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  • The WaPo Misrepresents Propaganda as News – Again

    Yesterday, the Washington Post published        some anti-gun propaganda     an article.  Its title tells you all you really need to know about it:

    The “legal loophole” that allowed Dylann Roof to get a gun

    I’ve put “legal loophole” there in quotes for a couple of reasons.  The first reason is – it’s absolute bullsh!t, and it’s misleading as hell. IMO, that’s by intent.

    The second reason is that it the whole article appears to be factually incorrect.  No “legal loophole” – imaginary or otherwise – appears to have been involved at all.

    Here are the facts of the case.

    The apparently-racist bastard named Dylann Roof who murdered 9 innocents in Charleston was arrested for felony drug possession 28 February of this year.  According to the WaPo        propaganda       article, he obtained the weapon used in his crime as a birthday present this April.  (This now appears to have been proven false – I’ll cover that below).

    The WaPo writer seizes on this, claiming that this is the result of the “gun show loophole”.   He does so after acknowledging that it was already illegal under current Federal law for him to have been given a weapon as a gift while under indictment for a felony crime – see 18 USC 922(d)(1).

    So, even if the original reports of Roof receiving the firearm he used in his murders as a gift had been true, the reporter’s article would still have been bullsh!t.  Why?  Because there was no freaking “legal loophole” here.  Roof was facing felony charges – and his family had to know he’d been arrested.  They thus had good reason to suspect he could be facing felony charges – and therefore giving him a weapon would have already been illegal under Federal law.  There’s no “loophole” there, folks.

    In fact, later news reports indicate that Roof in fact bought the gun himself at a local gun shop.  My guess is that he probably falsified the purchase form (ATF Form 4473) and claimed he was not under “indictment or information” for any felony crime.  (I’m pretty sure that being out on bail after arrest while awaiting further court action virtually guarantees the latter – e.g., that Roof was legally considered “under information” of a felony, even if he hadn’t been formally indicted by a grand jury.)  Falsifying an ATF 4473 is also a Federal felony.  I suppose it’s theoretically possible that the gun shop was “dirty” and ignored a truthful answer – but since that’s kinda easily discovered, I rather doubt it.  Most business owners want to stay in business and stay out of jail.

    I’ll spell it out for any logic-challenged “liberal brethren” who might be reading this. Roof was apparently willing to lie on the purchase form in order to purchase a firearm himself.  That is itself a felony.  So, how would requiring him to take a firearm received as a gift down to the same firearms shop to “complete the transfer” for a gift have made any difference?

    Answer: it wouldn’t have.  He’d have simply lied on the ATF 4473 then, too.

    However . . . having him do that to “complete the transfer” would indeed assist in later compiling a database of who owns firearms, should anyone in the future want to do so.

    Bottom line:  that WaPo        propaganda       article yesterday wasn’t about gun safety at all.  It was about misleading people.  It was designed to convince people to support whatever is necessary to facilitate backdoor gun registration in the future – plain and simple.

  • Surprised? Nah, Me Neither.

    Well, our good SECSTATE has been at it again.

    It seems that the good John Forbes Kerry has been running his yap again – this time about “global climate change”. And here’s what he had to say:

    “Climate change is an issue that is personal to me, and it has been since the 1980s, when we were organizing the very first climate hearings in the Senate…. Al Gore, Tim Wirth, and a group of us organized the first hearings in the Senate on this, 1988. We heard Jim Hansen sit in front of us and tell us it’s happening now, 1988.”

    –Secretary of State John F. Kerry, remarks to the Atlantic Council, March 12, 2015

    Yep – Kerry claims he was right there with Gore, helping to organize the “first” hearings on the matter.

    He’s made very similar claims on multiple previous occasions. And, finally, someone decided to fact-check him on it.

    Specifically, Glenn Kessler – the guy who write’s the Washington Post “Fact Checker” column – fact checked the SECSTATE’s claim. And here’s what Kessler had to say about that claim:

    Yeah, that means what you think it does: Kerry lied. Through his teeth. With a straight face.

