Month: January 2013

One very good article on gun “control”

I very highly recommend that you read this one:

A pretty, young, auburn-haired woman – mid-20s – drove down a lonely country road somewhere in Oklahoma. Appearing in her rearview mirror, at the back windshield, were two menacing orbs of light floating amid ashen dusk. The guttural roar of a souped-up big block shook the tiny Volkswagen Rabbit as a van-load of inbred thugs lurched left and drew alongside her. A ponytailed passenger taunted inaudibly and blew foul kisses between crude hand gestures. He pointed for her to pull over as the van repeatedly swerved dangerously close.

Inside the car a man, asleep in the reclining passenger seat, was startled awake by the commotion. He rose and darted his head about, calmly assessing the situation. This only spurred the evil-bent goons. As they ramped-up efforts to run the car off the road, the man reached in the glove box, withdrew a military-grade, semi-automatic handgun – an “assault weapon,” if you will – and, with intentionality and great theatre, leaned across his young bride, pointing the gun out the open bay and directly between dirt bag’s booze-flushed eyes.

Van vanished amid a plume of gray smoke as wheels locked, tires screeched and “assault vehicle” fishtailed – jerking to a halt with taillights aglow skyward from the ditch.

Not a shot was fired.

via Civil War’s A-Brewin’ – Matt Barber – [page].

Go read the rest of that one. I highly recommend it. 😀

Video: James Yeager tries to take something bad and make it into something positive!

I have to give James Yeager credit, he is trying his darndest to turn this potential problem in a positive thing. Hopefully, the authorities in TN will see this and give him his gun permit back.  I also want to say, I fully understand where Mr. Yeager is coming from; with all the myths that going around, about what happened at Sandy Hook.  It is enough make anyone, especially those who support the Second Amendment and gun ownership very angry.

Here’s two video of James Yeager, one of him being interviewed and one of him interviewing an attorney:

http://youtu.be/WaUFJsSQ7tI

http://youtu.be/wD5kuOMIVts

Hang in there James! We are with you buddy! Make this into something positive. Good job! 😀

 

Racism at HotAir.com

I am calling this nonsense out, because this blog is run by some of the biggest hypocrites on the planet.

Over at the Neocon HotAir.com, in their silly sub-echo chamber greenroom there was the posting on this video here:

http://youtu.be/jNOm9Y_Ve40

Check out some of the comments over there:

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But, no, they’re not racist, not over at HotAir.com! 🙄

These are the same idiots, who removed my trackback, when I complained about Mary K. Ham’s mocking of fat people. These are also the same idiots, who removed my commenting access, when I dared to tell the truth about neoconservative Wilsonian foreign policy over there. By the way, this is not the first time, that someone like me has complained about the behavior over at that blog.  It seems that in the past, an HotAir.com affiliate, who was Jewish, ironically, bolted after some hate bubbled up on that site.

This is just another reason, of a good number of reasons, why I basically said “enough is enough” with the Conservative movement, Tea Party, Republican Party or whatever you want to call these angry white people. Just as much as I feel that playing the race card is stupid wrong and immoral; I think that this sort of nuanced racism is wrong as well.

I guess this is to be expected from a site, of whom its star writer claims to be a Conservative; all the while collecting Medicare Advantage and living off it.

How ironic is it?

That the family of this kid writes this below?:

Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community’s most cherished principles.

via Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz – Remember Aaron Swartz.

But, yet, progressives still want and advocate for big Government. This just does not make any sense to me, at all. When will the progressives finally wake and realize that the Government, is not your friend at all. Most likely, when it is too late and ALL of our freedoms are taken from us.

Others: Associated Press, Firedoglake, GigaOM, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Guardian, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, Politico, Unhandled Exception, Wonkblog, BuzzMachine, Making Light, Boing Boing and TechCrunch,  Crooks and Liars, The Adventures …, Mashable!, Blue Mass Group and The Moderate Voice 

Open Message to John McAfee

About this little thing here:

Regardless, he does care too much for money, he said.

