As a gun owner, both NYC and NY State suck to live in. However with a little luck, some balls, and the right amount of sneakiness, you can still succeed. It also helps if the Bad Guy never took a course on situational awareness.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/01/daniel-zimmerman/384859/
Monday, January 11, 2016
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Wikistrat Predictions For 2016
I like this site. They have a habit of looking at situations and coming to reasonably accurate conclusions. The attached link goes to a PDF of their thoughts on the coming events of 2016.
Happy Fucking New Year everyone! :-/
http://wikistrat.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Wikistrat-Predictions-for-2016.pdf
Happy Fucking New Year everyone! :-/
http://wikistrat.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Wikistrat-Predictions-for-2016.pdf
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Interesting Tidings From Sweden
This is what happens when reality finally sets in.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/wake-up-time-in-europe-time-to-get-armed/
http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/wake-up-time-in-europe-time-to-get-armed/
Monday, December 14, 2015
Kurt Russell on Gun Control & The No-Fly List
I've always liked Kurt Russell. Another one of the few actors in Hollywood who aren't hypocrites that go around making a fortune of of blood and guts action movies and then talk shit about gun-control in their spare time. The following link goes to an interview he gave when the reporter started talking about the current efforts by the administration to automatically put people on the no-fly list on a no=buy list for guns. No proof or due process required on the part of the same bureaucrats to prove anything, and if it there's a mistake you have to get a lawyer to find out if you're even on the list, and finally spend a fortune and go through hoops to be removed after you've proven you don't belong on the list.
I'm guessing this reporter wasn't expecting the response he got.
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/12/11/kurt-russell-blasts-gun-control-i-think-its-absolutely-insane/
I'm guessing this reporter wasn't expecting the response he got.
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/12/11/kurt-russell-blasts-gun-control-i-think-its-absolutely-insane/
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Gun News That Didn't Make The News
First, the Bad;
The Supreme Court Declined to take up a case that would have challenged an assault weapons ban in Illinois.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/12/foghorn/breaking-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-assault-weapons-case-allows-law-to-stand/
As I mentioned at another forum I belong to, declining a case is not a loss. It is a setback but also allows for a future case from another jurisdiction with better merits to be made at a later date.
Now the Good;
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20151203/senate-holds-the-line-on-second-amendment-rights
As usual the anti-gun democrats attempted to use the latest terror attack in San Bernardino as an excuse to add a number of gun control measures to an economic bill.
It didn't work.
You win some, you lose some. The anti-gun right crowd started hammering away in earnest back in 1968 after Bobby Kennedy was killed. They lost a bunch but they didn't quit and eventually succeeded in getting some pretty onerous legislation passed at the local, state and federal levels all across the country. If you're a gun owner in this country and you want to roll back any of these laws and enact more protections for your rights it's real simple.
Just do what the anti-gun rights crowd did and keep at it. There have been more legal successes for gun-rights in the last 7 or 8 years then there have been losses. Vote, organize, donate and don't quit.
It really is that simple.
The Supreme Court Declined to take up a case that would have challenged an assault weapons ban in Illinois.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/12/foghorn/breaking-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-assault-weapons-case-allows-law-to-stand/
As I mentioned at another forum I belong to, declining a case is not a loss. It is a setback but also allows for a future case from another jurisdiction with better merits to be made at a later date.
Now the Good;
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20151203/senate-holds-the-line-on-second-amendment-rights
As usual the anti-gun democrats attempted to use the latest terror attack in San Bernardino as an excuse to add a number of gun control measures to an economic bill.
It didn't work.
You win some, you lose some. The anti-gun right crowd started hammering away in earnest back in 1968 after Bobby Kennedy was killed. They lost a bunch but they didn't quit and eventually succeeded in getting some pretty onerous legislation passed at the local, state and federal levels all across the country. If you're a gun owner in this country and you want to roll back any of these laws and enact more protections for your rights it's real simple.
Just do what the anti-gun rights crowd did and keep at it. There have been more legal successes for gun-rights in the last 7 or 8 years then there have been losses. Vote, organize, donate and don't quit.
It really is that simple.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Real Geopolitical Destabilization
Bombs?, Cyberwarfare?, Acts of Terror?
