After reading idiocy like this

that Sarah Hoyt found, and with a very achy arm, it's time to relax with science.  And I need some relaxation.

It seems FBI Director Comey has forgotten

 that oath to the Constitution, especially that 4th Amendment part.  The only proper reply to his threats is
"Fuck you, you sorry little control freak.  It is NOT our job to make it easy for you to read our mail and texts and files.  Apparently , has slipped your mind, you nasty little fascist."

This also fits into the "Why you're not (in this case) Hero Federal Agent anymore" line: because you think you have some overriding right to snoop in our lives.

Changes in Oklahoma's CCW law

Info here

"You are ALL under suspicion, comrade."

Yeah, that's one way around that troublesome Constitution thing you swore to uphold.  It's bullshit, and I'm amazed you'd try it. 

But then, we don't trust most of you anymore anyway, do we?


Speaking of,
Hmm. A government-funded initiative is going to “assist in the preservation of open debate” by monitoring social media for “subversive propaganda” and combating what it considers to be “the diffusion of false and misleading ideas”? The concept seems to have come straight out of a George Orwell novel.

The NSF has already poured nearly $1 million into Truthy. To what end? Why is the federal government spending so much money on the study of your Twitter habits?
We're supposed to trust ANY of these bastards why, again?

Update on general conditions

Yes, I can floss; ain't easy, but I can.

Driving, well, I can but I'm not going to be slamming quickly through gears for a while.

One of the hardest things about driving?  Reaching the left hand over/through to turn the key; my right just won't rotate that way yet.

The exercises for the arm/hand?  It hurts.  Have to do it anyway, but damn.
And yes, Peter, I plan to do them religiously.  But not overdo.  I damn sure don't want to have to repeat any of this.

Not having to secure a trash bag over my arm and worry about getting the brace/wrappings wet is nice.  There's a set of strips over the incision 'to be left until they fall off in about a week.'  Assuming I can get the angle, I will regale you with a picture of it once that happens.

That hand is still swollen as hell; be a few days before it starts looking normal.

The Security Staff don't care, they just want their scratches.  And munchies.

And now I think I'll try the exercise again, and then bitch and moan a bit before cleaning up.  'Night, all

My posting has been a bit off, so

a large batch of data tonight.

Data points for the ladies

Why does the NRA support these people?

Vermont State Senator Jean White, who has three consecutive A-ratings from the National Rifle Association, recently took money from a powerful anti-gun group in Vermont. Other top rated politicians in Vermont have also received smaller contributions from the group, Vermont Gun Sense. 

“I did take their contribution because I do basically support their position,” White said. “What I told them is that I do support some level of background checks.”
Wonderful, isn't it?


He won't even order serious action to whack ISIL, but President Lightbringer just authorized calling up reserves to fight ebola?
...I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation United Assistance, which is providing support to civilian-led humanitarian assistance and consequence management support related to the Ebola virus disease outbreak
in West Africa .
The troops currently in harms way with this are getting a whole FOUR HOURS of 'how to deal with ebola' training, and the Chief Asshole wants to add this in?  Just fucking wonderful, isn't it.

Add that to naming a Democrat Party hack as the 'ebola czar'. 
That Obama would appoint a long-time Democratic operative with zero public health or federal administrative experience tells us everything we need to know about how Obama views the Ebola panic: Ebola is a political problem for the White House, not a public health problem for the nation.

You don’t pick a former White House staffer to run a massive public health effort if you think you have a public health problem. You pick a former White House staffer if you view this as a political problem to be managed for the remaining weeks heading into the election.

Ace also has more on the clown who supposedly would already be in charge of this, but due to people finding out about the skeletons in the closet is in hiding, thus necessitating President McHopeyChangey to appoint ANOTHER hack to 'deal' with this.
And yeah, read to the end: The company who Lurie didn't favor makes a drug being used to treat ebola. Duncan was treated with it unsuccessfully, but other people were treated with it and lived.

Instead of funding an ebola cure, Lurie shepherded a flock of federal cash to a billionaire Democrat donor for a smallpox vaccine that "has not really panned out," as Hemingway reports.
More on the clown here.

More professionalism from the Secret Service:
In a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Anderson claimed that a Secret Service agent asked a police sergeant to “wave a piece of paper” in order to “dupe” the suspect into thinking officers had a warrant.

Officers with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department did not comply with the request, according to the police chief. Police officers ultimately determined that Secret Service agents had no legal basis to enter the resident’s home and the suspect didn’t actually threaten anyone. Fortunately, the situation was resolved without incident and law enforcement left.

