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The ORIGINAL gathering place for a merry band of Three Percenters. (As denounced by Bill Clinton on CNN!)
Friday, July 31, 2015
Marines Leaders Finally Embrace the M4 Carbine. Also: "More Powerful, Special-Ops Sniper Rifle Unlikely for Marine Snipers."
"Change is slow. Marine Corps senior leaders have always had an extreme fondness for anything that can double as a club for beating the enemy to death."
Perhaps. However, there is also this comment which I believe to be on point: "I don't see any disadvantage -- the M-16A4 is a good weapon and in open combat in Afghanistan been proven better than the kiddy M-4 in open area combat." I suppose if you think we will ALWAYS be fighting in cities . . .
Also for the traditionalists: The U.S. Marine Corps is sticking with its Vietnam-era, M40 sniper rifle series, despite complaints from scout snipers who say they need the modern, longer-range weapons used by special-ops snipers. Marine scout snipers are considered to be among the best snipers in the world, but many are frustrated at the limitations of the current M40A5 sniper rifle. The A5 is based on the Remington M700 short-action design that's chambered for 7.62x51mm NATO, like the original M40 Marines used in Vietnam.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 3:13 AM 3 comments:
Well, it WAS in San Francisco. What did he expect? Groped by government. A lot of that going around.
Morrissey claims he was sexually assaulted by a member of staff at San Francisco Airport.
He said that he confronted the staff member and complained about the treatment only to be rebuffed by the man, who repeatedly said "That's just your opinion."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 2:55 AM 4 comments:
"Three Percent" Empire builder Trask takes offense. A short tutorial on the folly of trying to teach your Grandma how to suck eggs.
In response to my post "Poseurs and provocateurs. Any stupid ass can call himself a Three Percenter, the proof is in the practice of principle," we now have this reply from Three Percent Empire builder Robert Trask (spelling and punctuation as in the original):
You men watch to much TV I've been 3% I'm a leader in Kentucky born Alabama offered to hel try to grow the group my number is 502-706-1632 why don't you be men and come to a man instead of posting bullshit you don't know anything about there's my number.
Well, Mr. Trask, I'm a bit busy at the moment and frankly completely uninterested in conversing with you on the phone. If I took the time to do so for every person who seems to have misunderstood the Three Percent concept I would get nothing else done. I will make the following observations.
1. Anyone who wants to "grow (their) group" two states away from where his ass is sitting by accepting help from any jackleg who "offers to help" is fairly begging to be laughed at. Because . . .
2. In any large, top-down organization (which you seem determined to have out of whatever motive that can only be guessed at -- failure to understand the nature of your enemy in a 4th Generation Warfare world; lack of imagination as to the probable negatives of such a move; misplaced enthusiasm at spreading an idea you apparently have failed to properly grasp; or, the simplest explanation, plain ego), personnel, my friend, is policy. If you read the post you take umbrage at, you should understand that your "help" presented himself as your representative with conduct that can be most charitably characterized as typical of a beer-swilling, pot smoking loose cannon.
That, sir, is not "bullshit (I) don't know anything about." I rather think the ignorance and the bullshit is the other way around. To use a phrase my Grandpa Vanderboegh taught me, "Son, don't try to teach your Grandma how to suck eggs." In over 20 years at this stuff, I've seen and heard it all before. You are merely the latest organizational empire builder I've run across, and not a very skillful one at that to judge from the conduct of your "help."
I urge you to rethink your principles in the light of my Three Percent Catechism. I also urge you to rethink your actions in building an "organization" that is so disorganized that you accept "help" from people who can only discredit you and the cause you claim to represent.
Thus endeth the lesson.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 2:36 AM 7 comments:
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Judge threatens IRS chief with contempt
From The Hill: Even the black robes are getting fed up with being lied to.
See also at Judicial Watch: "Federal Judge Threatens To Hold IRS Commissioner, DOJ Lawyers in Contempt of Court over Lerner."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:56 PM 3 comments:
He must be a Sipsey Street reader. "Gun Rights Advocates Have A Devastating New Argument Against Gun Control. Here It Is."
"No wonder free Americans are done pretending the gun argument is a rational debate and are responding with an extended middle finger – and the challenge to come and take their arms. The fact remains that any outright attempt to take the arms from tens of millions of American gun owners would almost certainly result in a second Civil War. And we all know how the first Civil War went for the Democrats."
American gun owners are beginning to respond with a fresh, powerful argument when facing anti-gun liberals. Here it is, in its entirety. Ready? "Screw you." That's it. Except the first word isn't "Screw."
It's not exactly a traditional argument, but it's certainly appropriate here. The fact is that there is no point in arguing with liberal gun-control advocates because their argument is never in good faith. They slander gun owners as murderers. They lie about their ultimate aim, which is to ban and confiscate all privately owned weapons. And they adopt a pose of reasonability, yet their position is not susceptible to change because of evidence, facts or law. None of those matter – they already have their conclusion. This has to do with power – their power.You can't argue with someone who is lying about his position or whose position is not based upon reason. You can talk all day about how crime has diminished where concealed carry is allowed, while it flourishes in Democrat blue cities where gun control is tightest. You can point to statistics showing that law-abiding citizens who carry legally are exponentially less likely to commit gun crimes than other people. You can cite examples of armed citizens protecting themselves and their communities with guns. You can offer government statistics showing how the typical American is at many times greater risk of death from an automobile crash, a fall, or poisoning than from murder by gun.But none of that matters, because this debate is not about facts. It's about power. The liberal anti-gun narrative is not aimed at creating the best public policy but at disarming citizens the liberal elite looks down upon – and for whom weapons represent their last-ditch ability to respond to liberal overreach. Put simply, liberal elitists don't like the fact that, at the end of the day, an armed citizenry can tell them, "No."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:12 AM 19 comments:
Another day of multiple doctor visits.
I think they're trying to kill me. More later.
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Elections are beside the point in the racial collectivist identity politics of "Black Lives Matter."
"When you put it terms of 'Black lives matter,' that implies that white lives, and Asian lives, and Eskimo lives, and every other kind of lives don't matter. So we get the feeling that if this is all about some sort of race test that we can't hope to pass to your satisfaction because of who we are, not how we act, then screw you buddy, we're not gonna play that game. So the rest of us get the feeling that if our lives don't matter then why the hell should we care if you think 'black lives matter?' And it's just a little ways from there for the rest of us to conclude that black lives DON'T matter either. . . So if you wanted a slogan that the Klan could understand and use to recruit with, well, brother, that's it. So that slogan is either the worst kind of stupidity or the bastard who thought it up is trying to separate you from your natural allies or get you killed, or both. I can't think of another slogan more calculated to get an American Hitler elected, and I HATE Nazis. . . And I'll tell you something else . . .(W)hen I see these black racists of Farrakhan's bunch talking about wanting a race war I'd say they haven't looked at how the numbers stack up. Because let me tell you something about white folks at their worst. When they get scared that people are trying to kill them just because of who they are, when they get pissed off along racial lines, they don't tear up their own neighborhoods or burn down their own communities like y'all do. They come to the neighborhoods of the people who threaten them and burn THEIR communities down and kill THEM. They have burned down whole CONTINENTS. And if you don't believe me, just ask the Indians." -- Mike Vanderboegh.
I am on record as to my opinions of "Black Lives Matter."
Now comes an analyst who believes that this will bring about electoral defeat for the Dems: "Hillary and the Dems have a #blacklivesmatter problem."
This is perhaps true, but beside the point for those who promote the BLM movement. They are uncaring about short term political consequences, focusing rather on the end game (commies are real good at that). The point is to foment racial war in the streets so as to win in the larger agenda of destroying the social fabric of the country so that people will turn to them out of fear. This was the sum and substance of the manipulation of the street riots in the 60s and 70s. It is also a strategy that fits well into the long-term plans of the Klan and neoNazis.
Why do you think Hitler organized the Brown shirts and sent them out into the streets to do battle with the socialists and communists? To create chaos that would frighten the German people into turning to him. And, oh by the way, it worked. Try to think like your enemy thinks and you'll be a lot less surprised when such things happen. Lifson is analyzing this crap using the old paradigm of "Only Elections Matter." Collectivists of every stripe understand that this is no longer true, that we are moving (indeed, THEY are moving the country) into the heretofore undiscovered country of complete societal breakdown, Balkanization and destruction of the rule of law. It is there, and only there, that their own cannibal proclivities can be sated by the feasting upon the dead corpse of the Founders' Republic and their own enemies bodies.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 4:15 AM 3 comments:
"The Military Will Test a New Terrifyingly Loud Noise Gun."
Imagine walking through a field on a cloudless day when you suddenly hear the 130-decibel roar of a fighter jet. But you can't spot the jet, or even tell which direction the sound is coming from. Rather, it seems to originate from the thin air in front of your face, like a shout from an angry, Old-Testament God. No, you aren't hallucinating. And you aren't Moses. You're experiencing a new type of military weapon intended not to kill but to startle an enemy into retreat. It's called the Laser-Induced Plasma Effect, or LIPE, a weapon that the U.S. military hopes to begin testing in coming months.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 3:41 AM 5 comments:
SEAL Team 6 by the Numbers.
I once ran into a guy who scoffed at the concept of the armed citizenry standing up to the armed forces of the federal government, saying, "They'll just 'Seal Team 6' your ass." I admitted that it wouldn't even take ST6 to kill my ass, but I observed how little that would get the PTB in a "decapitation" strategy. And, apart from the many other factors in a civil war scenario that would make that a much less scary proposition than he imagined, we now know just how pitifully small ST6 really is. As formidable as they are, there ain't that many of them.
