Friday, October 13, 2023

Various bits of prep for the next time, at some point, I get to the long range,

are getting done, but cleaning brass, making sure I've got wads, and other black powder stuff aren't much to write about*.  So there'll be more on the mid-East mess along with local stuff. And part of the current mess includes France.  Because it seems some are remembering they're descended from that 'wall of ice'** that Charles Martel counted on.
France orders ban on all pro-Palestinian protests and according to various reports, will deport all foreigners who support Hamas from the country. Citizens of France will be arrested.
Oh yeah, that's going to get sporty.  If they actually hold to that, real sporty.  There are whole sections in major cities that are run by muslim gangs and are no-go spaces for non-muslims, including police.  They may have decided it's time to deal with the banlieues, and this gives reason other than "They refuse to assimilate", though that's enough.


Biden & Co. seem to thrive on leaving people behind: Vietnam, Afghanistan, now Israel.  Good thing some others are willing to take up the slack.


PBS demonstrates once again that you can't trust them for news.


First, remove the idiots from the highway.  Second, charge them for the repairs, on top of the 'blocking traffic' charges.
No, that's not mid-East, but it makes me happy.


And, connected, it's not just elementary schools who aren't doing their damned jobs, 'higher' education is full of assholes masquerading as teachers and professors.  Illustrated by
Rabbi Dov Greenberg, director of the Chabad Stanford Jewish Center, said he was told by three students who were in the room that the instructor asked Jewish and Israeli students to identify themselves during a session for a required undergraduate course called “Civil, Liberal and Global Education.”

The teacher told the Jewish students to take their belongings, stand in a corner, and said, “This is what Israel does to the Palestinians,” Greenberg said, citing the student accounts. The instructor then asked, “How many people died in the Holocaust?” When a student answered, “Six million,” the lecturer said, “Colonizers killed more than 6 million. Israel is a colonizer.”

I wonder how much the students are forced to pay for this shit?

And now I must move on and do constructive things.  See you later.


*How many times can I write about "After resizing and cleaning the lube, measure the cases", etc.?

**Battle of Tours, 732: 'According to the Chronicle of 754, much of which was composed from eyewitness accounts, “The men of the north stood as motionless as a wall, they were like a belt of ice frozen together, and not to be dissolved, as they slew the Arab with the sword. The Austrasians [Franks], vast of limb, and iron of hand, hewed on bravely in the thick of the fight; it was they who found and cut down the Saracens’ king [Rahman].”

1 comment:

markm said...

Idiots gluing their hands to the highway - there's something that could be sawed off much quicker than a chunk of pavement. It would make the next bunch of nuts think twice about doing this...