Rhambo Attempts To Strong-Arm The Banks: Note The Reaction To The News

The  CBS affiliate in Chicago reports that Mayor Emmanuel of Chicago is attempting a Gino-and-Vito attack on banks who do business with gun manufacturers.

Basically, he's telling them to knuckle under to the Obama regime's all-out war on any part of a legitimate industry they wish to control or destroy.

itoThe mayor is urging that banks to stop lines of credit, financing for acquisitions and expansions and financial advising.

In a letter sent Friday to the CEOs of Bank Of America and TD Bank, Emanuel said: “In the past, the gun industry has stood in opposition to these safety measures. They opposed a ban on assault weapons on America’s streets, opposed a ban on military-style clips, opposed a criminal background check on all gun purchases and opposed any effort to crack down on criminal gun traffickers.”

It's the classic Chicago Shakedown: Gino and Vito show up at the local shop on the corner, at the behest of the mayor or mob (really, in Chicago, it's the same thing), and the conversation goes like this:

'Hello, there! I'm Gino, and this is my associate Vito! We're here on behalf of Hizonner to solicit your support in the upcoming election. Why of course we want your vote, but we're talkin' something more, you know, TANGIBLE as an expression of your support, right Vito? You know, Vito, this is such a nice business he's got goin' here, and small business is the backbone of this great country of ours, isn't it Vito? It would be a SHAME if someone were to set it on fire and the fire department not get here in time!

Yeah, Gino, that would be a shame!

Why, thank you! We'll put you down for a fifty-dollar contribution. And we'll be back next week for the next fifty dollars. We want to make sure you're nice and safe, right Vito?

Yeah, Gino, that's right!'

So, to OldSouth, Hizzoner's attempts at extortion are not really news. 

What is news are the reader comments following the story. Remember, this is Chicago, Obama's home town, and most of the commenters appear to be locals. The language is vociferous in opposition to the mayor.

Himself and Company may be walking into a buzz-saw of bitter opposition...

One can only hope. Guns aren't the issue here.

Freedom is. And that includes the ability to do business free of the threat of extortion by politicians.

Printable Gun Magazines...This Changes Everything

Diane Feinstein and company are about to engage in an endless game of Whack-A-Mole.

Reed Exhibitions Boycott: Let's Not Stop With One Outdoor Show In Maryland

Oh no, no, no, no, no...

Let's keep up that good work!

Here's the link to Reed's upcoming exhibitions in the US:

Interestingly enough, Reed stages the PGA Merchandise Show.

How many of you golfers out there also enjoy hunting and shooting?

Given the variety and quality of the offerings out there, do you want to patronize golf businesses that do business with Reed?

Then, there's the Security One-to-One show. Wanna buy stuff from people who put money in Reed's pocket?

When firms like Reed begin to bleed large amounts of red ink, their execs get replaced.

Dean Gary Hall: Wearing A Collar Doesn't Immunize Him From Being A Self-Righteous Ass

OS, in his mis-spent youth, was once an Episcopalian. The Prayer Book (as composed by Cranmer) is such a masterful work of both theology and worship.

The leadership of the denomination stripped the churches of it, replacing it with a pale reflection that reads like a list of OSHA regulations.

The Episcopal Church once stood for the broad, judicious middle of the religious culture of the country. After all, it was the church that Washington frequented.

The leadership pulled it to the looney left, never to return. They realized they could hijack all those assets, stripping congregations that protested of the real estate and buildings they had worked so hard over the years to acquire for their parishes. All those bequests, generating all that cash, just there for the taking.

OS left upon being told, in 1988, from the pulpit, by the bishops, that it was his Christian duty to vote for Walter Mondale and the Democrat Party.

When. Hades. Turns. Into. An. Ice. Rink.

So, this piece of drivel washed up on the news today, with the Dean of Washington Cathedral standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Dianne Feinstein, telling us that God told him that it's ok to strip Americans of their freedoms, one bit at a time.

As Sen. Dianne Feinstein D-Calif. opened her press conference on gun control today, she invited Dean of the National Cathedral Rev. Canon Gary Hall to offer a prayer.

Hall spoke briefly before the prayer, calling for Washington lawmakers to stop fearing the gun lobby and fulfill their “moral duty” to restrict guns.

"Everyone in this city seems to live in terror of the gun lobby," Hall said. "But I believe that the gun lobby is no match for the cross lobby."

Heretical. Ass. Hole. In. A. Collar.

When. Hades. Turns. Into. An. Ice. Rink. will OS register one weapon.



