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JPFO strikes out on gun control

It's Thursday, and a usual ally in the gun-control fight just tripped on their Richard, and since you HAVE and WILL hear this wrongful message elsewhere, I present it now.

In this article, JPFO fails by falling into a gun-controller's trap, even while trying to beat down that trap. BTW, Jews for Protection of Firearms Ownership is a FAR better advocate for the freedom to K&BA than the NRA. Let's look at their FUBAR, though.

Sorry JPFO, in YOUR dreams, it might be enough to say gun control of AR-15s fails because it doesn't accurately describe "assault rifles", and you are TECHNICALLY correct, but that doesn't get it in this fight, does it? It's a sound-bite fight, isn't it, JPFO?

 

Want to knock out the "assault rifle" canard with one punch, JPFO?

 

Simply point out that "bearing arms" was meant by the Founders as a general statement. In that day, "bearing arms" meant bringing the same weapons to the fight as the enemy did.

 

The "enemy" in the Founders' day wasn't street punks on dope, it was GOVERNMENT, which could and did buy all the latest MILITARY weapons, just as they do today. Smarter thinkers than you, JPFO, have suggested that if there was ANY limit on "arms" in "bearing arms", it would be that the arms mentioned were INFANTRY weapons.

 

Yes, Infantry Weapons of today include select-fire (full-auto capable) rifles, mortars, belt-fed full-auto machine guns and grenades, so the NFA-34 is un-Constitutional on it's face, as I'm sure was pointed out back when FDR rammed it through Congress, dancing in the blood of the victims of tommy-gun armed gangsters such as John Dillinger and Ma Barker, Pretty Boy Floyd and Al Capone.

 

Yes, blood-dancing for Gun Control isn't a new tactic, either.

 

On average, JPFO, you do a good job, but getting sucked into the Kamel-Toe's gun-hate belies that. Get smarter on this issue, unless you want to be the NRA, and God help you if you DO want that, Jehovah won't help you.

"Obama General" runs the Oregon National Guard

I just watched the Governess Kate Brown Show on her Wildfire Conflagration Declaration (although she wasn't smart enough to use that proper term) on KPTV Ch 12. She mumbled through her part of the presentation, then presented various agency heads to give spiels.

I watched the Adjutant General of the Oregon National Guard, MAJ GEN Michael E. Stencel, with interest, since I am an Air Nasty Guard retiree and worked for the Adjutant Generals while I served in the Air Guard. Right off the bat, General Stencel goes political, profusely thanking (D) Senators Merkely and Wyden for getting the Oregon National Guard training money so expeditiously.

This caused me to issue a "HUH?", because other than their votes for the current NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act), the Senators could have had NOTHING to do with getting that money out to Oregon in a timely fashion. That would have been the responsibility of the National Guard Bureau, and ultimately, Sec/Def Mattis, who works for TRUMP, last time I checked.

Next, this caused me to go to my study and get out the latest copy of the "Oregon Sentinel", the excellent quarterly put out for Guard folks (and whoever else cares to read it) by the Oregon National Guard Public Affairs Section. This issue is Vol. 16, No. 2, and it contains TWO articles on topic. The first, on Page 2, by General Stencel himself, is titled, "Oregon Guard uniquely suited for domestic response", in which he describes his job of leading the Guard, especially in readiness for exigiencies such as a bad fire season. He doesn't mention any Democrats in this article. The article is aimed at members and leaders of the Guard, is a very rah-rah article.

The second article, on Page 7, is titled, "Chinook helicopter unit prepares for homeland missions", and refers to the B Co, 1 BN, 168th Aviation Regiment, a CH-47D outfit operating out of Pendleton, Oregon. The article mentions that this helo unit is the first to be certified in "Bambi Bucket" water drops by the US Forest Service's Aviation branch flight-check section. This is where that NDAA money went first, the money that GEN Stencel gave credit for to Merk, our Jerk, and Wyden, New York's Third Senator, for getting these dollars to us.

Speaking of Oregon's two Senators, how did they vote on the 2018 NDAA, HJR 2810? According to this: they both voted "Nay", or no! The Bill passed the Senate 89-8, by the way.

