[The Blaze] There is now proof that Russians did try to meddle in the United States’ 2016 presidential election, and hearings in the Senate continue to determine if President Donald Trump was somehow involved. Receiving decidedly less press is a closed-door hearing on whether former President Barack Obama tried to "unmask" members of Trump’s campaign.
However, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY.) has delayed efforts to discover if the previous administration inappropriately used intelligence information to identify U.S. citizens. Chris Salcedo asked on today’s "Chris Salcedo Show" why these Senate activities are not major news.
It is considered part of the Russia investigation due to the reason the intelligence was being gathered; the Obama administration did know that they were attempting to hack the election. Chris wondered why the former president did not do something about Russian interference when he knew about it.
"The Democrats don’t want to harm the Russians," he concluded.
To see more from Chris, visit his channel on TheBlaze and listen live to "The Chris Salcedo Show" weekdays 2‐5 p.m. ET, only on TheBlaze Radio Network.
Housekeeping Note: I screwed up three weeks ago when I posted the Quarterly Ammunition Summaries early. They are below.
You'll note on the listings of firearms for private sale categories an entry in bold. This is the number of firearms in each class in each state from the end of 1Q, 2017. Nothing interesting except you'll also notice that the numbers show the private firearms market being flooded with used firearms, in every category in every state. Note also the price lows for each entry and you'll see that of 35 entries, 13 lows were posted in just the last six months. Nineteen lows were reached in the last 12 months. I haven't gone over the percentages yet, but it appears that not only are the markets in the five states I follow being flooded, but the increased number of firearms for sale is translating into much lower prices.
If the trend continues, it could be that prices for other, more expensive firearms will be affected as well. It is clear that manufacturers of new firearms are being affected with layoffs and moves to friendlier states.
At the moment, especially in the categories of the 5.56mm ARs and the 9mm Parabellum semiautomatic pistols -- arguably the most popular firearms of the seven categories -- this is a buyer's market. If you want to purchase a firearm privately, the time is now. Conversely, if you want to get a better value for your firearm, you have two choices. Wait for the market to firm up, which it will eventually, or sell it privately to receive a premium for your firearm.
All that said, the fatuous and repeated claim that The Bammer is the greatest firearms salesman in US history is about to be overtaken by Donald Trump. Firearms are plentiful and ready to be sold privately. I suspect some of these offers to sell are based on the lessening of the need for self defense and an increase in the need for cash. One entry I read on Friday said the seller wanted to buy a boat with the proceeds from the sale.
Even if Donald Trump and Congress don't lift a finger to expand the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA), and I am not talking about the concealed carry insanity, Trump's presence in the White House has done more for RKBA than any other president in history.
Loads
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol ammunition prices were mixed. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mostly lower. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
.40 caliber S&W (Glock or other semiautomatic): Arizona: Taurus PT140 G2: $195
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (From Q1, 2017: .23 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Natchez Shooters Supplies, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: J&G Sales, Own Brand, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks) (From Q1, 2017: .21 per round, -.03 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, RNFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (From Q1, 2017: .15 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Barnaul, FMJ, Steel Casing, .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017) (From Q1, 2017: .24 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks) (From Q1, 2017: .24 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Western Arms & Ammo, Own Brand, TMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each (From Q1, 2017: .20 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each (From Q1, 2017: .32 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round (From Last Week: -.02 Each)
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017) (From Q1, 2017: .20 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017) (From Q1, 2017: .54 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q1, 2017: .95 per round, -.13 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .82 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Winchester, Brass Casing, SP, .87 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks) (From Q1, 2017: 2.35 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Federal Eagle, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.35 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Wholesale Hunter, Federal American Eagle, Brass Casing, HP, 2.36 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks) (From Q1, 2017: .05 Each per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
[DAWN] SO serious has the Saudi-Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... crisis now become that the Qatari foreign minister is reportedly planning an emergency trip to Washington in the next few days in the hope that the Trump regime can save his emirate. For Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani knows very well that if Qatar submits to the 13 unprecedented -- some might say outrageous -- demands that the Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have made, it will cease to exist as a nation state.
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#1
Let me explain something about that "Nation State" thing to you.
I Own every Molecule of this Planet. And you wrought destruction on your Neighbors through the Moslem Brotherhood NAZIS. You got me right. Nazis.
You have bullied and badmouthed your Neighbors for decades and applied bad political issues to their detriment, and Ours.
