you can see the threads from here.
Armed bad guy gets shot. Immediate BLM riot including vehicles to carry 'protesters' to and from, to ram storefronts, and trucks to carry away the loot.
They wind up raising bridges around the area to try to isolate it, and as of this morning apparently the cops are checking ID before letting people into that part of town.
And I'm sure there will soon be a statement from the Mayor blaming Trump and other states not having the kind of gun laws she wants.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Monday, August 10, 2020
A: In Africa, you're on the menu.
B: WTH?
'In addition, they were given no adequate advice by their guide on the particular risks that night of camping in that location.
'This is astonishing when the tents were set up at a location which we understand was known to be frequented by lions and other wild animals at night.'
Go to Africa to see the animals, shocked- SHOCKED!- that 'the area was known to be frequented...'
Bloody hell.
'In addition, they were given no adequate advice by their guide on the particular risks that night of camping in that location.
'This is astonishing when the tents were set up at a location which we understand was known to be frequented by lions and other wild animals at night.'
Go to Africa to see the animals, shocked- SHOCKED!- that 'the area was known to be frequented...'
Bloody hell.
"You people in the suburbs, and you people in
Cousin Fuck County* don't have anything to worry about, you're stupid to talk about riots."
Yeah, right.
*Yes, this is how a clown described anyone outside a major city worrying about such matters. They just don't learn, do they?
Yeah, right.
*Yes, this is how a clown described anyone outside a major city worrying about such matters. They just don't learn, do they?
Sunday, August 09, 2020
If you're hearing some of the annual shrieking and whining about how evil is was to end the war in the Pacific
by dropping those two nukes, give them this. It's a PDF of 'Thank God for the Atomic Bomb', and explains why.
And you might note to them that, due to findings after the surrender of the Japanese having more planes(being set up as kamikaze) and first-line troops(fully equipped) in the home islands, the earlier casualty count estimates had to be upped. Drastically.
One note:
On the other hand, John Kenneth Galbraith is persuaded that the Japanese
would have surrendered surely by November without an invasion. He thinks
the A-bombs were unnecessary and unjustified because the war was ending
anyway. The A-bombs meant, he says, “a difference, at most, of two or three
weeks.” But at the time, with no indication that surrender was on the way,
the kamikazes were sinking American vessels, the Indianapolis was sunk
(880 men killed), and Allied casualties were running to over 7,000 per week.
“Two or three weeks,” says Galbraith.
Two weeks more means 14,000 more killed and wounded, three weeks
more, 21,000. Those weeks mean the world if you’re one of those thousands or related to one of them. During the time between the dropping of the
Nagasaki bomb on August 9 and the actual surrender on the fifteenth, the
war pursued its accustomed course: on the twelfth of August eight captured
American fliers were executed (heads chopped off); the fifty-first United
States submarine, Bonefish, was sunk (all aboard drowned); the destroyer
Callaghan went down, the seventieth to be sunk, and the Destroyer Escort
Underhill was lost. That’s a bit of what happened in six days of the two or
three weeks posited by Galbraith. What did he do in the war? He worked
in the Office of Price Administration in Washington. I don’t demand that he
experience having his ass shot off. I merely note that he didn’t.
And you might note to them that, due to findings after the surrender of the Japanese having more planes(being set up as kamikaze) and first-line troops(fully equipped) in the home islands, the earlier casualty count estimates had to be upped. Drastically.
One note:
On the other hand, John Kenneth Galbraith is persuaded that the Japanese
would have surrendered surely by November without an invasion. He thinks
the A-bombs were unnecessary and unjustified because the war was ending
anyway. The A-bombs meant, he says, “a difference, at most, of two or three
weeks.” But at the time, with no indication that surrender was on the way,
the kamikazes were sinking American vessels, the Indianapolis was sunk
(880 men killed), and Allied casualties were running to over 7,000 per week.
“Two or three weeks,” says Galbraith.
Two weeks more means 14,000 more killed and wounded, three weeks
more, 21,000. Those weeks mean the world if you’re one of those thousands or related to one of them. During the time between the dropping of the
Nagasaki bomb on August 9 and the actual surrender on the fifteenth, the
war pursued its accustomed course: on the twelfth of August eight captured
American fliers were executed (heads chopped off); the fifty-first United
States submarine, Bonefish, was sunk (all aboard drowned); the destroyer
Callaghan went down, the seventieth to be sunk, and the Destroyer Escort
Underhill was lost. That’s a bit of what happened in six days of the two or
three weeks posited by Galbraith. What did he do in the war? He worked
in the Office of Price Administration in Washington. I don’t demand that he
experience having his ass shot off. I merely note that he didn’t.
Good. Because when you try to invade someone's home,
you should be made to feel 'unsafe'. Because you're a damned criminal.
Scene from the range
I spent yesterday dealing with a veritable frikkin' rainbow of people showing up to buy guns, buy ammo, practice, get advice on guns and ammo.
This includes people from other states who were passing through, saw the sign, and "Maybe THEY have some 9mm/40/whatever!" and stopped in. People with lots of different melanin contents and accents.
