More on the Pulse Nightclub shooting. The local Orlando newspaper has a helpful chronology of the incident, which can be found here.
We also have a story where the FBI attempted to snag the shooter into one of its custom made, pretend terrorist attacks, but he wouldn't bite. Dunno about you, but it would piss me off to no end to find an employer's customer was trying to send me to prison.
In the week following, we have an instance in which a CBS television crew tried to buy an AR-15 to show how easy it is to obtain one, only to admit that the producer, et al, broke federal firearms transfer rules. My guess is that no one will spend so much as an hour inside a lawyer's office, much less detention or prison. They'll skate because their effort was meant to provide ammunition for legislators pushing for even stronger gun control laws.
Just a guess, whenever an entity is arming up, they are up to something, and civil liberties, which are meant to be untouched by a marauding federal government, will suffer.
So many questions, including how did the FFL get hold of information relating to his alcoholism? How does a domestic violence incident get conflated into a reason to deny the purchase of a firearm?
The last question I posed on a private Facebook page I am a member of. I didn't get much of an answer because frankly there is zero cause for this or any of the other reasons given to deny the right to obtain a firearm.
But it does explain why civil liberties are dying. Many members of the group seemed to be all too happy a liberal was denied his right to purchase the firearm, but for all their schadenfreude, a basic ugly fact is revealed. That given the right circumstances, anyone can be convinced to destroy anyone else's rights without much consideration as to what gave the government the right to do it.
It reminds me of the basic idea I have about most people and the Bill of Rights. They love their civil liberties, but as they understand it their own rights are to be protected; just not anyone else's.
Given that attitude, do you really want to be shoulder to shoulder with people who can be convinced to deny you your rights?
I wouldn't, and that is why I am a pariah in most social and Internet settings, for pointing this out. Steinburg should have received his firearm and should have been allowed to do whatever he wanted to do with it, including turning it in to the cops or using the rifle for protection.
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The reporter got denied on the basis of his own articles. They recognized him and went back to see that he'd admitted to the wife beating and being a drunk, so they denied his sale. His own articles were their source. There's some good writes up on this at Bearingarms.com or truth about guns.
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Wife beater. The media has no morals. Definitely a Democrat. I propose a new gun control law. All victims domestic violence be required to own a hand gun.
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As I recall, domestic violence became a reason for denial of the purchase of a firearm. ATF Form 4473 has to be completed at the time of purchase. Form 4473. If Neil Steinberg did not complete the section of the form about alcohol or drug dependency and domestic violence honestly, he would put himself at risk for a felony charge. A acquaintence came afoul of this law. He had a domestic violence charge that involved a wife who was carrying on with someone else. They had a couple of kids which complicated things. He put a gun to her paramour's head and scared the bejesus out of him. Charges were filed. The guy with the gun had to go to "anger management" class. Supposedly, the charge would be reduced to a misdemeanor after completion of the school.
[PJ] "Middle-class society is being strained to the breaking point not, as Marx predicted, by ever-increasing misery but by ever-increasing affluence." -- Eric Hoffer
"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters." -- Victor Hugo
It goes without saying that it's better to be rich than poor. However, that doesn't mean that affluence doesn't have its own perils. People instinctively recognize this on a personal level. That's why fabulously wealthy villains are a staple of TV and movies. It's why we mock spoiled, rich celebrities like Meghan McCain, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan. It's why many Americans, fairly or in most cases unfairly, tend to assume that the rich don't understand what life is like for ordinary Americans. Of course, this bring to mind the following question: Why is it that so many Americans can recognize this when they see it in front of them with individuals, but fail to see the same things happening on a national level?
The temper tantrum begins... My response to this would be a) cut off all payments to the EU immediately and b) make Nigel Farage Prime Minister.
A senior EU leader has confirmed the bloc wants Britain out as soon as possible, warning that David Cameron’s decision to delay the start of Brexit negotiations until his successor is in place may not be fast enough.
Cameron announced on Friday morning that he would step down as prime minister by the autumn, after the British public caused a political earthquake by voting 52%-48% to leave the European Union.
Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament, told the Guardian that EU lawyers were studying whether it was possible to speed up the triggering of article 50 of the Lisbon treaty ‐ the untested procedure for leaving the union. I'm gonna have a smile all damn day now.
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Posturing. Untangling Britain from the EU will no doubt take a good deal longer than the two years prescribed... and that from the date Parliament votes to pass the bill into law, not the date of the vote.. The Brexit vote was a mere referendum, a sense of the people, if you will. Like us, Britain is a representative democracy.
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I've advocated for a while that the US should get out of the military wing of NATO, just as France did in the 1960s. We can go to the political meetings and smile a lot. But let Europe be responsible for Europe, and let the UK be responsible for the UK.
