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.

Prediction: Obama Executive Order ammo ban coming

The "AK-47" question in the dee-bate the other night was a peek into Obama's mind. It was obviously a planted question, and Obama gave a canned answer to wake up his anti-gun base. Since the same answer would have made the Blue Dog Democrats unhappy, he was taking a chance, and I'd guess that for Obama to take a chance, there's got to be big money at stake, so I'd hazard a guess that Soros or his designate is laundering a big contribution to slip to the Won, and gun control was his condition of the donation.

How will the gun control work?

As I've said before, with a hostile House (and maybe Senate, there are some Blue Dogs over there), the Won can't run any gun-control law through Congress. Using the FBATFE to insert some new anti-gun regulations might work, but that outfit pretty much trashed itself out of credibility with Gunwalker.

That leaves only Executive Orders as the method left to impose gun control. As they've been arguing in Baltimore for months, ammo control is the key to gun control, and Obama can impose at least partial ammo control on AK-47, SKS, RPK and AKM owners with a stroke of the pen by banning importation of offshore ammo in those calibers (7.62X39, 5.45X39, 7.62X54R).

This blog predicts he will do that, and what's more, he will do that whether he wins or loses the election.

You know what to do. If you have less than several battle-days' worth* of ammo for your Commie rifles, get an order in NOW. When it comes, that EO will probably freeze shipment of ordered ammo in the comm-bloc calibers, so you need to get the ammo into your possession before November 7th.

You've been warned.

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* A battle-day supply in lighter calibers is considered to be 200 rounds, in heavier calibers (or in bolties) between 70 and 120 rounds.

Hey! Obama, you want a "conversation on violence"? Here it is:

You might want to read this warning first, Mister Obama.

I'm having "the conversation on violence" that you urged me to have, and it's my turn to speak, so STFU while I lay the WORD on you.

Violence is with us, has been since this Nation was formed. If you'd have paid attention to some of your elders instead of those spreading Karl Marx' word, you'd know about violence by now, but you don't have a farging clue about it. Here are some aspects of violence I'll wager you never knew.

• There is always more violence in a nation which has lost it's moral compass. Always. Since YOU are the leader in destroying that moral compass right now, YOU are responsible for part of the violence. Your pernicious debasement of the Judeo-Christian ideals which gave the Forefathers THEIR moral compass, and which they, in turn passed down to us, makes you and your ilk no better than traitors to the very nation which tolerated the foul and crooked way you rose throught the ranks of weasels to be elected as our leader.
• Our wise forefathers decided that this should be a Nation of Armed Citizens, and they made it so with our Second Amendment to the Constitution. Who the HELL are you to question the wisdom of the forefathers? No, I don't believe that you ever worked as a Constitutional Law Professor, Mister Obama, I think that you backed into that title in a hideous act of reverse racism. If you want to convince ME otherwise, Mister Pretend Constitutional Scholar, you'd better do some serious study in our Constitution, some peer-reviewed study, and have your peers pass judgment on that work and then PUBLISH it. I don't believe that you ever did any real Constitutional work, Mister Obama, and if you did, why aren't you proud enough of that work to showcase it as a reason for seeking the office again? You've done the opposite, and your entire record in Higher Education, as both a student and "professor" is hidden from the public, your sycophants spending about $4 million to see that it stays hidden.
• You would sign an "Assault Weapons Bill" if one was presented to you, eh? Of course you would, and every President with your twisted, perverted, disrespectful view of the Constitution would as well. Party means nothing for patriots, you either respect the Constitution as written or you don't. There is no gray area for the Bill of Rights. All of those Civil Rights are the warp and woof of the fabric of our very Nation's being, and any of you weasels who want to rip out part of that fabric are the enemies of this State.
• The violence visited upon innocents in recent days BY NO MEANS gives you even a hint of "moral authority" to try to undermine the Second Amendment. If you had what we call "guts", you would tell your friends in the Democratic Party to pipe down, to STFU, because no one or two or three or even three thousand evil men are enough reason to weaken one line in our Constitution, let alone one of the main two Civil Rights it expressly enumerates.
• It is said that violence begets violence. I am not a violent man, nor are all the others that stand with me defending the Second Amendment. You might know however, that I have sworn several oaths which expressly order me to commit violence upon the enemies of our State who try to destroy our Constitution. Yes, I've been ordered to do violent acts in the name of defending my Constitution before, and I did them as ordered. The only bad feeling I got while committing that violence was that it was planned so that it wasn't violent enough to get the job done, and weak leaders such as yourself lost the war I had committed to win for this Nation. Yes, Mister Obama, I know violence, and I know the place for it, you do not.
• You know about violence though, but you haven't learned how to use it properly. The violence you learned to tolerate is the violence of corruption. Your evil henchmen tried to pervert the Second Amendment with a "psy-op" now known as "Fast and Furious", aka, "Gunwalker", and that bit of traitorous intrigue caused lethal violence to be visited upon at least one, and likely two, Federal LEOs, and hundreds of Mexican citizens. Yes, Mister Obama, you know some violence, but your violence is not covered or condoned by the Oath of Office which you have sworn, in fact, your Operation Fast & Furious was and remains, because of the conspiracy to hide it, a felonious assault, the blood of which is on YOUR hands, Mister Obama.

