Friday evening, nice outside,

but the mosquitoes have shown up, so inside checking data it is

It should be considered cruel

to send out things like "$50 off on Swarovski!"

And things become even more interesting in the Everglades

Joining an already robust list of invasive species, Florida researchers have now confirmed that three Nile crocodiles were indeed captured near Miami, and more are probably out there.

According to the Washington Times, University of Florida researchers recently published a report showing DNA testing from three crocs captured back in 2009, 2011 and 2014 does, in fact, match DNA from Nile crocodiles.

“They didn’t swim from Africa,” University of Florida herpetologist Kenneth Krysko said to the Times. “But we really don’t know how they got into the wild.”
I've got a couple of ideas!

Pythons and boas are bad enough, if there's enough of these bastards loose to make a breeding population...


'Higher' Education.  'Respect for contrary viewpoints'.
The Guardian questioned his fitness for academic life. At UWA, there was a rowdy gathering of academics and students, described by one witness as being "like a Rolling Stones concert," at which there was apparently "riotous applause" when a speaker called on UWA to "end [its] deal with the climate change-contrarian." Sounds less Rolling Stones gig, and more controversy-allergic mob.

The UWA Student Guild also insisted Lomborg should be kept out of UWA. The language the Guild used was striking: it accepted that Lomborg "doesn't refute climate change itself," but pointed out that he does have a "controversial track record [as a] climate contrarian." So this was about keeping controversy off campus, protecting UWA, not from scientifically incorrect thinking, but from contrarian thinking. It was a demand for nothing less than political censorship, of a thinker who dares to think differently to the mainstream on the issue of climate change.

Gee, I don't know, why DON'T people trust the 'Justice' Department anymore?

Or the two-faced corrupt jerks who work there?
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to send its lawyers back to remedial ethics classes Thursday after finding that the administration repeatedly misledlied to the court in the high-profile challenge to President Obama’s deportation amnesty.

Judge Andrew S. Hanen said the lawyers knew the administration was approving amnesty applications but actively hid that information both from him and from the 26 states that had sued to stop the amnesty.

Worse yet, even after the court ordered a halt to the whole amnesty, the Homeland Security Department approved several thousand more applications, in defiance of the court’s strict admonition, Judge Hanen said, counting at least four separate times the government’s lawyers misledlied their ass off to him.
There.  Fixed that for him.

The Do'J' is all pissed-off about it.
“The department strongly disagrees with the order,” said spokesman Patrick Rodenbush.
 Of course it does; you corrupt little shits are used to getting away with this crap, and it must be really annoying for someone to actually DO something about it.

In court, the government lawyers had admitted they’d left the judge with the wrong impression, and expressed regret and sorrow.
Translation: "We lied like hell, over and over, and we're really sorry we got called on it."

Really, the PROPER course of action would've been to charge them for lying to the court, and starting disbarment procedures.  Unfortunately, all they're getting is a class to sleep through.

And the bastards wonder why they're looked on with contempt.

Some idiot in a truck carrying a boom lift didn't check heights

and brought down a big piece of a bridge; that's the southbound side of May Avenue that's now on the eastbound side of NW Highway here in Oklahoma City.

Something like twenty years back, someone carrying a crane did the same thing, except this time the damage is a LOT worse.  This is going to take a while to clear, let alone rebuild.  I'll have to take an alternate route to my favorite Mexican place.

"MHI fans don't cosplay.

We kit up."- Miguel Gonzalez


Among the reasons you couldn't pay me to live in New York Effing City*: the populace the last generation seems to prefer tyrants ruling over them.
Greeting customers as “Mr.” or “Mrs.” — or even not using the pronoun “ze” or “zir” — could prove costly for New York City businesses under rules drafted by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s bureaucrats.

The Gotham mayor’s Commission on Human Rights says entities that fail to address customers by their preferred gender pronouns and titles are in violation of the law and could be subject to penalties of up to $250,000.


