GUNS: The AR-15 is the most popular model of rifle in the United States

Sunday, August 11, 2024

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/08/04/aoc-accidentally-gives-gun-rights-advocates-a-gift-n1225826

AOC Accidentally Gives Gun Rights Advocates a Gift
By Tom Knighton | 12:30 PM | August 04, 2024

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Yet the courts have held that and many anti-gunners have even tried to approach the AR-15 as being a particularly unusual weapon. Despite it being the most popular model of rifle in the United States, some have even tried to argue that it’s not commonly owned.

AOC, however, in acknowledging that these are one of the most popular semi-automatic weapons in the nation, is also acknowledging that they are, in fact, commonly owned.

Whether you think “commonly owned” should matter or not, the reality is that many people do accept that as the standard, and for AR-15s, that hurdle has been cleared. If there should be a hurdle or not is a different topic entirely.

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This “commonly owned” should not matter since we couldn’t own an automatic weapon for decades.  Not that a wise gun owner would want one unless you were facing a mob rushing you.  Then, you’d want to put as much as you could down range and wouldn’t worry about aiming.  Only in the movies, does the hero fire without aiming.

The Marines teach fire discipline.  “One bullet; one kill”.

AOC should be thanked for the rhetorical “gift”.

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NEWJERSEY: Taxpayers in New Jersey will spend $750,000 … …

Saturday, August 10, 2024

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/07/29/waste_of_the_day_upcoming_soccer_match_will_cost_new_jersey_taxpayers_750000_1047223.html?mc_cid=d542d25ea0

Waste of the Day: Upcoming Soccer Match Will Cost New Jersey Taxpayers $750,000
By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClearInvestigations
July 29, 2024

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Topline: Taxpayers in New Jersey will spend $750,000 to help bring an exhibition soccer game to Red Bull Arena in Harrison on July 31, even though the match is sponsored by the multibillion-dollar energy drink giant.

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Sorry but this is just yet another example of waste in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee.

What else can be said?

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APPLE: “Contacts” app missing from icloud.com using iphone 13 with IOS 17.6.1

Friday, August 9, 2024

“Contacts” app displays web page at icloud.com on Mac 14.6 using safari or firefox, but not on iPhone 13 IOS 17.6.1 using safari or Firefox?

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POLITICAL: Joe Biden has a plan to enable more judicial tyranny

Friday, August 9, 2024

Brion McClanahan is an author, historian, professor and speaker with a focus on the Founding Fathers and the founding principles of the United States.

FROM A RECENT EMAIL BROADCAST FROM HIM

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Joe Biden has a plan to reduce the power of the Supreme Court. I’ll probably talk about this very soon on my show.

It seems the left has decided that the Court is a threat to their agenda, which is really funny because that is the only way they’ve been able to ram their unpopular plans down the throats of the American public.

Sure, some people like what they do. The same could have been said for any political movement in Western Civilization, but the left figured out in the 20th century that their authoritarian agenda would not have enough “democratic” support to make it work.

Hence, judicial tyranny.

Real “originalists” have been screaming at the clouds about this since the early 19th century.

I can hear Spencer Roane or Patrick Henry saying, “I told you so.”

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When I was in grammar school a history assignment was to read the Federalist papers.  That continued in high school. I read them but I didn’t grok them.

It wasn’t until I read Lysander Spooner that I went back to those Federalist Papers and had my eyes opened.

All the politicians and bureaucrats were tyrants then and now were tyrants in disguise.

“Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man’s rights as easily as a king can.” Mel Gibson as the character Benjamin Martin in the movie The Patriot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/quotes

We’ve had our RIGHTS transformed into privileges.  Deigned to us by our betters to be suspended at will and whimsy,

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: Making things worse

Thursday, August 8, 2024

May be an image of text that says 'Discouraging Quote of the Day a enan nek There is no circumstance so dire that your unique skillset couldn't make worse.'

George Frederic Watts, 1840-1850 – “Theophilos Kairis”

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RECOMMENDED: The Electronic Frontier Foundation gets my financial support

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

This is a friendly message from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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I put my money where my mouth is.  Not a huge amount, but every little bit helps to steer the ship.

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HEALTH: if “nearly all the PE reports in VAERS are associated with the COVID vaccine”, then what do you conclude?

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-pulmonary-embolism-reality-gap?publication_id=548354&post_id=147282572&isFreemail=true&r=onvra&triedRedirect=true

The pulmonary embolism “reality gap”

  • According to the peer-reviewed medical literature, COVID vaccination reduces your risk of pulmonary embolism. According to the doctors, nurses, and pathologists I know, it does the opposite.

Steve Kirsch  — Aug 02, 2024

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Pulmonary embolism (PE) as a side effect of the COVID vaccine is a perfect example of what I’ll call the “reality gap” between mainstream medicine and direct observations of people.

The medical community estimates, using large data that is kept hidden from public view and both partial and fully adjusted hazard ratios (HRs), that the COVID vaccines reduce your risk of pulmonary embolism by around 20%. The proposed mechanism of action for that miracle is that the vaccine reduces your risk of getting COVID (which can elevate PE levels).

On the other hand, all the medical experts I regularly communicate with believe the reverse is true.

