Nom de plume: Rivrdog

2A litmus test for Romney

Without further ado, here it is:

Fast & Furious, aka, "Gunwalker"

The House Oversight Committee has USAG Holder in their sights for Contempt of Congress, but according to Brit Hume, senior analyst for Fox News, who opined on this issue tonight on O'Reilly, there will be a behind-the-scenes game played by Issa and Holder, who will give just enough of the 92% of the documents subpoenaed, but not yet delivered, to keep the noose off of his neck.

This situation is ripe for waking up the US of A with, and Romney is the guy to do it. If he bumps up Fast & Furious to near the top of his agenda to hammer on Obama with, he will add some stiffening to the spine of Rep. Issa, and maybe Issa will be less likely to cave or make a "backroom" deal which would let the inventor of Gunwalker walk.

Holder, at least, and probably Obama, conspired to try to weaken the SCOTUS-strengthened Second Amendment by a false-flag operation that was supposed to show how US guns were arming the violent drug cartels in Mexico. With plenty of evidence to show that the cartels didn't need US guns, but had a better supply of (military) arms which they got from Central America and the corrupt military in Mexico, Gunwalker was supposed to smother all that evidence, and, at the very least, "close the gun-show loophole", if not allow an acceptance of AWB Two. When the Border Patrol agent got killed on duty with a "walked" gun, though (just bad luck, really; by the numbers, he should have been killed with a Mexican M16 or Central American M16 or AK), it blew the lid off of Gunwalker, and gave an actionable cause to Issa & Co.

If Brit Hume was right, and he usually is, Holder and Obama will skate on Gunwalker until after the November election.

Romney could change all of that, give Obama a huge black eye, force him to throw Holder under the bus, and forever cement his creds with the gunnies. Heaven only knows those creds need cementing after Romney's anti-gun performance as MA Governor.

So, whichever readers are contemplating sending campaign cash to Romney (I haven't convinced myself to do that yet), consider putting the check in with a letter strongly urging Romney to start using the GOP treasury to highlight Gunwalker, and keep highlighting it.

If the GOP campaign smarties can do that, it will, at least, raise enough of a 2A ruckus that even if Obama wins a second term, he will be likely to have to forgo 2A Executive Orders, which would then be just too hot a topic for him to touch. In the best of scenarios, with Romney harping on Gunwalker, Holder might just be cut out of the herd, the GOP wolves getting their prey, and maybe, just maybe, he might cut a deal with Issa to stay out of the hoosegow. That deal, of course, would involve implicating his boss as having okayed Gunwalker.

Gunwalker could be the issue that brings down Obama, but to attain that status, it will need a boost by Romney. The One Big Question is: does Romney believe strongly enough in the 2A to give Obama the severe test he should get with Gunwalker?

I can't answer that just now, nor can I say that I really want Romney to win.

Only Romney could change that, and Gunwalker is his chance to do exactly that.

The little Captains

...got the better of a squad of Federal rozzers, so it seems. With the entire squad forgetting their mission, their orders, and for most of them, their marriage vows (no, the "500-mile rule" is NOT written in the Procedure Manual), that outfit must either have very good fealty to their Special Agent in Charge, and followed him to the whore's market (yes, such places exist down there, they did in Panama when I was there in '94), or there were "arrangements" made in advance which were especially attractive.

I see two problems with this mass human failing:

• The Secret Service and military members could well have been "set up" by enemies of the Colombian government. The FARC (commie-leaning drug cartels) still is around, it just can't beat the Columbian military in a fair fight anymore.
• The Obama White House may use this incident to create their own "Palace Guard" of Federal agents who will have to swear political fealty to Obama, and then Obama will have 100% of the trappings of a dictator. If he gets this wet-dream wish of his, do YOU believe that he won't use it to damage/eliminate his opposition?

Stay tuned to this issue. Stay tuned to any on the right who see it for what it is, or could become. They are the smarties. The rest of them will just have a good snicker about the scandal.

Are there any bets?

Will anyone bet that if a FOIA was filed on the Florida Special Prosecutor in the Zimmerman case, there would be a lot of message traffic between Eric Holder's office and those justice-denying boneheads in Florida? How about a side bet that the subject of over-charging Zimmerman with the District Attorney's Information of Felony was also discussed, with instructions from USDOJ to charge the max.

