Nom de plume: Rivrdog

"Saved thousands of lives"

Heard that a lot, lately, have you?

You're not alone. This is a Mark One, Mod Zero theme of Big Government, quoted as often as they think is necessary to convince the sheeple that they are fully protected from all imaginable harm by their Government, and that NO individual effort is ever required to ensure protection from harm..

Recently, we've heard it quoted to justify a total loss of our electronic privacy.

Now we hear it quoted by (R)INO ex-Governor Pataki of New York to support the now-illegal policy of "stop and frisk" as used in New York City by their police department.

Here's a clue, Governor. I'm willing to wager that for every one of those lives that you can PROVE were actually saved by this mockery of the Fourth Amendment, I can PROVE that your anti-gun policies in both the State and the City of New York have COST more lives than have been saved.

Just open a comment if you want to complete a public wager, Governor.

Before you put your money down, Governor, have your law librarian whip out the SCOTUS decision in Terry vs. Ohio, since that's what is ACTUALLY the Law of the Land in "stop and frisk". If your police stops don't meet the Terry test of "reasonable suspicion", they aren't legal, AND, according to a US District Court Judge, the stop tactic as used by NYPD appears to have a racial basis.

So, here's the lesson, readers: whenever you hear "saved thousands of lives", stop the person saying that, right in their tracks, and ask them to provide a list of those lives saved. Do this every time you hear the offending abuse of statistics. IF there actually WERE real statistics, there is a factual basis for the stats given. Ask for the facts. If no facts are forthcoming, yell "B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T." at the top of your voice.

Bloomberg tricks, bribes Mayors into joining his gun-grab outfit MAIG

Read all about it. JPFO digs up the straight skinny.

This jerk Bloomberg must be running afoul of some jurisdiction's pollitical corruption statutes. Why hasn't he been shown a set of handcuffs by now?

Trayvon Martin sidebar...

This article was written three weeks ago, but it seems that it would have helped to make the case for the Defense in the Zimmerman trial, had the biased Judge allowed evidence of that nature to be introduced. That, and it makes the case for a lawsuit or prosecution of former Miami-Dade Schools Police Chief Hurley for willful dereliction of duty. It's a good and quick read.

Bob Costas STILL hates the Constitution

Jay Leno had Bob Costas on last night, after mega-whore Kate Hudson.

Costas started with a straight-up report on the Affair de A-Rod. Costas DOES know his sportz gossip, I'll give him that much.

Viewers could see the direction this was all going when next, Costas talked about criminal thuggishness in professional sports, using the Hernandez example. Then Jay Leno had a mouth-fumble (perhaps deliberate) and instead of saying "Thug" said "Gun Thug". Bob Costas then launched into a standard anti-gun routine.

First, he gave a very short, half-assed apology for the tone of his remark last fall when he last ran the Constitution into the ground. Then he "affirmed" the Second Amendment in the style of Joe Biden, who doesn't accept that self-defense is a portable right and goes with every citizen wherever they are, not just in their homes, according to the SCOTUS in the Heller decision three years ago.

Then, all this 2A-bashing prep out of the way, Costas delivers his punchline, "If you think you have to go out to dinner with a Glock stuck in your waistband, there's something wrong with you." All of the anti-gun wusses share this opinion, associating personal defense, THE HUMAN RIGHT, with a make-believe personality defect.

Costas obviously has learned nothing in almost a year since his last PR blunder on this subject. He is still a human-rights denier and bigot.

Jay Leno doesn't have any excuse, though. It's almost as if Leno WANTED Costas to reach out with his gun-grabbing, Constitution-negating ideas, because Leno then led a round of applause, applause which included a back-pan wide shot so the camera could take in the whore Kate Hudson applauding, too. Seems like about half the audience applauded to the minimum, but THEY DID NOT CHEER.

From that, Leno ought to take notice: being against the Constitution doesn't get lots of laughs.

Costas, of course, is simply a Mark One Mod Zero gun-banner who has too much exposure.

Leno, as a gun-banner, is about to slip into obscurity when his show goes away next year.

Here's an award for Leno and Costas: The Effinger, and the status of an Enemy of America.

I guess I shouldn't leave the whore Kate Hudson out, either, so she get Dummy of the Week. I give her the lesser award because as a whore, she is not culturally supposed to spend a lot of time in Civics classes, but instead, spend it making money on her back and with her body, which she does quite well.

You have it exactly Bass-Ackwards, Peter King

...when you say that Libertarian-types like Rand Paul will be the death of the GOP-ey Party.

The dopey-gopes (or is it gopey-dopes?) have killed themselves, DEAD, by signing on to the ideals of Big Government. Peter King, R-NY, is one of those dopes. Rand Paul is one of those small-government types who might yet pull the GOP out of it's grave, but it will take work.

The Big-L folks have some reality checks to pass before they gain more than their best-ever 5% share of the electorate.

I don't consider myself a Libertarian, because I have never reconciled my personal political philosophy with the Big-L idea that a Stoner Nation can prosper, an idea which I consider utter bullshit. The Big-L libertarians, of course, believe that any drug or substance of recreational use ought to be legalized. These folks flunk the History test, ignoring the realization that the USSR failed largely because it's labor force couldn't produce, and the labor force failed to produce largely because of the State's insistence on subsidizing most of the cost of Vodka so that the labor force could stay hosed and thereby inactive politically. That way, there was little likelihood of an effective political force arising to challenge the hegemony of the Stalinist Commies.

