I made a call to the Library of Congress and this was the phone menu.

I have heard but I do not know, that old rotary phones will still work to call 911 even when the power is out and the cell towers are not operating.

As an engineer and I gun nut, I find this fascinating.

This is a video from Remington from 1969 on how guns were made.

This is how a Remington 700 was made in 2011.

Here is a visit to the Remington Ilion and Huntsville factories in 2016, on the 200th anniversary of the company.

Here is a tour of Remington Huntsville in 2016.

It really is amazing to see how the technology of gun making has changed in 47 years.

And before anybody says “they don’t make them like they used to…” in a negative way.

Think about this.  Using 1969 technology, the industry would not have been able to make the almost 300 million guns sold in the last 30 years, or the 2 million guns per month it’s been doing in the last few years.

Lastly, if you were ever curios what a cold hammer forged barrel means, here is a video from GFM on the process.  I have seen one of these in real life, and it is something to behold.  Pounding out a gun barrel in a matter of minutes.

Here is a picture of Louis Farrakhan sitting next to MSNBC talking head Al Sharpton, and three down from President Bill Clinton at Aretha Franklin’s funeral.

Here is a picture of Farrakhan smiling with Barack Obama before he was President.

Here is video of “Auntie” Maxine Waters, leader of the #Resistance, and potential leader of the Trump impeachment hearing if the Democrats take the House, giving Farrakhan a hug.

Here is a picture of Farrakhan with Tamika Mallory, co-founder of The Women’s March.

Linda Sarsour, the other co-founder of The Women’s March has praised Farrakhan for years.

The Woman’s March has been a leader of the #Resistance and was a major organizer of the anti Kavanaugh protests in DC.

Now that all of that is in your head.

These videos are from AFTER the Tree of Life shooting.  You know, the one where the media and everyone on the Left ran around and blamed Trump for anti-Semitism.

Here is Farrakhan in Iran calling America “the Great Satan.”

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1059517351777976327

Here he is leading a chant of “death to Israel.”

Iran state TV news presenter: Listen to leader of Nation of Islam chanting "Death to America"

Farrakhan [in Farsi]: "Death to…"
Audience: "…America" pic.twitter.com/p0qGfHHfg0

— Sobhan Hassanvand ? سبحان حسنوند (@Hassanvand) November 4, 2018

This is what we are up against.

Remember this.

So I heard on one of the news shows I was watching last night, that a Harvard study of the media determiend that 93% of CNN’s coverage of Trump was negative.  Furthermore, to quote the Washington Times coverage of the study:

“The Harvard team found that CBS coverage was 91 percent negative and 9 percent positive. New York Times coverage was 87 percent negative and 13 percent positive,” Byron York wrote in the Washington Examiner. “Washington Post coverage was 83 percent negative and 17 percent positive. Wall Street Journal coverage was 70 percent negative and 30 percent positive. And Fox News coverage also leaned to the negative, but only slightly: 52 percent negative to 48 percent positive.”

News Busters captured this Chyron from CNN’s John King.

CNN: TRUMP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INCITING THE BOMBER. HE NEEDS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.
(At least @mkhammer insisted rhetoric doesn't = violence) pic.twitter.com/KjkGGPSaMK

— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) October 25, 2018

Most recently in the Senate campaign of John James, a small town reporter from the Huron Daily Tribune, accidentally left her thoughts of James on his voicemail.

Clearly, we expect her write-up of James to be unbiased.

We all know that a politician suing the media for libel is almost impossible.

How much of  challenge would it be to say that when a media organization is so overwhelmingly biased against one candidate or side, and so overwhelmingly biased towards another, that that coverage – especially the opinion coverage – is not news but political advertisement and an in-kind donation by a media source.

Then calculate what  the dollar value would be if a candidate tried to buy that much negative airtime against an opponent.

Then have the FEC sue these media organizations for that value in unreported in-kind donations in excess of FEC limits.

At the very least, it would make a very interesting First Amendment case.

That was harsh.

The banana trick drove the point home

No matter how things roll tomorrow, starting Wednesday we need to figure out how to shake the Florida Legislature up. Forget that, we need to figure out how do we scare some Constitution into the heads of our elected officials.

We need two things: A new generation of political throat-cutters and a war chest.  We are cursed with people living too far away from Tallahassee and we need to fill the halls of government with Gun People.  If we cannot have our Bloomberg, we gotta figure how to pay for stuff like buses, banners and T Shirts. Hell, maybe even an honest-to-God PR firm.

See you on the flip side.