Bear Kills 1 Person, Injures 2 Others at Campground Near Yellowstone

HELENA, Mont. -- At least one bear rampaged through a campground near Yellowstone National Park before dawn Wednesday, killing one person and injuring two others before campers sought shelter in their cars, wildlife officials said.

Tents were smashed in the 4 a.m. attack that left a male dead at the Soda Butte campground. A female suffered severe lacerations from bites on her arms, while another male was bitten on his calf and taken to a hospital in Cody, Wyo.

Wildlife officials did not release the identities or ages of the victims. A response team was being sent to piece together what happened.

I have never, not for even one moment of my adult life, understood why grownups go to play around bears.

Unarmed.

Back when the gang I hung with went camping in Pennsylvania every chance we got, not a one was without at least a large bore handgun, as the blackies can get near on 700 pounds or more, so that meant .44 magnum minimum as the side arm, and a slug-fed 12 gauge or .30-ought-six for the long arm.  Even the Hogtown Irregulars, woodcrafty as all get out, wouldn't dream of intruding on bruins without the proper bang stick.

Somewhere, Charles Darwin is nodding.

RIP Straightarrow

The last time I wrote about someone "passing away", old Straight called me mamby pamby. Dead is dead, not passing anything, he said.

Charles H. Sawders, aka Straightarrow, died on July 19.

A frequent commenter here, there, and everywhere that free men strive mightily to remain so, he rang my bell once or twice before coming to the understanding that a lot of times we here at Shooting talk with tongue in cheek.

I often thought him to be an inactive Marine, such was his passion for Liberty, some times forgetting that Marines don't have the patent on bravery. He sure would have made a good one, though. I was wondering about his being AWOL as of late, but folks come and go and it was after all summer vacation time so maybe he was just touring his beloved country like all us old fella's like to do.

I miss him a lot already.

When a Patriot dies it diminishes us all and that just means it is time to work harder as we close ranks to try and plug an unfulfillable gap in the line.

Like to thank The War on Guns for alerting the net to his death, and if you'd wish to learn more or get the link to Straight's obituary and even where to leave a bereavement message, then please click here.

PS: If you do happen to click into the Funeral Parlor's site and successfully leave a message drop me a line and tell my how you managed to do so. Doesn't work for me but I'm web illiterate.

Mexican Officials to Patrol Staten Island Following Latest Bias Attack

Police are investigating another assault on a Hispanic man in Staten Island as a possible hate crime -- and the Mexican government is now getting involved as well.

Five men attacked the 40-year-old Mexican man Friday night as he was walking home after a soccer game at Faber Park, cop said. The attackers allegedly pummeled him while yelling anti-Mexican epithets. The man suffered head trauma, a fractured jaw and needed ten stitches above his eye, officials said.

The group of men made off with his backpack.

This is at least the sixth violent, ethnically-charged incident that has taken place in the neighborhood since April, and community leaders are urging residents to remain alert.

We will act decisively in order to protect our citizens and will actively promote that those guilty of these vicious attacks are brought to justice expeditiously. We are working hand-in-hand with local authorities on all levels, said Consul General of Mexico in New York, Ruben Beltran in an email to the Staten Island Advance.

Now hold on thar...

Arizona cannot investigate illegal, criminal Mexicans, BUT...

Mexican authorities can enter NYC and HELP illegal criminal Mexicans?

The gentleman in question IS an illegal Mexican immigrant, but that is of no import in this context. He should not have been savagely beaten then robbed of his property. America is a due-process land, and he instead should have been apprehended then repatriated to his legal homeland.

Allowing Mexicans in to protect illegal Mexicans... but wishing to ban a STATE from protecting legal AMERICANS is more mind boggling than can be easily described.

Tehama sheriff leads gun rights suit

Tehama County Sheriff Clay Parker is passionate about citizens’ rights to bear arms.

So much so, he is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit recently filed in Sacramento by the National Rifle Association/California Rifle and Pistol Association Foundation Legal Action Project challenging state Assembly Bill 962.

