Terror attack in Colorado

With this (thank you, Biden) Egyptian illegal alien yelling 'Free Palestine' and 'End Israel' while setting people on fire, there's no "We cannot understand a motive" bullshit.

Not sure if the usual apologists have started as yet.  And I wonder if Denver being the "Don't you peasants dare carry a gun!" place it is, this was a gun-free zone.  Wouldn't surprise me, such assholes really don't want to worry about one of the intended victims ventilating them.

Democrat admits why they really want to not only keep the suppressor tax, but increase it:

Money and control, what else?

And yes, with the Hearing Protection Act and others in the Senate now, I've been yelling at my Senators.  Haven't you?

The Brit cops are trying to deal with that "People don't trust us anymore!" situation.

Not enough time for a real post,

So this is what you get

Be it noted that Blogger is apparently run by clowns

who get upset at something, won't tell you exactly what- or what cartoon on a page upset them- and then bitch at you for violating their 'standards'.

Michael Williamson has a recurring post on why people hate leftists*,

things like this have to be at the top of the list:
A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that White House staff felt justified doing “undemocratic things” during his term in office because they believed President Donald Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy.

The revelation came during an appearance by Axios reporter Alex Thompson on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream, where he discussed insider accounts from his reporting on the Biden administration. Thompson described a mindset inside the White House — one in which unelected aides saw themselves as the real decision makers while shielding Biden from scrutiny and managing the presidency behind the scenes.

“If you believe — and I think a lot of these people do sincerely believe — that Donald Trump was and is an existential threat to democracy, you can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic things,” Thompson said.
'Undemocratic things', you ask?
Thompson also cited a quote from his reporting in which a longtime Biden aide openly admitted the president “just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years.”

“He’d only have to show proof of life every once in a while,” the aide reportedly told Thompson. “His aides could pick up the slack.”
Translation:
"We use him as a front, and WE run the country!"  

Can you say 'Hang the bastards'?  I knew you could.

*His term for them is cleaned up a bit

Before I try to get some things done, some political stuff

Starting with, the Mayor of Seattle should be either charged with or sued for his violation of 1st Amendment rights.  He's a piece of garbage.


Left-wing 'fact check'.  

'Bout covers it

Right now, both on politics and 'journalism', is watching journalists who took orders to cover up Biden's condition, for years, now whining that Biden's staff lied to them and wouldn't let them know anything.  And don't ask why they didn't investigate any of the stuff they'd seen and heard, because they say so, and give us money for not having done our job then.
Oh, and respect us because our job is hard!

Every one of the bastards should be fired, except their editors and bosses are just as complicit and won't do it.

Some gunny stuff on a rainy day

Wirecutter linked to this collection of kabooms.  That last being a demonstration of why you give a misfire some time before you screw with things.


History of the NFA from The Firearm Blog.

Keep in mind that the current state of those parts of the current budget deal have changed, and might still change, we'll see what happens.  Be sure to let your congresscritter know you're watching them.

Ammoland has a review of one of PSA's new rifles.

There used to be a joke about the New York Times, if they got word the world would end

tomorrow their headline would be "World Ending; Women and Minorities Hardest Hit."

Their favorite terrorist supporters and Jew haters have a new hero, who murdered two people because they're Jews*, and the big worry by the NYeffingTimes is "How will this hurt all the people calling for dead Jews but who haven't committed any attacks yet?"

As has been said, they would be ashamed of themselves, if they had any shame.

Remember what I said the other day about 'Carry, whenever and wherever you can'?

The left and the terrorist supporters(as if there's much difference any more) is making it plain they think these murders are to be taken as examples.

ANY murder of someone who's a Disapproved Person.
Note this shithead is backing off of her outright praise.  Which makes her a chickenshit as well.

Another.

Lots of this out there, from those open about it and those who couch it in what they figure to be deniable terms.

Wherever/whenever you can, carry.  Because there's no we to know when the next one will do his 'Praise me, I'm a martyr!' crap.

Oh yes, things are picking up

Asshat murdered two Israeli embassy people, said asshat being a member of Party for Socialism and Liberation.  Rather an interesting racist past too.  

This caused a man to remind us of something:

Yeah, an awful lot of leftists cheering on murder.

Speaking of, a roundup of some of this noise, which is getting louder.

Folks, my personal opinion is that if you normally carry for self-defense, good; if you don't, you'd better consider carrying everywhere and when you legally can.  Probably with a reload or two.  Because some of this crap is going to get worse, probably in a lot of places.

Just put it that the UN is on the enemy side,

the more bloody-handed the enemy, the better.

With their Prime Minister Two-Tier leading the surrender

Britain pressed to give away fishing grounds permanently in return for the right to accept EU laws and courts permanently. 
 You couldn't make it up.

