Shall Not Be Infringed

From Breitbart:

Utah Sheriffs Association to Obama: From Our Cold Dead Hands: "As sheriffs across the nation signal opposition to enforcing additional federal gun regulations, the Utah Sheriffs' Association sent a letter to President Obama assuring him that its members similarly will not comply. 

The letters insists that the rights of Utah citizens trump any new gun control measure that Congress might pass, and sheriffs in Utah are prepared to trade their lives in defense of their constituents' right to keep and bear arms. 

The letter, signed by 28 of Utah's 29 sheriffs, sternly rejects the citation of recent tragedies as Congress's rationale for expanded gun regulations"

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Guilty. And Unlikely To Be Proven Innocent.

Wet Mountain Tribune - Page 2 - 3/28/2013: "Jobe said that in the country of Mexico the only folks allowed to legally carry guns are law enforcement officers.

“The general citizens don’t have guns,” said Jobe, “but the gangs and cartels do.”

According to statistics provided by Jobe, there have been 50,000 murders in Mexico since the year 2000.

Additionally, Jobe said he feels that the state legislature was in such a rush to get some gun control laws passed that not enough research and homework was done.

“They didn’t listen to law enforcement and others,” said Jobe.

“For example,” said Jobe, “any clip in which the bottom can be opened up is illegal beginning July 1.”

Jobe, who owns such a gun, said that such clips are manufactured that way to make it easier for the consumer to keep them in good, working order for safety.

The new law, said Jobe, prohibits the manufacturing of clips with those removable front plates.

“The governor and legislators were given this information but they chose to sign the law anyway,” said Jobe.

Additionally, said Jobe, clips do not have serial numbers on them like guns do so it is going to be difficult to prove when and where a clip was purchased.

(Beginning July 1 when the new laws go into effect, Colorado manufacturers will be required to have some sort of identity stamp on such clips.)

“In our country,” said Jobe, “You are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but with the way the law is written, I think people are going to be guilty until they are proven innocent.”

Additionally, said Jobe, if the clip is illegal, then the gun is basically useless.

“I already have people asking me what they can do with a gun they have had for 30 years and how are they going to prove that they had it and the clip before July 1,” said Jobe. “It is going to be difficult for an owner to sell a gun that uses such magazine clips or to pass such a gun down to a family member,” said Jobe."

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Colorado's Governor: Openly Corrupt (Bumped)

Clements update: Hickenlooper was friends with the father of white supremacist - Article Comments - View topic - General Discussion - Article Talk : Denver Colorado Neighbors: "Yeah, that part didn't make it into the Denver Post piece. Nor did the fact that when a 9News investigative reporter asked a followup question as to whether the governor could assure the people of Colorado that there was no connection between the campaign contributions and Ebel's release, the good governor, obviously annoyed, suggested that the reporter could lose his "access" for asking questions like that."

Move along now. Nothing to see here.

Time to get busy on the recall drive. (Note: This post will stay on top for a while -- look for new posts below.)

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Move Along Now...

The PJ Tatler » North Carolina Woman Fights Off Two Male Intruders with Pistol: "The men ransacked the house, and when they opened the closet door, she fired at them, Griffin said. One man was struck, authorities said.

The men fled, and neighbor Wayne Crumpler said he heard them yelling for help."

Nothing like this ever happens of course...

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Dear Kids

Instapundit: "DEAR KIDS:"

Yup. Sequester for thee but not for me, the Kingly BHO. Well, and you chumps are too stupid to know that it's not actually a cut. And I'm certainly not going to tell you.