Do you want to actually reverse the "violent trend" (a trend which can't be established by statistics, by the way, but your people are nonetheless claiming we are trending violent all of a sudden)? I have a suggestion for you: Resign your office. You can give whatever excuse you want, but resign it. Turn the keys of leadership over to Joe Biden. He's a Party hack, he has some shady dealings in HIS past, but nowhere near the caliber of your deceit, Mister Obama. Joe Biden is likely to allow what is left of the Judeo-Christian ideals to continue, instead of systematically demolishing them as you have done since your first day in office. Hell, I doubt if Joe Biden would be any worse for the country than Bush43 was.

I accuse YOU of being the reason for any increase in violence which exists, Mister Obama, and for that reason alone, for destroying the polite ideals of a Judeo-Christian society, YOU are to blame if there is blame to be assigned. For once, shoulder your blame like a man instead of avoiding it like a weasel, Mister Obama. Resign your office, or face the Nation and tell us the truth: that there is no spike in violence, there is only a falsely-directed focus on it to cover up the bad job and horrible leadership you brought with you when you came into this office, courtesy of the guilt of a Nation over it's inhumane past.

The next Federal Assault on guns

...is blaming them for starting forest fires. Check out this newspaper article from the AssPress byline, but apparently published by USAToday. If you search, you'll find it has been picked up by quite a few liberloon media, and edited to suit their space.

I direct your attention to the paragraph beginning with "Utah officials..." 

"Utah officials believe steel-jacketed bullets are the most likely culprits, given one shot that hits a rock and throws off sparks can ignite surrounding vegetation and quickly spread."

That, folks, is called "layers of editorial oversight". There are NO steel-jacketed bullets anywhere, NONE. A bogeyman has just been raised up here. Now, there ARE some steel-CORE bullets, most militaries have made them over the years, and that includes the US military contracting for the XM855 5.56 NATO round.

Let's look at the physics involved, because that's SCIENCE, unlike the "editorial license" seen above which invented an object which doesn't exist (primarily because steel bullets would wear out a gun barrel in just a few rounds, that's why).

Steel will emit sparks when struck against SOME rocks very hard (as in a steel-core bullet  striking hard enough to expose the core). For this to happen, the bullet has to hit at a very steep angle, pretty much equivalent to shooting at a vertical cliff of solid basalt or granite. If the bullet hits at a shallow angle, it will be deflected, but it's COPPER jacket will not spark. In fact, workers in industries where there can be an explosive atmosphere present must use non-sparking tools, most of which have a percentage of copper in their alloys to prevent sparking.

