Saturday night, and nicer than last night

Yesterday it was not only hot, but so humid you halfway expected to see small frogs kicking past at eye level.  Still, it's late and time to relax.  So.

Note from the range

No, I not only don't know who you are, I don't care; this is the rule, and you'll go by it like everyone else.

Want my supervisor?  I'll call him over.  Oh, you want the owner(who you know personally)?  Go to it.

Prima donnas in everything, and they're all the same.

Call for genocide(but it's ok, it's only white people

he wants dead), catch what should be expected blowback, and it's "Leftist professors are being targeted!"
This here's innernets days, prof; you actually think saying crap like this isn't going to get attention beyond your intended audience?


Same thing here.  Although in this case of course the authorities aren't going to yell; it's Comrade Mayor running the place, after all

Also, next time some clown starts yelling about the 'evil, divisive rhetoric from the right', you better believe this is going to be brought up.

Once again, it's that time

Therefore, new data

A good point about some silly-ass things said about 'treasure troves'

Going through the Viking exhibit, for instance, we kept being told time after time how powerful women had been among the vikings, and also there were things like treasure troves, which in one case they said “was a woman’s treasure trove, probably to honor women in her ancestry.”  At which point I looked at the case enquiringly, because these idiots don’t seem to understand someone’s unearthed treasure trove is someone else’s panicked burial.
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There is no way to even get in the mind frame of whoever wrote that card, except to say that they never new privation, need or threat in their entire lives.

Also
Which brings us to the next part.  All through the exhibit, people told us over and over again that the Vikings were — contrary to legend — peaceful, peaceful I tell you.  Most of the Vikings were, after all, farmers and householders.

I wasn’t buying it.  Yeah, sure, most Vikings, if you count women, children, and people to old to go aViking, just stayed put.  But no civilization where dying in bed gets you sent to Hel (which was cold rather than hot but much like our Hell) is a peaceful one.  In the same way I didn’t buy the continuous reassurances there were as many women as men aboard those ships.  Cooeeeeee!  Really?

Lot less posting the past while,

partly due to job, partly due to weather(too damned hot some days for the range), partly due to burnout/tired/loss of interest in things. 

No, I'm not giving up.  Just noting current conditions.  Which does include a desire to see some politicians being used as ornaments, but that's not exactly new.

At the moment, I'm looking at a table that badly needs to be cleaned off.  Same for the dining table.  And the kitchen in general.

"But you'd lose that primitive-village ambiance

we want you to keep!"
And yet global green campaigners endlessly spend money trying to prevent Africans from using fossil fuels, promoting renewable energy and trying to sell us little solar ovens. But this great generosity does nothing to address the horrible realities of people dying now – day after day, year after year. Greens worry constantly about Africans being exposed to insecticides. We worry about dying from malaria.

We don’t need enemies of humanity. What we need is financial and political support to conquer malaria, lung diseases and intestinal parasites. We need clean water and affordable, reliable electricity in our villages and cities. We need modern hospitals.

We need environmental activists to realize how important fossil fuels and hydroelectric plants are to having decent, healthy living standards, lights, computers, the internet, clean hospitals, clean water, and everything else modern countries have.

We need them to support us Africans in preventing malaria in the first place – which means we need more than bed nets. We need campaigners to recognize that we have the same rights as people in modern, rich, industrialized countries to decent living standards and modern technology.

"People don't respect us anymore!"

Stop doing crap like this and it'll help a lot with that.
In addition to criticizing the cops for their comically inadequate investigation, Lucero faults them for conducting "an excessive, SWAT-style raid" that gratuitously exposed the Hartes and their two young children to the trauma and risk of having seven armed men storm into their home early in the morning and forcibly confine them to their living room for two and a half hours while conducting an increasingly desperate search for nonexistent evidence of a marijuana grow. The officers took this aggressive approach even though there was no reason to think the Hartes posed a threat to them. "Even more concerning," Lucero says, "the officers timed the raid for when the Hartes' children would be home but failed to create any safety plan in anticipation of risks to the children." They even rebuffed a neighbor's offer to look after the children during the search.

