And Yet You Wonder Why People are Hesitant to Get the COVID Vaccine

Imagine If They Hadn’t Lied to Us for the Last 18 Months

Just Saying...

And Yet You Wonder Why People are Hesitant to Get the COVID Vaccine

Hundreds of thousands of COVID vaccine doses have been saved from the trash after U.S. regulators extended their expiration date for a second time, part of a nationwide effort to salvage expiring shots to battle the nation’s summer surge in infections.

The FDA, CDC, and NIH are a fucking joke.

Bringing a Gun to a Rock Fight

Gunman Opens Fire on Crowd, Gets Stoned to Death

STONED TO DEATH: A group of people in Fort Worth killed a gunman by throwing gardening stones at him after a shooting killed one and injured two others.

MORE: https://t.co/0ZVizvRnhF pic.twitter.com/vV6lIIlzSs

— FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) July 26, 2021

There is just something heartwarming...

...about an ANTIFA goon getting the crap beat out of him.

Breaking: Antifa brawl & get beat up at a “We Are Israel” event in El Cajon, Calif.

Video recorded by @AeonPhotoCo: pic.twitter.com/uYbtlKT78B

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 28, 2021

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These are the sketches I purchased at Galaxy Con 2021. Con report is in the previous post.

Black Canary by Mike Grell

Ms. Tree by Bob Hall

Jane by Georges Jeanty

Ms. Tree by Moritat

How I Spent My Day

Galaxy Con came to Raleigh, North Carolina so I spent the afternoon and early evening wandering around and collecting covention sketches. Mostly it was ordering them and waiting, and waiting. I got there early so I could get them locked in. It's a four day pop culture con with celebrities of all sorts. Most of the "famous" won't come in until the weekend, but that's not why I was there and pretty much ignored them. I did meet Barry Bostwick by accident. Part of the con, the only part I was really interested in, was writers and artists. I got sketches from Mike Grell, Bob Hall, Moritat, and Georges Jeanty. Books signed by D. J. Butler. All were friendly and willing to spend time with an old fan. The panel with Grell and fun and full of interesting stories of his career. The venders seemed a little thin and there wasn't what I would call a crown, but it was the first day and a weekday. In any event I had fun.

Flip Flop Fauci

...and here's my comment to that twit Fauci and Biden and anyone who demands we remask because of the variant of the day even if you are vaccinated. Why the fuck would any rational soul get vaccinated when it changes nothing and we still have to wear a fucking face diaper. We get vaccinated but things don't get better. It's not because the dealta variant is more dangerous. It is more contagious, but it is also less deadly. The numbers have gone up but not to any appreciable degree. Two days ago my employer told us we would have to start wearing masks again indoors. If it was anything but pandemic theater, they would have begun imediately. This is about control and power. Fauci likes his new found power over the American people. So do the other Federal bureaucrats. They aren't giving it up wihtout a fight.

The CDC's Hysterical Delta Flip-Flop Might Be Its Final Undoing

Bringing Back Mask Mandates Is Pointless Signaling

Can You Trust the Science?

Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?

H/T to Samizdata via Borepatch.

Just Saying...

Bought and Paid For

Biden DOJ Drops Charges Against China Military Members Accused of Lying to Get Jobs at U.S. Universities

If you won't work, why are you getting unemployment?

Report: 1.8 Million Americans Have Turned Down Jobs To Stay On Unemployment

I'm all for giving help to those who can't work, but if you choose not to work...starve.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. - 2 Thessalonians 3:10

If I were a Fact Checker I'd label this true

FBI Discovers Building Full Of Dangerous Extremists Organizing Acts Of Terror Across Country

You NEEDED a study...

...for what any cop could have told you

$3 Million Government Study Finds Link Between Excessive Drinking and Aggressive Nightclub Behavior

If there is a way to piss away the taxpayers money, government will find it.

...and what will you do with it?

University debuts nation’s first bachelor’s degree in diversity, equity and inclusion

More fodder for Starbucks.

GRNC ALERT THE ATF IS READY TO DROP THE HAMMER

ATF WANTS TO REGULATE GUN PARTS AS FIREARMS

Anti-civil rights Attorney General Merrick Garland and the ATF have issued a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” which would effectively rewrite the 1968 Gun Control Act by adding new definitions and usurping the legislative power of Congress.

One part of the proposal would redefine 80% kits for frames and receivers. Instead of these kits being unregulated, they would instantly be considered complete functioning firearms. This would mean that companies manufacturing them would need ATF manufacturing licenses, 80% lowers would need serial numbers, and they could only be sold by Federal Firearm Licensees using a Form 4473.

Translated, a box of parts would be considered a gun. A new category of gunsmith would be created, the “gunsmith-dealer,” which would imprint numbers on existing ghost guns and record the serial number in their bound book for inspection by the ATF at will. A new category of firearm, “Privately Made Firearm,” would be created. The ATF would be able to arbitrarily decide what a “firearm” is.

Millions of AR-15 upper receivers would now be regulated as “firearms,” requiring serial numbers and exactly the same requirements as a full gun. This would create a nightmare for millions of AR-15 owners, particularly if they want to swap upper receivers on their guns.

The ATF wants to be the sole arbitrator in what the laws really mean, opening a quagmire of indefinite determination of the law. On this dangerous ground, selective enforcement could close untold numbers of firearm businesses and make criminals out of otherwise law-abiding gun owners.

Stop this unconstitutional over-reach by a federal bureaucracy: the comment period is open until August 19th. Please send the message provided below ASAP to the link provided.

IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED!