Of course, he will never be convicted of Murder Two, which requires a culpable mental state of "extreme spite", just short of planned intent. Manslaughter One would have been the appropriate charge, and it's doubtful that even that would stick.

The failure to use a Grand Jury in this case is VERY telling. The DA knew that she could never get a Grand Jury to indict Zimmerman, so she is going to try to convict him by starting with the Star Chamber method of a DA's Information.

Even the race pimps aren't swallowing this as "justice". They were very skeptical that putting this case in this slick, PeeCee DA's hands would accomplish their ends.

Justice is never supposed to be all about the DA, and when it is, it isn't justice that's being served.

About the only ones to make out well will be the scandal-mongering press (especially Fox News, I can just see Greta Van Whinerin making this her top subject for the next year or so). This is hardly the Crime of the Century, but it will be in the press' eye.

Where are the race pimps today?

....answer: back under their rocks, their crimes of moral terpitude having been exposed to the full light of day, thanks mostly to Fox News, which patiently, day by day, took apart each of their inflammatory statements and showed the world what they really meant and why they meant it.

But, don't consign the race-baiters' efforts to the dustbin of history just yet...

The race pimps will be back, when George Zimmerman is exonerated by the full investigation in progress now. If that happens, and I give it a 65% chance of happening, there will be calls to take "justice" to the streets. Some criminals  will obey those calls, so remember your enemy identification and remember to use the right weapon at the right time.

Is lynching OK now?

Some in the race-pimp business (very lucrative business, that) think so.

Item: The MFWIC of the New Black Panther Party put a "reward" on the head of Zimmerman.  USAG Eric Holder gave him a pass. Bad move, this attracted the local cops, who arrested HIM as a felon in possession of a firearm.

Item: Spike Lee today tweeted what he thought was the address Zimmerman was staying at (he was wrong, Zimmerman wasn't there and hadn't been), but Spike Lee apparently thought it was OK that his peeps, numbering 250,000, should respond to the address and fetch Zimmerman (to the nearest oak tree, one surmises). Why hasn't Spike Lee been arrested for criminal conspiracy, across state lines? Seems that Eric Holder gave Spike Lee a pass, too.

Item: A bunch of kids, mostly black as noted by the surveillance cameras, skipped school at their high school to "protest Zimmerman not being arrested", but after skipping out, decided to do a flash-mob invasion of a local store and loot it. Note that that surveillance video showed a lot of hoodies being worn by the looters. Remember my advice? 

Rivrdog's prediction: There is a bad attitude afoot here. It is being exacerbated by the race pimps and the United States Attorney General, and there will be riots over this issue, I'm sure.

People will die in those riots.

Will you die? Not if you're prepared to defend yourself. Prepare your mind now for defense. If you follow the advice in this blog, you already have the appropriate arms.

At some point, when the rioting starts or, hopefully just before that point, I will warn you in these pages. At that point, you adopt your highest level of personal-threat reaction preparedness.

Stand by.

The FL "stand your ground" case

After hesitating some (and they should have hesitated more), all the anti-gunners have jumped on Race Pimp Sharpton's "Hoodie Hoopdie" and are in full cry.

Problem is, all the facts aren't in, so they are all jumping the gun, so to speak. Jumping the shark, too.

I have gleaned one important trend from this case, since it's not dependent on understanding the entire chain of facts.

When your opponent's hoodie goes up, you pull your pistol.

This entire hoodie thing bears some looking into.

The hoodie, or hooded sweatshirt, is a piece of casual athletic attire. The hood is meant to ward off the chill of a cold breeze on your flushed head after exertion, since more body heat gets radiated by the head and neck than any other body part.

That's the science of the hoodie. Everything else is custom and emotion.

The hoodie was adopted years ago by the hip-hop generation as their symbol of rebellion from the preceding generations. From there, it was adopted by the gangsta-rap pukes as their symbol (when they weren't wearing formal pimp attire).

So, the idiot race pimp Sharpton does us all an unintentional favor, by highlighting the hoodie thing with his "million hoodie march".