So, GEN Stencel, do you think that maybe, just maybe, you might want to issue a clarification about your profuse thanks to the Senators who ACTUALLY voted to DENY Oregon the funding to train the National Guard for firefighting service?

If you fail to issue this clarification, General, we have no choice, sir, but to label you an Obama General, and if I know Sec/Def Mattis, Obama Generals are on his Do Not Retain list.

MAJOR Gun Grab proposed in OR

This would be the most severe gun-grab in the Nation, if passed. A group calling itself "Interfaith Leaders" proposes to ban all semi-automatic, or magazine-fed firearms. The article says just "Assault Rifles", but the boasting out of the Commissar Knutson's "Church" (bull. commies don't have churches) was to include all semi-autos fed by magazines.

The Initiative process, by which Commissar Knutson proposes to enact this law, is operated by the State of Oregon, so...(my Facebook Post)

My answer to the "Inter-Faith Group" seeking to ban all semi-automatic firearms in Oregon - Here is YOUR future:

1. You have ALREADY conspired to restrict or remove an enumerated Right of the Bill of Rights. You have done that just by MEETING to discuss your ill-conceived Initiative. Legally, that means that Probable Cause might already exist for your arrest on 18 USC 242, Denial of Civil Rights under Color of Authority.

2. "Under Color of Authority" will probably have to be decided in a courtroom, but this 25-year Officer of the Circuit Court of Multnomah County believes that the "Authority" of the State of Oregon is extended willingly down to reside in those following the Initiative Process. The fact that this Initiative IS a de-jure Denial of Civil Rights cannot even be challenged.

3. Prior to the Finding that the Initiative Process DEPENDS on the Color of Authority of the State of Oregon, there is another legal facet to be perfected. That facet is the Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Organization designation which will apply to the organizers, from the Chief Petitioner on down to the signature-collectors. Under any declaration that a criminal conspiracy exists (a simple True Bill from a Federal Grand Jury or a USAG's Information) the RICO process may be initiated. That process will freeze ALL the assets of the named conspirators, the financial supporters and yes, perhaps even the signers of the Petition (the instrumentality of the criminal conspiracy). A VERY wide swath can be cut by the RICO process, and it might indeed ensnare all governmental officials who had provable Notice of the Petition, were in a position to stop the approval of the Petition but didn't, and maybe even the Judge who approved the ballot title. BTW, for the uninformed, once a judgment of RICO has been rendered, the defendants may be assessed as much as treble damages, in addition to Court Costs, Attorney Fees and all such expense.

4. The final Sword of Damocles hanging over this entire legal proceeding would be Class Action. I believe that there are over two million gun owners in Oregon, and each would be entitled to join in a Class as Plaintiffs, seeking common damages. I should think that those damages would be at least $10K/Plaintiff, which would put the erstwhile gun-grabbers on the legal hook for $20 Billion dollars. Considering the VERY deep pockets of the likes of Soros, Steyer, Bloomberg and other Limousine Liberals who can be expected to empower this conspiracy via their wealth, they probably DO HAVE $20B amongst them.

Your essayist begs for many, many Shares, so someone at the top of this anti-Civil Rights cabal will get my notice. Pass this word, please!

Thank you.

Thursday Thuds, rainy day edition

Some of these are on my Facebook page already.