In a past letter to then-Secret Service Director Julia Pierson and Assistant Director A.T. Smith, Anderson explained that the incident could have “escalated into a serious and/or embarrassing situation for both of our agencies” if MNPD officers complied with the Secret Service “directive.”
 ...
“I realized that I was being told, in a polite manner, to mind my own affairs,” Anderson recalled.
Apparently that oath to the Constitution doesn't carry much water for the SS nowadays.


On a happier note, ran across an ammo site; take a look, see what you think

One more reason every ATF, DoJ, EffingBI agent and everyone else involved

in Fast & Furious belongs in a cell.
Documents obtained through a lawsuit recently issued against the City of Phoenix by government watchdog Judicial Watch reveal a weapon from the Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious was used to injure two people in a 2013 gang-style assault on an apartment complex. When the incident occurred and during investigation afterward, police worked with federal law enforcement agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Department of Homeland Security, FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency in the case, raising suspicions the assault wasn't simply a typical, local gang shootout and prompted questions about the details of where the weapons that were used came from.

And get this:
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa sent a letter to Assistant Attorney General James Cole late Thursday afternoon demanding more information about why DOJ failed to inform Congress of the connection between the AK-47 used in the assault and Fast and Furious as their investigation of the lethal program continues.
followed by
Assistant Attorney General James Cole, who played a large role in the cover-up of Operation Fast and Furious, announced his resignation from DOJ today.
Naw, nothing suspicious about that at ALL, right?  Been planning it for years for now, right?

The brace is off and the stitches out,

which is a great comfort.

Good: the incision is healing as it should.
Bad: you wouldn't believe how swollen my hand is*.  And I can tell it's going to take a while to work back to normal use of the right arm.
Shut up.  You know who I'm talking to.

Yes, I have some exercises to do, carefully.  Yes, I plan on doing them that way.  But tonight, I shall be able to floss my teeth; it will be glorious.



*No, no pictures.  Getting both hands in frame would be difficult, and the incision is covered with some "Just leave them until they come off" steri-strips, so you can't see it anyway.

Yes, a knife or club will kill you just as dead

as a gun.  So will a car, or hands.  Kind of amazing how many don't understand that.

I'm not counting the slimy bastards who pretend they don't so as to make self-defenders look guilty of crime.


Where Great Britain used to be:
The National Union of Students has rejected a call to condemn militant group Isis on the grounds that the motion was “islamophobic”, in a move which has promoted campaigners to accuse the body of being in the “stranglehold” of divisive “identity politics”.
Divide & conquer bullshit.  Condemn ISIL, it means 'YOU HATE MUSLIMS!'  The stupid agree, and too many fear being called a racist*, so they won't fight it.





* I know; but it still works as a club for the progzis to beat people with.

Prosecutors in South Carolina: a more miserable bunch

of sodding assholes you will not find.

This is disgusting.  On a horrible level.  Every one of them involved in this should be horsewhipped and then removed from office.  Preferably through a high window.  That's over lots of pointy rocks.

Yeah, using a fake as your 'fracking expert'

isn't a real good idea.
First of all, the Wolf Eagle study was arranged by Alisa Rich, an environmental engineer and Ph.D holder who is an expert in the field. That would have been great except for a couple of small problems. Rich is not an engineer and does not have a Ph.D.


That is a good question.  And warning.


How to 'deal' with racial attacks: ignore, and when you can't ignore blame the victims.  When the bad guys are black, that is.  Yeah, that'll work well.


Once more from celebritutes: "WE have guns, but we don't want you to."


I should get the stitches out later today; that will make me very happy

Why you're not Officer Friendly anymore, #317:

You raid the wrong address, take hours to figure that out, and then
Adams told FOX CT that he filled out a form to request payment from the New Haven Police Department to repair damages in his apartment from the incident. He claims the department said there was no record of the incident ever happening.
Isn't that just freaking wonderful?

Yeah, the CDC has top men

right on top of this.

Top. Men.
The CDC has announced that the second healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola traveled by air Oct. 13, the day before she first reported symptoms.

The CDC is now reaching out to all passengers who flew on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth. The flight landed at 8:16 p.m. CT.

But- but the chemical weapon thing was a Bush/Cheney lie!

All the right people said so!
From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule. 

In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
...
The American government withheld word about its discoveries even from troops it sent into harm’s way and from military doctors. The government’s secrecy, victims and participants said, prevented troops in some of the war’s most dangerous jobs from receiving proper medical care and official recognition of their wounds.
...

