Nom de plume: Rivrdog

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.

 

 

The police are your enemy?

...contrary to what the Left would have you believe, law enforcement is firmly on the side of our Constitution, as they have sworn to be.

Via Uncle, this interesting survey of law enforcement professionals who have to prove their actual police status to join this group which surveyed their members.

Quoting from the survey summary:

• 92 percent feel that banning semi-automatic firearms, or “assault weapons,” would have no effect or a negative effect on reducing violent crime
• 71 percent support law enforcement leaders who have publicly refused to enforce more restrictive gun laws within their jurisdictions
• 91 percent support the concealed carry of firearms by civilians who have not been convicted of a felony and/or have not been deemed psychologically incapable
• 91 percent said the use of a firearm while perpetrating a crime should lead to a stiff, mandatory sentence with no plea bargains.
• 86 percent feel the currently proposed legislation would have no effect or a negative effect on improving officer safety.
• 80 percent feel that legally-armed citizens would likely have reduced the number of casualties in recent mass shooting incidents

Several "truths" that are promoted by Bloomberg* and his ilk are directly refuted by this survey:

1. "Cops all want less guns in the community, especially semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity pistols" This is a lie, a direct lie.
2. "Real police leaders are all in favor of gun control" Another direct lie. Since the survey is done within a police-only organization composed of all ranks of cops, and nearly 3/4 of the responding officers support those police leaders who Just Say No to anti-2A laws, we can put this frequent mantra of both Bloomie and the POTUS to the lie. Every time you see an anti-gun pol standing for a photo-op with a bunch of ranking police officials, that pol(s) are doing a deliberate distortion, and those cops are in a very small minority of LEOs.
3. "Cops just want you to let them control crime, they don't need your armed help". A very insidious lie. Several of the above points in the survey (as I listed them, the first, second and last) address this canard of Bloomie's, and all those points give it the status of a lie.

I found another excellent article on refuting Bloomberg's and the Left's gun control ravings. Forbes Magazine is one of the best business magazines out there, and the ten points which their article lists to refute Bloomie speak for themselves.

You have to ask yourself, as I have been asking from the start, just why do these lefties all want to restrict the Second Amendment?

As I have told you before, but now with added proof, "Gun Control" is not about controlling guns, it is about controlling Gun Owners, about nullifying the very intent of the Second Amendment, which granted the status of a Permanent Civil Right to those seeking arms to form Militias to act as a check on the power of our Central Government..

When are we, the Unorganized Militia duly authorized, going to hold our Governments responsible for directly attempting to subvert our Constitution?

We need to think about our duty and responsibility to our Constitution, for if we do not take steps to defend and uphold it, it will soon be gone.

It's tempting to write and promulgate Amendments to the Constitution for purposes of restricting the National Debt and other worthy causes, but in MY humble opinion, the next (28th) Amendment should deny all criminal immunity for any politicians who want to remove any of our enumerated Civil Rights as written in the Bill of Rights. This Amendment needs to provide for immediate removal from public office, any elected or appointed official other than a Judge of the Supreme Court, who proposes or advocates for any restriction of the Constitution and it's amendments as originally promulgated and adopted by the several States in 1787. The new Amendment should leave open the possibility of a Constitutional Convention calling for a NEW Constitution, but unless the politician or Administrator's proposals lead directly to such a Constitutional Convention (without advocating for the denial of the present Constitution), their proposals to alter the present Constitution must be considered treasonable.

Our Constitution is presently under attack by those who have assumed that they have the right to advocate for it's destruction, in whole or in part. There.Is.No.Such.Right., nor has such a right ever existed. The First Amendment gives us the right to air our opinions, but when those opinions begin to sound like they are proposals for reducing the Constitution's basic enumerated Rights, the right to make those utterances, to propose those laws, simply does not exist. When those utterances and proposed laws become the focus of a political party or a political Administration, both of those groups have exceeded their Constitutional authority, and it is then up to the 2A-authorized Militia to take appropriate action to protect our Constitution.

Yes, it is really supposed to work that way. The Founders actually imagined that a Federal Government might have to be removed to restore the Constitution, and those musings led to the Second Amendment being written as a shield for the Constitution. You may read, in the Federalist Papers, Federalist # 28 and 29 by Alexander Hamilton and #46 by James Madison, just why these Founders believed the Second Amendment to be so important to our very survival as a Nation of free people.

