October 1, 2008

 

 

 

                                - YouTube video of Megan Kelly taking it

                                   to Team Obama, after Ms. Kelly points

                                   out past Obama support in Illinois for

                                   a handgun ban.

 

 

To All,

    If it looks like a Daffy, and acts like a Daffy....

 

Don't Piss on My Back and Tell Me It's Rainin' Update- Part 1:

     It seems that, in a moment of campaign levity, Team Obama is posing the best laugher on guns since John Kerry tried to buy a hunting license during the 2004 Campaign.

 

    Candidate Obama, who has supported the DC Gun Ban in the past (who, after SCOTUS spoke, was then against the DC Gun Ban) as well as the Illinois State-Level Handgun Ban that Megan Kelly was holding documentation on, has a problem.

 

    Per print and Internet interviews with Outdoor Life and OL Editor Anthony Licata, certain facts are posted on Senator Obama's record.

 

    For example, Outdoor Life notes that Senator Obama voted "No" on S 397 back on June 29, 2005. S 397 was the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which shielded firearms manufacturers, wholesalers, retail dealers, and importers from spurious liability lawsuits generally brought by antigun activists in Judge Weinstein's court and other, "friendly" venues.

 

    Outdoor Life likewise notes that the Obama Campaign Website declares that Senator Obama would, as President, repeal the Tiarht Amendment. The Tiarht Amendment is currently the only legislation that keeps law enforcement from misusing or unduly retaining firearms ownership data.

 

     Of course, this antigun record goes beyond any conflict between Senator Obama's claims of amicability with Illinois firearms owners, and statements to the contrary by such groups as the Illinois State Rifle Association who know Senator Obama all too well. What it represents is a hard record of opposition to individual firearms ownership, coupled with the kind of facility one needs to avoid answering the un-answerable before the voters cast their ballots. But if such facts can be found in Outdoor Life, then they are readily available to firearms owners before their decisions are cast on November 4. It just requires that folks spread the word.

 

 

Link at:

http://www.outdoorlife.com/article_gallery/Barack-Obama-on-Sportsmens-Issues

 

http://www.isra.org/

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-24-sep24,0,1898337.column

 

 

Don't Piss On My Back And Tell Me It's Rainin' Update- Part 2:

     Lost in all the hype of the conventions and political campaign is belated news from North Dakota.

 

     Back on September 11, the North Dakota Department of Public Health notified the public that participants in the blood lead study of a number of person who consumed game shot with conventional ammunition were receiving letters from the CDC notifying them of the actual measurements found in their blood streams.

 

    While individual values were not mentioned, DPH made it clear that no one was found to have blood lead levels exceeding 10 micrograms per deciliter (ug/dL). The 10 ug/dL blood lead level is the current "level of concern" established by the CDC if found in children. A more complete report is due for public release in the next few weeks.

 

    The significance of this preliminary release has to do with the information "presented" by the Peregrine Fund's Dr. William Cornatzer, regarding venison donated to public food larders and claims of lead contamination. While Cornatzer's information alluded to a public health threat based on a so-far questionable hypothesis of extreme bullet fragmentation, what now seems to be the case in the North Dakota numbers is a relatively conspicuous lack of lead transmission to those study participants who admitted to venison consumption.

 

     One must also remember that, based upon his preliminary claims as to a public health threat, thousands of pounds of meat was disposed of in a precautionary manner by public health authorities in a number of Midwestern states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa). Folks might have gone hungry over the past few months because of what may be called "agenda science" related to the preservationist movement.

 

     Obviously public health officials and the CDC had to approach the claims carefully, given that safety was at stake. But perhaps the next time the Peregrine Fund and it's cronies cry "wolf" in the public arena, they will be received with a bit more skepticism. Stay tuned.

 

 

Links at:

http://www.emaxhealth.com/2/24/24648.html

 

http://www.ndhan.gov/data/mrNews/Individual%20blood%20lead%20level%20results2.pdf

 

 

Disarmament By Any Other Name....:

     Whether it's moving the goal posts on lead use standards in Petaluma, or the completely unilateral industrial "devolution" that is being proposed in Washington state, firearms owners have never been under more threat of being disarmed than in 2008.

 

     After all, what good are firearms if ammunition is banned?

 

     In a San Francisco Chronicle story by Jane Kay, it seems that the Petaluma Trap and Skeet Club has found itself in the crosshairs of an environmental movement bent on an ammunition ban by any means necessary. And despite having a lead recycling plan in place, and possibly even being registered with the EPA as recommended by the NRA and NSSF, they appear to be threatened by the Death of 1000 Cuts that local regulations have come to mean to any number of enterprises and land uses.

 

     Of course, there is much science in the public record that points to alternate and additional sources of lead contamination in the waters of the Bay Area (Suisun Bay ring a bell?). One related point of controversy is how sources claiming the moral high ground on the evils of lead used for ammunition seem to be totally unconcerned with the amounts of lead being deposited annually in landfills under San Francisco's biosolids deposition program (Thank God they aren't using biosolids for electrical co-generation like they are in the Great Lakes Region- all that lead would literally be blowing in the wind like in the Bad Days of "Old Gasoline"...).