Congress, too, was only partly informed, while troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found. “ 'Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” said Jarrod Lampier, a recently retired Army major who was present for the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war: more than 2,400 nerve-agent rockets unearthed in 2006 at a former Republican Guard compound.

Jarrod L. Taylor, a former Army sergeant on hand for the destruction of mustard shells that burned two soldiers in his infantry company, joked of “wounds that never happened” from “that stuff that didn’t exist.” The public, he said, was misled for a decade. “I love it when I hear, ‘Oh there weren’t any chemical weapons in Iraq,’ ” he said. “There were plenty.”

I've heard everything from 'There were none!' to 'Well, so  there were a few old ones, big deal.'  And none of them wanted to talk about those convoys to Syria, either.  Because "BUSH LIED!!", etc.

Also: every lawyer/politician in uniform involved in the shit listed should be fired.  Preferably from a cannon muzzle.
Rear Adm. John Kirby, spokesman for Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, declined to address specific incidents detailed in the Times investigation, or to discuss the medical care and denial of medals for troops who were exposed. But he said that the military’s health care system and awards practices were under review, and that Mr. Hagel expected the services to address any shortcomings.
Yeah, just like you've 'addressed the shortcomings' of Fort Hood, right?

You'll notice the NYeffingTimes whine that The discoveries of these chemical weapons did not support the government’s invasion rationale.  With no mention that the WMD problem was ONE of EIGHTEEN reasons given for the invasion.  Because all those others don't matter.

Things I'm reminded of by this arm

Typing one-handed sucks
Showering with a bag over your arm is awkward
Hard to reach some places
When you're used to wiping your butt with one hand, using the other is awkward
The sound of washing one hand: "DAMMIT!"
I had no left-hand holster
A self-loader would be easier to reload(still awkward), but the holster I was given works with a wheelgun; good thing I like them
Should one have a weak-side holster kept in reserve, just in case?
Yes, I try to do some weak-hand practice when at the range; this makes me glad I do
Paper plates can be wonderful

Unrelated, but want to mention: needed to order something from Primary Arms, and had a problem.  One e-mail and about an hour later, they fixed it.  Beats hell out of how Remington seems to do things. 
Makes me wish I had more money to spend at PA

Why you're not Officer Friendly anymore #89:

you're incompetent fools who can't read addresses and try to kill the family dog. In its yard. Where you're not supposed to be.


The CDC is run by idiots, who care more about being PC than about stopping the disease.
Of course, these are also the idiots whove been spending millions on 'ban guns' and 'don't drink soda' and then whine that they don't have enough money.


The modern university:  annoy the SJWs, get accused.  They won't tell you of what, or by who, and say defending yourself is evidence of guilt, but they insist they looooove free speech...


"Nobody wants to take your guns!"  Except when they do.

Want

From these folks

Just two things this morning

What color line do you think President Lightbringer will draw on this(assuming he even takes notice)?


Head of the EffingBI says 'people shouldn't trust the government.'  Gee, tell us something we haven't figured out.

Note that this is coming from a guy who was whining that encryption is making it harder for LE to snoop on us...

That's it.  My wrist aches, I've got a headache, and no enthusiasm.

So trying to play half-assed 'air campaign and the Obama Coalition'

wins disaster; who could've im-
oh hell, I don't have sufficient snark or sarcasm to finish that.

America's plans to fight Islamic State are in ruins as the militant group's fighters come close to capturing Kobani and have inflicted a heavy defeat on the Iraqi army west of Baghdad.

The US-led air attacks launched against Islamic State (also known as Isis) on 8 August in Iraq and 23 September in Syria have not worked. President Obama's plan to "degrade and destroy" Islamic State has not even begun to achieve success. In both Syria and Iraq, Isis is expanding its control rather than contracting.
And there will be more losses, and more massacres, because Dear Leader doesn't WANT to win, or actually smash ISIL; hell, I think he sympathizes with them, and doesn't care if they and the turks commit a genocide of Kurds.

And most of our suckass media will cover for him as best they can, no matter what.

'Free speech'to the CSGV means "Say what we want you to,

or we'll try  to ruin you."
Yeah, I'd imagine they'd love to play Dzerzhinsky, camps, cells and all.


So let's start treating Mexico as the hostile government it is


Oh no, couldn't possibly be a connection, noooo....
The CDC hasn’t suggested reasons for the current uptick or its origin. Without that answer, some question whether the disease is being spread by the presence of tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children from Central America admitted to the U.S. in the past year.

