Remember I said that sounded like the enemy providing a new target list?

People making calls out and wonderful things happen.

This is Israeli Air Force footage of drones and jets blowing up Basij checkpoints all around Tehran today, based on tips called in by Iranian citizens. A revolution with air support against a regime with no air defence.

This latest terrorist attack was stopped by students,

who did it bare handed.

Yes, there are still good people who get into some universities.

In our latest terrorist attack a bunch of Democrats and other leftists share responsibility

for the murder of Col. Shah.

And should be treated as such.

Yes, a bunch of our Professional Journalists are just on the enemy side

I truly don't know if they just prefer them, or if it pays better.
There is no doubt as to their motivations: Both men spoke freely and unrepentantly to police at the scene, proudly claiming inspiration from ISIS and stating they had intended their terrorist atrocity to be “bigger than Boston” — a reference to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that took the lives of three and injured scores more. Only the incompetence of the bombers prevented Saturday from turning into one of the darkest days in recent New York history.

Yet one would know none of this were one to go only by the headlines and framing devices the mainstream media have consistently used to explain this story to American readers, who — like it or not — primarily consume their news in headline rather than article form. NBC New York got an early start on what would quickly become an overwhelming trend, telling a curiously noncommittal story over the weekend: “Multiple arrests made after ‘suspicious devices’ found outside Gracie Mansion, home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, during anti-Islam rally and counterprotest.” The Daily News’ headline whimpered, “Protestors throw smoking improvised device, clash over Jake Lang pig roast at ‘anti-Islamification’ rally at Gracie Mansion.” The tone-setting New York Times itself wrestled with curiously tortured locutions: “Smoking Jars of Metal and Fuses Thrown at Protest Near Mayor’s House.”
And you know damn well that if either or both of the bombs had worked, these same bastards would be blaming the protesters and 'islamophobia' for the death and maimings.  Because that's what the left demands.

And sometimes they flat lie.

Reasons to keep an eye on the activists in schools

And to sue their asses off when called for.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an elementary school student’s First Amendment rights after she was punished for adding the words “any life” to a picture of “Black Lives Matter.”

The student, with the initials B.B., said she added the message while in first grade in 2021, inspired by a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. She shared the drawing with a friend.

The school principal told her the drawing was inappropriate and punished her, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented the family in the case. The principal forced her to apologize, banned her from giving drawings to classmates, and excluded her from recess for two weeks.

BRM has an interesting piece on hospital bills

The man’s sister-in-law was ready to pay it. He asked her to wait. He requested an itemized bill with CPT codes, the universal billing codes hospitals use, and fed the whole thing into Claude, an AI chatbot.

Within minutes, Claude found duplicate charges, services billed as "inpatient" even though the patient was never admitted, supply costs inflated by 500% to 2,300% above Medicare rates and charges for procedures that never happened. He cross-checked with ChatGPT. Both AIs agreed. He wrote a six-page letter citing every violation by name.

The hospital dropped the bill to $33,000. An 83% reduction. Zero medical training. A $20 app.

Holy crap. I'd not have thought of checking all that. 

I have just realized that, being somewhat busy, I managed to

forget my clearing stuff a few days ago, so here 'tis

A good read: 'The Denial of Shit:

International Knife-Fight Edition

Which definitely touches on why Nick Searcy said this to the subject PM of (fG)Britain getting pissy about our President not giving what said PM considers proper ass-kissing:
They were meant to be insulting, you pissant.

Next stop: powerguns

We're getting closer and closer to Hammer's Slammers in capabilities.

And I think Ronald Reagan can look down on some of the 'Star Wars' stuff he was insulted and belittled for paying off, and smile.

And yet more fallout from the idiots in charge screwing up dealing with Wuhan

And this one's particularly bad on kids, it seems isolating them- surprise!- has long-term consequences.

The panic mongers and control freaks have a LOT to answer for.

Yep. It went from 'chance of showers and a few thunderstorms' through tonight

to a tornado watch for the whole damn area.  Which is most of the state.

Yeah, it's approaching spring.

New drone swatter ammo for the Marines

I'd guess carry a mag/belt with these in case needed.

Does this not make you think of someone saying "Put these places together on a new target list"

for a bunch of pilots?
Meanwhile, a Tehran resident said that Basij and IRGC forces—fearing street demonstrations that could turn violent and ahead of Khamenei’s funeral—deployed heavy weapons and armored vehicles at key locations across Tehran.
I could be wrong in my thinking of what they can do, but wouldn't it be nice if this just gathered a bunch of the bastards in nice to bomb locations?

