Headache & Beverage Warning.

So much dumb is painful…and they get to write laws.

UPDATE: Click here to get a longer and more detailed video with a play by play commentary.

‘If I had a Son’: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman by Jack Cashill

I heard Massad Ayoob say once: “You do not win a gun fight, you survive it.”  And he should add “not necessarily unscathed.”

If you carry concealed or even if you only have a gun for home defense, you have to read this book. It is an amazing description of what happens when The Carriers of the Narrative focus its attention and considerable power against one man.

This books goes to great lengths detailing  the multi-pronged lynching of George Zimmerman and the total disregard for the rule of law from even by those who swore to uphold it.  Whether you think Zimmerman did or did not the right thing on the February night, the way the case was handled in the media, politicians and the legal system was a disgrace of several orders of magnitude.  It was a process where the Fourth Power had no problems becoming the First Accomplice to the political designs of racial groups and the Judicial branch of a state had no problem becoming the lap-dog of said groups in order to avoid being branded as insensitive and assure re-elections.

I don’t most of us know all the details, inside and out of his case. I did try to follow as close as possible and I found a wealth of information that simply was not available to regular people and that would have made a different story if those who were entrusted with telling us had done their jobs instead of trying to curry favors with some selected political trends.

I am very distrustful of the press. If you have read this blob for more than a month, you pretty much have figured it out.  If the National Guard Letters were the downfall of Dan Rather, the Zimmerman Case is the beginning of the avalanche for the Old Electronic and Dead Tree Media.  As much as they tried to control the message, it was the New Media and the New Electronic Frontier who kept frustrating the job of having everybody singing along the same set of lyrics.  My guess is that many people who did not have trust issued with the Old News generation, were shocked into realize they were lied bluntly by design.

If you think I am exaggerating, ask yourself this question: There is no doubt that George Zimmerman is the most hated man in the USA for killing Trayvon Martin. Yet Adam Lanza killed his mother, stole a rifle, broke into an elementary school and killed twenty small children without compunction and he is not even remotely close in the hate level in the American consciousness.

If that is not telling, I don’t know what else can be.

Hat Tip for this book goes to Andrew Branca who did a much better job keeping me informed of the Zimmerman trial with 140 characters via Twitter than all the major media outlets and cable news channels combined.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that bloggers and the public have the same First Amendment protections as journalists when sued for defamation: If the issue is of public concern, plaintiffs have to prove negligence to win damages.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new trial in a defamation lawsuit brought by an Oregon bankruptcy trustee against a Montana blogger who wrote online that the court-appointed trustee criminally mishandled a bankruptcy case.

The appeals court ruled that the trustee was not a public figure, which could have invoked an even higher standard of showing the writer acted with malice, but the issue was of public concern, so the negligence standard applied.

Gregg Leslie of the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press said the ruling affirms what many have long argued: Standards set by a 1974 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc., apply to everyone, not just journalists.

via News from The Associated Press.

Do you know how many people are pissed right now? #1: Journalists.

First, a gun by Boberg:
3 fun items for you Miguel. The first is a pistol from BOBERG. currently available in nine millimeter and later this year to come out in 45 ACP. It has unique semi-automatic rotating breach and the fresh round is picked up as the slide is moving forward. The hammer is a hefty plate on the back of the slide. Minimal effort is needed to rack the slide, and because the breach does not tilt, rounds can be fed straight in. The maker claims that because of this, the gun can feed anything.   you will notice the attached photo showing the rifle ing. It is a  progressive rifle ing which the manufacturer states will reduce the field torque of the pistol. The rotation of the barrel unlocking counters the rotary torque off the bullet first engaging the rifling.you can find videos on YouTube showing the whole shebang in action.retail price is between 1000 and 1200 dollars.

Boberg has a great reputation for quality, that their guns are very accurate and always go bang. .  I just don’t see then hefty price as any enticement to buy a gun that does pretty much the same job as an upper $300’s like an Ruger LC9.  Back when nobody was doing pocket 9s (or of any caliber for that matter) you had only 2 companies in that particular niche: Boberg and Khar.

No gloomy  music, no smart remarks, no warning from the attacker….

It went from a simple car accident to a deadly shooting ultimately determined to be Suicide by Cop as it seems the attacker had mental health problems.

One minute and thirty-five seconds from the moment the officer went inside the house to shots fired. That is the equivalent of three TV commercials where the situation went from apparently stable to use of deadly force.

Just think about all the time we are distracted with menial things and we might not see something coming.

Shit happens that fast…faster sometimes. Prepare according.

After the failure of trying to brand the Insurrectionist label to Second Amendment advocates, the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence takes a chance now with the Anarchist label:

But the true failure of this post is the sad attempt of rewriting history or at least modify it to serve their stupid and dangerous purposes.

They WANT to live in a society where there is no rule of law and their guns serve as judge, jury and executioner.

Which is why the basis of our gun culture is the Four Rules of Gun Safety and adherence to the Bill of Rights.

That is why George Zimmerman is a hero to them.

No, Zimmerman was a victim of unchecked  prosecution for political profit.  Again, we “anarchists” were demanding that the rule of law to be applied fairly, specially that part that reads “Innocent till proven Guilty.”

That stuff in the very first sentence of the Constitution (stating its purpose) about “establish[ing] Justice, insur[ing] domestic Tranquility, provid[ing] for the common defence, [and] promot[ing] the general Welfare”? They reject that contract entirely.

We already established that we want justice while CSGV has a track record of demanding the suspension of the rule of law  in order to bring us (insurrectionist/anarchists) into submission which is not the most proper way to insure Domestic Tranquility.  and most certainly, you cannot provide for the common defense unarmed which is what the Laddites want.

Let’s be clear: They are the modern day equivalent of radical Anti-Federalists: Men who fought against the ratification of our U.S. Constitution with everything they had.

And this is when you know Ladd or the Intern On Duty has never taken 5 minutes to read about how our Constitution came to be. And yes, please, call me Anti Federalist and bunch me up with such “traitors” of our nation as Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, George Mason, Robert Yates and James Monroe.  The Anti Federalists who indeed refused to ratify the Constitution unless some things of the utmost importance were added: The first amendments to our Constitution that we all know as The Bill Of Rights.

And maybe that is why they hate us so much as it was those Anti Federalists that made sure generations to come knew there were rights that could not be infringed and that were inherent to the individual and not granted (and eventually removed) by a magnanimous Central Government.

As sure as hell we ain’t the ones wearing red coats.