Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
You have seen me quote Greg Ellifritz over the years. I believe he is a no BS instructor, truly interested in Self Defense and does not want to be one of the cool kids in tactical jerseys. This video by Rational Preps is based on a 10 year study of calibers and what they can do. Take your time watching it.
Welcome to the fundraiser for Gunfreezone.net
The blog’s webhosting bill is coming due at the end of the year and I need to renew it for three years to get the best deal from the company which is unlimited bandwith with unlimited size. Add to that, domain name, secure certificate, overall protection and automatic back ups, I am looking somewhere in the vicinity of $1,500.
I wanted to start early in asking for your help. Unfortunately, we in the New Media Wars for the Second Amendment have no Billionaire throwing millions of dollars our way and we only rely on our own wits and charms. (I can hear the jokes now)
I have kept the blog free from commercial ads to concentrate on content relevant to our fight and not fall for the clickbait to generate traffic and thus revenue. So I come here to ask you for your help in maintaining this 10-year-old blog running.
And I want to thank you in advance for all the help you can give, be it small or large. I know it was done with the best of intentions and to help preserve and expand our Gun Rights.
Miguel.
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Help @MFOLBoston March 50 miles to the Smith and Wesson factory!
Please donate here anything you can is appreciated! https://t.co/iyVwkCDzgs— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) August 16, 2018
So March For Our Lives is marching from Boston to the S&W factory to protest… Because harassing a bunch of factory workers at their place of employment is some how going to undo the Broward County Sheriffs Office’s screw ups.
Smith & Wesson is about to learn the same lesson that Kimber and Remington have learned. The North East corridor is no place for gun companies. Sure, Remington still has a plant in Ilion, New York and upstate New York is different, but as long at NYC calls the shots at the state level, it will suck for them. All of Remington’s “non NYC friendly” products, the handguns, AR-15, etc. are made in Alabama.
Speaking of Alabama, besides Remington in Huntsville, Steyr Arms USA is in Bessemer outside of Birmingham, and Kimber is moving to Troy.
So allow me to be the first to say to Smith & Wesson:
“Alabama is great, you should come on down. The people and nice and the laws are gun friendly. You’re not going to have to worry about getting marched on down here.”
Maybe someone with American Outdoor Brands will realized just how unwelcome they are up there and move to a state that likes having gun companies.
From Shannon Watts’ Twitter:
“The National Anthem, 'The Star Spangled Banner,' was missing something — was missing a radical history of inclusion, was missing an investment in radical visions of the future of equality, of parity.” https://t.co/BoUqDBF7dX
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 16, 2018
Good ‘ol intersectional Shannon. That’s what America needs more of, being told that our National Anthem is not radical enough or filled with self flagellating social justice.
From NPR:
Till Victory Is Won: The Staying Power Of ‘Lift Every Voice And Sing’
On the other hand, the song that theoretically should link all Americans together, “The Star Spangled Banner,” falls short of that goal according to Shana Redmond.
“The National Anthem, ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’ was missing something — was missing a radical history of inclusion, was missing an investment in radical visions of the future of equality, of parity,” she says. “‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ became a counterpoint to those types of absences and elisions.”
The National Anthem is the Star Spangled Banner. That is the first part of the poem Defence of Fort M’Henry by Francis Scott Key, set to music. The poem was written in 1814 by Key as he watched the British shell the American fort.
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
There is nothing about race or radical visions in this. This is the story of early America. A fledgling nation being attacked by a global super power, the British Empire, and defending itself and persevering.
This is a song of pride in an underdog nation, and the symbolism of the flag of the United State flying under relentless bombardment.
The beauty of our National Anthem is that it doesn’t draw on religious or ethnic unity, it is pride in the fortitude and resilience of America as symbolized by our flag.