When the bill was signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last year, the governor said it “requires vendors of handgun ammunition to keep a log of information on handgun ammunition sales, store ammunition in a safe and secure manner, and require the face-to-face transfer of ammunition sales.”

“The bill is too broad,” Parker said. “What is handgun ammunition? If you ask, no one could tell you. Some people may say a .357 shell is handgun ammunition, but I have a .357 rifle. This bill has to be defined better.”

This isn’t the first time Parker has taken action on the issue of firearms legislation. He took an active part in the lawsuit against Chicago’s long-standing ban on handguns, a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court struck down the ban in June.

“I will continue to fight laws infringing a citizen’s right to bear arms,” Parker stated. “If a law could really do some good, okay. But when they pass laws affecting law abiding citizen’s not the criminals, that is not okay.”

For as much as I rag on law enforcement it's only fitting to applaud the ones that get-it. 

Thanks for being a Patriot, Sheriff Parker.

And thanks to Of Arms and the Law for the link.

Man caught having sex with dog at english castle

A CROSS-dressing man was caught having sex with a dog in the moat of a picturesque English Castle, it has emerged. 

The 33-year-old transvestite mounted the canine after it ran off from its owner at Pendennis Castle - a historical fortress in southern England built by King Henry VIII - on the morning of July 10, the UK's Telegraph website reported.

The pet's owner had been touring the castle with a friend when the dog chased after the cross-dresser. By the time the woman caught up with her pet, the man was already having sex with it.

Castle staff detained the man as police were called to the scene, a spokesman for English Heritage, which manages the attraction, said..

"This really was a very rare and unusual incident," the spokesman said.

The man was later said to have made a "full and frank confession" to the incident, which remains under police investigation.

Tuesday's Anti-Obo Cartoonish Goings On

Seriously now...does this idiot REALLY believe that burdening the country with MORE taxation will stimulate it?

Demo rats* Lied...The Economy Died

 The REAL Scoop On The Bush Tax Cuts

The 2001 Economic Growth and Recovery Tax Act was George Bush’s version of Barack Obama’s stimulus plan. However, instead of creating a bunch of temporary government jobs and subsidizing the expansion of government, it cut tax rates, increased the child tax credit, increased the standard deduction for married couples, and increasing contribution caps for a variety of savings programs. The result? The recession ended in November of 2001. (Source)

But, September 11, 2001, happened as the economy was recovering and throughout 2002, the economy grew at an anemic rate. The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 revved up the 2001 tax cut package and cut taxes again on dividends and capital gains.

The result?

Under George W. Bush’s “tax cuts for the rich” the rich paid more in taxes in 2005 than any time in the prior 20 years. In fact, as the Wall Street Journal noted, thanks to George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the rich, the richest one percent went from paying 25% of all income taxes in 1990 to 39% in 2005. The richest 5% went from paying 44% of all income taxes in 1990 to paying 60% of all income taxes in 2005.

In 1980, when the top income tax rate was 70%, the richest 1% paid only 19% of all income taxes; now, with a top rate of 35%, they pay more than double that share.

More crucially, after the 2001 initial tax cuts, the annual growth rate went from 0.3% in 2001 to 2.5% in 2002. By 2004, GDP growth was the highest in 20 years. (Source)

Likewise, after the 2003 tax cuts, the unemployment rate fell to the lowest level since World War II. Let me repeat that: the Bush economic program created the lowest unemployment level ever. In fact, economists liken it to full employment given the demographic composition of those who were left on the unemployment line.

(The downturn in the economy) has nothing to do with the Bush tax cuts. The Bush tax cuts, objectively, helped the economy both recovery from the 2000-2001 recession and spur some of the greatest economic activity the nation has ever seen.

In their efforts to end the Bush tax cuts during a prolonged recession, the Democrats risk making the economy worse and introducing greater uncertainty into the market.