• Al Franken: Strange we have heard no demands for resignation of Franken from the Senate's GOPe leadership. Oh, that's right, Deep State. H/T to the Baconator.
• Firefox' new edition (Firefox Quantum, V.57.0) on my Linux machine is so buggy, I might have to burn the whole computer to de-bug it...
• The entire problem with the Tax Bill before the House today is that it is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and no sheep-dogs are around to save the sheep. This should NEVER have been referred to as a Tax Relief Bill. It isn't. This House bill simply makes the middle class pay for corporate tax relief, and that's ALL it does. Animal abuse, I know, but screw them and the horse they rode in on. For the first time in MY memory, Nancy Pelosi got it right when she called this spade a shovel.
• What is better for the culture: women running hither and yon screaming for the scalps of men who touched them at some point in their life, perhaps 40 years ago, or everybody just STFU and put the important questions up for a vote first?
• If you still have a Keurig machine to make your coffee, you just made my fail list for critical thinking. Very convenient to use, but using a Melitta filter-funnel or a French Press is nearly as convenient, makes BETTER coffee, and won't put 9 billion non-degradable little cups into landfills.
• Has anyone else noticed that the Left has produced NO polls on the current electability of Judge Roy Moore? Seems to me they would have made that "Breaking News" if they had one, so I conclude that this faux-issue hasn't affected AL voters in the least. Last poll I did see had him up 10% over the dummocrat, so I expect that's still holding.
• Sexual Harassment Training for Congress-critters? Don't make me laugh. I had that at several work-places during my working life and it didn't change a damn thing except generate tons of new paper files.
• Is it possible to get a brown-out on only one leg of your household's two phases of mains power? I'd never experienced that before but it happened a few nights ago during a windstorm here.
• So writing expressive prose and poems bashes women? Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth are all sex abusers? This is what you get when you let idiots go nuts with hashtags.
• Roy Moore for the win: Wanna know which Faux-Cons are actually Deep State? Just check their positions re: Roy Moore. Moore is the GENUINE swamp-drainer, and the Swamp is desperate to keep him out of the Senate, where he will quickly blow away the fog and reveal the people and tactics the Deep State uses to bring us their Globalist Agenda.

Ta-Da! Ten Thuds today. New Personal Best! Next week, then?

Thursday Thuds! Heatwave Edition!

Let's get right into this, shall we? I slept badly last night. The large ham-on-jalapeno-roll sandwich I made myself, with Provolone and Durkee's Famous sauce, didn't digest well.

The Thud #1 therefor, is my tired body. Nothing works like it's supposed to, and I actually have TWO life-shortening conditions now, not just the diabetes I've semi-managed for twenty-five years. Since men on my side of the fandamily usually live to 85-90, that means I have to put up with 11 to 16 more years of this ugly body. The thudding sound you can hear in the Four Corners of this world is my attitude hitting bottom, but we must persist, mustn't we, so I go on, to:

The Thud #2, which is the culture I was raised into, which has pretty much collapsed, making that deep, vibrato shudder. I was raised by a Jewish father and a Southern Baptist mother who famously, both of them, decided early on that the fractious subject of religious differences would never grace OUR family dinner table. They both settled on the middle-road of Protestantism, and so when I attended church (on traditional days such as Easter, Christmas, weddings, funerals), it was in some cavernous old edifice with gray-concrete gargoyles adorning it's arched entrances. Jesus WAS spoken there, and I gravitated more towards my mothers' side of the religious spectrum. I properly expect to meet God's Only Son in Heaven someday, and be welcomed to His company. His Love is about all I have going positive in my life right now. Oh, yes, for those Masters in those ancient Protestant churches, I do, in fact, have that list of Good Works all of you pious lot told me to begin accumulating. Good thing the Protestantism is water in the wake, though, considering how badly those Synods have let down the culture, welcoming as they do such Sins as blessing homosexual marriage, encouraging the break-down of lawful society by illegal immigration, and more. Bah, Humbug!

The Thud #3 is my now totally-failed hope that the Very Model of a Modern Major General* whom I voted for could actually achieve those lofty goals he set for himself and actually begin to Drain That Swamp of Corruption that is our entrenched political system. It now appears that he accomplished only the barest hint of his first Goal, which was to prevent the election of another KorruptKlinton. This means that while I won't drown below the filthy, stinking scum layer at the top of the dark waters in the next three years, I will have to finish my life with that putrid layer up to my chin.

The Thud #4 is my and my dear wife's present circumstances. We are well enough off, have the very best health insurance available**, a nice house, an adequate retirement income in six figures and too much crap which we've accumulated lo these past 40 years. As my father's Successor Trustee, I had to divest the Trust of over 50 cubic yards of his accumulated drek, and that was an unpleasant task, mostly for reasons which I can't divulge here on pain of being sued into oblivion. I'm determined not to similarly burden my children, so as I ache and groan, I also have to delve into mountains of STUFF and start reducing it. Sadly, my gudwife has become somewhat of a Hoarder, so this is a difficult job, to say the least.

