Some clearing, which- according to their description- does not violate standards,

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I do not want to hear one more God-damned word from the left about 'insurrection' and such when they threaten

a combination of black mail and treason.

Annealing cases, small stuff(Ok, one more thing because I forgot to publish it a couple of days ago)

By the way: this is one of those projects I realized would make a good post, and then thought "Would've been better if I'd thought of this before I got everything cleaned up."

Also, the Disclaimer:
I'm doing this after having read on the subject and tried some things over time.  It may not work the same for you, depending on individual factors.  Also, it involves fire.  So if you burn yourself or heat something you shouldn't have, or in a bad location, that's on you.

I've written something on the subject before, but I can't find the posts right now.  Those cases it was mostly annealing .45-70, but this is smaller stuff: .32 Smith & Wesson Long.  It's an old cartridge, at one time it was commonly used as a self-defense round, at one time a lot of police departments, including New York City, had it as their issue sidearm.  Now it's primarily a target and small-game cartridge.  More on that later.

Annealing is heating a metal up to a suitable temperature to relieve stress in the metal, in the case of cartridge cases mostly in the neck/shoulder area where repeated resizing and firing has caused the metal to work harden.  One of the things that can cause is, in the case of lower pressure loads, the case cannot expand as well as should, which means the case isn't sealing the chamber as well as should, which can leave fouling streaks on the outside of the case.  Which was the problem here.

With brass it's usually heating the affected area up to about 650-700 degrees F, which softens the area heated without any softening of the base area; that has to be harder to help hold against high-pressure stresses.  In most, if you overheat the base area you might as well crush it and put it in the scrap bucket.  The usual method of preventing that is to put the base either in a holder that acts as a heat sink, or applying the heat in a short enough time that the base area doesn't heat up that much; often dumping it in water when done to make sure.

Here I picked up a cheap cake pan, stacked a bunch of resized and mouth-expanded cases in lines(so I could keep track of where I was), added enough water to cover the lower 1/4 of the case, and got out the propane torch.  Based on earlier work with larger cases, a little watching showed that with the torch set with the inner blue flame at X length, holding that part of the flame about 1/2" above the mouth of the case, took about 4-5 seconds to get the color I wanted.  Ran through about a hundred, then dried them thoroughly and loaded some using a load from the newer Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook, using a 100-grain semi-wadcutter bullet.

The result was wonderful.  The cases showed no sign of gas leakage around/below the case mouth, and no sign of the cases being overheated or damaged.  

Depending on what you're shooting, it may not be worth it to you to reload cases after they get a bit too hard.  Or, for some cartridges, it may well be so.

Among other things, we have Musk and some others taking that 1500 pages of bloat

the Democrats and some Republicans called the 'necessary Continuing Resolution, and used a AI search engine to find all the bullshit they larded in, which let them start telling people about all of it.  Including

Link

This is one of the upsides of Elon Muck buying Twitter and getting rid of most of the "I don't like what this post says, let's kill it and if he does it again kill the account" leftists; it made it easy to get around the Major Media censorship work and let people know exactly what's going on.

And it's giving the left conniptions.

This one is general "What the hell are these people doing?", I got them out of order

More on the CR crap

Link

One of the disgusting things done in this was to put money for disaster relief, for the people FEMA has been either ignoring or screwing over, in this and then insisting "You have to pass all of it or there won't be any relief money!"

Link

Now, this one is special in a good way.  Apparently the Poles, having dealt with Russia feeling froggy many times over the centuries, decided "We need to pour Roundup on this sprouting problem right now."
I can hear it now: "What was that clack-clack noise I think I actually felt as well as heard?"
"That was every rifle in Poland being function tested at once."

Link to the whole thing here.


Germany is getting even more of that Cultural Enrichment their 'Elites' insist on.  Which is likely going to include follow-ons like politicians learning about the fine old 'get their attention' method of tar and feathers.


Speaking of politicians and bureaucrats who need a real attention-getting...


Once again a foreign news source brings the information most of our media won't touch unless forced to.
Only people surprised: leftists and Biden lovers who've had outbursts of "Deep fakes!" and such.

And last for tonight: If you haven't seen Area Ocho, you ought to take a look.

An awful lot of people seem to think the murder of an insurance company executive is just fine,

because "He is behind Bad Things!" and "It sends a message to the others!"

Ok, let's play that game.  How many government agencies can you think of who've ruined people, harassed people, even taken people's lives for really bad reasons('to send a message', 'No, we didn't need to do a raid, but we did it anyway!', 'Hey, we're the (fill in alphabet designation) and we can do this!", "Our work is important and we need to be able to do this!")?  

