[LI] I mostly missed the Ken Bone phenomenon. I either wasn't watching or wasn't listening when he asked a question at the last presidential debate.
He then became a media darling, though I'm not really sure why. Something to do with his red sweater, apparently. And the fact that after the debate he said he started off leaning towards Trump, but was impressed with and considering Hillary.
It was a perfect pro-Clinton media meme, common guy journalists otherwise would mock becomes cool because he moves from Trump to Hillary; a good example for the common folk to hear about.
Bone then sought to cash in, selling a version of his red sweater and doing other stuff to make a buck and promote himself.
Then he got boned.
By the same media that loved him, but I suspect never really accepted the conversion from Trumpist to "I’m with her" enthusiast.
The pretext was an Ask Me Anything (AMA) forum at Reddit. During the AMA Bone used his prior username, rather than creating a new one, and in searches it turned up that some of this comments at Reddit in the past were about .... sex.
CNN was on the case almost as quickly as Donna Brazile forwarded that town hall question to the Clinton team, Ken Bone leaves seedy comment trail on Reddit:
Con't.
I hadn't been to the gun range in Canton Lake in eight months when I went on Friday. I took a total of 360 rounds, with six, 30 round magazines.
These are the facts:
Rifle: Bulgarian 5.45x39mm AK-74, built from a kit
360 rounds, all fired.
5 stoppages: 1 "stovepipe" and four extractor failures.
The four extractor failures I attribute to ammunition problems. The rifle fires a round, but instead of the extractor grabbing the spent casing and ejecting it, it is left stuck in the chamber. The next round cycles in, but can't be chambered because of the stuck casing.
I am forced to remove the magazine, remove the extra cartridge, remove the muzzle brake, assemble the cleaning rod and tap the stuck cartridge out. This simple process is made difficult by a smoking hot barrel. The process takes about two minutes per stoppage.
I can't explain the stovepipe. This rifle had bolt over base problems until I fixed it by changing the angle of the magazine, and all through that process I went through about 400 rounds and never had a stovepipe.
I have been thinking about changing from the 60 grain cartridge to a 55 grain hollow point cartridge. The 60 grain bullet is ten percent heavier than the standard 53 grain 7N6 Russian issued round, and so the bullet drop at 200 yards is almost five inches instead of being around 2 inches. The last time I went to this range I had to adjust the sighting leaf to the 300 meter band and aim low.
What the standard 7N6 round is supposed to do is to allow the rifleman to fire on his target from zero to 400 meters, with the sighting leaf at 100 meters. The rifleman is supposed to aim for center mass, which is the groin area. The rifle is sighted to about 9 inches above that, so that the round will hit between the chest area at close range to the groin area at 400 meters.
With a bullet that is more than 10 percent heavier you obviously can't do that reliably, so adjustments have to be made to account for the differences.
My performance was much better this time around. At the rifle range, the state of Oklahoma made some real improvements in the target frames. Where before there were basically none, now there are steel frames with a .500 inch thick rubber mat, 4 by 2 feet. At 200 yards, it makes the target much easier to see. I hit the paper target (6x6 inches) about 10 percent of the time, whereas before I didn't hit the target (36x24 inches) at all.
The shooting conditions were near perfect: 51 F, overcast with a cool southern breeze. Another 20 degrees cooler would have been perfect.
The young woman who processed the rental car asked me, as a matter of conversation, what I was planning to do with the car. I told her I was going somewhere to help out a friend. It is a Zen thing: a peaceful, easy feeling that I doubt Gersh would understand.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mixed. Prices for rifle ammunition were mostly lower.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher. Prices for used rifles were mostly higher.
New Lows:
None.
