when our rights and liberties are violated and compromised.
when our officials will not publicly affirm their oaths to preserve and protect our constitutional rights and liberties.
when our officials, elected, appointed, civilian, military and police act to abridge and infringe our constitutional liberties and ancient prerogatives.
when our officials, local, state and federal introduce legislation to abridge and infringe our constitutional liberties and ancient prerogatives. any legislator, for instance, who introduces legislation that would support warrant-less search for and seizure of lawfully possessed firearms, or a persons private paper, would be comprehended under this heading.
who do we fight?
those who do the above, and those who aid, abet or act in connivance with our officials who abridge and infringe upon our rights and liberties. i speak directly to the electronic and print media, and to those monied elites who connive with and control our officials.
when our officials become so personally corrupt and morally debased as to endanger the public weal, welfare and security, and will not act to preserve and protect our rights, liberties and security, then they should become the target of our wrath and our vengeance.
buy guns. buy ammo. buy the supplies to make them. practice their use and their manufacture. be jealous our your rights and liberties, ... , just downright prickly and short tempered, short fused. understand that we are all expendable in the protection of our heritage and our posterity: please read sipsey street irregulars in this latter regard, and comprehend.
you must develop the mindset that you will fight at a moment's notice, or carry the attack to our adversaries, if it seems compelled and reasonable to do so.
take your place on the great mandela.
john jay @ 06.25.2013
p.s. i should think that under the above criteria the state of connecticut should be convulsed in rebellion against its usurping legislature and governor. the time is has passed, is passed, in that state.
there is a quite practical and practicable yardstick.
the ar-15/m-16 platforms are often harshly criticized for this failing, and that failing, real or imagined. by contrast, the ak-47 is generally extolled for its extraordinary reliability and robust function.
well, o.k.
but, before i get to my general remarks, i want to ask one simple question, by way of remark, really.
and, that is, have any of you ever heard of a 7.62x39mm (model 43) loading other than a 123 grain bullet at a nominal 2250 to 2350 fps muzzle velocity?
now, there are lots of theories as to the ak-47's dependable function, and they range in focus from the ak-47's magazine to the loose tolerances in manufacture which allows the ak-47 to function in dirty environments, etc. but, i see very little comment upon the very salient fact that almost all ak-47's digest a standard loading which has never been departed from to the best of my knowledge.
i surmise from this that the soviet/russian remnant round has always been loaded to pretty consistent pressure levels, by the use of powders of very similar is not identical burning rate and manufacture. if i am wrong, i invite correction.
nor have i ever heard of the ak-47's internals undergoing significant change. this would mean, that the weight of the operating systems/reciprocating mass, and spring rates and the like, have remained more or less constant.
why fix it, if it ain't broke? in other words.
contrast this with the situation which has prevailed over the operational life of the ar-15/m-16 platforms.
as to ammunition, the ar-15/m-16 started shooting bullets in the 50-55 grain range, and have "progressed" pretty steadily to shooting heavier projectiles, as the tactical and strategic demands on the system have evolved. the 55 grain bullet was praised for its tendency to inflict large wounds on human tissue, because the bullets tumbled on impact. then some bright bulb decided that the bullet should have more penetration against light body armor, so a 5.56mm nato cartridge was designed shooting a hard 62 grain perpetrator. and, penetrate it did, without upset. noticing that the price of straight line penetration was a lack of bullet upset in human tissue, some other bright bulb decided that perhaps bullets of 68 to 69 grains in weight might be able to accomplish both tissue destruction and deeper penetration, so the 69 grain bullets were fitted to the 5.56mm nato cartridge case. laterly, bullets of 77 to 80 grains have come into fashion, and the 77 grain bullet and cartridge combination as developed by black hills ammunition company has found great favor with both military and civilian shooters of the ar-15/m-16 platforms.