I'm curious how the NYeffingTimes will report this,

if they do.
One of the accused terrorists busted for lobbing explosive devices near Gracie Mansion flashed a sick salute honoring ISIS as he was led in shackles from a police precinct Monday.

Emir Balat, 18, was seen holding up his right index finger — a universal salute for the terror group — and grinning at the press while being led by a cop and an FBI agent.
They're both on video at the attack scene(Attn NYPD: "NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed that Saturday’s incident was being treated as an attempted ISIS-inspired terror attack." is bullshit; them apparently being incompetent bomb makers doesn't change that this was a terrorist mass-murder attempt), they've pretty much confessed, and now this?  I can't seen the Times having the balls to write "Mayor gets wish to globalize the Intifada" as a headline.  

And I'm curious how they'll try to blame the protesters so as to protect the Mayor, his terrorist loving wife, and the terrorists.

Dammit. "Hey, I can fix that fast"

which turns into an hour, which causes you to find something else....

Analysis: True

A liberal man in NYC yelling about how everyone is welcome, as a Muslim man yells "Allahu Akbar!" and uses him as a literal springboard to throw a homemade bomb.

The West’s suicidal empathy on video.

And if they'd built the bombs properly and killed a bunch of people, this idiot would probably be one of those blaming the dead and maimed for 'provoking the terrorists'...

The Village Affliction did gather some responses to Mayor "I support this,

and so does my wife" responding to the terror attack the media doesn't want to name that.

And yes, there's more

I have no actual use for this,

but a double rifle with affordable ammo... oh yeah.

Make it bigger and .45-70, less affordable ammo but I'd love one.

And if they'd gone off as the terrorists planned,

Hizzoner the Globalize-the-Intifada Mayor would have been calling for an end to islamophobia.

And that's exactly how the NYeffingTimes and most of our 'Is it possible to hate these bastards enough?' media would've pushed.

A downside to e-books instead of paper

Few years back I started getting a bunch of stuff on e-books instead of paper, and the one big problem* is location:
I used to wind up with a book in the living room, maybe one by the bed, sometimes a third in another place where, next time I was there, I'd read a bit more of it.  Second wife once commented about having more than one book going at a time depending on what room I was in.

Don't do that anymore, and I can't decide if it's a problem or not.


*Yes, backed up offline on everything; no, I don't trust Amazon or whoever not to change or make things disappear because "Oh no, you don't actually own that book just because you bought and paid for it!"

I think I figured out a problem on a rifle,

but I'm not sure why the problem, and why this fixes it.  Details sometime when I think I've got this actually figured out.

Why are lots of Iranians burning mosques?

For damn good reasons.  And yeah, a lot of westerners need to pay attention to why.

It's nice when a politician tells you what they actually think,

especially when they're telling you how your rights should be limited to suit them.

And some other things happened to run across today:
John Cornyn(Backstabber-TX) didn't win, and is in a runoff.  Let's hope he loses that, too.


Some thoughts about Iran, and the possibility of more sleeper terrorists.


More on that subject.


'Journalists' who should be named Propaganda Spreader.

Not caused by man, Yellowstone is making people nervous again.

Democrats who cheat in elections.


And  now I have food to cook, and eat, and muscles to try to help repair.

There was a tree in the back yard

One of those that had become a horribly tangled mess that, no matter what you did, always put branches out toward the nearest power lines and data lines.  Literally, you pruned it back from them, and that's where the first shoots started growing.  And it had reached the point it had to be taken down.

Last week son came over on his Saturday with his pole saw, and with that and my chain saw- and having had a line run from it to a tree on the other side of the yard for about three weeks, tightening it every other day- we got it down without damaging the shed, one of us falling out or having something fall on us.  It's a damp morning, and as my shoes dry I got all the big pieces hauled around for the big trash pickup(or anyone who wants the wood).  It's only rained very lightly yesterday and last night, so the ground is still firm and it was easy to use the dolly to get them around.

Which had to be today, as we're told we'll have some real rain later today and off & on the next few days.  We'll see, but in any case it's only small stuff left I can cut up later.  

When I first moved here, there were limbs and small trees all over, nothing having been cut for at least a couple of years, and every month I had a tall pile at the curb for pickup.  At least I'm long past that level.