OS also shares a bit of public info from the Cathedral's website:

Address:

3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016-5098

Phone:

Telephone: (202) 537-6200
Fax: (202) 364-6600

Email:

dean@cathedral.org

Rand Paul Wiped The Smile From Madame Secretary Hilary's Face

It takes a lot to remove that smirk; that practiced, self-assured "I am soooo much smarter than anyone in the room" condescending smile that Madame Secretary pulls out when on public view, and which she especially employs upon anyone, anywhere, anytime that may question Herself about anything.

Rand Paul did just that. As you watch this video, notice as the camera cuts back to Madame Secretary. She's beaming at the beginning, she's scowling at the end.

Rand Paul did this by simply stating common-sense truth in Plain English. It's worth going to C-Span and listening to just a few minutes of Madame Secretary's tortured employ of the English language to declare she takes responsibility while dodging and evading any specific part of the responsibility.

Contrast that with this little clip, this little memorable moment of Plain-Spoken English in a public forum. It is refreshing to hear. It was devastating to the recipient, because she knew he was spot-on correct, and she knew that everyone listening knew the same thing.

Oh, to have been in the limo with her after the hearing, to hear her river of profanities directed at Senators Paul and Johnson, but especially Senator Paul.

'He's from ***@@@!!! Kentucky, !!!@@@!!!. He's a !!!@@@!!! rube!!!! How dare he!!!! Where's the dirt on him???!!!!???? No illegitimate children??!!!??? No patient groping???!!!???  Well, go invent them!!! Do what it takes!!!! Etc, Etc, Etc...'

National Gun Appreciation Day/MLK Day In New Orleans

The Atlantic Monthly tells the tale...

Here are the gun owners, what they have to say, and how they behave:

On Saturday, you had to wait out a two-mile traffic jam to get into a Gonzalez, Louisiana, gun show. In Baton Rouge, more than 200 anti-gun-control activists turned up at the state capital annex at high noon, as part of the national Guns Across America protest. Their message: Weapons are not the problem. If anything, video games and Hollywood movies are to blame for the nation's upsurge in violence. Ben Ernst from Pontchatoula, Louisiana, who held a "Save our Children" sign, explained, "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. That's why we call police. Our schools need to have more police." 


Here are the MLK devotees, what they have to say, and how they behave:

Meanwhile, on Monday, five people were shot on New Orleans's MLK bolouvard following a pardade honrring martin Luther Kings Birthday. According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans police chief Ronal W. Serpas had this to say: "It's the state of affairs in our nation that young men do not heed the words of Martin Luther King Jr."

OldSouth rests his case.


(BTW--the misspellings are the work of the writer for The Atlantic. Author credits as follows:

Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Visit her website at www.jsdart.com.)

'Scuze Me Miz Hilary...Could You Tell Where Those 150,000 Landmines And Crates Of Semtex Ended Up?'

It's the stuff of John LeCarre novels.

While the Obama and Cameron administrations were giving one another the 'High-Five' for helping dispatch Ghadaffi, they seem to have missed a couple of details.

Telegraph reporter Richard Spencer was led to a field outside Tripoli in September 2011, and reports...

When I read the story of Steven McFaul, the hostage from Belfast who did a runner from the jihadis in southern Algeria with a Semtex suicide belt around his neck, I was taken back to a slightly nerve-racking, sweltering afternoon spent in a field on the southern edge of Tripoli, Libya, at the beginning of September 2011.

The city had just fallen to the Libyan rebels, and journalist colleagues and I were being regularly alerted to evidence of atrocities committed by Gaddafi's elite 32nd or Khamis Brigade around their base in Salaheddin suburb. We found the bodies of a hundred men cremated in a barn, after being machine-gunned and blasted to death; decomposing bodies of other victims, hands tied behind their backs, in ditches.

Perhaps the most extraordinary find, though, was something Heathcliff O'Malley, the Telegraph photographer, two New York Times colleagues and I stumbled across almost by chance. We climbed into a field where we were told there might be a mass grave only to discover something even more startling: pile upon pile of landmines, neatly stored in their boxes. I made an initial, conservative calculation that there were 60,000 of them. I now learn that it was two and a half times that: 150,000.
We picked our way nervously through the field, into an orchard. Here there were boxes containing rubbery and plasticky blocks, their lids off and exposed to the harsh summer sun. They were clearly marked: Semtex and TNT. In a guardhouse, carelessly scattered around, were a couple of bags full of hand grenades.