To learn more about how the Bush tax cuts STIMULATED a stagnating economy, please click here.

* Beg pardon. The "c" key on my computer sometimes sticks.

The Rise And Soon Fall Of The Un-Presidential President...

"...An ass-thumping president frantically fighting for the little guy—it’s hard to imagine George Washington or Abraham Lincoln choosing to project an image of this kind. Barack Obama has managed a rare feat in American history: The longer he is president, the less presidential he has become. Obama has reversed the usual process of growth and maturation, appearing today far more like a candidate for the presidency—and a very ordinary one at that—than he did during the latter stages of his campaign. 

He has also become practitioner-in-chief of what Alexander Hamilton referred to in Federalist 68 as the “little arts of popularity.” These arts, Hamilton well knew, would become an inevitable feature of democratic politics. But their spread from the province of political campaigns into the “normal” conduct of the presidency represents a dramatic reversal of the Founders’ design. The Constitution was crafted to prevent a campaign-style presidency; Obama is in the midst of creating one.  

In January 2010, the Obama-friendly Huffington Post ran a headline: “President Takes Populist Message on the Road.” Even some of his staunchest and most serious supporters, among them Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, have commended Obama for “turning toward populism.” 

By “populism” these observers were referring to divisive “us against them” appeals meant to rile up and energize a base. 

What the president’s supporters add by way of explanation, if excuses for employing the “little arts of popularity” are still necessary, is that Obama is only responding to an unprecedented series of attacks from his detractors. 

But this explanation misses the main point, which is not the alleged behavior of gatherings of citizens, but the norms and standards of the presidency. Many past presidents endured harsh criticisms from the press and from popular movements of their day, but considered it unpresidential to respond in kind. Not Barack Obama, who has found his comfort zone in magnifying and then assaulting any kind of opposition. This excuse for Obama’s style also overlooks that he does not want for other means to get his message across. Obama has at his beck and call a staff of professional spokespersons, not to mention the editorial page of the New York Times.

Barry the Bland has all he needs to do what his handlers require of him. He reads well, postures grandly, and is more at home hanging curtains than clearing out that skanky ass brush from the back 40.

Precisely the president his followers desperately needed. As lame as they in most instances, but placed in a position demanding respect.

A geeks nirvana.

Homeowner Shoots At Fake FBI Agents

COOPER CITY, Fla. -- Three men posing as FBI agents took off when the owner of a Cooper City home they were trying to rob shot at them, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.

Three men wearing baseball hats and T-shirts with the letters FBI on the back pulled a sport utility vehicle into the driveway of the home shortly after 4 a.m. Monday, Miami TV station WPLG reported. Two of the men got out of the SUV, while the third acted as a lookout, police said. The two men tried to open the home's front door with a crowbar, but that didn't work, so they tried to get in through a front window, the Sheriff's Office said.

Homeowner Malcolm Pena, 35, saw what was happening and fired his .40-caliber pistol through a window at the men, police said. The two robbers jumped into the SUV and drove away, police said.

Since this happened in Florida, all the police are likely to do to the homeowner is rag on him for failing to hit the fake feds. 

That, my friends, is gun control Sunshine State style. Other drivers are more courteous... not penpals don't get me wrong, but the thought of someone popping out of his ride at you with a GLOCK after you've just road-raged his ass is something to at least ponder...far fewer instances of bump and snatch or whatever it is they call intentionally slamming into someone else's car then stealing it from them is referred to in your neck of the woods...

...And home invaders must resort to all sorts of chicanery to stand a chance at surviving, let alone gleaning any gotten gains from their ill advised occupations.

An armed society IS a more polite...and SAFE society.

And please click the headline link, or here if you're that lazy, to see a video of these idjits at work.

Yale Graduate Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee...At Long Last...Explained

"Sheila Jackson Lee...thinks there are still two Vietnams and the same Sheila Jackson Lee who once asked a NASA official if a Martian probe would be able to see where the Neil Armstrong landed."

