Happy Friday and out!

Here’s to the rest of you working stiffs

Happy Friday and stay safe

Not a day too soon

What a week

Mid nineties and 95% humidity

I have replaced one of my work crews with myself and a couple of youngsters

That is why my spotty posting

Homeland Security Adviser Demands National Gun Registry

” Following the terror attack in Orlando, the dominant media/political narrative turned to gun control and now-discredited claims of the suspect’s mental illness (claims which included gay-baiting).

Now, one controversial former FBI agent — and current consultant to the Obama administration on “countering violent extremism” (CVE) — is suggesting a national gun registry be created. Such a registry would target millions of law-abiding American citizens.

Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, born in Cairo, immigrated to the U.S. in 1990. He recently retired from the FBI after 22 turbulent years at the bureau. Following the Orlando attack, Abdel-Hafiz explained his rationale for creating a national gun registry:

A former FBI counter-terrorism agent says lawmakers could make mass murders less likely. “What we need to do is keep the ownership of guns known to the government, so we know who has what,” said security consultant Gamal Abdel-Hafiz. “And I know a lot of people are against that.”

He also defended the FBI’s handling of the Mateen case, despite the FBI having conducted multiple interviews with the killer based on statements and threats of violence he had made, and then shutting down the investigation:

“He shouldn’t have been able to buy a gun legally. He shouldn’t,” said Abdel-Hafiz about 29-year-old Omar Mateen. He says 3 FBI interviews should have been enough to keep Mateen on the radar, but he also knows why he wasn’t. “Once you investigate someone and clear them, you have to remove them from the watch list by law,” he explained Monday from his office in Dallas.And even if Mateen had been on a terror watch list, or no-fly list, that would not have prohibited him from legally buying weapons, including a high-velocity semi-automatic assault rifle.

“That means the list is useless then,” the former agent said. Efforts to ban weapon sales to those on watch lists have been blocked in Congress. Some lawmakers say the lists could violate a person’s Second Amendment rights. “As long as our politicians keep fighting each other for the sake of fighting each other, more innocent people will keep on dying,” he said.

Remarkably, he admits that the various terror watch lists and no-fly lists are useless. Moments after suggesting another list. He doesn’t explain how a national gun registry — yet another government list targeting millions of law-abiding Americans — would prevent another terror attack.”

https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/06/20/gamal-wants-your-guns-homeland-security-adviser-demands-national-gun-registry-after-orlando/

Isn’t it obvious?

Islam is not the problem

Guns are.

We must now register all guns

Because terrorists have no other way to attack

No guns, no terrorism

Makes perfect sense

A not so good start to the Olympics

“RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A jaguar featured at an Olympic torch ceremony was shot dead by a soldier shortly after the event in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus as the animal escaped from its handlers, an army statement said.

The jaguar was killed Monday at a zoo attached to a military training center, when a soldier fired a single pistol shot after the animal, despite being tranquilized, approached the soldier, the army said.

“We made a mistake in permitting the Olympic torch, a symbol of peace and unity, to be exhibited alongside a chained wild animal. This image goes against our beliefs and our values,” the local organizing committee Rio 2016 said in a statement, adding “We guarantee that there will be no more such incidents at Rio 2016.”

A smiling yellow jaguar known as Ginga is the mascot of the Brazilian Olympic team”.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/amazon-jaguar-shot-dead-olympic-torch-ceremony-192428528–oly.html

Who would have ever thought that the Brazilians could screw the Olympics up so bad?

In addition to poor Chester Cheeta buying the farm, a bunch of Australian athletes were robbed at gunpoint

They also have snipers out on the highway that must be traveled to reach the Olympic village from the airport

It is really starting to sound like good old fashioned South American fun

I can’t wait for the kidnappings to start

Big gay backfire: Chik-Fil-A #1 fast food resteraunt

” NEW YORK (CNNMoney) –

When it comes to America’s favorite fast food, chicken reigns supreme.

Chik-fil-A is the highest ranking fast food restaurant in the country for customer satisfaction, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index Restaurant Report 2016 released Tuesday.