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* Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, possesses huge wealth, and uses it to try to destroy several Constitutionally-guananteed freedoms, notably the freedom to Keep and Bear arms. It occurs to this writer that we have Federal laws to seize the funds that terrorists use to make war upon this Nation and it's Constitution, so why haven't Bloomberg's funds been seized?

Still Dancing...

...no, not Louisville, although they will still win it all despite the loss of their point guard.

I mean the Boregonian fishwrapper still dancing in the blood of the dead woman from the Clackamas Mall shooting last December.

Your blogger took the liberty of correcting their attitude with this editorial letter submission:

Editors:

All people of strong moral fiber share the grief of Robert Yuille and his step-daughter at the senseless murder of Cindy Yuille last year. Those same people of strong moral fiber do not find that their grief forces them to reject an enumerated civil right of the US Constitution. This newspaper's continuing effort to promote the rejection of that civil right puts the Oregonian squarely in the penalty box for serious moral mistakes.

 

"Dieu et Mon Droit"

As I watch the POTUS' newser, I dredge up something from my European History courses, specifically British History, that seems to fit Obama. The British Monarchy has a Royal Motto: "Dieu et Mon Droit", which translates from French literally as "God and My Rights", or idiomatically as "we have the rights of God", or, realistically as "We (monarchs) ARE God".

Excuse me, but didn't we expend American blood to boot that sentiment from our shores 236 years ago?

Thank you for listening to my History lesson.

Obama used the phrase "we have to pay our bills" probably 20 times in that newser. The use of that phrase is NOT an accident, and it's ad-nauseam repetition has but one purpose: follow Hitler's Big Lie Technique. The Lie, of course, is that ALL money that Obama wants to spend is a "Bill of the US Government", and the repetition is an effort to ingrain this lie as the truth by repeating it often.

Not true, Mr. President. According to Article One, Sections 7 & 8 of the Constitution of the United States, only the Congress may make such a designation, not the President.

You are Out of Order, Sir. Please go back and read your Constitution.

(Gun)  Control came up about 4 times during the newser, and each time, the President punted. He seemed to be peeved that the liberal press kept up these questions, when the obvious purpose of his newser (to him) was to take his "pay my bills" stand on the Debt Ceiling.

"Imperial Presidency"? Naaaaah, can't happen with a (D)emocrat prexy, right?

Wrong.

 

Thursday Thuds, Christmas Edition

Time for some Christmas Thuds, since they seem to be jumping off the pages of the dead-tree media at your blogger this ayem.

Thud The First: Some PeeCee person just re-wrote the famous Christmasy/Santa Claus story, "Twas the night before Christmas" to make it more PeeCee, and with the ASSistance of the Assinine Academy of Pediatrics and the Assinine Library Association, who plugged the book for her, and her own plunking down of $200K of borrowed money, the "self-published" author Pamela McColl will try to inject PeeCee into Christmas. In her perverted version of the poem, Santa no longer smokes a pipe, and it is noted that he wears artificial (faux) fur trim on his red suit. Apparently nothing is said about his abuse of reindeer, making only eight of them pull a sled that must weigh in the millions of pounds. You're going to fail, McColl, because PeeCee doesn't stretch that far in the wildest dreams of it's perverted progenitors. When you fail, you'll be out on the street, since your home will be repossessed due to you encumbering it with a $200K loan. My tip to you? When you have to panhandle to stay alive in those cold Canadian winters, do it outside a Starbucks, those coffee-swilling yuppies have a lot of money.

Thud the Second: North Korea's missile launch. I'm not worried, and here's why:

• Throw weight. This missile probably can't carry a payload of 300 pounds to full range on it's third stage, and the Norks' nukes weigh a ton or so at least.
• Launch platform. This is our early-60's tech the Norks are using. They have one launch pad, and the erection of a missile for launch takes at least two weeks. Aside from short-range, outdated battlefield missiles which they have unsuccessfully tried to boost to the class of IRBMs, missiles like this current "Long Dong 3" or what ever they call it, are one-off, multistage missiles which they have to build one at a time, giving the US and allies plenty of time to spot preparation and react accordingly.
• For this missile to be an actual threat, the Norks will have to develop a miniature version of a warhead, and such development took the US over 30 years, and we have far better research facilities.
• What's next? The Norks will shoot off a nuke in an underground test, and claim it was a miniature, suitable for placement on the Long Dong 3. That will be bullshit, and needs to be called bullshit when it happens.