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Biden Audio: Assault Weapons Ban 'Just The Beginning'

Biden Audio: Assault Weapons Ban 'Just The Beginning': "Vice President Joe Biden on a conference call with "Mayors Against Illegal Guns:" "And lastly, but not least, the Assault Weapons ban and the limitation on the size of magazines, let me say this as clearly as I can: this is just the beginning. We believe that weapons of war have no place on our streets. That’s the message that the retired admirals and generals have spoken to us about. The comment one of them used was: if you want to learn how to use a semi-automatic weapon, join the United States military, but these are weapons of war, and we believe there’s no rational reason why someone would need a clip that can hold fifteen, twenty, thirty, one-hundred bullets, one-hundred rounds. We have to do more and we will do more.""

One hundred rounds?  And the military gets to decide what we can have?  Who rules who?

This is the same genius that recently brought us:

I said, “Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.” Most people can handle a shotgun a hell of a lot better than they can a semiautomatic weapon in terms of both their aim and in terms of their ability to deter people coming.

This whole thing is factually wrong from start to finish including the fact that any LEO will tell you that firing your shotgun through the door will land you in jail -- even probably in Texas or Wyoming.

But lucky for us they're not coming for our guns.

And there's no historical commentary about this from founders and well known supreme court justices on this topic (also here).  That is being flushed down the memory hole O course.

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Daniel Hannan | Occupy Wall Street Debate | Oxford Union

Daniel Hannan | Occupy Wall Street Debate | Oxford Union - YouTube: "Daniel Hannan | Occupy Wall Street Debate | Oxford Union"

Beautifully done.

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And How We Burned (Reprise)

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Justice Story On The 2nd Amendment

Joseph Story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "On the Right to Arms of Military Utility The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."

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Or Just Read The First Comment

Rothbard on Recessions | Zero Hedge: "There's nothing that ever goes wrong that politicians can't make worse."

OK, not really -- although it is an excellent comment. You should WTWT as it's short and pithy including covering the "depression" of 1921. Didn't know we had a depression then? That's why you need to watch of course...

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Du'O: NPR goes rogue on SSDI

NPR goes rogue | Power Line: "Reader EC advises:

We interrupt this forum for a special bulletin: *****NPR HAS GONE ROGUE***** They just broadcast an hour-long episode of “This American Life,” which was a devastating critique of the disability program. Devastating. They called it the new default welfare program, pointing out that it costs the taxpayers vastly more than all other welfare programs put together. They went on and on and on and on and on about the utterly corrupt and dysfunctional character of the whole program and its explosive growth. Podcast version available Sunday at 7 p.m. Central Time here (Program 490: Trends with Benefits)."

And no doubt Barry's comments to NPR will be in the mold of the words of our own corrupt Governor of Colorado that they will "lose [their] access for asking questions like that".

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COTD: A) Incompetent Retards or B) Evil Geniuses or C) Commonplace...

About That Government Ammo Purchasing ...: "Arendt's first reaction to Eichmann, "the man in the glass booth," was — nicht einmal unheimlich — not even sinister." (4) She argues that "The deeds were monstrous, but the doer ... was quite ordinary, commonplace, and neither demonic nor monstrous." (5) Arendt's perception that Eichmann seemed to be a common man, evidenced in his transparent superficiality and mediocrity left her astonished in measuring the unaccounted evil committed by him, that is, organizing the deportation of millions of Jews to the concentration camps. Actually, what Arendt had detected in Eichmann was not even stupidity, in her words, he portrayed something entirely negative, it was thoughtlessness. Eichmann's ordinariness implied in an incapacity for independent critical thought: "... the only specific characteristic one could detect in his past as well as in his behavior during the trial and the preceding police examination was something entirely negative: it was not stupidity but a curious, quite authentic inability to think."

Wow. But it couldn't happen here of course.  Move along now.

And you wondered why they shout down anyone who actually tries to study the Nazis enough to avoid a replay...

