As you can imagine, they are giddy like they just met Justin Beiber.

The article/study titled Racism In White Americans Linked To Gun Ownership And Gun Control Opposition is starting to make the rounds of the Gun Control advocates. As usual, it does not provide much for method or how the study was done, par for the course.

A new study of symbolic racism among white American voters yielded strong links between latent biases toward blacks and increased favor of gun ownership and oppositions toward gun control.

Published in the journal PLoS One, the study used voter data of white Americans that, after accounting for political ideology, income, and education, still revealed startling connections between racism and gun ownership

I have never heard of PLoS One so I did a quick search. According to Wiki “PLOS ONE (originally PLoS ONE) is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science since 2006.” My memory was triggered to an article I have read recently about these “open access peer-reviewed scientific journal” and although I could not find the original, I did managed to get an article from Berkley Blog denouncing them as mercenaries that collect monies from the author to review the study and then publish it. Since they only collect money if the article is published….you get the idea. It explains how reporter John Bohannon conducted a sting presenting a paper on a cancer-curing lichen so filled with mistake as to make it impossible for any half-witted peer review publication to publish and yes, a boatload of the did publish it & collected the cash. You may want to read the whole article by Mr. Bohannon in Science Magazine.

So… consider the source of this study on Gun Control and Racism. And I want them to explain the boatload of Hispanics with guns in South Florida…..lots of somebodies did not get the memo.

All Hallows is upon us!

The sugary ritual is about to begin……If I can get some pics, I’ll share later.

In the meantime… my idea of a perfect married couple who are also fitting for this day:

I am happy to say that (sans the money) I think I have that type of marriage. 😀

Sanford officials claim that the ban on people legally carrying firearms will revitalize the image of the program that has reportedly suffered following the trial, but I’m not sure how telling me that I should give up my personal protection and take one for the team is an incentive to participate.

via No More Concealed Carry for Neighborhood Watch | Shall Not Be Questioned.

To me that is the whole issue: Image and actual results be dammed. It is all about political hackery.

Bitter is right. I don’t feel like actually standing watch over a locale where the Bad Guys already know there is nothing bad coming to them and the two idiots patrolling are just a carjacking ripe for the pickings. Do you know what Neighborhood watch is in my little piece of heaven? When we hear something funky, a couple of neighbors open their doors to see what is going on. Beside the hard stares, there is always one hand conspicuously hiding behind the back.

It seems it is Universal Sing Language for “Get the F*** Outta Here” for they seem to understand it.

Via Say Uncle

Anyway, back to Shannon. Another MDA supporter had repeated my assertion that there wasn’t a lot of work with suicide awareness in the campaign, and Mrs. Watts stated that “Few of daily shootings” are the result of mental health issues. 61% of gun deaths are suicides, yet she asserts that “few” of the deaths from guns are a result of mental health issues. I asked for clarification, and she informed me that suicide is not the issue – gun violence is. So, in essence, the founder of Moms Demand Action has clearly stated that they’re not concerned about suicides or helping prevent suicides – they’re just concerned about guns. Even though suicides make up 61% of the gun deaths in the country.

via Three Days in the Shoes of a Gun Activist – Georgia Packing Forum.

Outstanding work…. Go check out the whole post and the screen caps.

It has never been about preventing deaths but plain ole Control.

The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia.

I haven’t finished yet. It is not that my traditional reading speed has been slowed down by age or other things, but it is because the more I read this book, the more I get really angry and I have to put it down for a while.

The Forsake is the story of a group of Americans that moved to Stalin’s Russia during the Great Depression. Most did it because they were promised a job with good wages in what then was considered the utopia on this planet: The Soviet Union. Some moved because ideological motives as they truly believe in Socialism/Communism and wanted to do their part. Both groups were tragically wrong.

I am still trying to decide who was the bigger prick: Stalin and his apparatchiks who managed to erase more people from this planet even before the Nazis got the numbers they did (and the infamy), the American journalists that not only covered up the wanton massacre of fellow Americans and the Russian populace in general, the State Department and the ambassadors that were too stupid to see what was going on or did not want to see it because they were having too much of  a good time (Apparently this tradition still continues.) And FDR was a much bigger idiot and prick than I previously thought.

Just the description of the travels and life in the Gulags is worth the full price of the book. Do yourself a favor and read it.

And if you travel abroad, remember: that big building with the Stars & Stripes waving, may contain people whose job is not to take care of you but make sure they attend parties and try not to be embarrassed by Ugly Americans visiting foreign lands. If they can leave you hanging out to dry, they will.

16. You have a panic attack every time a police car is behind you

via 21 Things that only people who carry concealed would understand : Concealed Nation | Promoting the importance of Responsible and Legal Concealed Carry in the US.

Although I disagree 100% with number 16, it is a worthwhile and true list. As with any culture, we have our idiosyncrasies. 🙂

I as not aware of this site, so it goes into my feed.

Via The Examiner, we get this tidbit of non-surprising info:

Officials from the White House Office of Public Engagement, which reports to senior Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, are now carrying the administration’s gun control efforts. OPE officials hold a regular meeting with the major gun control groups known as the Gun Violence Table.

The weekly sessions often include OPE Director Paulette Aniskoff or official Paul Monteiro along with representatives from Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Moms Demand Action, the Center for American Progress, Organizing for Action and Americans for Responsible Solutions.

The groups are coordinating a November lobbying effort and planning events to commemorate the first anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., massacre last December.

via Joe Biden on sidelines in gun control talks – Reid J. Epstein – POLITICO.com.

Color me unsurprised. Right now they are in PR Control mode big time and in need of propping up. We have Bloomberg dumping a ton of last minute money in the Virginia Governor’s race that has been pretty much declared several months ago for the Democrat Terry McAuliffe with a double-digit shellacking. Why dump all that money on a sure thing? Because McAuliffe is a safe bet anti-gunner that did not run with an anti-gun platform so he will be safe even if there was a recall petition and they desperate need a win in the plus column even if it is by proxy.

Come the anniversary of Sandy Hook, they need to show their followers that they have achieved something. They will whine about how Congress did not materialize the Universal Background Checks but leave out the bills with massive gun bans and assorted accessories that crashed and burned on the taxi way. They will tout renewed gun control laws in NY and Connecticut but that is akin to say they managed to bring water to the Atlantic Ocean. Colorado, initially a success, became a PR nightmare with the recalls and the outburst of Bloomberg pretty much not giving two craps about the legislators removed by popular vote. Even in California, Moonbeam Jerry Brown vetoed the new Assault Weapons Ban for being too over reaching and knowing that it would not survive judicial scrutiny.

My opinion is that the corpse-and-pony show at Newtown will not amount to much but the obligatory 5 minutes on assorted News Organization. People will be tired and looking to try and enjoy a meager Christmas with a bad economy and the prospect of having no Health Insurance, being unable to pay for the mandate and having a slice of their paychecks forcefully removed because they did not get it. The last thing they will want to hear is a bunch of whiners complaining that they lost a game they were sure they have won in January.

And the Bloody Shirt is starting to get a wee bit rank.

PS: Anybody seen the Yankee Vulture Bus anywhere?

PS 2: And they just lost their stage backdrop for December:
Sandy Hook Elementary School razing begins in Newtown, Conn.