What?  The models don't cover this?
You know what it is, right?

*as Kim du Toit used to call it, though he didn't use 'effing'

Oh, it's pretty

And that kind of history...
After Lawton led a grueling but successful expedition which resulted in the capture and surrender of Apache leader Geronimo is 1886, his old friend was inspired to find a suitable recognition for the deed. His choice? The “Winchester Model 1886 Sporting Rifle (serial number 1)” which he obtained by virtue of his standing in the company. The gun survived in excellent condition.

Oh man, the anti-rights people will scream over this one, too

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit decision Monday in Teixeira v. County of Alameda vindicates the Second Amendment rights of gun stores and provides a good model of the Second Amendment doctrines that have been developed by the federal Circuit Courts of Appeals. Eugene Volokh’s post has summarized the decision, so I will delve into the doctrinal details.

And this, from down in the piece, is the part that'll really cause them heartburn:
The historical analysis showed that commerce in firearms was universally understood to be part of the right to arms.
That is a BIG whack at some of their 'arguments'.

Ah, their tears are sweet, are they not?

'The President will veto this.'

  Fine.  Make him do it.  Then override the veto.  Which, besides being the right thing to do, would be the first time the Democrat Party overall showed more concern for that than for covering Obama's ass.

Civil Rights victory, in Sodom on the Potomac, yet

A federal judge ordered the city of Washington, D.C., to not enforce its concealed carry law that requires individuals to state a “good reason” for carrying a firearm inside the district.
...
U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled Tuesday that city officials requiring prospective concealed carriers to make their case on why arming themselves is necessary is unconstitutional:

“I find that plaintiffs have demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the District’s ‘good reason’ requirement is unconstitutional.”

And what makes this even more fun?
The suit, brought forward by Matthew Grace and the firearms advocates “Pink Pistols,” scored a major victory for gun rights with Tuesday’s ruling.
So when the CSGV & Co. start screaming, we can call them homophobes who don't want gay people to be able to defend themselves.

That was a surprise

Went to the range this morning, and since I couldn't remember ever trying them in the mini-Sharps, I took a couple of .38 Special loads, and some 158-grain .357 loads.  And got this

                                              .38 Special, 148-grain wadcutter

                            .38 Special, some fairly hot 125-grain hollowpoints

And the crown,

                                            .357 Mag, 158-grain flat-nose
That one low hole?  Knew as I finished the press that I'd pulled it, so fired one more to have five in that top hole. It's only 30 yards, but I'd not had this kind of accuracy from this load before.  Of course, last time I tried this one I didn't have the scope on, so in that light that may make the difference.

On the .38s, I need to try the wadcutters again, as the one out left and the one out right may be my fault.  Why didn't I try them again today?  Because I'd only brought five, the last of a box.  If those two are my fault, this would make a quite good load for small game: almost no recoil in a rifle, relatively quiet, and that bullet should do a good job on them.  Might try the hollowpoints again as well, just to be sure.

The wadcutters and flat-nose are both X-Treme plated, by the way.  Ought to try these two with cast bullets, though it'd be a semi-wadcutter instead of a flat-nose in the 158-grain.

Added: I checked back on something, and had another surprise.  At the outdoor range last week, firing the Hornady FTX load in the Sharps, velocity was ~1520fps(was only able to chrono a couple of shots).  Back when I fired the same load through a rifle with a 16" barrel, average velocity was 1451fps.  With pistol cartridges such as .357 it seems to be the general rule that you get the max velocity with a 16" barrel; after that friction starts slowing the bullet.  Well, the mini-Sharps has a 26" barrel, yet gave the same or slightly higher velocity as the 16".  I'm surprised, and pleased.  And I need to check into this further.

Ok, someone explain to my why the Dept. of Homeland Screwing People OverSecurity

is involved in any way with these things?