But pick up the new GAO report on special operations forces, and there's the information on page 46: As of fiscal year 2014, Development Group had a total of 1,787 authorized positions, of which 1,342 are military and 445 are civilian.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 3:38 AM 6 comments:
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
New figures show almost 800,000 suppressors in circulation
Data released by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this week show a huge jump in National Firearms Act items to include a 39 percent rise in the number of silencers and a 32 percent bump in short barreled rifles registered. The information comes from the new Firearms Commerce Report, which contains information about domestic firearms manufacturing, as well as the importation and exportation of firearms.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 9:46 AM 12 comments:
A man worthy to ride the river with. Ray "Quasimodo" Thompson has passed on to his reward.
The highest compliment a man could receive in the Old West was: "He'll do to ride the river with." This was a tribute from the old trail days when only the fearless dared to swim herds across treacherous rivers. -- Dr. Joe Wheeler.
I met Ray Thompson in October of 2005 in Hachita NM when we were all out on the border with the Minutemen. We shared a minor passion for archaeology, yet we were so busy that we had precious little time to compare notes about digs we had participated in. I wrote about the Hachita operation at the time in a short essay entitled The Magnificent Minutemen.
Ray picked up the nickname of "Quasimodo" because every night he could be found in the bell tower of the abandoned Catholic church in Hachita, scanning the valley below with night vision. Of Ray, Bob Wright recalls: "Today marks the sad loss of one of the essential personalities that made our efforts in New Mexico possible. Received the sad news this morning of the passing of Ray Thompson of Deming, New Mexico. Most will remember him by his radio call sign "Quasimodo." His tireless energy assured quality operations and his good humor helped us all through some tough hard days and nights. God rest you, Quasi!"
As for me, I'll let stand these final words from The Magnificent Minutemen as my eulogy to Ray:
History, for good or ill, is made by determined minorities. Never was that truer than among that small band of New Mexico Minutemen. They were dirty, unshaven and exhausted on their best day. They didn't look like much more than a small convention of the homeless. But by their presence and their gritty determination they were calling the shots on the border. They were pitiful, they were magnificent. I am proud to have known them and to have served with them. And if we can find more of their kind, we just might be able to save the country.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 9:23 AM 2 comments:
Christie's Bullying Tirade Deflects from Having to Answer Tough Questions on Guns
The bottom line is, we can continue accepting opportunistic and meaningless political platitudes, and letting "progressive" agenda outlets like CNN and HuffPo and Gannett Company papers shape public attitudes on candidate gun positions, or we can realize all they're doing is redefining the middle so anyone to the right can be portrayed as an extremist. Back to Christie — for all his posturing and "tearing into" and "firing back" and "countering," and for all his bullying of a citizen in a forum he's a master at performing in, he knows he doesn't dare answer my specific questions, or yours.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 8:31 AM 4 comments:
Panic in Pittsburgh: Media Struggling to Ignore Black Mob Violence.
"If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. . . I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue — indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a 'juvenile delinquent.' But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents — people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail." -- Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois (Ret.), in Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.
From the "If You Don't Notice It, It Will Go Away" School of Unreality.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 8:25 AM 1 comment:
ATTN: Taurus Owners.
Taurus Agrees To $39 Million Settlement In Defective Pistol Case
Brazil-based handgun maker Forjas Taurus SA has agreed to a $39 million settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging some of the company's most popular semi-automatic handguns can discharge when dropped and have a defective safety that allows the gun to fire even when it's engaged.According to court documents filed May 15 in a U.S. District Court in Florida, the company has agreed to pay up to $30 million to owners of nine separate handgun models who opt to send their pistols back, with owners receiving anywhere from $150 to $200 for their pistols depending on how many choose that option.The agreement also will extend the warranty for the nine handgun models, allowing gun owners to send the pistols back to have the handguns inspected by Taurus technicians and address the "safety defects" alleged in the suit. Documents show the settlement could include as many as 100,000 handguns.The settlement also calls for a maximum $9 million in attorney's fees.A Taurus official confirmed the settlement agreement, arguing the company does not admit any wrongdoing."The Taurus Companies do not admit liability in connection with the settlement," the official told Grand View Outdoors. "If anyone has one of these pistols, we are happy to inspect it under the warranty and suggest that they send it to us so that we can do so."
The settlement includes the following pistols: PT-111 Millennium; PT-132 Millennium; PT-138 Millennium; PT-140 Millennium; PT-145 Millennium; PT-745 Millennium; PT-609; PT-640 and PT-24/7.
My oldest daughter carries a PT-745 as a personal protection piece (6+1). I carry a PT-145 (10+1). The dollar value of the sales offer is laughable, but we will be returning them to the factory for warranty inspection.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 8:12 AM 3 comments:
"China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet: Officials aim to control online discourse and reduce U.S. influence."
As social media helped topple regimes in the Middle East and northern Africa, a senior colonel in the People's Liberation Army publicly warned that an Internet dominated by the U.S. threatened to overthrow China's Communist Party.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 5:33 AM 3 comments:
Boy, do I love thrift stores. "The Drunken Botanist."
My latest foray to the various doctors left me with some time to kill between appointments and although my pockets were light there was a thrift store between them. Well, with my devotion to (and, it must be admitted, my addiction to) the best source of militia logistics and procurement, of course I had to stop. And what did I chance upon? Why this remarkable book that I had never heard of, but was instantly intrigued by: The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks by Amy Stewart. It set me back, after my old fart's discount, to the tune of 92 cents.
Just leafing through it and picking out topics taught me more than I had ever known about everything from molasses to monkey puzzle trees. I am looking forward to absorbing it from cover to cover in my insomniac reading program, but I have skimmed enough to know that this is a useful work for those of us looking for guidance in post-apocalyptic business ventures like moonshining, beer brewing, wine making and, in the case of the monkey puzzle tree, mudai fermenting.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 5:12 AM 1 comment:
Poseurs and provocateurs. Any stupid ass can call himself a Three Percenter, the proof is in the practice of principle.
"I'd like to be the King of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat." ― Malcolm Reynolds
I awoke this morning to an emailed link indicating that I now have something called "a filmography." It seems I'm getting credit for playing myself in Retro Report's documentary on the undying controversy over Waco. Now, that plus a dollar is insufficient to buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks, so it is important to have a sense of perspective on such things. I pull my britches on one leg at a time like everyone else, and no amount of notoriety in a civilization on the verge of collapse will be recognized after its bloody fall. In the end, history will be amnesiac on the subject of Mike Vanderboegh. Who, today, remembers those individual Romans who tried to hold back the imperial rotting disease that lead to barbarian slaughter and subjugation -- to the destruction of their entire world? No one.
Yet, as I told someone in the room that day who commented that my statement to the Birmingham City Council was doomed to failure, "God does not command us to succeed. He does command us to stand."
But it is important to remember just what it is we claim to stand for. I have been clear about this in the "Three Percent Catechism: A discipline not for the faint-hearted."
These four principles -- moral strength, physical readiness, no first use of force and no targeting of innocents -- are the hallmarks of the Three Percent ideal. Anyone who cannot accept them as a self-imposed discipline in the fight to restore the Founders' Republic should find something else to do and cease calling themselves a "Three Percenter."
Yet there are apparently many people who have adopted the moniker of Three Percenter, for whatever reason, but who wouldn't recognize these principles if they came up and bit them in the ass.
This was brought home to me once again on Monday when I received a distressed phone call from one of my old 1st Alabama Cavalry militia leaders from the 90s who had been to something advertised as a Three Percent meet and greet. The organizer of this event was the proclaimed and newly minted "President" of the Alabama Three Percent, one Phil Ingram. By his own statement, Mr. Ingram's claim to command of the Alabama Three Percent traces to his "appointment" to said post by one Robert Trask of Kentucky.
This sort of empty "empire building" was one thing that made the 90s so problematic for the constitutional militia movement, and why I deliberately formulated the Three Percent idea as a movement, an idea, a philosophy and a discipline BUT NOT AN ORGANIZATION. Attempts at large regional, state or national organizations, anything beyond local formations, are subject to infiltration, dysfunction, discredit and collapse. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
But mere empire building in this case would be unremarkable were it not for the very slender reed that Mr. Trask has, by Mr. Ingram's own claim, chosen to support the concept of the Three Percent in Alabama. By all accounts, Mr. Ingram arrived at the venue swilling beer as he unassed his vehicle and later graduated to joints. A few cursory questions revealed that said Mr. Ingram had never heard of me (which is certainly no sin) nor had he heard of, or internalized, the principles of the Three Percent (which is).
As Malcolm Reynolds observed, you may wish to be the King of Londinium and wear a shiny hat, but that does not make it so. So whenever someone comes up to you and claims to be a Three Percenter -- especially when he or she pretends to be a leader of Three Percenters -- a close eye upon their actions and a few simple questions from the Three Percent Catechism ought to determine whether they are persons of principle or poseurs and/or provocateurs.
Either Mr. Ingram or Mr. Trask, the putative kingmaker in this disaster-in-waiting, may contact me to dispute this account.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 4:47 AM 8 comments:
Stories differ in Douglas County Confederate flag flap
Bush said he fishtailed while trying to drive away, then ran over a median and got a flat tire. When he pulled into a nearby driveway, the partygoers swarmed and made threats, and his friends backed him up, he said. "Basically about eight of us had to hold 15 to 20 of them back," Bush said, admitting that a specific racial slur was likely used by members of his group.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 3:34 AM 1 comment:
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Lessons from the drug raid that burned a Georgia toddler
"I suspect that as with all the incidents before this one (and all the incidents since), none of these lessons will be learned. And so the raids will go on. And so will the body count."
