Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Resolutions, yes

They are on my Facebook page, but I will repeat them here.

Resolution: I resolve to be less negative in my outlook in 2014. I realize now that a negative outlook is a waste of perfectly good battle spirit, and we WILL all have one fierce battle to fight this year.

Resolution: (Political) I resolve to work with the best conservatives to build a new party (yes, a Third Party) which represents Patriots. In my work with them, I will do my best to end the political hegemony of the present Republican Party, which has strayed farther from it's roots than the Democrats. Yes, I know that campaigning a Third Party means that the Democrats will again control the country for a while, but to put true conservatives in charge again requires this step. It may just encourage our Nation to make that big decision, Conservatism or ruin, and then the (D)onkeys are finished anyway.

Resolution: Support the Constitution. I am already a fierce supporter of our Constitution, but I can and will do more. For example, I will make every link possible that support of the Constitution REQUIRES support of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and conversely, those who would deny the full political and military meaning of the Second Amendment ARE already working hard to destroy the Constitution, and must be removed from political influence of any sort, by any means required.

Gunwalker WTF

We on the Right like to use Eric Holder's failed Fast & Furious operation to beat him and his boss up with. Okay, but a dangerous splinter hangs off that cudgel.

The NRA correctly tells us that "guns don't kill people, people kill people". That is the ULTIMATE truth in the gun control "debate", isn't it? I think so.

We need to stop saying that "Eric Holder's gun killed Brian Terry". That statement just doesn't fit. If we want to keep on thumping Holder for Gunwalker, that's fine, there's plenty of fail in his op to thump him with. Personally, I'd bet serious money that the Justice Department DOES know exactly who killed Brian Terry, so why hasn't the USDOJ issued a warrant yet?

Bottom line: Holder, for all his faults, did not Kill Terry, so stow that sentiment please.

Editing Freedom's Works

I've been blogging here for close to ten years. One of my major quests on this blog has been to show the readers what Socialism is, what it does, and how it got that way. I think I've just found the best, most concise explanation of Socialism ever. I didn't write it, and it needs editing, but it IS readable, so I will present it here after only changing the font to better suit my blog (it was originally Verdanna Bold 14-pt).

Without further ado, from this URL:

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Most of us believe socialism is what the socialists want us to believe it is-a share-the-wealth program. That is the theory. But is that how it works? Let us examine the only Socialist countries-according to the Socialist definition of the word-extant in the world today. These are the Communist countries. The Communists themselves refer to these as Socialist countries, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Here in the reality of socialism you have a tiny oligarchial clique at the top, usually numbering no more than three percent of the total population, controlling the total wealth, total production and the very lives of the other ninety-seven percent cent...

If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of superrich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes the logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.

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If you wanted to control the nation's manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportation and natural resources, you would need only to control the apex, the power pinnacle, of an all-powerful socialist government. Then you would have a monopoly and could squeeze out all your competitors. If you wanted a national monopoly, you must control a national socialist government. If you want - a worldwide monopoly, you must control a world socialist government. That is what the game is all about. "Communism" is not a movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order to gain control over the world . . . first by establishing socialist governments in the various nations and then consolidating them all through a "Great Merger," into an all-powerful world, socialist super-state ..."

Note that his example is best considered in the light of history, and in the light of the two most recent failed Socialist attempts, the USSR and Nazi Germany I hope by now that you all understand that Hitler led a socialist state, not a right-wing fascist state as the Left would alter history and have you believe.

Now put it together. What did both of those States do to get started and how did they wind up failing?

Both States took over from weak governments. The USSR was formed out of the failed Czarist monarchy, and Hitler sprang up from the Weimar Republic which failed due to losing WW1, having to pay reparations, and the world's Great Depression. In both cases, the putative dictators paid lip service to the downtrodden masses, with Hitler doing the better job of that. Hitler, between his release from imprisonment and seizing of absolute power, was the perfect "community organizer", setting up soup kitchens to feed the starving masses, putting clothes on the masses' backs (uniforms, but the ensembles kept them warm and gave them the required sense of identity), and controlling the worst of the street terror (anarcho-bolshevism) which had arisen with the decline of the Weimar Republic.

Then Hitler and his counterparts in the USSR disarmed their citizens. This disarmament was actually the most important step, because it precluded the citizens from changing their minds later and tossing out the Socialists.

Skipping over the obvious mechanisms of failure, in both cases, the USA, we find that the US Military ended Hitler's dreams, and the US Dollar ended the Soviets' dreams.

If you are a Socialist trying to conquer US individualism and turn the nation into the next "great" Socialist empire, how do you proceed?

You proceed as in above:

• Disarm the citizens.
• Control the press.
• Throw free shit at those whom you've convinced that earning their way in life is not required.
• Constrict commerce to only those avenues of trade that the Government can control.
• Do it all in the name of the downtrodden masses.

There it is, in a nutshell.

What is the one thing that is currently stopping the wannabe Socialists?

Our guns. In our safes. The Socialist Dream simply cannot proceed while we have the guns.

Didn't fit their agenda

...again.