Get this straight, people: the hoodie is meant to intimidate.

OK, if it is meant to intimidate, be properly intimidated.

What do you mean, 'Dog, "properly intimidated"?

What I mean, is that in every defensive shooting situation, or even in cases where you just pull your pistol and don't have to use it, there has to be a justifying factor. The hoodie is that factor. Your opponent wears a hooded sweatshirt with the hood up for only two possible reasons: he has just exerted himself and wants to keep from chilling down too fast, or he is trying to intimidate those around him. If he's been exerting himself, you'll likely see sweat, or heavy breathing, or some other sign that he has. If you don't see those signs, and especially if it's warm out, he's wearing the hood up to try to intimidate. Your state of mind now turns to stronger defenses, if you are thinking tactically.

Now, consider aggravating factors: your opponent, who has been walking away from you, turns towards you, advances on you AND pulls up his hood. Pilgrim, if you DON'T take that as immediate aggression on his part, you are about to be a victim yourself. No race involved. In my part of town, there are few blacks, but all the pukes of all races wear hoodies or hooded parkas in their gang colors.

So, thanks very much, Sharpton. You're not smart enough to avoid these pitfalls, so now you've brought the whole hoodie thing out into the open. If there ever WAS a "cool" factor in wearing hoodies, and I don't believe there ever was, it was a rebel factor, there isn't now. You, "Reverend" Sharpton, have just helped to remove the "cool" factor of that garment.

The hoodie is about intimidation, that is all. Take that to the bank AND the Grand Jury.

Besides, the hoodie makes your opponent more closely resemble that silhouette target you practice and qualify with at the range. Three shots, two to center of mass and one to the head.

Bang-bang, beak. practice it.

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IMMEDIATE UPDATE: After posting this blog, I note that Geraldo Rivera is thinking along the same lines.

Genocide by Malaria?

Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring", the book which claimed that the widespread use of DDT was going to eliminate all the songbirds from the Earth (and eagles and all other birds). The world believed her, and followed her suggestion, which was to ban the manufacture and use of the chemical almost everywhere.

The problem was, that with the then-widespread use of DDT and long-range aircraft to spray it with, we had just about eliminated the most deadly pest in the world fifty years ago, the malaria-carrying mosquito. Once the ban went into place, the mosquito rebounded rapidly, and since then, untold millions of tropical-world residents have died of malaria, borne almost exclusively by the mosquito, with most of the victims being babies and children.

Now, if any one person, under any other circumstances at all, could be directly linked to the killing of millions of innocent babies and children, the entire civilized world (and most of the less-civilized world as well) would howl for their head.

To my knowledge, no one ever linked Rachel Carson to this form of intentional genocide.

Why not?

Answer below the fold...

Calling all legal beagles

I have a question for you:

Can the US Supreme Court ever take up any case "on their own motion"? Some lower courts can and do take up matters, even political matters, on their own motion, and issue rulings as a result of argument that Court hears.

Just wondering, because it seems that a thorough investigation in Keyna turned up not only eyewitnesses who have direct knowledge that Mrs Soetoro had her child Barack in a hospital there, but seem to have turned up a Kenyan birth certificate for him as well. That birth certificate contains the usual footprint on it, and has been certified by a British official as genuine. It seems, according to the eyewitnesses, that Mrs. Soetoro flew to Hawaii three days after giving birth, then registered Barack as having been born in Hawaii.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's recent look at the HA "birth certificate" did not include this information from east Africa.

So, the question devolves to the SCOTUS then, which Court would have to decide the issue anyway, and decide it before the election, hopefully. The only way I see that happening is if the Court took the matter under advisement on it's own motion. From a forensic point of view, if the Court found that the Keynan birth certificate was believeable as a registered document, it could order Barack Obama to provide a copy of his footprint, and that would settle everything. If the footprint on the document matched that on the Keynan birth certificate, then the course is clear, and President Biden takes over immediately (and probably pardons Obama immediately). Of course, the SCOTUS would then have to decide what happens to all the legislation and Executive Orders that bear Obama's signature, and THAT mess could take some time to sort out.

