Worn. Achy. Somewhat painful.

Go study on your own.

"...and argue that modern college students have become overly coddled."

The students in question aren't just overly-coddled, they're nasty, vicious, unstable brats.

Well, there are two choices: as INsty pointed out, a lot of these people seem too delicate, too high-strung, to be allowed in public places where a single word or image can trigger their brains to short-circuit, so maybe a nice asylum...
The other is the Michael Williamson method of response.  I favor it.


What, the admitted socialist is a hypocritical bastard?  You surprised?


And yet they still cannot keep their mouths shut...

gun

At least the elbow only made my arm hurt;

right now everything attached to that shoulder aches, or is stiff, or both.  Lifting anything heavier than a drink with the right hand is out, and it's going to be a while before I can shoot right-handed, or ride the bike, or anything else requiring arm movement and/or strength on that side.

Yes, day before surgery tanked up the bike, after adding Sta-Bil, and rode it enough to make sure the system is protected.  And the battery tender connection is there, so can just plug it in to cover that end.

When I can drive, it's going to be a 'one-hand only in a standard- tranny vehicle' thing.  Again.  Not much fun, but works.

I shall now end my bitching about it, and present "It's not only the Army that screws with pistol contracts":
Army:
Everybody hates this doorstop of a solicitation that’s the size and weight of a Russian novel, but doesn’t even specify what caliber the Army wants. “Surprise us!”

No $#!+, surprise us. Could they have thought up any way to signal more forcefully that they have no idea what they’re doing?
Former SecDef Bob Gates said, “This is absurd… it’s a handgun, for God’s sake.” But the Army requirements document is longer than the D-Day base op order… by about 50 times.
...
We disagree that the Army has a single preferred pistol in mind, but we think the lack of a caliber spec is a somewhat inept signal that the Army wants to be sold the 9mm again. (Or, God help us, a multicaliber-interchangeable-Man-From-UNCLE gun). But the way the MHS run-off is set up, you can get bounced from the competition if one of your documents has the wrong size margins, but not if your gun doesn’t work.
There’s something deeply pathological about that.

EffingBI:
The truth is revealed! The FBI RFP seems to be blatantly tailored to fit one particular firearm, the Sig Sauer P320. There is no doubt that government agencies often write tight standards when a RFP goes out, having specific requirements and needs for the product to be purchased. However, this RFP appears to be so specific that only the Sig Sauer P320 would fit all the FBI requirements. Let’s examine the RFP and show how many fine handguns are eliminated by the FBI requirements.

There's ICE/DHS crap in there too; I'd suggest reading it all, possibly after moving breakables out of reach.


Unfortunately, saying "I can't find media confirmation on this" doesn't mean shit; considering the way Sweden, for one, hammers anyone who talks about the rape numbers and dares to mention 'muslim', means official media is often suspect.  At best.
In a hospital near the Rhine, migrants attacked the staff with knives after they had handed over an 8-month-old on the brink of death, which they had dragged across half of Europe for three months. The child died in two days, despite having received top care at one of the best pediatric clinics in Germany. The physician had to undergo surgery and two nurses are laid up in the ICU. Nobody has been punished.

The local press is forbidden to write about it, so we know about it through email. What would have happened to a German if he had stabbed a doctor and nurses with a knife? Or if he had flung his own syphilis-infected urine into a nurse’s face and so threatened her with infection?

And now, if you'll excuse me, this 'prop the hand up so I can type' this has worn down.  See you later.

Being semi-functional is a fine excuse

to let actual work stuff go, and just scan data.

One of the more sucky things about time:

Don't recover or heal as fast as used to.

Yes, it's improving, but it 's not exactly comfortable.  Sometimes downright painful.  And the 'pain' meds, at best, take some of the edge off; this does not make for a good nights sleep.

So still very slow on bloggage, though I did manage the energy to steal some pics:

In other words, be prepared for lots more 'lone wolf' attacks

from rabid adherents of the Religeon of Submission.

It'll be interesting watching the terminally PC try to spin these people as rightwing haters.  Or somehow justified.  And all the other crap they spew to try to excuse protected species.

No, it's not cetain; would it surprise you in the least if it's true?

And it means the chance of knife/axe attacks anywhere, anytime.

Which also means look for th hoplophobes to denounce the common ownership of cutting tools(which should be 'left to experts', etc.)

Elliot Fineman: "Screw the Constitution, we want an EMERGENCY DECLARED!!"

