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So the RNC called my Cell Phone yesterday….asking for money to continue to “Fight the Democrats and President Obama” .

I asked when they had begun opposing either the Democrats or Barry? Was capitulating at every turn “fighting”?

The fundraising dude said that they had to “stop the Democrats” …..I suggested taking the money they had received and changing it into nickles , putting them in a sock and beating the DNC boys with it. It would work better than the approach they had used for the past 6 years. And until they promised to do that (in writing) they wouldn’t get any money from me….

Not even a nickle.

More instruction. 

‘Cause it’ll make my license more reciprocitized, 

Toldya

Indiana currently has not training requirement. All they want before issuing you a pistol permit is that you are not a Felon, or a wife batterer, or a few other minor requirements.

No training. Yet we are no more dangerous than other states which require training. Odd that.

I have out of state permits from FL and UT, and the training classes I took were a real waste of time. They did not make me any safer, nor did the shooting requirement actually make me, you know, demonstrate proficiency in handling of a firearm.But I took ’em and I got my permits.

Notice;  if you look up Senate Bill 48, that the requirement is for 8 hours of (unspecified) training. Nor regualtions as to what that training might entail….nor what it might cost.

All in the name of reciprocity.

One state that they mention  that they want to pacify regarding “training” is Illinois, which has reciprocity with exactly zero other states right now….

“For all debts, public and private”.

Unless, of course you fold ’em really tightly and use ’em to piss off the tax office pay your property taxes.

I would think that if I attempted to use legal tender to pay a debt and it was refused, that I could be considered as having paid said debt…

That most of the states where the Measles cases are occurring are, in fact, also states where there are a larger number of undocumented workers illegal immigrants.

Seriously.

The few others areas can be explained by looking at where there are a high density of Whole Food stores……

Spent the night working, as others were unable to make it in due to the blowing schnew.

Wasn’t the worst storm I’ve ever seen but it was a LOT of heavy snow at first (which packed on the roads), and then a fair amount of light fluffy blowing snow (total of about 17″ in all) leaving visibility to near zero early Sunday evening. Plus an intermixure at times of sleet.freezing rain, and ice pellets for fun.

And yet, oddly enough, the end of the world didn’t happen. Civilization didn’t come to a stop. AFAIK, no blanket order to not drive. No highways were closed, although the State Police did discourage people from driving if possible.

There were the requisite number of accidents due to people driving too fast or following too closely (mostly travelers trying to pass through, and failing because they didn’t know how to drive in the conditions), and the tow trucks were busy.

But the cities didn’t shut down. People went and came and traveled as they chose And life went on.

WTF? Why can’t the Blue staters East Coasters figure out how to live with winter?  The entire Flyover country midwest, from Ohio to Nebraska, from Minnesota and Michigan to southern Illinois and Indiana, clean to Oklahoma can figure it out….Denver/Colorado, Idaho and Montana can figure it out. Yet 4 flakes and the East Coast panics.

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We are expecting a foot or more of snow with very windy conditions and whiteouts expected.

While it will likely suck for a while, neither Chicago nor any of the smaller cities in Illinois nor NW Indiana are expecting to shut down the roads or public transportation. Every service will work as normal. No Martial Law, no roads shut down (at least not until the conditions warrant it) no panic in the Supermarkets…..No one is planning for a SnowMageddon, (and even if we got one it’d just be a 24 hour inconvenience at worst)

Strange….. Shouldn’t we be panicking and closing roads and shutting down our way of life and all that? I mean, SNOW!

I guess the Midwest population is different than the East Coasters.

‘Struth.

 Read all about how some Britons stole some 1.5 MILLION British pounds…..(And got caught)

First of all, an ingenious method of making small contained explosions. With legally (and easily accessible) components. (I remember making such explosions with 55 gallon trash bags…it went well until we added hydrogen to the mix, but that is another story for another time…..) These components are fairly easy to transport and to mix and detonate… A handy bit of knowledge if and when you need something like that……I might also point out that there are other gasses (commonly available) that could be used with perhaps less effective  (but effective enough!) results.

But the biggest lesson here is HOW the police caught the thieves: Cell phone tracking via the cell sites and license plate tracking……..

While I have no intention of breaking into ATM’s nor robbing banks, I found the story nonetheless interesting……There are lessons here for those of us who believe that someday we might need to protest our government rather more… vigorously…. than blogging and facebook. More…direct action shall we say?  

Now, I’ve written before how, if you are stupid, you can easily be tracked with that small box you carry around in your pocket (or purse, if you are a lady). I’ve written before how you can avoid that using a burner phone from Walmart or other retailer, and how even that can be a trap if you aren’t careful. Tracking via cell phones was one of the ways that the British Police found the men, and even more so, found that they were gathering together. Add in license plate tracking and scanning and you had a recipe for incarceration. (and, lets face it, these men had a history of crime which put them at the top of the list when cell phone records were tracked). Simply leaving their cell phones at home might well have made it impossible for the police to track them. If they needed communications, cheap disposable phones would have sufficed (had they used proper security (see the linked articles)) and once the job or jobs were done said phones were easily disposed of afterwards, leaving no traces as to who had been where……..and who had called whom.

Please note: I am not advocating that you go and buy a tank of acetylene or propane and blow open any ATM’s. Nope, not at all. But I am suggesting that you might want to learn from these men, both their successes AND their mistakes. Should the time come when you want or need to emulate some of their tactics, perhaps in opposition to your government….. you might not want to also emulate their mistakes……

HT: Irons in the Fire

(In which I will no doubt  bring down a whole slew of epithets and the wrath of a lot of gunnies)

Stutzman to introduce reciprocity bill.  

Yeah, a lot of people are jumping up and down and urging support for this.

Yes, most of my readers would like to be able to carry across state lines, no matter what state they are traveling though or to. I would love to be able to do so as well. I HATE traveling to Illinois, (or especially Chicago) and having to leave my heater at home.

But think things through here:  Reciprocity, while a nice dream, is fraught with issues: To begin with, each state has different standards. Do you want to have zero standards? Others require a great deal of training and expense to obtain a Concealed Carry license.   Do ya think that if this bill passes that the requirements (and likely cost) won’t become onerous? Standards for a national CCL will move to the higher (or at least perceived higher) standards.

Then lets look at the the whole 10th amendment issue. You don’t think that if this bill were to pass (it won’t) it wouldn’t be used as a wedge to further erode the 10th amendment and even further enhance the powers of the Federal Government over the States? They already control a lot of things with Drivers licences and Marriage laws (and let us not mention the Commerce Clause).

Those of us who live in states that have good concealed carry laws chose those states (and/or supported those laws) and vote for representatives that continue to support those same laws. Those folks who live in states where concealed carry is difficult or onerous choose to continue to vote for lawmakers who keep THOSE laws in place.

Are you willing to allow a state like California or Illinois  or New York determine the regulations you have to meet to get a CCL? Or set national standards for magazine capacity? Or further erode the (ever less) sovereignty of the states?  ‘Cause that is what this bill is likely to do.

Some in our gunnie community are urging you to contact your Senators and Representatives to support this bill.  I urge you to do the opposite.