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Patti, thanks for the link. If the (or one) intent of the Gunrunner program was to come down on the 2nd Amendment, these 600 mayors have fallen for it. Here is the list of mayors (javascript req'd). I note the vast majority of these mayors are (surprise!) from NY, Calif., Penn., & Ohio. (Nice to note, none are from good old Oklahoma.) Not to say all these mayors are anti-gun dupes. The group has a sounds-good name, "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" (what, you're going to have some mayor say he or she is for illegal guns?), and they do say they "support the Second Amendment and the rights of citizens to own guns." So, their "calling on President Obama to strengthen and increase enforcement of the nation’s gun laws in the wake of a controversial gun tracking operation that may have contributed to the death of at least one federal agent" seems perverse -- asking the fox to please keep a closer eye on the chickens.

‘THE DICK’ URGES CHURCHES TO GET INVOLVED IN DREAM AMNESTY FIR [sic] ALL ILLEGALS [as the article notes] "despite federal restrictions on lobbying that often apply to religious institutions"!

Alternatively, one might consider Ann Barnhardt's reasoning why "Every church in North America should have armed men on the door during all major services. Anyone who concealed carries should carry to church without hesitation."

Obama’s Presser and the Laughing Stock Media -- Hah! Spread that meme!

("It's not funny!)

Good to see all Oklahoma congresscritters including the Democrat voted the way most Oklahomans would want them to. Alas, once again, the country's most Republican state... doesn't matter. Good thing there's lots of room out in the shed for cases and cases of -- er -- illuminated heating units.

Great graphic, Chrissy! I'd forgotten those older covers from the sold-for-a-buck Newsweek. Been busy and haven't made it all the way through the Newsweek article, but it's remarkable just for the change of tone. Almost like journalism instead of propaganda!

Commenter RushBabe at Ace of Spaces wrote, "Tina Brown woke up and smelled the coffee about the juggernaut that is Sarah Palin." Heh; seems like!

(Some Mindless Webwonker also left a typically prolix comment on that Ace page. Well, wot th' heck, as long as I'm tootin m'own horn, here's the search:Palin results on my site. FWIW.)

Wow, I actually made it to the bottom of an AoS comment list! (Anyway, up to #220 as I compose this.) And what a ride! Many good and thoughtful comments on both sides of the "Is Palin running" question. And of course much crap. And some fun. Now, I hope, my humble but prolix comment (my first on AoS, I think) will be so far down the list and so late in the day that no one notices.

I don't think I've ever been so concerned for our country, seeing our desperate need to defeat the tyrants, and the danger of RINOs throwing 2012. As a jaded old fool, I'm surprised at myself that I can seriously support a candidate without hesitation. This is the first time in my political life, and that means since I didn't vote for Nixon's re-election (and, no, I didn't vote for the Dem). I didn't think that much about her in '08, but since then, I've been watching, and Sarah Palin seems indomitable.

Of the comments here, mrp (141) put it best: "She's running for the presidency - and running hard. She crossed the political Rubicon in April with her 'Game On, Mr. President!' challenge...." If not before! I also think Tony Lee put that well back in April with his Top Ten Reasons Why Sarah Palin is Running For President -- note the present-tense.

She's not playing coy. She looks as "presidential" as any woman we've had in that office so far. (heh) Seriously, as Shiggz (29) put it, "under the hot media sun she has grown and blossomed rather then wilted." So, people who think "it's gonna take a while to rehab her image" really have it backwards, boy! (36)

Maybe I'm reading her completely wrong, but she's honest, sincere, and true-blue in all she says. (How many other candidates would look just the same in public words as in umpteen-thousand private emails? Damned clever to pull that off!) She's on the right side of everything, which you can't really say about anyone else. I'll skip the defense of that, but when she enthusiastically praises the strong field of candidates, all those lesser lights, warts and all, she means it (where I would not).

