Keep A Gun or Two At The Ready

 Kurt Schlichter recently wrote a book with the title The Attack attempting to warn people that Muslim sleeper cells are likely (that's 99.9% probable) already in the United States. These sleeper cells are already programed to carry out their mission with no command and control necessary. Through the device of first person accounts he illustrates just what damage such cells can do including killing thousands of us, damaging our supply chains and infrastructure. I have so far read about 70% of the book, and it is terrifying.

Now, FrontPage Magazine adds a layer of authenticity to Schlicter's book, in a piece by Clare Lopez entitled Are Ramadan Jihad Cells Already In the U.S.? Gentle readers can read the entire article, which features both Eric Prince of Blackwater and Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas. But the central idea of the article comes here:

Epoch Times show host and reporter Roman Balmakov interviewed Erik Prince at the March 2024 CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference. During the interview, entitled “Terrorist Sleeper Cells Are Already in the U.S.,” Prince told Balmakov that one reason he believes the Biden administration is so reluctant to strike back in any meaningful way against Iranian terror proxies — much less any Iranian target itself — is that the Iranian regime has already surged unknown numbers of military fighters across our wide-open southern border.

Prince suggested that such fighters — whether Iran’s own IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), Quds Force, or proxy jihadis from HAMAS, Hizballah, or Houthis — could be flown on Iran’s Mahan Air from Iran to Venezuela.

Then from there, they could head north through the Darien Gap that lies between Colombia and Panama, and then on up to and across the U.S. southern border.

Combined with other hostile military forces already certainly here, to include Chinese Jungle Tigers and Hezbollah cadres, these forces are likely forming cells, conducting pre-attack casing, surveillance, and training, and getting ready to launch combined attacks inside the homeland later in 2024, or should the U.S. do anything to upset Iran’s mullahs.

Meanwhile, over at the American Thinker, Raymond Ibrahim has an insightful essay entitled How Carnage and Atrocities Heal Muslim Hearts that tells us from yet another perspective that we can expect another jihadi attack, probably of fairly large proportions sometime in 2024.

In a recent communiqué, the Islamic State called on its followers to slaughter and terrorize every single Western person they could reach. A snippet follows (emphases added):

Lions of Islam: Chase your preys whether Jewish, Christian or their allies, on the streets and roads of America, Europe, and the world. Break into their homes, kill them and steal their peace of mind by any means you can lay hands on. ... Solidify your plans and diversify the attacks: detonate explosives, burn them with grenades and fiery agents, shoot them with bullets, cut their throats with sharp knives, and run them over with vehicles. A sincere person will not lack the means to draw blood from the hearts of the Jews, the Christians, and their allies, and thus ease the suffering in the hearts of the believers. Come at them from every door, kill them by the worst of means, turn their gatherings and celebrations into bloody massacres, do not distinguish between a civilian kaffir [infidel], and a military one, for they are all kuffar [infidels] and the ruling against them is one. ... Intentionally seek easy targets before hard ones, civilian targets before military one, religious targets like synagogues and churches before others, for this will satisfy the soul.

Of curious interest here is not so much the sadistic though ultimately hackneyed calls for carnage, but rather the claim that torturing, terrorizing, and tearing infidels apart somehow “eases the sufferings in the hearts of the believers” and “satisfies the soul.”

Such claims are actually derived from Islam’s most sacred text. The Koran exhorts believers to “fight them [those who oppose Islam], Allah will torment them with your hands, humiliate them, empower you over them, and heal the hearts of the believers, removing the rage from their hearts” (Koran 9:14-15).

Again, I urge gentle readers to read Ibrahim's full essay. The point, however, is not to panic. Never panic. Rather, it is to be as prepared as you can be for what will likely happen. Have food and water on hand. I suggest canned meats such as tuna, corned beef and Spam. Find a local source of eggs. Keep a supply of canned vegetables. Have plenty of bottled water, blankets, and other stuff you know you will need. But don't invest too much in those freeze dried products. Keep a gun or two ready, with plenty of ammunition. Have any medicines you need around in sufficient supply for at least a month. You know what you need. Then, pray to our LORD God that he protects you and yours, but just as importantly, pray for the jihadis too. They have been duped by the devil into believing that Satan is god. He wants to sit on God's throne. It is a story as old as the snake in the Garden of Eden.

