And that’s a good question:

Well, several, really.

Lots of money on these migrants. Good clothes, high end electronics, expensive phones. 

But they need help because they are poor and downtrodden?

And Biden’s policies let them in regardless if they claim “Asylum”.

Much like the overweight Mexicans and Venezuelans that supposedly “walked” thousands of miles. all clean and well dressed in unworn clothing.

Can we believe anything we are being told?

How are these Chinese folks getting here? Walking (as it that really happens with the other south and central americans) from China is kinda hard….are they flying, swimming? How?

Have you noticed

That, while it made the local news and (some of) the international news services…..the apparent execution of Bryan Malinowski by the ATF (or perhaps, possibly, it was a criminally bungled raid) is oddly absent in the National Media.

The details are somewhat murky as to shy it had to be a no knock raid at 6 AM though…or why he wasn’t picked up on the way to, or at, work instead of breaking down his door at 6 AM.

Do they really need Government Support?

Or are they just being lazy and not responding to market conditions of supply?

The U.S. Solar Industry Needs Government Support to Compete With Cheap Imports

Seems to me that the US solar industry just isn’t ramping up to be able to produce the items needed for solar cells….Silicon ingots and wafers, Fabs to make ’em into cells, etc.

Hiding behind tariffs and import restrictions is all well and good, but it also becomes a crutch and an excuse for not becoming competitive. which is what we have here now.

It’s the same thing that led to our Steel industry becoming more or less obsolete. Failing to upgrade and invest in their industry led to them becoming ever more unable to compete with newer, better mills.

Government protectionism is a short term panacea.

We drew the raffle tickets last night

For the gun club fund raiser raffle…..And I had sold 2 of the 5 winners. First prize and third prize.

(sorry, OldNFO, you didn’t win)

Still, It’s kinda cool.

So far, with one exception, I have sold at least one winning ticket for the past 10 years. 9 out of 10 isn’t too bad of a percentage. Buy your tickets from me for better chances.

 

Looks like “F Troop” did it again

Seems that a dawn raid at a home in Little Rock by the ATF may have gone sideways….

The Little Rock Airport executive was shot by ATF agents  when he apparently shot at the people breaking down his door early in the morning. One ATF agent was injured. Not many other details are available yet….Nor are they likely to ever be if the ATF is involved. No reason for the “no-knock” part either

Bryan Malinowski is not expected to survive his injuries.

Like many ATF raids, one has to wonder why they had to do it at 6 AM. If they were gonna arrest him, why not on his way to work, or at work, or on his way home?

A pre-dawn, no-knock raid would likely get the same response from me….the first man through the broken door would suffer severe lead poisoning….followed by a me getting the same.

But they’d know they’d been kissed. (I’d probably get two before they got me, so there’s that… Plus, when rushed/stressed, I fall back to my first training:  I am a “Mozambique” ^^ type of shooter, so body armor would be of limited use)

Is it in the ATF manual to do shit like this? Or is their institutional culture just ^one of perpetual stupidity. It could have gotten an agent killed as well as Mr. Malinowski….or one of his neighbors.

This is the second pre-dawn raid in the past two weeks…..this one went bad…..Looks like we are all gonna have to be on our toes again, like in the early 90’s when the ATF had a habit of screwing up, making a mess of a simple arrest or  search warrant (often with bad information) and then acting all cowboy until it went sideways and someone got hurt, then getting the US Marshalls involved and getting someone killed….when it didn’t have to be that way. Think Ruby Ridge and Waco for two high profile cases….but there were many more during that period. (Perhaps, they need Big Raids to show they need more funding….. They got their budget cut by 8% last time, so they need some more high profile raids to show they are still relevant…..) I think the agents involved, as well as the director, should explain why a no-knock raid was necessary Explain it to congress, I mean. . It isn’t like one can easily flush evidence of a gun crime down the sewers or something like that…..Much like David Koresh at Waco, this man was not hard to find nor would he have been hard to arrest away from home….peacefully. But I doubt that they wanted to do it easy and smoothly. The ATF seems to like flashy, loud early morning stuff for maximum theater….And they don’t seem to care who gets hurt in the process.

 

Watch your back, folks, a new generation of ATF fuckups seems to be emerging.

 

 

^^ (“2 to the chest, then one to the head …next target”)

Hiding in a swamp…..

That should, indeed, be the only refuge for pedophiles and child porn traffickers.

(that, or the death penalty, which is, IMO, a real option)..

A wanted sex offender was found living in a stick and tarpaulin shelter deep in a Louisiana swamp and eating rats that he hunted with a makeshift spear.  Brian Schaller, 51, was convicted in 2016 for distribution of child porn and had active warrants for sexual battery and violating the terms of the sex offenders’ registry. 

(Personally, that should be the only sort of place they should be allowed to live even after release from prison)