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was first performed in 1900, at a segregated school in Jacksonville, Fla., by a group of 500 children celebrating the anniversary of the birth of President Lincoln. The first verse opens with a command to optimism, praise and freedom:
Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and Heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of liberty
The second verse reminds us to never forget the suffering and obstacles of the past:
Stony the road we trod
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Pardon me, but that is a shitty National Anthem if it forces us to reflect on past injustices and oppression. I don’t want to be made to feel guilty about slavery before a baseball game.
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” faded from popularity towards the end of the civil rights movement in favor of songs like “We Shall Overcome.” Askew says the song’s recognition as a black national anthem is actually one of the reasons it has moved in and out of favor.
“There were many African-Americans who were in conflict with that idea,” Askew says. “They were saying, ‘Well, if we have marched, and we have attained what we hope to be equality, we can’t have a black anthem. We need an anthem that links us all together.”
I agree. Having a “black National Anthem” is very close to the idea of American ethno-nationalism and ethno-separatism. The National Anthem is for white people, Lift Every Voice is for Black people, etc. and the result is that America balkanizes as each race has a different anthem.
No wonder this song is being brought back. The Social Justice crowd wants ethno-separatism. We see this in the call for POC only dorms and graduations.
A few years ago La Raza tried this with Nuestro Himno which was a sort-of translation of the Star Spangled Banner into Spanis. The name, Nuestro Himno means “our anthem” separating it from the National Anthem, suggesting that Hispanics are somehow different and in need of their own Anthem that is not the National Anthem.
Shannon Watts pushing this idea that the National Anthem isn’t for black people and not inclusionary is affirming racist Social Justice segregation and ethno-nationalism.
You can’t hate the alt-right and neo-Nazis and support this without being a raging hypocrite. Which is exactly what Shannon Watts is.
J. Kb’s post on Manuel Oliver’s foundation got me thinking. He is basing his fight/endeavor on the false premise that Evil can be managed with logic and rules and that if somehow that is not the case, there has to be some sort of conspiracy behind it and the “refs” must be removed.
That is Soviet thinking.
The USSR honchos were enamored with the concept of “Five Year Plans” related to the production of goods by their industrial complex. Simply stated, a bunch of party bureaucrats who’d never worked in a factory in their lives, would sit in some office, read a bunch of reports that could be could not be accurate, make some “calculations” and assure to the upper ups that in 5 years, the production of a product would be certain amount, usually wildly optimistic. Of course, reality is a harsh bitch, shit happened, and the wildly optimistic goals were never met.
Now, it was NEVER the fault of the Party bureaucrats because they represented the Part which was never wrong according to the dogma. If the Party bureaucrats were not wrong but the goals were not met, therefore there was one of two reasons: incompetence (but rarely used because it would mean somebody up in Party management made a mistake and the dogma says otherwise) or Sabotage by the Evil Forces of Imperialism. Investigations were made and to make long story short, a few patsies were selected, tried and executed.
Again and thanks to the dogma of Party Infallibility, the same party bureaucrats would gather again and create a new 5 Year Plan knowing for sure this time would work because that is what they put on paper in behalf of the Almighty Party and its Infallible Economy. It never occurred to the bureaucrats (or simply they knew better than voicing it) that maybe it was the system that was faulty. The dogma had to be preserved and if it meant making stuff up like creating saboteurs and killing innocent people, So be it.
There were other “remedies” used to cover for the stupidity of false expectations, some readers will probably identify the following line from an old book: “times 14.2.84 miniplenty malquoted chocolate rectify”
So Mr. Olivera is pretty much the same thing: It was not us who were wrong, but the Ref was dirty. Not our fault, our planning, training, etc was a surefire thing unless somebody purposely sabotaged the process to alter then result we expected. They will not admit fault or that there are things you cannot control in your life. Blame must be found somewhere and he will not admit to making a mistake.
So, we are the Bad Guys, the saboteurs that he needs to get rid off. Although he should be careful because it is not a bunch of meek Soviet citizens subjects, shitting their pants, fearing the KGB to show up and take them to a Siberian Winter Resort and Spa for 20 years of Hard Labor. We are citizens of a country with a long history of wrecking the long-term plans of Statists, foreign and domestic.
