Friday, November 20, 2015

At this point the evening ache has set in,

so I'll leave you to the data.  I've got an appointment with some aspirin and a heating pad.



































In which some Australians demonstrate the kind of idiocy

Obama & Co. would love to bring here: the GFWs are crapping their pants over a shotgun with Civil War-era technology.

And they wonder why Obama talking approvingly of 'the Australian and British solution' pisses us off.


Also from Miguel, the EUnuch response to the Paris attacks: "We must make it harder for honest citizens to own arms!  And put more restrictions on which ones they're allowed, and ammunition!"


Possibly another fake hate crime. 


No, all 'real' scientists do NOT go along with the 'settled science'.


Meanwhile, the media have treated the budding partnership between the ascendant Black Lives Matter and the perennially frustrated gun control movement as if it were the most natural thing in the world — probably because both efforts lean left. That alliance, however, is truly unlikely, even nonsensical. Historically, civil rights and gun control have been at odds. The blunt fact is that one side seeks to rein in law enforcement, while the other wishes to give it more power.


This from Sweden is insane:
Interestingly, between 1995-2006, the Swedish government tracked gang rapes, identifying a drastically increasing trend.  Unbelievably, after discovering the problem, it then adopted an ostrich-like “head in the sand” approach, terminating any further studies on them . Apparently the government’s fear of being labeled Islamophobic proved greater than its concerns about warning Swedish women about the threat. While no studies on gang rape have been conducted since 2006, one can assume these numbers have continued to rise.
And we have people just as bloody stupid here:
After his rampage, Mohammad was found to have an image of the ISIS flag, a handwritten manifesto with instructions on how to behead someone, and reminders to pray to Allah, but the campus community appears to largely agree with authorities and university officials who insist his motives were grounded in revenge for being kicked out of a study group.
...
But the UC Merced student told The Fix he and some of his peers are frustrated by the response of campus leaders.

“People were quick to sympathize with the attacker and assume anyone who thought this was related to radical Islam was a xenophobic racist,” he noted. “One of the most disturbing things I saw on Facebook was that a student made a RIP Mohammad post that received nearly 800 Likes.”

At least two Facebook post tributes to Mohammad were done in “UC Merced Classifieds,” a closed Facebook group within the campus community used as a message board.


Yes, the 'Affordable Care Act' was a scam;

if you're one of those who wanted it, deal with it.  And think about all the people being screwed by it.
Now, as The New York Times reported this weekend, even the words “affordable” and “care” have turned out to be untrue as well. The sharp rise in premiums has garnered the most headlines in the first three open-enrollment seasons of Obamacare, but equally if not more pernicious has been the increase in deductibles. As Eric Pianin explained for The Fiscal Times on Monday, deductibles have increased an average of 11 percent on Bronze level plans for 2016, intended to be the most affordable of all options, and now average over $5700. For Silver level, deductibles rose 6 percent and now average over $3100.


That teacher who wouldn't let boys play with Legos?  My, how the story changes when the heat starts.  And the school is playing damage control:
Blakely Elementary Principal Reese Ande said the school does not "promote access or opportunity through any forms of exclusion" and that Keller is "a passionate teacher who cares deeply for each and every one of her students."
Maybe the school doesn't, Ande, but at least one of your teachers does.  And Keller seems to care mostly for girls, and her SJW agenda.  From a comment:
“When you have an axe to grind with 5yr old boys, maybe you shouldn’t teach kindergarten.”

Oh, and let's consider the future result of her lying to and discriminating against the male students, shall we?


But NOAA insists the e-mails involved are private, and Congress reading them could be damaging to Science.  Right.


And crap like this is why the proper response to a hate-crime report should be "Is this another fake one?"


Oh, but ignore the violations of law and ethics that they almost always get away with, we can trust the DoJ prosecutors!  And shouldn't say bad things about them.


Because we can trust AGs like Holder and Lynch to never, never let politics be involved in their decisions, and they're so wise they'd never make mistakes...


So if the Brits have a bad winter, their grid may partially collapse; yay windmills!


And this shit is why I have grave doubts about US troops being sent in: this bastard would have them under ROE that would get lots of them crippled and killed, and would PREVENT them from winning.
“This has been an absurdity from the beginning,” Keane said in response to questions from Royce. “The president personally made a statement that has driven air power from the inception.”