So, the conditions have to be exactly right for a steel-core bullet to create a spark. Next, we have to have a fuel for the fire. That fuel must be of exactly the right make-up to flare up with only one spark hitting it, and stay alight. How many of you out there have started a fire with the most combustible material around, dried Spanish Moss? I have, and while it is excellent tinder, it is VERY hard to start with a single spark. Probably somewhere on the order of one success out of 50 or more tries with a sparking tool is required. The areas we're talking about don't have Spanish Moss growing in them, though. They have some dry brush, but not the kind that can be started with one spark.

So, we have a tool which makes one solitary spark only very occasionally, and a fuel which is only VERY, VERY occasionally sparked well enough to burn, and what do we have? We have a statistical improbability, that's what. Do we ban an activity based on a statistical improbability? That's a political question and this is a science article, so let's keep going with science before we adress the politics.

OK, smarty pants, you say, there must be SOME way guns can start fires. You're right, liberloon, there IS a way, and that way is to use a bullet DESIGNED to start fires. That would be a TRACER round. The tracer round is built with a flaring compound in the base of the bullet so the shooter can track the path of the bullet with the naked eye. That compound is ignited by the powder charge and it stays lit for maybe 300-400 yards. If that bullet happens to strike most anything flammable, it will create some dust which will be set alight by the flaring compound in the bullet. Maybe one in ten tracer bullets fired into very dry brush will result in starting s small, momentary fire, which might grow depending on the wind, etc.

Research into this "guns start fires" hysteria shows it to have started after the Byers Canyon, UT fire back in March. It was caused by a person shooting TRACER AMMUNITION, which had already been banned. It happened at a shooting range.

Jump back to the AssPress article, now read the paragraph beginning with "Statistics on..."

"Statistics on wildfires caused by firearms are incomplete because the federal government does not list shooting as a cause on its fire reports."

So, we must ban an activity upon which the Feds don't even ATTEMPT to gather data?

This attempt to ban shooting on Federal Lands, my friends, is what we call "jumping to conclusions".

If Bubba the gun-nut went out and sprinkled a field full of gunpowder, he probably couldn't set it alight with his bullets, unless they were tracers.

Besides, what do the Feds know about fighting or preventing wildfires anyway?

Bottom line, this is all about trying a back-door gun control ploy. Let me think, didn't that just happen?

Oh, yes, the Fast & Furious gunwalking scandal which could yet bring down Obama himself. Does it seem to you like the Feds are "doubling down" on lying to get support for gun control here? It does to me.

The ball is in your court, Mister Speaker

Read this by David Hardy, noted Constitutional lawyer. I was steered there by Uncle.

Speaker Boehner, the ball is clearly in your court. By now, you should have called President Obama and told him that you have a date certain on your House Calendar for the trial of Eric Holder, and the holding cell has been swept out and equipped with clean sheets on it's bunk.

By now you should have told Obama that he can either fire Holder immediately, telling the Nation that he fired him for cause, or you should have told him that on that date certain, Holder will be tried before the full House (minus the (D)onks, who Pe-loser will probably lead on another walk-out), he will likely be convicted, and ordered held for the duration of this Congress, or until he complies with the subpoeana.

By now, you should have told President Obama that if Holder disappears, you will have a Federal Warrant issued for his arrest on Failure to Appear, and that Congress will also arrest anyone aiding in his failure to appear.

Congress has this enumerated power, and it's time to use it. We can get to the bottom of Fast and Furious by the end of July.

Fast & Furious gets worse

....and now it's the GOP screwing the pooch. All of this weekend's talking-head blather so far has hidden behind the family of the slain Border Patrol agent. Cut this crap out, GOP, this is all about POLITICAL CORRUPTION, and now it seems, by your effort to hide behind the aggrieved family, you are trying to minimize the corruption of the political establishment.

Fast & Furious happened because of political corruption, and that particular piece of political corruption happened because there is a climate in Washintoon which supports corruption as "business as usual". Both parties are involved in that corruption.

If any true remedial action is to be taken, it must cut across political lines and address the venality present in both parties.