Lessons will begin to be learned only when the militarized thugs pick on the wrong target -- and they all die in a stack, sprawled in someone's front hall.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:33 PM 4 comments:
"Yes, you can resist government tyranny."
The truth is that government is not used to people standing up to it over its unjust laws. It counts on people mindlessly accepting whatever outrage it foists upon them. But remember, there are more of us than there are of them. They don't forget that. They just count on you forgetting.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:27 PM 2 comments:
China losing control as stocks crash despite emergency measures
Margin debt on the Chinese stock market has reached $1.2 trillion. 'We suspect that it's a matter of time before banks may have to face the music,' Bank of America says
For the rest of the world, it is a tense moment. China consumes 50pc of global coal, 43pc of industrial metals and 23pc of grains, according to World Bank data. Brazil, Russia, South Africa and a string of commodity states face a double-barrelled stress test. The Chinese are freezing imports just as the US Federal Reserve drains worldwide dollar liquidity and prepares to raise rates, calling time on emerging markets that have together borrowed $4.5 trillion in US currency.The Brazilian real fell to a 12-year low of 3.38 against the dollar on Monday. The South Africa rand hit a record low of 12.69. The Russian rouble flirted with the danger line of 60. It was the same story across much of the emerging market nexus. "One by one the dominoes are starting to fall," said Societe Generale.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 2:02 PM 3 comments:
Another day of doctor visits.
God is slowing me down, it seems, whether I like it or not. More later.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:30 AM 1 comment:
Good question from David Codrea: Why Does the Country Need New Citizens Who Won't Defend It?
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a change in policy regarding the oath taken by naturalization candidates: They will no longer be required "to declare that they will 'bear arms on behalf of the United States' and 'perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States.'"
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:26 AM 4 comments:
Dan Daly's got to be spinning in his grave.
"Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" -- Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly, USMC.
Marines march in silkies to raise suicide awarness
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:21 AM 1 comment:
Monday, July 27, 2015
"The Number Of Guns Made Has Doubled During Obama's Years In Office -- Here's Why."
"Part of what happened to CNN is what happened to Hollywood. The news, like Hollywood, became trapped in creating and fawning over celebrities. Getting Anderson Cooper publicized became more important than breaking the big story. When you have celebrity reporters telling you how they feel about being in Iraq instead of reporting on how our troops are doing you begin to lose perspective. With guns, instead of going to gun ranges, gun-owner's homes, instead of interviewing women who'd stopped an attacker, and instead of really trying to understand the world such women live in and what they're going through, they just tell us how they feel. Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, and the rest are stars, not reporters. They're not hunting for the truth. They're telling you what they think and what they think all comes from the cocktail parties on Manhattan's Upper East Side and from conversations with other reporters."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 10:59 AM 8 comments:
Another State Backs Down After 'I Will Not Comply' Uproar
It frustrates the hell out of gun-grabbers to impotently watch their demands for widespread enforcement collide with the reality of what that would entail and — and of what it would provoke. Enforcers and administrators who would have to live with the repercussions of such attempts aren't about to stick their heads on that block. Gov. Bentley recognized that and eliminated a rule the state has no belly for enforcing in the face of vocal dares for them to try. Look for that to play out more and more as gun rights advocates begin to realize the power they can wield simply by declaring "I will not comply."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 10:43 AM 3 comments:
Herschel Smith on "Recruiting Center Negligent Discharge Discussion At Oath Keepers."
"All in all, the entire exchange of comments at this Oath Keepers discussion thread is technically and tactically juvenile, and the tone is highly disappointing. I expected better."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 5:25 AM 11 comments:
Shadowy federal informant is at center of Denver bar massacre trial
"Crimes conceived in hell are not witnessed by angels." Yeah. Especially when they are paid for with federal money.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 5:19 AM 1 comment:
Why Israel will hit Iran after Obama's gone.
Yeah. If they have that much time.
See also: "Making Stuff Up."
The administration must believe it's okay to make stuff up, that the American public doesn't really care and would rather be tweeting about Sharknado. But if it's such a good deal, why does it need to be kept out of the sunlight? The administration's stealth, subterfuge, and lies have revealed one very big truth: It knows the deal won't withstand the scrutiny of the American people and their representatives.
Chris Chritie shouts down a critic of his firearm rights record.
'I'm Still Waiting for One Fact, One Fact from You About Me Being Anti-Gun' — Christie Faces Off With Pro-Gun Voter in Iowa
And here's Herschel Smith's take: Good Lord! Are we really going to have to listen to this loud mouth for the next year? Chris, you are gun control collectivist from way back, and you made your fame in New Jersey pushing an "assault weapons" ban. As for Mr. Fletcher, I do indeed want you to make your decision quickly rather than be cowardly about it. And it should be to destroy all of the paperwork you ever had on him and tell your LEOs to stop arresting people who come across state lines with weapons, right after you pass a reciprocity law recognizing the permitting system of every other state in the country. The fact that you won't do that tells us everything we need to know about you. The fact that you think we don't want you to make your mind up about it should tell you something about yourself. You have lived in collectivist-land for so long you don't have even the slightest understanding of what the rest of us believe.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 5:15 AM 4 comments:
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Trying to recover from transitions. Adios to Hattiesburg. Also, saving the Republic is all well and good but you can't accomplish anything if you're dead.
This week has been filled with stresses and strains. I'm exhausted from the struggles of trying to protect my friends from their wife-beating arsonist son-in-law (successfully) and yesterday moving Zoe back to Birmingham from Hattiesburg to take another job (also successfully, although the exertions in the heat with a mattress and box springs that wanted to leap off the top of the GMC Jimmy in what turned out to be a seven hour trek darn near killed me). Today will be taken up with the rearrangements attendant upon that move in order to get her settled. Thus does the Vanderboegh family finally say "adios" to the college town of H'burg -- thank and praise the Lord. Not that we don't have Southern Miss to thank for a lot of blessings, but there is a darker side to most college towns, not the least of which is the present-day "party" culture. Hattiesburg also has a lot of town-gown conflicts/crimes that go deliberately unreported by both university and local press, exacerbated by the recent rising boil of racial animosity ("Black lives matter, but F you, honky mofo.")
These past two weeks have also convinced me that I must crank back on some of the work I have been doing with national groups and events and see to my health and my own family responsibilities, both of which I have abused terribly this past year or do. Saving the Republic is all well and good but you can't accomplish anything if you're dead. That is not to say that I will be ceasing my efforts at national armed civil disobedience (and the fun part, smuggling) but I am going to have to moderate some. The zombie apocalypse portends, and my own preparations to see to my family have been sorely neglected because of time, energy and especially monetary resources that have been spent on larger (but not necessarily more important) issues. Indeed, I have fallen down on my responsibilities to my own family. I must remedy that.
A big part of that is finishing Absolved, as I am unceasingly reminded by y'all. The black dog banished by the motivation of looming events, I have been working fitfully on it even throughout this hell week and also an essay wrapped around this T.R. Fehrenbach quote:
To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong. . . A war is made when a government believes that only through war, AND AT NO SERIOUS RISK TO ITSELF, it may gain its ends. (Emphasis supplied, MBV) -- This Kind of War, pp. 32-33.
I'll try to have more later. Now, just exactly where do I put the stuff from Hannah's old room and how do I find the the time and energy to crop back the jungle in the back yard? It is times like these that I realize that even the Founders likely had to remember to feed the dog, carry out the garbage and make sure the family horse was fed, watered and curry combed. Of course Sam Adams didn't worry about the bills -- he just didn't pay them. Not an option for me, I'm afraid.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 7:57 AM 10 comments:
No doubt he's explaining to his boss, the Devil, just how he screwed up so royally.
Okay, there are a few lessons here, but first and foremost is: when the savage serial killer is willing to put down his pistol in order to wrestle the rake from your hands because he wants to kill you slow, take advantage of that opportunity.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:51 AM 1 comment:
Attention America's Suburbs: You Have Just Been Annexed
It's difficult to say what's more striking about President Obama's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation: its breathtaking radicalism, the refusal of the press to cover it, or its potential political ramifications. The danger AFFH poses to Democrats explains why the press barely mentions it. This lack of curiosity, in turn, explains why the revolutionary nature of the rule has not been properly understood. Ultimately, the regulation amounts to back-door annexation, a way of turning America's suburbs into tributaries of nearby cities. This has been Obama's purpose from the start.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:25 AM 6 comments:
'Just Give Them What They Want' Advice Leaves Key Question Unanswered.
"There's a natural inclination to want to defend yourself, but if you can get through a situation like this and not do anything, and simply give these people what they want, and get the police out there as quickly as possible, that the way to handle it," the Mesquite Police spokesman advises. "Let us handle it." Says the guy with the gun who is nowhere around when the action goes down...
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:21 AM 4 comments:
Gee whiz. Only NOW are they starting to notice?
Flouting The Law, Some New Yorkers Won't Register Guns
New York state has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. Compliance with those laws is another matter. New York passed a broad package of gun regulations after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., despite the objections of hunters and gun rights advocates. Now it appears that many gun owners are refusing to comply with a key provision that requires the registration of so-called assault weapons.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:13 AM 4 comments:
How a Government Prosecutor Got Away With Seizing a Home to Live In
A recent report out of Oklahoma makes clear the startling consequences of a lack of transparency and oversight within law enforcement. Over a seven-year period, Oklahoma law enforcement authorities misused seized property, misspent seized funds and misplaced or lost evidence—including confiscated firearms.
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Saturday, July 25, 2015
The only question I have is why does the NYT -- after decades of anti-Christian propaganda -- care now?
Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East? -- ISIS and other extremist movements across the region are enslaving, killing and uprooting Christians, with no aid in sight.
