The main event

is down there

Before we get to the main event for the evening,

a few things run across:

Widener's blog has a post on Federal .22 ammo

here.  I can't speak to all of it, there being several of these I've not fired.  Of those I have, I can say this:
They've all gone bang, they've all been at least reasonably accurate for me*, and on the Federal Champion...

I used to own a BSA Martini 12/15 match rifle.  Over time I tried a number of brands in it, and splurged on three or four different boxes of match ammo to try, and the best groupings in it came from Federal Champion(Eley Sport being a very close second).  I actually got groups at or a little less than 1.25" from it at 100 yards when the wind was down and I did my part.  Wonderful stuff.  Apparently that rifle had odd taste for a match rifle, but I loved it.  Kind of wish I still had it.


*'for me' because, despite some of my stories, I'm not going to give Jerry Miculek any sleepless nights.

A chain slider on the bike broke the other day

So I went looking for parts, and during this it hit me that the Honda is 20 years old, and aside from general maintenance and personal mods, it's still original.

That make those suckers well.

Looks like the word is out from Obama

that "Joe just had a bad  night, he's the man!"  Because if Joe goes, Obama will lose a lot of influence, and he can't have that.

So the reformation of what happened is on.  Ain't it wonderful?

If this is indeed accurate,

then a bunch of people belong in prison.  For life.

Yes, it's on X.  You should be able to watch it without having an account, and there's video.

One of the special evenings

which brings sights to see

There was a case before the Supremes, and the ruling was basically 'Right to trial by jury

still stands.'  Which has a lot of the left in serious upset(which tells you the decision was good).  As Mr. Correia put it:

Speaking of the left panicking, the debate last night apparently really did it:

I admit that was good news to wake up to.  Or, as the Paper of Record put it

Someone pointed to this "Why Biden won't quit",

and I can find no fault in it.  For those who can't/won't go to X, I'm copying the text:
I've posted this before, apparently it's an unpopular opinion because I keep seeing tons of conservatives post that Biden will be replaced before the election.

I don't think there is any chance in the world that Biden will be replaced. He is far and away the best at giving democrat voters what they need.

Biden lies. And he performs his lies on a level that not even AOC or Newsom could ever possibly dream of doing. He hits the whisper and hits the angry yell every single time. He creates the straw man and passionately knocks it down. "They are going to end social security but I won't let it happen. I will always be here for you." He accuses Republicans of doing exactly what he and his party is doing and he doesn't ever flinch.

Only Biden could spend 2020 campaigning on opening the border, on not deporting anyone, spend three years ignoring the problem, and then spend this year blaming it on Trump. That is not as easy to do as people think. Only Biden could look into the camera and claim that inflation was at 9% when he took office. The average sleazy politician can't do what Biden does. Even the worst politicians have some limits.

"I've never discussed business with my son." This is so ridiculous it's hard to describe. He flew to China and to Ukraine with his son. The same guy who claimed that he talked to his son every day about every little thing claims he never discussed business with his son on their 18 hour flights. Biden never backed down on this lie. Biden even claimed that he learned about Hunter joining Burisma via the newspaper. Think about that.

Only Joe Biden could have his DOJ investigate Trump and then have the nerve to claim "I had nothing to do with it because I'm honest." Who would say that? Most politicians care about how things appear. Biden could not care less. He didn't care when he was representing the credit card company that was paying his son. He doesn't care how things look. Only Biden could write the 94 Crime Bill and turn around and claim he opposed mandatory minimums, even going as far to claim that he got into politics because of civil rights. Biden is willing to say whatever his audience wants him to say. It doesn't matter how far fetched the lie is, Biden will say it. And he will perform the hell out of it.

The only politician alive with close to Biden's ability to passionately and shamelessly lie like him is Nancy Pelosi. These two are world class, miles ahead of other democrats. The best to ever do it.

Biden has one speech. On his death bed he could still give this speech and it would emotionally move democrats. He lies about his son's death for goodness sake. What other politician alive would do that? Only Biden could run on "uniting the country" and then turn around and give prime time speeches on how his political rivals are existential threats, claiming it's all in the name of unifying the country. There are no rules with Biden. It's all a game to him. It's just a game. He will say anything at anytime, he doesn't give a damn about what he said yesterday. He brought the press to his kid's hospital beds in 1972. Brain dead or not, this guy is on a whole different level. Biden based his entire 2020 campaign on a hoax. And he performed the Fine People Hoax every single day for a year and a half, knowing it was all BS. He forced himself to cry for George Floyd, multiple times. Newsom and the other young democrats can't hold a candle to Biden, even if his brain is half fried.

