Today’s Primaries

As anyone who’s been watching TV lately knows from the deluge of political ads, it’s primary day today in the Old Dominion. The Republican Liberty Caucus of Virginia made some endorsements in a few key Republican House challenges to incumbents, namely for Mark Berg, Dave LaRock and Dustin Curtis, which I wholeheartedly support. More here from RLCVA board member Joshua Huffman. I also want to offer some personal endorsements in other select primaries across the state.

First, in the 85th District, it is absolutely critical to support Gary Byler. He’s head and shoulders above his opponents, despite the extremely negative campaign Scott Taylor has waged against him. Gary stands for limited government, and is poised to win. Help him bring it home.

Second, I also want to offer my support to Delegate Todd Gilbert in the 15th District. He’s come under attack from the “Virginia Gun Owners Coalition” the past couple of months, a group I had never heard of before that. VCDL has supported Todd, and he is among the most pro-gun members of the House of Delegates, and also responded to the RLCVA candidate survey with very positive answers. He deserves re-election, and should be supported over his primary challenger.

Last, I want to address the statewide Democratic primaries going on today. I’d urge those participating to support Ralph Northam over Aneesh Chopra, and Justin Fairfax over Mark Herring. To me, those races are more about eliminating the worst candidates more than anything else.

This is What’s Teaching at America’s Universities

Christopher Swindell is apparently a professor.

Of journalism.

This makes me a bit embarrassed to have a journalism background, because sweaty scrotums such as this shouldn’t be allowed near students, let alone be paid to teach them anything.

But apparently, not only does Swindell teach at Marshall University, but he’s allowed a forum in which to spew his incoherent and historically-ignorant vomit – The Charleston Gazette.

You see, Swindell is advocating treason and execution for NRA members. If you think I’m joking, I’m not.

Here it is. The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That’s treason, and it’s worthy of the firing squad. The B.S. needs a serious gut check. We are not a tin pot banana republic where machine gun toting rebel groups storm the palace and depose the dictator.

I won’t fisk this drooling ignoramus’ piece, because frankly, I don’t have the time today, and I have this burning desire to actually keep down my breakfast. Besides, better men and women than me have already done this with a flair I could only aspire to. Men like Robert Stacy McCain, and Bitter, and others.

I will say this about what this douchetard: had he spent even a minute studying history and reading the words of the men who founded this nation, instead of spewing froth-flecked abuse at an organization that advocates adherence to the US Constitution, he would understand that armed rebellion against the government is exactly what the founders intended when they wrote the Second Amendment. Alexander Hamilton specifically said in Federalist 28 that it was the duty of the populace to launch armed rebellion against a tyrannical government. And if you know anything about Hamilton, it’s not like he was a small-government type guy compared to some of the other founders. And even he understood that the citizens have the right of rebellion.

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defence, which is paramount to all positive forms of government; and which, against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success, than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a single State, if the persons entrusted with supreme power became usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions or districts, of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defence. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair. The usurpers, cloathed with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo. The smaller the extent of territory, the more difficult will it be for the people to form a regular or systematic plan of opposition; and the more easy will it be to defeat their early efforts. Intelligence can be more speedily obtained of their preparations and movements; and the military force in the possession of the usurpers, can be more rapidly directed against the part where the opposition has begun. In this situation, there must be a peculiar coincidence of circumstances to ensure success to the popular resistance.

He should also read Federalist 29 and Federalist 46.

But since he apparently doesn’t give a rat’s ass about history and the founding of this nation, my educated assessment is that he’s too stupid and stubborn to read it. He’s probably much more concerned about teaching his students about their entitlements, and how to more efficiently tongue-bathe the administration’s taint in order to get “exclusive” access.

“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with computers.”  — with deepest apologies to Frank Lloyd Wright for bastardizing his quote.