Same people whining "We need more money and people!"  Maybe if you weren't screwing around in crap that's none of your damned business YOU'D HAVE MORE PEOPLE AND MONEY FOR WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO DO?*


*Which seems to be 'Screw people around as much as possible, and demand more money and people'.  Kind of blackmailing us.

Attention LEOs: the answer to crap like this

is not perjury, destruction of evidence, or pretending it didn't happen: it's to clean your own damned house, not make excuses for idiots, abusers and criminals.

And if you, or your department, is involved in covering-up, lying, and otherwise violating just about every one of Peel's Principles- not to mention perjury and other crimes- then you have not one damned bit of justification for griping that 'people don't respect us anymore', or anything related.l

From the Socialist Paradise of Venezuela:

I asked our regular nurse in a bit of dark humor whether everyone was cured or dead. She told me that there are two reasons for attendance to drop dramatically over the last two months. One, the treatments must keep apace with inflation which means that it is becoming quite a burden for many, even with insurance, as paychecks are not following inflation. But more dramatic, oncologie medicine stocks have been exhausted for many type of cancers, in particular the more common ones like breast cancers.
...
Some pro Chavez/regime supporter may point out that it is mere justice that all Venezuelans have to go though this, rich or poor.  After all, the poor do not get either the medicine, nor the health support. I will reply that totalitarian regimes do not care about what happens to their civilians. They are a mere casualty in the war for the just cause. It does not matter for the regime whether its supporters die in greater numbers, they are expendable. What matters in the end is that the opposition to the regime is broken. The end justifies the means. All methods are valid. Period.


Speaking of 'all methods are valid', especially when it fills your pockets,
The main climate scientist behind a letter asking President Barack Obama to prosecute those who question global warming may have been cheating taxpayers by illegally “double-dipping” — he was paying himself and his wife millions of dollars while running a taxpayer-funded research group while collecting a paycheck from his state-funded academic job.

“Since 2001, as President of IGES, Dr. Shukla appears to have paid himself and his wife a total of $5.6 million in compensation — an excessive amount for a non-profit relying on taxpayer money,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith sent to the inspector general of the National Science Foundation.

Interview with Jesse Hughes about the Bataclan massacre

Pretty bad.  Language warning, as you might expect.
During the attack, one cop finally realized it wasn’t a hostage situation and yelled out, “It’s a turkey shoot” as he charged in, holding his gun. He got shot right through the hand and into the neck and kept going. He took a terrorist out, chased another one into the hallway, who then blew himself up, and did it to another guy, who blew himself up on stage. Our amplifiers were a gory mess.
Did that cop live?
Yes, I met him in triage. I hung out with him. Great guy.
You went to the hospital?
I had pieces of teeth and human bone pulled out of my face. A girl got shot right next to me by the shooter at the top of the stairs who I had met earlier. She stepped one step in front of me and her head just exploded. It blew pieces of her teeth and skull into my face.

Yeah, about that Australian model...

Australians now own more guns than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, according to new research that shows firearm imports hit a record high in 2014-15.
Doesn't fit the Preferred Narrative, does it?

There's some of the same "It's not more people shooting, it's just the same owners buying more guns!" crap the gun bigots have tried to sell here; slight problem with that:
Psychologist and self-described gun control critic Samara McPhedran, from Griffith University’s Violence Research and Prevention Program, attributes the boom in firearm sales to the rising popularity of shooting sports among a younger demographic.
“I think what the figures show fundamentally is that people are interested in target shooting and hunting, and that interest seems to be growing over time,” she said.