I Command an end to the Moslem Brotherhood as your influence, and this is no longer an issue of Sovereignty
Posted by: Fred ||
07/01/2017 1:35 Comments ||
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I don't know much about Qatar. I have seen through my own friends that it spreads money around lavishly to buy support for itself (with Mr. Fisk apparently an occasional recipient). It also provided propaganda for Osama, and support for chaos in the Mid East by its support of the Brotherhood.
I suppose its rulers believed that all that plus a US military base would keep down threats to themselves from all quarters.
Too bad that Egypt and Saudi Arabia have had enough of them.
Moving the US base will be the next step if they are not careful.
By now, through Jazeera they have annoyed almost everyone at some time or another, and hardly anyone will be upset by their demise.
The best alternative for everyone would be a democracy in which its non-Arab majority become voting citizens. The worst, that Qatar becomes a part of Turkey or Iran or Russia.
The rulers seem to think that the Turkish soldiers imported to bolster them will act in their interest rather than that of Turkey. This is a beautiful but unrealistic idea and a truly threatening one if the US should depart.
The smartest approach for the rulers in the short run would be to mend fences with their neighbors by eating some crow,
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07/01/2017 1:35 Comments ||
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The rulers seem to think that the Turkish soldiers imported to bolster them will act in their interest rather than that of Turkey.
I assume Qatar is paying Turkey for the troops as well as supplying the base. I don't see how Turkey could afford it otherwise, despite being temporarily flush with the confiscations from those accused as Gulenists. An interesting situation, psychologically, since the neo-Ottoman Erdogan intends to rule a revived sultinate if he can possibly make it happen before his population implodes. On the other side of things, at least one city of the "mountain Turks" is being cleared of buildings with the promise of rebuilding soon -- but in the meantime where are the local Kurds to live and work? -- which has to be impacting Kurdish population numbers.
#9
Erdogan is an "islamist" not a "neo-Ottoman". the "Ottoman empire" was actually the Caliphate
Erdogan is an Islamist who wants a Caliphate under sharia.
The entire term "ottoman empire" is for those who try to conceptualise it in the mould of the european empires. It wasn't. It was a Caliphate: a religious empire under sharia
BLUF: [PJ] By involving themselves in this nonsense (tweets and Russian hacking), the Republicans senators and congressman are, unwittingly, dancing to the media's tune. It's a form of a cowardice, really. They aren't in Congress to look good. They're not even in Congress to get reelected (although that seems to be the only thing on their minds). They are in Congress for the benefit of the American people. If tweeting is a weakness of Trump's (and there's reason, of course, to think that it isn't), so what? Everyone has weaknesses. Move on and do your job -- or you may never get another chance to do it.
(Yes, I realize they just passed Kate's Law. And that's good. But that's easy-peasy compared to the real stuff.) "Tweets & Russian hacking," my add.
[Dhaka Tribune] Iraqi officials have declared that Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s caliphate is finished.
On June 29, after months of urban warfare and US air strikes, Iraqi forces say they are on the verge of expelling the bully boyz from their last holdouts in djinn-infested Mosul
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Fine. We can continue to beat on them longer then.
[Newsweek] The more Americans know about Israel, the less they like about it, according to a new survey.
The Brand Israel group has commissioned regular surveys in its bid to promote the image of Israel as a key ally to America in the Middle East.
While more Americans said they are more knowledgeable about `Israel than before, larger numbers said they had a negative opinion of the country. Less than two-thirds (62 percent) of people surveyed in 2017 have a positive view of Israel, compared to just over three-quarters (76 percent) in 2010.
Although a majority of Americans still view Israel favorably, support is declining among younger Americans and especially among the black and Latino population.
"Shared values are the bedrock of our relationship, and young Americans do not believe Israel shares our values," Fern Oppenheim, one of the group’s co-founders, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "That’s a huge issue. We have to have a narrative about the heart and soul and humanity of the Israelis."
The survey was carried out between September and October 2016 by polling firm Global Strategy Group on behalf of Brand Israel, and sampled 2,600 Americans across a range of demographic groups.
It found that while older Americans, Republicans and men were more likely to view Israel approvingly, the opposite was the case for Millennials, Democrats, women, as well as African-American and Latino Americans.
#3
In my Roman Catholic Church, they affirm Jesus as a Jew. We worship him. Newsweak must never have left NYC parts (budget cuts and lack of readers, ya know?"
