Covering the current mess

I have, remember the fall I told about?  Well, it tore up the rotator cuff, which leads to, in a few days, I'll be having surgery on that shoulder.  Which will mean very little if any bloggage for a while, as doing all this one-handed is fun.

I'll be shutting off comments during that time to simplify upkeep on this place.  

For now, isn't this just a wonderful modern Democrat?  "I hate Zionists, but that doesn't mean I  hate Jew- excuse me, Semites, because it's different when WE do it!"
Right.  Texas, you've got a fine example of that here.


Speaking of, Lawdog has a bit of history on telling a people "I don't care if it's your custom, you can't do it anymore.  Or else."  With the 'else' being serious.  And it really needs to be applied to a bunch of people.  I'll borrow one bit:

In these “enlightened” days, it certainly appears that the judicial and legislative political critters seem to think that certain barbaric acts are excusable due to foreign customs.

Huh.

This is the West. We have had the unspoken “Napier Doctrine” from before Sir Charles so eloquently stated it, and it’s time that we reaffirmed it.

If your religious, cultural, national, or ethnic custom is that “women are no more worthy than a lollipop that has been dropped on the ground”, well the custom in the West is that women are precious; and to be treasured and defended. You act according to your customs, and we’ll act according to ours — rape is a felony and you get decades in prison.

Your religious, cultural, national, or ethnic custom may be that women and girls must be modest, and you’re just following your custom by assaulting them “for their own good”? Be it so. Our custom is that fathers, husbands, and other male relatives get to practice corrective phrenology if they catch you being stupid. Let us all act according to custom.

Your religious, cultural, national, or ethnic custom may be that dogs are unclean filth, but our custom is that they are beloved companions. Want to kick at them? Ok, but our custom is to beat the brakes off of you when you do. You follow your customs, and we’ll follow ours. Deal?

Hear, hear.
I'm still wondering if the idiot running NYC will allow Sharia patrols to start, or if he's figured out that just might not go well?


Kim has a piece on another well-educated idiot playing 'cultural appropriation' games, while really only wanting that to run one way.


And, totally unrelated to news, someone had a link to her video.  It's a bit strange, but damn, she's cute and has a nice voice.



And now I have PT to do.

A lighter Thompson carbine

Makes you wonder why nobody tried using aluminum as a receiver for these before, because I've fired one a few times and they are heavy.  


Winchester has a new ammo line intended specifically for lever-action rifles.  Which is fine, they're fun to shoot, and can be downright handy.  Which reminded me:
One day a older couple came into the store and were looking at, well, everything, it being their first time there.  Wound up with the wife talking to me while the husband was getting details on something, and the subject of self-defense arms came up.  She said that they had some land in California they were thinking of retiring to, and what kind of firearms did I think might work well?

My suggestion was a couple of .357 Magnum revolvers, and a lever-action in the same cartridge.  Reasons being:
You can load both revolver and rifle with anything from the lightest target loads to the heavy, stomping magnums.

Those magnums, out of a 16" rifle barrel, gain damn near 400 feet per second velocity, with a significant boost in energy.

Make that rifle a saddle-ring carbine and you can clip it to a single-point sling and carry it slung over the shoulder, nice and handy.

And even Californicated has not tried calling lever-actions 'assault weapons' that I know of.

So you've got arms that use the same ammo, with the rifle giving the hot stuff a serious boost, all reloadable(if you do so), and still a very common, easy to get ammo.

I still think that's a good combination for most places.  If you're in a place where you might have to deal with bear a heavier cartridge might be better; at best a combo where handgun and rifle both fire .44 Magnum, which gives you .44 Special for lighter loads.  Yes, I know, heavier for the rifle if you really need to worry about big game, but you'd lose the 'same ammo for both' option, which could be a problem for some.

One 'We'll see' and one 'Keep your eyes open'

The first is possible oil shortage.

The second is, well, exactly that.

Hey, it's the NYeffingTimes, you act like you expect truth

to come from it?

Earlier: The Big Tell: NYT Not Reporting Kristof Accusations on its News Pages.

Think about that: the journalists who would run with allegations from the Steele Dossier and make a two-year crusade out of proving it are too ashamed to touch Kristof’s accusations.

That’s how absurd this story is.

Thus the kerfuffle between the Gray Lady’s “news” and opinion departments:

BREAKING: A massive civil war has reportedly emerged within the New York Times, with many journalists questioning the credibility of Kristof’s piece.

One NYT journalist stated: “I am sick of being embarrassed by the Opinion section.”

Ammo.com on 'how loud is a gunshot

and how far can it be heard?'

Who else would you expect the communist terrorist-supporting Mayor of NYeffingCity

 to give press passes to?

