Americans Never Give Up Your Guns - Opinion Column from PRAVDA

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Americans never give up your guns

28.12.2012

By Stanislav Mishin

 

These days, there are few few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bare arms and use deadly force to defend one's self and possessions.

 

This will probably come as a total shock to most of my Western readers, but at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords and spears to pistols, rifles and shotguns were everywhere, common items. People carried them concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives were a prominent part of many traditional attires and those little tubes criss crossing on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? Well those are bullet holders for rifles.

 

Various armies, such as the Poles, during the Смута (Times of Troubles), or Napoleon, or the Germans even as the Tsarist state collapsed under the weight of WW1 and Wall Street monies, found that holding Russian lands was much much harder than taking them and taking was no easy walk in the park but a blood bath all its own. In holding, one faced an extremely well armed and aggressive population Hell bent on exterminating or driving out the aggressor.

 

This well armed population was what allowed the various White factions to rise up, no matter how disorganized politically and militarily they were in 1918 and wage a savage civil war against the Reds. It should be noted that many of these armies were armed peasants, villagers, farmers and merchants, protecting their own. If it had not been for Washington's clandestine support of and for the Reds, history would have gone quite differently.

 

Moscow fell, for example, not from a lack of weapons to defend it, but from the lieing guile of the Reds. Ten thousand Reds took Moscow and were opposed only by some few hundreds of officer cadets and their instructors. Even then the battle was fierce and losses high. However, in the city alone, at that time, lived over 30,000 military officers (both active and retired), all with their own issued weapons and ammunition, plus tens of thousands of other citizens who were armed. The Soviets promised to leave them all alone if they did not intervene. They did not and for that were asked afterwards to come register themselves and their weapons: where they were promptly shot.

 

Of course being savages, murderers and liars does not mean being stupid and the Reds learned from their Civil War experience. One of the first things they did was to disarm the population. From that point, mass repression, mass arrests, mass deportations, mass murder, mass starvation were all a safe game for the powers that were. The worst they had to fear was a pitchfork in the guts or a knife in the back or the occasional hunting rifle. Not much for soldiers.

 

To this day, with the Soviet Union now dead 21 years, with a whole generation born and raised to adulthood without the SU, we are still denied our basic and traditional rights to self defense. Why? We are told that everyone would just start shooting each other and crime would be everywhere....but criminals are still armed and still murdering and to often, especially in the far regions, those criminals wear the uniforms of the police. The fact that everyone would start shooting is also laughable when statistics are examined.

 

While President Putin pushes through reforms, the local authorities, especially in our vast hinterland, do not feel they need to act like they work for the people. They do as they please, a tyrannical class who knows they have absolutely nothing to fear from a relatively unarmed population. This in turn breeds not respect but absolute contempt and often enough, criminal abuse.

 

For those of us fighting for our traditional rights, the US 2nd Amendment is a rare light in an ever darkening room. Governments will use the excuse of trying to protect the people from maniacs and crime, but are in reality, it is the bureaucrats protecting their power and position. In all cases where guns are banned, gun crime continues and often increases. As for maniacs, be it nuts with cars (NYC, Chapel Hill NC), swords (Japan), knives (China) or home made bombs (everywhere), insane people strike. They throw acid (Pakistan, UK), they throw fire bombs (France), they attack. What is worse, is, that the best way to stop a maniac is not psychology or jail or "talking to them", it is a bullet in the head, that is why they are a maniac, because they are incapable of living in reality or stopping themselves.

 

The excuse that people will start shooting each other is also plain and silly. So it is our politicians saying that our society is full of incapable adolescents who can never be trusted? Then, please explain how we can trust them or the police, who themselves grew up and came from the same culture?

 

No it is about power and a total power over the people. There is a lot of desire to bad mouth the Tsar, particularly by the Communists, who claim he was a tyrant, and yet under him we were armed and under the progressives disarmed. Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock step of their ideology. They hate guns in the hands of those who think for themselves and do not obey without question. They hate guns in those whom they have slated for a barrel to the back of the ear.

 

So, do not fall for the false promises and do not extinguish the light that is left to allow humanity a measure of self respect.

 

Stanislav Mishin

Something funny happened on the way to tyranny

I hate to post repeated articles by a single author or from a single blog. However, Bob Owens has recently written 3 count'em 3 excellent articles and posted them on his blog.

I encourage you to pop over to his blog at http://www.bob-owens.com/ and browse his other writings. This is the third of the 3 that struck me as excellent and I hope Mr. Owens doesn't mind that I post them here.

Again please check out his blog as he is an excellent writer and he is listed on my blog list for your convenience.

Source: Bob Owens

Something funny happened on the way to tyranny

 

Written By: Bob - Dec• 31•12

 

I dropped my car off this morning at my mechanic’s, as the clutch appeared to be on its last legs. Being a beautiful morning in the mid-40s, I decided to walk home, and soak in some of the small-town downtown ambiance along the way. The sleepy antique stores were not seeing much business, and I nodded to the painting crew who was outlining the wooden window frames of the bakery in brilliant blue paint as I passed by.

Most of the downtown shops, in fact, weren’t doing much business except the two gun stores. I’d been in one several days ago to pick a .22LR for an article I’d be writing for Shooting Illustrated, and decided to stop in at the other to see what the current political environment had left behind.

There were no less than six clerks working feverishly with the dozen or so customers, so I simply stepped to the side and walked the aisles. The cases of ammunition that typically lined the far wall were picked to pieces. There was a 100-round case of .50 BMG, and cases of European shotshells suitable for small game. The .223 Remington, 5.56 NATO, 7.62×39, 7.62 NATO, and 7.62x54R had sold out long ago, along with the bulk 9mm, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP.

A few pump shotguns remained along with a smattering of deer rifles, single-shots, and longer double-barreled shotguns suitable only for trap or skeet. Even the semi-automatic .22LR rifles like Ruger 10/22s were gone, along with all but one BX-25 magazine.

