You know how I usually view petitioning Our Glorious Leaders. It’s right up there with v*ting for usefulness. However, here’s a petition that deserves some attention: we petition the obama administration to: require that Syrian rebels receiving firearms and other munitions from the US Government receive only firearms legal for US Civilian ownership, and undergo the same background and security checks a US Civilian would, including appropriate NFA tax stamps, and waiting periods. I don’t know why anyone would want to arm those barbarians (and they’re barbarians on both sides of that conflict). I really don’t know why anyone who…
Author: Claire
Quick! More than half the tickets are already gone. But if you’ve ever wanted a Serbu BFG-50A (just like the one the good folks of Serbu refused on principle to sell to the NYPD), you can buy a chance and benefit JPFO at the same time. This is a beautiful [expensive!]* gun. If “BFG” stands for what you’d expect “BFG” to stand for, the name really, seriously tells the truth. “David Brooks: The Last Stalinist.” Unfortunately, he’s probably not even remotely the last. But I “enjoy” listening to him on NPR, where they pair him with E.J. Dionne as if…
“Survival Mom” Lisa Bedford had a dream about that, then asked a bunch of knowledgeable people for their $.02 on when it’s time to get out of Dodge. Balloon going up part 1. Balloon going up part 2.
Well, look at that. Here all these years you thought Microsoft products were just buggy. But where the NSA and MS are concerned, those aren’t bugs; they’re features. (H/T H) New: Prism-Break.org. Products to use instead of the Usual Suspects.* One of those is StartPage, of course. And while you’re in the position of having to take their word for it, this is a pretty good statement of principle. Why skipping college could be a good idea. And UnCollege.org. Jim Bovard (that is, Mr. Bovard, according to the WSJ bio; have I been too informal all these years?) on the…
It’s starting to feel as if “20,000 at the bottom of the sea” isn’t even a good beginning.* A requirement of the 2008 law is that the NSA “may not intentionally target any person known at the time of acquisition to be located in the United States.” A possible interpretation of that language, some legal experts said, is that the agency may vacuum up everything it can domestically — on the theory that indiscriminate data acquisition was not intended to “target” a specific American citizen. NSA admits pretty much the whole shebang. Filthy, lying, spying, Orwellian, totalitarian, anti-Bill of Rights…
Just because Shel brought it up in comments and it’s always been a great song. Source for those who can’t see the embed. Yeah, the video’s a little “1980s” now. But still … —– ADDED: I suppose it’s a plus (although a pretty weird one) that this song has been banned on the BBC for many years “…due to its address of war, nationalism and religion, as well as a direct reference to weaponry in the line, ‘There’s a gun and ammunition just inside the doorway.’” Geez, I knew the Brits had gotten lily-livered in the last few decades (no…
I’m not going to trumpet, “You did it!” or anything like that. But Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval vetoed the notorious bill, SB221. It would have, among other things, have imposed de-facto gun registration and created thousands of new “criminals.” Worse, though, it would likely have become a model for other states. Sandoval intended all along to veto it, I’m sure. The interesting thing was that he set up a call-in hotline to allow anyone, anywhere to v*te for or against a veto. Billionaire Bloomberg tried to rally his (ahem) grassroots anti-gunners while gun groups and the gunblogosphere rallied the real…
One of the problems with reviewing a cookbook is that to do it properly you have to try at least a few of its recipes. That’s why I’m late to the party reviewing The Prepper’s Cookbook by Tess Pennington whose ReadyNutrition.com is rightly beloved among preparedness devotees. When her publisher, Ulysses Press, sent the cookbook … oh, back in April, I think … it sure looked like a great (and even fun) resource. But I had to try a few dishes to be sure. Having done that, I can say it cooks as good as it looks. —– The full…
(Source And big H/T to WL.) —– I’ve been trying to figure out the worst thing about the NSA revelations and it’s been hard to put my finger on that. It’s not the loss of privacy. I hate that. I really, really hate that and I assume that everybody with a brain hates that. But it’s Not News. It’s not the destruction of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Again: hate, hate, hate — but Not News. It’s not the lies or the preposterous Hollywood scenarios the securitators are cooking up to obfuscate the fact that they’re spying on…
What with the cascading chaos of IRS-gate, Snoop-on-the-media-gate, Benghazi-gate, and now the whopper of them all, NSA-gate, perhaps you were worried that Your Beloved Leaders might be too distracted to function. But never fear, Dear Citizens! Your Public Servants remain fully dedicated, on the job, and as always, Devoted to their Sacred Responsibilities to We the People. And lest you have any lingering doubt about that …* —– * Anyone with lingering doubts about government can be expected to be discovered by the ever-helpful algorithms of the NSA and aided toward a better future by the FBI, DHS, ATF, and…