Click into I Hate The Media to see the startling results!Well. I don't suppose she'd release HER college transcripts either. Face Painting To Look Really Really Scary 101 probably isn't something to crow about.

NASA's Deep Space Camera Locates Host of 'Earths'

Scientists celebrated Sunday after finding more than 700 suspected new planets -- including up to 140 similar in size to Earth -- in just six weeks of using a powerful new space observatory.

Early results from NASA’s Kepler Mission, a small satellite observing deep space, suggested planets like Earth were far more common than previously thought.

“The figures suggest our galaxy, the Milky Way [which has more than 100 billion stars] will contain 100 million habitable planets, and soon we will be identifying the first of them,” said Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and a scientist on the Kepler Mission. "There is a lot more work we need to do with this, but the statistical result is loud and clear, and it is that planets like our own Earth are out there."

We're in the outer, lefthanded corner of the Milky Way. Looking in from Andromeda, that is. Sol is genuinely distant from the Galactic core that our newer space telescopes have begun to illuminate, and while these results are interesting, they beg the question; where are they?

Our galactic neighbors? The ones, some of them leastwise, with 8 billions or so years of head start? The ones we can now, however faintly, see, that must have most assuredly saw us in kind, many, many centuries ago. A galaxy that contains 200 to 400 billion stars, perhaps a hundredth of them the right temperature, perhaps a hundredth of them possessing satellites similar to earth, and maybe a hundredth of them the center of a solar system with planets fortunate enough to have the right sized moons and a thick enough atmosphere to withstand the bombardment of planet-killing asteroids, long enough for intelligent life to first gain a foothold, and then thrive.

The hundredths divided by the hundredths still equals an awful lot of potential earths. Maybe. Birds and ants and crocodiles perhaps but not one of these, still imaginary many, with anything remotely resembling a technology. 

The eggheads continue to argue over the size of the Milky Way, closest of all galaxies to giant Andromeda,  that itself holds captive over a trillion stars, but Andromeda poses an even more perplexing picture. Three to four times as star-strewn as our own, so where are its earths? More importantly, where are its low, mid, high, or super technologies?

Eliminating the impossible leads to the truth, so we know these potential space brothers aren't invisible, or shy...no species claws its way to the top of the evolutionary heap to then exist as a wallflower...or disinterested, or, X-Files aside, already among us.

Whats left?

The Jig Is Up....

Woody's reawakening of an older posting of his cranked up the urge in me to discover just who Barack Hussein Obama really is, but the trail is not just cold, it is downright icy.

There's a pic of Barry's Mom and Dad, neither of whom look anything like him.

But upon further searching, I think I've hit upon just WHO the Father really was.
Would explain a lot. Not that Barry's been to church services since moving into the White House, but I bet he and the Rev chitchat now and then.

Just sayin. The search continues.

And The Tee-Shirt Of The Month Award Goes To...

Racist! Racist! Racist! Racist! Racist! Racist! (An exclusive IHTM preview of the 2010 Democrat platform)

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The angry left is soooooooo predictable it is pathetic. Then again you knew all that.

Us, The FLAG, and Them

Should the American Flag be Banned -- in America?

No. This is a lame decision. Teach the kids what the flag means, instead of banning it.Yes. The safety of students comes first.Not sure, but of all things to ban, the American flag would seem the least 'incendiary.'Other (post a comment)

Okay, the above is just a template from a poll currently running on Fox News.


As of this positing, the Patriots are winning, 65% to 27%, and with 2,191,000 some-odd people voting, the fight is on between real Americans and the MoveBowels.Ogres who'd destroy all that we hold dear.


To vote, click the headline link, or here.

What Kind of Conservative Are You?

    

My Conservative Identity:

You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative or Tea Partier. You believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’"

Take the quiz at
About.com Political Humor

Thanks to Badanov at Free Fire Zone for the link.

God-Given Right To Keep And Bear Arms?