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Friday, July 24, 2015
Negligent Discharge at Recruiting Center Shows Good Intentions Not Enough
Thank goodness for small favors, because the bad news is, this plays right into the hands of gleeful anti-gunners, who would demonstrably rather see recruiters dead than either armed or guarded. And the thing is, it's the second time this guy – who says he was trying to clear ammunition to let "someone" look at his rifle — has had an ND, having been convicted and fined in 2013.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 10:22 PM 7 comments:
Well, that was easy. Governor Caspar Milquetoast decides he doesn't want to fight on that hill. "Bentley abolishes 'gun free zones' at rest areas, orders signs removed."
Governor Robert Bentley announced Friday afternoon that he ordered all "no weapons allowed" signs removed from Alabama's rest areas after readers of Yellowhammer News contacted the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) this week asking the agency to justify their policy.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 10:03 PM 5 comments:
A "distraction", eh? Wait'll he gets a load of US.
ALDOT: Complaints over Alabama rest area 'gun free zones' are a 'distraction,' AG reviewing
After multiple requests for comment were ignored, Yellowhammer was contacted Wednesday by ALDOT spokesperson Tony Harris, who said readdressing the policy is not currently a priority for the agency, although he acknowledged they had received some public opposition to the gun free zones. "We don't want this to be a distraction for us," said Harris. "You can probably imagine we have a lot of issues we deal with day in and day out."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 9:09 AM 12 comments:
8 genius military uses for civilian products
7. Cleaning radio contacts: pencil eraser: This one is so effective, it's become official Army doctrine. The contact points where microphones or antennas meet with a radio can become tarnished and dirty. Erasers can get these spotless quickly, something which has been incorporated into Army manuals such as Field Manual 44-48, "Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for the Sensor Platoon."
Field Manual 44-48.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 5:53 AM 8 comments:
New Wireless Sight Offers Leap-Ahead for Night Marksmanship
The U.S. Army is working on a new weapon sight that will arm soldiers with a breakthrough technology for engaging enemy targets at night, Army engineers said. In three years, the Army hopes to start fielding the Family of Weapon Sights-Individual, a new lightweight thermal weapon sight that is designed to communicate wirelessly with the service's latest Enhanced Night Vision Goggle (ENVG).
Posted by Dutchman6 at 5:37 AM 2 comments:
Taliban in blackface help recruit for the Klan. Filthy collectivist grave robbing ghouls attack Nathan Bedford Forrest's resting place.
"Impatient protesters begin digging up Confederate general's grave — themselves!"
See also: Council begins process of removing Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains.
My thoughts on this type of racist collectivist cultural cleansing have already been expressed here.
LATER: But really, what is the functional difference between the Memphis hysteria and this?
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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Dr. Evil's collectivist propaganda machine attacks -- again.
The Stars and Stripes report noted that civilians affiliated with the Oath Keepers and "3 percenters" have been spotted with guns at recruiting centers. Both of these organizations are associated with the radical far-right fringe. The "3 percenter" movement was founded by militia leader Mike Vanderboegh as a force to violently overthrow a supposedly tyrannical federal government.
See also: Marine recruiters told to call the cops if armed citizens show up
Posted by Dutchman6 at 11:46 PM 1 comment:
Now that's a birthday present I can really appreciate.
Just got the call that as of twenty minutes ago the arsonist was arrested in Mississippi. This comes after a long chat I had downtown at Sheriff's headquarters this morning after my first doctor's appointment.
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Another report on US firearm manufacturing, this one from Business Insider. I liked the accompanying picture.
"In this photo taken Tuesday, July 21, 2015, Allen Bowles, left, and Clint Janney stand guard outside a military recruiting center in Columbus, Ohio. The men are members of the 3 Percent Irregulars Militia, and say they plan to protect the center until the government provides its own security."
In 2013, the most current statistics available, 10,884,792 guns were manufactured in the United States, a spike of more than 2 million over the previous year. (The count excludes guns manufactured for the US military.)
And here's a take on it from The Hill: Gun production has doubled under Obama
Posted by Dutchman6 at 2:22 PM 1 comment:
My 63rd birthday. Another day full of doctor's visits interspersed by looking out for wife-beating arsonists.
You know, they say that gettin' old ain't for the fainthearted. Given my experiences in the three and a half years since they took the stomach tumor and eighty percent or so of my guts, I reckon they're right. Still, they wrote me off as a poor actuarial risk at the time of the surgery and then again when the hospital gave me a MRSA infection but I'm still here so I figure God's still got something in mind for me. Now, if I can just figure out what it is . . . In any case, I'm trying to make what time I have left count. Whether I succeed or not is for God to judge later. Drink water and drive on, as my son says.
I'll try to have more this afternoon. No rest for the weary, as they also say.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:44 AM 25 comments:
"Why arming military recruiters after Chattanooga is so legally complicated."
From Texas to Virginia to Arizona to Wisconsin, it keeps happening. Armed civilians are stepping in to stand watch outside military recruiting centers in an effort to protect the service members inside.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:29 AM 6 comments:
"Crush Planned Parenthood."
When abortion doctors are elevated to gods who may not be questioned or held accountable, society has officially gone off the rails.
As I have observed many times before, you may get away with spitting in God's eye for a while, but sooner or later God spits back. And when he does, cities dissolve in fire, civilizations are destroyed, and entire peoples are enslaved. Someone in this country is going to have have to pay for the holocaust of 50 million (and counting) dead innocents, not to mention all the other godless abominations that have become commonplace. I rather suspect that it will be the entire country that pays the price.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:21 AM 3 comments:
So, Bloomberg, you and yer crowd are going to disarm us? Check the numbers, you nanny-state fascist buffoon.
ATF: Number of manufactured guns skyrocketing
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms released the 2015 Firearms Commerce update. It showed firearm sales nearly doubled between 2010 and 2013. . . The ATF said 5.5 million firearms were manufactured in 2010. By 2013, that number was almost twice as much, with close to 11 million guns produced nationwide. Dury's Gun Shop owner John Dury said politics explains the boost.
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The narrative shifts: "Slain Soldiers in Chattanooga Saved Lives Before Giving Their Own."
Well, well. The truth begins to emerge. Marines and sailors risked their lives for one another in Chattanooga last week, trying to distract the gunman who assaulted a naval center, helping people scale a fence for safety and returning fire at the attacker, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Some of the five servicemen who were fatally wounded effectively sacrificed themselves during the assault on Thursday, diverting the gunman from a larger group of potential victims, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation into the killings. "This could have been a lot worse," said the official, who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation. "It could have been a horrible, horrible massacre — so much worse."
And this: "A service member from inside the facility observed him and opened fire on him, firing several rounds at him," said Edward W. Reinhold, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.'s Knoxville office. Two guns belonging to service members were recovered from the scene, he said, and "at least one of those weapons had been discharged."
So, what can we conclude? That some of these heroes armed themselves IN DIRECT DISOBEDIENCE OF THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT-APPROVED DEATH ZONE AND SAVED LIVES AS A RESULT.
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Finally: "Grenade lobbed in baby's crib, now cop indicted."
A former sheriff's deputy has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of providing false information to a magistrate judge in order to obtain no-knock warrants that led to a near fatal SWAT raid. The Habersham County, Georgia Sheriff's Office conducted the raid on a house in Cornelia where a 18-month-old boy was severely burned by a flashbang grenade thrown into his playpen, leaving him with severe burns on his face and chest that required months of painful surgeries.
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3 Percenters Protect Center
Mike Dill, Matt Dillard and Josh Burns keep watch Tuesday outside the Armed Forces Career Center at Nez Perce Plaza in Lewiston. The members of the Three Percenters Club Idaho are part of a statewide effort to protect the military men and women recruiters in response to a shooting last week in Tennessee
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Press Remarkably Incurious About BLM Agent Behind Stolen Gun Used in SF Slaying
Bolstering the sentiment that establishment media commits sins of omission as well as of commission, a curious void exists in the media narrative of the oft-deported illegal alien felon who allegedly shot a woman to death with a gun stolen from a BLM agent: The identity of the agent.
David Codrea: "Armed Chattanooga Marine First Raised on Vanderboegh Blog."
These revelations bolster a claim made by an anonymous poster on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog last Friday. That site is run by Mike Vanderboegh, widely recognized as the founder of the Three Percent movement and the blogger who first reported evidence of Operation Fast and Furious "gunwalking" in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
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Upon the choice of defecation or blindness.
A bureaucrat contemplates his choices. . .
I just sent this email letter to the head of the Alabama Department of Transportation. I will send him a hard copy by mail today.
From: email@example.com
To: email@example.com
Sent: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 6:06 am
Subject: re: Your designated "Death Zones" at Alabama Welcome Centers. If you thought all you have to do is weather the switchboard meltdown, ya got another think comin'.
John Cooper, Director
Alabama Department of Transportation
1409 Coliseum Boulevard
Montgomery, AL 36130
re: Your designated "Death Zones" at Alabama Welcome Centers. If you thought all you have to do is weather the switchboard meltdown, ya got another think comin'.
Dear Director Cooper,
I'm sure you're familiar with the current furor over your department's designated "Gun Free Zones" at state welcome centers. In the wake of multiple mass shootings, including the latest in Chattanooga, these are more properly known as "criminal free fire zones," or "victim disarmament zones," or, my personal preference, "Death Zones."
I will not waste your time arguing points of logic or law, however, knowing bureaucracies such as yours are largely impervious to both. Let me explain what comes after you ignore the current switchboard meltdown you have created.