The old axiom always holds true. Follow the money (whether it goes up or down). Apparently the emergence of new technology that allows for the extraction of Shale Oil and Natural Gas is having a far wider effect than just lower prices at the pump, heating your home or reducing production costs at manufacturing plants.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2015/11/30/oil-plunge-raises-fears-societal-unrest/
Oil Plunge Raises Fears of Societal Unrest
By Elizabeth MacDonald Published November 30, 2015FOXBusiness
With Wall Street shops like Goldman Sachs (GS) and government officials in Venezuela signaling oil could go to the mid-$20 per barrel range next year, analysts at places like RBC Capital Markets have been warning that chronically low oil prices plunging towards seven-year lows means increasing social chaos in countries on the edge—including those battling ISIS.
Five countries are high on the radar screen for societal risks from low oil prices, which RBC Capital Markets has labeled the “Fragile Five.” They are Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, and Venezuela. ISIS operatives are believed to be in most of these countries.
The wealthier Gulf State governments can adapt to low oil prices by borrowing in the bond market or raising taxes and cutting government spending, though the latter risks more social unrest. Already, the United Arab Emirates pulled fuel subsidies and is mulling corporate and sales taxes. Still, OPEC member countries have seen their group’s revenues drop by nearly $500 billion in the past year, as oil has plunged more than 40%.
Plummeting oil prices are slamming poorer countries, who are dealing with terrorism as well. Already, 1.6 million have been internally displaced in South Sudan, with another 600,000 refugees in neighboring countries on the move. South Sudan has been battling a civil war for more than a year and a half in the oil-rich southern part of the country, an area that’s bigger than Syria. In 2011, the year of its independence, South Sudan was pumping out almost 350,000 barrels of oil per day, but today can only produce 120,000 to 150,000 barrels a day.
Iraq, battling ISIS terrorists daily, has moved to borrow $6 billion in new bond debt, something it hasn’t done in nearly a decade. The bond issuance comes as Iraq’s oil output hit a record high in July at 4.18 million barrels per day, up sharply from an average of 3.42 million barrels per day in the first quarter of this year, notes OilPrice.com.
Iraq’s bond offering, led by co-managers Citigroup (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and, Deutsche Bank (DB), is Baghdad’s first since 2006. The country is still reeling under a sizable budget deficit yawning wider after the plunge in oil prices and military costs from fighting ISIS in the northern and western parts of the country. Similarly, Saudi Arabia, which has its own Islamist militants fomenting domestic jihadi trouble, borrowed more than $9 billion since the summer, re-entering the bond markets for the first time in eight years as it faces a fiscal deficit equal to about 20% of GDP.
“The instability created by the conflict has caused havoc to economic growth and oil production in the northern and western parts of the country [Iraq], and strained the fiscal situation due to the need for military spending at a time when cutbacks are required,” Jakob Christensen, analyst at Exotix, has said.
Ripped apart by civil unrest and ISIS, Libya, too, is hurting from low oil prices. The most important sector of its economy is down to putting out less than 400,000 barrels of oil a day, a fraction of the 1.6 million it was producing when Muammar Gaddafi was in power.
On the brink of insolvency, Venezuela is also reeling from low oil prices and societal unrest, as the country is asking OPEC to get oil prices back up to the $88 per barrel range at the group’s meeting in Vienna on December 4. Credit default swaps to insure Venezuelan government bonds shot to their highest level in 12 years, a red flag indicating junk status or default.
Elizabeth MacDonald joined FOX Business Network (FBN) as stocks editor in September 2007 and is the author of Skirting Heresy: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe (Franciscan Media, June 2014).
Follow Elizabeth MacDonald on Twitter @LizMacDonaldFOX.
The old axiom always holds true. Follow the money (whether it goes up or down). Apparently the emergence of new technology that allows for the extraction of Shale Oil and Natural Gas is having a far wider effect than just lower prices at the pump, heating your home or reducing production costs at manufacturing plants.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2015/11/30/oil-plunge-raises-fears-societal-unrest/
Oil Plunge Raises Fears of Societal Unrest
By Elizabeth MacDonald Published November 30, 2015FOXBusiness
With Wall Street shops like Goldman Sachs (GS) and government officials in Venezuela signaling oil could go to the mid-$20 per barrel range next year, analysts at places like RBC Capital Markets have been warning that chronically low oil prices plunging towards seven-year lows means increasing social chaos in countries on the edge—including those battling ISIS.