along with changes in the ar-15/m-16 platforms various mechanical changes have been made to the rifle itself, including in the most fundamental sense a change in operating systems from a direct gas impingement to the use of piston drive op rods, some of the short stroke design, some of the long stroke design ala the ak-47 system. indeed, the much praised hk 416 is quite basically, and simply, a combination of the m-16's internals w/ the operating rod/bolt carrier system of the ak-47.
and, this is what i want to comment upon, which goes unremarked upon for the most part.
through all of this change, the basic rifle/carbine/cqc system works. it just keeps chugging along, no matter what changes are made to its ammunition, or its operating system. and, no matter how much it is maligned and criticized by pundits, commentators and the like, other later rifle systems designed by very bright people have not chosen to depart significantly from the system developed at armalite by eugene stoner and melvin johnson.
if imitation is the sincerest form of praise and flattery, than the basic ar-15/m-16 system has been much praised, indeed, even by those people who have derided it, yet copy it in their efforts to produce a better mousetrap.
if there is a recent weapons system that has not chosen to follow the basic outline of an operational system as set forth in the ar-15/m-16 systems, or their kissing cousin, the ar-180 & 180b, i would like to know about it.
consider this, if you will.--
the ar-15/m-16 system has absorbed, without major hiccups, an increase of bullet weight from 55 to 77 grains, to use a fairly accurate "yard stick" to measure the accommodation of projectile mass. that's 22 grains, in the same platform, using the same components.
how reliably would the ak-47 platform function, were the end users to simply up the projectile weight of the model 43 cartridge from 123 grains, to 155 grains? different powders with different burns rates, and with different pressure curves, would have to be developed. the mass of operating rods, and of bolt carrier groups, and of springs would have to be changed. the orifices metering propellant gas to the operating systems/rods/springs and the like would have to be adjusted.
all of this would have to be done to accommodate to a different weight bullet. even the dimensions of the cartridge case and its composition might have to undergo change. as a further consideration, realize that the weight of a cartridge stack in the magazine would be greatly increased, and that the vaunted reliability of the ak-47 magazine would be implicated, if not compromised: spring rates might have to be changed, and cartridge followers changed.
no, imagine that the same weapon would have to be able to shoot either cartridge, without adjustment. this is the environment in which the ar-15/m-16 finds itself, and it would be interesting to see if the ak-47 would make the adjustments to such change and variety as has the ar-15/m-16.
after a considered study of the .30/280 british intermediate infantry cartridge adopted in the early 1950's by britain, and then dropped under pressure from the united states in the "interest" of adopting the 7.62x51mm (nato) as a standard nato-wide cartridge, i have come to regard that cartridge as one of the better infantry rounds ever adopted.
and, i thought/think it unfortunate that the fn fal was never adopted either as originally developed, and that was to use and fire the .280 brit. instead, it was "scaled up" to fire the larger 7.62 nato, at the cost of being a much larger and heavier weapon. (the 5.56x45mm nato is a fine cartridge in my mind, and i would not want to be on the receiving end of one, ... , but, there is no doubt in my mind that the .30/280 british was and is a far superior infantry round, and that the "jj's brit" as i have concocted it is a far superior round to the 5.56 nato. it is just ballistic fact. imho.)
my aim was to see if a cartridge the approximate size and power level of the .30/280 british could be fired from the standard ar-15 platform, using tools, assets and materials available to the average shooting enthusiast, and hobbyist.
establishing the feasibility of the cartridge was not hard. that was done over 60 years ago, and time has done nothing to call into question the work of the british engineers at the enfield armory. and, not to be forgotten is louis potter, who has fought to keep the concept of the cartridge alive.
i decided that i did not have the money to buy chambering reamers, dies and the like in the .30/280 british, as that was prohibitively expensive. rather i set the goals of making a reasonable facsimile of the cartridge using common reloading dies, and other available parts and materials.
