The blog is back up and running, thanks to Barron’s work, but there IS a small issue that still is hanging fire-
ALL comments are currently dumping into the spam bucket. That is being worked, so be patient please. I’m checking it every couple of hours and retrieving comments…
Thanks for hanging in there with us as we work through this.
Old NFO.
As the BS continues, so far it appears nobody has capped one of the violent protesters (yet)…
Found THIS over at Bearing Arms, 15 Actionable Tips for Staying Safe during Civil Unrest…
I’m liking #1-  Don’t go near it: If you don’t have to be there, don’t. There’s no honor in putting yourself in harm’s way, taking a brick to the head, and getting put in a coma. If you can stay away, do it. Leave the ego at home. Don’t look for trouble, because you’ll find more than you can handle.
I’m too old, slow and grumpy to go ‘play’ with the kids. I’m also smart enough to know when to keep my damn mouth shut, BUT if you get up in my face and/or try any crap, I will do my damnest to stop you by any means available to me…
Thankfully, I live in Texas, outside a small town. I don’t see myself having to deal with this stuff any time in the near future, but that doesn’t mean I’ll lower my situational awareness.
h/t ERJ
Courtesy of Capt Tightpants, a good read on accurate definitions in the Muslim world. This has been an ongoing issue for years, conflated by the MSM to the point that one just tends to ‘lump’ them all together…
This LINK, among others sighted are worth the effort to read them too.
Edit- And a more indepth link, HERE from commenter Peter B.
One comment on the 7 country ban the administration has in effect, if it were REALLY a Muslim ban, wouldn’t they have included Indonesia, the Pakistan and India? They have the largest Muslim populations in the world…
But they aren’t on the list, are they?
YMMV, IANAL, etc…
I know I said I was going to do Destroyers this week, but I’m waiting on pictures from a couple of folks to add to the post, so instead, you get an old boat…
U.S. Navy bureau of Ships – Official U.S. Navy photo NH 55913 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
She was in the ‘Quasi-War’, the first Barbary War, the battle for Tripoli,
U.S. Navy bureau of Ships – Official U.S. Navy photo NH 48472-KN from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Did ya get it yet??? Sure you did…
USS CONSTITUTION, 44 gun frigate, built in 1794, nicknamed “Old Ironsides” after a battle with HMS Guerriere on  10 August 1812. She remained on active service until 1881, before being turned into a museum ship in 1907.
She was also used as a barrack ship for Officers awaiting courts martial in the early 1900s.
Library of Congress photograph LC-DIG-det-4a15771
Still in commission after 223 years, she’s been under sail twice in the last twenty years, on the 200th anniversary of her commissioning in 1997, and again in 2012, the 200th anniversary of her victory over Guerriere. This photo is from 1997 and yes, that is the Blues overflying them! 🙂
U.S. Navy Photo by Journalist 2nd Class Todd Stevens (Released)
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BOSTON (Oct. 21, 2010) USS Constitution fires a 21-gun salute toward Fort Independence on Castle Island during an underway to celebrate the 213th launching day anniversary of the ship. Constitution is the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kathryn E. Macdonald/Released)
Hard to believe this little 207ft frigate routinely carried 450 personnel including 55 Marines and 30 ship’s boys. If you ever get a chance to take the tour, you can see how CROWDED that ship really was.
Looking at videos I’ve seen of the various protests, I’m struck by how many of the ‘protesters’, read rioters are hell bent on keeping their identities concealed, even to the point of NOT defending others who are being arrested/pushed back, etc. by the police. Of interest is that all of them seem to have backpacks, makes one wonder if they have a change of clothes, another jacket/shirt in there, or???
The only ones you see actually going to ‘aid’ another protester are by and large not hiding their identities, nor are they dressed ‘distinctively’, more like whatever they put on when they got up and got on the busses. I figure these are the ‘day protesters’ probably paid a pittance and a box lunch to protest.
Somebody has to see these folks coming in, or gearing up, before they mask up. Lots of folks out there with smartphones, pocket cameras, and regular cameras. It would be interesting to see if people could get pictures of these rioters (SAFELY get pictures), and possibly post them maybe the book of face or other media labeled as Rogue’s Gallery. I’m pretty sure the various LEOs, insurance companies, etc. would be interested too. Especially if these protesters could be tied to multiple events.