Go to https://www.regulations.gov/document/ATF-2021-0001-0001

Click "comment" on the upper left section of the page. Copy/paste the suggested text below. Please do this as soon as possible. A Federal Bureaucracy cannot be allowed to create it's own laws by whim.

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO GRNC: Help us fight gun control while we promote Second Amendment principles. Please CLICK HERE to contribute. Bear in mind that GRNC is an all-volunteer organization, so you can be sure your donations are put to the best possible use. Any amount helps, and any amount is appreciated.

DELIVER THIS MESSAGE

Suggested Subject: "ATF 2021R-05"

Dear Sir or Madam,

I strongly object to the proposed change in ATF rules 2021R-05. These proposed changes create language and intent that does not exist in the Gun Control Act. These changes allow the ATF to arbitrarily define what is and what is not a firearm.

This would make parts for firearms into “firearms” according to the ATF. Where would this stop, is a block of polymer or metal a firearm?

In the case of modular type weapons such as AR-15s that already exist, an onerous burden would be placed on owners to engrave serial numbers on parts that previously did not require identification. Millions of these parts already exist, therefore it is likely there would be no practical way to accomplish this task.

If laws are out of date, it is up to to Congress to replace or amend the laws; this power must not be usurped by a non legislative government entity.

Respectfully,

Just Because...

A Partisan Commission on the 1/6 Protest

The conclusion has already been determined. Pesky conservatives would only get in the way.

McCarthy Pulls His Five Republicans From Riot Commission After Pelosi Rejects Conservative Reps

The Democrats' Capitol Riot Committee Will Be a Soviet-Style Show-Trial of Trump

Agent Provocateurs

It Sure Looks Like the FBI Basically Orchestrated the Gretchen Whitmer 'Kidnapping' Plot

Oh, You Mean the New York Times isn't a Reputable Journalistic Outlet

Ya Don't Say?

Black Rifle Coffee Did NOT Go Woke; Founder Responds to Misinformation

I saw the original story. Looked at some YouTube videos, considered the source, and decided to withhold comment. Maybe we should all do that a bit more often or we hazard becoming that which we hate.

It's Funny Because it's True

Just Saying...

The delta variant is no "reason"...

...to return to COVID-19 authoritarianism. The only "excuse" the COVIDatarians need to keep playing their COVID power games is power over the peasants.

The delta variant is no excuse to return to COVID-19 authoritarianism

Gangs and Drugs

To Reduce Violence, 53% Say Cracking Down on Gang Activity Better Than Restricting Gun Ownership

That'll Last About as Long...

...as a pro-Second Amendment decision at an en blanc hearing of the Ninth Circuit Court.

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules DACA Illegal

Just Saying

A Win in Court...

...that in the end, will mean squat.

Appeals court finds age-based handgun purchase ban unconstitutional

The panel said if you have other rights afforded adaults at 18 through 20 years old, you have all those rights, including those protected by the Second Amendment. Two judges said yes. One dissented. It will be appealed by the DOJ. The distribution of conservative to liberal judges on the 4th Circuit is six to nine. I believe the en blanc court hearing will overturn the panels decision. I hope I'm wrong, but I won't be.

This Applies to Me

Tsundoku: The Art of Buying Books and Never Reading Them

Knights of the Dinner Table

Knights of the Dinner Table #35, p.2 by Dan Day

She Isn't A Journalist. She Isn't A Historian....

She's an OP-ED writier masquerading as both. The 1619 Project is an OP-ED maquerading as history. UNC came out ahead in this one. Howard, not so much.

JACOBSON: Nikole Hannah-Jones has no business teaching journalism anywhere

Google Doesn't Want You to Read This...

...so here it is.

How a Convicted Terrorist used the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Website to Identify Targets

Google Scrubs Mike Cernovich Report on SPLC Link to Mass Shooter from Search Results

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Mandrake the Magician 10-19-1977 by Fred Fredericks

Offered Without Comment

RealClearInvestigations: Naming the Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Unarmed Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt.

One Hundred and Fourteen Years Ago Today...

...Robert A. Heinlein was born.

Excuse Me?

Psaki Warns the Unvaccinated to Expect Government Agents to Show Up at Their Doors

It's a VIP Members only story but there is enough there to get the point. Yes, please keep exhibiting your authoritatian impluses and harassing the voting public. It can't possibly effect the outcome of the 2022 elections. Not the way ya'll run elections now.

Psaki: Biden Wants ‘Community Door-to-Door Outreach to Get Remaining Americans Vaccinated’

Get off my lawn.

Uh Huh!

Race is foisted into every topic imaginable except when we talk about the 150 people killed by gun violence this holiday weekend

— Kevin Dalton (@NextLAMayor) July 5, 2021

Why I No Longer Read Marvel Comics...

...or DC for that matter. Shit like this.

Independence Day: Marvel Comics Makes Captain America Say American Dream ‘Is a Lie’

What the Declaration of Indepence Means

What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant
It officially adopted the American Theory of Government: First Come Rights; Then Comes Government to Secure These Rights

Happy Independence Day

July 4th, 1776

In Congress, July 4, 1776 the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighbouring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the united States of America, in general congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:

Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:

John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:

Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:

Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:

William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:

Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:

Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:

Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:

Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:

George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:

William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:

Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:

Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Poor Muzzle Control...

...equals self-defense, but this is Austin, Texas and a politically motivated prosecution. I suspect this wouldn't have happened in another Texas jurisdiction. The point here is lawfair. They don't expect to convict just bankrupt and discourage others from exercising their right to self-defense.

Just Saying...

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Jon Sable, Freelance #25, p.2 by Mike Grell