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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
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Saturday, October 28, 2023
BAND-MAID👩🏭 🇯🇵 '10 Year Anniversary Tour"(4K 100%) 2023 @ Bayou Music Center Houston Texas 🇨🇱 Live
I was at this show, and you can see the top and back of my head a few times. I was all the way over on the left side of the stage in the Handicapped seating area in my roller chair. And this was without a doubt the most enjoyable concert I had EVER been to in my life. I hope I get to see the Ladies again, as they put on one hell of a good show.
Friday, October 27, 2023
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
At least 22 killed, dozens wounded in Lewiston, Maine shootings - NBC
Oct 25 (Reuters) - At least 22 people were killed and 50 to 60 wounded on Wednesday in mass shootings at multiple locations including a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, NBC News reported, citing a Lewiston police source.
State and local police previously reported there had been an active shooter on Wednesday night and that they were searching for a suspect at large, but did not provide casualty figures.
The Lewiston Police Department posted three photographs of the suspect pointing what appeared to be a semi-automatic rifle, in addition to a picture of a white SUV, asking the public for help in identifying either.
The Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office also posted pictures of the suspect, a bearded man in a brown hoodie jacket and jeans holding a rifle in the firing position.
"There is an active shooter in Lewiston," Maine state police said on the social media platform X. "We ask people to shelter in place. Please stay inside your home with the doors locked. Law enforcement is currently investigating at multiple locations."
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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Sunday, October 22, 2023
On the road to 20 million - More Band Maid
Plus some more good music from the Ladies of Band-Maid to inspire you, and to show you JUST how good they actually are.
Listen carefully to the intro to this song. It is NOT on the album, but it is one of 4 different intros the Ladies of Band Maid have used for this song. Now LISTEN to the very end of this song, and then hit play on the next video. You hear the final notes ringing out, then in just a few seconds, just long enough for the Ladies to go to their pedal boards and set them for the next song, then they LAUNCH into it.
The breakdown before the guitar solo is simply one of the best things I've ever seen.
The amount of smiles, shows just how much fun they are having on stage, performing for their "Masters and Princesses". And the drum solo is also VERY GOOD. This is the very first song I heard from Band Maid, and I was dumbstruck when I heard it. Next is the song that has made me their fan for LIFE.
The other live videos I posted above are from their "World Domination Tour" concert finale at Line Cube Shibuya in February of 2020, just before the virus shut down the planet. This one is from their March 2018 concert at Zepp Tokyo. And THIS is the song that made me their fan for life.
This is from one of their "Online" concerts, they performed during the lockdowns. And it shows just how diverse their sound actually is.
Another from their "Online" concerts. They performed 5 of these concerts for their fans. And they had viewers from 63 countries during the live stream, and I think every country in the world watched the saved streams later.
For Christmas 2021, the Ladies recorded a small acoustic concert for their fans, where they totally rearranged their songs for acoustic. they didn't just swap electric guitars for acoustic guitars, they rewrote and rearranged the songs to BE acoustic songs. This and the next one are from that concert.
There are live full electric versions of this song taken from one of their "Online" concerts and also from their February 2023 concert at the Tokyo Gardens Theater. And both are excellent. And show just how much care went into rearranging the song for acoustic.
Again, this song is from an "online" concert. But it was written and recorded during the lockdowns, as a way for the Ladies of Band Maid to tell their fans, that they know how hard everything was, and how they too felt that way. Yet they were still there for us, and they loved us their fans, and they loved performing for us. This is one of 5 songs by the Ladies that always make my eyes water.
The opening track of the Ladies first release since the lockdowns ended and they could tour again, to meet and perform for their "Masters and Princesses". It wasn't the first MV release from the EP they released, but it is the first track on the EP.
THIS is the first MV released for their EP "Unleash!". Did you notice the song title has 5 exclamation points? that is one exclamation point for each band member. And this is the Ladies declararation of being let off the track, to tour and continue their quest for World Domination.
The second MV from their EP, and it was written sort of like a Diss Track, to all those social media influencers and how fake they actually are.
2022, the Ladies of Band Maid, toured Japan and the US. Attending Music Festivals and performing concerts across the US. However, we found out later, that they Ladies were very trepedatious about what kind of recpetion they would recieve in the Us. As it had been almost 3 years since they had been able to tour. they were being told that their shows were selling out, but they didn't quite believe it. It was after their performance at the Aftershock Festival, they went up to Seattle for the open show of their US tour. The Ladies were nervous about how the audience would be. I've spoken to several people who were at that show, and they said the same thing, the Ladies looked shocked as they came out on stage at the start of the show, but Saiki, the Lead singer as she came out, it looked like someone had hit her with a club. Her eyes were open very wide. One person said it looked like she was trying not to cry. They then went to the next show, and the response the recieved was the same, PLUS the bass player, MISA, her birthday was approaching. And us Fans got involved.
This was for her Japan birthday. And the next night, well.
We had her American birthday. And we weren't done yet. But that comes later.