to make a long story short, 7mm-08 remington reloading dies were shortened to issue a case with a shoulder at 1.300" when sized, and using a "master case" fashioned from those dies, two rifles have been chambered in "jj's brit." not surprisingly, they easily achieved ballistic performance very similar if not identical to the original british cartridge.
one of the rifles was an ar-15, made from common off the shelf ar-15 lower and upper receivers, with a barrel cut, contoured and chambered for the round by a gun smith friend of mine retired now to montana. he also "gassed" the gun for me, using an intermediate length gas tube, which pretty much determined how the gun would function.
it worked, from the very beginning, but it has not been without some teething problems, which have impaired the reliability and functioning of the rifle to a certain degree.
a minor problem was scoring of the case by sharp points of the recoil lugs in the barrel extension, which problem was relieved when the source of the scoring was figured out, by the simple expedient of getting some sandpaper on the offending burrs.
a larger and persistent issue was harder to resolve, and that was the continued occurrence of "stove pipe" jams. the rifle would fire, the bolt carrier and the bolt would travel back under operation of the gas operating system, and strip a fresh round from the magazine, and begin pushing it forward towards the rifle's chamber. the problem that expressed itself intermittently was that the fired empty was not being ejected from the ejection port every time, and it was being driven forward by the bolt along with the fresh round, the case head inside the rifle broadside to the bolt, the case mouth sticking partially out of the ejection port. eventually, both cases would stick in the ejection port, the fresh round still in the magazine, and the fired case atop it. (two objects cannot occupy the same space, as simply physical law teaches us.)
to address this issue, i enlarged the ejection port, eventually opening it from a dimension of about .480" to around .540"+, from the rear to the front of the ejection port. i also rounded all the inside surfaces, so that no sharp angles presented to the case, only rounded surfaces. i did this, because a local gunsmith suggested it, and upon his suggestion i examined the port from contact with the ejected/ejecting cases, and notice brass burnishes toward the rear of the port.
this alleviated the problem somewhat, but, did not eliminate it. not entirely.
so, i did some deeper reading on the operating cycle of the ar-15, and found that the recoil spring and the weight of the recoil buffer, at the head of that spring where it rests in contact with the rear of the bolt carrier, are important in the timing of the extraction & ejection cycle. based on that reading, i determined i needed a heavier recoil buffer than i had used to build the rifle.
and, based upon the input of my gun smith friend and adviser in montana, i decided to beef up both the ejector springs and the springs for the extractor. i got a heavier ejector spring. things improved.
and, this afternoon, i installed a heavier extractor spring, with a "rubber reinforcing donut" that fits over it, to prevent its over compression, and also installed an st-3 recoil buffer from spike's tactical.
i have fired several magazines from the rifle so modified. it has not jammed, and ejection of fired cases is now much better, the cases landing in a nice pile alongside the ejection port, and not forward of it, which is symptomatic of a condition in which the bolt carrier operates too quickly, initiating extraction before residual gas pressure in the chamber and the case has fallen sufficiently to allow the case to shrink away from the chamber wall, and also imparting too much energy to the bolt carrier causing it to travel back and forth too fast, not giving the fired case time to clear the ejection port.
i examined the fired cases.
there was no trauma in the extraction groove, consistent with the lip of the extractor pulling too vigorously on the case rim. neither were there burnishes on the side of the case, caused by a case with too much gas pressure still being exerted inside it, making the case walls grip the chamber. in short, the cases are coming out of the chamber easier, and the bolt carrier is cycling slower.
this is the function of the heavier buffer. it is, ... , uhm, heavier. it has more mass, and thus possesses more inertia. it absorbs more energy over a longer period of time before that energy causes it to start moving. and, if it is delayed in moving, so is the bolt carrier group. this means that the primary extraction of the fired case is delayed just a little bit, and this little bit of time allows pressure in the case to fall to a level allowing the case walls to move away from the chamber walls.
