The Grey Man, update…

I’m about a third of the way through the fourth installment in the ‘trilogy’…

I wanted to take a minute to thank all those who’ve bought both paperback and e-book copies of the books. I appreciate your parting with hard-earned dollars on an ‘unknown’ author.

The books continue to dribble out, and I did see a good bump in sales over the Labor Day Weekend, thanks to multiple folks pushing a group of books that we all discounted.

I could use more reviews (HONEST reviews please) on both Payback and Changes, if anyone is so inclined.

The other thing I want to do is to share with you what I’ve spent your hard earned dollars on, once I got all the bills paid on the books (editing, covers, ‘free’ copies for folks)…

I stumbled on this little beauty Saturday, and thought it was very appropriate…

SAA left

It’s a third generation 1980 SAA Army, in .357 (one of 500 according to what I’ve been able to research) SAA right

And it’s a real Colt, not a copy!SAA roll mark

It has the original box, paperwork and it’s unfired! Other than the money donated to various causes, I couldn’t think of a better use for what little I’ve made from the books.

Thank you again. I truly appreciate it!!!

KTKC, one more time…

Kilted to Kick Cancer is winding down…

I’m not participating this year, so please donate to Team Dragon (Dennis of Dragon Leather Works). His book of face link is HERE! Dennis is also giving away some beautiful holsters he makes as an added incentive for those who donate at least five dollars!

You can donate HERE.

One man in every seven will be affected by prostate cancer, and one in thirty will die from it. My ex-FIL has been dealing with it for now four years. It’s not easy…

For your AND your family’s sake, get checked! I finger wave is a lot less painful that the alternative!

So far over $13,000 has been donated this year. While that is a great amount, it’s still far short of the goal we set. I know times are hard, and folks are pretty much broke after all the school spending, but even $5 helps…

Thank you in advance! The life you help save, ‘may’ be your own. Especially you young guys!

About that privacy…

You ‘thought’ you had…

Remember how criminal fingerprint bases were kept separate from military and civil (e.g. fingerprinted for a job)?

Yeah, not so much anymore…

I completely missed this one, but it came out in a discussion of the latest release of the ever increasing scope of the OPM hack (an additional 6 million files hacked, PLUS all fingerprints).

This from the EFF-

FBI Combines Civil and Criminal Fingerprints into One Fully Searchable Database

Being a job seeker isn’t a crime. But the FBI has made a big change in how it deals with fingerprints that might make it seem that way. For the first time, fingerprints and biographical information sent to the FBI for a background check will be stored and searched right along with fingerprints taken for criminal purposes.

The change, which the FBI revealed quietly in a February 2015 Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), means that if you ever have your fingerprints taken for licensing or for a background check, they will most likely end up living indefinitely in the FBI’s NGI database. They’ll be searched thousands of times a day by law enforcement agencies across the country—even if your prints didn’t match any criminal records when they were first submitted to the system.

Full article HERE. What isn’t clear, but is included are ALL the military fingerprints, which we were told were always to be kept separately for security reasons…

Yeah, right… Shoulda known better…

You can read the Fibbies Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) HERE.

Think about it… How many doors, objects, etc. do you touch on a daily basis when getting too/from work… The grab bar on the Metro, the bus, the door to the elevator, handrails? Bathroom doors? Restaurant doors at lunch?

Suppose there is an incident at a location you’ve been to, they dust and lo an behold your fingerprints show up…

You have a high security job, now how are you going to explain to YOUR security people why the cops just hauled you downtown for an ‘interview’…

But wait… It is going to get even better! For certain values of better…

Specifically, in 2012, Deputy Assistant Director Jerome Pender stated:

Only criminal mug shot photos are used to populate the national repository. Query photos and photos obtained from social networking sites, surveillance cameras, and similar sources are not used to populate the national repository.

But the new RFQ contradicts this because it appears the desired software would allow officers to submit non-mug shot photos to NGI. The RFQ says the FBI is looking for a mobile biometrics tool that would, “at a minimum . . . include fingerprints and facial photographs for submission and receipt of a response.” Photographs taken in the field are clearly not “mug shot photos” because they’re taken before booking and possibly even before arrest. And it’s hard to see how a mobile tool that allows officers to collect these non-mug shot photos and “submit” them to a database is not also “populating the national repository.”