Government Must Prove Arms are NOT in Common Use

 Mark W. Smith, the host of the Four Boxes Diner Channel, writes today to tell us that the government bears the burden to show that an arm is NOT in common use in Spoiler Alert: 'Assault Weapon' Ban ~ Government Must Prove That Weapons Are NOT In Common Use.

Bianchi challenges the constitutionality of Maryland’s “assault weapons” ban, which seeks to outlaw the AR-15, among other semiautomatic firearms.

Tellingly, the original Fourth Circuit panel in Bianchi seemed poised to issue a pro-Second Amendment ruling, but before that occurred, the Fourth Circuit took the case en banc likely to avoid the possibility of such an outcome.

Bruen instructs that the constitutional inquiry starts with the text of the Second Amendment. This means that, at the outset, a lower court must determine whether the object of a firearm’s regulation is an “arm.”

At this first step, Bruen instructs that the burden is on the party challenging the firearms regulation to show that the item being banned is an “arm.” Heller defined “arms” as “weapons of offense or armor of defense.” There is no doubt that AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles subject to the Maryland ban are “arms,” which means that the burden shifts to the government to show that the arms it seeks to ban are not “in common use” by Americans for lawful purposes (or are dangerous and unusual).

Bianchi is an “arms ban” case in the same way that Heller was an “arms ban” case, which struck down D.C.’s ban on owning a handgun, was an arms ban case. Heller provides the constitutional test to be applied by the lower courts in arms ban cases, and that is the “in common use” test.

There is a reason that the Fourth Circuit in Bianchi asked the parties to address when the “in common use” test comes into play.

If the “in common use” analysis occurs at the plain text level (text-first), the burden would be on the pro-Second Amendment plaintiffs to demonstrate that an arm is in common use. If, however, the inquiry occurs at the historical level (history-second), the burden rests on the government to prove that an arm is dangerous and unusual.

The anti-gun movement desperately wants the “in common use” analysis to occur at the plain text level where the party challenging the firearm regulation has the burden, but that is entirely contrary to the Supreme Court’s holding in Heller. How do we know? It’s plainly obvious from the decision itself.

Well, I have already given the probable outcome with the "spoiler alert." If this goes to the Supreme Court, as seems likely, the Court will very likely instruct the Fourth Circuit that the government that wants to ban arms must prove that the arm in question is NOT in common use. Of course, the gun grabbers want to make the argument about just how common is "common use" because such wrangling distracts from the real issue.

Courts seem reluctant to allow citizens to exercise the rights granted to them by God, and acknowledged by the Constitution. What these courts betray is a lack of belief in citizen's rights. These tyrants apparently believe that rights are granted by government, and therefore government can take them away. Such judges, at the very least should be impeached.

The Fascist Far Left Finds a "Workaround"

Some may have seen infamous Face the Nation interview with ATF Director Steve Dettlebach in which one of the ATF's "top experts" couldn't disassemble a Glock pistol (snicker, snicker.) Or you may have seen a later recording of it on one of the gun blogs. For anyone who is familiar with guns, and the ATF should be, don't you think, it is all very funny. But D. Parker at the American Thinker noticed something more sinister in a post entitled When leftists love profiling.

New FBI special agents have an important moral and ethical component to their training, culminating in a tour of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. to see what happens when law enforcement loses sight of what is right. It was started more than two decades ago by then–FBI director Louis Freeh, and in 2005, Director Robert S. Mueller said the training has never been more relevant.

“At a time when law enforcement must be aggressive in stopping terror, these classes provide powerful lessons on why we must always protect civil rights and uphold the rule of law,” he said.

The same article had a relevant quote from a new FBI agent participant:

“They did an excellent job of showing how the law enforcement in Nazi society was complicit,” said Lucas, a new special agent, after the program’s conclusion. “It’s important to try to be aware of all the circumstances around you and make sure nothing’s crossing the lines, and remember why we’re really here.”

