Time to get rid of some stuff,

let's get started

                                                            I have numerous days like this

Down below for some more grown-up stuff, assuming Blogger doesn't blogger it up again

A reminder for the idiots screaming about the 'evils of the United States and slavery'

which we fought to end in 1865:

No, not all are equal.  And some prove this by defending slavery and committing it still whenever they can.

"I don't like the 2nd Amendment, and I distrust this government, but

I will keep a assault rifle as long as I can!"  Etc.

While complaining 'THOSE people are why I need to have one!  Although I shouldn't be able to unless it's all registered, at the least!'

That massive flood in Tibet & Nepal

Found this at a Brit site, showing the sequence.  God, what a mess.

Oh yes, this could be BIG,

and make a real difference in some of this.
They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows. It seems that terrorism makes for even stranger ones. Who would have thought that an American far-left radical terrorist group would make common cause with Islamic terror groups, when the two groups' agendas seem so misaligned?

And yet, that seems to be what is happening. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio took to his official X account to warn the American people of a connection between Portland Antifa, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Hamas. But more to the point, SECSTATE is telling us that the American government is digging deeper, beyond the Antifa foot soldiers and Hamas goblins, to find the people behind the scenes who are enabling them.

Widener's did some looking, prices in 1986

vs. Now.

What's really bad is finding an old ad from the 1960's, prior to 1968, of all the stuff you could buy simply by writing a letter and sending a check to the distributors.  Oh, wow, the stuff...

The same people who crap themselves in outrage that you own a AR or similar for target,

hunting, or home defense, have little to nothing to say about displays like this.  Gee, it's almost like they give gang bangers a pass on the law, or something.

Same people who, when Chicago has another bloody weekend, blame objects instead of the people doing bad things.

I've seen some of the videos of the flash flood in Nepal and Tibet, 'bloody awful' is understatement

Between general security cameras and people on higher ground who yanked out their phone, there's a lot of them.

They'll probably never know how many died in this.

Appears an ice avalanche blocked a river, causing it to back up very badly, and when that dam failed...

Just occurred to me, due to a comment on the .300 Blackout,

I ought to mention some bullets for general practice that work nicely and have a good price, the Berry's Plated.  I've used the 200 and 220 grain, and they shoot well.

Outdoor range time today,

heat and all(ah, the sacrifices I make!), which included trying the Federal .300 Blackout 190-grain Subsonic loads.

It took a few rounds to figure out elevation at 200 yards, less drop than my handloads, between higher velocity and that more ballistically efficient bullet shape.  The rifle has a Vortex Strike Eagle scope which has four stadia lines below the center dot, with a vertical arrow at the bottom below the bottom line.  Wound up with the fourth line being on the bullseye got this

Yes, I pulled one high.  Really, that five below is not bad, being about 3 1/2" center to center of the furthest apart.  For subsonic ammo in the last group at the end of a hot day from me, not bad at all.  I'll have to get some more of this, and I wish Federal would market the bullets for handloading.

That's a Birchwood Casey 17.25" Shoot n See target, and I like the things.

Well, even more reason to think Barbara Walters was a shit

... In a television interview in 1977, Barbara Walters thought herself entitled to ask Dolly when she experienced puberty, whether her husband felt obliged to be faithful, and whether her breasts were real. She even submitted her guest to the indignity of standing up and inviting the audience to inspect her body. Would Walters have ever done this to Meryl Streep or Meg Ryan? It was sheer class hostility, and no doubt much more of it took place in private, and in boardrooms.

Jeez, are there many academics who can be trusted to care about facts?

This is sad, and very not good

Damn. Dolly Parton died

I'd heard she had health problems- at 80 who doesn't?- plus the stress of her husband dying, but damn.

Can't help thinking, I wonder if she left her book program for kids funded?  Hope so

Oh yeah, this'll be fun

You thought a lot of the 'assistance' scammers were howling at having the funds cut off?

Post here.
Next question is how many clowns in Congress who are either corrupt or connected(can't really be one or the other, can it?) will be screaming?

Speaking of corrupt and screaming, let's go to the 'news' the other day:

Allow me to characterize the bizarre colloquy on Sunday morning:

Kristin Welker: I won't allow you to talk about Abdul El Sayed's family terror ties because it might affect public opinion. [Pitch increases] I won't allow you to talk about Abdul El Sayed's family terror ties! [Pitch increase 2X] It's not fair to talk about Abdul El Sayed's family's terror ties! [add a Sam Kinnison chorus of ah! ah! ah's! here]

Sen. Tim Scott: Have you lost your ever-loving mind? Of COURSE I'm going to talk about El Sayed's family terror ties, you weirdo.
Yes, he will.  And did.  And they should continue to do so, no matter how much the 'news' clowns hate it.

Do you think Tim Walz is just this stupid, or so busy looking to attack Trump

that he doesn't care about inconvenient facts?

Tell me 'Truth and accuracy don't matter in academia'

without having the courage to say it outright.
The New England Journal of Medicine published a piece titled “Jason Arday and the Perils of Being Black in Academia,” where author and MD Kemi Doll argues, “I want to be clear that I don’t care whether any of these allegations against Prof. Arday were true. None of them were worth his career.” Clearly stating that academic integrity should not matter because Arday was black.
Holy shit.  The level of arrogance and "How dare you question anyone We have approved of" is amazing.  

Of course, as the man notes,
In December of that year, conservative journalist and activist Christopher Rufo published evidence and accusations of serial plagiarism by Gay, a black woman, throughout her academic career. Rufo’s initial reporting was picked up by The Washington Free Beacon and the New York Post but was largely ignored by other mainstream media outlets like The New York Times and the Washington Post. It was largely ignored similarly in mainstream broadcast networks like CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and ABC.

Gay resigned as president of Harvard in January 2024. She remains on staff today, and her personal arc did not take the dark turn that Arday’s did, but what if it had?
Just like with the followers of and apologists for Arday, they'd be trying to shut down people who dared reveal the 'improper' past of a Protected Person.

These people cannot be trusted at all, anymore than the Professional Journalists can.

"You people have no right or need to know

just how much public money we were spending and how, especially not because we were setting up to go after the probable next President."

Not just in the UK right now, we've got a bunch here

who either cannot or will not deal with some unpleasant facts about a bunch of immigrants, some legal and some illegal

Like those who loot the welfare system, and those openly calling for destroying this country as a republic(for the Communists-by-whatever-name) and the "We want Sharia to rule!" asshats.

Preferred Religion and PC Idiocy in Californicated

Guarantee that if someone had suggested these students be taken to a Catholic Mass, or a Jewish Temple for the Sabbath, the same people who pushed this would've sprouted bleeding hemorrhoids in outrage; but have them attend a mosque and take part in their ceremony?  "Why, this is multiculturalism, and it should be pushed on them for the Good Of All!"

Bloody hypocritical asshats.

Awright, let's give this a try

and see if the stupid avoids paying attention to #1:

And for the somewhat more mature, down below