It sounds like he earned The Medal,

and should have gotten it then no matter who it pissed off.

Speaking of pissed off, it seems the Iranians had to admit that not just the Mossad, but Iranian people tired of the tyrants are a BIG problem.


In Charlotte, a guy came to the aid of people being threatened, and was stabbed by the asshole. 
My question  now is if the idiots running the city try to charge him for not hiding in a corner?


Also in North Carolina, 

“If a loving father wants to marry off his nine-year-old daughter to a righteous man and all parties consent, what is the issue with that?”
The issue should be him being hanged for doing that to his daughter, and the same for the asshat who wants her.  I'm sure that makes me a racist or bigot or something.

A Democrat telling us how racist she is, and how children

must be taught to be racist to make them 'better people'.

Wonderful, aren't they?

'There is no censorship here,

just follow our rules.  Scientific fact is no excuse not to.'

Hey, Helmut, kiss our ass.

Wouldn't surprise me a bit, so be sure to carry your stuff,

 just in case

Probably for horrible ideas like loyalty, thinking,

nasty things like that.
Trigger warning slapped on Harry Potter for ‘outdated attitudes’

How worthless are British cops?

The UK’s West Midlands Police used fictitious evidence to justify its advice to ban Israeli fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team from attending a match in Birmingham last month, the force’s chief admitted to a parliamentary committee Monday, as MPs grilled police brass on the basis of their controversial decision.
...
When grilled about the fact that this fictitious match was included in his force’s report, Chief Constable Craig Guildford admitted to the Home Affairs Committee that such an event “didn’t happen.”
... Guilford said that the fictitious match ended up in the report “due to a social media post,” but insisted it did not impact his overall decision.
Translation: "We lied, and we'd lie again."

Gee, why lie about this?
Lastly, Guildford and Assistant Chief Constable Mike O’Hara admitted in the committee that they had met with Independent MP Ayoub Khan, an outspoken anti-Israel figure, while authoring the report that suggested banning Israeli fans from the November match.

The admission appeared to contradict their earlier claims that was “no political pressure” to ban Maccabi supporters, as Khan had previously contacted Aston Villa to voice his strong opposition to allowing Israeli fans at the event, arguing that they were a security risk.

While Guildford insisted that his meeting with Khan was not unusual, as police often meet with local MPs when issuing reports on public safety, he did admit that significant opposition to Israeli fans’ attendance from local community leaders was “fed into the command team” as they authored their report.
Yes, the British janissaries served their masters, which is all they actually care about.

By the way, Brits, that MP calling for resignations?  Bullshit, these bastards need to be fired.

Well, damn. Updated

.357 Magnum blog is gone.  Whether someone at Blogger or he decided to close it, no idea.

Update: back up

Worth reading

When a society begins to suppress intellectual and spiritual searching and dreaming — by punishing speech, regulating thought, discouraging questions, denying the existence of spiritual reality — it is not only a political decline, but a sign of deep unwellness.

Where populations lose respect for liberty of conscience, inquiry, and discourse, society becomes nasty and brutish. Truth-seeking, spiritual health, and peace are inexorably linked. Across formerly open, stable, safe western societies, censorship and repression have been rising as safety, cohesion, and quality of civic life decline.

We must resist cancel culture and speech codes for the following reasons:
Good reading follows.

Our own Rotherham, combined with massive fraud, and cops and prosecutors either corrupt or too incompetent to do their jobs.
For over a decade at this shingle, we've reported on the industrial-scale gang-rape afflicting almost every town up and down the spine of England, most recently on a special edition of The Mark Steyn Show. The stories are all different, and yet in their most salient aspect all the same: In every town the girls are doubly violated - sodomised by their Pakistani Muslim clan-rapists, and then further assaulted by a whitey-white officialdom that is, as a practical matter, on the same side as the rape-gangs. The politicians, the social workers, the media, the coppers, all of them. In a particularly brazen example, after our friend Samantha Smith made her debut appearance on the Steyn Show, the goons of West Mercia Constabulary came banging on her door the following morning to warn her about going on telly to talk about it. Of course, Samantha, having more courage than the entirety of the English police, immediately went back on telly to shove it up West Mercia's flabby arses:
...
What would you do if you wanted to incentivise the exciting multiculti phenomenon of gang-rape? Well, you'd do exactly what the impeccably "progressive" Hennepin County Attorney, Mary Moriarty (pictured at top right), did. You'd do a "plea deal" with Mr Mohamed:

He was sentenced to three years in prison for the attack on the 15-year-old, but the sentence was stayed for five years, meaning he served no time in prison...

He was sentenced to 14 months in prison for the 2024 sexual assault, but that sentence was also stayed, meaning he avoided prison.
...
How is it that a multiple gang-rapist walks free? As those of us who have engaged in the thankless task of trying to get American "prosecutors" to put career criminals behind bars well know, it all starts very butch - he's facing forty-seven felony charges each carrying a minimum sentence of twenty-nine years! - and then gets plea-dealed down to a couple of misdemeanours and an unpaid parking ticket. The County Attorney isn't talking, but her spokesperson - the usual pronoun-laden pajama boy - is defending the deal:

"Due to circumstances that cause difficulty in many criminal sexual conduct cases, these charges were the available and appropriate ones to secure a felony conviction," spokesperson Daniel Borgertpoepping told Fox 9.

Ooh, a "felony conviction"!!! That sounds scary!!!!!
A felony conviction should be scary.  But when asshats like this are running things, it means nothing.

And the Governor in charge of this, and these people, was picked for the Democrat Vice-President candidate.  God, what we dodged in this election.