“When we agreed we were going to do airpower and the military said, this is how it would work, he [Obama] said, ‘No, I do not want any civilian casualties,’” Keane explained. “And the response was, ‘But there’s always some civilian casualties. We have the best capability in the world to protect from civilians casualties.’”

However, Obama’s response was, “No, you don’t understand. I want no civilian casualties. Zero,’” Keane continued. “So that has driven our so-called rules of engagement to a degree we have never had in any previous air campaign from desert storm to the present.”
There is no possible way to do that.  IF you actually want to destroy the enemy.  What does that tell you?




A nights sleep with only one interruption,

and that I got back to sleep from; it was wonderful.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

PT, at least at this point, not bad;

muscle soreness related to sling use and it trying to compensate, still sucks.


Authorities in Honduras say they have arrested five Syrian nationals who were attempting to travel to the United States using stolen Greek passports, according to Reuters.


Meanwhile, in Germany,
Nordic cross in German colors ... wait ... I know that flag ... and then it hit me.

That is the flag of two of my heroes; Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Colonel Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.

That is the Josef Wirmer flag. The flag of the German resistance in 1944.
Something tells me Merkel really doesn't like this.


From President I'm Smarter Than Everyone Else,
Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson said her sources have told her that President Barack Obama does not want and will not read intelligence reports on groups “he does not consider terrorists,” despite being on a U.S. list of designated terrorists.


Must be nice to be an Only One: break both law and regulations, and maybe get some days off.  Bastards.
The director also outlined steps the agency has taken since the revelation that employees potentially violated the law and agency policy. Clancy said “several dozen” employees have been administered disciplinary proposals and “more are on the way.” Later, Clancy said around 42 employees will be issued disciplinary actions ranging from three to 12 days of suspension.
Must be nice to know you can break the laws you enforce on the peasants, huh?

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

The Only Ones...

An NBC Bay Area investigation into the loss and theft of police firearms uncovered more than 500 weapons have gone missing from eight different law enforcement agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and six local departments since 2010.
...
NBC Bay Area’s investigation uncovered hundreds of guns missing from Bay Area law enforcement agencies, stolen from officers’ homes or vehicles, or simply unaccounted for. The BLM, the agency responsible for the gun that killed Steinle, did not respond to NBC Bay Area’s open records requests submitted in July, shortly after the shooting, and the question of how many firearms that federal agency can’t account for remains open.
...
...In the Bay Area alone, six local law enforcement agencies can’t account for at least 379 firearms since 2010 because of loss or theft. The weapons unaccounted for include military grade assault rifles such as AR-15s and M16s, sniper rifles, shotguns, a gas grenade launcher and hundreds of handguns. The vast majority of those weapons have never been recovered.


"How dare you make light of The Empress!"





16 bad ways to respond to the Paris attacks

I don't know if they're the worst, but they're bad.  Especially #6:
One of the Paris attackers was supposedly found with a Syrian passport—leading Republican governors here in America to vow to block Syrian refugees from entering their states.
But that passport was a fake, French officials told The Wall Street Journal, which means the governors’ freakout over refugees was likely based on a lie.

Etc. Response:
I don’t know how this isn’t obvious to the folks at the Daily Beast, but the fact that ISIS appears to have intentionally and successfully exploited the refugee system to bust an agent into enemy territory only helps the arguments of those concerned about security and refugees. It’s not like the fakeness of the passport means that the terrorist is fake. He was all too real. And it doesn’t mean he didn’t come into enemy territory by claiming to be a refugee. He still did that. And even that Abott specifically scarequoted ‘refugee’ to point out that the terrorists wasn’t an actual refugee but one posing as such means that he didn’t fall for a “ruse.” This is really stupid analysis, in fact.

If people spent a bit of time understanding the arguments of their opponents, they’d understand that the concern isn’t that refugees are all terrorists waiting to attack but that terrorists could pose as refugees. As happened, apparently, in Paris.


John Effing Kerry, our Secretary of State...

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

There's a modification of that saying for Britain and France:

When seconds count, the police are minutes away.  And not armed.
The ranks of police marksmen must be reinforced to meet Islamic State’s ‘theatre of war’ tactics, a top officer said last night.
...
He suggested dozens may be dead by the time special forces and other armed officers were able to confront attackers.