The Thud #5, last on today's list, are the very real probabilities that we will be in a nasty War by this time next year, one of two wars, maybe both at once. I'm a professional Conflict Management*** guy, actively practiced that profession for 37 consecutive years (actually a total of 47 years, there were ten years my careers overlapped. I rate our chances of going to war with North Korea at 98% and having an armed Marxist Revolution against the Trump Administration here at home at 70%. I'll be brief. In Korea, the Little Fat Guy's dictatorship is hanging on by a thread. China has promised him refuge if he flees to there, but it's unlikely they will act militarily to save him. When he gives the order to attack in the region or the USA ("suit-case" nuke, his longer-range missiles are 1950's liquid-fueled technology and won't ever make it to our shores), it will be a tossup whether his military leaders obey that order or not, but HE.WILL.GIVE.THAT.ORDER, may have already tried to.  As for the Marxists here, we have let the BlackBloc get too strong, they are NOT the disorganized anarchist thugs we've known them to be for the past 30 years or so. they have been bought and paid for by George Soros, as has the Democratic Party, but the Asses don't control them, Soros does. He is Marxist to the core, and will use his last dollar to set this Revolution into motion. To stop it, we'd have to kill Soros AND his money off NOW, and we won't take that step. Soros hasn't bought enough of an army, though, and the Marxist Revolution will be only a few paragraphs in our National History, not a Book or even a Chapter. The Veterans' Militias will be all over the BlackBloc when they take that step too far. They will die in their hundreds on the very day that THEY intended would be the end of representative democracy here. We will see their "Nationwide Day of Rage" declared, and they will try to wreck at least a dozen cities simultaneously. The Veterans and their rifles will be their downfall, coming again to the aid of their Nation. The Cities the BlackBloc will try to wreck are those which have refused to effectively oppose them since BlackBloc Day One. If you live in one of these Cities, you know this very real danger. I live in one of them, Portland.

Enough of this Thudding. It's half-past Nine, and I need a meal. Until later,

*Very Model of, etc...Remember that photo of a young Donald Trump, Jr? The one of him in his military-academy dress uniform? Reminds me of the famous work of Gilbert and Sullivan.

** Medicare with the military retirement coverage, Tricare for Life as a second-payer. 100% covered, for everything.

*** 22 years military service, achieved rank of Major in the USAF. 25 years of service as a Deputy Sheriff in my community, in the various forms of Patrol Services.

It's THURSDAY !

On Thursdays, this blog has a Tradition, listing the Thursday Thuds, those items of national interest, the owners of which have tried to make us believe are important, but they attract our attention ONLY by the huge thud-sound they make as they crash. Without further ado, here are the thuds:

• Trump thudded: he tweeted this morning: "The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast. We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!"  Of course, the so-called "freedom caucus" is a group of constitutional conservatives in Congress. Trump threatens them and by doing so, marginalized at least 30% of his own base. That's stupid, Mr. Trump. T.H.U.D.
• Congress thuds (again): "The "Russia hacked US Elections" bulltwaddle: now Congress puts in an Escape Strategy, telling We The Peeps how it will all wind up: more blather in committee, then some SECRET blather in committee, then we are done. Okay, Congress, WHAT about that process of secrecy will convince any of We The Peeps that any of this actually happened, and who would be at fault for it? Answer is NONE. T.H.U.D.
• Fox News thuds (again): Headline: "I.C.E. shames sanctuary cities", followed by a list of places where I.C.E. has issued deportation detainers which have been ignored. The failure here is the whole idea of "shaming". As I understand the PeeCee world, the very idea of using shame to accomplish a goal is supposed to be wrong, wrong, wrong. I.C.E. is not shaming anyone, it is just providing a list of which political jurisdictions ignore the Federal requests for local law enforcement to help them do their job. Fox, you leaned left again and your message is a T.H.U.D.
• Trump thuds again: This one is a missed opportunity, but it reveals a bad policy failure in the Trump White House. Trump has taken action to remove the Left's agenda item of restricting the supply of cheap power in the power grid. Doing that gave the Left, or would have given the Left if Hillaroon had been elected, a huge tool of control over the economy. Electric power turns the wheels of the economy. When there isn't enough, parts of the economy must beg for more and kiss Leftie ass to get it. THAT is the most important factor behind ending the War On Coal, but all Trump can blather about is "Holy" Jobs. Look, jobs are an important INDICATOR of the health of our economy, but restoring the FREEDOM in the economy is FAR more important. Tell us that, Mr. Trump, your current Jobs blather falls a little flat, and does so with a T.H.U.D.
• Trump thuds again, part trois: Mr. Trump, Obama and Kerry signed some sort of an accord in Paris last year to perpetuate the CLIMATE SCAM. This accord was never presented to the Senate to ratify, so it is NOT a "Treaty", just an Executive Order of Obama. Mr. Trump, RESCIND that turd, and while you're doing that, make it a personal habit whenever you mention Climate to include the word SCAM along with it. If you are pressured to suggest what the POLICY of the USA is towards "Climate Change", simply reply, "It's God's work, our job is to notice it and marvel at how He works" or something like that. Every time the Left mentions Climate (Scam), there is a YUGE opportunity to hammer them with the fraud aspects involved. You aren't doing that, Mr. Trump, so your Policy wonks have made a big T.H.U.D.