the greater mass of the buffer also means that for a given quantum of energy applied against it by the gas moving the bolt carrier, the bolt carrier moves more slowly, at a lessor velocity forward and back, giving more time for ejection to occur. as an added benefit, though it moves more slowly, it has a bit more energy slamming the bolt into battery, given its greater mass.
it is the big bullet versus the little bullet controversy all over again, just at the other end of the barrel. hey, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. and, just as a heavier bullet exits the barrel a bit slower all other things being equal, so does a bolt carrier group, which, in physical terms includes the buffer spring and buffer, upon the firing of the propellant gases. so why doesn't the stock hurt you as much as the bullet hurts on the other end.
the very simple answer is time. the energy on the butt end of the rifle assembly (which includes the shooter) is the same as that applied to the bullet, but since it is applied to many pounds instead of a fraction of an ounce, it absorbs that energy over time, and moves much slower.
time is a mechanical advantage that the recipient of a rifles recoil has over that of the recipient of a bullets energy, which is imparted in milliseconds as opposed to two or more seconds, or so. doubt the proposition? well, fire a .458 lott magnum from a rifle weighing an ounce, with a rapier point for a "recoil pad."
but, i digress, as i often do.
the point of the whole article is that i think that almost all of the issue impairing the reliability of the rifle have been resolved. it works as intended, and it works very closely now to every time. this is quite gratifying to me.
lots of companies with much larger resources at their disposal than mine and those of my friends have not done so well.
so, we are at the end of the beginning. the proof of concept is established, and the rifle and cartridge function reliably in the real world.
the issue remaining is to establish the longevity and durability of the rifle shooting the "jj's brit" cartridge. the focus here will be on the durability of the barrel extension and bolt for the rifle, as supplied by ar15performance, headed up by harrison beane. so far, the "heart of the rifle" has performed admirably, and has digested some pretty stout loads in the context of intensity levels which are appropriate (or inappropriate) for an ar-15 platform.
we'll just have to see how it works. over time.
i am immensely grateful to harrison beane that the whole thing has held together while the reliable function of the rifle has been worked out. had i experienced mechanical failure before reliability was established, i would have been very very disappointed.
but, now, proof of concept and reliability and function have been established. in my view, at least.
now, we shall see how it works over an extended period.
john jay @ 06.19.2013
post script, 6.20.2013. i have switched to h-322 powder in my 130 grain sierra match king load for "jj's brit." (trademark asserted.) why? it's cleaner, and meters very easily. two cardinal virtues in my estimation. end post script.
reader jorge banner has left the following comment at "obama does not have the balls," http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2013/06/obama-does-not-have-the-balls-.html#comments .
.... This is about the culmination of a process that took decades of leftist infiltration and corruption. Like a wooden structure brought down by termites, it doesn’t fall for what happened yesterday. It falls because of a process that took a long time and the collapse is the culmination of that process and millions of tiny actions. .... [Obama is] the last termite to bite the structure before it collapses.
He doesn’t need balls. He could be a post op transsexual and his female a cross dresser truck driver (and they probably are). He’s presiding over our demise. He’s doing his job. He’s succeeding and we are letting him. He’s the wet dream of every leftist ever in the history of mankind. In fact he’s his own wet dream.
And why do you talk about tyranny in the future. What is this, right now? Don’t we have "a long train of abuses and usurpations"? Each item that can be mentioned abut him is repugnant to the most elemental sense of decency. Every time I see our military salute him my stomach turns 360 degrees.
This is tyranny and the left won. Let's face the facts.
