Nom de plume: Rivrdog

This avalanche of dirty tricks IS corruption

Now, it seems that Eric Holder's USDOJ targeted a Fox News journalist, James Rosen, for the "treatment" that AssPress journalists got, only Holder went farther, and named Rosen as a criminal conspirator in an affadavit.

Add to that, this story of the targeting of a Tea Party-afilliated group, "True the Vote", and add the Benghazi cover-up, the IRS scandal. the "green" energy cash, and what do we have?

We have Coordinated Corruption in our Executive Branch, with some slopping over into the Senate for good measure.

Now let's look at how coordinated attacks are done. There's ZERO doubt in MY military mind that the Democratic party leadership in the Senate and Executive Branch has been mounting coordinated attacks on their oposition, and there is some evidence to suggest that the past Presidential election might have actually been stolen by this strategy of suppression of the opposition and these attacks.

Let me ask you this: when the Tsarnaevs attacked the Boston Marathon, was there ANY doubt that their attack was a coordinated one? Nope. Two bombs, close to each other, at the finish line where all the TV cameras were, timed to go off 14 seconds apart. Yep, that was a coordinated attack.

I assume you read of the attack on Ms. Englebrecht in the linked article above. All those major harassments by the Feds just as she was bringing a poll-watching outfit on line to keep an eye on the usually-crooked Democratic Party voting in Houston, TX? That's the classic definition of "coordinated".

The "Dept of Dirty Tricks", aka "the Plumbers" were well established in Tricky Dick Nixon's Administration, and he was hounded from office because of it.

Let the hounding begin again, because if we as a Nation, roll over for this style of governance, we slip into not just decline as a democracy, but free-fall. While we're trying to pretend that we're cats and can land on our feet, the scum who pushed us off that cliff have just shredded the Constitution.

Speaker Boehner, you're the Equalizer. If you do the right thing and end this corruption, you've just saved the Nation. If you fail, some other equalizers will have to be used.

Suck on THESE sour apples, Obama

Yep, even CNN can stick a knife in the back of our corrupt President.

Read the article, then consider these things:

• The poll shows that sending flunky "Baby-Face Pfeiffer" to hit all five talk shows yestiddy was a giant FAIL, as in FAIL with we-the-peeps and FAIL even with Bob Schieffer and See BeeEss, usually a peddler of the Obama line. The article then lamely tries to puff up Obama by claiming a small rise in his popularity, but "scoreboard don't lie" applies here.
• Consider the downside though: the GOPes will probably FAIL also. They haven't shown any inclination to put any skull into this opportunity. They need to announce a schedule of investigation actions, and announce that given certain results, indictments for lying to Congress will be forthcoming.

The folks have given you their support for investigations, Speaker Boehner. Lead or get out of the way.

 

Why 30 days to release the "boat note"?

Story on the mini-manifesto written inside his hiding place by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. It's the usual 72-raisins apple-crapple, and it clearly shows the wounded bomber's state of mind is that of your usual Islamist, crap-for-brains fundie fanatic.

Okay then, but why the 30 days to tell the public about the note?

Two possible reasons exist:

1. The Administration, through their flunky Keystone Kops, the FBI, wanted to let the whole Boston bombing thing recede in the public's eye ASAP, because it was damaging Obama's Rule No. 1 love affair with all things Muslim.
2. Since Eric Holder's slimy handprints are all over this affair from the first Ka-boom, and Eric Holder has vast experience in defending moo-slime kaboomers, he might well have ordered this delay himself. You will remember that in the 30-day interim, the "defense team" of high-powered lawyers was assembled, well more help than I would get if I decided to stick up a bank or commit some other felony such as having too many rounds in my pistol in New Yawk. These lawyers were probably hand-picked by Holder, just like the Judge who barged in on the interrogation of the Joker to silence it, and they would have asked for and obtained the delay in order to try to sell we-the-people some soap on how unfortunate a life that little baby Joker really has had, how his upbringing made him do it, etc, ad nauseam.

Maybe both of these explanations are in play.

Chalk it up to basic Obama corruption.

Holder Lite

Here in Oregon, we have USAG-OR Amanda Marshall, who takes space offered by the anti-gun fishwrap to "make a case" against being able to buy guns privately.

In Marshall's op-ed, she lists a few scary-sounding cases, then jumps right into her preferred fix of mandatory background checks for all gun transactions.

One problem:

Marshall does not claim that any of the "scary" cases she presented is a case of the purported "gun-show loophole" case, and in fact, all the gun possessions mentioned were already illegal by laws already on the books, and a quick look at the perps would show that they were not the types who would have followed any sort of law, anyway.

That's an inferential leap which requires Warp Drive to cross, I'd say.