And under the heading of 'unintended consequences',
One unintended consequence of the post-Port Arthur gun laws was to boost the wealth and widen the influence of shooting clubs, according to Associate Professor Alpers.
The 1996 laws require gun owners to show they have a genuine reason to own a firearm. The easiest way for people in urban areas to do this is through membership in a gun club, Associate Professor Alpers said.
And not just membership but active participation. In NSW, for example, the firearm licensing regulations require members of target shooting clubs to participate at least four times a year. In Victoria, a licensed handgun owner is required to participate in at least 10 shoots a year. The requirements vary by jurisdiction.
“People who never normally went to gun clubs were now going to gun clubs and shooting ranges because the law obliged them to,” Associate Professor Alpers said.
“So the gun lobby has grown in size, political clout and, certainly, in money … as a side-effect of the post-Port Arthur gun laws.”
They put that crap in with the intention of making it onerous enough that people would give up, and some probably did; the rest are banding together and going after the politicians.  An effect the hoplophobes and gun bigots did NOT want.

Which, by the way, is making me do a happy dance.

And, speaking of not fitting the Narrative,
On the other hand, the link between Australia’s gun-buying surge and gun violence isn’t clear.

After all, rising gun sales are nothing new. “This isn’t a sudden increase. It’s a consistent pattern that we’ve seen over a number of years,” Dr McPhedran said.

“And despite those increases we’ve seen steady declines in firearm misuse.”
Shades of 'Blood in the streets!  Bodies in the gutters!' not happening, right?


And let's not forget something the Australian authorities probably wish we didn't know about: the compliance rate for the 1996 confiscations wasn't exactly sterling:
The Australian Shooters Journal did its own math in a 1997 article on the “gun buyback.” Researchers for the publication pointed out that the Australian government’s own low-ball, pre-ban estimate of the number of prohibited weapons in the country yielded a compliance rate of 19 percent.

But maybe success is in the eye of the beholder. After the expected mountains of surrendered weapons failed to manifest themselves, then-Australian Attorney General Darryl Williams’s office revised its estimate of total firearms in the country to a number lower than its pre-ban estimate of prohibited firearms, and declared victory.

Inspector McCoomb, like the Australian Shooters Journal, concluded the ban “has failed.”
Friend of mine knows someone down there, lived in an area that pre-97, did not have registration.  The guy mentioned that for a couple of months after the confiscations were announced, you couldn't find 6" PVC pipe and caps anywhere; wonder what all that was being used for...

Oh yeah, this is going to end well...

Six people have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling weapons to radical Islamists in Sweden, Bosnian Serb authorities said on Friday.
...
Five arrests were made by Bosnian-Serbian anti-terrorism officials on Thursday, said officials, after large quantities of military-grade weapons were found during police raids.

A spokesperson said the arrests were carried out as part of Swedish-run operation called 'Varg RS', but Swedish authorities would not confirm nor comment on the police raids.
 ...
According to claims in Bosnian Serb media cited by TT, police suspect that the smugglers had intended to deliver the weapons to a group in Sweden called 'Muslim Brothers'.

It was not immediately known whether or not the group was linked to the islamist movement the Muslim Brotherhood, which has its roots in Egypt.
Yeah, it's going to be kind of alarming to the populace to find out that some of the 'migrants' are doing this. Might even be damaging to goodthink.

Seems like no matter how much you get done,

at end of day there's still a pile.  Screw that at this point, I need to check data

And from the Sanders and Greenie Wonderland of Denmark:

Denmark’s government abandoned plans to build five offshore wind power farms Friday amid fears the electricity produced there would become too expensive for Danish consumers. 

“Since 2012 when we reached the political agreement, the cost of our renewable policy has increased dramatically,” said Climate Minister Lars Christian Lilleholt, a Liberal Party politician representing the country’s minority government, according to Reuters.
'The cost' being that they pay subsidies- big ones- to these scam artists.
Danes have paid billions in taxes and fees to support wind turbines, which has caused electricity prices to skyrocket even as the price of actual electricity has decreased. Now, green taxes make up 66 percent of Danish electricity bills. Only 15 percent of electricity bills went to energy generation.

Electricity prices have gotten so high, the government has decided to slash green taxes on consumer energy bills.
Translation: the people being looted to pay for this finally screamed loudly enough that the politicians decided 'We can't keep getting away with this.  For now, anyway.'

