Warbird

My organization, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, broke the story on this earlier this year.  As has been pointed out above, it is a multi pronged attempt to cut off and starve industries Elizabeth Warren, when she was the head of the Consumer FInancial Protection Bureau, deemed risky behavior  In other words consumers buying things she didn't, doesn't, think they should be involed in.   The DOJ is threatening / pressuring banks to cut off banking and access to credit to legal industries the administration has a problem with.  I am at present interested in knowing someone / business, who has been effected and who would like to sue the governmet for cause.  Holdler said Monday he is committed to seeing this operation though.  I hope to stop him in his tracks and we have a history of sucessfully doing just that.

Midway's round-up program, which is money given by customers, has also produced over $4 milion to the NRA since its inception.  Larry Potterfield also essentially founded the Friends of the NRA program.

I agree. My point is that there are many factors that determine the severity of a particular storm. Some of them are very concentrated in area, some are extremely large. Some carry far more rain than others. Some have have a much greater wall of water, which is a factor of pressure and wind. Having grown up with a father who flew in the navy, I have lived in my fair share of hurricane areas. My basic point is I don't simply look at the category and think ell this will be easy and this one will be hard. And yes indeed I would take 90 mph winds all day over 130mph winds. None the less this is all providing me entertainment while I work a bit from home and wait for the major push of the storm and hope I don't lose electricity. At least it isn't 100 degrees ike the last two times I lost electricity for extended time.

Actually it is not the strength of the category that is of concern. IT is a the wall of water from the extraordinarily low pressure in the storm. Lower pressure than measured in a storm to hit the east coast in a very long time if ever. The other factor is the confluence of what they call the frankenstorm. It is the meeting of two large storms at one tie, a hurrican and a nor'easter. This creates a storm nearly 1000 miles across, with a stong wall of water heading to the the most densely populated part ot the United States. I would normally agree that anything affecting major center of media is worse than other things in other parts of the country. However the people usually most sedate in their reactions, are very concerned about the storm. I hope they are wrong Hopefully it won't be any big deal but to a small art of the area, but everything currenty says otherwise. As was stated people get way too hung up in categories and in the end they are general guidelines. Many things go into the severity of these storms. My personal experience in living on the east coast twice has been that our worst storms have been the nor'easters. The hurricanes have been uisances. Here we have both meeting just as the hurricane is about to make landfall. By the way Katrina was a Cat 3 when it approached landfall.

We have battened down the hatches and loaded up on privisions here in the DC area. Prepared to ride it out.

I have had a 681 as a hunting sidearm for 20 years. It is always my go to hunting back up sidearm. I had the trigger reworked many years ago. It is good as is, but can be excellent when put in the hands of a good gunsmith. I don't carry a revolver as an EDC and though I own several revolver heirlooms that i wouldn't sell, the 681 won't likely ever be sold because I love the pistol. The ony other revolver I carry is a 44 mag Ruger, again as a hunting sidearm.

The other day my 9 year old son said to me "dad it matters a lot who has the biggest stick, but it matters a hell of a lot more who is swinging it ". I'm a proud dad! Harrumph! He knows evil from good and who the good guys are.

I found out about Paul's passing from Aaron. Was very saddened to hear the news. I don't think anyone was better, or more innovative, on AK training than Paul. He was good at all aspects, but was a true innovator when it came to thinking about the AK as more than a rifle used by the bad guys. He and his intellect will be missed.

I had hoped to head over to the mall today, but got caught up in meetings. I hope those that made the trip enjoyed their visit to the memorials. Of the recently added memorials and planned memorials the WWII memorial is the only one they got right.

I guess overpowered is in the eyes of the hunter and what they hunt. Personally being a person who likes to eat what I kill, i'd refer to only use what is necessary for the job to preserve the most meat. I have never found mch useful in the old large bore rifles. Ammo has improved much over the years and less is necessary. I have shot a 700 nitro double gun and have no use t'all for the dang things. I have never shot anything or hunted with anyone who needed more than a 570 mitro. some like to hunt with th old rifles, but the dang 700 jut outright hurts. I think my favorite large bore, powerful is the 416 Remington. There are few animals on earth that the 416 is too small to use. That is one sweet rifle and IMO has less recoil than the 375 H&H. Though some I guess like the wildcat rounds theyuse, ultrapowerful rifles on the deer in this part of the country is way overkill, literally. Some just like to say they hunt with this or that. In the end though it really comes down to what one hunts with as to what is overly large or powerful.

Don't buy the tax hyperbole. Buffest was taxed twice on most of his money already. He was taxed at the very high corporate rate. THen again pre-investments. He makes most of his money post dividends, which is at a lower rate since it was taxed already. And it really only is taxed when it is realized as cash. He likely doesn't take much in cash and lets it rde since his corporation liely pays huge amounts of his highest expenses. Rich people pay more in taxes both in real cash and as a percentage of their income. There is no dubt about that. Europe by contrast taxes all dividends and investment gains whether realized or not. People who have money invested for the future should really question whether they want to go down that road. I for one, do not. His secretary makes a large salary $300,000+ and that is in real income. So she is also paying a high amount. Buffet is ding others bidding for favors. Not only would he stand to gain from infrastructure building like the artile states, but he also stands to gain more from the toppage of the oil pipeline than anyone else. As was stated above, this is cronyis not capitalism. Free markets and the idea of business liberty do not pay political favorites to favor friends. Buffet is no different than the head of GE touting the end of the incandescent lightbulb for the long run favor of GE over all of their competitors.Using government to eliminate competition and increase your own business is among the worst of exploitation. This is a non-partisan issue. All sides have been guilty of it.

I'm not certain this particular case has anything to do with one organization being better than another. Many organizations will lay some claim to a victory in this case and in some ways they are right. However, this wasn't GOA's case or fight in any substantive way at all. The larger ramifications of this decision was what they wrote an Amicus on. That's fine. The question was to their level of involvement and that is what I responded to.

I think that pretty much sums it up, an Amicus brief.

For one, Rand Paul was not in the senate when the rules in place were put there. Now that is if you believe that all of the rules followed by the TSA are currently codified by law. In fact they are not. Most of their rules are general in nature. Meaning specifics are put in place by regulation doled out by the appointed leaders of the department while in power. Secondly, he has been an outspoken critic of these rules since entering the senate. He wasn't taking this on because he thought he deserved special privilege. He was taking this on because he thinks the rules in place are not good ones for ANY American. Lastly I will say that Paul never used the trump card or even mentioned it. The Constitution prohibits members of Congress from being detained on their way to Washington, D.C. It is spelled out very specifically. Yes he was going to do a speech that morning, but he was also going back for session that afternoon. Now that would have been seen as seeking privilege, though it would have been his right.

Unfortunately I have very light sensitive eyes. The sun can give me a migraine in a matter of minutes. So I have sunglasses all over the place. I usually prefer dark gray, gray/green or amber lenses. For dress usually wear my Ray Ban Wayfarers or Clubmasters. I do find it hard to find sunglasses that are not aviator style, which will fold flat to fit in a suitcoat inside pocket. I have several pair of Bolle that I like a lot and a pair of Revsions that work well, but are definitely not compact. I also have a couple pair of the Member's Mark glasses that you can get from the Sam's Club Vision Center. They have held up well and have good clear lenses. I don't know who makes those.