Then, she ignores the 900# gorilla in the room in writing her op-ed: Holder and the USDOJ simply can't be trusted. In fact, the entire US Government can't be trusted.

Refer to Chris Muir's "Day By Day" 'toon for today. In that first panel, Muir apparently quotes a Miami attorney in summing up the malfeasance of the Obama Administration, very concisely.

Ms. Marshall, should you read this blog, please tell me why any citizen with even a minor education would trust the US Government at this point. Trust is important, since there are Federal Laws prohibiting the Government from maintaining a gun registration list from FFL's records of purchase of guns. If that system of background checks, now in effect only for FFL-purchases, were extended to all purchases, what is to keep the Feds from ignoring the restrictions and making their own list? Bear in mind, for the failed Manchin-Toomey Bill, the feds would have had up to 72 hours to complete a check which is now generally completed in less than a half-hour. What were they planning to do with the extra time if not produce an illegal record of the checks?

If I can't trust your boss, Ms. Marshall, why should I trust you?

Trust is everything, and the Government has exactly none to sell us at the moment.

Hoarding ammo

Readers of this blog might assume I'm clairvoyant on the subject of the ammo/ammo component shortage. I'm not, but something has begun to bother me about the duration of the shortage: it's affecting preparations for all sorts of nasty eventualities that a careful person might prepare for.

The critical ammunition compnenents are, of course, primers and powders. Since some powder is still out there, the most critical component is primers.

I'm going to make room in my gun safe for all my primers. I don't put ammo in there now, only a few loaded magazines. The primers have been kept in a less secure location in my shop, while the safe is in a locked and alarmed house, in a secure gun room with it's own alarm in the safe-closet.

Readers would be advised to treat their supplies of primers as an irreplaceable valuable as I'm doing now.

The "printed gun" - Joke's on the .Gov

Apparently, the printing program they just banned is so buggy it can't complete a printed gun anyway.

Maybe I should cobble up some garbage code, and garbage proof-hashes to go with it, put it online and claim it produces something fantastic in the printer, just to see who comes after me. I'd do a mind-reading dildo that only gives gasms to persons of a certain persuasion, or something like that. 

The "printed gun guy" may have just pulled off the biggest RF ever, getting the .Gov into a state of PSH over something that doesn't work.

H/T to Uncle

Beachin' AAR

Cannon Beach, OR, was fun for a couple of days.

Hotel report: We stayed at the Wayside Inn, a motel across the road from the Tolovana Beach Wayside, a State park. Arriving a bit early for check in, the gracious innkeeper let us check in earlier, and also upgraded our room to a full 2-bedroom suite, with full kitchen. For $100/night! No, I didn't flash any majik cards or badges to get that. If you're familiar with the popular Oregon beach towns, $100/night is a good deal for a fleabag, and this was a newer motel. Our only room gripe was that the doors still used a key-lock (high-security key though), and there was no interior night-latch. Upon check-out, I DID show my retired LEO badge, and pointed out to her that the SCOTUS long ago decided that key locks and no night-latches were a formula for HUGE damages in case of a break-in. The hotelier assured me that the inn was slated to soon upgrade to pass-card locks.

The weather: rated a +. It was warm, sunny, with no wind when we arrived Tuesday, so we sat out on our deck and bagged some rays, then after our trip companions arrived at their hotel, we met them and had a nice beach walk with them and their pooch. The next day was somewhat rainy, perfect for gift shop wandering, sampling the wares at bakeries, and taking in the prosperity of the place. Cannon Beach has always been an upscale place. The town is VERY pooch-friendly, with about half of the shops providing porches to leave the pooch while you shop. Most of the hotels allow pets also.

The food: First evening, we ate at a tavern a block away from our hotel. Fantastic food, I had a fried oyster sandwich (new to me, never saw one on a menu before). It was outstanding, perfectly served on a fresh roll. The gudwife had a seared ahi (tuna) plate, and they gave her so much of it we both ate parts of three meals off of that dinner. Second day saw breakfast in our friend's suite, then lunch bought uptown and eaten in our suite and dinner at one of the big touristy restaurants, where I ate their Cioppino, or fish stew. I had to struggle to finish the huge tureen of seafoodly goodness. The gudwife had fried razor clams, which, again, she couldn't finish and we brought them back with us and polished them off this ayem. The clams needing more pounding, were a workout for the teeth. Yesterday, we ate breakfast in, finishing most of the leftovers of the two days of food-bingeing so we didn't have to drag them home, because my travel kit included only a small cooler.