Countervailing actions: what we need to do is ask the ChiComs their price to shut this program down. It might be too high, it might be acceptable, who knows? The next thing to do is announce that some of our missiles in our ICBM fields are now targeted and on alert against North Korea. This will drive them batshit, and it's always fun to watch  the current Kimmie go batshit. It's possible that the Norks would build Long Dongs and sell them to Iran. This one is a no-brainer: those missiles get lost at sea in shipment, and lost with extreme prejudice. We have attack submarines and SEALs for that. In the event one makes it overland to Iran through China, we sanction China by refusing to pay interest on all that money they loaned us, and we tell them that ahead of time. Then we take those hundreds of billions saved and build more Navy to counteract the ChiCom's build up of THEIR navy.

Thud the Third: "Doug the Mesothelioma Victim". This ad for some ambulance-chaser law firm has been around for at least 3 years now. Do you suppose Doug is still alive? I've been stuck watching this nauseating commercial for the ambulance-chasing branch of law since Doug first raised his ugly head, and knowing what I know about the progression and spread of lung cancer (Mama died of it in 6 months from detection), I find it doubtful that he could still be alive. So, it is legal for the law-pirates to air that commercial if he is dead? OTOH, maybe Doug wasn't real to start with, but if THAT'S the case, could the ambulance-chaser firm be sued for false advertising? Anyway, Doug is the subject of many blogs, it seems, just search on "Doug Mesothelioma Still Alive". After my search, I noted that he is some sort of a folk hero to a few people. How perverted have we become?

Thud the Fourth: Well, I said here that there would be no dancing in the blood after the Oregon mall shooting. I was wrong. State Senator Ginny "no 2A for you" Burdick of Noath Pote-land just announced that she will introduce a Bill to ban normal capacity magazines. Gosh, since over half of the people in Oregon live within an hour's drive of Washington State, where those magazines won't be banned, and since most folks with gunz have plenty of maggys by now anyway, just what will her Bill come to? She won't succeed in having previous maggys confiscated, we don't do that here and even her fellow (D)onks won't go that far, the best she could hope for is to have sales banned for the future and a prohibition on concealed carry of 10+ maggys. One might also point out to the Wicked Witch of Gun Control that the shooter two days ago had an effective rate of fire that could have been done with a single shot rifle in the hands of a trained person, and a boltie milsurp rifle in the hands of anyone who owns one, or easily a levergun hunting rifle, and there are probably 200,000 of those in this State. So, I have a deal for Mizzz BurDICK: if she'll let me carry any rifle I choose openly, anywhere in the State, or any pistol I own, openly, anywhere, I'll accept her restriction of 10-round magazines. How about it, Senator? Trade you Constitutional Carry for magazine capacity restriction? In case my gunny friends think I'm nutz, go view Joe Huffman's video on shooting rapidly with 10-rounders. Hell, Jerry Miculek demonstrated twelve rounds from a S&W revolver in 2.99 seconds. I've seen training film of the EffBeeEye doing 18 rounds in about 5.xx seconds. A Tommy (Brit soldier) in WW2 demonstrated the "Mad Minute" for King George VI, 60 rounds in one minute, from a boltie Enfield, all shots hitting a 12" X 12" target at 200 yards. Magazine restrictions mean nothing, except that they are an obvious attempt to restrict a Civil Right, which is why they must not be tolerated.

Thud the Fifth: Union thuggery in MI. Unless you watch the Nuze on Fox, you wouldn't have seen the vids of the thuggery in the "Rotunda", a plaza right outside the Capitol in Lansing, MI, since the MSM carefully avoided the subject. If you watch the vids, you ought to be struck by one thing: the amazing lack of the po-po. The Gendarmes were MIA at that riot. Now, I live in the Portland area, and we're no strangers here to hotly-contested left-right street confrontations. The police are always there, and the FIRST demonstrator of ANY political stripe that even utters "fighting words" gets to wear bracelets and visit Da Judge, after wiping the pepper spray from their face. The protracted riot in Lansing had no police even visible, let alone taking any peace-keeping actions. I was a cop for 25 years, and I'm here to say that whatever your political leanings, you have a yearning to keep the peace, that's drummed into you from Day One when you are sworn in. Folks, the Fix was in out there in Lansing, that is the only thing possible. The cops must have been ORDERED to let the union bully-boys have their way, assaulting and threatening women and children, and putting them at risk by tearing down a closed tent with them in it, stomping on that tent from the outside, and using knives to hack pieces out of that flattened, occupied tent off for souvenirs. In my book, that's at least the crime of Recklessly Endangering the Life of Another, in Oregon, a Class A misdemeanor, which might even be a felony because a gang did it and used weapons to do it with. Do a Google Search on "union thug arrests in Lansing" and you will not find one single account of an arrest, yet HD videos of the thugs and thuggery have been available to the police for two days now. Now search on "lansing police press release" and you will see plenty of them, but NONE on the biggest deal the Lansing PD has had in their jurisdiction in years. There was one presser from the Michigan State Police, who were supposedly sending "dozens" of troopers from the Upper Peninsula (a separate land mass from Lower Michigan) down to Lansing to help out, but that presser says nothing about any arrests or even if the deployment ever took place, since it involves a drive of several hundred miles and would have left the Upper Peninsula enforcement level too low. Nope, this entire affair is a national shame, even more so since many of the thugs involved (and shown in the videos) wore apparel identifying a company, presumably theirs, and some others wore union apparel. Tell you what, readers, if I'm a personal injury lawyer licensed to practice in MI, I go to AFP-MI and find those victims, and I start filing lawsuits. In each of those lawsuits, I name the Lansing Police Department as co-defendant.