Hey, he's only some stupid jarhead,

why let him being kidnapped and tortured get in the way of what Dear Leader wants?

It's gotta be so encouraging to the troops, knowing the CiC doesn't give a shit about your lives.


As the Chicago Tribune’s map of shooting incidents demonstrates, the incidence of shootings across the city corresponds quite neatly with each neighborhood’s demographics.  The uncomfortable truth is that in Chicago, as in any other American city you could name, those neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of blacks and Hispanics see the highest levels of violent crime.  One may argue why this is so, but not whether it is.  If the police are asked to address this crime, officers will of necessity be deployed where it occurs and come into contact with those responsible for it.  Some small percentage of those contacts will be acrimonious; some still smaller percentage will be violent.
...
But, as we’ve discussed previously here on PJ Media (here, here, and here) in Chicago, as in many other cities, officers are coming to the conclusion that the risks of these violent contacts are prohibitive and that a prudent regard for one’s livelihood demands a less zealous approach to combatting crime.  No, the cops aren’t afraid of getting shot or stabbed or otherwise injured in an altercation, they’re afraid of becoming the next YouTube sensation when an arrest goes wrong and fails to unfold in a manner approved by cowardly department brass, unprincipled politicians, and ignorant “community leaders,” all of whom exhort the cops to go out in the streets and stop the madness, but to do so without hurting anyone.
And while only arresting people in numbers that evenly represent whatever the preferred racial mix is, and screw who's actually committing most of the crimes.

I'm convinced that a horrible number of the politicians don't really give a damn how many people die, or are raped, or robbed: they care how they can use the numbers to get votes.  Nothing more.


"Nobody wants to take your guns" my ass, Part 87:
According to its post in the Federal Register, the SSA plans on reporting any “disability” or “benefits” recipient who: falls anywhere on the improperly-expanded “Autism disorder spectrum,” has been diagnosed with an “anxiety disorder,” cannot handle his or her own finances, or belongs to any one of myriad other categories defined by, you guessed it, the federal government. The public has sixty days to “offer comment” before the overlords who take their money and hand it out again will act.
And sooner or later they'll define "I want to own a gun" as proof that you're not mentally sound enough to own one...

Ponder the question: which is worse: temptation,

or not giving in to it?

Whilst contemplating that, continue your studies.

"Harry Reid's a pompous ass, and my real job

is keeping my ass in this office, screw the taxpayers."
Yeah, tell us something we didn't already know.


"We're going to deport them."  Yeah, I'll believe that when it actually happens.


Yes, Fecesbook has been lying.  Yes, they've been deciding what news people would see.  Anyone surprised?

And we still don't know where Secretary of State Clinton was hiding out

while those people were dying.
But the call for the squadron to move apparently never came. The source says, “They just kept telling me we’re waiting on a call.” “I still feel a sense of fault for not being there when we were needed. We could have been there and that’s the worst part,” he says.

A second source, described as Mike, says he was at Delta Force headquarters when the attacks took place but returned to Libya soon afterwards. Mike says there were opportunities to kill or capture the people responsible for the attack but they were denied by the State Department. “It was political,” Mike says, adding “I read the emails, I read the emails where they were saying, hey, we can’t do this now…now’s not the right time.”

In 'Places your kid should not go to college', we have the University of Oregon

An annual report on the activities of University of Oregon’s Bias Response Team provides a frightening yet fascinating glimpse into the practices of these organizations, which are common on college campuses. Students, faculty, and staff who feel threatened, harassed, intimidated, triggered, microaggressed, offended, ignored, under-valued, or objectified because of their race, gender, gender identity, sexuality, disability status, mental health, religion, political affiliation, or size are encouraged to contact the BRT. 

