Nom de plume: Rivrdog

The ammunition shortage, explained, now UPDATED!

...and I'll explain it in three words:

         "battle supply inventory"

Those with guns AND a knowledge of both the Second Amendment AND the current vanishing state of our Freedoms have come to a decision:

         we must be ready to fight for those freedoms

Of course, being ready to fight means having enough ammo, and so the average freedom-loving gun owner's average ammo supplies have taken a leap upward, from a minor amount in inventory, towards an amount sufficient to serve the purposes of an armed Militia (being necessary to the security of a Free State).

Now, do you suppose that Obama gets this obvious message? If he doesn't, it's our job to tell him this truth, in some way.

How to tell him? The words of our organizational representatives in the NRA, GOA, JPFO, NAGR, etc don't seem to be getting through to him, or if they are, he shows determination to ignore those words and continue on his path of suppressing freedoms, or at least project the idea that he has enough clout to suppress them. In politics, generating a state of mind frequently equals accomplishment.

Well, I guess we'll just have to borrow his main tactic, then, won't we?

Double down.

Keep buying that ammo. Yes, it's very expensive now, but keep buying it now anyway. Put some work into it. Spend some time each day at your computers searching for it, and buy it when you find it. You KNOW his peeps have to be watching for any sign that we might be getting tired of stockpiling, so don't get tired. Pour another cuppa Joe and tickle that keyboard.

At some point, we might just have enough ammo to put on a little live-fire demonstration. No, not THAT kind of demonstration. Not yet. We could pick a day, all go to the range on that day, and expend at least 100 rounds in lawful target practice with our favorite militia-appropriate weapon, then report it to the various sites which will be available to collate that info to make sure it gets published, and make sure that Gauleiter Naoplitano sees the totals.

Yes, we can use the ammo shortage to our advantage if we keep up the suction on the ammo pipeline. Obama has already lost the PR war with this ammo shortage anyway: it's keeping the word out there that our freedoms are at stake, and unless Obama wants to jump that shark and declare himself Dictator, he will eventually have to admit that men and women with spine and a love for their Constitution have beaten him.

Keep buying the ammo. Keep the shelves empty. You're all patriots when you do.

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UPDATE: 0506/2013 0800 PDT

I just got back from reading this blurb from Infowars. Interesting stuff. We double down, they re-double. Looks like the ammo war is going to go on for quite a while. Don't be fooled by the fact that NOW, the DHS wants "practice ammo". The building of practice ammo requires these major components:

• Brass cases
• powder
• Primers
• lead
• copper for jackets

...which, strangely enough, are the exact same components required to build "war" ammo (JHPs). The end-result of DHS buying a bazillion rounds of ammo of WHATEVER caliber/style will be to squeeze the civilian pipeline for ANY ammo, because of component shortage to the factories, or to handloaders such as myself.

Stay in the ammo buying game to keep sending the message to Obama that we will NOT be cowed and bullied out of the true meaning of the 2A. Doesn't the fool realize that if militias are called up to oppose the Feds, those members with an oversupply of ammo/guns will share it with other members of their militias? Doesn't he realize that if those militias go to war with his Government, that Government will lose ammo supplies/guns to capture by the Militias? Note that all the Gauleiter's troops, no matter how supplied with huge amounts of ammo, all want to "go home to Mama" at the end of their daily shifts, and they won't last long against militias willing to give all to overcome them. Most of the potential Militia members are prepared to kiss mama goodbye that last time. All the MRAPs, all the battle-rattle, all the ammo in the world can't compensate for not having your heart in the fight. The Gauleiter's men don't have it in their heads to die in significant numbers, and the potential Militia members expect to. That's the winning difference. That's the Constitution's backbone.