December 7

 

It has been a hard few days, fighting off a bug of some kind

which caused me to lose about four pounds in four days.  Mostly out my butt, I think.  But I did manage to get a clearing put together

From Kevin at Smallest Minority on the crap in Britain

One part of it at least.
He returns to the UK. He is visited by the PoPo. He explains that he doesn’t own any firearms. He was in the Land of the Free, where it’s common to own and shoot guns. They go away.

They come back, seize all of his electronic devices (which he needs to do his job in IT) and arrest him “on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.” After thirteen weeks the charges are finally dropped, but his business is destroyed.

The punishment is the process.

Two:

The wife of a registered gun owner in the UK is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Her husband is an avid bird hunter, and legally owns several shotguns. While is is caring for his dying wife, he decides, for whatever reason, that he no longer wants a couple of the shotguns he owns. He contacts the police to inquire about “deactivating” these two guns. An officer whose job is specifically dealing with legally-owned firearms, comes and takes ALL OF THEM.

Why? Because his terminally ill wife “is a possible threat.”
And as he notes, the hoplophobes and gun bigots here would love to do that to us here.
Which is why they have to be fought, and called liars when they play 'common-sense gun safety' and such crap.

question: when I mentioned the sleep study,

someone sent a link to one of the newer, much more comfortable headpieces to wear.  And I can't find the thing.

If you sent it, could you sent it again?

More than before choices, thanks guys!

Speaking of foreign lands, such as NewEffingYork,

Honestly, Mamdani is going to be the best gun salesman New York City has ever seen. He doesn't believe in prisons, policing, or literally anything other than letting criminals run rampant across the city. That may be fine for a nepo baby who will have taxpayer-funded security while he's in office--generally staffed by the same cops he's spent years demonizing, ironically enough--but the rest of us can't outsource our protection to other entities.
So, at least in that city, he may dethrone Obama as Best Gun Salesman.

Speaking of asshats on the left, people who've been calling conservatives and libertarians 'enemies of the country' and threatened to take kids and lock people up for not following orders, now want to have funded private security, because Trump.

Can't possibly be any of the threats they've thrown at people causing this, can it?

Found at 357 Magnum, who finds lots of stuff

About that poor bastard in Britain arrested for a photo

of him holding a gun in the US:
Incidents like this should concern every American gun owner. A man was arrested in his own country for a lawful photo taken in ours. That level of state control did not appear in the UK overnight. It arrived step by step, regulation by regulation, each justified as “reasonable.”

If we are not vigilant in the United States, in the courts, in Congress, and at the state level, the same slow creep can happen here. What happened in the UK is not an anomaly. It is the predictable end state of a culture and legal system that treats civilian gun ownership as a privilege to be curtailed instead of a right to be protected.
I'd go further: it's not just the right to arms, it's the very right to self-defense.  Their 'elites' don't like it, don't approve of it, and have created the situation in which it's not legal.  At all.  Not just discouraged, but "Yes, he had a knife/club and threatened you and your whoever, but you used more aggression than the Crown Prosecutor thinks was right, so you're off to prison."

And you can't speak what you think, because the cops have become the assholes they are who care more about going through social media looking for something offensive, somehow, to somebody, than they care for finding stolen cars and catching burglars.*

Freedoms interconnect.  And their and our 'elites' hate them.


*"Oi, mate, it so much safer than doing what's supposed to be our actual job!"

When medical science and politics mix, it's often not a good thing

Dr Prasad also serves as the Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). In the memo, Prasad asserts that an internal review conducted by FDA staff members concluded that at least 10 children died “after and because of receiving” a Covid‑19 vaccine.
Years late, but at least being heard.

Few days after I mentioned it was a good year for pecans,

two fat squirrels appeared.  My timing is wonderful.

I got a bunch of nuts from the tree before this, and I've found a lot that've fallen after the cold and wind of the last few days, so I'm not going to yell much.  I may have to get a new nutcracker, other than that I've got enough pecans for a bunch of baking the next months.

It's supposed to warm up a bit today, so I've got things to do.  First, the Governor of Texas is pissing off all the right people.
Organizations and leaders are raging over Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) deeming the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) a terrorist organization and are pushing him to rescind the designation.

Abbott took action in November to designate both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations.

In a statement released alongside his proclamation, Abbott stated that both the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR “have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world.’”
It's about time.  As opposed to clowns like the Governor of Minnesota

Speaking of morons and possible traitors,
SEN. KELLY: "[Hegseth] runs around on stage talking about lethality and warrior ethos and killing people."

"That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense."
It's now the Secretary of War again,
That's exactly what the military is supposed to do to the enemy, and

This bastard says that like it's a bad thing.


More on the crap from Kelly.  Which apparently is "We will decide, when we're back in power, if we think something was illegal, so you'd better not follow orders or we'll get you!"

If you've never read his post on Thanksgiving and the many tribes,

you might want to take a look at it.

If nothing else you can use it to help annoy the right people.

Know that saying about knowing what someone is by who they surround themselves with?

NYeffing City is about to find out good and hard just what kind of bastard they elected.

And the leftist women are really not going to like it.

And just about anyone else not a islamist, communist, Jew-hating idiot, tool

Would you like further proof of what arrogant, idiotic, useless twats British cops are?

An IT consultant was arrested by police in Britain after he posted a picture online of himself posing with a gun in the US.

Jon Richelieu-Booth said he was shocked by the “Orwellian” decision by West Yorkshire Police (WYP) to prosecute him over the social media post.
Oh yes, they're that stupid, and- assuming they're telling the truth- someone saw the pictures and crapped themselves and called the cops in the first place.

Ah, Britain, your ancestors who were peasants had more balls and brains than a lot of you do now.

And now, as we relax from the stresses of the holiday,

and possibly having to be out to buy something, I shall now clear some stuff