The origin could be entirely unrelated.

However,a study published in Virology Journal, found EV-D68 among some of the 3,375 young, ill people tested in eight Latin American countries, including the Central American nations of El Salvador and Nicaragua, in 2013.

Though the U.S. government is keeping secret the locations of the illegal immigrant children, there are significant numbers of them in both cities in which the current outbreak was first identified, Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois, according to local advocates and press reports.


Reading, writing, arithmetic and approved social activism; and they wonder why people think the schools are crap.


Humvee I can see, but someone explain why the hell the coroner needs any military arms for his job..
"I just wanted to protect myself," he said.
So buy a gun with your own damned money.


Why I despise the UN, Part Something:
“In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law [and] these rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations," it reminds mere “world citizens” of their place.
"Yes, you can have your freedoms, as long as they do not displease Us."

Mommies Demand: a more wretched hive of scum, villainy and bigotry

you'll not find.
Sadly, comments in the threat indicate that Moms Demand supporters are well aware that John Crawford was shot to death by Beavercreek, Ohio police for merely holding a BB gun and talking on the phone, and that another innocent shopper died of a heart attack in the panic after police killed Mr. Crawford.

They simply don’t care.

They think that having a difference of opinion over how to exercise your legal rights is worthy of a death sentence.
Outside of ISIL, and the Nation of Islam, anyway

Why so many think you're violent thugs and not Officer Friendly anymore

Beause you ARE violent thugs.

And in general data,

we have tonights batch

Ladies, only three points for examination tonight

I need a couple of new sources for this more-specialized field

Still alive.

typing still slow, though now can remove sling and use a finger to help.  So some links, because I'm suffering bloggagestipation

Obama sends praise to murderers' mosque; bad timing, or telling us something?


With the "Who needs that due-process crap?" from the 'feminists', this is scary as hell:
This bill does not implement a transfer of power between the victim and the perpetrator according to Yang; it aims to give victims a fighting chance.
“It gives the universities more incentive and pressure to find more evidence where there is none,” Yang said.


Robert F.  Kennedy Jr.: even when backtracking he's a nasty little fascist.


“WiFi is a human right.”  Yes, it's a Democrat.  Head of the PROMD.


Judge Napolitano: Someone In The White House Committed A Felony
Ah, you want to try to narrow that down to maybe one of the many?


There are always people who are convinced there is a rational, polite, gentle and civilized way to stop a violent sociopath from raping their eyesockets.

We call these sensitive souls "Morons."


So  Alan Gottlieb and the Second Amendment Foundation get no more support from me.

Yes, I'm still alive

Typing one-handed sucks as badly as I remembered, so not much else for now

I will instead leave you with some pictures

Lest I forget,

a few more for the ladies

Due to circumstances I alluded to a few days ago,

I'm leaving the data study to you.  Enjoy, may be a bit before any more.

Couple of days ago,

having been taking it very easy on the arm, I found myself doing that "Do I really need to do this?  Maybe some anti-inflammatory and not push it?"  Which lasted until I tried doing something.  Yes, I'm going to have to do this.

No, I am not fond of the idea of having my sweet body violated with sharp implements; who is?  Know what bothers me more, long-term view?  The disruption and(lesser count) inconvenience.  Daughter's taking a day off work to drive me to and from.  Parent is coming up to stay a couple of days 'to help out'(probably in collusion with daughter to keep me from doing anything for that time.  Considering past history, probably a good idea), which means their driving up and staying instead of being comfortable at home.  Me being on one-arm-only for 1-2 weeks, plus the general pain & suffering.

This better be worth it.

It was inevitable

Stories coming out of Africa about 'ebola dead coming back to life'.

So there's a thread on the Bookface MHI page, 'what cartridge for zombie'?  Current main argument between .308 and 7.62x54r; both have range, but the 7.62 is cheaper.

Hey, Michael, remember the UN clown who knew he had ebola

and got on an airplane anyway?  You said 'if ebola gets here, this is how it'll happen'; yep.
He came into direct contact with a friend who had Ebola. He rode with her in a taxi and carried her from the taxi to a hospital on September 15, four days before he flew to the United States. She was turned away from the hospital because the Ebola ward was full.

She died of Ebola early the following morning. Her brother also got sick and shows Ebola symptoms. That was at the same time that Duncan started getting sick. He left Liberia and arrived in Texas on September 20. Six days later he sought treatment at Texas Presbyterian Hospital, and was sent home. He returned two days later, and has been confirmed to be infected with Ebola.

