Slow and Steady Wins the RACE, Part TWO…

The Manchin-Toomey background check amendment, one of nine proposed changes to a gun control bill currently being debated in the U.S. Senate, on Wednesday failed to get the 60 votes required for passage.

Fifty-four U.S. Senators voted “aye” and 46 voted “nay.”

The proposal, named for Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Patrick Toomey (R-Pa.), would have expanded existing background checks on gun buyers to cover firearms sold at gun shows and via the Internet.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid voted against the proposal. He was joined by Democrat Sens. Baucus, Begich, Heitkamp, Pryor.

“Reid voted no for procedural reasons,” CBS News’ Major Garrett explains. “As Majority Leader, a ‘no’ vote allows him to bring the amendment up again.”

Arizona Republican John McCain voted in favor of the bill. He was joined by Republican Sens. Collins, Kirk, and Toomey.  (The Blaze)

There were nine amendments proposed.  None passed, including some pro-rights amendments.  BUT, debate continues on so-called ‘gun control’ in the Senate.

DETAILS HERE

In short, we’re not done yet.  Perhaps we’ve won a battle, but certainly not the war.

THIS has yet to occur…

We must stay on-point and remain vigilant!

h/t Glenn Beck

For A Good Time, Call The KGB…

…the GRU, NKVD, MVD, Stasi, MSS – or the FSB (the current incarnation of Russian intelligence apparat)

It seems Borepatch has determined the FSB is using their own version of Google, and is quite happy with their algorithms.  Welcome to YANDEX.   He says:

1. Russia has a bunch of excellent computer scientists, and Yandex seems to have picked up a bunch of them.  The Russians always excelled at algorithms (I’d go so far as to say that their mathematics training beats ours handily), and search is a game of algorithms.  I’m told that the Russian language is more difficult for computers to deal with than English (it is an inflected language, unlike ours), and so the Yandex algorithms originally developed for Russian really shine when aimed at English sites.

2. It gives me very good results – for most things I’ve been looking for, better than Google.  Google’s blogsearch has become a joke, which is perhaps a testament to Google’s internal lack of focus.  I find that bloggy related searches are much more productive on Yandex.~

~And now we come to what brought me to Yandex in the first place: Google is evil.  We all know it.  Furthermore, Google seems to be playing footsie with the US Government Intelligence Agencies:

One privacy advantage Yandex has which Google never will: Yandex does not do business with American intelligence agencies.  I do not like the fact that Google has become an arm of US intelligence agencies. It is to their credit that Google discloses their relationship with the US government (most of Silicon Valley is in bed with the spooks, but they don’t talk about  it). It is the surveillance  state that I abhor. Yandex may very well be doing the same thing with the Russian government, but the FSB is a much smaller threat to American civil rights than our own spooks. While I see no imminent dangers from the all-seeing eye, and I am far from paranoid, the US is going through a weird time right now, and history is a dark and bloody subject. Do I really want the future government  to know what websearches I was doing in 2010? No, thanks,  tovarich.

Paranoia?  I don’t think so.  And, just for S & Gs, I ran Guffaw in AZ on Yandex.

20 returns on the first page – only one in Russian.  Only one about guffawing, and not the blog.  Seems focused, as Borepatch intones.

I’m thinking of using this occasionally (instead of BING), just to annoy the three-letter folks in bed with Google. Otherwise, what good is a “uncensored” Internet?

Hell, I’m already on ‘the list.’

“So, aside from THAT, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

Part of my morning routine, after doing my blog post thing, is to peruse other blogs on my blogroll, The Gun Blog Black List, and elsewhere.  And I read the ‘news’ (such as it is.)  To search for blogfodder, jokes, and to see the state of the World.

I truly hope the following is another April Fool’s joke, like I fell for the other day.  If NOT, well…SIGH.

Monday, April 8, 2013

NY Gun Confiscation Underway – Citizens Told to Turn in Pistol Owner ID & Firearms

Via Steven Peter Yevchak, Sr.

 

Manasquan, NJ --(Ammoland.com)- Remember all those who denied that firearms confiscation as a result of New York’s new gun laws was too “insane” to even consider?

That it was strictly in the realm of paranoid conspiracy theorists and the “it cant happen here crowd”?

Those were and remain some of the standard replies to anyone who even thought about the possibility, let alone gave voice to it, despite the fact that Gov Cuomo and numerous other officials made public comments about such a plan, as I discussed in my article “Feinstein & Cuomo Admit Planning Australian Style Government Gun Buy Back” .

Elected Officials, the media, various Gun Control Groups and their zealous forced disarmament supporters, even some firearms owners themselves all insisted it was to crazy to even consider.

There’s just one huge problem it is happening now in New York State!