She already has lots more in place than "fawning fan-boys," Adjoran (164), but yeah, she could run a campaign from Facebook and still smother almost anyone. She has the growing base, the popular power, and the personal stamina. Importantly, she also has the right positions, the grace to deal with the enemies (literal and political), yet the unyielding strength never to cave in. She's tried, tested, and ready. She can win. Nominate her, and despite all that Soros, the Meedja, the brainwashed, and the RINOs throw at her, she will win. Big! Then, she will guide America back on track.*

What so many folks, pro and con, seem to miss is something about Palin that stands 'way 'way outside the norm for politicians. She is honest, sincere, clear-minded, but most of all puts her fate completely in the hands of the Almighty. The timing of her official entry, the course of her campaign, whether she wins the nomination, whether she'll win the election, and how she will lead in office, she trusts all this completely to the "most highs [who] rule in the kingdoms [and Republics] of men [and women]." I noticed. D'ya think the Most Highs will?

For all her joyous spirit, she also knows the terrible price that might be, very well will be, extracted from her, and her family, if she runs, and if she wins. She is willing to bear what comes, not for her sake, but for the sake of service.

*Most importantly, now, we need to have not just a true Constitutionalist in the Oval Office, but on her coattails sweeping in an overwhelming majority of like-minded folks in both houses of Congress, or the Presidency will not be enough. No one else could do that but President Palin!

In any case, we've really got to get Piper into the White House!

Twenty-one slaughtered in the nightclub in Monterrey.
Eleven shot to death in Chalco, just outside Mexico City.
Ten decapitated in the northern city of Torreon.
In the last four years, at least 42,000 killed!
That's about one out of every five people in my county being murdered each year!

"Most of the dead were killed by warring drug cartels fighting over routes to the U.S. and increasingly-lucrative domestic drug markets."

Lots of folks think increased "war on drugs" will help. Certainly, society, north and south of the border, has failed miserably to stop rampant gangsterism. However, it's not drugs but PROHIBITION which provides the fuel for the modern equivalent of rum-runner profits and Al Capones.

(Further thoughts here.)

Meanwhile Thursday, Mexican police released a videotaped interview of Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, in which the recently captured No. 3 leader of the Los Zetas drug cartel said “all the weapons” the Zetas use were “bought in the United States” and that “even the American government itself was selling the weapons.”

--Jerry Seper, The Washington Times (h/t Patterico

AHA! Glad you like it, the Hyphenated! I've been using "LaughingStock Media" in comments on various blogs since the Palin emails non-scandal, and yours is the first acknowledgement of it. MSM became LSM and I was trying to give the latter new meaning (and see if I can get a new Internet meme going). :)

Eras end. New ones begin. Space still beckons and humankind will answer the call. (Thanks for the inspiration, ST!)

Zil, your clear blue sky article reminds me of 1995 April 19, too. I also remember that night, standing under a beautiful clear Oklahoma night sky and a just-past-full moon, after watching all day the horrid news reports out of Oklahoma City, wondering how anyone else looking at this beautiful world could do such a thing. Of course, they aren't looking at the beautiful world, or they couldn't.

Really appreciated I Will Always Be a New Yorker, as well.

I remember when they took out Agnew so he would not become President when Nixon was on his way out. Not for nothing has Joe has been called Obama's insurance policy. Now, madman Obama has served his purpose, but is becoming every day more of a liability, so TPTB may decide to just let him get impeached, or convince him to resign as Avogadra suggested in another thread, or, of course, as vicious as TPTB seem to be, I wouldn't put it past "them" to employ the grassy knoll technique, so to speak, martyr him and blame it on the raaacist guns-and-religion clingers. Naawww. "Can't happen heeerrree."

Well, ozzieaussie does not believe in any FBI cover-up. That's convincing! Okay, friend down under, please forgive the sarcasm, but you hardly offer anything substantial.

When I was a boy, back around the middle of the last century, the FBI were heroes and J Edgar Hoover was The Man. That weird cross-dressing paranoid! Would that they were the sterling examples that I once admired!

I don't believe Bush "engineered" 9/11, nor that FDR "wanted" Pearl Harbor to happen, and I doubt the FBI/BATF intended to let OKC happen. But that they helped set it up and screwed up and covered up? All too easy to believe, and too much testimony to support it. They're deeply dangerous now, involved in one scandal after another, and as ready to cover their rears as the rest of the captains of American corruption. You hardly have to look past the first page of search engine results to find their sad, shady history, and in hard news stories, not just the kook sites. What seems to have happened, as in so many law-enforcement agencies (and other organizations), is that good people they had got discouraged and quit, if not forced out, leaving the creeps. Just look at their involvement in this murderous gun-running scandal!