 

    As for Washington state, one has to give credit to the security procedures practiced by "The Other Side" when it comes to a conventional bullet ban. Currently, Washington state's Department of Ecology is near the end of a public comment period (Last response date is October 6, 2008) addressing what appears to be an eventual ban on all uses of lead in that state within the next few years.

 

    Included in that is a recommendation for legislative action to ban or restrict bird shot, and possibly even center-fire ammunition, based largely on the "controversial" findings in certain studies that were disagreed with in part by the California Department of Fish and Game when they released the Final Environmental Document on the condor/lead bullet regulations in 2007 (Said "disagreement" was also approved with and agreed to by a 4-0 vote by the California Fish & Game Commission).

 

    Of course, one cannot expect much sympathy from the Washington Chemical Action Plan for hunters and gunowners. After all, it was drawn up by an Advisory Committee long on environmental interests and government and short on sportsman's groups (The only sportsman's group on the Advisory Committee was the Puget Sound Anglers. No firearms retail groups, manufacturers, hunting groups and organizations, or even the National Rifle Association were involved in the draft action plan.). 

 

    Sportsman's groups, hunt clubs, and even the "shotgun clubbers" are going to have to come to the rapid realization that regulators and environmental interest groups talk a "good game" about land management and stewardship of natural resources. But they are in reality speaking from an ideological standpoint that has no room for shooting and hunting sports. Eventually, all preservationist roads will lead to the unavailability of firearms, ammunition, firearms manufacture, ammunition manufacture, and all the raw materials and processes needed to support these key aspects of the right to keep and bear arms. Now is not the time to be horn-swoggled by snide urbanites who are long on Kumbaya, and short on recognizing the value of domestic manufacturing and economic activities. To be conned, in this case, is to be disarmed once and for all.

 

Links at:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/28/MN4F12S0O2.DTL

 

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/pubs/0807009.pdf

 

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/swfa/pbt/leadcap/docs/2Composition.pdf

 

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/swfa/pbt/leadcap/

 

 

Note: Comments against the proposed ammunition ban contained within the Draft Lead Chemical Action Plan need to be submitted to the Washington State Department of Ecology by October 6, 2008.

 

Comments can be sent to:

 

Holly Davies

Dept. of Ecology

PO Box 47600

Olympia, WA  98504-7600

 

Fax- 360-407-6102

 

Email-  hdav461@ecy.wa.gov

 

Forewarned is to be fore-armed. Write today.

 

 

Don't Piss On My Back And Tell Me It's Rainin' Update- Part 3:

     A funny thing happened on the way to an analysis of some Gallup numbers today.

 

     If one looks at the percentage breakdowns of Preference for the General Election, by Political Party ID and Ideology, one notes the following among the weekly aggregate of registered voters that Gallup has been running since August 4 of this year:

 

                                            Obama                        McCain

 

Sept. 22-28, 2008

        Lib. Dems                           95%                            3%

        Mod. Dems                         86%                            9%

        Cons. Dems                        74%                         19%

        Pure Indepen.                      22%                         31%

        Lib/Mod Reps                      15%                         80%

        Cons. Reps                           4%                          93%

 

    What these numbers seem to show is that McCain is apparently being preferred to by some 31% of Democrats surveyed, while Obama is apparently being preferred to by only 19% of Republicans surveyed. And, despite what appears to be an 8 % decline from the previous reporting period, McCain still leads by 9% among independents surveyed.

 

   And this is during a "bad" week for McCain (One that David Broder said that Obama lost the debate, no less....) that included weekend polling that has, in the past, skewed Democrat in a number of polls. Add to that the troubles over the economy, and one wonders how McCain is still standing under all the blows and kicks to the head (Looks like his time in the Hanoi Hilton toughened him up a bit more than the average pol...).

 

   Now, if Democrat shills are to be believed, there are more folks registered Democrat than those registered Republican this cycle. Yet McCain is holding a greater percentage of voters from that "pool" than Obama is holding among Republicans from a "lesser pool". Add to that what appears to be a significant, beyond the margin of error number among independents, and what these numbers may indicate is that it is only by the grace of the Electoral College System that Obama stands any chance of getting the lease at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (That and the total bias of the Mainstream Marxist Media, and the tentacles of the Daley Machine, and the cadres of A.C.O.R.N. street operatives, and the various union leaders, and the......).

 

   Face it folks, if landslide is in the cards for this election, and if Gallup's numbers mean anything at all, it could just be that Emperor Obama The First has no clothes at all (So much for Nan Aron and her earth-tones...). Now all is needed for the word to be spread far and wide.

 

Link at:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/108049/Candidate-Support-Political-Party-Ideology.aspx

 

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6030896.html

 

 

Respectfully,

 

 

Anthony Canales

SFVMC-NRA