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Political Signs

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Weerd Beard

I don’t put political signs in my Yard. The big reason is the wife doesn’t like them, and when I bring them up she nixes the idea of putting them up. Also given politicians ability to go back on their promises, I’ll stand behind her. I mean I feel guilty about sending money to Scott Brown, as he’s broken every last one of his campaign promises. If I was hired for a job, and yet failed every one of my duties, they wouldn’t wait for my annual review to fire my ass…I’m just sayin’!

Sebastian talks a bit about the sign wars starting.

I went for a walk through some back streets of my neighborhood and I noticed something interesting. First I’ll note that my town is one of the most conservative towns in Massachusetts, so I saw more Republican signs than Democrat ones. Still the Democrat signs were all for Elizabeth Warren, and it seemed if they had a Warren sign, they had an Obama one too.

Meanwhile the Republican signs I saw were paired signs for Scott Brown, and Richard Tisei (An Openly Gay Republican with some strong libertarian leanings, I suspect he’ll win, as he’s got some issues with Organized Crime and Money Laundering in his family… He claims to have no knowledge of this, but that’s like Bill Clinton saying he didn’t have sex with that woman!

I only saw one Romney sign (tho the sign was bigger than the owner’s house, so maybe that counts more). As they say, signs don’t vote, but I think this speaks volumes. We know Romney here, and we’re not impressed.

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Famous Guns, Big Money

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Les sends me these stories of these famous guns fetching huge money at auction. Butch Cassidy’s

A .45-caliber gun once owned by Butch Cassidy has sold at auction in Southern California for $175,000.

A spokesman for the private seller said Sunday that the Colt Single Action Army revolver went to an anonymous online bidder.

Wow! And I thought the new SAA guns being sold by Colt were expensive! Seriously tho, black powder is horrible on steel, and the steel from those days is a lot less durable than the stuff we have today. To have a gun of this vintage survive the tests of time, and to have a famous pedigree makes the value go up.

Bonnie and Clyde:

Two guns once in the possession of notorious gangsters Bonnie and Clyde when they were killed in a hail of gunfire have sold at a New Hampshire auction for more than half a million dollars….Bobby Livingston of RR Auction said Bonnie Parker’s .38-caliber Detective Special that she had taped to her thigh when she was killed in 1934 in Louisiana drew the highest bid and sold for $264,000. Livingston said Clyde Barrow’s 1911 Colt .45-caliber automatic sold for $240,000 to the same bidder, who didn’t want to be named.

Huge money!

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More Fast and Furious Guns Tied to Murder

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Yeah and water is wet!

For the first time, Mexican victims of crimes tied to the botched Operation Fast and Furious are being identified, including teenagers killed in a 2010 massacre.

A new report finds dozens of weapons recovered in Mexico have been connected with the ill-fated and ill-conceived anti-gunrunning program. While some Mexican authorities estimate 300 of their citizens have been injured or killed by Fast and Furious guns, little has been known about those weapons south of the U.S. border until now.

Through the Mexican Freedom of Information Act, Spanish-language network Univision and Fox News obtained a list of 100,000 weapons recovered in Mexico in 2009 and 2010. The guns were then compared with the serial numbers of the 2,000 guns sold in Fast and Furious.

Univision identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings and other actions by Mexican hit men and drug cartels.

They they go misusing that term “Botched”. The ATF knowingly knowingly sold guns to known Mexican criminals, then made sure that the guns safely made their way back to Mexico. They made no attempt to track the guns once they left the country. This is not a bungle, this was the whole plan. They did retain the serial numbers for this exact reason, so the guns could be tied to international murders.

Why would they do this? Simple, because the administration wants to circumvent Heller and McDonald by making gun control a international issue. Of course they did this by circumventing all US gun control and law enforcement!

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“Gun Death” Domestic Argument

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Joan Peterson of Minnesota draws her Joyce Foundation paycheck from working in a group that works in gun control and domestic violence. One angle on why she wants to ban guns is to prevent domestic violence. This is her Utopia.

A Rosemount, Minn., man was arrested Thursday morning after investigators accused him of killing his 68-year-old mother after a late-night argument at her St. Cloud home.

St. Cloud police were called to the 2700 block of Atwood Drive at 12:34 a.m. Thursday for a disturbance call of two people arguing. Neighbors, including a 12-year-old girl next door, heard a woman’s panicked screams.

“Just heard screaming around the neighborhood and some man aggressively talking,” recalled Alyssa Steinke. “Then, (I) heard it again.”

Officers found both mother and son at the back of the house, and police said the woman suffered a life-threatening injury from a sharp-edged weapon.