Those clowns insisting all gun owners are old, fat, white males are either hugely ignorant, or damned liars. I suspect a mix, but I know a lot of them are liars.
And Biden just announced(again) he wants to ban 'assault weapons', whatever the hell he defines that as. Oh yeah, that's going over well.
This includes people from other states who were passing through, saw the sign, and "Maybe THEY have some 9mm/40/whatever!" and stopped in. People with lots of different melanin contents and accents.
Those clowns insisting all gun owners are old, fat, white males are either hugely ignorant, or damned liars. I suspect a mix, but I know a lot of them are liars.
And Biden just announced(again) he wants to ban 'assault weapons', whatever the hell he defines that as. Oh yeah, that's going over well.
Saturday, August 08, 2020
That would make a very interesting case:
"The Mayor/Governor/City Authorities refused to protect us because of our race."With the race being white.
Well, that's exactly what's happening, and as noted that's a violation of civil rights, and I would love to see the politicians in question in court for doing it.
Well, that's exactly what's happening, and as noted that's a violation of civil rights, and I would love to see the politicians in question in court for doing it.
Scene from the range
When you
Show up half an hour before close,
Most of your group hasn't been there before and has to read the range rules,
Take a while to decide who's doing what/getting what targets,
"I want to rent that one",
"I want to get this stuff separately",
and stand there tapping things because it's taking longer than you like,
You might want to show up earlier.
Show up half an hour before close,
Most of your group hasn't been there before and has to read the range rules,
Take a while to decide who's doing what/getting what targets,
"I want to rent that one",
"I want to get this stuff separately",
and stand there tapping things because it's taking longer than you like,
You might want to show up earlier.
Friday, August 07, 2020
All the .45-70 brass
that's not loaded has been annealed, cleaned, and is being sorted.
I've got more than I thought.
This is gonna take a while.
I've got more than I thought.
This is gonna take a while.
Never mind all that, mail-in voting will be GREAT!
That means 84,108 ballots were not counted or invalidated — 21 percent of the total.
One out of four mail-in ballots were disqualified for arriving late, lacking a postmark or failing to include a voter’s signature, or other defects. The Post reported Tuesday that roughly 30,000 mail-in ballots were invalidated in Brooklyn alone.
And, in a place that very badly wants to show how wonderful this is,
Aside from tardy mailings and processing, Schwartz said scores of ballots were tossed out because the voters failed to sign the interior envelope that came with it.
But he said it wasn’t the voters’ fault.
“The envelope with directions for the signature was so poorly designed,” Schwartz said.
Doug Kellner, co-chair of the state Board of Elections, agreed with the criticism.
“The invalidation rate is higher than I would have predicted,” Kellor told The Post.
Really? Then you're an idiot. And I wonder what invalidation rate he predicted?
It's screwed in Californicated, too.
And I guarantee that with this kind of crap during the big election in November, the Usual Suspects will scream that this was done 'to disenfranchise minorities' and/or whoever.
One out of four mail-in ballots were disqualified for arriving late, lacking a postmark or failing to include a voter’s signature, or other defects. The Post reported Tuesday that roughly 30,000 mail-in ballots were invalidated in Brooklyn alone.
And, in a place that very badly wants to show how wonderful this is,
Aside from tardy mailings and processing, Schwartz said scores of ballots were tossed out because the voters failed to sign the interior envelope that came with it.
But he said it wasn’t the voters’ fault.
“The envelope with directions for the signature was so poorly designed,” Schwartz said.
Doug Kellner, co-chair of the state Board of Elections, agreed with the criticism.
“The invalidation rate is higher than I would have predicted,” Kellor told The Post.
Really? Then you're an idiot. And I wonder what invalidation rate he predicted?
It's screwed in Californicated, too.
And I guarantee that with this kind of crap during the big election in November, the Usual Suspects will scream that this was done 'to disenfranchise minorities' and/or whoever.
Thursday, August 06, 2020
The usual suspects will not be happy about this
This professor at the history and archeology department of the
University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin) declared on July 25: “When we talk
about the slave trade, people only accuse whites. But they came (to Africa) as buyers and we [Africans] were sellers.”
He assured viewers that the sale of slaves was not only an isolated phenomenon, since “the king himself sold them”. Abiola Félix Iroko detailed these transactions: “King Adandozan sold the mother of his consanguineous brother (Prince Gakpe) who later became Guézo”. As the Salon Beige website pointed out, he was the ninth king of Abomey between 1797 and 1818.
This historian – holder of a doctorate in letters and human sciences from the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne – did not mince his words: “There are no buyers without sellers, we (Africans) were sellers.”
...
In his book, La côte des esclaves et la traite atlantique : les faits et le jugement de l’histoire, the eminent historian firmly dismissed “the rhetoric of the supporters of the thesis of reparations” in no uncertain terms. “The Africans haggled for almost half a millennium with slave traders over the price of their kin they were selling. They still want to continue today to haggle with the descendants [of slave traders] over the market value of the blacks that their ancestors sold to the detriment of the development of their own regions,” wrote the historian (pp. 148-149).