A note on dining in Cannon Beach: Tuesday and Wednesday are the days restaurants close, if they aren't 7-day open. You have less options, but Trip Advisor rates 35 'strants for the town, so even operating on half of them, one has plenty of choices. What the town lacks is a proper supermarket. Zero, zip, nada, rien, bupkis. There are a few convenience stores, and one place, Mariner Market, which has most of the necessities, but at robber-baron prices, and way too much of the frou-frou vegan and fad-dieter apple-crapple that you don't need. I spent $48 in there buying a few snacks, most of which ran to 3X the price the same brands could be had for in the Big Citeh. You have to get back on the coast road and drive North to Seaside or Warrenton, 8 or 20 miles depending on which supermarkets you want to shop at, if you want supermarket prices.

Cyber stuff: we had decent T-Mobile reception, I had decent Verizon 3G for my Xoom tablet (but not 4G, hmmmm), but our friends had AT&T and got no high-speed, only basic phone service on their I-Fones. I was able to punt my T-Mobile Galaxy S2 into "hotspot" mode after breakfast at their place so they could check their cyber necessities. My hotel had okay, just okay, wi-fi, not suitable to streaming video, and music only at 32kbps. No Netflix in bed to nod off to. The McBee Cottages had no useable wi-fi.

Summary: A fine little relaxing interlude, and I held to my budget of $400, even having enough left to blow $75 at Josephson's Smokehouse in Astoria, OR, on the way back home. Shoot, it might just be time to go tie into that bag o'goodies and have a snort of decent scotch with that smoked fish. Writing an AAR always makes me thirsty for something good to sip.

The Wordsmithy

...has been prohibited from fueling it's forge with coal and hardwood charcoal can't be found either, only dried dung remains to fuel my forge. Fortunately, it's in great abundance from the large herds of intellectually-castrated steer-citizens hereabouts.

Apprentice! Shovel more shit on that forge-fire and lean into that bellows! I'm trying to work this soft iron of a language into some steel-armored words which might inspire this Nation to offer adequate resistance to our cruel overseers.

Greetings

From the beach.

That's Cannon Beach (after all, this IS a gun blog).

It's very mellow here, so it's too hard to work up a rant.

You get gunfunnies instead:

A local boy walks into his favorite bar. He's all agitated, and he pulls a revolver out and waves it around for effect, then yells, "All right! Who in here has been screwing my wife?" There's a pause, then from the dark part of the barroom comes a measured drawl, "Son, you're gonna need more ammo!"

Have a nice day!

USAG Holder claims the "Right of Kings" for Feds

This may be the definitive word for this Administration: States have no powers, even within their own borders, and their Laws are ALWAYS inferior to Federal law (and edicts made without benefit of law, it seems).

Couple of observations: first, this is the exact position of the Federal Government which started the Civil War. Note that the "State's Rights" position this time has a tad more MORAL basis. Second, there has been a sea change in the attitude of the Feds which brings on this statement of Holder's: he would NEVER have made this statement seven months ago.

The Imperial Presidency has just been declared.

You can either bow your back like a good imperial subject and put up with the Imperial Presidency and all the corruption which goes with it, or you can grab your ruck and rifle, then leave your home for the last time.

Did I miss any choices?

God Bless the Marine Corps

Thanks to the Armorer of Arrggg!, I was connected with an amazing development in military vehicles, the Expeditionary Fire Support System Prime Mover of the USMC, a product built by General Dynamics.

The EFSS is designed to tow the heavy 120mm towed mortar, and special purpose trailers with it's ammo supply. A Mortar Company would accompany most Expeditionary units put down in the shitholes where the USMC fights. The Marines are heavily invested in the V-22 Osprey, now known to the Corps as the MV-22. That aircraft is restricted to loading rolling stock of a max width of 60" (five feet), which lets out using HumVees, as they are three feet too wide. The old M151 Jeep was about the right size, but didn't have enough grunt for the grunts (and is obsolete), so General Dynamics built them a new one with a vastly-improved chassis with 4-wheel drive AND steering, and CTIS (I hated the central tire-inflation system when I had to work on it and with it), and a decent Navisatar Defense I-4 turbodiesel to move things down the road, a multifuel engine that will burn JP8 jet fuel, too.

Just as I was congratulating the USMC on their choice of a more modest jeep-ly vehicle, I noted that the General Dynamics website mentioned another vehicle in the family, the LSV, the Light Strike Vehicle. Be still, my pounding heart, could this be, could it be...

YESSSSS, it is an assault 4X4:

Having fought in said shitholes for decades, the Marines have encountered what became known as "technicals", light trucks mounted with auto weapons. What better way to fight them than to have your own "technicals"?

The grotesque up-armored HumVees and MRAPs have their place, I'm sure, but for zipping around and still dealing death via Ma Deuce, the LSV looks like a decent deal, AND it gets there at 250KT by MV-22.

Gun Control Nazis still at it

...now they're coming after smokeless powder itself, black powder, Tannerite, and etc, etc, etc.