So, will all those leftists and young dumbasses be ok if people get fed up and start doing bad things to one of the agents/agencies involved?  Or will it be "But it's different when they/we do it, and we like what they did!" again?

If "They did harm to my family/friend/land" becomes the standard for "It's good someone did this", that's a bad path to start down.

A quick note on Fecesbook

You try to log in.

'Check your notifications on another device'.

In the past there's been a 'try another way' option, now that doesn't even come up.

Find another device and check.

NEVER ANY NOTIFICATION.
Now, rarely, 'the 'try another way' bar shows, except it doesn't work.

I truly don't know if it's Fecesbook("This site is shit", L. Correia) being effed-up, I wound up on one of their lists for saying unapproved things, or both.

I miss being able to see stuff from certain people, but otherwise?  Screw the censorious bastards.

This is my shocked face.  Now let's see if the Georgia Bar does anything about him.


Obviously, I can’t prove that West Point was deliberately trying to make Pete look bad, or that ProPublica would have moved forward with their "bombshell" story had Pete not proved them wrong before publishing. I can only assure you that LOTS of bureaucrats currently employed by the US Military do NOT want to work for Pete Hegseth. And it seems equally clear that ProPublica isn't all that interested in writing stories about bureaucrats who actively and repeatedly misinform them. And that's a pity.

That man can move.


Some of the BS Hegseth needs to clean out.

Well, you and your British Labour comrades have basically told the islamists that they're protected from consequences and can get away with all kinds of crap, so what did you expect?


Connected, thanks to the commies and general leftist idiots here,
Could campus protests against Israel turn violent?
Well, duh.  So many of our institutions of 'higher education' have coddled and encouraged these Jew-haters to the point they're pretty sure they'll have at least some protection, so yes, they almost certainly will.

I'm reminded of a guy who bitched about a cop shooting his friend because 'It was only a little knife!'

According to Leroy Schumacher, even though his grandson was in the middle of a burglary when he was killed, his death was unjustified, Tulsa’s ABC 8 reported. The grieving grandfather acknowledged that breaking into a house was “stupid,” but he said that the AR-15 gave the homeowner’s son an “unfair” advantage over the three burglars and that death wasn’t the appropriate consequence for the teens.
Well, the basic emotion is 'Too damned bad.'  

But wait, there's MORE!
It all began with 21-year-old Elizabeth Rodriguez, who authorities believe was the ring leader. Rodriguez, a mother-of-three in need of rent money, drove 19-year-old Maxwell Cook, 16-year-old Jake Woodruff, and 17-year-old Jacob Redfearn — who she says all lived with her — to the Wagoner County home. They first stole liquor, speakers, and a machete from the garage, but then, Rodriguez said they “got greedy.”

After deciding to break into the main house, the young men, wearing all black, donning masks, and armed with brass knuckles and a knife, went inside while Rodriguez waited with a teenage girl in the getaway car. Zachary Peters, the homeowner’s 23-year-old son, was taking a nap when he heard a door slam and glass shatter at approximately 12:30 in the afternoon, according to News On 6. Peters grabbed his father’s rifle before coming face to face with the three suspects, who all froze when they saw him.

So, they armed themselves before breaking into the house, too.  Which does not speak of good intentions.  Guy, it's too bad your grandkid is dead, but it's worse that he made the decisions that put him in that place and time, and I cannot fault the homeowner's son for shooting.  Because, among other things, three armed criminals against one isn't exactly 'fair'.

Michael Byrd, the Capitol cop, is a serious piece of crap

It seems some of those missing files about disciplinary action have turned up, and yeah, he's worse than we already knew.
A source with detailed knowledge of the Internal Affairs Division case told Blaze News that Byrd was charged with abandoning his post, eating and drinking at his post, and lying to investigators — a terminable offense. It is one of three Byrd disciplinary cases for which records could not be found when a House oversight subcommittee requested them in early 2024, the source said.
...
“It’s funny to me that everyone knows Mike’s a liar and the case that sustains it that had all the evidence that shows he is a liar is something that Tad [DiBiase] and the department can’t find when there’s all these different records. If they just did a search on the emails, all this stuff, it would be in existence.”
Can you say 'The fix is in'?

And a ways further down,
DiBiase wrote that the USCP could help Byrd obtain mental health assistance, “but not move forward on a FFDE [fitness for duty evaluation] since a negative one could mean we should not allow him to carry our USCP-issued firearm if he is not fit to be a police officer.

Read it all, including all the money involved, and some of the politicians giving some.

