His proposal makes no sense, using governmental resources for the doubtful purpose of registering the one firearms type almost never used in crime. Indeed, I can't see hunters being so angry about something they would gather at a public area in, say, Oregon, to protest. I can see AR and AK owners doing that, but not owners of Remington 700 bolt action rifles.
I guess if you live in a country where the king is sovereign and you are a subject, there is little you won't do to protect him from rubes who hold firearms to keep tyranny at bay. Our leftist opponents constantly say, "We don't want to take your guns." That is equivalent to the saying that diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you find a rock, presumably to strike the dawg. It is a well defined tactic used by domestic enemies of the Constitution in the past. They will continue to use it in the future, because it works.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were steady across the board. Prices for rifle ammunition were steady across the board.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, Steel Casing, .24 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary, FSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary, FSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .19 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .16 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .15 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Hotshot, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .35 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, Steel Casing, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: +.03 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Ammomen, Federal, RNL, .07 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds (2 Box Limit): Ammomen, Aguila, RNL, .07 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each )
[Asharq al-Aswat] The other day it was announced that the US vice president Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... would soon be visiting The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . The visit will follow frantic Turkish activities in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt.
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As for Israel, it is a small-size ’major power’ which enjoys great influence in the West, especially, with the American ’political establishment’.
The nukes and the rumors of cyber & bio-warfare capabilities in advance of the rest of the world, don't hurt either.
[DAWN] MORE and more Paks have come to believe that they live in a hostile and conspiratorial world with shadowy enemies all around bent on the country’s destruction. The suicide kaboom which shredded almost a full generation of Baloch lawyers in a Quetta hospital was instantly declared the work of India’s spy agency RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... by Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ’s Chief Minister, Sanaullah Zehri. No proof was offered that a foreign hand was responsible for this grisly act of terror. Nor did the ISPR spokesperson present evidence of what he alleged -- that the attack had actually targeted the China-Pakistain Economic Corridor project.
Sadly, it is not just the government and military which presents conclusions without evidence, and which allows personal or institutional interests to override good judgment. A paranoid style has come to dominate politics in Pakistain. All you have to do is turn on the TV and watch political talk shows where anchors and guests compete for the highest levels of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.
Even Pakistain’s intelligentsia has sometimes used paranoia to further its self-interest. I can bear personal witness to one such situation involving almost the entire faculty of Quaid-e-Azam University.
Twenty years ago, I discovered that I was simultaneously an agent of RAW, CIA, Mossad, and the Ahmadiyya Jamaat (they missed out MI-6). From various pamphlets and posters (that I still have with me), I learned that I had several meetings with the top leadership of these organizations -- on April 6, 1995 I had met with the Indian consul general at the Royal Hotel in Singapore; with the head of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat in London on Jan 23, 1993; and with senator Larry Pressler on June 18, 1994. None of these meetings ever took place, of course.
My colleague, Dr A.H. Nayyar, learned that some mysterious Indian woman, Sushila Ramayan, had often flown to Islamabad from Nagpur for discussions with him, and that a nod from him sufficed for the Indian High Commission to issue a visa to anyone. No such person ever came to visit him, and, no, he cannot get you an Indian visa.
Now here’s the actual story: in early 1996, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... conceived a land-grab scheme apparently to enrich her cronies in parliament by offering them plots of prime land on the Quaid-e-Azam University campus. With 1,700 acres located barely a mile away from the seat of government, there could not be a more ideal location for a housing society. To sweeten the deal she offered QAU faculty and employees smaller-sized plots -- all at a fraction of the market value. The campus went wild with joy; the deal would rake in mountains of cash for everyone.
Two faculty members resisted -- Nayyar and me. We took the matter to court, arguing that QAU’s land was a public trust meant solely for future generations of Pak students and should never be converted to anyone’s private property. It must be reserved for new hostels, departments, playing fields, etc.
The gates of hell opened. Colleagues we had known for a quarter century now refused to speak to us. We were daily vilified as acting on behest of India and Israel, threatened by mobs of teachers, and my house was attacked. On instructions of Dr A.Q. Khan -- also a plot beneficiary by virtue of being a QAU Syndicate member -- I was put on the Exit Control List for several months.
After BB’s dismissal in late 1996, the court issued an order staying the construction. Thereupon QAU went on strike and remained closed for one full semester with daily demonstrations against us. It took another year for Nayyar and me to win the war. QAU’s land was finally secured, notwithstanding the efforts of all who sought to sully our names.
The paranoid streak in Pak society had been exploited by our opponents by labelling Nayyar and me as agents of foreign powers. Their real goal had been to grab QAU’s public land for their private use and profit. Unfortunately for them, their nonsensical claims were too far-fetched to be believed by the general public -- why on earth would the secret agencies of India and Israel be interested in the matter of a teachers housing colony?
Truth had prevailed then, and truth must prevail now. I have no proof that RAW is responsible for the Quetta blast, and no proof that it is not. But what I do know from reading the newspapers is that a splinter group of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, and ISIS have both claimed credit. At the very least, these claims should have muddied the waters and caused our authorities to qualify or correct their earlier statements. Indeed, the TTP had butchered Army Public School students two years ago -- to which the army responded by accelerating Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... . Then, earlier this year, a TTP faction had murdered 22 students of the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda.
For the paranoid, when it is not India, it is Israel. Following the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... violence of July 2011, the then interior minister, Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. , dramatically announced a cache of Israeli-made guns had been discovered and spoke of a sinister plot to destabilise Karachi. But years later, and after countless Ranger-led operations in this troubled city, Israel is off the radar. Rather than confront the ethnic and political complexities behind Karachi’s violence, the government chose a cost-free solution -- blame it on others.
