The U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends to purchase twenty-seven (27) REMINGTON BRAND MODEL 870 POLICE 12/14P MOD GRWC XS4 KXCS SF. RAMAC #24587 GAUGE: 12 BARREL: 14″ – PARKERIZED CHOKE: MODIFIED SIGHTS: GHOST RING REAR WILSON COMBAT; FRONT – XS CONTOUR BEAD SIGHT STOCK: KNOXX REDUCE RECOIL ADJUSTABLE STOCK FORE-END: SPEEDFEED SPORT-SOLID – 14″ LOP are designated as the only shotguns authorized for ED based on compatibility with ED existing shotgun inventory, certified armor and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
The required date of delivery is March 22, 2010.

Unless you’re willing to pay a hefty “tax” for owning restricted weapons (sorry liberals, there’s no such thing as an assault weapon ban) you’re not legally allowed to own a shotgun with a barrel under 18 inches. But short barrels are often used by military and law enforcement for entry teams who need small but powerful weapons for urban assaults and house to house fighting. If you were going to kick in the front door of an apartment and wanted to carry something with more knockdown power than a pistol (or a carbine chambered in a pistol caliber) but that would be easy to maneuver in the tight confines of a hallway or foyer, a short barreled shotgun fits the bill.

But why does the Department of Education need a shotgun seemingly designed for kicking in doors anyway? Are they finally going to crack down on homeschooling? Are student restrooms so out of control that sweep teams need to be sent in?

Even if you concede that the Department of Education needs shotguns, why are they not ordering regular cruiser models? Why do they need to be tactical models? Do they already have an existing inventory and are adding to it? If so, why does the Department of Education have an inventory of firearms? It’s like the feds are trying to start conspiracy theorizing.

h/t Say Uncle

Tallahassee, FL) Investigative journalist and Chairman of Americans Against Hate Joe Kaufman and Florida Security Council cameraman J. Mark Campbell were assaulted, earlier today, by a member of United Voices for America (UVA), a Florida Muslim lobby group.

UVA was in Tallahassee for its second annual event, entitled “Muslim Capitol Day.”

According to the lieutenant in charge, the perpetrator of the attacks, Bassem Alhalabi, was charged with “simple battery” for each incident. The two assaults happened on two separate occasions, both on the same day.

Alhalabi is a professor at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), a director and co-founder of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR), and a former associate of convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian.

In June 2003, Alhalabi was found guilty of illegally shipping a $13,000 military-grade thermal imaging device to Syria.

United Voices for America (UVA) is headed by Ahmed Bedier, the former Executive Director of CAIR-Tampa and the former “unofficial spokesman” for Sami al-Arian. Bedier was present, during the attack on Campbell.

In May 2007, Rafiq Sabir, a member of Alhalabi’s Islamic center was convicted of material support for al-Qaeda.

United Voices for America is a known front for CAIR and a distributor of pro-terrorist, far-left propaganda. It is unsurprising that this group of miscreants would include violent thugs.

The thug in question is an associate professor of engineering at F.A.U. which is worrisome given his predilection for militant Islamism and terrorism.

Americans Against Hate are promising to release video of the assault.

But imagine if a Republican administration had minor celebrities calling for the formation of a posse to arrest those they consider enemies of the state? You couldn’t contain the outrage. But when it’s done for the great Obama no big deal I guess.

The enemies they plan on arresting, by the way, are businessmen and women in what I find an eerie echo of Mao’s pogrom against landlords. I assume the next step for the astroturfed group responsible for this madness is to open up camps with which we evil capitalists can be re-educated through beatings, rapes, and murder.

Like I said, creepy and fascist. This makeshift militant wing of Health Care for America Now! has its own website called The Citizens’ Posse which shows this was not a one off publicity stunt but an organized campaign of intimidation and harassment on the perceived enemies of the neo-Marxist left implicitly approved of by the progressive Obama administration.

On the Citizens’ Posse website there are wanted posters featuring the pictures of business people and trumped up charges like “45,000 Counts of Involuntary Manslaughter”  as well as links to yet another astroturfed website that tells this not so secret police where these people will be. This is a recipe for violence and mayhem.

Coincidentally, the energy executive who was missing in New Orleans and was later found drowned in the Mississippi river was  theoretically one of the “domestic enemies” listed by Schiflett in the video. The man had just attended a function at a college (where most progressive protesters are recruited from) before mysteriously ending up in the drink even though the river was no where near the route he would take from the bar he was last seen in or the hotel he was heading to. Odd, wouldn’t you say?

Of course, he was just another “domestic enemy” so why should we care?

The Citizens’ Posse is not a protest, it is the beginning of a dangerous regression to early 20th century leftist tactics. If we continue to allow the left to escalate we will be pulling businessmen out of rivers in the thousands. Then it’ll be Jews, Christians, Republicans and finally everyone who isn’t on board with the Soros-funded Stalinist vision of America’s future Chris Schiflett promotes.

Shadow Stats founder John Williams has just announced that he sees no way for America to avoid a hyper-inflationary depression.

Demand for new workers in America continues to collapse.

