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...

Latviafornia

This is what California needs to do: "The government, which is desperately trying to bridge a yawning budget deficit, decided late on Thursday to slash public-sector pay by 20 percent and pensions and family allowances by 10 percent, and not to raise taxes."
It's do-able.

Poll-O-Plenty

Reloading for AR's?
	AR.) Wash in hot soapy water, anneal, re-size, tumble, trim with an end-mill, wash...
	G.) What has it gots in itss primer pocketesses?
	BR.) Sort cases by weight to the .001, measure runout
	D.) Taper crimp?
	F.) B and G then trim
	C.) You missed a spot.
pollcode.com free polls

Working Small

The RCBS "Trim Mate" case-prep thing puts five turning tools into one small place, but it doesn't trim-to-length. I've removed the primer-hole uniformer-cutter (a Lyman hand tool that happens to thread right in) and laid it in the top tray.
The #1 rotating station has a standard-thread long .22cal bore brush. #2 has the military crimp remover/cutter, #3 has the outside chamfer, #4 has the inside chamfer tool, and #5 has the primer pocket reamer/uniformer. You can move them around to wherever you want for your own ergonomic convenience.

For me the biggest time-spender has been trimming. One thing I really like about the RCBS tool though is that pressure is applied downward and (IMO) can be more evenly applied.
With the Wilson trimmer I have to work it sideways, inserting the cutting head attached to a cordless drill and it feels awkward, not to mention the added set-up time with the Wilson; screwing it down to the bench and then setting the length - and as a "lateral" tool it takes up more space just to operate it sideways because you just need more elbow room. I don't really need a 36-inch wide bench but trimming like this kinda demands it.
Here's a guy who figured-out another way to do it that I think I might test, and his bench isn't even nearly as deep as mine!


All I need is to do is fix up the Lee tool and cutter to do the length trimming. Awesome!

How Big is Small?

In a previous post blogger Conservative Scalawag mentioned he'd like to start reloading but for the lack of room in his cramped apartment - with which I fully sympathize.
However, far from having a huge Gunnytastic Reloading Shackzilla, I have a 36"-by-17" kitchen cart-thing from Target, and most of my junk is stored in a 2-drawer file cabinet in the closet - so fear not those of you with space constraints!
The bathroom vanity cabinet mounted on the wall holds measuring tools and small things, the wide drawer holds dies and things to bang on the press. And the double-doors hide empty brass, powders, bullets, and cleaning media. My small Dillon brass tumbler hides in the clothes-closet where behind a closed door its sound-signature is muted.

Digital Textbooks are GO!

Governator Schwarzenegger said he wants to get rid of big heavy textbooks and replace them with digital materials which will save the State some $400(?)-Million. That really doesn't address the major structural problems inherent in California's economic collapse, but as another bright idea it's a good place to start.

My guess is that the threatened textbook publishing indu$$try will react strongly. We tried to break through that wall when I worked at eBooks and it was a real Maginot Line of legal defense and interlocking school district contract enfilades they had built - so maybe blitzkrieg is the only way it will work.
Some think the Kindle would be a good platform, but IMO the whole thing needs to become more open-source. Separating the delivery platform from the content side is like freeing the words on the page from the heavy binding the publishers apply.
Personally I like the Sony device better than the Kindle just based on its design properties, but it needs to be able to wirelessly download books, either from a home network or through 3G.
Anyhow it would be easier on the kids who I see lugging rolling pieces of luggage stuffed with books to school.

The green, green, brass of earth.

Oops, I got that mixed-up with The Green Hills of Earth.
Cleaning brass and kickin' ass.

Local Color

It speaks for itself, but this was noticed a week ago.
I felt bad about posting it, for a brief moment. Being passportless can be a hindrance, to the INS for identification process. And ICE. And all those Gubb'mint TLA organizations. And we landed France sixty-five years ago yesterday to help rid them and the Euro-subcontinent of the Teutonic National Socialist One-World Party.

Forty years ago I was eleven years old we visited Omaha Beach and the vast cemetery. It was something I'll never forget, driving down through bright sunny hedgerows on a hot day, and coming out to see a sea of white marble crosses overlooking the ocean. It's a stunningly beautiful location on the seaside, about 12Km east of Point du Hoc.

While reading in Naval History magazine about the Ranger assault on Pointe du Hoc, I was surprised to recognize a very familiar name. Friends of our family share the same name as a US Navy destroyer that was instrumental in assisting the Rangers in their climb up the dangerous cliffs, a ship which practiced and coordinated with them and provided fire-support from all her guns at nearly point-blank range, clearing the clifftops of German counter-attackers and enabling the success of the daring approach.

And now I'm in the middle of a book about Rangers that shares the name of another gunblogger, The Unforgiving Minute. Interesting vortex, and good music.

After the Reeducation Camp

After the reeducation camp, when my brain has been scrubbed clean of all this negativity, I will be happy riding my unicorn across golden fields of popcorn beneath a rainbow colored sky.

I can see Clearly Now ( #27: Excuses for not going to practice)

Dammit.
At least the water is not longer opaque, and the greasy yellow scum has subsided - time to get out the channellock wrench and see what's clogged.

Damn. Today is Wednesday which is Old/Unemployed-Fart Practice down at the range. Saturday is a Practice Match, and Sunday is the club's John C. Garand Match. I need to practice my off-hand/curls with the M1 but don't have any .30-06 ammo for it - just boxes and boxes of brass. Obviously I need to get back to the reloading bench, I even have about 1000 primers from before the mad rush on components.

UPDATE: This unit was built a bit over 20-years ago and has cast-iron from the street up to the interior connections, with PVC afterwards. It's fairly easy to work-on if you're a contortionist.


The double-sink's drain to the disposal is clear, the main outflow pipe looks ok (who the hell knows?), and the air-vent to the dishwasher was clear (except I could blow back into the dishwasher - so maybe it needs either a loop in the line or a backflow preventer. I think that's where the under-sink dishwasher odor has been originating. The trap was full of water and a bit of gook - it could be in the disposal, but first I ought to snake the main. Maybe a shot of bore-cleaner will fix it? :-)


UPDATE-UPDATE: Using a metal hacksaw blade I cut the down-pipe short about 3/8" with the Bosch saber-saw, to encourage downhill travel/flow, and then cleaned up the edge with a file.
My journey to the Plumbing Supply shop garnered me another 25-foot snake (for the second time in 20-years) that I pushed and twisted with the cordless drill to slap the sides of the outflow pipe. A day later: Now I know how Marlon Perkins felt after wrestling with a 25-foot anaconda.

It felt like I pushed through about six or seven blockages in the 25-foot run before the snake ended. Then I rigged a vise to hold it in place and just let it go for a while until I noticed icky black specks appearing on the linoleum.
Ugg, get out the 409 and more paper towels for cleanup.
I finally got it all back together and buttoned-up and we should be good for another 20-years of neglect.

UPDATE-UPDATE-UPDATE: Best of all: I found a box of handloads, enough for the Garand Match, hiding in my loading bench!