If your nose is suddenly bleeding, you are in good company. You cannot read that much stupid and not suffer some sort of blood loss. It simply does not make one bit of sense what Elliot is saying. 10 rounds a minute? The century old concept of magazine release button as a circumvention of the 1994 AWB?  He has to have a meth lab behind his house and he is tasting the product…heavily.
What might cause Miguel to speak so?
The certain way to deal with the horror of gun violence now is for President Obama to declare a state of emergency due to the gun violence epidemic and then unilaterally issue the unrestrained executive orders needed to halt it—including universal real background checks—orders he cannot issue without declaring a state of emergency. That is why we urge you to sign our petition asking him to do just that.
Yeah, that'd work out just GREAT.


Also thanks to Miguel, on SYG laws,
What the NYT fails to recognize is that what Florida has is not a “stand-your-ground” problem, it is an “abusive prosecutors” problem.  Had prosecutors ceased their over-reaching in currying political favor this proposed change to the state’s self-defense immunity law would never have seen the light of day.

Boy, those tea party racists will be surprised

when they notice that the new Lt. Governor is black. 

Or so the leftists will say.  Or they'll call her a race traitor, or something.


So the new SF sheriff is just as much a sanctuary-city asshole,but doesn't have as much baggage.
You'd expect SF to elect anything else?


This should get Blair another mention as a horrible hater, etc.
If New Yorkers want their beaches to be covered in dead bodies, they’re more than welcome to put in place the appropriate asylum seeker lures. Over here in Australia we prefer to keep our territorial waters corpse free, thank you very much. We just think they’re nicer that way.

Australians also enjoy having a functioning economy, with lots of jobs and investment. It’s worked pretty well for us over the past 200 or so years, and will probably continue to do so – unless we allow the United Nations to bully us into sabotaging our own major industries.


And that's the amount of typing I can do for this morning.  Though I will throw in this: 2,000+ yard shot with a K31

Yes, it still hurts, and this level of stupid makes it worse

Therefore, since they're not simply triggering me, they're causing actual pain, every asshole in Vassar and Oberlin involved in this should be chipped.
Administrators at Vassar College agreed to personally shred a pocket Constitution after an undercover reporter posing as a student complained that she felt “triggered” by its distribution on campus, while professors at Oberlin College confided that they shared the reporter's misgivings about the founding document.

And O'Keefe, you should know better:
“When this idea came up in our newsroom about campus administrators shredding the Constitution because it’s a trigger against students, we didn’t think people would actually fall for it,” he says at one point. “We underestimated just how stupid and politically correct these people are.”

Before the surgery everyone who'd had it told me

"Don't push it".  I have to note that pain is a good limiter on pushing it.  I was given one exercise to to in the time before the stitches are pulled, and consider how it hurts that's quite enough.  I can now prop my right hand up and use it a bit, but that's about it.

So, in my efforts to not go nuts doing nothing, a few links:
More San Francisco idiots worried about being too hard on the people who rob them.

And when the bastard gets more people killed, he'll bitch that it's because everybody wouldn't bow down to him.

Anyone think any of the Democrats will think holding Obama to the law is more important than "He's a Democrat!" ? 

More non-existant vote fraud.

And that's my contribution for now

I am still alive,

and somewhat ambulatory.  Long as I don't have to ambulate much.

An typing one-handed is still a pain.

The time rapidly approaches, so

little to no(weighted toward 'no') bloggage for a while.

I think these qualify as Quality Control Fail

Guy at the range gave them to me, out of a box of Winchester white-box 9mm.  The one on the left, looks like the seating die slightly crushed the case mouth at that point.

One on the right looks normal, but flip it over, and

If there had been a primer, wouldn't have done any good.

In this installment of "These people are truly nuts", we have

a bunch of idiots in New York City:
Babu quotes another writer who was robbed that night as saying "I didn't ultimately think that person posed a threat. I didn't feel afraid of the person; I felt more just afraid of the weapon.
Yeah, it's not the guy who's threatening your life and stealing your stuff that's the threat, it's an inanimate object...


The next is one of the anti-rights clowns who demonstrate just why we think they're insane.  And the reason why so many people are getting their carry permits:
“Please hold while I transfer you to Bloomington,” she says.
I thought, “Jesus H. Christ.  I’m surely glad I don’t need the police in a hurry. 911 doesn’t put you on hold?  Bullshit.  Dialed 911, and I’m on hold.  Sure wish I had that gun I sold.” 


You may be getting anxious, now, wondering what FDR’s Second Bill of Rights has to do with my antipathy towards your political philosophy.  It’s quite simple – your political beliefs are a threat to liberty – not just for me, but for my three boys and their children as well.  I care much less about the America that I’m living in at this very moment than I do about the one that I’m leaving Nathaniel, Charlie, and Jackson.