The Firearm Blog has a list of four cartridges

in the 'Do you think they'll make a comeback?' category, I can make comments about two:

The .257 Roberts is still the favorite deer cartridge of a friend of my fathers, who's used one for longer than I've been alive, I believe.  He does have trouble finding ammo outside of the fall 'This is the one time a year we  make this' situation.  It's accurate, light recoil, and he still loves it.  I think for the most part it's been a slot taken over by the .243, but it still works.


The other is the .22 Hornet.  Very light recoil, works well for varmints or targets out to 200 yards, maybe a little longer depending on you and your rifle.  If you find an old one, be sure to check for any markings of it having been rechambered to .22 K-Hornet: it'll have a shorter neck, sharper shoulder, and the body taper reduced.  It's an easy change to make, just fire standard Hornet ammo and it'll fireform to the new shape.  From one I messed with one time I'd say handloading isn't just how to make new ammo, it can be the best way to form it from the beginning.  Some factory ammo is a bit stiff in the neck/shoulder area, and if you anneal it before loading you'll have a lot less problem with some cases possibly cracking under the stress.

The other thing is many of the older rifles have a slower rifling pitch, which works great on bullets up to 40 grains, anything heavier, that longer bullet won't stabilize.  The one I fired, the owner tried it with 50-grain bullets and they hit the target sideways, but 40 and below it was very accurate with.

How messed up are things across the Atlantic?

A British Jew decides he wants German citizenship in case he has to flee Britain...

And syrupean* countries are worried about some of all those people they just let in might turn out to be sleeper cells.  Kind of like lots of people warned about, and said syrupeans called them racist for suggesting it....

That second fitting nicely with this piece the other day on that subject, along with the general "You've let these asshats riot and so forth with little or no action taken, NOW you're worried about the result?"

Oh, and a bunch of Democrats here are having the same worries, after making sure to let those people in in the first place.

Ran across those at Kim's place.    Link added

And carrying is a very good idea right now

*Larry Correia started using that term for Europeans asshats recently.

I need either gel blocks or a bunch of water jugs

so I can try this stuff out.  It's a new- to me at least- .300 Blackout subsonic ammo from Federal.  1000fps is claimed, and it's an expanding 190-grain bullet.

I had a chance to fire three rounds today; definitely subsonic, and at 30 yards three holes touching.  No, I didn't have the chronograph to check velocity, and that's all I had the chance to try today.  And, so far, have not been able to find any tests on the stuff to see how much it expands and down to what velocity.  Bloody YouTube won't load right now, I'll do some more searching later.

Things to find out...

As the man says, the intelligence monopoly

is over.

Couple of things, both guaranteed to piss off the left

(yes, I could just say 'Democrats')
First, 

Whole post here.


Second, yeah, it's getting a workout

which has also got to be pissing off the left("How dare those Jews defend themselves this way!", etc.)

These and other things at the Village guy's place, including the latest terrorist attack in Texas.


Seems a bunch of rioters attacked the US Consulate in Karachi.  Except, this not being a government headed by Biden or Obama, and a Dept. of War not headed by someone lost when he went to a  hospital without telling people or afraid to tell the Marines to defend the place, the attackers got their asses kicked.  Which led to the usual suspects here accusing the US of 'killing civilians', etc.  Including Governor Hair Gel.  


About that terrorist attack in Texas, it was attacking people leaving a bar, so most places you couldn't carry there, but anywhere else you legally can?  Very good reason right now to have it on you.

I do not claim strategic genius

I do know that actually doing something in Iran was going to take a lot of stuff, people, and doing, and that takes time.

It did, and it's getting done.  To the great whining and screaming of Democrats and US-haters in general.

The Squat?  Those bastards hate the US and have supported ever islamist terrorist that walked, and they can't stand that anyone, especially Trump, has actually done something about them.  And I think we're talking long-term, because without the money, and support, and hiding places and so forth, it'll be a big difference.

Wonder if the people of the land will go back to the Persian flag?  


Directly connected: I don't think it's possible to hate our Professional Journalists enough.

I also think a bunch of Republican politicians needs kicks in the ass for being the obstructive clowns they are, and preferably removal from office.  You can't support and help push through the SAVE* Act?  You're gone, jackass.

*corrected, thank you Leigh

Couple of things I'll add in at the top of this clearing,

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