The team is composed of seven administrators, which include Oregon’s “multicultural inclusion support specialist,” LGBT director, and “Native American Retention Specialist.” The BRT’s goal is to eradicate bias on campus, making Oregon a safer place. Bias is defined as “any physical, spoken, or written act” that targets another person, even unintentionally. The team’s posters propose examples of bias incidents: statements like “Thanks, sweetie,” and “I don’t see color,” apparently qualify. (The former is patronizing, the latter is simply wrongthink, I guess.)
Short version: ANYTHING you say, do, write, show, or think out loud can and will be used against you.  You're screwed.


'Higher' Education...

Details, details (updated)

That group was shot at 100 yards.  .357 Magnum, using Starline cases, Hornady 140-grain FTX bullets, and 12.7 grains of AA#9 powder, lit by a CCI small pistol primer.

I had a couple of other groups that were going to be as good, but on four and five I'd wind up stringing them vertically a bit.  On that one I stopped at three.  Because it looked so good.

That little sucker is fun to shoot, and really likes the lighter bullets; using 150-grain and up, I can't get this level of accuracy from it.  They can be picky, can't they?
Update:
I checked back on something, and had another surprise.  The Hornady FTX load velocity was ~1520fps(was only able to chrono a couple of shots).  Back when I fired the same load through a rifle with a 16" barrel, average velocity was 1451fps.  With pistol cartridges such as .357 it seems to be the general rule that you get the max velocity with a 16" barrel; after that friction starts slowing the bullet.  Well, the mini-Sharps has a 26" barrel, yet gave slightly higher velocity than the 16".  I'm surprised, and pleased.  And I need to check into this further.


Also had one of those "WTF?" moments today.  Guy showed up with all his stuff and a brand-new Wyndham AR-10, got set up, then "Can I ask you something?"  He'd noticed the Magpul magazine was marked 7.62x51, and wondered if the Hornady .308 ammo he'd bought would work properly in this rifle... 

So we had a discussion on 7.62x51 vs. .308, and the uses thereof, and got him settled in.  Somewhat.  Also had a brand-new Burris scope on it, had done no boresighting, so took a bit to get him on paper.  Not a new shooter from what he said, but not big on the technical and prep(as in 'get it so it'll be on the target somewhere) end.

So in the PROM 'incorporating the arrest'

means 'now that he's caught, they're beating the shit out of him.'
"[Mass. State Police] will also review the apprehension of the suspect, to determine whether the level of force deployed during the arrest was appropriate," FOX25 has been told.
Well, hell, guys, there's not even a question there: it was NOT.  Quite obviously.  Which means this translates to "We'll delay things and hope people stop paying attention, otherwise we might actually have to do something about these officers."
"I think anyone who looks at the video is disturbed by it, but we don't jump to conclusions," Nashua Police said. "We need to find out what happened."
Excuse me while I snort in derision.  And wonder who they think they're fooling.

And after I didst press the trigger for the third time,

and look through the glass of far-seeing, Lo! this was the image before me

created by the Mini-Sharps, Alliant, Starline and Hornady and CCI.  And a heavenly chorus didst seem to sing from the heavens, and it was good.

And, though sorely tempted by the demon Adjust, I didst not diddle with the sight, as it would have been an abomination in the sight of the angel Leaveitthehellalone(yes, I know I've done it before, shut up during my religious experience, you bastards).

And thus was range day.  I shall now sit in quiet contemplation.  Details may follow later, for those who insist on being so informed.

Good thing this happened in one of the PROMs, where they have all those gun laws,

otherwise someone might've actually gotten hurt.


Ah, the healthcare law YOU KEEP PUSHING BLEW HER COSTS UP, you stupid socialist.  But you won't understand that, will you?


Actually on the BBC, in (formerly Great)Britain:

Guy is attending Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship.  Craps on waitress who has not a damn thing to do with what he's whining about, because Social Justice.
“It was a protest action, it was not directed as Ashleigh – and quite frankly, Ashleigh’s feelings are irrelevant to us.”
She's the one you crapped on, asshole, she IS the one you directed it at.  You're a miserable little bastard.


