Category Archives: Guns

Rule 5: Georgia Pellegrini

Posted on January 21, 2015 | 1 comment

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This gal, who is from New York’s Hudson Valley but seems to now live in Austin, is a real hunter, as well as an author, a chef and a looker who might one day embody the old saying: Looks don’t last but cookin’ does. Check out her site here.

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Don’t Mess With Texas Women

Posted on January 17, 2015 | 2 comments

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At least 800,000 Texans carry concealed handguns and many of them are women. Thousands more of both sexes keep a loaded gun at home. An old Houston girlfriend of mine kept a loaded 20-gauge shotgun under her side of the bed.

But this unidentified woman— and a few others in the fifteen other photos of armed Texas women at the link above—really shouldn’t have her finger on the trigger until she’s ready to shoot. Unless she’s planning to kneecap herself. That she does anyhow indicates what you might get real quick if you mess with her.

And yet… According to the CDC, in 2011, Americans used guns for self-defense 2.5 million times. Total gun homicides – including murders by criminals and the mentally ill – was only about 10,000. That was in a population of 310 million.

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Feds imposing illegal gun control

Posted on January 16, 2015 | 2 comments

The president couldn’t get his own party to pass gun control laws, so he’s having his bureaucrats do it by “intimidat[ing] banks with the threat of heightened scrutiny and increased audits if accounts are maintained” by legal gun shops.

“What they’ve done is they put…gun dealers out of business, ammunition manufacturers out of business. Because in America, if you can’t bank, you can’t do business,” Rep Sean Duffy, a Wisconsin Republican congressman, told FoxNews.

The Department of “Justice” even has a name for their exercise: Operation Choke Point. They’re aided and abetted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

“Brian Wise, with the U.S. Consumer Coalition, says there are hundreds and even thousands of businesses across the nation who have had bank accounts closed, and they may not even know their bank was intimidated by Operation Choke Point. ‘This is one of the greatest abuses of power that the country has never heard of,’ Wise said.”

Thanks to the Internet and FoxNews, they have now. Time to sue the bastards.

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And more random thoughts

Posted on December 8, 2014 | 3 comments

Amazes me that anyone still takes the news media seriously. They don’t even take themselves seriously. Rolling Stone’s phony gang-rape story was based on the word of one, uncorroborated, source without any comment from the accused. None at all. When will the firings begin?

New York City’s illegal cigarette-salesman Eric Garner should not have resisted arrest but surely it wasn’t necessary to kill him for it. I have no use for the rioters but I have to agree with them that the system is seriously out of whack. Cops are killing people more often these days and many of their prosecutor-backers are persuading grand juries to do nothing about it.

As Ted Cruz has said, and Rand Paul has chimed in, it’s time to abolish the IRS.

Who will be the Republican nominee in 2016? Why Jeb, of course. It’s his turn. That’s the way the Stupid Party does business.  And creation of a third, Tea Party, will only pad the loss to the Democrats. Sixteen years of ’em. Whew.

There’s one consistent detail about the Democrats. A hundred years later, they are still trying to disarm black people. Only now they’re trying to do it to everyone else at the same time. Except their own elites, of course. They’ll always have guns. Or bodyguards with guns.

Few journalists are independent actors like the Rolling Stone “reporter” Sabrina Rubin Erdely. They do what their editors & publishers tell them and their editors & publishers are primarily interested in keeping the pols, the authorities and the advertisers happy. And, nowadays, keeping their own jobs. Erdely is an outlier. But, then, so is her editor. Are they still employed? Why?

Tell me why anyone would feel safe with a president who considers economic sanctions for Israel while fighting congressional attempts to renew sanctions on terrorism-supporting Iran? Sho’ loves him some jihadis, don’t he?

UPDATE:  The NYC grand jury’s failure to indict for trial the killer cop who murdered an unarmed black man for resisting arrest is a grave injustice that demands redress. Demands it, dammit. Get your heads out of your asses, people.

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Still More Random Thoughts

Posted on December 2, 2014 | 4 comments

Well, of course the climate warriors have a following. As long as it’s just rhetoric and someone else’s burden. Until they realize they’ll have to make do without a refrigerator, the biggest electricity draw in any abode, owned or rented, or else spend all their money on the electric bill to keep it running.

Ponzi schemes work great as long as everyone keeps paying. Gen-Y, or whatever they’re called this month, better get off their self-important behinds and get to work. I don’t want my checks to be late.

Just once, just once, I’d like to see a lengthy report in a leftist journal on the dark power of sororities.

We need fewer crooked lifetime experts and more enthusiastic honest amateurs. Can’t be that hard if Cuomo and Christy can do it. Not to mention Wormtongue.

Politics and crime are the media’s two favorite subjects because, basically, the information is free. At least from the pols who push, push, push it all the time. The cops are getting less cooperative these days. And more trigger happy.

The hyperregulatory state (shown by the 3, 415 new federal regulations issued before Thanksgiving) is excellent for the bureaucrats who do the regulating. So many opportunities for personal enrichment. Better known as graft.

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How Officer Unfriendly gets away with murder

Posted on November 30, 2014 | 7 comments

In many states, including Texas, the law specifies that if a cop wants to arrest you and you run away, you are poised on the ragged edge of your death.

Because the law specifies that if the cop has a reasonable suspicion that you have committed a felony, s/he is authorized by the power of the state to kill you in cold blood.

One more law that needs changing. Flight should not be grounds for official murder.

UPDATE:  And, whatever you do, don’t point a banana at one of them. You could be jailed for “felony menacing.” They’ve got a law for everything.

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The times of Tittlemouse

Posted on November 26, 2014 | 2 comments

Story-telling at MyOldRV whose author Andy is also working on his HAM radio license:

“I did ask him if the truck was ‘hot’, had he run over a bunch of school chil’ren’s on the sidewalk in it?  Robbed a 7-11?  Any such thing as that?  He mumbled something about a problem with the registration and inspection and said that was about the size of it. Tittlemouse is a lot of things but a liar isn’t one of them.”

Worth a read, pard.

Via MyOldRV.

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