It seems those that tried desperately to warn of such an insidious plot had hit the bullseye with their warnings after all. News came from multiple NY State based firearms enthusiast websites late Friday that confiscations of Pistol Owner ID Cards, as well as firearms and accessories has commenced in NY under the provisions of the horribly flawed, draconian and blatantly unconstitutional NY SAFE Act.

Those folks having their weapons and FID cards confiscated  have been discovered to have been prescribed multiple different types of psychotropic drugs, such as those for Depression or Anxiety.

These are known as SSRI ( Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) class drugs and have the potential to cause serious and adverse side effects, something I wrote about extensively last week in an article that went viral in days and caused multiple Anti Gun and Progressive News Groups to initiate a concentrated denial of service hacker attack against Ammoland Shooting Sports News (see Daily KOS ” Keeping Track Of The RKBA Crowd” http://tiny.cc/ug67uw),  in an effort to keep the information from the public.
From NY http://tiny.cc/nyfirearms

“John Doe, an upstanding professional with no outstanding criminal convictions and no history of violent action received a letter from the Pistol Permit Department informing him that his license was immediately revoked upon information that he was seeing a therapist for anxiety and had been prescribed an anxiety drug. He was never suicidal, never violent, and has no criminal history. The New York State Department of Health is apparently conducting a search of medical records to determine who is being treated for anxiety drugs and using this as a basis for handgun license revocation.

Those are the facts. Nothing more, nothing less.”

 More @ Ammoland

We’re in for a truly bumpy ride, folks!

h/t Brock Townsend

The Ghost of Captain John Parker

not Ms. Maddow

Rachel Maddow says something fundamentally stupid about ‘open carry’ demonstrations.

She opines:

But let the record show, at the same time, that in the United States, whether the issue is guns or anything else, you will not win arguments that you try to win by threatening to shoot your opponents. You will not win if the way you are trying to win is by threatening to use weapons to get your political way. People do it in this country, it is a tactic. People try it from time to time and they lose because Americans do not settle disputes that way. In fact, we’re pretty invested in having a political system that has us not settling disputes that way. Once you threaten that you are going to settle your political disputes by use of arms, you will lose all of your political disputes. Tempting as it may be, particularly when the issue is guns itself, threats and physical intimidation are not how we successfully achieve change in this country.

Tell it to the Deacons for Defense and Justice. Tell it to the veterans of the Battle of Athens. Besides, it is these collectivist bastards that are using the force and power of government to threaten and physically intimidate US with their inconstitutional laws and criminality under color of law. “Threats and physical intimidation are not how we successfully achieve change in this country.” Yes it is. Ask the ghost of Captain John Parker.

For those with a progressive, liberal  education, please Bing or Google, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the Battle of Athens, and Captain John Parker, as I reasonably certain you’ve no idea what these subjects mean.  Of course, progressives largely run these search engines, so you might have to look elsewhere.

h/t Special Thanks to Mike Vanderboegh

My Lott in life is to Drone on…

…about our continuing loss erosion outright THEFT of our civil liberties!

Hanging on the coat tails of such luminaries as John Lott, who reports to us through c|net the following:

DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones

Homeland Security’s specifications say drones must be able to detect whether a civilian is armed. Also specified: “signals interception” and “direction finding” for electronic surveillance.

And just for fun, I also noticed a disturbance in the Force on the Internet, today.  It seems a significant number of high-ranking military officers are taking their retirement, because they’ve been asked by the current administration if they’d follow orders to disarm American citizens!  And they’d rather break ranks than to violate their Constitutionally-supportive oath.

No wonder the gun stores are lacking stock in ammunition and popular firearms.  They’re flying off the shelves.

Scary stuff.  1984 was 29 years ago, and things were bad THEN.  I fear for the future, and I don’t make that statement easily.

h/t Declan McCullagh

Is it the Bates Motel…

or the Hotel California, where you check in, but you don’t check out?  (Roach Motel?)

In another lifetime, I was working as a security guard, and sometime private investigator.  My company would draft me for undercover assignments, which got me out of the guard thing for a while.  I didn’t mind being drafted.

On one of these occasions, I was sent to a small town in the mountains North of Phoenix.  Worked undercover in a variety store as a management ‘trainee’ whose real function was to spy on all the employees and management.  Great stuff!

In such a position, I was quite concerned about my safety.  If something untoward was going on, I didn’t want to get ‘made’ and ratted out, or worse.  So, I carried a gun.  Sadly, I’d sold my handguns for rent money (AGAIN – I was young, this was the 70s – sigh) and the only firearm I owned was my Ithaca DSPS Model 37 police pump.  Not exactly concealable on-the-person.

So I toted her from under the motel bed into my car and back using my Dad’s weather-beaten trench coat as a gun rug!  Sadly, she had to stay in the car while I was working.