Same state, again domestic violence, and death. Difference? This is not “Gun Death” that Joan runs her career around. Every time she says “Gun Death” this is the “Utopia” she wants for us all. The young murdering the weak. So long as it isn’t guns, she’s fine with that!

h/t Maddmedic

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Zo on Obamaphone Lady

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Heard the audio for this video on the radio, but hadn’t tracked down the video. Zo did, so I don’t have to!

Yep!

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Keep Track of Your Guns

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Weerd Beard

This is just sad!

An East Texas mother has a warning for parents after finding her young son playing with a pistol he found in their rental car.

When Jaymie Bates and her son, Matthew, left Enterprise car rental in Longview, the farthest thing from her mind was Matthew getting his little hands on a pistol….According to the police report, the gun Matthew found wasn’t the only one left sitting in an Enterprise rental car that day. The manager told officers he found another gun in a different car on the lot….According to that report, the manager of the Longview Enterprise where this incident occurred called the people who had previously rented the cars the guns were found in. Both people advised the guns belonged to them and were mistakenly left behind. The guns will be kept by the Longview Police Department until the owners can be verified and come to claim the weapons.

Seriously? I know in Texas you don’t need a carry permit to pack a gun in your car…or a rental car. Still if you’re not going to holster the weapon, at least REMEMBER to take it with you when you turn your car in!

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Quote of the Day: Useful Idiot

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Say Uncle has a post about pundits either declaring victory for Obama, or the polls being skewed. His feelings are the same as many in my circle of friends. I we all really find it hard to get into this election because both Romney and Obama are totally horrible candidates, and I for one certainly don’t care who wins. Actually assuming Gary Johnson doesn’t win (which is like saying “Assuming Water is Wet!”) I’m kinda hoping for a narrow Obama victory…bonus points for hanging chads, and software problems with electronic ballot machines. Why? Well because I see the Democrats being a party taken over by the Marxist “Progressives”, and while the GOP is chock-full of Daddy-State turds like Romney and McCain, there are a ton of young faces that seem to be getting the idea that people can live their lives how they want, and can do it better with less government and taxes. Maybe its wishful thinking, but I think President Romney will just kick that eventual small-L libertarian take-over of the GOP down the road a few more years. Also Romney is a man of action, and Obama is a Man of Leisure. I personally think Obama after his victory will fly off to some place tropical, and only venture into the country long enough to make a speech about how nice his poop smells.

Still this leads to this guy. Don’t know him from Adam, so he might just be some troll still:

I have to say, after reading some of these comments, some of you people need your damn guns taken away.

No seriously, you have an party stating that they want to bring back the AWB, need more taxes and more spending (btw “taxing the rich” is how California got a state income tax) and you are “undecieded” or “not excited”. When a party says as clear as day that they want your guns, all i read from your comment is…. I’m a fucking idiot for even considering the democrats.

I think you should vote for Obama, maybe when he drives us into an Argentinean collapse you “undecideds” will just become “unexisting”

He goes on in another comment about how he predicted the housing collapse before his happened. Yeah he’s the smartest guy in the room! Yeah we need to have our guns taken away!

BTW did you see my go-to rifle?

Hmmm, Flat muzzle, fixed stock, no Bayonet lug, and pre-ban magazines? Why its almost like the ’94 AWB is still here. AM I LIVING IN THE PAST?

No, I’m living in Romney’s Massachusetts. Now I don’t think this idiot should have HIS guns taken away. I live under this shit, and don’t wish it on anybody.

Still I do think he needs to be told to his smug face that he’s an idiot a LOT more.

Idiot!

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Asia The Strange

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Weerd Beard

So I guess this video is the new Hawtness on the intertubes.

Pretty nuts, really! I’m amused. The music is pretty basic, but at least the Korean version of Rap isn’t some dork pretending to be a drug dealing and rapping lyrics that consist of A) His Stage Name, and B) The N-Bomb, and C) Repeat.

Still if this is a competition I still think Japan wins with odd videos.

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“Gun Death” Buried in Sand

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Weerd Beard

From California where gun control is extreme.

A 20-year-old exchange student from Korea died after he lay down in a 6-foot-deep sandpit he and some fellow students had dug on a Southern California beach and it collapsed on him.

The Oxnard Fire Department said in a statement that students from Masters College had dug the pit while spending the day at Oxnard Beach Park on Wednesday and the man became buried after climbing into it.

Firefighters arrived and immediately began digging with tools and hands, but it took 15 minutes to free him.

CPR was performed on the man as he was taken to Ventura County Medical Center, but he was declared dead at the hospital.

California seems to justify their anti-freedom endeavors by using the “Gun Death” metric. Of course this metric ignores cases like this, and many others. Can it be ANYTHING but blatant dishonesty?

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