    Raise your hand if this caught you by surprise. Yeah, didn’t think so.

    Kessler’s WaPo article on the subject is well-worth reading. If you have about 5 minutes, it’s worth taking the time to look it over. It documents a multi-year pattern of Kerry telling this particular lie.

    If you “love” the man as much as I do, I think you’ll find it a very enjoyable 5 minutes.

  • More From That “Most Transparent Administration In History”

    Well, the current       DC clown krewe       Administration has been at it again. This time, they’re “helping us” see how our government spends our taxes.

    A Bush Administration law mandates that the US Government set up a website that provided “full disclosure to the public of all entities or organizations receiving federal funds”. The requirement was effective at the beginning in Fiscal Year (FY) 2007.

    That website evolved into USAspending.com. Until recently, it was actually quite useful and searchable.

    Now, it’s been “improved” by the current Administration’s       political henchmen       employees. And now, when you use it . . . you can’t find squat.

    A cynic would say that’s deliberate, because the previous version rather exposed the current Emperor’s nakedness when it came to wasteful spending occurring on his watch.  But that can’t possibly be the case from this “exemplar of open, honest government” we have in DC today.

    The Washington Free Beacon has an article giving more details. It’s definitely worth spending the time to read it.

    “Most transparent Administration in history” my ass.

  • Just When You Think You’ve Seen It All . . .

    . . . you get your nose rubbed in the fact that you haven’t.

    Well, ladies – you’d best get on-board and start supporting those restrictions on carbon dioxide.

    Why? It’s causing global warming – right? And according to Rep. Barbara Lee, D-CA, global warming is especially bad for women.

    Per a resolution introduced by Rep. Lee two days ago, one of the effects of global warming will be to force women into the sex trade to obtain basic necessities. So you ladies had best start protesting against global warming to protect your virtue!

    I wish I was joking above. But, sadly – I’m not joking. The “esteemed” Congressditz really did introduce a resolution to that effect.

    Sheesh. And she’s allowed not only to walk around without supervision – she also votes on bills being considered by Congress to become law.

    Only in America.

  • Gee . . . That’s . . . Just . . . Too . . . Bad

    Headline says it all:

    Senate Democratic Leader Reid announces retirement

    I guess not being in charge made serving the people of NV in the Senate not worth it any more.

    Good riddance.

  • Oh, the First Lady is Gonna Love This!

    We all know the First Lady is big on “nutrition”.  She’s been a driving force behind many new Federal policies regarding food choices, particularly in schools.

    Well, the FLOTUS isn’t gonna like the results of a recent study done by the Rand Corporation.

    It seems that out in the in La-La land – AKA Los Angeles, in the Left Coast’s Granola State – they got ahead of the FLOTUS.  LA passed zoning a zoning ordinance in 2008 which banned new fast-food outlets and the expansion of existing ones (those located in strip malls were an exception) in a 32 square mile section of South LA.

    This part of LA had historically had high obesity rates.  The thought was that limiting people’s freedom (via making it harder to choose to eat fast food) would improve that “public health problem”.

    The Rand Corporation recently studied the effect of that law. Here’s what they found:

    “It had no meaningful effect,” Rand senior economist Roland Sturm said. “There’s no evidence that diets have improved more in South LA. Obesity and overweight rates have not fallen.”

    Gee – people simply continued doing what they wanted to do, in spite of a well-intended but ineffectual law to the contrary.  Who’d have ever expected that people would continue to, you know, exercise that little thing called “freedom of choice” in their daily lives?

    Changing human behavior of this type can’t generally be done simply by decree.  You first have to convince people to change their attitudes and habits.

    Perhaps one day our leftist “brethren” will figure that out.

  • Aww . . . Aren’t They So Cute When Their Eyes Finally Open?

    Vermont is an . . . interesting state.  They have some true      Communist idiots      lost-in-the-past Socialists       Progressives in high places there.