Not In Wisconsin It Seems...

The Waukesha County District Attorney has decided not to charge Krista Sutterfield for not unloading her gun after attending church services July 4^th at Unitarian Universalist West Church. Ms. Sutterfield had attended church services while lawfully openly carrying her gun as required by the state open carry law Wis. Stat. § 941.23.

The church has a new policy and signs prohibiting weapons now. Only unarmed sinners are welcome to attend services.

 

There is simply so much wrong with this that it renders me speechless.

Arizona Illegal-Immigrant Law Has First Challenger...

...A Dirty Cop

CHANDLER, Ariz. -- Phoenix police Officer David Salgado has often said he is fighting Senate Bill 1070 in court on moral grounds.

"I knew right then and there that I did the right thing," Salgado said when he watched his attorney bring the first legal challenge to Arizona's new immigration law.But Salgado, the point man for the suit, has a moment in his past that raises questions about his morality.

"It’s a name I will never forget till I die, and I thought, 'Wow, I can’t believe that guy is in the news,'" said W. Steven Martin, founder of the W. Steven Martin Police Toy Drive, a charity in the Valley in which officers bring toys to families that have very little of their own.

In 1997, David Salgado and his brother, Rick, who is also a police officer, were accused of taking toys intended for needy children and giving them to their own extended families."It was unbelievable that somebody would put personal greed over a family they could make a difference with for a lifetime," Martin said.

Rick Salgado lost his job over the incident, but according to CBS 5 News archives, the police review board recommended David Salgado be suspended for 240 hours.

CBS 5 News called David Salgado to ask him about the incident.

"I was not suspended for 240 hours. That’s a lie. Put it this way: If you do your research, you’ll find out," Salgado said.CBS 5 News spoke with people familiar with the case who said Salgado not only took toys, but he wrote down the name of a family known to be in dire need of help, and instead kept the toys for himself.

His personnel file shows no record of his discipline, but according to department policy, after 10 years an officer is allowed to ask that his record be scrubbed clean.

"I believe in morals. Also, I believe that we’re human beings and we all make mistakes," Salgado said Friday.

"What happened 10, 15 years ago doesn’t mean you can’t change, but it also means you should keep an eye on that person and always question, 'Why would they do that then?' and 'What are they looking for now?'" Martin said.

In the 25 years of the W. Steven Martin Police Toy Drive, the Salgado brothers are the only officers accused of taking toys.

Sort of makes me proud that THIS is the sort of scumbag we are fighting against. A man is known more for his enemies than his friends, so we all are doing just fine thank you very much.

Federal law prevents Arkansas State Police from influencing gun rights legislation

According to unnamed sources, the Arkansas State Police is opposed to legislation repealing an open carry ban in this state. The extent of their opposition is currently unknown, but if we base our expectations on what we saw in Oklahoma during their most recent legislative session, we can assume the ASP will be a principal opponent to Arkansans having their rights returned to them.

 

However, it is possible the Arkansas State Police will be violating federal law if they attempt to influence future gun legislation. If the Second Amendment actually does apply to the states, cities and counties of America as the Supreme Court ruled it did in June, then any police organization actively campaigning against firearms legislation would be breaking U.S. law. The Law Enforcement Misconduct Statute in U.S. Code states:

 

According to the Law Enforcement Misconduct Statute, it is no longer constitutionally legal for law enforcement agencies or their agents (police associations, sheriff associations, etc.) in this state to use their public pedestals to influence legislation. Doing so would be tantamount to the way law enforcement used their power such as they did in the South during the 1950’s and 1960’s to further the segregationist way of life. 

 

The Second Amendment is now a fundamental right in the state of Arkansas (thanks to McDonald). State agencies attempting to influence gun rights legislation will now be held accountable to the same federal regulations that prevent practices which are racist, impede free speech and otherwise promote civil rights violations."