Apologies

Been out of pocket for a while, and haven’t really been in the mood to blog. So much has been going on, that I wasn’t sure how to even begin commenting on things. I keep wondering what the hell is happening to this country, then I want to blog about it, then I really just want to go out and choke the shit out of the first person I see, and then I just curl up in bed and watch SVU reruns.

Don’t judge me. That’s how I deal.

So I figured I’d catch you up on my views about what is going on lately.

1.  Benghazi: there’s not too much I can say about it, frankly. There have been lies told. There have been witnesses intimidated. The now infamous talking points were redacted to such a degree, that they said nothing at all. No mention of attacks. No mention of threats. No mention of al Q’aida. Nothing. Why is this important? Because four Americans died. Because they died even as this administration claimed Libya was all fabulous thanks to our involvement and the removal of Qaddafi. Security wasn’t what it should have been, apparently, given the threat level. Why? Maybe because the party line about having defeated al Q’aida and about how useful and good our involvement in Libya was was threatened by actual events. Yes, a lot more Americans die in Chicago on any given day, but you know what? It’s important. The truth always is.

2 . IRS targeting specific groups. This is so reprehensible, I don’t even know how to begin to address it. This is not the first time, and it’s not new. But this is the first time the IRS actually admitted it. Publicly. Brazenly. Also, I can’t help but think that at no time did the IRS have more technology and power than it does now. Targeting groups opposed to the government? This is exactly what the First Amendment is supposed to protect against – the right to speak out against the government. They’re in violation. Deep violation. Someone needs to be held accountable, and Eric Holder is not impartial or competent enough to do it.

3. Government’s grabbing phone records of the Associated Press. Not only does this administration have absolutely no respect for the Second Amendment, it’s now apparently going after the First – not just in its use of the IRS to target groups who oppose the government, but also in this unprecedented intrusion. From what I hear Holder is claiming this was a matter of national security, which is the catch-all phrase petty, pathetic tyrants use when they try to destroy your rights. And then he recused himself, claiming he knew nothing about it. So which was it? According to Justice Department regulations, subpoenas of this kind have to be signed by the Attorney General. Why did this not happen?

It is quite obvious that this administration has absolutely no respect for the Law of the Land, and no respect for individual rights. Again and again we see efforts to destroy the Second Amendment, as well as infringements on the First Amendment and continued lies to the American people.

I’m sick of it.

Aren’t you?

It took a whole 24 hours for Jim Moran to exploit Boston bombings to push gun control

We know he’s shameless. We know he’s corrupt. We know he’s a disgusting thug, who will tell any lie and hurl any insult to advance his leftardist agenda. So I really shouldn’t be surprised at the following letter. But Jim Moran’s gall is appalling, and what’s worse, judging by my limited interaction with his drooling, fucktarded supporters, they will nod enthusiastically upon reading this dreck and toss this bastard more money for his re-election campaign.

What occurred in Boston is a sad reminder that terrorist threats are a part of all our lives. But they will not damper the American spirit that defines us. Even in the midst of yesterday’s chaos, first responders, volunteers, runners and spectators rushed to the bomb site to help the injured, putting the lives of their fellow man ahead of their own personal safety. That instinctive call to action to help our fellow citizens is part of what makes this country great, and why no act or acts of terror will ever break us.  

Today is also the sad milestone of a horrible massacre that occurred close to home, in Blacksburg, Virginia. On April 16, 2007, 32 students and teachers were murdered on the campus of Virginia Tech in a senseless act of gun violence.
 

In the six years since the massacre at Virginia Tech, over 180,000 people have been killed by gun violence, including murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. And last December, our nation was once again reminded of the fragility of human life when 20 young children and 6 adults were murdered in Newtown, Connecticut.

Following the tragedy in Newtown, millions of Americans in communities across the country have joined together to call for improvements in our gun laws.