Introductions first, though. My name is Mike Vanderboegh. I am the citizen journalist who, with my friend David Codrea, first broke the story of the Fast and Furious scandal on my blog, Sipsey Street Irregulars, on the Internet in December 2010. We also got the ATF whistleblowers together with the senators and then with Sharyl Attkisson, then of CBS News, and the rest, as they say, is history. (See Sharyl's recent book Stonewalled --we're in Chapter 2.) I have been a Second Amendment activist for the past 20 years and I am founder of the national Three Percent movement. The Three Percenters have been denounced by none other than that paragon of moral virtue Bill Clinton and I have been a perennial favorite on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of dangerous folks. But then as my friend Kurt Hofmann says, "It is better to be despised by the despicable than admired by the admirable."
More to the present point, however, I have been a national leader in the armed civil disobedience "I Will Not Comply" movement that has flouted the post-Sandy Hook anti-firearms laws in the states of CT, NY, MD, CO, WA and OR. I am proud to say that I have broken all those laws publicly over the past two and a half years and each time the state authorities have declined to arrest me and my friends, perhaps because we were armed and in considerable numbers each time we did it. Indeed, the authorities of those states don't seem to know whether to defecate or go blind when confronted with citizens that they have declared to be newly-minted felons. We don't back down, we don't cower when confronted with state threats, and we most assuredly don't act like any class of criminal they have ever seen before.
I tell you this to assure you that the choice of defecation or blindness is currently headed your way. For if you ignore the telephone blitz you are currently experiencing, I will be my honor and my pleasure to lead "I Will Not Comply" armed civil disobedience actions numbering (at least) in the hundreds of participants at every Alabama Welcome Center in the state, as well as in front of your headquarters.
So, I hope you save us the trouble and reverse this dangerous and deadly policy. But if not, you will look back on the switchboard meltdown with fondness for the good old days when bureaucrats thought they could ignore the law and the will of the people.
Mike Vanderboegh
PO Box 926
Pinson AL 35126
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In Pinson, Alabama, there is a family who lives in fear.
"Uncle David."
In Pinson, Alabama, there is an extended family who lives in fear. On Sunday their home was firebombed by an out-of-control male (I will not not use the word "man" to describe him, for such a cowardly bully is in no sense a real man) who is their son-in-law, their brother-in-law, their uncle, their father. Yes, you got that right, this piece of work firebombed the home where his own children were staying. It was only an act of God (or the perpetrator's own incompetence) that no one was killed or the house burned to the ground. The perp had been on a downward spiral for some time, having been charged with violent threats and assaults of family members and acquaintances. After the firebombing, he swore to a deputy in a cell phone call that he wouldn't be taken alive. The cops took that as a threat to them, which perhaps it was. However, he is, at this moment, still at large and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department seems to be largely unconcerned, or perhaps incompetent, to do anything about it.
No one in the home sleeps more than a few hours at a time, and that but lightly, startling at every night noise, every dog bark, every revved engine in the darkness. The family is so frightened that they refuse to talk to the media, lest it provoke more violence on the part of this maniac or his friends. He threw the firebomb, eluded the Sheriff's Deputy who was right on his car's bumper when he committed the deed, and hasn't been seen since Sunday evening, yet his brooding, violent presence looms over the home every instant.
I was there yesterday morning and afternoon, standing guard over the house and the kids inside while the adults worked or went out to pay bills. One of the young nieces of this POS, upon hearing my voice, screamed out in terror, "I hear Uncle David!" She had to be reassured, for the umpteenth time, that "Uncle David" wasn't there and wasn't coming back, although all of us knew that could well be a lie.
No one knows where David Galbreath, wife-beater and arsonist who targeted the dwelling where his own children were staying, is at the moment -- least of all, it seems, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. The only thing that might motivate them is the prospect of more publicity that shines a light on their failures to use all their resources on the case. Because of the family's terror-induced silence, that is something that is least likely to happen at the moment. To those of us desperate to help, it the most frustrating thing imaginable.
So, in Pinson, Alabama, there is a family who lives in fear. Keep them in your prayers. It is all they have at the moment between them and "Uncle David."
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Armed Volunteers Guard Army Recruitment Centers In Clarksville
Outside each of the Army Recruitment Centers in Clarksville volunteers stand guard, armed with handguns and rifles. "It's an AR 15, pretty much the same weapon that is used by military, law enforcement," volunteer Doc Smith said. Smith is a part of a group called the "Three Percenters". "Patriots that are willing to do whatever it takes for us to get our country back," Smith said.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Supporters guard Alcoa Armed Forces Career Center.
Many of them are veterans themselves. Some are members of a group called the Three Percenters. Their website describes them as "promoting liberty, freedom and a constitutional government restrained by law."
Looks like we need an "I Will Not Comply" armed civil disobedience action right here in Alabama.
Courtesy of David Codrea we have this link:
Alabama Department of Transportation bans firearms at rest stops. Is it legal?
"When we label a gun-free zone, we actually create a killing field for those people who obviously aren't going to follow a law like that."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 10:54 AM 21 comments:
My statement to the Birmingham City Council on collectivist cultural cleansing is now up on YouTube.
Courtesy of Bill St. Clair and David Codrea
Now you can send this link without having to search out the speech in a larger video. Please do so. (It is significant that the Birmingham News, which had reporters in the room and had covered the initial demands of the cultural cleansers with front page stories, refused to cover my speech.)
Posted by Dutchman6 at 10:31 AM 7 comments:
Update: The local arsonist has yet to be apprehended, so I'll be pulling guard duty again today.
This article comes the closest of the local media to being accurate, but the comments are unbelievable. You will see that this POS doesn't lack for local fanboys.
Too bad Galbreath hasn't yet had the guts to carry out his announced "suicide by cop" plan, for the rest of the family will be living in terror as long as he is out roaming around. In the meantime, I'll be spending time helping out. More posts later.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:35 AM 1 comment:
Obama Gun Grab on Social Security Recipients Part of Long-Term Citizen Disarmament End Game
Ever impatient to force their will upon those they would rule, "progressives" aren't content to wait for Constitution-minded gun owners to die out or to be replaced with "pathway to citizenship" naturalization of immigrants brought in to culturally terraform the Founders' Republic. If they can hurry the process along, they're going to, and the establishment media will be right there to cheer-lead for the betrayal.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:27 AM 5 comments:
Faking A Stand
"No single reform will eliminate violence," Obama conceded in the OFA email, setting the stage for more demands after the first ones have been met. That's not the goal anyway, and never has been, but it does provide fake cover for conning the ignorant into surrendering their rights and believing it's for their own good.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:12 AM 1 comment:
A Historic Catastrophe
Bad as life was under the communists, it can be worse under nuclear-armed fanatics, who have already demonstrated their willingness to die -- and their utter barbarism toward those who fall under their power.
See also: 1938 and 2015: Only the Names Are Different
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:05 AM 4 comments:
Speculators smash gold as dollar squeeze tightens: News that China's gold reserves are far lower than assumed has rattled investors, but Beijing may not have told the full story
Powerful speculators have launched an unprecedented attack on the world gold market, driving prices to a five-year low as commodities wilt and the US Federal Reserve prepares to tighten monetary policy.
My investments are in lead and brass.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:02 AM 2 comments:
New York Times to Obama: Use Federal Contracts to Secure Backdoor Gun Control
On July 17 The New York Times reported on the Obama administration's failure to get any significant gun control passed in Congress by suggesting there is still one avenue open–using federal contracts as a means to backdoor controls on gun manufacturers.
The original NYT article is here: "Here's a Way to Control Guns"
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Monday, July 20, 2015
"If I Truly Believe."
As for my screaming at the top of my lungs to make anything happen, I could only wish I had that kind of political juice. The fact of the matter is, I can barely persuade a handful of readers to share links now and then, or to send an email. The minute I bring up donating a dollar or two to worthy causes, support drops exponentially. "Profiles in apathy" is another recurring theme I've addressed over the years without making much progress at inspiring change.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 5:59 PM 3 comments:
Bloomberg-backed group to launch ads for background check bill.
A gun-control group backed by Michael Bloomberg is stepping up its support for background check legislation in Congress with a six-figure ad buy this week. Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit formed last year combining the groups Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, will begin running ads in D.C. publications including The Washington Post and POLITICO. It is also launching separate petitions to Congress and gun retailer Cabela's.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:02 AM 1 comment:
Obama pushes to extend gun background checks to Social Security
Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 5:58 AM 3 comments:
A less-than-optimal Lord's Day presaging another interesting day today..
Meet David Lee Galbreath. He is the son-in-law of some close friends of mine who has been on a downward spiral for the last few months. This story tells briefly how he spent his Sunday. It is full of omissions and inaccuracies, but it will do to start with:
Jefferson County deputies searching for armed suspect: Accused of threatening law enforcement officers.
First of all, he did not try to burn down his wife's house, he firebombed his in-laws' house (my friends) by throwing a Molotov cocktail into the carport in the late afternoon WHILE HIS OWN YOUNG SON and others were playing there. Fortunately it was an amateurish job, no one was burned and the fire was quickly extinguished. A Jefferson County deputy was right on his tail a moment after the deed as he fled (having been called earlier when David had been spotted at his wife's home further up the hill) but he eluded them by blowing through stop lights and stop signs, convincing the cop that further pursuit was going to get some innocent killed.
Later on, the cop answered a call from him to his wife's cell phone and he indicated that he was not going to surrender, that he would not be going to prison, and that the cops would have to kill him. Presumably this is the "threat to attack the police" mentioned in the stories on all the local morning news shows here.