Thanks to JPFO for the news, but I was first, on various blogs in comments several weeks ago, and then in the update to this post.

Of course. These Nazis won't stop until their Gauleiter has control of everything remotely related to keeping and bearing arms.

If we let the Nazis do it to us....

Never again.

The "Second Amendment gets used" clock just ticked off another minute towards Midnight...

 

ADA regs for websites?

Fine idea, but how come we don't fix all the other handicap-access problems that the ADA was built to fix, first?

In Oregon, they have adopted a "separate but equal" doctrine for at least one ADA-critical application, that being handicapped access to boating the pristine waters of Waldo Lake, one of Oregon's biggest lakes.

Last year, my boater-acess political org, Willboat, argued before the State Marine Board that restricting access to the lake for motor-boaters was a violation of the ADA. The Board agreed with us that removing motor-boater access to the lake would likely be seen as an ADA violation, but they defended their closure by saying that there were other lakes that handicapped boaters requiring motors could use.

Pardon me, but wasn't "separate but equal" as a doctrine to alleviate discrimination ruled unconstitutional by the SCOTUS about 50 years ago?

Enough specifics.

The entire problem with the ADA is that it is allowed to be watered down or have exceptions made to it by the very Government which is supposed to have been so enthusiastic about the idea of handicapped-access in the first place. There is large cost in ADA compliance, as CATO's article points out. Thereby, there is a large opportunity for political graft.

Either enforce the ADA or remove it from the books.

H/T to Mad Rocket Scientist at Random Nuclear Strikes blog 

Happy Mother's Day?

Not if the Huffington Post has their say about it. Read it and weep. If you are celebrating the holiday with a proper sense of history, you have to cheer on feminist radicalism, which was just as bad 150 years ago as it is today, so sayeth this article. You are "cherrypicking" history if you look on Mother's Day as the event is celebrated today, says the HuffPo's religionist, Diana Butler Bass.

What happened to Mother's Day to turn it into the over-commercialized, potlatch* event that it is today?

Political correctness, that's what. The power of the Hallmark Corp's dollars for another.

Political correctness didn't start out to be a tool of radicalization. It first started as a Christian religious system for keeping the heathens "churched"**, but later morphed into a system for keeping American Values*** intact. Somehow, probably at the behest of the smart First Socialist, FDR, political correctness was morphed again, into a tool of political radicalization and for spreading the socialist manifestoes. It has remained in that role, but it wasn't always that way.

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*Potlatch, a Northwest Indian custom involving holding a holiday to demonstrate wealth and re-distribute it (among invitees). Wiki here, and the Wiki is correct, if my study of these tribes via museums in the PacNorWest has benefitted me at all.

**The early churches in America resorted to force occasionally to keep their parishoners in line and in the church and giving money to support it. The "Beadle", a religious constable, and the "Tything Man" were just two of those tools used in the forced-accptance of early religion here.

***How else do you explain the popularity of Norman Rockwell's work, almost all of which touted the "normalcy" of America?

Death dreams

Most folks think of death from time to time, and that's okay, just so that one doesn't obsess on the subject.

In fact, I happen to be one of those who believes in a Warrior's Code, and that code requires me to think of my death in advance of it happening, and come to grips with it so that such thoughts do not slow me down when I am in battle.

This is all very routine, the military makes you prepare for death so that your dependents will be properly provided for if you fall in battle.

There are some things that the military doesn't do, though. One of those is play the music of your choice at your funeral services. If anything is played, it is "Taps" at your graveside service. Very standard, too short and too frequently heard.

I want this played at my service.

The music is not ancient, it goes back less than 50 years to it's composition, but it was inspired by the great Russian composer Tchaikovsky, who wrote a LOT of music to commemorate battles of great importance in his time, a time in which the art of war was considered a high art at the least, and to many, the highest art.

As I listen to Melissa Venema play "Il Silenzio" on her trumpet, with the great Maestro Andre Rieu mostly just standing by with his orchestra and watching her, I close my eyes and I have a death dream.

My warrior personna tells me that this music is intended for a military bugler to play, over a bloody battlefield, while a short truce is called to tend the dead and dying soldiers who just fought there. In my insight, I see myself on that battlefield, mortally wounded after volunteering to be a rearguard and hold off the superior enemy so that my unit could escape. With my rifle, and my skills with it, I accomplished my task, but I was hit in the counter-attack and now lay expiring with those I slew. As the first notes of "Il Silenzio" drift overhead, I slip into my last sleep, knowing that this was how a warrior is supposed to end up, dying, out of ammo, but with his grisly coup-count close by. The irony that this music started out as a love poem set to music is not lost on me, and delicious irony is also a fine accompaniment to a virtuous death.

That's my latest death dream.

Do you have one you want to share? Comments will work for that.