Miguel.GFZ

Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack. Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA. I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed. I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.

Conflicting thoughts.

Last night I was cleaning/organizing  my work bench when accidentally I elbowed  an AK mag and an AR mag at the same time, both landing on the floor.

With the AR mag, I thought “I hope I didn’t screw up the mag lips.”

With the AK mag, the thought was “I hope I did not chip the ceramic tile.

And that defines the difference between both.


PS: Yes, the AK  in the rear has rust in it. That was one of the lot of Serbian battlefield pick ups that I bought many years ago. I just cleaned that one (It hat actual dirt and vegetal remains inside), lubricated it and have not touched it in about 8 years, maybe more.  Works like a proletarian champion.

AP: Correction on the “NRA bans guns at Annual Meeting.”

Via John Lott.

Sorry, I don’t buy this ‘mea culpa.’ This is what? the fourth or fifth year in a row that this load of crap gets published?  And you are going to sit there and tell me once again you did not know it was BS?

AP did what it was suppose to do, create a false story, spread it till the damage was done and then cover its ass so they appear virginal and innocent.

I am sorry but I am all out of Benefit of the Doubt.

Hat Tip @HoosierInfidel

Stop trying to please the Media.

Today my social media feeds have seen a bumper crop of people reacting at the headlines. From demanding that POTUS or the VP order the Secret Service to drop the No Guns restriction to some even saying that Trump and/or Pence shouldn’t be attending because the Secret Service Requirement. I have a response for that:

Stop it. You are trying to fix shit because we got a crappy headline from a group of people who will die first than give us a good headline.  OK, allow me to correct that last part:   from a group of people who will rather see us die first than give us a good headline. 

Will the Secret Service reverse its requirements? No. So why bother? Now, imagine for a second that somehow the NRA “stands firm” and demands that people can carry around POTUS and VP.

Headline AP/WP/NTY/MSNBC/ETC:
NRA WANTS PRESIDENT DEAD. DEMANDS THAT SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION BE ELIMINATED.
DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP IN CONGRESS DEMANDS APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL TO  INVESTIGATION.

And no, you are not complaining/reacting because of ideology. Two days ago you weren’t even thinking about this issue and the last time you gave a shit was probably also the last time a headline like the one above was published  prior to an NRA AM.

Stop trying to kiss the Media’s ass expecting a favorable story.

Nine Journalists killed

The Afghan government said Monday’s first explosion in Kabul, the country’s capital, came from an attacker who was on a motorcycle. When journalists responded to cover the first explosion, a second attacker dressed as a journalist got close to the scene and detonated a second blast among the reporters, the health ministry said.
In addition to the dead, the government also confirmed at least 45 people were wounded.


No one had claimed responsibility for the attack in the immediate aftermath.

25 killed, including 9 journalists, in Kabul suicide bombing

But remember, the real threat to journalists is Trump tweeting and calling them Fake News.

 

 

A good lie is worth repeating year after year.

Here we go again, unsurprisingly from the HuffPo:

Writer Mary Papenfuss “explains”:

Guns will be barred during Vice President Mike Pence’s appearance at an upcoming National Rifle Association convention to protect his safety — prompting survivors of the Parkland school shooting in Florida to wonder why the gun group won’t agree to gun restrictions elsewhere to protect children.

Protections like No Guns Allowed in School Property? That kind of protections for kids?

Those attending the NRA Leadership Conference in Dallas are on notice that no firearms or “weapons of any kind,” or ammunition, will be allowed in the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center “prior to and during” Pence’s appearance on May 4. The NRA posted the restrictions ― a requirement of the Secret Service ― on a website announcing the conference.

See that? “a requirement of the Secret Service” So she knows it is not the NRA “banning” anything but a Secret Service mandate.  But as expected from a good “journalist” she has no problem lying to make apolitical point across. VP pence will be present for 3 hours and that will be the amount of time the restrictions will be up and I am going to guess only where the Leadership Conference will be held, not the whole huge arena.

And then they had the cojones to ask why people hate them.

PS: And if the Parkland Survivors’ jaws “dropped” must have been from all the Tide Pod chewing. That crap cannot be gentle to the maxillofacial structure.

Hat Tip Joe M.

Confused? You are not alone.

In a span of a few years, we went from embracing all cultures via  Multiculturalism to denouncing the same as Cultural Appropriation.  From Desegregation to People-Of-Color-Only Spaces. From Only Fascists are against Freedom of Speech to Only Fascists want Freedom of Speech. From people discovering their racial background to people making up a racial background.

And I am the weird one.