The customers in the shop were picking through what remained; lever-action rifles, oddball shotguns, and the smattering of name-brand centerfire pistols. One man was attempting to trade in an antique double-barrel shotgun for something more current.

I did speak to one harried clerk, briefly.

They didn’t know when they’d be getting anything back in stock, from magazines to rifles to pistols. Manufacturers were running full-bore, but couldn’t come close to keeping up with market demand.It wasn’t just the AR-15s, the AK-pattern rifles, the M1As, and the FALs that were sold out. It really hit me when I realized that the World War-era M1 Garands , M1 carbines, and Enfield .303s were gone, along with every last shell. Ubiquitous Mosin-Nagants—of which every gun store always seems to have 10-20—were gone. So was their ammo. Only a dust free space marked their passing. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Every weapon of military utility designed within the past 100+ years was gone. This isn’t a society stocking up on certain guns because they fear they may be banned. This is a society preparing for war.

I wonder if this is what it felt like during the time of the Powder Alarm, and fear politicians both sides of the aisle are no more speaking the same language as most Americans as Gage was unable to think like the Colonials. There is an earnestness now on both sides, and a great chance for unintended consequences.

Tread carefully.

May it never come to pass

I hate to post repeated articles by a single author or from a single blog. However, Bob Owens has recently written 3 count'em 3 excellent articles and posted them on his blog.

I encourage you to pop over to his blog at http://www.bob-owens.com/ and browse his other writings. This is the second of the 3 that struck me as excellent and I hope Mr. Owens doesn't mind that I post them here.

Again please check out his blog as he is an excellent writer and he is listed on my blog list for your convenience.

Source: Bob Owens

May it never come to pass

 

Written By: Bob - Dec• 31•12

Sept. 19
Dear B.,

I hope this letter finds you in good spirits. I’ve heard it through command that the loyalists harassing I-40 have been dealt with, so you should be getting all the rice, flour, etc you could want within days, now that the port in Wilmington has been repaired.

Because of security I can’t tell you precisely where we are, but I can say that we can see the Washington Monument through the smoke from time to time. I’m not even sure how to describe the fighting. Spider says it reminds him of Hue. The younger Marine veterans speak of Fallujah. All I know is that loyalists have contested every inch since we dismounted in Lorton.

Most of the harshest fighting now is pile to pile. It reminds me of what I saw on the History Channel (remember TV?) about Stalingrad.

Tell the girls that I love them and that I think about them every day. I k
 

[Letter recovered near body of rifleman from Company E., 26th No. Car. Infantry, at Battle of Arlington Ridge on Sept 23, during the Second American Revolutionary War]

A bleak and scary future predicted by Bob Owens

VIA: Western Rifle Shooters Association

 Bob Owens

VERBATIM

 

 

What you’ll see in the rebellion

Written By: Bob - Dec• 28•12

 

 

Let me explain, gun grabbers, how your confiscatory fantasy plays out. Let us imagine for a moment that a sweeping gun control bill similar to the one currently suggested is passed by the House and Senate, and signed into law by a contemptuous President.

 

Perhaps 50-100 million firearms currently owned by law-abiding citizens will become contraband with the stroke of a pen. Citizens will either register their firearms, or turn them in to agents of the federal government, or risk becoming criminals themselves. Faced with this choice, millions will indeed register their arms. Perhaps as many will claim they’ve sold their arms, or had them stolen. Suppose that as many as 200-250 million weapons of other types will go unregistered.

 

Tens of millions of Americans will refuse to comply with an order that is clearly a violation of the explicit intent of the Second Amendment. Among the most ardent opposing these measures will be military veterans, active duty servicemen, and local law enforcement officers. Many of these individuals will refuse to carry out what they view as Constitutionally illegal orders. Perhaps 40-50 million citizens will view such a law as treason. Perhaps ten percent of those, 4-5 million, would support a rebellion in some way, and maybe 40,000-100,000 Americans will form small independently-functioning active resistance cells, or become lone-wolves.

 

They will be leaderless, stateless, difficult to track, and considering the number of military veterans that would likely be among their number, extremely skilled at sabotage, assassination, and ambush.

 

After a number of carefully-planned, highly-publicized, and successful raids by the government, one or more will invariably end “badly.” Whether innocents are gunned down, a city block is burned to ash, or especially fierce resistance leads to a disastrously failed raid doesn’t particularly matter. What matters is that when illusion of the government’s invincibility and infallibility is broken, the hunters will become the hunted.

 

Unnamed citizens and federal agents will be the first to die, and they will die by the dozens and maybe hundreds, but famous politicians will soon join them in a spate of revenge killings, many of which will go unsolved.

 

Ironically, while the gun grab was intended to keep citizens from preserving their liberties with medium-powered weapons, it completely ignored the longer-ranged rifles perfect for shooting at ranges far beyond what a security detail can protect, and suppressed .22LR weapons proven deadly in urban sniping in Europe and Asia.

 

While the Secret Service will be able to protect the President in the White House, he will not dare leave his gilded cage except in carefully controlled circumstances. Even then he will be forced to move like a criminal. He will never be seen outdoors in public again. Not in this country.

 

The 535 members of the House and Senate in both parties that allowed such a law to pass would largely be on their own; the Secret Service is too small to protect all of them and their families, the Capitol Police too unskilled, and competent private security not particularly interested in working against their own best interests at any price. The elites will be steadily whittled down, and if they can not be reached directly, the targets will become their staffers, spouses, children, and grandchildren. Grandstanding media figures loyal to the regime would die in droves, executed as enemies of the Republic.