You might remember this little two-faced socialist as recently acting as if he were going to reduce migration into Britain; now he'll probably say something like "I did try, but my masters in the EU told me to do this instead."  


Mr. Steyn has several of the current marks of surrender by European countries, such as
There Mr Galloway is at odds with the rest of the Internet, which seems to have concluded unanimously that he's the latter. In the legacy media, one is struck by the all the Fleet Street dogs not barking. After all, two properties and one former motor vehicle of the PM have just been rather seriously firebombed, allegedly by a twenty-one-year-old Ukrainian "male model" with minimal English-language skills. At the very least, surely, this raises security questions, no?

On the face of it, yes. It was "counter-terrorism" officers who took down a second suspect at Luton Airport attempting to leave the country. This chap is twenty-six. That's all we've been told. Another "male model"?

It's beginning to feel a bit like the initial reports, two years ago, about a certain BBC presenter being harassed over some lad he'd been corresponding with - in which the alert listener had the vague feeling every media grandee knew what was really going on but they had all agreed not to tell anyone. ...


Once upon a time, leftie women would have agreed with Eva. My opponent at the Munk Debate in Toronto, Louise Arbour, was the first UN commissioner to prosecute rape as a war crime. But that was then, and this is now. And all across the west the political class has accepted that a certain number of our most vulnerable women and children have to be sacrificed to the volcano gods of diversity. On the Continent Eva is one of a very few to speak out against this disgusting indifference - which increasingly wipes out whatever moral claims we might make to the superiority of our "values".


And, from the Germany working its way back to proper "Shut up, villagers" territory,
Yet the most significant development from the Remigration Summit was not on stage. En route to Milan, eight German attendees were prevented by police from boarding their flights - on the grounds that, to permit these six men and two women to exit the Fourth Reich and pass through the New & Improved Berlin Wall to the world beyond, would create a "significant risk of damage to the reputation of the Federal Republic".

Ain't it just freakin' wonderful?

I do have to wonder what Starmer's payoff for tossing all those commoners to the rabid EU is?

My, isn't this all interesting timing?

Here's the whole post.

God, this is such a damn mess.  We've got crooked politicians, crooked journalists, then the release of the Hur recordings showing just how bad Biden's interview was, and now this.

Biden was supposed to be reelected, then have to resign because of health and make Harris President?  Or maybe they hoped they- staff, Pelosi, Schumer & Co.- could keep using the autopen to do things a pretend the 'President' did them as long as possible before he had to withdraw?

Whatever the hell they actually had in mind, they knew their tame little journalists would carry water for them.

Said journalists being the ones who did it, and now are desperately trying to 

A: Pretend they knew NOTHING(insert Sgt. Schulz picture here) about Biden's condition to try to save what reputation they have, and
B: Try real hard to make money from their confession that they're either incompetent or completely corrupt.

And let's not forget a HUGE thing: WHO the hell was using the autopen to sign things illegally, and on how many things?  Probably from Day 1.

This is one of those 'There are people who belong in prison for this, but we'll never get the information to do it' things.

I did manage to find some time, so (update: had to modify something) (despite changing the only thing

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Oh, such ethical people

in their upset about Trump allowing some South African farmers in and overlooking the sin of being white.

Divemedic has a piece from one of these bastards: basically "Well, white people did bad things before, and they inherited a lot of land from them, so they shouldn't be allowed to come here just because they claim their lives are in danger!"   

I like the 'claim'; government officials and Party members sing songs about 'Kill the Boer', talk about killing all white people in the country, the reports of torture and murder are frequent and horrible, but  "These people owe it to stay there and pay the price for the sins of the fathers.  Kids and all."

People who constantly demand more immigrants suddenly hit the brakes here, because "But they're WHITE!"  Because people trying to keep their family alive is different somehow depending on your skin color...

Few years ago I picked up a smoker

Small one, it'll hold a good-size brisket or a couple of chickens, you won't be putting a pig in it.  And it does a great job.

Part of learning this was adjusting the air intake on the firebox and the cover on the smokestack.  Which wound up being downright strange:
One day I'd gotten a good fire going, it was ready to put the meat on except it was running about a hundred degrees hot.  Aha, says I, and fiddled with those adjustments, which had no results.  More fiddling, and with the intake closed and the smokestack with just a little sliver open, it got to a perfect 225 degrees(assuming that gauge is correct) and sat there.  The charcoal burned longer, lots of tasty smoke produced, and the brisket... oh, it was good.

I think there's enough air leakage around the intake and the doors that it takes that much restriction to get the temp I wanted, which is find now that I knew it.