What the Sheriff's Department did not tell the media: This has been an escalating case of domestic violence and deadly threats for some time, and there are outstanding cases and protective orders in place after he beat his wife (who is half his size). There have been chances when the Sheriff's Department could have held him but they let him out on recogs and a signature bond from his motorcycle gang chick girlfriend. Indeed, the JCSD seized some of his many weapons when they busted him on the domestic abuse charge, but they did not get them all because they could not get in his gun safe and failed to secure it until they could. Those that aren't in Galbreath's car right now are probably in the hands of his gangbanger buddies that he was messing around with. With the Sheriff's Department's usual efficiency, we'll probably be seeing those weapons surface in various crimes over the next year or so.
Anyway, I'll be helping my friends out this morning, seeing to the security of their property while they deal with the legal issues. I'll try to have more later.
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Sunday, July 19, 2015
Obama's Age of Nuclear Chaos
How will he punish Israel for defying him? By signing a nuclear deal with Iran that destroys 70 years of US nonproliferation strategy, allows the Iranian regime to grow rich on sanctions relief, become a regional hegemon while expanding its support for terrorism and develop nuclear weapons? Years from now, perhaps historians will point out the irony that Obama, who loudly proclaims his goal of making the world free of nuclear weapons, has ushered in an era of mass nuclear proliferation and chaos.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 7:33 AM 7 comments:
Either ironically suicidal or extremely canny.
Given that the Trump rise in poll numbers and attention seems to have sucked all the oxygen out of the room for Cruz, this seems both ironic and suicidal. "Cruz on Trump: Others 'Smack' Him; I Back Him." On the other hand, it may be extremely canny and based upon the expectation that Trump will implode and positions Cruz to pick up his supporters with the pitch: "I tell the truth like Trump, only I'm actually sane."
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They're still smokin' it in Madison. "How to deal with gun violence? Ban guns."
The Second Amendment? Sugarmann points out it doesn't cover handguns because it refers to the militia, which never used handguns. Neither does the Army, which replaced the militia. So, if we ban handguns, we can take the NRA to the Supreme Court. That would be great sport.
My reply to the editor:
From: firstname.lastname@example.com: email@example.com: Sun, Jul 19, 2015 6:49 amSubject: Provoking a bloody civil war seems an odd way to reduce "gun violence.'
Dear Editor,If enacted, John Morgan's benighted proposal to prohibit handguns to law-abiding folks (for criminals will never be bound by such a pie-in-the-sky proposal, criminals being, well, criminals) will presumably be backed by all the force of state violence. Of course, turning millions of his heretofore peaceable fellow citizens into felons seems to miss his notice entirely. And what will he do when we refuse to be disarmed without a fight? Provoking a bloody civil war seems an odd way to reduce "gun violence.' But for sheer collectivist hallucination and complete ignorance of the Law of Unintended Consequences, he must be congratulated. If not drug induced, it is an Olympian feat of blindfolded tap dancing in a minefield.Mike VanderboeghPO Box 926Pinson AL 35126
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Saturday, July 18, 2015
Obama collecting personal data for a secret race database
A key part of President Obama's legacy will be the fed's unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of "racial and economic justice." Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama's racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document "inequalities" between minorities and whites. This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make "disparate impact" cases against: banks that don't make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don't offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 7:38 PM 7 comments:
Governor Jindal issues executive order to arm military families
Friday, Governor Jindal issued an Executive Order authorizing the Adjutant General of the Louisiana National Guard to identify and arm national guard personnel at military facilities in order to protect those facilities.
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You'll want to read this, no matter that it is long. "The Spies We Trust."
Telecommunications carriers and service providers now play an essential role in facilitating modern surveillance by law enforcement agencies. The police merely select the individuals to be monitored, while the actual surveillance is performed by third parties: often the same email providers, search engines and telephone companies to whom consumers have entrusted their private data. Assisting Big Brother has become a routine part of business
Posted by Dutchman6 at 3:48 PM 5 comments:
Because they fight like girlie men?
Combatives: Tripler NCOs train federal marshals in Army style.
U.S. Army Soldiers; marshals; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents gathered at Tripler Army Medical Center's Physical Fitness Center, July 8-12, for training in the Modern Army Combatives Program. The noncommissioned officers of TAMC's Troop Command led the training for this elite group of island warriors.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 3:45 PM 1 comment:
Jihad on U.S. Troops Is Not a "Circumstance"
President Obama bemoaned the "heartbreaking circumstance" in which the murdered Marines found themselves. "Unfathomable"? Not if you've been paying attention. Islam-inspired hate crimes against our troops have continued unabated since the Obama White House first dismissed the 2009 Fort Hood massacre as "workplace violence."
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Got an unexpectedly lot of sleep last night
so of course I'm behind the eight ball on getting a lot of stuff done this morning. Will have more later.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 5:40 AM 3 comments:
Lack of originality breaking out all over. It seems there is no idea that I can have that Kerodin cannot steal (or pollute) if it is for money or a desperate yearning for relevance.
Ask and ye shall receive.Courtesy of a reader. Feel free to copy this and have it printed out as a sticker form in color or black and white (whichever is cheapest to you) and let the fun begin.
And you may file this under: "Desperately seeking relevance (and money)." I am informed by readers who frequent his site (as I do not) that unrepentant federal extortionist Kerodin has stolen the Death Zone sticker idea, with the date stamps conclusively demonstrating that mine was up first. I suppose now that I will receive a demand letter asking for money to print my own idea, like he did with the poor gun manufacturers after he attempted to trademark the Roman numeral III. It seems there is no idea that I can have that Kerodin cannot steal (or pollute) if it is for money. Of course there is that matter of the missing tens of thousands that his board quit him over so I guess he needs to replenish the coffers. And I will admit he's had some other really spectacular ORIGINAL ideas on his own, like the III Arms business (his business partner on that one has now, I am told, cut off all contact with him and surrendered his FFL) and the Citadel (anybody living there yet?) and my personal favorite, the Magic Bus, for which he was soliciting money to visit the site of any future Bundy Ranch-style situation (even though he refused to go to the original stand-off and warned others to stay away). But other than that, he's firing on all cylinders. (Cue responding violence-tinged raving hissy fit in one, two, three . . .)
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Friday, July 17, 2015
Chattanooga Shootings Show We're Up to Our Necks in It
"Disobey posted death zones and understand that jihadi fourth generation warfare means we are all at war — everywhere, all the time," Mike Vanderboegh cautions readers at Sipsey Street Irregulars. "The Jihadis have determined that they are in a global war with us, all of us — our families, our friends, the innocent, wherever we live and whatever we do. We cannot opt out of it because they will not let us."
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Death Zones.
What we need is a campaign to counterpost these:
With a modified sticker of this:
Maybe with a "Remember Fort Hood and Chattanooga" and sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com across the bottom. Anybody want to photoshop one?
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If Obama is NOT the Manchurian Candidate, he's sure doing a great job of imitating one. "Worse than we could have imagined."
Because Iran, joined by Russia — our "reset" partner — sprung the demand at the last minute, calculating that Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry were so desperate for a deal that they would cave. They did.
The net effect of this capitulation will be not only to endanger our Middle East allies now under threat from Iran and its proxies, but also to endanger our own naval forces in the Persian Gulf. Imagine how Iran's acquisition of the most advanced anti-ship missiles would threaten our control over the gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, waterways we have kept open for international commerce for a half-century. . .
The action now shifts to Congress. The debate is being hailed as momentous. It is not. It's irrelevant. Congress won't get to vote on the deal until September. But Obama is taking the agreement to the U.N. Security Council for approval within days . Approval there will cancel all previous U.N. resolutions outlawing and sanctioning Iran's nuclear activities. Meaning: Whatever Congress ultimately does, it won't matter because the legal underpinning for the entire international sanctions regime against Iran will have been dismantled at the Security Council. Ten years of painstakingly constructed international sanctions will vanish overnight, irretrievably. . .
Iran will be flush with cash, legitimized as a normal international actor in good standing, recognized (as Obama once said) as "a very successful regional power." Stopping Iran from going nuclear at that point will be infinitely more difficult and risky. Which is Obama's triumph. He has locked in his folly. He has laid down his legacy, and we will have to live with the consequences for decades.
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"So, another Jihadi has murdered four Marines in Chattanooga. So what?" The Lessons of Chattanooga: Disobey Posted Death Zones and Understand That Jihadi Fourth Generation Warfare Means We Are ALL At War -- Everywhere, All the Time.
"At the operational level (of 4th Generation Warfare), all an opponent has to move is ideas. He can do so through a wide variety of methods, from email to snail mail to personal courier to messages embedded in classified advertisements. He will try to submerge his communications in the noise of the everyday activity that is an essential part of modern society. It will be extraordinarily difficult to detect the operational level activities of a 4GW opponent." -- LTC Thomas X. Hammes The Sling and the Stone, Page 218.
So, another Jihadi has murdered four Marines in Chattanooga. So what? What about this WASN'T absolutely predictable and predicted? Arguments over whether he represented "international" or "home-grown, domestic" terror or even the characterization of him as a "lone wolf" (as if that represents some sort of solace), are utterly beside the point and irrelevant. I have written and spoken about 4GW many times before. The Jihadi version of it is a weaponized idea, indiscriminate and evil beyond measure. Comments on this blog and elsewhere that the US federal government is a greater threat to our lives and liberty than any Jihadi are also true, but irrelevant to the families of the dead Marines and everyone else for that matter. The Jihadis have determined that they are in a global war with us, all of us -- our families, our friends, the innocent, wherever we live and whatever we do. We cannot opt out of it because they will not let us.
"You think you've been getting away with it all this time, standing by. Well, son... your bystanding days are over! You're in it now, up to your neck!" -- Gregory Peck as Mallory in The Guns of Navarone.