And the motel was on the main drag through town; single-story, L-shaped, rough hewn, not unlike a(n) (in)famous motel of Hitchcock movie fame.  I remember Triple A rating it, but not excellent.  And I was so stoked not being a guard and doing undercover work, I’d wind down after my 12 hour shift with pizza and beer, while writing my daily report (dropped in the mailbox the next morning en route to work – this was WAY before the Internet!).  Then I’d watch some late night movie on the 13″ B&W TV supplied in the room.

The first night the movie was In Cold Blood.

Not exactly restful slumber.  But, I did this for a couple weeks, didn’t find any opium dens in the back room of the store, or mob-related activity, and returned home.  Back to the guard stuff.  Sigh.

But, I never looked behind the motel to see if there was a swamp containing cars.  Guess I’ll never know…

Mark of The Beast?

The ‘Powers-That-Be’ in this nation have a problem.  About half of them want to control what happens in your bedroom (and with whom) and the other half wants to control by what means you may defend yourself, your household and your Country.  And there are many other issues dividing these folks.  But they have one thing on which they are in complete agreement.

THEY WANT CONTROL.

The people behind the throne, the movers and shakers (see The Council on Foreign Relations/Bilderberg Group/Illuminati/Vatican/George Soros/Ernst Stavro Blofeld ad infinitum, ad nauseum…) have decided one additional way to control you is by implementing a Biometric Social Security Card, issued to those folks “authorized to work in the United States.”

Push for Biometric ID – Oathkeepers

In this way, they get the ‘tighten up the borders’ folks, while getting more control over the entire populus.

The elite behind this idea in the United States Senate include such luminaries as Senator Charles Schumer (DICTATOR-NY) and Senator John McCain (RINO-AZ).

Playbook Breakfast John McCain and Chuck Schumer
(at about 37 minutes in, they bring up the Biometric Social Security Card)

Of course, no mention is made of implanting chips with GPS, or using magnetic ink tattoos.  Not yet, anyway.

Probably too gauche for fashion…

Through The Looking Glass

(apologies to Charles Dodgson…)

Borepatch reports the following:

Machine gun fire from military helicopters flying over downtown Miami, Florida!

Holy cow, black helicopters and machine guns over I-95.  If ten years ago you had told me this would be happening, I would have hand folded a tin foil hat for you.

And it’s gun owners who are crazies?  Anyone at the Miami PD even think about what this looks like?  -  Borepatch

Whatever happened to Posse Comitatus law?  I sense bad things in our future.  We now return you to your normal programming, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, or the armed men in the skies – all is well.

W.O.P. Guns – Are They Safe?

In Jennifer’s Head recently wrote about it having been the fifth anniversary of her first gun purchase!  Congratulations!

One of the commenters brought up the issue of private versus licensed dealer sales.  And that got me to thinking.

Back when I had a gun safe (with a small arsenal collection, therein) I kept my licensed dealer guns in one part of the safe, and my W.O.P. guns in a separate part.  (In politically-incorrect slang a wop was an illegal alien – it stood for With Out Papers!)  The firearms I purchased legally, but privately.

Now that this has become an issue, yet again (the whole fictitious gun show loophole) and as Senator Feinstein’s Further Remove Your Natural Rights Assault Weapon Ban bill includes a measure requiring documentation of private, personal sales,  I thought it appropriate to mention.

If indeed legislation is passed banning private, undocumented transfer of firearms, and all become ‘registered’, and ‘they’ come for them, do we really think ‘they’ will just take those in the register?  Or will they use metal detectors to look for ‘illegal’ guns secreted in the walls or buried in the yard?  Or detain individuals until they give up their stash?  (See the War on Drugs and Prohibition for historical context.)

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun – Mao Tse Tung

‘They’ (many local governments) now require you to present ID to vote, have a social security number, file your taxes, maintain your home and yard to an arbitrary standard, put your kids in school, have them vaccinated, not have church meetings in your home-if not so zoned, not sell unpasteurized milk-without a license, separate your recyclables, have your auto emissions tested for license, get a permit to carry your gun, get a safe to secure it unloaded in your own home.  Ad infinitum, ad nauseum 

And most of these rules, if disobeyed, will eventually result in a confrontation with armed government authorities.  Government is force.

Of course, in the coming socialist utopia, that would never happen.  Or we’d never read about it in the socialist-utopia controlled media, if it did.

SHHH! It’s a Conspiracy!

I admit it.  I tend to believe in conspiracy theories.  Not ALL of them.  But, I do believe many times the ‘powers that be’ shield us from all the facts.  For our own good.  Because, after all, we are children.

JFK, RFK, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, George Wallace shootings don’t pass my smell test.  There’s more there.

911 does.  Sandy Hook, maybe not – the jury is still out.

I ran into this video courtesy of Miss Cellania.  While I may disagree with some of it’s content, I still found it hilarious.

Sometimes, you just gotta laugh!