Biden will win the debate because the media has already decided he will win the debate. He will accuse Trump of doing everything that he is doing. The media are democrats and Biden gives them what they need. He will say nothing new. He will perform the same ridiculous lies with passion and the media will praise him for it. And if he is President four years from now they will wheel him out and he will give the same exact SOTU speech he has given the past two years, word for word, and democrats will love him for it. He has zero conscience, there is nothing there. Don't underestimate that, it's more rare than people think. Biden is the best to ever do what he does.

Ok, it was Insty that pointed to it, here's the link
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1805777633189245269

Meanwhile, from the leftists running things here,

The Department of Homeland Security has identified over 400 immigrants who have come to the U.S. from Central Asia and elsewhere as “subjects of concern” because they were brought by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network, three U.S. officials tell NBC News.

While over 150 of them have been arrested, the whereabouts of over 50 remain unknown, the officials said, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking to arrest them on immigration charges when they are located.

“In this case, it was the information that suggested a potential tie to ISIS because of some of the individuals involved in [smuggling migrants to the border] that led us to want to take extra care,” said a senior Biden administration official, “and out of an abundance of caution make sure that we exercised our authority in the most expansive and appropriate way to mitigate risk because of this potential connection being made.”
'Extra care' and 'an abundance of caution' would have involved stopping them from coming over our damned border.  That would also have involved 'excercising your authority in the most expansive and appropriate way', but they couldn't do that.  

I wonder how much blood and crime these people- I mean the ones in charge- are actually responsible for, all the stuff we don't know about.  And they'll never pay a price for any of it.

Another 'they came from abroad' gang rape,

which went the usual way it does in Europe anymore:
Eight of the nine rapists of a 15-year-old will not serve any time in person. They received suspended sentences, instead. The ninth man was sentenced to less than three years in prison — for the two-hour-long gang rape of a teenage girl — and all must perform 60 hours of community service. What a joke. The tenth was acquitted.
And now we have the added stupidity:
Another German woman, a 20-year-old whose name has not been released, somehow found on Snapchat the phone number of one of the men who received a suspended sentence. She then contacted him on WhatsApp, where she called him a "dishonorable rapist pig" and a "disgusting miscarriage."
...
But the woman's WhatsApp "assault" was too much for German authorities, who arrested her for making "insulting" remarks to the immigrant. She'll serve three days beginning on Friday in the Hahnöfersand youth detention center — a sentence three days longer than the rapist she insulted.
Ain't being ruled by fine members of the leftist upper class wonderful?

Added: Yes, the cops and various others are not leftist upper class, but the chiefs and some sheriffs?  Lots of politicians and agency heads?  Yes, they are.  If the DA/prosecutors won't prosecute, and officers know pointing out these are not intersectional victims, they're freaking TERRORISTS and the enemy will get them labeled 'problems' at best, 'racist/fill in the blank' at most and their job threatened, their enthusiasm for doing their damned job will go downhill.
Look at what happened with the Brits and the muslim rape/slavery gangs, various cops and social workers knew what was going on 'But I'll be called a racist if I raise attention on this!" kept them quiet.  Yeah, probably lousy cops in other ways, too.

It's going to be a while, but this recipe

is going to be tried.

I remember when these bastards got caught; most media wanted little to nothing to do

with the case.  Now they STILL haven't been tried?  And their lawyer is playing games, even after his earlier demand for exact dates led to this?
At this time, they were discussing whether or not to seek a re-indictment of the criminal charges with more counts added on after the defense's request for specific dates sparked a forensic investigation into the surveillance system that the Zulocks had installed in the interior of their home.

A formidable four terabytes of data, which investigators are continuing to comb through, was extracted from the 16 security cameras stationed all over the house in every single room. The cameras were recording 24 hours a day, seven days a week, capturing everything, including the sexual assaults. "They are all on video filmed throughout multiple rooms in the house," the prosecution says.
So, the prosecution can now specify "hundreds of allegations," matching the metadata to timeframes, as the defense unwittingly welcomed.
But wait! There's MORE!
Majors clarified that the charges, as they stand, stem from child pornographic photographs and videos—taken primarily on Zachary's iPhone—that are presently in the DA's possession. A folder, labeled "US," was allegedly found on Zachary's cell phone containing videos of William sexually abusing their one son.

And they were pimping the kids out, too...

This is one of those cases that 'cruel and unusual punishment' sounds like it might be the right thing.

