How Helene Affected The People Of Appalachia

Herschel Smith · 30 Sep 2024 · 11 Comments

To begin with, this is your president. This ought to be one of the most shameful things ever said by a sitting president. "Do you have any words to the victims of the hurricane?" BIDEN: "We've given everything that we have." "Are there any more resources the federal government could be giving them?" BIDEN: "No." pic.twitter.com/jDMNGhpjOz — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2024 We must have spent too much money on Ukraine to help Americans in distress. I don't…… [read more]

Vortex Optics AMG UH-1 Gen II

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago

Vortex has a holographic sight.  This came out in July and I’m a little late to the game.

So this wouldn’t surprise me except that it does.  I thought that EOTech was the only maker who could claim ownership of a holographic design.  I said so in a recent post, and readers just let me chatter and prattle on in my ignorance without correcting me, allowing me to look stupid (well, I can manage that all by myself).

Anyway, it would be interesting to see if readers have any experience with it and what you think, although I still think the EOTech just looks better.

A Look Inside The Federal Ammunition Factory

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago

From Ken’s place, this video is a little dated but still very good.  I’ll bet they’re working overtime right now.

I wish they had gone into more detail on logistics, supply, raw materials and sources, and warehouse min-max.  But that may be divulging proprietary information.

Listening To The Killers

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago

David Codrea.

“Killers’ voices are missing from gun violence conversation,” New Prospect Baptist Church pastor Damon Lynch III asserts in a Tuesday opinion piece for Cincinnati’s The Enquirer. He’s referring to “the recent rash of shootings and murders in the city of Cincinnati over a three-day span, leaving 21 shot and 4 dead.”

As it turns out “Four of the people shot were connected to New Prospect Baptist Church, and two of those four died.” It’s fair to ask “Why?”

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“When the questions are raised on how we stop the violence, I think there is a voice often missing from the conversation,” he says.  “But the voice never heard is that of the killers.”

“We need psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and researchers to go into the prisons and speak to those convicted of taking a life to ascertain the deep hidden ‘why’ of violent crime,” Lynch concludes.

Some pastor.  It’s called Genesis Chapter 3.  There.  I saved him from having to go back to seminary again (it didn’t take the first time around).

Besides, if we followed the Scriptures like we should, we would put murderers and rapists to death and thieves into servitude to the ones from whom they stole until their debt was paid in multiples (see Greg Bahnsen, “Theonomy in Christian Ethics”).

There is no concept of imprisonment to be found in the Holy Writ, especially not for rehabilitation, or for a so-called “debt to society.”  No one has a debt to society.  If you or I have debts, it is to someone, not everyone.

How’s That Appeasement Thing Going?

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago

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Mayor Ted Wheeler Has A Brilliant Idea!

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago

News from hell.

In late July, Mayor Ted Wheeler had an idea he hoped would end the nightly clashes between protesters and police in Portland.

He texted Sonia Schmanski, a top aide, that he had a plan that was “high risk,” but he added that the city had “nothing to lose.”

His idea: Tell his police force to stand down from the demonstrations.

It was a move protesters had urged for months, arguing that police decked in riot gear needlessly raised the tensions of the nightly protests. Wheeler told OPB he, too, had noticed a “calming deescalating effect” on nights when police stayed out of sight.

But the protests soon drifted to the east side of the city. And Wheeler said he was persuaded that the plan was too dicey as protesters began targeting police buildings near homes in residential neighborhoods.

“I was persuaded that a complete withdrawal, even for one evening to test the ability to completely deescalate the situation, would be a risk that was too great,” he said in an interview last week. “We could not risk the people who were in the immediate vicinity.”

The Hail Mary was never put to the test. And so, as the city heads toward month four of nightly demonstrations for racial justice, Wheeler seems to find himself very near where he was during month one: without a clear plan to end the now-regular clashes between the police force he oversees and the protesters whose cause he says he embraces.

“We’re all considering all options,” he said. “The core objective here is to create a free and safe space to those people who want to express their First Amendment rights and to compartmentalize and deescalate the violence as much as possible and where it’s safe to do so arrest people and hold them accountable.”

“That’s the formula.”

Something tells me he’s never studied Sun Tzu.

Richard Spencer Endorses Democrats

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago

PJM.

As the Joe Biden campaign released a list of former Republicans who have endorsed the Democratic nominee for the November election, white nationalist Richard Spencer — an organizer of the Charlottesville riot and a former supporter of President Donald Trump — announced his support for Biden, as well.

Of course he did.  If you read TCJ you would have suspected as much (we’ve discussed this creep before).