/S/ Jorge Banner
he raises pertinent points.
his observations are correct. an apt metaphor, that of the death suffered by a thousand cuts, has application here. the death of democracy and our participation in our own governance, whether suffered by the singular act of imposing tyranny or imposed by a "long train of abuses and usurpations" is the same fate.
and, our duty to actively resist that fate is the same if we see it coming, whether by a singular act imposing tyranny, or by suffering many small erosion's of our right and privilege and heritage. if obama and his minions were to announce that freedom of speech were immediately suspended, all would take alarm and umbrage. yet, what is the difference in the wholesale suppression of speech not approved by the government, and the announcement by a dipshit deputy united states attorney that he is going to prosecute, based on authority cut from whole cloth, any speech which impacts muslims in a negative fashion.
so, the question is, if we see things coming, or if we look back and realize the erosion of our rights as having occurred, when does our right and duty to oppose our oppression by force of arms and violence impel us to take action.
these are issues that i wish to address in coming articles.
you may ask, why does obama not have the will to impose tyranny, to crack a few eggs in order to make the existential omelet that is tyranny? fair enough, that question. it deserves an answer, or, what amounts to several answers.--
the obama mama. the obama mama mama.
he is a mama's boy. he was raised an only child by his socialist mother, and his mother's socialist mother. with an assist by his "uncle frank," who taught him how to sniff another man's crotch.
he is a lazy, self indulgent, narcissistic nihilist, who believes in nothing. except socialism, american style, which has taught him that nothing is worth dying for, and that nothing is worth killing to achieve.
obama is essentially a bureaucrat. and, those around him, are essentially bureaucrats. privileged, pampered and basically soft on the inside, and soft on the outside.
you may readily contrast obama with the actual tyrants of the 20th century. now, all the "psychiatrists" who have tried to discern the source of evil in adolph hitler look to his childhood, and his failed attempts at becoming an architect and/or an artist. but, lots of failed artists and architects don't become tyrants. but, curiously enough to my way of thinking, a lot of the people who examine hitler give fairly short shrift to his experience as a german shock troop in world war i, and to the years in post war germany when he was engaged in the street politics which saw many german vets vying with communist agitators in very violent conflict.
hitler was made violent in a very violent war crucible which he survived, and made more so in the violent street warfare for the control of german civil society, in which he thrived. he was trained and disciplined to become a killer in war, and he sharpened those skills in street conflict as he gained the experience, aptitude and theoretical bases for the application of force in domestic politics.
he first became experienced in violence, and then he became educated in violence as a political tool. he didn't just read marcuse & marx, he didn't become schooled in saul alinsky's doctrine of using ridicule to diminish and intimidate an opponent, ... , no, adolph hitler learned how to kill an enemy, and he learned how to bully, assault and kill a political opponent to get his way in political "discourse."
vladymir elyich ulyanov, that's "lenin" to you, did not follow the same path to politics and power as hitler. he was born to wealth and privilege, and was educated as a lawyer in the czarist universities.
he was also nurtured as a marxist and a revolutionary there. to the best of my knowledge he did not follow the path of many tyrants gaining their experience at killing by direct involvement in battle, but his was not exactly a "theoretical" exposure to the killing arts, either. his older brother was executed by the czarist authorities, and court system, and he was no stranger to the milieu of bombing and assassination that was revolutionary russia, leading up to events culminating in the february and september revolutions of 1917.
and, you must also remember that europe and russia were in tremendous social turmoil from the middle of the 19th century until & after the russian revolution in 1917. there were open rebellions in paris and vienna during the 1800's, the 1905 revolution in russia, world war one which saw incredible killing throughout europe, eastern europe and czarist russia, and a couple of other wars involving russia on top of that.
lenin was no stranger to killing. and, he was no stranger to the lines of intellectual thought which saw killing as an extension of political and foreign policy. his penultimate contribution to this sort of thought and intellectual turmoil was to offer a theory making his bolsheviks, and himself, the legitimate apparatus to orchestrate such killing.
in short, lenin did not have hitler's skill and training in battle, but in the stead of such a skill set, he set forth the basis for legitimizing his authority to use such tools to guide the course of politics and history, ... , in essence, he made himself the vehicle of historical determinism.
hitler and lenin were not mama's boys. they were neither soft, narcissistic, self indulgent, lazy idlers, nor were they hesitant to use sheer will and determination to impose their path upon the fates of others.