Enough Thuds for this Holiday season. Enjoy the rest of yours.

 

There's a reason to call them "Ass Press"

Two reasons, actually:

1. They are nincompoops. Utter crap flows from their newswire in a constant stream.
2. They have their lips pressed so far into the ass of the Socialists and their agenda item of Gun Control that they can't get the brown off.

Example, current, common, one each

The AssPress article asks the question, of whether Costas overstepped his position, in it's title. The answer is a simple "Yes". The article then goes on to issue a "well, no" answer and deliver a standard lefty excuse that Costas' departure from sports to delve into social engineering and Civil Rights Denial is okay because, well, because his ideas "will keep us safe". Except they won't keep us safe, that science is settled; denying the Bill of Rights is not only unpatriotic, it's treasonable; and just because, well, a sports blatherer is supposed to stick to sports. That's why they're there, isn't it?

When I want to see ass-kissing of the serious sort, I always turn to the Ass Press.

For Maroon of the Month, I give you Bob Costas. Wotta Maroon!

What "Benghazigate" really means

...and NO ONE is talking about.

"Benghazigate" is just the latest in FUBAR appearing to come from the White House, but, as always, vigorously denied by the professional liars deniers at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

The bottom line here is that we now accept that all the initial intell available to the POTUS told, or should have told, the White House and/or the Secretary of State, that the lengthy attack at the Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, was a pre-planned Al-Q op all along. Hell, any one of us could have said that Al-Q would be pulling some sort of attack, somewhere, on 9-11-12, just to memorialize their great attack on the USA eleven years earlier.

So, now we know that the "talking points", or, CIA-prepared public statement material, was altered. We just don't know who altered it.

Make that YOU don't know who altered it. I know to a moral certainty who altered it.

That person is the Shadow President. That person works right next to President Obama.

That person is Valerie Jarrett. Here's her official bio. "Senior Advisor" Jarrett, yeah. Right. Here's the New York Times, Obama's main Useful Tool, on Valerie Jarrett. Even the Slimes says she has huge power, and they aren't telling the half of it. Here's a very good righty blog, the American Thinker, on Valerie Jarrett. This article was written well before Benghazigate.

The REAL story of Benghazigate WILL involve Valerie Jarrett, smack in the middle of it, but even Benghazigate itself pales to insignificance beside the REAL question here: just who IS the de-facto President of the United States, Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett? You do NOT want to know this answer, because on an actual left-right political spectrum with both of them on it, Barack Obama is nowhere near the left end of that spectrum, Valerie Jarrett is. Now construct yourself another spectrum showing fealty to the Constitution. "No fealty at all" through to "total fealty". Valerie Jarrett would be off that spectrum, well off of the "No Fealty at all" end of it, because her demonstrated "advice" to President Obama, who IS somewhere on that spectrum, involves ignoring the Constitution entirely, and working to replace it with some other base construct.

This Nation can survive Barack Obama, acting on his own motivation and advice. It cannot survive Barack Obama acting on Valerie Jarrett's motivation & advice.

Blog Station Alpha, reporting online, sir.

Okay then. Too much to blog and a Scotch and Zinfandel fog to blog through. Yes, I probably imbibed more than my share tonight, but not enough to get to the blog-blackout level, and just the right amount to put up my shields against the pusilanimous Veep Biden's abrasive (and losing, if you score on REAL debate standards) debate vs. the NEXT Veep, Paul Ryan.