The GOP just showed it's colors here, and they are ugly colors. I've heard those family members speak, and they seem hesitant to put party labels on the gross errors which killed their son. That's correct. I don't think this problem is just related to the Democrats, either. It is related to a disregard of the letter AND spirit of our Constitution, a disregard that is the basic failing of our modern society.

We fail to get back to our Constitution at our own peril, and if we continue to fail, that peril will be our downfall as a nation AND as the idea that sparks democracy across the species of man all over the planet.

Obama just blinked

The President is now cowering behind Executive Privilege on the Fast and Furious scandal.

All along, I thought Obama was a proud Marxist, but it turns out that he's just another wuss-Marxist.

Ask any constitutional law expert, they'll all tell you that Congress has an affirmative duty to oversee the Executive as to whether it follows the Constitution or not.

The entire point of Fast & Furious was to establish some ground for the Executive to weaken the Second Amendment, which the SCOTUS had just affirmed as an absolute individual right in Heller. Then the Congress changed parties, and the doo-doo hit the fan.

Back to proud Marxists.

A REAL Marxist would fear just two things in our system: the First and Second Amendments. Obama tried weakening the Second with Fast & Furious, and his effort has come to naught.

Let's use the First Amendment on him and get this chump out of our lives before he does any more harm. Let's force Obama to admit that Fast & Furious was all about gun control and not crime prevention.

Let's not give the FBATFE a pass, either. They had to have known that Wide Receiver had failed miserably, so why did they ever go along with Fast & Furious, the same game plan?

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.

You have the Guidon, Mr. Romney

...and, in case you don't know it, the Guidon Bearer is supposed to stay out in front of the formation. You are now leading the Republican Party race for President, so let's look at the battle streamers on that Guidon, and how they may differ from your past performance.

Second Amendment: You were a big gun controller in your stint as Governor in MA. There is a battle streamer on your Guidon that says the Second Amendment MEANS WHAT IT SAYS, so you NEED to tell us that you will NEVER sign any kind of gun control legislation restricting the right of US citizens to keep AND bear arms. You did that in Taxachusetts. Your apologists say you yielded to avoid even more drastic gun control, but a Guidon Bearer never yields, never falls back, always stays in front. Tell us you WILL be a Second Amendment absolutist. Tell us you will have your DOJ go after all the Gunwalker people (if Obama doesn't pardon them all on his last day in office). Tell us that you will have your people bear down on the DeeCee Administration to move them off their position of resistance to Heller implementation. Tell us that you will put the DOJ into an aggressive posture to hammer places like NYC, Chicago, etc to get them to recognize that they can't disarm their citizens. You could start by cutting off Law Enforcement funding to any jurisdiction which does not meet a basic test of complying with the Second Amendment. Your predecessors did that for civil rights violations in the past, so just look at 2A compliance as a Civil Rights process.

ObamaCare: You started this ball rolling with your "RomneyCare" in MA. It will be your job, if elected, to erase ObamaCare, and that will take some work, because like an invasive weed, it has spread it's roots everywhere: into the tax system, into continuing funding laws, into the Pharma industry, into the very Emergency Rooms at all local hospitals. It's complete re-write of the way medicine is provided has and will screw up delivery of medical services for decades, even if you rip it all out, and do it quickly. Don't even think about leaving it partially in place, rip it ALL out and THEN make any necessary reforms, starting with draconian tort reform for malpractice, and a total cut-off of free ER care for illegals. You DO realize, don't you Mr. Romney, that the reason most states can't balance their budgets is that the cost of providing medical care to illegals has overwhelmed state budgets? In my State of Oregon, it is estimated that almost a third of education funding goes to illegals and over a third of Medicaid.