Obama's present threats against the true meaning of the Second Amendment, which counter-threatens to depose his dictatorial ass if he goes too far, are hollow. The Militia threat is real, very real, and Obama can't do any preemptive thing about it other than these feeble attempts to dry up ammo supplies and in some states, militia-appropriate weapon supplies. With polls now showing that Obama and his bullying government, a wannabe dictatorship, are more of a threat in most folks' minds than home-grown terrorists, Obama has just about lost the game here. Any sort of action like a Ruby Ridge or a Waco massacre happening now would tip the scales permanently against this assault on our Constitution.

H/T to the Patriot Padre for the new info.

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A "grassy knoll" on Boylston Street?

It would seem so. Seems the rozzers are anxious to find the "third bomber", despite evidence that the Tsarnaev brothers acted alone.

Actually, this Third Bomber is not known to have been on Boylston Street at all. He is supposed to be the spiritual advocate responsible for radicalizing the boomer-lads.

They know who he is, some guy named "Misha". Misha Rasputin, maybe?

This whole idea of going after a spiritual adviser is fraught with danger for the Administration. How could they go after Misha and not go after the Mad Mullahs in Qom, Iran?

What would have happened....

...to the British defense against the Nazi's Operation Sea Lion, of which the Blitz on London was just the opening move, if the Brits had all stopped to mope and insist on memorializing those killed by the Gernams' aerial bombardment?

A lost war would have been the result. Sea Lion would likely have succeeded, and the Germans would have mounted their invasion by sea next.

There is a lot of moping in progress now, and some fist-pumping that we ended the threat. Ummmm, no, we didn't end the threat. 

We haven't a farging clue yet about the Tsarnaevs' allies, if any. The FeeBees, who refused to pick up the elder boomer a couple of years ago upon request of Russian State Security, have egg all over their collective faces on this one, and the look back at how the FBI failed is just beginning.

In the meanwhile, be aware that there are many hundreds of thousands of "political refugees" such as the Tsarnayev brothers here in the USA, all granted visas due to the various Caucasus wars the the Russ have been fighting with the Islamists. How many more are of the Islamist-Jihadi persuasion?

We don't have a clue, but let's say that a million refugees or so immigrated here in the past 20 years (a figure I heard locally), and if half of one percent are Jihadis, that means that we have 5,000 of THAT stripe of Jihadi within our borders now.

It being so horribly WRONG to "profile" people, I'd wager that the FeeBees do NOT have a handle on this potential threat, and will have to play catch-up.

Of course, playing Catch-up begs the question: how allied are the Caucasus Jihadis with the others, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and all the various others? Is there a true Islamist network forming? The Jihadi sects all say that the Quran provides the message to get such a network going, and the various alliances demonstrated during the several "Arab Spring" revolutions in the Middle East seem to indicate that such networks can thrive, at least until their primary objectives are reached.

We have reason to worry that the killing of Osama Bin Laden, no matter how much it might have boasted about by President Obama, means little in the overall scheme of things. We have reason to worry that the Jihadi alliances we now stupidly support in the Syrian civil war will just take our weapons, our training and our funding and use all that against us, and then laugh about it.

We don't know Taqiyya, THEY know Taqiyya.

White House "reluctant" to call Boston Marathon Massacre "terrorism"

Let's call it what it has been since the first bombs went off.

Now, get the cocksmoker who burned himself up with one of his bombs well enough to travel, and send his ass to Gitmo. We don't need to lawyer him up here, just keep him mum in hospital, then ship him to Gitmo. We have a fine Navy Hospital in Norfolk VA which can care for him...I was born there. Don't even think about letting Eric Holder's crew "try" him. You will recall that before Holder was appointed to USAG, he ran a law firm which specialized in defending muzzie terrorists....

Of course Nobama doesn't want to admit a muzzie attack on US soil again...hell, he spent millions campaigning that W sucked as Prexy because of allowing 9-11.

How does that "let the terrorists in" hair shirt feel on YOU, Mister President? 

The Desperation Dance

As I write, Obama, the wannabe Assassin of the Constitution, is at it again, dancing in the blood of gun violence victims. 