 

You can expect congressional staffs to disintegrate with just a few shootings, and expect elected officials themselves to resign well before a quarter of their number are eliminated, leaving us with a boxed-in executive, his cabinet loyalists trapped in the same win, die, or flee the country circumstance, military regime loyalists, and whatever State Governors who desire to risk their necks as well.

 

Here, the President will doubtlessly order the activation of National Guard units and the regular military to impose martial law, setting the largest and most powerful military in the world against its own people. Unfortunately, the tighter the President clinches his tyrannical fist, the more rebels he makes.

 

Military commands and federal agencies will be whittled down as servicemen and agents will desert or defect. Some may leave as individuals, others may join the Rebellion in squad and larger-sized units with all their weapons, tactics, skills, and insider intelligence. The regime will be unable to trust its own people, and because they cannot trust them, they will lose more in a vicious cycle of collapse.

 

Some of these defectors will be true “operators,” with the skills and background to turn ragtag militia cells into the kind of forces that decimate loyalist troops, allowing them no rest and no respite, striking them when they are away from their most potent weapons. Military vehicles are formidable, but they are thirsty beasts, in terms of fuel, ammo, time, and maintenance. Tanks and bombers are formidable only when they have gas, guns, and can be maintained. In a war without a front, logistics are incredibly easy to destroy, and mechanics and supply clerks are not particularly adept at defending themselves.

 

Eventually, the government will turn upon itself. The President will be captured or perhaps killed by his own protectors. A dictatorship will form in the vacuum.

 

If we’re lucky, the United States of America, or whatever amalgam results, will again try to rebuild. If we’re very lucky, the victors will reinstate the Constitution as the law of the land. Just as likely though, we’ll face fractious civil wars fought over issues we’ve not begun to fathom, and a much diminished state or states will result, perhaps guided by foreign interests.

 

It will not be pretty. There will be no “winners,” and perhaps hundreds of thousands to millions of dead.

 

Yet, this is the future we face if the power-mad among us are not soundly defeated at the ballot box before they affect more “change” than we, the People, are willing to surrender to would-be tyrants.

 

http://www.bob-owens.com/

Toons

Source: The Right Reasons

 

 

 

 

 

 

Listen, Learn, Think, PAY ATTENTION!

Take a few minutes and listen, then think about it.

 

 

 

 

 

History will repeat, take what you will from it.

What have YOU done to protect YOUR family from those who would commit these acts against the populace?

Stop, Think, Research, PAY ATTENTION.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cops Evacuate Fla. Movie Theater Over Sub Sandwich

VIA: The Blaze

Cops Evacuate Fla. Movie Theater Over Reports Of Shotgun Being Smuggled In — Turns Out to Be a Sub Sandwich

The Epic movie theater multiplex in St. Augustine, FL was evacuated Thursday after two people called police and reported a man “stuffing something suspicious down the back of his pants” and that he could have a shotgun.

Approximately a dozen police cars responded to the scene. The theaters were emptied, the suspect located, but no gun (or any weapon) was found. Instead, the alleged smuggler admitted to sneaking a large sub sandwich into the theater.

Shortly after the incident, St. Augustine’s local TV channel, First Coast News was on the scene and filed this report.

Video at link: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cops-evacuate-fla-movie-theater-over-reports-of-shotgun-being-smuggled-in-turns-out-to-be-a-sub-sandwich/




TSP Comment:

 

 

Homeless vets number doubles despite Shinseki’s best efforts

VIA: This Ain't Hell

USAToday reports that the number of homeless veterans or veterans at risk of being homeless has doubled over the last two years, while VA Secretary Eric Shinseki has assured us that the numbers were falling, you know, before the election;

Through the end of September, 26,531 of them were living on the streets, at risk of losing their homes, staying in temporary housing or receiving federal vouchers to pay rent, the Department of Veterans Affairs reports.

That’s up from 10,500 in 2010. The VA says the numbers could be higher because they include only the homeless the department is aware of.

Of course, the VA says it’s because they’re working harder to identify veterans, but, if they were working REALLY hard, the numbers would be falling because they’d be weeding out actual veterans from the number who say they’re veterans. But, I guess working REALLY hard would mean that they’d have to actually work instead of throwing themselves lavish parties and calling it training.

So, where is Shinseki’s resignation? The backlog of claims have grown, the number of homeless has doubled and those were the two things Shinseki said he was going to cure at the DVA. Maybe if he gave all of the homeless black berets, that would cure the problem.

Toons

Source: The Briefing Room

 

 

 

 



Can You Guess Who I Am?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special addition for Mike's comment:

 

 

 

 

 

History repeats.......or goes on, and on

the same stuff and no one learns from it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The most violent country in Europe: Britain

Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.

Source: Daily Mail UK
HT/ Sean Linnane

Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it has been revealed.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world's most dangerous countries.

The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour.

The Tories said Labour had presided over a decade of spiralling violence.

In the decade following the party's election in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to 1.158million - or more than two every minute.

The figures, compiled from reports released by the European Commission and United Nations, also show:

• The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
• It has a higher homicide rate than most of our western European neighbours, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
• The UK has the fifth highest robbery rate in the EU.
• It has the fourth highest burglary rate and the highest absolute number of burglaries in the EU, with double the number of offences than recorded in Germany and France.

But it is the naming of Britain as the most violent country in the EU that is most shocking. The analysis is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 residents.

In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677.

 

The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This is a damning indictment of this government's comprehensive failure over more than a decade to tackle the deep rooted social problems in our society, and the knock on effect on crime and anti-social behaviour.


'We're now on our fourth Home Secretary this parliament, and all we are getting is a rehash of old initiatives that didn't work the first time round. More than ever Britain needs a change of direction.'

The figures, compiled by the Tories, are considered the most accurate and up-to-date available.

But criminologists say crime figures can be affected by many factors, including different criminal justice systems and differences in how crime is reported and measured.

In Britain, an affray is considered a violent crime, while in other countries it will only be logged if a person is physically injured.