The latest school shooter, in Arapahoe High School in Colorado, killed himself, but left behind his legacy, a Facebook Page filled with admiration of the left's agenda, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff.

Let's add it up, shall we?

• Lefty high school student, had recently suffered a personal reverse (failed to place well in a debating group).
• School without adequate security to prevent an assailant from entering with a less-than-concealable long arm.
• School with inadequate armed security (if any, some reports say there was one resource officer, some don't say that). It WAS a gun-free zone.

Nope, didn't fit the agenda. Put away the blood-dancing shoes. Freeze the gun-control commentaries in the press. Too much danger of the shooter being properly identified as lefty-looney, therby killing off the Marxist "necessity" for a gun-control push.

The gun-controllers are losing because their case is shallow, over-hyped AND it fails strict scrutiny of the Constitution.

Designed to destroy the Constitution

Observe this process. It is carefully calculated to attack the Bill of Rights.

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There was a mall shooting a year ago in Oregon. A crazy guy went into a mall full of Christmas shoppers and opened fire with a stolen rifle, killing two, but when a Concealed Carry person drew on and aimed at him, he ran off to a remote part of the mall and killed himself.

The simple fact of history from the Clackamas Mall shooting was that the Second Amendment didn't start the shooting, it ENDED it.

That simple explanation doesn't fit the agenda of the Left, who want to eliminate the Second Amendment, so, in a carefully-laid plan to "memorialize the victims", they have deliberately left out mention of Nick Meli, the armed citizen who stopped the shooter's rampage without firing a shot.

The Left is AGAIN revising history to suit their agenda. I am AGAIN bringing out the HISTORY book to remind folks of the truth of the incident.

Exhibit A: in today's Oregonian:

The "commentary" mentioned there is from a MAIG supporter, and does not mention the armed citizen. The link goes to a list of articles, none of which promenently mention the armed citizen. There ARE, however, plenty of mentions of gun control ideas with which to weaken the Second Amendment.

This blog does not believe in defensive warfare. Never has, never will. I offer the following solution:

Since the "free press" is not free, but is totally enrolled as a major political tool of the Left, it has ceased to deserve the protection of the First Amendment. In the State of Oregon, all political organizations which seek to press the Government for a political end must Register as Lobbyists.

It's time the press was Registered as lobbyists, and it's time that they are forced to follow the strict rules that all political lobbyists have to follow.

Register the Press, not our Guns.

 

I'm sorry

I've been blogging too sporadically, and as a result, the country's gone to hell in a handbasket. I'm guessing we will need a new country now.

On a related note, this is National Ammo Day, and we are supposed to show our support for the 2A by either buying or manufacturing some ammo.

Get out your wallet and hie thee to your gun store, or hie thee to your reloading bench and crank some out.

That is all.

What is gun hate?

Reducing the question of "gun control", to it's simplest element, the hatred of guns, gun control is nothing more than a belief system.

Yep, gun-hate is a religion. The acolyte of gun-hate, gun-fear, is part of that religion.

Yep, according to the Establishment Clause of our Constitution, we have to tolerate all religions, but the Government SHALL NOT Establish one. Establishment means that they may not give their official stamp of approval to a religion, they may not promote one particular religion over any other religions, they may not force adherence to any religion. That's in our Constitution. It is an immutable, forever law, and our Supreme Court has vigorously upheld the Establishment Clause.

Yet, gun-hate IS fostered, it IS approved by our Government, it IS promoted, and above all, it's tenets ARE being forced on citizens by Government.

I say this to my Government: you insist that I NOT refer to the large, decorated evergreen soon to be placed in my downtown plaza as a "Christmas" tree during the Christian holiday of Christmas, it must be referred to as a non-religious "holiday tree", but that same Government tells me I MUST subscribe to all sorts of whacko conclusions about fear of firearms, and stand idly by while they are un-Constitutionally coded into improper Laws.

I stand for my Constitution. I protect my Constitution. I've sworn, several times, to DIE protecting my Constitution, if that's what it takes to keep it and it's legal precepts in force here in my United States of America.

What part of my Oaths do you NOT get, my Governments?

Just a little nuclear war rumor...

This article begins to speculate that perhaps Obama's de-facto purge of US military leadership has a sinister, a VERY sinister intent: Could Obama be desirous of having total personal (not just military, PERSONAL) control of US nuclear weapons?

His purposes for that could be only one of two:

• To order immediate and total nuclear disarmament, bypassing Congress.
• To be able to bypass all the remaining controls and be able to use nuclear weapons for purposes other than military.

Total PERSONAL cointrol of the nukes, as opposed to National Command Authority control, which he already has, would enable him to say, give control of them to Valerie Jarrett, who is not in the NCA chain below him. It is said that VJ is the one actually behind the purges of the military leadership. She wants Obama to have an absolute command of the military to be able to use the troops to enforce political directives, which they currently would not do.

Here are two messages for VJ:

1. You can fire all the generals you want, ma'am, but they don't do the fighting. In fact, if the grunts don't have leadership which inspires them to fight, they won't fight.
2. All you are doing, Mizz VJ, is generating a fine set of leaders for the coming revolution, which will certainly arise at the first serious Constitutional provocation, say, the directed abandonment of the Second Amendment. BTW, the entire military you will have left at that point, due to mutiny and mass desertions, will be those few Obamabot generals and colonels. The rest of the military will self-disband and join the Resistance, probably arming it to the teeth as they do so.