And something I'd not heard before:
Mr Chesterman added that police had considered using automatic weapons, but the risk of killing bystanders was too high.

Many officers are still wielding the Heckler and Koch MP5 – designed more than 50 years ago.

And all weapons available to police fire only a single shot for every trigger pull, as this is more accurate and they must justify every bullet.
As a general thing, not a bad idea: police are SUPPOSED to justify every round fired, and unless there's a lot of training and practice involved, automatic fire tends to be rather messy.  Better a few aimed shots that actually hit, than bursts that mostly don't.

In any case, the main problem is "We don't know when and where the bad guys will strike, and having to wait for an armed officer to show up could lead to a lot more dead bodies."  Much like when those slimeballs murdered a British troop, and the first-responding cops sat around until an armed officer could get there.


"He doesn't want to take your guns!"

Nooooo....

Second point here: Major terrorist attack, they're promising more, they can't/won't even keep track of the refugees already here, but he wants gun control to be the dominant theme of his final year.  The man is absolutely bloody nuts.




The long trip to the range has been made

Among the results:
Driving a standard with left-arm only still sucks.
Dry-fire has definitely helped.
Even with the healing arm in a sling, it drags on you; surgery just takes a lot out of you.
Getting back to the range, even for a short time, is a Good Thing.

A fine illustration of why I've come to despise this man

“What I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership or America winning or whatever other slogans they come up with that has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the American people and to protect the people in the region who are getting killed and to protect our allies and people like France,” Obama said. “I’m too busy for that.”
Think about that, and despair that this America-hating clown is in charge.

'Leading from behind'.  'Smart diplomacy'.
Given that the oil-stealing business is the terrorist group’s financial lifeblood, why has it taken until now to hit the Islamic State’s oil transport capability in a significant way?

The answer, apparently, is that Obama was worried about civilian casualties. What if even one civilian driving an Islamic State truck, or near a truck, was killed in a U.S. attack? That concern, apparently, was enough to stop American forces from attacking a critical part of the Islamic State’s support system.
'Strategy'.
...“Our air campaign, since it began, has been the most restrictive in terms of rules of engagement that we have ever entered into in the last 25 years,” said Jack Keane, a retired Army four-star general who now chairs the Institute for the Study of War. “This has been largely due to the White House’s insistence that there be zero civilian casualties, at the behest of the president of the United States.”

In Abu Kamal, U.S. planes dropped leaflets before the attack, warning people — Islamic State, non-Islamic State, whoever — to leave before the assault began. After waiting for an hour, the U.S. planes struck.
Etc.  Either Obama and his minions are so freaking stupid that they think this is 'degrading and destroying ISIS', or they do not want us to win.

I guarantee, if a US plane goes down and the pilot is captured, this bastard would rather see him murdered in horrible fashion than actually do what's necessary, because 'there might be collateral damage'.  And also because he probably doesn't give a damn: "He's in the military, he's expendable, big deal."

Monday, November 16, 2015

Among the things learned from the current repair job

Once things are healing nicely and the stitches out, don't have to wear the sling all the time; BUT if I don't wear it enough(and that's a variable) I wind up with a deep-down ache that's not pleasant.

This may leave me with another weather-prediction-capable joint.  I devoutly hope not, but maybe.

I found out, at the time the stitches were removed, that they'd also done some arthritis repair on the collarbone, which means "We cut off the very end.  You'll never know it once it's healed."  Again, I devoutly hope so.  And it means no rifle larger than a .22 fired right-handed for a while(once I can fire one).

Tomorrow I may make the trip to the range for the first time since, for some left-handed practice.  Probably revolver, because reloading it will be easier(much) than trying to reload a magazine right now.

I'd really like a better left-handed holster, but with the costs of the surgery and the PT to come, that'll have to wait.  Especially for something I might have to use at some point in the future if the right side takes some kind of damage again.

The bike... well, it's going to be at least a month, I'd guess, before I can ride.  I tanked up and added StaBil just before put it in the garage, and made sure to ride enough to get it through the system.  And the battery tender connection was already on, so can just plug it in(with some difficult) occasionally to take care of that.