There are also degrees of violence. While the UK ranks above South Africa for all violent crime, South Africans suffer more than 20,000 murders each year - compared with Britain's 921 in 2007.

Experts say there are a number of reasons why violence is soaring in the UK. These include Labour's decision to relax the licensing laws to allow round-the-clock opening, which has led to a rise in the number of serious assaults taking place in the early hours of the morning.

But Police Minister David Hanson said: 'These figures are misleading.

Levels of police recorded crime statistics from different countries are simply not comparable since they are affected by many factors, for example the recording of violent crime in other countries may not include behaviour that we would categorise as violent crime.

'Violent crime in England and Wales has fallen by almost a half a peak in 1995 but we are not complacent and know there is still work to do. That is why last year we published 'Saving lives. Reducing harm. Protecting the public. An Action Plan for Tackling Violence 2008-11'.'

The timing of the Europe-wide violence figures is a blow for Mr Johnson, who will today seek to reassert Labour's law and order credentials.

In his first major speech on crime since becoming Home Secretary, Mr Johnson is expected to promise a concerted crack down on antisocial behaviour.

He wants to set up a website to allow the public to see what is taking place in their neighbourhood, such as the number of louts who have been served with Asbos.

Mr Johnson is also known to support early intervention to stop children going off the rails.


TSP Comment:
 
Lets ban guns thats sounds like a good idea that will lower the crime rates.

OOPS! You mean we already did that? OH MY! whatever will they do?

I know, it must be them damn knives, lets restrict and/or ban them that will lower the crime rates!

Well they aready have:

 

Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959

Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 (Amended 1961)

Criminal Justice Act 1988

Offensive Weapons Act 1996

Knives Act 1997

 

Well isn't that strange, the more they restrict and ban the more the crime goes up, hmmmmm, the unarmed victim thing I guess.

 

Thats all fine and well for the folks in the UK, more power to them, it's their country they can have at it.

 

But you M'erican's had best spend a minute and check out what they have gone thru and think about it a bit, learn a bit, then go hug your evil black rifle.

 

 

 



CONFIRMED: The 'Marine Vet' Standing Guard At A California School Is A Phony

HT/ This Ain't Hell

Today the AP released a report on another Marine guarding a school, Sgt. Craig Pusley, who claims he served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, leaving the Marine Corps just last year.

Information obtained by Business Insider from active duty Marine sources indicated otherwise:
Craig R. Pusley served for not even a year, from 17 July 2007 to 8 April 2008, never earned a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS - a job designation), and never left Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, according to the report.

He left the Corps as a basic Marine (8000 MOS designation), no reserve status.

His rank was never more than Private First Class, he never deployed, and his only award was for the National Defense Service Medal.

Pusley was likely copycatting Marine Staff Sgt. Jordan Pritchard, who was recently notified on behalf of the Marine Corps that he was not authorized to wear his uniform in public.

UPDATE: The Modesto Bee has also confirmed that Marine Private First Class Craig R. Pusley was never in Afghanistan or Iraq, and that he in fact only served 8 months.

“The record speaks for itself,” Marine Corps Capt. Kendra N. Motz told The Bee in a telephone interview Thursday afternoon, adding that “we just became aware of it."


Read more:  Business Insider

More at: Marine Corps Times



TSP Comment: I don't understand these phony Vets.
I guess the Supreme Court does since they say its okay, free speech and all.

Tech Post - Forcewinder Air Cleaners

The folks at NRHS were nice enough to grant me permission to use their tech library to post here for everyone to benefit from. They do dyno tests and know their shit, plus they back up what they say about things with proof. That's the no bullshit kind of way business should be done. If you have a chance check out their site, you never know you might learn something or find some of the services they offer fit your needs. Tell'em you seen it on The Shit Pile blog, or Stu sent you. I don't get a discount or anything out of a referral other than maybe more access to new information to share with you guys. With permission from and thanks to: NRHS Performance

One of the things we get asked a lot is how well the Forcewinder air cleaner from Force Motor Products works. People like it because it looks cool and offers a lot of knee clearance, but they're skeptical of it's performance because it's got a fairly small filter element and a 90 degree elbow. Well, we've dyno tested the Forcewinder quite a bit, and this page is to share some of the things we've found. First and foremost, it's performance. The following chart compares it to a Buell "race kit" air cleaner, which uses a large 3" element under an XL style ham can. The testing was done on our 1996 Buell S1, which was nearly stock at the time ... but stock on this bike is nearly 100hp as you can see. It actually works pretty darn good! Over a certain range, the tuned length of the Forcewinder worked better than no air cleaner at all, which is remarkable. You can see it in the torque curve, too: We're big fans of the Forcewinders, we sell them and we use them. But at the same time, there's something to be cautious of when using a Forcewinder with a CV carburetor. The Forcewinder on the left is an older one, the Forcewinder on the right is a newer one. See how the bowl vent area was changed? Well, we've seen entirely too many cases where the new style on the right doesn't do an adequate job of venting the bowl as the rpm's climb. As a result, the motor goes lean and runs poorly. It's extremely easy to hog this area out with a die grinder or dremel tool and greatly improve the bowl vent. Take a look at the following: In blue you see how this bike ran with the unmodified new style Forcewinder. In green is how it ran by simply hogging out the float bowl vent area to look like the older style Forcewinder. Here's another real world example: You can see what a dramatic difference this little modification makes, and you can also see how well the air cleaner performs, approaching the zero-restriction configuration, which is saying quite a bit as an awful lot of the air cleaners on the market don't do this. So we highly recommend Forcewinders for a lot of high performance projects where knee clearance is needed, just be sure to make this modification if you're using it with a CV carburetor. If you're using it with a Mikuni, or with an injected bike, this modification is not needed and does nothing for you.

Tech Post - Straightness and Roundness of Cylinders

The folks at NRHS were nice enough to grant me permission to use their tech library to post here for everyone to benefit from.

