, then a gun was recovered. Where is the gun?
Full-scale production of the F-35 was originally scheduled to begin eight years ago, but this proved to be an overly-optimistic estimate by 11 years—and that’s assuming full-scale production does, in fact, begin in 2019 as projected now. The F-35 will be the most expensive weapons system in history by a significant margin, exceeding $1 trillion in projected lifetime costs. Trump has targeted the program as an area to save money, along with the new Boeing 747s intended to serve as the new Air Force One jets.
That’s funny. The article says that the F-35 is tied to “multiple technical and design flaws.” I would have said it differently.
I would have said that the F-35 is a piece of shit, good for nothing at all except the ridiculous imaginations of fifth generation warfare advocates, failing at everything it does, a complete bomb at dogfighting, capable of carrying very little ordnance, incapable of defending itself, and an expensive waste of taxpayer money – where the U.S. would be better served with the F-22, refurbishment of the existing fleet of fighters, new Harriers for the USMC, and A-10s in the role of infantry support.
