The protesters are growing less compliant.

And the BLM cops are afraid. Watch the video. It shows

I expect that since the BLM boys are outnumbered about 2:1, that at some point someone on the protesters side is gonna strike one of ’em, and at that point things will go all pear shaped.

The cops are gonna react, and draw guns, and then the other side is gonna do the same.

I hope not, but I foresee this happening of someone doesn’t back off.

Not sure what the laws are in Nevada regarding the carriage of long guns, and the open carry rules aren’t clear, but at some point a protester is gonna use one if the police continue. If a protester is shot, or a cop, then it’ll become real war.

I’d hate to see that happen, Hate to see a cop (or a protester) get hurt or killed…. but I think if it does happen it’ll change a lot of attitudes. I wonder if Mr. Bundy is willing to see anyone killed for his principles? I wonder if the cops are willing to get killed for their bosses position (or are willing to kill for someone else’s principle)?

I notice that these protesters seem to know all the tricks…How far to push the police, and how to counter the Tazers and a lot of other tricks….Are they professional protesters? Or are they friends, neighbors and family? It makes a difference. One would ask what a pregnant woman is doing on the front line of such a protest (if she is really pregnant).

One point:
 The BLM refuses to manage the overpopulation  of wild horses and burros that has been an issue for years, the excess horses outnumber the cattle and are as “harmful” to the desert tortoises as the Bundy’s cattle are. But they claim they don’t have the money to round up the horses…but they have the money to round up the cattle.

**ETA: Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval pointed earlier to what he called “an atmosphere of intimidation,” resulting from the roundup and said he believed constitutional rights were being trampled.

But, sadly, the good Governor isn’t willing to do anything about the overreaching feds…

Former firefighter acquitted after mistaking police for burglars.

Seems he heard noises and saw shapes in his neighbors yard and took his firearm with him to investigate.

It were the Po-Po, who took offense at being interrupted while searching for a suspect, and the fact that a citizen had a gun (We are talking New Jersey here…)

Anyway, they claim he pointed it at them. He claims otherwise.

But the money quote?

“I just don’t see how people can grab a shotgun and rack it and stand on their front porch and point it at someone,” said Pennsville Police Chief AJ Cummings.

Yet how many times a day does a cop draw on a person whom they have no reason to believe is a danger?

“Only ones” and all that…..

Then they’d have known that they were on the wrong side of it…

“Those individuals were part of a counter-narcotics operation, which had taken place a few minutes prior on the Mexican side of the border. The two members of the Mexican army did not see any sign notifying them that they were crossing the border.”



Wrong side of the border…ok, I can accept that they, without any markings, might have made a mistake. 


But holding Customs and Border Patrol agents at gunpoint? 


Yeah, one wonders….


Were they escorting someone?


And is anyone working for Barry doing anything to keep this from happening again. 

One might have thought that it had been handled by the USPS, having taken that long..

But no, it was a true message in a bottle, tossed into the sea in 1913. Held and returned by King Neptune.

Found by a fisherman, and returned to the descendant of the author of the postcard.
(which shows a great deal of integrity on the part of the fisherman, Konrad Fischer)

I wonder what paths the bottle took in that 101 years? Where did it go?

in the past few about the 2016 presidential candidates, I gotta say this:

If the Republican Party wants to have even a chance to win, they will NOT support a candidate like Jeb Bush.

Period.

If they do, they’ll guarantee a loss.

That simple.

 A LOT of folks voted for McCain, even when they had to hold their nose in order to do so. He frightened them less than Barry O did, so they made the best of the bad choices.

Then we had Mittens 4 years later. And fewer folks voted for him. Some held their nose, but really, many chose not to, and either didn’t vote or voted third party.

This left us with another 4 years of Mr. Soetoro.

Why, oh why, can’t the RNC figure it out? We need a clear difference in our choices. “Democrat Lite” won’t get people to vote for someone with an “(R)” after their name.

And unless we vote (and vote smarter), we are NEVER gonna find our way out of the swamp we are in.

HERE

If you read the article, you’ll find that apparently the rest of the counties in the state and neighboring counties in Utah want absolutely NOTHING to do with this. They don’t want the confiscated cattle even entering into their counties….for fear that the residents might get violent with the BLM agents.

I wish that I could join these folks

There are those who think that this is all about the Desert Tortise….But really, it is about control.

This fuel from seawater story sounds like someone wishing things would happen…

At best it’ll be break even energy wise. An energy storage medium.

And where will they find enough power (and heat) to make the reaction happen?  

Losing the conservative/liberal….Republican/Democrat…White/minority…Rural/Urban battle?

This map will show you why.

Go ahead, go there. Look at the country as a whole…..Look at the races. Look at the populations……

Scary, ain’t it?

We are doomed to lose. Period.

As did Waco, because we as citizens allowed them to. Because we foolishly, chose to accept the authority of some federal officers who we later found out were terribly wrong.

Randy Weaver and his folks stood alone.
The people at Waco stood alone as well.

A government agency perpetrated a terrible crime both times. And it didn’t have to happen, but the might of the government came down upon those people.

We, as a nation, chose NOT to interfere. We, as a nation, were wrong to choose that path. It matters not whether it was indifference, fear of reprisal, or just plain ignorance, the fact is that we allowed these injustices to happen (and, while that is a topic for another day, we allowed those who perpetrated these tragedies to remain free….and alive).

As an aside, not only did we as patriots fail these people, but the Press did so as well….

It looks like that sort of injustice may happen again.

If WE LET IT HAPPEN. If we stand by and allow the Feds to overreach their powers again.

Will we?

What would happen if each Federal Agent were shadowed by 3 or more concerned citizens? Armed Concerned Citizens? If every vehicle entering the “closed area” were followed by another, privately owned vehicle….again, full of “”Concerned Citizens” …..

What happens when they try to stop people from coming into the area that they have chosen to close off for no real reason and they are ignored? They can’t arrest 1500 people….They can, but they won’t….

Remember, the Feds chose not to push this and backed off 2 years ago.

Now if I can only find a way (and the time) to get there……

HatTip: Outrider

ETA: It is accelerating .

Pointing firearms at people not breaking the law? Arresting them for being on a public highway?

Where are the other authorities? Afraid of the feds? THIS IS THE Bureau of Land Management for Christ’s sake. Just because the BLM (and who says that they have any authority?) says some land is off limits, it gives them a reason for all this?

Question for the Geeks:

Since modern aircraft are apparently connected full time/real time by satellite and other methods of data communication, why aren’t the Flight Data Recorders given a channel to transmit data ?

I mean, the actual amount of data is really fairly small. A few Kilobytes a second for flight instrumentation and engine data, a few more for cockpit voice and radio traffic.

Really a fairly small amount f data, considering the connections most modern aricraft have today to send and receive data from their systems.

SO why? Why don’t we have a portion of one of these channels set aside? Why don’t we have the last moments of cockpit and voice data and radio traffic stored on someone’s server where we could get to it to see what the pilots were seeing and hearinf and saying to each other?

Sure, these systems could be disabled, and the Flight Data Recorders (the “Black Boxes” which are actually bright orange) would be the only backup. But if they were disabled, we’d know that something was up….