Almost end of the week, so

the study materials are in

Prison-Industrial complex

Messy.

Surprising no one who's been paying attention.

Bloostein is just one restaurant owner, you might say. But he is not alone. A New York City Hospitality Alliance survey shows that 75 percent of restaurants said they planned to cut employees hours in response to the wage hike. Nearly half (47 percent) said they’d cut jobs.

Look for Occasional-Cortex and Sanders to scream about greedy business owners who shouldn't be allowed to do this.  And (probably) "They shouldn't be allowed to go out of business just so they don't have to pay their employees!"  Which would be effing stupid, but they are socialists.

Crank-cocked medieval crossbow,

1,250 pounds draw weight

Tab clearing

Four days to crash a new "Learn how this works" truck?  Surprised it took that long.


Only six reasons not to vote for her?  Must've been short on space.


No, that bastard's not a Vietnam vet.


Well done, Virginia


I do not need another .22, dammit, I do NOT need another .22...


Meteor strike during the eclipse

Still messing with the .310 Cadet

Loading some using the shortened 7.62 Nagant brass, discovered something: after crimping, some of them would need a fair amount of pressure to fully chamber, but if you crimp/rotate 1/4 turn/crimp again, after that they slide right in.

I am actually doing some gun stuff, but last few days it's involved loading some ammo, and a lot of trying to clean & organize the room I do that stuff in.  Thus  ends the report.

Kipling unavailable for comment, because this would probably strain his ability

to say something without resorting to very bad language.

No wonder the Brit cops can't deal with slavers and rape gangs: they're too busy being the Social Media BadThink Enforcers.

Someone over there needs to consult Robert Burns and post '9 Inch Will Please A Lady' and see how much that pisses them off.

Mike Rowe is a national treasure

Two of the takeaways from this article:
“Be wary of experts,” he told the group. “Don’t dismiss them out of hand, but don’t always assume they know what they’re talking about.”

“A pig farmer might know more than an MBA. A farmer might know more about being kind to animals than a self-appointed expert.”

And
“The country has a skills gap,” he said. “We have seven million jobs available that can’t be filled because people in this country no longer have the skills to do them.”

“We have lent over $1.5 trillion to kids who can’t pay it back so they can spend four years trying to get jobs that don’t exist.”

New cartridge from Winchester

.350 Legend.

Says the first rifle will be a bolt-action.

Occasional-Cortex strikes again

says it's "immoral" that the American economic system "allows billionaires to exist."
I wonder if she includes the ones who funnel money to the Evil Party?

A light machine gun

in .338 Norma Magnum.

Damn.

Security Staff(Sr.) has an injury on one leg,

and is having to wear a cone to prevent her gnawing on the bandage.

You can imagine how thrilled she is.

A crimp experiment

While digging around on black-powder loads a while back, ran across several people saying that instead of a crimp die to lock the bullet in place, they seat the bullet against the compressed powder, then use the sizing die to iron out the bell in the case mouth, which also presses the case against the bullet to hold it solidly.

I haven't tried that with black, but the other day I did try it with smokeless: the Lee 405-grain hollowbase bullet over A5744, five rounds with standard crimp, five using the sizing die.

I got a tighter group with the standard crimp.  Now I need to load some black and try it with those.

Once again, the major media has given us two choices:

Either they're incompetents who didn't bother to actually investigate before shoving a story out,
or
They're a bunch of corrupt asshats who didn't care if it was true, because it fit their Preferred Narrative™.

Next will be some more journalists whining about "People think we're liars who work for political purposes!".  Again.

Another weekend from, if not hell,

a suburb thereof.  Very busy, and still shorthanded.  I'm beat.

Then get home, browse some news and look on Bookface, and find that someone I thought knew me better than that basically accused of if not being, then acting like some kind of white supremacist.  Because 'the things you comment on'.  Which was set off because he had been waxing wroth about that (surprise!) turned out to be bullshit story about 'Trump-supporting teenagers attack Noble Native American, and I posted a couple of "This isn't what the media is trying to make it" reports.