True, Pakistain has adversaries who do not wish us well. There is no shortage of examples. It is right and proper that Pakistain should protest such external meddling. If foreign countries are involved in fomenting violence in Pakistain, expose them -- with proof. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... government officials and media pundits should not loosely wag their tongues unless they actually know.
Imagined conspiracies serve only to distract us from the enemy within, the religious forces of Evil who have repeatedly declared they will wage unending war upon the country and its people until the establishment of an Islamic state in Pakistain. We need facts not finger-pointing if we are fighting those who murder Pakistain’s schoolchildren, lawyers, coppers, and soldiers.
[DAWN] IT is amazing how quickly a terrorist atrocity can concentrate minds in Pakistain. But not for very long, sadly. The recent slaughter of over 70 at a Quetta hospital is a case in point. The long dormant National Action Plan -- cobbled together after the December 2014 atrocity at the Army Public School in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. -- was dusted off. To oversee its implementation, retired Gen Nasser Janjua was pressed into service, and yet another committee formed under him.
But the problem is not a shortage of committees: we already have the National Counter-Terrorism Authority, or Nacta. In addition, no less than 15 committees were set up to monitor different aspects of NAP, with the interior minister chairing 11 of them.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] "You [Iranian officials] will be in the future etched in the annals of history as criminals. The greatest crime committed under the Islamic Theocratic Republic, from the beginning of the Revolution until now, which will be condemned by history, is this crime [mass executions] committed by you." Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri warns the Islamic Theocratic Republic ‐ the Judiciary, intelligence, the IRGC and all other officials involved, in an audio disclosed recently.
Montazeri’s son, Ahmad, a moderate holy man, posted the audio on his website but was ordered by the intelligence to remove it.
Born in Esfahan, Iran, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri was one of the founding fathers of the Islamic Theocratic Republic, a human rights
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Following in the footsteps of Ghostbusters...
With an estimated production cost that’s in the vicinity of $100M, MGM and Paramount certainly didn’t build Ben-Hur to fail this weekend.
But if there’s one Come-to-Jesus from this remake’s estimated disastrous $11M opening: It’s still a challenge for Hollywood to cross over a faith-based film to the masses 12 years after the $370M ($612M global) success of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.
Ben-Hur is the third big-budget faith-based movie from a major studio to fall from box office grace in the wake of Noah ($101.2M domestic B.O., $125M production cost) and the mighty Moses misfire Exodus: Gods and Kings ($65M domestic B.O., $140M cost).
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Butjust like the faith-based measured Paramount’s Noah against the Bible two years ago, leading to its ultimate alienation of that audience and short legs at the box office, Ben-Hur is being compared by reviewers (31% Rotten Tomatoes score) and moviegoers to the 1959 multi-Oscar winning movie.
Remakes are a touchy prospect. Remakes done by an industry that has a decades-long track record of alienating its target audience doesn't help either.
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I suspect that the audience for Passion wasn't treating it as entertainment, but as a religious exercise. Kind of hard to morph that into an entertainment trend.
I'm trying to think of times when a remake has been better than the original, or even as good, and drawing a blank. Maybe I don't watch enough movies. (Maybe I find less reason to part with $10 and 2 hours these days...)
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So, whose idea was it, to take on Charlton Heston on a real horse?
I swear, I think they are doing re-boots for the sole purpose of peeing on the rug.
Tears of the Sun was alright, but was a re-tread of the superior The Wild Geese.
Rio Bravo and El Dorado.
Avatar was a re-make of Fern Gulley, both equally terrible.
Magnificent 7 and Seven Samurai.
George Lucus clams A New Hope was based on The Hidden Fortress, but I don't see it.
I thought Clash of the CGI Titans sucked. Red Dawn: a love story was barfable. Tron stunk like a road kill skunk. Don't get me started on the Kung Fu Karate Kid. Then there is Conan the Bed Pan.
Do a search of recent movie remakes, and weep for the future.
h/t Donald Sensing
It's great to read books and articles about what the great leaders do so that we can model ourselves on the best, and I highly recommend that.
However, it's also worthwhile taking the time to understand what bad leaders do so that we can learn what to avoid which can be just as helpful.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5...check, check...and check! (ran out of steam at five). Obean has to be the most unsuccessful leader we have ever had. Remember, he also coined the phrase "Leading from behind." Ding, ding, ding. We got an all time greatest loser.
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How many times did he pass (vote 'present') before ValJar let him do it?
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Which President got Bin Laden?
Bill Clinton. No wait.
Actually none of them did. Dedicated professionals found them and then, when the politicians felt they could do so, for whatever reason, the dedicated professionals went and got him.
It was Obama who decided to throw his body into the ocean. It was Biden who gave away who did the op.
It was Seal Team Six who got the shit blown out of the sky a couple weeks later.
Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, which would have involved diplomatic relations with Pakistan, on her insecure network.
Afghanistan operations against VIPs would also fall underneath the diplomatic umbrella.
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When Bin Laden rode to town, the camelfolk would hide, they'd hide
When Bin Laden walked around, the goats would run outside
'Cause the Sharia was the only law that Bin understood
When it came to running serpentine and fast, he was mighty good
From out of the west a numbnuts came, a crayon in his hand, a man
The kind of a man the West would need to shatter the promised land
'Cause the Sharia was the only law that Sorrento understood
When it came to lying with a straight face he was mighty good
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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