It being that time of year, I'm going to repost that electrolyte mix

2 quarts water
6 tablespoons honey powder (you can use honey, but honey powder is a bit easier to mix)
2 teaspoons Himalayan pink sea salt
2/3 cup lemon juice (if you prefer another citrus juice, you can use it instead)
1/2 teaspoon orange extract (for flavor; without it, the taste is fairly blah)

That's the original.  Over time I changed a couple of things:
The sea salt has some other minerals in, I'm told, but plain salt seems to work.  And you can do something else: use half salt, and half Morton Lite Salt, which is half potassium.  
I'm only using 3 tablespoons of honey, seems to be plenty.
Can also use orange juice or lime juice, big factor is some type of citrus.

Yesterday went from hot & fairly humid with a 'slight chance' of thunderstorms

that night, to 50% as it was building, to 60% as it was moving this way.  The really nasty part missed my area, but it did give us some needed rain.

Which brings me again to the weather and news weenies almost shrieking about the heat as if it'd never been pretty hot in late June before.  Jeez.

It is hot out there, and after the rain even more humid, so I'm going to try to keep to indoor activities today, and the garden's too wet to till.  And, despite what I said the other day, I did hit the range yesterday so that's out of the way.  Not successfully on one thing, because while testing loads I noticed a increase in group size as I went along, and found the front mount screw was loose.  So no more testing on that.  The other shooting was good, though less than usual, as it getting hot enough as it approached noon(it's near a river bottom area so you can imagine the humidity) that I was very glad I only brought two boomsticks.

I will note a guy who showed up not long before I left.  He unloaded a 1903A3 Springfield, some ammo, and proceeded to- offhand with sling- hit the 200 yard gong regularly, and when done packed up and went.  I think he lives nearby, making "I'll just go ring steel for a few rounds" possible.

There were a couple of loads that, despite the problem, looked promising, so I'll have some loading to do.

Borrowing from a guy on the current French situation

All this, however, takes place in an environment in which the Brits seem most likely to be about to commit national hara-kiri  themselves, by tossing out (on, ironically, July 4) their own Stupid Party (the not-so-Conservatives) and replacing them with the reliably-Communist Labour Party.  But I digress.

Back to the French:  the 1789 Revolution took place against a political and social order which was manifestly unjust and in many cases actually malevolent, wherein an unelected power elite (the Royalty and Church) ran the country at the expense of ordinary people.

It remains to be seen, then, whether the French will revolt against their government again, for precisely the same reasons — only instead of the Royalty being the villains, there is the European Union (only nominally elected by the French citizenry) and instead of the Church, the multiple “religions” of socialist and Green policies.  It sounds like a facile comparison, but clearly it’s enough to frighten Macron, which is why he’s sounding the alarm.

And finally:  after our Revolution, we didn’t hack off the heads of the deposed ruling class, but the Frogs sure as hell did.

So maybe Macron and his lizard people have a right to be fearful.

Taylor Lorenz: not just a hypocritical asshat journalist,

she pushes crap like this:
Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz on Monday pushed a false claim that a Los Angeles synagogue was auctioning off Palestinian land this week—a conspiracy theory that led to violent, anti-Semitic protests outside the Jewish house of worship on Sunday.

Lorenz—who covers social media for the Post and often complains about being targeted by online harassment—reposted multiple comments on X, formerly Twitter, defending the synagogue protesters, promoting the false allegations, and slamming the media, including her former employer, the New York Times, for failing to give the allegations oxygen. The synagogue was in fact hosting an industry expo on real estate investing in Israel, and the false claims that Adas Torah was selling Palestinian land appear to have originated from radical anti-Israel groups, including Code Pink and the Palestinian Youth Movement, according to social media posts.
...
In a separate incident this week, Lorenz also defended former Bernie Sanders spokeswoman Briahna Joy Gray’s remarks that the media should report on "Israel training dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners," another unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.

Lorenz said this was a "claim that’s being reported all over X," and Gray was "just asking if any U.S. papers have investigated the claims."

"It’s not like she’s asking about some random thing, it’s been a major topic of discussion on X all day."
Ah yes, that's some major research she did.

And yes, the colors and embedding links works again.

One of the reasons recruiting is down: "They'll drop you the moment you become inconvenient,

and don't care what happens to you.  Especially if it's a political matter."
The army admitted the link between Stancik’s heart problems and the COVID vaccine.

“Research has confirmed a link between a COVID-19 infection and a debilitating heart condition called POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, that has been diagnosed in some patients,” according to an army memo.