Wray needs to be put under oath with the sure knowledge that this time,

he lies, he WILL be prosecuted for it.  And note the IG brings this out AFTER the election.  For some reason.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation of the Capitol Hill Riot found no undercover FBI agents attended. Still, over two dozen confidential human sources (DHS) were at the event.

However, the FBI only assigned three of the sources to attend on January 6:
Which tells us the IG is full of shit.

More.

And more.

Have I ever mentioned Fecesbook is run by idiots?

At best?


I'm tired, so instead of more work tonight,
Here's a Democrat bigshot who's actually described himself as a revolutionary communist telling some people "The Democrat Party has screwed up badly, and it's still doing it."


What Trudumbass and the leftists have done to Canada, all in the name of Diversity! and Anti-Colonialism!

So far they've been lucky; it won't last.


Byrd, the Capitol cop who murdered Ashli Babbitt... Well, read this:
...In September 2021, Byrd attempted to personally purchase a shotgun but failed to pass the background check required by federal law. Byrd subsequently sought USCP’s help in resolving the issue with his background check.26 After learning that Byrd failed his background check, USCP took steps to provide him with a USCPissued shotgun and intended to “lend” him a shotgun even if his background check “did not come through.”27 Ultimately, Byrd failed his shotgun proficiency and was not provided a USCP-issued shotgun.
Consider: not only did this CAPITOL COP fail a NICS check, but the agency was going to loan him one "...even if his background check did not come through."... 
They were going to PROVIDE a gun to a guy who failed the background check?  Really?  Don't people go to jail for that?

AND he couldn't pass the shotgun class?  And he's still a cop?
Note: yes, I've posted on this before, but that "We were gonna give him one anyway" bit just stood out to me today.


More from Canuckistan:
A generation of white children are being raised to hate themselves, to hate their culture, to hate their ancestors, to perceive nothing in their heritage but bigotry, hatred, oppression, and barbarism. Their minds are being overwritten with the values and morality of an alien culture, with the explicit goal of forever terminating their connection with everything that came before. The wages of this deracination are depression and drug addiction, just as one would expect ... but it’s for their own good and all for a good cause. And besides, they’re receiving the gold standard of education.
Yeah, punishing KIDS now for what someone else did quite a while ago is not a good idea.

That's it, folks.  I'm beat, and it's time to see about food.

Where does the time go?

Traveling, and getting things done at various places.  Occasional bloggage will continue for the foreseeable future

Yes, some dickhead has reported a bunch of posts for 'community standards' violations

And Blogger, apparently run by the same kind of dickheads that run Fecesbook, has no way I can find to say "Would you pretty please tell me just what the violation was?"

Idiots.

Also, from the chronicles of terrorist supporters- also known as 'Higher' Education,

Columbia University


and one of the latest additions to the Caliphate(where the cops are just Janissaries serving their new masters) in Britain.

On a more happy note, why aren't all you folks building up these numbers?


Now I must close because I've got some things to do before I rest, see you whenever

Still fairly busy, still posting occasionally(less at times), so (updated)

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"Why don't you trust the Major Media? We are PROFESSIONALS!"

Yeah, and you taught us not to trust you.
She took it to the CBS executives and they told her she “couldn’t do it live.”

She asked, “What do you mean I can’t do it live?”

“Well, we don’t know what he’s going to say” was their replay according to Herridge.

She said she replied to her bosses, “Isn’t that what journalism is all about?”

Herridge explained that CBS then tried to condition the interview with possible alternatives, including having it edited, taped, and only on CBS. She said she felt so ashamed that a news organization would place so many restrictions on an interview like that that she couldn’t go back to Elon Musk, the free speech advocate. But it indicates how fearful CBS was that something that they might not want to come out might come out in such an interview. When you think that way, you’re no longer operating as a journalistic organization. You should want to report on the truth, whatever it is.

Herridge was then laid off in February when she was also looking into the Hunter Biden laptop story and they laid off other employees.


Also:
Penelope exposed the scare tactics the NYT used, threatening her with consequences if she didn't make a statement.

“They call you and threaten you. They say, ‘Unless you make a statement, we will publish it as is,’” she continued. “I think that’s a despicable way to treat anyone.”
Yeah, that's an awful lot of our Professional Journalists.

First it was "We can't visit those people to see if they need relief help because

"The road is closed, and we can't walk around the barricade!"
Then we had "Those people had Trump signs, and they're kind of like mad dogs and we were told to not talk to them."
Now,

Throw in the State authorities: bunch of Amish show up and build cabins so people can live in those instead of tents while figuring out housing, to have the State show up and say "Those cabins aren't built to our Code, so get out of them and go back to freezing in tents!"

Government: how would you get screwed without it?