All of this has fallen on deaf ears. What we all suspected, but didn’t want to believe, has been confirmed in congressional testimony on a new violation of our constitutional civil rights, with the FBI following in the footsteps of the Gestapo. What’s even worse is that the far-left predilection for deception is causing some on the pro-freedom right to miss the point.

All joking aside, the point is right here:

Unfortunately, far too many in the firearm freedom community were distracted by the rookie mistakes made by people who purport to know about firearms technology. They missed a dangerous and authoritarian admonition from the director, where he said that firearms dealers shouldn’t sell a gun to someone paying cash.

Now why would the Director of the ATF do that? If you look on the front of a typical Federal Reserve Note you will see in small print "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE." So if a gun dealer refused to sell a gun to someone paying cash, he is recommending something illegal. But of course, there is more to it than that:

FBI whistleblower George Hill prompted the yearlong investigation by testifying that Bank of America, unprompted, gave the feds the names of customers who used their cards in the D.C. area Jan. 5–7, 2021, “overlaid with any firearm purchase at any time,” said Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

The feds told financial institutions to search transactions using Merchant Category Codes (MCCs), such as gun-related keywords and firearms retailers Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shop, and the interbank Zelle network for alleged Jan. 6-related keywords such as “MAGA” and purchases like “religious texts” to identify potential “homegrown violent extremism,” the report says.

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If you’re keeping score at home, note that the fascists of the fringe far left are first and foremost gun-grabbers — they love guns, but only in their hands — but aside from that, the Second Amendment is always in their sights. Beyond that, they are just trying to shred the Bill of Rights by the numbers, censoring free speech, arresting journalists, and attacking freedom of religion.

Their weaponization of government is just their workaround for the Fourth Amendment. Unconstitutional “red flag” laws are a combined attack vector for them against the Second and Fifth Amendments, with some others thrown in for good measure.

One way or another, they are going to find out who has the guns. If it is illegal, and it is, to build a database, they will access bank credit card records to surveille you. Never mind that that they are breaking the fourth and fifth amendments. That is just a bonus. But I would remind the deep state that if something is illegal for the government to do directly, it is illegal for them to coerce someone else to do it for them.

Why You Need an AR-15

 Over at PJ Media, which you can access from Townhall.com Kevin Downey, Jr. has a piece entitled 57,000 Reasons -And Counting Every Day - Why You Need an AR-15. So many reasons! If Downey listed all 57,000, the article would be a book length tome. But Downey doesn't have to list them one by one. He just points out that so far 57,000 and counting is the number of military aged Chinese men who have crossed our Southern border. And for anyone who has been living under a rock for the past decade, the Chinese Communists have made us the enemy, and are determined to defeat us. Even now they can not overcome our military, as weak as it has become, but the Chinese are masters of unconventional and asymmetrical warfare. Why do you think they are coming here?

I don't want to sound like an alarmist but that part of the oath our military, police, and politicians take that mentions "enemies foreign and domestic" might be more than just a phrase.

When Gropey Joe Biden isn't fighting to keep the borders open or flying 320,000 illegal immigrants to our airports at all hours of the night, he is doing his dementia-best to disarm We the People, especially of those big, scary AR-15 rifles.

FACT-O-RAMA! Your pink-haired pinko-in-law likely thinks the AR in AR-15 stands for "assault rifle." It stands for "Armalite rifle." Armalite is the company that originally designed the weapon.

No one knows how many illegal immigrants from China have tangoed over the border and disappeared into our society. The numbers I heard last were roughly 37,000 in fiscal year 2023 and 20,000 more since then, for a total of roughly 57,000, but that was three weeks ago.

Roughly 150 Chinese immigrants illegally sneak into the United States every day. Most are men of military age. What's even more concerning is that the far-left apparatchik "fact-checkers" are defending the tsunami of military-aged Chinese pouring over the border. When the dubiously named "Politifact" tells us we don't need to worry about the Chinese invaders, it's time to wake up.

When those multi-tasking "Marxist-Americans" are allowing record numbers of Republic-crushing illegal immigrants into America while simultaneously trying to Hoover up our AR-15s, I start to smell a stink badger in the perfume aisle.