And we have other supporting data as well: nearly all the PE reports in VAERS are associated with the COVID vaccine and there are over 15,000 reports. Since VAERS is at least 50X under-reported, this suggests around 650,000 PE’s associated with the COVID vaccine. That’s a train wreck. In addition, I did a survey of my followers on X, 80% of whom did not take the COVID vaccine, and the results were consistent with the safety signal in VAERS: 85% of all the PE cases people observed after 2021 were associated with the COVID vaccine.

Someone is not telling you the truth. This article looks at the arguments on both sides.

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Someone is lying.  To protect Big Pharma, the politicians, and the bureaucrats?

Once I read that Big Pharma was immune to damage claims in US Courts, I knew the fix was in.

Didn’t India refuse to agree to that?  Wonder what their results look like.

And, another “dead giveaway” (no pun intended) is that “the data” is hidden.

We need some Nuremberg (2.0) trials to expose “the Truth”.

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

We need some hangings and life sentences to ensure this never happens again!

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POLITICAL: SIX fatal secrets about Harris’s dirty past, her lies and hypocrisy

Monday, August 5, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13695051/Kamala-Harris-Trump-election-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html

Kamala is basking in the post-Joe glow – and Trump is panicking… but now MAUREEN CALLAHAN reveals the SIX fatal secrets about Harris’s dirty past, her lies and hypocrisy that she’ll wish you didn’t know
By Maureen Callahan For DailyMail.Com
Published: 16:17 EDT, 31 July 2024 | Updated: 17:44 EDT, 31 July 2024 

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No.1: Harris owns the border

No.2: She has repeatedly vouched for Biden’s physical and cognitive health

No.3: She’s an alleged bully

No.4: Even for a politician, she’s particularly craven

No.5: Zero foreign policy experience and zero backbone

No.6: No stated premise or philosophy

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For me, I think she has some character flaws that I can’t overlook:

No.7: She has “Lewinsky-ed” herself to the top in the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah

No.8: She harshly prosecuted minor offenders when it was politically valuable and now she bails out BLM rioters’

No.9: She is wrong on a bunch of issues  — abortion, climate change, defund the police, just to name a few

No.10: She appears not to be a “native born citizen” since her parents were never more than “legal visitors

So she has a lot of strikes against her; not that DJT is any exemplar of greatness.  RFK Jr has some bad points to.  And, the libertarian candidate Chase is just absurd.  

Maybe this time, I just may sit it out.

Argh!

To quote from the movie “The Far Side of the World” Master and Commander Capt. Jack Aubrey: “There! I have you! You’re completely dished. … one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?”

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INTERESTING: New use for K9 — reverse tracking

Sunday, August 4, 2024

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/after-rescuing-non-verbal-child-k9-officer-follows-the-boys-scent-in-reserve-to-find-his-home/

K9 Officer Rescues Lost Non-Verbal Child by Following the Boy’s Scent in Reverse to Find His Home
By Andy Corbley –  Jul 25, 202

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In North Carolina, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office received a call that a child was wandering alone on the road on July 7th.

Dispatching an officer to the Waxhaw Indian Trail Road, the child was located and secured, but being autistic and non-verbal, the officer had no idea where the boy had wandered away from.

Being that the responder was a K-9 Unit, and was working alongside his trusty 1-year-old bloodhound Remi, Deputy B. Belk utilized the dog’s incredible sense of smell to “reverse” the normal scent tracking process to find the boy’s home.

“Normally, [scent dogs] track from where a person left to try to find where that person is currently. This time we were doing it reverse,” said Lieutenant Public Information Officer James Maye to CNN.

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Lieutenet Maye explained the technique of reverse tracking would now be implemented in the training curriculum for K-9 officers.

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Excellent work.

I can almost hear the dog’s thoughts now  — “Yeah, I smell the scent and the person is right over there now.  What exactly do you want me to find?  Him?  He’s over there.”

I don’t know how they communicated to the dog they wanted him to back track.

As a fellow with a six year old, I can COMPLETELY understand how a child can “disappear” in a heartbeat.  Just recently I had mine “disappear” into the basement.  Argh!  

I can recommend Angel Sense tracking device as a service to make sure you know where the child is.

https://www.angelsense.com/

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INTERESTING: If I was an impala, I’d be called “Lunch” or maybe, if lucky, “Lurch”

Saturday, August 3, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240724-what-olympic-athletes-can-learn-about-running-from-cheetahs?ICID=ref_fark

What Olympic runners can learn from cheetahs
Sophie Hardach

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Cheetahs are famous for being the fastest land animals – but research suggests there’s much more to their athleticism than just speed.

Imagine you are an impala, racing across the African savannah to try and escape a cheetah – the world’s fastest land animal, which can reach a running speed of more than 100 km/h (62 mph). It may seem like a hopeless effort, but in real life, impalas do sometimes manage to get away. Which running strategy do you think would give you the best chance of beating the cheetah?

A. Fast and in a straight line

B. Fast and zig-zag

C. Slow and in a straight line

D. Slow and zig-zag

A growing body of research on wild cheetahs and their prey not only reveals the answer to this quiz – more on this below – but also offers wider insights into why exactly cheetahs are so fast, and what we might learn from them to help our own athletic pursuits.

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If it was me, I’d have to fight.  No change for this fat old white guy injineer to run or doge.  Of course, YMMV and faiwwypfi (Free Advice Is Worth What You Pay For It! ?zero?) ! ! ! 

I found this very interesting and well written.  I needed a choice “E. None of the Above”.  Which we should also have in elections, imho.

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