A tip of the bowler to an amigo named Thud on Blighty, I could not possibly resist sharing this delightful visual non-sequiteur.

In light of the scandalous treatment of Honduras, not much needs to be said. Attributed to Maggies Farm.

A Moment Captured in Time

Poignantly the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya found it's final resting place silently on the moon - chronicled by a Japanese HD video that I found to be quite sad.

As one last service to Mankind it also detected lunar uranium deposits, leading visionaries to hope for Man's return and successful colonization.

But I'm sure that some partially educated Green-bending fool would call it Colonialization, to whit this exchange in comments - another moment captured in time:

What? Solar isn't a good option? Solar is the best option. Every second, the sun produces and provides more energy in that 1 second of light than man has ever created in history. How is solar a bad option?
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"How is solar a bad option?"
Um... because night on the Moon lasts 14 days?

I pray for our country.

Honduras Bogus Ballots Came From Venezuela

The Spanish newspaper La Prensa provides a timeline of the astroturfing behind the attempted coup by former Honduran President Zalaya.
While some gunnies like to repeat the old adage about the "Soap Box, Ballot Box and Cartridge Box," the Left plays it's own little game of deception by multiplying the boxes like a typical freelance Socialist street-corner ripoff, the game of three-card monty.
In this case the Left invented a fourth ballot-box , la Cuarta Urna, to be ballot-stuffed by people paid to vote a certain way - money that likely came to Honduras from the stolen funds of corpulent-Communist Dictator Hugo Chavez. He was so generous he even had the ballots printed for the upcoming outcome...
The attempted "election" itself contravened every law in the Honduran Constitution:

This is in direct violation of the country’s Constitution, which forbids the President from calling for changes to the Constitution. Articles 373 and 374 of the Honduran Constitution specifically state that amendments to the Constitution be approved by 2/3 of the votes in Congress AND specifically forbid any President of the country from extending term limits. The Constitution also says these two articles can not be amended.

It was not an out-of-the-blue idea about recently imposed and inconvenient term-limits, but a plot that had been simmering since February 17th, during a parade showcasing several tractors gifted by Venezuelan strongman Chubby Chávez, only two days after Chávez’s own bogus "referendum" that extended his control over Venezuela indefinitely.

The La Prensa article details how, having failed to submit a budget to the Accounting Tribunal (presumably an office with a few more teeth than out GAO), Zalaya was under investigation as to where he was getting money for the "fourth urn". The vice-president of the Honduran Congress accused Zelaya of diverting 5.5 billion Lempiras to finance the illegal campaign, and Bureaucrats who participated in an astroturf-demonstration favoring the referendum admitted that they had received 300-500 Lempiras for attending.
By April the country’s institutions had warned Zelaya that what he was attempting to do was not only unlawful but also would be considered a coup d’etat. He knew exactly what he was doing.

As Francisco Toro of the blog Caracas Chronicles writes in an article for the New Republic blog The Plank: Fetishizing the Presidency:

Under Fidel Castro’s iconic shadow and Hugo Chávez’s day-to-day leadership, a new generation of authoritarian leftists has mounted a concerted campaign against the kinds of constitutional checks and balances that make liberal democracy viable. Honduras’s political class grasped clearly that to allow Zelaya’s charisma to trump the nation’s explicit constitutional ban on presidential continuismo would be to open the door to the kind of institutional involution that Venezuela and Bolivia have experienced, with a hyperempowered executive gradually eating away at the other branch’s prerogatives until nothing of the Republic is left.

Unfortunately the U.S. and several other countries have been deliberately mislead by the Media or their own sources, and the Big Lie has emerged and it's being slung about - this kind of reality-inversion is precisely what earns us the title of The Ugly American throughout the world. But why is Zelaya’s Constitutional coup attempt ignored by the world?

Gunblogger Rendezvous IV Fast Approaching

Stolen from Ride Fast because he did a better job than I could:
Mr. Completely wants everybody to remember that the Fourth Annual Gun Bloggers Rendezvous is just over two months away.
If your going it's probably about time to register, make reservations at the Silver Legacy (a big step-up from Circuis-Circuis IMO), and book your flights.
If your not going you should change your mind and go. CHANGE! CHANGE AND HOPE! This will be the best one yet.

Here are some highlights (context liberated from Kevin Baker at The Smallest Minority):

Alan Gura, the lawyer who won D.C. v Heller will be attending. (BTW, the first anniversary of that victory was last FRIDAY. How time flies!)
At the pizza dinner Saturday night, you can bid on an autographed Heller Kitty T-shirt donated by me. Yeah, we're fanboyz of a lawyer. Get over it.

Firearms lawyer and blogger Mark Knapp will also be attending.

Along with Glock, Para USA, Brownell's, Dillon Precision, Crimson Trace and many others, the National Shooting Sports Federation is now a sponsor, and will be picking up the tab for the pizza dinner on Saturday, thus allowing the $30 registration fee to be donated to Project Valour-IT. (The adult beverage tab will, however, still be ours.)

In addition to the Para GI Expert that I personally am donating, Para USA is donating another as yet undisclosed pistol for the Saturday evening raffle. I'm not certain yet, but I believe for that one you must be present to win.