Speaking of that, it appears there may be an interesting video coming out next week… Not from me, but from somebody that got a ‘mole’ into one of the protests…
One of my readers, Randolph, also had this comment to an earlier post. This is really the crux of following the money… Bold are my additions-
Busing in protestors requires buses, and someone owns those buses. Identify the firms (Find out who paid for the busses)Â and publish the info to provide the opportunity for everyone else to not use those firms.
Someone is making, and selling the box lunches (Find out who ordered and paid for the lunches)Â . Ditto as with the buses.
Hotel rooms for the professional agitators (Find out who made the reservations and paid for the rooms)Â . Ditto.
Where infrastructure exists – and it undoubtedly exists for these efforts – it is attackable within normal financial transactions, not to mention permits, etc. Might the establishment selling the box lunches benefit from several health inspector visits? We certainly wouldn’t want First Amendment activity impacted by contaminated food, would we? All the licenses and permits current on those buses and their drivers? The list goes on. (Letters to the owners of the hotel franchises, especially if they hold DoD contracts)Â
The other thing I find interesting is that none of the protests are taking place in gun friendly locations. Maybe they are actually smart enough to know it wouldn’t end well for them in different locales…
Peter has two interesting posts up, THIS one, and the one following it, supposedly an answer from someone at the Emerald City Antifa… It’s enough to make one wonder if somebody is doing some serious trolling to see if they can get the Antifa and BLM fighting among themselves. 🙂
Comments, recommendations, other ideas?
Edit- Looks like somebody did some looking around, and found one of the protesters from Bezerkeley… Apparently an EMPLOYEE!!! Link, HERE.
House Joint Resolution 40 has passed!
Fairfax, Va.— The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today applauded the passage of H.J. Res. 40, a joint resolution to revoke a final rule made by the Obama administration that would strip law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights.Â
“The Obama administration’s last minute, back-door gun grab would have stripped law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights without due process,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA-ILA. “Today’s vote was the first step in revoking this unconstitutional action.”
Last year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) finalized a proposed rule to ban certain recipients who use a representative payee from owning firearms. This ill-conceived action stripped some of the most vulnerable Americans of their right to keep and bear arms without due process.
The NRA immediately opposed the Obama administration’s efforts when the proposal was first announced in summer of 2015. The NRA has fought every step of the way to ensure that social security recipients are not stripped of their rights without due process of law.
Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress is allowed to dispose of any actions an outgoing administration initiates in its final six months. This rule was implemented during that time frame.  Today’s House vote (235 – 180) was the first step in reversing Obama’s unconstitutional gun grab.Â
“We look forward to Senate action and President Trump signing this important legislation into law,” concluded Cox.Â
The NRA thanks congressmen Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Ralph Abraham (R-LA) for their work on this, as well as Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) for their leadership. Identical legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley earlier this week.
h/t NRA Media
In another upsetting the applecart move, the new administration is shaking up the Press Room order….
The old way of doing business in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House is now over — and the Associated Press is not happy about it.
The legendary wire service, founded in 1846, is usually the press secretary’s first pick at White House briefings.
“In the Trump administration, mainstream media is about to see its long-standing media monopoly broken up and they’re petrified.”
But under President Donald Trump’s new administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer has so far not called on AP for the first question.
Full article and video HERE, at Fox News.
Apparently the AP is throwing a hissy fit, since Helen Thomas died, they’ve always gotten the first question. Â Not anymore… The administration has also added four Skype seats, and one question yesterday was from a Providence, RI paper via Skype about sanctuary cities.
Apparently there is also a move afoot to actually move the press room out of the White House to a different location, and, horror of horrors, even allow bloggers to ask questions. Can you imagine that??? 🙂
In other news, water is still wet, the dems and the left are still melting down, and there is a new sheriff in town.
I’m popping more popcorn!
A few posts you probably have already read, but bear with me…
We’re now going on almost 2 months since the election.