they were doers. they were ready, willing and able to kill in order to impose their will.
they were, what obama can never be. what barney frank can never be. what joe biden can never imagine. they really didn't give a shit about what the "belt way" cock tail party circle would have thought of them. they had things to be done.
john jay @ 06.17.2013
p.s. hint: this is why obama will be turned by even the most judicious application of violence in opposition to his plans. or, why he has been turned by the prospect of violent opposition to his plans. he simply hasn't the stomach for it. nor, as i have suggested, the balls.
he just doesn't have the skill set, by inclination, training, experience or intellectual breadth. he is just the penultimate bureaucrat of the inter-meddling nanny state.
p.s.s. need i explain to you what hitler, lenin, mao or the other worthies discussed in these pages would have done to me, without hesitation? people who write like me are not tolerated in tyrannies, nor by tyrants. we are disposed of. and, not so neatly. so that others will/would have noticed.
now, if obama tries to "take care of me," i will take more than a couple of his minions with me. trust me on that. this very fact is enough to dissuade the likes of obama, and, perhaps his minions. (minions aren't what they used to be, either.) this prospect would not have stopped lenin, nor stalin, nor hitler.
years ago, i had a history professor in college by the name of fred breit. a university of chicago graduate when it meant something, he was a great huge bear of a man, who very incongruously wore large coke bottle thick glasses, and hitched up his pants over his large tummy about 3 times a class period: all in all, history class was quite a, ... , ahem, ... , spectacle.
he was very conservative. and, very very smart.
he said something that i've always remembered, and something which is germane to the understanding of where our politics take us. or, as argued below, where our politics and politicians don't take us.
he said, "you cannot have a tyranny without a tyrant." or, perhaps more precisely considering this day and age, " ... without tyrants."
he usually uttered this bit of profundity in connection with his lectures on lenin, sometimes on hitler.
which brings us to my observations in the title line about obama. i do not think, upon due consideration, that obama is the man who will impose tyranny upon the united states. oh, he has the capacity and the plan, e.g., the cloward & pliven scenario that he probably picked up loosely while at columbia, to bring the country to abasement and decay of of its geo political position and strength, and perhaps to utter ruination. but, i do not think that he will impose dictatorship.
he hasn't the balls.
he has showed that he is a physical coward any number of times, but, perhaps not by anything so clearly as his reluctance to sign the u.n. small arms treaty when it first became "eligible" for signing.
this is consistent with him. we he is blunted, when he is confronted, he backs down.
he will not join, nor will he initiate battle.
which is not to say that i will stop preparing cartridge brass in the basement, nor will i stop honing my long range shooting skills. obama, while a coward, will not stop the left in its continuing piecemeal inroads on our liberties, in its attempts to erode our rights and privileges as u.s. citizens. nor will he cease in his attempt to drive us to financial oblivion.
it's just that he does not have the physical courage to impose dictatorship.
lenin did. stalin did. hitler did. mao did. pol phot did. and, even mussolini did. but, not obama. he is simply too chickenshit to take the chance. instead, he will continue to have his underlings and minions float little attacks on our liberties, such as having an obscure assistant attorney general threaten to prosecute some hapless soul for uttering truth about the muslim threat. he will just continue to test the water from time to time, to see what people will be content to give up without contest.
but, he will not press the contest. he hasn't the stomach for it, nor does he have the courage to wage war against us. he just wants to talk us to death.
and, finally, obama is not smart enough to make his case for his absolute rule. when lenin saw that marxism did not provide the intellectual and ideological basis to justify dictatorship, lenin sat himself down quill pen in hand, and invented, from whole cloth, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and made the bolsheviks the vanguard of the proletariat, and argued their virtue and right to exercise absolute rule over not just the russian revolution, but for the worldwide continuing revolution.