A bit of entertainment, if this works Plus an update

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If all correct, this takes my opinion of Bill Gates from "He's a miserable bastard"

to "He's actually evil.  Him and everyone else involved in this."


In another case of  "If they're not evil. they're close enough to start building a gallow"; from the sound of it every officer involved in this should be relieved of command.  And court martialed.  And possibly- well, various punishments come to mind.

Dead serious, if this is how these bastards and their political masters(quite possibly paymasters) treat the troops this badly in peacetime...  Floggings for a start, possibly hanging for those actually in charge of this bullshit.

Thanksgiving, which can include a problem for Godzilla

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Wirecutter's lost his mother

Damn.

The cop who shot Ashli Babbitt?

The issues in Captain Michael Byrd's background included a failed shotgun qualification test, a failed FBI background check for a weapon's purchase, a 33-day suspension for a lost weapon and referral to Maryland state prosecutors for firing his gun at a stolen car fleeing his neighborhood, according to congressional and police documents obtained by Just the News.

And, it appears, there were other incidents in which 'the records are missing'(surprise!).  

Insty put it "And his protection is disappearing."  Not to mention for the brass in that agency who helped him keep doing this crap.

Aztec death whistles

Some interesting design in the things.


BREAKING: DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is reportedly negotiating his exit and wants to leave immune from any potential investigations from the Trump Administration.
Considering the times he's committed perjury alone, I'd be he wants immunity.


Speaking of another piece of garbage who's about to go and probably highly desires it,
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra cannot answer why he placed unaccompanied children with sponsors whose address was a strip club. He also cannot explain why he allowed them to be pimped out by individuals with no family ties to them.
Makes you think there's a lot of sex slavery going on that these bastards don't want to do anything about, doesn't it?


And, last thing, from one of those Professional Media Outlets we're supposed to trust:

Riley?  She's just some privileged white girl, who cares about her?

Someday, things will slow down

Until then,
Don't you just love all this cultural enrichment?


Yes, Gov. Abbott of Texas did a Good Thing.  And a few other tidbits.


Laken Riley's murderer was convicted, and faces life in prison.
I cannot think of any good reason he shouldn't face a gallows.

Some of the Brit police forces are basically an occupying force for their masters, it seems

Take a look at a BBC idiot trying to tell Musk that 'we need someone to control what people say online'
 it's well worth the time.

Maybe more a bit later

Assuming the 'publish on' works,

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A bit of news before the day really starts

Starting with what caused that odd screaming sound from the direction of DC:

Another "You can't do that" to a federal agency; it's wonderful



The brass on the seventh floor at FBI headquarters in Washington have been in a daze and wary of a housecleaning since Donald Trump was reelected president on Tuesday, inside sources say.

The Washington Times learned through several anonymous bureau sources that senior agency executives were “stunned” and “shell-shocked” by Mr. Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

“You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?” said the first FBI source, referring to the agency’s physical fitness requirements. “Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door.”
I hope they're having heart palpitations.  The crap they've been caught at, they should be with someone who wants to deal with them coming into the Oval Office.  Personally, one of the first things Trump does should be to do said dealing with them.  Can't do anything about the shredders some of the are probably burning out, unfortunately.


There was a FEMA clown who specifically directed personnel in NC to not talk to people with Trump signs on their houses/yards.  Some whistleblowers made enough noise they couldn't just cover it up, and she was fired.  Now,
'FEMA preaches avoidance first, and then de-escalation. This is not isolated. This is a colossal event of avoidance,' Washington said in an interview with YouTube podcaster Roland Martin.

'Not just in the state of Florida. You will find avoidance in the Carolinas,' she revealed.

She says she was directly following FEMA protocol when she issued the controversial directive.
There's an amount of 'those people come out guns blazing' ass-covering in this, of course.  It'll be interesting what the investigations turn up about FEMA protocol.  Including the question someone asked: If it's her, maybe a couple of other clowns alone, why did they think they could get away with this?  Three guesses, you only need one.


This does seem to cover it

And this will cause further screaming, from all over and not just DC:  Trump appointed Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to run a Dept. of Government Efficiency.
Yes, I know, creating a new department doesn't sound good.  If it can stick to "We're getting rid of this and this and that whole bunch over there", I can get behind it.


And one more "Let's cause a lot of pain and wailing":

Incredible news: President @realDonaldTrump planning to tax excessively large private university endowments (which have benefited greatly from taxpayer $) to establish American Academy, a free online university for all. Purely academic.
Let's see, Harvard has something like forty billion in their, a fair number of others with multiple billions... I like it for the pure shock value, if nothing else.

See you later.

