See the USA in your...

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Looks like the Detroit Failout will happen,  opening with $15 Billion  for the auto makers in return for letting Obama's Washington  tell them how to build cars.  

"Wouldn't You Really Rather Have a  Moskvitch?" 

Ad valorem

Some Des Moines homeless guys built themselves homes. They don't meet the zoning decrees. The city council can't figure out a way to tax them.  Fire up the bulldozers. Plenty of bridges down there.

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Secretary of State Hillary

I hereby announce the end of  my patience with the Obama Administration. 

High Barbareeeee

We see by the morning news that another ship has been hijacked out there in the Indian Ocean. Just idly wondering here  if anyone has given any thought to blasting some  Somali thugboats out of the water.  

Back to Ruby Ridge; It's Personal

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The excuses are starting to flood the internet from panicked flacks at H.S. Precision, a maker of sniper rifles and gear. HSP figured it  scored a coup in getting an endorsement from one Lon Horiuchi, crack FBI sniper and leader of snipers.  His letter is spread across the back of the new HSP catalog. Bad guess. Bad endorser. 

Balls in a vice, the best the company can do so far is disclaim prior knowledge of  who Lon Horiuchi is, other than a government killer,  honorably retired.   No Google there at HSP? Or just too busy to enter the 12  keystrokes yielding  17,300 Horiuchi hits? Or too swamped to ask virtually any of your customers? 

Lon Horiuchi  was the government marksman present and firing  at Ruby Ridge on August 22, 1992.  He  was after Randy Weaver,  wanted on a couple of low-level felony charges. He wounded Weaver,  shot at the back of a fleeing Weaver friend,  missed the friend but cleanly killed Vicki, one shot to the head as she stood behind a door, her baby in her arms. 

This is not the sort of man designed to win friends in the shooting community -- or the community of citizens who object to trigger-happy government snipers just as a matter of general principle.

Enter my memory of  Janine, RIP, my little sister, in her girlish years a Brownie, a horse buff, a barrel racer, and a friend of Vicki Jordison in the Des Moines River valley where our families were neighbors. In due course Vicki, a very nice kid as I recall, married Randy Weaver.  

Before Horiuchi killed Vicki, Janine died of a different  kind of evil, that of stupidity, a driver who explained, "I didn't notice the yellow line on the highway... errr, no, I didn't see the sign, either."

Was -- is --  Horiuchi stupid? Probably not. He got into West Point and graduated. He's clever enough to turn a retirement buck hustling endorsements.  So probably not stupid.  

What does that make him?  

Horiuchi,   you didn't have to hear again what much of your country still thinks of you. You could have taken the pension, foregone the endorsement  fee, and retired to Tierra del Fuego,  mouth shut all the way.

(A fair representation of  current thought on Horiuchi and HSP is available by just clicking Tam's blog,  View From the Porch, over to your left.)

It's not a hoax - Lon Horiuchi

http://www.awrm.org/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=21;t=003547;p=0


That's a scan of the back of the new H.S. Precision catalog. The Lon Horiuchi who signed the endorsement of their sniper rifles is the FBI slime who killed Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge. More later.