Billy Graham gets to lie in state at the Rotunda?

Seriously, he was a decent man, apparently a great pastor, but, in the end, just a man. Why do they give him the honor, and deny so many others?

Ultimately, what makes his corpse so special?

I mean, I don’t shop at Dicks Sporting Goods anyway. They have very little that I want, and what items they do carry aren’t geared towards my demographic (old/white/male) but rather trendy clothing and stuff that appeals to Millenials.

Their firearms department had, as far as I knew, given up AR-style rifles and high round count magazines years ago, in some Virtue Signalling display after, either the Aurora Colorado shooing or perhaps another one much earlier…..I forget. (ETA: it was the Sandy Hook shooting)

But, either way, they gave up AR-15 style rifles once already. I’ve not been back to a Dicks since. I refuse to patronize places whose management uses tragedy to Virtue Signal.

Yet, oddly, they are giving them up again. How is that? I don’t remember there being a sunset provision of the sales of “Weapons of War” or whatever they called them then. Is profit a motivator that trumps Virtue Signalling? Or did they think that all their customers would forget? Is there a repeal date for this decision? Do they think it will help them get a boost selling Yeti cooler knockoffs and semi casual stylish workout wear and expensive boots and outdoor wear to their millenial customers for a while?

ETA: apparently they are serious this time: “This time it’s permanent“…One wonders why they don’t simply stop selling all firearms?

Expect their stock to fall….unexpectedly. They are all ready having issues. I expect them to fail soon.

“If confiscating all guns saves just one life, it’s worth it.”

Ok, then, if deporting all illegals saves just one life, wouldn’t that be worth it?

Today, in 1993, is the day that the (Clinton) Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) ATTACKED the compound at Waco, Tx., home of the “Branch Davidians” for supposed “weapons violations” (Later amended to include a meth lab after the fact…that they didn’t have evidence of) …that excuse then became “Child Brides and Molestations” about 10 days into the siege (in order to come up with SOME justification….(Which, oddly, isn’t the purview of the ATF at all, BTW) (I think it was simply because their lifestyle was, to outsiders, strange). This is the anniversary of the start of the Siege at Waco, which led to the final immolation of the compound on April 19 by the FBI.

(Editors note: The discrepancies in the official report are many, and odd, and the actions of the ATF agents and subsequent FBI agents show that they considered these citizens to be subhuman, not worth basic human considerations. I am ashamed that I and my fellow citizens allowed this to happen and failed to exact punishment of  or exact retribution from, those agents responsible)

If ever there was a reason every man (and woman) should own a rifle and have the ability to use it, this is one.

Trust your government?

Not hardly. Not me.
Ever.
I’ll remember this with the intensity that I remember 9-11,

Is your church approved by the Government?
Are you?
If all else fails, the Feds will burn you out to remove you as an embarrassment. Remember that too.

Never forget, this is a day where the “Government” chose to ignore the rights of the citizens, and, ultimately, killed those who would not comply with the orders of bureaucrats. 

4 stops to pee,  2 of those for fuel, one to eat. Total time not driving or loading/un: 55 min.

20 minutes loading. 7 to unload.

The rest was driving. I only walked (according to the pedometer) 3800 steps today. Burned something like 9 calories…..

And now I have the symptoms of rhinovirus. Which sucks.

Meh.

Expect little on Wed.

I will be back later. Gotta do what I gotta do. My average ground speed today (and yes, in the truck, not an airplane) should be about 74. By the time you read this I will have been enroute for about 2 hours.

Go read the folks on the sidebar, they know more and are more interesting anyway.

Seems that Twitter is deleting and otherwise censoring tweets that question David Hogg, the oddly articulate young Californian graduate student that has become the spokesman for the Parkland shooting victims.

“On Wednesday, Twitter Safety released a statement regarding the Parkland students. Anyone ‘harassing’ (disagreeing with) the students will be banned.


Twitter also said something very interesting. They are using ‘anti-abuse tools to weed out malicious automation around these individuals and the topics they are raising.’”

So, only the “right” people with the “right” message get to be heard. Dissent will be deleted.

Interesting. 
I always thought that 1984 was a novel, not a prophecy.

I thought, at first “Surely Not”..

But things like this keep surfacing, and I cannot help but wonder.

EMS first responder shares harrowing account of how botched Florida shooting response was

Terrible, if true. ‘Tisn’t like one deputy with a rifle couldn’t secure a hallway….or, as they cleared one floor at a time, then let the EMS in.

Out-standing:

The more than five million law-abiding members of the National Rifle Association have enjoyed discounts and cost-saving programs from many American corporations that have partnered with the NRA to expand member benefits. 


Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community.  We are men and women who represent every American ethnic group, every one of the world’s religions and every form of political commitment.


The law-abiding members of the NRA had nothing at all to do with the failure of that school’s security preparedness, the failure of America’s mental health system, the failure of the National Instant Check System or the cruel failures of both federal and local law enforcement.


Despite that, some corporations have decided to punish NRA membership in a shameful display of political and civic cowardice.  In time, these brands will be replaced by others who recognize that patriotism and determined commitment to Constitutional freedoms are characteristics of a marketplace they very much want to serve.


Let it be absolutely clear. The loss of a discount will neither scare nor distract one single NRA member from our mission to stand and defend the individual freedoms that have always made America the greatest nation in the world.

I have a long memory…I haven’t bought a Smith and Wesson Firearm, nor a Ruger one, in more than 10 years….I HAVE purchased other firearms (slightly more than 3 a year), but have not bought those brands. (Although I did build a Non-Ruger 10-22). I may buy a Ruger Precision Rifle this year, and I may buy an M&P also, but it’s been 10 years…and these are guns and I am gun guy.I have a long memory…

I won’t be buying products nor services from these companies that are Virtue Signalling by ending NRA discounts (that they begged for when business was bad in order to gain our business) ….not for a long time. As I said; I moved seven figures in banking over a similar bit of Virtue Signalling.

And, oddly enough, I have a fair bit of disposable income lately…….

(and, just so everyone knows, those “discounts” were really meaningless  in today’s world (and had been in place for 20 or more years) as you could only use them against full price services, and NO-One ever paid full price for Rental Cars nor Motel Rooms in the past 5 or so years. (and the motel discounts were discontinued for that reason about 4 years ago anyway) Now; the FNB of Omaha may actually take a financial hit,  as will the hearing aid company…I can respect that…as they will, actually, suffer for their stance (not admire, but respect)……put their money where their mouth is and all that….