I would be VERY worried about a nuke-enabled Chicago Mafia in that case, because they would be badly outnumbered, and likely to try to use some of those nukes on the mutineers. Hopefully, they haven't the tech smarts to do that...

If Obama shows the first concrete sign of wanting to bypass the proper nuke-deployment rules, he and his gang should be removed from office by force, with extreme prejudice. 

Thursday Thuds - Planetfall

There's a Thud coming that I'm not sure we'll survive: planetfall. I'm not ready to throw MY "end of the world" party, but I might just be pondering the guest list...

In the meanwhile, here are some ordinary Thuds, Mark One, Mod Zero...

Thud the First: Obamacare. It's going down big-time. Coupla things you might not know about it's onrushing failure: The Canadian company that was hired to set up the Web presence of ObamaCare, CGI, is the same outfit that tried and failed to set up the infamous Canadian Firearms Registry, which NEVER worked to specification, despite better than 20 times it's original budget being spent. With a change to Coservative Government, the Canadians wisely decided they could do without the Registry, and pulled the plug on it. OUR Government should have figured out that this outfit couldn't organize a three-car funeral procession, but they didn't. That's possibly because of two women, Valerie Jarrett, who has a personal association within CGI, and Michelle Obama, dittoe...

Thud the Second: Obamacare (again). The company that is supposed to "fix" the HealthCare.gov site is QSSI, a subsidiary of United Health, Inc. For those who don't follow the healthcare financial scene, UHI is the giant outfit that was already involved with Government healthcare before Obamacare even took effect. They run the Western portion of the Government/Military healthcare system, TriCare, having muscled Wisconsin Physicians' Services out of the contract. WPS had done a very good job. UHI had previous problems, which we might call "growing pains" if we are charitable: When UHI took over Tricare, they also took over Express Scripts, the companion service to Tricare which provides pharmacy benefits. When they took over Express Scripts, there was a perfectly good Web presence already there for the service, and it operated flawlessly. Never mind that, UHI gave the old website the boot, and put in theirs, which operated like a 1995 website, complete with big delays loading and many error messages and "come back later" advices. Ummmm....isn't this the exact failure mode of Healthcare.gov? Well, UHI finally fixed the Express Scripts site, and strangely enough, their fix makes it look and operate like the old Express Scripts system. Problem for Healthcare.gov: there's no prior system to fall back on. Smarties in the IT bidsnez say the entire site will have to be re-coded from scratch. QSSI is NOT up to that task, but they are in charge. Does this whole mess begin to look more like planned failure than incompetence to YOU? It does to me.

Thud the Third: Obamacare (I can't shake that feelin'...) Remember those 23 Executive Orders signed by the President on 01162013? #16 of those orders states:

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

As I reported earlier this week, it appears that healthcare orgs connected to Healthcare.gov ARE asking the "gun questions". Of course, there is Federal law that specifically prohibits the Government from compiling lists of who owns guns, and this Executive Order ignores that law. With the few that have gotten through on Healthcare.gov, selected a plan and linked to the plan, those gun questions are getting asked, and that data is being compiled. The anwser is the same: "I refuse to answer that question." THEN we get to see if healthcare is actually a "right" as Obama pretends that it is. If it's a right, you cannot be denied it by refusing to answer questions about non-medical things. If refusing to answer the gun questions means you get denied a healthcare policy, then it's not exactly a "right" that you have health insurance, is it?

Thud the Fourth: Suicide "prevention". This gets fairly philosophical, so bear with me. If a person has true personal freedom, does it not include the right to terminate one's own life? If it does include that right, why does the State spend so much money trying to dissuade folks from exercising that right? If it does NOT include that right, why aren't suicide attempts classified at Attempted Homicides? They are not so classified. This becomes an issue because of high-profile suicide attempts. For some insane reason, the minions of the State believe that they have a DUTY to heroically prevent suicides, sometimes at great risk to their First Responders. Then again, some folks live by an actual Code of Honor which allows them the freedom to end their lives. Note that the Nation of Japan has never repudiated the ancient Code of Bushido, they simply don't ascribe to it at present. Many, many folks took their own lives over the years according to that Code. Is Bushido wrong? If you say yes, can you prove that empirically and not just by inserting your own personal Code? I didn't think so. Get the damn Government out of our personal life choices that affect no one but us.

Only four Thuds this time. Subscribe to my Facebook page and you will get several more on a daily basis...

Obamacare has gun control in it...

According to this Conservative HQ story. About half-way down the essay.

http://www.conservativehq.com/print/15270

When applying on an exchange, you will have to admit ownership of your guns to the Feds. That makes Obamacare registration a precursor to gun registration.

"Then there’s the wonderful ObamaCare “data hub” — where you must reveal all your personal information, an identity thief’s dream. ObamaCare even demands to know how many different sex partners I’ve had in the last year . . . and whether I own a firearm."

Be very afraid...