Crime reporting in Chicago; have to keep those numbers down, or the brass hats look bad.


"She didn't actually say what she said, so stop asking about it.  She really cares, she does!"


And last, from Austria, people- women in particular- have decided that that 'when seconds count' thing is a serious matter:
And gun dealers report that it is women driving the sales rush. This year alone, police say 70,000 guns have been sold.

'Virtually all shotguns are currently sold out, because you need no permit for them', said Thomas Ortner, spokesman for an arms dealer in Upper Austria.

For every other type of weapon, a licence is required.

Licence courses, in which applicants must demonstrate knowledge of firearms, used to take place every five weeks but they are now held weekly because of spiking demand.
Various authorities are informing people "There's nothing to worry about", but after all the (largely ignored by the PC media and politicians)information on rapes and so forth, seems some people don't believe them.  For some reason.

Little more on the CherryBalmz test

Another sixty rounds through each conversion today.  No failures of any kind, and when examined the lubed surfaces still look like they've got a proper coat of the stuff.

Conclusions at this point:
In the guns I've tried it in, it works as a lube should.  No bad smell, stays where you put it.  I'd love to take, say, and 9mm and about a thousand rounds and test it with that.  Or the AR and that much 7.62x39.  However, due to both expense and time, not gonna happen right now.

So far the only real problem I see is the price: seventeen bucks for a half-ounce will turn some people off, especially compared to, say the Lubriplate SFL-0.  The good thing is, used lightly as it should be, that bottle should last quite a while(depending on how often you shoot, clean and re-lube).

I'll keep shooting with the stuff and see if it holds up.  Since the guns are about to get at least a couple of weeks(more if I'm not an idiot) rest, we'll see if it's still where it should be.

Because male domestic abuse victims

don't fit the Preferred Narrative.  So they're always guilty, even when the female involved beat the crap out of them.  And if the man tries to get the kids out, shelters will turn them away.  Because "You're a man."

Much like someone found real hostility to reporting on domestic violence among lesbian couples; they're both women, so that nasty 'male' behavior isn't supposed to happen, and when it does it shouldn't be talked about.

More from the CDC, which doesn't exactly count as a right-wingnut source.
SUMMARY: According to a 2010 national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Justice, in the last 12 months more men than women were victims of intimate partner physical violence and over 40% of severe physical violence was directed at men. Men were also more often the victim of psychological aggression and control over sexual or reproductive health. Despite this, few services are available to male victims of intimate partner violence.


"Your movie won't have the proper viewpoint(ours), so no funding for you!"


I need to find a tomb like this.  Of course, for that one I'd have to go to Greece, and then try to figure how to smuggle it out, but there may be ways...


Well, if your co-vegans start crapping on a restaurant and giving it bad reviews when they've never been there and just don't like "Let us know you're coming, and we can make something for you", then screw 'em if they can't take a joke.  Or being told to piss off.


Getting all the crap done I don't want to have to worry about after the surgery is a bit of a pain.  Partly because this keeps waking me up at night("Hey, I don't like this position anymore, do something" repeated during the night), so a bit short on sleep.  Be worth it if this does nothing more than allow a full-nights sleep again.

I think Germany has a lot of people who haven't been asleep,

and more waking up.  I can't get the google translation of the whole piece to come up, but note this that Insty has:
 >There are now 900,000 (legal) weapons in Austrian households, out of a population to 6 – 7 Million
  >In the state of Upper Austria, all shotguns have been sold out
  >Women are the fasted growing group buying weapons
Also, the refugee crisis is quoted as a direct cause of the rush to buy guns.
Note that key word: legal.  "Those are the guns people own that we know about.  Which brings up the question "How many REALLY out there?"  Which brings me to this article from a while back:
Well, says the Small Arms Survey, a research outfit established by the Swiss government, the United Kingdom, with just shy of 1.8 million legal firearms, has about four million illegal guns. Belgium, with about 458,000 legal firearms, has roughly two million illegal guns. In Germany, the number is 7.2 million legal guns and between 17 and 20 million off-the-books examples of things that go “bang” (a figure with which the German Police Union very publicly agrees). France, says the Survey, has 15-17 million unlawful firearms in a nation where 2.8 million weapons are held in compliance with the law.
Let's say the ratio is similar in Austria to Germany: rough factor of 2.5 means ~ 2,250,000 firearms; some owned by criminals, the rest by private citizens who never liked the idea of either being unarmed, or of the .gov knowing what all they own.

Things go really bad over there, it's going to surprise the hell out of a lot of people just how many have some arm to grab.

No, I am neither deceased or

surgeried- surgerified?- yet; just busy trying to get some stuff taken care of.

For the moment,