Made a little time

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While I have a little time, some of the things I've run across recently

No, the NYeffingTimes doesn't understand the nation, at least more than half of it.
Mind you, this is a paper that now lets junior staffers and reporters whine and scream and ignore the senior editors; if I ran that place there would've been a lot of these idiots fired in the last year or two.


Trusting the science is fine, except when the 'scientists' putting it up are lying, conniving bastards.


No link, just me wondering: after the bastard sent people from his Labour Party over here to interfere in our election, I wonder what Two Tier Starmer is thinking right now?  Probably same as a bunch of other leftist EUnuchs: "Uh oh..."

That bastard should've been fired a long time ago, and he'll hang on till the last moment; have to screw-up as many kids as possible before he's gone.


Yeah, FEMA is sick.  But I think there is likely to be some treatment done soon.


Ballot 'security' in Cook County.


And that's it for now.  I'll see you when I can.

Been watching some of the reactions from the left to the election,

and that guy who wrote about mass psychiatric problems was right.  Holy crap, the screaming, the crying, the "I'm going to wind up in a camp!" and so forth, there's not enough psychiatrists/psychologists in the country- especially that know their ass from a hole in the ground- to deal with them. 

And every damn one seems to think they're such a threat to the Bad Orange Man that he'll send people out to deal with them, either into camps, thrown out of the country, or killed.

Mind you, these are generally the people who had plans to throw the BadThinkers into camps.  And during the Wuhan panic they wanted to deal with people who wouldn't take the vaccines by throwing them in camps.  If they had kids, take the kids away(so they could be put in approved schools and get a proper indoctin- ah, education) and then throw the parents in camps.  The actual enemies of the republic have camps on the brain.

Speaking of insanity, there's an idiot journalist called Taylor Lorenz who, a while back, informed us that the NYeffingTimes only allowed right-wing opinions from their journalists..  That level of idiocy is hard to figure.

Speaking of idiocy, I give you our Dept. of 'Justice', and Jack Smith.  Who a judge had already pointed out was illegally appointed Special Counsel, but Garland* insisted "I'm a lawyer and the AG, so I know what's legal(he does, the problem is he doesn't care)".  The cases, they say, are being dropped and Smith is out, far too late and with no penalty as of now for having been illegally 'investigating' and acting in very unethical ways.

Next questions: what will the Democrats pull to try to keep Trump out of office, and when inauguration time comes how many New Red Guard will they send out to loot, burn, and murder?  I do expect, in some cities, there's likely to be a rather stronger response, if not by the cops then by the citizens who don't want their homes and business and lives burned down again.

It's likely to be lively.  Especially with Trump looking at appointing Elon Musk to doing some cleaning- out of lots of agencies.  That will be fun.

I'm hoping that Trump learned the lessons of his last time in the Oval Office and starts cutting and firing and "You are invited to retire.  Now." invitations.

Next few months are likely to be interesting.  Especially since the new President is not likely to hold back on using the National Guard in, say, D.C. to grab rioters and stop them.

One more thing: lots of Democrats metaphorically cutting throats and backstabbing to place the blame for Harris the Cackler.  

Yes, it's still busy,

Just not enough time for everything.  So occasional bloggage, not the regular levels for a while yet.

So, Trump not only won,

but by significant margins in both the popular and electoral votes.

Harris finally conceded today.

I haven't heard, has she yet called for everyone to come together with the guy she called a nazi, a fascist, and just like Hitler?

I took a quick look at Fecesbook, lots of leftists screaming and wailing, lots of- well, you know.  And some "If the .gov had some control over what people hear, this wouldn't have happened!", because actual free speech is something they hate.

It'll be interesting to see what the leftists come out with next.  To say the least.  

Borrowing,

This seems very appropriate for this day

 

A short break from the stuff going on, so

a bit of the news:
Remember the asshole who murdered three girls and stabbed a bunch more?  Lots of people thought it might be a terror attack, etc., and Two-Tier & Co. used that as excuse to throw a bunch of people in prison for BadThink?  
Guess what.


Roman concrete, it appears the secret has indeed been found.


OR and WA governors have activated the National Guard, because, apparently, they no longer want to support/tolerate a bunch of rioting communists.

But what about when taxpayer-funded agencies sit on information, and seek to discredit it, just because it’s potentially harmful to a preferred candidate? Well, then that information becomes disinformation right up until it’s convenient for it to stop being so.

And this wasn’t a case of anyone getting it wrong.

No, with the Hunter Biden laptop story, they knew it was legit. They just didn’t want you to know that.


And that's it for now

And a bit more Halloween

Well, it's Halloween, so