Duncan also abruptly quit his job on September 4, so he might have already planned the trip to see his family in the U.S.

But he certainly knew that he had been exposed to Ebola by the time he boarded that plane and came to Texas, four days after his friend died of it. He must surely have known it when he first visited the Texas Presbyterian Hospital, and he must have known it when the doctors sent him home.

Editorial note: it has NOT been established that he was feeling sick prior to getting on the plane, despite the above blockquote.

Let that sink in, though: he knew he'd been exposed, and it's not unfair to deduce that he thought to himself, "the Americans will save me".
Yeah, if you CARRY YOUR SICK FRIEND, you know you've been exposed.  Get on the airplane anyway(possibly knowing you could spread it), because getting yourself here is FAR more important than a bunch of other peoples lives.  Wonderful bastard, aren't you?

One of the nastiest racists out there, Calypso Louie-

also known as Farrakhan, High Lord of the Nation of Islam, once again does his part to spread bullshit and try to set the world alight with race war:
Another method is disease infection through bio-weapons such as Ebola and AIDS, which are race targeting weapons. There is a weapon that can be put in a room where there are Black and White people, and it will kill only the Black and spare the White, because it is a genotype weapon that is designed for your genes, for your race, for your kind.
I refuse to link to the website of that racist shitbrain and his organization; if you want to read it all, there's a link on Drudge, or you could probably search 'racist black muslim asshole does it again' and find it.

Why no, I don't respect him or his church.  Could have*, except for garbage like the above, and 'The white man is The Devil' and so forth.  So if someone doesn't like my opinion, too bad.


*Once heard a part of a speech he gave at a school, and it was good: study, learn; don't depend on the government to take care of your and your family; stop sleeping with anyone who gives you an itch; if you have a child, be a parent to it.  Things like that.  And then later I heard some of the rest...
Reminds me somewhat of Ron Paul: you listen to part of his stuff, and you're thinking "I like this, I could get behind this guy!"  Then you hear the rest, and you think "What happened to the guy I was listening to a minute ago?  The one who was sane?"

So, it's like the British and Canadian NHS we were told are so wonderful... Updated

A Department of Health and Human services report on the ACA’s Medicaid expansion finds that many Americans newly insured through the program often have to “wait for months or travel long distances” to get care, according to the NYT.
...
In all three of these reports, we see under the ACA a declining level of access to a covered care provider. This is not what progress in health reform looks like.
Ah, you're wrong; under Obamacare, yes, this IS what reform looks like.
Update: from a gentleman in Canada,
Who told you that Canadian health care was wonderful? Whoever they are they lied to you. I have been waiting 18months to see an orthopaedic surgeon about my shoulder. My GP tells me that I'm lucky it will only be 19 months, most of her patients wait 3 years to see an orthopaedic surgeon.

As a matter of fact the discussion up here is how to move back to a two-tier system to allow for private health insurance and private health care for those who wish to pay for it. Well to do Canadians have been practicing 'health tourism' for years. They fly out of the country and pay for surgery out of their pocket rather than wait. I believe the Mayoh Clinic offers health insurance policies for foreigners.



The fallback of Stalin and Mussolini wannabes in Central & South America: if all else fails, blame the Yankees.


And in the place where Great Britain used to be,
Theresa May, the current UK Home Secretary, has announced that, if re-elected, her party (the Conservatives) will push for "extremist disruption orders" which would effectively ban people declared "extremist" (using a very broad definition) from using social media or appearing on TV.
...
Under the Tories' new proposals, groups that cannot currently be proscribed could be subject to banning orders should ministers "reasonably believe" that they intend to incite religious or racial hatred, to threaten democracy or if there is a pressing need to protect the public from harm, either from a risk of violence, public disorder, harassment or other criminal acts.
I wouldn't trust ANY politician with this kind of power.  Come ON, how many "I will now screw this group that displeased me" possibilities can you see in this shit?

Bushmaster did reply to my bolt question

...unfortunately with any sort of customization of the firearm we cannot recommend. You will need to consult with a gunsmith in your area on this matter.
I can understand that, and I do appreciate the response.  Ah well, with the current situation it'll be a while before I can do anything on this, so lots of time to think about it.