This time, he's doubling down on his attempted murder of the Second Amendment with his usual background of gun victims' relatives looking sad behind him, complict as they are in their dance in the blood of their sons and daughters. A word to them: grief is meant to be private. When you wear your grief on your sleeve and thrust your sleeve into everyone's faces, you are a candidate for a rubber room.

Too bad we don't get to read up on these homicides which Obama showcases today. If we did, we'd probably find that most of the victims contributed to their demise in some material way*, since such is the usual finding. Gang associations, bad choices such as failure of risk assessment**, or even wearing the wrong clothes in the wrong place may have lead to many of these deaths.

Urban gun violence is scarcely addressed by the President, because that's not his real agenda. He is after the most militia-effective weapons first because his real agenda is to reduce the intended effect of the Second Amendment to provide arms for resistance to government tyranny.

I'll say that again: We are allowed to Keep and Bear arms in this nation partly for reasons of personal defense, but primarily for the reason of being able to have armed militias with which to resist government tyranny or piratical tyranny, for that matter. Sometimes those lines are blurred when the government acts like pirates.

As the President doubles down on his attempt to negate the Second Amendment, then redoubles again and again, his true motive becomes clearer and clearer.

This man is out to seize power that the Constitution does not give him.

It's really that simple.

The choices for those who love and support their Constitution have just narrowed, again. It's becoming ever more obvious that the Founders' original intent for the Second Amendment will have to be tested.

It's no longer a question of "if" it will have to be tested, but "when".

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* stranger homicides are rare. In my Police Academy, I was taught that 70% of homicide victims (of all classes, not just gun homicide victims), knew their killer(s).

** risk assessment is not instinctive. You are not born with it, it must be taught and it is the responsibility of the parents to teach it to their kids

Chutzpah

The definition. The practical application: take an audience of Jews who know all about the subjects you will speak on, pretend that they know nothing about them, and give them an hour-long, tub-thumping lecture on "how to be a Jew 101". To make it REALLY effective, your sense of Chutzpah should tell you to deliver this lecture 4 days before the start of Passover, the most important Jewish High Holiday.

That's OUR President! He's nothing if not a chutzpanik.

But, note that he couldn't find the time to visit the Western Wall, traditionally THE place where those seeking the enlightenment of the Jewish traditions (and seeking thereby, the support of Jews) go to.

I have Jewish roots. What would I have done differently, had I been in Obama's shoes? I would have shitcanned this speech, started my own by thanking my gracious hosts, commented on their bravery in establishing and defending their homeland, then examined the previous attempts at Palestinian Statehood and why those attempts have failed (hint: it has something to do with Islamic extremism). I would have ended by reminding the Muzzies that they alone are responsible for the failure of Palestine.

Instead, Obama told the youth of Israel to reject their older and wiser leaders, stalwart men and women who have established Israel and got it to the point where it can afford to have a do-nothing, know-nothing generation like we do in the USA, and addressed those wasted youth telling them to reject the teachings of their forefathers.

What gall!

What tripe!

What an utter ass he is!

Need more proof?

That the Obumble Admin doesn't get it about security?

Pipe this.

Now, for some enterprising outfit like Breitbart, you can have a starting point to look at phone logs. Start with the ICE station in LAX International Terminal and follow the chain of phone calls about letting these people in despite rules keeping them out. Might be a bigger deal than "Benghazi-gate". Big in size, anyway, since it involves the gasbag Michael Moore.

SOTU/STFU

It's a nothing speech, from a nothing guy, eliciting mostly nothing in the way of responses. Can we go back to our political nothingness now?

If you want to read something serious, go read Joe Huffman's blog.

As for this blogger, I'm mostly on hiatus, having a major physical-work project in full swing here at Schloss Rivrdog. For me it's work, sleep, get up and work some more. I'm working watch-and-watch. The cat is upset.

Back to it.

