How is that for complete and utter denial? They were in such an alternate reality or so lost in their own delusions of self-worth, that they added something in before it even happened. Have no fear though because when they got caught with their fly down, they did what they always do and scrubbed it clean.
Now I’m trying to document as our opponents as they traverse the stages of grief. It is worth noting that everyone goes through it much differently. Some will quickly transition through different parts of the stages of grief.
It is obvious that many are in denial, some have expressed anger. Next up is bargaining. As I have said before, there will be no bargaining, we have done it before and at this point I will give no quarter. The sooner they transition to acceptance of the death of their bigoted views, the better.
It is known how our opponents fantasize about violence and the like. As many of them transition in to anger, be on the lookout for outbursts. If you see any, please send them my way. I’m going to tag all of them as “Grief of the Anti-Gunners”. I will take some time here soon and tag older posts that tie into it as well.
Their meltdown is going to be long and spectacular. We should at least congregate and note the highlight moments.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
(Emphasis mine.) While it does seem that most of the work may have been on the defense side instead of the prosecution, he still was a city employee. Charged with enforcing and upholding the law.
Now he has promptly resigned and the punishment matches what the rest of the public should see in that municipality if the article is to be believed. Still, this fits perfectly with the, “Laws for thee, not for me” tag.
State Sponsored Criminal #420: Jason Cantrell
Because laws only apply to the lowly peons. Those who work for the king are allowed to have any noun they want.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
So I stumbled across the following today which while isn’t news to me may be news to others, and even more so may be discounted or considered untrue. I initially wanted to cover this as I went through the my “Power Series” posts and I touched on it on an episode of Vicious Circle but I think it’s time for me to write it all out.
This is considered just common knowledge to those within the utility industry. The reason being is because our legislators are ignoring not just the laws of economics but also the laws of physics.
For the purpose of this example I am going to talk specifically about the Pacific North West, more specifically Washington.
In the mid-2000’s Governor Gregiore decided that hydro-electric dams are not a renewable resource and that by 2020, 20% of the state’s electricity will be “renewable”, read that as wind power. As an FYI for those out of the area, we pay approximately 4-5 cents per KWh for hydro up here. Hydro is cheap and plentiful here in the Pacific North West, so much so we ship a good chunk of it to California.
To further encourage the construction of wind farms beyond the mandate the operating costs are subsidized by the state. The cost even subsidized for a wind farm in the area is approximately 15-17 cents per KWh. Yes you read that right, 3 times as much even with the state subsidizing it’s operation.
Except wind is not as “Green” as everyone makes it out to be. You see wind can quickly come and go. This means generation can quickly come and go offline merely based on what the weather does. This is a problem because power is consumed on an on-demand basis. You don’t want your lights turning on in the middle of the night right? Just the same you don’t like the power going out while you’re working on your computer writing up that report for work. Part of the whole “smart house” push is so that the utilities can control the load as well such as your refrigerator, dryer, etc., to shed load when necessary.
It makes sense and it sounds good, but ultimately I’m paying for a service and you can either provide it or you cannot. Well the biggest problem with wind is how quickly it can disappear. Generators don’t start instantly and other generation in the system doesn’t instantly spin up to supply power to the load. There is inertia involved and to increase the power means you need to increase the torque etc. The sudden decline in power being supplied while the load remains constant can cause system instability.
The solution to this problem is to have an onsite generator(s) at a wind farm that idles while the wind farm is producing power. Usually this takes the form of a Natural Gas Turbine generator. As the wind dies off the generator spools up to take the load. Then the generator slowly spools back down to let the rest of the grid slowly absorb the power load. So in other words your wind generator is burning fuel in a turbine, running as inefficiently as possible so it can pick up the load in event of a rapid loss of wind.
Out here in the Pacific North West this becomes very apparent in the spring with the high spring run off as well as peak winds through the area. This past year the utilities were forced by the state to buy power from the wind farms while shutting down the dams.
Yes you read that right, the utilities were forced to buy more expensive power and leave cheaper power idle. Not only were the dams forced to be idle, but because it occurred during peak run off, they were forced to dump water over the spillway and waste it. Instead of following the laws of economics, they were tossed to the side and instead of the wind, the more expensive power providing the back fill for what hydro couldn’t provide, the roles were reversed, and for what?
Ultimately this does nothing but increase the rates for energy consumption. Doubly so since the dam has increased costs because instead of it producing power, it’s forced to be shutdown, despite it being the more efficient and cheaper power producer.
This is what happens when politicians get involved in economics and start regulating business. Instead of the consumer getting a better deal, they get a more expensive product and overall crappier service due to the power swings that come with the fluctuations in wind.
Then again, the goals of our politicians could be much more sinister.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
What is most disturbing though is even in light of this information people continue to defend the TSA. Ignoring that it is merely a theater that allows criminals to prey upon the citizenry with the aid of the state.