They do dyno tests and know their shit, plus they back up what they say about things with proof. That's the no bullshit kind of way business should be done. If you have a chance check out their site, you never know you might learn something or find some of the services they offer fit your needs.

Tell'em you seen it on The Shit Pile blog, or Stu sent you.

I don't get a discount or anything out of a referral other than maybe more access to new information to share with you guys.


With permission from and thanks to: NRHS Performance

For many people doing conversions (883 to 1200 or 88ci to 95ci), one of the first decisions they have to make is whether to purchase new cylinders or have their old cylinders bored & honed. The cost is comparable either way, and the downtime can often be less with replacement of the cylinders with new OEM units. But the simple truth is that the machining of your cylinders offers a HUGE opportunity to improve on job HD did when they built your bike. In most cases, you can get significantly more power as well as engine life by getting your existing cylinders bored and honed by a shop that knows what they're doing.

Here's an example. This is a new take-off XL1200 cylinder (actually Buell X1, but same thing), properly clamped in a torque plate. We have not done any machine work on this cylinder, it's exactly as HD delivered it. We're taking measurements in the thrust direction and 90 degrees to the thrust direction to show the roundness of the cylinder. The dial bore gauge shows a relative measurement, don't try to figure out bore size from it's reading. Each numeral on the dial is .001", or one thousandth of an inch, which we normally just call a "thou". It has ten little lines between each numeral, each representing .0001", otherwise known as a "tenth", because it's a tenth of a thou and thousandths is always our default unit of measure.

 

One inch down the bore. Notice how the cylinder is only a few tenths out of round. This isn't too bad.

 

 

Two inches down the bore. Now we're more like 8 tenths out of round. This is bad.

 

Three inches down the bore. The cylinder is three thou out of round. Really, really, bad.

 

Four inches down the bore. The cylinder is literally 8 thou out of round. This is terrible.

 

Consider for a moment that the piston is designed to operate with a clearance of around 1 thou (cast piston) or 2 thou (forged piston). Where do you even make the measurement to determine the fit? It's kind of ridiculous.

I wish I could say this is an unusual result, but unfortunately, it's not. We've seen worse. We've pulled old motors apart and found areas where the rings never even touched the cylinder walls. Likewise, we've seen better. It's something of a crap shoot when you take an off the shelf mass-produced cylinder and put it in your bike. The same applies to all HD cylinders, stock, conversion, XL, Evo Big Twin, and Twin Cam.

 

By comparison, we machine your cylinders straight and round to two-tenths.

It goes without saying that ring seal is critical to performance and engine life. Some motors run good for a very long time, others use oil and run poorly from the get-go, and this is one of the major factors behind the variations.

In all fairness to HD, some things need to be noted here:

- The spigot is really hard to get straight. It likes to distort because it's so poorly supported. But no way should it be anywhere near 8 thou off. A good production cylinder, it'll be under 1 thou.

- The other cylinder of this set was only about half a thou (5 tenths) total out of round until the spigot and then it was about a thou out. It was definitely a better than average factory cylinder.

- The type of torque plates used and the way in which it's tightened also have an effect. It's not a totally repeatable process. We can make a cylinder perfectly straight and round, take it out of the torque plate and it'll be distorted as hell, put it back in the torque plate and it'll be close to what it was when we machined it, but not exactly the same. A few tenths off here, a few tenths off there. But this cylinder's distortion is way beyond the repeatability of the measurement.

So anyway, the message here is that your bike is a mass produced product, and like all manufacturers, keeping costs down is king at the motor company. But when you go to rebuild your motor, or raise it's displacement by converting it to a 1200 or 95ci, you have some huge opportunities to improve on it. Precision machining of your cylinders is one of the biggest. You'll be rewarded with improved power and longevity.

Don't even think about measuring or machining a factory cylinder without torque plates. It ain't even worth your time to stick the bore gauge in it, it'll change so much. If a shop tells you they can measure or machine them without torque plates, run, don't walk, away. A well designed, hefty aftermarket cylinder, for example Axtell) will change only slightly in and out of a torque plate (although Axtell machines ALL of their cylinders in torque plates, unlike some companies). A factory cylinder, and some aftermarket cylinders will move a mile. They're flexi-flyers. I'll do an article on this when I get a chance.

 

Chinese State Media Demands US Citizens Be Disarmed

Source: Breitbart                                                TSP COMMENTS BELOW

 

 

The official Chinese government news agency, Xinhua, has demanded the US immediately adopt stricter gun control measures to reduce the number of firearms the US populace is permitted to possess.

The Chinese state-controlled media’s statement, titled “Innocent Blood Demands No Delay for US Gun Control,” is primarily focused on the Newtown tragedy in which 26 Americans were killed by a mad gunman. Twenty of the victims were young children.

The Chinese government stated, “Their blood and tears demand no delay for the U.S. gun control.”

In an apparent effort to restrict information to their populace, the Chinese government wrote of a number of US mass shootings but failed to mention they were either stopped by a citizen legally carrying a firearm or otherwise only occurred in the controversial gun-free zones that critics say make prime targets for madmen.

The Chinese government states:

The past six months have seen enough shooting rampages in the United States. Just three days ago, three people were shot dead at a shopping mall in Oregon. Two weeks ago, a football player shot his girlfriend dead and then committed suicide. Five months ago, 12 people were killed and 58 wounded in a shooting spree at a midnight screening of a Batman film in Colorado.

The government went on to express a strong dislike of the National Rifle Association while also attacking the Republican Party as somehow complicit in the violence. Conversely, the article heaps praise on the Democratic Party:

The Clinton government launched a series of gun control policies at the end of last century. And the Democrats lost the Congressional election in 1994 and the presidential election in 2000, with the shadow of the NRA present in both defeats.