A man may make many enemies in his life, some intentionally, some unintentionally. That he must confront all of them, regardless of their point of attack is obvious. Again, nothing happened in Chattanooga yesterday that wasn't perfectly predictable. And having been predicted, most of us yawned and went back to sleep. Which leads me to the central lesson of Chattanooga. Take a good look at the photo above. "Gun-free zones" are nothing but death zones for the innocent. As an American at war, whether you chose to enlist in that war, you're in it, up to your neck. You MUST disobey such posted death zone signs just as you wouldn't enter camp gates unarmed with that other big collectivist lie of history posted on them -- "Arbeit Macht Frei."
As I watched yesterday, the overwhelming emotion I felt was sadness. Not for the dead but for the fact that Tennesseans -- not just Americans but SOUTHERNERS, by God -- have become so gelded, so self-neutered as to react to the attack like a flock of frightened sheep. Where was the guy who ignored the victim disarmament zone signs, who could have produced a handgun and shot the Jihadi in the back as he attacked? Where was the armed citizen who takes responsibility for the protection of himself/herself and others? Nowhere in evidence. It is that silent passing of the America I grew up in that I mourn above all.
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Building Guides
This page is one of a set of Building pages/guides for the different OSes with information on building Mumble/Murmur.
Please edit this page if you find a feature or step you think should be included; it's a wiki for a reason! Note you must register and wait about 3 days in order to be able to edit.
- 1 Install the dependencies
- 2 Getting the source
- 3 Compiling Mumble and Murmur
- 4 Running Murmur
- 5 Text to Speech
Install the dependencies
Mumble 1.2.3 or newer requires at least Qt 4.6.
Debian or Ubuntu
We do not recommend building Mumble on Debian 5 ("Lenny") or older. Please update to Debian 6 ("Squeeze") or newer. You may still be able to build it by playing with package sources to include only required packages from Squeeze, but that is not a supported solution.
You need to make sure you have the needed libraries and dependencies installed to build Mumble and Murmur from source. This can be done in one of those ways:
If your distribution provides packages of the 1.2.x versions, it is sufficient to just run:
apt-get build-dep mumble
Otherwise, you need to install some development packages manually:
apt-get install build-essential pkg-config qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libspeex1 \ libspeex-dev libboost-dev libasound2-dev libssl-dev g++ \ libspeechd-dev libzeroc-ice-dev ice-slice libpulse-dev slice2cpp \ libcap-dev libspeexdsp-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler \ libogg-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libsndfile1-dev \ libg15daemon-client-dev libxi-dev
It is recommended to remove the package qt3-dev-tools if installed.
Since Mumble Snapshots aren't available in the repository, you need to install development packages manually:
apt-get install build-essential pkg-config qt5-default qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5svg5* \ libspeex1 libspeex-dev libboost-dev libasound2-dev libssl-dev g++ \ libspeechd-dev libzeroc-ice-dev ice-slice libpulse-dev slice2cpp \ libcap-dev libspeexdsp-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler \ libogg-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libsndfile1-dev \ libg15daemon-client-dev libxi-dev
Now go on to the section Getting the source.
Arch Linux
At the time of writing, Murmur is in pacman's repositories, but doesn't support Ice because the zeroc-ice component isn't in the repositories. To build an Ice-capable Murmur, you'll need to setup and be familiar with the Arch Build System, which is outside the scope of this document.
Next, I grabbed the zeroc-ice tarball, and extracted it into my ABS directory. I edited the PKGCONFIG to remove all the Java bindings for Ice - because I won't be needing them and didn't want to wait for the Java stuff to install as a dependency, if you feel you might want/need Java/Ice later on, then leave it in - then built and installed the package as per the instructions in the ABS walkthrough.
Grab the Murmur-ice tarball and extract it in your ABS directory. Build, and if you want the stable release, install the resulting package with pacman.
If you want to build from git, you should have most of the required runtime dependencies, but you'll also want these for building:
pacman -S base-devel git
At this point you should be able to continue on to Installing from Source.
As of Fedora 21, Mumble is no longer available in the Fedora repositories; there's also a bug that makes it tricky to compile from Mumble 1.2.8 source. You can use the following script to install the dependencies, download the latest Mumble source master branch and compile it for Fedora 21 all at once. You are encouraged to run each line manually if you care about your system's security or how the script works: https://gist.github.com/Orbixx/40232a34f29cb3cb1741
The below is from a previous guide for Fedora 16 and may no longer be entirely accurate for current Fedora versions.
Finding missing dependencies
If the build fails even after installing the dependencies listed above, you'll need to find out that package name on your own. I use yum provides to hunt these things down. This command is best learned through a demonstration, so here's an example Mumble build that's missing a dependency:
$ cd $YOUR_MUMBLE_REPO $ qmake CONFIG+=no-g15 -recursive $ make ... omitted lots of build info .... mumble_pch.hpp:117:20: fatal error: dns_sd.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [release/mumble.gch/c++] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dafrito/src/mumble/src/mumble' make[1]: *** [release] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dafrito/src/mumble/src/mumble' make: *** [sub-src-mumble-make_default-ordered] Error 2 $
The key line in the above is the "fatal error: dns_sd.h: No such file or directory" This will always be very close to the bottom of make's output. We'll need to install that header file somehow, so we'll try looking in Fedora's repos first. yum provides lets us search for packages that provide a specified file. In this case, we'll look for packages that give us dns_sd.h
$ yum provides '*/dns_sd.h' # be careful not to forget the quotes or the wildcard here avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel-0.6.30-4.fc16.i686 : Header files for the Apple Bonjour mDNSResponder compatibility libraries Repo : fedora Matched from: Filename : /usr/include/avahi-compat-libdns_sd/dns_sd.h Filename : /usr/include/dns_sd.h
This lets us know that avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel provides the needed header, so now we can install that package
$ yum install avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel .. lots of installation ..
And now we can try building Mumble again using make. If you're missing multiple packages, then you'll probably need to repeat the above process to satisfy any missing dependencies. If Mumble still doesn't build, you may be able to discern which feature is causing problems and avoid building it entirely using a CONFIG+=no-* option. You can look at INSTALL for details on what features can be toggled off. For example. qmake CONFIG+=no-server -recursive will omit the server component of Mumble.
G15 Support
Fedora doesn't yet package G15 support. The build will fail with a missing "g15daemon_client.h" header file. There's currently work being done to package it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789113
As mentioned above, you can avoid building G15 support using a qmake CONFIG+=no-g15. However, if you'd like to build this, it is possible to install it manually by building the G15 stuff from source. Be warned that this process can be a little tricky since you'll be building and installing RPMs manually, as well as building another component from source.
First, install some dependencies that you'll need later:
$ su -c 'yum install libdaemon-devel libusb-devel libtool svn rpm-build autoconf automake libtool'
Then pick up the G15 library that's already been packaged (this was linked to in the Bugzilla ticket):
$ wget http://zero456.fedorapeople.org/libg15-1.2.7-1.fc16.src.rpm $ rpmbuild --rebuild libg15-1.2.7-1.fc16.src.rpm
It's possible you'll run into missing dependencies at this point. Follow the yum provides process outlined above to find out what you'll need to install.
$ cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS $ ls noarch x86_64 i686 $ cd `uname -p` # equates to x86_64 on my system, may be i686 on yours $ su -c 'yum localinstall libg15*'
Finally, the G15 daemon will need to be built from scratch:
$ svn co https://g15daemon.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/g15daemon/trunk/g15daemon g15daemon $ cd g15daemon $ autoreconf -i $ ./configure $ make $ su -c 'make install'
At this point, if all other dependencies are met, you should be able to build Mumble with G15 support.
Getting the source
The best way to get Mumble's source is using Git. You can also download the latest ZIP package from GitHub.
For compiling from Git make sure you've installed Git:
apt-get install git
On older systems like Debian 5 Lenny or Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, you have to install git-core instead of git:
apt-get install git-core
Next, download the Mumble source (this may take a minute. At this time of writing, 2016, November 4th, the size is 43.39 MiB):
git clone git://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble.git mumble cd mumble git submodule init git submodule update
To use the current (development) branch, which you most likely do:
git checkout --track -b master origin/master
To use the 1.2.x (stable) branch:
git checkout --track -b 1.2.x origin/v1.2.x
If you want to update your local branch, make sure you're still in the main git directory ('mumble' in the above example) and use this command:
git pull
Zip package
Download the latest zip archive from GitHub, extract it and fetch the submodules:
unzip mumble-master.zip -d mumble cd mumble git submodule init git submodule update
Compiling Mumble and Murmur
From Qt Creator
Installing Qt Creator
On Debian or Ubuntu:
apt-get install qtcreator
On Arch Linux:
pacman -S qtcreator
On Fedora:
yum install qt-creator
Opening the project
Open the project file main.pro located in the main directory and choose the build preset you want to use.
From the terminal
For more configuration options on the qmake command read the supplied INSTALL file.
Be sure to have the pre-requisites installed and in place for your linux distribution (see the sections above) before you begin compiling it.
qmake -recursive main.pro make
If you want to compile Murmur (Mumble server) only, then type
qmake -recursive main.pro CONFIG+=no-client make
Running Mumble
cd release ./mumble
Running Murmur
See the dedicated page: Running Murmur
Text to Speech
For text-to-speech voices you will need to install speech dispatcher and at least a voice. Most distros ship packages for that in their repositories.

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I am extremely pleased to provide an update on the Haplogroup C-P39 Native American Y DNA project. Marie Rundquist and I as co-administrators have exciting discoveries to share.
As it so happens, this announcement comes almost exactly on the 4th anniversary of the founding of this project at Family Tree DNA. We couldn't celebrate in a better way!
