[Townhall] The Department of Justice laid down the hammer today, right? They’ve indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers. Oh, we’re closing in on President Trump’s inner circle, right? Nope.
These twelve people will never be in a courtroom. The charges lobbed against them will never be fleshed out or argued before a judge. Once again, the DOJ reiterated that no American in these indictments committed a crime, or that any of these actions altered the vote counts during the 2016 elections. Was there interference? Yes.
I think that’s not up for debate, but was our 2016 election hacked (i.e. vote count totals being changed by infiltrating voting machines)? No, that never happened, though a lot of Democrats think so.
But these were just the drawings. There were no guns involved. Just the drawings.
How is this a big deal?
For one, not only do these gun plans provide the average individual a means of building something for self defense, it gives others ideas on how to improve on the designs.
It will be interesting in five years' time when hostile foreign governments try to stop those files from being available.
Pistol ammunition prices were mixed. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher. Prices for used rifles were mostly higher.
(July 14th, 2018) For the ninth week running, used AR-15 prices have averaged below $500.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .19 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: +.03 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes, Own Brand, RNL, Brass Casing, Reloads .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Fiocci, FMJ, Brass Casing, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: True Shot Gun Club, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .30 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2018))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2018)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: True Shot Gun Club, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (1Q, 2018)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: ONatchez Shooters Supply, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .55 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .53 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .81 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Target Sports USA, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .85 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, ARM, SP, Brass Casing, 2.15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 240 rounds: Ammo Board, ARM, SP, Brass Casing, 2.36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged 2 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammomen, Aguila, RNL, Brass Casing, .03 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammunition Supply Warehouse, Armscor, RNL, Brass Casing, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2018))
[Mail] The pro-Trump Fox News host Sean Hannity on Friday interviewed a protester in London who could not name a single reason why he was denouncing the visiting American president.
’I’m here to protest Donald Trump,’ a man carrying an anti-Trump sign told Hannity in video footage obtained by DailyMail.com.
When Hannity asks the protester what it is specifically about Trump he dislikes, he responds: ’Everything. There’s absolutely nothing I like about him.’
’What specifically don’t you like about Trump?’ Hannity asks the protester.
#5
....After looking through the article, I find it interesting that so many police were deployed to separate pro-Trump protesters from anti-Trump protesters, yet even the Daily Mail didn’t allow us too see how many of the former there were.
[Breitbart] J.P. Morgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank by assets, said Friday that trade disputes are not a drag on business investment or loan demand.
The bank reported better than expected quarterly earnings Friday morning, with profits growing by an eye-popping 18 percent to $8.32 billion. Revenue rose 6 percent to $28.4 billion.
In a conference call with reporters to discuss the bank’s results, top executives said that while there is lots of talk and worry about trade wars, there’s been "no significant impact" on lending.
Jamie Dimon, the bank’s chief executive, said that trade war talk was more about "psyche" than "economics."
"Look, it’s a worry," he said. "But hopefully it gets resolved."
Dimon said that there were genuine reasons for the U.S. to attempt to seek better terms of trade with China and other countries. Working with allies rather than imposing tariffs, however, would be a better tactic, Dimon said.
#1
What a lot of people are not talking about are the tariffs that the EU and China already impose on US manufactured goods.
Many of them are disguised as inspections, customs fees, transport fees, or storage fees.
China requires that all automobiles manufactured in the US under go inspection for compliance with Chinese "safety" laws. The inspections are on an individual automobile basis because the Chinese will not always accept manufacturer certification. Cars are partially disassembled, wiring tested, and tires x-rayed...even when many of the components tested are Chinese in origin.
They also conveniently charge customs fees of several hundred dollars on some items disguising them as administrative fees.
The Chinese shipping companies charge US companies hundred of dollars more to transport US goods to China than charged to ship similar to the US.
Japan did the same thing back in the 90's until Lightzer blew the whistle and got the WTO to cry foul on Japanese trade practices.
The fact that China is sucking trillions of dollars of US currency out of our economy and screwing our monetary policy is reason enough to clamp down on this stuff. If we don't, we'll eventually have hell to pay with inflation and interest rates as our currency supply is further depleted.
China has artificially down graded the Yuan to give them a favorable pricing compared to US dollars and are constantly having to tinker with interest rates and inflation to keep that shell game going (the Japanese also played games with the exchange rate for Yen against the dollar back in the 80's)
So all in all, Trump and his economic counsel is asking for China to level the playing field and compete on the same terms as everyone else.
h/t Instapundit
It is appropriate that the 45th President of the United States has come to Britain this week on a working visit rather than the state visit that was originally intended by Theresa May. Donald Trump’s habit of expressing his frank and impolite thoughts through early morning tweets is undiplomatic and demeaning to his office.
It is hard to imagine another leader of a western democracy taking the opportunity to undermine a Prime Minister shortly before arriving in Britain, as Trump did this week by describing the country as being ’in turmoil’. He then appeared to take sides with Boris Johnson just after the former foreign secretary had resigned in protest at Mrs May’s attempt to unite the cabinet on a shared vision of Brexit.