That issue, and a couple of others such as the Big-L insistence that US military force should never be projected beyond our borders, or the removal from Government of almost ALL policing authority, just don't jive with reality.

Peter King doesn't jive with reality either. Edward Snowden is just a geeky kid without much world-view, but he DID strike a mighty blow for individual freedom with his release of the proof that all our electronic media is recorded by the NSA for whatever secret use they want to put the metadata to via the "blessing" of the Star-Chamber FISA Court. To say that Snowden is the biggest Government-wrecker of our time is so overblown as a political position that it puts King himself in a very bad light. King's lack of ability to differentiate out the good in an action makes HIS world-view suspect in my mind.

Peter King ought to take the money his is wasting exploring a Presidential run for 2016 and give it to Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership, so as to demonstrate that he is not TOTALLY against the Second Amendment. His support of New York's un-Constitutional gun laws, by itself, is a knock on him that would destroy any of his Presidential aspirations before he ever got started.

Irony...

...thy name is Gun Control.

A "gun buy-back" (favorite anti-gun thing to do) scheduled in the newly anti-gun State of Colorado has to be cancelled because of CO's new gun-control law, which says that ALL gun transfers have to go through a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL), and the new law did not allow for any remote-location system for background checks.

Pardon me, but BBWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

H/T to Uncle.

Gresham woman sues County over new gun ordinance

...that Gresham woman is none other than my and my wife's good friend, Roxanne Ross, who also runs the Gresham TEA party and the Multnomah County branch of Americans For Prosperity.

Basically, her attorney, Bruce McCain, a compadre from my old days in the Sheriff's Office, says that the new ordinance assumes the County may pre-empt the Cities automatically, but that is not true, County ordinances have to be adopted by Cities within the County, and none have done so, except Portland, which preceded/provided the model for Ordinance 1199.

Read all about it in this KATU-2 TV news story.

BTW, I have to take some responsibility for Mizz Ross' choice of revolvers, since I more or less insisted that she buy the Ruger SP101...now, about that carbine we talked about, ma'am...(a levergun from Marlin/Henry/Winchester/Rossi in .357).

Write something big, says my Muse

...eff off, says I, my betters have already done it:

1. PawPaw on lawnmower maintenance.
2. Joe Huffman on supersizing government.
3. Oleg Volk, on a tough new Korean nine mike-mike

That ought to get all y'all started today.

Thursday Thud & Effinger

...goes to the self-designated seller of all things regarding Open Carry, Adam Kokesh.

No, he didn't die at the hands of Janet Reno in Waco, that was David Koresh.

Similar names, similar personalities, could have been similar fates if I read the CNN article correctly.

Pardon me, Mister Kokesh, but the neither the Second Amendment nor this individual protector of it needs your insanity.

You, sir, are awarded my coveted "Effinger". Since it is Thursday, you are Thudded at the same time.

Ef-off, Kokesh. That's an order, not that you could ever comprehend what such a thing was...

Additional information: one article (not this one) on the arrest of Kokesh said that his "crew" claimed that the You Tube of him loading a shotgun* in a DeeCee park was not actually shot in that park, but done in Herndon, VA at Kokesh's studio via the use of "blue screen" technique. If that turns out to be the case, the Feds will have egg all over their fat SWATy faces, because no gun crime will have been committed. In that case, Kokesh's lawyer might be able to get the "magic mushrooms" seized in the raid on his home/studio suppressed under the "fruit of a poisonous tree" evidence rule. I won't be staying awake waiting for news bulletins in L'Affaire Kokesh, but this could become interesting on an ironic sort of way.

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* Remember that Kokesh called for defiance of DeeCee's gun laws by calling for a "1,000 gun march". That march never happened, and the vid of Kokesh loading a shotgun in DeeCee was the pitiful replacement for it.

Rivrdog's Razor

Everyone knows what a "razor" is, in philosophical discussion terminology, right? If not, school yourself with the Wiki.

In the gun-control "discussion", which, more times than not, does not qualify for the use of the term "discussion", it would be useful to have a Razor, or clarifying principle.

I propose Rivrdog's Razor as a clarification of the major dilemma in the real Discussion on Guns in Society:

First the Dilemma:

Reconcile, if you can, the need for supporters of the human right to have guns for self-defense and for fulfilling the Second Amendment to our Constitution, with the ardent desire of the Left to REMOVE guns from the society. The most important subset of this dilemma is what happens when we try to teach our children to handle guns safely and to operate them with skill. Of course, the reaction from Left is to scream "child abuser" at those who teach children gun skills. The so-called "zero-tolerance" policy of most public schools has morphed into a Thought Police action against the very idea of children being associated with guns in any manner whatsoever.

Then the Razor:

To effectively teach the next generation the safe use and skill-sets involved with firearms, it will be necessary to first remove the Left's opposition to the possession of firearms.

Not part of the Razor, but obvious:

Removing the Left's opposition to firearms might well involve removing the Left as a political force.

Yes, your blogger believes that this issue will come to such a resolution, and at that, in the not-distant future, because the Left has convinced themselves that if they do not disarm the Nation now, an extreme liklihood exists of armed conflict. In that belief, they are correct, but those fools do not see that this has ALWAYS been an Armed Nation, and in the past 150 years, was not disposed to armed internal conflict of a national nature. It is the Left's own out-of-whole-cloth nightmare that they force themselves to believe the danger of such conflict, and by their belief, they will make it happen.