- I’ve been watching the Elio with lots of anticipation though I still can’t decide whether it’s all hype or something gonna-be cool. Might be time to start watching the Local Motors Strati, too. 3D printed car.
- “The Myth of Washington Gun Rights Groups.” a monster take-down of Gottlieb’s newest
sock puppetproxy, the “honorable” Adina Hicks.* (Via Mike V. who asks “where’s her bow tie?”) - One year after: Colorado and pot are doing well.
- The Obama administration’s idea of cool-and-groovy solidarity: Sweet Baby James Taylor.
- The nanny state picked the wrong family to hassle this time.
- 10 reasons the Mafia is better than the state.” 🙂 (Via Wendy McElroy)
*The article gets JPFO’s name slightly wrong and says I was an employee when I was always an independent contractor. Minor details, but I couldn’t find a way to contact the author to give him a non-public heads-up. Very good article nevertheless.
Misses the point. What gun owners needed was a few billionaires willing to drop a few mil of their personal wealth like the antis had. Fat chance.
The anti-gun crowd’s leadership is just as sleasy and corrupt as anybody else. (How many of MAIG membership went to prison?). But don’t expect the Sea-Tac Oly media to point this out.
AnCaps are in a particlularly tight spot cuz most of them don’t believe in voting, politics, or doing anything else that would have a positive influence the outcome of any election. Going from total disengagement to a program of direct action is non starter and will not work IMO.
We’ve all known these days were coming for a long time.
OT: Armed blockades and hard stare downs at people while holding ready weapons of war doesn’t amoung to a NAP violation why?
“Misses the point. What gun owners needed was a few billionaires willing to drop a few mil of their personal wealth like the antis had. Fat chance.”
Doesn’t miss the point. If billionaires were required on both sides, then gun rights would be lost because we don’t have them. 2A activists have beat Bloomberg several times, but it required strong engagement, which wasn’t present in WA.
One major reason it wasn’t present was that the so-called “leaders” deliberately diverted attention away from the issue. The million or so spent to promote Gottlieb’s I-591 diversion could have gone a long way toward fighting I-594.
“The anti-gun crowd’s leadership is just as sleasy and corrupt as anybody else. (How many of MAIG membership went to prison?). But don’t expect the Sea-Tac Oly media to point this out.”
Now, that does miss the point. The point isn’t merely that Gottlieb and Hicks are sleazy; it’s that they’re sleazily enacting an agenda that isn’t in any way about stopping background checks.
“AnCaps are in a particlularly tight spot cuz most of them don’t believe in voting, politics, or doing anything else that would have a positive influence the outcome of any election. Going from total disengagement to a program of direct action is non starter and will not work IMO.”
True about ancaps not voting. But what makes you think that the people who are (literally) up in arms now are all ancaps?
“OT: Armed blockades and hard stare downs at people while holding ready weapons of war doesn’t amoung to a NAP violation why?”
I saw more smiles than hard stare downs. I heard that people carefully cleared their weapons before entering the Capitol. I never heard anything about anybody having “ready weapons of war,” let alone pointing such weapons at anybody or making threats.
I don’t necessarily agree with taking those guns into the Capitol building. But I saw no threat — only a Jeffersonian warning.
KenK, I’d love to see a list of politicians you think would or could have removed the threat of the anti-gun legislation? I’d really like to know how you (and so many others) think that voting for someone who promises what they can’t possibly deliver, even if they mean it, is going to make any real difference to the majority of the controllers… you know, those who are quite willing to kill us without a second thought.
Voting doesn’t change the nature of politics or politicians. Their only goal is total control of our lives and property, and the “lesser of two evils” has no different goal, just maybe a better PR writer.
The very fact that Gottlieb and the other promoters of “background checks” managed to get this evil thing pushed throuth is serious proof of the above, not that anyone should have spent millions to write different PR material. Such a thing shouldn’t be subject to any “vote.” Ever.
OT: Put on list of things not to do http://controversialtimes.com/news/2-idiots-1-gun-shop-police-officer-suing-gun-store-after-shooting-off-his-own-finger-video/
Yeah, I’ve been seeing that around the gunblogs. Sounds as if everybody involved really screwed up. You’d think a gun store clerk would know to make a firearm safe before handing it to anybody, and you’d sure hope a cop would know basic gun safety, too.
You can pick up a 2001-2002 Honda Insight [5 speed manual trans] hybrid that gets 62-68 MPG for around 4k-6k depending on mileage. One with just around 100k that will easily go another 200k goes for around 6k. They are all aluminum including the frame and look cool too boot.
kevin mullis — Cost and mileage are only part of it. To me, new technologies and out-of-the-box thinking are what make the Elio and the Strati worth watching.
“Retail and medical weed generated more than $60 million in tax and licensing revenue for the state in 2014, the lion’s share of which is helping to pay for school construction and the regulatory system that legalization requires.”
The real reason the war on pot will end. Same as alcohol prohibition. I intend to grow my own however. Hard to tax that!
[What gun owners needed was a few billionaires willing to drop a few mil of their personal wealth like the antis had.]
If you think politics controls the bearing of arms, you’d better turn your guns over right now. Or sell them to someone with more grit. I-594 just gives Washingtonians good practice in ignoring the law, as far as I’m concerned. It’s one thing to pass a law, another thing to enforce it. Bloomberg just flushed his millions down the toilet.
That article comparing Mafia to government was a gem!
I have a Dodge with a 12-valve Cummins diesel, last made in the first half of the 1998 model year. No computer and no distributor. It’s beautiful.
I have a Dodge with a 12-valve Cummins diesel, last made in the first half of the 1998 model year. No computer and no distributor. It’s beautiful.
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1997 here,too bad the truck isnt nearly as good as the Cummins,yet I still love it,is a very good 4WD.
Love the Elio,would buy one in a heartbeat if only they could deliver.
Good point on Insight and reply to same.
As for Gottlieb,no use for him/his at all,is a #%$#@* IMO.