After writing that he doesn't want to be an alarmist, he presents us with a big alarm warning. You can imagine what 57,000 and counting men can do in terms of documenting soft and hard targets to damage our ability to defend ourselves. And while we are trying to fix our infrastructure, they come in and impose the CCP on the American People. And that is why you need to prepare things like food, water, energy, and of course have an AR-15 or two and plenty of ammo for each. And if your AR-15 is 5.56 Nato instead of .223 Remington, you can use ammunition supplied by the military if need be.

The next part is secret, so shhhhh:

Why are the lefties after those dreaded AR-15s? Perhaps because the commies at the top of the Xi-heap know what's coming and want those pesky weapons purloined. And what better way to do that than to whip up their Pravda dupes in the mainstream media and get them to induce a manic panic in their green-haired street urchins?

I've proven the AR-15 is the least-used weapon for murderers. The Ruger Mini 14 is comparable to the AR-15 (if you aren't into "bells and whistles"), and some people find it to be a superior firearm, yet the easily controlled Bolshies haven't even heard of it.

As I said, the Ruger Mini-14 is a secret. So mum's the word, right? Gentle readers should read the whole article, but don't panic. Instead, prepare. Because the current administration is determined to let these people in to destroy the country. Why? Again, I think it is because as long as the United States stands, it is a rebuke to Marxist dictators everywhere.

The Left Would Rather Demonize than Debate

Tom Knighton, at Bearing Arms has post entitled Feds Lump Gun Rights Supporters with 'Violent Extremists'. This is just another attempt to make the targeting of law-abiding gun owners seem legitimate to the those who are not themselves gun owners. They want to make being a gun owner seem icky, not something "nice" people do.

The term "violent extremists" isn't what it once was. It's hard to recognize such a term when it's used to describe people peacefully protesting while it's not used for people burning down neighborhoods and calling for law enforcement to be defunded or eradicated.

But a lot of people don't really follow that. They see the news and trust the journalists for some silly reason, or they trust the government when they tell them something, for some equally silly reason.

Those folks figure "violent extremists" are people who will use violent actions to potentially hurt or kill people in pursuit of a cause that simply can't win in the legislatures.

So if you find you're part of a group that's been lumped in with violent extremists, you might get a bit miffed.

Prepare for miffage, ladies and gentleman, as it seems we humble gun rights supporters are akin to actual violent extremists according to the federal government.

Federal law enforcement lumped together conservative positions on guns and immigration with violent extremism in guidance given to financial institutions to help them monitor people’s transactions, a congressional investigation found.

The House Judiciary Committee and its Weaponization Subcommittee released a report Wednesday detailing the efforts by federal agencies and large financial institutions to surveil Americans’ private financial transactions in the wake of the January 6 protests.

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“This FBI intelligence product, along with other materials shared by federal law enforcement, detail the extent to which federal law enforcement derisively viewed American citizens,” the report states.

“Federal law enforcement used this report and materials like it to commandeer financial institutions’ databases and ask the financial institutions to conduct sweeping searches of individuals not suspected of committing any crimes.”

The intelligence brief suggested that outside “pressures” prompting domestic violent extremists (DVEs) to engage in political violence including “firearm legislation, the easing of immigration restrictions, and new limits on the use of public land.”

Gentle readers can read the whole post. The point is that rather than admit that there are two sides to the gun debate, the Left would rather demonize gun owners, conservatives, Christians, and anyone else who disagrees with them.

The Climate Lies About Beef

 John Klar explains why The biggest climate lie is about cows. He explains it better that I can, but essentially cows are large ruminants, much as buffalo are. The fertile soil of the Great Plains was created by generations of buffalo pounding their hooves into the soil along with plant matter, urine and manure. When grazed instead of being being fed grain on a feed lot, cows do the same thing, building the soil and sequestering greenhouse gases.

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that people would have to stop eating hamburgers because cow flatulence was an existential threat to life on Earth, most people duly chuckled. Nevertheless, AOC’s call for cow-culling was taken up by the United Nations, European Union, World Economic Forum, and “Climate Envoy” John Kerry. Protests defending farming in Holland, Ireland, and Belgium opposed these bold attacks on gentle bovines. Contrary to slanderous arguments by globalist fearmongers, cows are the solution to many of humanity’s most significant environmental problems. Here’s why.

