This photo of Adam Kinzinger shooting an AR15 was released earlier today but the plot has since thickened....⬇️
1. Observe his stance. 2. Observe the way he grips the GripPod 3. Note his eye pro on top of his head whilst shooting 223/556 at maybe 10 yards 4. Note the high… pic.twitter.com/jC3hT2GW2N
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10/24/2024 12:21 Comments ||
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#5
"S'Okay, gun photo op, sounds good, but I've never really done this before."
"Simple, dress up in your toughest looking clothes, walk around like you see the guys who sell flashlights on late TV, and channel your favorite action movie actor."
Add: what is behind the target? No berm or any bullet catch.
I have a question: -somebody else- obviously, set that scope for bayonet range, so why didn't that -RSO- who set this whole scene up say "Hold up, wait a second." Besides the high caliber rifles being used and display, are those shotguns? Gonna uses shotguns at that range in ricochet palace?
Do this at a proper range, and not only are they kicked out, the RSO is fired too.
I've been to country boy liquored out shoots with better range safety than this, even after 2 hours.
If you aren't a firearm person and not tracking the violations, and help me out here, it's like...me, and the whole team, showing up to play NFL, and not even having pads on. Somebody is going to get hurt: when?
This week, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it was giving more than $4.2 billion to a wide range of clean energy and transit projects
[FoxNews] The Windy City is merging its migrant shelter system with the city’s traditional homeless shelter system.
Chicago is shutting down its migrant-only shelter system and merging it with the city’s traditional homeless shelter system.
The Windy City is also closing its "landing zone" for migrants where newly arrived migrants get shelter placements and other resources. The landing zone will close at the end of 2024 and is now only open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., as opposed to also being open overnight.
The moves come as the number of migrants arriving in the Windy City continues to drop. At its peak in late-December, the city was housing about 14,900 migrants, but that has fallen to around 5,000, per reports.
The overhaul will see 3,800 beds added to the city’s current homeless services system of 3,000 legacy beds in a new strategy being labeled as the One System Initiative (OSI). The new strategy aims to streamline operations and reduce the high cost of operating the migrant shelters, which have stretched the city’s budget.
"We are shifting to a more cost-effective, equitable, and strategic approach that addresses homelessness for all who need support in the City of Chicago," Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday in a press release announcing the plan. "This transition is in line with the sharp decline in migration to Chicago and our current budget realities."
The press release states that the OSI is a "unified sheltering system to serve all Chicagoans" which will take effect by the new year.
Johnson took a swipe at Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who began busing thousands of migrants to the Windy City in 2022 because of its sanctuary city status as Texas struggled to cater to an unprecedented surge of migrants arriving in the Lone Star state under the Biden-Harris administration.
"We fought back and showed the world just how welcoming we can be," Johnson said at a press briefing, per WTTW.
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We've arrived at the "money talks, bull$hit walks" stage.
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10/24/2024 9:57 Comments ||
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“We are shifting to a more cost-effective, equitable, and strategic approach.”
Trump will do you one better.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
10/24/2024 12:23 Comments ||
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I have spoken to several people from England. They say it is a migrant disaster currently. One with a motor home chose to visit USA saying gallon of fuel in England would have cost him $70. dollars a gallon. They say soon to be here in USA. Huge disconnect between the leadership and the people who elected them into office.
[JustTheNews] The Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee released a report Wednesday saying that the Biden-Harris Administration spent nearly a billion dollars promoting COVID-era messaging, much of which turned out to be untrue or misleading.
The Congressional report examines the $900 million spent by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on COVID-era messaging to the American people.
“Americans cannot afford another botched government response to a future pandemic,” the report said.
The report cites “errors and failures" in the U.S. Center for Disease Control’s “We Can Do This” advertisements and marketing materials.
The report said that much of that taxpayer-funded marketing included incorrect information about vaccines, the danger to children, masks and more, according to the report.
“Much of the scientific content directly featured in or alluded to in Campaign ads and other promotional material was drawn from CDC recommendations, guidance, and research, critical parts of which proved to be deeply flawed,” the report said.
For instance, the report cited the CDC telling Americans that taking the COVID-19 vaccine would prevent them from getting COVID, something that turned out to be false.
“This ultimately had a negative impact on vaccine confidence and the CDC’s credibility when proven untrue,” the report said.
In another instance, the report points out that federal health officials and the CDC initially downplayed the need and usefulness of masking only to later reverse course and strongly urge Americans to mask, even outdoors.
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), advocated against mask wearing on February 5, 2020, stating ‘Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection,’” the report said.
“By April 3, 2020, the CDC completely reversed course and announced new mask wearing guidelines, recommending that all people wear a mask outside of the home,” the report continued, adding that “In December of 2022, after leaving the Biden White House, former COVID-19 coordinator, Ashish Jha, freely admitted what many had been saying all along—’[t]here is no study in the world that shows that masks work that well.’”
The report also pointed out that “The CDC had inconsistent and flawed messaging about the effectiveness of masks” and that “the CDC consistently overstated the risk of COVID-19 to children.”
“The CDC continues to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans ages six months and older, which has made the United States a global outlier in COVID-19 policy,” the report said.
That marketing was used by lawmakers and local and state officials to justify extended lockdowns on businesses, which hurt the economy and put many small business owners out of business or to justify school closures, from which research now shows students have still not recovered.
“While the Biden-Harris administration’s public health guidance led to prolonged closures of schools and businesses, the NIH was spending nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money trying to manipulate Americans with advertisements—sometimes containing erroneous or unproven information,” Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., sain in a statement.
