I may run out of stuff to clear, but not yet
Irons in the Fire
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Saturday, October 03, 2026
One of these nights,
I may run out of stuff to clear, but not yet
As someone noted, this whole mess, if it wasn't before, has been completely politicized
A: It was YOUR Facebook post, idiot.
B: read the whole piece here, with stuff on James I'd never heard before. And I wonder how much this 'I agree with everything she said, with no investigation' could get her sued for?
A question for those who reload, or
I've noticed something about some subsonic loads. You expect the bullet to have a lower point of impact at any distance due to the lower velocity, but some very consistently hit a bit to the right. The one I tried recently grouped very tightly at 50 yards, but an inch to the right. That was in .308, a while back I tried some subsonic loads, both factory and reloads, in 7.62x39 that hit a bit more to the right as well as lower.
Some history, borrowed from Ace:
Daily dose of history, September 27
Samuel Adams was an abject failure as a businessman. After graduating from Harvard with two degrees, his father gave him the money with which to launch his business career. Sam soon lost it all. He was 26 when his father died, leaving him a substantial inheritance. But by the time Samuel reached middle age most of the money was gone and he was barely able to support his wife and two children. He was well on his way to being someone history would not remember. But in 1764, at age 42, Samuel Adams gave up any further pretense of being a businessman and devoted himself to his true calling—politics.
An ardent proponent of the rights of the colonists since his college days, and a strident admirer of the writings of John Locke, Adams was a brilliant political organizer and a stirring public speaker—seemingly a natural-born revolutionary. He emerged as a leader of the resistance to taxation without representation. To the Patriots he was an inspiring motivator. To the Tories he was a provocative rabblerouser. Adams played key roles in the events leading to both the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. He founded the Sons of Liberty. He conceived the idea of Committees of Correspondence. He organized and championed the boycott of British goods. And he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. Thomas Jefferson would later call him, “truly the man of the Revolution.”
After retiring from Congress, Samuel Adams served as governor of his beloved Massachusetts, before dying peacefully on October 2, 1803, at age 81.
Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722, three hundred four years ago today.
Growing up, it was a common trope that cultures that we now associate with poverty, violence, and oppression were once world-leading in promoting prosperity and moral progress as well as the quintessentially human act of inventing. This popular belief was ultimately not driven by an earnest desire to promote awareness of empirically true but neglected facts. Instead, it was supported by anecdotes and quotations of dubious reliability and relevance, by scholarship that has turned out to be exaggerated or fraudulent, and by the promotion of these things in popular media.My favorite example of this has to do with the invention of many of the inventions credited to the so-called Islamic Golden Age by a rogue Wikipedia editor.
My latest article is about how a rogue Wikipedia editor confabulated and misattributed thousands of inventions and concepts to Muslims
— Cr�mieux (@cremieuxrecueil) October 1, 2026
This trolling made its way into blogs, articles, books, and TV programs. You might even believe some of his lies!
Link: https://t.co/4wYDCYPMm3 pic.twitter.com/yFOIaXqrSs
Remember this crap?
Friday, October 02, 2026
Yes, Britain is a police state,
Kim notes one of the ongoing problems with ATF, them violating the law(again)
Let's note that ATF still hasn't sent out the final, current rules on suppressors and such that they insist they're working so hard on.
Thursday, October 01, 2026
A piece on the 'Rape On Campus' myth Addition
One excerpt:
So what reality does lie behind the campus rape industry? A booze-fueled hookup culture of one-night, or sometimes just partial-night, stands. Students in the sixties demanded that college administrators stop setting rules for fraternization. “We’re adults,” the students shouted. “We can manage our own lives. If we want to have members of the opposite sex in our rooms at any hour of the day or night, that’s our right.” The colleges meekly complied and opened a Pandora’s box of boorish, sluttish behavior that gets cruder each year. Do the boys, riding the testosterone wave, act thuggishly toward the girls? You bet! Do the girls try to match their insensitivity? Indisputably.
College girls drink themselves into near or actual oblivion before and during parties. That drinking is often goal-oriented, suggests University of Virginia graduate Karin Agness: it frees the drinker from responsibility and “provides an excuse for engaging in behavior that she ordinarily wouldn’t.” A Columbia University security official marvels at the scene at homecomings: “The women are shit-faced, saying, ‘Let’s get as drunk as we can,’ while the men are hovering over them.” As anticipated, the night can include a meaningless sexual encounter with a guy whom the girl may not even know. This less-than-romantic denouement produces the “roll and scream: you roll over the next morning so horrified at what you find next to you that you scream,” a Duke coed reports in Laura Sessions Stepp’s recent book Unhooked. To the extent that they’re remembered at all, these are the couplings that are occasionally transformed into “rape”—though far less often than the campus rape industry wishes.
She calls them Legacy Media, I still use 'Professional Journalists', but same feeling:
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Well, the English 'elites' pushed and pushed for this, and it's happening,
Add to that the bloody mess over the people caught near that airbase. At the least a bunch of people should be either demoted or fired over this crap. And their official reaction is "You people don't know enough about this to get all upset."
How did Britain get so terrorist friendly? Said elites and the janissaries that used to be known as police worked at it. Hard.
Now go further east. Madam Hoyt notes this:
Abroad… Well, I wonder how much is happening that we never hear about. Though so far the turn to the right of Europe is the kind that seems to be more “American Right” than the traditional European jackboots left that respects national leanings and history. It’s both salutary and it scares the spit out of the left. As it should. A lot of what they’ve done this century and a half is to keep the “infection” of Americanism from overtaking the world. And I think they might have thrown a boomerang at their own faces.