Immigration: See above paragraph, AND, Close the farging borders! Keep out all further illegals, use the military for that, THEN get to work on deporting the ones who are here. If you want to accelerate the right of naturalization for some, do that, but make sure that those individuals who are illegal now start their naturalization process by returning to their native country, waiting a determined period, then applying for a visa to return, and then they return via normal entry, just like I do whenever I leave the country and come back. Make sure all naturalization candidates declare their previous illegal stay in this country, and pay up all their back taxes they avoided by working under the table. They need to pay for any medical care they walked out of paying, too. This stuff CAN be tracked, so track it and start collecting those back taxes. If every illegal owes just $5K in back taxes, and there are 20 million of them here, that's 100 billion dollars, not exactly chump change and definitely NOT forgivable. Maybe some of them can work it off, but COLLECT what they owe, dammit!

Control the Economy: This may not sit well with most of my conservative buds, but there has to be some central control over the economy. This isn't "morning in America" like it was for Ronnie Reagan. The Global Economy had barely gotten started then, but now, we have robber barons controlling vital companies all over the globe. You can't just give them their head and let them run with our economy. They will continue to rob us blind and it will get even worse under your Administration. How about a basic principle of Everybody Pays Some Tax for starters? No business baron should be able to have his company pay no taxes. A small minimum tax will not cripple any business, and with all the regulatory burdens you are going to lift off these global businesses, they can afford to pay some taxes. Likewise, no individual gets off without taxes, either. Establish a minimum income tax of at least 5%. That will mean that the welfare-dependent might have to forgo a few cans of malt liquor per month, or keep that 42" flat-screen instead of upping their lifestyle to a 60", but DO IT.

Carry that Guidon, sir, and carry it proudly. If you do, the troops will follow you, and that's all you need to begin to turn this Nation around.

Thursday Thuds #14

Thud the First: The Fast & Furious hearings, aka "gunwalker", get more interesting, and the price of poker is rising. Rep Issa is about ready to cite Holder for contempt for failing to answer the many subpoenas. My take? If Obama wants to cite "executive privilege" isn't he admitting he has something to hide from Congress? The only thing Obama might have worth hiding is the evidence directly linking him to knowledge of or direction of, the stealth gun-control program which went awry.

Thud the Second: The GOP. The Stupid Party has flamed out and is in a terminal dive. It will make a mighty "thud" when it craters in. Don't invite me to the memorial service, I'll be too busy helping it's replacement, a new Conservative Party, get started. The Conservative Party will first strut it's stuff in the Congressional Elections of 2014, and if it makes a good showing there, the GOP will never be seen again. Good riddance.

Thud the Third: The Facebook IPO. It's like Chinese food. You can fill up on it, it's tasty, but you'll be hungry again in a couple of hours. Chinese food doesn't stick with you and neither will Facebook and their IPO. Facebook will NOT have even the influence Apple has, and Apple isn't saving any planets that I've heard of. The fact is, the script-sorcery that brought us Facebook will bring us something better soon, and Facebook will slip into obscurity, just as all the others before it have done. Time, of course, with their gushing over the IPO, is so overblown that it ought to have a Saffir-Simpson rating.

Thud the Fourth: The idea that the Nanny State wants to ban sugar by classifying it as a "toxin". Most people who walk the Earth are NOT diabetics, for which sugar is a problem, and those who ARE diabetics have the personal choice to make, as I made it, to either control sugar intake and control their disease, or not control it and have their bodies fall apart. That's where the decision lies, with the individual diabetic, not with the over-reaching Government. The "thud" you hear on this one is just one of the many jackboots pounding the pavement enroute to taking over your life. Let's say no to the sturmtruppen on this one, and make those jackbooted Government thugs about-face and march out of our health and well-being decisions. Besides, isn't the definition of a "toxin" that of a substance that when anyone is exposed, the bad effect happens? All those non-diabetics have zero effect from exposure to sugar. It's not a toxin.

Thud the Fifth: We get final proof that taxation is harmful to all the world's economies, and it seems that the harder the world's governments try to levy taxes, the more commerce is done "off the books" and goes by untaxed. Fair Tax/Flat Tax, whatever you want to call it, a minimalist, but all-encompassing approach to taxation works best, and the usual socialist "if it moves, tax it" approach works hardly at all.