I need some sun, enough sleep, and to say "Screw this" to the news for a while.  It might help.*


*What would really help would be a weekend or week at a beach with, say, Sandra Bullock.  Which I really think isn't going to happen.

I'm going to have to write it 'scientist', because this idiot

is a disgrace to the real thing.
[Scientists] want to be sure to have sufficient factual evidence to infer a conclusion about climate. But waiting for assurance to pile up in a chain of facts can mean waiting too long if we cross a threshold where earth systems tip into less hospitable behaviors. In short, fact mongering can stunt our thinking in dangerous ways.
'Fact mongering'.  Think about that. 

And
As far as I can tell, his thesis is logically, or empirically, flawless. It is the rhetoric of it that has me wondering. He highlights a set of facts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) about specific weather phenomena. What he doesn’t mention are the words in bold at the top of the same report stating that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal” and changes are “unprecedented.” When Pielke says the IPCC substantiates his claims, that may be literally true, but also rhetorically questionable. [Again, emphasis mine.]
"If we concentrate on actual facts, it won't be enough to scare people into thinking the way we want them to!" is what this seems to boil down to.  And that is one hell of a disgusting way for a scientist to think.

Dammit, it's cold outside

I don't want to hear anything about "Well, in Alaska-" or anything else; I don't care what polar bear wannabes think, it's cold.

So here's some new information, if you're smart and staying in to study.

I think that if I, on a daily basis, did all the stretches

that might ease some of my joint difficulties, the day would be
Stretch
Eat
Stretch some more
Bed.

Might not actually be that bad, but feels like it.

The SPLC has already lost one suit,

and with all the others lined up they stand to lose not just ears and tail, but their whole ass.  And I hope they do, as they royally deserve it.

There was word of great conspiracy with the Bear,

and all were cheered because "We've got him now!"

Then there was the Word that this was bullshit.

And there was great lamenting.

Michael Z Williamson once wrote that the only thing more stupid than Trump lovers is Trump haters.  From the way they swallow every "This is the One Thing that will get him!" pile that comes out, I'd say a lot of them have gone straight past stupid to effing insane.

Friday evening: the cold front is arriving

and baby, it's cold outside.  More comfortable inside, continuing your studies

That is one damned big fish

“My first reaction was just disbelief,” Mark Mohler, who captured the images for this story, told For The Win Outdoors. “She followed three tiger sharks in toward the whale carcass, and her sheer size made them look like barracudas.”
...
Deep Blue, believed to measure at least 21 feet, became famous after being featured by Discovery in 2014 (with footage captured in 2013).

'STEM students create dumbest smart gun ever'

Boy, did they.

This part alone demonstrates the perils of someone who has no real idea of the use of a tool trying to redesign said tool:
...It’s also equipped with a GPS and geo-fencing technology, so it can’t be fired in public places, like schools or churches. They say the technology would be built into new guns and a version would be made to be retrofitted onto existing guns.

“You still are allowed to do one bullet every 20 seconds so you still are allowed to use self-defense so it’s still going to work,” said Shahid.
Because A: Nobody ever needed to defend himself/others in a public place, and B: bad guys always fall down at one shot.  And nobody ever misses.

I'll bet Watts & Co. are kissing their ass and saying "This Will End Mass Shootings!" 

Kids, your hearts may be in the right place, but you really need to find out what the hell you're talking about before you try to tell people 'This is the fix!'

Take truck to shop, walk home,

and find a hawk sitting on the carport next door.  No pictures, unfortunately.

Ma Nature, looking to kill you 24/7

And lots of tools at her disposal.
A SCIENTIST was eaten alive by a 17ft long crocodile after being dragged into its enclosure while she fed it last week. 

Deasy Tuwo, 44, was feeding croc Merry early on Friday morning at the CV Yosiki Laboratory in Indonesia when the beast appears to have reared and leapt up an 8ft high concrete wall, pulling her into the water.

A couple of days of sort-of rest

does help after the weekend, but I still feel like someone's been beating on me with sticks.

Weather's not helping.  I make it to warmer weather, that'll help.

Woman is attacked by a armed repeat offender

Woman has carry permit and is carrying, and shoots the bastard.

