Uncategorized

Weather reporter was broadcasting from Mississippi, making Hurricane Ida seem as if it was worse than it was. A man nearby saw this and confronted him. The media then calls the man crazy and incoherent.

Faxon firearms is having a sweepstakes. One lucky person will win:

• Faxon Firearms Sentry 16″ 5.56 Modern Sporting Rifle (1) with custom Cerakote & Laser work completed by One Off Coating LLC
• Leupold & Stevens DeltaPoint Pro NV (1) & DeltaPoint Pro Cross Slot Mount (1)
• TOPS Knives Operator 7 Knife (1), TOPS Trucker Hat (1), Operator 7 T-Shirt (1), TOPS Shot Glass (1)
• INFORCE WMLx Light (1)
• OTIS Technology 5.56 Defender Series Cleaning Kit (1)
• Action Target PT Scout Complete Kit with 12″ AR500 Circle (1)
• Weber Tactical AR Mag Pouches (2), Trifecta Holster (1)
• DoubleTap Ammunition 223 Rem 62GR DT Lead Free SC-HP 20rds (6)

click this link

Disclosure: I entered. If you enter, you get bonus entries if you refer other people. That is why I am posting this. Otherwise, I don’t receive a thing.

We woke this morning to see a social media post from our friend who was trapped in Kabul. It had no text, but was instead a picture. It was a picture of a bottle of Italian wine, next to a wine glass that was half full. They were both perched on the balcony of a building with the city of Rome in the background.

Our friend made it out.

In another development that has absolutely nothing to do with the above, the CIA announced that the last of their personnel are out of the country, and their base of operations (Eagle Base) was blown up in a controlled demolition.

I agree with Larry Correia and his opinion on George Takei:

There is no false equivalence at all. Takei is speaking of using coercion (whether government/societal, or in this case both) to take away freedoms, with the justification of “the greater good.”

Now, you might personally think that this particular “greater good” is worth taking away freedoms. Don’t matter. It’s still equivalent. Let’s try it out. The threat is Y. The freedom is X.”

A lot of people are angry about ( Y ). I don’t care, because we need to do something about (X )for the greater good. The needs of society are more important.”.

Now, go through and stick most of history’s atrocities in there and see if they don’t fit.

Germans were scared of Jews. Something had to be done for the greater good of society. Turks didn’t like Armenians. Stalin really didn’t like uppity Ukrainians. The Japanese are going to be saboteurs loyal to the empire. Somebody had better sterilize those natives. Hey, let’s see how long it takes for black dudes to die of syphillis in the name of science! So on and so forth.

But this is DIFFERENT than those.

Why? Why is it different? Because you personally are scared of this X and think Y is worth it? Because guess what? All of those people said the same damn thing.

We see this bullshit every single day. We need to take away guns for the greater good. We need to take away free speech for the greater good. You need to have a social credit score for the greater good.

It’s all authority pandering to fear to get more power. Every fucking time.

So spare me the false equivalence. It is extremely equivalent.

But this isn’t as bad! It’s just one little “common sense” thing! Then it’ll go back to normal. Uh huh… And the Nazis didn’t get elected and start gassing Jews a week later either. The Holocaust happened through a series of escalating events, each of which was a crisis (according to the authorities) which required slightly more action. 1935 was not the same as 1945. Duh.

So I’d rather not start down that path of declaring some groups of humans as untermensch who need to be managed by the state for the greater good, AT ALL.

The people on the left, the ones from the city, think that they understand the culture of those who don’t live in the city.

They don’t understand that there are thousands of people who spend thier weekends shooting and think nothing of hitting a paper plate from 300 yards away- and farther. Many of those people have no idea of the difficulty of such a shot.^*

You say that you want to take our guns away. To them, there is this message.⁺

There are many thousands of Americans who feel this way. I refuse to submit. I refuse to be defeated. I am an armed American patriot, and freedom is my birthright. I will not be subjugated, and because I am armed, I and my fellow armed Americans will be difficult to load into the boxcars.

* Hitting an 8 inch paper plate from 300 yards is a shot that requires moa accuracy. A person capable of that kind of accuracy would be able to hit a person from 500 or even 600 yards.

+ I really like this band. Good old fashioned southern rock. As a general rule, any band with a Rebel Flag guitar usually plays good music.

So we contacted our friend who is trapped in Kabul. She says that she is “on base,” where she and her coworkers are trying to assist other Americans and Afghanis in evading the Taliban and getting on aircraft. They have apparently established some sort of underground railroad kind of operation.

I don’t know what base she is talking about. If anyone is familiar with Kabul and would like to give your opinion, I would live to hear your thoughts in comments.

I have no idea who she is working for. I am beginning to think that it is a three letter agency.

It might as well be a Democrat Party Membership card. Jesus, it’s like belonging to the Soviet Communist Party.

Talk about virtue signaling. It’s like a cult.

The selected resident of the oval office is now offering Federal funding to local officials who defy the legitimate orders of their chief executive, who is in turn defying the unconstitutional orders of the President.

We are seeing the breakdown of government authority at all levels.

Until recently, Taiwan had little to fear from China. The PLAN had no real amphibious capability, and was therefore unlikely to be in a position where it could invade.

Until recently.

The Chinese have begun retrofitting ferries so that they can carry amphibious mechanized battalions. China is upgrading its military in a big way. The world is now on notice that China has imperial ambitions.

The CDC has reversed its decision to let the eviction moratorium expire, and has reinstated that moratorium until October 3. The actual text of the order can be found here. (pdf warning) There is one possibility that I see to removing a tenant:

If there is another part of the lease that is being violated, or if the lease has expired, it seems to me that there is room here.

Where does this end? Is there any endpoint where a property owner gets his property back? There is all of this talk about “people losing their homes,” but the people losing their homes are the landlords, not the tenants.