UPDATE: Others are asking questions too...

I posted a meme where I stated that it appears that several people were close to becoming "operational".

I got this rebuke from Polaris to my asking the question and to those that responded that agreed with my position.

The only f*cking heat generator here is you and you're self-styled treasonous lunatics. 

Hmmm.

I responded that he was suffering a massive case of "normalcy bias" if he could not sense that the nation was brewing and that leadership should take steps to turn the temperature down.

While looking through my Feedly Feed I ran across this article from "The Truth About Guns" (TTAG).

Question of the Day: Are Gun Guys Reaching the Point of No Return?“Legislative debates over gun rights, up significantly since the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., have spurred alleged death threats,” usatoday.com reports, “resulting in two high-profile arrests and causing lawmakers in one state to declare their legislature was under attack.” Notice the word “alleged.” Despite the declarative headline—Lawmakers who proposed gun laws face threats—the article uses the qualifier six times. That said, the post paints a picture of a vicious circle: gun guys get mad, gun grabbers call them madmen, gun guys get madder. Wash, rinse, repeat. Add unpopular (with the gun guys) gun control legislation and a few SWAT raids gone bad and you have millions of gun guys contemplating revolt against their own government. Are we there yet?

TTAG had over one hundred and forty responses.

Over ninety percent of those who responded stated that Gun Guys had reached the point.

My question to Polaris and those that think like him should be why are you surprised and why should this not be an expected reaction?

Our President was re-elected with just a tad bit over fifty percent of the citizens that chose to vote.  Our Congress has an approval rating that is below thirty percent.

And yet these people who don't have a mandate from the people, who don't represent the views of the people are asking those same individuals to trust them when they say that they're only putting forth common sense firearms regulation.

The arrogance would be laughable if it wasn't so in your face.  I'll say it again.  I hope leadership is aware enough to turn down the temperature before a "miscalculation" is made.

Friday night joke.

via Grunt Mafia.

A rather confident man walks into a bar and takes a seat next to a very attractive woman. He gives her a quick glance, then casually looks at his watch for a moment. 

The woman notices this and asks, 'Is your date running late?' 'No', he replies, 'I just bought this state-of-the-art watch and I was just testing it.' 

The intrigued woman says, 'A state-of-the-art watch? What's so special about it?' 'It uses alpha waves to telepathically talk to me,' he explains. 'What's it telling you now?' 'Well, it says you're not wearing any panties...' 

The woman giggles and replies, 'Well it must be broken then because I am wearing panties!' The man explains, 'Damn thing must be an hour fast.'

Gay Guy fights Butch Lesbian.

Check out the video below.  But pay attention to the twisted gender roles.  You have a Gay Guy, extremely soft spoken by the way, that ends up battling a Butch, extremely loud Lesbian who is spoiling for a fight.

Pay attention to the Gay Guy's words.  She's a girl.  I don't want to fight a girl.  Yet the Butch, extremely loud Lesbian continues to spoil for a fight.  Of course the crowd eggs him on and stupidity ensues.

Fight is on, Lesbian goes out like a light but then what happens!  The crowd attacks the Gay Guy for giving the Butch, loud Lesbian exactly what she demanded.  I said all that to ask this question.  Have women fallen for the Hollywood fiction that they are able to engage in hand to hand combat with a man and win?  I think they have but the problem is no one has given Guys handbooks on how to deal with increasingly loud, belligerent and aggressive females that believe fiction rather than biological reality.

This country is a powder keg. I hope our leaders are aware.

What happens when you have a Republican Administration that presides over the destruction of the American economy and then a Democrat Administration that ignores the insecurity found by many American families and focuses on liberal fantasies (universal healthcare) instead of fixing the economy?

You have a nation on edge.

What happens when predictions come true when the same Democrat Administration is re-elected based on a cult of personality not on actual job performance (black and hispanic unemployment is at record highs if it was properly counted...add to it that the campaign was unusually divisive) and again instead of focusing on the economy that same President focuses on Gun Control, Immigration Reform, Climate Change, Same Sex Marriage and other pet Democrat themes?

You have a country that's a powder keg.

The ammo shortage continues.  One writer said that the President and Diane Feinstein have unwittingly started the most massive arming of a nations population in the history of the world.

I wish that was all to this little meme of mine.  But I received an e-mail that quite honestly surprised me.  I wasn't shocked but I was surprised that people are talking so openly about this stuff.

From the Total Survivalist Libertarian Rantfest Blog...

Be realistic about what you can and cannot do. Like AM said you probably want to lean more towards assassinations than harassment. No point getting offed trying to shoot some Joey. On the other hand doing a 1 man infiltration of a Brigade sized FOB to kill a General Officer probably is not realistic either. (Remember #3 Exfil)

From Max Velocity Blog...