Speaking of shooting:
I'd kind of started a AR project before all this happened.  No rush, just collecting parts as could find them on sale or clearance(whenever possible).  Right now the big things needed are a BCG and a handguard.  And it seems like everybody and their uncle makes handguards, in every length and many shapes.  While I'd like to get a Diamondhead like I used on the .338(love the shape), that's not going to happen for quite a while.  I'd prefer a free-float design, 10-12 inches, not a tactical cheese grater.  Anyone have any suggestions?


A current result of 'higher' education

and cowards running the place:
Protesters at Dartmouth University disrupted students studying in the library, reportedly directing profanity towards white students and physically pushing others.

In a critical editorial, the conservative Dartmouth Review listed some of the epithets hurled by the protesters: “Fuck you, you filthy white fucks!” “Fuck you and your comfort!” “Fuck you, you racist shits!”

In addition, the Review reports that some of protesters became physically violent: “Men and women alike were pushed and shoved by the group. ‘If we can’t have it, shut it down!’ they cried. Another woman was pinned to a wall by protesters who unleashed their insults, shouting ‘filthy white bitch!’ in her face.”
Ok, Dartmouth, two things here:
One, we're talking about actual physical assaults; actual CRIMES.
Two, you're all concerned about racism and hate crimes?  Here you have the real things; now what're you gonna do about it?

Anyone actually think the cowards running most universities will have the police in?  Find the criminals and prosecute them?  Throw them out?  Fat chance; these are 'people of colour', therefore theirs is politically-correct racism, and in the progressive world they're entitled to get away with just about anything.  Which means next time they'll put someone in the hospital.  Sooner or later, they'll kill someone.  And part of the fault will be on the heads of said cowards.


Lastly, I’m certainly not the first, and won’t be the last, to comment on the fact that these little bits of campus fluff believe that the safe feelings only flow one way — to them. As you’ve noticed, the hysterical abuse the visit upon others is eerily reminiscent of the old Rage Boy posters from early in the Iraq War. America’s “Feelings Fascists” believe that, when it comes to dealing the meanies who hurt their feelings and scare them, the Feelings Fascists have no obligation to lead by example.


On France,
The original September 14 headline: “Refugees: the fantasy of terrorist infiltration.” The new headline, on a story still datelined September 14, now asks: “Terrorists among the migrants?”
So, when it's demonstrated you're an idiot, try to change the past.  How very Soviet of them.

If more academics had the integrity and balls of this lady,

universities would be much better places.  Instead, we've got these slugs.


And these, to whom censorship in the name of 'settled science' is a fine thing.


Oh, THOSE non-existent no-go zones...

They think they know the guy who set up the Paris operation,

and guess what?
French officials have named Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 27-year-old Belgian linked to a Brussels-based terror cell, as the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks. He remains at large and is believed to be in Syria.

Abaaoud was also linked by French officials to the thwarted attacks on a Paris-bound high-speed train in August and a foiled plot to attack a church in Paris in April. The French newspaper Libération also linked Abaaoud to Sid Ahmed Ghlam, a French student charged with murder, attempted murder and terror offences.
...
According to Belgian media reports earlier this year, Abaaoud spent time fighting alongside Islamic State in Syria. He was known to security forces after appearing in an Isis video at the wheel of a car transporting mutilated bodies to a mass grave.
So a Belgian citizen, who went to Syria to help ISIL.  How many people like that, from Britain and France and others?

We know that two of the bastards came into Europe with other 'refugees'.  How many more, now in Germany or Sweden or wherever?


It would be harder to imagine a clearer foe, yet we still have difficulty making policy in the light of the threat. After seven years in the White House, President Obama still cannot bear so much as to mention its religious aspect. He sees it all as a distressing misunderstanding arising from colonial wrongs and the fact that George Bush was President before him.

Speaking of President Hopey-Changeypants, 'The light of my presence will calm all', he took the attacks to be a fine occasion to turn more bad guys loose.  Two things come to mind:
Does he realize just how this comes across, and just not care?
Or is he actually dumb enough to not know?



Sunday, November 15, 2015

My shoulder aches like hell this morning,

and the fucking idiocy I'm reading from the Democrat debate last night isn't helping.  Hillary says "Women and 9/11 mean me getting lots of money from Wall Street is no problem!"  Sanders saying "Global Warmening is a bigger threat than the terrorists!"  AND "We need to let a lot of refugees in!  Moral purpose!"  Etc. ad Bullshit.