Nothing was done to secure this ammo dump, or destroy it, and all that stuff that goes BOOOOM and kills people in large numbers simply...disappeared...

Now, Miz Hilary, we know you're on the way out, and you're feeling poorly, and have no interest in talking to anyone about anything, especially not the Senate about the Benghazi debacle (By the way, that was not a riot, that was an organized assault, and you and yours did nothing except watch while those poor people fought for their lives,) or much of anything else. Egypt. Syria. Libya.

But, it would be nice to know where all that stuff that goes BOOOOM and kills people in large numbers ended up. Your successor may need to know, at least.

Upon The Second Inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama, Words of Wisdom From Winston Churchill

The day so many us of worked to see never come is upon us. Not to despair, as Providence rules, and moves in its mysterious ways.

But Winston Churchill had words to say in his day, in 1938, about the gathering darkness in Europe, and OS offers them to his legion of readers. Do they not speak today with uncanny force?

I avail myself with relief of the opportunity of speaking to the people of the United States. I do not know how long such liberties will be allowed. The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains. 

Can peace, goodwill, and confidence be built upon submission to wrong-doing backed by force? One may put this question in the largest form. Has any benefit or progress ever been achieved by the human race by submission to organized and calculated violence? As we look back over the long story of the nations we must see that, on the contrary, their glory has been founded upon the spirit of resistance to tyranny and injustice, especially when these evils seemed to be backed by heavier force. Since the dawn of the Christian era a certain way of life has slowly been shaping itself among the Western peoples, and certain standards of conduct and government have come to be esteemed. After many miseries and prolonged confusion, there arose into the broad light of day the conception of the right of the individual; his right to be consulted in the government of his country; his right to invoke the law even against the State itself. Independent Courts of Justice were created to affirm and inforce this hard-won custom. Thus was assured throughout the English-speaking world, and in France by the stern lessons of the Revolution, what Kipling called, "Leave to live by no man’s leave underneath the law." Now in this resides all that makes existence precious to man, and all that confers honour and health upon the State.  

Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word "No." Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples or of Parliamentary democracy, or of France, or of the many surviving liberal States of Europe. 

There, in one single word, is the resolve which the forces of freedom and progress, of tolerance and good will, should take. It is not in the power of one nation, however formidably armed, still less is it in the power of a small group of men, violent, ruthless men, who have always to cast their eyes back over their shoulders, to cramp and fetter the forward march of human destiny. The preponderant world forces are upon our side; they have but to be combined to be obeyed.

We must arm. Britain must arm. America must arm. If, through an earnest desire for peace, we have placed ourselves at a disadvantage, we must make up for it by redoubled exertions, and, if necessary, by fortitude in suffering. We shall, no doubt, arm. Britain, casting away the habits of centuries, will decree national service upon her citizens. The British people will stand erect, and will face whatever may be coming.

But arms--instrumentalities, as President Wilson called them--are not sufficient by themselves. We must add to them the power of ideas. People say we ought not to allow ourselves to be drawn into a theoretical antagonism between Nazidom and democracy; but the antagonism is here now. It is this very conflict of spiritual and moral ideas which gives the free countries a great part of their strength. You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. On all sides they are guarded by masses of armed men, cannons, aeroplanes, fortifications, and the like--they boast and vaunt themselves before the world, yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home--all the more powerful because forbidden--terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. Cannons, airplanes, they can manufacture in large quantities; but how are they to quell the natural promptings of human nature, which after all these centuries of trial and progress has inherited a whole armoury of potent and indestructible knowledge? 

Dictatorship--the fetish worship of one man--is a passing phase. A state of society where men may not speak their minds, where children denounce their parents to the police, where a business man or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinions; such a state of society cannot long endure if brought into contact with the healthy outside world. The light of civilised progress with its tolerances and co-operation, with its dignities and joys, has often in the past been blotted out. But I hold the belief that we have now at last got far enough ahead of barbarism to control it, and to avert it, if only we realise what is afoot and make up our minds in time. We shall do it in the end. But how much harder our toil for every day’s delay! 

Is this a call to war? Does anyone pretend that preparation for resistance to aggression is unleashing war? I declare it to be the sole guarantee of peace. We need the swift gathering of forces to confront not only military but moral aggression; the resolute and sober acceptance of their duty by the English-speaking peoples and by all the nations, great and small, who wish to walk with them. Their faithful and zealous comradeship would almost between night and morning clear the path of progress and banish from all our lives the fear which already darkens the sunlight to hundreds of millions of men.