“POTS was also linked, to a lesser degree, to COVID-19 vaccination with an mRNA vaccine, according to a new study,” it also stated.
...
US JAG defends the rights of injured service members.

“Her case is representative of hundreds, possibly thousands of other vaccine injury cases, but moreover, it’s very indicative of the systemic problem of the Department of Defense abandoning injured service members. Vaccine injuries are also very political and the leadership in the Defense Department did not want to address that and still does not want to address that maybe we hurt our own people,” said US JAG veteran advocate Jeremy Sorenson.

The army memo also said that Stancik’s heart problems occurred in the line of duty.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/army-admits-link-between-covid-vaccine-and-soldiers-heart-condition/

I've heard of a lot of weird things people have done to make a machine work,

but the chicken is brand new to me

Click on it, it'll bring it up bigger

Ah, that wonderful impartial journalist Jake Tapper

You may not have heard about it yet, but the Florida First District Court of Appeals recently ruled that plaintiff Zachary Young can pursue punitive damages, along with economic and emotional damages, in a civil trial against CNN. According to Newsbusters, the total damages sought could approach or exceed $1 billion because of Tapper's comments defaming Young's efforts to aid individuals in Afghanistan during the botched withdrawal in 2021.

For that outcome to be remotely in the cards, Young needed to prove malice and according to the ruling, he’s done exactly that. “Young sufficiently proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough to open the door for him to seek punitive damages,” Judge L. Clayton Roberts wrote in the court’s ruling.

The court felt the high bars for actual and expressed malice were met because of internal CNN messages that were extremely vicious toward Young. Correspondent  Alex Marquardt, the “primary reporter” expressed in a message to a colleague that he wanted to “nail this Zachary Young mfucker” and thought the story would be Young’s “funeral.” On that declaration of wanting to “nail” Young, CNN editor Matthew Philips responded: “gonna hold you to that cowboy!”

Alongside Marquardt, CNN senior editor Fuzz Hogan, who’s a member of CNN’s internally lauded “Triad” of editorial, legal, and standards/practices oversight personnel, described Young as “a shit.”

In an interview with NewsBusters, Vel Freedman, the lawyer representing Young, said that “everyone makes mistakes” but what CNN’s messages showed was a “systemic problem” inside the network. He added that their internal mechanism for accountability had “clearly failed” and opened themselves to “massive, massive liability.”

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/06/25/jake-tapper-could-cost-cnn-1-billion-in-defamation-suit-n4930120
And from the sound of it, I hope he gets the ears, tail, and whatever testicles were remaining.

Decisions, decisions...

Outdoor range.  Want to go.  Hot today(still), with a bit more wind than I like for trying loads.  Maybe a couple of degrees hotter tomorrow but lower winds.  So, if I go, it'll be tomorrow.  Long as I have some shade and plenty to drink should be good.  Uncomfortable, but good.

Speaking of weather: the news and weather weenies have been having conniptions the last couple of weeks, you'd swear they didn't know it's most always hot in late June.  I don't know if they're deliberately trying to scare people for some reason* or just being dumb.

*Yes, it may be connected to 'Globular Warmering!', who knows?  They do, and they're not telling.

Once upon a time a company known as Old Spice

made some products many people used.  And then they decided to branch out, and I think there's the problem.

I used to use their Original Scent body wash, for instance.  For years.  And then it disappeared.  Then the Original Scent High Endurance Deodorant went away.  Coincidentally at the same time the 'husbands and wives arguing over who gets to use the Old Spice' got going.  So it appears that, while trying to appeal to ladies, they decided to dump that 'Original Scent' stuff.

Mind you, they've got a bloody pile of new scents with idiot names, so why get rid of the original?  Maybe someone decided their Desired Demographic wasn't into that aroma, or it had connection to old tough guy images(sailors, loggers, etc.) Corporate didn't approve of anymore.

I looked at the company page on Book of Face, and some people did bring up "Why's my favorite gone?", and the response(as I recall, a couple of months ago) was basically "Well, things change, so we had to change, enjoy the new stuff!"

Which makes me wonder how that "Get us a new demographic!" stuff is going.  Personally, I hope it bites them in the ass.

Some people are really unhappy at the rise in home schooling;

some are probably actually worried about kids getting a decent education, the rest are worried they aren't getting the required .gov indoctrination.  And the fix is more .gov control.
https://mustreadalaska.com/scientific-american-calls-for-federal-regulation-of-homeschool-families/

One more raped and murdered girl, two more illegal aliens

and more blood on Biden's and Mayorkas's hands.
"Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, and Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 22, "both illegally entered the U.S. without inspection, parole or admission by a U.S. immigration officer on an unknown date and at an unknown location," a spokesperson for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement to PEOPLE.