Hi Point firearms is donating one of their carbines this year, rather than a pistol, so you have a chance to win one of at least THREE (3) firearms, and your odds are pretty damned good. Not to mention the other great swag provided by the ever-increasing number of fine sponsors.

Instead of just ONE day of shooting at the fine Palomino Valley Gun Club range, there may be the opportunity to go shooting THREE times - General blastage on Friday, Steel Challenge and Action Pistol-type shooting on Saturday, and possibly Cowboy Quick-Draw for those who are able to attend on Sunday. That's still being worked out, but things are coming together.

And, as always, there will be plenty of sitting around shooting the breeze in the hospitality room, and I believe we will be visited by a representative of the NRA again this year. (I want to know where my wheelbarrows full of money are.)

So make your plans to attend! This promises to be the biggest gathering yet.

The gig is being held at the Silver Legacy this year. They have a whole page of "special offers". The Great Reno Balloon Race coincides with the Rondy weekend. Some of the amenities offered by the Silver Legacy are: health spa, pool, full service hair salon, shoe shine, Segway rentals, Adventure Desk (outdoor activities in the Reno-Lake Tahoe area), Concierge service and property wide wireless Internet access.

The Commandress of Ride Fast fame is probably going to take advantage of the Harley Rental option. She and some of the gals that aren't goin' shootin' are going to rent Hogs and go tour the brothels outside of Virginia City. There is truly something for everyone.

Also, any bloggers reading this, steal all or part (including links) and lets get this plastered all over the blog-o-sphere since WE are the only advertisers of this gig.

Maybe even some Bay-Aryan blogs will choose to attend. C'mon, it's fun!

Honduras Saves Itself!!

This was not a military coup, but the deposal of an illegally-acting President who attempted his own coup. The military acted on orders of the Congress and Supreme Court to defend their constitution and remove a would-be tyrant who was trying to undermine the country’s constitution and who acted in violation of the country’s laws and judiciary.

The Honduran President was pushing a special referendum on Sunday, with ballots distributed by the military - votes that would allow him to re-write the Honduran Constitution and remove a two-thirds vote requirement, and enable himself to be re-elected, and re-elected, and re-elected, etc.

The President had said, "Sunday's referendum will not be stopped."

The Honduran Supreme Court declared the referendum, one that attempted to bring forth Executive Power against a judicial order, to be unlawful.

When the military refused to distribute the ballots the President fired the head of the armed forces.

The Honduran Supreme Court ordered the head of the armed forces to be re-instated, and the Attorney General made a request to Congress to oust the President. Congress also named a commission to investigate the President.

The military was ordered to detain the President, and then Congress officially ousted him, "for repeated violations to the Constitution" and has named a new President.

The ambassadors for Chavez' Venezuela, Castro's Cuba, and Ortega's Nicaragua were arrested.

The former president was expelled to Costa Rica where upon arriving he made a speech blaming the "rich elite who wants to keep everybody else poor."

Elections will be held as scheduled in November.

Of course, animated retard and liar Hillary Clinton said that, "the action taken against Honduras’ president should be condemned by everyone."

Venezuelan communist strongman and President-for-Life Hugo Chavez blamed the U.S. for the removal of his lackey, and is reportedly talking to Cuban thug-leader Morales Castro to define "anti-coup strategies." Chavez also said that he would overthrow the president designated, to re-substitute Zelaya.

Let's hope and pray that Hugo Chavez is not enabled by our current Administration's nitwits, and that Democracy can be maintained and strengthened in Honduras.

Magpul Ranger Floorplates!

Rangers. North Africa and Italy. Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc. The invasion of the Philippines and the Raid at Cabanatuan. Merrill's Marauders deep in Burma. Binh Duong Province. Mogadishu. Kabul.
From Algeria to central Burma in WWII, from Korea to Iraq - Rangers have sacrificed.

And now to California where they sacrifice again.
Where due to the unique and peculiar, arbitrary and repressive, spastic and fantastic, the bizzaro-world of the Legislature and other circumstances of California Gub' Laws -- magazines can only be 10-rounds - the Magpul Ranger Floor Plate sacrifices two.
Turning 10-round magazines into 8-round magazines.
As a literary ouvre it's small, The AR as M1 Garand - but without the whomping sectional density of calibre. It is a petite M'forgerie to the bristly old battle-hardened Garande Dame.
But aren't they cute little magazines!?
And who cares, BFD, since they require a tool for removal from the magazine locking mechanism anyhow. God I hate these useless, stupid, feel-good-do-nothing laws. [sigh]

Hey Ahnold Girlie-Man

That ain't no movie prop.
















That's a real six-shooter grenade launcher.

The Ministry of Truth

Coming-up on June 24th get ready to Rrruuumble!! It's Graveyard-Charlie Gibson from the Ministry of Truth, Party Mouthpiece Apapartchik former ABC morning talk-show bobblehead turned White House Sockpuppet, will deliver to the American People a White House Primetime Special, 'Prescription for America'. Do-or-die, it's the Obama Administration's "WORLD NEWS" - from the Blue Room of the White House!!

Watch in wonder as Media-Turds circle the bowl in one giant gushing-flushing movement!!

Meanwhile Obama fiddles while reports of the Army moving into Theran burns-up the Twitterwaves; "Not productive...nope, uh-huh."




I don't twitter but I just heard a little birdie tell me that Disney owns ABC, so maybe it's a small world after all...