The article from EFF is HERE. And HERE’s the link to the FedBizOps page for the biometric system…

Yep, kiss that whole privacy thing good by… As if we had any to start with…

h/t Lawdog

Interesting…

This will be big trouble right here in the USA… IMHO….

 It appears the policies of the liberal socialist leaders in Europe and the US do not want to keep these lands from being overrun.  Why????

I couldn’t figure out why other Arab countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, etc.) weren’t taking in refugees, so some people started digging.

Syrian immigrants

And then there is this ‘whine’ from WAPO- HERE.

Hijrah is jihad by emigration. It means moving to a new land in order to bring Islam there and is considered in Islam to be a holy and revered action. “And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many locations and abundance, and whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him, his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah.” (4:100) So if a Muslim dies in the process, that’s essentially the same as being a suicide bomber, his reward is automatic. This explains the great eagerness to undertake such a perilous journey.

Muhammad and his followers emigrated from Mecca to Yathrib/Medina in 622 CE. It was there that he became a military leader. This is where all the commands to commit violence against unbelievers originate from. It’s important to note that the Islamic calendar marks this as the beginning of Islam.

This current massive hijrah was announced last January although few paid the announcement much attention. A supporter (or member) of ISIS uploaded a document in Arabic that urged Muslims to get to Libya for its proximity to southern Europe and for the important tactical value of its illegal immigration circuits to facilitate infiltration of European cities (“It has a long coast and looks upon the southern Crusader states, which can be reached with ease by even a rudimentary boat”).

In February, transcripts of telephone intercepts published in Italy said ISIS was threatening to send 500,000 migrants as a “psychological weapon” against Europe. The Italian Minister for the Interior, Angelino Alfano, said at the time, “If the militias of the Caliphate advance faster than the decisions of the international community how can we put out the fire in Libya and stem the migration flows? We are at risk of an exodus without precedent.”

Also in February, the Turkish intelligence service warned police that up to 3,000 trained jihadists were seeking to cross into Turkey from Syria and Iraq and then travel through Bulgaria and Hungary into western Europe.

From Syria, to Hungary, then into the rest of Europe. Sound familiar?

In May, a Libyan government adviser warned that Islamic State operatives were being “smuggled to Europe in migrant boats.” ISIS is profiting from the human trafficking trade, forcing boat owners to hand over their profits or be killed. Some ISIS operatives are already sheltered in safe houses in the south of the Europe. Groups of men, 17 to 25, from Palestine and Syria, cross into Bulgaria and from there move into the rest of the EU. A former Al Qaeda double agent told the BBC that he knew of two Egyptian brothers who reached Italy from Libya, accompanied by men who were “deeply religious and fluent in Italian and French.”

Go watch the videos of those “refugees” again. How many of the “refugees” are 17-25 year old men?

If that doesn’t convince you, we already know terrorists are coming through with the waves of refugees: a week ago five men were arrested attempting to cross the Bulgarian-Macedonian border with Islamic State propaganda, specific Jihadists prayers, and decapitation videos on their phones. They had been posing as refugees. UK Independence Party leader leader Nigel Farage warned: “I fear we face a direct threat to our civilization if we allow large numbers of people from that war torn region into Europe.”

Other Muslim countries are not “taking in” these “refugees” because this is a hijrah into Europe. This is no humanitarian crisis. It is an invasion.Its goal is to transform Europe: overtax its economies, tear down its wealthiest nations, re-draw the demographics and, of course, the culture. 

Sources:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-milita…dviser-1501692
https://www.rt.com/news/233839-isis-…ck-diplomatic/
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/09/ro…ah-into-europe
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/09/is…ng-as-refugees
http://www.independentsentinel.com/i…byan-refugees/
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/wp…for-the-is.pdf
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti…on-bombed.html

Whatever else you may think, The Sauds and the others over there ARE NOT stupid! Maybe ‘somebody’ in the administration should be paying attention… Just sayin…

A setup???

You tell me!

The security has been ridiculously high for the Pope’s visit to DC the last couple of days. More like the inaugural parades than anything else (apparently the same people are in charge).

BUT, a five year old illegal gets past ALL of the security and gets to give the Pope a letter and a t-shirt on national TV???

Really?

I’d love to find out who breached security for her, and who was complicit in allowing this to happen. Murph had a good post on this yesterday, HERE.