The real question is not whether these agencies are corrupt, but how in heaven we're ever going to stop them. More than Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? the question is, Who Can Destroy the Destroyers?

"We are nearely all former buzzers and many of us still lurk there and occasionally comment. Heh, yeah, kinda hard to miss, especially after I finally got around to plowing through the entire Snarkopolitan logs a few weeks back. My trepidation was simply that I wouldn't want to be muddying this lovely crystal pool when things are going so swimmingly. (Block that metaphor!) Moving on....

"...now we learn that we’re hard to find! Just get immensely popular (heh -- sorry Chrissy) and PoliNation will top the search pages... well, still not the first one that tries to correct the spelling, but the second one. :)

Chrissy, I sympathize with preferring a low profile. The more traffic, the more critics, flamers, and trolls, and the more moderation required. I used to think, back decades before the net was invented (but I knew it was coming) that the world network would be a great way to reach the tiny niche market that might enjoy my eclectic creations, but now I realize that to reach those few (divine beneficence aside), you almost have to be well-known, which means inviting tons of trouble. Anyway, I'm still safe as long as the site continues to deserve its secondary slogan, "the Internet's best-kept secret since 1996"℠!

Pardon a bit more technobabbling: I ran into a problem trying to link from a page on my site to the July 1 "Poli-tick admits he's a bottom feeder" page. I finally figured out, my site's software couldn't handle the angled-apostrophe (yes, there are different apostrophes) in the URL. I have to substitute -- get this -- %E2%80%99 for the apostrophe! Figured that out thanks to a utility on this page -- handy to know in case anybody else ever runs into such a problem. The software ought to be set to disallow such characters in URLs, but I expect that's a WordPress thing, outside of your control. End of tech lesson for the day; you will awaken feeling refreshed and alert.

"No one says it better than Ann Barnhardt." Yeah, I wish she'd quit holding back and let loose with how she really feels & thinks! ;)

"Do you think this all boils down to the Obama administration wanting to attack our 2nd amendment rights?"

Well, sure, but that's just one facet. Others have suggested, as another motive, the arming of terrorists (Mexican and Islamic), connecting the narco gangs and the Chicago gangs. Also, the further disruption of our unsecured borders.

However, the bigger picture is, the enemies of America, including the Manchurian infiltrators, have declared war upon the Constitution, the economy and capitalism, our borders, the military, our allies, the family, and faith, the middle class, on every aspect of American law and culture, starting (decades ago) with education (Think of the children! Think of the children!) so that the dumbed-down and infantilized electorate would not object to this subversion. The average, public-school-educated American cannot imagine what's happened. The average LaughingStock Media-misinformed American cannot believe we have a communist in the oval office, that there is a vast left-wing conspiracy (h/t to Hillary for the Alinskish reveal!) to undermine the nation. The average American is like the Declaration said, more inclined to suffer while evils are sufferable, and is unaware of how insufferable the evils have become.

The average citizen thinks that people who believe these things I have written in the previous paragraph are tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy-thumping loons, yet if I had time and patience to do so, I could link every one of those charges to prominent news stories, as could many of the minority of citizens who follow the new Vox Populi media like HillBuzz. With the pacified populace, the Democrat Party being totally overtaken, and the spineless RINO majority, it's hard to imagine there will be any justice done, any of the traitors sent to prison or to the gallows electric chair needle, any of the trendencies toward America's destruction reversed.

There is one slim hope. 2012. Sarah Palin (I would say "or her ilk," but I've seen none to compare), along with a powerful administration (West for Sec of Defense or State?), and both houses of Congress filled with ardent Constitutionalists, along with an informed, educated, actively interested electorate who demand that those representatives repair the damage and reverse our course over the cliff. Slim, slim hope! The alternative, though? Make sure you have plenty of dry and canned foods, the well is secured, and your ammunition is stocked up, because it'll be a long revolution.

"Do you have any further info on the FBI response to Jesse Trentadue?"

Just the IntelHub link I posted before, the longer Associated Press article IntelHub quoted, and this further report by McCarty at Big Government.

Basically, the FBI says, "What, there were videotapes? No there weren't. Anyway, they were mis-filed, we don't know where, and it would do no good to keep looking." Very convincing, and pretty much what Trentadue predicted to McCarty.