The Georgia-based chicken chain took home the top spot by a wide margin with 87 points on a scale of 100.

The family-owned company has been expanding across the country and is currently in 43 states and Washington, D.C., and had more than $6 billion in sales last year.

At a time when restaurants are testing out new menu items in an effort to draw in more customers (kale, anyone?), Chick-fil-A has been sticking to its roots.

“They have a pretty limited selection of offerings and are really focused on chicken and chicken sandwiches,” said Forrest Morgeson, director of research at American Customer Satisfaction Index. “They focus on what they do best, and it does well.”

http://www.ktvz.com/news/money/this-is-americas-favorite-fast-food-restaurant/40149394

So much for the haters

They can make a big noise and seem like a lot on paper

But in truth it is a very small minority of the population that is foisting their will on us

Think I’ll get some Chik-Fil-A today…

Ready to give up?

“We may die; die Colonists, die slaves, die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold.

Be it so. Be it so.

If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, or at least the hope of a country, and that a free country.

But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured that this Declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood, but it will stand and it will richly compensate for both.

Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future as the sun in heaven. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal day. When we are in our graves, our children will honor it. They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations. . .

Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.”

John Adams

 

Yeah, not quite

Bring your shit on

Happy Monday everyone

What’s wrong with this picture?

300 Spartans were able to hold off against 50,000 Persian warriors

Yet in Orlando 1 man was able to massacre and wound over 100 people

 

Gays and lesbians becoming racist, buying guns to kill Muslims

“DENVER — Gun sales are surging in the wake of Sunday’s deadly mass shooting in Orlando, Fla. The tragedy is generating new debate over gun control reform and the right to bear arms.

Gun shops typically see a spike in customers after mass shootings. But this time, many are seeing shoppers they’ve never really seen before: More gays and lesbians.

George Horne, the owner of The Gun Room, Denver’s oldest firearms dealer, said Tuesday business is booming at his store.

“For this time of year I’d say its three to four times what we normally have,” he said.

Background checks that once took minutes can now take hours. It’s a sales surge similar to what happened after Sandy Hook and the Aurora theater shootings.

“We’re not surprised by it,” Horne said.

However, what’s different this time around is the clientele. Mike Smith, a firearms instructor in Colorado Springs, is one of many closely tracking the sudden surge in gays and lesbians buying weapons.

“I think right now because of what happened, people are looking for answers,” he said. “You walk into a gun shop and you expect to see people, frankly, who look like me. I think we forget we’re a country of all people, not just people who fit that predetermined mold.”

Gun sales surge among gays, lesbians after Orlando shooting

The gays need to stop the hate

Living in fear promotes violence

What we need is understanding

Not more guns

Hate and killing are a vicious cycle whose legacy we already have enough of

Please!

If you know someone gay

Tell them to stop the hate

And be part of the solution

Not the problem

And here it comes!

“Congressional Democrats are renewing their push for gun control measures in the wake of the Orlando terror massacre, arguing the best way to prevent suspected terrorists from carrying out acts of violence is to legally limit their access to firearms.

Republicans have their own proposals for confronting the terror threat, and warn that certain gun control measures could make Americans less safe. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday touted proposals to improve refugee screening and other measures to deal with homegrown terrorism.

But while some Democrat-backed gun proposals have little chance of passing — like a reinstated assault-weapons ban, a move President Obama endorsed Tuesday — others could gain traction in Congress.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., specifically are pushing a proposal to the top of the Democratic agenda that would bar suspected terrorists from purchasing guns and explosives.

The bill would allow federal authorities to block gun sales to anyone on a government watch list or whom federal officials believe might use the gun in a terror attack.

“If the FBI believes there is a reasonable chance someone is going to use a gun in a terrorist attack, it should be able to make that determination and block the sale,” Schumer said. “If it had that belief about the shooter in Orlando, it should have had the authority to act. But it couldn’t, so we will never know what could have been.” ”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/15/dems-renew-push-for-gun-control-measures-aim-for-terror-watch-list.html?intcmp=hpbt1

“If the FBI believes there is a reasonable chance someone is going to use a gun in a terrorist attack,”

So now the FBI is going to determine who can and cannot own firearms based on the false premise that gun control will reduce terror attacks.

