Archive for January, 2016

Get A Gun; Practice Gun Safety (January 25, 2016)

Posted in Boycott Series, Guns, Law on January 25, 2016 by e-commentary.org

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K          “Get a gun.”

J          “Or two.”

. . .

K          “When there is no rule of law, you are compelled to get a gun.  And there is so little rule of law in America.”

J          “You are on your own.  Me too.”

. . .

K          “Guns are high-tech hole punches that punch holes in paper and clay, and in four-legged animals, and in two-legged animals.  Target shooting, and hunting, and personal protection.  I now encourage everyone to acquire and learn how to use a gun responsibly for personal protection.”

J          “An owner must be willing to use it and know how to use it.  I regard a gun as our last stand and our last statement.  A pistol to protect your person and a shotgun to protect your property and family.  Go with a revolver.  Less chance of failure and you don’t litter the landscape with brass or leave your fingerprints.”    

K          “Semi-autos have their place.  By your side.”

J          “A 12 gauge pump is indisputably the way to go for the castle and family.  Three inch shells, double-aught buck attract attention.”

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J          “Once that lead is unleashed, getting it back in the barrel is problematic.”

K          “Everyone should be forced to stare at a few gunshot wounds as part of the safety training.  It ain’t television.”

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J          “I lived without background checks at gun shows and estate sales for decades.  The state background checks instituted recently are a nuisance, yet they are necessary and tolerable.”

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[See the e-commentary under the Category Guns and at Punt, Pass and Kick:  The End Is Far (February 24, 2014).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Keep calm and carry a gun

Boycott the NRA

Gun nut who favors keeping guns out of the hands of nuts

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The FBI File:  The American Imprimatur Of Success (January 18, 2016)

Posted in Awards / Incentives, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, FBI, Genius, Kleptocracy, Police on January 18, 2016 by e-commentary.org

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K          “In grammar school, they extol the sacrifices and accomplishments of Woodrow Guthrie, Martin King, John Kennedy and their like and ilk.”

J          “Artists, patriots, visionaries.  The usual suspects in America.”

K          “Only a few keep reading and realize that the true mark and measure of greatness in America is to be monitored and harassed by the FBI.”

J          “Nobels, Pulitzers, Grammys and Oscars are SO overrated.”

K          “How about calling it a ‘Hoover Award’ because he and his clan were hoovering information long before data mining was all the rage.”

J          “Outrage?”

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K          “Some of the rank and file in the FBI have quietly and patiently collected a file on the real economic criminals in America, yet they are not allowed to act.”

. . .

J          “The machine gun demonstration at the end of the tour made an impression on a young mind.”

K          “Amazing that they still call it the ‘Hoover Building’ despite all the revelations.”

J          “I thought about becoming ‘Efrem Zimbalist, III’ every week.”

K          “Me too.”

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[See the e-commentary at King Daze (January 20, 2014).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

FBI:  America’s Stasi?

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This Land Is A) Your Land, B) My Land, Or C) Our Land? (January 11, 2016)

Posted in Collapse, Community, Courts, Hypocrisy, Judges, Judicial Arrogance, Judiciary, Justice on January 11, 2016 by e-commentary.org

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K          “That land is our land, it is not your land.  Time to vacate.”

J          “Agree.  This land is not your land; this land is not my land; this land is our land.  Period.  Time to indict.”

K          “Or is it the Paiute people’s land?”

. . .

J          “Seems that Ammon Bundy is a valet fleet manager from Phoenix, Arizona who condemns the federal government and yet received a $530,000 loan guaranteed by the Small Business Administration for his business.”

K          “Entitlement is the American way.  His dad Cliven Bundy refused to pay the federal government for years for under-market grazing fees on public land.”

J          “They say that the nut does not fall far from the sagebrush.”

. . .

J          “My take is that they have not taken any hostages and are secluded from the public.  Even if they were Black or Muslim, the authorities likely would wait them out.  Bad things happen when decisions are made hastily.”

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K          “Look at the sentences handed out to Dwight and Steven Hammond.  I do not trust the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  On any given day, the Ninth Circuit can – and does – do anything it wants to do.  The Ninth Circuit will uphold the will of Congress; the Ninth Circuit will down vote the will of Congress.  The Ninth Circuit could have held that the Sentencing Guidelines do not apply under the circumstances under the Constitution.  The Ninth Circuit wanted to put the Hammonds in jail.”

J          “There is no law.  However, the Hammonds poached animals on public land and then burned the evidence.  That is a violation of law that should occasion a reasonable sentence if we could transfer the matter to a country and a court system that respects the rule of law.” 

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[See the article by Russ Choma titled “How the Leader of the Oregon Armed Protest Benefitted From a Federal Loan Program” in “Mother Jones” magazine.]

[See the e-commentary at “Pay Your Bills, Bundy! (April 28, 2014)” and “Do Your Job Or Quit Your Job (September 14, 2015)”.] 

Bumper stickers of the week:

The Calculus of Community:  “Our” land =/= “Your” land.

Namaste y’all

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Twenty Sixteen (January 4, 2016)

Posted in Collapse, Consumerism, Economics on January 4, 2016 by e-commentary.org

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K          “A system that cannot go on forever will not go on forever.  Can we make a resolution and agree that this will be the year of resolution?”

J          “Not this year.  The financial system will trudge and trundle along.”

K          “Despite so many fractures and so many fissures and so much fraudulent manipulation and so few functioning markets?  Next year?”

J          “Probably not next year.  The system is resilient enough to limp along through next year.”

K          “We keep stealing consumption from the future and leaving debt.  The solvent consumer is a rare and endangered species.  Who will fuel the economy?”

J          “The low price of fuel reflects in substantial part the lack of consumers fueling the economy.  The Middle Class now is the Muddle Class.  The system can muddle along.” 

. . .

J          “An international flare up?  That is in the works and part of the plan.  I reserve my right to revise my time line.”

. . .

K          “Until it can’t.”

J          “Until it can’t.”

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[See the e-commentary at The First Look At The “Second Political Party” (January 2, 2011), The “Superfluous Consumer” (July 27, 2015) and Is The American Consumer Irrelevant? (December 12, 2011).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Places to Go  People to Annoy

I lost everything and found myself

25 sit ups / 10 push ups

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