One more thing: guy I used to know had grown up in a restaurant family and done a lot of cooking, one day mentioned that with most meat 1-2 hours of smoking will give you all the smoke flavor you'll generally get; after that you can cover it tightly in a pan and finish it in the oven.  Which seems to work nicely.

One last thing: I don't care for briquets, they leave a huge amount of ash, so some years ago I bought a bag of raw charcoal and never wen't back.  Check around to find it, the best price I've had locally is at a big restaurant supply store, 40 pounds of mesquite for about $20 last time I bought(I'll probably be shocked next time, it's been a while).

Couple of days ago, I actually made it to the range

to try some loads.  Windy and gusting, but I went, and enjoyed it.

I don't do that enough.

We've got far too many public officials who want to follow the Stasi line on speech from Germany,

not being suitably punished for it, and too many people committing perjury who aren't being charged for it.

And that's too bad.


Speaking of people playing Speech Police, you may have heard of WorldCon, BIG science fiction convention, who has a interesting way to choose program participants:

We received more than 1,300 panelist applicants for Seattle Worldcon 2025. Building on the work of previous Worldcons, we chose to vet program participants before inviting them to be on our program.

And by “vetting” program participants, they mean “barring anyone that doesn’t toe the far left social justice warrior line”:

Several individuals have asked to see the ChatGPT query that was used in the vetting process. In the interest of transparency, this was our prompt:
REQUEST

Using the list of names provided, please evaluate each person for scandals. Scandals include but are not limited to homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism, fraud.

Wonderful, isn't it?


This isn't connected, but I want to get it down before I lose track of it.
LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
...
While inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and maintenance, the utility companies that use them typically install firewalls to prevent direct communication back to China.

However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.

Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.
Not comforting, is it?

First, we have a whole bunch of journalists, who spent years covering for Biden

and the Democrats, now telling us either "The staff lied to us!" or "We never saw anything!"; these being fancy ways of saying either 
"We're claiming incompetence, we never investigated!"
or
"Hey, we've been sold-out for years, we didn't rock the boat!"

Now we have a bunch of people, because some South African farmers are being allowed to come here, telling us just what kind of racist assholes they are.
It's amazing how this makes a bunch of them admit "We want more immigration, but  not THOSE people, they're WHITE!"

Yes, the Stupid Party, at the hands of the Democrat Lites, are screwing us again

on the 2nd.  Because that's what the bastards do.

For Biden they yelled "Those are deep fakes! Cheap fakes!" when they showed

things they didn't want people to see.  Now?
"That bodycam video was manufactured!"

Just because they don't like the optics of Dem politicians assaulting ICE agents.

Amazing, isn't it?

Been a couple of long days and short nights,

yet I managed to collect some entertainment

Why am I not surprised? Addition/additionally, appears to be fake

Original post here.

'Family business'.  Wonder if she realized that they're basically confessing to Social Security fraud?

Addition: various claims that this came from a satire site, so until proven one way or the other, may not be true.

Additionally: looks like Instapundit has taken it down, so I'm assuming it was a fake.

Well, the Brit government knows who they consider the enemy, and are making sure

the cops- excuse me, the janissaries- know it too.

And it's, at this point, exactly who you'd think.

 “The fact one of the t-shirts has a union flag on it is entirely coincidental.”
Oh yeah.  Very convincing.

A few months ago I wrote about Wolff Gunsprings

and what they make.  At the end, the piece I'd installed a mainspring and trigger slide return spring in, and was amazed at the smoothness and lightning of the trigger pull.

Well, slight problem: it wouldn't reliably fire, just not enough energy to make the primers go.

Well, crap.  I wrote to them, and got a number: "Please call our tech staff for assistance."  Which at the time was a low priority with the other stuff going on.  Which, since that's eased off some, I finally remembered, looked up the number and called them.

Soon as I described the problem the tech asked for the make and model, then said 'The only time we've had this problem has been on 'X' model S&W, but here's what we'll do."

If you're not familiar with the S&W revolvers, especially older ones with leaf mainsprings, in the front of the grip frame, near the bottom, is a piece called a strain screw.  You install the hammer spring(it hooks to the trigger using a split end on that end, and the other end has what I call a hook that fits into a slot), then tighten that screw to flex the spring and load it.  They make a extra-long strain screw that can load the spring more than the standard, and sent me one.  No charge.

It came in fast enough to ease my "Where is it?", and I got to work.  The piece fit right in, and worked, but the trigger wouldn't reliably slide forward after being pulled.  Took things back down, put in the next heavier trigger slide spring, and voila!  It worked!  Definitely lighter and smoother than the factory springs, so the next day took it to the range.

