Nom de plume: Rivrdog

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.

More Global Warming alarmism

Part Deux? Soixante Deux (62) is more like it. 

Here is some totally garbage alarmism from Ass Press.

Here is the opening statement:

"TELESCOPE, Grenada (AP) — The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean.

For Desmond Augustin and other fishermen living along the shorelines of the southern Caribbean island, there's nothing theoretical about the threat of rising sea levels."

Okay then, let's apply a tiny filter called Truth to this.

• Nowhere in the entire story does it ever say how much the sea level has risen.
• It does say that the Grenadans have done some ill-advised dredging in the area.
• Nowhere does it say that their man-on-the-scene has ANY credentials as either an engineer or a climate scientist, but...
• The article goes on to blame climate change anyway.
• The simple fact here is that there are two ways to flood a coastline: raise the sea level or lower the seashore. It definitely appears that the latter was done here, but yet the alarmism still continues.

This whole Ass Press article is a crock of crap.

I challenge the Global Warming Alarmist Fraternity to adopt the following manifesto of Truth:

• Every article on the subject of rising sea level damage shall be opened with a statement of just how high the sea level has risen, over a stated period of time. Not in storm surges, but permanent sea level rise, the ONLY indicator that can (or can't) show the truth of such claims. 
• When talking about sea level changes, ANY alteration to local ocean floors MUST be discussed, with an engineering-level statement of how those changes, natural OR man-made, affected flooding of the coastline.
• Water seeks a constant level, and is easy to measure. We know about tides, we can predict and measure storm surges, and all of those factors can be discounted to give us a true base water level. According to this interactive chart by NOAA, the sea level rise in Grenada's part of the Caribbean Sea is from 3 to 6 millimeters per century. The entire US East coast has a sea level rise of 3 millimeters per century, maximum. That's one-eighth of an inch, and one quarter of an inch, MAXIMUM,  in the South Caribbean Sea. Note that in AK, some sea levels are trending DOWN by a half-to 3/8" per year.

This alarmist article by Ass Press does no one any good.

Have you ever asked yourself just why, if all the Earth's coastlines are in danger of inundation from rising sea levels, that engineering to "save the coastline" hasn't even started yet, anywhere? Can you guess why that is?

In every engineering analysis of solutions to a potential crisis, the engineers will first ask the question, "is this crisis actually happenning or can it realisticically be expected to happen, and when?"

Of course there's no engineering, because that question has already been asked, and the answer is, always, "come back to the engineers when you have data showing an actual threat".

That's the name of THAT tune, "Actual Threat". As currently measured, the actual threat, if present trends continue, will not occur for several to many centuries.

BTW, the Ass Press article tries to blame "ferocious storm surges made worse by climate change". That's an apples and oranges discussion, and again, the alarmists will lose, because when you stack up hurricanes by the century or epoch, there's little to no change to report. Weather is weather and climate is climate, and there are few links between them.

Ass Press, get real or get out of here.

End of discussion.

 

 

Victory!

Aboard: the USS Liberator, a ship of war, docked for repairs at her home port, any coast, USA.

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Captain:(waks into the Radio Room) "Radioman, stand by to copy a message. Send the letter "V". Send to all stations, all commands."

Radioman: "Sir?"

Captain: "Sir, what, Sparks"

Radioman: "Sir, what is the rest of the message?"

Captain: "Sparks, that IS the message, "V" "

Captain: Never Mind. Sparks, take five, but before you go, set your transmitter to the frequency for Flash Traffic, all stations"

Radioman: "yes Sir."

The radioman flips a few switches, then gets up from his console and the Captain sits down.

Captain: (operating the key): Dit Dit Dit Daaah.

Radioman: (who never left his little cubby behind the Captain's bridge): "Sir, you just sent flash traffic of Victor." Our instructions are to NEVER send just a "V", because it is the agreed-upon signal for Victory in this War, Sir?"

Captain: (handing Sparks a photo-scan of a newspaper).

Radioman: "Yes, SIR! We HAVE won, Sir!"

Here's that photograph that Sparks just saw:

 

Captain: "Do you have a microphone for the ship's P/A in here, Sparks?"