Wonder how much taxpayer money the EPA wasted screwing with this guy over a pond?


Sounds about right: idiot working for Obama brags about manipulating and lying to the media(and how easy it is), and media is all pissed at the guy who wrote about it.  Because that's what important about the story.


Of course, it's not like this administration hasn't lied to them before.  Then tried to cover-up admitting it.  Etc.

Likely to be an interesting spring & summer in Europe

"I heard screams, I saw a man lying on the ground, begging a man who stood over him. 'I love God, I love Allah,' he was saying, obviously to save himself," the newspaper quoted the witness, who has not been named, as saying. 

Paul H was wearing "blood-soaked socks" he said. "I have no idea where his shoes were. As he walked away, the man on the floor to him and whimpered: 'That guy stabbed me in the back!'"
One dead, three wounded.  Guy was apparently a druggie(assuming true), so may have been that as much as Sudden Jihadi Syndrome.  Then there's this:
Elsewhere in Europe today, Italian police have arrested two Afghan men on suspicion of planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Britain and Italy, including targets in London and the Colosseum in Rome.
...Police are searching for three other suspects involved in the same alleged plot.
And how many others are out there?


Some thoughts about the racial bullshit on college campii, backed by research.  Including this:
In their book “All That We Can Be” (1996), the sociologists Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler describe how the U.S. Army escaped from the racial dysfunction of the 1970s to become a model of integration and near-equality by the time of the 1991 Gulf War. The Army invested more resources in training and mentoring black soldiers so that they could meet rigorous promotion standards. But, crucially, standards were lowered for no one, so that the race of officers conveyed no information about their abilities. The Army also promoted cooperation and positive-sum thinking by emphasizing pride in the Army and in America.
Which would never fly because most college administrators don't have the balls to hold to it, or the ethics.  No different standards?  Pride in America?  They'd rather be ass-raped on the quad at high noon than even suggest that.


President's paid liar admits it.  Journalists act amazed.  Most of them have spent days trying to ignore Rhodes laughing at them about being idiots and eating his crap, now they're upset?  Borrowing from Insty,

The piece was clearly a source of frustration for the White House, which is looking to burnish Obama’s foreign policy record during his final year in office.

The Iran deal is a debacle, and the press went along because (1) Rhodes is right and they don’t know much; and (2) They’re happy to be lied to anyway, because they’re Democratic operatives with bylines.

Stolen from Feral,

and I know the feeling

Visit to the latrine

Go.  Now.

There seems to be a strict dichotomy on the subject of cops

with a lot of people: either you consider them the heroes of society, hold that the bad ones are very few and far between, and deserve near-worship,
or
You hate them, think they're all jackbooted fascist thugs, and want them all to DIE!

Idiots.

Is it only Israel the UN hates?

Or all Jews(at least all that haven't become proper 'The Jews are awful' types)?
“Two weeks ago, I was shocked to hear that UNESCO adopted a decision denying any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, our holiest site. It is hard to believe that anyone, let alone an organization tasked with preserving history, could deny this link, which spans thousands of years,” he wrote.
To borrow from the eminent Dr. Cooper, "You continue to underestimate them, sir."


Ain't this thing purty?

Cabela's can get it.  And I want one, badly.  But I rarely have a place to shoot with a range longer than a hundred yards, which seems like a waste for this.  Dammit.  Sometimes being a responsible adult sucks worse than others.


“We progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table — er, so long as they aren’t conservatives … We’re fine with people who don’t look like us, as long as they think like us,” Kristof wrote.
Did it actually hurt to let that truth out, Kristof?


"Why do you want to carry a gun?"  "Wild pigs, the damn things're everywhere!"