 

Arkansas cops don't want Arkansas citizens to bear arms.  This isn't exactly news, as the vast majority of the constabulary does not want those they've sworn to serve and protect to have the means to exercise a certain civil right. 

Ordinarily, I couldn't care less what the servants want, but since these particular steps-and-fetch-its are armed and don't want us armed, believe me, they'll find a way to try and intimidate as many good folks as they can, and here's how.

At rallying points and meetings, all of a sudden large groups of burly, shaven-headed men arrive, dressed in regular street attire and vocally AGAINST the right to keep and bear arms. For anyone besides them, that is. They make themselves as intrusive as possible, blocking pathways, "accidentally" body slamming whichever man or woman or granny...see New Orleans, during Katrina...happens to get in their way.

"Just exercising our rights," is what they'll say, "please excuse our elbows but believe me we didn't mean to hurt anyone but crowds can get boisterous," they'll say, and towns, cities, and states run by gun-grabbers will send these goons to wherever they believe the gentry will be cowed by them. "They" have rights, too," the politicians and lawyers will say, "we can't stop them from peacefully attending meetings off duty and in civilian clothes," they'll say.

But one or two or more men and or women with the bucks to spare will take umbrage at such jackboot tactics, and retain legal council in order to bring suit against these cops-without portfolio, knowing full well that everyone in the crowd was aware that these thugs were policemen, and some might have even been scared stiff at such overt intimidation. Civil suits will be hurled back and forth, to and fro, but the damage will have been done, and really now, who wants the cops pissed off at them and weren't they jotting down people's license plate numbers and what did THAT mean?

No, they probably won't be allowed to bring their attack-dogs this time around, but they've learned their lessons from the past and will still manage to influence every last Fudd in town.

As we've all plainly seen from the likes of Chicago and other dirty places; when the powers that be don't want the little people doing something, the law does not matter.

 

All part of the process. Black people weren't allowed to be real people at first, but they fought long and hard and eventually they won. We will too.

Ann Arbor City Budget Favors Art Over Fire Fighting

The debate in Ann Arbor, where firefighters are being laid off due to a multimillion dollar budget deficit, is over an $850,000 piece of art.

That's how much the city has agreed to pay German artist Herbert Dreiseitl for a three-piece water sculpture that would go in front of the new police and courts building right by the City Hall.

The city has the money to do it because in 2007, it agreed to set aside for public art 1 percent of money that went into capital improvement projects that were $100,000 or larger. Most capital projects involve streets, sewers and water.

Ann Arbor City Council member Stephen Kunselman, a Democrat, opposed the art deal.

"I think it is incredibly insensitive," Kunselman said. "It is insensitive to the staff and their morale. It is insensitive to the community. There are people out there struggling financially, and here we are spending a large amount of money on a piece of art."

Kunselman said the city is also eliminating the solid waste coordinator from the budget, which oversees trash pickup, and hiring an art coordinator."

Ann Arbor is a University town. That in and of itself should tell you all you need to know.  Ann Arbor has been severely leftwing since the early 60's...when the definition of liberal began to change from patriots who perhaps favored a more compassionate rendering of the Constitution...to outright lunatics who definitely favor sending armed men to shoot you if you do not believe that ALL government has, in essence, the dictatorial powers of a monarchy.

So of course Ann Arbor thinks that artwork should be funded over firemen. Here in Gainesville, also a University town, one cannot walk, crawl, drive or even fly 50 feet without encountering a "bike-lane", and bike-lanes are fine but costly to create and maintain and ultimately take more room from the shoulder of the road, and, you guessed it, vehicular/pedestrian accidents increased exponentially when the town was at long last free of all that driving space. And I really don't want to even think of getting into formerly wooded-pedestrian paths carved out of what once was arboreal but now asphaltic.

University towns do things like layoff firemen and policemen and replace them with statues of one commie or another. Or twisted steel beams that remind them of one commie or another so's they can hide their predilection towards all things socialistic.And FOUNTAINS! OMG, lotsa fountains.