First BZ’s post, The insanity of the racist DNC chair candidates…
LL’s post, Identity politics: Who is the bigger victim…
Peter’s post, Know your enemy…
LawDog’s post, Mediations on Monsters…
The common thread, IMHO, is the absolute refusal of the left to acknowledge the fact that Trump won and their agenda (read their precious) is gone for at least four years. What they are doing is becoming louder and louder, pushier and pushier.
They knocked a man unconscious in Portland, then started the ‘Peace’ chant, until the Portland PD showed up, then started getting loud and aggressive again. But one thing I noted, was that those yelling the loudest were in the back of the crowd/had their faces covered.
I don’t think there is any question now that these people ARE being paid, and the money trail points to Soros via a number (50+?) of organizations. There are some indications the professional protesters are flying from location to location to whip up the crowds, in addition to ‘day protesters’ being bussed in, paid and given box lunches.
Freedom of speech (e.g. 1A) is all well and good, but what happens when they attack the wrong person/persons? What happens when a CCW carrier is threatened/sucker punched? What happens when one of those old men has had enough and goes after some of those protest leaders?
Supposedly ~200 were arrested in DC on FEDERAL riot charges, which carry significant fines and prison time with no plea bargaining. Has anyone heard what’s happening with those arraignments? I know I haven’t been able to find anything.
When so many diverse groups are yelling at the tops of their lungs for their particular pet program, it all turns into white noise, which is bad, because the individual groups look for ways to stand out and get the media.
What I’m afraid of is they ARE going to cross that proverbial line in the sand that is manned by a bunch of grumpy old men and women, veterans and rednecks from flyover country who aren’t going to take it anymore. I hope it doesn’t come to that, but if/when that happens, I do think there will be blood in the streets and a national paralysis at least for a little while…
I really didn’t want to do ‘interesting times’ again… sigh.
A little history most people will never know about the wall.
SOMETHING to think about – Most of the parents of these men are now deceased.
There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.
The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.
Beginning at the apex on panel 1E and going out to the end of the East wall, appearing to recede into the earth (numbered 70E – May 25, 1968), then resuming at the end of the West wall, as the wall emerges from the earth (numbered 70W – continuing May 25, 1968) and ending with a date in 1975. Thus the war’s beginning and end meet. The war is complete, coming full circle, yet broken by the earth that bounds the angle’s open side and contained within the earth itself.
The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.
There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.
39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.
8,283 were just 19 years old.
The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.
12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.
5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.
One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.
997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam .
1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam .
31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.
Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.
54 soldiers on the Wall attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia . I wonder why so many from one school.
8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.
244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.
Beallsville , Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.
West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.
The Marines of Morenci – They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest . And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci’s mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.
The Buddies of Midvale – LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam . In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths.
The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 – 2,415 casualties were incurred.
For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors.
h/t Frito
One of the proudest names in lineage of US Navy ships, there have been seven USS ENTERPRISEs
The first five were sailing vessels of various descriptions starting in 1775, through 1909, next up was a 66′ motor patrol boat, SP790 during World War I.Following that was CV-6, a Yorktown Class carrier (thanks Auric, that’s why I had cheat sheets in the airplane, knew the bad guys intimately, ours not so much), commissioned in 1936. The sixth of the class. She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than any other United States ship, including the Battle of Midway, the Guadalcanal Campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Known as the “The Grey Ghost”, she was claimed to have been sunk three times. Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II, and became the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II. Her other nickname was the “Big-E”
U.S. Navy bureau of Ships – Official U.S. Navy photo 19-N-89185 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
This picture was taken on the flight deck during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
U.S. Navy bureau of Ships – Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-7859 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Next up is CV(N)-65, the first and only ship of the Enterprise Class. Commissioned in 1962, she served until 2012 and is scheduled to be decommissioned next month. She was the first nuclear carrier in the world.
U.S. Navy bureau of Ships – Official U.S. Navy photo KN-9027 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Rather than try to detail her exploits, I’ll just put this up…
And the name isn’t dead yet… CVN-80, USS ENTERPRISE is planned for 2025 as a Ford Class carrier.
Let me know if you’d like me to continue something along these lines for Sunday…