It has been so long since I played with a camera with manual settings, I have forgotten all about shutter speed. A good picture ruined because I set a too slow speed (1/100) in a bright day with a moving subject.

At least the trees remained still.

Totally accidental, but I kinda like the washed out background.

At least I am not wasting money on developing and printing.

So this happened.

And then comes the even worse news: The company was aware of the investigation and had been cooperating with authorities for quite a while.

Bear Creek Arsenal said it is cooperating and added that “Homeland Security has confirmed that our Human Resource Department had complied with all laws, rules, and regulations in our hiring practices.”

This is why it is important to research the type of company you are going to work for, specially if you are going to be doing it in a criminal manner.  Firearms’ industries tend to attract the attention of the Feds and if you are illegal and working with fake papers, you may get in deep doodoo.

I am watching SOTUS in the comfort of YouTube and I am at the part where the President recognized the labor of ICE’s Special Agent Elvin Hernandez who with his team have rescued over 300 women brought illegally to the us for prostitution and slavery and the arrest of 1,500 traffickers. This is the attitude that Ocassional-Cortex gets:

And she got up because the older lady she is looking act appeared to have told her to raise her ass from the chair. 

I do not care if you hate the President, I do not care if you even hate ICE, but by God you will respect the man who has done more for women that you will ever do. And that includes slugging Cabernet to menopausal Liberal Art, unshaved and unmarried broads back in your old bar where you will end up again after your term.

“Wearing suffragette white is a respectful message of solidarity with women across the country, and a declaration that we will not go back on our hard-earned right,” Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel said in a statement to CNN.

Here’s Why the Women of Congress Are Wearing White for the 2019 State of the Union Address

I was not aware that there was a law in congress trying to forbid women their right to vote. Were you?

Just yesterday I posted about the official FBI NICS numbers for the year 2018 which turned out to be the second most prolific in the history of background checks and we get this load of BS from The Trace.

Let us remember what were the NICS checks for 2018:

Now, the only way I figure Mr. Yablon claims “Gun sales tumbled for the second year in a row.” is because 2016 is the owner of the running for NICS checks with 27,538,673 and gun sales did drop to 25,235,215 in 2017 which makes it the third highest number in history.

I have no idea where the researchers hired by The Trace got their gun transfer numbers, but sure as hell was not the FBI.  But are going to make the assumption that like with all Gun Control, the default position is to lie and manipulate those lies.

Hat Tip to Weer’d Beer for this one.

UPDATE: I Twitted Mr. Yablon asking him about the incongruity between his researchers and NICS. This was the response.

My take is that they are subtracting Concealed Weapons Permits and other background checks to the NICS numbers even though the article says “gun transfers” and not sales. And the FBI clearly states in the NICS page linked above:

“Statistics representing the number of firearms background checks initiated through the NICS from November 1998 to January 31, 2019.”

Why do I feel like quoting Mark Twain?

I know, the title sounds racist, but what else could it be? Sure as hell if the 15 kids murdered were black, we would have had NAACP-incited riots for not having Runcie in shackles 5 minutes after the Parkland report was out…

…and Runcie was white.

#MeToo developed the teeth to bit them in their collective asses.

Never develop a poison if you cannot develop the antidote too.