- Pop quiz! Don’t worry, only one question: What role do submachine guns play in the inspection of meat, the granting of farm subsidies, or the administration of food stamps? (The link is to PawPaw’s House. PawPaw is a cop and even he doesn’t like this one bit.)
- Bovard on Obama and cynicism. This reminds me once again how glad I am that Obama is so inept. Politicians who talk like he does are dangerous when they’re actually competent.
- Another schoolkid gets turned over to the cops. For a doodle.
- Government-run health care. ‘Nuff said.
- California sends another business packing off to Texas. Sriracha fans, take note. And oh, the irony of the company founder’s life journey!
Okay, it’s a commercial. But forgive it; it’s so true.
H/T MJR.
Great dog video! I was wondering why so many of the dogs had “coats” of some kind, but finally figured out that’s what they are selling. LOL
Laddie doesn’t care for sweaters and coats at all. I finally gave up this winter. He goes out and works hard to scrape it off, then kicks snow over it. I find it later all muddy. He grows enough of his own coat, actually… and now it is coming out all over the place as the weather warms. Corgi fur in everything… just one small price to pay for such a wonderful, loving companion.
Wendy McElroy answers the question about the USDA and submachine guns.
http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/5/20/the-us-department-of-agriculture-needs-submachine-gunsand-th.html
From what heard of the Meat Packing plants, and how cruel some of them are, it actually makes sense. Not from a practical standpoint from my perspective, but because they wanted something “Coooool”.
And they’d know where to get some guns themselves when TSHTF.
“What role do submachine guns play“?
Shooting those who don’t properly appreciate the “help” they are being subjected to by all those delightful agencies, and might express that lack of proper appreciation by trying to defend themselves and their property from the beneviolent (<– new word alert) helpers.
OT again: Perhaps the timing of the attempt to make an example of Bundy was to allow them to ease into http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/19/obama-designate-national-monument-new-mexico/#ixzz32HLEFOBB
28th Amendment: No employee or agent of the federal government may be in possession of firearms or other restricted weapons while acting in their official capacity, unless confined and segregated from the general population in a secured training facility, or deployed abroad.
Implication: All domestic enforcers are employed by the state or local governments. All enforcement requires complicity of local and regional organizations.
May require some rework, but the FedGov is the pin that is popping the balloon. Needs to be blunted.
Maybe, the non-DOD federal agencies are up arming to protect themselves from the other federal agencies? Since so many of the oppressors have overlapping and often contradicting missions, and are always trying to snatch missions and dollars from each other, armed conflice is inevitable. The other likelihood is to make sure the agency survives any kind of regime change or collapse. Opressing the citizens they are supposed to be assisting is just a bonus.
Tech rant:
“Two-round-burst?” Why? That’s not full-auto enough to justify the trouble of registering the guns.
Back in the 70s I could see converting from full-auto M-16s, which in Vietnam tended to be emptied in one short burst, to three-round-burst. With a standard 18-round magazine it reinvents the six-shooter.
But two rounds? They can’t double-tap?
Dumb gun.
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Dog video? Well, I suppose that warrants reposting this, particularly in case anyone has missed it: Sad Dog Diary.
In re. the USDA, I suppose they’re part of the Civilian National Security Force. Library of Congress? Really?
The USDA also has a FedBizOps solicitation out for Threat Level IIIA body armor.
Gotta have all the bling to complete the tacticool ensemble.
I wonder if the stormtroopers have to buy their own “hard knuckle” gloves? These gloves are the modern and stealthy equivalent of the brass knuckles favored by gangsters. Saw at least one shaved head in govt costume wearing them at the Bundy thing.