Native American Y DNA Haplogroups
Haplogroup C is one of two core Native American male haplogroups. Of the two, haplogroup Q is much more prevalent, while haplogroup C is rare. Only some branches of both haplogroup Q and haplogroup C are Native American, with other branches of both haplogroups being Asian and European.
C-P39 is the Native American branch of haplogroup C, and because of its rarity, until now, very little was known. There were no known branches.
In February 2016, Marie Rundquist created a focused project testing plan to upgrade at least one man from each family line to the full 111 markers along with a Big Y test in order to determine if further differentiation could be achieved in the C-P39 haplogroup lineage.
Haplogroup C-P39 Sprouts Branches
In November 2016, Marie presented preliminary research findings at the International Genetic Genealogy Conference in Houston, Texas, with a final evaluation being completed and submitted to Family Tree DNA for review in March 2017. As a result, Marie provides the following press release:
April 29, 2017: Based on a recent "Big Y" DNA novel variant submission from the C-P39 Y DNA project, the Y Tree has been updated by Family Tree DNA scientists. With this latest update, in addition to the C-P39 SNP that distinguishes this haplogroup, there are now new, long-awaited, downstream SNPs and subclades, as reflected in the Y Tree that offer new avenues for research by members of this rare, Native American haplogroup. A summary of new C-P39 Y DNA project subclades follows:
- North American Appalachian Region: C-P39+ C-BY1360+
- North American Canada – Multiple Surnames: C-P39+ C-Z30765+
- North American Canada – Multiple Surnames: C-P39+ C-Z30750+
- North American Canada: Acadia (Nova Scotia): C-P39+ C-Z30750+
- North American Canada: Acadia (Nova Scotia): C-P39+ C-Z30754+
- North American Southwest Region: CP39+ C-Z30747+
The following SNP (BY18405+) was found to have been shared only by two C-P39 project members in the entire Big Y system, as reported here:
- North American Canada Newfoundland: C-P39+ C-BY18405+
- North American Canada: Gaspe, QC: C-P39+ C-BY18405+
The ancestors of two families represented in the study, one in the Pacific Northwest and another in the North American Southwest did not experience any mutations in the New World and Big Y results are within the current genetic boundaries of the C-P39 SNP haplogroup as noted.
The Family Tree DNA C-P39 Y DNA Project is managed by Roberta Estes, Administrator, Marie Rundquist, Co-Administrator, and Dr. David Pike, Project Advisor. The "Big Y" DNA test is a product of Family Tree DNA.
Reference: https://www.familytreedna.com/public/ydna_C-P39
The New Tree
The new C-P39 tree at Family Tree DNA is shown, below, including all the new SNPs below P39, a grand total of eight new branches on the C-P39 tree.
It's just so beautiful to see this in black and white – well, green, black and white. It's really an amazing accomplishment for citizen scientists to be contributing at this level to the field of genetics.
Beneath C-P39, several sub-branches develop.
- BY1360 which is represented by a gentleman from Appalachia.
- BY736 which is represented by two downstream SNPs that include the surnames of both King and Brooms from Canada.
- Z30747 which is represented by a Garcia from the southwest US, following by downstream subgroup Z30750 represented by a Canadian gentleman, and SNP Z30754 represented by the Acadian Doucette family from Nova Scotia.
This haplotree suggests that the SNP carried by the gentleman from Appalachia is the oldest, with the other sub-branches descending from their common ancient lineage. As you might guess, this isn't exactly what we had anticipated, but therein lies the thrill of discovery and the promise of science.
The Next Step
Just like with traditional genealogy, this discovery begets more questions. Now, testing needs to be done on additional individuals to see if we can further tease apart relationships and perhaps identify patterns to suggest a migration path. This testing will come, in part, from STR marker testing along with Big Y testing for some lines not yet tested at that level.
We're also hopeful, of course, that anyone who carries haplogroup C-P39 or any downstream branch will join the C-P39 project. Collaboration is key to discovery.
If you would like to donate to the C-P39 project general fund to play a critical role in the next steps of discovery, we would be eternally grateful. At this point, we need to fund at least 4 additional Big Y tests, plus several 111 marker upgrades, totaling about $3000. You can contribute to the project general fund at this link:
Thank you in advance – every little bit helps!
I want to personally congratulate Marie for her hard work and dedication over the past year to bring this monumental discovery and tree update to fruition. It's truly an incredible accomplishment representing countless hours of behind the scenes work.
Marie and I would both like to thank all of our participants, individuals who contributed funds to the testing, Dr. David Pike as a project advisor and, of course, Family Tree DNA, without whom none of this would be possible.
DNA Testing for Native Heritage
If you are male and have not yet Y DNA tested, but believe that you have a Native ancestor on your direct paternal (surname) line, please order at least the 37 marker test at Family Tree DNA. Your results and who you match will tell that story!
People with Native heritage on any ancestral line are encouraged to join the American Indian Project at Family Tree DNA. If you have tested elsewhere, you can download your results to Family Tree DNA for free.
For additional information about DNA testing for Native American heritage, please read Proving Native American Ancestry Using DNA.
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Silverstein, FDNY Razed WTC 7 by Jeremy Baker
In a stunning and belated development concerning the attacks of 9/11 Larry Silverstein, the new controller of the destroyed WTC complex, stated plainly in a PBS documentary that he and the FDNY decided jointly to demolish the Solomon Bros. building, or WTC 7, late in the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
This admission appeared in a PBS documentary originally aired in Sept. of 2002 entitled "America Rebuilds". Mr Silverstein's comments came after FEMA and the Society of Civil Engineers conducted an extensive and costly investigation into the curious collapse of WTC 7. The study specifically concluded that the building had collapsed as a result of the inferno within, sparked, apparently, by debris falling from the crumbling North Tower.
In the documentary Silverstein makes the following statement;I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it." And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse.
[This can be heard in the audio file http://VestigialConscience.com/PullIt.mp3 Thanks to Sir Dave 'tmo' Soule for transfering this from the video to an MP3 file. "America Rebuilds", PBS Home Video, ISBN 0-7806-4006-3, is (or rather, was) available from http://shop.pbs.org/products/AREB901/. Also archived on this site here.]
Mr. Silverstein's comments stand in direct contradiction to the findings of the extensive FEMA report. They even negate Kevin Spacey's narrative in the very documentary in which they appear; "WTC 7 fell after burning for 7 hours." If it had been generally known that the building was "pulled" wouldn't Mr. Spacey have phrased it that way?
In the same program a cleanup worker referred to the demolition of WTC 6: "... we're getting ready to pull the building six." There can be little doubt as to how the word "pull" is being used in this context.[This can be heard in the audio file http://VestigialConscience.com/PullIt2.mp3 taken from the video. Also archived on this site here.]
This shocking contradiction is yet another curious twist in a disturbing series of events surrounding the "collapse" of WTC 7, and the WTC complex in general.
Among these is the fact that, in all the history of high-rise fires, not one has ever resulted in a collapse. On 9/11 three such anomalies were alleged to have occurred. Those who argue that the towers were vulnerable in their top-heaviness and verticality cannot then explain the collapse due to fire of WTC 7, a broad-based, 47-story steel-framed building.
There is also the fact that most of the structures destroyed by falling debris were directly under the twin towers, and none of them caught fire. WTC 7 was not only a full city block away from Tower 1 but WTC 6 stood directly between the two buildings and certainly absorbed most of the damage.
In addition, WTC 7 suffered a strangely thorough and complete collapse, leaving only a leveled lot where it once stood. Although it was a much smaller structure, WTC 6's 8-story carcass stood for months afterwards, even after being gutted by Tower 1.
There's also disturbing correlations between the collapse of WTC 7 and the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Both buildings were constructed using the same bridge beam system that, in WTC 7's case, allegedly contributed to its demise. But more importantly WTC 7, like the Murrah building, housed high-level government offices including the FBI, CIA and the Secret Service. WTC 7 was also the storage facility for millions of files pertaining to active cases involving international drug dealing, organized crime, terrorism and money laundering.
WTC 6, also known as the Customs House building, housed the Departments of Commerce, Agriculture and Labor and yet another Murrah building tenant, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
WTC 7 was also the location of a kind of a doomsday bunker (a $15 million project of Rudy Giuliani's), a command post from which to operate in case of a total infrastructure breakdown. Building 7 had apparently been bullet proofed and reinforced to withstand hurricane force winds and attacks of all kinds, a fact which makes its alleged fatal vulnerability to falling debris all the more puzzling.
Mr. Silverstein's comments imply that he and the FDNY threw together an expert demolition job in the space of a few short hours on the afternoon of 9/11. This revelation is staggering enough considering its blatant contradiction to what has been, all along, the official cause of the "collapse." But the fact that the building was buried under tons of debris and consumed in flames at the time makes his comments all the more baffling.
There's a compelling theory that bombs had been planted inside the twin towers designed to complete the job the hijacked jets had begun. A handful of seasoned professional firefighters and demolition men have commented on how neatly and evenly the towers collapsed. Mr. Silverstein's bewildering statements in "America Rebuilds" give an exponential boost in credence to this claim and, in a more terrifying light, loan credibility to growing suspicions that the attacks of 9/11 may have been an inside job.
J. Baker
Copyright 2003 by Darkprints
For further information concerning the collapse of WTC 7 see
Other WTC Building "Collapses": WTC 6 and WTC 7
and the web pages linked therefrom.
2005-06-22: Building 7 "Pull It" Comment: Silverstein Responds
Jeremy Baker: Was WTC 7 a Dud?
A copy of the Serendipity website is available on USB flash drive. Details here.
The World Trade Center Demolition and the So-Called War on Terrorism Serendipity Home Page