I couldn’t help but remember the stories out of Vietnam, where kids would come into the clubs bumming candy or anything else from the soldiers, then popping a grenade and blowing themselves and anyone close up. Muslims have had kids as suicide bombers in the last few years, and I wonder if ‘that’ thought crossed anyone’s mind…

The Pope has said in the past he never wanted to visit America, since it was ‘capitalist’, but now all of a sudden he’s here… And while he’s spouting brotherly love and pretty much toeing the normal Catholic line, he IS  a Jesuit. They have a pretty spotted history in/around the Catholic and other religions, mostly as the attack dogs/intelligence types for the Catholic religion. (note- I’m not Catholic, and have no basis other than historical references for this. Before you say anything about the supposed Jesuit oath, that’s a debunked forgery too.)

He’s apparently appealing to the US to take immigrants, but I haven’t heard whether he wants to include illegals in that group. But I’m betting after the private meetings with BO, that’ll be the ‘stance’ the administration takes…

After all, who’s going to refute it?

the MSM has pretty much been all Pope, all the time, and cynical me is wondering what document dumps the administration has done the past couple of days…

At least one of the dumps was on the OPM hack, HERE.

And apparently the FBI is successfully recovering emails from Hildabeast’s server…

But that story appears to have been well and truly buried…

And Planned Parenthood, the EPA poisoning the river out west, and the possible government shutdown have all been knocked off the front page…

Sigh… Is it 2017 yet?

Random stuff…

This one came from Stretch. It pretty well nails it…Liberals

Facts and common sense seem to be lacking, along with pretty much everything except ’emotions’…

In other news, the Pope is in DC, and traffic is well and truly screwed. I feel for those who live/work in the District on many levels, but this one is a whole NEW level of screwed… Multiple streets blocked for hours, estimates of one hundred thousand people trying to get to see the Pope, and a whole bunch of folks that have no idea where they are going.  Gotta give the Pope props though, his ‘papal car’ is a four door Fiat 500! 🙂

He is obviously a humble man, and kudos to him, but I don’t particularly like his stands on climate change, and immigration.

One other thing I’ve noticed, is Arlington County police department is now using multiple cars on all traffic stops. All of the stops I’ve seen in the last four or five days have included no less than three cars, and sometimes four or five cars. Can’t say that I blame them for that. And all of the motor officers I’ve seen have been riding in pairs too.

If you’re wondering why I haven’t put any political posts up, I’m just not wasting my time with them. Too much crap is going on, too many players, and the games the Hildabeast is playing with the FBI, State and others just pisses me off. If that were one of us, our asses would have already been UNDER the damn jail.

Lastly, there was one more dump yesterday on the OPM hack, and they’ve now admitted an additional SIX MILLION records were ‘accessed’, including all of the fingerprint files! Rumor has it that OPM had NO internal firewalls between servers, so once there was breach, everything was open and available!!!

Gah… So if I were you and I’d ever applied for a .gov job, I’d be watching my bank accounts and emails and any social media you might be on for hacks, identity theft, and let your friends/relatives know they may be vulnerable too, if you used them for a reference.

The only positive I have is we are doing the Eastern Blogger Shoot in late Oct! Details HERE!

Oh yeah, and I got a new holster…

DLW with Ed Brown

Dennis at Dragon Leather Works does EXCELLENT work!!! Custom holsters aren’t cheap, contrary to what ‘some’ people seem to think. You are paying for the quality, the finish and the craftsmanship that goes into them.

These are not machine stamped out hundreds at a time. They are individually made, one at a time. If you want those cheap ones, go to Uncle Mikes or Galco…

Kilted to Kick Cancer…

Ahem…

I have been remiss in getting posts up- Dennis is not happy with me…

Dennis in kilt

Since I’m not in KTKC this year due to work issues, I’ve ask my three loyal readers to support Team Dragon. So you get Dennis in a kilt shooting guns…

Seriously folks, there are eight days left in our campaign this year, and donations are needed.  If you can spare five bucks, you can help with the research that saves lives, maybe even your own…

KTKC-FAcebook-cover

Prostate Cancer Facts:

  • About 233,000 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in 2015.
  • Nearly 30,000 men will die of prostate cancer in 2015.
  • About 1 man in 7 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime.
  • More than 2.5 million men in the United States who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point are still alive today.
  • Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer.
  • About 1 man in 36 will die of prostate cancer.