And let us not leave out "Syria would've been GREAT if Obama had listened to me!" from Mrs. I Don't Have To Obey The Law Unless It suits Me.

O'Malley's just as bad as those two.

And CNN has decided that 'Geraldo telling the Iraqis where the unit is and what they're doing' is a model to emulate.  Fucking idiots.


'the pervasive cult of meritocracy'.  Yeah, because hiring someone due to competence is FAR less important than checking all the proper SJW boxes...


By the way, an article from a few years back that "Children will not know what snow is!" has been disappeared from the source.  Happily, The Internets Is Forever.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Data has arrived


and this time not quite worn-out enough to forget



































Due to exhaustion beyond my control,

the latest info dump wasn't posted last night.  Here 'tis:








































Borrowing from Mr. Steyn, The Barbarians Are Inside,

And There Are No Gates
Two parts in particular:
Visiting the Bataclan, M Hollande declared that "nous allons mener le combat, il sera impitoyable": We are going to wage a war that will be pitiless.

Does he mean it? Or is he just killing time until Obama and Cameron and Merkel and Justin Trudeau and Malcolm Turnbull fly in and they can all get back to talking about sea levels in the Maldives in the 22nd century? By which time France and Germany and Belgium and Austria and the Netherlands will have been long washed away.

And something lots of politicians and the PC-at-any-price people really don't want to talk about,
And then Europe decided to invite millions of Muslims to settle in their countries. Most of those people don't want to participate actively in bringing about the death of diners and concertgoers and soccer fans, but at a certain level most of them either wish or are indifferent to the death of the societies in which they live - modern, pluralist, western societies and those "universal values" of which Barack Obama bleats. So, if you are either an active ISIS recruit or just a guy who's been fired up by social media, you have a very large comfort zone in which to swim, and which the authorities find almost impossible to penetrate.


And now the idiot students and activists in Missouri show their true colors:  "You're not talking about US, who cares about those dead people in France!"




And a real prize:
Miss Hardy:
THERE WAS NO TERRORIST ATTACK AT YOUR DAMNED UNIVERSITY.  And no, you getting your feelings hurt does not count.  And if you're 'trapped in your room', it's because you're a cowardly little bitch.

You idiots are prime examples of why people see so many students as whiny, entitled, bitchy little pussies who have no real idea of what care the world has for your feelings.  Piss off.


Salon proves(again) that it's run by assholes.


Speaking of assholes,
"How dare you actually check on whether Hillary did this!"


Friday, November 13, 2015

Major terrorist attack in Paris

it sounds like; updated story here.

Carry.  Because if they can do it there, they can do it here.



Demonstrating why I call it Californicated,

also why people don't trust LAPD: it's not just the shooting at innocents, it's the theft.
Instagram sensation Dan Bilzerian received some bad news when he returned to his West Hollywood mansion after a September break-in — several of his guns were gone.

But it wasn’t burglars who had taken the firearms, it was the Los Angeles Police Department.

For two months after the break-in, Mr. Bilzerian, a professional poker player and gun rights champion, says police inexplicably continued to keep the nine firearms under lock and key without a warrant. When the eight pistols and one rifle were returned to their owner about a week ago, all the ammunition for the firearms was missing, raising questions about the LAPD’s protocol for seizing firearms.
"We must keep these from being stolen(by anybody but us)!"  Except
The responding officers confiscated nine firearms supposedly under the premise that they wanted to secure the home in case the burglars attempted a second break-in, Mr. Bilzerian said. But strangely, the officers left behind an arsenal of shotguns and a high-powered semiautomatic carbine rifle like the ones used by special operations troops.

“The officers told my assistant that they took the handguns because they didn’t want the suspects to come back and get them on a second break-in even though they were unsuccessful at opening the steel reinforced door the first time,” Mr. Bilzerian said. “Essentially they were ‘trying to protect my property and people’s safety.’ This is hard to grasp, when they left my $21,000 FN SCAR17 with thermal optic and shotguns unsecured in that same room.”
And note that the safe did the job and was still closed, UNTIL the LAPD broke it open.  And now
“All of my ammunition and the magazines were gone. And they couldn’t explain what happened to the magazines, but that ammo couldn’t be released with a firearm and that I’d have to schedule a separate three-hour visit for the ammo,” Mr. Bilzerian told The Washington Times. “If they are gonna take the guns and make me wait for three hours at the police station, they should at the very least return what came with them.”
What are the bets the ammo and mags wind up being listed as 'destroyed' because they don't want to have to account for where they went?