Stolen from comments on a post a BYR

In the light of this analysis Carlyle's rhapsody on tools becomes a prosaic fact, and his conclusion—that man without tools is nothing, with tools all—points the way to the discovery of the philosopher's stone in education. For if man without tools is nothing, to be unable to use tools is to be destitute of power; and if with tools he is all, to be able to use tools is to be all-powerful. And this power in the concrete, the power to do some useful thing for man—this is the last analysis of educational truth. Charles H. Ham, Mind and Hand: manual training, the chief factor in education (1900)
Which just might explain part of why the education lobby wants to get rid of shop class, and hates vocational training.  And insists the ONLY way to get ahead is to get a degree.


Well, he's betrayed just about every other ally we have(or had), so why not the Kurds?

Reading this, you'd think the bastard WANTS them to be wiped out.

Zero-tolerance stupid combined with idiots wearing badges

is not a good combination.

What do you think: firing for the school officials involved, and the cops who couldn't be bothered to find something he could eat, followed by a ban for life on future public employment.  As a start.  Further possibilities may come to mind.


Ronald Ritchie, I think you're a chickenshit little bastard who got two people killed.  If you can't be prosecuted, I hope the families sue you for everything you have or ever will have.
Yes, I've mentioned this before; he deserves the fame he's earned.


Speaking of other .gov asshats, the National Park Service has an anniversary coming up in 2016.  I'm betting they'll want us to spend a buttload of money to commemorate how wonderful they are.  Considering their actions during the shutdown, I'm thinking every penny spent then should be cut from their damned budget as a start.


Over in the wonderful PRC, well, if someone stuck me out with a pistol with this level of training(to misuse the word), I'd be worried too:
Many patrol officers who are now carrying guns haven't fired shot since the police academy, where each recruit is required to shoot five bullets, officers said. One SWAT officer in Guangdong Province said that while his team shoots 100 bullets every morning for practice, regular patrol officers in his district are shooting less than 10 bullets a year.

"There are no standards, every department just makes up their own rules," he said.
This is... pitiful.  Even if they're worried about some common cop actually knowing how to use the tool, being more worried about that than about the problems caused by a bunch of untrained people with great authority running around armed is stupid.

But then, it is the PRC.

Does sound like him, doesn't it?

… It is not that Obama is not showing wisdom, that he is not making good decisions. It is that he sees himself above the need to make wise decisions. He has contempt for the very need for consultation, for pragmatism, or for accountability. He worships himself, and he thinks he can do no wrong.
I do wonder: seems some of his immediate followers actually do think him next-to or instead-of Deity, but how many of them know exactly what he is and are using that ego and all to guide him?

Right now, I've got nothing

and don't care.  Something later, though.

On the subject of training,

Yet according to some, that clumsy old hero was unfit to be a gun owner. Therefore, he should have just stood by and allowed himself and the other innocents in the place to be robbed. Or even killed if that’s what the thugs chose to do. He and millions more like him—just because they don’t spend every Saturday practicing El Presidente drills.

Some of the elitists who’d rather see us dead than armed hang out with Michael Bloomberg and his gun-banning mayors and “Moms.” Others, so it appears, write gun blogs and promote elite firearms training.
Couple of years back at Schutenfest Evyl Robot and I were talking about gear, and I said something along the lines of "It's all very nice that "THIS is issued by the SEALs!", or "THAT is issued by the Green Beanies!(or Force Recon or whoever)", but I'm not kicking doors in Kandahar Province or something; I'm worried about someone breaking into the house, or trying a robbery in a parking lot, or- worst case- some jihadi-minded asshole deciding to kill everyone in the restaurant I happen to be in."  Put bluntly, parts of my body wouldn't tolerate some training well, and I can't afford a lot of the classes(add in travel, ammo, the fees, some of them add up damn fast). 

I can go to the range.  I can practice.  I can read, and work stuff into my practice.  If that's not good enough for the "You shouldn't have a gun unless-" clowns, they can kiss my ass.

Effective Friday, bloggage will be nonexistent-

to-light for a while.  Not a trip(I wish), having surgery on my right arm.

Nothing horrendous, rerouting a nerve from where it is to a less troublesome(damn well better be) location.  Not looking forward to it, but it's become bad enough that I have to do something.  And this is the only something there is.*

I'd been worried this might be required(no, I do not like being carved on, not even in hopefully-sterile conditions), and it was confirmed a few days back.  You can imagine how overjoyed I was. 

So while the arm is out of commission, since typing one-handed is awfully slow, don't expect much.




*The only something that's an actual fix as opposed to 'Keep taking this stuff to make it more tolerable.'