The current Chinese government, the communist People’s Republic of China, was established in a revolution led by Mao Zedong, who killed an estimated 40-70 million people with starvation, executions, and re-education camps.




TSP Comment:

You kill 40-70 million people and then think you can lecture us?

Well the current administration may listen with fawning anticipation, but I think you can shove your idea up your ass.

Mao Ze-Dong slaughtered, killed, starved 40 70 million in China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, and Tibet 1949-50.

Think about that, 40-70 whats 30 MILLION here or there?

They make these guys look like rank amateurs, their totals don't even add up to the margin of error Mao is responsible for.
 

Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39)

6,000,000 (the gulags plus the purges plus Ukraine's famine)

Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945)

12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians deliberately killed in WWII plus 3 million Russian POWs left to die)

SO CHINA THIS IS FOR YOU

Der Kommissar ist für jetzt, im Einklang Kameraden zu erhalten, bitte Ihre Papiere, oder anderes. (The Chief is in charge now, get in line Comrade, your papers please, or else)

Source: Paragould Daily Press

 

Armed task force to patrol streets

 

Police chief says citizens could be subject to ID checks

 

 

 

In response to a recent increase in crime, Paragould Mayor Mike Gaskill and Police Chief Todd Stovall offered residents at a town hall meeting Thursday night at West View Baptist Church what could be considered an extreme solution — armed officers patrolling the streets on foot.

Stovall told the group of almost 40 residents that beginning in 2013, the department would deploy a new street crimes unit to high crime areas on foot to take back the streets.

"[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, check for your ID."

Stovall said while some people may be offended by the actions of his department, they should not be.

"We're going to do it to everybody," he said. "Criminals don't like being talked to."

Gaskill backed Stovall's proposed actions during Thursday's town hall.

"They may not be doing anything but walking their dog," he said. "But they're going to have to prove it."

Stovall said the foot patrols would begin on the east side of town and would eventually snake into the Pecan Grove area.

He said the police would follow where crime was taking place in order to snuff it out.

Normally, police would not stop individuals for simply walking on the street, but Stovall said the level of crime in certain areas and concerns from residents gave his officers the right to institute the actions announced at the town hall event.

"This fear is what's given us the reason to do this. Once I have stats and people saying they're scared, we can do this," he said. "It allows us to do what we're fixing to do."

Stovall further elaborated on the stop-and-ID policy Friday morning, claiming the city's crime statistics alone met the threshold of reasonable suspicion required to lawfully accost a citizen.

"To ask you for your ID, I have to have a reason," he said. "Well, I've got statistical reasons that say I've got a lot of crime right now, which gives me probable cause to ask what you're doing out. Then when I add that people are scared...then that gives us even more [reason] to ask why are you here and what are you doing in this area."

Stovall said he did not consult an attorney before announcing his plans to combat crime. He even remained undaunted when comparing his proposed tactics with martial law, explaining that "I don't know that there's ever been a difference" between his proposals and martial law.

Stovall said task force members would not even be required to be looking for a specific suspect before stopping citizens on the street.

"Anyone that's out walking, because of the crime and the fear factor, [could be stopped]," he said.

Should an individual not produce identification, Stovall said his officers would not back down. Individuals who do not produce identification when asked could be charged with obstructing a governmental operation, according to Stovall.

"I'm hoping we don't run across [any] of that," Stovall said. "Will there be people who buck us? There may be. But we have a right to be doing what we're doing. We have a zero-tolerance. We are prepared to throw your hind-end in jail, OK? We're not going to take a lot of flack."

On Friday, however, Gaskill retreated from the severity of the plan he and Stovall offered to citizens at the town hall.

"The only people who are really going to be impacted by this are mostly the unknowns," Gaskill said.

The mayor said the street crimes unit would not be positioned to cause problems for law-abiding residents.

"We just want to make a presence out there for the criminal element," Gaskill said. "And we want to make a presence for the people who are concerned and give them a sense of security."

Gaskill added he was not concerned about potential profiling by the police department. Even though Stovall had said police would enter neighborhoods with the highest crime rates, Gaskill said officers would respond to where they received calls.

"It would be based on where people have called us and said things are going on in our neighborhood," he said.

Gaskill made clear Friday that when residents called about problems in their neighborhoods, they needed to provide police with information.

"Give us a description — what kinds of clothes they're wearing, [license] plate number. We'll be looking for descriptions," he said.

City Attorney Allen Warmath echoed Gaskill's statements on Friday.

"It is my understanding that if they get a call in an area and they go to an area because of some calls of suspicious activity, they'll make contact," Warmath said.

Warmath said while he had not directly spoken to Stovall, he understood that the street crimes unit would actually be less confrontational than Stovall let on.

"If they have a call that there's some problems in the area, they're at least going to talk to you," he said. "Maybe that person walking their dog saw something. It gives them some information and some leads to find out what's going on."

As for having IDs, he said citizens wouldn't have to worry about that, either. He said the police would not arrest residents solely for failing to produce identification when asked.

Attorney Curtis Hitt of the law firm of Hitt and Kidd said officers were allowed to engage in "consensual questioning" with citizens, though if any circumstances arose that led to an arrest, a judge would have to look at the "totality" of those circumstances.

"The bottom line is it would have to be determined on a case by case basis," he said.

Hitt said he had a high regard for Stovall and the Paragould police. He said he felt their intentions were in the right place, which he believed was preventing crime and making Paragould a safe community.

"At the same time, as an attorney who reads police reports and keeps up with the law, I certainly will be careful of that for any of my clients."

Thursday's town hall meeting was the second of four meetings Paragould officials will host to discuss crime statistics in different parts of town. Officials will meet with residents Tuesday at Center Hill Church of Christ and Thursday at the Paragould Community Center. Both meetings begin at 7 p.m.

TSP Comment:

Hey Chief this what your shooting for?

