Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Will the Swamp ever REALLY get Drained?

Knowing now that Obama likely started the "Resistance" vs Trump before anyone else knew about it, makes for VERY strong evidence to sue the Democratic Party into oblivion and RICO their $$$ FOREVER!

 

How about it, Judicial Watch? You have the people and YOU, ALONE, are still actively Draining The Swamp.

 

The usual drill in political lawsuits would have JW waiting until Barr and his DOJ give them the word, but there is a significant chance that "word" will never come down, that @POTUS will not order Barr to indict anyone, and Barr won't do it of his own volition, even though that's within his purview as USAG.

 

@POTUS seems satisfied with hammering out Tweets and using acerbic language at his tub-thumper rally-speeches.

 

As I've said before in these spaces, the "Resistance" including the phony "''peaching", will not stop unless and until one or more major (D)-players are booked on their indictiments. There is enough evidence for indictments, especially HRC, and now Obama himself, not to mention Holder and company, Bubba and Miss Lynn.

 

I am afraid that now there will be no accountablity for the worst cases of Treason in our 242-year history UNLESS JW steps up to the plate with a Civil lawsuit, and that will MAYBE springboard the conflict-adverse President into taking CRIMINAL action against this cabal of Traitors known as the Democratic Party.

Gunwalker WTF

We on the Right like to use Eric Holder's failed Fast & Furious operation to beat him and his boss up with. Okay, but a dangerous splinter hangs off that cudgel.

The NRA correctly tells us that "guns don't kill people, people kill people". That is the ULTIMATE truth in the gun control "debate", isn't it? I think so.

We need to stop saying that "Eric Holder's gun killed Brian Terry". That statement just doesn't fit. If we want to keep on thumping Holder for Gunwalker, that's fine, there's plenty of fail in his op to thump him with. Personally, I'd bet serious money that the Justice Department DOES know exactly who killed Brian Terry, so why hasn't the USDOJ issued a warrant yet?

Bottom line: Holder, for all his faults, did not Kill Terry, so stow that sentiment please.

Thursday Thuds, Burst-option selected on my unregistered Assault Thud Gun

Thud Subject One: Syria: Three-round burst selected:

• The US wants "teeth" in Putin's UN proposal to divest Assad's military of it's Chem weapons. Channeling Jack in "A few good men", "Teeth, you want teeth? You can't handle teeth".
• Note that Russia was the vendor for all these gas weapons, can fake up "1,000 tons" of them very easily. There is NO way to effectively inspect after the "hand-over". WE will have to trust Putin...and he has bridges for sale.
• Note that the US CIA has been giving "traceable" weapons, mostly AKs and LMGs, to the Free Syrian Army (but only the "good" militias"). Yeah, we really know how to do that "traceable" weapon thing. Just ask Eric Holder how that's done...

Thud Subject Two: Colorado anti-gun recall: Two round burst selected:

• Read the actual results. The recalls succeeded, but only because they were polling-place elections, had less than 20% turnout. Okay then, two GFW* pols are gone. The gun laws aren't, and the Kingfish, Gov. Hickenlooper, who signed the laws after hinting he'd veto them, wasn't touched. Phyrric Victory. Magpul's departure from CO is a much harder hit than this.
• Now we get to see how the NRA-ILA will use this "victory" to keep the save-the-2A ball rolling. My guess: a money solicitation is in the mail. Not being a member of NRA, I won't get one, but I'd bet on it happening. If the NRA would double-down now, and go after Hickenlooper, I might send some shekels their way, but I bet they don't go after the real prize.

Thud Subject Three: US Public Schools: Three-round burst selected:

• Just saw on Fox News this ayem that the idea of paying dropouts to come back to class is upon us again, like a bad 'Nam foot-rot that won't go away forty years later. Let's see, what do we REALLY accomplish with this idea: Nothing! These louts and loutesses who would come back for a $100 gift card will stay only until it's spent. While they are there, they will either sleep off their dope in class or worse, be disruptive to those who are there voluntarily to learn. Portland Public Schools tried this out up in the North End. It failed.
• Have you noted the drumfire of liberal writers in the liberal blatts trying to shoot down the No Child Left Behind testing? The harassing fire is getting louder. You will recall that this "program" was passed during the Bush Administration, when the (D)s had a lock on both houses of Congress. 
• NCLB is a Liberal-owned program, and even it's watered-down testing shows that schools are doing a worse and worse job on the kids all the time. The entire Liberal approach to education, that is, to just keep dumbing the lesson plans down until the dummies finally can "get" them, has failed.

Thud Subject Four: Obama masked bandit: Full-auto, empty the magazine!

• Check it out. Now stay tuned on this subject to see if this WHITE guy is charged with racial intimidation for wearing an Obama mask during a bank robbery. Get your bets down!

Thud Subject Five: Climate Hooey: Reload, fire another full-auto magazine:

• New study finds that out of 117 recent model-based climate studies, only three were "roughly accurate", and the other 114 "over-estimated the amount of warming" on the average, the over-estimations averaged on the order of double. That is not science, that is propaganda, and not very good propaganda at that.

That's it, readers. Your thud-gun recoil therapy for this week.

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* GFW (Gun Fearing Wuss), a term coined by the former gun-blogger and 2A-defender Kim duToit. 

 

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?