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Sigh. This is in response to the comments that I have been getting from several people, one of which seems to think that he has a right to post here, and anything less than allowing him to make a complete idiot of himself and fill this blog with nonsensical trash without any real evidentiary support is Jew sponsored censorship. Since his posts are long, rambling screeds about how the Jews are the ones keeping him down, and how everyone but him should be out there, taking up arms. I’ve resisted posting his bullshit because I didn’t want to make him look stupid, but he insists.

So without further adieu, here is SoSoRuss in all of his Fedpoasting glory:

you haven’t put up every comment I made, seems some of them disappeared while trying to explain there are other options, funny eh. I commented hard on Jews frankly because look at the shit they are creating everywhere and now this starts? I unfortunately continue to see the same comments and thinking on every blog with no change in views which will lead to nowhere. Maybe that’s my issue, frustration. I see the same views that Repubtards are our friends when anyone with a brain knows they are not if you are anywhere right of center. I have been just trying to convince folks to think for themselves. As to always pushing kinetic, that’s not true. 

Really? There have been at least three different posts where you have accused people of being sheep for not getting violent- this month alone. Here is one, here is two, here is the third. People who REALLY want to get their violence on don’t talk about it, unless they are morons, or are FedPoasting. Your posts glow.

As to me posting that Republicans are our friends, you are missing a few screws. I am the one who is always saying “Just because Democrats are the enemy doesn’t make Republicans your friends.”

Here are a few other things you have said (just in the last three days) about me being a part of the “Jewish conspiracy”:

By doing this on this specific subject, you are “appearing”, I didn’t say are but give a appearance of it, to be joining the list of the sites/groups/GOV/Corps etc. who must protect “Gods Chosen Ones”

On me demanding evidence to blame “the Jews” for the Charlie Kirk shooting:

By making a standard that pretty much no one can meet without a made by the commenter themselves video confession from Netanyahu or his ministers about yes they control congress with money or child porn vids or yes he did order the genocide of women and children because yes they kill babies because they are considered a enemy also or yes his HIAS group is coordinating the illegal migrant invasion from the Darian Gap with money given to them from us?…you will plant a seed in folks head that someone has contacted you to influence you also or offer money or lawsuits to shut down debate? I am NOT accusing you of that.

I just think IMHO of all topics discussed. This is the wrong hill to take a stand for. You would be better served and get less shit for by coordinating a GO Fund Me for Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, the kind,honest and peace seeking Somali princess, for Senate. FYI, Pls consider that a joke to lighten up the mood:)

Note that you are trying to insult me, then claim “just kidding” or “I am not accusing, just sayin what others might think”

Then you posted that comments on here should be up for a vote:

I get it, your blog your rules. But please hear me out and I hope you will allow this comment to post to see if I’m the nutcase by popular vote.

No one gets a vote on what comments I allow. This is MY website. Now, I am giving you a bit of a break because you are a long time poster. This is your warning, and I am doing it publicly, because there is no way to email you on this.

Any more insulting me, even with thinly veiled comments trying to equivocate your comments, any more urging people to commit illegal and violent acts while you yourself do nothing but sit on your ass commenting on the computer, and you will earn yourself a ban. If you want to have a blog exposing sheep and your conspiracy theories about Jews, I will sell you the server space, and you can post whatever you wish. You just can’t do it on my blog. That isn’t censorship. You can say what you wish, but not on my dime.

To the other parties that have been spamming me with “Jew this, Israel that” by pointing out that the flag of some Jewish group that existed in the Weimar republic looks like the Antifa flag isn’t evidence that the Jews killed Charlie Kirk. Saying that all of the confusion around the Kirk shooting is obviously a Mossad op to sow confusion isn’t evidence. Those comments are merely conspiracy theories and won’t be permitted without evidence.

It feels like I am moderating a debate between 15 year old boys who just discovered their dad’s computer password.

Look, I do my best to maintain a comment section that permits an exchange of ideas, but it is a fine line between ideas and crazytown. I also try to keep people who appear to glow, or want to cause trouble, out. It’s time consuming, and there are a handful of posters who cause 80% of the issues on here.