Moody’s is predicting banks will remain unprofitable for the 2010 fiscal year.

The Obama administration is actually implementing a program to encourage the short selling of homes by troubled borrowers.

Unemployment has risen in 30 states.

Sales tax rates hit are at record highs as states and municipalities struggle to make ends meet.

The proposed Illinois state budget is based on borrowing billions of dollars from the government.

Detroit is looking at a plan to de-populate parts of the city and de-industrialize, turning other parts into farmland.

Needless to say, this looks less like green shoots and more like a slow slide into second world status. Are you prepared?

Late last night I posted a quick story about a progressive boarding school in Germany in which children were routinely beaten and raped by teachers for almost 40 years of its history. I put forward that the leftist disdain for personal autonomy is at the root cause of molestation, the same point I made when blogging about Communist leader Daniel Ortega who was elected President of Nicaragua even though it was well known he had raped his step-daughter for years starting when she was 13.

Hardcore Paulestinian Angie Bishop responded to my piece on the FB auto-update with leftist anti-Semitism dressed up as Conservatism which is par for the course for Ron Paul supporters:

So…what now? You want our American Men and Women to go fucking blow up Germany? WTF? You dont think this Country has its own shit cloud issues? Were supposed to focus on Jewish shit? Give me a fucking break.

Of course those who read the piece know that a) I’m not calling for an invasion and b) there were no Jews in the story. Good ol’ Angie didn’t read the post but saw a criticism of Germans and reacted like any person who hates Jews. But the story isn’t about Jews or Germans, it’s about children being victimized by adults who used leftism to gain access to victims. Why is Angie Bishop more disgusted with unmentioned Jews than with adults orally, vaginally and anally raping children?

I suppose I’d have to read End the Fed to understand.

The Odenwaldschule school board admitted to the paper that teachers had abused wards at the school for years. School director Margarita Kaufmann  told the newspaper, “As far as I am concerned, it is a fact that sexual abuse occurred here at least since 1971.”

According to accounts by former pupils, teachers at the school in Heppenheim woke them by stroking their genitals, forced them to perform oral sex, and were made into “sex slaves” for whole weekends.

Teachers also beat their wards, provided them with drugs and alcohol, and did not intervene when several pupils sexually abused a girl.

The way the school was structured encouraged an unhealthy lack of boundaries:

The Odenwaldschule was established in 1910 with a holistic ethos of raising a child according to its own individual desires, rather than through discipline and drill. The 225 pupils currently attending (200 as boarders) live in so-called ‘families,’ with their class teacher as a kind of ‘family head’ who lives in an adjacent room. A boarder’s place at the school currently costs €2,220 a month.

Now that’s progressive.

Update: Some Paulnut says this is all a ploy by me to try to get America to invade Germany because I’m a Jew loving “neo-con.”

The White liberal in this video supports policies that lead to the ethnic cleansing of Blacks by racist Latinos but has the nerve to call these Black men Klanners? Disgusting.

This is at a forum where D.C Mayoral candidate Leo Alexander is speaking. Leo Alexander is an award winning television journalist, a selfless public servant and a basically decent man who cares about the Black community which is most adversely affected by illegal immigration. The disdain of this accomplishment-less White house frau for him is palpable. So who here is more like a Klanner?

Roy Beck from Numbers USA has a post on the incident.

I don’t think I have ever been as annoyed by a letter to the editor as I was by the one written by Steven Littwin (Riverdale Press, Feb. 18). I grew up on the Lower East Side and we had our share of restaurants — Ratner’s, Rappaport’s, Moskowitz and Lupowitz, Bernstein’s, Katz’s, the Garden Cafeteria, Sammy’s — none of which were closed on Saturday. In its last gasp, Ratner’s got a rabbinic designation and closed on Saturday, but the hordes of Orthodox did not beat a path to their door and they soon closed. If one would take a look at the various permutations of the restaurant on Riverdale Avenue and West 259th Street, which seems to be going through yet another transformation, a kosher certificate or closing on the Sabbath does not guarantee success.

What I really object to is the imposition of rules by one group on all the rest of us.

There is another factor. Paying extra for the kosher designation is objectionable, especially to those of us who feel that the costs of this designation goes to groups that we disagree with philosophically, morally, spiritually, religiously, politically, etc.

If one read about the kosher slaughterhouses in the Midwest that were raided by the government, these were not examples of humane treatment of animals, nor of hygiene, and perhaps most importantly, the humane treatment of the Latin American workers who suffered constant abuse at the hands of these wonderful rabbinic overseers.

I think there are enough options for the Orthodox community to purchase kosher food in Riverdale. For the rest of us that would like a broad range of cheeses and other delicacies, we look forward to the success of Jay-Bar’s and Mr. Nadler. May he live a long life and be well.

This was a letter entitled “Riverdale’s Deliciousness is in its Diversity” but as you can clearly read for yourself there is little interest by “Jim Block” in being confronted by true diversity, especially the age old tradition of Kosher foods being served in Jewish stores. But more telling were Block’s outrageous claims of the “cruelty” of Kosher slaughter and the “Rabbinic overseers” torturing poor helpless Latino slaves.

