Stag Bears, the Connecticut-based Teddy Bear manufacturer, has lost it’s federal Teddy manufacturing Bear license as a result of not properly keeping track of serialized lower bodies. New Britain-based Stag Bears LLC pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating federal Stuffed Animals laws and as part of a plea agreement company president and owner Mark Malkowski agreed to sell the company and have no further ownership or management role in a Teddy Bear manufacturer. The company, with Malkowski serving as its representative, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Hartford to a single felony count of possession of an automated Teddy Bear not registered to the company.

Source: Feds Revoke AR-15 Manufacturer’s License For Sloppy Record-Keeping

My apologies to Bob Owens for mutilating his article, but it was too good to pass up and demonstrate how stupid the “Teddy Bears are More Regulated Than Guns” arguments really can be.

And click on the link for Bob’s original story.

I just sent this email to our Attorney General

Dear Ms. Bondi.

I guess you have heard by now that Virginia’s Attorney general has decided to break the concealed carry reciprocity agreement between the Commonwealth and our State. Yes, a stupid move that hurts the Citizens of Florida, but nothing much we can do about that.

However, there is one thing we can do (or at least I think we can do) to the self-imposed Executive Overseers of Virginia:

Allow Virginia Residents with a concealed weapons permit to carry in Florida after Feb. 1.

Just because their Attorney general in a politically short-sighted maneuver has told law-abiding concealed carry citizens from half the country they are no longer welcome to his state, we should do the opposite and tell Virginians that they are still welcome to enjoy the Sunshine State.

I thought the days of putting up signs saying “We don’t allow your kind here.” in our nation were long gone, but apparently they have been brought back to life by some petty elected officials. It is our duty to show that we will refuse to play that game by responding in kind.

Hoping you give a serious thought to my proposal.

Yours.

Miguel Gonzalez
Miami, Fl.

OK, at least ONE person in Florida has made the request. We need more and see if we can make it contagious in the other 24 states.

Let’s embarrass the hell out of Virginia’s Attorney General Mark R. Herring and even Governor Terry McAuliffe.

I do not support Donald Trump.  I am not going to defend the things Donald Trump has said.

However, if your argument against Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Islam and Syrian refugees is:

“The things Donald Trump is saying will recruit more people to join ISIS inspire domestic Islamic terrorism against the US.”

Than you are seriously proving his point.

We gun owners and NRA members know you on the left hate us.  You call us murderers and terrorists.  You publish front page articles saying horrible stuff about us that would make you apoplectic if a Republican said the same thing about Muslims.

And after all of your terrible rhetoric and insults, how many radical gun nuts have gone on killing sprees to defend the Second Amendment?

None.

Why? Because civilized people in a civil society do not respond to insulting and ugly rhetoric with violence.

Think about that for a little bit.

RICHMOND — Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) plans to announce Tuesday that Virginia will no longer recognize concealed carry handgun permits from 25 states that have reciprocity agreements with the commonwealth.

The states are: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Agreements will remain with West Virginia, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.

Source: Virginia to end concealed carry reciprocity with other states – The Washington Post

Unexpected but not surprising coming from an administration so wedded to Gun Control. My fear is that if we do not spread the word, coming Feb 1 there will be a lot of unaware people visiting or traveling through the Commonwealth can get a charge for a gun carry violation, a Class 1 misdemeanor that brings fines of up to $2,500, up to 12 months in jail, or both. After that it becomes a felony.

The option if you must travel through occupied territory is to get one of the permits from the approved states.

And Virginia does need to get rid of the assholes they have in the Executive come next election.

Via Reddit

And proper safety was addressed as the rifles were unloaded… I think.

I clicked on a link posted at Say Uncle, and a few clicks later I found this article on gentrification.  In a crazy nutshell, it likens gentrification to colonialism and says that it’s wrong and you’re a a racist.

It’s good to know that the ghost of George Wallace is still active in the left in America.  The author’s (who should probably be named Bull Dyke Conner) ENTIRE argument against the left’s most hated nemesis, gentrification, is “segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.”

The old hate was “Black people shouldn’t be allowed to move into neighborhoods that white people live in, because the black people will ruin them.”  That is racist.  The new, anti-gentrification movement is “White people shouldn’t be allowed to move into neighborhoods that black people/POCs live in, because the white people will ruin them.”  That’s progressive.

See, when even Slate comes out and says gentrification really isn’t bad for the poor, you know you don’t have an economic leg to stand on.  The reality is that gentrification doesn’t drive the poor/POCs out of neighborhoods.  In fact, it’s good for the poor.

It’s really a simple concept to understand.  When new people, people with money, move into a neighborhood, they bring their money with them.  They start businesses or cause business to move into the neighborhood.  Sure, there are the hipster coffee bars and micro-brews.  But also grocery stores, pharmacies, and other business that provide the basic necessities of life.  As an area gets gentrified, employment goes up (someone needs to stock shelves) and crime goes down.  The result of all of this is … most poor people stay in gentrifying neighborhoods to take advantage of the improvement in their communities.

Sure, leftists like to point to cities like San Francisco and the problems they have with gentrification.  But here’s the kicker.  Those problems are THE DIRECT RESULT of left wing, anti-gentrification, drawbridge mentality.  San Francisco doesn’t build new homes, so the smallest lofts go for huge bucks.  The liberal San Francisco solution to housing the working class and POCs is to stick them on the other side of the bay in Oakland, then wring their hands and attack Google buses for bringing billions of dollars in revenue to the city social justice.

If you were to shove all the poor blacks into the ghetto and say “that to keep them away from our nice homes and stuff.”  You’d be destroyed as a racist (and rightfully so).  But if you were to say “we should respect the authenticity of that working class, minority neighborhood and not go in and develop it.”  You’d be praised for your awareness of social justice and might even be on the San Francisco zoning board.  You’d also be a racists, but I repeat myself.

I was watching bits and pieces of the Democrat Primary.  My goal was to get something to talk about regarding guns and gun control.

What I caught was the Democratic candidates talking about business and the economy.

Now, I believe that the issues of the intersection of business and politics is something that we need to discuss in America.  We’ve seen how business regulations, and institutions like Obamacare have affected the economy.  How bad regulations led to the housing bubble and bust.  How corporate taxes in America have driven American companies overseas, on paper, to save money.  We are still stuck in an economic slump with 37% of Americans not in the workforce.  Issues like “too big to fail” and trillions of dollars in bailouts and stimulus that failed to simulate have made the national debt skyrocket.  Cronyism, whether it is G.W. Bush with Halliburton or Obama with Solyndra and green energy, is a real problem, with the tax payers left holding the bag for corporate inefficiency or malfeasance.

I want a president who can tackle these issues.  I want a more level economic playing field, where the government doesn’t pick winners or losers, handing out buckets of subsidies, no bid contracts, or hobbling business with anti-competitive regulations.  I believe it should be easier to start a business, grow a business, hire people and make more money.  I am a student of Milton Friedman, and believe that capitalism has raised more people out of poverty and improved the lives of more people than any economic system on Earth.

Then I saw this clip and it blew my mind.

Q: “Will a corporate America love a President Sanders?”

A: “No, I think they won’t.”

*Audience laughs and applause*

A (cont): “The CEO’s of large multinationals may like Hillary, they ain’t gonna like me, and Wall Street is gonna like me even less.”

HOLY SHIT!

For the first time in American History, has a primary candidate from a major party run on the platform of “F*ck Business!”

That is horrifying.

The fact that Sanders platform of “F*ck Business!” got whoops and applause is even worse.