 

 

Hey lets do the modern digital age stuff and adds some rocking metal tracks and the old Hippies and their young followers will buy off on this shit and think its all cool in the name of Communism Marxism Socialism Social Justice and Democracy Progressive style.

Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily

Cop murder spotlights crisis of killer aliens

No government agency tracks crimes by illegals, not even attacks on police

Source: WND

Officer Rodney Johnson

WASHINGTON – Charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl, Juan Leonardo Qunitero had been deported back to Mexico in 1999 as an illegal alien. Nevertheless, last week, he was back in the U.S., living comfortably in a city that prohibited police from asking anyone about their immigration status.

 

Rodney Johnson was a 12-year veteran on the Houston police force. Married with five children, he was big, kind-hearted and unafraid of working the toughest gang beats or late-night shifts.

On Thursday, Sept. 21, around 5:30 p.m., he pulled over a white Ford pickup driving 50 mph in a 30 mph zone in what should have been a routine traffic stop. The driver, Quintero, had neither a driver’s license nor any other identification so, after a pat down, Johnson handcuffed him and placed him in the back of his patrol car. But Johnson missed the gun in Quintero’s waistband. The prisoner pulled it out and fired four times at Johnson at close range.

When Johnson was laid to rest this week after his execution-style murder he joined a growing list of law enforcers gunned down by foreign criminals. Meanwhile, in Florida, a sheriff’s deputy was killed and another shot in the leg yesterday after they pursued a motorist who ran away from a traffic stop.

Deputy Vernon Matthew “Matt” Williams and his K-9 unit were shot dead, officials said. Deputy Doug Speirs was shot in the leg but was expected to recover. Polk County sheriff’s deputies early today said they shot and killed a suspect, described as a black man with a Jamaican accent with dreadlocks.

Though no government agency in the U.S. – not the FBI nor Immigration and Customs Enforcement – tracks violent crimes by illegal aliens, even murders of police officers, a search by WND of news reports in the last three years shows law enforcement personnel are hardly immune to deadly carnage wrought by untracked, undocumented armed predators inside the country.

Less than a year ago, Nov. 12, 2005, Dallas police officer Brian Jackson met the same fate.
It seems Juan Lizcano, an illegal alien who worked as a gardener, had a few too many drinks that Saturday evening before heading to the home of Marta Cruz, according to a witness who accompanied him.

Again, police responded early Sunday morning to a domestic disturbance call at Cruz’s home and were told that Lizcano had threatened his ex-girlfriend and fired a handgun inside the house. He was gone by the time officers arrived.

About 45 minutes later, officers were notified that Lizcano had returned to the home. Officers pursued him on foot as the suspect jumped over fences and ran through yards.

Officer Jackson died of a wound to his right underarm, near his protective vest, suffered in a gunfight with Lizcano. He and his wife, JoAnn, a respiratory therapist, had been married less than four months.

In Denver, Raul Gomez-Garcia, another illegal alien charged with shooting two police officers at a crowded party where both the gunmen’s wife and 2-year-old daughter were seated, was convicted last week.

Gomez-Garcia, 21, faced trial in Denver District Court for second-degree murder of Denver police officer Donald “Donnie” Young and attempted first-degree murder of Detective Jack Bishop. The two officers were shot in the back May 8, 2005, as they worked security at an invitation-only baptismal party.

The officers had turned Gomez-Garcia away from the party. He returned later, intent on shooting the two officers.

Gomez-Garcia has almost no education, is illiterate and explained to investigators that he had carried a loaded gun since he was 13 years old. He came to the United States when he was 8 and lived in south central Los Angeles.

Perhaps one of the most dramatic stories of a police officer being shot by an illegal alien is the case of shooting Arizona sheriff’s deputy Sean Pearce, an 11-year veteran of the force who served a search warrant Dec. 16, 2004, at a Mesa trailer home.

Hiding behind a Christmas tree inside was Jorge Luis Guerra Vargas, a 22-year-old illegal alien who opened fire on Pearce.

Ironically, at the time of the shooting, Pearce’s father, Russell, an Arizona legislator, was in Washington giving a speech about illegal immigration at the Brookings Institution when he got the message to call home. His wife, he knew, “wouldn’t be calling if it wasn’t important. It had to do with the children.” Pearce excused himself from the podium and found a phone to hear the tragic news.

A WND investigation of local news reports found dozens more cases of police officers slain by illegal aliens. They include:

Deputy Brandon Winfield

• Deputy Brandon “Brandy” Winfield, 29, of the Marion County, Ohio, sheriff’s department, was murdered Oct. 17, 2004. Winfield was on routine patrol when he stopped to assist what he thought was a stranded motorist. Winfield later was found shot in the head in his vehicle, which had hit a guard rail and flipped into a ravine. Both of those charges in the crime were illegal aliens.
• Detective Hugo Arango, 24, of the Doroville, Ga., police department, was murdered May 13, 2000. Arango was shot and killed after having been flagged down by a club patron who indicated that some men had been breaking into cars outside of a nightclub. Detective Arango located three suspects and detained them. As he searched for weapons, Bautista Ramirez, an illegal alien from Mexico, shot Arango four times. The first shot took off one of his fingers, the second went through his thigh. As Arango lay on the ground helpless, Ramirez intentionally fired one round through Arango’s badge, and then executed him with a shot to his head that severed his brain stem.
• National Park Service ranger Kristopher “Kriss” Eggle, 28, was murdered Aug. 9, 2002. Ranger Eggle was shot and killed in the line of duty at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument while pursuing members of a drug cartel hit squad which fled into the U.S. after committing a string of murders in Mexico.
  

  Deputy Saul Gallegos

• Deputy Saul Gallegos, 35, of the Chelan County, Wash., sheriff’s department was murdered June 26, 2003. Gallegos was shot and killed after stopping a vehicle in a routine traffic stop. Jose Sanchez-Guillen, 22, who had been deported three times to Mexico, was found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder.
  