His first point is in fact stolen from White Nationalists. The “cruelty” of Kosher slaughter was much complained about by neo-Nazis a few years ago when they began recycling a P.E.T.A. video of a non-Kosher slaughterhouse on their forums. The last person I saw crying over the supposed cruelty of Kosher slaughter was wife-killing degenerate “Yankee James” Leshkavich, a neo-Nazi so vile be beat and strangled his estranged spouse to death before killing himself.

Block doesn’t just plumb the depths of White Nationalism to attack Riverdale’s Jews however. He also uses propaganda from the M.E.C.H.A.-affiliated Reconquista site La Voz de Aztlan. When not calling for an “American Union” based on the now crumbling European Union, the site evenly splits its time between calling for the expulsion of non-Hispanics from the American southwest and supporting the expulsion of Jews from Israel. They have frequently run anti-Semitic pieces including this little gem called The “Kosher Nostra” Scam which makes the claim that Jews are secretly blackmailing every food company in the world into only giving us Kosher goods. They also frequently claim Jews are enslaving Latinos.

The fact that The Riverdale Press would publish a letter so full of anti-Jewish animus and conspiracy mongering isn’t shocking for anyone who has lived in the area. I lived in Riverdale for a couple of years and that paper was known to support wild anti-American and anti-Jewish causes including in one case 9/11 “truth.”

What always shocked me was the acceptance of the rest of the community of increasingly overt anti-Semitism and the comfort of lefty New Yorkers in throwing off their cloak of tolerance to attack Jews. Leftist political support for Palestinians has blossomed into full blown anti-Semitism as the left adopts the Islamist view of Jews as a perfidious race given to moral bankruptcy. It’s time Jewish Americans realized where the winds of leftism are blowing and I hope they recognize the scent of Zyklon that wind carries before it’s too late.

According to official police reports, in 2009 there were twice as many rapes reported as in 2008. Just as shocking – in 2007, 2008 and 2009, every single rape case involved a perpetrator who was a non-western immigrant. (Let that sink in for just a moment). And in 9 out of 10 of these cases, the victim was an ethnic Norwegian woman. I don’t understand Norwegian very well, but this information was also reported by the Brussels Journal. I also ran the article through a machine translation, and it checks out. If any Norwegian speakers here have anything to add, I would love to hear it.

Incidentally, nearly 10% of Norway’s population is foreign-born, by far the greatest number in it’s history. The largest non-European immigrant groups in the country are Pakistanis, followed by Iraqis and Somalis. And they are almost entirely concentrated in Oslo. In other words, it doesn’t sound very polite to say this, but this is part of a pattern of Muslim men committing rapes and sexual assaults against European women. This not just a recent trend either, and the problem is not just in Norway alone.

C.B.N. shows that this is not an anomaly as the Muslim population in Malmo is acting in very similar ways:

Militant Islam cannot co-exist with Western values.

You can watch the video by clicking the pic. CNN disabled embedding after it began making the rounds and every gun owner in American began fisking this tool who is passing himself off as an expert:

The .223 began life as a varmint cartridge and still excels at killing small predators like foxes, coyotes, and feral dogs. It is known to produce casualties as opposed to quick kills in humans and was largely adopted because of its mild recoil (it’s really a pleasure to shoot) and the light weight of the rounds which means individual soldiers can carry more ammunition than the rounds that preceded it.

The .223 fires a .22 caliber bullet weighing around 55 grains. No experienced hunter or shooter would ever claim that the .223 was designed for large game. It is considered too small a round to use even on the moderately sized black bear in America. Elephants are taken with rifles that push bullets of at least 400 grains at velocities sometimes greater than the .223. Even that would be considered bare minimum. Winchester offers a 500 grain load in .458 which is considered a decent elephant cartridge. That round pushes those 500 grains at over 2000 feet per second.That’s considered a load with which a good shot might be able to kill an elephant.

You need not be a physicist or firearms expert to know that the .223 and its 55 grain bullet will not come close to the power needed to kill a animal an elephant’s size. A .223 might not be able to even penetrate the thick hide of an elephant, and if it did the tiny hole it made would not kill the creature. Most people shot with the .223 don’t die if they receive medical attention. A firearms “expert” should know that.

But Dan Austin makes several other blunders here. One is he claims guns can’t fire accidentally without pulling the trigger which is false. Anyone who has ever handled the old M-16 A2 can tell you that a sharp blow to the butt of the weapon would slam the bolt forward and fire a round that was chambered. I have no experience with the Galil clones he’s talking about, but I assume many semi-autos can have the same failing.

This “expert” suggests several times that no one has a legitimate use for a semi-auto rifle which sounds less like a professional opinion and more like lefty disarmament politics to me. CNN says Austin has worked in over 300 court cases and I would suggest that a good defense attorney could use his obvious unfamiliarity with firearms to turn those cases over.

So what’s his agenda? He could have easily read up on this stuff, or hit a range. He clearly has never done either so why is he on CNN lecturing America about guns?

h/t Zombie Squad Forums. Yeah, I’m a member. So what?