But, I'm ahead of myself. I arose early this ayem, put on the Coveralls, Men's Cotton Sateen, Ty pe 1, FSN 8405-00-131-6509, and got to work. Work involved End-of -Summer/Start-of-Winter preparation, and here's why:

That's the first winter-weather front of the season, right on time to enter the PacNorWest tomorrow. It will be followed by several more over the next six days. The WET season is less than 10 hours away as I write, so first up was the winter-covering of the M35A2, end result shown here, time expended, one and a half hours:

 

Next, the winter-covering of Petey The Popup, shown here, time expended, forty-five minutes including trimming back the rosebush hedge so I could tie the tarp down on that side:

Then I loaded the empty propane bottles and 5 empty gas jugs into the Little Black Truck and drove out to Shorty's Corner, about 12.5 miles East of here, where they sell 92-octane gasoline MINUS the Ethanol (it's $4.65/gallon and worth every penny), so I now have 35 gallons of gas on hand, and 30 gallons of diesel, and all vehicle tanks are full. That's prepping, baby! Some of the supply below:

 

Cleaned out the garage, swept it out, and now the LBT sits snugly in it's Winter Haven. Rolled up the garden hoses and stacked the outdoor chairs, while the gudwife stored their cushions in their "hole" under the second-story stairs.

At 1630, fired the big Pit for the last time this season, and, thirst slaked with Famous Grouse,  cooked a small Cross Rib Roast for the gudwife, I and our Dee-Bate guest for the night, the Founder of the Gresham TEA Party. A delightful BBQ dinner ensued, the wine being Wilson Creek Zinfandel 2007 (appelation, Temecula Valley). Had several glasses, and noted that the Guest was live-tweeting the dee-bate, so I began suggesting tweets to her, and she published several.

A delightful evening was had by all, but somewhat overshadowed by intell from the Middle East suggesting that Bibi Netanyahu might have also been tweeting the debate, but his tweets would have been to his Chief of Staff. Best guess is that if Bibi figures that Obama gained back his lost initiative, the Israel/Iran war might start this weekend, because of three factors: First, Bibi hopes to finally convert the US Jews from being hopelessly bound to the (D)onks, and a war of Israeli survival would do that, and Second, if Bibi thinks that Obama has the best chance to win now, the war has to start before 06 November, because an Obama win would make that war damn near impossible to carry off, Third, the New Moon is Monday. Bibi might bluff the Won into air tanker support BEFORE the election with 3 to 5 million Jewish votes hanging in the balance, but NOT after an Obama victory. BTW, that 'splains MY prepping also. Bibi is a better prepping guide for the 'ol Rivrdog than is Obama.

Oh, the Dee-Bate: the liberloons say Biden won with his forceful presentation, but real Dee-bate fans know he lost. Whines lose, and he whined to the Moderator three times that I counted. Facial expressions such as smirking count for points off, and Biden smirked all the time. Verbal put-downs, unsupported by facts, count BIG against the put-downer, and Biden did that about 4 times that I noted. On points, a loss for Biden. On "style" where points don't count, Biden at least tied, maybe won, because of his more aggressive style. Depends on how you score. I score like I was trained to score, and so Biden lost, in my view.

The MSM will likely declare a Biden victory, but the result of THIS debate only counts in Israel.

Back from the Planet Meh

....but, you can take the blogger out of Meh, but you can't take Meh out of the blogger (or something like that).

Meh #1: Politics. How can I say that the current iteration of what passes for organized political campaigning sucks, and sucks a root big enough that it obviously didn't come off this planet, it came from Meh. How can politicians (of both stripes, too) miss so many opportunities to finish off their opponents and have a tidy election? Many people predicted that without a TelePrompter to think for him, the Won would come-a-cropper in the dee-bating. He did, and now it's "OMFG, how could they not let him use a teleprompter"(saw that on Fox, it was re-broadcast from somewhere, all those collitch students with heads STILL full of mush moaning about no teleprompter). Meh.