Five countries are high on the radar screen for societal risks from low oil prices, which RBC Capital Markets has labeled the “Fragile Five.” They are Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, and Venezuela. ISIS operatives are believed to be in most of these countries.
The wealthier Gulf State governments can adapt to low oil prices by borrowing in the bond market or raising taxes and cutting government spending, though the latter risks more social unrest. Already, the United Arab Emirates pulled fuel subsidies and is mulling corporate and sales taxes. Still, OPEC member countries have seen their group’s revenues drop by nearly $500 billion in the past year, as oil has plunged more than 40%.
Plummeting oil prices are slamming poorer countries, who are dealing with terrorism as well. Already, 1.6 million have been internally displaced in South Sudan, with another 600,000 refugees in neighboring countries on the move. South Sudan has been battling a civil war for more than a year and a half in the oil-rich southern part of the country, an area that’s bigger than Syria. In 2011, the year of its independence, South Sudan was pumping out almost 350,000 barrels of oil per day, but today can only produce 120,000 to 150,000 barrels a day.
Iraq, battling ISIS terrorists daily, has moved to borrow $6 billion in new bond debt, something it hasn’t done in nearly a decade. The bond issuance comes as Iraq’s oil output hit a record high in July at 4.18 million barrels per day, up sharply from an average of 3.42 million barrels per day in the first quarter of this year, notes OilPrice.com.
Iraq’s bond offering, led by co-managers Citigroup (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and, Deutsche Bank (DB), is Baghdad’s first since 2006. The country is still reeling under a sizable budget deficit yawning wider after the plunge in oil prices and military costs from fighting ISIS in the northern and western parts of the country. Similarly, Saudi Arabia, which has its own Islamist militants fomenting domestic jihadi trouble, borrowed more than $9 billion since the summer, re-entering the bond markets for the first time in eight years as it faces a fiscal deficit equal to about 20% of GDP.
“The instability created by the conflict has caused havoc to economic growth and oil production in the northern and western parts of the country [Iraq], and strained the fiscal situation due to the need for military spending at a time when cutbacks are required,” Jakob Christensen, analyst at Exotix, has said.
Ripped apart by civil unrest and ISIS, Libya, too, is hurting from low oil prices. The most important sector of its economy is down to putting out less than 400,000 barrels of oil a day, a fraction of the 1.6 million it was producing when Muammar Gaddafi was in power.
On the brink of insolvency, Venezuela is also reeling from low oil prices and societal unrest, as the country is asking OPEC to get oil prices back up to the $88 per barrel range at the group’s meeting in Vienna on December 4. Credit default swaps to insure Venezuelan government bonds shot to their highest level in 12 years, a red flag indicating junk status or default.
Elizabeth MacDonald joined FOX Business Network (FBN) as stocks editor in September 2007 and is the author of Skirting Heresy: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe (Franciscan Media, June 2014).
Follow Elizabeth MacDonald on Twitter @LizMacDonaldFOX.
Friday, November 6, 2015
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
The Obama Administration Want s To 'Nudge' You In The Proper Direction
Some people question the efficacy of Behavioral Sciences, but apparently the Current Administration thinks it's worth a try. The following linked article is about a quiet, inexpensive little program that administration has been trying out for the past couple of years.
It's a principle called 'nudging' and it's basically a sneaky little way getting people here the USA to change their habits. Based on the results mentioned in the article it seems to work pretty well. Unless you attempt to use it on intelligent, educated people such as doctors.
Anyway, read it and judge for yourself.
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/10/obamas-effort-to-nudge-america-000276
It's a principle called 'nudging' and it's basically a sneaky little way getting people here the USA to change their habits. Based on the results mentioned in the article it seems to work pretty well. Unless you attempt to use it on intelligent, educated people such as doctors.
Anyway, read it and judge for yourself.
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/10/obamas-effort-to-nudge-america-000276
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Documentary "Wolves At Westgate" The Westgate Mall Attack 2013
Caught this on TV about a week or so ago. The amount of footage available from the mall security cameras was astounding. This documentary is absolutely chilling. Highly recommended, but not for the squeamish.
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