Okay then, a Quinella of Thuds, and the majority of them are from Mr. Trump's place. That should tell us all something.

TrumpScam One - UPDATED

TrumpScam. Did #POTUS45 just pull a fast one, telling nobody?

On my Facebook page, I get targeted ads. Since I gave money to Trump's campaign 3X, I've constantly gotten requests for more. Nothing wrong with that.

Then Trump swears in, and the ads should stop, right? They didn't. Now I hear an explanation from a usually-reliable source with insider connections. If I klic, I will be redirected to the GOPe to donate $$$ to them.

Excuuuuse ME? 

If Trump made that "deal" with the GOPe, it is the WORST deal the Great Deal-maker hisself has ever made.

If Trump didn't make that deal, he is being played. 

Now we have to ask: who holds Trump's marionette-strings?

UPDATE: 032717 - It isn't trump, it's Zuckerbugger's algorithm. He has been doing this to everyone ever since he joined forces with Googe-Spooge. I finally had enough of it today and exited Facebook Stage Right. Of course, Zuckerbugger runs the place from Stage Left...

"Russia Hacked Us", and other fairy tales

Do the Democrats want to leave, as the final "legacy" of Obama, a total distrust of US Intelligence agencies? That's where they are headed. Check out this Breitbart poll, which shows only 29% of US citizens believe this fake news story. Since 52% of Democrats believe the fake news, that means that just about NOBODY but Democrats believe it.

This means two things: first, since the lead US Intelligence official, General James Clapper, head of Obama's D.N.I., swore to Congress today that the hacking happened, President-elect Trump has a LOT of damage to repair in the US Intelligence "Alphabet Soup".

How should Mr. Trump repair that damage? Try these ideas, Mr. Trump:

• Dump Clapper, and hard. I would ask that the Congress look into indicting him for Contempt of Congress for lying on no less than three separate occasions to the House.
• Appoint as Clapper's replacement a leader of impeccable integrity, not necessarily a spook and especially not necessarily a politician.
• Establish a new standard of de-politicizing US Intelligence.

Do these things, Mr. Trump, and you MIGHT repair the damage that Clapper has done at the urging of the Left.

Jesse pulls out the race card...

...and it's not a card game!

The "Duck Dynasty" fooferaw is a dice game!

Craps, you lose, Jesse. A&E rolled the bones and crapped out earlier.

Editor's note: Jesse got two people cornfused. It was Megan Kelly who opined that Santa was a Caucasian. "Duck Commander" Phil Robertson, a Christian evangelist, lay preacher and Sunday School teacher, referred to the Bible's position that homosexuality is a sin in his Gentleman's Quarterly interview. Megan Kelly might have raised a race issue, Robertson did not. GQ, of course, is concerned entirely with sexual identity conflicts in men's clothing, nothing more. Seems to me that Duck Dynasty-brand clothing is unlikely to be worn by GQ's metrosexual readers, whose idea of outdoors is sipping a latte at a sidewalk cafe, not hunting ducks in the Louisiana bayou.

Jackson's clumsy attempt to inject racial discord where none existed before seems to this observer as a desperate attempt to have "another fifteen minutes of fame".

The loud "THUD" you heard is Jesse Jackson's head hitting the deck after his latest swan dive, but don't worry, Jesse didn't hurt that head. Solid bone there; his brain, if any, is in his ass.