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07/01/2017 19:20 Comments ||
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[Spectator] Perhaps there is no better window on the awfulness of the self-appointed New York-to-DC ruling class than MSNBC’s Morning Joe. The show revolves around a collection of chattering-class bores who devote the start of their day to seconding each other’s shallow and smug criticisms of Trump. The women make faces; the men roll their eyes.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski is a feminist who lectures other women on the need to show firmness in a man’s world. Yet she spends most of the show acting like a prim, entitled Victorian-era dingbat on a fainting couch. She grips her chair for balance while she makes faux-terrified faces, then turns to “Joe” for guidance on how to address this or that Trump “outrage.” “Joe” is the vainglorious former Congressman Joe Scarborough. The two are engaged, but one suspects the relationship won’t last Trump’s two terms.
Scarborough resembles a beady-eyed frat boy whom one can more easily imagine bellowing over a keg than cracking open a serious book. Yet he casts himself as Trump’s moral and intellectual better. Trump, you see, lacks Joe’s “substance.”
Never mind that the conversation over which “Joe” and “Mika” preside (along with, among others, plagiarist and journalistic coaster Mike Barnicle) barely rises above the level of snotty cheerleaders at a high school cafeteria. The ratings for the show are wan, but from the self-importance of its participants, one would think that they occupy the commanding heights of politics. They imply that poor “Donald” lacks their understanding of the American people and so forth. They see themselves as the cool kids of American politics, whose mission it is to identify the misfits in the cafeteria. Collective chucks or sighs ensue the moment one of those “losers” violates the judgment or taste of the show’s participants.
They don’t feel any need to make arguments on the show. It is sufficient for the mean girls to point and laugh. While pretending to want more depth from the Trump administration, Joe and Mika attack anyone from it, such as Stephen Miller, who provides some. Earlier in the year, after Miller appeared on TV to make serious points about Trump’s travel ban, Joe and Mika pounced, denouncing him for such high crimes as “looking bad” on TV and daring to participate in presidential politics in his mere thirties.
“Young, little Miller,” sputtered Scarborough, claiming ludicrously that Miller hadn’t read the founding documents of the country. “Andrew Jackson — you go into your president’s office; you know, that one — and you look on the walls, and there are all these pictures of Andrew Jackson and books of Andrew Jackson. He talked about judicial independence. He talked about the importance of the judiciary. You really need to go back and read the Constitution.” He continued: “And, seriously, the White House has got to stop embarrassing themselves by putting this guy out.… I had people working me: ‘Oh, wasn’t Miller great?’ No. That is the worst performance of anybody — that made Susan Rice [on] the Sunday after Benghazi look smooth. I mean, that was horrendous and an embarrassment.”
It is hard to believe Scarborough has ever read the founding documents of the country carefully. For one thing, he didn’t appear to know, even as he ripped Miller on little more than ageist grounds, that Alexander Hamilton was younger than Miller at the time he helped write The Federalist Papers.
Trump once called Mika a “neurotic dope,” and now, according to a fresh tweet, he has revealed that she and Scarborough desperately courted him down in Florida for an interview while Mika was recovering from a “face-lift.” This will set off a new round of chattering-class chastisements. Maybe Joe and Mika will bring on special guest Megyn Kelly to chew over the “misogynist” meaning of it all. “Conservative” Nicole Wallace will report on Republican disillusion over the matter, etc., etc.
The nonsense never ends. The American people know perfectly well that Trump isn’t a saint. They don’t need the media to hold endless powwows on this subject. What’s more, they know that even with his flaws he is a hell of a lot more serious than the smug “sophisticates” always sniping at him.
#3
Again, they have way too much air time to fill and they are just not capable of filling it without resorting to inane drivel. They need help. MSNBC should devote an entire team to providing these people with hard facts to back up some of their assertions. But then, if the facts proved them wrong, what would they talk about?
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#1 I've often wondered how Scarborough, a former Republican Congressman ended up on MSNBC spouting inane nonsense.
Because it's like being a congresscritter, do nothing for a spot of cash.
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.
[The Blaze] There is now proof that Russians did try to meddle in the United States’ 2016 presidential election, and hearings in the Senate continue to determine if President Donald Trump was somehow involved. Receiving decidedly less press is a closed-door hearing on whether former President Barack Obama tried to "unmask" members of Trump’s campaign.
[DAWN] SO serious has the Saudi-
[Dhaka Tribune] Iraqi officials have declared that 
[Newsweek] The more Americans know about Israel, the less they like about it, according to a new survey.
[Spectator] Perhaps there is no better window on the awfulness of the self-appointed New York-to-DC ruling class than MSNBC’s Morning Joe. The show revolves around a collection of chattering-class bores who devote the start of their day to seconding each other’s shallow and smug criticisms of Trump. The women make faces; the men roll their eyes.