And they'll bitch about "Why don't people trust us and want to work with us?"


This is what colleges and some idiot parents are producing:

censors, fascists, and socialists.
CAVUTO: Well, you want all that stuff. Someone has to pick up the tab. Who would that be?
MULLEN: Ummm, the one-percent of people in society that are hoarding the wealth and kind of causing the catastrophe students are facing… 
CAVUTO: Alright, Keely, so if the one-percent just had their taxes raised a few years ago back to almost forty-percent, then to pay for the healthcare law had them raised another few percentage points, then they had their deductions raised another couple points depending on the state or locality — they’re pushing about fifty-percent in taxes — how much higher do you think, how much more do you think they should pay?
MULLEN: I think enough to where one in two American families are not threatened by poverty —
CAVUTO: So where do they go? Let’s say if you tax these folks — they’re smart people, these one-percent hoarders — so if they leave here, who’s going to pay for all this stuff that you want?
MULLEN: If they leave?
CAVUTO: The country.
MULLEN: Oh. Ummm, I mean there’s always going to be a one-percent in the U.S.
"Oh, there'll ALWAYS be SOMEBODY we can loot to pay for our free stuff!"  Idiots.  Damned fools of the first order.


"She's not a TRUE colored woman, she wrote things that trigger and upset us!"  Whiny damned bastards, too.


"How dare you say an approved victim class can do bad stuff!"







Thursday, November 12, 2015

"You DO know who invented that,

don't you?
After 94 years of continuous service, the oldest-serving known veteran in the U.S. military is stepping away from the front lines.

Browning M2 machine gun #324 is finally retiring:
Roughly 94 years after the first production run of M2 machine guns came off the assembly line, the 324th weapon produced made it to Anniston Army Depot for overhaul and upgrade. 
In more than 90 years of existence, the receiver with serial number 324 has never been overhauled.
JMB made good stuff.


Higher Education, modern version, results thereof:
When asked about complaints from professors that universities are becoming “places of censor and prohibition,” Smith-Lezama said people are using the First Amendment to create a “hostile and unsafe learning environment.”

“I personally am tired of hearing that First Amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself and for other students here,” Smith-Lezama said. “I think that it’s important for us to create that distinction and create a space where we can all learn from one another and start to create a place of healing rather than a place where we are experiencing a lot of hate like we have in the past.”
Bet her definition of 'hate' is "People saying things I don't like, and not agreeing with me."  Wonder how she'll feel when someone uses her own crap to shut her up?


So these people hate civil rights and people of the wrong color.  And they're professors.
“As professors, we don’t see classroom carry to be about our own personal security,” the manifesto says early on. “We will most likely never be shot in our offices or classrooms, even if we were to piss off some white male students with sacrilegious ideas about race, empire, evolution, or god.”

Instead, Canizares-Esguerra and Timmons explicitly frame the conflict as a racial one, with supporters of gun rights cast as white racial oppressors who are the heirs of slavery, Jim Crow, and other acts of “settler colonialism.”
You really need to read it all; the level of stupid is just amazing, as is some of their use of language:
“When a student brings a gun into our individual first -amendment [sic] right to control the bond of trust and community that is constitutionally under our care,” they say. “Yes, this is a classroom he has privileged his individual right over our right to establish and control the bond of trust and community in the classroom necessary to teach.
And, by the way, just how much 'bond of trust and community' can you have with an openly racist professor?


The hell nobody wants to take your guns.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Having managed the perilous drive to the bank

the other day, this is still a pain but at least I can drive again.  Short distances, and preferably when traffic is low; working a manual transmission with left-hand-only isn't a lot of fun.

Which reminded me I've got to fix/get my cruise control fixed; not a factor in-town, but I miss it on the highway.

Stitches come out in a couple of days, but it's gonna be a while, and take some doing, before I can do much with this arm.

In the meantime,
Screw the bureaucrats; they want to go around the law, the bastards are not in good position do bitch if other people do.