Radioman: "Yes, Sir."  (flips a few switches at his console and pulls up a microphone, handing it to the Captain)

Captain: (to ship, via P/A) "Now hear THIS. This is the Captain. All work not essential to ship's combat readiness is to cease IMMEDIATELY. The Captain grants the crew 12 hours of LIBERTY ashore. The usual liberty line will now form. While you are ashore, Sailors, hoist one to the Oregon Firearms Federation, for without their tireless work in this fight, we would not have prevailed. That is ALL."

Captain (to radioman): "Can you make a tape of "V", and pipe it on the P/A for five minutes?

Radioman: "Yes SIR. Some of us have something to go home to now."

Captain: "Yes, I know that, Sparks. Your family has a farm in Scio, don't they?"

Radioman: "Yes Sir, they do. They recently re-incorporated the farm as "Liberty Farms", too, Sir"

(In the passageway, a jubilant sailor marches by, his broom at High Port. As he passes the radio room, he snaps his head to the left, passing in review and saluting Sparks, the bearer of the good news. He does NOT flinch upon seeing the Captain in the cubby, but he does lose his composure and crack a wide grin.)

Captain: (to sailor in the passageway): "Carry on, Sailor (and the Captain cracks a matching wide grin)."

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I hope you liked this little ditty. This post has a second purpose, though, and that is to remind the fraction of the Legislature that pushed to overturn gun rights in Oregon that WE aren't the "extremists", as Senator Burdick (D - Portland) was just quoted as saying, SHE is the extremist for trying to take those rights away, and for her political tricks of trying to do it while dancing in the blood of murdered children in Newtown, CT and the murdered Christmas shopper here in Oregon.

While we're at it, shame on the liberal Press for enabling these attacks on our Civil Rights. Shame on the Democratic Party for lining up to support stripping citizens of their Civil Rights.

Yes, there's a lot of joy to spread with this news, but there's also a lot of shame to note.

The rights-killing extremists WILL be back. We have just enough time for a short celebration before their next attack, I'm sure of that.

Excuse me, I think I shall go to the range and celebrate by firing the annual qualifying course for LEOSA-04 (HR-218).

Fox snooze

...makes a big deal out of some yahoo who claims to be the inventor of "printed guns". Guy is a blowhard, and it's unlikely he invented the technology of 3-D printers, or figured out the data set to run the printer to make an AR-15 lower or one of his so-called "Liberator" (stolen name) "Wikiguns".

He did appear on Fox snooze though, and insisted that they call him an "anarchist".

I can think of better names: plaigarizer, intellectual property thief come to mind. Raving ego-maniac is a given. Pro-gun spokesman is NOT given. This guy has less to do with defending the Second Amendment than my pet cat.

The opposition does seem to have suckered in on the "invisibility quotient" of the "Wikigun" pistol. Look, airport scanners can detect liquid, for Christ's sake, of course they will see the "Wikigun". Didn't we go over this whole basket of over-ripe tripe 25 or 30 years ago with the Glock pistols? Haven't the scanners improved markedly in the meanwhile?

Go away, Wiki-archist. you are boring us, and please don't think you've counted any coup by getting a few idiot Democrats to rise to your bait. I could put a fresh egg in the microwave, explode it (yes, they go boom if you throw the energy to them without breaking the egg-sac first) and say I had just discovered that chickens can lay explosive eggs, put a vid of it on You Tube and the idiotarians in the (D)onk Party would try to ban chickens.

No, the "printed gun" is not the end of Gun Control.

Remember that Gun Control is not about controlling guns, printed or not. it's about controlling PEOPLE with guns.

Sunday Silly

For years now, the petite-peter crowd have been bombarded by TV ads for the various products to get them back into the copulation game. Viagra, of course, has these ads showing men in situations where self-reliance is a must.

So we get the latest one, which shows a guy on the beach getting ready to light an evening romantic beach fire while his intended partner fluffs up the sleeping bag in the tent. His lighter breaks into pieces, so he goes to his truck, opens the toolbox, and there is a classic old Buck Hunter folding knife in there. He gets that "light bulb just went on" look, takes the knife over to the laid fire, hefts a beach pebble, and strikes sparks to get his tinder going, blows on it, and the fire is soon blazing away.

Only one problem: in real life, those brass bolsters on his knife that he was striking those sparks with will not spark. Yep, brass is a non-sparking metal. That beach pebble also did not look like chert or flint, the spark-generating rocks.