Meh #2: The Obama Administration's Department of State (Secretary Hildebeeste's domain) is another big Meh. In case not one of these dim bulbs ever read a history of diplomacy (I did, several of them), that fine human art and science functions on the basis of information and steely-eyed reserve on the part of it's practitioners. Lacking adequate intelligence, and lacking the ability to stare down malevolent opposition across Big Mahogany Tables, your foreign policy is going to suck. In the old days, that could somewhat be made up with a solid carrot-and-stick program, the carrot being US Dollars and the stick being the United States Marine Corps and the Fleets which delivered them to those shores of Tripoli (where they obviously need to be right now), but since we never pull back any of the dollars, and almost never send in the Marines anymore, the carrot-and-stick program has lost all it's effectiveness. Hell, we have wannabe nuclear pirates holding us up for ransom when we could end that threat from a cornfield in Kansas with the flexing of two peoples' index fingers.Just Meh!

Meh #3: It seems that the Citeh (rhymes with Mitt-Meh) of Stumptown (okay, Portland, Stumptown is a local joke), the Citeh has permitted it's partners-in-crime, the Parking Barons, to pretend that they are Government, and issue citations! Yep, here's a story about a parking lot client who goofed and put the receipt up-side down on the dashboard, and the client got a $43 citation. Never mind that all non-police parking enforcemnt Deputies have to be authorized by either a Police Chief, the Sheriff or the Circuit Court. No matter that the authority cited for the "citations" does not exist in law. No matter that the Parking Baron failed to disclose that a simple showing of the receipt should have voided the "citiation". No matter. Yep, Graft on a Stick. Rates a big Meh!

Meh #4: Gunny Meh. I recently acquired a fine old Savage 99F, chambered in the fierce-for-it's-day .300 Savage caliber (about the same as  present .308 Winchester or early 30-06). Fine rifle. Interior roatary magazine, cocked-indicator, magazine capacity counter (ingenious, really). Now I'm apparently a victim of the Great Ammo Price Run-Up (or Great Ammo Swindle, as I prefer). Just as recently as two years ago, the last time I looked at a price for this ammo, it was just over what 30-30 Winchester ran, about $15-18/box. It's up to $30 and better now. No sweat, 'Dog, you reload, right? Sweat. Few places make the hulls, fewer carry them, so I had to pay MidwayUSA's price of nearly $30 per bag of 50 hulls. By the time I had ordered everything for the rifle, including 100 rounds of loaded ammo, the hulls, the dies and some other minor stuff, I had laid down a bit more than I paid for the rifle.

Meh #5: Health Meh. Getting old sucks. Don'tget old. That is all. Meh

Portland Police trump up a new charge, violate 2A rights

Yesterday, a group of men dressed out in camo, one had a semi-auto sporting rifle ALL reporters called an "assault rifle", and two of the 13 men involved were arrested for....wait for it...keep waiting...

"disorderly conduct for handling an assault rifle in public and causing alarm."

I REALLY wish I were a lawyer now, I would LOVE to take the idiot commander of the Portland Police Bureau on in a courtroom, and it would be a FEDERAL courtroom, that's where denial of civil rights cases are heard. I would, of course, work Pro Bono.

• The element of the crime of Disorderly Conduct (Chapter 166 of the Oregon Revised Statutes, misdemeanor), which says that the behavior in question caused, or would be likely to cause, "public alarm", is clearly unconstitutional, for it pre-supposes that said state of alarm of the reporting person(s) is reasonable ("reasonable man test"), and such reasonableness cannot be taken for granted as the statute requires. I never made a DisCon arrest that didn't involve the perp actually exchanging blows or challenging someone (usually me, as the responding officer) to a fight. These men, all members of a breast-cancer awareness group, were challenging no one.
• The police have improperly inflamed public opinion in this case by referring to a semi-automatic sporting arm as an "assault rifle" (and the press went along with that because there is zero editorial oversight in the MSM anymore). Of course, we know that the term "assault rifle" properly refers to a military arm which is designed for and capable of full-auto fire, and this rifle was not capable of it (or else, the po-po would have crowed that they got an EEEVIL Machine Gun off the street, and they would have preferred charges relating to possession of a full-auto gun.
• Portland is heavily involved in the film industry now, with major shows (Grimm and Portlandia are just two) being shot here all the time, and guns are brandished in public all the time. A few years back, I was an extra on the shooting of "The Hunted", and the arms room of that film would have made The Armorer of Argghhh! proud. Plenty of brandishing there, and no arrests.

Ho-hum, another day, another GFW* day in the Citeh. 

BTW, Open Carry is NOT allowed in Portland, that part of the State's gun law code is not protected by State pre-emption, and most GFW cities west of the Cascades have prohibited OC.

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*GFW, stands for "Gun Fearing Wuss", a term coined, or at least attributed to, the former major gunblogger Kim DuToit.