"The defendants in this case caused an unjustified governmental intrusion into the Hartes' home based on nothing more than junk science, an incompetent investigation, and a publicity stunt," Lucero writes. "The Fourth Amendment does not condone this conduct, and neither can I."
Bullshit 'investigation', "Let's do it for publicity!" attitude, and using a SWAT team for no damned reason other than "It'll look good on the news!"

Throw in quite likely lying about their tests on the tea leaves.

I hope every one of the clowns involved in this has their qualified immunity yanked so the penalties have to come out of their own damned pockets.

"How dare you mock us!

We may track you down for this hate speech!"

(formerly Great)Britain at its best.

Now let us speak of arrogant fools of a different type:

Globular Warmering "We can make the Earth whole again!" true believers
Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet.

Backers say the risky, often expensive projects are urgently needed to find ways of meeting the goals of the Paris climate deal to curb global warming that researchers blame for causing more heatwaves, downpours and rising sea levels.

Because even though their models are crap, they KNOW how to save everything.  Because they say so.  Etc.

Along with the general stupidity of screwing with systems far more complex than they seem able or willing to admit, there is(of course) money involved:

Among new ideas, Wurzbacher at Climeworks is sounding out investors on what he says is the first offer to capture and bury 50 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air, for $500 a tonne.

That might appeal to a company wanting to be on forefront of a new green technology, he said, even though it makes no apparent economic sense.

Translation: "Show how much you care!  Signal your virtue!  Give us money!"

Bleeping damned bullshit...

Ignore all else in this for the moment: THEY WENT

TO THE WRONG DAMNED HOUSE.

No excuse.  NONE.

Now throw in this:
"Bullet holes suggest they shot through the door," Wells said. 

Officers said Lopez came to the door pointing a gun at them. Those officers claim to have asked Lopez multiple times to drop the gun before they started shooting.

But, neighbors said they didn't hear anything like that.

"I didn't hear yelling," neighbor Nicholas Tramel said.
 If this is correct, then the bastards not only went to the wrong address and killed an innocent, they lied in their official reports.

I'm getting really damned sick of reading about cases like this.  And if the department pops up with an "Officer Safety trumps all" excuse, I may puke.

And while "Russia! Russia!" continues, most of the media ignores

the crooked Democrat IT aides.  And what they did.  And whatever the hell they might have been doing.


No telling what all there was in the past that we have no idea about.  People, things, civilizations...


Black lady finally gets a gun and carry permit; guess who has a REAL problem with it?

Ah, fresh news from the 'whatever the hell they might have done' department:

Fox News has learned that Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz plans to allow federal investigators to scan a laptop belonging to her as part of a complex probe into allegations of computer theft, over-billing and possible email hacking. 

U.S. Capitol Police have had the laptop for months and until now had been unable to get access. It's unclear why the Florida lawmaker and ousted Democratic National Committee chairwoman had been battling law enforcement over the computer; however, her counsel began negotiating this week with Capitol Police in connection with the probe.
'plans to allow', 'began negotiation with Capital Police'(y'know, the people she threatened for not giving the laptop to her?).  Such bullshit.

Gee, I wonder why Schultz didn't want to fire him?

Or the others?  Questions, questions...
Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s top information technology (IT) aide was arrested Monday attempting to board a flight to Pakistan after wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to that country.

He attempted to leave the country hours after The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group revealed that he is the target of an FBI investigation, and the FBI apprehended him at the airport.
Makes you wonder: was she getting a percentage, being blackmailed, or a bit of both?

And we have the standard Democrat response to damn-near anything anymore: "RACISTS!"
Democratic members of Congress, including Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, have suggested that police had framed the Pakistani-born brothers out of Islamophobia.
Yeah.  Sure.  Keep trying, asshat.

Good

In a major defeat for the ethanol industry, senators of both parties joined forces late last week to sink a controversial bill that would’ve allowed gasoline with 15 percent ethanol to be sold year-round.
 The corn lobby doesn't need more subsidies, and we damned sure don't need this crap screwing with peoples' transportation.

Now we need to get rid of the subsidy entirely.  Don't worry about the corn growers, I hear there's still a demand for it in food.

Had a chance to shoot one of these a few days ago

Yes, like the one an Eastwood character carried.  It's made by Cimarron in .38 Special.