All of this made the Ladies realize, just how much they as a band, as artists, and as people, just how much THEY meant to us. And they felt the same way about us. Like their song I posted above. But Kanami, the lead guitarist and primary composer for the Ladies, had a melody and an idea. It took root after that show in L.A. and she started writing a song. A song that would be written throughout their tour and be finished once they got back to Japan, but first we had MORE to show them how much they mean to us.
Miku, the founder of Band Maid, the Co-Lead singer and rhythm guitarist, had HER birthday in Dallas, and we fans couldn't let her birthday be forgotten.
All of this showed to the Ladies JUST how important they are to us. And that song I mentioned above? The one Kanami had started writing? They finished it and debuted it at their February 2023 Tour Finale. And it is something that makes my eyes water everytime.
The LAdies have released several Live videos from that concert, I am only going to post one of them though. one of my favorite songs by the Ladies, although ALL of their songs are my fovorite, some are more favored than others.
And I will finish tis with their latest MV to be released, but NOT their latest song. The Ladies have debuted 3 new songs on the Japanese leg of their 2023 tour, so I hope for a new album to be released by them before Christmas, although it may be after the new year.
Shambles was written by the Ladies for the closing title of the 2nd season the Netflix Anime "Kengan Ashura". And as you can see in the MV, the song itself is on fire.
Please listen to/watch the Ladies videos. I hope that you will enjoy their music as much as I do. And please help get "Thrill" to 20 million views before November 20th.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
The Road to 20 Million - Band-Maid Thrill
The Ladies of Band-Maid need about 70k more views to their Thrill MV to hit 20 million. Can you watch it a time or two to help push it over the finish line?
Friday, October 20, 2023
Can you help me get this to 20 millions views?
The Ladies have their 10 year anniversary tour finale on November 20th. I would love it if we can get this video to 20 million views before their concert.
Fraudulent Covid Claims Fueled Black Market Gun Trade - Ammoland.com
America can add one more lingering effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Easy access to government funds fueled fraudulent claims that heated up the illicit black market of firearms, especially by criminal gangs and illegal drug networks.
In other words, it wasn’t the lawful sale of a record number of firearms in 2020 and 2021 that was responsible for crime. It was government tax dollar giveaways without guardrails that criminals co-opted.
The low threshold to claim COVID-19 relief money from the federal government made it all too easy for criminal gangs like the Traveling Vice Lords and the Wild 100s to tap into free money. That money was used for crimes of illegal firearm straw purchases and even a murder-for-hire plot. Gun control groups blamed the firearm industry for the rising rates of violent crime during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. The truth is clearer now. Lack of oversight to ensure COVID relief funds weren’t fraudulently obtained is a contributing factor, along with soft-on-crime policies and elected officials who refuse to jail criminals.
Criminal Connection
Chicago Sun Times published the exposé of how the federal government’s plan to rescue the economy from collapse was a catalyst for skyrocketing black market gun profits. An Inspector General’s report from the Small Business Administration that oversaw the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster loan estimated that at least 17 percent of the $1.2 trillion handed out was obtained by fraud. That’s $204 billion.
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Marxist Ideology and the Push to Ban Militia Weapons in the USA - Ammoland.com
Under the ideology of cultural Marxism and the framework of Marxist “Woke” ideologies, power must be taken from a majority population. Firearms, as noted by the Marxist and Chinese mass murderer Mao, are a form of political power. Mao wrote:
Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
What Mao meant was only the Communist Party should be allowed to have guns. For a Marxist revolution to succeed, the people must be disarmed. The left in the United States has long pushed for the disarmament of the population. Recently, the left has primarily pushed for the banning of those arms that are commonly available and most suitable for militia use. These are modern semi-automatic rifles with standard capacity magazines of 30 rounds. These types of rifles are admirably suited to the defense of homes and neighborhoods, in part because they are understood to be extremely effective and, as such, have great deterrent value.
The American founding fathers understood the political power of firearms as well. They had just won a war with the superpower of the age, England. The English king had repeatedly attempted to disarm first the colonists and then the revolutionaries. The founders wished to make sure no future American government would be able to disarm the American people. Thus, they included the guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights. The founders understood the right to keep and bear arms included defense against all threats from animals, criminals, other nations, and domestic tyrants.
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Dem. County Executive in WA Launches ‘Office of Gun Violence Prevention’ - Ammoland.com
With the support of a Seattle-based, billionaire-backed gun prohibition lobbying group, Washington’s Democrat King County Executive Dow Constantine has announced the launch of a “Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention,” and has earmarked $13.5 million to set it up.
Constantine, who has been endorsed by a gun control group in the past for election, made the announcement during a press event Oct. 17. According to KCPQ, the local Fox News affiliate, Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall—a Constantine appointee—“highlighted alarming gun violence statistics throughout the region.”
“Data collected by King County shows the numbers are up across the board. Shot fired incidents increased 17%. The number of shooting victims jumped 55%. Most shockingly, the number of fatal shooting victims has skyrocketed, up 76%,” KCPQ reported.
