Category: General Blog

Unwelcome Signs

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‘Welcome to West Virginia,” the sign read.

“Hey, I’m legal!” I noted.

We’d been visiting a convalescing friend in Lexington, VA, and had also used the trip as an opportunity to visit Appomattox the day before, a place I’d never been to. Now we were heading home, taking the eastern route to see some country we’d never been through before.

“Maryland Welcomes You,” a new sign said. “Wes Moore Governor.”

“Whoops, illegal.”

“Welcome to Pennsylvania,” the next sign read. “Josh Shapiro, Governor.”

“Still illegal.”

A few hours passed.

“Welcome to Ohio,” a new sign read.

“Legal again.”

Nothing about me or what I was doing had changed. Each one of the states we’d passed through had agreed to abide by the Constitution as a condition of membership in the Union.

Without admitting I was doing anything but exercising my rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, who was undermining the Blessings of Liberty and breaking “the supreme Law of the Land” here?

Enemy Foreign and Domestic

That would be this Third World collectivist ingrate bent on turning the Founder’s Republic into the hellhole he escaped from…

ATF Director Cekada’s Concern for Adamiak Misses Larger Point

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“Cekada promised neither he nor the ATF will be ‘offended by the outcome of the courts,’ because he wants to make sure that Adamiak was ‘appropriately sentenced’,” Williams recounted. That’s mighty big of him. However, Second Amendment advocates should be offended by such a presumptuous response. [More]

Focusing on the punishment being too harsh ignores the intolerable injustice of there being any punishment at all.

First Impressions

Embarrassment of the Week: ‘Islamophobic’ Killer Is Named… Yeah, You Guessed It [More]

That presumes they can be embarrassed, that the initial allegations aren’t what stick, that the enemy doesn’t know and exploit that, and that PJ Media isn’t an echo chamber that is self-contained.

13 retweets. For a guy with 293K followers.

Meanwhile, eating Chicken McNuggets on a roller-coaster gets 5M views.

[Via Michael G]

Social Insecurity

How, when your Social Security check could be cut by $500 a month: Report [More]

“Trust fund.” Right.

Noting all the waste, fraud and abuse, and money spent on illegals…

I sure wish I’d had the money they took from me all my working life (and forced my employers to cough up, thereby lowering my wages) to invest. Instead, we’ve been coerced into dependency by a government that presumes to be more responsible with our money than we would be, and which, despite denials, was the long-term plan all along.

Theoretically, who should be hanged?

Wayne’s World

WAYNEGRIFT

Former NRA CEO must repay $4.3 million for misappropriating money, court rules [More]

When I think back to how furious Fairfax über alles prags used to go after me ‘n Mike for insistently pointing out what is now “common knowledge”… (kinda like another issue I won’t let go in spite of deliberate indifference/ suppression/ hostility…)

And we’ve still never gotten an answer on “CEO,” which they are still using, despite the Bylaws specifically saying:

“The officers of the Association shall be a President, one or more Vice Presidents, an Executive Vice President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Chief Compliance Officer, an Executive Director of the National Rifle Association General Operations, and an Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action.”

“The Board may not abolish said offices nor create any other offices.”

I’d have more faith in “reform candidates” if they were sticklers for the Bylaws (just as men of good faith are supposed to be sticklers for the Constitution), but all I’ve heard are deflecting excuses that deliberately miss the point like, “Well, that’s what he does.”

[Via WiscoDave]

We’re the Only Ones Fishy Enough

Debiase allegedly confronted a fellow officer who was “warming up fish in the microwave, causing an odor in the office,” the arrest warrant stated. During the confrontation, the detective allegedly “drew and pointed his department-issued handgun” at the other officer, the arrest warrant stated. [More]

Don’t try this at home, “civilians.” This requires professional training and experience.

[Via Jake S]

According to Her Nature

Raman is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and has argued for steering the city in a more progressive direction. [More]

Indian…

Democrat Socialists of America…?

83%, eh?

And yes, of course she’s for open borders/cultural terraforming.

Ranjit…? Care to argue some more…?

Color within the Lines

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for Alabama to use a pro-Republican congressional map that eliminates one of its two districts where Black voters make up a majority or ​near-majority, giving a boost to President Donald Trump as his party defends its control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. [More]

OK, but what’s that got to do with RKBA?

[Via Jess]