I agree; I don't know where it is,

 but damn, I wouldn't mind being there

"Don't worry, Starmer," says the Labour Party,

"we have lots of other little Stalin Wannabes who's shut up the peasants!"

Well, hell, one more reason a more affordable blunderbuss kit

is needed: it would piss off the gun bigots even more.

Yes, it's on a story pointed to before; it's still going to help piss them off.

Added: Yes,  a Nock kit would be interesting.  One with, I guess, rotating barrels for single use?  That'd be something, though a complicated piece of work.

There's a definite lack of blogging lately,

despite some bursts of stuff, and that'll continue for a while.  Busy with various things, and one will get busier in the next week.  We'll see how it goes.

One thing ran across, there's a Eurovision music competition, and the Croats did something that- of course- has the Turks all upset by being honest about some history.

Is anyone else as sick of 'Download our App!' as I am?

'It's more convenient to shop on the app!  It's better to check your medical record on the app!  It's better(for us, but we won't say that) if you confirm your appointment on the app!' and so bloody on.

Oh yes, I'd just love to voluntarily install your spyware, because you're ALL just so trustworthy!

Bleah.  Bullshit.

A bit more stuff

that I need to clear out

I still love Calvin and Hobbes, and the Tracer Bullet series is my favorite of them

And for the adults, age-wise at least,

Starmer is stepping down

Finally.  And, of course, after he got more final insults and threats to anyone who wouldn't kiss his and Labour's ass.

I'm curious just how he'll word his "You bloody bigoted and racist peasants have let me down!" announcement, too.  From some pictures I saw of the rally today- of which there are damn few*- I'm wondering if the numbers were so bad he was afraid, finally, not to quit.

*I looked at a couple of Brit 'news' sites where there was not one mention of it, let alone any pictures.  Got to keep kissing the Stalin wannabes asses right up to the end, I guess.

A new S&W is out there

the 386 Nightguard, either a .357 Magnum 7 shot, or a .44 Special 5 shot, both with a 3" barrel.

I want to see one.  Hell, I'd like to shoot one.

Kim's new boomstick is announced,

and it is a good one.  They sell these at the place I worked, and everyone I know who bought one loves it.  I haven't fired one, I can tell you the action is very smooth and fast, and the ability to switch barrels is nice.

No, I haven't.  I've got several nice .22 rifles, and I couldn't convince myself to make space/money for one of these, if I'd been able to I'd have grabbed one.

"I say, Smedley, those Americans can own muskets and flintlock rifles,

even replicas, and in most places they don't have to even get a permit!"
"Oh, I say, that's awful!"
No, it's not, Limey.  Now go piss off and hope your invaders don't kill you and rape your wife.

Isn't it wonderful how the left has gone from 'Racist!' as their standard insult

to 'Fascist!'?

And, despite the many millions of dead at the hands of Stalin and Mustache and Mao & Co., they never call them 'Communist!'   Because most of these idiots like communists.


And they'll never admit- even if they could conceive it- the damage their own stuff has done.

"I did not drink it", which fits well with "I smoked it but did not inhale" and "I did not have sex with that woman."


A: You can't trust the Kurds.
B: Further reason you NEVER give up your arms.

This is what the NYeffingTimes and that bastard Kristof want to push

off the front page.  Because the NYeffingTimes and Kristof and a bunch of others are on the enemy side.

Sickening is a good word for what the Palisimians did.  The words I have for the Times and Co. are far less polite.

I swear, the ability to keep the house clean and neat was not passed on to me,

which, considering how Mom kept her house is amazing.

Either that or I have too much crap and not actually enough space.

I ever have to move, the house I get will have to have more rooms and space; something like a bedroom, work room, maybe a reloading and ammo room would be nice, bigger kitchen, something like that would be nice if I could afford it.

Oh, and possibly a maid once a week.  Or month.  Something to help me keep all this caught up.  Why not dream?

No, you can't hate the NYeffingTimes enough, because it's full of people

who are on the enemy side.

Borrowing a comment:
“If you do not believe @nytimes knew EXACTLY what they were doing with the timing of the Kristof “opinion” piece [ie, trying to preempt justified outrage at Hamas’s sexual crimes by suggesting that Israel similarly engages in such crimes] I have a nice bridge to sell you.”

This seems to cover the 'progressive' organizations pretty well

Good was not a trained professional. She was not a lawyer. She was not a federal monitor. She was labeled a “legal observer”—a title casually bestowed by activist organizations that carries no legal standing but enormous psychological weight. It implies authority without responsibility, protection without power, and safety without consequence.

It is, bluntly, a lie.