History is messy. And people looking for one group/race to be angels without stain are generally in for a bad surprise.
He assured viewers that the sale of slaves was not only an isolated phenomenon, since “the king himself sold them”. Abiola Félix Iroko detailed these transactions: “King Adandozan sold the mother of his consanguineous brother (Prince Gakpe) who later became Guézo”. As the Salon Beige website pointed out, he was the ninth king of Abomey between 1797 and 1818.
This historian – holder of a doctorate in letters and human sciences from the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne – did not mince his words: “There are no buyers without sellers, we (Africans) were sellers.”
...
In his book, La côte des esclaves et la traite atlantique : les faits et le jugement de l’histoire, the eminent historian firmly dismissed “the rhetoric of the supporters of the thesis of reparations” in no uncertain terms. “The Africans haggled for almost half a millennium with slave traders over the price of their kin they were selling. They still want to continue today to haggle with the descendants [of slave traders] over the market value of the blacks that their ancestors sold to the detriment of the development of their own regions,” wrote the historian (pp. 148-149).
History is messy. And people looking for one group/race to be angels without stain are generally in for a bad surprise.
Oddly, neither in this article or in some other looking around
can I find a mention of what party he belongs to; I wonder why?
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
When the tax beast comes around and bites the taxers in the ass
Hard.
Mind you, Cuomo loves taxing the hell out of anyone who gets rich, he's just one who realizes there's a limit to what they will, and have to, put up with.
Lawmakers have proposed a wealth tax targeting the city's 100 billionaires to help fill a $30 billion (£23bn) budget shortfall created by the Covid-19 crisis.
Cuomo wants the rest of the country to save them instead, because
“A single per cent of New York’s population pays half of the state’s taxes,” he said, “and they’re the most mobile people on the globe.”
Retailers say the city is now the worst place to do business in the country, blaming its strict months-long lockdown and exodus of its wealthiest residents.
They report foot traffic at Manhattan stores is down 85 per cent from a year ago. Nearly 3,000 small businesses in New York City have closed for good in the past four months.
Broadway theatres - normally a big draw for tourists - announced they will remain closed until at least January 2021.
And the clowns running the city/state did it all themselves.
Mind you, Cuomo loves taxing the hell out of anyone who gets rich, he's just one who realizes there's a limit to what they will, and have to, put up with.
Lawmakers have proposed a wealth tax targeting the city's 100 billionaires to help fill a $30 billion (£23bn) budget shortfall created by the Covid-19 crisis.
Cuomo wants the rest of the country to save them instead, because
“A single per cent of New York’s population pays half of the state’s taxes,” he said, “and they’re the most mobile people on the globe.”
Retailers say the city is now the worst place to do business in the country, blaming its strict months-long lockdown and exodus of its wealthiest residents.
They report foot traffic at Manhattan stores is down 85 per cent from a year ago. Nearly 3,000 small businesses in New York City have closed for good in the past four months.
Broadway theatres - normally a big draw for tourists - announced they will remain closed until at least January 2021.
And the clowns running the city/state did it all themselves.
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Second try with subsonics
I found a box of 53-grain V-Max I have for some reason, and loaded those in Federal cases over what Hodgdon shows as the max load of Trailboss, 4.0 grains. Five with CCI sr primers, and five with Remington 6 1/2. The latter are noted as not suitable for standard .223, but work great with things like .22 Hornet and .30 Carbine; since this is such a low pressure load I thought I'd give them a try.
The CCI loads gave an average velocity of 1096 fps, highest being 1126 and lowest 1048.
Remington loads averaged 1014fps, highest 1020 and the lowest 998. At 50 yards, the five on the bottom(aimed at the bull) were CCI primed,
the five in/around the bull were Remington(aimed at the hanging hole on top). This was using a red dot sight, quite possible might tighten a bit with a scope.
Friend has a Silencerco Hybrid suppressor, and I was able to put these through it; no plugs needed, about as loud as a pellet rifle; with a can set up for .22 might be even a bit quieter.
The CCI loads gave an average velocity of 1096 fps, highest being 1126 and lowest 1048.
Remington loads averaged 1014fps, highest 1020 and the lowest 998. At 50 yards, the five on the bottom(aimed at the bull) were CCI primed,
Friend has a Silencerco Hybrid suppressor, and I was able to put these through it; no plugs needed, about as loud as a pellet rifle; with a can set up for .22 might be even a bit quieter.
It was brought up by Kim du Toit that he'd like to go back to the 70's
The only way I'd go for that is if I could keep the knowledge I've gained since. Especially both firearms and women.
Monday, August 03, 2020
Gave a friend a few rounds of the subsonic .223 to try
He came back giggling and wanting more to mess with.
"We don't want history taught unless
it's our approved history!"
Some of these people, I can't decide if they're actually evil or just damned stupid.
Some of these people, I can't decide if they're actually evil or just damned stupid.
Yeah, leftists and commies did this crap before
I was a teenager then, and I remember a lot of what would now be the 'woke' yelling, protesting, and in the farther examples blowing things up.
The more things change, etc.
The more things change, etc.
Saturday, August 01, 2020
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