Just in case you weren't aware, NYeffingCity's Sullivan Law came about

through crooks paying each other off; had not a damn thing to do with actually protecting the honest and innocent.
The bill was created and pushed through the legislature by "Big Tim" Sullivan, a crime syndicate leader and politician who was part of Tammany Hall.  His toughs had complained about immigrants who were resisting their extortion efforts.  Big Tim had a simple solution.  Make it illegal for his opposition to legally have or carry weapons.  From the New York Post:

Sullivan knew the gangs would flout the law, but appearances were more important than results. Young toughs took to sewing the pockets of their coats shut, so that cops couldn’t plant firearms on them, and many gangsters stashed their weapons inside their girlfriends’ “bird cages” — wire-mesh fashion contraptions around which women would wind their hair.

Ordinary citizens, on the other hand, were disarmed, which solved another problem: Gangsters had been bitterly complaining to Tammany that their victims sometimes shot back at them.

So gang violence didn’t drop under the Sullivan Act — and really took off after the passage of Prohibition in 1920. Spectacular gangland rubouts — like the 1932 machine-gunning of “Mad Dog” Coll in a drugstore phone booth on 23rd Street — became the norm.

More on the bird cuisinart industry getting a pass on protected species laws

According to a study in the Wildlife Society Bulletin, every year 573,000 birds (including 83,000 raptors) and 888,000 bats are killed by wind turbines — 30 percent higher than the federal government estimated in 2009, due mainly to increasing wind power capacity across the nation.[i] This is likely an underestimate because these estimates were based on 51,630 megawatts of installed wind capacity in the United States in 2012 and wind capacity has grown since then to 65,879 megawatts. And, at one solar power plant in California, an estimated 3,500 birds died in just the plant’s first year of operation.
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Over the past five years, about 2.9 million birds were killed by wind turbines. That compares to about 800,000 birds that a Mother Jones Blog estimated to have been killed by the BP oil spill that occurred in April 2010[iii]—5 years ago–despite not all of them showing visible signs of oil.[1] Nevertheless, BP was fined $100 million for killing and harming migratory birds due to that oil spill. In comparison, the nation’s wind turbines killed more than 3 times the number of birds than did the BP oil spill over the past 5 years. And, wind turbines routinely kill federally protected birds and eagles.
But hey, it's for 'green' energy, so it's worth it, right?

"You want to lose your culture and country?

Because this is how you lose your culture and country."
Or, depending on how people react, "You want a war?  Because this is how you get a war."
"But it was only to get his pals and a bit later he came back with three others. They stole my handbag and my cards."

And if that was not enough, she said that the four had then attacked her, bashing her to the ground in a rage before running off.

She said that from what they had said she understood they were from Afghanistan and that as she lay on the floor in agony nobody on the platform had helped.
Bad.  Very bad. 

But wait!  There's MORE!
And her distress had turned to anger when police had told her that she should change her hair colour and should not have been travelling alone after 8pm on public transport.

She said: "At first I was scared, but now I'm more angry than anything. After the attack they told me that women shouldn't be alone on the streets after 8pm. And they also gave me other advice, telling me I should dye my hair dark and also not dress in such a provocative way. Indirectly that means I was partly to blame for what happened to me. That is a massive insult."
Know your place, citizen; there are new people around, and you have to accommodate them.  Even if it means changing your hair color and only traveling when and how THEY choose.  Your betters say so.

If you protest about this crap, you're labeled a racist and 'far-right-wing agitator'.  Throw a fit because your wife or girlfriend or daughter is told "You can't be out after dark anymore", the same.  Or, if you're lucky, just a lecture as to how you have to change your life to accommodate these people.

And those other people, who didn't do anything?  "If we help her, the police are likely to treat us as bad people, and we'll be called racist.  Better to stay out of it."

Either the EUnuchs are going to surrender and become Eurostan, or things are going to explode.  We'll see which.

Sooner or later some woman is going to be raped on the train platform, or murdered, or both.