That lie is sold aggressively to a specific demographic: affluent, educated white women who have spent their lives buffered from the sharp edges of state power. They are overrepresented in progressive nonprofits, activist training sessions, and street-level demonstrations precisely because they are useful. Their presence sanitizes confrontation. Their voices humanize the cause. Their injuries—and deaths—generate outrage capital and the next Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, or George Floyd “moment” that has fueled nearly every major protest movement since 2012.

This is not an accident. It is a strategy.

And now Renee Gold is dead and the progressive ghouls have their “moment.”

Well, Two-Tier is still there, and demanding

ten years in the office, handing Britian to the EUnuchs, endless illegal aliens, and "Those people who don't like what's happening are un-British and need to be quiet."

I'd wondered if he'd take his "I want to be dominated by the EU for our own good" crap and sign an agreement with the idea that "Now it's too late for you people to change it, so I will Lead You To The Future!"

Not much of a future as dhimmis that people will want.

There's a line I heard somewhere, 'Kindness to the wicked is

wickedness to the kind.'  Yeah, no shit.

I find it interesting that the Brit Daily Mail had that story, and not one damn thing on their PM needing to be run out of office on a rail, and at least yesterday and today nothing on Labour & Sidekicks getting their asses kicked.


Looks like Two-Tier Starmer is leaving the PM's office.  And not on a rail, like it should be.  Or, even better, becoming a lamppost or tree decoration.

Speaking of,
Nigel Farage’s Reform went from two council seats to 1,453. Labour, by contrast, lost 1,446 seats. But the conservative also lost council seats, 563 of them, which now puts them behind the Liberal Democrats, something that hasn’t happened since, well, ever.
Sounds like what happened to a number of RINOs here.
Being a pretend conservative isn't very popular in (fG)Britain, either.

Speaking of 'news', you hear about this on yours?  Or are they all keeping it quiet?

Speaking of having problems, that includes racist clowns like these

They're likely to find that a lot of people will have problems with that attitude, and especially with asshats like them trying to carry it out.

I can't help thinking this is going to have problems with "Hey, I used smokeless powder like it says,

why'd it blow up?"  Nevertheless, it is a nice step for a bunch of people, a muzzleloader designed to use specifically Blackhorn 209 or one of two smokeless propellants.  New CVA Endura, with a bolt-action breech.

According to their site, 

APPROVED PROPELLANTS FOR THE ENDURA
"Blackhorn 209 is CVA’s all-around recommended propellant for the Endura rifle, as it is both a great performer and legal for use during most muzzleloading hunting seasons.

However, since Blackhorn 209 can sometimes be hard to find, the CVA Endura was designed to also be usable with specific types and amounts of modern smokeless rifle powders. These approved smokeless rifle powders are IMR 4198 and VihtaVuori N120. Be sure to check your local hunting regulations before using such modern smokeless rifle powders for hunting."

WARNING: THESE ARE THE ONLY APPROVED PROPELLANTS FOR USE IN THE CVA ENDURA. DO NOT LOAD ANY OTHER TYPES OF MODERN SMOKELESS POWDER, INCLUDING OTHER SUCH POWDERS DESIGNED FOR PISTOLS, SHOTGUNS, OR RIFLES, IN A CVA ENDURA.

So no black powder, it would seem.  Just saw this this morning, be interesting with bullets work best with it, and what kind of accuracy.

First Mother's Day with Mom gone

 Definitely different.

I should note that Britain had a bunch of council elections, and the Labour Party and the Tory Party(to a lesser extent)

got their asses kicked, which is causing lots of upset and wailing, and traitors wondering what's going to happen to them when they can't hide behind that seat anymore?

I'd hope tar & feathers at the least,  and some of the bastards should become tree or lamppost decorations, but probably no such luck.

There are several pieces on it here, and lots more out there if you want to search around.  Which also has this piece of disgustingness:
HAVE last week’s local council elections brought Islamic blasphemy laws one step closer? Dr Gavin Ashenden argues that they have. He says the clearest message to come from the results is that ‘the electoral muscle of Muslim communities’ can act as a veto to remove parties from power.

He refers to Nazi Germany to explain how this can happen. It is the best example, he argues. Just 12 per cent of the population belonging to the Nazi party resulted in Hitler’s winning path through democratic means. The way our democratic voting system works means that single blocks voting together can swing an election one way or the other. The government, he reminds us, is already looking for ways to make criticism of Islam impossible or illegal. The consequence of the latest round of elections – with Labour looking over its shoulder to its declining Muslim vote and desperate to keep it – makes that prospect considerably more likely, and it threatens one of the most precious things we have, which is freedom of speech.
It's disgusting that the answer is almost certainly yes.  Much like I expect NYeffingCity will wind up with Sharia patrols starting at any time, with anyone who objects being labeled a racist and Commie Islamist Mamdani trying to figure out how to have them arrested.

This was intended for last night

and I forgot, so here it is today