“By overpromising what the COVID-19 vaccines could do—in direct contradiction of the FDA’s authorizations—and over emphasizing the virus’s risk to children and young adults, the Biden-Harris administration caused Americans to lose trust in the public health system,” he added.
Reporting has shown that during the pandemic the federal government successfully pressured social media companies to censor Americans’ posts on COVID-related issues that did not toe the party line.
Meta CEO and Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg said earlier this year in a public letter that he regretted complying with those federal requests.
“Our investigation also uncovered the extent to which public funding went to Big Tech companies to track and monitor Americans, underscoring the need for stronger online data privacy protections,” McMorris-Rodgers said.
The lawmakers on the Republican-led committee pointed out that the federal government’s pushing of unproven or incorrect medical data has led to an overall distrust of federal health agencies and vaccines on the whole.
“The entire premise of the Biden-Harris ‘Stop the Spread’ campaign was that if you got vaccinated for COVID-19, you could resume daily activities because they said vaccinated people would not spread the disease,” Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith, R-Va., said in a statement. “Despite lacking scientific basis, the administration bought into this CDC claim and misled the American public. As a result, vaccination coverage with other vaccines appears to have declined, I believe because of a growing distrust of information coming from our public health institutions.”
Gallup released polling data in August showing that fewer Americans now say childhood vaccines are important, “with 40% saying it is extremely important for parents to have their children vaccinated, down from 58% in 2019 and 64% in 2001.”
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This seems to indicate that there was actual research related to the Covid vaccines efficacy and safety. That seems mythical at this point. It was rolled out with as much preparation and forethought as a drunken hillbilly fireworks show.
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RFK Jr: “Vice President Harris said today in her speech that president Trump was gonna turn the US military against the American public.”
“What’s interesting to me is that the Biden/Harris administration did something 2 weeks ago that has never been done in American history,… pic.twitter.com/hvIlKrqQNP
…2 weeks ago that has never been done in American history, which is to send a directive to the Pentagon, changing a law to make it legal for the US military to use lethal force against American citizens on American soil.”
“Technically now it's legal for the US military under this directive to shoot and k*** Americans who engage in political protest because they disagree with policies in the White House.”
“This did not come from Donald Trump. It came from the Democratic party, and that's why I left the Democratic party.”
Does that order make it legal? Would the US Supreme Court agree? Will enough of the military hierarchy follow such an order?
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Technically been legal since the Insurrection Act. Ever heard of the Pullman Strike?
The military was not, however, impartial; they were there to ensure that the trains ran, which would eventually weaken the boycott.[16] Federal forces broke the ARU's attempts to shut down the national transportation system city by city. Thousands of US Marshals and 12,000 US Army troops, led by Brigadier General Nelson Miles, took part in the operation. President Cleveland claimed that he had a legal, constitutional responsibility for the mail; however, getting the trains moving again also helped further his fiscally conservative economic interests and protect capital, which was far more significant than the mail disruption. His lawyers argued that the boycott violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, and represented a threat to public safety. The arrival of the military and the subsequent deaths of workers in violence led to further outbreaks of violence. During the course of the strike, 30 strikers were killed and 57 were wounded. Property damage exceeded $80 million.[7][8][19]
[NY Post] The editorials editor for the Los Angeles Times stepped down Wednesday after the newspaper’s billionaire owner stopped the publication’s expected endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mariel Garza is leaving her post at the Times because she wants “to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent” after biotech entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong scrapped the paper’s endorsement for president.
“In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up,” Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review she said.
“This is how I’m standing up.”
And so she should. This will also make her more employable to the remaining Progressive news media companies, should any be hiring instead of downsizing.
Last week, Soon-Shiong told the newspaper’s editorial board through the outlet’s editor that the LA Times would not endorse Harris or former President Donald Trump, which was first reported by Semafor.
A draft of a proposed editorial giving Harris the nod was even written by Garza before it was called off, the Columbia Journalism Review reported.
She told the journalistic-centric outlet she didn’t think the endorsement would change voters’ minds because the LA Times is a “very liberal paper” and most of its readers are Harris supporters.
While the paper has chosen a Democrat for president since 2008, it didn’t endorse Harris for California attorney general in 2010, instead opting for Republican Steve Cooley, CJR reported.
The LA Times union said in an email to union members on Wednesday it sent a letter to Soon-Shiong, who has owned the paper since 2018, and editor Terry Tang asking for a reason why the endorsement was called off, but hadn’t received a reply, Semafor reported.
“We believe the company owes the staff an explanation about why this decision was made after years of endorsements in general elections,” the union reportedly wrote.
“Because the boss said so,” is not good enough for them? Perhaps they should step down, too.
Dr Pat Soon-Shiong
"a South African and American businessman, investor, medical researcher, and transplant surgeon. He was born on July 29, 1952, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Soon-Shiong is the inventor of the drug Abraxane, used for lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer treatment. He is also the founder of NantWorks, a conglomerate of healthcare and technology companies."
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Nothing stops the 'workers' from pooling resources and buying the rag to print exactly what they want. Somehow that concept seems to elude them.
Communism does, when it allows unworthy people to claim other peoples' property as theirs, such as Mariel here who is acting like someone who didn't earn it.
And how awful is Harris when in 2010 the LA Times, then owned by a different person, was also like, "Nah rather have a Republican". Publicly. In California.
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She demands the right to endorse a terrible candidate whose campaign is a dumpster fire. She is not OK with being silenced to protect her laughable reputation.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
10/24/2024 12:31 Comments ||
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Mariel can burn her own reputation. Soon-Shiong doesn't her to burn his property's rep
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/24/2024 12:54 Comments ||
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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.
[NY Post] The editorials editor for the 