This is the last time I want to say this- comments about Jews or Israel killing Charlie Kirk that are posted here without evidence can, and probably will, cost you a permanent ban. ESPECIALLY if they come with comments about how “the Jews” have silenced me with threats or money.

I am tired of the bullshit.

A few notes in reply to some emails and comments.

I have received a few comments and emails, where the author requested that I don’t publish them. I will honor that, but I will answer them in a rather general way.

My rule against commenting on “it was the Jews” without evidence is because it seems like this is the knee jerk response to people who simply want a scapegoat, evidence to the contrary be damned. Note that my ban on accusations against Israel and those of Jewish descent wasn’t a blanket one. All I said was they won’t be allowed without supporting evidence. Linking to another blog where the author espouses theories on how the Jews did it, but without evidence of his own doesn’t make it evidence.

Having such a rule doesn’t make me a “dirty Jew” or anything else. Stop with the foolish accusations. Seriously.

I had someone else tell me that my experience as a nurse means that I don’t have field experience with shootings and I am just there to monitor bandages that field medics put on. That is false. I have been in emergency medicine for over 36 years, but have only worked in a hospital as a nurse for less than 5 of those years. Before that, I was an EMT and a Paramedic for more than 25 years. I was an instructor and a tactical medic. I worked for a contractor that trained Air Force PJs before they went to Afghanistan. For those who went to the Florida Blog Shoot, you will remember that I gave the attendees a quick and dirty “stop the bleed” lecture.

All of this is nonsense. You are acting no differently than the idiots who claim Trump staged his own assassination attempt. Make your theories fit the evidence. Don’t make the evidence fit your ideas.

It looks like Big Country crashed my server. My server usually runs pretty well, using no more than 30% or so of resources. However, his posting of the recent shooter’s manifesto went viral, and he received 30,000 hits that each downloaded the file in less than an hour. The server just isn’t set up for that kind of bandwidth- more than 3.5 gb worth of downloads in less than 30 minutes.

It crashed my server, but everything looks to be OK again, at least for now.

It seems like I am forced to remind my readers of this from time to time. The last time I was forced to do so was more than 2 years ago, so we are doing pretty well. We discuss a lot of controversial topics here. Everyone’s opinion will vary on these topics.

I encourage debate here. Whenever there *is* debate, you can expect that people will vigorously defend their positions. That’s the nature of the beast. I allow comments here, even those who disagree with me. It was Ronald Reagan who had my two favorite quotes about disagreement:

“Harmony requires differences to be joined in pursuit of higher ideals.” 

“The person who agrees with you 80% of the time is a friend and an ally, not a 20% traitor.”

So it’s important to remember that as we comment here. I want to maintain a level of decorum and civility on the blog and its comments. That’s why I have established rules for commenting on this blog.

The heat here has been increasing for months, and I have decided that this friendly reminder is needed.

One of the biggest rules here is- no personal attacks, and especially not on the person who is paying the bills here- me.  This is a permanent link to the rules of commenting here at the blog. They are there permanently for your reference. They are simple and easy to follow. I like the way that Miguel over at the now defunct gunfreezone put it: don’t be a dick. If you want to know what it means to be a dick, read on.

The overriding concept here is that I am paying for this server, the software that runs it, and providing the content. Since I am the one paying for it, that makes it mine. Some people have a problem with this and begin shouting about free speech. Free speech doesn’t apply here on my property. Want free speech? Pay for your own blog. I will even rent you some server space. You can say whatever you want on there, including calling me names. Your space, your rules.

I allow comments here because I enjoy the back and forth of a good debate. However, commenting here is the virtual equivalent of talking to me while sitting in my living room. Debate is a good thing. A well reasoned debate changes minds and can influence the opinions of others. If you make a good case for your opinion, you can win over the opinions of others by presenting them with a perspective or situation that may not have occurred to them. Name calling and shouting at people does not change the opinions of others, generates hard feelings, and is nothing more than chimps shouting and flinging poop at each other inside of the monkey house. It accomplishes nothing but the generation of hostility.