Yeah, tell me again about horrible Republicans playing with the rich.

"Well, no there was no rape, but you weren't supposed to tell anyone!"

If this is correct, those officers need to be in cells.
Of course, so did this one, based on the video and testimony; but she got away with it.



Can you say "Throw the rednecks a bone, so they'll shut up!" ?

I knew you could.
An assistant communications professor at the Missouri School of Journalism resigned from her courtesy appointment Tuesday after she was caught on video confronting a student journalist and attempting to block him from shooting photos on a public quad.
Big sacrifice, right?
Click’s courtesy appointment allowed her to serve on graduate panels for students from other academic units, according to the Columbia Missourian. Her position as mass media professor in the Communication Department remains unclear.
Translation: "If you give up that, maybe it'll shut down the criticism."


Which fits right in with this asshole starting "The Klan is here!" hysteria, until caught being completely full of shit.

These idiots are going to keep this building until someone gets killed.  And then they'll blame anyone except themselves.  Because they're the Progressives, and anything they do for the cause is justified.


Monday, November 09, 2015

Ever think Piers Morgan had hit rock-bottom?

Me neither.  And he keeps proving us right.






Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media at University of Missouri, (link fixed)

who I suspect of liking to go by Commissar when no outsiders are around.
“You need to get out, you need to get out,” Melissa Click demanded of the person filming the protest. “You need to get out,” she continued before trying to grab the camera out of the videographer’s hands.

“I actually don’t,” the journalist told Click.

“Hey, who wants to help me get this reporter out of here,” the media professor then hysterically exclaimed to the assembled mob. “I need some muscle over here!”
A freaking ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MASS MEDIA.  Yeah, she wouldn't have any problem with running the censorship program, would she?

And let's not forget one of the other school brass involved in this crap:
Later in the video, the crowd aggressively started pushing the reporter around in an attempt to get him to stop covering their behavior.

“They have an education to get and a life to live,” a woman identified as Janna Basler, the assistant director of Greek Life & Leadership at the university, yelled at the photographer.

“I’m trying to document this for history,” Tai, the photographer, told the crowd.

“Everybody else has documented it,” Basler declared. “You gotta go.”
They want a safe space, all right; one where they can threaten and abuse people, and act like the Red Guard, with no record being made of it.

Because telling the Palistinians and sympathizers not to disrupt things

just isn't an option, apparently.  Especially when it's so much easier to ask the troublesome Jews to stay away...
The organizers claim that inviting the Jewish community presents a security risk, nt.se reports, citing anti-Semitic and anti-Israel protests present at past events. 

"In previous years, we have had a lot of Palestinian flags at these rallies, and even one banner where the Israeli flag was equated with a swastika," organizer and local Workers' Party member Jan Hägglund told locals. "The Jewish community wasn't invited because we assumed they might be uncomfortable around that sort of thing."
Chickenshits don't have the balls to say "We asked the Jew-haters to stay away because we assumed they might be uncomfortable at a Kirstallnacht commemoration."


Meanwhile, the event's Facebook page appears to even downplay the Jewish community's role in the event, instead conveying a generalized, vanilla message of tolerance - not opposition to anti-Semitism. 

Hollyweenie hanging out with commies who want to destroy the country;

why am I not surprised?
Who is Carl Dix, the protest organizer defending Tarantino and equating the police with the mafia?

Mr. Dix is one of the founding members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, a group that has held anti-police events in October for nearly two decades and that openly advocates for an armed overthrow of the United States of America.

In other words, Quentin Tarantino was not merely speaking at an event that was anti-police; he was an active, invited participant in a rally that is anti-military, anti-capitalist, and anti-American.


Over at Insty there's a roundup of the screaming pussies at Yale demanding protection, and the administrators rolling over and presenting their bellies.
“Someone told me to ‘give it the old college try,’ so I crumbled into an incoherent mess when I heard an opinion that differed from mine.”


And I'm done.  There are more colors showing up all over my shoulder & upper arm, and it aches like hell, so I think I'll try to find a comfortable position for it and ignore the world.


Sunday, November 08, 2015

Apparently bruising from deep inside

where they were rooting around, sewing and buffing and whatever, is now working to the surface, as some sickly shades of yellow, with other colors sneaking in, are appearing.

Artistic, it is not.