Wrong answer, please see below

No guns required

 

Jeh Johnson claims gun control is now part and parcel of DHS

“The Obama administration has tried repeatedly to push more gun control through Congress, unsuccessfully. It still is trying its hand at a strategy of simply depriving people of their Second Amendment rights.

Now it is signaling a new method, claiming that “gun control” is “part and parcel” of the federal government’s responsibility for homeland security.

It was presented by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson during an appearance on CBS, when he made the claim no less than three or four times that gun control is now “part and parcel” of his agency’s responsibilities.

“I do believe,” he said, “that meanginful, responsible gun control is now part and parcel of homeland security.”

Homeland floats ‘national security’ as excuse to take guns

Go ahead and bring it on you assholes

Sooner is better than later by my thinking

I am sick of the wait and wish they would just go for the gold

You want to see the AR-15 as a weapon of war?

Yeah?

Bring your shit on

A rather marked indifference to the Orlando shooting

This came over the transom from Wirecutter here: http://knuckledraggin.com/2016/06/53053/

“The shooter who killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando has been identified as Omar Mateen, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Mateen was a U.S. citizen with no apparent criminal history, was born to Afghan parents in New York in 1986 and was living in Port St. Lucie, Fla., according to multiple media reports.

Mateen had committed himself to ISIS before carrying out the bloodiest mass murder in US history at a gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday, federal officials said.

Mateen “made a pledge of allegiance to ISIS,” California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told CNN.

Schiff said the timing and target of the attack can’t be a coincidence.”

“Up past 50 now. At a gay nightclub. By an islamic terrorist – even the media and government is copping to that. During ramadan no less. Holy shit.

You know what? I’m having a hard time getting even interested in this, much less excited. I woke up about 6 this morning and passed the news channel saying something about “at least 20 killed at a gay nightclub in Orlando…..” and the only thought that went through my head as I continued on my bleary way to the coffee was “Huh. That’s a shitload of dead fuckers.”

And it’s been like that all day for me. I mean I’m catching bits and pieces of it from the next room – “largest massacre in US history… employed as a federal security guard… was already under suspicion… terrorism… weapons are too easily available…” and even I’m kinda dismayed that I just don’t care. I mean, this is some horrible shit. I should be outraged. Outraged? Hell, I ain’t even excited.

Largest massacre in US history? Not even close. Okay, this might be nitpicking here but Custer’s Last Stand was bigger than that. Just sayin. On THAT day in History the United States lost 274 souls – 268 soldiers and 6 indian scouts. Probably a couple of gay dudes in that bunch too.
How ’bout Waco? Seventy six men, women and children were massacred by the United States government. Y’all can pretty much tell how I feel about that, huh?
Then there’s the Waxhaw massacre, the Colfax massacre, the Mountain Meadows massacre, the…..
There’s more but I’m wanting to finish this and get back to my book so you’ll have to look them up yourself.

Terrorism. Over 50 dead. Damn… Yeah, that shit happens. all. the. time. in other countries. How can anybody be surprised when it happens here? What surprises me is that it’s taken as long as it has and it’s not more commonplace.
Can’t give the DHS credit for that – they had this dude under suspicion and he still did the deed. Nope, no credit for DHS, but there is a lot of blame on them.

And it was a gay nightclub. Big deal. It doesn’t make any difference to me as to what kind of nightclub it was. To be honest with you I was kinda hoping it was a gangsta rap joint. That might’ve gotten me excited.
Hey, I’m from California. I don’t care who you fuck as long as you don’t keep it in my face. Seriously. Do I believe in Gay Rights? No. I believe in Civil and Human rights for every citizen in the Nation.