Ramos had been detained by border patrol agents near El Paso on May 28 and Martinez had been detained near the same city on March 14, the spokesperson said. The Venezuelan nationals were then released on an orders of recognizance with notices to appear in court at a later date.

Both men are now being held in Harris County Jail on capital murder charges, the agency spokesperson confirmed."

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/suspects-charged-murder-12-old-205258564.html

This, possible Medicaid fraud, and the EffingBI

intimidating people.  Ain't it wonderful?
Sivadge also saw that many patients had underlying issues, including past suicide attempts, autism diagnoses, depression and anxiety. She felt these issues were being dismissed in the name of prescribing hormones and other forms of transgender care.

“Many of them had previous ER visits for attempted suicide, many of them are autistic, many of them are depressed and anxious, and that’s really devastating because it’s really clear there’s something else going on in addition to having confusion about their sexual identity,” she said.

“That just really devastated me.”
https://nypost.com/2024/06/23/us-news/texas-childrens-hospital-doctors-manipulating-parents-into-giving-kids-trans-treatments-nurse-claims/

Some doctors who really need to lose their license, and spend some time in jail

I promised, here's what I had a chance to try: the Garmin Xero C1

It's a portable doppler radar chronograph.  Which means no- well, let me list setting up my Chrony:
Make sure the range is cold.
Take the Chrony, which I'd already put on a camera tripod and put the sunshades on if needed, and take it out ten feet from the muzzle(approximately).
Align it with the bore.

Go back to the rifle and look through the sights.

Go back out and make adjustments(height, level, twist left or right)
Go back and check it again.
Usually curse and go do it again.  Maybe a couple of times.
That's if you want it where you can fire at a target and get the readings.  If all you want is velocity, can just set it up so you're shooting into the berm.
Don't forget to turn it on, and you can start shooting.

The procedure with this:
Take it out of the box.

Put it on the tripod.

Set it on the bench('5 to 15 inches to the side of the rifle, 5 to 15 inches back from the muzzle').
Turn it on, choose a couple of settings, then start shooting.  It'll give you the high and low velocities of the string, standard deviation, and will work on rifles, pistols, arrows, and pellets.

It saves the data so you can review it later, and it has an app you can download to work with it. 

Internal battery, comes with a recharging cable.  There's not a charger, instructions in the manual say

1. Plug the large end of the USB cable into an external power source, such as an AC adapter or a USB port on your computer

so it will apparently work with any charger.  Yeah, I'll ask about that to be sure.  Battery life is two thousand shots or six hours continuous on. 

And it's TINY!  3x1.4x2.4", and weighs a whole 3.75 ounces; a hefty 5.7 ounces with the tripod, which is included.
I had about a half-hour messing with it on an indoor range, and I'm impressed.  I had a couple of lanes between myself and the next shooter and there was zero confusion with their shots.  I've read that if someone is close enough, like next lane, it may sometimes pick up their shots.  I may have to start saving up.  
Here's their site if you want all the specs
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/771164

The Brownshirts really seem to like NYeffingCity

"A Jewish mom and her husband were attacked and beaten at a Brooklyn elementary school graduation by an Arabic-speaking family — who taunted them with shouts of “Free Palestine!” “Gaza is Ours!” and “Death to Israel!” she told The Post.

The mayhem erupted at PS 682 in Gravesend just after the school’s fifth-grade graduation — which was themed, ironically, “All you need is love.”
And, unsurprisingly, it appears the PD and school are trying not to say it's a hate crime.  

https://nypost.com/2024/06/23/us-news/nyc-jewish-family-pummeled-at-5th-grade-commencement-by-attendees-shouting-free-palestine-mom-says/

One last thing: a few years ago Correia wrote a piece

that cover's Presendent Gropey's "I have the Air Force so your rifles are useless!" stuff very nicely.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2018/11/19/the-2nd-amendment-is-obsolete-says-congressman-who-wants-to-nuke-omaha/

Then, today, I ran across this that covers part of it in cartoon form

I have nothing more to add

A few things to clear

A few moving ones
                                                Like sumo bear,

                                                and "Get me in there so we can get to work!"

I do wonder if it's the first time she's done this, or just the first time the girlfriend/wife acted this quickly

I had a chance to try out a new chronograph today,

I'll write about it tomorrow, when I'm not mixing letters up.  Short version, it's nice.