You learned long ago about him that he’s a kook and a socialist.  He says so himself.

The alt-right leader criticizes free markets, agreeing with communist Karl Marx that capitalism is to blame for an “undifferentiated, alienated proletarian mass.” These are anything but viewpoints held by “the Right.”

To take the matter further, Spencer also advocates for a single-payer, universal healthcare system, stating that the United States could benefit from imitating “democratic socialist countries” in Europe.

Go crawl under a rock, Spencer.

BLM Armed With Rifles Order Wisconsin Sheriff’s Vehicle To Stop

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago

They brandished firearms, and they did so at the police.  All the police did was throw gas from the vehicle to move them back so they could drive away.

Then as they drove off, the rioters shot at the police vehicle.

So as you watch this, ponder these questions: “Do you have any doubt left in your mind that in order to stop the communist revolution, these people are going to have to be shot?  If they will do this to the police, do you have any doubt left in your mind that they would do this to you?”

Got guns and ammo?

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The Country Is Literally Out Of Ammunition

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago

News.

Every couple of weeks, Eric Rebels will make a two-hour trip from North Jersey to Eagle Point Gun in Gloucester County in a desperate quest to get ammunition to sell at his gun store.

To get a good place on line, he will sleep in his car overnight to be ready when the distributor opens its doors in the morning.

Sometimes, Rebels scores and is able to get one to two cases of 9mm bullets (1,000 rounds per case). Other times, he comes back empty handed.

In any case, Rebels says these days it is his only option. Not only is ammunition scarce, he notes, but he also has more customers than ever before at County Line Firearms in East Hanover.

“There is a nationwide shortage so what you can get you have to go through to get,” Rebels said.

Guns store owners around the state say the confluence of the coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest and an upcoming presidential election have created an unprecedented surge in residents seeking to purchase firearms and ammunition. The surge began, they say, when the coronavirus pandemic began devastating the country in March and continued to skyrocket in the aftermath of the protests that followed after George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by police in Minneapolis in May.

As of August 12, the New Jersey State Police has received nearly 130,000 firearm applications, topping the number of applications the agency received in 2018 and 2019 combined, according to State Police data. The number of applications this year has increased by more than 137% since last year— with more than 4 months left in 2020, according to the agency.

Michael D. Anestis, the executive director New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center, is studying the surge in firearm purchases during the pandemic. “A lot of the purchasing is driven by anxiety,” he said, which is not uncommon in times of uncertainty, adding that preliminary data suggests the demand is the highest it has been in decades.

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“There is no product in the country,” said Rick Friedman, who owns RTSP, which operates gun ranges and stores in Randolph and Union. “Until they start producing more and it is hitting the docks, there is just no product to have. It is beyond a dire situation. The country is literally out of ammunition.”

“Right now, getting the guns are hard, the ammo is hard,” said Jack Faenza, co-owner of Garden State Armory. “Everything is hard.”

Excepting reloaders, purchasers of new or remanufactured ammunition have seen the price for reman 5.56mm go from 30 ¢ per round to 60 ¢ per round, and for new ammo from 50 ¢ – 75 ¢ per round to $1 per round or even higher within a few months.

There is still ammunition out there, but you must pay a premium for it.  Pistol ammunition is equally hard to come by and expensive, and even the availability of firearms has been affected.

ARs are in extremely high demand and many brands cannot be found at all, and even some other kinds of firearms are “scarce as hen’s teeth.”  As readers know for a while I had been interested in a Henry Repeating Arms Model X .44 magnum.  Go do a search on these guns and you’ll find that they cannot be obtained.  “Out of stock” is the common heading, and there is no backorder.  And these are lever guns.

So riddle me this.  In a time of unparalleled economic turmoil in the country, what do the people know that would cause them to spend their few remaining dollars on firearms and ammunition at such elevated prices?

Is it imagination?

The Imagination Of Joe Lowndes

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago

Trivial words from a trivial man.

But when belief meets fear, the potential for action rises, said Joe Lowndes, a University of Oregon political science professor who’s written extensively on right wing politics.

“The threat they describe is antifa as a terrorist organization and Black Lives Matter as a group that is only there to cause chaos,” he said. “The danger is they have created this imagined threat, and that authorizes the possibility of extreme violence in that moment.”

So let me say unequivocally that Antifa is a terrorist group and BLM is just there to cause chaos and violence.

And he knows it, so he’s lying.

Do you see how much better it is to be honest?

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Complete Guide To Mounting A Riflescope To An AR-15 With Jerry Miculek

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago


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