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: South Georgia Outdoors, CCI Blazer, FMJ, Brass Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Edmonson Sporting Goods, Own Brand, Brass Casing, Reloads, .25 per round (From Last week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Mart, Buffalo Cartridge, FSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Mart, Own Brand, FSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .19 per round (From Last Week: (4 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Maxxtech, FMJ, Brass Casing, .15 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Wideners, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Hotshot, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Brown Bear, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .34 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: BulkAmmunition.net, Tulammo, Steel Casing, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: TrueCaliber.com, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Ammoman, Federal, RNL, .06 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds (2 Box Limit): Natchez Shooters Supplies, Federal, RNL, .06 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: %551 Last Week Avg: $517(+) ($616 (2Q, 2015), $476 (3Q, 2015))
California (263, 256): Mixed Build: $480 ($650 (1Q, 2015), $400 (2Q, 2016))
Texas (264, 266): Anderson AR15: $600 ($700 (1Q, 2015), $350 (2Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (150, 152): Smith & Wesson Sport II: $600 ($700 (2Q, 2015), $300 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (165, 172): Palmetto State Armory: $550 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $475 (23 Weeks))
Florida (384, 377): American Tactical Imports: $525 ($650 (2Q, 2015), $380 (1Q, 2015))
[FrontPage] If you're wondering what's going on in Yemen, Iranian backed Houthi Jihadists whose slogan is "Allah Akbar, Death to America, Death to Israel, A curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam."
The Houthis are involved in a religious war with various Sunni groups, some backed by the Saudis. Obama has kept the US hovering uncertainly around the edges of the conflict. Then the Houthis attacked US naval vessels. Did Obama's covert cash drops to Iran help make it happen, Adam Kredo at WFB asks.
Leading members of Congress suspect a portion of a recent $1.7 billion cash payment to Iran may have been used to help arm and support Yemeni terrorists who recently fired missiles on a U.S. Navy ship in the Red Sea, according to a new congressional inquiry that seeks to determine how U.S. taxpayer funds are being used by Iran to boost its global terror operation.
Iran is believed to have used a large portion of the $1.7 billion, suspected to have been paid by the United States as part of a ransom to free U.S. hostages, to fund its global terror operation and strengthen its military, according to conversations with lawmakers who told the Washington Free Beacon that U.S. taxpayer funds are likely being used to sponsor attacks on American military forces.
The weekend attack on the U.S. Navy by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels has sparked another official inquiry surrounding the cash payment to Iran, with a group of 17 senators now seeking to obtain an official assessment by the Pentagon of how Iran has allocated this cash to its military operations.
Lawmakers, led by Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R., N.H.) and Ted Cruz (R., Texas), are petitioning the Pentagon to provide a full analysis of Iran’s military activity since last summer’s nuclear agreement went into effect.
Considering the likelihood that the money went to the Revolutionary Guard, the odds are good that it would have been swiftly poured into Jihadist operations, if not in Yemen, then elsewhere.
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"May have" is cute. He may have rolled over in bed last night. He may have needed to pee when he got up this morning. But he DID send money to Iran...
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It appears or bribe $ will come back to us - with extreme prejudice.
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Commissioner Schulkin hasn't exactly reinvented penicillin, but I thought the giggly snowflake interviewer was entertaining. Goading him to admit that he was somehow a closet pub, quite interesting.
With 29, only Texas at 38 and California at 55 have more electoral votes than NY. California is obviously no longer an issue. Texas is trending Blue. Anyone doubt the value to the Democratic party of illegal immigration, Muslim immigration, or tens of thousands of Syrian refugees ?
[Zero Hedge] Even the Wall Street Journal is now fed up with the biased media coverage of the 2016 Presidential election as revealed by a scathing article written by Kimberly Strassel, a member of their editorial board. As Strassel points out, it's almost impossible to turn on the TV without hearing about Trump's "lewd" comments while coverage of Hillary "uniformly ignores the flurry of bombshells" inherent in the various WikiLeaks, FOIA releases and FBI interviews.
Con't.
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She and Obean did send the guy who made the video to jail for about a year. Dinesh D'Souza did some time in prison also. In the U.S., the left likes to call it re-education unless you are deemed an "irredeemable."
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The media likes two thin gs: new and juicy.
Sex always sells. New sex stories sell even better.
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Well now, reasonable people can agree, sins is a very strong word. I suggest involuntary mis-steps or Oopsies, which is less hurtful and non-sexist (I think).