 

Today is the day after a tragic bombing in Boston, and as you remember the horror, also remember that six years ago – on the day after yesterday’s bombing, a gun walked in and killed a bunch of people at Virginia Tech…

Or something…

Over the next few weeks, the Senate will consider legislation to expand background checks to all commercial gun purchases, strengthen gun trafficking laws, and increase funding for school security measures.  I am hopeful that the Senate will pass meaningful gun reform legislation and that Republican leadership in the House will allow an up or down vote on the bill.

Because allowing an up or down vote on more infringements on your Second Amendment rights will prevent more bombs… um… or pressure cookers and shrapnel. We must check you out before you buy kitchen implements. And also running is bad for you, so we need background checks.

Or something…

Expanded checks are the only systematic way to keep guns out of the hands of felons, the severely mentally ill, and other dangerous people.  Far from creating new gun laws, mandatory background checks simply allow for the enforcement of laws already on the books.  This is a common sense reform that polling shows is supported by 90 percent of the American public, 82 percent of gun owners, and even 74 percent of NRA members.

Yesterday, pressure cooker bombs went off in Boston, and today we remember those who died in those bombings by pushing for more gun control, which would not have prevented a massacre six years ago in a gun-free zone.

Or something…

Now Congress must act. We owe it to the victims at Virginia Tech and everyone whose lives have been touched by the horrors of gun violence to enact sensible gun safety legislation. As we remember the lives lost and forever changed by the massacre six years ago, let us come together as a nation in continued vigilance against gun violence.

Because only background checks will stop bombings in Boston.

Or something…

Leave it up to Moran to exploit yet another tragedy that has absolutely nothing to do with gun violence to promote the destruction of your rights!

 

 

 

Soldiers defend rights while statist prosecutor destroys them

A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine was stopped by police in Temple, Texas, close to Ft. Hood, and arrested him for carrying an unconcealed rifle slung over his shoulder. Texas is a right-to-carry state, and law-abiding gun permit owners can carry rifles and hunting weapons openly, so long as the weapons are not being carried in a threatening way. According to CJ Grisham, he was out hiking with his son. I can’t imagine anyone would find this threatening, but apparently the police did. They confiscated his property and arrested him, coincidentally, after CJ apparently rattled some cages by publicly demanding that local officials do their job and uphold the Second Amendment rights of citizens.

CJ’s son got some video of the encounter, in which the Temple police tell him his only crime was alarming some hoplophobes in the area by “threateningly” carrying a rifle slung over his shoulder.

“In this day and age, [people] are alarmed when they see someone with what you have,” one of the officers tells Grisham in the video. “They don’t care what the law is.”

“When you alarm people, and they call us,” one of the officers in the video begins to say, after Grisham asks why the officiers failed to ask for his concealed-carry permit.

“And did you explain to them what the law is, sir?” Grisham asks.

“They don’t care what the law is,” the officer replies. Graham then shoots back, “Do you care what the law is?”

“In this day and age, they’re alarmed when they see somebody with what you have,” the officer replies.

“Just because a guy has got a firearm, he’s dangerous?” Grisham asks, drawing the reply, “Yes, sir.”

One of the officers tells Grisham he was “rudely displaying” the rifle.

Got that? People don’t care about the law, and exercising this law is rude and will be punished. This is what the Temple Police department apparently think.

Not only that, but according to this story, these authoritarian fucksacks somehow acted to protect themselves. That’s right. A guy is walking along with his son, with his rifle slung over his shoulder is apparently a threat.

That’s the way they apparently work over there, according to some Soldiers.

The conflict between law enforcement and armed military personnel in the community around Fort Hood, one of America’s largest military bases, has recently and repeatedly involved the issue of gun control — and the tension has been exacerbated in part by an Obama-supporting prosecutor described as a “bandleader” of anti-gun efforts in the heavily conservative community.

And it certainly sounds like CJ Grisham got caught in this particular crossfire – an overzealous, gun-grabbing, Obama supporting prosecutor versus a community of military members who not only treasure their rights, but fight to protect them.

Let’s hope the Constitution, our rights and our freedoms win in this case. CJ’s fundraising page is here. He’s fighting for all our rights.