If you and some of my acquaintances are sitting with me in my living room having a conversation, there are things that you wouldn’t say without expecting either a punch in the mouth or being asked to leave and never return. Try to think of comments here as a face to face conversation and don’t type a comment here that you would not say to someone’s face while sitting in their own home.

So with that out of the way, here are the rules for commenting on this blog:

1. The owner of this blog (me) has the final say on what you can and cannot post. It’s my house, I make the rules. Content here is moderated, and I will not be approving any comments that I find, in my sole judgement, to be unworthy. If you make a comment here and it doesn’t appear within a few hours, it likely wasn’t approved for some reason. Or it wound up in the SPAM filter for some reason. You can always drop me an email and ask.
2. Deliberately posting statements that are aimed at insulting the blog owner (me) will get your comment tossed in the trash. Feel free to disagree with me, just don’t call names or impugn my character. If I wanted someone to purposely insult me, I don’t need to pay for a blog server, I can just go to my ex-wife’s house for free.
3. Don’t deliberately insult others. No personal attacks. Feel free to attack ideas. Heap scorn on silly or illogical opinions, just don’t make it personal.
4. If you are making a comment about one of my posts, it should be made on the post that you are commenting on, not on another, unrelated post. Offending posts may be deleted or disallowed, purely at my discretion. This is an attempt to both maintain readability and to reduce trolls.
5. No spam. If you come on here to sell your product or website, that isn’t going to be allowed. This is an ad free site, because I hate all of the ads on the Internet. I don’t make money on this Blog, and no one else does, either. Including you.
6. If you demand that anyone provide evidence for an assertion that they are making, then you must hold yourself to the same standard when making a counterargument. It takes time and effort to research sources, and replying with “Nuh, uh, I refuse to believe that” while not providing sources of your own to refute them is how an 8 year old debates. If you demand that the person with whom you are disagreeing show their work, so do you.
7. Usually, I just don’t approve comments that are out of bounds. If you are close to the line, I may approve it with a warning. If repeated out of bounds comments become tiresome, I will warn you.
8. If warnings don’t work and you keep at it, I will ban you from ever posting on this site again. I know that you can pull tricks like IP spoofing, changing your name, etc. So don’t think doing that is going to earn you “I’m so clever” points. It doesn’t make you clever, it makes you an asshole.
9. Too many people using those tricks to circumvent the rules is what got us full time moderation, which is a major pain in my ass, and a major time waster for me.
10. When in doubt, please refer to rule #1. These rules can change with no notice, and rules may or may not apply retroactively. That’s up to me. See rule #1.

Sometimes, your position isn’t based in facts. Some arguments, by their nature, can’t be based upon facts. They are opinions. Opinions, being not factual, can vary widely. Yours can be true for you while not being true for others. That doesn’t mean that you get to insult others for having an opinion different from yours.

Look, I work a full time job, run 2 businesses, and I am now back in full time college student mode. In my remaining time, I have husbandly duties, household maintenance, personal maintenance, the duties of being a grandfather, and I still need time for hobbies and sleep. The maintenance of this blog takes time from all of that.

I have always said that, should this blog become too much of a time waster and no longer be fun, I would pull the plug. I have also said that too many people dodging the rules would result in me requiring registration of user accounts. I don’t want to do either of those, but I can’t let arguing with strangers on the Internet become a full time job.

I have locked comments on the most recent post that has been generating overheated comments. Don’t try to dodge the lock by commenting on that topic on other posts. That comment will not be posted, and you may catch a warning or a ban- even a ban without further notice.

Today marks 18 years that this blog has been active.

I have decided to begin doing some testing of ammo and posting my results here at Sector Ocho. I have recently procured a Garmin Xero C1 Pro chronograph. I will start doing some real world testing at the range, using actual EDC handguns to obtain muzzle velocity and bullet data, as well as shooting into ballistic gelatin to measure terminal performance.

This just tickles my data driven side. I love data, and this will give me plenty of it.

The chrono uses radar to measure bullet speed, and I am looking forward to playing with it. Expect an article on defense ammo to be coming soon. I am thinking that this will spark some interesting caliber/brand wars.

Just let me pass those boards first.