[FrontPage] Never in American history has anyone as unfit and undeserving as Hillary Clinton run for U.S. President. While she stands on the threshold of being elected to the White House, she quite literally belongs in a prison cell. This article lays out the case against her, chapter and verse.
Clinton's Private Email Server & the Espionage Act
Throughout her entire four-year tenure as secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton never acquired or used a government email account. Instead, she transmitted -- in violation of government regulations -- all of her official correspondences via a private email address that traced back to a secret, private, unsecured server that was housed at her New York residence.1 And immediately after those emails were subpoenaed by Congress, Clinton instructed a team of her advisers to unilaterally delete, with no oversight, almost 32,000 of the roughly 60,000 emails in question.2
Clinton claimed that her reason for having used only a personal email account, rather than both a personal and a government account, was that she found it "easier," "better," "simpler" and more convenient to "carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two."3 It was eventually learned, however, that Mrs. Clinton in fact had used no fewer than 13 mobile devices to access emails on her private server, but the FBI was unable to obtain any of those devices in its investigation, in some cases because Clinton aides had been instructed to smash them with a hammer.4
Clinton originally assured Americans that not even one piece of classified material had ever been transmitted via her unsecured, secret, personal server. But now it is known that at least 2,079 emails that she sent or received via that server, contained classified material.5 As the eminent broadcaster and legal scholar Mark Levin has made plain, each of those 2,079 offenses constituted a felonious violation of Section 793 of the Espionage Act.6 And each violation was punishable by a prison sentence of up to ten years.7
In January 2016, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said "the odds are pretty high" that Russia, China, and Iran had compromised Clinton's unsecured email server.8
But hey, who cares? At least Mrs. Clinton, unlike Donald Trump, never engaged in crude, private trash talk that was recorded on tape. And all of her disparaging, condescending, hate-soaked, fiction-laced denunciations of her political rivals are delivered in measured, solemn, well-rehearsed tones. And she of course respects women deeply. In fact, she respects all people, including the 315 million Americans whose personal and national security was compromised when Mrs. Clinton willfully allowed top-secret information to wind up in the possession of our country's most hostile enemies around the world.
Con't.
[Wash Times] The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a coalition of pro-life pregnancy centers on Friday, upholding a California law that requires them to refer patients to publicly funded contraception and abortion services, even if doing so violates their moral and religious beliefs. The Crown shall decide who lives and who dies.
The decision upheld a lower court ruling saying California law AB 775, or the FACT Act, does not violate the First Amendment rights of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates and two other faith-based nonprofits.
Matt Bowman, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents the appellants, called the decision a "clear violation" of constitutionally protected rights to freedom of speech and religious expression.
"It’s bad enough if the government tells you what you can’t say, but a law that tells you what you must say--under threat of severe punishment--is even more unjust and dangerous," Mr. Bowman said in a statement. "In this case, political allies of abortionists are seeking to punish pro-life pregnancy centers, which offer real hope and help to women."
"Forcing these centers to promote abortion and recite the government’s preferred views is a clear violation of their constitutionally protected First Amendment freedoms," he continued. "That’s why other courts around the country have halted these kinds of measures and why we will be discussing the possibility of appeal with our clients.
Con't.
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Surely, this is not the end to this litigation. However, should Clinton win and name the next Supreme Court justice another foundation stone of our democracy will be chipped away.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[LI] I mostly missed the Ken Bone phenomenon. I either wasn't watching or wasn't listening when he asked a question at the last presidential debate.
[Zero Hedge] Even the Wall Street Journal is now fed up with the biased media coverage of the 2016 Presidential election as revealed by a scathing article written by Kimberly Strassel, a member of their editorial board. As Strassel points out, it's almost impossible to turn on the TV without hearing about Trump's "lewd" comments while coverage of Hillary "uniformly ignores the flurry of bombshells" inherent in the various WikiLeaks, FOIA releases and FBI interviews.
'Tell me Lionel, what is your book about ?' 