Leftist whines and moans about how horrible that she shot him.

Asshole doubles down

Asshole finally gets the idea that people consider him a fucking idiot, does multiple-part apology which includes this:
5. My ideal is for a world in which guns do not have to be a part of anyone's daily life and in which gun deaths are not a part of our daily news. I stand by this ideal and disagree with the proposition that more guns will make people safer.
A: It made her a lot safer.
B: I'm thinking this asshat is one of the idiots who believes that if you get rid of guns, violence will cease.  Or thinks that being bludgeoned/strangled/beaten to death isn't that big a wrong since an icky gun isn't involved.

Possibly what finally got through to asshat was all the people in the neighborhood ready to pick her up for a victory ride; it's a little more difficult to stir up crying and moaning from people who're sick of being preyed upon by vermin like the deceased.

That moment when you play the race card

and it blows up in your face.

I suspect the idiot probably yelled at her 'get me ready' people for not telling her what racial crapmongering not to try: "If I'd known I could've called him an Uncle Tom!"

Range day, a couple of quick notes

One thing I ran across on .45-70 was that a lot of people shooting black powder who crimp the case onto the bullet use the resizing die to do it, getting rid of the bell in the mouth and pressing the first bit of the case onto the bullet.  I tried that with the 405-grain Lee hollowbase using A5744; it may work with black powder, but not as well(for me, this time at least) with this rifle and smokeless.

I like the .41 Magnum, but at times I want a load that doesn't bellow and kick quite as much, so I borrowed a Lee mold which throws a 195-grain semi-wadcutter.  Loaded over the minimum charge of Titegroup, it shoots quite well and has mild recoil.  I'm going to have to get one of these.

The royal family of Egypt had been Macedonian for quite a while,

but who cares about history?  "Cleopatra must be BLACK!!"

The thinking patterns of SJBs revealed:
"Idc what y’all say. In conclusion, Cleopatra was a BLACK WOMAN. A white woman wouldn’t be able to withstand Egyptian BCE temperatures"
and
"Psst...Greek people can be Black"
Just amazing.

One read a line from a post-knife attack fight

where the intended victim, a former(retired) Special Forces guy, was asked why he shot the attacker instead of 'just taking the knife away'.  After giving the questioner a "How effing stupid are you?" look, he answered, "I am lousy at trying to take sharp objects away from people."

Which brings me to this article.  Looks pretty good on the subject of bad guy with knife.

One quick comment on the media:

And these shitheads wonder why we don't trust them?
Frank Bruni, formerly the New York Times’s White House reporter and now a columnist for the paper, has a long, long op-ed that is unintentionally revealing. It is headlined, “Will the Media Be Trump’s Accomplice Again in 2020?” As though the press were pro-Trump in 2016! “We have a second chance. Let’s not blow it.” A second chance to help a Democrat beat Donald Trump.
Insty is right: nothing but Democrat operatives with bylines.

Weekend report:

Put it this way: I get called in again for an unscheduled day, I may run and hide.  A nights sleep reduced the 'falling over from worn out' difficulty, but I really don't want to do that again for a few days. 

Good side of things: Dad's home, starts PT this week, and is feeling a lot better.

I may write some more later, right now I need food.

Scene from the range

From cleanup, in particular: five and a half five-gallon buckets of brass for the day.

For most of it 'busy' is understatement.

I suspect in part because the Usual Suspects are screaming to ban everything; that always causes a boost.

The numbers also include people who hadn't shot there before, and brand-new shooters.  Every one of whom left with that smile on their face.

A lot of people who come in, many regularly, would count as People of Colour to the racists, said idiots would crap their panties if they knew how many.  And the friends they bring to get started, male and female.  There's an older black lady who I've seen come in three times, each time with a different friend to introduce to shooting, for instance, and the number of Asian names in the store system would also induce gibbering fits in the bastards.  I wonder if said bastards truly have any idea how many of their supposed 'supporters'* they're pissing off with "You can't have such arms, you're not capable of being responsible with them!"?

Because it would make it

SO much easier to cheat and steal elections.