State Sponsored Criminal #417: Pythias Brown
Because the American public is merely an ATM for those who work for the government.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
What do you mean there wasn’t a sudden increase in crime. Our opponents promised blood in the streets, where is it!? You mean that when the law was passed it followed the historical example of the past 20+ years where nothing happened?
Our opponents continue to bring the same old tired and false arguments to the table and are wondering why they are loosing so badly in their fight to infringe on the rights of people. It’s obvious that they’re loosing because many of their supporters are descending into the second stage of grief.
This is the way our opponents behave when they’re loosing. They say that we are the violent ones, yet they are the ones who regularly devolve into threats and violence. Some have devolved into the third stage and are attempting to bargain, bargaining for an extra few minutes of life for their beloved cause.
They will get no sympathy from me. We bargained with them in the past and they took that inch and made it a mile. We learned then and there they have no will to actually compromise or work together, their sole goal is the complete destruction of the right to keep and bear arms.
They can merely move on to depression and finally acceptance. Our opponents must ultimately accept the fact that their bigoted view on rights was on the wrong side of history.
I wish the day that they finally implode would have an “earth shattering kaboom”, but alas I think they will just slowly fade into the dust bin of history. Even once that happens it’s going to be a long road to undo the damage they have done and regain the full respect this right deserves. I will fight tirelessly until that goal is achieved.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
It appears that there is credible information suggesting another terrorist attack is going to occur in the middle east. You know much like the first one that killed a US Ambassador and 3 other US citizens. Our fearless leaders response can be summed up with the following statement:
Umm, why are we still sending money to that crap hole? Seriously, why is anyone in our government still contemplating sending our money to those who will just use it to kill our own civilians.
Yeah, Reason magazines response I think fits this incident quite well.
Lets not ignore the fact that this administration still tries to blame a video for something that is actually a terrorist action. I watched the video and it doesn’t even qualify as something that would even fit into Grindhouse cinema. Some of us have woke the fuck up, there’s plenty more than continue to want to rack up debt and fund our enemies, who’s really asleep at the wheel here?
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
If my tax rate went up, but everyone was guaranteed to pay the same exact rate, I would support it. No more out’s, no more credits, no more deductions. Just a simple equations, “Your Income” x “Tax Rate” = “What you owe” and the tax rate is the same no matter who you are or what you make.
I am more than willing because I know that tax rate won’t last for long as every last incumbent is voted out of office until the tax rates are finally lowered for everyone. You’re much less willing to support a tax when it’s your money the government is taking.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
What a fucking drama queen. Try doing it over again with a duty holster duty belt and body armor like a LEO. They act like a police qualification course is suppose to be the pinnacle of marksmanship.
[It appears he is probably the one that also posted a comment here. My initial response can be seen here but I had a realization this morning.
From the point of view this video was done for it doesn’t freaking matter. Obviously this man is deaf so I will write out what I stated at the beginning of the video.
This came about because a reader of his blog said the LAPD qualification course would be beyond the realm of capability of most non-law-enforcement shooters.
I don’t wear an LEO duty belt, body armor, every day so why the hell should I have to qualify with it? The whole thing came about because of the reaction of someone who supports gun control. She argued that the police meet a high standard of marksmanship and that we wouldn’t be able to match it. I matched it, in my everyday carry gear.
Being a man of my word though, if you have a pile of duty gear you don’t want and are willing to donate to the cause, I will shoot the course again.
Further, there’s not running involved in the course so the extra weight doesn’t matter, the most is limited mobility, except there is only one stage that requires a draw so even then that doesn’t really matter
I do love AR15.com though, it does provide hours of entertainment and reminds me why I don’t usually bother with forums.
At which point a couple people join in with Spartacus-boy’s rant. I wore the hat and glasses because it’s easier than trying to find someone to do camera make up to take the glare off my head (I am bald, not by choice) and face. Sorry my facial hair isn’t what you would like either, didn’t know I needed to call out for your approval. Guess next time I’ll just wear a ball cap, aviators, a wife beater, and trim completely down to a goatee. Sorry I didn’t want to have facial hair like everyone else in the world regularly has. Pardon me for offending you!
If this wasn’t close the LAPD course of fire, please supply me with the latest version in the comments. As for LAPD duty gear and firearms, see the comment above and the goal. The argument is that every day shooters, who don’t regularly wear LAPD duty gear while carrying, couldn’t pass the course.
That said, I live a block from an FFL, send a duty arm to him and send me the duty gear and I’ll run it. Put up or shut up. If you’re willing to put up, contact me.
Overall though I was pleased to see the AR15.com thread for the most part other than the few outliers was positive and many were correcting others pointing out what the actual purpose of this exercise was. -B]
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
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