"Lookism", aka, Liberal Hypocrisy

Lookism is a Liberal-invented evil going back to 1978. Back then, the WaPo coined that term to invent a new class of victims, those people thought to suffer within society because of their homliness, overweight, etc. Studies were ginned up showing the plain-as-mud-fence folks at a terrible disadvantage when compared to the "beautiful people".

Here's a Wiki on Lookism. Scan it for the origins of the concept, which is now "grandfathered" in to all the evils that conservative society (read: wealthy society) foists off on the hoi-palloi according to the Liberal set.

Okay then, we're up to speed on our word-play.

We all know that one of the main building-blocks of Liberalism is the definition of victim classes. That goes without saying. The basic building blocks of Liberal recruitment involve defining a recruit into a victim class, then convincing that newly-apprised "victim" that Liberalism/collectivism can do more for them to alleviate their victimhood than self-reliance. Even this strategy was not invented by Liberals, they stole it from religious theory on recruiting converts. To be fair, it's not all bad, this victim business. There ARE real victims, there IS real discrimination, and for us to have a fair and open society, something has to be done, some advocacy has to be made on behalf of the victims. Prejudice dies hard. Aristocracy dies harder.

So, in came "lookism". It came in at the same time that popular celebrity worship really started to take off, as the Hollywood moguls expanded mightily into the small screen. The small screen, when used judiciously to sell things and ideas, worked far better than the Silver Screen. As the fan-base of popular small-screen icons exploded in popularity, the practice we see now of total fan-worship became first a goal, then a reason-for-being of all entertainment. Now, of course, TV is being supplanted by various forms of the Internet such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkdIn, etc. Suffice it to say, the Entertainment media, in all their versions, are very good at spreading the victim-hood classism of the parent political belief, in this case, Liberalism.

Over the past 35 years, the entertainment media have both fostered AND fought against Lookism. They fostered it by promoting the boy-bands, the singers, the rising actors, etc. They fought against it by giving a ton of time before the cameras to the Liberal moguls who then decried the victim-status of Lookism victims.

Now we come to the latest Liberal political victim class, Potential Mass-shooting Victims. If you think about it, we are ALL such potential victims, which of course, MAKES us into victims. Pay no mind that just a moments' reflection will lead you to the obvious conclusion that the way to NOT be a shooting victim is clear: arm yourself with training and a weapon with which to defend yourself. This is Liberalism, and we shouldn't be bothered with logic or reason when there's emotion available to replace it, should we?

Now we come full circle.

"Lookism in guns"

WTF, Over, you cry in unison. Who in Hell cares what a gun looks like, as long as it functions?

Liberals care. They care a lot. That's why, when they introduce Civil-Rights denying, Constitution-violating gun-control legislation, they include Gun Lookism as it's main ingredient.

Senator Dianne Feinstein's complex (gun) Control Bill is mostly Gun Lookism. At it's heart is the proposition that if the gun at question looks evil, it is evil, and must be banned, because we all must fear guns. This happened before, in 1994. That gun control bill, known as the "Assault Weapons Ban" was all about lookism, but gun-makers soon learned that they could avoid the dreaded "Assault Weapon" designation simply by cosmetic changes, such as thumb-hole stocks instead of pistol grips, or "bullet-buttons" instead of magazine-release levers, or Picatinny Rails instead of permanent fore-grips.

All those tricks of the AWB-evading trade are swept away now, and Gun Lookism is more about bullet-dispensing function, although the Evil Black Rifle designations are still in there. Put a pistol-grip on a 5-shot, internal-magazine, semi-auto hunting rifle and it is banned. Put a "war-purpose" feature on a semi-auto pistol, and it is banned. We don't even know which "war-purpose" features for pistols are going to be designated (nor even how they are defined), but they are banned in the new bill, which was apparently being revised up to it's release today (and it was delayed two days).