“It’s the worst curse in the world,” he said. “Believe me. There is no worse curse. Because money removes your freedom.

“It gives you the illusion of freedom because you can do anything you want. But everything you do is one more bar in your prison. You buy a big house somewhere. Now you have a staff and taxes and some upkeep — it owns you. It’s going to reach into your life and take part of your time and part of your energy — forever.

“And you add to that with another house and another and you have a boat and then you have all of these cars — the more you have, the more you are owned until finally you have no freedom of movement whatsoever and you end up like Bill Gates.

“His life is managed moment to moment by his money. It’s a horrible situation. Now, it’s a hard thing to give up, even though you know it’s like drugs, you know? You’re addicted to heroin, you know that it’s killing you but you can’t stop. Same thing with money. Only far worse. Far worse. So, I think it’s a curse. I think everyone who’s been there will agree.”

via Software entrepreneur John McAfee flees Belize, calls Portland home, for now | OregonLive.com.

Mr. John McAfee, if you feel that the curse of money is a bit too much to bear; you can feel free to write me a nice check. Say, for about 10 million or more, maybe? I will see to it, that it is put to good use. Like maybe taking care of my developmentally disabled aunt, who will eventually end up going to the state, when my mother is too old to take care of her. I would see to it, that she was taken care of, in a nice private care facility somewhere. Then, I would invest some of that money into a business, of some sort. Plus, I would take care of my parents as well.

I know, it is a pipe dream; but I thought I would toss it out there. One man’s curse, is another man’s means of living. Some people cannot deal with that sort of wealth; I could learn to adjust to it just fine, thank you very much. I would buy myself this house here and live the dream life that I have always wanted to live; in the woods.

Ah well, it’s nice dream, is it not? 😀

 

Those who live in glass houses

Ought not to throw stones… and those who attack people, ought not bitch about it, when it happens to them!

So, there is this article in Israel National News about some mean ol’ meanie Arabs attacking Jews and of course, they have video, if it was not staged, which most of them are:

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To this I simply say; what about this here? This was a Christian man, who was filming a documentary in an Orthodox Jewish area in Jerusalem and this is what happened to him:

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Again, I say, those who live in glass houses, ought not to throw stones.

Jesus Christ called it right, when he called them Hypocrites. I mean, after all, anyone who builds on disputed territories, should expect rockets fired into their Country.

State of Tennessee suspends James Yeager’s gun permit

I think this was a smart move, because this guy really did something very stupid. Even though, he did back it up a bit. It still did send a bit of a scary message.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security has suspended the handgun carry permit of a local man who threatened to “start killing people” to protect his Second Amendment right.

In a statement released Friday officials said they had suspended the handgun carry permit of James Yeager, CEO of Tactical Response based on “material likelihood of risk of harm to the public”.

On Thursday, a video of Yeager angrily claiming he would “start killing people” if President Barack Obama moved forward with gun control measures began to go viral on the internet.

“The number one priority for our department is to ensure the public’s safety. Mr. Yeager’s comments were irresponsible, dangerous, and deserved our immediate attention. Due to our concern, as well as that of law enforcement, his handgun permit was suspended immediately. We have notified Mr. Yeager about the suspension today via e-mail. He will receive an official notification of his suspension through the mail,” Commissioner Bill Gibbons said.

via State Suspends Permit Of Man In Gun Control Rage Video – NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather & Sports.

Again, I think it was a smart move; I think he should meet with Law Enforcement and show that he is not some sort of loon and then get his permit back.

Now another thing that I feel the need to bring up, being that I am a white person and all. Is that the fact that one blogger out there; is accusing James Yeager of getting a slap on the wrist for being white. I have one question, you race-baiting twit —- are you serious? You got your black progressive President; what the hell else do you really want, white people in chains? That is what your feckless leader screwy Louie Farrakhan would want! You sound just like him too. I though that the election of Barack Obama was going to end the all of this racial-based politics? I guess not. 🙄

That right up there, is why I am not a huge fan of the Democratic Party; no, not because I hate black people. But because of the stupid racial based politics, and the identity politics that goes on in that party, all the time. Way I see it, that stuff happened over 300 years ago and Abe Lincoln ended slavery and in 1964, blacks were liberated everywhere. So, the way I see it, they need to get over it and move on and quite acting we white people are still putting them in chains.