How'd it shoot?  Very well.  If you look closely at the top rear of the barrel you'll see a small sight dovetailed in, and it works quite nicely with that front brass to put shots on the target.

The one distraction is that, with no topstrap, some of the flash from the barrel/cylinder gap is vertical, and in a not-very-bright range it definitely got your attention.

No, I do not need another .38.  I want one anyway.

Well, hell, with crap like this coming to light

why WOULD you trust the system?
A Texas man is battling a court order that mandates he must pay tens of thousands in child support for a child whom he did not biologically father and whom he met only once.
This is utter bullshit.  And the woman should be prosecuted for fraud.  Or perjury.  Possibly both.


From the Dark and Fascist State of New Jersey.  With a side note from the People's Republic of Californicated.

New Jersey will consider allowing law enforcement officials to access the state's prescription drug monitoring database without a court order. 

The legislation, which was introduced Tuesday, is meant to combat the opioid crisis, but brings up questions of patient rights to privacy versus the government's ability to investigate so-called doctor shopping.

"Privacy?  What is this word, and why do you want people to die?"  etc.
In California, the Supreme Court ruled recently that the state Medical Board can dig through prescription drug records without a warrant or subpoena.
"Because we're saving you from yourselves, filthy peasants."

Remember those Democrat tech people

caught in shady doings?
Shortly after the criminal probe was revealed in February, Imran abruptly moved out of his longtime home on Hawkshead Drive in Lorton, Va., and listed it for rent on a website that connects landlords with military families.
One of the new tenants — a Marine Corps veteran married to a female Navy Officer — said he found “wireless routers, hard drives that look like they tried to destroy, laptops, [and] a lot of brand new expensive toner.”

The tenants called the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and, not long after, FBI agents arrived together with the Capitol Police to interview them and confiscate the equipment.
My, isn't that interesting?

Then throw in
Wasserman Schultz has demanded return of a laptop seized by the Capitol Police because it was purportedly used by Imran and was found hidden in a vacant office. The Florida Democrat used a Capitol Police budget hearing to threaten “consequences” for them if the laptop wasn’t returned. 

On Thursday it was reported that police have not examined its contents because of the invocation of the Constitution’s “Speech and Debate clause,” and after months of refusal, her lawyer is now “negotiating” access to the data on yet-to-be-determined terms.
Wasserman Schultz is in this up to her hairline, and has to be seriously worried to try this 'speech and debate' crap. 

You may have heard that in Minneapolis a cop killed a woman in great error

(to say the least).  With more coming out, looks like two things may be true:
This clown should never have been allowed to wear a badge, 
and
He's an idiot.

Example:
The officer, who is now suspended form the Minneapolis P.D., feels he has been 'thrown under the bus' by his Minneapolis police colleagues, the friend said. 

'He is aware that they normally come together at times like this and support each other with slogans like 'Blue Lives Matter'. 

 'But in this situation he has realized he is probably alone with his legal team and Somali police colleagues.
Speaking out of my ass here, but this sounds like he expected, based on usual behavior, that the other cops would have his back no matter what, and that them not doing so is based on his ethnic background, not his conduct.  Or whether he should've been there at all.  Hopping out in public with this crap sounds like setting up the 'It's all because RACISM!!' defense.

Since the victim was Australian, there's lots of yelling from there(appropriately), including bitching about guns in the US(No mention as to whether they plan on disarming their cops).  There's also the complications for the Usual Narrative people:
In both Oz and the US, the next stage of the story would be cherchez le cop - lots of reports of a redneck officer with a hair-trigger temper and various personal issues.

But there's a complicating factor. It's so complicating that The Washington Post finds itself running a 1,200-word story on the death of Justine Damond without a word about the copper who shot her - nothing about his background, record, habits, behavior. Not even his name.

Because his name is Mohamed Noor. As Tucker Carlson pointed out on Fox News the other night, the reason you know the officer's identity is significant is because the Post went to all that trouble not to mention it.

So: we've got a city run by politicians who seem to have their head so far up the 'PC at any cost' ass that they've lost even more brain cells due to oxygen deprivation, where there've been problems for years with immigrants who don't want to become American, and now this. 

'Messy' it is already, we'll see what comes next.