Testicular Cancer Facts:

  • It most often affects men between ages 20 and 39.
  • It affects 8,000 men a year, and kills 390 of them.
  • It is the most common form of cancer in men ages 15-34.
  • 95% of cases can be cured if detected early.

Due to my being out of the country for a couple of weeks, I’m not competing this year, so if you were going to donate to me, I’d ask you to donate to Team Dragon. Us old Navy farts have to stick together… Donate HERE.

Thank you, and get checked!!!

It’s not just us…

According to a Gallup poll just released-

“Almost half of Americans, 49%, say the federal government poses “an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens,”

gallup poll

This is the fourth survey conducted by Gallup on the issue, and it’s interesting to read the article HERE, and see how the numbers have changed since 2003.

The three biggest issues of twenty-four?

Too many laws/Government grown too big, violation of freedoms/civil liberties, and gee, what a surprise, gun control/second amendment violations!

And gun control/second amendment issues are the most frequently mentioned specific threat…

When one looks at the low approval ratings for damn near ANYTHING or anybody government related, it’s ‘worrisome’ at best and downright scary at worst. More and more people that I talk to are fed up/frustrated with the bread and circuses attitude and lack of transparency and selective enforcement of laws coming out of this administration. The continued push to gut or at least minimize the military, along with the continuing social experimentation being forced on the military have made many veterans wonder who’s side the administration is really on…

And when things like THIS are done in a murder trial to keep Fast and Furious out of Brian Terry’s murder trial, it makes one wonder what else is still being buried/kept from the public…

Sigh…

 

Old stuff…

Starting to ‘collect’ all the things I have in various places…

Old farts should remember this one… 🙂 We shot them in Jr. High and Boy Scouts!

NRA Target M34

It has one of these on top… Recognize it yet?

34 1

Yep, Remington NRA Target, Model 34!!!

Model 34 2

And I finally got my old 1911 back… It’s a beware of what you ask for situation…

Ask for an original sear to replace the flaky one in the gun, and you ‘might’ have to wait a while…

Like a YEAR! But my gunsmith found and original 1917 sear to replace the bad one!!! And he ‘reblued’ it. It’s not collector grade, it’s got some pits and other issues, but for a 6 digit 1911 (No A1), made in 1917-1918, and used for 97 years, I’ll keep it.

1911 right side

And those are the original grips too!  1911 left side

Trivia question- What’s missing off the left side of the frame???

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DC- Court Ruling in Heller III…

Another ‘win’ in the ongoing battle for gun rights in DC!

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a ruling in the NRA-supported case of Heller v. District of Columbia (Heller III), bringing further relief to the beleaguered law-abiding gun owners of the nation’s capital. While the court did not totally invalidate D.C.’s onerous registration regime, today’s ruling is an important step in bringing gun ownership within reach to more of D.C.’s upstanding residents.

“Today’s ruling is a substantive win for the Second Amendment and the residents of our nation’s capital,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action. “For too long, the D.C. government has violated the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. The city has among the most restrictive gun laws in the nation; and yet one of the highest crime rates.  This opinion makes it a little easier for lawful D.C. residents to own firearms for self-defense.”

The decision struck four provisions of D.C. firearms law:  

  1.  The court overturned the limitation on registration of one handgun per month. The court stated that any benefits would not “justify restricting an individual’s undoubted constitutional right to keep arms in his or her home, whether for self-defense or hunting or just collecting, because, taken to its logical conclusion, that reasoning would justify a total ban on firearms kept in the home.”
  2. The court struck down the three-year re-registration requirement.  That requirement imposed a never-ending burden on gun owners in the District, and created a risk that if there was an inadvertent failure to re-register — a particular risk for the elderly and infirm, those who didn’t receive or understand the notice, or those who were overseas — the owner could be prosecuted for possessing an unregistered firearm.
  3. The court invalidated the requirement that the registrant physically bring the firearm to police headquarters to register it. The court recognized that this provided no public safety benefit whatsoever, while creating a risk to the registrant and others.
  4. The court struck down the requirement that applicants pass a test on D.C. gun laws, citing the lack of any public safety benefit.

Now if they can just get the ‘rest’ of the BS overturned, DC might join the rest of us in allowing their citizens to actually protect themselves…

And if they do, I’m betting the crime rate will fall!  Just sayin…

h/t NRA Media