The fertile American heartland was created by buffalo. Hooves pounding the land pressed plants into the ground to mesh with manure and urine, feeding the soil microbiome and nurturing vital soils. The advent of human technology tore into the ground in reckless tilling, releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the air and depleting soil health while proclaiming a “Green Revolution” that initiated the slow desertification of the land. Synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, fungicides, and GMO chemical adjuncts have compounded and aggravated the problem.

Note, the above speaks to cows grazing, as God intended, eating grass, processing the grass through four stomachs, where the cow's microbiome slowly digests it to turn it into proteins and fats. Yes, cows due burp carbon dioxide and methane, but these gases are just recycled gases that are again taken up by growing new grasses. On the other hand, cows kept in concentrated animal feed operation (CAFO) actually produce more methane and CO2, as well as other destructive products:

Cows fed grain produce less methane than cows on grass… unless one includes the pollution generated by planting, seeding, harvesting, and processing all that grain. Atrazine, glyphosate, neonicotinoids, and a bevy of other toxic chemicals and fuels are immediately eliminated from the cow-feed pipeline when cows are fed grass only. Grass blades are God’s solar panels — truly renewable, converting the sun’s energy into edible meats through the bodies of livestock, without building a concrete prison or tilling the ground.

The focus on cow methane is a deliberate ruse by “manure-deniers.” Cows produce methane through enteric fermentation, but they also generate manure and urine that nurture soils, which in turn absorb methane and carbon dioxide through microbial activity, prevent soil erosion and water loss, and improve the soil microbiome and thus crop productivity — all without the toxic intrusion of the U.S. chemical industry.

If cows are eliminated and replaced with synthetic meats, we are told the environment will benefit: yet the opposite is easily demonstrated. Synthetic meats are “cultured” in vats using plant matter as a growing medium, likely soy and/or corn. That soy and corn will be produced using the same destructive GMO practices that are destroying America’s farmland.

Manure can only be replaced with more synthetic fertilizers, particularly urea (nitrogen), which is made from natural gas (aka methane). Urea production gives off nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas identified by the EPA as having a Global Warming Potential (GWP) 273 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Please read the whole article. Klar knows whereof he speaks. Interestingly, most of the land in this area of North Carolina is better suited to grazing cattle than for growing crops. I would also note that humans have been eating large ruminant animals for 3 million or more years, while we have been eating vegetables for only the last 10,000 years. If you have ever been hiking in the woods, have you ever seen any vegetables commonly seen in the supermarket? No? That's because they don't exist in the wild, and what does exist is so limited, man can not live all year on vegetables. Besides, man can not derive nutrition from leaves and grass. We are not ruminants. Instead, we are predators, and need meat to survive. Further, we can derive every vitamin, mineral and the macronutrients in just the right rations to thrive.

Climate Alarmism Backfiring

 Gabriella Hoffman has an article at Townhall.com entitled Climate Catastrophizing Finally Backfiring on Radical Environmentalists. I say from Hoffmans voice to God's ear. I have been waiting for this for twenty-five years.

Bloomberg writes Americans appear to long for Trump administration-era energy policies and European right-wing parties skeptical of Green New Deal policies are gaining traction ahead of their June parliamentary elections.

"Part of the reason the political winds are shifting is that climate regulations, as they ramp up in stringency, are starting to impinge more on people’s daily lives — at a time when many feel squeezed by inflation and the cost of living,” the report observedd.

With respect to our country, Americans care deeply about the environment and want clean air and clean water. Who doesn’t? What turns people off from environmentalism, naturally, is putting nature above people and guilting us for traveling, driving cars, eating red meat, and simply breathing.

Normal Americans of course want a clean environment. They want a clean environment for the children and future generations as well. But everything in life requires a balance between competing goods. One must evaluate what one desires against what is possible, what is affordable as well as what one must give up to have the desirable thing. This is what normal people do when evaluating anything. In addition to that, one must consider other budgetary items like food, shelter, utilities, insurance, maintenance and other considerations. No one has time to elevate just one thing over everything else.

Gentle readers can read the whole article, and whatever you do, don't eat ze bugs.