    Who?  Well, like their      good Communist      self-avowed Socialist Senator, Bernie Sanders.  And their highly Progressive Governor, Peter Shumlin.

    Shumlin has been advocating a “single payer” medical care system in Vermont for some time.  (For those who aren’t fluent in Progressive NewSpeak, that essentially means “government-run Socialized medicine paid for by your taxes”.)  It was planned to go into effect in 2017.

    However, Shumlin has now thrown in the towel on single payer.   It’s not going to happen.

    Hey, you don’t suppose the fact that paying for it would have required an 11.5% payroll tax – plus an additional income tax of up to 9.5% – had anything to do with that, do you?  Plus the fact that a report prepared for the governor on Vermont’s proposed single payer system indicated that implementing single payer medical care would not save money?

    Well, yes – those facts did have something to do with it.  Even that good      Socialist tool      Progressive fella Shumlin finally figured out that simply wasn’t affordable and just wasn’t going to work.  Reality smacked him in the head and made him listen – after, unfortunately, much time and many Vermont taxpayer dollars had been wasted.

    Took him long enough.  Anyone with common sense could have told him that on day one.

    Here’s the problem:  on the surface, the idea of getting free sh!t sounds great.  The problem is that when it comes to real goods and services, “free” . . . doesn’t really exist.  One way or another, someone always pays for it.  That’s called “basic economics”.  That fact is succinctly summarized in the following nine words:  “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”.

    And if it’s government-provided “free” sh!t, guess who’s paying for it?  Yep – taxpayers.  You and me.

    Even dyed-in-the-wool Progressives like Shumlin sometimes are forced to acknowledge the above truths.  Problem is, sometimes it takes them getting whacked in the head by reality before they acknowledge the truth.

     

  • I Think Vets and Active Duty Personnel Will Just Love This Guy

    Metropolitan State University is in Denver, CO. It promotes itself as “a top choice for active-duty military and veterans to pursue higher education”.

    It also has one each Charles Angeletti as a professor. He teaches at least one class – American Civilization.

    Angeletti seems somewhat opinionated. Here are some of Angeletti’s thoughts on the USA:   “We’re very racist, we’re very repressive, we’re very Christian oriented, we don’t tolerate other kinds of thinking in this country.”

    As you might have guessed, Angeletti isn’t exactly conservative in his political leanings.  That’s reportedly apparent in the way he teaches his classes, too.

    Here’s a sample of how Angeletti teaches his American Civilization class. It’s something he reportedly has his students memorize and recite – his modified version of the Pledge of Allegiance.

    “I pledge allegiance to and wrap myself in the flag of the United States Against Anything Un-American. And to the Republicans for which it stands, two nations, under Jesus, rich against poor, with curtailed liberty and justice for all except blacks, homosexuals, women who want abortions, Communists, welfare queens, treehuggers, feminazis, illegal immigrants, children of illegal immigrants, and you, if you don’t watch your step.”

    (Apparently Angeletti also isn’t particularly bright either, notwithstanding the fact that he’s a college professor.  In particular, Angeletti apparently isn’t bright enough to figure out that if America really was as intolerant as he claims he’d not be allowed to spew his brand of idiocy in publicl.)

    I’m thinking that Angeletti’s moronic screed above – which is so poorly written that it isn’t even internally consistent regarding the point Angeletti’s attempting, abysmally badly, to make – is going to resonate with those active duty personnel and veterans that Metropolitan State University claims to want as students.  But I’m also thinking it won’t resonate in precisely the way that Dr. Ivory Tower Numbnuts here wants.

    Look, I’m all for academic freedom. But I do have a problem seeing public taxes pay someone to advocate blatantly false political propaganda as truth, and for teaching monumental idiocy.  And make no mistake about it:  if Metropolitan State students are getting any Pell grants or Federally guaranteed student loans – or are using VA benefits to attend the school – you and I are helping pay for this idiocy.

    Per the linked Fox News story, “Officials at Metropolitan State University of Denver did not immediately return requests for comment.”