One hopes the stiffy he got from the pill had more reality or the woman in the tent will be disappointed.

Mop-up work

Now that the anti-gun hordes have been defeated in their bull-rush to overturn the Bill of Rights, it's not time to retire from the battlefield just yet. There's mop-up work to do. Spotter! Find me a target....

My letter submitted to the local fishwrap this ayem:

Editors:

Now that most of the emoting over gun control has ended the with somber realization that we have a Constitution to reflect on, not destroy, let's have that "conversation".

Commenters have tried to make the point that the more-efficent weapons of today would have been prohibited by the Founders because they were good and moral men, and a single soldier firing more than a dozen shots in a battle was unusual. These arguments say that the technology of killing has overtaken the bucolic pace of the Founders' existence, and by extension, the pace of their thought, so the Second Amendment must be denied or revised.

This might be a good argument if immutable Civil Rights weren't being discussed, but they are. A Civil Right is forever, or it is worthless. A Civil Right must, by definition, be unchangeable.

I might remind the anti-gunners that the First Amendment seems to have survived onrushing technology quite nicely, and we still have and cherish that freedom, so why not the freedom to keep and bear arms?

 

Boston, a cradle of Liberty?

Yeah, THAT Boston, where the "shot heard 'round the world" was first fired at Concord, to start the Revolutionary War, the winning of which gave us our freedoms.

THAT Boston, where the new catch-phrase "Boston Strong" has just been crafted and is now seen all over the country.

The only thing about Boston that's strong is the smell left over, not from bombs exploding 8 days ago, but from the stench of a crapped-on Constitution lying in the gutter there.

A couple of shit-for-brains Jihadis were enough to cause the various levels of Government there to illegally declare the Constitution suspended?

Oho! You say, "there was no such Declaration, 'Dog."

You're right, the traitors (Governor Patrick and Mayor Menino) who usurped the Constitution for better than two days in Boston didn't bother to make a declaration, because they knew that such a move would only have highlighted the un-Constitutionality of their actions.

But wait! You sniffle, and your dim-bulb glows, "didn't the Mayor and the Governor declare States of Emergency, 'Dog, and don't those declarations cover the Government actions?"

Ah, no, they don't, Tony Macaroni. All they do is permit the City to govern, according to the Constitution, by decree of the Mayor (or Governor), instead of by the processes of the Legislature or City Council, and primarily they are published so as to deny the cops overtime pay, since the declarations suspend wage and hour rules. If that State allows such declarations to deny Constitutional Rights, then it needs to be challenged in Court and have that authority removed from the Governor. Likewise the City of Boston.

The States of Emergency cannot permit police to boot down doors without a warrant or  arrest without probable cause (4th Amendment violations) or totally deny freedom of movement and assembly (First Amendment violations). All those violations of Civil Rights happened. The declarations of Emergency might be stretched to include closing off an area which is actually part of the crime scene, but not the entire City. If the Governor wants to stop commuter trains, and the Mayor subways and busses, fine, that's their perogative: the State and City own them, and they can run them or not.

So we have every liberal in the whole damn deluded Nation slapping the MA and Boston Governments on the back, praising them to the skies for their "efficiency" in capturing/killing the incompetent Jihadis.

Stalin, Hitler and Mao didn't have much trouble capturing criminals, either, did they? Would you have wanted to live under their governance?

Didn't think so.

Aren't you just a bit curious as to what might have happened if the Jihadis had bombed, say, the Boise Marathon, or maybe the Salt Lake City Marathon?

Let's apply a "Second Amendment Filter" to this discussion, shall we? Take any City where the Second Amendment is broadly supported (not begrudgingly supported like my City of Portland, OR), and ask yourself if the Government would have even thought about cancelling the Bill of Rights to catch a couple of Jihadis. Nope, in those cities, citizens would have just slung their rifles, strapped on their sidearms, and gone about their business, and the cops would have used the Constitution to help catch the perpetrators instead of wiping their collective asses with it.

The "blue" States don't support or even use their Constitution anymore, so they are doomed to the predations of Government, whenever that Government gets a whim to act outside of their Constitutional authority. Boston just proved that.

"Boston Strong", WTF?

That should be "Boston Wrong".

Mea culpa(s) and another Educated Guess - UPDATED!