Getting into position: ideally the place you will take your shot from will have a covered approach into which you can bug out afterwards or if compromised. An example would be coming up behind a ridge or along a ditch. You may have to be prepared to conduct a ‘stalk’ such as a sniper does by low crawling at the pace of a snail through cover and concealment. You have to give thought as to how you will get out once the place goes hot.

From American Mercenary Blog...

Others have written this, and it is all true. But if you really had to be a loner, this is my advice. I've never been a loner, but I've thought about it quite a bit.
First, be an assassin, not a harasser. Figure out who the key players for the opposition are, and target them. Target key personnel in the enemies command, intelligence, or logistic structures. You are an operational cell of one, so be as focused as you can on being operationally effective.
Second, mix it up. If you are great with a rifle, learn to use bombs. If you can make a bomb out of bisquick learn to shoot a rifle. Being able to use multiple modus operendi will help keep the enemy from pinpointing you based on your operational signature any faster than they already can.
Third, know when to call it quits. You don't do anyone any good dead. Wait until the other side makes a big raid and kills a bunch of people, then lie low. If your activities stop after a bunch of people die, then it is likely that the enemy will think they got you in that operation. Wait until there is an influx of people from somewhere so that if you resume operations the enemy thinks it is from a new cell.

Now before you get on the phone to the FBI, let me be clear that all the authors were talking about living as an individual in a Shit Hit The Fan situation.

Quite honestly many people are claiming that if a time of life where we are Without The Rule of Law (WROL) that they'll simply "take" what they need by any means necessary.

Again, I'm not shocked by these articles but it does make me aware of exactly how "on" some people are.

Quite simply some people are preparing to go operational against an enemy.

I hope I'm just being alarmist but this is eye opening at the very least.  Oh and let me add.  These blogs aren't in the "dark internet" that seeks to escape notice and has passwords for viewing.  As a matter of fact these are some of the most widely read Survival Blogs on the internet.

I hope our leaders are paying attention and have enough sense to turn down the temperature.

Confidence is not high however.

A favorite meme of gun grabbers is debunked on Morning Joe.

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Hat tip to  Everyday No Days Off Blog.

I actually watched this interview live and I absolutely loved the way Mika's jaw dropped.

Joe and Mika had been playing up the thinking inside the beltway that the NRA was being run by the gun makers.  To see the shock on their faces when it dawned on them that no, its not the gun makers but the actual shooters, sportsmen and enthusiast that are dictating policy.

Quite honestly I think the White House got the memo first and that's why they're slowly but surely lowering expectations when it comes to their Gun/People Control efforts.

Singapore rides in to rescue the F-35.

Check this out.

(Reuters) - Singapore is in the "final stages of evaluating" the F-35 to upgrade its air force, a process U.S. sources say should turn quickly into orders for several dozen of the stealthy warplanes that have been beset by cost overruns and delivery delays.
Singapore, a major business and shipping hub with the best-equipped military in Southeast Asia, is expected to submit a "letter of request" soon for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, said two U.S. government officials who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
The city-state could start the process as soon as this week to buy the planes built by Lockheed Martin Corp, one of the officials said. Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, makes the engine for the F-35.
Singapore's defence minister, Ng Eng Hen, said on Tuesday the air force "has identified the F-35 as a suitable aircraft to further modernise our fighter fleet".
"Our F-5s are nearing the end of their operational life and our F-16s are at their mid-way mark," he said in parliament. "We are now in the final stages of evaluating the F-35."
Ng gave no timeline but said the defence ministry "will have to be satisfied that this state-of-the-art multi-role fighter meets our long-term needs, is on track to be operationally capable and, most importantly, is a cost-effective platform."
Singapore's air force now has 24 F-15SGs, 20 F-16Cs and 40 F-16Ds, 28 F-5Ss and nine F-5Ts, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It also has 19 AH-64D Apache attack helicopters among its other assorted aircraft.
The wealthy island nation of about 5.3 million people plans to spend S$12.3 billion ($9.85 billion) on defence in the 2013 fiscal year that starts in April, a rise of 4.3 percent from the previous year, the government's budget shows.
Singapore - home to a global financial centre, the world's second-busiest container port and major energy operations - is the region's biggest military spender, dwarfing its much larger neighbours Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.

Wow.  I've always said the Chinese play chess while we play checkers.  Well to be honest they got caught up in nationalism and arrogance.

Imagine if they had kept their stealth airplanes under wraps for another 5 maybe 10 years.  Budget pressures in the West would have killed the airplane and the US military would probably be in the midst of a massive reduction.

Now the Warhawks like McCain have a viable and real threat to point to when it comes to rallying for maintaining defense spending at current rates.

Arrogance and nationalism spoiled what could have been a deadly strategy.  Instead of facing the West with an array of modernized 4th gen fighters they're instead going to be facing a Pacific filled with F-35's.

The Chinese royally screwed up.