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[Market Watch] WASHINGTON -- The global economy is suffering from even bigger woes than the decision by U.K. voters to leave the European Union, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Friday.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Greenspan said in an interview on CNBC. "The global economy is in real serious trouble." Yes, 'globalism' is in serious trouble indeed, but he stopped a bit short of saying that.
The rejection of British voters of the status quo in Europe was fueled by a "massive slowing" in the growth rate of real incomes that is widespread across Europe, Greenspan said. This, he said, is creating serious political problems that are not easy to resolve.
Behind the slowdown in income is the sharp drop in worker productivity, according to Greenspan. Governments have to cut entitlements to reflect this weakness, he said.
The biggest concern is not a recession, but stagnation, the former Fed chief said.
"The euro-area...is failing," Greenspan said.
"Greece is in real serious trouble and it is not going to continue in the euro very much longer irrespective of what is going on currently," he said.
Asked what he would do if he was still Fed chief, Greenspan said: "I would worry."
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QE in action.
It drops yields (i.e. makes investment more expensive), keeps failed investments from being removed from the economy and rewards land-owners at the expense of wage earners.
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"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Greenspan said in an interview on CNBC. "The global economy is in real serious trouble."
Where was this 'sage advice' eight years ago, asshole? Some of us knew something bad was happening when QE was implemented by your successor Bernanke. You wouldn't happen to have anything to do with that, now would you?
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Only three days ago Greenspan was utterly Apocalyptic regarding any Brit move to leave the EU. Now he is being Apocalyptic regarding the Global Economy. And tomorrow it will be the USA, and on monday it will be Texas.
Greenie was saying this stuff eight years ago but the media didn't want any adult supervision of our monetary policy while THE ONE was in power. Not that the one (lower case intentional) is a LAME DUCK, the media is letting the critics out of the closet.
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Look at Allie G figuring it out. No wonder he scores all the hot chicks.
[DAWN] ONCE again, a spectre is haunting Europe. It is the spectre of a great unravelling, not only of European unity but also of European values. No matter how hard they tried to put a graceful sheen on the aftermath of Thursday’s historic referendum by saying that Britannia will remain a country that is "open and inclusive", the leaders of the ’leave’ campaign cannot escape the fact that their triumph owed itself to the stirrings of atavistic hatreds and xenophobic fears. They should reflect on the fact that the only leaders on the global stage cheering the result of their campaign are Donald Trump and Marie Le Pen. The outcome of the referendum accelerates Britannia’s slide towards an inward-looking country. It has also unleashed forces that could one day sweep away Boris Johnson and Michael Gove -- the leaders of the ’leave’ campaign.
The wave of ultranationalist politics sweeping across the world, from Donald Trump in America to Narendra Modi in India, with the European right wing making strong gains along the way, is gathering momentum, gaining a boost from the campaign behind the ’leave’ vote in Britannia. The fact that the phenomenon is sweeping across many countries, however, shows that its roots are deeper than the circumstances obtaining in any one state alone. The growing gulf between the rulers and the ruled, between the haves and the have-nots, and across cultures that rub each other on the streets of almost every city in the advanced industrial West, provides the fuel for the engine of xenophobic politics, driven on a combustible cocktail of fear and hate.
The results of the ’leave’ victory will be widely felt beyond Britannia. The gyrations travelling through the financial markets will likely stabilise soon. But the deeper implications, for European unity, for inclusive politics, and regional integration in areas beyond Europe, are grave. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... was right to remind us in her reaction to the vote that ultimately "European unity is about European peace". It is a dangerous trend that is sweeping across the world, and if a way out is not found, it risks dragging us back to an era where values mattered less than force. Taking the decision to leave the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... may well be the right of the British. But the rise of a more vernacular politics, steeped in the exclusionary language of identity and the muscular assertion of ego, bodes ill for all of us. Europe has been the beacon of cooperative values and inclusive politics for more than half a century now, forged in the heat of the great wars the continent has known. Yet today -- in the opening decades of the 21st century -- it is sadly reverting to exactly that style of politics that paved its descent into the great conflicts of the early 20th century.
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Wow! Last time the left was this angry was when that gorilla got shot.
Snark of the day.
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In other words, if you are not a tranzi, you are a racist.
What values
"The right of Arabs to have 23 countries of their own supersedes the right of Jews to have one."?
"Muslims are entitled to come to Europe and keep their 'culture'"?
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There's no such thing as unity across the varied peoples of Europe and never has been.
An article that starts off this wrong doesn't have much chance does it?
#6
A sharp curtailment of importing Paks would be a good start
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They should reflect on the fact that the only leaders on the global stage cheering the result of their campaign are Donald Trump and Marie Le Pen.
Don't forget Geert Wilders.
But, seriously, just because nobody wants to go to Pakistan doesn't mean Brits have to let Pakistanis into Britain. Fix your own country before you criticize others.