Ammoland News has covered the steady increase of gun-related violence in Washington State, especially in King County and Seattle, in past reports. While the numbers are not staggering compared to the homicide statistics from places such as Chicago or Baltimore, for the Pacific Northwest they are pretty grim.
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Colorado’s 3-Day Gun Purchase Delay: A Threat to Safety & Constitution - Ammoland.com
Colorado’s law is not just a waiting period on the right to possess peaceably purchased property. It is a delay on safety itself.
On October 1st, 2023, Colorado’s new 3-day waiting period law went into effect as passed by the state’s legislature and Governor Jared Polis, requiring those who purchase a firearm to wait three days before acquiring the gun. That is, once a citizen has passed a federal background check a state background check, and paid for a firearm upfront, the government then mandates an additional 72-hour delay before possessing a firearm.
With this new law, Colorado is delaying and therefore denying its citizens their Second Amendment rights and their right to self-defense. Mountain States’ client Alicia Garcia says, “Asking someone to wait 3 days for self-defense is to put them at risk for harm.” Alicia personally has friends who are trying to stay away from abusers, and in many cases, a firearm is the only chance they have of defending themselves. When Colorado forces them to wait an additional three days to have access to the protection and security a firearm gives, it leaves these women vulnerable and puts their lives in danger.
Alicia said, “This law puts people like my friends and so many other women at risk for death, harm, and rape. The politicians say this is about people’s safety—this law is a danger to the most vulnerable.”
Anyone who paid attention to the Supreme Court’s historic decision in NYSPRA v. Bruen decision would realize that this new Colorado gun law is unconstitutional.
The fact that anti-gun politicians would even attempt this law speaks to their desperation to undermine the Supreme Court and our supreme law. It is part and parcel of a hostility toward the rights of Coloradans and Americans to defend themselves.
Brian Abbas, director of MSLF’s Center to Keep & Bear Arms, says, “They have an agenda to outlaw guns as much as possible and they are going about it meticulously and keep trying to chip away at gun rights.”
If the courts strike down the law, it will send a clear signal that any delay in a person’s right to keep and bear arms is a denial of that right. If the courts uphold the law, however, it will stand contrary not only to the text of the Second Amendment and the Supreme Court, but against the most basic right of protecting oneself and family.
Mountain States Legal Foundation is representing Alicia Garcia in her fight to educate and protect others, as well as Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. We seek nothing short of a complete invalidation of the law by the federal courts and a return to constitutional sensibility.
Mountain States Legal Foundation
Mountain States Legal Foundation is a nonprofit, public-interest legal foundation established in 1977. MSLF is dedicated to individual liberty, limited and ethical government, and Second Amendment rights. MSLF defends its clients through pro bono litigation, primarily against the federal government, in defense of constitutional liberties and the rule of law. With its litigation MSLF seeks victory for its clients at the highest level possible, establishment of binding legal precedents to benefit millions of Americans, and education of the American public on the threat to their liberties that unrestrained government presents.
U.S. District Court Judge Skewers “Expert” Ryan Busse in Landmark Assault Weapons Ruling - Ammoland.com
In a groundbreaking verdict that has sent shockwaves through gun control circles, a U.S. District Court judge in California made a bold stand for Second Amendment rights. What’s more, in the process, he served a scorching rebuke to “Firearms Expert” Ryan Busse, a senior advisor for the Giffords gun control organization and candidate for Montana’s next Governor.
The case in question, Miller v. Bonta, saw the court examining California’s longstanding ban on what the state labels as “assault weapons.” In his detailed 79-page decision, Federal Judge Roger T. Benitez made it abundantly clear that the ban was not just an infringement on constitutional rights but also steeped in flawed arguments and poorly conceived testimonies.
At the heart of the matter, however, is Judge Benitez’s surgical dismantling of Ryan Busse’s testimony. Busse, with his history as a former firearm industry executive, might have hoped that his previous professional affiliation would lend weight to his anti-assault weapons stance. But the reality proved to be the opposite.
As the judge noted, Busse’s expertise seems dubious at best when it comes to the subject at hand: AR-15 platform rifles. The majority of firearms that Busse’s former employer sold were pistols, revolvers, and traditional bolt-action rifles, far from the semi-automatic territory that the case revolved around. As such, Judge Benitez rightly questioned Busse’s credentials in offering an “expert” opinion on a class of firearms he had little professional experience with.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023
Did Gator's Guns Just Trap the Attorney General's Office? - Washington Gun Law
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Judge: ‘You have a choice – your husband or your guns’ - Ammoland.com
Last week, a Florida judge forced Lisa Marok to renounce her Second Amendment rights, give up her Florida Concealed Weapon or Firearm License (CWFL) and remove all firearms and every single round of ammunition from her home, even though she had not been accused of a single crime.
If she failed to comply with the judge’s unconstitutional order, her husband could have served 19 months in a state prison. If she complied, her husband would be sentenced to probation and walk out of the courtroom a free man.
“You have a choice,” the judge told her. “Your husband or your guns.”
“Can I have a minute?” she jokingly asked.
The events that led to Marok’s strange dilemma began years ago when her husband Ralph Marok was working for the Florida Department of Transportation.
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