  Deputy Sheriff David March

• Deputy Sheriff David March, 33, of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department, was murdered April 29, 2002. March was on routine patrol when he made a traffic stop. The driver, Armando Garcia, shot March in the chest and the head – execution style. Garcia had been deported three times, had a long history of drug charges, violent crimes and weapons charges. The illegal alien from Mexico was already wanted for two attempted murders.
• Officer Tony Zeppetella, 27, of the Oceanside, Calif., police department, was murdered June 13, 2003. Zeppetella stopped Adrien George Camacho for a traffic violation. Camacho pulled out a gun and shot the officer. Camacho then pistol-whipped the injured officer before shooting him again, killing him with the officer’s own gun. Camacho is an illegal alien and gang member from Mexico with a criminal history that includes five previous felony convictions and several deportations.
• A Huntsville, Ala., police officer, Daniel Howard Golden, 27, was shot multiple times by Benito Albarran, 31, an illegal immigrant in August 2005.

While no government agencies specifically track crimes by illegal aliens, there have been some efforts to quantify the loss. Last December, Mac Johnson set out to investigate the number of homicides perpetrated by illegal aliens.

Since the federal government would not provide any useful information, he contacted all 50 statehouses. Three months later, he had fewer than a dozen responses. Only one state, Vermont, provided any useful information.

He then set out to statistically estimate the number of murders by illegal aliens based on available crime data and conservative estimates of the actually number of illegal aliens in the country – which, of course, nobody really knows.

He found that between 1,806 and 2,510 people in the U.S. are murdered annually by illegal aliens. If he’s right, that would represent between 11 percent and 15 percent of all murders in the U.S.

In one study of a sample 55,000 illegal immigrants serving prison sentences in the U.S., it was discovered that they are responsible for over 400,000 arrests and over 700,000 felony crimes.

According to Heather McDonald of the Manhattan Institute, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.

South Carolina Lawmakers Propose 5-Year Jail Sentence for 'Obamacare' Implementation

Source: US News

Federal officials could face fines and jail terms under proposed legislation

 

 

Nullification is yet again picking up steam in Dixie.

Pursuing an archaic legal theory that punctuated pre-Civil War disputes between the federal government and states, South Carolina state Rep. Bill Chumley last week pre-filed a bill for the upcoming legislative session that would criminalize implementation of President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare reform law.

If his bill becomes law, any state official caught enforcing the healthcare law would be guilty of a misdemeanor and "must be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."

Federal officials caught enforcing the law, however, would be given stiffer punishment under the proposal.

Any federal employee or contractor enforcing the law "is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both," the bill proposes.

"I think we're within our rights to do this," Chumley explained to U.S. News. "It's an obligation, I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and protect the people."

The bill was drafted after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the healthcare law in June, a decision that Chumley strongly disagrees with. In response, says Chumley, "we put a little study committee together to look at the possibility of nullification."

The study group included local lawyers, retired political science professors, and medical doctors, Chumley says. Another attendee was state Sen. Lee Bright, who is proposing similar legislation in the legislature's upper chamber.

"If we don't do something now, when do we?" says Chumley. "It's a sad situation that the government put us in... an unpleasant task you have to do from time to time."

"I feel very, very good about support," he adds. "I don't think it'll be a really hard sell."

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, also a Republican, has made no public statement on the bill. Chumley said he has seen Haley just once since setting up his study group and "didn't want to bother her with this."

Among the items in the healthcare law that irk Chumley are the individual health insurance mandate, "the establishment of 150 or so more agencies," "the addition of many thousand new IRS agents," and "home visits to come out and see how you're living."

UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, however, told U.S. News the proposed law "would be clearly un-enforceable, because the federal law – upheld by the Supreme Court – trumps state law."

"But I assume it's meant to make a political statement, not to have a direct legal effect," adds Volokh.




Eliminate the 1st AND 2nd Amendments - UPDATED:

Posting Truth, Info, Questions or not believing official story Related to Mass Shooting In Newtown Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School will result in arrests and prosecutions.

 

 

 

Posting Truth,Info,Questions or not believing official story Related to Mass Shooting In Newtown Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School will result in arrests and prosecutions of perpetrators of WHISTLEBLOWING.

If you pay attention to what he says, he's not talking about people impersonating the killer, he said "in any form" posting what he considers disinfo.

 

This is a pathetic last ditch attempt to clamp down on info and try to salvage their official story.

 

Will these guys prosecute themselves for violating First Amendment's Rights Of The U.S. Contitution?

 

TSP Comment:

 

Okay this thing is moving very quickly on the political front, I have seen the posts of the conspiracy folks, like always, some are waaaaay out there, others are a stretch and most are ignored or easily dismissed. (And that's exactly why they don't find space here)

 

Whats up with this though? I don't ever remember the full court press we're gonna prosecute thing.

 

Kinda draws attention to it, don't you think?

 

I understand the need for information that is truthful, the media does their own investigations and many times bring facts to light the public would never have known if not for them.

 

In this day and age the independent media looks at everything with a microscope and I understand that information dumps can confuse or muddle the investigation.

 

I always take what they (Media and authorities to be honest) present with a grain of salt as we all know all information is never released. Never has been.

 

This just seems over the top, what do you think?

 

UPDATE: Watched the news conference this morning (12/17/12)with the same LT from the CT State Police, he stated there were to two active investigations into people trying to interfere and/or threaten those involved with the investigation? He wasn't specific as to who, victims, witnesses, investigators, were the target of the threat or interference.

 

Okay now I'm really interested.

 

Who would be trying to interfere or would want to threaten anyone involved?

 

Is this a case of stifling the media, a nut job trying to influence something for what ever reason, an outside entity trying to sway the investigation, or something else?