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Now that was an impressive hissy fit if I ever saw one.
Embarrassing hissy fit
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[Politico] They used to be Democrats. Now they really could hand Donald Trump the White House.
Pretty much as in the UK, where the average rank and file Labour voters went in favor of Brexit while their party leaders voted to remain.
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa.--Donald Trump’s road to the White House begins here: on a four-lane highway, just east of Pittsburgh, past the roadside taverns, burned-out gas stations, and parking lots choked with weeds, up into the dark fingers of the Allegheny Mountains, and then down into the valley that was once home to steelworkers, coal miners and party-line Democrats.
Regis Karlheim once counted himself among that third group. A farmer’s son, Karlheim grew up doing two things: voting Democratic and growing potatoes. "It was a lot of good years in potatoes," he said. "Everybody and their brother grew potatoes in Cambria County."
Today Karlheim--blue-eyed, 58, and graying around the temples--spends his days behind the wheel of a giant coal truck, but the declining coal industry has hit Karlheim hard. He’s making $10,000 less than he was just three years ago, he said, and he’s worried about his mortgage. "How do you make those payments?" he asked. This spring, after years of not voting for anyone, in either party, in any presidential election, his anxiety compelled him to cast a vote in the Democratic primary. For Bernie Sanders.
His vote helped the socialist from Vermont beat Hillary Clinton in the county--while Trump won big, claiming more votes than either Democratic candidate. Since then, Clinton has sewn up her party’s nomination, but recent polls show that Cambria’s primary was no fluke: among the crucial battleground states, Pennsylvania is a tossup. Who wins the state’s precious 20 electoral votes in November will depend, in part, on people like Karlheim.
And he has some bad news for the former secretary of state. While there are some things that worry him about the GOP nominee--"We don’t know his background," Karlheim said, and "He’s a bit outspoken."--he likes that Trump is talking about jobs. "That’s what we need," which is why, Karlheim said, "In the big election ... I’m going for Trump."
[Gateway Pundit] The media elites are pushing the meme today that the Brexit has nothing to do with Donald Trump and Donald Trump will not benefit from the shocking vote.
But not Hillary Clinton. She’s panicked.
Hillary sent out this email to donors tonight: "No matter what the collective wisdom of our political punditry has to say between now and November, Donald Trump has a real chance of winning this election."
She should be worried. She’s an awful candidate, a serial liar and she is out of touch with the masses.
"Crooked Hillary" is going to stick in November...
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She’s an awful candidate, a serial liar and she is out of touch with the masses.
Out of touch with the masses? She doesn't even like the masses. It is more like a Leona Helmsley relationship. Just using the little people for their votes. Saying whatever it takes.
[Breitbart] Loretta Lynch said this week, after the Orlando massacre, that our most powerful weapon against people like Omar Mateen is "love." She is wrong. Love would not have worked against the Nazis or the totalitarians in the Kremlin. We are facing another totalitarian enemy that will not be negotiated with and that will not stop unless every "infidel" is enslaved or crushed. That truth is impossible for the President and his bubble-dwelling coterie to believe. As a result, Americans will continue to face an escalating risk until we have a change of administration.
The question is, will the new Commander-in-Chief perpetuate the lies and distortions of the last eight years or finally talk truthfully about the incarnate Evil that we face and what it will take to destroy it.
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As fellow native Hungarians (me by birth and he by parental birth) Gorka and I were in Hungary at the same time after 9/11. Neither of us could shake reality into the then US Ambassador and USDS twits assigned to Hungary about recognizing the terrorism threat. Only the I tell guys were serious about it. Seems nothing has changed.
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Gorka web site for those wishing to access or subscribe.
[DAWN] IN many ancient civilisations, the appearance of a comet in the sky was seen as an omen of natural disasters and other terrible events.
Mothers would hide their children; farmers would herd their animals into enclosures; and kings would offer sacrifices to the gods. Now, it is the annual visit of Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... that sends similar jitters across the country. OK, perhaps mothers don’t hide their children, but the government does tighten its seatbelt.
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[DAWN] AMJAD Sabri, the 40-year-old scion of the Sabri Qawwal family, is dead; he was murdered. His music was devotional, singing praises of the Prophet (PTUI!) and spreading a message of love and amity. He was acclaimed internationally. Who’d want him dead?
Poignant to a fault, Mustafa Zaidi’s couplet has been rendered a cliché by the killing fields of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . Who and why one doesn’t know and will never know. Public outrage will soon taper off as mourning fatigue sets in even deeper.
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[DAWN] WHAT is the number one problem afflicting Pakistain? Is it a non-functional state or an elitist democracy or a country as isolated as North Korea, or poverty and the powerlessness of the masses? None of these, according to the standard discourse preached by a certain section of the elite, media and the military establishment -- Pakistain’s number one problem is corruption.