it was some chutzpah. and, it was an exercise of intellect, no matter how misguided and superficially obvious in its motivation. and, not without precedent. after all, hegel, after creating the historical dialectic & process, sat back, observed the scene, and pronounced his contemporary germany as the culmination of that process. and, pronounced himself satisfied.
lenin just did the same with announcing that the bolsheviks were destined by history, science and intellect to rule absolutely over the dialectic process.
obama does not have the balls to make a similar summation as to why he should rule absolutely. nor, apparently, is he sufficiently ambitious intellectually to sit down and write it all out as to why this should be. in short, he has neither sufficient nerve nor cleverness to announce his fait accompli. to announce why he should be dictator.
he is a timorous scaredy cat. he can stare off into space like mussolini, but, he cannot muster the nerve of even that pompous idiot.
there was great anticipation among the unwashed left that obama would sign off on the u.n. small arms control treaty the first chance he got, just like the left thought that obama would shut down guantanamo right out of the chute as well.
well, to the best of my knowledge, obama has yet to sign, and according to some will wait until the august doldrums to do so, when congress is out of town. who knows? this sort of bullshit is for the democratic strategists to figure out on their own: i am not going to loose any sleep over it.
this whole business leaves me vaguely uneasy.
and, it is precisely because obama always seems to "come up" with some sort of shooting episode by a deranged single white male as a launching pad for his latest gun control scheme and/or push, however you wish to put it.
this has happened time and again. now, it could be that there are just a whole bunch of post adolescent white males taking high test pharmaceuticals out there, just itching to get their bulging eyes and puffed up heads on some kind of weapon, and a crowd upon which to use it.
which leads me to wonder. aren't there any sort of deranged maniacs out there who sort of look normal, and don't have the bulging eyes and the fat heads, generally close cropped or shaved?
that these shooters are running so close to type causes me to wonder whether in fact they are manufactured and not naturally grown or occurring. and, such idle thoughts, causes me to wonder whether or not obama or his minions, or perhaps his nazi abetting puppet master, george soros, haven't got a whole bumper crop of these prescription guzzling nut jobs out there on a pretty short leash, just waiting to be set upon a gullible populace.
just sayin'.
i for one will not be terribly surprised in in the latter part of july, this year, some other buggy eyed fat headed young white male goes ballistic, and armed with an evil black rifle, sets upon an unsuspecting crowd, (the younger, more innocent, naive and helpless the better), and blasts away killing a bunch of them.
you know, just in time for obama to self righteously pimp gun control, and the ratification of u.n. gun control treaty by the u.s. senate, once more. as rahm emanuel once noted, why let a good disaster or crisis go to waste, in promoting an agenda.
the question must be asked and the observation must be made, especially given that all the shooters are of a type and clam up behind the shell game of insanity, whether obama has a hand in the manufacture and timing of these shootings. how hard would it be for a bunch of shrinks, convinced that sacrificing a few kids in the interest of long term social truth and social justice, to cultivate and convince a few willing acolytes to be the trigger men in such matters? is this materially different from the recruitment of human suicide bombers from among the pool of idle islamic post adolescent males to carry out the attacks of the jihad? what about the attacks of the left?
ask bill ayers about the feasibility of such things, if you think me a bit daft.
again, i will not be surprised if a shooting incident occurs, and if the shooter has buggy bulgy eyes, and a fat head, and turns instantly for the legal safe harbor of insanity. they always seem to have an accommodating shrink in tow, don't they now?
nor will i be surprised, if the circumstances behind the shooting gets a very quick, and a very tight lid put on it, not to be pried off by a compliant press. this latter circumstance smells to high heaven, and smells of leftist complicity. hey, when the left went after sarah palin, they moved a "journalist" in next door to her, to sniff through her garbage and read her discarded mail. he stayed for months.
and, we know nothing of the shooting of the school children. the story is buried. along with anything about the shooter, or his likely helpers. or, what may have motivated him.
how can this be?