Oh, and if you haven't guessed, no, in fact I DO NOT consider the appellations of "Birther" to be a pejorative as the Left wants you to believe. The cop in me see this as a mater of forensic science and law, nothing more. As a matter of science and law, impartial findings are expected, even if the matter is highly charged, politically.

Is Impeachment enough justice for this asswipe Judge?

Story here. A State Judge in PA tossed out an assault case against a Muslim, opining that the Muslim was "obligated" to assault the victim in the case, a person who acted as a "zombie" Prophet Muhammad, and thereby insulted the Muslim faith.

The Judge is Muslim, and should have recused himself when the case got to his docket.

The Judge invoked Sharia law, which is NOT the law of the land in PA or anywhere else in the USA.

The Judge is an idiot, because he had a perfectly good reason to toss the assault case, the "fighting words" Doctrine, and instead, chose to cite Sharia law.

Impeachment is too good (and too slow) for this Judge. He needs to be arrested and charged with Official Misconduct, in that he invoked a code of Law which is not recognized, and thereby broke his Oath to support and defend the Constitutions of the United States and the Commonwealth of PA, and therefor committed some grade of Treason. I'll be willing to bet that PA has a law or judical rule that a Judge charged with Official Misconduct may not sit on the bench while such a case is pending.That would get him off the bench the moment he is arrested and charged.

Get him off the bench. What's next for this asswipe? Will he dismiss Murder charges against a Muslim who committs an "honor killing"? Will he permit polygamy? Will he permit divorce without judical review, simply by the Muslim husband uttering "I divorce thee" three times?

This asswipe Judge has officially condoned Anarchy and denied the Constitutional Rule of Law. If there WERE any justice, he would be put on trial for his life for doing so.

PayPal up to their usual Anti-American tricks

Via Tom Tancredo, former congressman from CO, "Sheriff Mack", who's about to announce for Congress out of TX, was putting on a "Constitutional Sheriff's Convention" in Vegas, apparently last weekend or about now. Donations had been solicited to defray the expenses, and apparently, the Sheriff made the mistake of using PayPal as a medium of exchange.

After $40,000 had already come in through PayPal, PayPal froze Sheriff Mack's money, mumbling some excuse about the legality of his organization to receive donations.

I've got news for PayPal, they likely just committed Federal Wire Fraud, by allowing the donations to come in and build up a sizeable kitty, then seizing the money, without warrant, lawsuit, court order, anything. Good luck getting any Obama-appointed US Attorney to file those charges, though.

This is about par for PayPal, which never saw a Defender of the Constitution they didn't want to screw over. You will recall, I'm sure, the flap a few years ago about PayPal doing the same thing to one or more gun-auction companies.

The ownership of PayPal evidently just hates the Bill of Rights, there's no other way to express it. Next week, I'm beginning to solicit funds for my new political action company which will seek to end the hegemony of the Greens over motorized boating in Oregon. I've spent several hours at my business bank, JP Morgan Chase, with my very patient business banker teaching me the ins and outs of handling money online. One of the first questions he asked me was if I was going to use PayPal. I said no, and told him why. He then said I had made a wise choice, since of the many ways to handle money online, PayPal was the most expensive, at 4% of each transaction. The one I am going to go with will charge me either 1.35% or 1.78%, depending on whether I scan a card or key it in. No one else charges as much as PayPal.

PayPal are not only Anti-Constitution, they are robbers to boot. Make a firm vow now to never use them again, there are too many other good choices. You can start with Google Wallet, for one choice that's about half the price of PayPal, and so far, Google doesn't seek to trash the Constitution with their business dealings. Google Wallet goes both ways, you can pay with it or collect with it. Opening a merchant account takes only seconds (if you are incorporated). There are other choices for taking in funds via the Internet, but you have to watch three things: the percentage fees, any monthly (minimum) fees, and equipment cost. Some, like The Square, throw in the equipment, but charge a higher fee to make up for it, and some, like Merchant Anywhere, charge less fee but the charge for equipment to connect to your smartphone or tablet is substantial.

Whatever you pick to make or take payment electronically, a patriot will never pick PayPal.

Cross-posted at Straight Case gunblog.

H/T To Brother Michael, up on the Mountain.