There is plenty out there, though. For instance, Hussain Al-Hussaini, arrested just last March in Quincy, Mass., same name, same face, same Iraqi Army tattoo as "John Doe #2" (Canada Free Press, Patriot Ledger), identified by multiple witnesses as being in McVeigh's company, also sometimes identified by convicted co-conspirator Terry Nichols. Ah, but after the initial search for him, and the remarkably immediate arrest of McVeigh, Doe#2 was quickly swept under the rug. The FBI says Al-Hussaini was "thoroughly investigated" and there's nothing to see here, move along, move along. Never mind the reports that "the Saudi Arabian Intelligence Service advised that the Oklahoma City bombing was sponsored by the Iraqi Special Services who contracted seven former Afghani Freedom Fighters out of Pakistan.”

Besides Trentadue, the main investigator who won't let this go is Jayna Davis, whose website is full of information about the "3rd terrorist." There is also plenty of YouTube video about the bombing, including the initial news reports about the initial search for John Doe #2, of secondary bombs inside the building, and the alleged FBI cover-up. Some of it flakey, of course, but much of it solid.

A hard look at what happened in Oklahoma City 1995 April 19 is enough to make one start wearing a tinfoil hat! Especially if you read sites like WhatReallyHappened.com

Seriously, there's always been much more than meets the popular press.

Above all, always remember those who paid the price. the dead, the wounded, and even the rescuers, as well as its place in the convoluted history of serious anti-terrorism and its evil counterpart, increased Big Brotherism.

Ew! I apparently flubbed many of the links in the message above. Not the first time I've done this. I'm pretty sure a sloppy copy-and-paste left line-feeds amid the link URLs. Correction would involve more than just removing the linefeeds, though. Since I wouldn't expect the dedicated but overtaxed moderators to tackle the changes, and I am not privileged to edit my own messages, I'll just apologize to the group -- Sorry! -- and try to be doubly careful in the future. It looks right on my site's copy of the message, for any who care.

First, the raaacist card may be getting worn from overuse, as Jonah Goldberg describes.

Second, we have to understand the real reason blacks vote for the Democrats, the party that fought equality all along (and still does with paternalistic race-baiting as mentioned here). Fortunately, Andrew Klaven can tell us.

On HB, commenter DeniseVB panned them v PoliNation, but her link was mis-typed and there were three commenters who, oh, gosh! couldn't figure it out nor could find this site with searching. I posted a correct link to PoliNation, in the process adding my defense of HB as being better than watching grass grow (er, um, having rather recently read through the sad record of an infamous meltddown event -- you know the one -- I report this with slight (slight) trepidation -- those who think less of me for that can go here), also praising PoliNation and a general Yay! for good blogs. I'll repeat what I said there: What I wouldn't know without everybody digging out the news, and mulling ideas, is encyclopedic! Linkage is the revolution against the LaughingStock Media tyranny.

Limbaugh can be fun, the old sputterer, but getting a plug from Mark Levin, now that would be something to write home about! Any ideas for getting Levin to notice PoliNation? :)

PoliNation is kind of hard to find with search engines, though. Google first searches "pollination," but even using the helpfully-proffered other search page (using the spelling I typed in!), this site is down the page a ways. (Your results may vary.) Also, using the search function up top of wordpress.com for "polination" turns up zero results. One has to search specifically for "PoliNation" with the upper-case P and N. Stupid stupid search engine programmers.

Ooo, if I'd only seen this before posting the other video! Here's a better, more timely, recent (July 1) and decent flash mob, h/t to SisterToldjah:

At the first of February, the computer and I got moved to a parallel dimension with a slow connection. I had to quit following many things, including the comics (meh), and Comics Curmudgeon (AARGGH!). Having returned to the high-speed connection universe, this week, casting aside all real-life duties, I got caught up on CC -- which shows it's not deep reading, but anyway, also by skipping all the comments, which make no sense anyway... uh, I mean, because I've not been reading the comics. Ahem.

Anyway, there was something back in early May that has stuck with me, nay, haunted me, such that I may never be able to get it out of my mind. Josh, I may have to sue for emotional damage! I am speaking, of course, of the panel from Hi & Lois on the May 2 Curmudgeon page. Oh, the terror! the terror!