To counter this emotion, this hysteria, we must do two things, both dealing with how YOU handle hysteria:

1. REFUSE to fear guns. You can sleep in a room full of them just as soundly as you sleep in a room without them. A gun is nothing to fear. Gun oil smell in the air works better than Ambien!
2. REFUSE to be made into a victim because you have some infinitessimal chance of being killed by bullets. All you have to do is consider all the OTHER ways you might be in danger, ways with PROVEN odds of that danger, and you won't have time to worry about gun violence.

Just do those two things. You are okay, you really are. You aren't a victim, either, and there is no need to toss out the Bill of Rights' Second Amendment because of made-up fears.

Thank you.

 

Thursday Thuds, Astrological Edition

Yep, there must be a conjunction that the horoscope didn't report:

The Constellation Ignoramus is in the Seventh House of the Moon, so we may call this Teh Stoopid Rising.

Thud the First: The looney Kimmy is at it again, sort of declaring war, nuclear war, on the USA. What Teh Stoopid Norky apparently doesn't realize is that he is ALREADY at war with the USA. Way back in 1953, when I was playing sandlot baseball with my first mitt, a Rawlings Al Kaline, we ended the Korean War with an Armistice, not a Treaty. We're still under the terms of that armistice, and still technically at a state of war. One B-2 Spirit with a belly full of nuke AGM-86s ends this war. Might be as easy as a B-2 Spirit with a single Small Diameter Bomb detonating on the pillow next to Kimmy in his bed.

Thud the Second: Goes to State Rep Mitch Greenlick (D-33), Oregon. He's a white guy, but has made a political career of being a race pimp, creating a Diversity in Sports Hiring Law for Oregon a few years back, and steamrolling it through the Legislature. The Oregon Ducks just replaced Head Football Coach Chip Kelly, now coaching the Philadelphia Eagles, with Offensive Coordinator Mark Helfrich. Both are white. Someone put the bug in Greenlick's ear that Da Rulz had not been followed, and no person of color had been interviewed before hiring Da White Guy. If Greenlick had paid attention to the local sports press, he would have gotten all these facts, but he decided to shoot off his face anyway, and when caught short on his accusation, he doubled down on Teh Stoopid and bitched that the SPIRIT of the "Diversity" law was not being followed, apparently because a person of color wasn't hired. The law, of course, does NOT mandate hiring people of color, it is only there to see that they are given a chance at the slots that come up. Now Greenlick has to re-double down by holding a Star Chamber hearing on this boneheaded "spirit of the Law" crap. Of course, what he really wants to do is be appointed Diversity Potentate/Caliph for Oregon. Perfect Celestial Alignment of Teh Stoopid. Letter to the Editor sent.

Thud Da Toid: What can I say, it's a toss-up between outgoing Secretary of State Hildebeeste and incoming S.O.S.-Nominee John Effing Kerry. Hillary got ground up, chewed up and spit out by Sen. Rand Paul yesterday, and today, J Effing Kerry got a John McCain blow job. Perfect alignment of McCain's dripping chin with Kerry's belt buckle. GOPes rolled over on the Swift Boat Liar. One can only hope that the Liar will soon embarass himself badly enough to be consigned to the dustbin of history, or maybe better, he will invent his own foreign policy and completely screw up Obama's.

Thud the Fourth: Rocks and Shoals edition. Yep, as long as men go down to the sea in warships, some of them will have to suffer bad navigation/ship-handling, and will wind up on the shoals. Happened here. Ship had just left Subic Bay. Do you suppose all the quarterdeck crew were sober? Pretty cheap drunk in Olongapo...worse news is that the shoal is a world-recognized endangered reef.

Thud the Fifth: We don't have many Thuds in the Art World, but what good can happen to the Paris Ballet Corps now that their Chef de la Danse is a chap named Millepied? That translates directly to "1,000 feet"...(H/T to the RivrSis, my Art Correspondent).

Ah, well. Time and the stars march on, so soon this alignment of Teh Stoopid will be over. Maybe I should go back to bed and wait it out. Fighting off Teh Stoopid Rays is giving me a headache, anyway.