Success is mine, everything cycled as should and plenty of punch to fire the primers.*  Trigger is heavier than with the original screw, but very nice(and it works!).

And now, once I have some time(things are better but still busy), I need to load some ammo for it.

*The shooters pack I chose came with a reduced-power mainspring, which turned out to be a bit too for this revolver.  I got a lot of "I've used their stuff, and it's great!" from a lot of people, none of them hat this problem.  I, however, have to be unique.

A combination of things here,

starting with some Democrats want as little restriction against sex- including buy it- with underage teens as possible.  Wonderful people.


An attacker with a knife is scary.  VERY much so.  A good piece on defense against.


An underwater volcano off the Oregon coast appears ready to erupt.  Not expected to be a problem.


This is how many BBC clowns who want all Jews dead?  They seem to collect an awful lot of them.


And the weekend wasn't started by the left, either, but they don't care.

Damn, the left hates Jews and Israel,

you can be obviously messed up, and they'll love you if you're left enough(see 'Biden'); but if he'd started talking(or been allowed to) about Israel with approval, they'd have forced him out sooner.  Fetterman had real problems and they defended him, but when he started showing approve of those said troublesome people, well...
This week, New York magazine, as reliable a Democrat organ as there is, ran a scathing hit piece on Fetterman in which current and former staffers all but suggest that not only should he not be Pennsylvania’s senior senator, he belongs in an assisted living facility.

The piece has no "gotcha" moment that would make any fair person say that Fetterman needs to step aside - you know, the kind former President Biden provided daily. Rather, it is a collection of anecdotes about him snapping at staff, or withdrawing into himself, perhaps not taking his medication. Try as they might, the folks at New York magazine constructed a molehill, not a mountain.

But why, one wonders, two years after waiving away similar behavior is a liberal news outlet suddenly parading the senator’s alleged diminished capacities? What changed?

Well, the article itself gives us a big hint with this line, "The endless fights over Israel, which saw Fetterman draw further into himself, coincided with setbacks in his recovery regimen."

You don’t say.
And he doesn't think every word out of Trump's mouth demands hissy fits and screaming "HITLER!"?  Well, that's just totally unthinkable.  So get him out.

These leftist clowns may just hate Israel and Jews more than they hate Trump.

It's been a long week, so I have some things to clear up, which includes this driving

advice

Larry Correia is a fine writer, and he wrote a piece about the sudden concern for legal processes

on the part of people who didn't give a damn when it was a corrupt FBI and other agencies screwing with people who are conservative, or worse, "Evil Right-Wingers".  I'm going to borrow some of it:

It is so funny (in a pathetic way) FINALLY seeing the liberals I know waking up to the fact that federal agents abuse regular people. Sure, it took attempting to deport illegals to get them to actually notice for the first time ever, but right now I'm seeing them doing this big histrionic freak out, all OMG federal agents came into people's homes and were rude and mean and wrecked stuff and took property even though those people were citizens and hadn't done anything wrong!

And I'm over here like no shit? First time? 😃

Of course right now they think ICE is the only agency that's ever been mean to people, and they don't realize this is NOTHING in the grand scheme of American history. And I figure it could go two ways for here. Either they'll slowly realize this is how dozens of big stupid government agencies routinely treat people (and worse, and get away with it) and they'll slowly stop being liberal and wanting ever increasing amounts of big government meddling in literally everything.

Or (and this one is far more likely) the second the left gets back in power these virtue signaling libs will go back to licking the jack boot and cheering on the government stomping on everybody they don't like.
Yes, at least most of them will.

If you spend any time on Fecesbook, here's the link if you want to read it all.

How close Europe came to a real-life, no bs disaster

Here's the link for the post.

And here's an article at Yahoo Finance:
A reliance on net zero energy left Spain and Portugal vulnerable to the mass blackouts engulfing the region, experts said last night.

In what is believed to be Europe’s largest power cut, tens of millions of people were left without electricity, while flights were grounded, trains halted and whole cities were left without power, internet access or other vital services.

The cause of the initial fault in the region’s electricity grid is still being investigated, and the EU has insisted that there were no indications that it was a cyberattack.

However, energy experts have blamed a heavy reliance on solar and wind farms in Spain for leaving the region’s power grid vulnerable to such a crisis.

A state of emergency was declared in Spain, while in Portugal, water company EPAL said supplies could also be disrupted.

Queues formed at shops of people seeking to purchase emergency supplies like gaslights, generators and batteries.

Energy operators are fighting to restore power in Spain, Portugal and parts of France, and residents are being urged to avoid travel and use mobile phones sparingly.
More at the link.

Must be making a bunch of the Net Zero  morons in Britain and Canada upset that all the peasants are getting information on this.