Leaving aside this fundamental debate, what cannot be denied is the central importance of corruption as a public issue. But what is problematic are the myths which have arisen with regard to the solution to corruption ie the ways of eradicating it. This mythical solution is: the ruthless application of the rule of law, under the supervision of the superior judiciary, assisted by all state institutions (ie NAB, FIA etc.) as well as by the military establishment. Critical to this mythical solution is the unquestionable assumption that the present Pak state is capable of solving the problem of corruption.
Corrupt state: Most states have corrupt officials or some corrupt state elites, or there are parts of the state structure which are ridden with corruption. But countries like Pakistain are different because the state here is not faced with a corruption problem; rather, the state itself is inherently corrupt.
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[Daily Mail] Fifty years or older is usually the average age bracket for developing arthritis, but now experts say the bar has been lowered.
Hand surgeon Dr. Mark Ciaglia told FOX5 that he is seeing more patients 40 years old and younger dealing with the painful inflammation and stiffness in their joints.
And it is the 23 hours adults spend texting and the seven hours children are gaming each day that are dooming our generation to develop arthritis, warns experts.
'With the advent of texting and video games and excessive use of computers and typing you're wearing the joints out sooner so we're actually seeing a shift in the demographics of patients that get the arthritis because they're just wearing their joints out so much sooner,' Ciaglia, who works at Woodlands Center for Specialty Surgery in Texas, said.
Experts have said that developing arthritis from texting, emailing and playing games has to do with the continuous motion of your fingers, combined with poor posture.
If slavery is America’s original sin, class may be its hidden one.
It is part of our national creed that the opportunity to achieve and improve ourselves is not predetermined at birth; that upward mobility, while hard, is possible. We are not the British, after all, trapped in some "Downton Abbey" hell of self-aware stratification -- we rebelled against all that, right?
Nancy Isenberg, a professor of history at Louisiana State University, has authored a gritty and sprawling assault on this aspect of American mythmaking. Ours is very much a class-based society, she argues, and had been long before Occupy Wall Street or Bernie Sanders, long before we were a country at all. In "White Trash" Isenberg takes a very particular look at class in the United States, examining the white rural outcasts whom politicians from Andrew Jackson to Donald Trump have sought to rally, but who otherwise have remained vilified, shunned, targeted and kept apart, both physically -- in poorhouses and trailer parks, through eugenic science and discriminatory public policy -- and in the nation’s cultural imagination, where they have inspired mockery, kitsch and unceasing grimaces.
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The elite may like to think America is locked into a class-based society, and there is certainly an element of it, but it is not true. Clinton was white trash, for starters. Others take a generation to change. And it is just as easy to slide from the elite.
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Clinton is still white trash. Like I said, you can take the boy out of the trailer park...
But he is an example of hard work and brains making good, er, or bad, just on a bigger scale.
I think the way upward mobility works is that one generation after another works hard, keeps the family together and passes an ever accumulating wealth to the next generation. White or black, you don't get it by sitting around feeling sorry for yourself. It is hard.
That's why the phrase "white privilege" and Affirmative Action are particularly disturbing to a poor white boy trying his level best to make his way in America. Watch out for the backlash.
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The problem with upward mobility these days is that the Proggy Bastiches keep taking an ax to the ladder to protect their own status.
[LI] All this alarmism surrounding firearms in America lately is getting out of control.
I figure it’s time to offer a unique take on the issue‐one that puts American gun rights and their continued need into perspective.
From the amateurish House sit-in to the full-on assault on AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, your assumptions about Democrats pursuing full disarmanent under the guise of "gun control" are correct. They mean it.
As a Virginia gun owner and concealed handgun permit (CHP) holder myself, I hope my perspective get can you to think differently about firearms if you have doubts.
Don’t know the Second Amendment? Let me list it for you:
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
But, but, but this amendment is outdated, archaic and Draconian! But, but, but there’s no explicit mention of individual gun ownership! (Nope, and nope!)
When I hear the most ardent supporters of gun control (aka disarmament) use these talking points, I cannot help but think of societies where totalitarian regimes succeeded in oppressing people by first disarming them‐like the former Soviet Union.
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
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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.
[DAWN] ONCE again, a spectre is haunting Europe. It is the spectre of a great unravelling, not only of European unity but also of European values. No matter how hard they tried to put a graceful sheen on the aftermath of Thursday’s historic referendum by saying that 
[DAWN] IN many ancient civilisations, the appearance of a comet in the sky was seen as an omen of natural disasters and other terrible events.
[DAWN] WHAT is the number one problem afflicting Pakistain? Is it a non-functional state or an elitist democracy or a country as isolated as 
[LI] All this alarmism surrounding firearms in America lately is getting out of control.