Yet for all his bluster and offensiveness, Trump often has a point. Take, for example, what he tweeted on Tuesday, shortly before arriving at the Nato summit in Brussels: ’The European Union makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in Europe (US has a $151 billion trade deficit), and then they want us to happily defend them through Nato, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn’t work!’
#3
So this is what the hippies meant by "speaking truth to power". I kind of like it.
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‘The European Union makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in Europe (US has a $151 billion trade deficit), and then they want us to happily defend them through Nato, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn’t work!’
Got to agree with Trump. So what if he offends someone's notions?
[Defense News] WASHINGTON ‐ After whittling down a list of more than 150 cities to five, the U.S. Army has decided on Austin, Texas, for its new four-star command designed to tackle modernization priorities that will help it fight the next wars.
Questions on the distance from the Pentagon and other major four-star commands have cropped up overnight as well as whether or not the Army will struggle to fit in and be accepted by hip, anti-establishment entrepreneurs with whom it hopes to collaborate to gain a vast technological edge against peer adversaries.
The Army Futures Command was stood up in October at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference in Washington. The plan is to realign the Army’s modernization priorities under a new organization that will implement cross-functional teams that correspond with the service’s top six modernization efforts: Long-Range Precision Fires, Next-Generation Combat Vehicle, Future Vertical Lift, the network, air and missile defense, and soldier lethality.
#9
The plan is to realign the Army’s modernization priorities under a new organization that will implement cross-functional teams that correspond with the service’s top six modernization efforts...
Word salad. Gobbledygook. Maybe, just maybe, if we went back to simple Anglo-Saxon words and phrases we might have a weapon programs that deliver 'On Time and Under Budget'.
I can Dream, right? Right?!?
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The plan is to realign the Army’s modernization priorities under a new organization that will implement cross-functional teams that correspond with the service’s top six modernization efforts...
I can just see that on a PPT, nearly hear it being read aloud from a podium. My skin is beginning to crawl.
#12
Optimal Synergy of Compatible High Tech, Communications, Stealthyness, and Sustainability™
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The plan is to realign the Army’s modernization priorities under a new organization that will implement cross-functional teams that correspond with the service’s top six modernization efforts...
Anyone who has worked for a large dying corporation has heard those words. The sign of the end times is when the organization decides to re-brand itself with a new logo and mission statement.
Personally, I recommend they leverage their synergies. And switch to a matrix organization where everyone has at least 3 bosses.
My professional experience with the military was involved with a major IS implementation. The various services couldn't agree on what day it was no less what they wanted to accomplish. The biggest fuster-cluck I've ever seen.
An organizational nexus
Of pure, forward-looking erectness!
More loyal correctness
(poor big oil, and Texas!):
Mean, lean, preening, green solar plexus!
#22
^ Heh. Skidmark, your questions usually leave me thinking bigger than I otherwise might, even if I'm not quite sure what your after, and I hate seeing them go unanswered. Hmm. Think I said that about Pappy at some point. With you this time, though (if distracted by the circle): Reaching out to the moat and beyond? Vacuum-filling and tidying up? Mucho jointness with relatively solid citizens further south? Clueless about signif. of 2500 miles (specific transport, PGS?), but I'll figure it out. Thanks for the prod, and for humoring me.
[Daily Signal] As I watch a great number of my fellow Americans and virtually all of the mainstream media descend further and further into irrational and immoral hysteria‐regularly calling the president of the United States and all of his supporters Nazis, white supremacists, and the like; harassing Republicans where they eat, shop, and live; ending family ties and lifelong friendships with people who support the president; declaring their opposition to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party the "Resistance," as if they were American reincarnations of the French who fought real Nazis in World War II; and so on‐I ask myself: What is going on? How does one explain them?
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#2
Living in their echo chamber they thought they had won, but they exposed themselves prematurely and the country elected someone to undo the damage. Missed it by that much because of arrogance, but their ego doesn't allow for self-criticism, just criticism of everybody else.
#4
From a quick perusal of that tripe it is obvious that the author believes whole heartedly in his own superiority and saintliness. And is completely oblivious to the toxicity of his kinds control of media, education etc. and thinks that anyone who disagrees with the progressive dogma would blithely confess this sin to any and all without worrying about consequences.
#5
The left is forever guided by Nietzsche's untermiche concepts of social interaction. Name an oppressive dictator who persecutes one ethnic group and you will find a fan of Nietzsche.
Hitler in particular used the concepts to define the justification of the "final solution"
The left would really and truly put everyone that is not a true believer in re-education camps and slave labor camps.
Today, down in Hades, three baddies,
Bright lads who were mad at their daddies:
Sez Mao, "Pleased to meet ya.
He's Stalin." "I'm Nietzsche.
Let's play violent games and roll fatties!"
#10
All I've got are vague impressions from doorstops read decades ago, but still... a shitstirring atheist seminarian turned revolutionary wouldn't have heard of a crazy German who killed God? On the other hand... he was a journalist. Okay, I'm sold.
#12
Alan C., what do you mean by "his kinds" control of media? The author is a conservative, American Jew. I am surprised the mods didn't notice that little bit of anti-semitism. Also disappointed.
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.
[Townhall] The Department of Justice laid down the hammer today, right? They’ve indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers. Oh, we’re closing in on President Trump’s inner circle, right? Nope. 