UPDATE: I and many others bought the wrong photos, says the Feebees. They give us this pair:

Curious, just curious. Why the long delay?

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I bought into the "they've arrested the perp" theory yesterday, along with the networks except SeeBS. I was trying to live blog (note to self, don't live blog a repeated event) so I bought into it. Then, when it started to crumble as a story, I put two and two together and came up with five, another newshound error.

Sorry about that. Need to watch the "woo-woo" as the Rivrsis frequently tells me.

So, I'm going to follow MORE of the Rivrsis' political philosophy, and double down on the "woo-woo".

About those two "persons of interest" from the Lord & Taylor vids, and the fact that the cops have the photos, but the FeeBees won't show them to us. I might be suckering in on a net-sweep here, but the URL you can see it at is here. Go to Page 148 at that site. 

Drill down the photos until you get to the pair marked "Bag" and "No Bag". Look at the face of the guy in "No Bag". The photo embiggens with a click and HOLD from the left mouse button. Now you know why the public isn't allowed to see the photos. The guy is African ancestry. Yep. That's why the FeeBees ran off and hid. Somebody at the Top said put a lid on this. That much is obvious. I think that with the record of Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder on the New Black Panther Party affair in the '08 election, this is to be expected with a "person of interest" of African ancestry.

Is this racial? You bet. It is also vital if the authorities want to get this guy or guys. Every cop I know is totally chapped when the APB for a wanted person goes out from Dispatch, complete with race, facial characteristics, etc, but when you see the discription on the Evening News, all mention of race or racial features is missing.

We're dealing here with mass-murderers at the least, maybe persons conducting war against our civil population on orders from elsewhere, and using WMDs to boot.

This is OUR problem, FBI. The whole damn Nation is at risk until the perp(s) are caught. This Nation offers the FBI their eyes and ears and the FBI turns down the offer? What kind of Stupid is that?

F.B.I., put out the photos. Do it now. Not too many read this blog, but the FeeBees probably do. Oh, MSM: you also know where these pictures are. Obama is almost finished his campaign speech at the Boston Memorial Service, so when he is done, YOU put out the pictures. Tell the FeeBees to piss up a rope when they complain.

Muzzie offs 2 Coptics in NJ, dismembers corpses, is arrested...

...and I've heard nada on the MSM.

Story broken by a righty blogger, repeated on Rantburg.

Really. This story has way more gravitas than Jody Arias' shenannigans, but there has been hours of Arias on the MSM since 04062013.

Story doesn't fit the usual stylebook, I guess.

What makes YOU mash the TV "off" button?

Meme time. You're sitting through the Evening News, and your facelifted news babe or nuze hunk introduces a story. You gag, then mash either the "mute" button or the "off" button.

What caused this visceral reaction? Put your TeeVee turn-offs in comments if you don't see 'em here, or "+" mine if you want.

In no particular order:

• Obama doing any Agenda item with the Victim Group which he thinks illustrates it.
• Over-coached kids doing "anti-bullying" PSAs
• "Doug", the Mesothelioma Victim.
• Any Victim who has done more than one "grief on my sleeve" gig.
• The "latest" Big Pharma sales ad you've already seen 39 times.
• Bill O'Reilly with guests screaming at each other.

Other than Evening News:

• Sportz channel show with screaming-at-each-other sportz wallahs
• Any people screaming at each other unless Alfred Hitchcock wrote the script
• Anything with a zombie lurching, EVEN campy old movies.
• Anything with a zombie in it that tries to convince me that zombies are real.
• Anything, particularly zombies, that takes a load of 00 Buck to center of mass and keeps coming.

I would have included "teased news" stories, but if I mashed the button every time one of those came on, I'd never watch any news at all. I'm old enough to remember when news stories were NEVER "teased", the newscasters just read the news and showed the video or still photos which illustrated the stories. Only the production staff knew which order the stories were going to be in.

In the Auld Days, the Beeb (BBC) used to have the best format: they headlined the stories and put them in an on-screen list with the exact time they were to be broadcast. That way you could go to the potty or pour another drink to get you through the dismal parts (and back to the potty), or you could even turn off the TV if you saw nothing on the list which didn't interest you.

Fire up the comments. TeeVee is dismal, and this is your chance to show the world just how dismal that swamp IS.