Let’s not forget the guns being so easily available. Is that right? Can anybody out there tell me how much return fire there was from the patrons of the club? Uh-huh. There were probably a few gun owners there – unarmed gun owners.
Yeah, I know it’s illegal to carry a gun where alcohol is served. Guns in clubs are dangerous – last night proved that.
Our granddaughter’s school had a game day last month. They all competed in relays and games and barrel rolls, an all day event and all the parents and grandparents came to watch. Now this was on school grounds and I saw more men with pistols at that one place than I have altogether since I’ve been here. I’m not talking about guns printing against shirts, I was seeing revolver butts poking out of overall back pockets and bottoms of holsters hanging down below their shirts, that kind of shit. Those kids couldn’t have been any safer.
Me and Lisa and the grandkids went to the drive-in last weekend in Franklin and I started laughing as I was watching the pre-show crowd in the lot. Lisa asked what was so funny and I said “I was just imagining that headlines tomorrow – ‘Islamic Terrorists Attack Drive In Theater – 246 Patrons Return Fire.’”

Yes, this will be another gun control opportunity. Everything is. The government that brought you the Gunwalker scandal that resulted in the death of Brian Terry will uses this to try to disarm you. But that doesn’t surprise me either – it’s been that way my entire life. I cannot remember a single period in my lifetime when there wasn’t some sort of effort to strip me of my Civil Rights. I’m not outraged or even tripping on that – I’m resolved. I will not surrender my firearms.

Oh well, back to my book. I’m reading an excellent account of sniping in WWI in France. If you get a chance it’s called “Sniping in France” by Major H. Hessketh-Prichard. It’s a nice recollection of how and why sniping by the British in World War I evolved by the man that was responsible for the training.
Now that’s something to get excited about.”

The Hill-Billy. Trump super PAC ad

One of those days

Any obscene,patriotic, stirring, objectionable, images courtesy of Walter Zoomie

Right in my neighborhood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zx3IXTVUE4

I am sure that just about everybody has seen this by now

But this is right down the street from me

This scumbag actually stopped in our shop a while ago while my wife was here and asked if we were hiring

Not today pretty boy

It’s lucky for him that he pulled that crap in a corporate store

I would say that 85% of the small business owners here have arms on premises

Donald Trump Issues Statement Regarding Trump University Lawsuit and La Raza Judge Curiel… — The Last Refuge

Here is the official statement from candidate Donald Trump: “It is unfortunate that my comments have been misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage. I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent. The American justice system relies on fair and impartial judges. All judges should be […]

via Donald Trump Issues Statement Regarding Trump University Lawsuit and La Raza Judge Curiel… — The Last Refuge

Quad amputee Vet shoots himself after crisis hot line tells him to call back when he is less irate

Nightmare after nightmare has been documented when it comes to scandals at the Department of Veterans Affairs. But this incident is truly horrific.

Todd Nicely led a squad of 12 infantry Marines on a security foot patrol in Afghanistan when he stepped on an improvised explosive device, leaving him a quadruple amputee. It got worse when he came home – and attempted suicide after a frustrating round of calls with the VA Crisis Hotline over the weekend.

According to a Facebook post from fellow wounded veteran Bobby Henline, friends spoke with Nicely over the weekend and found out he was upset that nobody from the VA was there to help him.

Nicely then called the Crisis Hotline and was told to “call back when he becomes less irate.”

Henline wrote in part:

“Wounded Warrior Todd Nicely, retired USMC, quad amputee, shot himself two nights ago. My friend Greg spoke with him at 6pm and Todd was mad at the VA and USMC for not being there to help him. Todd tried calling a Crisis Hotline all weekend but he kept getting the runaround from them and they told him to call back when he becomes less irate.”

Fortunately, the gunshots were not fatal.

Via Liberty Unyielding:

Corporal Todd Nicely, USMC, doesn’t take life lying down.  He doesn’t come off to anyone as a morose guy who feels sorry for himself.  That’s a good thing, since he lost most of all four limbs in an encounter with a land mine in Afghanistan in 2010.  He’s one of only five veterans (as of 2016) to survive the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a quadruple amputee.

It’s essential to know this about Todd Nicely, before taking in the update that he shot himself this week after reportedly getting the run-around from the Veterans Administration crisis hotline.  He’s recovering, according to the latest news from Friday, 3 June; he didn’t succeed in killing himself.  But in frustration at a situation whose particulars we don’t fully know*, he did try.