john jay @ 06.07.2013
p.s. yes, it has come to this point with me, where i could suspect a sitting president of the united states of america in such perfidy. i don't trust the bastard, as far as i could throw him.
this night i drove the back roads from walla walla to milton freewater, having given up on another attempt to find some good music to listen too, driven from the bistro by another nimno who thinks jazz and blues is yelling at the top of leather lungs while an idiot guitarist bursts ear drums in accompaniment.
i left the confines of walla walla just at dusk, with just enough light to be able to distinguish the colors of the wheat fields and plowed stubble on the foot hills, and to see the depth of the canyons being rapidly enveloped in the shadows. i drove at a leisurely pace, the windows rolled down, and delighting in the cooling air, it having got into the mid 90's here today.
to my left, in the dusk, the lights of tractors and trucks picking up alfalfa hay bails, and a gental cloud of alfalfa dust wafting the sweat fragrance of newly baled dry hay, and just a hint of the scent of the newly mown fresh scent of 4 or 5 days ago. nothing smells like newly cut alfalfa, but the remnant fragrance is pretty nice, too. a moment later, to my right, the fuzzy arcs of water from the sprinklers on a circle pivot, and a hazy cloud of dust from a country gravel road rolls northward, the cloud expanding, and covering the field just the other side of the pivot, this in the gathering darkness.
the air is sweat, and cooking, and feels brisk on my face after the heat of the day.
as darkness approaches, i can see the yellow in the wheat where just a few days ago emerald green predominated. this little spate of heat has turned the wheat, and it is now the yellow portion of green, and in a few days it will be golden, the heads filling the space at the top of the entire growth, until it looks like an undulating nappy carpet in the breeze. the peas are in full bloom, and i expect the white flowers to drop in a bit, to be replaced by the filling pods. neither the wheat nor the peas appear a bumper crop, the effect of a cold dry spring, ... , a late rain about 10 days ago prevented a bit of a failure, but it was too late to see a repeat of the last two years when the yields were outstanding.
as i drive over the gently rolling foothills, i see the lights of milton freewater nestled between the two hills at the end of the mountain valley course of the walla walla, and as i make the final turn past the cemetery on the hill before i drop down to the river, the last lavender and pink hues of the sun setting just in line with the wallula gap wane, and begin to turn a darkish purple, and then nightfall. wallulu gap is the point where the columbia river stops its southward meander looking for a way to the pacific, and turns westward into the columbia gorge, and its tempestuous path between three of the northwest's larger strato volcanoes, south of adams and st. helens, and north of hood, before sweeping north again at portland, oregon and thence to the sea.
in the pinks and lavenders and grays and blues of the sunset, the line of hills that define the gap stand dark sentinels to the river's rush to the sea, although the hills and cathedral like walls of the gap itself cannot be apprehended.
i admire all of you who fight to defend our liberties, who assert our rights and our freedoms against all personal risk, and at great cost. i envy you your fighting spirit.
but, on nights like this, on little quiet drives home along the foothills of the walla walla valley, set at they are against the backdrop of the blue mountains, i also feel a deep regret that you do not have, that you are not given to, these little blissful interludes. i am not driven as you are, i am given to moments contemplating these things, just as the old bull in the stories.
but, when the fight comes, i shall be there, and i will be prepared. i just hope that i live long enough, and that we can get to the fight for our liberties which is inevitable, and that we can be done with all this ceaseless blather with the idiots who do not comprehend the peril into which they have cast all of us.
they well deserve what they have coming. in the meantime, i have had my ten minute driven in the night's gloaming, in the chilling air, in the freshing breezes. there are things to be said about the country, the fields, the hills, the hawks and the badgers and the moose in my neighbor's front yard.
some people have accused me of writing "fantastical" accounts of my life here. and, i do. but, they are, as walter brennan's character said on the t.v. show, "no brag, just fact." just the plain unvarnished truth, ... , not everyday events, but, events occurring often enough, to make this place special.