Now, to be fair; that same stuff goes on in the Republican Party. It goes on with the Jews. I mean, that stuff happened 70 years ago, and yet, we still have people make a cottage industry over it and White Anglo-Saxon protestants, like myself, are still being prosecuted, because we will not kiss the ass of the neoconservative right in this Country. (See Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan) and some people, who dare to speak the truth are losing their jobs. (See Rich Sanchez)

It is sick, it needs to stop and we need to move on as a Country. But, as long as there are people getting rich on this sort of thing; it will continue. It is tragic, but it is, what it is.

Others: Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, msnbc.com,ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, The Impolitic,The Immoral Minority

The Saturday Night Music Express – Special Memorial Edition – Presents: Stone Temple Pilots

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Los Angeles (CNN) — Aaron Swartz, an Internet savant who at a young age shaped the online era by co-developing RSS and Reddit and later became a digital activist, has committed suicide, a relative told CNN Saturday.
He was 26 years old.

A prodigy, Swartz was behind some of the Internet’s iconic moments, soaring to heights that many developers only dream of. At the same time, he was plagued by legal problems arising from his aggressive activism, and he was also known to suffer depression, a personal matter that he publicly revealed on his blog.

Related:

Others: AlterNet, Mashable!, Guardian, The Daily Caller, The Verge, VentureBeat, Towleroad News #gay, The Raw Story and Gothamist,  New York Times, Hullabaloo, Althouse, Guardian and Brad DeLong,  Crooked Timber, The Agonist, The Atlantic Online, Guardian, Balloon Juice, The Lede,Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Gawker, TechCrunch, Althouse and Lessig Blog, v2, The Reality-Based Community (Memeorandum)

It must be nice….

Looks like David Gregory of MSNBC will not be charged with a crime for displaying a high-capacity magazine on TV. William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has the scoop:

Just released by D.C. Attorney General there will be no prosecution of David Gregory despite a finding that there was a clear violation of the law (emphasis mine):

Having carefully reviewed all of the facts and circumstances of this matter, as it does in every case involving firearms-related offenses or any other potential violation of D.C. law within our criminal jurisdiction, OAG has determined to exercise its prosecutorial discretion to decline to bring criminal charges against Mr. Gregory, who has no criminal record, or any other NBC employee based on the events associated with the December 23,2012 broadcast. OAG has made this determination, despite the clarity of the violation of this important law, because under all of the circumstances here a prosecution would not promote public safety in the District of Columbia nor serve the best interests of the people of the District to whom this office owes its trust.  Influencing our judgment in this case, among other things, is our recognition that the intent of the temporary possession and short display of the magazine was to promote the First Amendment purpose of informing an ongoing public debate about firearms policy in the United States, especially while this subject was foremost in the minds of the public following the previously mentioned events in Connecticut and the President’s speech to the nation about them. There were, however, other legal means available to demonstrate the point and to pursue this line of questioning with the guest that were suggested to NBC and that could have and should have been pursued.

OAG also appreciates that the magazine was immediately returned to the source that NBC understood to be its lawful owner outside of the District and that the magazine in question, with NBC’s assistance, has been surrendered to MPD. OAG also recognizes the cooperation NBC has provided in the investigation of this matter.

Proving that if you rich, white, liberal and you happen to be friends with the DC attorney general; you can pretty much do what you darned well please.

Unbelievable. 🙄 Whatever happened to rule of law? Whatever happened to the justice system in this Country? …and they wonder why people go on these shooting sprees because they are simply pissed off at the Government?

Others: Outside the Beltway, Erik Wemple, American Power, NewsBusters.org, The Gateway Pundit,Mediaite, Power Line, Washington Times and The Daily Caller (Via Memeorandum)