Todd’s mother took to Facebook to post an update:

This is Todd’s Mom and we are trying to answer everyone’s posts and messages and voice messages as we can and they’re coming in faster than we can answer. Todd is doing fine he’s going to be OK, thank you for your prayers and comments and for being good friend to him.

In May of last year, Sen. Bill Nelson requested that the VA investigate the Crisis Hotline to ensure it is meeting veterans’ needs, citing reports that some were being stranded during high-volume call periods.

Nicely’s case doesn’t involve him being stranded, but rather he was actually told to call back because he was too angry. That’s incompetence that could have cost him his life.

Not very long ago, Hillary Clinton downplayed scandals at the VA that involved 30% of veterans dying as they waited for healthcare.

Now it appears they can’t even rely on a hotline designed specifically to aid them during times of crisis.

From the political insider here, with video: http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/outrage-vet-shoots-himself-after-being-told-by-va-to-call-back-when-youre-less-irate/?utm_source=SailThru%26utm_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TPI%20Newsletter%20Curated/Horizon%2006-06-16%20Tier%201&utm_term=Tier%201

Less irate?

What the fuck would they know what life is like with your body blown to pieces

That person needs a shit stomping, not just a firing

Here is a link, updated by his mother, if you do Facebook

 

Man arrested after beating wife’s rapist to death with a tire iron

When the elevator doors opened, career criminal Earl Nash went down — for the last time in his life.

After trying to sexually assault a woman in her Bronx home, the would-be rapist was beaten to death by the victim’s enraged husband, who bashed him in the head with a tire iron, sources said.

The whack-a-mole mayhem left Nash with a fractured skull, his blood splattered Monday night in the elevator and a hallway, sources said.

Mamadou Diallo, 61, was initially charged Tuesday with manslaughter, despite his claims of self-defense in the attack in the Claremont Village apartment building. The charges were later reduced to assault, although prosecutors said they could be upgraded as the investigation continues.

Jury should side with Bronx man who killed rapist in self-defense

“He has a right to defend his wife,” said Katiatou Diallo, 38, who is not related to Mamadou. “What are you going to do if somebody comes in and tries to rape your wife?”

Ex-con Nash, 43, of the Bronx, barged into Nenegale Diallo’s sixth-floor apartment about 9:30 p.m., beat her with a chair and tore her clothes off.

“While it was going on, I was thinking I was going to die,” she told the Daily News about the ordeal that left her naked and cowering in the hallway. “He tried to kill me.”

From the NY Daily news : http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/bronx-man-beats-would-be-rapist-attacked-wife-death-article-1.2655389

A tire iron

Now that is a killing with some feeling

Anybody can just shoot somebody

But a tire iron in an elevator?

That’s personal

In memoriam

 

Salute

Ocala Florida: 2 Majors suspended following arrest of Sheriff for perjury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xyE1h-hRQ

Ocala, Florida May 26 By Deborah Jarrett The saga continues in the case of the now suspended Sheriff of Marion county. On May 24 , following the arrest of Marion county Sheriff Chris Blair on perjury charges, 2 majors were suspended by the new interim Sheriff. Sheriff Emery Gainey, appointed by Governor Rick Scott, […]

via Ocala Florida: 2 Majors suspended following arrest of Sheriff for perjury — Deborah Lee Jarrett: Fighting police abuse, brutality and corruption

Texas suing over Obama Tranny rules

• By paul j. weber, associated press

“AUSTIN, Texas — May 25, 2016, 1:10 PM ET

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the state will become the first to sue the Obama administration over new federal guidance for transgender students in public schools.

Abbott tweeted Wednesday that Texas will sue “to stop Obama’s transgender directive to schools.” The message from his personal Twitter account came hours before a scheduled news conference by state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Abbott later said at a book signing that the lawsuit will challenge how Obama is “trampling” the Constitution.

Several conservative states have vowed defiance since federal officials this month told U.S. public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms to match their gender identity.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has said the state is willing to forfeit $10 billion in federal education dollars rather than comply.”

How about this?

Texas forfeits $10 billion in federal aid and since that violates the equal protection clause Texas withholds it Federal tax payments