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Liberal Fascism Today

How Liberals Argue - YouTube: "This scene is a microcosm of how liberals seek to silence the opposition by censorship and leveling personal attacks while avoiding the issues at hand. It further elucidates their ignorance of the issues, their bad habits of changing the subject during the debate, and their wild self-constructed fantasies of the world at large. Liberalism is a mental disorder. "

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In Case You Were Wondering How Feinstein Will Win

“Adam Winkler Asks If ‘Assault Weapons Ban’ Killed Gun Control” | protein wisdom: "Feinstein’s S.150 is not dead. Lacking votes to ram it through Congress, Harry “the gun owners friend” Reid has placed it on the fast track for passage by placing it on list of bills to be enacted by attaching it to a “must pass” bill. This is precisely the same path that Feinstein’s 1994 bill took. And Feinstein’s feigned upset not withstanding, this appears to have been the intent of Reid, Schumer, and the Senate Democrats."

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Red Line

An update on Iran’s nuclear program | Power Line: "Reza Kahlili is the pseudonymous former CIA operative who penetrated Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and author of A Time to Betray. Kahlili has published two columns on disclosures he attributes to a high-ranking Iranian intelligence officer: one here in the Washington Times and one here at WorldNetDaily. Using Google Earth, Kahlili briefly summarizes the contentions of his Iranian source in the video below."

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Do You Know What You're Really Watching?

Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009 - YouTube: "Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009"

Turn. Off. Teh. T. V.

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Michael Crichton on Politics as Religion with Bonus COTD

Michael Crichton on Politics as Religion: "9 from an interview with Crichton

Q: What is the most serious threat facing our civilisation?

A: Loss of classical liberal values in those western societies that embraced them.

England was the first modern state, the first superpower, the first nation to deal with moral issues around the world, and the first nation to install the benefits of what we might now loosely term a liberal society. I mean that in the 19th century sense of liberalism. That notion of liberalism was also present in America, but made it to the Continent only in a pale and limited form. It is a wonderful social conception that must be vigilantly guarded. It is not shared by other nations in the world. Nor is it shared by many citizens in English-speaking countries. Peculiarly, many of our most educated citizens are least sympathetic to classical liberal ideals. Indeed the term 'liberalism' in the modern day has come to imply a constellation of attitudes that John Stuart Mill would not recognize as liberal at all. Nor would, say, John F. Kennedy recognize them as liberal. Kennedy's conception of liberalism was simultaneously more tolerant and more tough-minded: tolerant about varieties of behavior within the society, and tough-minded toward threats to a tolerant society from without.

That's all gone, now. Today there is far too much sensitivity within societies, and too little hard-nosed recognition of threats from without. We are inclined to be intolerant of speech by our friends and neighbors, and tolerant of beheadings, rape, and homophobia in distant lands.

This makes no sense. But here we are.

Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 05:30 PM (j3uk1)"

Yes, here we are.

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Heh

How well did Hansen (1988) do? | Watts Up With That?: "The graphic from RealClimate asks “How well did Hansen et al (1988) do?” They compare actual temperature measurements through 2012 (GISTEMP and HadCRUT4) with Hansen’s 1988 Scenarios “A”, “B”, and “C”. The answer (see my annotations) is “Are you kidding?”"

I'd call Hansen and his toadies loons but frankly that would be an insult to loons.

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Suddenly Now A Problem?

On “the Promise of Gun Control” | protein wisdom: "Geoff B sends along the following chart — an annotated version of the chart that appears in the original post at Extrano’s Alley:"

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Out O The Park

Bookworm Room » At CPAC, Dr. Ben Carson comes out swinging against President Obama: "But let’s say somebody was there and they wanted to destroy this nation. What would you do? Let me tell you what I would do. First of all, I would create division among the people. I would have everybody pitted against each other because a wise man by the name of Jesus once said “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” And then I would encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country. And then I would undermine the financial stability of the country, and drive us so far into debt that there was absolutely no chance that it could recover. And I would weaken the military and destroy the morale of the military. That’s what I would do and I guarantee you it would work. Now, the question is, it appears coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now. And the question is, How do we stop it. Can we stop it?"

Perfect.

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